Author: HP McLovincraft

Seeker of rabbit holes. Pessimist. Libertine. Contrarian. Your huckleberry. Possibly true tales of sanity-blasting horror also known as abject reality. Prepare yourself. Veteran of a thousand psychic wars. I have seen the fnords. Deplatformed on Tumblr and Twitter.

Kraków Gunman Appears to Have Been an LGBT Leftist, According to His Social Media

Poland’s left-leaning Tusk government and international media labeled Kraków gunman Michał Oksiński far-right, but prosecutors found no evidence of a right-wing affiliation, while images circulating on X from deleted Facebook accounts attributed to him appear to show him posing with an LGBT Pride flag and mocking the pope.

On Nov. 7, Michał Oksiński, 24, drove a Subaru onto Kraków’s Main Market Square and opened fire at random, killing six people and wounding 15. Police officers Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański chased him from the square, and both were shot in the exchange of fire. Kulik, hit three times, approached the gunman, fired, and stopped him, then applied a tourniquet to his own arm. The dead included an Austrian woman and a British man. It was Poland’s deadliest shooting since the fall of communism in 1989.

Before driving to Kraków, Oksiński shot his father Janusz, 53, his mother Renata, 52, and his sister Magdalena, 21, a painting student at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, in the family flat in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, according to investigators. Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said Oksiński faced a separate murder charge over those killings, bringing the total number killed to nine. Investigators found two AR-15 rifles, two pistols and several hundred rounds of ammunition in his car and on his person. In all, they seized 11 firearms. Oksiński died in hospital on Nov. 9 after three operations.

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“Angry Voters”: What Are We Angry About?

Maybe voters are frustrated that no matter who they elect, nothing in the economic machinery of soaring inequality, debt and servitude changes.

Here’s the mainstream summary of the midterm election results: Angry Voters Usher in Beginning of the End to the Trump Era.

And what are voters angry about?

It’s a fairly lengthy shopping list:

“Many voters told pollsters and interviewers that they felt hoodwinked by Mr. Trump, believing that he was going to bring down prices and not start new wars. They expected him to close the border, but bristled at what they saw as heavy-handed arrests of people living in the country for years. They rebelled against the tariffs that increased costs for consumers.”

OK, fair enough. Those are all legitimate issues. But I submit voters are also angry about a reality larger than any of those issues: no matter which party they vote for, nothing changes. Scrape off the culture wars hot-button topics designed to inflame the loyalists and generate conveniently distracting rage and indignation, and we find that nothing actually changes in what matters to the hard-working bottom 90% who are being stripmined by the accelerating decline in the purchasing power of their earnings.

Look carefully at these three charts and point out the reversal of the primary trends delivered by either political party. You can’t, because the policies and Imperial Project continue on the same trajectory regardless of which party or administration is in power.

Here is a chart of TCMDO, total debt. We can call it “living on money borrowed from the future.” Note that way back in 1980, before the “borrow our way to prosperity” fantasy became the unofficial policy of the status quo, the ratio of GDP to total debt was 1.67: $3 trillion in GDP, $5 trillion in total debt.

Now the ratio is 3.7: $30.7 in GDP and $115 trillion in debt. So how is “borrowing our way to prosperity” working? This is a parody of a functional, sustainable economy. Both parties have relied on soaring debt to win the popularity contest of who promises more “free money” to the elites who fund their campaigns and the electorate.

Never mind it’s not actually “free”: we’ve perfected kicking the can down the road.

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Hamilton resident wins legal battle with city over security cameras

For the past two years, Rebel News has chronicled the plight of Dan Myles. The Hamilton resident’s house has no fewer than 10 video cameras recording the comings and goings of people in the neighbourhood. Alas, some of those people are nefarious characters indeed.

Of note, the Hamilton Police Service has no problem with Dan’s videography. In fact, the cops are thankful. The police have solved crimes over the years thanks to Dan’s video evidence – including homicide cases.

But for some reason, the City of Hamilton doesn’t like those cameras. Which is bizarre, because should you choose to visit Hamilton City Hall, several industrial-grade 360-degree surveillance cameras abound. But never mind…

And so it was that some two years ago Hamilton Bylaw ordered Dan to take down his cameras. Dan refused.

Yet, why is the city so concerned, especially when it is enduring its worst crime wave in history?

Apparently, it’s all about “privacy.” The cameras record the sidewalks and the streets as well as the front yardage of some properties. But with the exception of one neighbour (the person who complained to bylaw), homeowners in the neighbourhood have no problem with the video surveillance.

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Texas County Accused of Election Fraud Now Failing to Enforce Federal Voter Law

A Texas county at the center of a 2020 election controversy and previously run by a serially accused potential fraudster overseeing machines for 90 Texas counties is lacking the necessary legal compliance.

There is, of course, a great deal of debate surrounding how one of the most solid Republican bastions suddenly switched blue in one election cycle. Some people pointed out the 20 million votes that materialized for Democrats across the country as fraud, and others argued that Democrats changed or exploited voting rules to register many U.S.-hating migrants.

Whatever the explanation, it certainly does not help that Texas, while requiring ID to register for voting, does not verify all registrants’ citizenship, relying on their honesty to affirm they are citizens. And there were nearly 3 million new voter registrations in Texas just between 2022 and 2024.

Another piece of the puzzle is Heider Garcia, a Venezuelan Hart InterCivic vice president who helps oversee the election machines for 90 Texas counties, as mentioned above. He previously also worked for Smartmatic when officials in the Philippines accused him and his machines of dangerous and egregious fraud. Garcia subsequently served as an election official in California and more than one Texas county, including Tarrant County, which is the one I am looking at in this article.

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Very Close to a Nuclear Strike on Iran: We Can Save Ourselves

The 1984 British movie Threads opens with ordinary scenes in Sheffield, England, where a young couple learns they are expecting a baby. The story of their personal life is intertwined with the news of a growing conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, centered on Iran. We next learn that a nuclear weapon is used in an attack, followed by another. Before long, Sheffield itself is the site of hydrogen bomb detonations, with our protagonists either perishing in the explosions or subsisting under devastating conditions of starvation, civil unrest, radiation-induced and infectious diseases, and freezing temperatures over the coming days, weeks, months, and years. The film ends with the 13-year-old daughter of the young couple from the start of the film giving birth to a deformed clump of flesh months after being raped in a lawless and collapsed society.

Forty-two years after this brilliant movie first gave people in the UK and beyond just a glimpse of the unfathomable consequences of nuclear war, watching the opening scenes is even more grim than it has been in the intervening decades, given just how eerily similar they seem to be to our current moment. With the US and Israel continuing to wage war on Iran, and their respective leaders having been repudiated in public polls and elections, the prospect of nuclear weapon use and a wider nuclear war is seemingly more real than ever before. But unlike in the 1980s, when the general public was well aware of what was at stake, having been frightened by Ronald Reagan’s saber-rattling and educated about the dangers of nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War, including through cultural interventions like popular films, today, when President Trump repeatedly threatens to annihilate Iran, the media and the general public seem to shrug and move on to other news of the day, checking perhaps on what Kim Kardashian had for breakfast.

The seriousness of Trump’s threats cannot be overstated. The two of us have been warning in Al Jazeera and other outlets that, sick and desperate as such threats might be, it behooves the world to take them seriously and make sure a nuclear attack on Iran, or anywhere else for that matter, never happens. Recently, we have been joined by popular media figure Tucker Carlson and other commentators. The internet is abuzz with such warnings.

The logic is simple. Trump and Netanyahu are both desperate to salvage what little credibility they may have with their publics by demonstrating that this war with Iran was not a total failure. If the purpose of the war had been to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon or weapons, then having Iran acquire a nuclear weapon or weapons would be the ultimate repudiation of their efforts and proof of their folly.

Both US and Israeli intelligence agencies report that Iran has shifted the locus of its nuclear enrichment from Fordow and Natanz to the Kuh-e Kolang underground complex widely known as Pickaxe Mountain. The complex is buried under 300 feet of granite, which makes it impenetrable for U.S. or Israeli conventional weapons, including the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB), which Trump has threatened to use. Tucker Carlson shared that he had an “informed source” who told him, “Bibi calls Trump about it [a nuclear strike] every day.” Fortunately, Trump has not yet given the go-ahead.

The background to all this is that Iran has made clear that it will neither export its enriched uranium nor cease its enrichment activities, both of which it had done before Trump stupidly blew up Obama’s Iran nuclear deal or JCPOA. With the deal in place, Iran had also mothballed most of its centrifuges and, according to the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, was only enriching to 3.67 percent – well below weapons grade. Ayatollah Khamenei had issued a fatwa against building an Iranian nuclear weapon, which remained in effect until he and other Iranian leaders were killed in a joint U.S./Israeli strike back in February. Now numerous Iranian leaders have publicly insisted that Iran needs a nuclear weapon as a deterrent against another U.S. and/or Israeli attack. There is evidence that some leaders of the IRGC have also adopted this view despite the fact that official Iranian government policy continues to reject such actions.

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Russia Slashes Military Recruitment Bonuses

Russia is beginning to show signs of financial strain from its prolonged war in Ukraine. St. Petersburg has slashed its military recruitment bonus from 3.5 million rubles ($43,000) to just 400,000 rubles ($4,900), a reduction of nearly 89%. The city had already lowered the payment to 1 million rubles in October before announcing another reduction in November. New recruits can still receive an additional 400,000 rubles from the federal government, bringing the combined guaranteed signing bonus to approximately $9,800.

The cuts are spreading beyond St. Petersburg. Mari El reduced its regional recruitment bonus from approximately $28,300 to $4,900, while Mordovia lowered payments from $36,900 to $9,800. Irkutsk and Novosibirsk have also reduced incentives. These bonuses became an important part of Russia’s recruitment strategy because Moscow has attempted to maintain its military manpower through paid contracts rather than another politically disruptive mass mobilization. The government offered enormous financial incentives, particularly in poorer regions where a military contract could provide several years of ordinary wages. Now some of those payments are disappearing, even as the war continues consuming manpower.

The Conflict Intelligence Team suggested that St. Petersburg may have already fulfilled its annual recruitment target, allowing authorities to reduce payments toward the end of the year. Regional governments have incentives to recruit soldiers at the lowest possible cost, and bonuses could increase again when new recruitment targets are established in 2027. A government reducing payments because it has sufficient recruits faces a very different situation from one reducing payments because it can no longer afford them.

Nevertheless, the financial pressure on Russia’s regional governments is becoming increasingly apparent. St. Petersburg is attempting to contain a budget deficit estimated at approximately $1.34 billion. Officials have reportedly cut planned spending on social programs and urban improvements by $860 million and are considering eliminating about 15% of government and public-sector positions. Other regions are confronting similar problems. Russian regional governments had accumulated combined budget deficits exceeding $1.65 billion by September. Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service has also reported that 65 Russian regions are preparing spending reductions between 2027 and 2029, although those projections should be treated as assessments from a party to the conflict rather than established outcomes.

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Nvidia Boss Jensen Huang Admits Affair with Suspected Chinese Spy, Board Launches Investigation

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted in a message to company employees that he had an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence believes is a Chinese spy, prompting the company’s board to open an independent investigation on Sunday.

Axios reports that Huang’s admission came in a draft email to Nvidia staff obtained by the outlet. “I owe my family and all of you an apology,” he wrote. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did.”

The woman has been identified as Alice Huang a tech executive turned alleged Chinese spy who was recruited to gather information from Jensen Huang and potentially press him to support making Nvidia’s advanced chips available in China, despite existing export restrictions.

Breitbart News previously reported that Nvidia denied an improper relationship between its CEO and the Chinese woman:

Authorities were already investigating whether Alice Huang was helping China obtain restricted advanced Nvidia AI chips before surveillance revealed she had developed a close relationship with Jensen Huang, according to a report by the New York Times. The discovery raised alarms due to Huang’s central role in the global AI race as the CEO of Nvidia, which produces the most powerful AI chips in the world.

Nvidia, meanwhile, said Megaspeed is an ordinary regional customer and that Jensen Huang’s meetings with Alice Huang are routine CEO interactions with customers.

“Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected. Meetings with customers are part of a C.E.O.’s job; Jensen talks with thousands of customer executives every year,” Nvidia spokesman John Rizzo told the Times.

Rizzo added that Nvidia is “confident that if the U.S. government believes that any person is a threat to American industry, it would let us know,” and that customers like Megaspeed “receive ordinary business information — not sensitive Nvidia trade secrets — and zero information relevant to national security.”

The timing is awkward: Huang has been a vocal advocate for loosening restrictions on selling advanced AI chips to China, a position he held even as the relationship was unfolding.

Nvidia’s board announced Sunday that an independent committee, assisted by outside counsel, would investigate the matter. The board said it has no reason to believe that national security or company secrets were compromised, and it backed Huang to keep running the company.

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Oklahoma Sheriff Got a Judge to Title a Stolen ATV to His Office the Same Day, Then Cited Repair Costs for Keeping It

Stacey McCurry of Stillwater, Oklahoma, is suing the Grady County Sheriff’s Office for an ATV that was stolen in Payne County in 2020. The office’s reason for not handing it back, as KGOU reported it, is that a judge has already titled the machine to the county and the county paid to fix it.

The ATV surfaced in Grady County in 2021, according to KGOU. On June 9, 2025, Sheriff Gary Boggess filed a handwritten petition saying it was unclaimed and on a list to be destroyed, and a judge granted the sheriff’s office title the same day, KGOU reported. McCurry learned where the ATV was this year, when it was flagged in the National Crime Information Center, the FBI-run database police agencies use to check for stolen vehicles and other property, and the Payne County sheriff’s office called. Grady County turned down the request to return it. Undersheriff Kori Brewer said the title had already been transferred and the office had spent tax money repairing the ATV, KGOU reported.

McCurry filed McCurry v. Grady County Sheriff, No. CJ-2026-00297, in Grady County District Court in Chickasha on Aug. 28. The docket lists a petition for replevin, conversion and a request for an order to stay, and classes it as civil relief of more than $10,000. Replevin is the suit an owner files to get a specific piece of property back. Conversion is the claim that someone treated that property as their own.

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France Blames Iran For Cyberattack That Paralyzed Supermarket Freezers, Vows Retaliation For “Sabotage”

France accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of masterminding last month’s cyberattack, which disrupted 700 of the country’s 10,000 supermarkets and struck deep inside the country’s food supply chain.

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said earlier today in Paris that the IRGC’s operation marked the first large-scale cyberattack aimed at sabotage on French territory. Speaking on the sidelines of the G7 ministerial meeting, he said France had summoned Iran’s ambassador on the matter and was seeking sanctions against the group responsible.

“This is the first large-scale cyberattack with an aim of sabotage on the national territory,” Barrot said. “It hurts the nation’s interests and the security of French citizens. We will take sanctions at the European level against all who are responsible” and “we will take any other proportionate and necessary measure to respond to this attack and dissuade those who would like to reproduce it.”

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Massie files 8 articles of impeachment against Hegseth

Representative Thomas Massie has introduced eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, calling for a House vote on the measure this week.

On Monday, Massie (R-Ky.) accused Hegseth of high crimes and misdemeanors stemming from unauthorized military actions in Iran, Yemen and Venezuela.

The 34-page impeachment resolution maintained that Hegseth “directed and caused” U.S. armed forces “to be introduced into hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran” without congressional authorization, a declaration of war, or a qualifying national emergency.

“Secretary Hegseth knowingly executed and implemented unlawful orders to initiate war against a foreign nation notwithstanding the absence of congressional authorization, an attack upon the United States giving rise to the national emergency contemplated by law, or an imminent threat requiring immediate defensive action,” the resolution states.

“Wherefore, Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to civilians, the lawful conduct of United States military operations, the integrity and credibility of the United States Armed Forces, and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law. Peter Brian Hegseth thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.”

Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell defended the war secretary in a statement on Monday, expressing confidence that Hegseth “will not back down.”

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