The 10,000 U.S. troops now operating in the Caribbean were sent to interdict drug boats. But Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro's Sept. 30 state of external emergency fundamentally changed what they're facing: a military on full wartime alert, equipped with Russian air defenses and anti-ship missiles, backed by what Maduro claims is a militia of over 8 million members.
While salvation includes questions about what happens after death, "going to heaven" is not the primary focus of the story told throughout the Bible. Read more
Connie Bobo, the executive director of the New Heights Community Resource Center in Bridgeton, Missouri, is facing serious allegations of fraud. According to federal prosecutors, Bobo allegedly embezzled $10 million intended to provide meals for low-income children and used the funds for personal luxuries, including mansions and a luxury car. Bobo, 46, enrolled her nonprofit in two U.S. Department of Agriculture-funded programs designed to reimburse organizations for distributing food to needy children. Prosecutors claim that between February 2019 and March 2022, Bobo falsely reported serving over three million meals, leading the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to pay New Heights approximately $11 million.
As predicted, the nefarious Trumpf junta has again conducted an Extra-Judicial Killing (XJK) of alleged drug smugglers off the US-Mexican coast, a war crime: drudge.com. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine rages on, the IDF continues killing Palestinians, the White House is being demolished, the Republican Party government shutdown festers, Argentina gets American taxpayer relief while US health insurance costs skyrocket, food banks are running out of money, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) cowardly won't swear in a Democratic Congresswoman, air traffic controllers are getting distracted by financial problems, and the Jeffrey Epstein files remain unreleased. Read more
Trump says he has final say on paying himself $230m for past investigations
Leaders at the Pentagon have significantly altered how military officials will speak with Congress after a pair of new memos issued last week. In an Oct. 15 memo, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his deputy, Steve Feinberg, ordered Pentagon officials -- including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- to obtain permission from the department's main legislative affairs office before they have any communication with Capitol Hill.
A US Marshal was shot by an ICE agent during a traffic stop where ICE attempted to arrest a suspect. A law enforcement source told CNN that it is believed that the ICE agent's gun discharged while he was using in it in an attempt to smash a window in the car where the suspect was an occupant. The bullet struck both the suspect and the US Marshal.
Let's talk about how Donald Trump has turned everything upside down.
Russia overnight launched a heavy air attack on Ukraine -- including striking Kyiv with drones and ballistic missiles -- that killed at least six people, including two children. It came hours after plans for President Donald Trump's proposed summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to fall apart, leaving hopes of movement in the coming days towards ending the war once again in tatters. Russia also directly struck a kindergarten in the eastern city of Kharkiv, according to Kyiv. At least one drone hit the building where nearly 50 young children were inside, Ukrainian officials said. Fortunately many or all were in its shelter, the local governor said.
Two men behind a range of cryptocurrencies promoted by the likes of First Lady Melania Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei have been accused of engaging in fraud and exploiting "celebrity association and borrowed fame' to sell legitimacy to unsuspecting investors," according to a new legal filing. A federal class action lawsuit was first brought against Benjamin Chow and Hayden Davis, co-founders of the crypto exchange Meteora and the venture capital firm Kelsier Labs, respectively, in April this year, reports Wired. The duo was initially accused of a multimillion-dollar scam involving a single memecoin, $M3M3, but an amended complaint from the same plaintiffs later expanded the allegations to include racketeering practices, accusing them of rigging the market to benefit $LIBRA, a coin promoted by Milei, which plummeted in value soon after launch.
A representative for the White House sent a "Top Gun" meme in response to EW's request for comment.
"Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the IDF is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees," says Sari Bashi, an Israeli American human rights lawyer and former program director at Human Rights Watch. "Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime. The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial." The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial, administrative detention for the West Bank or the Unlawful Combatants Law for folks from Gaza. That means that there's no allegation that they've committed a crime. They're being held on a charge of dangerousness, that is backed by secret evidence that neither they nor their lawyers can either see or challenge. This arbitrary system allows the IDF to round up more and more Palestinians in the West Bank and just refill those detention and prison cells, where people are subject to serious abuse." Read more
USSECDEF Pete Hegseth has "lost the trust and respect" of several top military members, thanks in large part to his "grandstanding" public appearances. While many of Hegseth's changes have been embraced, like his push for tougher fitness standards, the former TV tumor's approach has been off-putting to many military members. "The theater of it all is below our institution," one officer said. "Several of these changes are being made already by the services. And they could be made by any secretary ... They don't have to be announced on stage in public in this grandstanding kind of way." The officer was referring to Hegseth's boring televised speech to top commanders at Quantico last month. That screed irritated generals and admirals in the audience. "It was a massive waste of time," another Army general said. "If he ever had us, he lost us." Another senior officer quipped that Hegseth is focused on "not serious things." Read more
(1) Via social post, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) slammed the GOP push to unify around COVID Communist' Andrew Cuomo: "I'm amazed at how many Republicans have suddenly forgotten or completely don't care that Cuomo killed elderly people in nursing homes by putting COVID patients IN the nursing homes and enforced some of the most insane Covid lockdowns in the country! But are now saying the NY Republican mayoral candidate should drop out so that the literal COVID Communist, Cuomo, can win and become mayor of NY again. I can't even imagine if my mother or father was murdered in a New York nursing home because of Andrew Cuomo putting Covid patients in the nursing homes and then telling me that I have to vote for him. Are you kidding me? If [Zohran] Mamdani wins, then he will show all of America what his policies look like in action and all the Democrats endorsed him. And people can move out of NYC, I honestly don't know how they live there in the first place!" Read more
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to try to force House Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who won her late father's seat in a special election nearly one month ago.
A lunatic from Texas was arrested for making death threats against reactionary Jewish media figures in Florida. Nicholas Ray of Spring, TX, was charged with extortion, written threats to kill, and unlawful use of a two-way communication device. Notorious Islamophobe Laura Loomer bleated that she was one of those targeted with death threats, as were Zionist propagandists Josh Hammer and Seth Dillon. Loomer whined that she became a target because the Texan Christian "was radicalized by the false accusations that I am a foreign agent, and then he proceeded to make a serious and credible threat against my life." The irony is that according to Marjorie-Taylor Greene (R-GA), the abominable Laura Loomer is an unregistered foreign agent promoting Zionism and Islamophobia in the US with AIPAC.
