Author: HP McLovincraft

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Algeria jails state TV journalist for three years over Facebook posts

A court in Chéraga, west of Algiers, sentenced journalist Abdelali Mezghiche on Sunday to three years in prison and a fine of 200,000 Algerian dinars (about US$1,500), the New York-based press freedom group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported Monday.

CPJ says the case stems from posts on his Facebook page about public anger over the jailing of local figures in the southern city of Djanet.

Mezghiche was convicted on five misdemeanour counts, including publishing content deemed harmful to the national interest, inciting unarmed gatherings and spreading hate speech. A local journalist told CPJ he was convicted under Articles 96 and 100 of Algeria’s penal code.

Prosecutors had asked for five years at an October 25 hearing. His defence team plans to appeal.

A presenter of cultural programs on Algeria’s state-owned broadcaster since 2005, Mezghiche has also published three poetry collections, CPJ says. In February, CPJ said his Facebook page has more than 130,000 followers and that the posts had since been taken down.

State security officers arrested him in Algiers on February 5, according to CPJ, and an investigating judge ordered him held in pretrial detention four days later. He has been in Kolea Prison in Tipaza province since.

A February alert on the Eu SEE website gave a different account. It said he was arrested on February 9 on charges that included disturbing public order, spreading false information and belonging to a subversive group.

CPJ regional director Sara Qudah called the sentence “a blatant weaponization of the Algerian judiciary to silence critical voices.”

Emails CPJ sent to Algeria’s justice and interior ministries asking for comment went unanswered. At least seven journalists are jailed in Algeria for their work, the group says.

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Accused CCP Spy’s Circle Linked to Sinaloa Cartel Stash House and Cambodian Scam Empire

A California real estate agent accused of spying for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is tied through her romantic partner to a house the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) identified as a stash house for a Sinaloa Cartel money-laundering network. Her partner’s business connections also lead to the alleged enforcer of a Cambodian scam empire.

FBI agents arrested Wanying “Heather” Zhang, 34, of Irvine, at Los Angeles International Airport on October 4, 2026, as she prepared to board a flight to Shanghai. A federal grand jury indicted her on October 9 on charges of conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of the People’s Republic of China. Her trial is scheduled for November 30 in federal court in Santa Ana.

Investigators believe Zhang received the surveillance assignment during a June 2025 meeting with a Chinese government contact in Changsha, China. On September 1, 2025, she and a companion identified in the complaint as “Individual 1” flew from Las Vegas to Seattle, rented a car, and drove to the home of Ting-Yu Lai, the son of Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te.

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Infant Vaccination Increases Death Risk by Up to 112% vs Unvaxxed

A new study by Drs. Karl Jablonowski and Brian Hooker of Children’s Health Defense titled Increased Mortality Associated with 2-Month Old Infant Vaccinations, analyzed linked Louisiana Department of Health immunization and death registry data to evaluate whether routine two-month infant vaccinations (administered at 60–90 days of life) are associated with mortality in the subsequent month (90–120 days)

Using individual-level records from 1,225 infants who later died before age three, investigators compared infants vaccinated in the two-month window with those unvaccinated during the same period, while holding age-at-death constant.

Infants vaccinated at two months showed consistently higher odds of death in the following month, with statistically significant risk increases spanning individual vaccines, cumulative exposure, sex, race, and combination products.

Most alarming, infants who received all six recommended two-month vaccines had a 68 percent higher odds of death overall (OR = 1.68; p = 0.0043), with the risk surging to +68 percent in Black infants and +112 percent in female infants (OR = 2.12; p = 0.0083).

Mortality risk increased with cumulative vaccine exposure (dose–response)

A clear cumulative risk pattern emerged as more vaccines were administered at the 2-month visit:

  • All five 2-month vaccines (DTaP, rotavirus, HIB, polio, and pneumococcal vaccines) compared to unvaccinated infants:
    +60 percent (OR = 1.60; p = 0.0084 — statistically significant)
  • All six recommended vaccines (DTaP, rotavirus, HIB, polio, pneumococcal, and HepB vaccines) compared to unvaccinated infants:
    +68 percent (OR = 1.68; p = 0.0043 — statistically significant)

Subgroup analyses also showed even stronger cumulative effects:

  • Black infants (6 vaccines): +68 percent (OR = 1.68; p = 0.0311 — statistically significant)
  • Female infants (6 vaccines): +112 percent (OR = 2.12; p = 0.0083 — statistically significant)

This cumulative analysis—summarized in the paper’s abstract and Figure 6—represents one of the study’s central findings.

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Was Jeffrey Epstein a Spy?

Was Jeffrey Epstein a spy? The Epstein-is-a-spy parlor game has been going on for years. There are plenty of reasons to believe that he could have been an intelligence asset, but the House Oversight Committee report reaches no such conclusions.

There are legitimate questions about how this guy could move through the world with such impunity without government cover. The Committee plumbed ideas about how Epstein got acceptance and cover from legitimate business and elite society big shots, and did, in fact, ask if his advantages came from intelligence ties.

The Oversight Committee, looking into the government’s treatment of the pervert’s activities, found suspicious, though inconclusive, insights into this question. Spoiler alert: The Oversight Committee Report found massive problems with the government investigations into Epstein, as I reported in Epstein Report: Victim NDAs Blocked Justice, While Dems Just Wanted to Get Trump.

But what of the espionage ties?

Who else could possess passports with aliases for different countries — including Saudi Arabia — in his possession? That sounds like spycraft, doesn’t it?

Who has a girlfriend/accomplice whose dad was a suspected Mossad agent? Was Ghislaine Maxwell an intelligence asset?

Who was besties with the former head of Israeli intelligence and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak? Epstein.

Some of the suspicions about Epstein’s ties to intelligence came directly from reporting about Alexander Acosta, the former head of the Department of Justice’s South Florida U.S. Attorneys’ Office. Acosta allegedly said that Epstein “’belonged to intelligence’ — though Acosta denied ever making this statement during his transcribed interview with the Committee.”

These are tantalizing issues which are not conclusively answered in the House Oversight Committee majority report (there’s no minority report yet) about the government’s handling of the Epstein case. But they do offer some details from recycled media reports found in the footnotes.

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When A Society Has Reached Its Limits, Reforms No Longer Fix What’s Broken

The most difficult part of my framework to grasp is the keystone: our system has reached its limits. The difficulty is that this is impossible to understand if one is embedded in the system’s beliefs of how the world works and wedded to the system’s sclerosis via self-interest.

Once self-interest dominates, it locks the system into its current configuration because attempting to change anything rouses resistance from whatever interests depend on that part of the status quo for their piece of the pie.

The sustainability of the entire system is of no concern because the only thing that matters is keeping our piece of the pie intact as-is. Nothing can change because that threatens somebody’s share of the pie, i.e. how the system distributes income, gains, power and risk.

Everyone from the super-wealthy to low-income households fears any change that might reduce their security. Beneath our everyday awareness, a balance has been struck: if we just keep this exact arrangement as-is, everyone accepts the status quo.

This rigidity leads to sclerosis: the system has lost the flexibility and nimbleness needed to adapt. Any proposal that actually changes the socio-economic system is immediately struck off by those whose interests are threatened.

This leads to the substitution of artifice for authenticity – the other core concept that is impossible to understand if one is wedded to the status quo by self-interest and the fear of losing what we have.

Once a system has reached the point where authentic change becomes impossible because it disrupts the delicate balance of self-interest, it has reached its limits, and is set on run to failure, for a system that has lost its adaptive flexibility is doomed once conditions change.

Rather than face this disruptive reality, everyone wedded to the existing balance becomes dependent on expediencies that keep the system glued together, but at the cost of system stability. As self-interest and sclerosis dominate, the focus narrows to doing whatever it takes to maintain the increasingly unsustainable balance of interests.

This is how we’ve reached the point where the federal government borrows $2 trillion a year – 27% of its entire outlays – to maintain the precarious balance of every interest group. That this is unsustainable is obvious, but since real change is impossible because of the system’s limits, everyone approves of expediencies that only add to the destabilizing momentum of run to failure.

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Detroit Voters Elect a Disgraced Judge Barred from Serving Due to Misconduct

Detroit voters elected a defrocked judge to serve another term despite her being unable to be seated on the bench for another three years following a six-year suspension for misconduct.

Judge Kahlilia Davis, 50, won her election to Detroit’s 36th District Court on November 3, but will not be able to put on her robe until her suspension is over in 2029.

First elected in 2016, Davis’s tenure was “marked by scandal as she faced a number of allegations of abuse and misconduct, including wrongfully jailing defendants and throwing out legitimate cases,” the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Davis was also accused of intentionally ignoring instructions from the district’s chief judge, tampering with and disabling courtroom recording equipment, displaying an unauthorized disabled parking placard, and using Bible verses to threaten colleagues, the Mail and Click On Detroit reported.

According to the Mail:

She was initially suspended in 2020 and left the judgeship in 2022, and in 2023 the Michigan Supreme Court suspended Davis from serving on the bench for six years due to the allegations. In 2024, the Michigan secretary of state’s office was ordered by a judge to keep Davis off a future ballot, but Davis successfully sued to reverse that ruling earlier this year.

Davis received almost 84,000 votes in the election.

Due to the low-profile nature of judges, voters told news outlets that they were not aware of Davis’s alleged antics on the bench or her suspension by the state’s high court.

“They didn’t advertise that,” Detroit voter Jeffrey Williams told Click on Detroit.

He continued, “They should have let us know that she was suspended and wouldn’t be able to serve as a judge — and then we could have made a decision whether we wanted to vote for somebody else.”

Davis is not the only jurist in a major U.S. city that was elected to office despite a questionable record on the bench.

As Breitbart News reported last week, Chicago voters re-elected a Cook County judge who gave a pretrial release to a career criminal with more than 70 arrests — overriding prosecutors — only for him to allegedly set an innocent young woman on fire as she rode on a commuter train.

University of Chicago political science professor John Mark Hansen explained how the judiciary is not often held accountable for bad behavior or decisions.

“Judicial elections are what’s known in the political science business as ‘low information elections,’” he told CBS News, adding that most voters have little time or motivation to learn about their records.

When Davis was suspended, the state’s Supreme Court found she “engaged in a series of misconduct incidents that ‘besmirched the judiciary’s reputation and prejudiced the administration of justice,’” the Mail reported.

Davis’s inability to don a robe raises questions of how the court will operate without one of its judges being able to sit on the bench for another three years and whether Davis will receive pay during her suspension.

District Court Chief Judge William McConico told news outlets in a statement that the court’s status would be determined by the State Court Administrator’s Office but offered no immediate solution.

“The Court respects the decision of the people of Detroit to elect Judge Davis, just as we respect and recognize the authority and decision of the Michigan Supreme Court to suspend her,” she said in the statement.

She continued, “Both decisions must be acknowledged, and our responsibility is to ensure that the Court continues to fulfill its obligations to the public in the interim.”

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Joe Biden Claims His Disastrous 2024 Debate Against Trump Was “Not Very Consequential”

Joe Biden claimed that his his disastrous 2024 debate against Trump was “not very consequential” during an interview with People.

Joe Biden absolutely bombed during the 2024 presidential debate against Trump nearly two years ago.

Biden crashed and burned during the highly-anticipated presidential debate against Trump after he spent several days holed up at Camp David preparing for the event.

The whole world saw Biden’s cognitive decline in real-time. The Democrat-media complex has gone to great lengths to hide Biden’s feeble state.

That all came to an end as a doped up Joe Biden was unable to make a cogent point and needed Nurse Jill to guide him off stage.

Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race a month later and Kamala Harris stole all of Biden’s delegates.

Jill Biden earlier this year said she thought Joe Biden was having a stroke during the debate.

Hunter Biden said his dad was impaired and dosed up on Ambien during the debate.

Biden reflected on the disastrous 2024 debate and told People that it was not consequential.

“Look, I don’t know anybody who hasn’t made a mistake in a debate. To me, it was not very consequential,” Joe Biden said.

“First of all, I thought there’d be another debate, which there wasn’t,” Biden said.

“But notwithstanding the fact that there wasn’t another debate, it didn’t disturb me because it wasn’t consequential,” Biden added.

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Who checks the police when police collect the banned guns?

Regina Police Chief Lorilee Davies says her force is not “sweeping anything under the rug” after charging one of its own officers over a banned rifle.

Const. Sheldon Kowalchuk, a seven-year member of the Regina Police Service, is charged with breach of trust and unauthorized possession of a firearm. He allegedly kept a Bushmaster XM15-E2S, an AR-15-style rifle, that a member of the public surrendered during a 2022 provincial amnesty.

None of it has been proven in court. He is suspended with pay and due in Regina Provincial Court on December 15.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government made that rifle prohibited in May 2020. Owners have since been told to dispose of or deactivate guns like it, and the amnesty deadline for them was extended to 90 days after the Supreme Court rules on the ban.

During the 2022 amnesty, officers collected surrendered guns from homes. Police no longer do that job. Davies says that amnesty might have been one of the last.

She has declined to say how the rifle ended up with him.

Davies says the Saskatchewan Firearms Office, the province’s own body, brought the rifle to police attention in the spring of 2026. How the office learned of it has not been reported.

Regina police say the charges followed an investigation by their Professional Standards Unit and consultation with Crown prosecutors.

The surrender was in 2022 and the flag came in 2026, four years on.

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House Democrat Leaders Threaten Companies That Did Business with Trump Administration

House Democrat leadership on Tuesday came out swinging, threatening companies and government officials.

House Democrat Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar threatened to go after companies that did business with the Trump Administration.

“Americans sent Democrats to Washington at historic levels so we would help make their lives more affordable,” House Democrat Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar said.

“We are not shy to use accountability,” Aguilar said.

“We’re going to hold the companies, government officials, and Trump admin accountable for making life harder. Our committee chairs will have the tools to investigate corruption,” he said.

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Ottawa asked Parliament for another $24.4 billion the day after the budget

One day after Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s budget projected a $62.3 billion deficit, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals asked Parliament for another $24.4 billion in spending authority for the current year, through Supplementary Estimates (B), its second request this year for money beyond the main spending plan.

Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali tabled the estimates on November 6. They seek $22.1 billion in voted spending, the part MPs must approve, for 71 organizations, plus $2.3 billion in statutory spending, which existing laws already authorize.

The voted request alone is 9.2 per cent more than Parliament approved in the Main Estimates and the spring supplementary round combined. With this round, planned federal spending for the year reaches $538.3 billion: $263.7 billion voted and $274.6 billion statutory.

The Hill Times reported the $22 billion request the day it was tabled and highlighted the defence items.

The largest single line is $2.4 billion for Employment and Social Development Canada, described in the estimates as funding “to address short term funding gaps” in the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system. The document does not say what the gaps are or why the $10-a-day program needs the extra money.

National Defence follows with $1.9 billion for the Program Icebreaker Project and $1.6 billion for the Enhanced Satellite Communications Project, Polar. Crown-Indigenous Relations seeks $1.2 billion for “the Federal Indian Boarding Homes (Percival) litigation” and $760.3 million for the Specific Claims Settlement Fund.

Seven regional development agencies share $841.2 million for the Regional Tariff Response Initiative. Health wants $821.6 million more for the Canadian Dental Care Plan, whose benefits the Auditor General found $1.1 billion over budget in its first two years, in a report tabled October 29. VIA Rail gets $615 million for operating and capital needs, and Canadian Heritage and Telefilm Canada get $600 million for “Canada’s audio and audiovisual sectors.”

Ukraine draws $403.4 million for Operation UNIFIER across National Defence, Global Affairs and CSIS, plus $300 million in “military aid to Ukraine” at National Defence.

Canadian Heritage asks for $4.4 million “to establish the Digital Safety Commission of Canada,” the regulator that Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, would create. Parliament has not passed that bill. It cleared second reading in the House of Commons on October 29 and is now before the Commons Canadian Heritage committee.

The Interim Federal Health Program, which pays for health care for refugees and asylum claimants, would get $349.8 million more. That single item raises Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s operating budget from $2.05 billion to $2.40 billion, a 17 per cent jump. The department is also moving $2.5 million to the Courts Administration Service “in recognition of immigration litigation pressures.” Separately, Employment and Social Development Canada asks for $69.9 million for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

The Vaccine Impact Assistance Program would get $15.7 million in new funding, plus another $5.5 million moved over from the Public Health Agency of Canada’s grants budget. The agency took over the program, formerly the Vaccine Injury Support Program, on April 1.

Public Safety Canada asks for $75.8 million more for the Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program, the gun buyback, and the RCMP asks for $39.3 million for the Canadian Firearms Program, paid as contributions to provinces, territories and communities.

Canadian Heritage’s grants and contributions budget rises 41 per cent, from $1.75 billion to $2.47 billion. The Treasury Board’s transfer payment listing shows $441 million going to the Canada Media Fund, $67 million to the Canada Music Fund and $51 million to the Indigenous Screen Office. Heritage also asks for $30.1 million for Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy. Crown-Indigenous Relations asks for $1 million in “Funding to address Indian Residential Schools denialism.”

Veterans Affairs gets $34 million “to stabilize and modernize service delivery for Veterans and Royal Canadian Mounted Police current and former members.” Its $6.36 billion grants budget, which pays veterans’ benefits, is unchanged. Natural Resources Canada asks for $75 million for the Woodfibre LNG Limited Partnership contribution agreement, and Transport Canada for $91.9 million for the Electric Vehicle Affordability Program.

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