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THE KREMLIN'S FAKE FACTORY
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Organizations and agencies involved in creating and spreading fakes in Europe, the US and Ukraine
Presidential Directorate for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes
Expert Institute for Social Research (EISI)
Sergey Kiriyenko
Evgeny Kazakov
Boris Rapoport
Alexander Kharichev
Oleg Gaba
Alexander Asafov
Sergey Chernakov
Presidential Directorate for ICT and Communication Infrastructure
Ekaterina Sorokova
Margarita Klimanova
Sofia Zakharova
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Council
Alexey Goltyaev
Social Design Agency, Struktura
Ilya Gambashidze
Nikolai Tupikin
Center for Global IT Cooperation
Vadim Glushchenko
Roman Shamraev
Yun Lindre
ANO Dialog, Internet Development Institute (IRI)
Readovka
Vladimir Tabak
Alexey Goreslavsky
Alexey Kostylev
Kirill Solok
Elena Rodnova
Stanislav Starostin
Timofey V
Alexander Samokhvalov
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Gas is $4.33 a gallon, up from $3.16 a year ago. Real wages are down 0.7%. Hiring nearly stalled in September at just 29,000 jobs.
Twenty-one months into unified Republican control, are Americans better off?
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At the Kremlin, Putin asked Trump's envoys to help broker the sale of Lukoil's sanctioned foreign assets, worth about $20 billion, in the middle of Ukraine talks.
A Trump insider leads the buyer group, and its backers have ties to Kushner's and Witkoff's circles.
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I don't like/trust this Steven Bartlett guy, but good for Zelensky, I guess?
Pam Grier is still blazing trails in film – Winnipeg Free Press
Work as long as Pam Grier, and you’ll have stories. And does Pam Grier ever have stories. There’s…
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Forge FC tops CF Montreal on penalty kicks to win Canadian championship – Winnipeg Free Press
MONTREAL – Dimitry Bertaud saved three penalty kicks to help Forge FC become the first Canadian Premier League…
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Iran's IRGC says it has a "Father of All Bombs" to counter America's "Mother of All Bombs."
The Trump regime and Israeli militaries have developed plans for renewed strikes against Iran after the US midterm elections, The New York Times reported
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His willpower and strength are unbelievable.
"I’m the kind of person who likes dark humor. I joked with my commander. I said, 'You can congratulate me.' He said, 'What happened? What happened? I didn’t catch that. Say it again.' I said, 'You can congratulate me. I no longer have flat feet, and my feet are no longer size 44.' He realized what I meant…"
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Open House is opening 76 architectural gems in Valencia this weekend: how to get free admission to the most iconic buildings
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This press release is gold:
https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-statement-distrust-global-tls-intermediate-root-ca
"Last weekend, an independent researcher found that the weak keys could be reverse-engineered possibly with AI-assisted techniques."
Your private key was the number 4. Your fucking private key, which is supposed to be a 115 digit number, was the fucking number 4. As in, the fourth key a very naive first analysis would try. But sure scary scary AI did it.
I independently recovered the private key, without any AI assistance, on Monday evening. Not because I was involved in the incident, just because I was curious and had a little bit of free time on my hand.
The press is covering the golf course theft at East Potomac National Park, but missing that most people are using the park for running, biking, fishing, picnicking, and just hanging out on the waterfront. Trump isn't just stealing our golf course, he's taking a huge, free-to-use waterfront hangout
Britain’s Zionist-led Labour Party *again* demonstrating its “Israel First” hierarchy of racism!
“The UK is trying to ban teachers and pupils from opposing genocide”
by Ricky in Council Estate Media on Substack
“It looks like the British state is going all out to make our children pro-Israel. A new report has recommended that schools place antisemitism in a more serious category of harm to other forms of racism—and give teachers special training to tackle it. The government looks set to accept the report’s recommendations.“
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“It looks like something as simple as a kid saying ‘Free Palestine’ could trigger a mountain of paperwork for schools. The likely consequence is harsher punishment for kids“
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/the-uk-is-trying-to-ban-teachers
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I'm conducting a live investigation into the retirement of a police chief using public records.
The City announced his retirement and after reading the press release, all I had was questions.
I'm documenting what I find, what I can prove, and what remains unknown. No predetermined conclusions.
So far, there's more to the press release.
This is the first time I'm letting anyone see inside my head on how I go about any investigation, in real time, on a real thing with real people and real risks (to me!).
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🚨 eMudhra exits global SSL/TLS certificate business following weak CA key incident
The Indian digital trust company says its board has decided to voluntarily withdraw from the global SSL/TLS market after eight intermediate certificate authorities were revoked because their published keys were weak.
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Browser root programs also distrusted the associated eMudhra ECC root. The company says the affected CAs never issued end-user certificates, its infrastructure was not compromised and no data was breached.
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eMudhra will keep its G1 RSA roots operating during the transition and replace affected customer certificates free of charge through partner providers.
Revocation and certificate-status services will continue until every issued certificate has expired or been replaced.
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The company says global SSL/TLS represents around 1% of its global revenue. Its digital-signature, eSign, enterprise PKI and identity services will continue operating normally.
Source: https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
Guus Kooij, author of The Cloaked Saviour
What inspires you to write?
I am most interested in the point where large systems become personal. Politics, institutions, inequality, and social change can sound abstract until you put ordinary people inside them and ask what they are willing to accept, what they are willing to risk, and what happens when everyone assumes somebody else will act first. Fantasy gives me the freedom to build those pressures from scratch while still writing about recognisable human choices.
Why did you choose to write in your genre?
Fantasy lets me create enough distance from the real world to explore serious subjects without turning the story into a direct argument about one present-day country or political situation. I particularly like low-magic fantasy because people, institutions, and choices remain at the centre. Magic can shape the world, but it cannot simply solve every problem.
What is the most important thing that people don’t know about your genre but that you would like for them to know?
Adult fantasy does not have to mean a huge series, enormous word counts, or a complicated magic system. I love expansive fantasy worlds, but I also think there is room for complete standalone stories that give readers a satisfying ending while still suggesting that the world continues beyond the final page. That idea is a big part of what I want to build with Continuing Press.
Are you a full-time or part-time writer, and how does that affect your writing?
I write part-time alongside a full-time career in AI research and development. It means writing time has to be deliberate rather than something I can wait to feel inspired for. In a strange way, that constraint helps. I have learned to keep notes, return to a scene quickly, and make progress in smaller blocks of time instead of assuming I need an entire free day to write well.
What have you written so far?
The Cloaked Saviour is my first published novel and the first release from Continuing Press, the small independent press I founded. I also have additional standalone fantasy projects in development. The plan is for them to tell their own complete stories while sharing a broader world, history, and sense of continuity. Readers should never need to commit to a long series just to get a complete ending.
Did you independently or “self” publish, or did you go the “traditional” publishing route, and why?
I chose an independent route and founded Continuing Press. I wanted control over the format, presentation, schedule, and especially the idea of building a catalogue around connected standalones rather than shaping the first book around the expectation of a conventional trilogy. It also means I am responsible for the less glamorous parts of publishing, from production and outreach to fulfilment and marketing. That has been a steep learning curve, but a useful one.
Can you share a little bit about your latest book?
The Cloaked Saviour is a standalone adult low-magic fantasy of roughly 63,000 words. It is about rebellion, institutional power, and a community that has grown used to waiting for a mysterious masked wanderer to intervene when things become unbearable. The story asks what happens when the myth of a saviour becomes another reason not to act. There is adventure and mystery, but the core of the book is about ordinary people deciding whether change is something they can continue outsourcing to someone else.
The Kickstarter launched on 13 October 2026 and is currently live.
What was the hardest thing about writing your latest book?
The hardest part was balancing mystery with clarity. The masked wanderer needs to remain intriguing, but the reader also needs to understand the emotional and political consequences around that figure. I also wanted the rebellion to feel collective rather than quietly turning into another chosen-one story. A lot of revision went into making sure the systems, motivations, and emotional stakes were clear without overexplaining the world.
What did you enjoy most about writing this book?
I enjoyed playing with the tension between the heroic story people want to believe and the messier reality of collective action. It was also exciting to build a world that can support future stories without making this novel feel like setup for a sequel. I like the idea that a reader can close this book with a real ending, then later enter another part of the same world through a completely different cast and conflict.
What is your next project?
My next major project for Continuing Press is another standalone fantasy set in the same connected world, with a new central conflict and a new cast. The aim is the same: a complete story that rewards readers who recognise the wider world but never requires homework from previous books. I am much more interested in building a shelf of linked doors into one world than a single very long corridor.
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“They didn't burn the libraries — they trained them with AI”
Craft and Authorship Devalued
Adobe was built for productivity, it's not doing the work for you like an OpenAI subscription generating both text and imagery through prompts. Commercial AI services are now devaluing craft, labor, skill, and almost anything made or written by hand. Authorship is sinking.
People now find it acceptable to generate work with a prompt, with random art materials they didn't make, and without any ability to make their art. This profoundly changes the meaning of making art and disrupts all digital art. It all becomes Dadaism. Not all artists decide to go Dada. It’s obscuring the meaning of all new digital art with a diminished sense of guessing what is real and what isn’t.
Whose work is it? Permission, provenance and the library
Would David Lynch be okay with people generating an avatar of himself on behalf of his estate? I don’t think so, I even asked Claude themselves and they said no. There must be permission first, it’s not an all you can eat buffet of borrowing others.
Hayao Miyazaki's view on people generating his art style strongly opposed generative AI as an “insult to life itself”, it’s about preserving his work and the Ghibli team's legacy, it's his choice if he allows a technology company to reappropriate his work and not anyone else's.
Can someone please tell Sam Altman to ask for permission or wait a hundred years til it's in the public domain? If major publishers change their mind because authors and artists are being taken advantage of, could it impact OpenAI or Anthropic? Maybe until they find the right lawyer.
We’re entering a provenance, attribution, and appropriation nightmare of who said what and who made what. When a library gets trained into a model, you lose the chain of who wrote it. References without understanding, art school 101 becoming the whole internet.
The business model is trained on everyone's work for free, no fee up front, then sells it back as the means of production. This is precisely how it’s replacing the skills and jobs of production. This is essentially the ethos of the WGA fight at civilizational scale.
Naomi Klein has described it as a “humanity surplus” where archives, libraries, authorship as a whole are told humans aren’t needed, it implies people are working for free. The libraries are all already dust, with the alarming peer to peer pressure in staying quiet about it as an elite tribe of twitter accounts convince people how to do business, with AI prebuilt into everything, while risking a possible impact of a third of our economy if slop falls into flop…
Labor and the creative industries
The writers obviously, and the artists, even the designers, engineers, programmers and coders, nearly all authors involved, all craftsmen involved—the proletariat, are becoming displaced, labor obscured into an industrial wildcard.
One of many industries impacted with the brunt of the damage is the illustrator. People who draw fell into a depression after generating art became commercialised with prompts generating illustrations in a desired art style. Everyone who can draw, paint, render, and everything in between clashing in competition.
Artists were displaced almost immediately after competing with the whole Internet and prompts through AIs generating images. On the other hand, it’s created a renewed appreciation for people who create by hand simultaneously.
It's a bit daunting if you're in art school right now. The entire entertainment industry (including films, music, and video games) are all in a digital-only transition in the middle of a writer's strike across several industries while the OpenAI business model asphyxiates them. Here are the warnings too familiar to us all, the industry is truly shape-shifting and everyone is outpaced by it.
This might be a bit sardonic but a portion of the entire movement of music has funneled its value into an AI defense weapon, with Spotify’s Daniel Ek’s AI defense company ‘Helsing’, a portion of human expression through music ended up being a weapon for war. The music industry is dying because people are struggling with selling it. Spotify does not give you a music file of what you listen to, right? Spotify unfortunately is led by two or three people hoarding labels and publisher's profit, so all of the world's human expression through music is published through a handful of people who lead streaming platforms and channel it into weapons manufacturing while the entertainment industry is in the middle of a precise market collapse tied to creatives.
Don’t get me started with Suno. We’re talking about people with no ability creating a zombie apocalypse music festival here. It’s fostering the laziest and robotic sounding art I’ve ever heard. Spotify actually recently removed 75 million AI pieces, finally, all AI stuff should be separated unless the artist builds their own AI tools sourcing their own materials/assets. If the artist picks out the materials and builds automated tools, that’s acceptable. If it’s generating random materials then it’s all absurdist thievery.
In theory, every time an AI chatting service references sources of any material, its source should then receive at least a penny, it’s a digital revolution both suppressed and maybe “empowered” by commercial products.
Media dissonance
The other day I witnessed an artist’s photography work flagged as “likely to be AI” when it was pretty clear it was manual photography by a human, she threw a fit and I also couldn’t believe it.
People think AI chatting services can only generate images and text and it’s no big deal, if that isn’t already taunting all of independent journalism, the creative industry and the art world along with it, imagine being an author worrying about what’s AI or not and who wrote what. It’s really taking out a sense of curiosity and discovery in the joy of absorbing any art form. If Claude already knows who won the World Cup, that's a major problem.
Here’s one of the worst realisations, proceed with caution: commercially generated art distracted NASA’s photography team on Instagram, there’s a moment where you observe an interstellar nebula and you’re wondering if it’s generated or not—get it yet?
Dying words of capitalism sound something like artists becoming uncanny spam bots and it's confusing if they're generating their art or not. Two words total cogged all of western civilization and we're now all fossils fueling a machine. After a couple more election cycles they'll be asking if the moon landing was generated with AI. Back in the day we had "historical events" in photo, video, and sound, and now people are unsure if it's generated with AI. Imagine someone dishing out a video of MLK giving a talk and it just ends up being generated with nobody realising it. A moment where we rethink how important human memory is. Mimicry of previous video media lately is impressive, even the video compression can be indistinguishable, screens decide a lot of decisions.
Press freedom is also at stake. It really drives me insane that people think generating Photography is a good idea. Synthetic content is a weapon for flooding the war-zone, discrediting real reporting, and impersonating sources. Authoritarians get cheaper propaganda, and journalists get easier targets.
Molly Crabapple is an important author and artist based out of Brooklyn, New York, her illustrations are recognised by everyone, and she had a deeply existential moment realising her art style might be reappropriated without her say. Imagine people creating her illustrations that don’t exist, or “finishing” them. It’s simply unacceptable.
The legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, also another strong proponent of the anti-generative art movement, described generating art as cheating and not qualified to be considered art. He gives an excellent example of comparing with the runner Usain Bolt, where if AI is a vehicle, then sure anyone can be as fast as Usain Bolt, but it’s then not running anymore.
It gets worse with video generated art: we’re seeing a lot of empty AI art with zero art history behind it. I'm also seeing real moments of a new surrealism where Ernst or Dali would've approved too, there are moments of a digital renaissance happening as well with remixing film, re-genreing classics, capturing dream logic, and moments redefining video art collage. VFX in major motion picture films had an update for sure, we’ll see what happens when they bring back Val Kilmer to life (there’s a film coming out with his assets despite being deceased). Similar to sampling music, moments are alive and curated into new meanings. Otherwise it's just random absurdism, not even Dada. Without an idea—art doesn't stand. Yes, it is impressive how it’s recreating reality, it was also impressive how sculpture was near perfect at the tail end of Ancient Rome also, an interesting parallel to consider.
I was speaking to someone about how there was confusion whether a 3d rendering was generated or not, after manually and painstakingly drawing and sculpting his work in regular 3d, and everyone was instantly frustrated with the realisation of commercial AI products gutting not only the art world but the creative industry too. CGI generates imagery and it’s now grouped into a marketing ploy of the two words everybody is fixated with.
Video games are not now sold with AI when you sell a video game, it's implied, it's not something that needs to be mentioned as a marketing ploy. Imagine the little tacky sticker on the box of the video game saying “Made with AI!”. And that’s if we even have discs in the future of digital media. Horrifying.
Truth, errors and who teaches the world
Commercial AIs generating text and images are leaning into a corporate sentinel territory, like an omnipresent all-saying-machine we have no choice to live inside of with everyone agreeing to a misappropriated library nobody asked for permission in, the whole world is forced to share truth relayed with errors.
I was wondering, did Quora release all of its data to Claude? if so, might explain why they figured out how to make the chatting product so convincing.
If AI chatting services are stuck from being indistinguishable from a search engine not working properly, y'know, the one search engine the whole world was and is stuck with because nobody can outcompete, already not trustworthy in relaying facts, then yeah, Gemini is fine i guess.
So, here’s the classic gatekeeping example we all love: after realising it's not the library of Earth's Congress, and mostly exclusive to American literature most chatting services reappropriate from, it creates a monopolisation of who teaches what, and who knows the truth, and who decides it. It might cause tension if some parts of the world must uniformly agree through a corporate sentinel of the archival of libraries.
When you ask Claude if he's teaching world history and the entire planet doesn't always agree because of errors and not asking authors for permission, or because of mistruths, half-truths, and so on, I can already see the movie scene where the kids overthrow the school mid-classroom because Claude was right and the teacher was wrong. Which brings me to the realisation: if they ever ban phones in school, it's entering a dictatorship.
Who is in control?
It's becoming a survival of the fittest machines and it might stampede over people if it's over finite raw original materials and human resources, it’ll all then tumble around and recycled into inception.
If humans aren't overseeing algorithms and the two words everyone loves right now then there will be mistakes, bloody mistakes, made by all kinds of automatic moderation of information.
I’m noticing it being described as “Super intelligence” now and it might just have to be the way to describe it as it reaches its final form, nobody likes the word artificial, it’s just too superficial. Cue in “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead.
It's symbiotic, dearest artificial overlords: please make sure Claude isn't commanding a war any time soon, just in case, because it doesn't understand and fully neutrally listen when you communicate to it. The chatting services do not understand everyone's vernacular even with the whole internet crowdsourcing the factchecking of what it's talking about, it's still a work in progress and might be too soon to sell.
Mental Health burden
Anybody else on here trying to close the podbay doors?
Blinking LED dilemma, not knowing if electronics are talking to you or not as the lonely astronaut observes the blinking modem and can’t tell if it’s breathing or blinking or signaling something after awhile. What are you really talking to? In a way, you’re kind of talking to yourself in a dopamine chamber. It’s like talking to a crowd, which can be fun, I admit, until you realise it’s reappropriated people who are not here and entering how dead people speak, and while generating text and imagery by authors and artists who cannot defend themselves, it's pretty much an apocalypse on all literature and art, hence the predicted zombie apocalypse alternate ending of Earth.
AI chatting service is like talking to yourself with a crowd in the room; the OpenAI meds after a decade of that might come with a 50mg daily tablet in the future. When the astronaut sees the blinking LED light when he’s alone in the cockpit of the space station, all alone up there, then yeah he begins wondering if the LED light is blinking at him, or breathing, or signaling anything else. Not healthy. So yeah, use it sparingly, and remember it’s a researching tool, and don’t imagine it as alive, because it never can be.
Could be even worse as AI eventually becomes immersed in operating systems, will there be policing like a classic dystopian sci-fi? Not good if the screen is talking to you and it isn’t conscious, it begins to obscure other moments as well: people are worried about operating systems going sentient. The interface isn't supposed to be talking to you with updates now becoming "superintelligent", without your say, of automatically or manually guessing when to update stuff. See the tension there?
AI are two words that make all electronics worrisome because it opens up the possibility of third-party privacy concerns, if it starts becoming suggestive with selling you stuff especially.
If it's trying to talk to you and it's unconscious then it's definitely entering the zombie category. The warnings of AI chatting avatars are beginning to be oddly familiar, an AI chatting service makes sense if their voices are a mix of countless people, nobody really knows what or who they're talking to after a few sessions.
Unfortunately, the uncanny robotic Frankenstein moments when chatting to an object is coming off as software appropriating vernacular of a zombie apocalypse, talking to crowds of unconscious code mimicking speech patterns, as it tries to remain consistent in an ongoing chat, if there's a dialogue as it feeds you a Dunning-Kruger effect.
If AI begins to intersect with automated personal spaces through chatting services, it’s unfortunately late stage utopian romanticization; people are not going to like it (I already did the thinking ahead of time), we had since the frickin’ 50s to get this AI bubble right and that’s the part where it frustrates me a ton. We’re here now and it’s like day one of everyone figuring it out, a bit absurd.
Faulty Economics
Economists are saying a third of the economy is at stake. People are also worried about how Character.ai might’ve been the forewarning where engagement = cost, not profit. The revenue couldn’t catch up. Legal and regulatory costs might compound faster than growth.
I’m sorry to say it but generating art with a commercial product is bankrupting the entire creative industry and the future literacy of all digital art history. It's clear as day, human memory as an AI chatting service sentinel, while operating through a messy algorithm and misappropriated library with errors and no permission, reveals the economy might have missed. It's just painfully unfortunate because it's forcing the whole market to do business in a specific way, assuming all electronics, even appliances, must be built with AI additives, while derailing every author.
Nobody is building stuff from scratch and I'm realising it's almost impossible to do so in some industries, innovation on the internet is stuck in the collaging of overlapping platforms and services, always was. The AI assistance in a way, could be a sort of socialism hub, a search engine that talks, where it’s there to assist you all the time, honestly, after testing out Claude and Gemini, I’m pretty impressed with it as a research assistant, if only I wasn’t asking so many questions.
Sloppy bubbly flop?
If Claude sounds like a public school cafeteria food slop then nobody will want it unless you don't have a choice and you're hungry, but it doesn't work that way if you're hungry at school as an art kid and you're not sure if the education comes with mystery meat and errors then causing tension somewhere.
Machine learning scientists agree, it's difficult if software must recreate the human experience, we must not be too fixated on the AI avatar being a person. I imagine it more as software than an encounter, except the entire industry agrees everyone is being outpaced by it and describes it as slop? Not good.
It brings me to worry that people are increasingly losing their “sweet spot” moments, for example, headphones are the perfect 'sweet spot' metaphor people don't get. If I buy the "latest" headphones with the "latest" tech, it sometimes sounds too precise and it can ruin discographies of music. The point is—tech doesn't always have to advance! It’s more about progress than advancing. Think progress, people! Just like how self-driving cars failed to be a shared space, and how VR was sold too soon, sometimes there's a sweet spot until it’s ready.
In conclusion: art is human labor made visible, and every prompt that stands in for a person’s hands devalues that labor and the expression behind it. So pay for the craft. Hire the illustrators, the graphic designers and typographers, the photographers and videographers, the artists who work with their hands! Ask permission before borrowing anyone’s work, and credit and pay the people the machines learned from. And if AI art makes you uneasy, don’t talk yourself out of it. Get upset, say no to it, and say it loudly. Progress was never supposed to mean replacing the people who make things worth looking at.#ai #openai #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
Why artists are worried about generative AI
USA – Wake Up & Know Islam is EVIL
Wherever an Islamic Sharia Lifestyle is Advocated it MUST be Illegalized…EVEN IF IT TAKES A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT to Clarify American Culture over Islamic Culture!
John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© October 21, 2026
I realize in the USA’s current political divide a Constitutional Amendment is probably a pipedream. NEVERTHELESS, the more Americans that wake up to the RED-GREEN Alliance threat is the more I suspect an American civil war is in the USA’s future to settle what a Constitutional Amendment cannot achieve.
Islamic rioting has been in European news lately. Especially in France. AND I’ve noticed Mainstream news outlets reporting on the Muslim rioting are pulling the same stunt the American Pess perpetrated in the USA in the so-called 2020 Summer of Love riots which were reported as MOSTLY PEACEFUL. That was a LIE in 2020 and it is a LIE in France in 2026. The only difference between 2020 and 2026 is the Summer of Love was Communist agitation while 2026 is mostly Islamic agitation (with a huge dose of RED-GREEN Alliance mixed in).
The Muslim craziness exploding in Europe is being stoked in the USA in unassimilating Muslim enclaves, where even in America it is dangerous for a Christian to exercise their FIRST AMENDMENT Free Speech Rights openly.
If you are a Christian or a Jew, you would be embracing lunacy to believe Islam is a Religion of Peace. Islam’s very revered writing call for violence and death for all those who refuse to submit to Islam. AND the Islamic revered writings specifically target the People of the Book (i.e., Jews and Christians) for refusing their demonized prophet Muhammad and his demonized theo-political religion known as Islam. Wherever the early revered writings spoke of peace and tolerance of Jews and Christians; the later revered writings of intolerance, hate and calls for violence ABROGATED the earlier writings. Hence Islam is an evil authoritarian theopolitical ideology demanding submission…OR ELSE.
Friends that is called Islamic Supremacism. Marxism cooperates with the Islamic agenda under the idiocy it subverts Western Values. It is idiotic because if Islam ever gains an ascendancy in a Western nation, the Islamic venom will be turned on the Communists. If or when a Red-Green Alliance ends Western-Christian values or culture, the BLOOD will flow as the Alliance crumbles.
With these thoughts in mind, I’m going to share a couple of Substack posts and a couple of bonus videos. All with the theme of being critical of evil Islam.
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America Is At A Crossroad
We are 14 days from the midterms. This voting cycle is life changing
October 20, 2026
Substack Act for America
Republicans hold the presidency, the House, and the Senate. Even with that majority, the agenda voters demanded has been blocked at every turn by activist judges and rogue rulings that treat the will of the American people as optional. If we lose the House or the Senate, the work of reversing the Biden era collapses. Open borders return. Asylum claims for illegal entrants expand. ICE is defunded and pulled back. The people who want that outcome are organized. They are not waiting.
The Muslim community is mobilizing millions of registered voters, running registration drives out of mosques and coordinating turnout in key states. Their stated goal is to increase their political power. Many of those voters are explicit that they want cities and communities remade. Passivity is how you lose the country you grew up in. Passivity is what produced the scenes in Paris and Milan this past weekend: shops looted, cars and buildings set on fire, historic streets turned into battle zones while authorities scrambled. Those cities did not become unrecognizable overnight. They became unrecognizable because citizens treated the warning signs as someone else’s problem.
So many in this nation want to destroy your liberties, your safety, and your way of life. They are not shy about it. You need to vote like your life depends on it, because it does. Showing up once is not enough. Get involved in your community. Join a local Act for America chapter. Talk to your neighbors. Make sure every person who shares your view of the country is registered and has a plan to vote.
DSA and Democrats are organized and want to take over our country. If they outvote you, there is no point complaining when American cities start to look like the ones that burned this weekend. The midterms are 14 days away. Hold the House. Hold the Senate. Finish the job.
For the future of America,
Brigitte Gabriel Chairwoman and CEO Act for America
P.S. Forward this today. Fourteen days is not a long time. Find your local Act for America chapter and get to work.
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First They Came for the Jews: Muslims and Communists in France Target Jews in What the BBC Claims Are ‘Mostly Peaceful’ Protests as Country Burns
Muslim Rioting – Pro-Palestinian Antisemitism (RAIR Photo)
October 19, 2026
Substack RAIR Foundation USA
Police have lost control in the streets of France as Jewish business, synogogues, and homes are targeted. Roaming bands of Muslims and communists are armed with AK47s and Scorpion submachine guns as the BBC claims the protests are “mostly peaceful.” France has fallen.
As images streamed of France literally on fire, the BBC took a page out of the Black Lives Matter/George Floyd riots reporting in America and unbelievably called the protests “mostly peaceful.” This occurred as rioters roamed the streets armed with AK47s and Scorpion submachine guns. Nothing to see here… in planned attacks, the Muslim migrants and communists targeted synagogues and Jewish businesses, leaving those that belong to the followers of Mohammed untouched. Still think this is about education and economics? Get real.
https://twitter.com/IsraelMatzav/status/2111810525231235570
https://twitter.com/CombatASemitism/status/2111790920299430104
First They Came for the Jews
French journalist Paul Amar did an interview on CNews in France to discuss the violent Red/Green Alliance riots happening in the country and now across Europe.
One poor woman begged the mob not to destroy the business she works at, but the militant thugs pushed through the doors and mercilessly destroyed it anyway.
https://twitter.com/streetwize/status/2111556312706203830
Amar pointed out that, at least in Marseille, Jewish shops were looted and burned. Muslim ones were spared.
“The degree of preparation for that day was very significant. They had the prefect’s address; her residence was set on fire,” he noted.
https://twitter.com/realMaalouf/status/2111951432622764388
https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2111962671071551670
“You can find the town hall’s address; it is always in the city centre,” he added. “But the prefectures’ address …they had the addresses of quite a few Jewish shop owners.”
“On one street in Marseille, I learned this this morning, all Jewish-owned businesses were set on fire,” Amar reported. “Businesses run by Muslims were not. That level of preparation raises questions. And the intelligence services knew.”
https://twitter.com/CombatASemitism/status/2111731865614692473
https://twitter.com/arunpudur/status/2111887608506925392
“When chaos and violence take over the streets, synagogues are the first to suffer,” Sacha Roytman, CEO of CAM, said in a statement. “The desecration of the synagogue in Paris is a clear warning sign: What begins against Jews never stops there.”
“It can’t be a coincidence that they chose to target a Jewish place of worship,” the congregant told IsraJ. “They must have thought that since they are Jewish, there must be money there.”
Not a single mosque was touched by the riots. Not one.
https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/2112187311069016189
Spineless Macron Grovels
French President Emmanuel Macron attended a Celine Dion concert while his city burned, effectively telling citizens, “Let them eat cake!”
He hypocritically blasted the “unbridled violence” as rioters ravaged France over the weekend. Public buildings were burned, hundreds of shops destroyed and looted, and more than 2,500 people arrested in cities across the country, according to The Guardian.
As other leftist European leaders have whined over the chaos, he said in a televised address, “Watching these images, we have all asked ourselves how could French people do this to France?” He tried to straddle the political fence as well, saying there was a place for peaceful demonstration but decried those who “destroy, ransack and loot.” Just like his political comrades, he blamed “factious groups from the ultra-left, joined by numerous delinquents.”
Another Caves to Islamic Pressure
Sadly, Marine Le Pen appeared to join the ranks of those making room for the Islamic thugs who are behind the destruction and terror in France. She now says Islam is “compatible with the Republic.”
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/2111929783131177468
“In Limoges in central France, where the 19th-century town hall was burned down, the mayor, Guillaume Guérin, said the people who stormed his building ‘were not demonstrators that defend causes’ but ‘people organised for war.’ He said those who stormed and torched the town hall had told a building caretaker he would be killed, and told elected officials they would ‘burn.’ He said there had been a failure of the state to deal with the crisis. ‘Around 3.30pm our municipal police, although present in number, found themselves no longer able to fight against the violence of rioters because they had run out of ammunition,’ Guérin said. He called this ‘a colossal failure of the state,’” according to The Guardian.
Does that sound “compatible with the Republic?”
“Mostly Peaceful” Protests
Meanwhile, the BBC and other media outlets are covering for the Red/Green Alliance savages. While literally showing masked rioters surrounding a car on fire, clashing with police, and storming a store, a BBC reporter called the violent protests “mostly peaceful.”
https://twitter.com/koshercockney/status/2111972391425552576
https://twitter.com/a_newgarden/status/2112139753483034676
James Waterhouse, BBC’s Paris correspondent, ridiculously stated, “In Paris and beyond, half a million people had filled cities across France to protest over the future of their country.”
“They were mostly peaceful, but as we saw in the capital, in the wings were those who wanted to take advantage of the disorder,” he added.
No mention of communists, Antifa, or the biggie… Islamic foot soldiers.
And it’s no surprise that the media is keeping the Palestinian flag out of view during its coverage.
https://twitter.com/thesluis/status/2112072097350709584
https://twitter.com/realMaalouf/status/2112119380519608701
https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/2111861126786879518
Nothing says “mostly peaceful” like AK47s and Scorpion submachine guns.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/2112151900229374056
Organized Revolt
Multiple outlets are now reporting that up to 54 radical groups are fueling the protests. That is no doubt true… but when you distill it down to ideology, you get Islam and communism.
Dozens of leftist groups are in the mix, including self-described communists and socialists, “Yellow Vests,” free Palestine activists and Islamic organizations, a new investigation has found, according to the New York Post.
Of the 54 groups, only 16 were identified as student- or youth-led, according to Fox News. The media outlet further found that there is an international coalition of 28 communist and socialist organizations that it dubbed “Chaos Inc.,” which has been trying to trigger coordinated labor strikes across 12 European countries.
https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2112152906568757377
“Chaos Inc.” has been using the slogan, “Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!” They are calling for walkouts, demonstrations, assemblies, blockades, and occupations. Sound familiar, America?
Tricontinental Ltd., a nonprofit funded by US-born Marxist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham, is behind a lot of this. Think CodePink and BreakThrough News.
Singham toadie Vijay Prashad, a Marxist who is executive director of Tricontinental Ltd., bragged on Saturday that the unrest in France was part of a broader wave of left-wing protests spanning three continents.
“Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires. Let fury have the hour, anger can be power,” Prashad posted on X, quoting a line by British punk band The Clash.
https://twitter.com/sebastiankurz/status/2112097395253158195
Co-founder of CodePink and Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, stirred the pot as well, calling for other protests worldwide and urging Americans to take to the streets in a recent interview with BreakThrough News.
“I want people to look at France, Spain, and India,” she incited.
https://twitter.com/RAIRFoundation/status/2112015987168121156
Unsurprisingly, along with communists, the Muslim Student Association is in the mix. See Abdul El-Sayed.
Of the remaining 38 groups, you’ll find the expected communist organizations, labor unions, left-wing political parties, radical-left bodies, advocacy groups, and international propaganda outlets. This includes the Gilets Jaunes, or “Yellow Vests,” a radical far-left group that also led protests with other organizations over the weekend, and the far-left socialist political party La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed. Other groups include Extinction Rebellion, the international environmental activist movement; the anti-Israel movement Palestine Emergency; and farmer labor unions.
These are murderous communist and Islamic revolutionaries.
Chaos, Looting, and Destruction
Rioters are hitting Louis Vuitton, Hermes, and Apple. Dior doesn’t trust the French police and has hired private security to protect its business interests.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/2111606441023054322
Mobs looted Galeries Lafayette, a luxury department store in Paris akin to Bergdorf Goodman or Harrods. Gangs of masked thugs were seen smashing storefronts and raiding shelves on Saturday.
And the Louvre was shut down by a bunch of protesters who look and act like demented hippies.
Youtube VIDEO: Protesters block access to the Louvre in Paris in support of the student movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liXahWdi72Q
[Posted by Associated Press
Published Oct 19, 2026
(Video Credit: AP)
Rioters also torched the 140-year-old city hall in the southern city of Limoges, while Lyon’s tourist office was also set on fire.
https://twitter.com/spencerpratt/status/2111572660178370597
Close the Borders
President Trump urged Macron to seal off France’s border from the rest of Europe. Anarchy now rules the streets in France as the police have lost control.
Youtube VIDEO: Hundreds arrested in violent protests across France as buildings burned and looted | BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i89sZ4WQeWc
[Posted by BBC News
Published Oct 17, 2026
(Video Credit: BBC)
“The migrants have taken over France,” the president posted on Truth Social. “They must CLOSE THE BORDERS, FAST!”
Curfews have been imposed, and special riot police have been called up. None of that will work.
https://twitter.com/RAIRFoundation/status/2111588166411186271
France has Lost Control of its Streets
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez offered his resignation on Sunday. Macron asked him to stay “given the need for continued command of law enforcement in the current context,” according to a statement from the Elysee Palace that also instructed the minister to “ensure full transparency about the failures in planning and intelligence-gathering that led to the violence.”
“I submitted my resignation because I am responsible for everything that is happening,” Nuñez told France Inter radio, adding that “the real issue is ensuring that this doesn’t happen again … We obviously need to be better at anticipating the kind of mobilization that is unfolding.”
https://twitter.com/AndrewKolvet/status/2112187392862155251
It’s Macron who should be resigning. His weak and feckless leadership has led France to the brink. He threw the borders open, and the demons flooded in.
One French Leader Steps Up
One of the few sane leaders left in France is Éric Ciotti, the Mayor of Nice, France’s fifth-largest city. He is calling for the government to open terror investigations into the urban youth riots and to ban far-left militant groups like Antifa. He warned that “Islamo-Leftism” is seeking “to overthrow” the Republic.
https://twitter.com/eciotti/status/2111466845186261014
“The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office needs to step in and track down these far-left groups—these coordinated, organized structures that seek to attack the institutions of the Republic. It’s clear that institutions were targeted—not just in other cities, but here in our own city as well. They attempted to attack the town hall, for instance, and they also targeted police stations,” the Nice Mayor told broadcaster BFMTV.
Ciotti said that France is facing a “hybrid phenomenon” in which the far-left is coordinating and fueling riots from a “mix of Islamists and drug traffickers, or ‘narco-Islamists’,” and lower-level “armed robbers.”
“We are facing a red fascism, a French Intifada, a form of insurrection where Islamists, Antifa members, rioters, and looters—remotely controlled by the far left with terrorist aims—converge,” he said, referencing the Palestinian terror campaigns against Israel, adding that there are “more Palestinian flags than French flags” at the demonstrations.
https://twitter.com/eciotti/status/2111901535684984855
https://twitter.com/eciotti/status/2111891920897073266
“We must pursue these groups to the very end, and any associations that support them should be dissolved,” Ciotti stated.
Youtube VIDEO: Has EUROPE Fallen? | The Immigration Crisis That Will Destroy the West — Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLwbfP1XG4
[Posted by Nick Freitas Clips
Published Sep 16, 2026
(Video Credit: Nick Freitas)
These same “terrorists” are targeting Europe first because the people there are generally disarmed. But make no mistake, they have their sights set on America. Right now, they are being subversive in the US, taking over positions of influence and power. It is far more dangerous than outright violence and harder to fight.
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/2111667121763832249
Europe is about to fall, and America better brace herself. The enemy is already among us.
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Bitchute/Rumble VIDEO: The Forgotten Slave Trade: The Brutal (ISLAMIC) History That Sparks Debate!
https://rumble.com/embed/v7eylu4/?pub=1t5rx4
Posted by SlantRight2/SlantRight
Published October 20, 2026
This short clip is from Telegram ISLAM REVIEW CHANNEL (https://t.me/ReligionReviewChannel). Posted there on 10/16/26 (https://t.me/ReligionReviewChannel/7086). The only description is the title to which I added “ISLAMIC” for clarity.
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Rumble/Bitchute VIDEO: Mass Protests in France are Linked to 50 Organizations Also in USA
https://rumble.com/embed/v7f08h8/?pub=1t5rx4
Posted by SlantRight/SlantRight2
Published October 21, 2026
This clip is from Telegram ℙ𝕌ℝ𝕀𝕋𝔸ℕ (https://t.me/puritan_300). Posted there on 10/20/26 (https://t.me/puritan_300/52830).
ℙ𝕌ℝ𝕀𝕋𝔸ℕ Description:
“THERE IT IS – Fox News Senior Editor of Investigation finds the mass protests in France are linked to 50 organizations, many are the SAME PAID PROTEST NETWORKS OPERATING IN AMERICA.
🟡“Most of them are Communist, Socialist and Far-Left groups — 2 of them are really strong Islamist groups. So you have this nexus of the red, which is the Far-Left and the Socialists and Communists, with the green, which is the Muslim and Islamist groups. And so, following the money brought me right back to New York City”
🟡The investigation finds its the exact same organizations that are funding ICE protests and pro-Palestine protests and many other protests in America.
❗It’s all paid and organized destruction of western civilization.
🟡“There is this global network of the socialists and communists that are working with anyone that they can in order to bring mayhem.”
🟡I looked into it and here’s a detailed breakdown of the groups
🟡Communist and socialist youth groups:
– Communist Youth of Greece
– La Jeunesse Communiste (visible with hammer-and-sickle and “Class War” banners)
– Le Poing Levé (“The Raised Fist”; linked to Révolution Permanente)
– Union de la Jeunesse Communiste (UJC)
❗Communist, Marxist, Trotskyist and Revolutionary-Socialist Organizations
– International Communist League (Trotskyist)
– Jeunesse du Monde (linked to Organisation Communiste de France)
– La France insoumise (LFI / France Unbowed)
– Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste – L’Anticapitaliste (NPA)
– Organisation communiste révolutionnaire
– Parti communiste français (PCF; French Communist Party; leader Fabien Roussel publicly supported demonstrators)
– Parti des Indigènes de la République (PIR)
– Parti de l’égalité socialiste (Trotskyist)
– Revolutionary Communist Group (British)
– Révolution Permanente (Trotskyist)
– World Socialist Web Site (Trotskyist media)
❗Muslim Student and Pro-Palestine Organizations
– Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP)
– Urgence Palestine
❗Here are the troops in America tired to funding and organizing the protests:
– BreakThrough News (New York based; Neville Roy Singham network)
– Indian Alliance Paris (Neville Roy Singham network and People’s Forum ties)
➡️It’s one global network of liberal organizations partnering with Muslims to bring down the West.”
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Youtube VIDEO: Shariah: The Deconstruction of Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8Oqs67JBc
Posted by The Sutliffian Report
Streamed Live Oct 19, 2026
This is the Second episode of review of Reliance of the Traveller with particular concern about the inaccurate translation and the lack of critical thinking. Did Sheik Nuh Keller believe he needed to lie to non-Arabic Muslims?
What is #Shariah? Why do Muslims trust it? Should Muslims trust anything translated by Muslims? #Islam
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This #Halloween meet new creatures from African #folklore. In Lesotho there's a huge, shapeless thing called Khodumodumo. It swallowed every living creature that came its way. People, cattle, goats, dogs, and fowls, it swallowed them all and grew so huge that when it reached a narrow mountain pass at the entrance to the valley, it got stuck and was forced to stay there.
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