Orang-Utan Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Kristin Mae Photography
She says this is the transition between "golden hour"
-- the much-prized hour when the sun is low in the sky --
and "blue hour" -- the brief period of twilight
Elephants are majestic and beautiful until they decide, out of nowhere, that they have beef with you, and then they get scary.
Is it possible to have too many dogs in your pickup truck? This guy dances right on the line.
A great horned owl got stuck in a soccer goal's net, because soccer is stupid and kills beautiful animals. These nice people extract him.
Rescuing an orphaned tiny baby rabbit, and the -- sniff -- setting him free when he's grown.
A Halloween dog parade in New York. I don't think this year's dog costumers are bringing their best, but still, you get to see some dogs.
Elephant plays crossing guard for a herd of water buffalo crossing a river.
A.B.H. Always Be Herding. Always Be Herding.
Turtle Rescue Squad is summoned to save another turtle stuck in a grate.
Tourists come across an orang-utan using the same path they're on, and the big lug just passes peacefully.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's not just CIA agent Elissa Slotkin -- Adulterer and Senator Chris Murphy is also previewing his schemes for a left-wing authoritarian putsch.
Western Lensman @WesternLensmanOct 17
Democrats want to imprison their political enemies to deter young conservatives.
They also want to regulate social media so people are less likely to support candidates they don't like.
Chris Murphy:
"Regulating the internet...should be an important government project."
"if people are feeling more powerful and less lonely, then they are going to be less likely to fall for a bullsht demagogue like Donald Trump."
From the so-called "anti-authoritarian" party.
The DSA is also plotting a full-on coup.
DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublicanThe past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan.
You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.
What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.
Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic.
The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change.
Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
Major lethal fire at a Canadian military base in Alberta. Supposedly, it was due to a flaw in a shoulder-launched rocket being fired, not due to terrorism.
Supposedly. I have the same level of confidence in the Socialist Canadian government that you have.
Jeff Evely - the Magnanimous GenX'er Male @JeffEvelyOct 18
TRAGEDY IN WAINWRIGHT, AB
A major incident occurred at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Wainwright, Alberta, on 17 Oct 2026.
A fire ignited in the training area around 4:00 p.m. Driven by high winds of up to 100 km/h, it spread rapidly beyond the base. Military and civilian emergency services are responding, and the fire is being held.
The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed that the incident resulted in fatalities and injuries. Edmonton hospitals were issued a "Code Orange" (mass casualty) alert. Reports from the ground indicate there could be north of 100 casualties.
Unconfirmed reports from multiple sources indicate that a gas line or well exploded after being struck by a shoulder-fired high-explosive (HE) round (similar to an RPG) after it "dolphined." This is a once-in-a-lifetime malfunction in which the projectile follows an unstable, wavy, up-and-down path, like a dolphin leaping out of the water, sending it far off course.
The explosion reportedly flattened multiple facilities where troops were training. The resulting fire was swept by high winds through the bivouac site where the majority of troops were camped.
Video 1: Devastation caused by the fire.
Video 2: More than a dozen CAF personnel parachuted into the Wainwright Health Centre to assist with the fire and medical response.My thoughts are with the families, and with my son, who recently joined the CAF as a Combat Engineer. These are some of the very best young people Canada has to offer. Everyone who puts on a military uniform accepts unlimited liability on behalf of the rest of us. Even during peacetime, the risks they face are very real.
Via Ed Morrissey, CBS "journalists" are complaining (anonymously, of course) that Mean Jewess Bari Weiss is forcing them to cover the actual news and report on Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's terror ties.
The scandal of it! You're not supposed to report negatively on Democrats, ever, but especially not before a major midterm election!
Control of the US Senate for the next two years could come down to how much the news media chooses to focus in the final weeks of the midterms on a tweet sent years ago by the younger half-sister of Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate.In 2012, Abdul El-Sayed's half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, described "an amazing talk with my mom about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood during the early '70s." Republicans and members of the media have since pressed El-Sayed, an American of Egyptian descent, to answer whether he has ties to the Islamist movement, which was founded in Egypt and whose offshoots include US-designated terrorist groups.
The subject is of particular interest at CBS News, where Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has repeatedly encouraged the network's journalists to dedicate serious resources to finding a potential link.
In recent weeks, Weiss has personally advocated for CBS News journalists to pursue numerous story angles related to El-Sayed's supposed sympathy towards the Muslim Brotherhood, and was directly involved in a controversial story about his previous posts comparing the COVID-19 death toll to 9/11. She has discussed the topic on editorial calls, and tasked CBS News' investigative unit with combing through El-Sayed's background for a potential link to the organization. The network's investigative team is set to publish a story in the coming days on the subject, though two people familiar with the reporting said that as of Sunday afternoon, it was unclear whether the story will include new revelations.
Notice what this leftwing propagandist does there -- he admits, tacitly, that CBS has thusfar refused to report on this at all, then complains that CBS's first article on the subject may fail to contain "new revelations."
If CBS hasn't reported on it, all revelations are "new revelations" as far as their audience is concerned.
But you know, Fox reported on it and doesn't that suffice?
A year into a new regime at CBS News, some of the daily controversies over Weiss' management style and relations with the White House that defined the first few months have eased. But the politics of the Middle East and the conflict in Israel and Gaza -- and its echoes in American domestic politics -- remain red-hot inside the company, as a network leader with strong views on the region's dynamics has attempted to shape its coverage of stories touching its spiraling conflicts. Rank-and-file staff have clashed with editors installed by Weiss over Gaza, leaking embarrassing internal network discussions about coverage -- such as last week, when the media-focused news startup Status and Guardian media reporter Jeremy Barr reported on a clash between CBS News' London bureau and foreign editor Shayndi Raice.Weiss has taken a particularly hands-on approach to the Michigan Senate race, where campaign rhetoric has revolved around El-Sayed's Muslim faith, and whether he can win over Jewish voters in the state. The Hollywood Reporter reported last month that Weiss faced criticism internally for "overseeing an article that critics say falsely insinuated Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed had ties to the September 11 attacks."
"Critics say she insinuated X" with the actual statement suppressed so that the readers cannot see if she actually insinuated X.
I wonder if these critics might, perhaps, be agitators for the Red-Green alliance? We don't know. The identities "critics" are helpfully suppressed.
S-tier journalizming, guys.
See Ed Morrissey's argument for a rundown on the El-Sayed family's many links to terrorism.
Thanks to Charlie Brown's Dildo, this from the sidebar. I wanted to highlight it.
Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoomWe call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.
#Accurate.
Speaking of the Red-Green alliance, Tim Walz refuses to take responsibility for the massive welfare piracy he deliberately permitted but says he Akshually is taking responsiblity by not running again.
Except, of course, he knows he'd lose, so this is no accountability. This is just sparing himself a necessary and justified ass-beating.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz lamented both how the fraud scandal in his state was handled and how it has emboldened Republicans.
Republicans were "emboldened" to "seize and pounce" on what will turn out to be the greatest piracy of American wealth in all of history.
Gov. Tim Walz took responsibility for mishandling fraud in Minnesota even as he took multiple parting shots at the Trump administration.During Friday's episode of "The Lever" podcast, Walz said that he lacked the authority to independently stop payments to suspected fraudsters and needed legislative action to obtain that authority, but nonetheless acknowledged that his administration should have acted sooner.
"The law wouldn't let me act but I should have acted sooner." This is "taking responsibility" for a Democrat conspirator with foreign pirates.
"The amount of fraud, like I said, $1 is too much, but the amount that has been prosecuted, and people put in jail, is less than what [President Donald Trump] is asking for his ballroom," Walz said.
It's a little more than $1 dude. It's over $1 billion.
Way to set attempt to mass-suggest the public into thinking this is just a tiny bit of fraud that "emboldened Republicans" are seizing and pouncing on.
When pressed further by the host about whether he was worried that the fraud allegations would continue to be damaging, Walz replied, "Yes. They undermine faith in government."
Oh no, anything but that.
Here is "taking responsibility" again, stating that he is not running for re-election only because Republicans will pounce and seize on his failure to act (which is completely excusable, because the law would not let him act).
He added, "It's one of the reasons I accept responsibility for that. I think, you know, I had decided, probably after the murder of Melissa Hortman, certainly before Christmas, that we weren't going to run again because I said, 'They're going to use this to attack others and to attack the system.'"
"Every state has this. Most states have far more than this," he added. "The Trump administration decided to focus on the perfect storm for them," Walz said.
"'Blame Somalis.' 'Blame the guy who ran against me.' 'Blame this prosperous state that pays more money in than not and let's punish them.' But that doesn't excuse that. Should we do more? Yes. Were there things that we should have closed back doors sooner? Yes. I mean, it happened. Now we know other states are learning from us."
He later said, "The problem with fraud and corruption, both of them undermine faith in government, and that plays right into Republicans' hands. Do they like fraud? I would argue they do because it undermines federal. It makes a reason to cut these programs. They hate these programs that feed children. They hate these programs that, you know, work with autistic children. So, man, what a gift to them. 'See, they don't work. It's tax dollars. Let's close them down.'"
I will take responsibility by claiming the fraud is actually Republicans' fault because they like fraud.
The head of the Oversight Project says that Ilhan Omar may be cooked.
The federal raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington, D.C., home prompted warnings Wednesday from a conservative watchdog leader that more revelations could be coming, as the Minnesota Democrat faces separate investigations involving her immigration records and financial disclosures.Oversight Project President Mike Howell, whose group pushed to strip a $1.031 million earmark backed by Omar, says the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) search raises broader questions about congressional accountability and what investigators may uncover next.
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"I think there's other shoes that are going to drop here," Howell told Fox News Digital.
"That's why I think the Democrats really just couldn't resist the temptation to jump out of this before they saw any evidence and just circle the wagons [around Omar]," he said.
"I will say it appears they're walking that back a little bit. It has shifted from just a wholesale defense of Omar to a non-substantive defense, talking about, 'well, this stuff was old,' or 'this is political since she's Ilhan Omar.'"...
Howell pointed to what he viewed as a unique combination of circumstances -- an HSI investigation under the Trump administration, a warrant authorized by a federal judge in heavily Democratic Washington, D.C., and the proximity of the election -- as reasons he believes investigators may have substantial evidence.
"They probably got the goods on her," Howell said. "You don't get a federal judge to sign off on something like this in Washington, D.C., of all places, unless there is something that is rather convincing."
Jonathan Fahey, a former acting ICE director and federal prosecutor in the neighboring Eastern District of Virginia, said the timing of the HSI search raises questions about whether investigators are examining more recent documents tied to longstanding immigration allegations.
"I surmise that what they may be looking for is newer things that were used with what they believe is false information," Fahey told Fox News Digital, referring to the immigration investigation.
Evidence of more recent false claims and schemes to continue to lie about her immigration status could be used to prove an ongoing conspiracy that defeats the statute of limitations. I think the statute of limitations runs from the date of the most recent act in furtherance of a conspiracy.
I still incline towards the Nothing Will Happen Guy, but I have some very limited, guarded hopes that maybe Nothing Will Happen Guy will be proven wrong.
Ugly layabout house husband who married an heiress Ro Khanna is super-psyched to promote the Red-Green Riots in Europe:
Ro Khanna @RoKhannaFrom the high schools of France to the streets of Madrid to the universities of Tirana, young people are telling their governments the same thing: in an age of massive wealth inequality, they want a future they can believe in.
In France, students and teachers are asking for safe schools, enough teachers and smaller classes.
In Spain, for affordable rent and housing.
In Albania, for good jobs and an end to corruption.
@JDVance says this is what happens when a nation lets in too many immigrants from the global south.
He is not just morally wrong, but misreading the moment.
The is what happens when nations let wealth and power accumulate in the hands of a few.
This is what happens when young people lose hope in their future.
In America, let us listen to our young.
We need an economic and political transformation.
America's Next New Deal.
He's running for president, but America will never elect someone this homely and grasping.
Melissa Chen @MsMelChenLet me translate what Ro Khanna's pitch is:
Remember the 2020 BLM riots' death toll, firebombed buildings, looted stores and subsequent crime waves and business flight in multiple cities?
Yeah, we miss that!
Let's double down with higher taxes on productive capital, more redistribution, and reward youth protests so we can fund the cycle and invite more of it!
A former Rutgers University law student is suing the school for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and expression.According to the Cleveland Jewish News, Yiorgos Maravelias had been arrested at a May 2024 pro-Israel counter-protest for, he claims, hanging "anti-Hamas fliers" near an "anti-Israel encampment."
Maravelias, a disabled veteran, said he got involved in "campus activism" shortly after Hamas' October 2023 assault against Israel, Fox News reported.
He said he had set up a table next to a "vocal minority" of anti-Israel Rutgers law students to share his views about Hamas -- that they're "rapists, monsters, [and] savages."
Maravelias' complaint alleges Rutgers Law administrators "disfavored" his political views and "perceiv[ed] him as Jewish" (he's not), and notes Rutgers is "home to the controversial Center for Security, Race and Rights," headed by Law Professor Sahar Aziz, whom Maravelias accuses of "ripping [down] his fliers from a bulletin board."
Maravelias alleges Aziz erroneously told him that hanging his fliers "was against school policy" -- despite there being anti-Israel fliers hanging at the location.
For a long time, Science claimed there were no green stars. Or no stars that look green. Stars emit many different colors of light. Those that emit more red light appear slightly reddish. (I mean, most stars look plain white but apparently you can see a slight red tinge on "red" stars.) Same with blue stars.
Green stars supposedly don't exist because green light sits between red light and blue light. Even if a star's dominant color is green, it's pumping out a fair amount of red light and blue light. And what green light, red light, and blue light make when they combine is white light.
So there are "green" stars. It's just that they look completely white and you'd never call them green for real.
At least, that was the Old Science.
The new Science says maybe there are spooky green stars after all.
That's possible because scientists have discovered that white dwarfs, the type of stellar remnants sun-sized stars leave behind when they die, can actually take on a range of colors including green if they snack on their rocky planets like cosmic cannibals....
"Most stars, including most white dwarfs, behave like 'perfect radiators,' so their color is set almost entirely by temperature. But nobody had really looked into what else might be possible for white dwarfs," team leader Mark Hollands of the University of Warwick said in a statement sent to Space.com.
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In these conditions, elements like carbon, calcium, and sodium can interact with the surrounding dense helium plasma and absorb light across a wider range of colors than they would at lower densities. That shifts the colors of white dwarfs away from the white/light blue seen for a perfect radiator of heat.
The researchers found that the colors of white dwarfs would fit into distinct groups tied to the individual chemical makeup of the stellar remnant's atmosphere.
White dwarfs abundant in carbon should be pink or purple, while those that have been enriched with debris from consumed asteroids and comets, and the remains of old planetary systems, would take a more yellow hue. Cooler white dwarfs with mixed hydrogen and helium atmospheres often would glow cyan or pale blue, caused as hydrogen molecules collide with helium atoms in their dense atmospheres.
The researchers found that some dead star white dwarfs can go a little green around the gills after snacking on orbiting planets.
An example of this is WD J1330+6435, a cool white dwarf located around 326 light-years away, which has been accreting rocky material from a planetary companion. This has enriched its atmosphere with calcium, lithium, and sodium, and the team's model suggests this would have led WD J1330+6435 to adopt a green hue.
But unlike the green-tinged zombies of George Romero's classic Dawn of the Dead, there are no hordes of these green-faced cosmic zombies ... yet.
The only good thing about Prometheus was the backdrop of stars in ship shots, which contained green stars. I knew (or thought I knew) that there were no green stars but I liked seeing them nevertheless.
But now, who knows, maybe the worst movie ever made, Prometheus, will be hailed as visionary for predicting green stars. (Though Starcrash also featured a lot of green stars. Because its stars were straight-up Christmas tree lights. And also, the stars were not the stars of the show.)
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Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Is Confronted With Proof His Half-Sister Was on the Terrorist Watch List; In Response, the Muslim Manlet Just Babbles About the Patriot Act and the Surveillance State and How Poor Muslims Are Suspected of being Terroris
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Is this Islamist Entryism, I wonder?
Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed acknowledged Saturday night that his sister-in-law was involved in a federal terrorist watchlist lawsuit during the Obama administration, just days before former President Barack Obama is scheduled to campaign alongside him.El-Sayed was confronted by Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin about court documents identifying his sister-in-law, Mariam Jukaku, as a plaintiff in a 2016 lawsuit challenging her alleged placement on the federal Terrorism Screening Database, commonly known as the terrorist watchlist.
"There's reporting in a lawsuit that now backs it up. And documentation with the lawsuit that Mariam Jukaku, who's your sister-in-law, that she was on the terrorist watch list?" Tobin asked.
"Yeah," El-Sayed responded.
El-Sayed then defended his sister-in-law, insisting she had committed no wrongdoing and turning his criticism toward Republican Senate rival Mike Rogers."She did nothing wrong and was captured on that and then sued and got off," El-Sayed said. "You've got this system where folks are guilty until proven innocent because they've got different kinds of names, because of the infrastructure that people like Mike Rogers set up."
The exchange comes as Obama prepares to campaign alongside El-Sayed in Michigan on Oct. 24, ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election.
According to the 2016 complaint, Jukaku underwent additional airport screening in 2012, and alleged she was never told why she had been flagged. The filing said she was believed to have been removed from the watchlist by 2016.
Oh, Obama and John Brennan took her off the list. That's very reassuring to me.
...Despite El-Sayed's claim that she sued and won, a federal appeals court overturned a ruling favoring the plaintiffs in 2021, while a separate lawsuit seeking damages was dismissed in 2017.
The FBI said it does not confirm or deny individuals' watchlist status.
"It is the U.S. government's policy to neither confirm nor deny a person's inclusion in the Terrorist Screening Dataset, commonly known as the terrorist watchlist," the agency told Fox News.
The exchange follows separate allegations about El-Sayed's family's purported Muslim Brotherhood connections, which his campaign called "racist and untrue."
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Two Christian (?) Groups Were Paid $62 Million by the Biden Thugocracy to Settle Somalis in Minnesota
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Weird how the left is willing to pay money to some "religious" groups for some purposes.
Chadwick Moore:
Two church non-profits have taken in at least $62 million to build the Somali community in Minnesota -- leading to the rise of Ilhan Omar and the fraud scandals that have gripped that state, The Post can reveal.Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services were at the forefront of reshaping the frigid Land of 10,000 Lakes thanks to generous government contracts stemming back generations.
"This is a very big pile of government money and a whole bunch of different groups have come to get their own slice of it," Parker Thayer, an immigration expert at the Washington, DC-based Capital Research Center, told The Post.
He added the total money pouring into Minneapolis resettlement programs alone is "in the hundreds of millions."
He noted that since 2021, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, the body overseeing Catholic Charities, has received $140 million in migrant resettlement contracts from the federal government.
Say, who usurped the government in 2021?
"It is hurting the ability of these organizations to fundraise in arguably more important areas of their work. I imagine a lot of donors are being pushed away by something that is very reasonably viewed as highly controversial by a lot of people," Thayer said.
Before Minnesota became Somali central, it was known as the Hmong hub.
The state first became a test ground for a Vietnam-era resettlement program -- with powerful advocacy from then-Vice President Walter Mondale and Minnesota's Democrat governor Al Quie, according to local historians.
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Mondale then headed the US delegation to the United Nations in 1979, where he delivered a speech which helped secure international commitments to resettlement, framing the crisis in moral terms by comparing it to a failure to protect Jewish refugees before and during World War II.
Within a couple years, the Twin Cities' Hmong population was in the thousands.
Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services -- the latter now called Global Refuge -- had built an extensive resettlement operation as far back as World War II to help Christians displaced from war-torn Europe, so were a natural go-for the federal government to help with its mass resettlement.
During World War II, however, their operations were largely funded from the pews, not Uncle Sam, said Kelsey Reinhardt, president and CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group CatholicVote."I don't think there's a recognition of how generous the US has been," she told The Post.
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When Somalia was thrown into civil war in the 1990s and the US decided to take in refugees, the Minnesota operation was already an established, well-oiled machine.
The two church groups have resettled an estimated 29,000 Somalians into Minnesota since 1993, collecting a reported $2,500 per refugee to cover costs like food, initial housing and social workers.
The population today is over 100,000 in Minnesota according to data, thanks to chain migration (also known as "family reunification") and the state's generous welfare system, which became a magnet for Somalis, including those initially placed elsewhere in the US.
"They picked Minnesota because it had extremely generous state social safety net policies and welfare programs, which of course made resettling refugees there easier," Thayer said. "Refugees from Somalia then moved to Minnesota after they were resettled elsewhere, in places like South Dakota.
"A lot of these people, while claiming to be refugees, you look at their Facebook pages, or you look at indictments and find that they routinely travel out of the US back to the place they are supposedly a refugee from," he added.
The Biden administration oversaw the largest jump in living memory of migrant resettlement operations.
Minnesota has been a flashpoint in the controversial effort, where a gob-smacking $9 billion in estimated welfare fraud, largely stemming from the Somali community, was uncovered in the last year -- speculated to be the largest welfare scam in the history of the US.
Completely, totally, transcendantally unrelated: the EU Parliament actually voted to condemn the Muslim Brotherhood and object to "Islamist entryism" into the West.
Following the sanctioning of foreign Muslim Brotherhood groups by the Trump administration, the European Parliament recently took its own action against the transnational radical Islamist group.As Europe begins to respond to the threat of radical Islam across the continent, an overwhelming majority of the European Parliament voted for a resolution that condemned the Muslim Brotherhood and its actions.
European Parliament member Céline Imart of France, who sponsored the resolution, called the vote "a historic victory because it is a European first. For the first time, Europe has voted on a text that tackles Islamist entryism and the Muslim Brotherhood."
I don't know how they mean the term "entryism" but the context I've heard it in regards SJW entryism. It's the scripted process of taking over an organization by agitating first for "just some more diverse members," then demanding not just a more diverse membership but a more diverse leadership, then changing the rules that that only SJWs can serve in leadership, then changing the rules so that only SJWs can even be members.
It's a textbook playbook for capturing an organization, outlawing the former leaders and members of that organization, and then turning that organization completely against its old goals and towards the goal of further SJW propaganda and subversion of other institutions.
I assume they mean it the same way, but in regards to Islamists invading, subverting, and ultimately taking over countries.
...Lorenzo Vidino, director of the program on extremism at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital that, "This is something that the French and the Austrian governments have been pushing for almost a decade," noting a growing consensus across Europe that wants action.
The resolution was led by the European People's Party, or EPP, a center-right coalition that is the largest group in the European Parliament. "The voting does reflect a gap between the right and the left," said Vidino, "with the right voting almost entirely in favor of the resolution, and a good part of the left, although with some notable exceptions, voting against it."
You don't say.
...Vidino said, "The Brotherhood remains something that is seen through the political lenses of our own political debates, where it shouldn't be... because it's a challenge to our societies."
A press release on the resolution issued by the European Parliament's news website stated that Islamist entryism targets "democratic institutions, the rule of law, equality between women and men and fundamental freedoms." It stressed that Muslim citizens must be protected from discrimination as "a democratic obligation," while "warning against treating organized Islamist networks as representative interlocutors."
The release also stated, "While Europe must remain free, open and faithful to its principles, it can 'no longer fund, consult or legitimize networks that use its language, procedures and funding to weaken its values from within,'" but "MEPs stress that anti-discrimination policies must not be used to shield Islam from criticism or legitimize organized Islamist networks."
From August 25: Denmark's left-wing PM warns of a "big enemy" growing in Europe due to unlimited immigration.
Denmark's left-wing prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, has sent shock waves throughout the European left after recent comments about the Scandinavian nation's -- and the continent's -- failure to deal with radical Islam among migrant communities.Her comments come after the mass migration chaos in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, when Frederiksen criticized the actions of Spain's leftist leader, Pedro Sánchez, during a special session on Ceuta in the Danish Parliament.
Responding to a question from a far-left legislator on Denmark's apparent lack of "solidarity" with Spain against "anti-democratic forces" pressuring Europe, Frederiksen said, "If we talk about undemocratic forces, then Russia is our biggest enemy. The problem is that a big enemy has started to grow from within, and it is foreigners who have come to Europe," according to an English translation.
While not singling out Denmark's integrated immigrant population, she continued, "It is Hamas supporters. It is people who commit terror against European societies. It is people who do not recognize our fundamental European values. It is people who sympathize with some of the darkest forces in this world. So, Europe is threatened. The problem is that we are threatened both from outside and now from within, but it is not because of a disagreement between the Danish and Spanish governments, but because of people with an Islamic background who do not want the open, free European society, unfortunately."Sweden-based foreign policy expert and author Daniel Schatz told Fox News Digital, "What is striking is not that a conservative politician is talking about illegal immigration, failed integration and Islamist extremism, it is that one of Europe's leading center-left prime ministers is saying it in such blunt terms. That tells you how far the European immigration debate has shifted."
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The UK's Censorship Police, Prevent, Harass Woman For "Over-Identifying with Israel," Visiting That Country
—Disinformation Expert Ace
What is Prevent? Google AI:
Prevent is a UK government-led, multi-agency counter-terrorism strategy designed to stop vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism or extremist ideologies.
In reality, Prevent was created as a "counter-terrorism" organization and then very quickly mutated by the hard left into a pro-terrorism organization that is chiefly interested in harassing the Enemies of Islam.
The woman they decided to harass and accuse of being too "vulnerable" to read the news is not Jewish herself, just a supporter of that besieged nation.
Prevent decided that she is "over-identifying" with Israel and might be led astray by Evil Jewish Propaganda.
Might there be an entire global left-wing movement to falsely claim a "genocide" so that a barbaric foreign country can continue to murder and rape without military consequence?
Nah. It's probably just these turbulent Jews.
Mother referred to Prevent for 'over-identifying with Israel'Holly Passmore says police asked why she was interested in 'Jewish issues' and described the postgraduate student as 'vulnerable'
When Holly Passmore heard a knock at her front door at about 11am on July 4 last year, she assumed it was an Amazon delivery.Instead, the 44-year-old mother-of-two from County Durham found two plain-clothes police officers on her doorstep wanting to know why she had recently visited Israel.
"They said it was a safeguarding matter," recalled Ms Passmore, who cares for her nine-year-old son, Rex, who has severe autism, while studying for a master's degree.She assumed they were concerned she had taken her son into a war zone.
"I said, 'Well, my son didn't go to Israel. He stayed here with my mum and my daughter, who's 20'," she recalled. But the female officer replied: "No this is about you -- because you may be at risk of manipulation."
Ms Passmore suspected her support for Israel had prompted the referral. It was only months later, when she obtained police records through a subject access request, that her suspicions were confirmed.
A police intelligence report seen by The Telegraph reveals that the referral said she "over-identified with the conflict between Israel and Palestine" and was "supportive of Israel to the point that she has travelled to Israel".
Wow -- that supportive, huh?
It also described her as having "MH" -- meaning mental health -- issues and being "vulnerable to negative influence"."Nobody would describe me as vulnerable," said Ms Passmore, who is reading Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa.
'They only asked about Israel'
Ms Passmore said that, while she has health concerns, including severe endometriosis and adenomyosis, and has been diagnosed with ADHD and autism, she has no mental health issues.
"They knew I'm not vulnerable but they wanted to monitor me because I was advocating for Israel," she told The Telegraph.
"When they came to the door they didn't discuss my health. They only asked about Israel."
The police intelligence report Ms Passmore obtained under data protection laws acknowledged that there "is no CT [counter-terror] concern with an individual being supportive of Israel as a democracy and it would not be a CT concern for a person to travel there".
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Ms Passmore is not Jewish, but after the Oct 7 massacre in 2023, she increasingly used her account to speak out against anti-Semitism and to express solidarity with Jewish people.
Which is why, when the Israeli embassy invited her to come to Israel, she accepted. The trip included a visit to Kfar Aza, a kibbutz attacked by Hamas terrorists on Oct 7, where Emily Damari, the British hostage, was abducted.
Three days after the police visit, on July 7, she lodged a complaint, which brought two more officers, one a superintendent, to her door.
"They said that, clearly, I'm not a terrorist," she recalled, explaining they were keen to reassure her that police did not consider her a threat or an extremist in any way.
"I thought that was strange at the time. You don't usually end up with a superintendent on your couch."...
She also alleges that the superintendent urged her to stop discussing the case online. By then, her experience had attracted widespread attention online, helped by Darren Grimes, a local Reform UK councillor, and David Collier, a journalist and campaigner.
We Got Your DNA: Federal Agents Dug Through Ilhan Omar's and Her "Sister's" Garbage to Find DNA to Establish Whether Or Not They're Actually Related
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Remember, when you toss out your garbage, you are abandoning it and disowning it, so no warrant is needed to search and seize it.
So we have Ilhan "Omar's" DNA.
Federal agents collected garbage in hopes of obtaining the DNA of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her family before this week's raid at her Washington, D.C. home, sources told NewsNation.Investigators historically have used secretive "dumpster diving" to obtain DNA when search warrants were not possible or would have tipped off investigatory targets. It is legally permissible for law enforcement to collect trash that has been discarded for pickup and comb through it for genetic material.
Multiple sources familiar with the probe tell NewsNation that potential DNA evidence is critical to the investigation into Omar. They say the case is broader than the public may assume based on longstanding accusations surrounding her immigration history or marital status.
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Federal agents seized Omar's phone during a widely publicized search Monday at her Washington residence. NewsNation has learned that more than a dozen raids actually occurred simultaneously.
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She originally was investigated by the Department of Justice under former President Biden before the case was closed. Parts of that investigation were reopened and expanded under the administration of President Trump.
In other words, Biden's henchmen covered it up and closed the investigation.
There are so many elements of the "Omar" family's fraud that it's hard to keep them straight, but one strand involves the theory that she's not even part of the Omar family. The Omar family got a visa when she was in a refugee camp, and she pretended to be an Omar to exploit that visa.
Evidence for this consists of past social media postings in which she called a man named Elmi "father" repeatedly in discussions with her family. When asked about this curious habit of referring to a man as "father" who was supposedly not her father, she claimed there was a tradition in her particular region of Somalia of referring to men who aren't your fathers "father" out of respect or some absurd nonsense like that.
This may be one of the reasons they also seized her "sister's" phone as well. Sarha Noor is probably being investigated for being part of the Somali Fraud Syndicate, but they also might want to check how many times she refers to this Elmi person as "father," too.
The raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) home reportedly moved forward after federal law enforcement reviewed a phone seized from the Minnesota congresswoman's sister, author and health care executive Sahra Noor.The New York Times reported that Noor's phone was taken earlier this year as investigators reportedly sought to build a case against Omar for conspiracy to commit immigration fraud -- and that text messages sent between members of her family are being used to bolster that case.
Homeland Security agents, the outlet reported, had used those messages to convince a federal judge to sign off on the search warrant that was executed on Monday at Omar's home in Washington, D.C.
The investigation into Omar and her family -- and whether or not they are guilty of immigration fraud -- began during former President Joe Biden's term in the White House but has ramped up in recent weeks as President Donald Trump's administration has also vowed to investigate whether the Minnesota Democrat is guilty of marriage fraud.
Investigators who searched the congresswoman's home in Washington, D.C., were reportedly looking for documents that were filled out by Omar and her father when they first came to the United States in an effort to determine whether or not her citizenship is valid.
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Further complicating Omar's account is the fact that a 2023 search for any record or proof of Omar's father's naturalization came up empty, the New York Post reported.
Homan said, "Well, look, I said over a year ago the allegations were made clear and it would be investigated. And they are investigating it. I'm not going to get ahead of, you know, the bureau or agency, but, you know, I've been told they have a strong case and we'll let the evidence lead where it leads. But she'll be held to the same standard you and I are held. If she violated law, then she will be held accountable. But I don't have the specifics of the evidence they have line by line, but we'll see where it leads. I think they're doing a great investigation. I think they're going to turn over every rock they've got with this."Lahren said, "Would this involve denaturalizing and then deporting her, if it does turn out there is some kind of immigration fraud?"
Homan said, "Of course. If you lie during the naturalization process, there is a process to denaturalize somebody. We've done it before, it's a long, tedious process, but it's been done before. I've been involved with those investigations before, and certainly, if the evidence points that way, that could happen."
At American Greatness, Liz Sheld reports on the Lightbringer speaking out on Ilhan "Omar's" behalf.
Morning Greatness: Obama White Knights for Credibly Accused Scofflaw Rep. Ilhan Omar
Former President Barack Hussein Obama has stepped in on X to defend his comrade Ilhan Omar from unjust attacks by a weaponized Trump Administration. "It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can't selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say."And he continued to explain, "The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president."
Full weight of the government, eh? The Obama machine and his deep state vultures relentlessly attacked elected official President Donald J. Trump with witch hunts, hearings and investigations. They abused the FISA process, spied on his campaign, and planted lies in the media that were used to "justify" further government overreach. During the four years of the "Biden" administration, the Obama machine sent storm troopers to Trump's private residence complete with pre-arranged media coverage, staged evidence for photo ops and ransacked his wife and child's private belongings. His operation worked with disgruntled characters to file civil suits against the president and changed the law to prosecute Trump for manufactured crimes in New York. Obama's henchmen had a television producer create a prime time broadcast spectacle of a "hearing" for the J6 protest on the taxpayer dime. Don't get me started on what they did to the J6ers with SWAT raids, debanking, surveillance, financial ruin, lawfare and ritual defamation.
Democrat Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin: We Must Relentlessly Prosecute Trump Personnel So That Young People Are Too Scared to Join the Conservative Movement
—Disinformation Expert Ace
As with many bloodthirsty leftist authoritarian operatives lately, she says the quiet part out loud.
She's another degenerate CIA authoritarian now attempting a color revolution in the US.
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin publicly called on Democrats to intimidate young conservatives who want to work for the Trump administration by prosecuting the president's staffers.
Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst, contended that Democrats must "go after" and make examples out of officials in President Trump's orbit who engage in corruption to send a message to young people who may want to join the administration.
"I want young people coming out of school to say, 'Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,'" Slotkin mused at a University of Chicago event last week that has since gone viral.
"I want them to be like, 'Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don't want, and so let me avoid participating in that,'" the senator went on. "I want that deterrence message sent."
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Slotkin reflected that despite her voting to impeach Trump twice, he's still in the White House and seemingly alluded to how he survived the four criminal cases against him.
"The people around Donald Trump who are doing his bidding and enabling this have no such immunity. They have no immunity the way the president does," she added.
"And to me, he couldn't do any of this stuff without all of those people saluting and supporting it. So you go after the people who do his bidding."
Slotkin's remarks ignited a firestorm on social media from conservatives.
"Sen. Slotkin, a self-avowed 'defender of democracy,' told me and other conservative students that we should live in fear of political persecution if we dare serve our country in the Trump administration," University of Chicago student Michael Bicksel posted on X.
"Sadly for her, we will never be intimidated by her Bolshevik-style tactics."
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Last week, Trump openly mused about going on a massive pardon spree, including a self-pardon near the end of his time in the White House.
"I don't want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense, hire lawyers and everything else, all for nothing," the president told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty.
I'll take a pardon, if he's handing them out.
Miranda Divine: This CIA communist whore is another fake "moderate."
Elissa Slotkin was elected to the Senate in 2024 as a supposed "moderate."But of course we know that, apart from Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, that species of Democratic politician doesn't exist in Congress anymore.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who served under John Brennan, to show her true colors.
The Michigan senator told students at the University of Chicago last week how she plans to use the power that will come to Democrats if they win Senate control in the midterms next month.
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Slotkin pretends she is a stickler for "defending democracy." But this is how the Bolshevik left who control today's Democratic Party play the game, even as they cloak themselves in conservative disguises, as intelligence professionals, soldiers, astronauts or doctors.Slotkin, who fancies herself as a future president, used that same term "signature cases" in a chilling speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in September when she named Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as the Trump officials she would target for political prosecutions that would see them jailed for 20 years.
She likened her planned revenge campaign against Trump officials to Poland's "Iron Broom" cleanup, in which Democrats would create "a list of signature cases that go after some of the most obvious and harmful abuses of taxpayer dollars."
"We need to hold accountable the people and institutions who stole billions of our taxpayer dollars and weaponized the government against its people," she said.
"In Poland, they called this plan the Iron Broom -- cleaning the place up."
Slotkin's threats are especially disturbing when you consider the body count of administration officials and Trump allies from the president's first term who were attacked by Joe Biden's weaponized Justice Department.
It's one aspect of the psychological warfare she learned in her former intelligence career.
Last year, Slotkin and five other "national security" Democrats launched a sly propaganda video implying that Trump was giving "illegal orders" to the military.
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French Police Flee from Violent "Students" "Protesting Class Sizes" as "Class Size Riots" Spread Throughout Europe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
France went up in flames Saturday.Masked mobs hijacked a nationwide day of protest, torching a 143-year-old town hall, storming government buildings and fighting police in the streets. In the middle of the chaos, protesters waved Palestinian flags.
In the heart of Paris, demonstrators climbed the monument at Place de la République, the towering statue of Marianne that symbolizes the French Republic. A Reuters photographer captured them perched on it holding a French tricolor alongside a Palestinian flag amid pink smoke. One outlet reported that rioters pulled down the statue's French flag and hoisted a Palestinian banner in its place.
The flags turned up well beyond Paris.
In Marseille, several dozen mostly young protesters battered through the doors of City Hall and briefly overran the lobby, according to Agence France-Presse. They overturned tables and chairs, smashed a screen, and knocked a bust of Marianne to the floor. Some of the intruders wore yellow vests. Others carried Palestinian flags. Someone spray-painted an anarchist symbol on the wall.
Marseille Mayor Benoit Payan said he had to phone President Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister and the interior minister to get reinforcements. The city went from one riot police comany that morning to three, plus two armored units.
Guys they just want smaller class sizes. Why won't you let them have smaller class sizes?
How can they all become Doctors and Engineers if they have one teacher per thirty students instead of one teacher per twenty-six students? Why are you being so Racist?
The "protesters" "clashed" with police, which is a euphemistic way of saying the police simply turned tail and ran from the "protesters," leaving citizens with no protection at all.
Paris woke Sunday to shattered storefronts, burned cars and a heavy police presence after unrest swept through the city and other parts of France.Violent clashes broke out Saturday during nationwide demonstrations over rising living costs and poor school conditions. Hundreds of thousands marched across the country, while masked groups fought with police, looted businesses and set fires in several cities.
As with the BLM rioters -- I mean Mostly Peaceful Protesters -- these Change Agents showed a particular zeal for liberating electronics stores and high-end designer handbag shops.
The destruction was not limited to Paris.In Limoges, about three hours south of the capital, fire tore through the city's historic town hall, built in 1883 and designated a historic landmark in 1975.
A fire tore through the town hall, Fox? Is that like "A car mowed down citizens at a Christmas market?"
Can we get any information about who started this fire? Or is it a case of spontaneous combustion?
The local prefect, Maurice Barate, told AFP that the roof had collapsed onto the lower floors and about two-thirds of the building's exterior had disappeared. He called it "a catastrophe for heritage."...
President Donald Trump weighed in Sunday, blaming immigration for the unrest in a Truth Social post and urging France to close its borders.
"The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country," he wrote. "Close your borders and take control, before it is too late!"
That's just racist. These protests are about class sizes.
Be Better, Trump. #BeBetter.
The Interior Minister acknowledged failure even as the president Macron refused to take any responsibility.
The French government acknowledged on Monday a failure in handling the rioters who attacked the police, ransacked public buildings and looted stores in cities across the country over the weekend.
France's interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, offered a mea culpa on national radio, saying that the police had been underprepared to deal with the scale of the riots that spun out from planned protests on Saturday night. He said he had offered his resignation to President Emmanuel Macron but that it had not been accepted.
The justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, also acknowledged that the authorities had "undeniably failed" in the face of the violence -- the biggest unrest to hit France in years -- and said on French television that there had been "a failure in intelligence."
With many people in France still stunned on Monday by the scale of the damage, mayors and councilors gathered outside their city halls to show that they were still standing and to demand answers from the national government.
Benoit Payan, the mayor of Marseille, has accused the government and the police of "delivering" that city -- France's second largest -- to "looters and rioters."
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"I want compensation down to the last cent," he added, saying: "You cannot leave a country to sink into a political crisis without an answer."
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Amid calls for calm and order, there were questions about what would happen next.
The students who started a protest movement more than a month ago by blockading their high schools to demand better conditions are now on a two-week vacation. However, other groups have joined the protests in solidarity and to highlight their own grievances -- with some seemingly determined to keep the movement going.
Really? Professional rioters and criminal looters want to keep the anarchy going?
So... it's not about class sizes?
Macron once again spoke weakly, promising to punish the rioters while insisting he would continue to honor the foreign army's "right" to loot, pillage, and destroy.
He also refused to take any responsibility for the riots. He just let his Interior Minister pretend to take responsibility (with no actual accountability).
In an address to the nation on Sunday evening, French President Emmanuel Macron refused to take any accountability for the national riots that erupted on Saturday, as he sought to shift the blame onto the far-left and even external forces like the Iran conflict while failing to acknowledge the role mass migration played in creating a groundswell of support for the unrest.President Macron, who has become little more than a lame duck in the Élysée with six months left in his term in office, addressed the country for the first time since the youth revolt began nearly a month ago.
Rather than taking a 'the buck stops here' approach, Mr Macron did not admit to any personal failings after his government failed to foresee or prevent some of the most destructive riots in recent memory, resulting in historic buildings being torched, thousands of shops being looted, and hundreds of police officers, gendarmes, and firefighters being injured on Saturday.
Instead, the outgoing leader pointed to "extremists from far-left groups" and "criminals" as being solely responsible for the "unrestrained violence" witnessed across France.
Meanwhile, Macron appeared to completely ignore the role that the importation of millions of foreigners into the country has had on the social framework, with many of the rioters being suspected of hailing from the multicultural suburban enclaves like Saint-Denis. Instead, the president questioned, "How can French people do this to France?"
"Why burn down the town hall in Limoges, the tourist office in Lyon, storm the town hall in Marseille, or attack the prefect's residence in Bordeaux? How can they go so far? Nothing justifies it, nothing explains it, nothing excuses it. We all feel anger and shame tonight. Seeing the streets of our cities so ransacked is unbearable," he questioned.
Marine Le Pen is not impressed by his leadership in this crisis:
National Rally presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said that the "Macron government is on its last legs, exhausted, disoriented." In a video published two hours before President Macron's planned national address, Le Pen said that her longtime rival's government "seems incapable of doing anything other than commenting on its own impotence.""We are experiencing a profound crisis of confidence and authority that threatens democracy. This situation should alarm us: our country is caught in a vice, even held hostage, between violence and impotence," she said.
Macron will not rest until the nation is at peace. Now let's grab some lunch.
French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism over his decision to attend a Celine Dion concert Friday night, on the eve of nationwide demonstrations that descended into violence, leaving hundreds of emergency personnel injured and nearly 1,800 people arrested.Macron and his wife, Brigitte, were spotted at Dion's concert at the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, west of Paris, according to French media reports. The couple reportedly arrived and left discreetly and were among roughly 35,000 spectators at the performance.
The concert came after Macron spent Thursday and Friday in Brussels attending a European Council meeting. During a news conference in Brussels on Friday, he called for "calm and respect" ahead of Saturday's planned demonstrations, saying the right to protest must be exercised with respect for people and property.
The riots over "class sizes" have spread to other European countries which coincidentally also have large populations of unassimilated Third World foreigners.
Because we can't acknowledge what the riots are really about, the media has decided to claim the riots in other countries are over "the increasing cost of living."
Violent protests have broken out across Europe amid growing frustration over the cost of living crisis, a lack of affordable housing and deteriorating school conditions.As many as 550,000 people turned out across France on Saturday, according to authorities, to demonstrate against declining public services. Protests turned violent in Paris as shops were looted and cars set on fire in some of the city's worst violence in years.
Young people waved Italian flags and let off flares in Milan as they rallied against the rising cost of living in scenes that were condemned by prime minister Giorgia Meloni.
Did they only wave "Italian flags"? Of course not. It took me three minutes to find this Palestinian flag at the Milan riots, at 0:09. It's so weird that I can easily find this while "professional journalistic corporations" can't find it.
Or did Italy's tricolor get a black band added when I wasn't looking?
By the way, I found zero Italian flags being waved. I'm not saying there weren't any; I only looked for three minutes. I am saying, however, that a brief search for flags turned up a Palestinian flag and zero Italian flags, so I'm not sure where this leftwing propaganda outlet is getting its information from.
I'm just kidding. I know where they're getting it from. It's a UK outlet and they're taking their orders from the government's censorship police, like "Prevent."
More on Prevent later today. They have unmasked fully.
Authorities said more than half a million people turned out to march on Saturday including 110,000 in Paris alone. Organisers put the figure closer to 800,000.While hundreds of thousands protested peacefully across France on Saturday, violent fringe groups targeted public buildings, looted luxury boutiques and supermarkets, and attacked police vehicles and officers.
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More than 2,400 people were arrested across France, while nearly 1,000 officers were injured, according to the government. Police fired teargas in Paris on Sunday afternoon and protesters set fire to piles of bicycles.
One protester died on Saturday after suffering a cardiac arrest during demonstrations in the capital.
I blame the January 6th protesters, who are responsible for all deaths that occur at any riot, anywhere.
...Milan police clashed on Sunday with protesters throwing stones and looting shops during demonstrations against crumbling public services and the rising cost of living, a day after similar unrest in several Italian cities.
Police in riot gear fired teargas and used water cannons after several hundred hooded protesters broke shop windows and set bins on fire in the area near central Piazza Duomo, sources told Reuters, adding that more than 60 protesters had been detained for checks.
A total of 28 protesters were arrested after similar clashes erupted on Saturday in northern cities including Milan, Bologna, Brescia, Bergamo and Turin, according to a police report on Sunday.
Breitbart notes the "multicultural riots" outside of Milan's Duomo.
But I thought they were only waving Italian flags...?
Dozens of rioters have been arrested following the outbreak of a "guerrilla war" outside the Duomo cathedral in central Milan as unrest from France appears to be boiling over into fellow European nations.Stones, smoke bombs, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails were the weapons of choice for the youth hoodlums that descended upon Milan, leaving some 141 police officers injured during the so-called cost of living protests on Saturday. The violence mainly occurred in Piazza del Duomo, the square outside Milan Cathedral, the neo-Gothic church dedicated to the Nativity of St. Mary, which serves as the seat of the Archbishop of Milan and stands as the largest church in the whole of Italy.
According to Italy's public news wire service Ansa, 197 people were detained by police during the demonstration, while 28 were arrested, including 12 minors and six foreign nationals. The wire service noted that there was also a heavy contingent of "second-generation migrants" involved in the riots.
An estimated 5,000 protesters took part in the demonstration in Milan, which was called to mimic the supposed cost-of-living protests in France. While some demonstrators literally chanted in French, the protest quickly devolved into "guerrilla warfare", Ansa reported.
"Milan was reduced to a battlefield, with Piazza Duomo besieged by hundreds of young people dressed in black. They forced the police to retreat under the hurling of firecrackers, barriers, and bottles, until they occupied the city's symbolic square," the wire service wrote.
NY Post Op-Ed: Can we stop lying now?
France is seeing its worst riots in decades -- violence clearly aimed not simply at the ruling party, but at France itself -- and the left-liberal establishment is still trying to blame a few bad apples.That's true not just of President Emmanuel Macron, but of global media that claim it's mainly about student grievances over budget cuts -- at least one BBC article actually used the phrase "mostly peaceful protests."
This is nonsense: The street mobs haven't been just (or even mostly) kids for weeks now, and the vandalism began in the first days; it was last month that "protesters" set a teacher on fire.
Foreign flags (Morocco, Algeria, "Palestine") came out at the start; the crowds are mostly blacks and Arabs -- overwhelmingly from Muslim immigrant communities, in other words.And the political statements are obvious: Burning down historic town halls; smashing a statue of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic.
Synagogues ransacked and other targeting of Jews.Liberty isn't leading these people, but a hatred for Western civilization itself.
Toussi TV pointed out that no mosques had been targeted. Of course not.
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THE MORNING RANT: Wealth Extraction – It’s What Socialists and the “Financialize Everything” Capitalists Have in Common
—Buck Throckmorton
Free enterprise creates wealth. By contrast, socialism extracts wealth, destroying the institutions that created the wealth. It is extremely unhelpful in our battle against socialism, however, that an ascendant business class of financial raiders, who argue that they are free market capitalists, are doing the same thing as socialists – extracting wealth and leaving in their wake the ruins of the institutions that created the wealth.
There was an excellent essay a few days ago from Annang Mittal at the Daily Wire addressing this problem. He discussed how the plunderers who capture private sector wealth, without doing any wealth creation of their own, have “done more to discredit free enterprise than Bernie Sanders ever has.” That piece is linked below, along with a few pull quotes.
This is another of those horseshoe issues, where the extremes of both left and right nearly meet. The Private Equity Bros and the Bernie Bros both look at the wealth of a business and dream of extracting it for their own enrichment.
I’d also add that it is not just private equity that is raiding the capital of businesses. Much of corporate America’s executive class has embraced an ethos in which headcount is slashed, product quality is diminished, and customers are subject to deceptive revenue-mining practices. This may produce a short-term spike in profit and stock price, but it also results in long-term degradation to the revenue flow and equity of the business, as disaffected customers never return. When the dust settles, the net result is that capital has simply been extracted from the corporation, with much of it flowing into the pockets of those executives who enacted those short-sighted actions.
There are many “capitalists” who feel that any criticism of private sector wealth extractors is a criticism of the free market itself. It’s not. We defenders of free markets have an obligation to condemn those who give it a bad name so as to lessen the appeal of socialism. If a private equity firm looks at a company like Toys R Us or Joann Fabrics and decides to extract its wealth in a manner that leads to the company’s bankruptcy, why shouldn’t Bernie’s acolytes decide that they too should get in on the action?
Don’t forget, just as private wealth extraction can occur under the umbrella of capitalism, socialism can be voted in under the umbrella of democracy. If we’re supposed to accept the legitimacy of equity raiders because we’re pro-capitalism, then shouldn’t we also accept socialism as being legitimate too because we’re pro-democracy? The answer is “No.” We should reject all destructive wealth extractors, be they on the left or the right. Both deserve disapprobation.
Here is the link to the Daily Wire article I referenced. I encourage you to read the whole thing: “What Happened When Capitalism’s Worst Salesmen Tried Selling the American Dream; Private equity and rent-seeking discredited the free market” [Anang Mittal – Daily Wire – 10/13/2026]
That is why so many in the heartland voted for populism, and why a growing number of young Americans have turned to socialism. Americans have stopped believing either party’s promises of economic renewal. Rent-seeking, getting rich by capturing wealth but not creating it, has done more to discredit free enterprise than Bernie Sanders ever has. Generations watched plants move overseas, communities disappear, and watched financiers strip what remained. When people hear “the free market,” they hear “the fix is in.” Private equity did not stay in manufacturing either. It soon entered healthcare, retail, and food service, jobs that seemed safe because they couldn’t be shipped overseas.
Mr. Nittal also discusses the pattern of unloading debt via bankruptcy and offloading to taxpayers the pension burdens of now-failed companies after all sources of cash have been extracted. Nothing says “free market” quite like pawning off a plundered company’s pension obligations to the federal government:
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The Morning Report — 10/19 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids.
As I have mentioned many times, some fundamentalist Muslims were allies of the Nazis and even fought on their side during World War II. The Grand Mufti, mentor of the father of modern jihad and inventor of the “Palestinian people” Yasser Arafat, was Hitler’s ally. The swastika and the Palestinian flag are directly connected and stand for the same evil reality: destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization, most especially the Jews. The Nazis killed Jews in France, and the fundamentalist Muslims of today have the same ideology.
And as I and others, most notably experts like Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, Melanie Phillips and others with their eyes fully open who are unafraid to write and speak the truth, there is no such thing as "fundamentalist" Islam, there is only Islam as it is preached and as it is practiced, or at the barest of minimums as it is believed and as the active participants are cheered on by the non-active non-participating believers.
France is seeing its worst riots in decades — violence clearly aimed not simply at the ruling party, but at France itself — and the left-liberal establishment is still trying to blame a few bad apples.That’s true not just of President Emmanuel Macron, but of global media that claim it’s mainly about student grievances over budget cuts — at least one BBC article actually used the phrase “mostly peaceful protests.”
This is nonsense: The street mobs haven’t been just (or even mostly) kids for weeks now, and the vandalism began in the first days; it was last month that “protesters” set a teacher on fire.
Foreign flags (Morocco, Algeria, “Palestine") Came out at the start; the crowds are mostly blacks and Arabs — overwhelmingly from Muslim immigrant communities, in other words.
And the political statements are obvious: Burning down historic town halls; smashing a statue of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic. . . Liberty isn’t leading these people, but a hatred for Western civilization itself. Leaders of that civilization who still insist on denial will either find themselves as former leaders, or “leading” a former civilization.
Macron demonstrated leadership by leading his concubine to Belgium to attend a Celine Dion concert. If that doesn't prove to you that civilization will go on, you're blind!
Well, unless something truly drastic happens in France, meaning the liberal (pun intended) use of lethal force against the rioters followed on by the mass deportation of Muslims, the unassimilable and then the proscription of Islam in France — in other words a paradigm shift in the past 70 or more years of the trajectory of French culture — then it will be lights out in France followed on by most of Europe soon thereafter .
And as the lamps go out all over Europe, I fear we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime....
. . .it didn’t take long for Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who served under John Brennan, to show her true colors.The Michigan senator told students at the University of Chicago last week how she plans to use the power that will come to Democrats if they win Senate control in the midterms next month.
She wants to unleash a barrage of political investigations on Trump officials in order to frighten young people away from taking jobs in the administration. “The people around Donald Trump . . . have no immunity the way the president does . . . So you go after the people who do his bidding,” she told the audience during a live podcast recording Tuesday.
“I want to look at these signature cases and not just focus on the president, but on the people who enabled him,” she continued.
“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? Like that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’
“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems that I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’
“I want that deterrence message.”
Slotkin pretends she is a stickler for “defending democracy.” But this is how the Bolshevik left who control today’s Democrat Party play the game, even as they cloak themselves in conservative disguises, as intelligence professionals, soldiers, astronauts or doctors.
Emphasis mine because listen Strychnine-Tits, it was we the people of WE THE PEOPLE who eagerly and enthusiastically voted for President Trump three times who enable him!
And as we know, SLUTkin and her ilk have been persecuting us ever since then by unleashing the FBI an DoJ against us via wiretapping and phony lawfare to destroy anyone who even so much as bought a MAGA hat or contributed even a buck to his political campaign.
And so, Miranda Devine's description of them as the Bolshevik Left is dead on the money. Decent people will not be deterred and at some point the crimes against their "precious DEMOCRACY™ will include the death penalty offense of raising of an eyebrow in objection to their latest assault on America as founded, which will lead to us to a gulag or winding up like Ashli Babbitt, Roseanne Boyland or Charlie Kirk.
As the disposition of both Nidal Hasan or Bro-Fo Omar remain up in the air, although Hasan will face a firing squad, but its telecast is still in question.
That said, I can tell you who and what deserves besides him deserves that fate, which I'm sure you can guess from the gravamen of my discourse because unless we do what France and Europe need to do sooner rather than later, then it will be lights out for America.
have a good day.
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Daily Tech News 19 October 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- A district court judge in Utah has blocked that state's law requiring magical ponies age restrictions for all websites that somehow stops precisely at the state border. (EFF)
The law covered not only sites operating within the state - which falls under Scalia's "dumb but constitutional" - but sites anywhere in the world accessible from Utah.
Sites were required to either block VPNs (and were forbidden from mentioning the existence of VPNs) or track the precise address of every single IP address in the world of which there are now 2128 which is rather a lot.
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TxMoMe 2026 Sunday Hangover ONT
—Doof
Sunset on the ranch in Corsicana last night
Howdy Hordelings! Travel day for me today - returning from Corsicana where a good time was had by all! Open thread with none of the typical content. Just some random photos from the festivities this weekend. Those of you who were there can reminisce. Those who weren't can get some idea of what you missed.
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Gun Thread: 2026 TXMoMe Discussion and Analysis Edition!
—Weasel
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 2026 TXMoMe Discussion and Analysis Edition? That's right, guys and gals, another fabulous TXMoMe is in the books. Please consider this an open thread to discuss and analyze your TXMoMe experience!
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
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Food Thread: A Blast From The Past!
—CBD
[Because I am otherwise engaged, I have dipped into the archives and come up with my 13-year-old comments about martinis, and because I am nothing if not a creature of habit, they haven't changed much!]
Any classic cocktail book will have a martini recipe that is bizarre for the typical modern drinker. A 2:1 or 3:1 ratio of gin to dry vermouth yields an unpleasant drink. The vermouth overwhelms the gin's botanicals, and you are left with the flavor of cheap, fortified wine with some herbs tossed in for flavor.
It's just not pleasant, so we back off on the vermouth, and drink 5:1 or 10:1 or plain gin. And that's probably one big reason for the explosion in boutique gins. If the typical martini is essentially pure gin, why not make it interesting?
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First World Problems...
—CBD
I got nothing!
What is your most ridiculous First World Problem?
As long as it's real...go for it. But no imaginary ones. You have to tell the truth...it is for posterity!
The Cognitive Dissonance Of The Pro-Ukraine/Anti-Russia Commentariat
—CBD
There is a default assumption among the vast majority of the media, both the mass-market variety and the supposedly high-minded elites who comment on everything, no matter their expertise.
Ukraine GOOD! Russia BAD!
That sums it up nicely.
And they are half correct! What they seem to miss is that Ukraine is a kleptocratic cesspool of corruption, and their only saving grace is that they were attacked by Putin's Russia, and not by Poland or Belarus, which would have elicited a giant yawn in western capitals. And they also miss the provocation from the West that probably began with Bush senior, when Russia was still the Soviet Union. They were promised that NATO had no plans to expand east, so the buffer between western Europe and mother Russia that the Soviet Union had created wasn't necessary.
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 10-04-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
—Open Blogger
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 (now with 3x the recommended daily allowance of pumpkin spice). 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, finish off the bag of pre-Halloween candy, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
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Daily Tech News 18 October 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Nvidia totally isn't cancelling Nvidia's RTX 5090 says Nvidia, as 5090 prices climb into the ionosphere. (Notebook Check)
Trust us, guys. When have we ever lied to you? I mean, since last time?
- Grab an RTX 5090 for just $5300 as part of this complete breakfast gaming PC. (Tom's Hardware)
Act now - this might be your last chance now that Nvidia has cancelled the RTX 5090.
- Protect your irreplaceable $8500 RTX 5090 by modifying it with four standard 8-pin PCI power connectors so it doesn't spontaneously combust. (Tom's Hardware)
You know, I don't think anyone else believes Nvidia either.
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Saturday Night Club ONT - October 17, 2026 [Disco & Dino]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.
Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. The Moose out front has been very busy today welcoming all of his MoMe friends.
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