The pilot of the FlyDubai flight is well enough to talk. Capt. Ed at Hat
Hair hears the
Hero Captain Speak: 'I Knew I Was Not Going to Let Others Die.'
From the Victory Girls,
FlyDubai Flight Reveals Heroes Instead Of Becoming A Horror.
"I was so badly hurt that I had fallen to the ground. But I knew I had to
act. I could feel the aircraft was going down."
"Said Capt. Smit Machchhar, from a hospital bed, quoted in
"'I Couldn’t Let All of Them Die': Pilot on FlyDubai Flight Recalls Sudden
Attack/Capt. Smit Machchhar, who was stabbed by his co-pilot midair between
Dubai and Tel Aviv, said he 'had to act' to prevent a crash despite serious
injuries"
From NYPo,
Trump’s Iran strategy is working — the ayatollah suffers as oil flows
again. NewsSquawk reports
US Treasury Secretary Bessent says Iran loaded zero crude oil onto tankers
in September. The Trump Administration is cutting off the Iranian regime’s
most critical source of revenue. RCW asserts
Tehran’s Hormuz Offer Reveals Its Real Dilemma. "The Islamic Republic faces two dangers at once. Continued war drains the
resources it needs to govern. Yet wartime conditions have made it easier for
the state to define and contain domestic opposition as a national security
threat. Tehran needs economic relief, but an agreement over the Strait of
Hormuz will not resolve the crisis that already existed between the government
and Iranian society." Bob Spencer at PJM notes Iran Touts Islam's Teachings of Equality. Reality, As Always, Is
Different.
At Right Times with Kathy Gyngell,
Why China Will Not Invade Taiwan. "Behind China's vast military lies an untested army, a purged high command
and a leadership at war with itself." PJM's Sarah Anderson sees
Venezuela 9 Months Later: Pressure, Protests, Power Outages... and a U.S.
Military Base?
Hat Hair's Dave Strom thinks
Canada's Ministers are Living in a Dream World. "Canada was, for years running, neck and neck with the US in terms of
economic performance, but no longer. In productivity growth, for instance,
Canada is right at the bottom of the G7, and its GDP per capita is dreadful
compared to its competitors." At Da Signal,
Victor Davis Hanson wonders Why Is Mark Carney Preparing for an American
Invasion?
"Carney is doing this, once again, to jack up opinion in Canada for a new
nationalism to avoid the great dissatisfaction in Alberta and Quebec, and
especially to try to influence the midterms in the United States and to
otherwise mask his unpopular socialist globalist agenda."
At Construction Physics,
Understanding the AI That Drives Robots, "An Explanation of Vision-Language-Action Models." Chris Queen at PJM hears
AI Is Going to Destroy Us All — Just Like Everything Else Was Supposed To. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Headquarters
@HQNewsNow, "Bill Gates on Trump's idea to
use lawsuits to regulate AI: "Do we just use the liability laws to try and keep
humans safe? ...
We've created a society that tries to keep people safe not by saying, 'oh, we
can bankrupt the person who does that.' ... Say you kill 100 million. You want
to use a lawsuit? I almost can't keep a straight face.""
Capt. Ed,
Midterm Miss: US Adds Only 29,000 Jobs in September. Breitbart Bus Dig explores
Republican Electoral Optimism Versus Consumer Sentiment. From Twitchy,
LA-HOO-ZA-HER: Hillary Clinton Instantly REGRETS Sharing 2 Headlines to
Dunk on Trump's Economy.
Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil, "
Amazing. These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity
around the time foreign aid money goes out. Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of
every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into
crypto wallets." From Ace,
RFKJr. Exposes More Billions in Medical Fraud.
VodkaPundit at Insty notes
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:
Abdul El-Sayed Billed County Taxpayers $9,000 a Month in ‘Consulting’ Fees While Running for Senate. Hat Hair's Dave Strom,
Caught: Abdul El-Sayed 'Resigned' From Government Job to Run for Senate, Remained on Payroll.
Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson, "
Abdul you're not going to believe this but SpaceX alone made 4,400 millionaires, including welders and cafeteria workers." Quote Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed, "I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire." From CJ,
Mamdani Will Be Honored Alongside Group with Alleged Ties to Iranian Regime. John Sexton can't believe
Mamdani: Socialism Is Just Dignity. Everywhere it's been tried it bring poverty and totalitarianism, the opposite of dignity.
AP @Average_NY_Guy, "
He’s planning to spend $607 MILLION to renovate… Wait for it… 1,148 apartments. That’s roughly $528,746 PER APARTMENT. For renovations. $607 million is an insane amount of money. Private developers renovate projects with thousands of apartments for a fraction of that. Give $607 million to a Hasidic developer from Brooklyn and he’ll renovate half the city, put up a whole neighborhood of new buildings, and probably still come in under budget." Quote NYCHA @NYCHA, "@NYCHA closes $607M deal to modernize Brooklyn’s Nostrand Houses via the Public Preservation Trust! Highlights: • Renovations for 1,148 apartments (~2,000 residents) • Lead/mold fix & upgrades • 100% public & affordable • 100% public ownership." It's not like it's his money.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "JUST NOW:
The Trump White House just LAUNCHED a devastating tracker that calculates the exact cost of Democrats’ 2026 socialist policies would cost the U.S. if they win $355,000 PER HOUSEHOLD. INCOME PLUMMETS. MORTGAGE RATES SURGE! Vote red! Add about $49T to the deficit over 10 years, which the Council of Economic Advisers puts at roughly $355K per household: - $22K: lost take-home pay per worker every year if they raise taxes to pay for it - 12%+ 30-year mortgage rates if they borrow it - 130% to 160% higher prices over the decade - 254% federal debt as a share of GDP by 2036, more than DOUBLE today - 39.6% average federal income tax rate, up from 14.1% - 6.9M jobs lost from the 32-hour workweek at the high - 3.3M rental homes lost to rent control DSA also calls for ABOLISHING the police and the prison system, which then costs lives!" At TownHall, a video,
Socialism Offers 'Liberation,' but It's Really About Control.
Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE, "
Robert Nozick explains socialism's attraction to intellectuals: they don't care about the "working class". Rather, they resent capitalists for earning more money than them, despite their apparently inferior merit. They're disappointed meritocrats, not suffering laborers." From NotTheBee,
Democrat confuses 'Mein Kampf' and 'Communist Manifesto' during attack on Republican opponent.
John Sexton reports
Letitia James Takes Over Cornell 7 Case (She Issued Her Judgement Days Ago).
Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate, "
Hochul is a very unpopular governor and her aids probably told her to do this because they think it will rally the base. The only thing that it will do is further delegitimize the prosecutorial apparatus. If you’re a ‘reasonable Dem’ this should be a blackpill because Hochul is a Catholic from Buffalo - she’s supposed to be a sensible, moderating force and not a rabid, unprincipled ideologue." Quote Phil Holloway @PhilHollowayEsq, "New York Governor Kathy Hochul has removed local DA Matthew Van Houten from the Cornell 7 case She says she lost confidence. And has thus appointed New York AG Letitia James. Politics has fully infected this case."
Buck Sexton @BuckSexton, "
You appoint Laetitia James as special prosecutor because you want a predetermined outcome, not an investigation or an impartial prosecutorial decision based on fact and law Hochul knows this. Everyone does." Insty,
IF YOU WONDERED IF THE CORNELL THING WAS A POLITICAL OP:
Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case and
IF IT WASN’T OBVIOUS BEFORE, THE
LAETITIA JAMES APPOINTMENT MAKES IT SO:
Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "The October Unsurprise" Quote Paul @WomanDefiner, "
Lol, democrats plan to gas up mentally ill females by highlighting the Clancy trial, the Cornell 7 story, and the execution of the first female inmate in decades is kind of ingenious but utterly destructive long term. All of these stories are built on bald faced lies or lies by omission. Millions of dollars is being thrown at leftist online personalities and foreign bot farms to push it. I bet they highlight a few more before November." Dan McLaughlin at NRO explores
The Moral Wilderness of the Cornell Seven Case "We should get the facts and the law straight before holding a moral panic — but we should still demand a more moral society." That ship has sailed.
Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "
It is necessary for you to believe this young woman did not lustily agree to be gangbanged. By white males (also a brown one and an Asian one but never mind that.) Through the first Tuesday in November, anyway. After that, never mind. The fun part will be the slander suits, prosecutorial abuse suits after the dust settles." Quote C3 @C_3C_3, "Well well well… The signed statement did not claim she was drugged against her will, unconscious, or gang-raped, and that sex stopped when she asked."
Vodka at Insty looks at
France,
Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "
A French woman tells one of the second and third-generation migrant rioter no to vandalize her city He responds by trying to set her face on fire." Rick Morab at PJM,
Rioting at French Schools Explodes Nationwide as the Government Is Running Scared. Beege Welborn,
No Worries: Rotherham Man Explodes on Street, Determined to Be a 'Household Accident.' Stephen Kruiser thinks
The United Kingdom Has Outlived Its Usefulness to the Free World.
cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander, "They’ve destroyed their cities." Quote Richard J. Schenk @RichardJSchenk, "
EU Commission staff refuse to move to Brussels North station due to crack smoking, public defecation & human trafficking. The EU’s disastrous migration policies also destroyed Brussels North, but Eurocrats think only regular people should have to live with the consequences." VodkaPundit at Insty says
OH NO, PLEASE DON’T SPARK WORRIES: ":
Japan’s harsher permanent residency rules, hiked visa fees begin, sparking xenophobia worries. “The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act sets three requirements for permanent residency: good conduct; assets or skills sufficient to make an independent living; and the person’s permanent residence being in Japan’s national interest. The government revised its guidelines Oct. 1, making the second and third requirements stricter.” Those rules aren’t xenophobia — they’re just good sense."
I&I sees
Reality Slaps College Graduates In The Face "The job market is booming for young people – but not those with college degrees. Are employers finally coming to realize that colleges these days mainly produce coddled, know-nothing, whiny, entitled brats? A recent analysis from Burning Glass Institute found that unemployment among those 22-34 years old without a college degree is lower than it’s been in decades, but those with college diplomas are having a much harder time finding work than before." The college educated have not done a good job of demonstrating their usefulness.
Rusty Weiss at RedState,
Bad News, Bra Burners: Sydney Sweeney’s Naked Sports Ad Just Hit the Jackpot "Sweeney’s naked sports ad for Novig has done more than just turn heads. It helped the prediction-market platform quadruple its valuation, from $500 million earlier this year to $2 billion by the end of September. Oh, and also sure to enrage the woke sports mob? The "Euphoria" star is an equity investor in the company. The paper value of her undisclosed stake has likely skyrocketed, too. "Novig continues to field investor interest and could raise additional capital soon at an even higher valuation," the
Wall Street Journal reported. Everything she touches turns to gold."
Matt Margolis,
Michelle Obama Accidentally Admits That Trans Ideology Is Biologically Absurd. "Men would film themselves going into labor, and honoring their pain, you know? There would be trophies given," she said. She went on to say that "there would be the birth-Olympics," and then played the part of one fella congratulating another. "Well done, dude! Bob, you did that without an epidural!" Hold the phone here. Haven't Democrats been telling us for years now that
men can get pregnant? Why, yes they have."
