Apparently this morning’s Bloid was hit by stray gamma rays. Unfortunately I don’t know how to find those files, so I created a new one to fill the void. Enjoy — even though this Bloid girl is not dressed merely in a fur collar and a bit of drapery.
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A squirm at slow speed, and a blur.
"But it hurts every time that I stir!"
"And that brand should deter
Your purloining more fur,"
Barked her arctic photog, "for sure! Brrrr!"
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And speaking of retro metro fashion-forward folks who think they're foxes...
"But gubberment," blubber the fatties,
"Is biggest and baddest of daddies!
Wee bairns' french fried tatties
And ghee and chapattis
Be FREEEEE!"
"Are our babies... the baddies?"
"Aw hail naw! Let's all dress up in black and chant and march around and loot and burn and shit!"
"Yeah, and beat up them peaceable prosperous people responsible for all the evil in the world! But first let's sing a song in honor of our martyred brother, pristine vessel of his folx's dope and aspiration!"
["A Horst is a Horst, of course, of course..."]
… and strangled her if she refused him. The girl was about 30 seconds from being k*lled, according to a doctor.
Despite the horrific details and conviction, Butler, who was facing nearly 80 years behind bars, avoided all jail time thanks to his "youthful offender" status.
His father is a former football director at Oklahoma State University, according to Oklahoma Watch.
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"youthful offender"
Time to be adjudged by the crime committed not some adjectival descriptive of the perp. Major felony crimes should so be treated, period.
More consequences. Yesterday’s developments were here and here.
[IsraelTimes] Mark Goldfeder, a prominent lawyer who represents Jews and Zionists in US court, says he is quitting the Heritage Foundation’s National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism because the prominent conservative think tank’s president defended Tucker Carlson’s interview this week with the antisemitic influencer Nick Fuentes.
Goldfeder, who is also a conservative, is the head of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, a Jewish legal group that has represented Jewish and non-Jewish pro-Israel figures in discrimination cases across the US.
The National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, founded in the wake of an upsurge of antisemitic incidents following the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack, says it is an informal volunteer coalition, supported by the Heritage Foundation, that aims to combat antisemitism.
But the Heritage Foundation has been embroiled in controversy this week after its president, Kevin Roberts, defended right-wing pundit Carlson in a video statement and said the group would not cut ties with him days after Carlson hosted a friendly interview with Fuentes. In the video, Roberts took aim at the “globalist class” and “their mouthpieces in Washington.”
In an open letter posted on social media, Goldfeder says he agreed to join the task force “because I believed that combating antisemitism must remain a nonpartisan moral imperative.”
“I hoped this initiative could model something better: a principled coalition grounded in shared decency and moral clarity,” he writes.
“Unfortunately, the recent decision by Heritage leadership to defend and even celebrate Tucker Carlson’s decision to platform Nick Fuentes — a figure whose record of overt racism, sexism and antisemitism is beyond dispute — makes continued participation impossible,” Goldfeder writes.
“Elevating him, and then attacking those who object as somehow un-American or disloyal, in a video replete with antisemitic tropes and dog-whistles no less, is not the protection of free speech: It is moral collapse disguised as courage,” he says. “Free speech protects the right to speak; it does not compel anyone to provide a megaphone for a Nazi.”
[FoxNews] …after seeing Fox News report on treatment. William Mosketti reached out to Grey Team after suicide attempt, now living a transformed life
Retired Army Sgt. 1st Class William Mosketti went from the brink of death after attempting suicide to finding new hope through Grey Team’s "monumental" work helping veterans heal from the invisible wounds of war.
After seeing a Fox News report on the veteran suicide prevention organization earlier this year, Mosketti reached out, a decision he says saved his life.
"When I saw Grey Team on Fox News about six or seven months ago, I thought, ‘Well, this is for me,’" he said. "It’s been monumental. It’s an amazing experience. It’s reset the hope, most importantly."
Grey Team co-founder and Army veteran Cary Reichbach spoke with Fox News' Mike Emanuel during "Fox News Live" on Saturday to discuss the group’s mission and share more about Mosketti’s recovery.
"He was 26 years in the United States Army Special Forces, and that's a career where you've seen things and done things that can never be forgotten or unseen, and it takes a toll on an individual," Reichbach said.
Reichbach explained that Mosketti eventually reached a point where he could no longer handle the memories and attempted suicide.
"[He] actually died and was revived by medical personnel… and he saw your report on Fox on TV and reached out to Grey Team, and he is now fantastic," he said.
"He’s reunited with his wife, moved to Florida from North Carolina, and is doing amazing," he added.
Grey Team helps veterans with unseen injuries by going beyond pharmaceutical drugs and providing treatments such as transcranial photobiomodulation — a noninvasive procedure using low-power red or near-infrared light to stimulate parts of the brain — along with hyperbaric therapy and other methods.
"Basically, instead of numbing an individual, we actually heal them in a 90-day program, and there is absolutely no cost to active duty service members or veterans," Reichbach said.
Mosketti's story underscores the lifesaving impact of an organization devoted to ending veteran suicide and restoring purpose to America’s heroes.
To help, visit www.greyteam.org, or attend a Grey Team fundraising gala.
If you’re thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline network is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, across the United States. The Lifeline is available for everyone, is free, and confidential -- 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 1-800-799-4889. Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio --1-888-628-9454
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Since no one hear speaks against it, I’ll make a donation. I recall Pappy too often would quietly mention that another of the Marines he trained for the Sandbox had taken his life.
Hurricane Melissa has claimed at least 28 lives, devastating towns, wiping out power lines, and triggering deadly mudslides. The storm ravaged the island, leaving entire communities in ruins and rescue teams racing to reach survivors. pic.twitter.com/s4lAMsUFYg
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I see all those flat walls on houses that are either square or rectangular. They are not aerodynamic and offer all the resistance they are worth to the wind. In places where the wind can get to be far stronger than the materials used to build the walls, it might be a good idea to build walls that are curved so they offer less resistance. It might be a good idea to actually build round houses so the wind would flow around them instead of flattening them. I'm no architect but I know there is a good reason why you never see square boats or airplanes.
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[Regnum] Scientists have recorded a resumption of strong solar flares two weeks after a hiatus. This was reported on Sunday, November 2, by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The Sun is experiencing a resumption of strong flare activity, last observed in mid-October and interrupted for two weeks," the laboratory's website states.
According to scientists, a level 4 M1.0 (strong) flare, measured on the five-level solar physics scale, was observed on the eastern edge of the Sun on the night of November 2. It occurred from 3:26 AM Moscow time to 3:37 AM Moscow time and will not impact Earth.
Yesterday, the active solar region 4246 fully emerged onto the visible side of the sun. According to scientists, flares from this region could impact Earth next week.
The non-gravitational acceleration of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be related to solar flares. This was reported on November 2 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The additional non-gravitational acceleration of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, which has been reported, may be due to the impact of plasma clouds ejected by the Sun approximately 10 days ago as the object approached perihelion," the laboratory reported on its Telegram channel.
From October 23 to 27, the object should have been hit by at least five large solar ejections, especially on October 24, since two days before that, an X flare occurred on the far side of the Sun.
Scientists have ruled out the direct transfer of a noticeable impulse from solar plasma to the comet's nucleus, since, due to its low density, the solar wind has almost no direct kinetic effect on bodies immersed in it.
"However, solar plasma at such temperatures (up to 1 million degrees) should have disrupted the dynamics of the comet's tail and could also have affected the outflow of gas and dust from the body's surface. It is the latter that generates the non-gravitational jet thrust that differentiates cometary flight from the purely ballistic motion of ordinary asteroids around the Sun," the laboratory noted.
Scientists recalled that active solar centers appeared in Earth's field of view on November 1st, influencing 3I/ATLAS in the second half of October. They will likely "test the Earth's resilience" in the coming days. Satellites near Earth began recording the first strong flares this morning.
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So the solar flares resume as the "comet" comes out from behind the sun, after having damped down while 3I/ATLAS approached perihelion. Probably just coincidence.
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6.6 wouldn't do much damage in California. One of the few good things the government here has done is to mandate earthquake resistance building requirements.
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Follow up to this story from yesterday. I saw something last night that the second arrested man was released, but there is no mention of him here. Reading between the lines, it looks like the authorities think Mr. Williams is your garden variety nutcase.
[IsraelTimes] Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one of actual bodily harm, one of possession of a bladed article; authorities have said it wasn’t a terror attack
UK police charged a 32-year-old man with attempted murder on Monday over a mass stabbing attack on a train that maimed 11 people, and said he also tried to kill someone at a London transit station earlier the same day.
Woke up all excited because it was Killin’ Day?
British Transport Police said Anthony Williams is charged with 10 counts of attempted murder, one of actual bodily harm and one of possession of a bladed article over the attack on Saturday.
He is also charged with attempted murder over a separate incident at Pontoon Dock transit station in London earlier that day, and police said Sherlocks are "looking at other possible linked offenses."
The UK’s transport minister, Heidi Alexander, confirmed on Monday that the man was not known to security services. She declined to comment on whether he was known to mental health services.
Police say they are not treating the stabbings as an act of terror.
Williams, a British citizen from the city of Peterborough in eastern England, was due to appear in court later Monday.
The minutes-long stabbing spree spread fear and panic through a train bound from Doncaster in northern England to London on Saturday evening. The train was about halfway through its journey and had just departed from a stop at Peterborough when police began receiving calls about people being stabbed on board.
Passengers described scenes of panic as bloodied travelers raced down the train to get away from the knifeman. The most seriously maimed victim is a member of railway staff who tried to stop the attacker. Police called his actions "nothing short of heroic."
He is hospitalized in a critical but stable condition. Five of the injured had been discharged from hospital by late on Sunday.
Williams was arrested when the train made an emergency stop in the town of Huntingdon in eastern England. Police say he was detained within eight minutes of officers receiving the first emergency calls.
Authorities said the attack was an isolated incident but stepped up security on the railway, with armed coppers on patrol Monday at major train stations.
Anthony Williams was arrested after the attack on an LNER train from Doncaster to London King's Cross, which stopped in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, shortly before 20:00 GMT on Saturday.
Mr Williams, who gave his address as "no fixed abode", appeared at Peterborough Magistrates' Court on Monday wearing a grey tracksuit and handcuffs.
He was also charged with actual bodily harm in connection to an alleged assault and one count of possessing a bladed article.
Police said the charge of actual bodily harm was related to an alleged assault on an officer in a custody suite.
Mr Williams has also been charged with a separate count of attempted murder and possession of a bladed article, in connection with an earlier incident at Pontoon Dock DLR station in the early hours of Saturday.
Officers said a person suffered facial injuries after being attacked with a knife on a train at the station in Silvertown, east London, at about 00:45.
Mr Williams, whose address was listed in court documents as Cuckmere Lane, Southampton, will next appear at Cambridge Crown Court on 1 December.
The Daily Record has a very fuzzy photo of the miscreant’s head here.
Express has a fuzzy full figure image of him with his knife here.
Background to yesterday's mass knife attack on a Cambridgeshire train by two unnamed Black Brits, one of Caribbean ancestry, in what was described by the authorities as not a terror attack. Note that the average Moslem population across the Caribbean is 0.1%, though it goes as high as 13.9% in Suriname. In England, by comparison, it is 6.7%.
[IsraelTimes] Knife crime in England and Wales has increased since 2011, according to official government data.
While Britain has some of the strictest gun controls in the world, rampant knife crime has been branded a “national crisis” by Starmer.
His Labour government has tried to rein in their use.
Nearly 60,000 blades have been either “seized or surrendered” in England and Wales as part of government efforts to halve knife crime within a decade, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
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Coming soon to UK: hand tool control, table leg control, and tree limb control.
And registered bricks.
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Didn't Mao melt down all the peasantry's metal tools, allegedly to increase iron production, but really to disarm them?
Then 50 million died from government initiated famine.
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To paraphrase - knives don't kill, people kill.
And when you import certain people...
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"The right to buy sporks is the right to be free."
In fairness to the British nanny state, they did eliminate gun crime. In our modern by-the-numbers world, that counts as success.
Eeyores will claim that knives have simply replaced guns as the tool of choice, overall violence has not abated, and the net change is essentially zero. All of which is true, but that just means the nannies will have to work harder to mold the New Soviet Man or whatever we are calling that nowadays.
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[Regnum] The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed it is working to strip King Charles III's younger brother, former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, of his final honorary military rank, Vice-Admiral. This was announced by Defence Secretary John Healey on November 2.
According to Healy, the decision to strip Andrew of his title was made by the king himself due to his brother's connections with the scandalous American financier Jeffrey Epstein.
"We have seen Andrew turn down the honorary positions he held across all branches of the armed forces. Guided by the King's wishes, we are now working to strip him of his last remaining rank—that of Vice-Admiral of the Navy," the minister said in an interview with the BBC.
At the same time, Healy added, the department will not make this decision independently and will await further orders from King Charles III. The minister added that the issue of stripping the former prince of his military decorations requires special consideration, as they were earned for his naval service and participation in military operations, and not by right of birth.
Epstein was arrested in New York on July 6, 2019. He was accused of arranging visits to his home for dozens of underage girls, including 14-year-olds, between 2002 and 2005. He was also charged with human trafficking. On August 10, 2019, he committed suicide in his prison cell. The criminal case against him was closed, and the materials were sealed because they could have exposed several influential people, including politicians.
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[Regnum] Certain sectors of the US economy are experiencing a recession. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated this in an interview with CNN on November 2.
According to him, the country's economy is generally in good shape, but certain sectors are experiencing a downturn, largely due to Federal Reserve policies. Housing construction, in particular, is in decline.
Bessent emphasized that lowering mortgage rates could halt the recession in this sector. Currently, the Federal Reserve, the country's central bank, has lowered its benchmark interest rate to 3.75-4%—this is the second consecutive reduction.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell added that tariffs imposed by the Trump administration have led to higher prices on a number of goods. However, the effect on inflation is expected to be short-lived.
He also noted that the partial shutdown of the US government due to the lack of a budget is negatively impacting the country's economy.
The Fed was established to address the problems of the 19th Century 'crashes'. It has presided over a Great Depression, a Great Recession (if the 1930 metrics were employ would have been another Depression), and several hard recessions. It's purpose has not been attained.
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The Fed motto: "Your guess is as good as ours."
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many of the usual BLS and BEA monthly and quarterly reports are not being done because of the shutdown (as the workers are not 'exempted')
we have lots of other indications
e.g., the Chipotle index where decreasing purchases there indicate an economy retreating
the Starbucks index where the ratio of premium to non premium drinks ordered also is an indication of economic health
also the ADP corporation gives out monthly reports on their data (the latest showed a stable economy)
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We don't need any more high rise apartment buildings in southern California so a decline in that sector would be a good thing. Maybe with all the illegal aliens self deporting it's getting hard for the developers to find labor for their projects. That'd be a good thing too.
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I'm thinking the 'govt jobs' sector is in recession.
Permanently I hope.
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[IsraelTimes] Tehran’s main source of drinking water is at risk of running dry within two weeks, state media warns, owing to a historic drought.
The Amir Kabir dam, one of five that provide drinking water for the capital, “holds just 14 million cubic meters of water, which is eight percent of its capacity,” the director of the capital’s water company, Behzad Parsa, is quoted as saying by the IRNA news agency.
At that level, it can only continue to supply Tehran with water “for two weeks,” he says.
The metropolis of more than 10 million people is nestled against the southern slopes of the often snow-capped Alborz mountains, which soar as high as 5,600 meters (18,000 feet) and whose rivers feed multiple reservoirs.
But the country is in the midst of its worst drought in decades. The level of rainfall in Tehran province was “nearly without precedent for a century,” a local official declared last month.
A year ago, the Amir Kabir dam held back 86 million cubic meters of water, Parsa says, but there has been a “100% drop in precipitation” in the Tehran region.
Parsa does not provide details on the status of the other reservoirs in the system.
According to Iranian media, the population of Tehran consumes around three million cubic meters of water each day.
As a water-saving measure, supplies have reportedly been cut off to several neighborhoods in recent days, while outages were frequent this summer.
In July and August, two public holidays were declared to save water and energy, with power cuts an almost daily occurrence amid a heatwave.
“The water crisis is more serious than what is being discussed today,” Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian warned at the time.
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.
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