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.

Was Philly “House of Horrors” Killer Protected by the Mayor and Police?

Over the past several months, the world has been learning about a potential serial killer and snuff producer named Raymond “R.C.” Horsch. He died in 2025, but police are now investigating seven missing women connected to his former Philadelphia home following the arrest of his son, Eugene, on June 19 of this year. Eugene was parked illegally in a BMW in front of the Liberty Bell early that morning when police approached him. He was arguing with a woman who said her life was in danger, so police searched the car, finding $8,000 worth of crack and numerous weapons, including a cattle prod, a switchblade, and two guns, one of which had its serial number removed. Even more suspicious were the fake FBI and DEA credentials he attempted to pass off to police.

This arrest led to a search of the home that Eugene inherited from his father, Raymond, where police found what they described as a “house of horrors.” Inside, police discovered a makeshift laboratory with corrosive chemicals that could have been used to chemically cremate bodies. There were also 55-gallon drums connected to the sewer system, further supporting this theory. The search also revealed a cache of photographs, videos, and written material in which Horsch depicted lifelike scenes of death and murder. The evidence was so realistic that police are still unsure which footage is fictional and which, if any, is real.

The search has continued for months, with unidentified cremated remains and human DNA discovered in the house.

In the months since Eugene’s arrest, multiple women have come forward to describe their encounters with him and his father, painting a picture of a well-planned operation that stretched back over fifteen years. Raymond targeted homeless women who were experiencing drug addiction, taking advantage of their vulnerable condition and paying them in drugs to act out ultra-violent, pornographic scenes for films and images that Raymond produced and sold. He did not hide this part about his life; he advertised it openly, appearing on podcasts to speak about his work and writing books that blurred the lines between fact and fiction. In his book Empathy, he wrote an “autobiography” from the perspective of what he called an “empathetic serial killer,” who took the lives of women who were addicted to drugs as a way of putting them out of their misery. Initially, this was seen as a twisted work of fiction, but it’s now starting to look like more of a confession.

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Buttigieg on Concerns $15 Minimum Wage Would Hurt Small Businesses: ‘I’m Not Interested in Who It Hurts’

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he was “not interested in who it hurts” when Patrick Bet-David warned that a $15 minimum wage could put small businesses at a disadvantage against major corporations.

The exchange came during Buttigieg’s appearance on the “PBD Podcast” released Friday, where the two discussed taxes, economic policy, and the Democrat Party’s future.

Bet-David challenged Buttigieg over the cost of a higher wage requirement, saying companies such as Amazon, Walmart, and Target could afford increases that a locally owned shop might struggle to cover.

“Who do you think is impacted if you raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour? Amazon, Walmart, Target, they can raise it,” Bet-David said.

He offered a hypothetical business in Hope, Arkansas, to explain his concern.

“The guy that can’t afford it is that small shop in Hope, Arkansas. Amazon’s across the street, Walmart’s across the street, and Joey’s Place that’s been there for six years is out of business,” he continued. “Raising the minimum wage hurts that guy. It doesn’t hurt the Fortune 500 companies at all.”

Buttigieg responded:

I’m not interested in who it hurts. I’m interested in who it helps. We have enough experience now, both as a country and states doing it on their own, that we know you can do it gradually enough that it doesn’t kill the small business owners.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was more explicit when asked about small businesses unable to afford a $15 minimum wage in February 2021.

“We don’t want low-wage businesses,” he told CNN. “I don’t want small businesses that are underpaying employees.”

Democrats have since sought a higher federal rate. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation in April 2025 to raise the minimum wage to $17 by 2030.

“Raising the minimum wage is good for workers, good for business, and good for the economy,” Scott said.
Republican Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill in March 2025 that would have raised Virginia’s minimum wage to $15 by January 2027. The then-governor argued that a uniform statewide requirement overlooked differences in local economies and living costs, calling the proposal “detrimental” to small businesses.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) also warned during an April 2025 Senate debate that a proposed $17 federal minimum would threaten jobs at employers with little room to absorb higher payroll costs. He said, “Increasing the wage by more than 230 percent even over 5 years will destroy jobs, impacting rural areas and low-margin small businesses that cannot afford such an increase. A law mandating a higher minimum wage doesn’t mean much to a worker who loses his or her job because of this.”

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Flavio Bolsonaro Reveals Why He Fled To Miami; Then Makes One Big Admission…

Flavio Bolsonaro, the Brazilian senator who fled to Miami two days after losing the presidential runoff to Lula, sat down with Glenn Greenwald on Thursday for his first on-camera interview since leaving the country – and spent much of it arguing the election was taken from him.

“I didn’t lose the election to my opponent,” Bolsonaro told Greenwald, saying the vote had been “taken over” by the system.

But when Greenwald pressed him on evidence, Bolsonaro conceded, “I have no proof of fraud.”

“That’s why I’m not going to challenge this in the Brazilian courts, because I don’t have proof and I never will,” he added, arguing that investigating the matter is forbidden in Brazil.

The nearly hour-long interview, released Friday on Greenwald’s Substack and YouTube channel, covered Bolsonaro’s escape, the probes that led Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to order him to surrender his passports, money from disgraced Banco Master banker Daniel Vorcaro, and whether he still considers himself Brazil’s rightful president. Bolsonaro is under investigation for alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion in two cases, including allegations that a sports betting company was used to launder fraudulent deductions from government pensions. He denies wrongdoing.

“Actually, I didn’t leave Brazil, I left for Brazil,” Bolsonaro said of his departure, adding that he sees no conditions for a return while things in Brazil remain as they are.

His case that the vote was rigged rests largely on arithmetic. Lula, who was reelected by roughly 4.4 million votes, added 10.3 million votes between the first round and the Oct. 25 runoff, Bolsonaro said – more than the roughly 9 million votes cast for every other first-round candidate combined. “There’s no mathematical or statistical explanation, nothing, for Lula having gotten all those extra votes,” he said. “It’s impossible, unless the result was manipulated.”

He also pointed to a ruling by Justice Cristiano Zanin – Lula’s former lawyer – extending voting in Bahia by two hours, which he said was issued at 5:01 p.m., after polls had closed. When Greenwald noted that Bolsonaro’s own campaign had asked for extensions too, Bolsonaro said it only did so because the Workers’ Party had, that a little over 34,000 people voted in that window, and that the two-hour delay in releasing results was so “something could happen.”

Greenwald pushed back: if the left had the power to manipulate the result, why didn’t it do so in the first round, when Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party swept? Bolsonaro, who earlier boasted that his allies won 19 of 27 governorships and will hold 286 of the 513 seats in the lower house, didn’t take up the question, asking instead what could explain Lula’s surge in 21 days.

He also floated the idea that criminal factions such as Comando Vermelho and the PCC, which he said dominate areas home to more than 50 million Brazilians, may have forced residents at gunpoint to vote for Lula. Asked whether that actually happened or was just a possibility, he said: “I want an investigation.”

As we reported, a version of his post-election letter declaring him Brazil’s “true president-elect” circulated last week before being pulled. Bolsonaro told Greenwald that wording came from a first draft he had already vetoed, that it “ended up becoming public” without his doing, and that only the final version – calling him Brazil’s “leader” – went out on his account. Asked whether he still considers himself president-elect, he said “neither I nor Lula can say with 100% certainty that anyone was elected president of Brazil.”

Bolsonaro refused to say who planned or paid for the private flight out. “I’m not going to give details about anything,” he said, claiming anyone around him would be persecuted. He said he left Brazil with his driver’s license and entered the US with his passport, legally, and denied speaking with the US, Argentine or Israeli governments before the trip. He also declined to say whether, as has been reported, an Israeli national tied to the Mossad was in the car with him, while insisting it had nothing to do with the Israeli government. Since arriving, he said, he hasn’t spoken with anyone in the US government and now plans to start regularizing his immigration status – consistent with Marco Rubio’s claim last weekend that the US had no direct role in his departure. (translated)

He described the moment Federal Police notified him he could no longer leave the country – at the gate of the house where his father, Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest for attempting a coup after his 2022 election loss. His father, eyes welling up, told him he knew where they were going with this, Bolsonaro recalled. “Dad, I know, and don’t worry – I know what I have to do,” he said he replied.

Asked why he didn’t stay and fight the cases, as Lula did before his 2018 imprisonment and as his father did when he returned from Florida in 2023, Bolsonaro called his father’s return a mistake. “I learn from President Bolsonaro’s mistakes and successes, and I’m not going to make the same mistake,” he said. “I’m innocent. It’s the judge who would judge me who isn’t innocent.” (translated)

On Vorcaro, Bolsonaro said the money for “Dark Horse,” the film about his father, went to the production company as a private investment in exchange for a share of the profits, and claimed police had since acknowledged there was no public money in the film and no favor from him as a senator. Greenwald noted that Bolsonaro had initially denied seeking money from Vorcaro; Bolsonaro said the deal was covered by a confidentiality agreement.

He said he would vote to impeach Moraes, citing the R$129 million he said Moraes’ wife received from Banco Master for supposed legal work. “Everyone knows she didn’t practice law,” he said. “The one who practiced law was Alexandre de Moraes himself.” (translated) Asked about Justice Kassio Nunes Marques, a Jair Bolsonaro appointee whose son Greenwald said received millions from Banco Master, he declined to give an opinion, saying only that any justice who broke the law should be impeached.

Bolsonaro said he will keep serving out his Senate term, which ends Jan. 31, 2027, voting remotely as he did this week on Lula’s public-security constitutional amendment, and that he is living on savings for now, with income as a lawyer and from a business that makes graphene helmets. He said he would run for president again in 2030 if his party agrees – and that if his father regains his eligibility, “he’s my candidate.”

Brazil’s judiciary, he said, needs its credibility restored after Moraes threw it “in the trash.” “Today, Brazilian citizens look at the Supreme Federal Court and feel disgust.”

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Brazil arrests woman over disputed remarks about trans colleague, citing racism law

Military Police in Indaial, Santa Catarina, Brazil, arrested a 48-year-old woman at her workplace on Monday, November 2, on suspicion of transphobia, after a 28-year-old supervisor who identifies as a woman complained about remarks concerning use of the women’s bathroom.

Officers gave her “voz de prisão” (a verbal order of arrest) around 7 a.m. in the Benedito neighbourhood and took her to the Civil Police in Blumenau. What she said is in dispute.

The two sides disagree on what was said. According to the supervisor, the woman called the colleague “um homem vestido de mulher” (our translation: “a man dressed as a woman”). According to the woman, she “só disse que a líder era uma pessoa transgênero” (our translation: “only said the leader was a transgender person”).

The headline of local station RC FM quotes the words “Você não deveria estar aqui” (our translation: “You should not be here”). The page does not say who actually spoke them.

The case was registered “em tese” (provisionally) as transphobia under Brazil’s racism law. The Supreme Federal Court extended that law to homophobia and transphobia in 2019, by 8 votes to 3.

Article 20 of the law sets a penalty of “reclusão de um a três anos e multa” (our translation: one to three years’ imprisonment and a fine) for practising, inducing or inciting discrimination or prejudice.

One outlet, Portal RBV, gives a range of one to five years. The law’s text says one to three.

An arrest is not a conviction.

Reduxx, an English-language outlet, also reported the case. Witnesses reportedly declined to give statements, and no camera footage was reported.

No officer or police chief is named in any report, and the person who decided to record the case as transphobia has not been identified.

It is also not known whether she has been released, or whether a formal arrest in the act (flagrante) was recorded. One outlet says she was arrested “em flagrante,” and others do not use the term.

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The Globalists Just Came Out Of Hiding For A Secretive Summit In China

Over the past several months I’ve been covering some of strange changes in behavior of globalist institutions. Specifically, just before the 2024 elections in the US, the elites seemed to go “radio silent” when compared to their bravado in the pandemic era. For a brief moment in time the mask came off completely, and then they tried to put it back on.

Sadly, most people tend to have short memories, but through the majority of Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency the Davos crowd was absolutely frenetic with activity. The World Economic Forum and all orbiting think tanks were crowing about covid and how “this was the moment” that they were going to dramatically deconstruct capitalism and western norms.

Klaus Schwab, head of the WEF at the time, called for a “Great Reset” and a 4th Industrial Revolution based on the notion that “you will own nothing, and be happy about it…” The pandemic was their “Red October” moment.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild openly announced the creation of the “Council for Inclusive Capitalism” in conjunction with the Pope and the Vatican; an organization devoted to woke socialist control of every facet of the corporate and economic world.

The establishment media was operating full force in support of the globalist regime, spreading non-stop propaganda in favor of perpetual lockdowns, perpetual vaccines, vax passports, a new society revolving entirely around medical tyranny and constant fear over a virus with a tiny median Infection Fatality rate of 0.23%. In other words, billions of people were supposed to give up their freedoms and bow to the technocrats to save the world from a virus that 99.8% of the population would easily survive.

I still don’t think many people realize how close we came to going off the edge of the cliff. We were a breath away from total Orwellian tyranny or outright civil war.

Then, suddenly, the noise was gone. It was like someone flipped a switch, or sent out a company memo. The fear mongering stopped almost overnight. The media gave up on multiple false narratives and moved on to other news stories. Some even admitted that the virus was not as big a threat as they had originally reported.

According to US state data (not CDC data) around 25% of the population was still unvaccinated. Around 50% of Americans refused to get a booster shot. Half of all American states (red states) blocked the mandates. Maybe this was the trigger that forced the globalists to retreat from their agenda. Maybe they calculated 25% of an armed population fighting back and they didn’t like their odds. It’s hard to say.

What I do know is, the WEF disappeared into the hedges. The think tanks you never heard of until the pandemic? They returned to obscurity. The Council For Inclusive Capitalism? They essentially dissolved. The New World Order had been beaten back…for a little while.

Of course, it was only a matter of time before they popped up again. Sure, there have been Davos meetings and the WEF still exists, but most elitist meetings have been limited to smaller climate change conferences. Nothing substantial in which global planning is discussed, until recently…

It is perhaps not coincidental that the globalists just held a discreet summit at the end of October, right before the US midterms, and in China of all places.

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No, MAGA Didn’t Cut Israel Aid, They Hid It — And the Left Has the Same Plan

On the morning of Election Day, with polls open and the war in Iran dragging his party toward a historic beating, Donald Trump phoned into Fox & Friends with a surprise. The United States, he said, would stop sending roughly $4 billion a year in military aid to Israel at the end of 2026, under a deal he claimed he and Benjamin Netanyahu had struck months ago. For a base that spent the past year watching its “America First” president drag the country into another Middle East war, it sounded like a long-overdue win.

It wasn’t, and the man who did more than anyone in Congress to force this issue into the open said so within hours. Rep. Thomas Massie called it “pennies on the dollar” and “a desperate Election Day lie,” warning that the same taxpayer money would simply flow through as military coordination instead of as a separate line item in the appropriations bills. He’s right, the paper trail proves it, and it fosters less transparency, not more.

Start with the motive, because Trump practically confessed it on air. He complained that Israel aid had become “a bad talking point” and asked why Republicans should “suffer the slings from lunatics” over money Israel doesn’t “need.” That is a campaign problem being managed, not a foreign policy being changed, and Bloomberg reported he pitched it explicitly as a way to blunt election-year attacks.

It also came with no plan. Trump never explained how the money would actually stop, even though the memorandum guaranteeing Israel $3.8 billion a year runs until September 2028 and Congress wrote those levels into the 2021 defense bill. A president doesn’t undo a statute on a morning show, and the deal he says was made months ago reportedly blindsided Israeli security and financial officials, who noted next year’s budget was already drafted around the existing agreement.

Meanwhile, Israel has been angling for more, not less. Axios reported a year ago that Israel was seeking an unprecedented 20-year security agreement likely worth at least $4 billion a year, repackaged with “America First” provisions to win over Trump’s base. Nobody negotiating a two-decade package is preparing to walk away from the money, which raises the obvious question of where it’s going instead.

The answer is the Pentagon. The Congressional Research Service, hardly a hotbed of antiwar agitation, laid out the mechanism months ago: replace grant aid with joint programs funded from defense accounts, and shift congressional oversight away from the foreign affairs committees toward the defense ones. The Quincy Institute was blunter, calling it not a reduction in support but a reorganization that moves billions out of State Department grants and into general Pentagon procurement.

That reorganization is already moving through Congress. The House-passed defense bill authorizes $750 million for U.S.-Israel cooperative programs and extends the weapons stockpile authority for Israel, and the source for that is AIPAC’s own press release celebrating it. The same bill creates a new U.S.-Israel defense technology initiative that critics warn would be harder for future Congresses to unwind and would shift the relationship away from highly visible aid votes. Lawmakers and military experts told The Intercept it was highly irregular, a near-copy of an AIPAC-backed bill that had already died.

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Trump’s ‘Doomsday Plane’ Left Nebraska And Flew East Across America – Nobody Is Saying Why

The Air Force’s E-4B “Nightwatch,” the airborne command post built to run a nuclear war, took off from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on Thursday and flew east across the Midwest on a mission nobody has explained.

Flight-tracking data reviewed by the Daily Mail shows the jet crossing Illinois and Indiana into Ohio, where it was tracked at about 2:41 p.m. Eastern at 31,000 feet and a ground speed of 573 knots, roughly 660 mph. It then turned south over northern Virginia, west of Washington. The tracking images listed no destination, and the route alone does not show where it was headed or why. The purpose of the flight and the identities of anyone aboard have not been publicly confirmed, the Mail reported.

The E-4B is the National Airborne Operations Center: a modified Boeing 747-200 meant to let the president and senior military leaders direct U.S. forces, nuclear forces included, if ground command centers are destroyed. The Air Force flies four, all based at Offutt, and the Mail noted that one is kept ready around the clock when the president is in the country.

That keeps the innocent explanation in play. The same jets fly routine training and readiness missions, and a flight out of their home base is not in itself a sign of an emergency.

The airframes are a 1970s design, and the Air Force is paying for their replacement. In April 2024 it gave Sierra Nevada Corp. a contract worth about $13.08 billion to build the Survivable Airborne Operations Center, with work expected to run until July 10, 2036, according to The Aviationist. The aircraft type has not been announced.

The sighting comes as the Pentagon is working on continuity plans of its own. As we reported, it is planning for its major bases to survive 90 days without the power grid.

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Flávio Bolsonaro Rejects Election Results, Questions Whether Brazil Will Have Elections Again in Greenwald Interview

Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, the frontrunner in this year’s presidential election in Brazil, asserted on Friday that the results showing that incumbent socialist President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva defeated him were “impossible.” Bolsonaro questioned whether Lula would even allow a presidential election in 2030 in his first major interview with Brazilian media since escaping to Florida last week.

Bolsonaro sat down for nearly an hour with American journalist Glenn Greenwald with the Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo for a conversation published in full on Friday evening but recorded the day before.

Bolsonaro had stated in a social media message this week that he would soon offer public statements and extended interviews to offer his opinion on the election and the subsequent political crisis that it unleashed, which resulted in his departure to America. He also claimed that he had declined interview requests from outlets that did not agree to publish interviews in full, without edits, as Greenwald did on Friday.

Bolsonaro, son of imprisoned conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, won the first round of voting in the Brazilian presidential election in early October, but lost the second round as a result of a significant boost in the left-wing vote.

While his political party accepted the results of the election, the integrity was compromised by a bizarre and unprecedented legal situation in which a justice on Brazil’s top court, Cristiano Zanin of the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), issued an edict allowing polling stations to be open for an extra two hours, granting a Lula campaign request. The STF does not have the power to issue such an order — much less any individual justice — and Zanin published the decree at 5:01 p.m., as Bolsonaro noted in his interview on Friday, meaning most polling stations were already closed.

On the night of the election, Bolsonaro declared it “impossible” to accept the election results and said he would challenge them. Minutes after the results were certified, another STF justice, Alexandre de Moraes, demanded that Bolsonaro hand over his passports to ban him from leaving the country. By early November, Bolsonaro was in Miami, Florida, where he met Greenwald for his interview.

Bolsonaro told Greenwald that he would not go so far as to declare himself the president-elect of Brazil, but that, given the irregularities, Lula could not do so, either.

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Paraguay Ousts Its President As His Daughter’s “Tax The Poor” Shirt Goes Viral

Paraguay’s Senate voted unanimously on Friday to remove President Santiago Peña over the collapse of Ueno Bank, a day after a photo of his 20-year-old daughter in a “Tax the Poor” T-shirt spread across X.

All 44 senators present convicted Peña of misconduct in office, the AP reported. The verdict bars him from the lifetime Senate seat Paraguay’s constitution gives former presidents, along with the immunity that comes with it. He had offered to resign Thursday, and opposition senators argued that accepting the resignation would have kept him eligible for the seat. Congress never voted on it.

Regulators seized Ueno, a digital lender with nearly 3 million customers, before dawn Tuesday and froze their savings, as we reported. Lawmakers accused Peña of using his influence to steer hundreds of millions of dollars in public money into the bank while regulators overlooked risky lending to insiders. He denies wrongdoing.

The Photo

The photo is a mirror selfie of Costanza Peña in a white T-shirt printed with “T.T.P” and “Est. 1969” above the slogan, IBTimes UK reported. SDP Noticias reported that she posted it to her private Instagram account; neither outlet said when. It began circulating on X on Thursday, the day her father offered to resign. She has not responded publicly.

An Internship At A Vázquez Company

Costanza Peña studies financial economics and history at Columbia University, according to SDP Noticias. She interned from February to June 2024 at Itti Saeca, a state supplier whose main shareholder is Grupo Vázquez, the group that owns Ueno, ABC Color reported in January. Her father was still a business partner of Grupo Vázquez and Itti in Ueno Holding at the time, the paper said. SDP Noticias reported that the LinkedIn profile listing the internship has since been deleted.

The same ABC Color report ran her photos from a yacht in Cabo San Lucas at the end of 2025 alongside Peña’s advice that people choose public education to save money. Prosecutors searched Itti’s offices on Thursday as part of the Ueno investigation, ABC Color reported. She has not been accused of wrongdoing.

The impeachment case cited Peña’s stake in Ueno’s holding company, which he sold last year, and his appointment of a former Ueno executive to run the central bank, along with public pension deposits at the bank above legal limits, according to the AP. Ueno has said Peña was never a shareholder in the bank itself.

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Four States Have Voted to Kick Men Out of Women’s Sports — Including Deep-Blue Washington and Colorado

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures restricting transgender athletes from competing on girls’ teams.

The measures passed in Washington, Colorado, Arizona, and Nebraska.

The results in deep blue Washington and Colorado are particularly notable following an election in which Democrats made major gains nationally.

In Washington, voters approved Initiative 638 with more than 56 percent of the vote.

The measure requires participation on girls’ school sports teams to be based on biological sex and requires healthcare-provider verification for students seeking to compete on female teams.

Colorado voters also approved Proposition 134, with roughly 52 percent supporting the measure.

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