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A whistleblower who exposed U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's links to Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide. Yes, Simon Andriesz has died by suicide. Here is Simon on X back in August: I am the British whistleblower who reported evidence concerning Howard Lutnick, his links to Jeffrey Epstein, and Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC to the FBI in 2020-21. Listen to the BBC File on 4 documentary about my whistleblower story: Here's that documentary link on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zCMgqyTB3GQMmSHoVwVEk?si=ExdEGQFVTwCIBDUdDpm19g&utm_source=copy-link&nd=1&dlsi=ef02f04d3d624121 More from Simon's X post: I later shared evidence with the House Oversight Committee, which subsequently questioned Lutnick behind closed doors. My disclosures...

This ought to cause the wild-eyed Democrats to start pulling out their hair... Hispanic voters support Republicans over Democrats by a 50%-42% margin in the latest Rasmussen poll taken from 9-24 to 9-30. Generic Ballot — Hispanic voters 🟥 Republicans 50% (+13) 🟦 Democrats 42% (-8) (+/- shuft vs 9/17) @Rasmussen_Poll | 9/24-30 | 1,794 LV https://t.co/nbRePzLGEF — InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) October 5, 2026 Real Clear Politics highlighted Rasmussen Reports for having the most accurate poll of popular vote results in the 2016 presidential election. Now, look at these other polls... The legacy media polls have Democrats up by 20-30%! Someone...

Apple News allegedly failed to promote a single story about the Democratic National Committee’s financial woes among its top 20 stories over nearly nine months, according to a new analysis by the Media Research Center. The watchdog group found that none of the 78 stories it identified about the DNC’s mounting debt were promoted by Apple News from Jan. 1 through Sept. 28 — just weeks before the 2026 midterm elections. “Apple isn’t curating the news,” David Bozell, president of the MRC, said. “It’s running a high-tech protection racket for the political left.” The findings come as Democrats grapple with...

In central Libya, the endless flat desert of the Sahara gives way to something unexpected: a jet-black ocean of frozen rock. Covering more than 40,000 square kilometers, Al Haruj is one of the largest volcanic fields in Africa, shaped over millions of years by repeated eruptions. Hundreds of extinct cinder cones and ancient fissure vents rise from its sun-baked plateau, where dark basalt flows meet the shifting sands. In this documentary, we explore the volcanic history of this remote landscape and how vast lava flows reshaped the Sahara, leaving behind one of North Africa's most desolate and striking geological monuments....

Debra Messing has had enough with the state of New York. The "Will & Grace" actress snubbed Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul and instead threw her support behind Republican Bruce Blakeman in the New York governor’s race. The endorsement marked a striking political shift for Messing, who has campaigned for Democratic candidates in the past. She previously backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Cynthia Nixon's 2018 bid for New York governor. Messing has also publicly clashed with President Donald Trump, a supporter of Blakeman. Her past political allegiances appeared to take a back seat as Messing enthusiastically praised Blakeman’s campaign...

LA’s “mansion tax,” sold to Angelenos as a way to tax the rich and boost housing, has instead blocked the building of 9,100 homes, wiped out 16,650 full-time construction jobs and cost $452 million in revenue. A damning new report says the tax, officially known as United to House LA, or ULA — has had a negative impact on the city’s high-end and multi-family real estate markets and collected less than half what it was expected to generate to tackle the city’s housing crisis. The ULA was expected to raise about $900 million a year, or $2.7 billion over its...

Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong are having a drink in a bar and are debating amongst themselves who is the greatest communist in world history. Obviously AI generated.

Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month, lending his support to the progressive nominee after a bruising Democratic primary exposed divisions within the party. Obama will appear with El-Sayed at an Oct. 24 rally that will also feature other top Democratic candidates in Michigan, including Jocelyn Benson, the party’s nominee for governor. Obama is getting significantly more involved in the midterm elections, with additional campaign stops and advertisements expected to come in the closing weeks, according to plans shared first with The Associated Press. The Detroit event is a notable...

In 2026, anybody can cultivate a massive social media following doing anything their heart desires — and that’s not necessarily a good thing. For a case in point, look no further than a recent Reel from holistic health influencer Matt Roeske. First spotted by the publication Reality Check, the clip features Roeske promoting radioactive water as a long-forgotten panacea, supposedly shut down by the “Rothschild medical system.” In his video, Roeske appears holding a “Revigator,” an irradiated ceramic jug from the 1920s sold as a pseudoscientific miracle cure-all. In addition to carnotite — a bright-yellow rock known for its high...

A viral video captured an Arizona college cheerleader being violently slammed to the ground and pummeled on top of a bicycle by cops after she allegedly interfered with an arrest. Arizona State University senior Eryn Bonner was hit with two misdemeanor charges last week in Tempe after a harrowing video captured cops allegedly leaving her covered in bruises during an arrest in July, according to the Tempe Police Department and ABC15. Bonner, a member of the ASU Stunt team, was seen in the early morning of July 19, reapproaching officers who were arresting another individual after being told to get...

It’s not just the deranged mothers; it’s the lunatic fathers, too. In yet another highly unsettling case of a parent murdering their own children, a father in Florida reportedly killed his teenage twins before taking his own life. 63-year-old Ivan Montiel Roa was found dead along with his teenage son and daughter inside their Orlando apartment last week. Both of the twins’ bodies had multiple stab wounds. Here are the disturbing details: A horrifying family tragedy unfolded in Central Florida after authorities say a father stabbed his 17-year-old twins to death before taking his own life. Ivan Montiel Roa, 63,...

The fortified hilltop settlement of Spišský Štvrtok is one of the most significant sites of the earlier prehistory of central Europe. It dates to the transitional period between the Early and the Middle Bronze Age with a cultural affiliation to the Otomani-Füzesabony culture, c. 1700–1500 b.c. The village of Spišský Štvrtok (located in an area called Spišská Nová Ves, which is also a town) is situated on an oblong hill adjacent to a valley in the undulated country of eastern Slovakia at Myšia Hôrka in the Carpathian Basin. The hill rises very steeply on the western side and more gradually...

The Chicago Tea Party: Rick Santelli Visits the Chicago Board of Trade. Near pandemonium breaks out: Video at FA:********************EXCERPT**********************“How many of you people want to pay your neigbor’s (sic) mortgage? …Obama are you listening?” Orig Posted: 2/19/2009, 10:43:02 AM · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 35 replies · 1,333+ views

['Civ sez: I call this one the ADHD house sleuth video.] Man Finds Secret Passage In His 500 Year Old Home's Library | 5:01 Zenger | 19.7K subscribers | 2,164,200 views | October 28, 2021

WASHINGTON — Verbal sharpshooter Sen. John Kennedy kept the door open to a 2028 presidential run and defended Sen. Tom Cotton from President Trump’s wrath over his blocking of the Sunshine Protection Act. “My plans right now are to run for re-election, but as I’ve said before, if I don’t think I can be effective in the Senate anymore, I would consider it,” the 74-year-old told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “I haven’t made a decision. If a bunch of, on my side of the aisle, if a bunch of goobers run, and I think they’re goobers, and one...

Pubs are fertile ground for tall tales, with many claiming to be the oldest pub in England. What Is the Oldest Pub in England? | 7:58 | Historic England | 30.9K subscribers | 203,944 views | October 1, 2026

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas sympathizers have insisted that we must understand the massacre in its historical context — that it did not happen in a vacuum. This much is true. To understand this context, we need to look back at a chapter of history that predates the state of Israel by two decades. That chapter is 1929. On Aug. 24, 1929, more than 3000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes and machetes marched through the ancient Jewish quarter of Hebron, then part of British Mandate Palestine. That Sabbath morning, they slaughtered 67 Jewish men, women and children, and wounded...

Al Qaeda called for copycat attacks on Americans and Israeli airliners in a vile post referencing 9/11 and praising the Dubai flight hijacker — whose social media accounts shared photos of one of the terror group’s leaders. The call appeared to come Friday in the latest edition of al-Bayan, a weekly publication launched in July by pro-Al Qaeda supporters, which invoked both the Sept. 11 attacks and Wednesday’s attempted takeover of Flydubai Flight FZ1073. “The war isn’t over yet — planes carrying Zionists, Americans and all the other infidels fighting against Islam are still hovering in the skies and can...

For nearly two decades, Lesney Products ruled the world's pockets and playrooms. Born in a bombed-out London pub garage after the war, this British firm turned die-cast metal into pure childhood gold, selling hundreds of millions of tiny cars under the Matchbox name and building a monopoly so complete that "Matchbox" became the generic word for toy car itself, the way "Hoover" meant vacuum cleaner. Their factories in Hackney and Kentish Town ran round the clock, their sales curves only pointed skyward, and their executives believed, with total conviction, that no one could ever touch them. Then in 1968 an...

The ancient city of Phaselis, a short distance from Antalya, is picturesquely poised between the Mediterranean and the hills of Lycia. Phaselis: Between Mountains and Sea | 7:11 Scenic Routes to the Past | 62.5K subscribers | 21,635 views | September 18, 2026 Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:07 Central Harbor 2:04 Main street and agoras 4:47 Theater 6:26 Gate of Hadrian