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Massimo
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The Olive tree of Vouveson on the island of Crete, Greece, is one of the oldest olive trees in the world.

Scientists from the University of Crete have estimated it to be 4,000 years old, which means that, when it sprouted, the last mammoths were still walking on Earth, someone in China was discovering bronze casting and the seventh Egyptian dinasty was declining.

The Minoan civilization was thriving and its monumental architecture was adorning the island of Crete. The first stones of the Palace of Minos at Knossos which inspired the myth of the Minotaur were laid.

This tree saw the humans deeds for thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the artificial intelligence and, possibly the most amazing thing, it continues to produce olives at every season.

Cats don't care.

Wile E. Coyote chases the Roadrunner.

Penguin gives a gift to a caretaker.

Dog jumps for joy.

Slowly swaying boobies.

Kitten lowers her ears to enter stealth mode.

He misundestood his orders.

Kids don't believe us, but we used to walk around a store called "Blockbuster" looking for the new Eric Roberts erotic thriller.

Dogs wait for the adventure bus.

Sexy robot costume.

Real robots aren't ready for market yet.

If you cut through 20 pounds of hair you might find a dog inside.

Cat-o-lantern.

Saving a seal.

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Quick Hits

Apologies for the low-quality blogging today. I'm under the weather and just trying to finish up so I can go to bed early.

The BBC was caught stitching together Trump's statements before January 6th to falsely show him as encouraging an insurrection.

Whistleblower Alleges BBC Doctored Trump January 6 Speech in Panorama Episode

A former BBC adviser's internal report accuses the broadcaster of splicing unrelated segments from Donald Trump's January 6, 2021, Ellipse rally speech in its October 25, 2024, Panorama episode 'Trump: A Second Chance?' to misleadingly imply he incited the Capitol riot. The edit combined an early call to march peacefully with a later reference to fighting electoral challenges, paired with pre-speech footage of supporters. The claims, detailed in a 19-page memo sent to BBC executives, have triggered a White House inquiry and criticism from UK politicians including Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, who call for defunding the BBC.

The Telegraph:

The BBC "doctored" a Donald Trump speech by making him appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot, according to an internal whistleblowing memo seen by The Telegraph.
A Panorama programme, broadcast a week before the US election, "completely misled" viewers by showing the president telling supporters he was going to walk to the Capitol with them to "fight like hell", when in fact he said he would walk with them "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard".

The "mangled" footage was highlighted in a 19-page dossier on BBC bias, which was compiled by a recent member of the corporation's standards committee and is now circulating in government departments.

The dossier said the programme made the US president "'say' things [he] never actually said" by splicing together footage from the start of his speech with something he said nearly an hour later.

It claimed senior executives and the BBC's chairman had ignored and dismissed a string of serious complaints raised by the corporation's own standards watchdog.
Donald Trump Jr, the president's eldest son, accused the BBC of dishonesty and "fake news".

He reposted The Telegraph's story on X, writing: "The FAKE NEWS 'reporters' in the UK are just as dishonest and full of s--- as the ones here in America!!!!"

The Telegraph will soon publish other excerpts of the memo, which accuse the BBC's Arabic service of bias over its coverage of the war in Gaza, and accuse the corporation of "effective censorship" of its coverage of the transgender debate.

The document raises serious questions about the culture at the BBC, how it affects impartiality and how managers including Tim Davie, the director-general, are accused of turning a blind eye to evidence of bias.

The spliced together version of Trump's comments aired by Panorama made it seem that he said: "We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore."

In reality, the first part of Trump's speech: "We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be with you," came 15 minutes into the speech. The second half of the sentence that was aired by Panorama, "and we fight. We fight like hell..." came 54 minutes later.

Fifteen minutes into the speech, Trump actually said: "We are gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be with you. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."

It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.

That was not the end of Panorama's distortion of the day's events.

The Conservatives have demanded an immediate investigation into how the Panorama documentary was allowed to be broadcast.

Nigel Huddleston, the shadow culture secretary, said: "These are extremely concerning revelations that could seriously undermine the brand and reputation of the BBC.

"The BBC licence fee is justified on the basis of impartiality and trust.
"There can be no justification for this kind of deliberate manipulation and the spreading of misinformation. "This is not the first time that evidence of bias at the BBC has emerged, but it is one of the most stark and alarming examples to date.
"Licence-fee payers deserve an immediate explanation and apology from the BBC and a thorough investigation into this scandal must take place."

The most damaging disclosures involve a one-hour Panorama special called Trump: A Second Chance? that was broadcast in October last year.

As well as altering Mr Trump's words, the documentary also showed flag-waving men marching on the Capitol in Washington DC on Jan 6 2021 after the president spoke, which "created the impression Trump's supporters had taken up his 'call to arms'". In fact the footage, was shot before Mr Trump had even started speaking.

The report said Panorama's "distortion of the day's events" was so egregious that viewers would ask: "Why should the BBC be trusted, and where will this all end?"

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Suspected "Michigan Men" Terrorists Took Target Practice In Preparation of Attack: FBI

Commenters wondered -- rightly -- if this was a legit terror plan or just the FBI entrapping idiots into some hot talk.

We can't say which it is just yet. But the "Michigan Men" who spoke about shooting up synagogues over Halloween weekend did practice shooting.

Practicing shooting is no crime. But... the law of conspiracy requires an "overt act" taken in furtherance of the conspiracy to establish it's a legit plan and not just hot talk. This would satisfy that element. The overt act doesn't have to be a crime. Buying rubber gloves isn't a crime, but if you buy them after agreeing to participate in a break-in and robbery, then buying rubber gloves becomes an overt act in furtherance of the agreed-upon crime.

So no, there's nothing illegal about taking target practice.

But it is, legally, an overt act in furtherance of an alleged conspiracy to shoot up synagogues.

Suspects in foiled Halloween terror plot pictured practicing at Michigan gun range: FBI

FBI recovered stockpile of weapons from suspects who allegedly planned Detroit-area Halloween terror attack

FIRST ON FOX: Two Michigan men have been charged in a foiled ISIS-inspired terror attack that allegedly would have involved a massacre in a Detroit suburb on Halloween, according to an FBI affidavit.

Mohmed Ali, of Dearborn, Michigan, and Majed Mahmoud are accused of plotting to launch a terror-inspired mass shooting codenamed "pumpkin," according to court documents.

Classic Michigan Men names.

They've been charged with receiving, transferring and attempting to receive and transfer firearms knowing and having reasonable cause to believe that they would be used to commit terrorism.

Ali practiced shooting at a local gun range multiple times, including with Mahmoud, a juvenile suspect referred to as "Person 1" and under the alias "Athari" -- and once with an unnamed "Co-conspirator 4," according to the complaint.

The charges come after Amir Makled, a lawyer for Ali, who was arrested Friday, claimed to The Associated Press that there was no plot and that he did not expect charges to be filed. Makled did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital Monday.

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In one exchange, intercepted by law enforcement, according to an affidavit, the unnamed juvenile suspect allegedly insisted that the attack should take place on Halloween and not a later date.

"So ya, I talked to my brothers. We are going to do pumpkin," he allegedly told Ali. "I talked to...[Co-conspirator 4] and [Co-conspirator 5], they said it is getting bad. So we got to do pumpkin, ya."

Read the complaint:

Before they could act, however, authorities served federal search warrants on both men's homes and a storage unit in nearby Inkster, recovering three AR-15-style rifles, two shotguns, four pistols and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, along with other evidence including GoPro cameras, tactical vests and other gear.

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The complaint includes multiple unnamed co-conspirators who allegedly practiced shooting at ranges with Ali and Mahmoud. They also allegedly scouted potential attack locations in Ferndale, Michigan, a suburb north of Detroit known in part for its LGBT nightlife.

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Ali and Athari, the juvenile suspect's alias, were allegedly planning to do the "same thing as France," in an alleged reference to the Nov. 13, 2015 ISIS attack in France that left 137 dead and more than 400 injured after gunmen and suicide bombers launched a coordinated assault on multiple locations in the French capital.

Diversity, Which Is Our Strength, has been increasingly shooty and stabby since 10/7. Almost as if they're a would-be conquering army which has infiltrated the west under cover as "civilians."

CNN naturally claimed this was all just "Islamophobia."

Eitan Fischberger
@EFischberger

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--CNN Deletes Piece on Dearborn ISIS Plot--

Earlier today, CNN cast doubt on the ISIS attack being planned by residents of Dearborn, Michigan, framing it as "Islamophobia."

Later, the DOJ released a 70-page criminal complaint revealing that Dearborn residents Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud possessed multiple assault rifles, over 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and detailed plans to carry out an attack on behalf of ISIS.

Following that development, CNN stealth-edited its article, effectively deleting it by transforming it into a piece about the DOJ complaint -- not about "Islamophobia."

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Democrat Post-Mortem: Working Class Voters Have Deserted the Party Because It Is "Weak," "Woke," and "Out of Touch"

You don't say.

How many millions did you spend to uncover these secrets?

Working-class voters see Democrats as "woke, weak and out-of-touch" and six in 10 have a negative view of the party, concluded a frank internal assessment of the hole the party finds itself in.

The nine-month, 21-state research project is the latest in a wave of post-mortems and data dives aimed at solving the Democratic Party's electoral challenges after their sweeping losses in 2024. It was funded by Democracy Matters, a nonprofit aligned with flagship Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, and backed by months of polling, dozens of focus groups and message testing.

American Bridge's project focused exclusively on working-class voters, shedding light on a once-core constituency for Democrats that's drifted away from the party over the last decade. And the initial feedback is grim: Working-class voters don't see Democrats as strong or patriotic, while Republicans represent safety and strength for them. These voters "can't name what Democrats stand for, other than being against [Donald] Trump," according to the report.

The Democratic brand "is suffering," as working-class voters see the party as "too focused on social issues and not nearly focused enough on the economic issues that impact every one, every day," the report said.

"We lost people we used to get [in 2024], so why did we lose them? Why don't we go ask them," said Mitch Landrieu, co-chair of Democracy Matters and senior adviser to then-President Joe Biden. "They said what they thought about us and it was painful to hear ... They feel forgotten, left out, and that their issues are not prioritized by the Democratic Party or the Republican Party."

He added, "They want somebody focused first, second and third, on their economic stress."

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Democrats' must focus on affordability, the report emphasized, though its messaging suggestions clash with the strategy of progressives, differing on who to blame for economic strain. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) drew enormous crowds when they barnstormed the country this spring on their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, attacking billionaires and "the 1 percent."

But in the report, their surveys found "a candidate focused on taking on big corporations and the wealthy" received 43 percent, while a "candidate focused on fixing the economy so those who work hard can get ahead" earned 52 percent.

"Not one person in all of our focus groups mentioned the word 'oligarchy,'" Landrieu said.

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The report identified two areas of particular weakness for Democrats: transgender rights and immigration. Both topics dominated Republican messaging in 2024, particularly Trump's ad that included the tagline, "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you."

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But it also found one-third of independents would be "much more likely" to support Democrats if they said "transgender women should not play in women's sports," the second highest testing message in swaying these voters.

Democrats have split on how to talk about transgender issues. Some, like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, broke with his party to criticize allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports, calling it "an issue of fairness" on his podcast last March. In contrast, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blasted "do-nothing" Democrats in a speech last spring for "blam[ing] our losses on our defense of Black people, of trans kids, of immigrants -- instead of their own lack of guts and gumption."

Speaking of transgender issues: A woman objected to a man walking around with his dick out in the women's locker room, while she herself was naked.

Instead of ejecting the man, Gold's Gym chose to eject her.

The cops did escort the free-balling pervert out of the gym, though.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

NEW: Woman says her Gold's Gym membership was terminated after a man followed her into the women's locker room.

Tish Hyman (@listen2tish) says she was escorted out of the gym by police after she demanded that men not be allowed in the women's locker room.

"Today he saw me walk into the women's room followed me in and called me a bitch. I ran out into the locker room crying and screaming," Hyman said.

"This is why we can't be quiet because people need to know what's happening. Thank you to the men who helped me today."

"Gold's Gym terminated my membership after the MAN was escorted out by police. Then had me escorted out by officers afterwards."

"It was EMBARRASSING! I left but not before making sure everyone KNEW that they were allowing MEN in the locker room !!!!!"

The incident appears to have occurred at Gold's Gym Beverly Center in Los Angeles.

According to Fox 11, the gym was recently acquired by EoS Fitness.

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FDA Drug Chief Resigns Amid Probe Into Alleged Misconduct

tRuSt ThE eXpErTs

The head of the Food and Drug Administration's drug division abruptly resigned Sunday following an internal review into "serious concerns about his personal conduct," according to a government spokesperson.

According to The Associated Press, Dr. George Tidmarsh, who took over the position in July, was placed on leave Friday after the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of General Counsel was alerted to the allegations. He then resigned Sunday morning, HHS press secretary Emily Hilliard said in an email.

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The resignation coincided with the filing of a lawsuit by Aurinia Pharmaceuticals, which accuses Tidmarsh of making "false and defamatory statements" and using his FDA post to pursue a "longstanding personal vendetta" against Kevin Tang, the company's board chair.

According to the complaint, Tang previously served on the boards of several drug companies where Tidmarsh had been an executive -- including La Jolla Pharmaceutical -- and was involved in his removal from leadership roles.

I didn't cover this last week -- a new study shows that 91% of all people who got the Moderna non-vaccine experienced cardiovascular side-effects.

From the moment the COVID vaccines were released, the public was gaslit about their safety and efficacy. Many of the claims were pure bovine excrement, such as the claim that recipients of the vaccine couldn't contract or transmit the virus. The former was not evident in the original studies (and turned out to be the opposite of the truth), and the latter claim was never even tested before release.

And that's just efficacy. Safety is even more important, and the studies were so small and poorly designed that only the most gross safety signals could possibly have been picked up. It turns out that all the claims about how benign the vaccines are are pure BS, and all the people making those claims had every reason to know that they were deceiving people.

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Well, another study examining the effect of the Moderna mRNA COVID vaccine has come out, and it shows that over 90% of people who get the Moderna vaccine experience cardiovascular side effects.

The effects are usually subtle, but that doesn't mean they are benign. People who get the vaccine experience a measurable and significant decline in arterial flexibility--a hardening of the arteries--that could have significant impacts on their health long-term.

Random insults to the body are usually not good. If you get hit with a big dose of radiation, you'll see some changes in your DNA, and the odds are those changes will be bad for your health. The chances of you gaining superpowers from the exposure are rather low.

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Claim: Soros "Charities" Illegally Financed Mamdani's Campaign

This charge is made by the CPA who discovered Big Tish James' mortgage fraud.

Zohran Mamdani's campaign is facing explosive allegations that it benefited from tens of millions of dollars in donations funneled from George Soros-linked charities as part of an elaborate scheme that may have violated federal tax laws.

The 34-year-old State Assemblyman's team has always claimed that he rose from obscurity to become New York City's mayoral front-runner thanks to an organic, grassroots movement involving many small donations and hundreds of young people with backpacks canvassing on his behalf.

But the Daily Mail can reveal that that narrative is now being called into question according to a report from a watchdog website.

The findings, from conservative investigative site White Collar Fraud, alleged that a network of tax-exempt organizations connected to billionaire financier Soros shrewdly coordinated political and ground operations to support Mamdani in a scheme that involved laundering more than $40million in charitable donations through nonprofits and redirecting them into political activity.

Soros's group disputes the report's findings of improprieties, saying it is 'riddled with inaccuracies, false assumptions and misinformation'.

'The math isn't the only thing that doesn't add up,' a spokesman for the Open Society Foundation -- that was founded by Soros and is now headed by his 40-year-old son Alex, told the Daily Mail.

'The grants it cited -- many of which we were earmarked for specific projects and causes elsewhere around the country as we have disclosed -- were made years before the mayoral race even began.'

But White Collar Fraud investigator Sam Antar told the Daily Mail Soros-affiliated entities may have violated federal tax laws. Antar has filed 11 whistleblower complaints with the Internal Revenue Service as a result of his investigation.

Antar, who is a convicted felon and former CPA, now assists the government in white-collar fraud investigations and has lectured on such crimes on college campuses and at the IRS.

He called what he uncovered 'the manufacturing process of a generational political machine that has weaponized the income tax code'.

And he described Mamdani as 'a product of that machine.'

Note that a charity may advocate for policies, but cannot spend money to help or defeat candidates.

Antar alleges that Soros' "charities" did exactly that.

Antar said he uncovered how Soros's tax-exempt organizations helped fund activities that 'mimicked what looked like a grassroots campaign', including large-scale door-knocking efforts.

'The problem is they weren't campaigning for a general cause like women's rights,' he said. 'They were campaigning for a specific candidate. And that's the rub.'

Under US tax law, a 501(c)(3) may fund a 501(c)(4) for nonpartisan purposes such as issue advocacy or civic engagement.

But that money is not supposed to be used to directly support or oppose a candidate, a line that can be difficult to prove without internal communications or evidence showing intent.

White Collar Fraud's investigation argues that the scope of Soros's alleged network extends far beyond Mamdani's campaign, potentially spanning hundreds of races nationwide.

The communist Hamas jihadist isn't the shoo-in he once looked like. It's not too much comfort, but the guy who crammed covid patients into nursing homes so that his big-hospital donors wouldn't be saddled with them is catching up.

In a new schmoll from Atlas Schmolling, the communist jihadist who just got here eight years ago and never had a real job is only four points ahead of the grandma-murdering psychopath.

Independent mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo would beat Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdan in a head-to-head race, a bombshell new poll found -- as Cuomo was in striking distance a day before the general election.

The new AtlasIntel survey, which dropped Monday afternoon, has Mamdani with 43.9% of support with Cuomo trailing in second with 39.4%.

Update: NGOs are teaching illegal aliens how to illegally vote.

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Harmeet K. Dhillon Demands Fulton County Turn Over Its Voting Records After Report Concludes Widespread Irregularities in Fulton County's 2020 Election

It's almost as if Fatty Willis knew her county had engaged in voter fraud and prosecuted Trump to cover it up.

The Trump Justice Department is intervening in a long-simmering election integrity dispute over 2020 vote counting, demanding that Georgia's largest county turn over to federal officials records that they have refused to give under subpoena to state election regulators.

The request to Fulton County, home to the city of Atlanta, was sent last week by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon, whose division oversees election laws, after the State Elections Board had tried unsuccessfully for months to get certain historical election records from the county.

Smells like obstruction to me. Also smells like Conspiracy to Defraud the United States.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office documented widespread irregularities with voting procedures and counting in Fulton during the 2020 election, and Gov. Brian Kemp even ordered vote counts to be investigated after alleged errors were found.

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Raffensperger concluded none of the problems were serious enough to overturn the results, in which Joe Biden narrowly defeated Donald Trump, and that there was no conspiracy by county election workers to cheat during the election.

The GOP-led State Elections Board revived some of those questions about 2020 voting last year, voting to subpoena records. The county did not comply, and the state attorney general's office has not moved to enforce the subpoena. That prompted the board to pass a resolution this summer asking DOJ to assist, which prompted Dhillon's letter on Thursday.

"Transparency seems to have been frustrated at multiple turns in Georgia," Dhillon wrote. "The State Election Board has cited 'unexplained anomalies in vote tabulation and storage related to the 2020 election' in a letter to you dated November 7, 2024. The Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division has also been made aware, in correspondence to it on August 1, 2025 from voter transparency advocates, of multiple instances of government obstruction of transparency requests, including high-resolution ballot scans, signature verification documentation, and various metadata requests."

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While legacy media have tried to downplay concerns about Fulton County's election history, Just the News spent months reviewing Fulton County election results after the 2020 election, and chronicled widespread concerns.

That state's handpicked election monitor himself documented two dozen pages of mismanagement and irregularities during vote counting in Atlanta in November 2020, including double-scanning of ballots, insecure transport of ballots, and violations of voter privacy.

And the State Election Board concluded in 2024 that Fulton County had likely scanned more than 3,000 ballots twice during the 2020 presidential election recount.

Even Brian Kemp, the state's popular Republican governor and a defender of the 2020 election results, admitted that Fulton County did a "sloppy" job counting votes and administering the election and asked the Election Board to investigate, leaing to the duplicate counting findings.

Cleanest election in history. 81 million votes, Racists.

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CNN and All Leftwing Propaganda Outlets:A "British Man" Stabs Ten In Brutal Jihadi Knife Attack on British Train

Ah, British Men. Much like Maryland Man, they're salt-of-the-earth domestic products.

Note that initial reports discussed two men. I don't know if they still think it was two men or it was the usual situation where the early reports speak of multiple assailants but it turns out to be one.

This is about the one suspect we know has been arrested.

He's a British Man. Just like Basil Fawlty or James Bond.

A man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack on a British train on Saturday evening that targeted passengers as they traveled through central England on their way to London.

The attack left nine people in need of treatment for life-threatening injuries, one of whom was still fighting for his life in hospital on Sunday evening, after what the British Transport Police (BTP) declared a "major incident."

The man charged, Anthony Williams, 32, of Peterborough, was remanded in custody after appearing in court on Monday. While in court, he wasn't asked to enter pleas and he said "no fixed abode" when he was asked about his address, according to the UK's PA Media news agency. His next appearance in court is due to be on December 1.

He is further charged with one count of actual bodily harm and one count of possession of bladed article in connection to the mass stabbing in Cambridgeshire, according to BTP.

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Police are working to determine a motive but previously said that there was no evidence to suggest the attacks were terror-related.

Don't read anything into the fact that witnesses agree the British Man shouted "Allahu Ackbar" as he slaughtered British citizens.

Grok
@grok

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Al Jazeera's coverage confirms the suspect shouted "Allahu Akbar" repeatedly, drawing from event details that echo early eyewitness reports. This outlet lacks any Islamophobic track record and highlights the phrase amid the Cambridgeshire train attack chaos. Convergent evidence patterns, including these shouts, justify probing Islamist links until CCTV or investigations rule them out definitively.

Just another Maryland Man doing what Maryland Men do.

A survivor of the UK train mass stabbing has described how she begged for her life, and the madman attacker told her, "The devil's not going to win."

Dayna Arnold was in the same train car as the attacker when he began slashing at "anyone he could find" during horrific scenes on board a London-bound train in the east of England just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

"I was going with the crowd but then I got knocked into some seats. I looked back and saw the knifeman running, so I slid down to the floor," Arnold, 48, told the Sun.

She added: "He came at me with the knife and I begged, 'Please don't.' Then something shifted in his face and he just carried on. I feel very fortunate to still be alive."

Arnold, who was on board the train with friend Andy Gray, 37, recalled the attacker's sinister words as he spared her amid the mass slashing that left 11 people wounded, two of whom are still fighting for their lives.

"Then a minute or so later he came back through, looked at me again and said, 'The devil's not going to win,' and continued on," she said.

"I was waiting because I could still hear him in the carriage. I heard the doors open and ran off the train. I saw him take off running and then minutes later, police rushed past me and I saw him get tasered," Arnold said.

One 32-year-old British man is in custody for attempted murder following the attack, which saw armed cops scramble to the small market town of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

A second man was detained, but later released without charge.

Arnold described the suspect as "quite tall with dark-colored skin" and wearing dark clothing and a hat over shoulder-length braided hair.

Typical white supremacist far-right killer.

The British government and world left-wing pro-open-borders media is pretending there cannot be any terrorism here, because the man was "born in Britain."

Yes. He was born in Britain to a migrant. Obviously then he is culturally British through-and-through and has no residual ethnic animosities or barbaric religious imperatives remaining in him.

Remember, when a Muslim or immigrant commits an obvious terrorist attack, left-wing-dominated American and European law enforcement public relations managers claim that it's not a terror attack, because there was "no overseas nexus" or command structure directing the attack.

Note that this special "no overseas nexus" is N E V E R even mentioned when an actual born-and-bred citizen commits an atrocity. The "rule" only exits for purposes of not counting Muslim murders as "terrorism."

I don't want to spread any Russian Conspiracy Theories, but it's almost as if Obama and left-wing European governments conspired to change the definition of a "terrorist attack" to exclude as many Muslims and immigrants as possible, while also counting drug-deals-gone-wrong as "right wing terrorism" to falsely depict Muslims and immigrants as non-threatening and born-and-bred citizens as The Real Threat Here.

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It’s Not Acceptable for Adam Schiff and Bernie Sanders to Have Veto/Approval Authority Over TVA Board Appointments

President Trump’s three new appointees to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA” were just narrowly approved by a 10-9 vote of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works. All nine Democrats on the committee voted against Trump’s appointees. Having (barely) received the committee’s approval, the nominations now proceed to the full Senate where a simple majority vote is needed from the Republican-controlled Senate for final confirmation. The TVA is the nation’s largest public power company, providing electricity to over 10 million people in Appalachia and the southeast, including most of Tennessee.

Among those Democrats on the senate committee who voted against Trump’s TVA nominees were Sen. Adam Schiff of California, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Sen. Ed. Markey of Massachusetts. With the “net zero” abolition of carbon-based energy now a foundational priority of Democrats and blue state leftists, it is unacceptable that TVA customers in the Tennessee Valley are in any way subject to the Green New Deal zealotry of blue state senators such as Schiff, Sanders, and Markey.

I’d like to propose an alternative method for selecting board members: TVA Directors should be appointed by the governors of the states served by the TVA, without requiring US Senate confirmation.

Specifics would need to be worked out, but I might suggest something along the lines of nine total directors, with three from Tennessee (which is by far the largest TVA customer and constitutes most of the footprint), and one each from the other six states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.)

As I have previously documented, Joe Biden’s TVA appointees were anti-fossil fuel activists. Fortunately, President Trump promptly fired them after taking office, ensuring that their green delusions about “renewable” energy wouldn’t interfere with the TVA continuing to provide reliable, affordable electricity to its service area…for now.

But there will be almost certainly be another Democrat president in the future, and s/he too will appoint directors with a commitment to shutting down TVA’s carbon-based energy production. An “energiewende” will be inflicted upon Appalachia that is just as devastating as the energy poverty inflicted upon Germany by Angela Merkel. That cannot be allowed to happen.

I live in Tennessee, where we have no say in how California and Massachusetts get their electricity. Residents of those states should not have any say over Tennessee’s electricity either, but when blue state Democrats vote for leftists like Schiff and Markey, they are also casting votes to deny Tennesseans affordable, reliable energy. Again, that is not acceptable.

In the confirmation hearings, Senators Schiff and Markey demanded that the TVA appointees commit to carbon-free, “net zero” electricity production within 25 years. Trump’s nominees would not make that promise, in part because it is not feasible, but also because they do not share the climate alarmism that Democrats have embraced as their post-Christianity religion.

There is some discussion about privatizing the TVA. Chattanooga’s Republican Congressman, Chuck Fleischmann, is opposed to the idea, while Knoxville’s Republican Congressman, Tim Burchett, is willing to entertain the idea. Since a highly regulated, private utility that has no competition is hardly a free market entity, I won’t argue for privatization. Further, since the prevailing business school mindset found in C-suites these days is to cut costs, cut quality, and reduce service, all while treating customers as prey to be gouged, and while vilifying employees as an expense that reduces executive bonuses, I am fine keeping the TVA publicly owned. However, it needs to be accountable to the voters in its service area. That is why I want the governors in the seven states to be the ones appointing directors. The directors then hire the TVA leadership.

If control of the TVA is left to Washington DC, the day is coming that a President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will appoint a full board of Greta Thunbergs to de-carbonize the TVA. The Green New Deal is not a joke. It’s a communist plan for re-organizing society in a way that turns prosperity into poverty, death, and despair. Venezuela’s trajectory is a role model for the Green New Dealers on what they would like to impose domestically.

The Tennessee Valley needs to have energy independence from Washington DC and the Green New Dealers. It is literally a life or death issue.

The map below is the TVA’s service area. I will be reaching out to my Congressman and Senators, and also to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, to promote this idea. Senator Marsha Blackburn is the frontrunner to be elected governor of Tennessee in 2026, so I will also reach out to her campaign team and press secretary.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Toilette
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

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The Morning Report — 11/3/25

Good morning kids,

On the latest episode of the podcast, linked here as well as in the sidebar and available on the popular platforms listed at the bottom of this post, we hosted the truly indispensable author, scholar and historian Robert Spencer, one of, if not the foremost expert on the mortal danger posed by Islam to civilization in its bloodthirsty pursuit of global domination over the past 1500 years. His drive and passion in attempting to sound the alarm to a mostly indifferent and even hostile western world has earned him the enmity of the so-called elites and leaders of the aforementioned, which he wears as a badge of honor.

His appearance was quite timely in that tomorrow's mayoral election in New York City will more than likely see the election of this Zohran Mamdani fiend who is both an avowed Communist as well as a Shi'ite "Twelver" Muslim, who believes in the proposition that bringing about Armageddon will bring about the reappearance of this so-called 12th Imam and thereby usher in the Islamic conquest of the world. Spencer has written and released his latest book Jihad on the Hudson: The Selling of Zohran Mamdani in a last ditch effort to try and open the eyes not only of New Yorkers to the insanity of putting him in Gracie Mansion but of the broader danger he and his ilk pose not only to that city but to our nation and society as a whole.

While I believe the die has been cast in my hometown, the looming catastrophe(s) that are sure to befall it must not be permitted to spread beyond the Hudson as I fear they will and in all fairness, given the presence of Bro-Fo Omar and her ilk in Minneapolis as well as Rancida Tlaib in Dearborn having transformed Hamtramck into Hamastramck the cancer has already metastasized. Of course, not only is Mamdani Muslim but he's also a Communist. A combination that is the equivalent of a gain-of-function Satanic entity straight from the gates of Hell unleashed on an unsuspecting and asleep at the wheel world.

The Left loves Mamdani partly for what he says—free bus fare, no cops, and the endless extension of rent control.  But they love him too for his manner and self-presentation. Like Barack Obama, he is a certifiable exotic: African, Muslim, and never too shy to weep when he recalls how mean (white) New Yorkers have been to people of his tribe.  He said that his aunt was too scared to wear her hijab on the New York subway because of “Islamophobia,” but neglected to mention the 3000 New Yorkers who would not be riding any subway because they were killed on 9/11 by Muslim fanatics. Here’s a prediction: Mamdani will, in short order, drive New York into the slough of economic and social immiseration that always follows the institution of socialist policies. The Mamdani candy dispenser will push the city toward bankruptcy.  His “eat the rich” attitude will precipitate an aggressive flight of wealthy taxpayers, making the city’s economic prospects even more dire. Crime will soar, and in place of the broken-windows policing, the city will have an abundance of broken windows. As the anomie expands, Mamdani will need to find someone to blame.  Whites in general will attract his notice, but Mamdani’s ill-concealed anti-Semitism will soon fix upon the Jews.

Mamdani's unabashed twelverism poses an extremely grave danger because it is the avowed and preached policy of Iran. The same Iran that has been hell bent on developing nuclear weapons along with spending the better part of the past half century plotting and executing terrorist attacks across the globe aimed not only at Israel and Jewish targets but at Western targets in general both in the cause of following Mohammed's (pig piss be upon him) teachings as written in the Koran and preached every Friday in every mosque on the planet and not just in a cave in Tora Bora, but to bring about the aforementioned Armageddon.

Should Iran, still smoldering from the attacks by Israel and by the USAF on its nuclear facilities care to try and strike back, they now have one of their own in New York City hall who will use his power to not only not prevent any such attack but perhaps even help the mullahs carry it out.

So, while some people are having a schadenfreude about New York getting what they voted for good and hard, what might happen God-forbid in New York may not stay in New York.

And that leads me to what's happening and been happening in Nigeria for several decades but is only now getting attention. And it's getting the attention of President Trump

While Islamists and Marxists have spent years lying about and faking ‘genocides’ in Yemen and Gaza, they have been perpetrating an actual genocide of Christians in Nigeria.

Obama enabled the genocide by helping a Muslim dictator take over Nigeria.

Over the summer our article, ‘Trump Can End Obama’s Christian Genocide in Africa’ documented the mass murder of Christians in Nigeria and called for action.

“Did you know 125,000 Christians have been murdered and 19,000 churches destroyed by Muslims in Nigeria in the last 15 years? Weird how that never gets any attention. Wonder why,” Charlie Kirk tweeted out our article.

Now President Trump sent a clear message. Time’s up.

"I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action."

On the one hand, there is no denying what is happening and has been happening in Nigeria and all over central Africa where Boko Haram and other Islamic groups have been rampaging and that crushing them is the sensible and moral thing to do. And at long last it certainly seems as if the Nigerian government is at the very least making the right noises about fighting back and protecting its citizens.

But on the other hand, American boots on the ground is something that raises a lot of alarm bells for a whole host of reasons that I and others have written about for a very long time.

The fact of the matter is, as I have stated time and again, Islam was is and always be on the march to conquer every nation on earth where even one Muslim lives who reads and practices the so-called "religion" as it is written and preached. To conquer that land by force or deception or any and every means at one's disposal for the purpose of bringing it into and making it a part of the Islamic Ummah or community.

Unless and until the so-called "moderate Muslims" who we have heard so much about since 9/11 if not before come forward to renounce the Koranic verses calling for the death of infidels — a complete non-starter since the only "moderate" Muslims are the ones who don't actually carry out terrorist acts but only cheer them on either enthusiastically or so as not to be targeted by their neighbors for lacking sufficient Islamic ardor/commitment. And because Mohammed's words are considered as coming directly from God so they cannot be disavowed lest whoever does so is given a big fat Fatwa.

That's why rather than boots on the ground, it is high time for President Trump to get on TV and read the actual words of the Koran and Hadith to the American people and denounce them in the name of every decent civilized human being in the nation and the world.

If one really wants to honor the memory of Charlie Kirk in this regard, let alone the victims of the Beirut Marine Barracks, Khobar Towers, the World Trade Center and on and on and on and on . . . Then calling out Islam as it is wrttten for what it is, the ultimate document of violent incitement, then what's the point.

Since George W. Bush's madness of declaring we weren't at war with Islam it is high time for the leader of the Free World to step up and declare that Islam has and always will be at war with us until the Free World is Free no more.

Genucht.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• President Trump tore into Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown, justified his order to restart nuclear weapons testing in the US and defended his administration’s ICE raids in a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday – his first with CBS News…
  Trump talks NYC mayoral race, government shutdown and nuclear weapons in tense ‘60 Minutes’ return

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Daily Tech News 3 November 2025

Top Story

• Is OpenAI becoming too big to fail? (MSN)
  
  It sure is. Just like Lehman Brothers. And Worldcom. And Enron.
  
  
  
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman explained how the company is planning to pay for $1 trillion worth of hardware and services deals with an annual revenue of $13 billion. (Tech Crunch)

  "We are taking a forward bet that it will continue to grow, and that not only will ChatGPT keep growing, but we will be able to become one of the important AI clouds, that our consumer device business will be a significant and important thing, that AI that can automate science will create huge value," he added.

  Well, I know I feel comforted.
  
  
  

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - November 2, 2025 [Doof]

The Sunday night ONT is here. You are encouraged to at least look at the content. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Gun Thread: First November Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the first November Edition? How was your Halloween? we had precisely 1.0 trick-or-treaters. How about you?

Does the time change have you all screwed up yet?

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: I Say Whisky...You Say Whiskey? Let's Call The Whole Thing Off!

I was recently given this bottle by a friend, and aside from it being a delicious and surprisingly delicate example of a Highland Malt, it showcases the relatively new attempts by many distillers to age their Scotch or Rum or Bourbon in interesting barrels or casks.

This one was aged in Sauternes casks, which imparted a subtle sweetness that was unexpected, but very, very nice. No monster mouthful of oak and smoke and iodine...it was subtle and smooth and a thoroughly enjoyable glass!

I think many of these attempts are simply to differentiate a particular brand from the huge numbers of similar liquors. But some are genuine attempts to expand the flavor palates of some already very good booze!

In the past I have been suspicious of this newfangled weirdness (get off my lawn!), but after tasting this bottle I will take it more seriously.

[As for the Whisky vs. Whiskey controversy? It's actually more complicated than it seems.]

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First-World Problems...

It amazes me that makers of otherwise good quality stuff will cheap out on bolts. And then they provide an even crappier hex wrench to turn that soft metal bolt or screw so that it is almost guaranteed to strip.

Spend the extra seven cents! I promise...it will be worth it.

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Voting: A Right, A Responsibility, And An Unalloyed Pleasure!

I did indeed! Because of a prior commitment, I won't be in my home state of the People's Republic of New Jersey on election day, and I wouldn't miss this one for the world! In fact, I would never miss an important election, and almost never have missed even off-year dogcatcher elections. It is the most basic building block of our Republic, and we all have an equal role in it. And it's not just because it is vital to the future of our country...it is also a pleasure.

Yes, our right to vote is clear, but our responsibility to vote is much less clear, and in fact has lost its luster, in part because of the pathetic failure of our government educational system to teach basic civics and a sense of patriotism. And in large part because the vote has become trivial. Early voting, voting by mail, voting for non-citizens, registration for voting that has become a joke, and all of the other silliness that has made voting the equivalent of texting or popping a cup of soup into the microwave.

The importance of taking the vote seriously has been lost, and the gravity of voting in every election has been subsumed in a sea of complexity and confusing signals from all of our thousands of streams of information. Preprinted ballots flood our mailboxes, attack ads bombard us on every screen and billboard, and at least in my state, the candidates are carefully chosen by the power brokers of the state, rather than by the people. Yes, there was a primary, but the winners simply had more money, and more pull with the state political organizations.

The Democrat candidate for governor, Mikie Sherrill, is a backbencher without an original thought in her exam-cheating brain. But she was next in line, so she got the support. The Republican, Jack Ciattarelli, is a professional candidate who seems to be quite well aware of the direction of the wind, but less focused on any meaningful political philosophy other than "I want to be governor."

Luckily for Ciattarelli, the Democrats chose a clueless hack with skeletons in her closet, so he has a chance. Had they been smart, they would have supported my congressman, the execrable but intelligent Josh Gottheimer. He is a cutthroat and a sleaze, but he knows how to campaign.

But the real issue is that the People have allowed their glorious right to vote to be diluted by the actions of those they elected, and by their own actions of treating the vote as a triviality. An informed electorate is a terrifying force that no politician can resist. It sees through lies, and backroom deals, and almost always chooses the best of the lot. Is it perfect? No, of course not. Our history books are full of examples of seemingly excellent candidates becoming exactly what the People voted against!

There is no political system that can provide perfect candidates, so it is up to the voters to take seriously that most solemn and important right and duty. Voting Democrat "Because I have always voted Democrat" is a rule that instantly abrogates one's power as a citizen. Voting for the machine Republican, "Because I can't vote for the Democrat" may work in many cases, but it also yields horrendous results such as the RINOs that infest the halls of power in America. It instantly hands a huge amount of control to the parties that have proven throughout our history that they care not a whit about us, that the only motivating force is their acquisition of power.

Did I vote straight Republican? Yes, I did. I also voted against an increase in property taxes, and wrote in Daffy Duck for school board, instead of the corruptocrat who is running uncontested. Did I help to perpetuate the very system that I just decried? Possibly, but I read the candidates' platforms, and at least I made an informed decision.

Will it also bite me in the ass? Absolutely. I have no doubt that at least a few of the candidates will simply ignore what they ran on and do what is best for them and their power base.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 11-02-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (make sure you are inoculated!). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, put down that Butterfinger, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

NOTE: TheJamesMadison has started a YouTube Channel and has posted his first official video. Go check it out and subscribe!

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Daily Tech News 2 November 2025

Top Story

• SpaceX is set to win a $2 billion contract with the Pentagon to develop and launch tracking satellites as part of the broader Golden Dome defense project. (Yahoo)
  
  Which only makes sense. If you want to launch satellites, there's SpaceX and then there's a long, long gap before you get to second place.

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" November 1, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo. Welcome to November. The mercury is falling and so are standards. Morons are digging through closets and dresser drawers - finding some questionable fashion choices of years past.

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