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Friday, November 14, 2025

Fly-tippers have dumped a "grotesque" mountain of waste in a field in Oxfordshire. The "environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight" is up to 150m (490ft) long and 6m (20ft) high and has appeared on a site between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. Calum Miller, Liberal Democrat MP for Bicester and Woodstock, has raised the issue in Parliament, saying it was "threatening an environmental disaster". He also said Cherwell District Council had estimated the cost of removing the waste would be greater than its entire annual budget. Read more


The aforementioned NWYTO article sheds additional light on why carrier maintenance takes so long: -The Navy has a measly four national shipyards capable of carrying out carrier repairs (a sad reflection on just how much American shipbuilding capability has declined in the post-Cold War era). Many experienced workers have retired, and new hires lack hands-on expertise. The nightmarish COVID-19 lockdowns disrupted production and maintenance even further, creating multi-year delays that continue to affect readiness throughout the fleet. As Doc says ... Send in the H1Bs to the rescue. Read more


Multiple families have told ITV News that hospitals are still routinely placing Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation orders, or DNRs, on medical records without their consent, despite the NHS being ordered to stop the practice following an investigation by the Care Quality Commission in 2020.


Jeffrey Epstein was in Trumpf Tower five days after the Dotard won the election in 2016. Dummkopf Trumpf has tried for years to distance himself from the reprehensible Epstein, saying, "I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years." The released emails contradict Dummkopf Trumpf's fabrication. Moreover, emails reveal the late monster advised the abominable Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing dirtbag Brett Kavanaugh in his SCOTUS confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss. Read more


In one of the leaked emails, Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's brother suggests to ask Steve Bannon if Putin has "the photo of Trump blowing Bubba," to which Epstein replied, "and I thought- I had tsuris," which is Yiddish for troubles. Who is Bubba?


  • Russia plans to import ~12,000 Shahed drone assemblers from North Korea to work at companies in Tatarstan. Russia is promising to pay the workers US$2.50 per hour, with each shift lasting at least 12 hours. "Such measures indicate deepening strategic cooperation between the two dictatorships in order to continue their aggressive war against Ukraine," the DIU emphasized. And the Kremlin is digging in a for a protracted war.
  • The FSB foiled a Ukrainian attempt to liquidate a Russian HVT. Ukraine's espionage services are excellent, but not infallible. They have a string of successful sabotage and neutralization operations inside Russia.
  • A Russian Su-30 fighter jet crashed in the Republic of Karelia during a training flight, killing the two-man crew. Cost of "Flanker": $50-65m.
  • Over the past 24 hours, Russia suffered 1,040 casualties conducting "meat attacks," bringing their total count to 1,156,400 KIA or WIA. Read more


    Newly released e-mails from congress suggest that there are pictures of "Trump blowing Bubba" as Kompromat in the hands of Putin. Bubba is a well known nickname for Bill Clinton, who knew Epstein.


    Thursday, November 13, 2025

    The pilots in a deadly business jet crash in Michigan were performing a test flight themselves, following repairs, instead of waiting for a test pilot, when the aircraft plunged into woods near Lansing, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Thursday. "The captain was provided with a list of experienced test pilots, for hire, to perform the post-maintenance stall test flight," the NTSB said in the report. "However, after being unable to coordinate the stall test flight with a test pilot, the flight crew elected to perform the post-maintenance stall test themselves." Read more


    President Donald Trump mentioned political correctness, President Joe Biden and renaming Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery after laying a wreath for the holiday.


    Some prominent conservative influencers sought to downplay newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein in which the convicted sex offender wrote that Donald Trump "knew about the girls," arguing the messages were part of a broader Democratic hoax targeting the U.S. president.


    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Each day, PBS programming fills the airwaves of Alabama Public Television with shows such as "Sesame Street," "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood," "Antiques Roadshow" and "PBS Newshour." Alabamians could lose access to those programs on state airwaves if the Alabama Educational Television Commission opts to become the first state network to sever ties with PBS. The Alabama commission last month discussed the possibility of dropping PBS and is expected to discuss the matter again its Nov. 18 meeting. The possibility comes after President Donald Trump and Congress in July withdrew funding for the nonprofit The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides grants to public radio and television, and as some state commissioners accused PBS of being an unneeded expense or politically biased.


    Pratt, a FedEx worker who dropped out of the Navy Seals, was sentenced four months after pleading guilty to two counts of concealing material support to a foreign terrorist organization in a case that developed after prosecutors accused him of unwittingly exchanging incriminating messages with an FBI informant. During those chats, Pratt said Americans "are savages. Like rabid dogs" and said he wanted to create a terrorist cell in Metro Detroit. Read more


    (in South Park)

    There's an investigation into a child sex trafficking ring, plus the US president and his deputy engage in some of the most disturbing scenes the show has ever put on screen. It's quite the episode


    Google is hosting a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officials. ICE-spotting app developers tell 404 Media the decision to host CBP's new app, and Google's description of ICE officials as a vulnerable group in need of protection, shows that Google has made a choice on which side to support during the Trump administration's violent mass deportation effort.


    Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from the genetic condition Kallmann Syndrome, researchers and documentary makers said Thursday, following DNA testing of the Nazi dictator's blood. According to the Cleveland Clinic in the U.S., the syndrome can "disrupt the process that drives puberty" and manifest in symptoms that include undescended testicles and a micropenis. The research also quashes the suggestion that Hitler had Jewish ancestry, the researcher say.


    Nick Fuentes claimed on X that "MAGA is dead," a cryptic tweet that followed a long day of bad news for Trump and the MAGA base. Earlier in the day, Democrats released a series of damaging emails between disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, that implicated Trump. The emails caused a rift between Trump and Republicans, with one analyst saying it may make the party's support for Trump "unsustainable" going forward. Fuentes is a well-known white supremacist whom right-wing provocateur Tucker Carlson recently interviewed on his eponymous podcast. The episode generated a lot of backlash from conservatives and appeared to cause a rift in the GOP.


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