US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pushed out the Pentagon's top planning officer as President Donald Trump weighs new strikes against Iran, a source familiar with the situation tells CNN. Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, who held the role of director for strategy, plans and policy, also known as J5, for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is abruptly leaving the position, a spokesman for Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine confirmed. Read more
James O'Keefe, founder of the far-right Project Veritas and a mouthpiece for Trump's election hoax nonsense, has been charged alongside conservative influencer Cam Higby for two felony counts: unlawful voting and identity theft.
President Donald Trump's administration is quietly weighing a fresh concession to Moscow, one the Kremlin has pushed hard behind closed doors.
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.
One of the NYC marathon runners
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.
(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
For two years, we've been trudging through sludge, trapped in Trump's MAGgoty reality-show rerun. We wake up every morning to the dread realization that a demented conman in a mangy rug still occupies the glitzed-up Oval Office (or as Obama put it, Saddam Hussein's version of a Cheesecake Factory) But is the Ceausescu balcony moment drawing near on Nov 3?
Conviction reinstated. Appeaks Court says Judge Sarah West's ruling rejected. Read more
A Republican candidate in Georgia running for the state House of Representatives has been arrested on charges of public indecency. According to Cobb County authorities, Andre Stafford is accused of public indecency and child molestation, a felony charge, in connection with an Oct. 15 incident in Smyrna. The arrest warrant said a girl walking to her bus stop was approached by a gray 2024 Kia Forte whose driver exposed himself. Police said Flock surveillance cameras tracked the car to Stafford, whom the victim identified in a photo lineup.
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage." The Buddha Read more
During a Democratic Party POTUS debate on 27 June 2019, Kamala Harris (D-CA) tagged former VPOTUS Joe Biden (D-DE) for his abysmal 1970s record on racial desegregation. The attack came after Biden came under harsh criticism for boasting about his ability to form personal relationships with race-baiting former Senators James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA). "It was hurtful," Harris said, to hear Biden speak of his bonds with those racist senators. Senator Harris then related the story of a little girl who was in an early wave of children to integrate schools in California, ending the anecdote with these words: "That little girl was me." To better understand the bigoted white Catholic milieu that Joe Biden grew up with in Scranton, PA (before his family moved to Claymont, DE in 1953), watch That Championship Season (1982) starring Robert Mitchum, Stacy Keach, Bruce Dern, Martin Sheen, and Paul Sorvino (71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes).
During the Algerian 132-year struggle for independence from France (1830-1962), by 1875 the French military, security services, and Foreign Legion had liquidated an estimated 500,000 " 1,000,000 Algerians; 1.5 million people were killed in the 1954 " 1962 independence war. On 7 May 1945, when the guns finally fell silent all over Europe, the French military borrowed British warplanes to bomb Algerian freedom fighters. In 1962 when President Charles DeGaulle decided to grant Algeria independence, the French far-right (OAS) conspired to assassinate him, fictionalized in the novel The Day of the Jackal (Frederick Forsyth, 1971). An important film depicting French police brutality and oppression against the Algerians was The Battle of Algiers (1966), which starred one of the former FLN guerrillas tortured by les condes.
The Battle of Algiers
In 1970, the average American weighed 30 pounds less than today. No diets. No gym culture. No calorie counting. So what exactly happened?
In this video, we explore the real reasons why nobody was fat in 1970s America " from the way families cooked and ate, to the way children played, to the size of a dinner plate, to the moment everything quietly began to change.
This is not a story about willpower. It is a story about a world that made willpower unnecessary.
