[World Net Daily] A panicked anti-ICE agitator begged for mercy from federal officers, pointing out her motherhood, after being caught on video allegedly interfering with a crackdown on gangs in Portland, Oregon, last week.
"I'm just a mom! I'm just a mom!" the hyperventilating woman tells an officer, as seen on footage courtesy of Katie Daviscourt of the Post Millennial. "Can you just give me a warning? I have kids."
"You are surrounded by federal agents," the officer tells her.
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911: How may I help you
Police Caller: I have a woman named _______ that lives at _______. She is being held for illegally disrupting Law Enforcement operations. She claims she is a mother with children and there are no children present at this location.
911: Detain her for felony child Abuse and abandonment. I am dispatching DFAC's to her address for the children.
[FoxNews] One train hit another after passing through a red light, Slovak Railways director confirms
The collision of an express train with a passenger train on Sunday evening sent 79 passengers to the hospital, with 13 people still hospitalized.
The express train hit the back of the passenger train near the town of Pezinok, Slovakia, with 800 passengers in total aboard. None are said to be in life-threatening condition, according to The Associated Press.
Prime Minister Robert Fico reportedly said the crash was due to human error.
Slovak Railways director Ivan Bednárik said the first train passed through a red light, moving into the wrong sector, The Slovak Spectator reported.
"The express had already started braking, otherwise the consequences would have been far worse," Bednárik said, according to reports.
Color blindness, or color vision deficiency (CVD), is a condition that affects a significant portion of the male population in Slovakia, consistent with broader trends in Northern Europe. The prevalence of red-green color deficiency among males in Northern Europe is estimated to be between 7% and 8%, which is among the highest globally.
Caving is risky — one of the activities that will drive up life insurance premiums for even the perfectly healthy. If it’s guided, there are waivers to be signed.
[Regnum] In the United States, a hiker became stuck in a narrow passage while exploring a cave and died from his injuries, experiencing severe pain and strange visions. The Mirror reported this.
A 26-year-old man was trapped upside down in a tiny, cramped cave in Utah. Rescuers tried various methods to free him. They even had to widen the narrow passage with jackhammers, but the victim only suffered serious injuries—cuts and fractures.
By the time specialists arrived at the scene, the man was already losing consciousness and could not move through the tunnel on his own.
"He drifted in and out of consciousness and started talking about seeing angels and demons around him," one of the rescuers said.
The publication clarifies that the traveler spent a day upside down, after which doctors who arrived at the scene discovered that the man had no pulse.
The deceased's wife was reportedly pregnant at the time of the incident. She decided to name her son after his father.
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[Regnum] More than 10 solar flares have occurred over the past 24 hours. This was reported on Monday, November 10, by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"Flash activity—more than 10 flares occurred in the last 24 hours, including a high-scoring X event," the laboratory's Telegram channel reported.
Scientists clarified that, according to calculations, these flares will have a moderate impact on the Earth's magnetosphere on November 11. However, the geomagnetic environment remains calm.
Yesterday, scientists released a video captured by space telescopes showing the destruction of a giant solar prominence. Furthermore, the footage shows rapidly rotating plasma filaments that were screwed back into the solar surface, dragging the remains of the prominence along with them.
Earlier that day, a powerful solar flare erupted, sending plasma toward Earth. According to scientists, the main centers of solar activity that emerged in late October have aligned with the Sun-Earth line, potentially causing their maximum impact on the planet in the next 24 hours.
[Telegraph] If you presented 99-year-old Ruth Bourne with a Bombe, the electromechanical code-breaking machine created by Alan Turing during the Second World War, she would probably still be able to operate it.
Bourne is an exceptional woman, chosen, at 17 ("going on 18"), to be a codebreaker at sites around Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, which were set up to decode intercepted Nazi messages during wartime. Not that she had any idea at the time.
In 1944, she joined the "Wrens" (Women’s Royal Naval Service) and was sent to a training camp in Scotland before being put into a category called "SDX". She reasoned that the "SD" stood for "special duties" but was none the wiser about what was signified by that mysterious "X".
"We were told: you will be doing very important but secret work," she says, from her home in north London. "It won’t fit you for any work when you get demobilised. There will be no promotion. The hours will be anti-social. And if you don’t fancy doing it, now is the time to go."
Not one of her group of six or so women left after hearing that. Instead, they signed the Official Secrets Act and started training on the "six foot high, seven foot wide and one foot deep" Bombe machines.
These were conceived by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman to automate the process of testing possible Enigma settings, which the Germans used to send encrypted messages.
It was demanding work. The machines had to be precisely set up, run and monitored for "stops" (when a potential solution was found) during hot, noisy shifts that had to be conducted standing up. And, as Enigma devices typically changed settings every 24 hours, with 103 sextillion possible combinations every day, Bletchley Park code breakers worked around the clock.
Bourne says they called one split night shift "the Death Watch", but is inspiringly understated about her work. "I don’t suppose it could have been that difficult or complicated," she says. "It didn’t seem all that difficult to me. Let’s put it that way." People did often get ill, she says, but "we were young, so we could bounce back".
The greatest challenge was keeping it all a secret. "That was the most important thing about my job," she says. "We were all told to say it’s confidential work. During wartime, people often said that kind of thing, so it was really quite rude if people kept pushing. If they made educated guesses, we were told not to respond.
"My mother was very miffed. She used to say, ’you can tell me, I’m your mother’. I used to think — if I tell her, it will be all around Birmingham in 10 minutes." Bourne’s humour is another of her great strengths.
It wasn’t until decades after the end of the Second World War that the veil of secrecy was lifted. Many Bletchley Park staff didn’t know the full scope of their work until the 1970s, which saw the publication of books like The Ultra Secret by F W Winterbotham. The full story didn’t become known to the public until the 1990s.
When Bourne told her husband, Stephen Bentall — who served in the RAF during the war and was mentioned in despatches twice — his reaction was surprisingly muted.
"He was very high up in the civil service so he knew lots of industrial secrets," she says. "So I thought, well, I’ve got some secrets. My turn. I said ’here’s this book, this is what I did during the war, I worked on German codes’ and he was not at all impressed. He said: ’that’s very interesting dear, what’s for tea?’"
The couple married in 1946 and remained together for 40 years, until Bentall’s death. They had two sons.
Her modesty is striking, but Bourne is aware of gaps in the public knowledge that persist, even years after the full truth came out.
"They’d probably be far more interested in the people who waded onto the beaches and got killed on D-Day and that kind of heroism, rather than the people who were breaking the codes," she says.
"I don’t think there’s a connection in the public mind between the fact that we won the war, the fact that we were able to invade, and the fact that we were able to do all that because we knew where Rundstedt [a prominent German commander] was.
"We knew where the soldiers went. We knew they’d swallowed a deception. That sort of thing. I think they separate them out. The British government didn’t give us medals, you know."
They should have, and Bourne does seem aware of that, in her own humble way. "A lot of people say if it wasn’t for Bletchley, we’d be speaking German. That’s possibly true," she says. "I’m proud to have been chosen to participate. It was quite a privilege, really."
She was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 2018 at the French Ambassador’s residence in London, and received a badge from Bletchley Park, where she later worked as a tour guide for 25 years.
As for what younger generations can take from her story? Discipline is key, but so too is passion. "You’ve got to be disciplined and dedicated to whatever it is you’re doing, and put your heart and soul into it, whatever it is. And play by the rules."
That might not be the most fashionable of mantras, but life would likely look very different if people like Ruth Bourne hadn’t followed such an ethos.
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A lot of people say if it wasn’t for Bletchley, we’d be speaking German. That’s possibly true,
It was certainly a factor. In the opinion of this amateur historian, the main reasons the Allies won the war were technology in the form of radar and cryptography, American industrial production, and Russian bodies on the Eastern front.
This is not in order of importance and ignores the personal sacrifice of Lord knows how many. We are indebted to all of them, so let's try not to mess things up.
[CNBC] Nuclear power will receive most of the money from the Energy Department’s loan office as the Trump administration pushes to quickly break ground on new reactors, Secretary Chris Wright said on Monday.
“We have significant lending authority at the loan program office,” the Secretary of Energy said at a conference hosted by the American Nuclear Society in Washington D.C. “By far the biggest use of those dollars will be for nuclear power plants — to get those first plants built.”
President Trump signed an executive order in May that called for the U.S. to break ground on 10 large nuclear reactors by 2030. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Microsoft are investing billions of dollars to restart old nuclear plants, upgrade existing ones, and deploy new reactor technology to meet the electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centers.
Wright said he expects electricity demand from AI to attract billions of dollars in equity capital to build new nuclear capacity from “very creditworthy providers.” The Energy Department could match those private dollars by as much as four to one with low cost debt financing from the loan office, he said.
“When we leave office three years and three months from now, I want to see hopefully dozens of nuclear plants under construction,” Wright said.
WESTINGHOUSE DEAL
The Trump administration struck a deal last month with the owners of Westinghouse to invest $80 billion to build nuclear plants across the U.S. Westinghouse is owned by uranium miner Cameco and Brookfield Asset Management.
Westinghouse has designed a modern reactor called the AP1000 that can power more than 750,000 homes. CEO Dan Sumner said in July that Westinghouse would meet Trump’s call to build large new plants with the AP1000 design.
Cameco Chief Operating Officer Grant Isaac said last week that the U.S. government has a number of options available to facilitate the financing of Westinghouse reactors, including the Energy Department’s loan office.
“We’re assured that there is a lot of interest in investing this minimum $80 billion in order to begin the process,” Isaac told investors on Cameco’s third-quarter earnings call.
Under the terms of the October deal, Westinghouse could spin out as a separate, publicly-traded company with the U.S. government as a shareholder.
But Westinghouse has struggled in the past to build the AP1000 on time and on budget. It went bankrupt in 2017 from cost overruns at big nuclear projects in Georgia and South Carolina.
Two AP1000 reactors entered service at Plant Vogtle in Georgia in 2023 and 2024, years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. The South Carolina project was cancelled.
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More people died in an Oldsmobile driven by a MA senator than died at Three Mile Island.
Look, there is a star 93 million miles away from this planet whose nuclear radiation kills thousands every year yet no one is running around like Chicken Little about it.
[FoxBusiness] Texas cements business-friendly reputation with voter-approved tax bans
Texas is cementing its reputation as one of the most business-friendly states in America, and now, it’s written into the state's constitution.
Voters approved three pro-business tax amendments on Election Day, ensuring that the Lone Star State can never impose taxes on capital gains, estates or inheritances, and certain securities transactions.
While Texas doesn't currently levy these taxes, the new constitutional amendments make that tax certainty permanent, sending a signal to investors and corporations that the state’s low-tax structure is here to stay.
"These votes make it clear that Texas’ low-tax structure isn’t just policy, it’s now permanent," Carliss Chatman, a law professor at Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law, told FOX Business. "Whereas other states try to lure an Amazon or Facebook with temporary tax breaks or incentives, Texas doesn’t have to because we would never charge those taxes anyway. The incentives here are permanent, and now it’s unconstitutional for the state to start taxing you."
Here’s what the three measures mean:
Capital gains tax ban: Prevents Texas from ever taxing profits from the sale of investments, real estate, or other capital assets, a move meant to reassure investors and entrepreneurs.
Securities transaction tax ban: Bars the state from imposing taxes on financial trades or payroll transactions, effectively ruling out a "Wall Street tax" on buying or selling stocks.
Estate and inheritance tax ban: Prohibits any future taxation on wealth transfers after death, a safeguard for business owners and families looking to pass assets to heirs.
BREAKING: President Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn and dozens of false GOP electors and other key figures involved in his effort to overturn the 2020 election results, per pardon attorney Ed Martin >>> https://t.co/GEwELGtB86
António Guterres has called for tighter control of social media, claiming that “false narratives” threaten the UN’s Agenda 2030 goals and global stability.
[FoxNews] Tesla CEO donated to the American Institute for Roman Culture's archaeological platform
Elon Musk is putting money toward a digital renaissance of archaeology aimed at reimagining life in ancient Rome — with the potential to rewrite history books.
The Tesla CEO recently donated $1 million to the American Institute for Roman Culture (AIRC), a non-profit based in the U.S., through the Musk Foundation.
The funds support AIRC's Ancient Rome Live platform, which is dedicated to documenting and preserving Roman heritage as part of its Expandere Conscientiae Lumen initiative.
At an Oct. 24 ceremony hosted by the AIRC, Musk said that he was especially interested in ancient Rome, per the Times of London.
"I am interested in history and Rome constitutes a large part of the history of Western civilization," said Musk.
The SpaceX founder said that AI could fill knowledge gaps by helping write "a new history book based entirely on ancient material and archaeology."
Though the AIRC has not shared how AI plays into its projects, historical researchers have incorporated AI for tasks such as translating ancient texts, analyzing artifacts and digitally mapping ancient structures.
In a statement earlier this year, the AIRC announced that it had received the seven-figure donation, which it said "reinforces Ancient Rome Live's mission of fostering global understanding and appreciation of the ancient Roman world through education, research, and innovation."
"This grant marks a pivotal moment for Ancient Rome Live," AIRC director Darius Arya said in a statement.
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^ LOL. "You know Rome was the original globalist white supremacist anti-semites, right??"
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Me: AI; create an interactive map 100BC of the full planting moon; concept theory the pyramids being a night beacon time piece, with correct alignment of the stars, adjustable season correct weather, where a location and viewing direction can be selected. Re-figure again for the beginning of sailing season, and the ending of sailing season.
People: AI, show me what a cat with two butt holes looks like.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Telegraph] If you presented 99-year-old Ruth Bourne with a Bombe, the electromechanical code-breaking machine created by Alan Turing during the Second World War, she would probably still be able to operate it.
