Author: HP McLovincraft

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Biden-Released Armed Venezuelan Illegal Alien Busted near White House with Multiple Firearms

United States Secret Service (USSS) officers thwarted a potential tragedy near the White House on Thursday evening, arresting an illegal alien from Venezuela who was heavily armed and openly declared his intent to assassinate President Donald Trump. The man, who was captured and released by the Biden administration along the Texas border in 2024, was allegedly in possession of multiple firearms and ammunition.

Secret Service officers working on Constitution Avenue in Washington observed a suspicious man near the White House, according to a statement the U.S. Department of Homeland Security provided to Breitbart News. DHS officials identified the man as Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos, a 22-year-old Venezuelan national who illegally entered the U.S. during the Biden Border Crisis in March 2024.

Officials said Chrinos was behaving suspiciously in a vehicle parked near the White House. When officers approached and confronted Chrinos, he made a chilling confession: he claimed he was hearing voices in his head instructing him to travel to the nation’s capital to murder President Trump, officials stated.

Officers searched the Venezuelan illegal alien’s vehicle and found a rolling arsenal of firearms and ammunition, the DHS statement revealed. The officers seized three firearms, including an AR-15-style rifle, a Mac-10, and a Glock 43X pistol, along with dozens of rounds of live ammunition. Authorities quickly confirmed the vehicle itself had been reported stolen.

Officials stated that Chrinos entered the United States by illegally crossing the Mexican border into Texas between ports of entry in March 2024. He was one of nearly 8,000 Venezuelan nationals arrested in the five Texas-based Border Patrol sectors that month, according to the CBP Nationwide Encounters report.

At that time, the catch-and-release policies of the Biden administration led to the release of Chrinos and most of the 8,100 other Venezuelan illegal aliens who crossed the U.S. southern border that month. Many of those were members of the hyperviolent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang that was subsequently designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the Trump administration.

“Thanks to our brave Secret Service officers, this illegal alien with three firearms in his vehicle was arrested near the White House before he could harm anyone,” said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “On top of threatening President Trump, he is an illegal alien from Venezuela who had no business being in our country in the first place.”

Chrinos has been charged with:

  • Carrying a rifle outside a home or business
  • Three counts of unlawful transportation of a firearm
  • Three counts of possessing an unregistered firearm
  • Three counts of possessing unregistered ammunition
  • Possession of certain dangerous weapons
  • Carrying a pistol without a license
  • Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle
  • Theft and receiving stolen property

Secret Service Director Sean Curran highlighted the escalating danger facing protective details in the current political climate.

“This is the latest example of Secret Service personnel relying on extensive training and experience to deescalate a volatile situation that posed an imminent threat to our protectees and other Americans,” Director Curran said. “This incident reflects the heightened threat environment in which we operate, as well as the continued number of armed individuals who are drawn to the White House complex.”

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Trump Ally and Paraguayan President Resigns After Massive Bank Collapse Freezes Savings of Nearly 3 MILLION Customers — Furious Protesters Flood Streets as Lawmakers Move to Impeach Him

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña announced his resignation Thursday, November 5, 2026, as the sudden collapse of digital lender Ueno Bank locked nearly three million customers out of their accounts, including pensions and public funds, and ignited protests outside Congress.

Peña, a conservative Colorado Party figure elected in 2023 and an ally of President Donald Trump, stepped down hours before lawmakers advanced impeachment charges tied to his prior business links to the bank’s ownership group, BBC reported.

In a video message posted to X, Peña stated he was resigning “with the stability of our country, social peace, and the need to preserve our democratic institutions in mind.”

He added: “I want to apologize to the people if at any point I failed. It was never my intention to betray the trust you placed in me.”

He emphasized that “no public office can take precedence over the well-being of Paraguay” and urged protection of depositors, saying behind every account were “years of effort, sacrifices and family plans.”

A formal resignation letter was later delivered to Congress. Minutes after the announcement, Paraguay’s lower house voted to pursue impeachment (reported as 78-0 or unanimous in multiple accounts), while rejecting a parallel motion against Vice President Pedro Alliana, who stands next in line for the presidency.

The Senate process continued, with Peña indicating he would appear to defend himself.

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Cult Leader Gets 200 Years For Starvation Deaths Of 191 People, Nearly All Of Them Children

A Kenyan judge sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison on Friday over the Shakahola massacre, in which 191 people, 190 of them children, were starved to death.

Justice Diana Kavedza of the High Court in Mombasa imposed 100 years for the murders by starvation and a further 100 years for eight counts of murder by direct homicide involving child victims, The Star reported. Sentences within each set run concurrently, but the two sets run one after the other, which brings the total to 200 years.

Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty. The judge declined, saying it would “foreclose the possibility of disengagement and rehabilitation.” According to Kenyans.co.ke, she also noted that a convict who stays alive might disclose where the missing children’s remains are.

The court found Mackenzie, who led Good News International Ministries, bore primary responsibility as the overall leader of the Shakahola settlement. She said he ordered followers to fast to death, targeted children first and commanded violence against those who resisted or tried to escape. Witnesses testified that he told followers they would enter heaven through “punches and kicks.”

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OH GOODY: Rep. Jamie Raskin Already Talking About Creating a National GUN REGISTRY

Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin is apparently going to be the chair of the House Judiciary Committee when Dems take power in January and he is already talking about creating a national gun registry.

There’s only one reason why he and other Democrats would want to do that, and it has nothing to do with protecting your Constitutional rights.

These people are not even in power yet and they are already salivating about all of their pet issues.

From the Baltimore Banner:

As chair, Raskin said his priorities would include legislation requiring background checks on private gun sales, not just purchases from licensed dealers. Republicans have argued that such bills are unnecessarily restrictive on hobbyists and people selling firearms to their friends or from their personal collections.

Raskin also said legislation is needed to increase scrutiny of antitrust settlements, which he accuses the Trump administration of using in a “pay-to-play” system that rewards politically connected corporations.

In the wake of their victories, it’s in Democrats’ best interest to “focus very heavily on getting some visible things done,” said Roger Hartley, a professor at the University of Baltimore College of Public Affairs. “And then very smartly pick the right battles to hold the administration accountable — to show off what damage they did and then repair it.”

Democrats told voters they were all about lowering prices. They lied.

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CBC executive ran encrypted chat with prank-show producers as scandal broke

A CBC executive managed the fallout from the Northland Tales prank-show scandal in an encrypted group chat with the show’s producers. Messages in the chat discussed leaving information off production call sheets after learning CBC had received an access to information request. That’s according to access to information records obtained by Rebel News.

The chat, titled “Nlt,” was created on May 12, the day Lindsay Shepherd and Frances Widdowson went public about being deceived by the CBC-APTN production. It includes Yasmine Abbasakoor, CBC’s executive in charge of development for unscripted programming, and members of the production whose names are redacted. A notice at the top says the chat was end-to-end encrypted.

“Hi All- the media requests keep rolling in. The latest from The Toronto Sun,” Abbasakoor wrote that evening. She asked how the producers planned to respond.

“We have had requests, at the moment we are just sitting on it,” a production member replied. “Do you have any requests for how we respond?”

The production side later promised to send a list of the media requests “over this channel of course,” and sent a “secured link” that night.

Earlier that afternoon, CBC communications staff had settled on their own response. In an email to CBC executives, CBC PR director Katherine Wolfgang said CBC would “respond with the comment that we have already discussed” and was waiting to brief APTN’s communications team.

On May 13, a chat participant wrote that “hearing that the CBC has been atipped” had them thinking about something. The rest of that message is blacked out. The next morning, a message said call sheets “will have all our info,” followed by: “For the next two eps we will leave this info off.” The sender’s name on that message is redacted, and the records don’t show whether that was done.

On May 15, after CBC paused the production, Abbasakoor told the producers to “stop editing and get us all the dailies.” A production member sent passwords for episode dailies and outlines requested by Jennifer Dettman, CBC’s executive director of unscripted content, and CBC executive Sally Catto. “We are being extra protective,” the producer wrote.

On May 25, Abbasakoor asked the producers for the video they originally pitched at the Banff World Media Festival. “I know it’s not on YouTube anymore,” she wrote. “I’ll call you later and tell you why. All good reasons.” The records don’t say what those reasons were.

A separate chat exported from Dettman’s phone shows she used a default disappearing-message timer. New messages in her chats “will disappear from this chat 7 days after they’re sent, except when kept,” the notice reads. It is dated April 21, three weeks before the show became public. The records do not show which of her messages, if any, were deleted.

The access to information request that produced these records was filed on May 26 and asked for texts, WhatsApp, Signal and Slack messages about the show. CBC answered on October 8, after taking an extension.

Thirty-nine pages were withheld in full under section 23 of the Access to Information Act, which covers solicitor-client privilege. CBC also excluded other material under section 68.1, which shields its “journalistic, creative or programming activities.”

The release also includes 41 complaints sent to the CBC about the show.

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What Has the Government Done to Our Freedoms?

Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? We pay its taxes, obey its laws and regulations, finance its wars and submit to its surveillance. We are told that all of this is necessary for personal safety, collective prosperity and national security. Yet the government has become totalitarian while individuals have become powerless.

The very institution established to protect our natural rights has become our greatest threat.

The Fourth Amendment protects the right to privacy by prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures and requiring judicial warrants supported by probable cause. Yet the National Security Agency has developed a surveillance apparatus capable of intercepting and examining all electronic communications traveling through the fiber-optic cables that carry the world’s internet traffic.

The NSA literally captures every keystroke and telephonic conversation of every person in America. It subjects Americans who are suspected of absolutely nothing to continuous surveillance. The distinction between collecting information first and examining it later offers little comfort to someone whose private life has become government property.

Privacy is not a privilege granted by government. It is a natural right protected by the Constitution. The burden belongs to government to establish probable cause before invading the privacy of an individual, not to its victims to demonstrate afterward why they deserved privacy before the government stole it.

And the loss of privacy produces fear. People who believe their conversations, correspondence, internet searches, medical, legal and banking records, and political associations are being monitored become less willing to be candid. They hesitate before criticizing or challenging government officials, or associating with controversial organizations. They begin self-censorship.

This is how surveillance destroys freedom without ever having to prosecute anyone.

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Rule Of Law Is Quietly Eroding Across Europe, Even In The Nordics

Rule-of-law scores fell in 26 of the 40 European countries with comparable data between 2021 and 2026, and the four Nordic leaders were among them: Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden each lost ground, according to a Visual Capitalist ranking built on the World Justice Project’s latest index.

It is not only a European problem. The WJP’s 2026 index, released October 21, covers 143 countries and found declines outnumbering improvements for the ninth straight year, 62% to 38%. The group said the drop in its measure of constraints on government powers was driven by weaker non-governmental checks, and that judicial limits on government power fell in 63% of countries.

Inside Europe, Russia fell 0.062 points to 0.401, the steepest drop on the continent, followed by Georgia (0.036), Serbia (0.032) and Belarus (0.031). Latvia (up 0.031) and Lithuania (up 0.028) improved the most. Germany slipped 0.010 to 0.830, France 0.004 to 0.716 and the UK 0.007 to 0.778.

Using the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index 2026, this visualization by The European Correspondent (via Visual Capitalist) ranks 41 European countries and tracks changes in their scores since 2021.

Denmark leads with a score of 0.898, followed by Norway (0.890) and Finland (0.870). Beyond the Nordic countries, Luxembourg, Germany, and Ireland round out Europe’s top seven.

Notably, Ireland and Estonia are among the few countries near the top of the ranking to have improved since 2021.

Why Are Checks on Government Power Weakening?

A strong rule of law depends on independent courts, enforceable rights, and effective limits on government authority. When these safeguards weaken, political leaders face fewer constraints on how they exercise power.

According to Liberties’ 2026 Rule of Law Report, political interference in courts, weakened oversight, and fast-track legislation are undermining these protections. The organization highlighted Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, and Slovakia as particularly concerning cases.

Independent journalism also plays an important role in holding governments accountable, making press freedom another critical institutional safeguard.

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CBC asked prank-show producers for their ‘duty of care’ document. It was ‘lost in the drive shuffle’

A week after the National Police Federation accused the CBC-APTN prank series Northland Tales of deceiving RCMP veterans, a senior CBC executive went looking for the production’s duty-of-care document. She was told it had been lost when files were moved between drives. That’s according to access to information records obtained by Rebel News.

On May 26, Jennifer Dettman, CBC English Services’ executive director of unscripted content, emailed about a “Duty of care info request.” A person whose name is blacked out replied, “RIGHT – will find it now.”

Later that afternoon, the same correspondent wrote: “I think that the document itself got lost in the drive shuffle – it is this one on the clipboard in this picture! I will find it – the migration of the drives has caused me to lose a few links.”

Nine minutes later, Dettman answered: “That is it, thank you.”

The photo isn’t in the release, and the records don’t say what the duty-of-care document contained, who wrote it or when. Most of the thread is blacked out under exemptions for personal information, third-party business information and CBC programming.

The request came one week after National Police Federation president Brian Sauve wrote to Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller on May 19. Sauve said RCMP veterans and serving members were invited to Vancouver for what they believed was a production honouring their service. He said they arrived in uniform, had their phones taken and were then ambushed on camera.

Sauve asked that the footage never air, warning that broadcasting it “would compound that harm and constitute an ongoing breach of duty of care.” CBC president Marie-Philippe Bouchard forwarded the letter to her senior staff the same evening.

CBC paused production in mid-May. A draft CBC reply to Conservative MP Aaron Gunn in the release says the corporation was pausing the show “while we assess the existing footage.”

On May 25, Gunn raised the RCMP veterans in Question Period and asked whether it was acceptable for the public broadcaster to use taxpayer money to deceive Canadians. Liberal MP David Myles answered that CBC is independent, that production had been paused and that the show had never aired.

CBC public affairs head Chuck Thompson later told someone who had written to Bouchard that CBC was “conducting a comprehensive review of this production.” The records do not say whether that review looked at the duty-of-care document, or what it found.

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After Republican election debacle, Democrats pledge “bipartisan common ground” with Trump

Following the massive repudiation of US President Donald Trump in the 2026 midterm elections, the Democratic Party has launched a campaign to rescue the Trump administration.

As is universally acknowledged in the media, the 2026 midterm election was the greatest electoral repudiation of a sitting president in over half a century, and one of the largest in American history. The shift against Trump ran through every region of the country and every section of the population, and it was sharpest among rural voters, young men and workers whom Trump had claimed as his base.

The vote was a rejection not only of Trump but of the entire agenda of his administration. It expressed mass opposition to the growth of social inequality, war, the assault on immigrants and attacks on democratic rights.

Yet the Democrats came out immediately offering bipartisanship.

Hakeem Jeffries, who is expected to become speaker of the House in January, declared that Democrats are “ready, willing and able to find bipartisan common ground” and that “the American people don’t want us to get even.” He added that not a single member of his caucus had raised impeachment with him.

Barack Obama declared that Americans “want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them.” The same line was repeated in various forms by newly elected Democrats: a call to “restore a sense of decency and bipartisanship in Washington,” (Kansas Senator-elect Adam Hamilton); the assurance that “come January, we will be forced to work together,” (Iowa Governor-elect Rob Sand); a disavowal of any interest “in moving Minnesota to the left or the right,” (Minnesota Governor-elect Amy Klobuchar).

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Houthis Demand $51 Billion to End War with Saudis

Saudi Arabia approached the Houthis to determine what it would take to negotiate an end to the fighting. The answer was $51 billion, supposedly compensation for years of Saudi military operations and the blockade of Yemen. Other figures have reportedly been discussed, but the Houthis are demanding tens of billions of dollars and recognition of their authority over Yemen. This would require Riyadh to abandon the internationally recognized Yemeni government it has supported for more than a decade. The Houthis are effectively demanding that Saudi Arabia pay an enormous sum and accept an Iranian-backed adversary along its southern border.

Saudi Arabia launched its military intervention in Yemen in 2015, believing its superior military capabilities and financial resources would defeat the Houthis. More than eleven years later, the Houthis are demanding payment from the Saudis to stop fighting. They have expanded their territorial control, threatened shipping through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and demonstrated the ability to attack Saudi oil infrastructure, airports, and pipelines. Riyadh has spent billions purchasing advanced Western weapons, yet relatively inexpensive missiles and drones continue threatening assets worth billions of dollars.

The Houthis have already demonstrated their ability to threaten Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure. Attacks earlier this year temporarily disrupted the kingdom’s East-West pipeline, which carries oil from the eastern production regions toward Red Sea export facilities. That pipeline is particularly important because it allows Saudi Arabia to bypass the Strait of Hormuz when Persian Gulf shipping becomes dangerous. With Iran threatening Hormuz and the Houthis operating near Bab al-Mandab, Saudi Arabia faces pressure on both of its major maritime export routes. The kingdom’s geographical position, which once made it an indispensable energy supplier, has become a source of vulnerability.

The United States has also demonstrated the limits of its security guarantees. In September, Mohammed bin Salman reportedly asked President Trump for military assistance against the Houthis. Washington declined to conduct direct strikes on the group’s behalf, although it offered intelligence and targeting support. Saudi Arabia has spent decades maintaining a strategic relationship with the United States based largely upon energy security and military cooperation. Now Riyadh is discovering that an American security partnership does not guarantee American intervention whenever Saudi interests are threatened. Washington is already deeply involved in the conflict with Iran and has little appetite for opening another major military front.

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