The W.H.O. and the CDC should be chasing this down.
The Revolt and The Revolting
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Tuesday, October 06, 2026
Christa Pike is conscious.
Monday, October 05, 2026
$317 million
That is the cost of every one of the combat bombers returned to the USA from the UK. Hasn’t Hegseth lost enough bombers and jets for one lifetime. Americans can’t afford Hegseth’s poor judgement.
Is there an accurate count of the casualties HEGSETH caused?
By the way, the Republicans are starting their last minute war dance to the elections. That is probably the real reason the jets are back on USA soil. No one can blow them or better said; no foreign cell can blow them up before elections.
But, the B1B’s aside, the Republicans are throwing $1 billion into the midterms. Here come the glamorized lies.
There is this, too.
(Click here)
The USA Coast Guard was fired upon at the border with Mexico. The Mexican President is demanding responsibility and an investigation. It is currently believed the shots were fired by the USA Border patrol. At any rate, the USA Coast Guard rightfully returned fire. No Coast Guard were reported to the public as injured.
Sunday, October 04, 2026
The "Manosphere" is not okay.
By Windsor Johnson
When Olivia Petter first saw the news (click here) about the sexual assault allegations at Cornell University, she was shocked by how familiar parts of the story felt for her.
"The more I found out, the more triggered I became," she said. "I think for me, the worst thing was seeing the group messages that these boys were allegedly sending to each other on the night of the alleged rape."
Reading those exchanges brought the London-based author back to boarding school in England, where she says older boys targeted her and her friends from the age of 13....
Factional Differences Within the Manosphere
- Incels (Involuntary Celibates): This is the most extreme wing of the manosphere. Academic studies and watchdogs like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) have documented that within incel forums, extreme misogyny, violent rhetoric against women, and the normalization or justification of rape—including collective or structural violence against women—are frequently expressed.
- Pick-Up Artists (PUAs): The PUA community focuses on manipulation techniques to secure sexual encounters. Critics and sexual assault advocates argue that PUA philosophy heavily emphasizes overriding a woman's boundaries ("Last Minute Resistance"), which directly blurs the lines of legal consent and can lead to the justification of sexual assault.
- Men's Rights Activists (MRAs) and MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way): These groups generally focus on legal grievances, anti-feminism, or separating themselves from women entirely. Rather than openly condoning violence, these spaces are more likely to exhibit "rape culture" tendencies—such as systemic skepticism toward rape victims, heavy focus on false accusations, and shifting blame onto the victim.
Ten years ago, (click here) a misogynist incel declared “war on women” before embarking on a deadly rampage in the beachside community of Isla Vista, California. On the evening of May 23, 2014, Elliot Rodger stabbed his two housemates and their friend to death before traveling to his ultimate target: a UC Santa Barbara sorority house. In his manifesto, he wrote that these women “represent everything I hate in the female gender.”
After he was unable to gain access to the sorority house, Rodger shot three women outside the house. He then proceeded to drive around Isla Vista, shooting at pedestrians and running others over with his car. Before finally killing himself, Rodger murdered six people and wounded 14 others....
If this is linked to Tehran, then they are POWs and not terrorists.
A dual U.K.-Iranian national arrested (click here) on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England has been released on bail, authorities said Saturday.
The 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday in London on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts close to the RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran. He was the sixth person taken into custody and then released on bail as detectives investigate the incident.
British authorities have linked the incident to Tehran.
The five other men were not named, but police said they are all British nationals in their 20s and from London....
Trump insists on making empty promises to the American electorate while stealing money from the Treasury for political ads.
President Donald Trump (click here) is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums.
The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes after the president last month said about 1 million people would get rebate checks of $500 for Affordable Care Act premiums. He has also promised on the campaign trail to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
That pledge — which would require approval from Congress — would likely cost more than $1 trillion, adding to the deficit and worsening inflation.
Trump highlighted his $5,000 promise at a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday night, and told supporters that 70,000 families in the state would receive the ACA rebates “within the next couple of days.” He also reminded voters about the $1,776 payments to military members, announced in December — though he mused that they should have been timed better....
By Cory Dickstein
Pentagon officials (click here) have approved a rare increase in special combat pay for all of the Defense Department’s troops serving in certain dangerous areas.
A former Miami congressman (click here) and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration.
Republican David Rivera has been jailed since jurors found him guilty in May on all counts, including failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of his work for former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro ’s government.
Rivera, 61, appeared stone-faced as Judge Melissa Damian denounced him for betraying his life’s mission, saying he would surely have been judged harshly his many friends had the millions of dollars come from the Cuban regime instead of its allies in Caracas.
“Nobody would accept that’s ok and I don’t think this is different,” the judge said. “There’s no dispute this money came from the Maduro regime.”...
Texas Paul is correct..
This election is about the Constitution and our quality of life as a democracy under governance that respects the people and not the dollar.
There will be plenty of time during the next session of Congress to look to a third party or better yet independent candidates to achieve civility and concern for the American.
We need to put Democrats into power in the majority to ensure the well being of the USA Constitution.
They will do the right thing.
How do we know that?
Because they have had two years to learn and participate in corruption and haven't. It was easy to step away from the people and become a supporter of a corrupt president and secure a seat of power that would be profitable for a long time. That didn't occur. The Democrats have a conscience and believe in ethics.
Vote for Democrats without fear and stay engaged in the democracy and freedom we all cherish.
Saturday, October 03, 2026
Tennessee's Governor political CYA moment.
By Ed White
The head of Tennessee’s prison system (click here) is resigning, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday, the first major staff shake-up since Christa Pike’s stunning failed execution left her unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital.
Frank Strada, commissioner of the Department of Correction, will step down this month, Lee said. Some of the governor’s fellow Republicans and other elected officials had been urging a change in leadership.
It was the second time since May that Tennessee has not been able to execute a prisoner who was seemingly moments away from death.
Strada said in a statement that resigning was “in the best interest of Tennesseans” while an independent review determines what happened Wednesday when the state failed to execute Pike despite administering two doses of a lethal drug, pentobarbital.
“I believe this review is entirely appropriate and necessary, and I look forward to doing everything I can to help determine exactly what occurred,” Strada said.
Pike, now 50, was 18 when she and her boyfriend tortured and killed a classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in a jealous rage in 1995. She became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row....
Attacks on Cuba.
February 26, 2026
The American speedboat (click here) that Cuban officials said opened fire on border agents Wednesday was carrying 10 armed Cubans who were attempting to infiltrate the country “for terrorist purposes,” the country’s Interior Ministry said.
The speedboat was less than a nautical mile off Villa Clara province on Cuba’s northern coast Wednesday morning when Cuban border agents approached and asked for identification, the ministry said earlier. The men on the speedboat opened fire on the Cuban vessel, the ministry said, wounding its commander....
By Jack Nicas
Videos by Alex Pena
Photographs by Lisette Poole González
For months, (click here) President Trump has been predicting that Cuba is about to collapse.
“It’s just going to fall,” he told reporters on Jan. 4, a day after taking control of Venezuela’s oil, which had been Cuba’s lifeline.
He then imposed an oil blockade that has pushed the island into its worst ever energy crisis, with mass blackouts now lasting nearly all day. And yet, more than six months later, the Cuban government and people are still standing.
This month, we visited the country to understand how. After a week on the ground, we found that while Cubans are clearly suffering, they are also doing what perhaps they do best: adapting....
BY Marianna Parraga
A tanker carrying fuel originally bound for Cuba (click here) on Friday changed its destination to Trinidad and Tobago, according to LSEG ship-tracking data, a blow for the island amid a severe fuel scarcity that has triggered power blackouts.
Cuba on Tuesday reconnected its power grid and brought online its largest thermal electricity plant, ending a nationwide blackout that lasted more than 29 hours. But the U.S. move to choke off fuel supply to Cuba's government could cause more outages, Cuban officials have said....
The U.S. Coast Guard (click here) announced on Friday the seizure of two ships bound for Cuba that were illegally carrying thousands of gallons of diesel fuel amid the ongoing fuel blockade to the country imposed by President Donald Trump.
The "Grace," a 300-foot tanker, was seized on Sept. 5 by the Coast Guard and Mexican authorities in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and Mexico, after it was alleged to use covert operations to traverse the high seas, according to Coast Guard officials. Another ship, carrying 200,000 gallons of fuel, was seized by the Coast Guard in June....
Trump has no respect for the integrity of government. He is a political animal and nothing else and sees to boundaries to spending taxpayer monies.
The Trump administration used funding allocated for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) (click here) in Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” to pay for President Trump’s government funded political ads that started running last week. House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) released the following statement:
“After gutting $1 trillion from Medicaid, stripping health care coverage from millions of Americans, giving the very richest Americans and large corporations massive tax breaks, adding more than $4 trillion to the deficit, and more than quadrupling funding for mass deportations, it turns out the Trump administration used Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill to pay for President Trump’s political ads.
“When Democrats reclaim control of Congress next year, the House Appropriations Committee will work to uncover and reverse misuses of taxpayer money like this and hold those who abused their power accountable.”
This comes after Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought moved $20 million in resources to the Department of Homeland Security for this purpose on September 19.
It is obvious what Trump and Netanyahu are up to in building tensions between themselves and Iran.
Iran feels trapped. That is probably what is intended. Its economy is failing and the idea they can negotiate with extremists in power in the USA and Israel is becoming clear that any negotiations is a lie on the part of the opposition to a sovereign Iran.
I find the fact the USA has left Iraq more than curious. Hegseth is pulling out all the stops before the Midterm elections to escalate the war into anticipated combat after the elections. A permanent automatic registration for the draft in the USA starts in December.
Trump and Hegseth are banking on a war theater would be irreversible no matter what happens in November with the elections. I don't see that as a hurdle. If an ILLEGAL war is started by Trump and Hegseth the idea of ending it is obvious and not an estimation of any kind. The new Congress will end any war powers involved in this insane unprovoked aggression. Oh, Hegseth is pulling 200 USA troops out of Nigeria.
Europe is making headway into African alliances. Italy is becoming absolutely amazing in it's ability to ally with Egypt and recently Libya. The military strength of other nations is growing in the face of an erratic and provoking USA president and Secretary of Defense. No country worth it's sovereignty is taking anything for granted from the USA anymore. That is truly unfortunate.
I STAND WITH WATSON.
An Air Force major who stood on the U.S. Capitol steps and called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump could face dismissal from the service and loss of his security clearance.Friday, October 02, 2026
Most of what Trump and his cabinet does is illegal.
Cornell University: The only Ivy League institution that hosts on-campus detachments for all three military branches (Army, Navy/Marine Corps, and Air Force).
Christa Pike received an amateur attempt at execution. She knew the executioners would fail.
Christa Pike was unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator (click here) in a Nashville hospital a day after surviving a botched execution attempt, her lawyers said in a court filing, raising questions about whether the state could legally try to execute her again.
As of Thursday evening, Ms. Pike, 50, was critically ill, they wrote in the Friday filing in Davidson County Chancery Court, and both of her arms were swollen, burned and blistered when she arrived at the hospital.
Her condition sets the stage for an unprecedented ethical and legal quagmire: A future attempt to execute Ms. Pike could hinge on whether she is determined to be capable of what the Supreme Court has described as a “rational understanding” of the reason she is to be put to death.
And although Gov. Bill Lee has paused executions for now, the front-runner to be elected governor next month, Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, said that she would try again to execute Ms. Pike, who was convicted of the 1995 murder of a classmate....
Thursday, October 01, 2026
NATO countries mistreated by Trump should apply to the USA courts to enforce the treaty.
Is going through a second attempt at killing an inmate double jeopardy?
By Li Cohen and Debra Worley
Tennessee officials (click here) were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug.
Her attorneys have filed an emergency motion to halt her execution after they say Pike was “still alive and snoring” after receiving her lethal injection on Wednesday.
“The vein in my arm feels like it’s about to bust,” one witness recalled her saying.
According to the emergency motion, the Tennessee Department of Correction began the execution of Pike at about 9 p.m. ET. The motion says that both syringes of pentobarbital were administered and that Pike “has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is audibly snoring.”...
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The Trump Arch is about manipulating the public to honor returning soldiers from war.
The East African Troops (1919): In March 1919, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck led his undefeated Schutztruppe (colonial troops from the East African theater) on a massive victory parade through the gate, which had been heavily decorated in their honor.
Amazing story. Everyone is safe and sound.
Flydubai Passengers Land in Israel After Suspected Midair Hijacking Attempt (click here)
Israeli passengers returned home on a replacement aircraft after a pilot allegedly tried to crash their flight from Dubai. Passengers described breaking into the cockpit to stop him...It is called racketeering.
September 30, 2026
By Federica Cocco and Naema Ahmed
In the 19 months (click here) since President Donald Trump took over the Kennedy Center, the institution has borrowed everything its bank would lend it, dipped into money donors had given on the condition it never be spent and written off pledges from supporters who stopped paying, according to confidential board documents and tax filings reviewed by The Washington Post....








