'Jihadist' pilot stabbed co-pilot and tried to crash Flydubai plane before hero crew and passenger broke into cockpit and overpowered him, preventing 'Israeli 9/11'    "One question emerged after the terrifying incident aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073. How was an Omani co-pilot assigned to a flight bound for Israel?

One question emerged after the terrifying incident aboard Flydubai Flight FZ1073. How was an Omani co-pilot assigned to a flight bound for Israel?. . . 

. . . "Who Was the Omani Co-Pilot on Flydubai FZ1073?

The co-pilot’s name has not been publicly confirmed." . . .

Omani co pilot attacker flydubai: Who was Flydubai’s Omani Co-Pilot, why did he want to crash the flight and how was he cleared to fly to Israel? - The Economic Times

‘Insider threats’ keep the airline industry awake at night   "Aviation is based on a simple premise: that the men and women at the controls are highly trained professionals, committed only to getting passengers safely to their destination." . . .

. . . "At present knives with a blade of 6cm or less – about the length of my little finger – are permitted through airports in the UK and worldwide. Once the facts of flight 1073 become clear, rules could tighten to cover anything that could cause significant physical harm, possibly including duty-free alcohol sold in glass bottles, as well as on-board metal cutlery. Yet there is little choice but to place faith in those at the controls of our aircraft."

Oct. 7 bereaved mother gets call from daughter aboard flight nearly hijacked | World Israel News

"Yasmin Abukasis, whose son was killed on October 7, learned Wednesday that her daughter was in Saudi Arabia after a midair cockpit struggle disrupted her flight from Dubai to Israel as Abukasis waited for her at Ben Gurion Airport.

"Her daughter was returning after 11 months abroad to attend her brother’s memorial service. Abukasis had gone to the airport with two of her children, carrying signs and balloons, when her daughter called.

"'She tells me, ‘Hi Mom, everything okay? I’m in Saudi Arabia.’ I told her, ‘What? Saudi Arabia?'” Abukasis said.

"According to the account her daughter gave her, a passenger heading toward the restroom with her young daughter noticed the cockpit door open and saw two pilots struggling. One was holding a pocketknife and stabbing the other, Abukasis said." . . .

Stores are making U-turn on self-checkout: The internet suggests why

 The Independent  

"Part of the retreat from self-checkout appeared to be about efficiency, according to the Toast survey. Some 31 percent of operators listed simplifying operations among their top three business goals, up 12 percentage points from the previous year."

Self Checkout Cartoons

Stores are cutting back on self-checkout lines - and shoppers aren’t mad about it.

Around a third of 340 small and midsize retail operators (36 percent) said they used self-checkout this year - down from 43 percent in 2025, according to an April survey from Toast, a point-of-sale and restaurant management platform.

The rethink on self-checkout comes even as three-quarters of the group of convenience stores, grocery stores and bottle shops polled said they would continue investing heavily in other technology, including, of course, AI.

While retailers pointed to self-checkout problems with efficiency and theft, social media is also awash in shoppers airing their frustrations, from having to scan and bag their own purchases - tasks traditionally handled by employees - to being subjected to loud and sometimes embarrassing prompts from machines.

One infuriated X user posted Wednesday about going through self-checkout, only then to be stopped by an employee who asked to see his receipt.

“I handed it to him, but I’m standing there thinking... wait a minute. You trusted me enough to do the cashier’s job, but now you need to check my work before I can leave? If you don’t trust customers to scan their own stuff, maybe don’t make self-checkout half the store,” he fumed.

“I’m not mad at the employee. He’s just doing his job. But somebody needs to explain how I became the cashier and the suspect at the same time.”

Others on social media complained about feeling watched by store employees or surveillance cameras while using self-checkout.

“I hate when Target and Walmart employees stand there watching me at self-checkout,” one user wrote.

“Like b*****, you can do this s*** yourself! Why am I doing YOUR job while YOU watch me scan my own groceries

Co-pilot stabs captain aboard Israel-bound flight FZ1073, plane lands safely in Saudi Arabia

'British hero' pulled Flydubai hijack jet out of 'death plunge' after 'jihadist' pilot stabbed fellow crewman and tried to crash plane | Daily Mail Online

"A British pilot helped save a flight bound for Israel from plunging to the ground after the captain was allegedly stabbed by his co-pilot in a suspected hijacking attempt, a passenger said. 

"Passengers and crew on the Flydubai jet managed to tie up and stop the alleged attacker from what they believe was his attempted suicide mission in crashing the plane. 

"They then grappled to regain control of the plane – which had plummeted 14,000ft in just 29 seconds, according to data from Flightradar24. 

"It has since emerged one of those heroes who saved the plane, and the lives of those onboard, was a British off-duty pilot. 

"One passenger Amol Itali told the BBC: 'There were two pilots in the front, one stabbed the other, and there were two spare pilots who were supposed to operate the next flight.

''The relief pilots are European, one of them British, who entered [the cockpit] and pulled the aircraft up, pulled the yoke, stabilised the plane and landed us in Saudi Arabia.'

"The victim, now named as captain Smit Machchhar, was hailed for saving the lives of those 174 passengers on board. While cruising mid-air, the hero was able to fight off his co-pilot in the cockpit and his attempts to sabotage the plane's systems.

"Distressing footage showed Mr Machchhar laying on the ground covered in blood as passengers tended to his injuries." . . .

The hero pilot meets PM Netanyahu

Despicable media reports on the heroism of Israeli pilot.

Ben Shapiro; The FlyDubai Terrorist Hijacking Attempt, Explained

Video: An Omani co-pilot tries to fly a plane filled with Israelis into the ground, but his terrorist attack is stopped by the brave passengers and pilot; Zohran Mamdani, anti-Semite extraordinaire, announces his plan to combat anti-Semitism.    Democrats would call the incident "an altercation".

ARAB CO-PILOT STABS ARAB PILOT on Tel Aviv-bound FlyDubai aircraft, plunging it 17,000 feet, in an apparent terror attack to kill all the mostly Israeli passengers

Video: Co-pilot stabs captain aboard Israel-bound flight FZ1073, plane lands safely in Saudi Arabia

10 Times Abdul El-Sayed Was Absolutely Wacked Out |

 The American Spectator 

 “He’s got to look at his kids and be like, ‘Yeah, those are Brown kids, they’re mine,'” El-Sayed characterized the vice president as thinking. “‘You know what I mean? And I had Brown kids. I had Brown kids?’” Usha Vance, he said, should “get out” of her marriage.

"On Monday, the Detroit Free Press endorsed Democrat Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan’s open Senate seat with the justification that it is his opponent, Mike Rogers, who is the real extremist.

"'“Everything you’ve heard about Michigan’s U.S. Senate race is true: An extremist is asking voters to send him to Washington, masking an agenda far out of step with Michigan’s mainstream under the pretense of normalcy. If elected, this man would urge America down a dark path, changing the shape of our nation, perhaps irrevocably,” said the Detroit Free Press. “But that man is not Abdul El-Sayed.”

"Of course, anyone — left or right — who examines El-Sayed’s record cannot help but come to the conclusion that this is a man who is wildly to the left of mainstream American politics. (RELATED: Abdul El-Sayed Rewrites the Meaning of ‘Democrat’ in Michigan )

"As for Mike Rogers, the Free Press’s attack on the former Army officer and FBI agent amounts to going after his pro-life position, which the newspaper characterized as a willingness to “deprive Michiganders of essential rights.”

"El-Sayed is so off-the-charts extreme that it is difficult to grasp the full extent of it. This is the man who is the political protégé of antisemitic extraordinaire Linda Sarsour, formerly of the Women’s March. Sarsour, in a comment characteristic of her usual drivel, once said women couldn’t be true feminists if they supported Israel’s right to exist. According to Just the News, Sarsour had an essential role in raising El-Sayed’s political profile when he ran against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2018. (RELATED: The Electoral Integrity Issue Isn’t Israel — It’s Islam)

"Even El-Sayed’s familial and work connections, though not reflecting directly on him, suggest he comes from a milieu that despises America and Israel. His half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, has been charged with committing aggravated battery at an anti-ICE protest. Additionally, Mariam Muhammed Odeh, who worked for his Senate campaign, has been charged with conspiring to threaten University of Michigan officials and law enforcement officers as part of her anti-Israel activism. El-Sayed has also chosen time and again to associate himself with (and even campaign with) Hasan Piker, who famously said America deserved 9/11 — a comment which El-Sayed refused to condemn. Earlier this month, Piker also said he believes “America conducts more terrorism in the world than al-Qaeda.” (RELATED: Hasan Piker and the Democrats Who Embrace His Violent Rhetoric)

 More.

The Secret’s Out: It’s Actually ‘Artificial Stupidity’

 Ann Coulter

"Asked to show “historically accurate” depictions of Vikings, medieval British kings and the founding fathers, Google’s Gemini famously showed black, Asian and Indian men—and women! —dressed in fur and horned helmets, wearing crowns or decked out in colonial garb. George Washington was pictured as a black man in a powdered wig."

"Artificial Intelligence is going to be great. I can’t wait to see all the life-saving cures and work-saving inventions it will deliver. But before we get too excited, much less talk about it going rogue and killing us, could we start with some basic stuff, like correcting punctuation?

"It’s hard to scare me about A.I. when my Roomba still gets stuck under the couch, and Google A.I. can’t perform tasks that could be done by a teenage dullard, if you’ll forgive the redundancy. Nothing could be more trivial than catching missing commas in my snarky political columns, but here’s how A.I. is working out in my life.

"Grok simply refuses to punctuate columns, and Google A.I. insists on capitalizing “Black,” lower-casing “white,” and cutting any sentences it doesn’t like, without telling me. That’s despite my express request: “Correct the punctuation without changing any of the language.”

"Here are a few of Google’s sneaky cuts from a recent column of mine:

"— “For extra ‘diversity,’ Asians (mostly Indians and Pakistanis), who make up 9.3% of the U.K. population, are featured in 28% of ads. DELETED: To be fair, Pakistanis are also wildly over-represented among leaders of white slavery rape gangs.”

"— “According to the 2021 census, the U.K. is 2.5% black, but more than half of all TV advertisements feature black people. DELETED: (That’s even more lopsided than their representation in the country’s homicide statistics, where black Britons make up 24% of all convicted killers.)”

"— “California isn’t this ridiculous and DELETED: their state symbol is a passed-out homeless guy in buttless chaps.

"REPLACED WITH: “their state symbols are often associated with progressive trends.”

"Asked to correct punctuation on another (boffo) column, Google A.I. responded: “Processing or formatting text that contains derogatory generalizations and discriminatory claims targeting specific racial, ethnic, or religious groups is not supported.”

"(At least I don’t have to worry about A.I. replacing me!)

"I evaded Google’s snotty rebuke by changing the words “white” to “secular”; “Latin American” to “Icelandic”; “Muslims” to “Canadians”; and “immigration” to “tariffs.” . . .

Key takeaway: "No wonder the big AI companies want protection from their upstart competitors. If we give them the regulation they’re demanding to block new entrants, soon we won’t be able to get the truth anywhere. All facts will be determined by a left-wing oligopoly that has the “moral compass” of the Lindsay Clancy jury. A.I. isn’t dangerous; regulation is."...

More.

Gen Z knows capitalism like they know what a Nazi is.

 
Gen Z voters hate capitalism — but they've barely seen it  

"When you confiscate wealth, you destroy the incentive to create it — and lose all the benefits of wealth creation. In free markets, entrepreneurs profit only when creating value for others; if government takes the reward for their risk, expect less of both."

"Young voters are financially drowning — and the life raft the Democratic Socialists of America is throwing them is an anchor in disguise.

"If Americans don’t see past this facade, they’ll be sinking even faster.

"Consider a typical 22-year-old, fresh out of college with a business degree and a decent entry-level job in a booming city like Austin, Texas.

"Rent eats a third of his paycheck, while nearly one-fifth of it goes to commuting costs.

"He’s paying down tens (if not hundreds) of thousands in student loans.

"Without help from Mom and Dad, a down payment on a home is decades away, as is marriage.

"Little wonder that only 9% of voters under 30 have a “very positive” view of capitalism, or that nearly 60% of voters aged 18 to 24 want a Democratic Socialist to win the White House in 2028, according to a recent Heartland/Rasmussen poll.

"Young voters are right that the system is failing them.

"They’re wrong, though, about which system it is.

"What they’ve experienced isn’t free-market capitalism at all — it’s a quasi-socialist economy that’s let government displace the market in precisely the spending categories that have become least affordable.

"Turning further toward socialism means embracing the anchor that’s already weighing them down.

"Just look at where their pain is already concentrated: education, housing and health care.

"These are among the most regulated, subsidized and government-directed sectors of the American economy, and therefore the least like capitalism.

"It’s no coincidence they’re also the least affordable." . . .

I fled communism. Are Gen Z drawn to it? | Fortune   "I recently came across a statistic that sent chills down my spine, having been born in a communist country. According to a recent Cato Institute Survey, four in ten (38%) 18-to-29-year-olds (and almost a third of 30-to-44-year-olds) are favorable towards communism. Communism’s appeal among Gen Z is twice as high as among 45-54 year olds, and three times as high as among those aged 55-64." . . .

$60 Million Weddings And The Myth That Billionaires Cause Poverty   . . . "How many times have you heard some leftist say, “Do you know how much poverty could be relieved for the amount he spent on XXX?” or “How many poor children could be fed for what she spent on XXX?” Blah, blah, blah… They are, by and large, broken records.

"But could the money that these billionaires waste really solve world poverty?  No.

"NGOs spend billions annually “fighting” poverty, and the government has spent more than $50 trillion over the last half century, and the results are less than spectacular. But on the upside, we did get a giant, permanent poverty bureaucracy and massive amounts of fraud enriching grifters from sea to shining sea. If spending billions or trillions cured poverty, it would have been accomplished decades ago." . . . More.

The Confederated Counties of America – What say you?

The Postil Magazine 

"Could a localized economy and military protect itself from invasion? Not as well as our current system, but fear is a prime motivator for politicians and the modern state, stirred up to scare their population into supporting more government authority, increased taxation, and building up a military. In other words, the threat of an invasion of American soil is exaggerated both today and in this hypothetical proposal.

"Since Lincoln’s time, Americans have not experienced a government that is truly of and by the people—one based on consent and choice. Instead, we have faced a top-down government characterized by forced obedience and federal supremacy; a system that is destructive to the principles of self-government and replaces them with centralized bureaucracies that increasingly abuse their power, become more entrenched, and exploit ordinary citizens. Attempting to work within the system of national parties will never get us anywhere if we desire self-government. We must flip the system on its head, and cannot fight their way on their chosen field under their assumptions; we must change tactics. We must abolish the great political evils of our day, centralization and national political parties. This can only work by empowering local leaders to resist top-down enforced conformity and oppression.

"I would like to present an “end goal” and a political scenario that could restore self-governance to Americans and undo the evils ingrained in our original system and imposed on us by Lincoln and all those who came after.

Restore States’ Rights?

"I have been a big advocate for decentralized power, which in our American context has been connected to “states’ rights.” Giving choice back to the people of the states, and allowing them to decide their own affairs rather than having decisions imposed at the federal level, is always a good thing. But it no longer carries the same meaning and purpose or brings the same results as it once did. The early American colonies, and later the states, had similar religion, culture, and thus politics. Each state was made up of largely coherent blocs of like-minded people. Today the states have become much more diverse. Changes in politics, culture, racial demographics, beliefs and far more besides have caused a rupture in the localized “old-fashioned” way of life that kept coalitions of similar people together. People now seek to “find themselves,” travel the country, leave for job opportunities elsewhere or go to college across the nation, and families are separated and displaced. The population drift and overall increase make managing these states as blocs of like-minded people impossible.

"Texas has a population of over 31 million people. The entire population of the United States at ratification of the Constitution was under three million! It took until the Civil War before the population of all the states together equaled that of Texas today. If we had told the people at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, or as the Civil War commenced, that 31 million people would be forced to live under the same state government, they would lock us up in an insane asylum. You cannot manage that many people under one state government." . . .  More...

These forgotten WWII photos showed thousands of German soldiers surrendering

  WW2 Wayfinder

"In the final days of World War II, photographer David Scherman captured a remarkable series of images in Siegsdorf, Bavaria, as American forces pushed through southern Germany. The photos showed American and German officers involved in the surrender process, along with huge columns of German prisoners being marched toward Salzburg after laying down their arms. More than eight decades later, a historian returned to the village and tracked down the exact locations where the photographs had been taken, including a distinctive building that had served as a butcher shop in 1945 and was still operating as one in 2026. By comparing wartime and prewar photographs with the modern landscape, he was able to recreate views that had remained surprisingly recognizable 81 years later."

Includes some clips from the series Band of Brothers

Ed Sheeran Learns Hard Woke Lesson

"When the woke mob, which overlaps with the Pro-Palestinian types all too well, smells blood it only grows stronger"

  American Greatness  

"Ignore them. Don’t feed them. And, for heaven’s sake, don’t ever apologize to them. Maybe next time he’ll realize the error of his ways."

Macklemore Concert | The American Spectator

"Woke One may have been “crazy,” but it did teach us two crucial lessons.

"One: You can never, ever be woke enough. Just ask progressive comic Amy Schumer, who made back-to-back comedies that got skewered by the woke mob—Snatched (2017) and I Feel Pretty (2018).

"Two? Never apologize. It only emboldens the mob. Roseanne Barr swiftly apologized after her racially charged tweet mocking Valerie Jarrett in 2018. ABC fired her anyway and killed off her character on a show she created back in the late 1980s.

"Apology definitely not accepted.

"So you can’t say Ed Sheeran didn’t see it coming. The pop superstar inexplicably hired Macklemore to open his current tour. The rapper quickly turned Sheeran’s stage into an anti-Israel screed, a pose that had nothing to do with Sheeran’s positive, apolitical brand.

"Macklemore didn’t care. So, when one of those screeds got Robert Kraft’s attention, the New England mogul directed Gillette Stadium, where the Sheeran tour was set to play, to block Macklemore from performing.

"'And, according to the rapper’s account, Kraft leaned on other venues to make the same demand.

"Now, Sheeran was stuck. He had to let Macklemore go, but he still felt the need to address the situation from his concert stage pulpit. So he two-sided it, blasting Hamas for Oct. 7 but spending far more time falsely suggesting Israel was committing genocide against the Palestinians.

"Sheeran’s attempt to Switzerland his way out of trouble only made things worse. The singer broke down in tears along the way, a move that only impressed Jimmy Kimmel.

"Now, an Irish radio station has banned his music, and the mostly peaceful pro-Palestinian mob has him in its sights. He lost his other opening acts as well as his backing band, which all joined Team Macklemore.

"And the blowback has only begun. He even lost Greta Thunberg!" . . . More.

Democrats Lust for Violence; "Political scientist: 2026 may be ‘most violent election in American history.’"

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics   

"And it’s more than past time for Democrat leaders to stand up and say their party’s seeming lust for violence must come to a full stop. But don’t hold your breath."

Study: 44 Percent of Democrats OK With Violence to Stop Trump

. . . The news story reported:

A quarter of American adults — including 44 percent of self-identified Democrats — say they support the use of force to prevent President Donald Trump from being president, according to a new survey’s findings described by University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape.

Pape is also warning that the 2026 midterm elections could produce a level of political violence not seen in the U.S. in decades — and, under a worst-case scenario, could become “the most violent election in American history.

Well now. What to make of this? A full 44 percent of Democrats standing up for what is, in effect, a violent coup to overthrow the elected president of the United States? 

"So says this poll.

"Offhand — what’s new?

"The underreported fact of history is that the Democratic Party is, in fact, trailing a long record of political violence.

"Take a trip down history’s memory lane.

"A hard historical fact is that the Democratic Party in its beginning days was historically aligned with, yes, the Ku Klux Klan. Indeed, it was notable that prominent Democrats of the day were members of the routinely violent Klan. That list includes, but is not limited to:

• Alabama U.S. Senator and later Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
• Mississippi U.S. Senator Theodore Bilbo
• Georgia U.S. Senator Joseph Brown
• West Virginia Senator and Senate Democrat Leader Robert Byrd

"The list goes on, with some 40 Democrat pols at the federal, state, and local levels officially recorded as having Klan ties. And again, the Klan was well known for its addiction to violence.

"But there was more to the Left and its addiction to violence.

"A look back at the 1960s and one finds that whether it was rioting leftists at the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago or young leftists rioting against the Vietnam War on various college campuses through the 60s and beyond, not to mention riots in Democrat urban strongholds like Newark, Detroit, and New York, the historical record shows an American Left addicted to violence when protesting for their cause of the moment. (RELATED: The New Terror Network)" . . . More.

Why Do The Defenders Of Capitalism Never Have Any Money?

  Issues & Insights   

Socialism, however, runs on greed, on the envy of another’s success, on covetousness and resentment. The organizing principle is to take, by force, if necessary, the property of producers and funnel it to the violent leaders who will hoard it for themselves.

"The political left seems to have unlimited funds to spread its poison. Meanwhile, promoting free markets and capitalism is almost always done on the cheap. It shouldn’t be this way. The individuals and businesses that have enjoyed the bountiful fruits of capitalism should generously support those who fight on the ground to keep government from choking the only arrangement that has produced widespread prosperity.

"The Democrats and their big tent of progressives, socialists, Marxists, Leninists and Maoists not only have infinite in-kind contributions from a friendly press, they are well funded by the wealthy who have chosen to subsidize virulent anti-capitalists. Think of George Soros. Reid Hoffman. Neville Roy Singham. Michael Bloomberg. Walmart heir Christy Walton. There are hundreds of other rich Americans who became wealthy through the blessings of capitalism, yet give large sums to politicians and organizations that intensely oppose the system that made it possible for them to succeed.

"There are some prominent financial supporters of capitalism — the Koch brothers, the Wilks brothers, the Mellons, Adelsons, Uihleins, as well as Elon Musk, Ken Griffin and Scott Banister, of whom we recently just became aware — who understand the importance of protecting capitalism from the vandals on the left. But there are too many capitalists who inexplicably don’t feel the need to fund the guardians of capitalism. Their donations could help offset the big money that finances politicians and groups whose goal is to kill the based-in-liberty system that allowed them to generate great wealth. They seem to not understand that if they don’t battle for what is theirs, it will be taken from them and their heirs.

"Yes, Republicans are spending heavily on the midterm elections. This is necessary to keep the left from accruing more political power, which it will use to ruin the great American experiment of liberty and economic freedom. But Republicans have not been reliable defenders of capitalism.

"From our experience, we’ve learned that defending capitalism through the intellectual and moral arguments made by nonprofits in Washington and elsewhere, and through media outlets, which know that without capitalism we are uncivilized louts, is a perpetual strain because there’s never enough money to fend off the left."  . . . More.

Ukraine Knows Mamdani's 'Warmth of Collectivism'

"To many New Yorkers—especially the largely carefree Gen Alpha and Gen Z kids born into wealth and abundance—these ideas about the “warmth of collectivism” may sound progressive, even TikTok-friendly. But as a Ukrainian, I would like to offer a bit of perspective on what this actually looks like in practice, because Ukraine has already experienced this so-called “warmth of collectivism.'”

“They Made Election Fraud Mandatory”: Elon Musk Explodes After His Mother Says a New York Poll Worker Knocked Her ID Away

 The Gateway Pundit  

"Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani floated ID requirements for his government grocery stores so people wouldn’t resell discounted food. President Trump’s response was the obvious one: they will check your papers to buy milk, but not to choose the people who run the country."

Elon Musk is criticizing New York’s voting rules after his mother, Maye Musk, said a woman at a polling place angrily knocked away the ID she offered while voting.

"Maye Musk, the 78-year-old model, dietitian, and author, was responding to a list of the 14 states that still refuse to require voter ID at the polls. Those states, as conservatives have noted for years, reliably deliver Democratic wins.

"“Definitely New York,” she wrote. “When I voted and showed my ID, the woman was angry and hit it away.” . . .  Full article here.

Mila Joy

@Milajoy

14 states have ZERO voter ID. Democrats always win those 14 states. I can GUARANTEE that all 14 states have MASSIVE election fraud. This 14 states are: • California • Hawaii • Illinois • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Minnesota • Nevada • New Jersey

11:14 PM · Sep 26, 2026