Author: HP McLovincraft

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All Hell Breaks Loose at the United Nations: Waltz Spokesman Assaulted

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz took the floor of the General Assembly hall on Tuesday to expose the wealth Cuba’s communist rulers have taken for themselves. He ended up in a shouting match with the regime’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla.

The assembly was debating a non-binding resolution demanding an end to the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba, with a vote set for Wednesday. According to a report from the New York Post, Waltz used his time to show the room who actually benefits from the system that resolution seeks to prop up.

He started with the perks of Cuba’s political elite: real estate, luxury watches, and private jets, all enjoyed while ordinary Cubans sit through blackouts and shortages. Waltz then held up a photo of Che Guevara wearing a Rolex watch valued at roughly $40,000.

“According to the regime’s own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an average Cuban wage,” Waltz said.

He also accused Fidel Castro’s government of sending “thousands of people, homosexuals, Christians, Afro-Cubans and others to concentration camps.” Then Waltz produced a second photo, this one of Cuba’s current president, Miguel Díaz-Canel.

“It didn’t just start with Castro,” Waltz said. “This is the current Cuban president, also with a Rolex on.”

The Cuban delegation wasn’t happy about this and banged on their desks. Rodríguez got out of his seat, walked up to the podium, and asked General Assembly President Khalilur Rahman to call Waltz to order under Rule 71. Waltz turned to the delegates as Rodríguez closed in.

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Netanyahu Claims ‘Decisive Majority,’ Vows ‘National Right-Wing Government’ — ‘Historic’ Chance to End Iran Threat

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed a “clear, decisive majority” among Jewish and Zionist voters early Wednesday, calling for a strong right-wing government as revised election night projections shifted in his favor and declaring a “historic” opportunity alongside President Donald Trump to eliminate the Iranian threat.

Addressing cheering Likud supporters in Jerusalem following Israel’s first parliamentary election since the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, Netanyahu asserted a mandate to govern even as exit polls showed neither his bloc nor the opposition securing the 61 seats needed for a majority in the 120-member Knesset.

Netanyahu pointed to what he called a “clear, decisive majority” for the right-wing bloc among Jewish and Zionist voters, arguing that the result demonstrated broad support for a government committed to preserving Israel as a Jewish state.

“We must establish a strong national right-wing government,” he said. “That is what needs to be done.”

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Hackers Force FEC Offline A Week Before Midterms, Blocking Last-Minute Campaign Spending Reports

Federal Election Commission systems were targeted by an attempted breach just one week prior to the November 3 midterms, and the agency had to temporarily shut down its online electronic filing system.

According to the FEC’s Status Page, the Federal Election Commission first took down its online system for filing election finance reports at 10 p.m. ET on Monday. A FEC official handling online filings for the agency later that night told several campaign compliance firms, “We have a bad actor attempting to breach FEC systems. As a result, we’ve had to temporarily shut down our web-facing services.”

The shutdown blocks filing of the 24 hour and 48 hour reports that political groups use to disclose spending on individual races in the days leading up to an election. By 8pm ET on Tuesday, FEC officials said they had identified the problem and were working to correct it but in the meantime, online filing of reports remained unavailable.

FEC Deputy Press Officer Myles Martin told Newsweek that FEC staff were working to bring back the system as soon as possible and that search for existing reports would function as normal. Reports already filed remain available on the Commission’s website. The agency has not said who is behind the attempt or whether any breach actually succeeded. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency both directed questions on the matter to the FEC.

That would be bad timing. In the last week alone, Super PACs and “dark money” groups spent an average of more than $50 million per day according to data compiled by the research director of OpenSecrets, Brendan Glavin. Spending reported on October 20 alone topped $250 million. “These are the key reports that tell us what is happening,” said Glavin.

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Over 175 House Democrats Demand DOJ Drop Criminal Probe of Ilhan Omar, Call Raid ‘Weaponization’

More than 170 House Democrats have demanded that the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security stop the ongoing criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar after federal agents executed a judicially authorized search of her Washington, D.C., home earlier this month.

The letter, dated October 26 and led by Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Jamie Raskin, Bennie Thompson, Robert Garcia, Yvette Clarke, and Greg Casar, describes the pre-dawn search as an unprecedented “weaponization of law enforcement.”

“This weaponization of law enforcement to harass a sitting Member of Congress 22 days before an election is unprecedented and unacceptable,” wrote the Members. “We stand with Congresswoman Omar and condemn the weaponization of law enforcement against her. You have already disgraced the offices you hold, and we demand you to refrain from taking any further actions that could affect the outcome of the upcoming election.”

“Your actions are clearly driven by a pre-determined political outcome rather than an objective pursuit of justice,” the letter continued. “Political attacks should play no role in federal law enforcement, but they have here.”

The letter was sent to Attorney General Todd Blanche and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and asserts that the probe centers on immigration paperwork filed by Omar’s late father when she was supposedly a minor, after the family fled Somalia’s civil war.

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Federal research awards send $13.5 million to 163 scholars at foreign institutions

Canada’s three federal research councils have listed 163 scholarships and fellowships worth $13.5 million to recipients with addresses outside Canada in their disclosures for April to September 2026. The councils are the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Of the 163, 107 recipients are listed in the United States and 29 in Britain, with others in France, Australia and Switzerland. Oxford appears 15 times; Princeton, Stanford and Berkeley five times each.

All 163 are Canada Graduate Research Scholarships at the doctoral level (CGRS-D) or Canada Postdoctoral Research Awards (CPRA), part of the Canada Research Training Awards Suite that Budget 2024 funded with “$825 million over five years to the granting councils.” SSHRC and CIHR list the doctoral award at $120,000 and the postdoctoral award at $140,000, the full value of $40,000 a year for 36 months and $70,000 a year for 24 months. NSERC’s entries list $20,000 and $35,000, and eight entries of $5, which the dataset does not explain, so the $13.5 million total mixes full and partial amounts.

The rules allow it. NSERC’s doctoral page says, “You may propose to hold your CGRS D at any eligible Canadian or degree-granting institution outside of Canada,” and that “Up to 20% of all doctoral awards will be available to be held outside of Canada.” The postdoctoral page sets the share at “Up to 30%.” Holders abroad must be citizens, permanent residents or protected persons with a prior Canadian degree. Neither program page contains any requirement that the scholar return to Canada, and the data does not show what share of all awards is held abroad.

The councils are run by presidents appointed by the government. NSERC’s Alejandro Adem was reappointed for five years from October 1, 2024; CIHR’s Paul Hébert was appointed for five years from January 2, 2025; at SSHRC, Ted Hewitt’s term ended on February 28, 2026, and council chair Normand Labrie “will assume the powers of the president” while the government searches for a successor. The records name no official. Web searches found no political donations or party roles for any of the three; the Elections Canada database itself could not be queried.

Taxpayer-funded doctoral and postdoctoral awards are being held at Oxford, Princeton and other foreign institutions, and the program pages set no requirement to come home.

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Why They Teach You to Hate Your Neighbor, and Why Their Power Dies the Day You Don’t

On October 12, inside the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, a woman stood up during President Donald Trump’s midterm rally wearing a homemade shirt that read “Release the Epstein Files.” Within seconds, she was punched in the face, grabbed by the hair, and restrained by Trump supporters, and the crowd around her answered the male-on-female violence by chanting “USA.”

From the podium, the president of the United States did not call for calm. As she was hauled away, he suggested she was a paid protester, called her a “fat guy,” and announced that she “needs to go on a diet”.

Then came the part that should bother every American, no matter which yard sign sits on their lawn. Body camera footage shows Mahoning County sheriff’s deputies leading the woman out of the arena, photographing her, and releasing her outside, while the men who beat her stayed in the building and, according to local reporting, traded high-fives with fellow rallygoers.

Two weeks later, no one has been charged. Deputies made no arrests that night and no report was taken at the scene, and a sheriff’s spokesperson refused to explain why the men were allowed to stay. The sheriff now says detectives are looking into an incident involving a female protester and three men, and that a misdemeanor charge could still be filed, but the message was already delivered in real time: the peaceful woman was treated as the offender, and the men who threw the punches got to watch the rest of the show.

What makes this so grotesque is what she was asking for. She was not chanting a Democratic talking point. She was repeating the demand the MAGA movement turned into a rallying cry for years, the one Trump’s own attorney general, Pam Bondi, fed when she said in February 2025 that the Epstein client list was “on my desk right now to review,” and one Trump himself wrote into law when he signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act last November.

She was beaten for asking the government to do what it had already promised to do, and the one man in the room who could have stopped it with a single sentence chose to mock her instead.

Now flip the jerseys. Picture a woman at a Biden rally wearing a shirt demanding the arrest of child predators, punched and dragged by the hair while a crowd of Democrats chants “USA,” the president ridicules her weight from the stage, and deputies escort her out as her attackers celebrate. Every conservative in America would rightly stand up for that woman, and the only thing that would have changed is the color of the hats.

So what in the hell makes grown men do this to an unarmed, non-violent woman over words on a T-shirt? And what makes millions more watch the clip and shrug, or laugh?

Americans did not wake up one morning as monsters. They have been trained, slowly and deliberately, to stop seeing the people on the other team as fully human. In research led by Alexander Landry, Republicans and Democrats rated each other 20 to 30 points below “fully human” on a scale modeled on the old ape-to-man evolution chart.

The most revealing part of that research is where the hatred comes from. Each side believed the other dehumanized them by roughly 60 points, far worse than reality, and when researchers simply told people the truth, their own contempt for the other side dropped and stayed lower a week later. Much of the rage Americans feel toward one another is a reaction to an enemy that, for the most part, does not even exist.

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New Paper Reveals How mRNA Vaccine Materials Could Spread From Vaccinated to Unvaccinated People

For years, people around the world have raised serious concerns about mRNA vaccine shedding—the possibility that vaccine-derived materials could spread beyond the individuals who received the injections. Despite years of public concern and debate, critical questions surrounding this possibility have remained unanswered.

We decided to examine the scientific evidence comprehensively, tracing what happens to vaccine-derived materials inside the body, how they spread between cells, and whether biological mechanisms exist that could allow these materials to pass from one person to another.

Our resulting paper, titled “mRNA Vaccine Shedding: Internal Transcriptional Dissemination and Potential Human-to-Human Transfer,” was coauthored by John A. Catanzaro, NMD, PhD, of Neo7Bioscience, Inc., and Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (myself), and Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, of the McCullough Foundation.

Drawing on published human investigations, molecular experiments, and research involving extracellular vesicles, we examined the existing evidence and identified two distinct forms of mRNA vaccine shedding:

1. Human-to-human shedding: The potential transfer of vaccine-derived materials from vaccinated individuals to other people through biological secretions.

2. Transcriptional shedding: The production, fragmentation, persistence, and internal spread of vaccine-derived molecular products throughout the body.

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Texas Children’s Hospital officially opens first-ever ‘detransition clinic’ after settlement with AG Paxton

Texas Children’s Hospital has officially opened its first-of-its-kind detransition clinic under a settlement it reached with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in May.

Paxton, who is also the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas, announced the opening of the clinic on Tuesday.

“BREAKING: The nation’s first-ever Detransition Clinic is now open as a result of my historic settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital,” he wrote on X.

An accompanying press release from his office described the new care center as “a multidisciplinary clinic that provides medical care to patients who previously underwent gender-transition interventions.”

Patients can receive detransition-related medical care through age 21, while detransition-related obstetric and gynecologic care is offered to patients older than 21. Paxton’s office added that patients may receive services at different Texas Children’s locations, depending on their individual needs and care team recommendations.

The clinic is a major pillar of the settlement, which additionally required the hospital to pay $10 million for claims brought by Paxton under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act for billing Texas Medicaid for “unallowable and illegal ‘gender-transition’ interventions.”

Multiple physicians were also stripped of their medical privileges for performing mutilating treatments on minors.

Texas Children’s previously offered a range of controversial services to gender dysphoric minors seeking to “change their gender,” including puberty blockers — medications intended to “pause” puberty, and hormone therapy — hormones including testosterone and estrogen used to promote the development of physical characteristics associated with the opposite sex.

The settlement also permanently prohibited Texas Children’s from performing surgical procedures on minors, which can sterilize and remove healthy tissue from patients.

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Why is a WEF-linked vaccine coalition matching Ottawa’s $1.8 million in vaccine awards?

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the federal health research agency, has listed six grants dated July 1, 2026 and running to June 30, 2029, five of $300,000 and one of $298,675, under the label Operating Grant: Leadership Award for Vaccine Research. Four are labelled CEPI-CIHR: Robert Kozak of Toronto, Angela Rasmussen of Saskatoon, Anna Blakney of Vancouver and Matthew Miller of Hamilton. Two are labelled NRC-CIHR: Hagar Labouta of Toronto and Jean-Simon Diallo of Ottawa.

CIHR’s funding page for the “Leadership Award for Excellence in Vaccine Research for Infectious Diseases of Epidemic Potential” says $1.8 million was available for up to six awards: $1.2 million for four grants in the CIHR-CEPI pool and $600,000 for two in the CIHR-NRC pool. The page, marked anticipatory, says CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, “will at least match CIHR’s level of support in cash contribution” on the four CEPI-pool awards, while the National Research Council (NRC) matches in kind; the grant records show only CIHR’s share. McMaster University’s July 30, 2026 announcement of Miller’s award says recipients “receive $600,000 in research funding over a three-year period.”

Rebel News reported in January 2024 that the World Economic Forum “helped found” CEPI in 2017, after Ezra Levant and Avi Yemini found its chief executive, Richard Hatchett, “not keen to talk to independent journalists” in Davos. A CIHR release of April 26, 2023 says that “Since 2017, Canada has provided a total of $114 million to CEPI,” and that an earlier CIHR-CEPI round announced that year committed $2.7 million to five researchers.

Rasmussen is a research scientist at VIDO, the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization. In a May 2021 university interview she said, “Everybody get vaccinated as soon as you can.” In an October 2021 Canadaland interview she called “the hypothesis that this had its origins in RaTG13 and the Mojiang mine” “absolutely, demonstrably untrue.” The sources do not say how the six were chosen.

CIHR’s president is Dr. Paul Hébert, appointed for five years from January 2, 2025, in an announcement by then health minister Mark Holland on November 14, 2024. The records name no signing official. Web searches found no donations, party roles or controversy for Hébert; the Elections Canada database itself could not be queried.

Canada had given CEPI $114 million by 2023. Now CEPI is adding at least matching cash to four of Ottawa’s own vaccine awards.

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Israel Breached Iranian Airspace This Weekend but Iran Chose Not To Respond. Why?

Much of the Middle East was on edge this past weekend, fearing that President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would restart the Iran war. Thankfully, hostilities didn’t resume, but it’s not because of a lack of effort. According to Iranian sources, Israeli fighter jets did breach Iranian airspace, but Tehran surprisingly chose not to respond. Today’s meeting in Tehran between Saudi, Turkish, Pakistani, and Iranian officials is partly why Iran showed restraint.

Israel has made no secret of its desire and plans to restart the Iran war, but on a larger scale than previous rounds. Earlier this month, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz told Israeli TV that Israel is ready to strike Iran with “full force” and that this time around it will target Iranian energy infrastructure to “set Iran back 40 years, to the age of darkness and to the Stone Age.”

Over the weekend, news broke of an alleged rift between Netanyahu and the IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir over a proposed military operation against Iran ahead of Israel’s election, with Zamir pushing back over its timing and potential impact on the Israeli elections tomorrow. The Israelis had also conducted numerous mock practice attacks against Iran in Iraqi airspace in the past week.

All these developments added to an explosive situation where war was just one tiny, dumb decision away. Tehran had, of course, also hinted that it would no longer wait to be attacked, but strike preemptively against the U.S. and Israel if it felt strikes against its territory were imminent.

Which is why Iran’s decision not to strike after Israeli fighter jets allegedly breached its airspace is all the more surprising. But sources in Tehran tell me that a variety of factors prompted this Iranian decision, rooted in two key Iranian assessments: that time is still on Iran’s side and that Israel is trying to goad Iran into striking first to get the war started at a moment in which it is still not a foregone conclusion whether Trump has opted for war or not.

The Iranians have made clear that they will respond ferociously to Israeli and American strikes and that Saudi Arabia in particular will likely face significant destabilization in such a scenario, in addition to other Gulf Cooperation Council states. The irony, of course, is that such a response would serve Israel quite well. The more Iran retaliates against GCC states, particularly Saudi Arabia, the more these Arab states will feel compelled to turn to Israel for support and protection, undermining Iran’s longer-term goal of inviting these states to join Iran in forming a security arrangement in the Middle East.

In that scenario, the dream of an Israeli-Arab anti-Iran bloc like the Abraham Accord could be revived. Consequently, Tehran has to weigh its options very carefully and not rush into responding to Israeli provocations, as it could amount to a trap. It appears that Israel’s maneuvers in Iraq ultimately convinced Tehran that Israel was bluffing and that an Iranian response would be counterproductive. For now, that assessment may have been correct.

Another factor was today’s meeting of Saudi, Pakistani, and Turkish officials in Tehran. Iranian media and officials have touted the meeting as a clear sign that American efforts to isolate Iran or exclude it from regional security discussions have failed. For all three countries to come to Tehran, on relatively short notice, is seen as a win in Tehran — a victory that would have been jeopardized if Iran responded to Israeli provocations over the weekend.

Contrary to speculation, the meeting was not a stepping stone toward inviting Iran into the Mecca Pact. Rather, it was driven by a more urgent matter: the Ansar Allah-Saudi war that is not only destabilizing Yemen, but also now Saudi Arabia itself. (Ansar Allah is often referred to as the “Houthis.”)

But the content-less statement from the Tehran meeting reflects how difficult this issue will be to resolve. From the Iranian perspective, Riyadh has committed the same mistake as Trump: starting a war that it cannot end on the battlefield and is unwilling to end at the negotiating table.

In Trump’s case, the hold-up is the lifting of the Persian Gulf blockade. In Riyadh’s case, it is the lifting of the air blockade on Yemen. Tehran is willing to help, a source in Iran tells me, but it won’t challenge Ansar Allah’s condition of lifting the air blockade, just as Tehran won’t budge on the lifting of Trump’s blockade.

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