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More women and children rescued from another horrific illegal alien sex-trafficking ring in Baton Rouge
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Congressman Drops MKUltra BOMB, Says Trump Assassin Was Groomed by CIA: 'Crooks Was Programmed…'
[YouTube]

Congressman Tim Burchett website.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/15/2025 08:26 || Comments || Link || [1793 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Schumer warned Trump that the intel guys have "six ways from Sunday" to get back at you. Apparently assassination is one. What are the other five?
Posted by: Matt || 11/15/2025 11:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Lousy training.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/15/2025 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Operation Chaos
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/15/2025 13:22 Comments || Top||

#4  So they never did release a toxicology report on that kid? Cremated him before a thorough investigation could be conducted? Certainly sounds like a cover-up.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/15/2025 13:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Operation Chaos is a tedious book to read. It was like the author wasn't really up to the task of writing it but then, investigating the CIA must be difficult. But you have to wonder about all these shooters. What drugs were they taking? Who was feeding them the drugs? With whom were they communicating before they did the shooting and how, if they were such whack jobs, did they get their hands on a gun? These questions never seem to get answered.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/15/2025 13:35 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ one would immediately presume Brennan and the Ground Branch.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 15:19 Comments || Top||


FBI identifies man sought in attack on US Attorney Alina Habba's office UPDATE: Got him.
[FoxNews] A federal arrest warrant was issued for Keith Michael Lisa

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Saturday that the suspect wanted in connection with the attack on U.S. Attorney Alina Habba’s office in New Jersey this week has been taken into custody.

The FBI had identified the suspect Friday night as Keith Michael Lisa.

Bondi said in an X post on Saturday morning that, thanks to the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations, the suspect wanted in the attack on Habba's office "is now in custody."

"No one will get away with threatening or intimidating our great U.S. Attorneys or the destruction of their offices," Bondi wrote.

"We got him. This Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi and our federal partners will not tolerate any acts of intimidation or violence toward law enforcement," Habba wrote on X on Saturday in reaction to the arrest. "Now justice will handle him."

The FBI said Lisa was wanted for allegedly entering the Peter W. Rodino Federal Building in Newark, New Jersey, on Nov. 12, 2025, while in possession of a bat.

"After being denied entry, he discarded the bat and returned," the FBI said. "Once inside the building, he proceeded to the U.S. Attorney's Office where he damaged government property."

A federal arrest warrant was issued for Lisa on Thursday in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark after he was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon in a federal facility and depredation of federal property, the FBI added.

"Today’s arrest shows what coordinated federal law enforcement can do. Threats against our U.S. Attorneys aren’t just attacks on individuals, they’re attacks on the rule of law. And we will respond every time," FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X.

Bondi had announced Thursday that an individual had attempted to confront Habba on Wednesday night, "destroyed property in her office" and then "fled the scene.'

"Thankfully, Alina is ok," Bondi added. "Any violence or threats of violence against any federal officer will not be tolerated. Period. This is unfortunately becoming a trend as radicals continue to attack law enforcement agents around the country."

Habba said following the incident, "I will not be intimidated by radical lunatics for doing my job."

Lisa, 51, was described by authorities as being around 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing between 200 and 230 pounds.

The FBI said Lisa has ties to New York City and Mahwah, N.J., and "should be considered dangerous."

On its website, the Justice Department said that as Acting U.S. Attorney and Special Attorney to the United States Attorney General, Habba "is responsible for overseeing all federal criminal prosecutions and the litigation of all civil matters in New Jersey in which the federal government has an interest."

Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 07:12 || Comments || Link || [1789 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  You would think that armed security would have plugged him.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/15/2025 12:51 Comments || Top||

#2  What if they were in on it?
Posted by: John the Anonymous1192 || 11/15/2025 13:17 Comments || Top||

#3  The suspect showed up to the building with a baseball bat and was (merely) denied entry.

He placed the bat somewhere outside the building and then returned. The asshats pretending to be "security" then allowed him entry.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/15/2025 17:41 Comments || Top||


College football coach John Beam, who appeared in ‘Last Chance U,’ has died after being shot on the Laney College campus in California
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1751 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A very large X-magnitude flare occurred on the Sun
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A very large X-magnitude solar flare was recorded on the sun on the morning of November 14. This was reported by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to scientists, the X4.05 flare occurred at 11:30 AM Moscow time, with its epicenter in region 427 in the Sun's northern hemisphere, where an X5.15 flare was recorded two days earlier. It was one of the strongest of 2025 and triggered a powerful magnetic storm that struck Earth on November 11–13.

The Laboratory clarified that powerful flares in the center of this region began two to three weeks ago, when it was on the far side of the Sun. Scientists believe these could have contributed to the change in the motion of the 3I/ATLAS spacecraft, which was directly struck by ejected plasma clouds.



On the night of November 12, a powerful magnetic storm began on Earth, reaching a G4.7 level around 3:00 AM Moscow time. Prior to this, a solar flare of the highest magnitude, X5.1, was recorded.

Later, on November 13, one of the most powerful magnetic storms on Earth in the last decade generated intense auroras visible even in mid-latitudes. On the afternoon of November 14, the powerful magnetic storm, which lasted for 42 hours, ended.

Posted by: badanov || 11/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1787 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seeing Both Sides of the Sun at the Same Time
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Scientists believe these could have contributed to the change in the motion of the 3I/ATLAS spacecraft, which was directly struck by ejected plasma clouds.

Not the little green men in the Rama craft?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/15/2025 11:48 Comments || Top||

#3  https://www.solarham.com/ is a much better site.

Posted by: John the Anonymous1192 || 11/15/2025 13:08 Comments || Top||

#4  https://www.solarham.com/
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 15:22 Comments || Top||


Flood Watch in So. California thru 15 Nov
Link will update
[Wunderground] First major winter storm in west USA. Considerable warm air is entrained into this storm and Snow/rain line is above 8500' so not a lot of snow related travel issues this time. However several other storms will be following this one next week and they will be colder.

Major passes over the Sierra may be partly closed temporarily next week for clearance ops in the higher passes (e.g., Ebbetts, Sonora, Tioga) but not much chance of a multiday closing.

Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1780 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Watch out for mud slides in the LA burn areas.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/15/2025 13:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe get some lubrication on those fault lines.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/15/2025 15:08 Comments || Top||

#4  rainfall over 3" in a lot of LA county and over 5" in the hills 10 miles north of downtown LA

also lots of rainfall, in Orange, Ventura, San Bernadino, etc.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/15/2025 18:43 Comments || Top||


Economy
Where Walmart leads, retail follows.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Walmart's CEO Doug McMillon is set to step down from his role next year.

The superstore said on Friday that McMillon will leave his position after more than a decade.

This will be a major leadership change for the nation’s largest retailer and private employer as it continues to navigate a complicated consumer environment.

Following the sudden announcement, Walmart shares were down 2.5 percent in premarket trading.

McMillon will retire January 31, 2026 but stay on the board through June and as an advisor through January 31, 2027.

John Furner, currently the CEO of Walmart US, will take over as Walmart’s chief executive after the company’s fiscal year ends on February 1, the company announced.

Furner, 51, has led Walmart US since 2019, overseeing its biggest business segment and more than 4,600 stores.

He started at Walmart in 1993 as an hourly associate and has held leadership roles in merchandising, operations, and sourcing.

Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1761 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Several killed after bus crashes into bus stop in Stockholm
[BBC] Several people have been killed and injured after a bus crashed into a bus stop in central Stockholm, Swedish police say.

Circumstances surrounding the crash around 15:23 (14:23 GMT) on the Valhallav gen street in the Swedish capital remain unclear.

Police spokesperson Nadya Norton said the bus driver had been arrested and a manslaughter investigation had been opened as a matter of routine.
"He had a valid California CDL"
It is not clear if there were passengers on board. Police said they were not commenting on the number, gender or ages of those affected at this time.

The incident occurred near the Royal Institute of Technology university.

Images in local media show rescue crews appearing to help people trapped underneath the double-decker bus.

A witness who owns a shop on the street told SVT that the bus hit a pole in front of the bus shelter. They said several people ran into the shop crying.

A woman told the local Expressen newspaper that the bus "mowed down an entire bus stop queue".

She said that people were screaming and trying to help the injured, while dead people lay on the ground.

"There must have been more people under the bus," she said.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said his thoughts were with the victims and their families.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
MTG introduces bill aimed at eliminating H1-B visa program: ‘END the mass replacement of American workers'
[OAN] Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) introduced a bill to eliminate the H-1B visa program in an attempt to "END the mass replacement of American workers" — in her own words.

Greene (R-Ga.) announced the bill on Thursday which, if passed, would eliminate the H-1B visa program, with the only exception being 10,000 annual visas for medical professionals, although the provision would be phased out over 10 years.

Greene’s proposal would also eliminate the "pathway to citizenship, forcing visa-holders to return home when their visa expires," noting that the provision will "restore the original intent of the visa: for it to be temporary."

The Georgia congresswoman made the announcement in an X post, writing: "I am introducing a bill to END the mass replacement of American workers by aggressively phasing out the H1B program. Big Tech, AI giants, hospitals, and industries across the board have abused the H-1B system to cut out our own people."

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/15/2025 02:49 || Comments || Link || [1777 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump withdraws support for Marjorie Taylor Greene
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 11/15/2025 5:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting that he is distancing himself from her.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 15:20 Comments || Top||

#3  She's gone kooky since he wouldn't endorse her for Senate
Posted by: Frank G || 11/15/2025 18:35 Comments || Top||

#4  The Israel Times claims it’s because MTG has been demanding the Justice Department release the full Epstein files, objected to bombing Iran’s nuclear sites, and has been describing Israel’s war in Gaza as genocide.

But mostly, as Frank G points out, she’s gotten kookier. If President Trump is right about her polls numbers, supporting her won’t be enough to get reelected.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/15/2025 19:15 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Stranded Chinese astronauts finally escape station… but now three MORE are trapped in space with no way to get home
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Three astronauts who were stranded in space for over a week have returned to Earth – but their escape plan has left a new group of explorers without a way to get home.

Astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie were trapped on the Chinese station Tiangong for nine days after an unknown object damaged their spacecraft so severely that it was deemed unsafe to fly in.

The astronauts from the Shenzhou–20 mission were seen landing safely in the Gobi Desert in northern China early Friday morning after their six–month mission on board the space station.

When the crew discovered cracks in the window of their Shenzhou–20 capsule, officials decided to bring the three men home in the Shenzhou–21 space capsule instead – the craft which carried their replacements to the station on October 31.

However, that decision has now left the crew of Shenzhou–21, astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang, without a vessel to return to Earth in case of another space emergency.

After the space junk collision, long–established protocols required the Chinese astronauts to evacuate using the working space capsule at the station.

On Friday, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced that the Shenzhou–22 spacecraft will be launched 'at an appropriate time in the future,' with the likely goal of bringing replacements for the Shenzhou–21 team.

That future mission wasn't scheduled to launch until April 2026, but the space agency hasn't said if that timeline has changed since Shenzhou–21 was due to remain in orbit for six months.

The current situation now mirrors the 286–day saga of NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore earlier this year, who lost their ability to get home when mechanical problems made their space capsule unsafe to use again.

The stranded crew of Shenzhou–20 was supposed to head home on November 5 using their own ship, but right before their departure, an object that's believed to have been space debris hit their return capsule.

The astronauts on the station originally reported seeing a noticeable mark left on Shenzhou–20's hull, but CMSA later announced that tiny cracks had been discovered in the ship's window.

'The Shenzhou–20 spacecraft does not meet the requirements for the astronauts' safe return and will remain in orbit to continue relevant experiments,' CMSA said, according to state–run news outlet Xinhua.

Although the crew of Shenzhou–21 was not scheduled to leave Tiangong station for six months, the situation has now potentially opened a concerning revolving door of stranded astronauts aboard the Chinese research lab.
That gives them a whole half year to worry about whether or not they’ll be permitted to leave. What fun.
Before Shenzhou–20 took their replacement's vessel back home, aerospace expert and science blogger Yu Jun suggested that CMSA could move to a 'plan B,' which would involve launching a backup return vehicle from Earth.

'Shenzhou–22 and the Long March 2F [launcher] were already on standby. This is our rolling backup mechanism,' Jun told his more than five million followers on Weibo.

'They are in "emergency duty" mode and ready to bring our astronauts home safely if needed.'
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1792 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I blame Dr. Smith.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/15/2025 13:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Elon setting up a new rescue company?
Posted by: alanc || 11/15/2025 15:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Evidence deniers.
"That'll never happen to us".
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/15/2025 15:23 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
People's Defense Forces (PDF) ambushed Junta Forces; captured and killed soldiers in Kanbalu town, Sagaing


Posted by: badanov || 11/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1796 views] Top|| File under:



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Sat 2025-11-15
  More women and children rescued from another horrific illegal alien sex-trafficking ring in Baton Rouge
Fri 2025-11-14
  A Doctors’ Plot, Day 4: Nuh link, Dr Umar's house razed, 5 more detained: 5 key updates in Red Fort blast
Thu 2025-11-13
  Nigeria, US and UK probe $235m cocaine seizure at Lagos port
Wed 2025-11-12
  Day 2, Part I: At least 12 people were killed in an explosion outside a court in Islamabad
Tue 2025-11-11
  Car bombing near New Delhi metro kills 13
Mon 2025-11-10
  Hamas says fighters holed up in Rafah will not surrender. Nope.
Sun 2025-11-09
  IDF says troops killed 2 terror operatives who entered Israeli-controlled sector of Gaza, Hamas claims 69,000 toes up
Sat 2025-11-08
  Wannabe jihadis, 19, from NJ, plotted Boston bombing-style attack
Fri 2025-11-07
  AFRICOM has drafted plans for Nigeria operations
Thu 2025-11-06
  Hamas terrorist who held six hostages killed in airstrike last month, IDF announces
Wed 2025-11-05
  Israel has dropped a new type of bomb in Gaza. Paleostinians claim it's a 'mini nuke'
Tue 2025-11-04
  Russian troops have established a foothold in the Prigorodny microdistrict of Krasnoarmeysk
Mon 2025-11-03
  500 Firearms Bound for Mexico Seized at Texas Border ‐ 2 Arrested
Sun 2025-11-02
  Multiple people stabbed on train in England — 2 arrested, 12 injured
Sat 2025-11-01
  Al-Qaeda sub-group Jama'at Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) attacked Nigerian forces in Nuku, Kwara state.


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