Tuesday, December 2, 2025

More Deaths Due To Indian Truck Drivers

The New York Post reports: "Truck driver charged with killing newlyweds in horrid crash is illegal migrant given license in Newsom’s California: feds."  The article states that "Indian national Rajinder Kumar, 32, was arrested after he jackknifed his semi-truck and collided with a vehicle in Bend [Oregon] back on Nov. 24, killing William Carter and his new wife, Jennifer Lower." The Department of Homeland Security revealed that Kumar was in the US illegally, having been released into the country by the Biden administration. He was issued a CDL by California in 2023. The article also recounts other deaths caused by Indian truck drivers in the United States illegally.

More: "ANOTHER ONE! Criminal Indian Illegal Alien Semi-Truck Driver Who Obtained CDL in California Kills Two People After Jackknifing Trailer in Oregon"--Gateway Pundit.  

The Chinese-U. Mich. Bioweapon Connection

From the Daily Mail: "Inside China's bioweapons plot that transformed Michigan's 'Big House' into ground zero of covert warfare." The article reports that on November 5, federal agents charged three Chinese nationals - Xu Bai, 28, Fengfan Zhang, 27, and Zhiyong Zhang, 30 - with conspiring to smuggle genetically modified biological materials related to round worms into the US while working at a University of Michigan (U-M) Shawn Xu research lab. Zhang was also charged with making false statements to federal agents about the shipments. 

    These cases follow the June arrest of Chengxuan Han, a PhD student from Wuhan who pleaded no contest to smuggling charges before being deported and barred from returning to the US.

    Han had sent the modified worm samples from China before joining the lab in Ann Arbor herself.

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    In the same month Han was arrested, federal prosecutors charged a Chinese couple - Zunyong Liu and Yunqing Jian - with trying to smuggle a dangerous crop fungus into the US, which could potentially devastate American fields and poison livestock.

Federal authorities also claim that the more than 600 research and teaching labs at U-M have repeatedly been hijacked by Chinese students and researchers for illicit activities. And beyond the shenanigans at the research labs, the article mentions that "[i]n 2023, five Chinese U-M students were charged after a midnight visit to Camp Grayling, a military training installation in northern Michigan," adding that "Federal agents say they deleted photos, lied about why they were there and tried to cover their tracks. They had all graduated and left the US before charges were filed in October 2024." Finally, the article relates:

    Since 2020, U-M has received $375 million in foreign funding, including tens of millions from Chinese entities.

    The university struck major partnerships with:

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - on aerospace, engineering, and rocket-fuel science
  • Beijing Institute for Collaborative Innovation (BICI)
  • Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Peking University
  • Multiple Chinese robotics and tech firms

In 2017, U-M even launched its official name in Chinese characters.

    And until 2019, it hosted a Confucius Institute, widely seen as a soft-power arm of Beijing. 

In other words, the University of Michigan has become a hot spot of spying, bio-terror, and has been assisting China in making better ballistic missiles. 

More: "Chinese scientist who smuggled dangerous ‘vomitoxin’ fungus into US deported"--New York Post.

VIDEO: Do You Really Need To Upgrade Your Gear?

You work hard for your money which means, as this video explains, you should think hard before upgrading the gear you have if it works for you.  

VIDEO: "Do You Really Need to Upgrade Your Gear? Honest Advice"
PreparedAirman (7 min.)

Monday, December 1, 2025

Interesting: Submarine Caves In Mexico Extend 325+ Miles

From the Daily Mail: "Inside the world's longest underwater cave: Subterranean water 'web' in Mexico extends at least 325 MILES." Found beneath the Yucatan Peninsula, the Ox Bel Ha ("Mayan for 'Three Paths of Water'") is what the article describes as "a sprawling water 'web' that makes up the world's longest underwater cave system" in which divers have "found giant sink holes, huge crystal chambers known as ice palaces, and 38 unique species of cave–dwelling animals." So far just a bit over 325 miles has been mapped, but cave divers believe there is much more to be found. 

    Scientists believe that the incredible complexity of Ox Bel Ha is due to the unusual way in which it formed.

    Millions of years ago, rainwater and dissolved carbon dioxide filtered through a thick layer of limestone on the Yucatan Peninsula.

    As this acidic solution filtered through the rock, it reacted with the limestone and carved out vast channels and tunnels.

    Then, approximately 18,000 years ago, severe climate changes caused ocean levels to rise and flood the caves – sealing the underground landscape exactly as it is found today. 

The Postal Service's Reliance On Foreign Drivers

"USPS tried to ban immigrant truck drivers — it went horribly"--Freight Waves. First, the background:

    The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean P. Duffy recently announced an emergency interim final rule to restrict non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs), causing significant disruptions in the trucking and supply chain industries. Issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on September 29, 2025, the rule addresses widespread abuse in the issuance of these licenses to immigrants. The rule requires that states immediately stop issuing new non-domiciled CDLs, but created a two-year phase in period before all non-domiciled CDLs are invalidated.

    Non-domiciled CDLs, originally intended in 2017 to allow drivers residing in one state to obtain a license in another, evolved to include non-U.S. residents, sometimes without proper work permits. A DOT audit revealed that at least 200,000 such licenses were issued, with over 25% in California improperly granted. 

When the Postal Service enacted policies to comply with the rule. "Facilities were instructed not to load trailers hauled by such drivers as part of efforts to improve safety across a network of asset carriers and brokers handling local, regional, and cross-country work." 

    The policy’s impact was immediate, resulting in canceled loads and widespread disruptions. USPS operations, heavily reliant on these drivers, saw trips missed and sorts delayed, exposing vulnerabilities in the postal linehaul network.

    Within days, USPS reversed the ban, deeming the service and cost impacts too severe for an abrupt change. This highlighted the critical role non-domiciled drivers play in mail delivery reliability. 

While contractors can go back to using the non-domiciled drivers, the USPS maintains that "other rules—such as English proficiency and two drivers per truck—still apply." 

    The article goes on to report that "[s]ince the FMCSA permitted foreigners to get a non-domiciled CDL in March 2019, over 200,000 have been issued. In that same period, the trucking industry has added more than 310,000 trucks, flooding the market with way too much capacity." The consequence is that the trucking industry is "the longest downturn in history, [which] we dubbed the Great Freight Recession." 

The primary culprit: a way oversupplied trucking market. The elimination of non-domiciled CDLs pool will have a significant impact on the freight market as these drivers leave the service. After all, depending on how many of the 200,000 non-domiciled CDLs are currently active and hauling freight, it could wipe out 5%+ of all truckload capacity in the market.

The English proficiency rule will also have an impact: "An insurance executive at a large agency suggested that at least 10% of the truck drivers on the road would fail an inspection if tested on their English language proficiency." 

The Great Replacement and Rural Communities

The Unz Review published a piece last week entitled "The Great Replacement Comes to Rural America: How mass migration is reshaping every corner of America" that contends that "[n]o matter how far Americans flee from the pressures of urban life, the Great Replacement will always find them." The author goes on to not only show the shift using data on the size of rural populations, but that this invasion has been backed by both Democrat and Republican politicians. The author concludes:

 Only a fundamental change in the ruling class could end this civilization-destroying process. Until that moment arrives, Americans will find that no place remains out of reach from the transformations set in motion by Washington’s mass migration regime.

This has been an ongoing process for a long time in Idaho where illegal aliens working in agriculture have flooded into the state for decades. A recent event in southwestern Idaho that illustrates the scope of the problem was a raid by federal authorities of a horse racing track hosting illegal betting. The raid was in Wilder, Idaho, a small, rural farming town in southwestern Idaho. When I was a kid the town matched the demographics of the state. However, by the time of the 2010 census, the town was 75.9% Hispanic. Unsurprisingly, of the 400 people caught up in the raid, only four were arrested for gambling and over 100 illegal aliens were arrested. As the AP reports in its understated way, "[t]he raid on La Catedral Arena struck nerves in Canyon County, which has the most Hispanic residents in Idaho and where Trump got 72% of the vote last year." The raid so freaked out Hispanics and liberals, that the Canyon Country Sheriff issued a statement to assure everyone that it was not actually an ICE raid, apparently to tamp down concerns that ICE was going to start conducting raids in agricultural communities. And an organized activist network immediately went to work, including spreading stories that children caught up in the raid had been zip-tied and otherwise organizing opposition in the area

    And that should probably the main takeaway: that the networks backing this are well organized to immediately challenge any attempts to crack down on immigration. 

VIDEO: The Historical Achilles

A look at Bronze Age Collapse by following the career of the warlord--Piyamaradu, the Terror of the Hittites--that the author believes was the person who was the basis of the character of Achilles in the Illiad.  

VIDEO: "Bronze Age Collapse and the historical Achilles | Piyamaradu, 1250 BC"
Project Glorious (21 min.)

Blue Origin's Blue Ring Spacecraft

From Space News: "Blue Origin advances Blue Ring spacecraft toward 2026 national security mission." From the article:

    Blue Origin said it has passed a key development milestone for its Blue Ring spacecraft, a maneuverable in-orbit transport vehicle designed for national security missions and backed by Pentagon funding.

    The company on Nov. 21 said “the Blue Ring team successfully integrated the flight vehicle’s primary structure and internal harnessing with the core propulsion module.” The spacecraft will now undergo additional checkout work before engineers move on to powering up the vehicle.

    Blue Ring is built to deliver, host and transport payloads in orbit and shift between orbits as missions require. Those movements fall under what the U.S. military calls “dynamic space operations,” a term used to describe spacecraft that can reposition themselves on demand — to gain a better sensor angle, avoid a threat, support another spacecraft or relocate payloads. Such maneuvering has become a priority for the Space Force as it eyes more resilient satellite architectures.

Our first space fighter?

Serial Spitter Given Educational Beatdown

 The New York Post reports that "Anthony Caines— the sicko busted by the NYPD for allegedly spitting in the faces of white women who passed him in Williamsburg — has apparently been on the receiving end of some street-style justice." Caines, who is black, "was arrested on Nov. 13 for his serial spitting spree" and quickly "released with an ankle monitor the following day, after pleading not guilty to charges including aggravated harassment based on race or religion, according to court documents obtained by The Post."

    Video footage shared on social media shows two men beating and stomping on Caines:

    The two men laugh to themselves as they kick Caines and stomp on his legs.

    Caines is heard wailing in pain during the beatdown.

    The clip quickly cuts to an image of Caines with a large gash on his forehead, above his left eye. Blood streams down his face as the men issue a final warning.

    “Stop violating these females out here, you heard?” the man filming the footage tells him.

    “We’re tired of that s–t,” the man explains. “You’re making us look bad.”

    Caines appeared to confirm he understood, before saying, “I went to jail, didn’t I?”

    “F–k jail — we’re worse than jail,” the man yells before delivering one last punch to his head.   

So this appears to be blacks policing other blacks. Interesting.  

Sunday, November 30, 2025

VIDEO: Debunking Common Arguements for Mass Immigration

He debunks the following arguments generally advanced in support of mass immigration, as well as ranking them as to how stupid (or evil) they are:

  • "Diversity is our Strength"
  • "We're A Nation of Immigrants"
  • "Mass Immigration Is Unstoppable"
  • "Immigrants do the jobs, we don't want to do"
  • "They Contribute More In Taxes"
  • "Immigrants Commit Fewer Crimes"
  • "We Need Mass Immigration For Higher GDP"
  • "Immigration Will Save Social Security"
  • "Immigrants Are More Entrepreneurial" 
  • "Moral Obligation To Let Them In"
  • "No Human Is Illegal"
  • "Immigrants Are Vital For Technology" 

 VIDEO: "Mass Immigration: All Arguments Ranked & Debunked"
Basic Logic (6 min.)


Weekend Reading #69

Some longer or more involved reading:  Due to my delay in posting this week, I am able to include the latest Defensive Pistolcraft newslette...