During this Sunday's NYC Marathon kicking off at 0940 HRS, WQXR-FM will play all nine of Beethoven's symphonies. Thanks to Senile Satan who cut federal funding for public broadcasting, WQXR-FM is now completely reliant on donors to survive. For those of us on budgets and don't want to spend money on SiriusXM, Spotify, premium packages on YouTube, cable TV, or Apple Music, WQXR-FM plays classical music 24/7 commercial free. Their curators, such as Lauren Rico (formerly at SiriusXM), do an excellent job. Preference of conductors for 1 Nov: Beethoven's Third: Arturo Toscanini; the Sixth: Aaron Copland or Leonard Bernstein; the Seventh: Kent Nagano or Seiji Ozawa; and of course for the Ninth, Herbert von Karajan.
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Elon Musk is a "real genius", Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday after revealing the two are in "close" contact about satellite technology. The remarks came during the Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, during which Putin discussed Russia's own satellite internet project Rassvet, which provides internet connections to people from satellites. Read more
The 50-page report, released Monday, contains testimony from 11 women who either accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault or say that they had been offered to Trump for sex by Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell, with most cases happening in the 1990s. Read more
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Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid as Britain urges families to stockpile food and water
October 26, 2026
The Pentagon wants every major U.S. military base to run for 90 days without outside help if a war cuts off power and supply chains. Across the Atlantic, Britain is telling families to keep canned food, bottled water, and cash on hand to get through three days of disruption.
The two efforts aren't known to be coordinated, and neither government has said a new war is imminent. But both are planning for disruptions that could leave homes and military installations without the services they depend on.
"The most striking aspect of discrete time liquids, both quantum and classical, is the idea that a discrete time crystal with a finite density of topological time defects can restore time-translation symmetry on average," write physicists led by Zuo Wang and Marios H. Michael of the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Germany. Read more
The Securities and Exchange Commissions publication on Monday of Anthropic's S-1 form -- ahead of a heavily anticipated initial public offering -- has led to plenty of discussion of whether the company's quickly ballooning revenues will be able to overcome its even higher costs. ... After wading through Anthropic's book-length treatise on its greatest risks, we've narrowed the list to the seven most surprising, interesting, or thought-provoking potential problems. Consider this a far-from-comprehensive look at what potential Anthropic investors should keep in mind.
The morning after Donald Trump won re-election, investors fled renewable energy with remarkable speed. Solar stocks fell sharply, and so did those of wind developers. The conclusion seemed obvious enough. A president who derides wind turbines as cancer-causing, stalls the nation's first offshore wind permit and denies the urgency of climate change would surely become the industry's greatest obstacle. Yet markets sometimes focus on the headline without understanding the underlying story. This may prove to be one of those moments. Read more
A federal judge criticized prosecutors for failing to get proper judicial approval before publicly filing a new criminal complaint against two ex-FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about the government's probes of Hunter Biden. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said in U.S. District Court in Washington that he would not sign off on the "superseding criminal complaint," which added a new criminal charge to the case against the former officials.
DETROIT -- A day after Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made anti-Arab remarks at a get-out-the-vote rally for Republican candidates in Grand Rapids, he declined to address the comments during a stop in Detroit to promote a new care program for homeless individuals. Kennedy said Monday evening that Arabs do not contribute to research in science and literature, blaming the Muslim Brotherhood for "destroying" the Muslim tradition that "produced all of these great foundational discoveries in science and medicine and biology and navigation" -- remarks that have been largely condemned as racist and Islamophobic. "There are five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science," Kennedy said. "They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Medal. They don't win the Wolf Prize." Read more
James okeefe and buddy commit voter fraud
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party on Wednesday accused Arab political parties of stealing the country's election through widespread voter fraud, as preliminary results showed no clear winner.
In a statement shared by Netanyahu on the social platform X, Likud alleged that Arab parties engaged in bribery, voter intimidation and forgery to influence election results, as neither Netanyahu nor his primary challenger Gadi Eisenkot was projected to gain a parliamentary majority.
"The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters," Likud said.
Since measles was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, the country's occasional cases have come mainly from international travelers -- visitors from far-flung places where the virus still spreads freely -- or unvaccinated US residents who return from abroad with a highly infectious souvenir. But as vaccination rates have slipped nationwide in recent years and outbreaks grow bigger and more frequent, domestic travel now poses a greater risk than international incursions.
The Democratic campaign for Alaska's U.S. Senate seat was involved in efforts to place on the ballot a candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan in a bid to confuse voters in a race that could determine which party controls the chamber, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The newspaper obtained text messages between members of Democrat Mary Peltola's campaign discussing recruiting other people with the same name as the two-term Republican their candidate was running against. They eventually landed on a retired schoolteacher in the small fishing community of Petersburg named Dan J. Sullivan. He made it through the state's August open primary and is one of four candidates on the ranked vote ballot for next Tuesday's general election.
(snip) ... . Except, of course, El-Sayed is not an old-school liberal like Obama, but an apologist for antisemites and Islamists and terrorists"and voting against that doesn't make you Islamophobic.
U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico seemed to have settled on a strategy for dealing with his history of promoting dishonest and destructive ideas. The Texas Democrat, aware that his positions were far to the left of the average American, sought to run away from the most disturbing items on his agenda. But now a week before Election Day he's saying that he hasn't moderated his views at all. Voters beware
Attorney General Todd Blanche has long maintained that the so-called Epstein files, even those kept from the public, contain no secret information related to national security. When the document releases began last winter, Blanche noted that the Epstein Files Transparency Act authorized withholding information in the interest of national security or foreign policy, but said, "no files are being withheld or redacted on that basis."
