Not my usual fare, but interesting nonetheless. The forum is called Dread and it is apparently the dark web's version of Reddit. Anyway, not something you would have come across in the MSM.
VIDEO: "The Dark Webs Most Popular Forum Got Hacked"
Mental Outlaw (19 min.)
In 1999, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg published a highly influential paper which predicted the loss of coral reefs by 2050--50 years in the future at that time--due to global warming (although there were some dissenting voices that said it was due to killing wildlife or pollution, which had been ongoing for centuries in some parts of the world).
In 2017, the British Independent newspaper continued to report that "More than 90 percent of world's coral reefs will die by 2050," and that there was, at that point, no way to stop it.
Today we are being told that "Almost all coral reef ecosystems face risk of collapse in 50 years, study warns." In other words, after 26 years, we are still 50 years from when the coral reefs will collapse. Or, as the Los Angeles Times put it last month: "The Great Barrier Reef refuses to die on schedule."
The author of the latter article, Bjorn Lomborg, begins by noting (bold added):
Australia’s marine scientists released their annual audit of the Great Barrier Reef last month, and it contains news you almost certainly haven’t heard: Coral cover held steady or increased across most of the reef. The scientists measure the percentage of living hard coral cover, and in the 40 years of systematic study, the five best years on record are the five most recent. That is the sound of a catastrophe not happening.
You haven’t heard the good news because the reef has an entire public relations industry built around predicting its imminent demise as a result of global warming. In 2012, researchers from the Australian Institute of Marine Science reported that the reef had lost about half its coral cover since the mid-1980s — falling from 28% to just 13.9% — and projected that cover could halve yet again by 2022. In 2014, the Guardian published an interactive obituary for the reef. In 2016, Outside magazine agreed, declaring the reef dead at age 25 million.
The patient, it turned out, hadn’t read the notices. By 2021, coral cover was higher than at any point since measurements began in 1986. It stayed at unprecedented levels through 2022 and 2023 and climbed to a new all-time high in 2024. The reef answered two decades of death sentences with more coral than anyone had ever measured.
The scientists even stopped publishing the reefwide statistic — making it harder for the layperson to easily see that the reef was defying long-held predictions. But researchers from AIMS continued publishing regional averages, making it possible to effectively re-create their reefwide average — which clearly kept increasing.
In the case of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia then reverted to Plan B:
When catastrophe fails to arrive, a second story stands ready: Take a bow and send the bill. Australia’s federal and Queensland governments have spent more than 5 billion Australian dollars on reef programs since 2014, and when UNESCO declined in July to put the reef on its “in danger” list, Australia’s ministers hailed the decision as recognition of the country’s world-leading reef management. It takes nerve to spend decades forecasting an ecosystem’s death and then claim credit for its historically high coral cover and remarkable resilience.
But Lomborg's article must have caused a stir because we are now back to Plan A, just with the doomsday of coral reefs pushed out a bit longer.
The New York Post reports on "Feds bust $2B medical fraud rings secretly operating in California — as agents seen scaling rich doctor’s mega mansion." Two of those arrested are Dr. Hany Malek, a chiropractor, and Dr. Harold Tabaie, a cardiothoracic surgeon. They are accused of working together to convince patients they needed unneeded, invasive (and expensive) heart procedures called atherectomies. But even this was small change compared to others being rounded up:
Others defendants sought Thursday included Nathan Young, 39, and his father David Young, 71, who allegedly operated a $1.6 billion substance abuse scam to traffic addicts from around the country to dozens of Los Angeles rehab centers.
Some more tips and pointers for cut shells. The host makes clear that cut shells are not intended for use when you have slugs available to you, but are an improvised substitute.
VIDEO: "Cutshell Classroom: Cutshell Myths Laid to Rest"
Iraqveteran8888 (10 min.)
Hot Air's new article, "Destination: Color Revolution" by David Strom reminds us that even before Trump entered office, Democrats and their Deep State allies in the FBI and CIA were planning on going after Trump. And they are planning to do it again should they win back Congress at the mid-terms. Strom writes:
DataRepublican has been doing a very deep dive into the current Deep State project to take Donald Trump out after the Midterm elections, dropping chunks of her investigation, including receipts from an insider who leaked video, audio, and documents from a wide-ranging, shall we call it a "plot," to amp up resistance to Trump and to create a Constitutional crisis that would, they hope, reshape the entire political landscape.
Including the Constitution.
The core groups involved are military alumni, various intelligence agencies, and, of course, the USAID folks. You may recall that as Trump closed down USAID, a bureaucrat walking out the door darkly insinuated that it was the biggest mistake Trump ever made.
[snip]
All these alums from the IC and related agencies are now part of a massive NGO complex designing plans and wargaming ways to take Trump down, not in any namby-pamby way like using the courts or prosecutions, though they are intended to be part of the plan.
They want a full-blown confrontation between Blue States and the Trump administration, up to and including what could be low-level armed conflicts, more along the lines of an escalation from what we saw in Minnesota last winter.
You may recall Governor Walz's language kept returning to the word "war." "War with the federal government." The references to the Minnesotans at Gettysburg during the Civil War. The fact that Democrats from the governor's office on down to city and county officials helped coordinate the physical resistance to ICE officers, leading to two deaths and the injury of multiple federal officers.
Think along those lines, but amped up to 11, with all the troops mobilized on the left, and all the Democrats in governors' offices and in Congress making a full-court press to take Trump out using any means necessary.
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I can't go through all the data in one post, and DataRepublican is still putting what she has out in digestible chunks, but the bottom line is very clear: those USAID folks, along with the IC officials who have "six ways from Sunday" to get you are now organized, plotting, working with politicians and even the Democratic Socialists of America to create a crisis and the next best thing to a coup.
T.L. Davis has some thoughts on how things will go down if the Democrats win the mid-terms:
What I expect to happen, and I am not engaging in forecasting here, because I have no talent in that area, but just looking at it logically, is that the Democrats will win control of the House and Senate and begin the long dark path toward opening the borders and flooding the US with more jihadists and fraudsters. The idea being to drain the treasury and restrict funds that would be used to counter the coup, or to fight a war.
Then, with power, the communist Red-Green coalition will begin to implement the plan exposed in the linked article above. Why now? The election of Mamdani in New York, the symbolic target of radical Islamists for decades, has fueled life into the communist dreams of conquest. They might pretend that riots and church burnings won’t take place if the Democrats win the 2026 election, but it doesn’t matter. Losing would only provide more shade for their revolutionary actions.
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The question is, will the real war start in November when they attempt to engage in a revolution? I hope so, it’s what American patriots, militia groups and just well-prepared citizens have been waiting for, preparing for, arming for, because the first order of business is to impeach and imprison Trump. The Second order of business will be to, once and for all, confiscate guns. That might require them to first arrest and imprison, or just outright attack the conservative justices on the Supreme Court. By conservative justices, I mean only Thomas and Alito, the others will fold under threat of Antifa attack, just like they already have on other cases.
It will very quickly devolve into an open civil war. They are supremely emboldened by their fake confrontations with faithless cops and believe they will win any kinetic confrontation with bubba. We’ll see.
More: Cynical Publius has an article on X covering the information gathered by DataRepublican about the Leftist plans this fall, as well as giving some history on other color revolutions backed by USAID and the intelligence community. And DataRepublican adds in the comments:
Yes - and I realize I'd been making a mistake to focus on the Insurrection Act. Although the goal certainly is to get structural reforms in the national conversation by 2028, they outlined several scenarios beyond the Insurrection Act. By and far their biggest focus has been an "election meltdown." I didn't emphasize that as much because obvi, Trump isn't going to send military to the polls or anything of the sort.
But I forgot momentarily that elections ARE the actual precursor to what becomes an actual coup (transition of power, whatever euphemism you'd like). Everything takes on a much darker turn if you start wondering if they're trying to manifest that.
"Anthropic books colossal $81B loss, warns of data center backlash as Amodei siblings draw modest salaries"--New York Post. From the lede:
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic booked a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first half of 2026 — mostly from accounting charges — as it warned that growing opposition to data centers could threaten its business.
The San Francisco-based company, which is preparing for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at as much as $2 trillion, voiced caution about the growing movement of anti-data center and anti-AI voters.
Resistance to data centers has “become more organized and coordinated across jurisdictions,” Anthropic said in the filing viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
In 1996, a Mel Gibson movie called Ransom was released. Gibson played a wealthy businessman whose son is kidnapped for ransom. But rather than pay the ransom, Gibson's character goes on live television and offers the ransom as a bounty on the heads of the kidnappers who, as you would guess, ultimately turn on each other.
Trump seems to be doing something similar. Mediaite reports: "Trump Promises to Pay ‘Reporters’ a Commission For Finding Fraud: ‘Trillions’ Have Been ‘Stolen’." From the article:
President Donald Trump pledged to pay a “1% commission” Tuesday to anyone who turns in fraudsters — even “reporters.”
Speaking Tuesday during an Oval Office event in which he recognized right-leaning independent journalist Nick Shirley, Trump claimed the new Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program would pay out so well journalists might want to ditch their jobs.
“If you turn somebody in and you let’s say a report and you find a billion dollars, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%. It’s a lot of money. And if it’s 10 billion, 200 billion, 400 billion, we are giving a 1% commission to that person,” he claimed.
Related:
Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett — the one to whom she is currently married, not her brother, whom she pretended to marry for immigration fraud purposes — used to run a winery. Because, you know, she’s a super devout Muslim and all that. The winery abruptly closed earlier this year amid official scrutiny. Turns out part of the problem might’ve been that Omar's husband was selling investors empty barrels of wine. It’s absolutely incredible how these people seem incapable of running a business or holding a job that is not a front for crime.
From PJ Media: "A Pollster Just Admitted Faking Its Numbers, and The Fallout Is Huge!" The polling firm is Wedgewood Polls, which claims that it merely conducting a social experiment to see if major polling aggregators like the New York Times, FiftyPlusOne, or VoteHub would vet the polling firms they use. According to Wedgewood, the answer is no. But the head of HonestPoll says that is bunk, noting that his firm had checked into Wedgewood to see if it was legitimate. In any event, the damage has been done:
El-Sayed leaned heavily on Wedgewood's polling to sell Democrat voters on his electability. Mallory McMorrow, who ran against him in the Michigan primary, took to X to describe what the stunt cost her campaign. She pointed to a late-June Wedgewood poll that showed her sinking into single digits, numbers she said contradicted her campaign’s internal polling. In the aftermath, her donations dried up, her volunteers were left devastated and begging for direction, and reporters bombarded her with calls to get out of the race.
Without a doubt, a fake poll can affect an election. It can stop a candidate from raising money, boost another candidate, or cause a party to invest in a place it otherwise wouldn’t. And it can lead voters to think the result is already decided before any ballot has been cast.
Seems to me that Wedgewood served the purpose of providing plausible deniability to the polling aggregators in thrall to the Democrat party should it ever be discovered that the poll results were fake. It is notable that Wedgewood only came clean about it faking results just as FiftyPlusOne was about to publish an investigation showing that Wedgewood was fake.
In his article, "Iran, China, and Cuba are directing protests inside America," Mike Gonzalez explains:
Evidence is growing that the tyrannical regimes of China, Iran, and Cuba are not only financing protests in American streets, but actively directing them.
The Network Contagion Research Institute, whose work in these areas has been indispensable for years, recently published another groundbreaking study that blows the lid off how this foreign network operates.
The report indicates that an Iranian influence node that takes orders from the Islamic Republic regime, the House of Latin America, conducts what NCRI calls “high-impact domestic U.S. influence operations.”
“For nearly two decades,” NCRI says, HOLA “has functioned as a primary bridge between the Iranian regime, Latin American socialist governments, and U.S. anti-war coalitions, with its American-based operatives acting as undeclared agents of a foreign government on U.S. soil.”
It gets much worse. HOLA, it says, “has now formally merged with Neville Roy Singham’s Chinese Communist Party-linked Tricontinental network to form a unified Iran-China operation targeting the United States from the south.”
Although the focus is on shooting hides and some camouflage techniques for guerrilla snipers or marksmen, it does have application for certain types of hunting. (The word "sniper" originated as a term for those hunters, in colonial India, that had developed the skills to successfully hunt snipes).
VIDEO: "The Poor Mans Guide to Guerrilla Hides"
Dirty Civilian (33 min.)
I've heard of these but never seen them in person or used them. It is a method to turn birdshot or buckshot loads into a type of slug. The only person I've heard that ever used these was a friend's father, who had been a police officer in California back in the 1970s and early '80s, who kept the first shell in his shotgun like this because his agency did not authorize slugs. I can't vouch for the ability of a shotgun to eject a shell modified like this.
VIDEO: "The lost art of Cut Shells"
Iraqveteran8888 (4 min.)
Stephen Green raises an interesting point in his article, "Where Are the Gendarmes?"--what if the chaos in France was intended by the elites to consolidate control?
Setting the savages loose is one way Europe's elites remind ordinary Europeans who's in charge there.
If that seems far-fetched — and not even Kirn was entirely convinced — an early morning Fox News investigation might clear things up.
Fox claims to have "identified 54 organizations and movements in France's October student protests and their wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, including communist parties, revolutionary socialist groups, labor unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates, Palestinian-solidarity organizations and international media outlets."
That's the Red-Green alliance you can see in action right here in this country, in places like Michigan. ...
Jeffrey Carter echoes that warning in his piece, "France Burns, But So Does the US." He reminds us:
The EU isn’t about economic hegemony. The EU is about ushering in socialism to all of Western Europe.
Today’s Democratic Party is led by the socialists who have their intellectual roots in the Weather Underground from the 1960s.
Carter looks at Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin's comments about wanting to prosecute Trump officials to scare young people for working for the Trump Administration and warns:
She wants you in the gulag, and that’s not an overstatement. She is a fascist/communist/socialist or whatever label you want to put on her. I prefer totalitarian or tyrant. She happens to be ex-CIA so that might inform you as to what at least a segment of the CIA is like.
We must, therefore, be very vigilant against laws designed to limit our Second Amendment rights or create a surveillance state. As Eric Florack comments, looking at events in France:
Now let’s add another reason to drop the gun ban law insanity. Look across the Atlantic. Our Catherine Salgado reported yesterday that rioters in Marseille torched Jewish-owned shops and left Muslim-owned ones alone: Report: Marseille Rioters Burned Jewish-Owned Shops, Left Muslim-Owned Ones Untouched.
That isn't a mob losing its head. That's a target list, and a certain blood thirst to go with it. Somebody scouted those streets. Somebody knew which doors to kick in and which to walk past. I've warned for years, along with about half the planet, that Europe is our canary in the coal mine. What happens there arrives here sooner or later.
And when it does, people who plan their attacks will pick the softest targets they can find. Our schools have been softer than a roll of Charmin for years, and the news has said so every time another one gets hit. Does anyone seriously believe the planners haven't picked up on that yet? They'll look for places where they know in advance nobody can shoot back. Places that publish the fact on the district website.
Places like, say, Silver Rail Elementary, for example.
Let's be real, here. A lone, troubled 16-year-old needed less than three minutes to kill four people in that building. Now imagine a team that spent months planning, the way somebody clearly planned Marseille. Then tell me the answer is another sign on the door. Think October 7 attacks only happen in Israel?
From the New York Post: "Sen. Slotkin urges Dems to use prosecution to make young people afraid to serve in Trump admin." The article begins:
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin publicly called on Democrats to intimidate young conservatives who want to work for the Trump administration by prosecuting the president’s staffers.
Slotkin (D-Mich.), a former CIA analyst, contended that Democrats must “go after” and make examples out of officials in President Trump’s orbit who engage in corruption to send a message to young people who may want to join the administration.
“I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun, I might get an opportunity,’” Slotkin mused at a University of Chicago event last week that has since gone viral.
“I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that,’” the senator went on. “I want that deterrence message sent.”
Just last week we learned that the Jack Smith, the special-counsel for the Biden Administration, was even tracking information about people that bought MAGA merchandise. So we know that the ultimate goal is to go after the common people as well.
Tips and techniques to avoid getting tired out too early on a long hike.
VIDEO: "How to Hike All Day Without Getting Tired"
On The Scout (16 min.)
In "How to Store Vitamins Long Term (without Losing Potency)" by Diane Vuković at Primal Survivor, the author observes:
Foods like white rice, flour and pasta are great foods to stockpile for emergency preparedness because they have long shelf lives and are easy to store.The downside is that they (as well as lots of other emergency foods and meals) are lacking when it comes to nutrients. To make up for this, you might want to store vitamins as part of your emergency planning.
- Choose vitamins in tablet form, come in dark-colored glass jars with screw lids and have a best-by or expiration date listed on them.
- Store the vitamins in their original containers in a cool, dark place.
- As an extra layer of protection, keep the vitamin jars in an airtight container or sealed Mylar bag.
Stored this way, vitamins should retain their potency for at least 2 years past their best-by date and could remain potent for 15+ years.
John Wilder's latest is "France In Freefall," where he goes over some highlights of France's fall to the barbarians and why he considers it an invasion: "Well, the murders and rapes is a data point. That’s what conquerors do. The riots are another. The mass prayers that shut down streets is another, since they don’t do that in their own countries." The solution, he argues, is repatriation. Be sure to check it out.
Today's Anonymous Conservative also has some items about the riots in France, including reports that looters were now targeting homes in upscale neighborhoods. But the more worrisome aspect is that we may see this coming to the U.S. For instance, he cites an X post from Data Republican--who had obtain transcripts and recordings of DSA leaders--indicating that the DSA is planning on creating protests/conflicts bad enough to force the President to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to delegitimize the Federal government, give Democrat governors the excuse to ignore federal authority, and make the 2028 election a referendum on continuing the country "as is" or fundamentally changing it to appease the "young and brown" demographic.
Some links that may be of interest:
The most important takeaway is that there is no “approved” number of shots because every self-defense incident has its own facts and its own unique issues. Whether one fires once or 10 times, the actions must be based on sound reasoning, in response to an imminent threat, and proportionate to the threat.
“Once the threat is neutralized,” said Hamby, “Further shots create a risk that you can be faced with criminal and civil liability.”
What we see and have seen is that, despite the ballistic reality that a long gun is a superior fight-stopping tool when facing a deadly threat, there is also a very real, if subconscious, belief that handguns are for close combat and long guns are for distance shooting. Even people with education and experience tend to fall into that mindset.
Yes, many deadly force scenarios are unexpected, and you might only have a handgun available at that moment in time. But what about the times when you have the option to grab a long gun?
We should all understand that a deadly force scenario is deadly serious. Our goal should be to stop the deadly threat as rapidly as our tools and time will allow. Given the ballistic superiority of a long gun chambering a rifle cartridge, one or two shots from a rifle are far more likely to incapacitate the threat versus a historically less-than-effective tool launching pistol bullets.
Just recently, during a discussion of “truck guns,” a person offered that if the distance was close, 25 to 50 yards, a pistol-caliber carbine could be just as good of a choice or better than a rifle.
From where does this thinking arise?
Here’s another area where a shooter can usually see warning signs before the gun begins to present major problems. In tandem, the extractor and ejector work to get fired cases out of your firearm. Usually, the extractor is the culprit, since it depends on both geometry and spring tension to do its job (whereas the ejector is so often just a piece of metal for the brass to ram into under recoil).
When something is amiss, you may first notice inconsistent ejection patterns and angles. If brass cases are dribbling out of the gun or coming straight back at the shooter, it often indicates that the extractor claw isn’t maintaining consistent and strong tension on the rim of the cartridge. It may only be a matter of time before the problem progresses into stovepipe malfunctions or double-feeds. These stoppages are annoyances at the range, but could be deadly serious if you need your firearm in that moment to defend yourself or your loved ones.
The easiest fix is usually to brush out any gunk. Carbon fouling can stick onto and under the extractor claw and accumulate in the recesses of the breech face. There, the detritus changes the way that cartridges are held in place. Fouling in the chamber itself can also make it harder for the extractor to maintain grip and clear fired brass. Note, however, that if your gun has to be run totally clean for it to work at all, something more serious could be at play.
While you have the gun apart, it’s prudent to look for geometry changes to the extractor and ejector. Do these parts look like they should, or are there any chips, cracks, or rounded-over edges? If everything looks fine, it could be a sign that the extractor spring is weakening and needs replacement.
The Marlin 336 was immediately appealing thanks to its stronger action and the retention of the 1893’s side ejection port. Winchester rifles ejected their hot brass skyward, ideally over your head and, wrongly, down your shirt. Side ejection also let the shooter mount an optic on top of the receiver. The first Marlin 336 rifles were not tapped and drilled for a Weaver mount, but that addition was quickly implemented. Curiously, until recent production, the 336 featured two plug screws on the left side of the receiver that allowed the shooter to mount a Williams-style peep sight, a feature immediately familiar to shooters used to the M1 platform of rifles from the war.
One of the great virtues of a revolver is its mechanical simplicity. There aren’t many external parts the shooter has to think about, and when something goes wrong, the solution is wonderfully simple: pull the trigger again.
This is the primary reason revolvers have earned such a reputation for reliability. There’s no magazine to seat (or become unseated), no slide to cycle and, in most circumstances, no complicated malfunction drill to perform. If one cartridge doesn’t go bang, there’s another one waiting in the cylinder — just pull the trigger.
But that doesn't mean that nothing can go wrong. This article discusses some of the common and uncommon issues that can come up with revolvers: everything from not letting the trigger fully reset to broken parts. The problems I've personally experienced are: not letting the trigger fully reset when shooting double-action a bit too quickly, bullets pulling out under recoil and locking up the cylinder, a broken trigger spring, and some trouble with a new revolver where it would sometimes not turn the cylinder that I never was able to diagnose but want away after shooting a box of ammo through it.
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I’m Greg with Bone Tactical, and I’ve lived through real civil unrest... rioting, looting, roadways blocked with burning barricades, and prison yard chaos. What I’m about to share is a simple, repeatable system that keeps you alive, keeps you out of jail, and keeps you anchored to your values. The goal is not to “win.” The goal is to go home.
Obviously, the first advice he gives is "don't be there." But you don't always have that option. A couple more points:
Fourth principle: protect your people. If you’re with family, you’re the shepherd. Assign roles before you move: you lead, the strongest adult brings up the rear, kids in the middle, hand-to-shoulder chain, not hand-to-hand so grips don’t break. Use short commands: “With me.” “Left.” “Stop.” “Go.” Do not argue with the crowd; your energy belongs to movement, not debate.
Fifth principle: if you’re grabbed or encircled, break the ring, don’t wrestle the crowd. Pick the thinnest seam, burst through it decisively, and don’t stop until you’re clear by half a block. If you are physically detained, being assaulted, and capable of using a weapon, this is the time to do so. ...
Straight out of the bag, the Storm Warden set feels more like technical mountaineering gear than typical hunting rain wear. The 70D nylon-spandex face fabric has some heft to it without feeling stiff, and the four-way stretch is immediately noticeable when you move your arms overhead or take a big stride over a downed log.
Also:
My first real test came on a late winter coyote hunt where the forecast called for scattered showers and instead delivered a genuine downpour by mid-morning. I set up on a fence line overlooking a cut cornfield expecting to be miserable within the hour. Instead, the StormShield membrane in the jacket did exactly what Leupold claims it does.
Water beaded and ran off the shoulders and hood rather than soaking through, and I stayed dry through nearly four hours of calling and glassing. The two-point adjustable hood was a nice touch, since I could cinch it down enough to keep rain off my face without losing peripheral vision, which matters a lot when you’re watching the tree line for a coyote working in on a call.
Fed-up Californians fleeing the state are buying homes in safer states offering open rural spaces that come with underground doomsday-style bunkers stockpiled with weapons and ammo for added security.
Relocation consultant and former US Marine Todd Savage told The California Post 80% of his clients are from the Golden State as they seek to escape “high taxes, high crime, low freedom and blue-haired liberals.”
The 55-year-old said: “They are tired of it, so they are voting with their feet. My clients want to raise children in a city where people don’t get kidnapped and murdered, with drugs and all kinds of lawlessness. They say let’s go somewhere where we’re treated as a citizen and not a subject.
Unfortunately, once they get here, they immediately start trying to make it more like California.
France is still burning, we've seen "mostly peaceful" protests in Belgium, and now protests have spread to Italy. This is being coordinated at some level.
Violent protesters have rebelled over the cost of living, education standards and Mr Macron's government, with police admitting they 'lost control' on Saturday.
More than 1,200 demonstrators were arrested as the streets of major cities were turned into a battleground, with widespread riots described as 'apocalyptic'.
Desperate business owners and horrified residents could only watch in fear as the mob went door-to-door, smashing their way into each business.
A distraught woman was seen begging rioters in Paris not to loot a supermarket.
She was heard asking 'why are you doing this' and screaming 'this is not the cause' as a group of young male rioters push past her into the smashed shop.
The footage then shows the crowd appearing to cheer as the balaclava-clad looters leave with arms full of stolen goods.
The shop was one of many buildings and businesses to be damaged in the demonstrations, as roughly 550,000 protesters took to the country's streets.
Limoges Town Hall, which was built in 1883 and survived both world wars, came tumbling down in a blaze after it was torched by rioters in France's south-west.
A video seen by 1.4million X users showed the historic building – which played a significant role in the French Resistance during the Second World War – collapsing with its bell tower engulfed in flames.
In another shocking video from Nice, a comic book shop owner was seen trying to defend his business as looters appeared to have smashed their way in.
He stepped out to confront a rioter and shouted to the crowd but was knocked to the ground by a looter who kicked him in the back.
French police admitted they did not have the manpower to cope as 1,200 protesters were arrested across the country.
Meanwhile, French President Macron and his wife "were accused of acting like the out-of-touch King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette at the start of the 1789 Revolution after they were seen dancing in a private box at a Céline Dion concert on Friday night." President Trump had some advice for Macron:
He wrote on Truth Social: 'France is burning! The immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country. Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!'
It is too late, however. France--and much of the rest of Europe--have pretty much reached a point of either fully succumbing and becoming Islamic societies or finding a strong man leader who will purge their countries of the invaders notwithstanding national and EU laws.
As to the female shop owner from the article, there appears to be a bit more to the story than related in the Daily Mail piece:
And from Rod Dreher, who has always believed a piece of paper made one an "American" or some other nationality:
Rioters clashed with police, looted stores and set property on fire in central Milan on Saturday, emptying Piazza del Duomo and a luxury shopping arcade when the area would usually be teeming with shoppers.
The march against wars and rising living costs began peacefully. But masked protesters threw stones, paving blocks and other objects at riot police and set fire to barricades made from bar tables. Images of the aftermath showed a severely damaged carabinieri car.
Police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the crowds.
At least two police officers were injured and about 50 demonstrators, including many minors, were detained, the LaPresse news agency reported.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned the violence in a social media post.
“Demonstrating is a right. Setting our cities ablaze is not,” she wrote, citing “hooligans who exploit demonstrations to sow chaos, attack those responsible for ensuring security and hold entire cities hostage.”
Milan’s center-left mayor, Giuseppe Sala, said “the reasons for the protests were understandable. The violence against law enforcement and serious damage to the city are not justifiable.”
The unrest coincided with nationwide demonstrations in neighboring France against rising living costs and in support of high school students’ grievances. French police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse violent protesters who joined the rallies.
And the protests continued into Sunday.
Belgian police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Brussels and Liège taking part in cost-of-living protests on Saturday, October 17, similar to violent rallies in neighboring France.
High school students have staged protests in recent weeks against higher university registration fees, but Interior Minister Bernard Quintin blamed the troubles on "organized violence."
Police in Brussels used tear gas against youths in the Bourse district who lobbed bottles and other missiles, an Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist said. Police said about 10 arrests were made. Following calls made on social media, several hundred people gathered near the Belgian capital's central railway station earlier.
A protest march was eventually authorized by authorities, but water cannon was used to disperse groups who threw fireworks and flammable liquids, police said. Garbage bins and e-scooters were set on fire, and a Socialist Party office was vandalized during the disturbances.
Here is something that home schoolers and those just interested in a bit of nostalgia might enjoy. One of my sons stumbled across a site that has e-books of the original Hardy Boys books that have gone into the public domain in Canada (plus lots of other books). These are the original versions which started to be published in the 1920s and through the '30s, '40s, and into the 1950s before the publisher went back and edited and changed the stories, coming out with the blue spine copies that most of us are probably familiar with. I've read quite a few of these original stories: some are very similar to the blue spine versions; but others are very different stories. For instance, the original of The Disappearing Floor is a wholly different story, as is The Secret Of The Caves and The Missing Chums. Others have similar elements, but have been greatly changed such as Hunting For Hidden Gold and The Mystery of Cabin Island.
I believe the rewriting of the books in the 1950s wasn't just to update some of the technology and settings, but to also make the books align better with the prevailing attitudes of what books for children should be like, similar to the changes we saw as a result of the adoption of the Comic Codes Authority. While the Hardy Boys in the original books sometimes carried revolvers (and even used them on occasion, although never to kill a person) the updated versions have removed any such references. The original Hardy Boys were also a bit more rambunctious, had little respect for the Bayport police force, and were not above practical jokes and funny jibes.
Not my usual fare, but interesting nonetheless. The forum is called Dread and it is apparently the dark web's version of Reddit. Anyway,...
