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Wannabe jihadis, 19, from NJ, plotted Boston bombing-style attack
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Farmers in Florida clashed over dispute over laying hens' eggs.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A farmers' discussion about chickens and eggs escalated into a shooting in the US state of Florida. Three people have been arrested, WPTV reported.

According to police, on the night of November 4, 44-year-old Peter Riera was drinking at a local pub with three acquaintances, including 24-year-old Brandon Pace and 26-year-old Kayla Damiani. Riera was outraged by his friends' behavior, and he threatened them with a Glock 30 pistol and shot them four times in the parking lot.

"There was a conversation about how many—I'm not kidding you—how many eggs a chicken can lay. And that conversation got a little heated, and when they got out into the parking lot, the argument continued, and the shooter started getting nervous and paranoid," said Sergeant Dominic Mesiti.

All parties involved in the conflict were intoxicated. The farmer's acquaintances managed to flee, and no one was injured in the gunfire. However, Pace and Damiani resisted the arriving police: the young man kicked two officers, and the woman tried to prevent his arrest.

Following his arrest, Riera was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and shooting in a public place. He and Pace, who was charged with battery on police officers, were held in the county jail without bail. Damiani was released on $500 bail.


Posted by: badanov || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1789 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So I asked DDG "how many eggs can a chicken lay in its' lifetime?"

And I got wildly different answers. Baslically a chicken can lay some 500 to 8000 eggs in its' lifetime depending on the breed and care it receive.

8000 eggs seems a bit eccestive to me but thats what one (only one in my short search) article said.

Most articles says between 500 to 900 eggs, depending on breed, etc. etc.. I think it's more realistic.

Anybody wanna says different, I'll meet you at the OK Corral...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/08/2025 4:35 Comments || Top||

#2  I've heard 800-1,600 from my farmer friends but, again, that depends on age, breed and environment.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/08/2025 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I have some chickens. My info is along the lines of Mr Mullah. They also produce more in the summer. Stop for a couple months in winter. I'm presently getting 1 or 2 a day from 7 girls.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/08/2025 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  shot them four times in the parking lot

no one was injured in the gunfire
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 9:01 Comments || Top||

#5  8000 eggs seems a bit eccestive to me but thats what one (only one in my short search) article said.

Thought you were going for eggsessive.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/08/2025 12:56 Comments || Top||

#6  This round robin discussion is becoming eggsasperating.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/08/2025 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  My leg, go ahead and pullet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/08/2025 13:38 Comments || Top||

#8  I had a grammar fowl yesterday with the snark.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/08/2025 15:06 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Sydney Sweeney Rejects Apology for ''Great Jeans'' Ad Amid Racial Backlash / X
[X] In a GQ interview published November 4, 2025, Sydney Sweeney dismissed demands to apologize for her American Eagle 'Great Jeans' campaign, criticized for its pun on 'jeans' and 'genes' evoking white genetic superiority imagery. The ad, launched in July 2025, received praise from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, while sparking divided reactions on X with over 2.9 million engagements. Despite the controversy, American Eagle reported a 38 percent sales increase following the campaign.

Posted by: Fred || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ace of Spades in his usual gentle fashion, commented:
Sydney Sweeney Is Repeatedly Badgered by a Woke Ugly Karen "Journalist" To Apologize for Being White and Pretty, and Keeps On Not Apologizing


The woke left media is still demanding Sydney Sweeney apologize for her "great genes/jeans" ad. They are still after her to admit it was a Race Crime to make so many neurotic, hysterical, internet-addicted Karens upset by making a dumb pun Brooke Shields made in her jeans ads in 1980.

This gross, manipulative cow interviewing her even demanded she apologize for being "white" and speaking, she claims, of "genetic superiority."

Sweeney -- get this -- refused to apologize.


p.s.: don't comment on old AOSHQ threads - they have an auto-ban
Posted by: Frank G || 11/08/2025 3:49 Comments || Top||

#2  -blink twice if she is wanting to talk to your manager-


Racial backlash? More like a middle age unattractive unhappy killjoy white woman scolds backlash, who did use a few black gals to try for an own; got some frumpy overweight black gal put her in a canvas tent, "are these also good jeans?" derp derp no, they look like a painter's tarp.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/08/2025 10:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Elon Musk''s $1 trillion Tesla pay plan wins shareholder approval
[GEO.TV] Tesla TSLA.O CEO Elon Musk won shareholder approval on Thursday for the largest corporate pay package in history as investors endorsed his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.

The proposal was approved with over 75% support, and Musk bounded to the stage of the company's annual meeting at its factory in Austin, Texas, accompanied by dancing robots.

Musk, already the world's richest person, could get as much as $1 trillion in stock over the next decade, although required payments would take the value down to $878 billion.

The vote is crucial for Tesla's future and its valuation, which hangs on Musk's vision of making vehicles that drive themselves, creating a robotaxi network across the U.S. and selling humanoid robots, even though his far-right political rhetoric has hurt the Tesla brand this year.

"What we are about to embark upon is not merely a new chapter of the future of Tesla, but a whole new book," Musk told a cheering group of shareholders.

Shareholders also reelected three directors on Tesla's board and voted in favor of holding annual elections for all board members and a replacement pay plan for Musk's services because a legal challenge has held up a previous package.

"Other shareholder meetings are like snoozefests, but ours are bangers," Musk said. "I mean, look at this. This is sick."
Posted by: Fred || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1787 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...could get as much as $1 trillion in stock over the next decade

'could' and 'decade'. Even if he doesn't collect it, it allows him to use it as a financial lever to borrow against.

Saw an interesting tictok the tied together his projects. IF he intends to reach Mars, his tunnel machines would build the underground needed to provide habitat, his robots could set up preparation and sustainment, his vehicles wouldn't rely upon oxygen (internal combustion).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/08/2025 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, yeah, and Starlink will provide comms.
We saw that here a while back.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 22:55 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The strongest magnetic storms since the beginning of the year are expected on Earth on November 7
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Solar activity on November 7 could trigger unusually strong magnetic storms on Earth. This was reported by the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"Today is expected to be one of the most challenging, and most likely the most challenging, geomagnetic day of the year. Earth is expected to enter the zone of a large coronal hole and withstand the arrival of two plasma clouds ejected by powerful solar flares," the Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement.

Scientists clarified that the solar wind speed is currently reaching 700–800 km/s, compared to the normal 300–400 km/s, and the temperature of the near-Earth plasma has increased approximately 5–10 times, to half a million degrees. The magnetospheric response is currently moderate, but storms could intensify to G3 levels in the coming hours.

According to IKI RAS forecasts, the densest parts of solar ejections will likely pass by Earth, and the storms will not exceed the G4 threshold. If a frontal impact hits the planet, they could reach the maximum G5 level.

The day before, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory reported that Earth was already engulfed in planetary-scale magnetic storms caused by solar flares. According to scientists, the Kp index reached G2–G3 levels, corresponding to storms of moderate to strong intensity. Experts predicted that magnetospheric disturbances would last for about a day and enter a more powerful phase on November 7, when the planets would reach the bulk of the ejected solar plasma.

Posted by: badanov || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1779 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Transformer reconfiguration
Posted by: Frank G || 11/08/2025 12:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Dropped the FTL cocoon behind the sun.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 22:56 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea fires unidentified ballistic missile — Seoul military
[IsraelTimes] North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
has fired at least one ballistic missile, Seoul’s military says, around a week after US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
approved South Korea’s plan to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

Analysts have said Seoul’s plan to build one of the atomic-driven vessels would likely draw an aggressive response from Pyongyang.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff says North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile towards the East Sea, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.

The missile landed in the sea outside Japan’s economic waters and no damage or injuries have been reported, says Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

North Korea has significantly increased missile testing in recent years, which analysts say is aimed at improving precision strike capabilities, challenging the United States as well as South Korea, and testing weapons before potentially exporting them to Russia.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1803 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Unidentified ballistic missile? Probably a Kim or Park.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/08/2025 8:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump wins temporary Supreme Court block on full food benefits amid shutdown chaos
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 00:36 || Comments || Link || [1791 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A trifecta - SCOTUS says a judge can't order the Executive Branch to do the work the Legislative Branch refuses to do.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/08/2025 8:42 Comments || Top||


#3  'This decision is a tragedy for the millions of Americans who rely on SNAP to feed their families. It is disgraceful that the Trump administration chose to fight this in court instead of fulfilling its responsibility to the American people,' she said.

The evil Trump is supposed to feed us too ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/08/2025 9:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ..well that responsibility is Congress' not the Executive branch. The Constitution is clear, he may not spend monies not authorized. You break that restriction you suddenly have a King. I thought you didn't want kings? Or is that only someone else's king?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/08/2025 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  They want a King Puppet who will do the Unconstitutional Things™ they want in the moment.

Afterwards, they'll impeach him for it
Posted by: Frank G || 11/08/2025 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  A shocker is that Ketanji Brown Jackson signed the stay order. I wonder who read it to her.
Posted by: Matt || 11/08/2025 13:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Ketanji Brown Jackson signed the stay order

Did she sign her name in cursive or with block letters?
Posted by: SteveS || 11/08/2025 13:12 Comments || Top||

#8  LOL, Steve
Posted by: Matt || 11/08/2025 14:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Will the Congressional Cafeteria take SNAP?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 22:53 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Trump says no US officials will attend G20 in South Africa, citing its ‘abuse’ of white farmers
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump says that no US government officials will be attending the Group of 20 summit this year in South Africa, citing the country’s treatment of white farmers.

Trump had already announced he would not attend the annual summit for heads of state from the globe’s leading and emerging economies. Vice President JD Vance had been scheduled to attend in Trump’s place, but a person familiar with Vance’s plans who was granted anonymity to talk about his schedule says Vance will no longer travel there for the summit.

“It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa,” Trump says on his social media site. In his post, Trump cites “abuses” of Afrikaners, including violence and death as well as confiscation of their land and farms.

The Trump administration has long accused the South African government of allowing minority white Afrikaner farmers to be persecuted and attacked. As it restricted the number of refugees admitted annually to the US to 7,500, the administration indicated that most will be white South Africans who it claimed faced discrimination and violence at home.

But the government of South Africa has said it is surprised by the accusations of discrimination, because white people in the country generally have a much higher standard of living than its Black residents, more than three decades after the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule.

The country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has said he’s told Trump that information about the alleged discrimination and persecution of Afrikaners is “completely false.”

Nonetheless, the administration has kept up its criticisms of the South African government. Earlier this week during an economic speech in Miami, Trump said South Africa should be thrown out of the Group of 20.

Earlier this year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio boycotted a G20 meeting for foreign ministers because its agenda focused on diversity, inclusion and climate change efforts.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/08/2025 2025-11-08 02:15 || Comments || Link || [1791 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. Now, let's see if Trump actually follows through.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/08/2025 14:49 Comments || Top||

#2  But it was RSA that went to Den Haag to file charges against Netanyahoo. Hmmm.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/08/2025 14:54 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ I would take that as a sign of how messed up the RSA is, plus they want to appeal to international donors.

Both sad and amusing that white people in the country generally have a much higher standard of living than its Black residents, more than three decades after the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule.
We were all sooo sure that ending apartheid would fix everything. Spoiler alert: it has f**k all to do with skin color and everything to do with culture.

Trump has been going on about the white farmers for some time now. One of the knocks against him is that he cares more about the genocide of white farmers (which isn't happening) than he does about the genocide of Paleostinians (which also isn't happening). We shall see how it all unfolds.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/08/2025 16:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Why is that a knock?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 22:51 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
UPS, FedEx ground MD-11 aircraft following deadly Louisville plane crash
[FoxBusinessNews] UPS and FedEx both said the decision was made 'out of an abundance of caution' following Tuesday's crash that killed at least 14 people.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 09:39 || Comments || Link || [1782 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WIKI
McDonnell Douglas MD-11
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 9:43 Comments || Top||

#2  [Parts from a quality story I presented to contractors ten years ago. Perhaps there might be some similarities with the current accident.] AA 191, May 25, 1979. Almost as soon as the DC-10 left the runway, it rolled over and crashed, exploding in flames. Before the fires were out, investigators found the plane’s left engine on the runway.

Maintenance procedures from McDonnell Douglas call for the engine to be dismounted before the support pylon is removed. Several airlines were detaching both at the same time to speed up servicing. Maintenance records showed that almost a month before the crash, the left engine had been removed and replaced. Perhaps the most unforeseeable factor was that the remounting was done over two shifts. The forklift holding the engine and pylon bled off during the shift change, dropping the engine slightly – while still attached at the rear pylon mounting. This caused the overstressing of the pylon. It took several more trips for the overstress to degrade to the failure.

The NTSB determined that the probable cause was the asymmetrical stall and the loss of stall warning and slat disagreement indication systems resulting from maintenance-induced damage to the left engine and pylon assembly. An unapproved maintenance procedure – a short cut - caused damage, resulting in a series of very unusual - and unplanned - failures. Good records were essential to finding the cause and preventing further tragedies.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/08/2025 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Not as exciting as a MANPAD, except perhaps as for the passengers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 22:50 Comments || Top||


US army seeks to buy at least a million drones in next 2-3 years, build own supply chain
[IsraelTimes] The US Army says it aims to buy at least a million drones in the next two to three years, and to build its own supply chain to produce more in the future.

It currently acquires about 50,000 drones annually.

US Army Secretary David Driscoll says his priority is getting the United States into a position where it can produce enough drones for any future war, stimulating domestic production of everything from brushless motors and sensors to batteries and circuit boards.

Much of that manufacturing is dominated by China today.

The ramp-up comes as tiny, inexpensive drones have proven to be one of the most potent weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Ukraine and Russia each produce roughly 4 million drones a year, but China is probably able to produce more than double that number, Driscoll says.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1755 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Assassination drones the size of a beetle, fly up and land on that big artery in the neck or groin, pop. Release thousands of them and win without firing a single shot. Give them a CO2 sensor like how mosquitoes find people in the night and there is no hiding from them.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 11/08/2025 3:42 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd say we have an 'army' of already trained operators after decades of Xbox and Playstation.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/08/2025 6:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like a fleet of Musk's manufacturing robots is in order.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 10:21 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Anti-Junta Fighters reportedly raided a Junta Camp and executed soldiers
Posted by: badanov || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1760 views] Top|| File under:


More than 50 people injured in mosque blast at Jakarta high school
Despite being in a mosque, it looks like this is not actually an act of jihad. That may change, though — as always, 48 Hour Rule, with the understanding that the first 24 have already passed.
[BBC] More than 50 people have been injured in explosions during Friday prayers at a mosque in Indonesia, with authorities identifying a 17-year-old student as the suspected perpetrator.

The incident happened at around 12:15 local time (05:15 GMT) inside a school complex that housed the mosque in Kelapa Gading - a district in the capital, Jakarta.

The victims, mostly pupils, sustained a range of injuries, including severe burns. The suspect was also hurt, according to Indonesia's police chief, Listyo Sigit Prabowo.

He added that an investigation into the incident is under way, "including how the suspect assembled and carried out the attack".

A bomb disposal team was deployed to the state-run high school complex following the explosions to collect evidence and ensure there were no other explosive devices.

A pupil at the school alleged to Indonesia's government-owned news agency Antara that a homemade bomb had been brought in by a student who had often been bullied by other students.

Other pupils told Indonesian news outlets that the suspect was a "loner" who often made drawings depicting violence, and who had been found lying on the ground following the explosion.

A cook at the school described seeing white smoke coming from the mosque and broken windows after the "massive" blast.

"Our hearts were beating fast, we couldn't breathe," she told the Reuters news agency.

A high-ranking Jakarta Metropolitan Police officer confirmed the presence of two objects resembling firearms at the scene.

Images from Antara suggest one of the objects appeared to be a submachine gun and another looked like a pistol.

The submachine gun-type object appears to be inscribed on its barrel with: "14 words. For Agartha."

On its body, it says: "Brenton Tarrant. Welcome to Hell."

Brenton Tarrant is the perpetrator of a 2019 mass shooting at a mosque and Islamic centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 51 and injured dozens of others.

A minister who visited the scene later on Friday sought to dispel suggestions that weapons were present at the site, telling CNN Indonesia what had been pictured "turned out to be a toy gun, not a real gun".

Lodewijk Freidrich Paulus also called on the public not to presume the explosion was a "terrorist act" as investigators were still combing over the scene.

Another object found at the site was a dark green belt for storing gun cartridges.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1765 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran’s president said to warn unprecedented water crisis could force Tehran evacuation
It’s a pretty sharp sign from Allah that you’re on the wrong track, guys.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s president has warned that the capital is facing an unprecedented water and energy crisis as reservoirs have plunged to historic lows, threatening supplies of drinking water and electricity generation, it was reported on Friday.

“If it doesn’t rain in Tehran by late November, we’ll have to ration water. And if it still doesn’t rain, we’ll have to evacuate Tehran,” President Masoud Pezeshkian was cited as saying on Thursday by the SNN.ir semi-official news agency.

Pezeshkian described the situation as “extremely critical,” citing reports that Tehran’s dam reservoirs have fallen to their lowest level in 60 years.

The city has entered its sixth consecutive year of drought, with some dams at less than 10% of capacity.

Officials say that in the east of Tehran, the Latyan Dam — one of five key reservoirs — is only about 9% full.

“Latyan’s water storage is just nine million cubic meters,” Deputy Energy Minister Mohammad Javanbakht said recently, calling the situation “critical.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1795 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Has Allah abandoned the mullahs?
Posted by: Herman Whinetch3228 || 11/08/2025 14:16 Comments || Top||

#2  If It’s Yellow, Seriously, Let It Mellow
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/08/2025 22:59 Comments || Top||



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