The clip is being used as another piece of evidence that the protests are not really about reforms or improving education standards, but instead serve as a pretext for ethnic minorities to riot, destroy, and attack police.

After he calls for protesters to "smash everything," the crowd of Black youths and other ethnic minorities, many heavily masked, began hooting and screaming in response. The video further shows burning shared bicycles and electric scooters, the same products many on the left promote as an alternative to CO2-producing cars and trucks.

In a post from Belgian political activist Dries Van Langenhove, he writes about the video: "European people can't comprehend this because we're simply not the same. They destroy. It's what they do. It's who they are. Politicians now come up with all sorts of fake 'solutions': more money for education, more youth detention centres, military conscription, ... but it's all nonsense. There is only one real solution: they have to go back."

Last month's suspected terror plot at RAF Fairford, an airbase shared with the United States in England, was likely coordinated and directed by Iran's ruling regime, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Oct. 12.

"I can confirm our assessment that it is highly likely to have been coordinated in Iran - almost certainly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard [IRGC]," Burnham told lawmakers.

Burnham said investigators were in close contact with the United States about protective security at shared military bases in the UK and were continuing to investigate the case.

Seven suspects, all in their 20s, were arrested on terror and explosives charges for their alleged involvement in the RAF Fairford incident on Sept. 27.

Police responded to local tips about suspicious activity near the facility in Gloucestershire, England. Officers stopped three vans heading toward the airbase used by American forces to launch strikes against Iran.

Police and military explosive disposal teams searched the vehicles and found gasoline inside but no explosives, investigators said.

Webmaster Addition: They were fuel theives and they have already been released. But word has gone out to the media to demonize Iran!

As we noted yesterday, odds of Kimberly Guilfoyle remaining as U.S. Ambassador to Greece were sitting right around 69% amid allegations of improper conduct. Now, the odds are at 97% after newly minted White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia announced that the administration has asked Guilfoyle to resign after reports that President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were "extremely pissed off" by the mounting allegations. 

Webmaster Addition: Mike Huclabee needs to go as well!

React19 reviewed free-text entries submitted to the CDC’s V-safe vaccine safety monitoring program to document reports in which participants asked for help, described suicidal thoughts, reported that they were dying or nearly died, or reported a death, and to document what participants said about the response they received.

CDC V-safe free-text survey responses were produced under FOIA request 24-01322 and published by the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) at icandecide.org/v-safe-data. The CDC released the data in twelve interim and final tranches. This audit uses ICAN’s updated files, which add the survey type, response ID, and response date to each entry. All twelve tranches: the 1st through 12th, were released from December 14, 2020 to December 31, 2022. These contain 7,554,929 responses from 3,489,888 unique participants.

Each entry was searched for words and phrases indicating a plea for help or contact, suicidal thoughts, dying, or death. Death, suicidal, and dying entries were reviewed individually; cries for help were filtered by rule. Because V-safe check-ins are tied to vaccine doses, entries were treated as post-vaccination reports unless the writer named another cause. Entries attributing illness to Covid-19 infection were excluded. All entries from each identified participant are grouped under their V-safe user ID, in date order, across tranches.

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team (yes, really) warned Monday in a blog post that small AI models may be "months away" from copying themselves across smart ovens, off-brand Android TV boxes and other poorly secured gadgets in your home, forming a botnet with no off switch.

"A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there's no centralized point to shut off - though it may be slow (with a doubling time of days). Unlike non-AI malware, it could also figure out unfamiliar devices on its own."

To prove the point, researchers bought 15 TV boxes at about $55 each, networked them together, and ran Google's Gemma model across them at a glacial 0.39 tokens per second - in what Anthropic called the coming "digital slime mold."

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Hours after a private audience with Pope Leo XIV on Monday, the archbishop for the U.S. military told Catholic troops assigned to Hegseth’s firing squad for Nidal Hasan that they must ask to be excused.

The archbishop, Timothy Broglio, is a conservative and a former president of the U.S. bishops’ conference.

He has opposed the Trump administration more than once, including on Easter Sunday, when he said on national television that the war in Iran was not just.

“As I would in the case of a procured abortion, I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church,” Broglio wrote in an Oct. 12 statement against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.

For several decades I have been reporting how racial demonization of white ethnicities is gradually resulting in their marginalization and loss of equal treatment under law. In effect, the 14th Amendment is step by step being denied to white ethnicities.

Montana AG Asks Supreme Court to Revive Case Against DEI Training That Declared ‘All Caucasians’ Racist

This past week we have seen several serious Administration corruption scandals. Fox News host-turned-Trump Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, came to attention recently when she informed a Greek official, in what sounded like a threat, that Washington can overthrow any government it wishes.

While hardly breaking news, such an admission is not normally considered part of diplomatic dialogue. But for Guilfoyle, that was only the beginning. She is reported to have strong-armed a donor into paying off her $100,000 American Express bill before she took office. Most recently, she is in even hotter water for reportedly using her ties to the Trump family – she was once engaged to Donald Trump, Jr. – to set up business deals for a wealthy Greek businessman who was coincidentally funding her supposedly lavish lifestyle in Greece.

Similarly, last week the media reported that US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s right hand man David Millstein was abusing his post to further his own political biases. Millstein, who first came under scrutiny for sending a request to Israeli citizens for “monetary wedding gift[s],” has also reportedly been suppressing or even falsifying Embassy reporting that is critical of Israel. In a supposedly “America first” Administration, it is shocking that officials are abusing their power for the benefit of a foreign country over their own.

Genocide seeks to destroy more than lives. It seeks to erase a people’s history, culture and memory—and bury the evidence beneath the rubble. At the launch of Requiem for Gaza, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges explains how he and cartoonist Joe Sacco set out to preserve what Israel’s destruction threatens to obliterate: the voices and experiences of Palestinians themselves.

Drawing on interviews with 29 Palestinian families who fled to Egypt, Hedges describes parents struggling to protect their children, survivors haunted by the relatives they left behind, and the devastation of a society’s doctors, writers and journalists. These intimate accounts expose the human reality that casualty figures and diplomatic language cannot convey.

When the Strait of Hormuz closed at the end of February, Saudi Arabia had what almost no other Gulf producer had: a way out at scale. The East-West pipeline, known in the industry as Petroline, carries crude 1,200 kilometers across the desert from the oil fields of the Eastern Province to Yanbu on the Red Sea. Its maximum capacity is about 7 million barrels a day. For seven months it has been the reason the world could still count on Saudi oil. That lifeline is now failing.

As the US Navy lays the groundwork for its next-generation SSN(X) attack submarine to replace its aging fleet, the US’s longstanding undersea supremacy faces an intensifying test against China’s rapid naval buildup, advancing acoustic stealth and superior shipyard capacity.

The US Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) issued a sources-sought notice to survey domestic shipyard capacity to build its next-generation SSN(X) nuclear-powered attack submarine, multiple media outlets reported.

Managed by Team Submarine and the SSN(X) program office, the market research initiative seeks detailed technical and capital-expenditure data from prospective prime contractors capable of complex hull fabrication, modular outfitting, precision systems integration and nuclear reactor compartment installation.

European NATO members could face years-long delays in obtaining American weapons as the United States prioritises replenishing its own military stockpiles following its war against Iran, according to Washington’s ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker. Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum on October 12, Whitaker warned that American defence manufacturers would be largely occupied with meeting domestic requirements, leaving limited production capacity available for foreign customers. He urged European governments to expand their own defence industries to meet growing military requirements, stating: “The U.S. needs friends with manufacturing capacity.”

President Claudia Sheinbaum said last week that authorities are investigating a video purportedly showing cartel-linked fighters on Ukraine's front lines.

The investigation comes amid growing concern that Mexican narcoterrorists are incorporating lessons from the war into their operations, including one-way attack drones and unjammable fiber-optic drones. 

The potential transfer of battlefield expertise from Ukraine to just south of the US border could strengthen cartel strike capabilities and explain why the Trump administration has surged US Army troops on the southern border. 

Here's our reporting on drone developments inside Mexico this year:

Kroger plans to cut 3,000 corporate jobs over three years, saying a leaner company will help lower grocery prices. Investors face a harder question: how much of the savings will survive the supermarket price wars?

The announcement puts thousands of employees in a period of uncertainty while giving shoppers another promise of relief at checkout. For shareholders, it marks a major test of CEO Greg Foran’s effort to make Kroger more competitive.

Reducing payroll can improve the numbers. Getting customers to put more groceries in their carts requires more than a smaller headquarters.

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Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis are attempting to manufacture advanced medium-range ballistic missiles using components obtained from Chinese suppliers, according to a report cited by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

The findings by Conflict Armament Research (CAR), an organization that investigates weapons and their supply chains, indicate that the Houthis have acquired components needed to develop a version of Iran’s Kheibar Shekan precision-guided ballistic missile. The proposed Houthi-made missile could have a range of approximately 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles).

Vladimir Zelensky has a pattern in dealing with Western partners who disappoint him: raise the disagreement in public, question the partner’s judgment and explain why the decision benefits Russia and Vladimir Putin.

Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heard variations of that argument for years, and now US President Donald Trump is hearing them again. The question is whether Zelensky can keep increasing the political cost of refusing Kiev without increasing the cost to Ukraine.

Jurors found Facebook committed over 43.8 million violations of New Mexico's Unfair Practices Act.

The case traces back to Cambridge Analytica – a British political consulting firm that harvested personal data from 87 million Facebook profiles through a third-party quiz app and used it for political targeting.

When the scandal broke in 2018, Facebook didn't come clean.

Facebook made promises.

Three Soros-connected groups built this operation: Harriet's Wildest Dreams, a prison abolition outfit founded in 2021 by former Black Lives Matter leaders; Free DC, the street-protest group that has made disrupting Trump's second term a full-time mission in Washington; and Freedom Trainers, the national arm whose fiscal sponsor is Community Change, the same Soros-backed nonprofit bankrolling all of them.

Free DC's executive director, Keya Chatterjee, co-founded Freedom Trainers.

The method is identical across all three: hide your politics from attorneys during jury selection, get seated, then vote not guilty no matter what the evidence shows.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from a lawyer who was sanctioned while representing former GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake in a 2022 lawsuit challenging Arizona’s use of electronic voting machines.

The high court did not provide any explanation for its decision, leaving intact an appeals court ruling that upheld the sanctions.

The lawsuit sought to force local election officials to use alternative methods to collect and count ballots for the 2022 midterms. It claimed that electronic systems used in Maricopa and Pima counties were unreliable and “vulnerable to attack and manipulation.”

The suit was filed that April, when Lake was running for governor and fellow Republican Mark Finchem was running for Arizona secretary of state. Both ultimately lost their elections.

Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial nominee David Crowley oversaw Milwaukee County as it distributed millions in federal rental assistance through a nonprofit that employed his wife, the Daily Caller learned.

The nonprofit, known as Community Advocates, received the funding through Milwaukee County’s Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA2) program, which provides aid to renters facing housing insecurity. Milwaukee County distributed more than $65 million in federal ERA2 funds through its partnership with Community Advocates since June 2020.

Dave de Camp, antiwar.com

President Trump said on Monday that the US and Israel “might have gone too far” with the killing of Iranian leaders, suggesting it was complicating negotiations with the Islamic Republic.

Trump made the comments at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, while repeating his usual claims about the state of Iran. “They got no ships. They got no nothing. They got no leaders, even. That’s the problem. We might have gone too far with the leaders because we don’t know who the hell we’re dealing with anymore,” Trump said.

Claire's Observations:  OK, folks; I am having the dreaded double palm to forehead moment, at  DOUBLE warp speed, upon reading this.

Can this man possibly be serious, or is he just "playing to the groundlings", meaning the most intellectually challenged members of his base, by making this insane statement???

Because unless one has been living under a rock for the past month, one understands, quite clearly, that the President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, addressed the 81st UN General Assembly on September 23, 2026, and is very much alive. 

In his address to the UN,  he said, in essence: “Iran will not surrender to the United States or Israel, but Iran is still willing to negotiate—provided negotiations are conducted as equals rather than under threats or military coercion.”

So President Trump is standing in front of this crowd, and essentially telling them he doesn't know 'who the hell' this guy is?!?  

Sorry; this doesn't pass "the smell test" in my world!!

Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack.

If you read one thing today, make sure it is this:

In a stunning piece published by the head of one of Israel’s most prominent think tanks, Maj. Gen. Tamir Hayman describes the reality of Israel’s new security doctrine:

Important to note that Hayman does not advocate for this. Rather, he contends that this already is the new security doctrine of Israel.

He is describing reality as he sees it. And that reality simply is not compatible with a US or Western alliance with Israel – unless the West transforms into a similar entity that treats war as a permanent and desirable state of being.

Read the full piece here:

https://www.inss.org.il/publication/new-concept/

Claire's Observations:  For those looking at the future of the US/Israeli relationship, this article provides a very chilling template of where this is headed, or not headed, depending upon one's perspective.

In an analogy which might be useful, in a host/parasite relationship, when the host is dying, or has died, and the parasite has extracted all that is possible to extract from its host, the parasite moves on...

By Tyler Durden

One day after federal agents raided Ilhan Omar's Washington home, we learn that her congressional staff got her birth year changed in Minnesota's official legislative records in May 2019, moving it from 1981 to 1982 - months after she was sworn into Congress. Alpha News was first to the punchbowl on this one last December. In light of the federal raid on Omar's DC home... well, check it out: 

Omar has said she derived citizenship through her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, when he naturalized in 2000, and the law then required the child to be under 18 when the parent naturalized. Born in 1981, she'd have been an adult all of 2000 - the year she says she became a citizen at 17, the NY Post reports.

For her two years in the Minnesota House and more than four months into her congressional term, the state's Legislative Reference Library listed her birthday as Oct. 4, 1981, the same date carried by Wikipedia, the BBC and Congress's own Biographical Directory.

by Tyler Durden

America's Gulf allies have raised the possibility of an Iranian military ground invasion of their territories in the event of a major renewed US bombing campaign, which President Trump has threatened to restart against Iran after the November midterm elections.

It's an oddly specific, and perhaps unlikely, threat being communicated by Gulf officials, and was reported on in the pages of The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Tehran is only too happy to signal it's ready to inflict massive counter-pain on US and allied assets across the region.

The publication cites "informed sources" who say Islamic Republic officials have been warning that this is among current options being mulled to escalate and spread the war beyond, into the broader region.

Amid a heightened state of Iranian alert, the WSJ writes that "Satellite images show Iran is strengthening sensitive locations, including nuclear sites and border areas, to make them more resilient to attacks."

"The government is also preparing Iranians for renewed war, sending paramilitary forces to read war stories to kindergartners, advertising training in firing shoulder-mounted antiaircraft missiles and holding rallies," the report continues.

Claire's Observations:  Forgive me, but in looking at the potential options the USrael' s leadership  may be contemplating in restarting their war against Iran, who in their right minds could blame Iran for doing what they are doing right now, IF in fact this article is correct?!?