Imagine my shocked face

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“Well I wonder where it all went?”

Foreign Ministry: Flotilla to Gaza had no humanitarian supplies

“It was never about bringing aid to Gaza. It was about the headlines and social media followings”, Israeli Police spokesperson Dean Elsdunne said.

None of the 40 vessels participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Israel intercepted on Yom Kippur, was carrying humanitarian aid, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

The ministry also released a video by the Israeli Police featuring spokesperson Dean Elsdunne showing the empty interior of one of the flotilla’s largest vessels.

The spokesperson points out that the complete lack of aid explains why the organizers refused Israel’s and multiple countries’ offers to hand over the aid and avoid entering an active war zone and breaking the law.

It's too early to speculate, but whether Chevron's California oil refinery explosion was sabotage or accident, the state's in trouble

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Ho, Boy - Massive Fire Erupts at Chevron's El Segundo, CA, Refinery Last Night

...According to Chevron's website, the El Segundo refinery was constructed in 1911. The facility produces 276,000 barrels of crude oil every day and "is the largest producing oil refinery on the west coast," Chevron officials wrote on its website.

The refinery is closed until further notice.

This is California - think what that means.

Well, wait - let me first tell you what the El Segundo refinery does:

...Chevron's second biggest refinery in the United States, the El Segundo facility supplies a fifth of all motor vehicle fuels and 40% of the jet fuel consumed in southern California.

Forty percent of the state's oil refining capacity gone.

BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!

You see, the oleaginous King of California has driven refiners out of the state, and, yup - another one leaves...*checks notes*...next month.

If the Chevron El Segundo refinery has to go offline for any amount of time, gas prices in CA, AZ, NV are going to soar.

Another complication: Philipps 66's LA refinery is closing this month - in 2024 it represented 8% of the state's crude oil capacity pic.twitter.com/69MF3KNOKP

— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) October 3, 2025

What happens if Chevron can't get El Segundo back into operation as Philipps pulls chocks and exits the pattern?

Will California even have enough gasoline to worry about the cost?

As of that moment, the answer is HARD NO.

$SOC

Given planned refining outages by the beginning of 2026 California was going to be walking a tight rope with just a 6% buffer between refining capacity and daily consumption.

With Chevrons El Segundo out there will be a deficit of roughly 11% between the states needs…

— TheDailyCompounder (@100xCompounding) October 3, 2025

...With Chevrons El Segundo out there will be a deficit of roughly 11% between the states needs daily and what the state can refine.

As Britain's muslims cheer, BBC steps in to aid the cause

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Michael moore reacting to news of the 9/11 attack: “:Don’t they know that NYC voted for Gore?”

This is the new England, where the government is arresting and imprisoning its citizens for daring to criticize Islam or question the policy of open immigration, so why not?

David Strom: The authorities and the elites are like the peasants fleeing from wolves who throw the infant to them to slow them down. Eat our child, not us. They are far worse than Neville Chamberlain, who at least hoped to keep the British Empire out of a devastating war. These elites are happy to sacrifice their own citizens if they can buy a bit more time for themselves. 

Those right-thinking Brits seem similar to American Jews who are ignoring or even approving the increasing anti-Semitism in Blue cities and campuses across the country: “Oh, they’re not against Jews, just Israel and its awful leaders. We’re as safe here as our late cousins in Germany, who were safely assimilated into German culture and secure against anything happening to them”.

What once passed for institutions of learning continue to prove they no longer are, if they ever were

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Harvard Hires Drag Queen Named ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ as Visiting Gender Studies Professor

Kareem Khubchandani, an associate professor of Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Studies at Tufts University, has been hired as a visiting professor of gender and sexuality studies at Harvard University.

Aside from teaching the trifecta of liberal bête noires, Professor Khubchandani's side gig is perfectly suited to his new responsibilities — teaching young people everything they need to know about sex but are afraid to ask.

He's a drag queen who goes by the stage name “LaWhore Vagistan.”

I don’t know which is more pathetic: Harvard having a gender studies department in the first place, or its students having to be taught about sex because their will to explore and discover is completely erased by time they graduate high school.

One bright spot: every Harvard student receives an A in every course, so these timid souls will at least have a suitable-for-framing certificate attesting to their knowledge of applying pantyhose and lipstick.

Yet another price cut for this house on Richmond Hill

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79 Richmond Hill Road, first listed back in April for $7.195 million has been marked down today to $5.795 — given its time on the market, even this new price is probably negotiable.

I liked the house in its previous, unrenovated version back in 2004 when it sold after 144 days on the market for $2,555,500; nice house, good siting, my client liked it too but he didn’t buy it — as it turns out, he was a delightful gentleman, but after looking at houses with him for 18 months without success, a friend/fellow agent alerted me that she’d worked him for over a year before they’d parted ways; she agreed with me that he was a great guy and well able to buy anything he wanted, “but I think he may have a screw loose in his head — he looks, he likes, he won’t commit”. Such is the life of a real estate agent, especially one new to the business and who hasn’t learned to spot and weed out the “looky-looks”.

(In my defense, I’ll point out that I wasn’t a complete, nieve moron back then — after all, I’d already spent many years practicing the lawyer scam — but this non-buyer was intelligent, well-read, and fun to be with, so I went on house tours with him long past the time I knew I was wasting my time. In fact, I never had the heart to fire him as a client, so I was relieved when he finally pulled up stakes and moved to California, where no doubt he drove agents in the Golden State crazy — my gain was their loss.)

Reluctant buyers aside, Richmond Hill Road has always been a tough sell, as several spec-builders have learned to their sorrow. Spec-builders, and those who bought from them at the height of the boom twenty year ago.

Oopsy daisy

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Vacationers that let AI plan their trip discover many of their destinations don’t actually exist

Imagine paying good money to see a gorgeous geographic marvel in the mountains of Peru, only to get there and find it was an AI hallucination, leaving you stuck in the middle of nowhere at 13,000 feet with no beautiful vista, no oxygen, and no cellphone signal.

According to the BBC, that's exactly what one couple was on their way to do if not for local guide Miguel Angel Gongora Meza, who overheard their enthusiastic plans of hiking into the Andes unaccompanied to see the fabled "Sacred Canyon of Humantay."

‘They [showed] me the screenshot, confidently written and full of vivid adjectives, [but] it was not true. There is no Sacred Canyon of Humantay!' said Gongora Meza. ‘The name is a combination of two places that have no relation to the description. The tourist paid nearly $160 in order to get to a rural road in the environs of Mollepata without a guide or [a destination].

‘This sort of misinformation is perilous in Peru.'

They're not alone.

According to one survey, 30% of travelers use AI tools and AI travel sites to plan their trips.

But it's not just fake places that are a problem when using AI to plan trips and excursions.

Dana Yao and her husband recently used ChatGPT to plan a sunset viewing trip on Mount Misen.

They set off at 15:00 to hike to the mountain's summit in time for sunset, exactly as ChatGPT had instructed them.

‘That's when the problem showed up,' said Yao, a creator who runs a blog about traveling in Japan, ‘[when] we were ready to descend [the mountain via] the ropeway station. ChatGPT said the last ropeway down was at 17:30, but in reality, the ropeway had already closed. So, we were stuck at the mountain top.'

Another couple went to see [a] scenic cable-car attraction in Malaysia, only to find the place was made by AI. Neither the location or the cable cars are real.

The couple tried to sue the journalist in the video for misleading them, only to learn that she too was completely AI generated.

"His motive is still unclear" Update: No tears, please, we’re British

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The BBC decided to play stupid, and speculated that perhaps the terrorist was a “neo-Nazi.” That got debunked rather speedily – and the media has yet to figure out how they will spin this one.

it’s a mystery!

Manchester Synagogue Attack Suspect’s Name Is Literally Jihad

Summary

  • Assailant drives car into pedestrians, stabs security guard near synagogue in Manchester

  • Suspect shot dead by police who rushed to scene after witness report of attack on holiest day of Jewish calendar

  • Police say attacker was a British citizen of Syrian descent

Authorities identified the suspect in a Thursday attack on a Manchester, England, synagogue as Jihad al Shamie, Sky News reported.

Al-Shamie allegedly rammed his car into the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue and began stabbing people, killing two men Thursday morning before being shot dead by police, according to Sky News. Police were reportedly seeking to determine a motive for the attack.

“We are now able to confirm that, although formal identification is yet to take place, we believe the person responsible for today’s attacks is 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie. He is a British citizen of Syrian descent,” the Greater Manchester Police said in a statement. “A suspicious device worn by the attacker during the incident has been assessed and was deemed not to be viable.”

The police also stated they had taken three people into custody on charges related to the attack but did not identify them.

“We can confirm that three suspects are currently in custody and have been arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism,” the Greater Manchester Police said in their statement. “They are two men in their 30s and a woman in her 60s.”

…. “We are working to understand the motivation behind the attack as the investigation continues,” the Greater Manchester Police said in their Thursday evening statement.

UPDATE: … Ms Fiona Smith said said: “I don’t give a f*** about the Jewish community right now. I thought about it and I’m sorry about what happened, but the whole story and why we’re here is because of what happened yesterday [with the flotilla].”

Britain Is Lost: Pro-Hamas Protests After Yom Kippur Terror Attack

Great Britain is no longer great. It has fallen into a cowardly shadow of its former self, run by those who live in fear of radical Islam.

We have watched Great Britain disintegrate over the course of decades at this point, and snivel and cowerin the face of immigrant Islamic men who have used and abused British women with little more than a mild squeak of protest from those in power. Today’s events are simply the natural conclusion of what happens when a country no longer believes in anything, not even its own laws – they have fallen.

This morning, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, a terror attack took place at a synagogue in Manchester. And yes, this was a deliberate and planned attack.

The assailant, who appeared to be wearing a bomb-loaded belt, was shot dead by cops as he tried to get inside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester as scores of people were worshipping inside, police said.

“Based on what we know, counterterrorism policing has declared this is a terrorist incident,” the UK’s head of counter-terrorism policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, said in the wake of the attack.

The savage rampage unfolded just after 9:30 a.m. when witnesses reported seeing the car crash into members of the public outside the synagogue before a man was stabbed and left lying in a pool of blood.

“The second he got out of the car, he started stabbing anyone near him. He went for the security guard and tried to break into the synagogue,” one eyewitness told the Sun.

“The guy had a knife, and he was just stabbing the window trying to get in,” another onlooker said.

Shocking video showed a cop frantically yelling at horrified onlookers to “go away” because the deranged suspect “has a bomb.”

Authorities later confirmed the feared explosives that were strapped to his belt were “not viable.”

The suspect was shot dead minutes later by cops before he could enter the synagogue, police said.

Two victims, who were both Jewish, were confirmed dead. Three others were in serious condition in the hospital following the attack.

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“Your eyes do not deceive you. The pro-Hamas protesters are out in force, both in London and in Manchester, where this terror attack happened. Allegedly, the protests were pre-planned over the Gaza flotilla (starring Greta Thunberg and her merry jihad band of misfits) being intercepted by Israel, and those in attendance didn’t give a shit about the optics.”

Fiona Smith, 42, was one of those in attendance at the demonstration in Westminster where people gathered outside the gates of Downing Street just hours after two Jewish worshippers were killed in a car and knife attack..

She was responding to an earlier call to protest against the detention of Greta Thunberg, with activists urged to “block the tracks” at major railway stations across the UK, including Manchester Piccadilly.

Ms Smith said said: “I don’t give a f*** about the Jewish community right now. I thought about it and I’m sorry about what happened, but the whole story and why we’re here is because of what happened yesterday [with the flotilla].”

Her friend Sibilla Todaro, 39, who lives in London, said: “None of us are against the Jewish community – we’re against Zionism. There’s a lot of Jewish people here with us protesting, which clearly means they condemn what happened today as well as they support this. They’re not mutually exclusive.

Posters shared on social media urged pro-Palestine activists to converge on 19 locations around the UK between 5.30pm and 6pm on Thursday. Most of them were major railway stations in towns and cities.

Officers decided to allow the protest to go ahead at Manchester’s main railway station but a spokesman for the British Transport Police (BTP) said they would intervene if demonstrators tried to enter the station.

Among the locations where protesters were urged to gather included Parliament Square in London, Cardiff Central, Sheffield railway station, Farnborough station in Surrey, Manchester Piccadilly and Liverpool Lime Street.

“So much for basic common decency. Great Britain is lost. A once-great nation is now a collapsing black hole of radicalism and identity politics. Perhaps some of this might get addressed in the next election (where Starmer and the Labour Party are almost certain to lose), but at this point, the former British Empire has allowed itself to be slowly conquered over many years. A single election is not going to instantly undo years of undermining and damage. You had a good run, Britain. But at this rate, you won’t be around much longer.”