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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Origins of terror: Treasury Sanctions Hamas-Aligned Terrorist Fundraising Network

Treasury Sanctions Hamas-Aligned Terrorist Fundraising Network "A Palestinian-American billionaire helped lay the groundwork for the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks, families of American Oct. 7 massacre victims alleged in a new lawsuit released Monday.

"The lawsuit targets Bashar Masri, a Palestinian-American billionaire who allegedly used his Gaza-based companies to quietly aid Hamas in building key infrastructure that would be used in the conflict, including tunnels, buildings for high-level meetings and even power generation. Some of the construction was done using U.S. taxpayer funds, according to the lawsuit, which pointed to funds doled out by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

“ 'By actively working with Hamas to build and maintain its attack tunnel infrastructure while simultaneously advancing Hamas’s campaign of deception, Defendants aided and abetted and conspired with Hamas, and the October 7 Attack and the deaths of soldiers and civilians thereafter were a foreseeable consequence of Defendants’ collaboration with Hamas,” the lawsuit reads. “Plaintiffs—American victims of the October 7 Attack and its aftermath, and their family members and their estates—therefore bring this action under the Anti-Terrorism Act (“ATA”) as amended by the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (“JASTA”).” . . .

Well-Connected Billionaire Leveraged US Tax Dollars To Help Hamas Gear Up For Oct. 7, Lawsuit Alleges "A Palestinian-American billionaire helped lay the groundwork for the Hamas Oct. 7 attacks, families of American Oct. 7 massacre victims alleged in a new lawsuit released Monday.

New York Times Obtains a Memo Hamas Leader Ordering October 7th Massacre "The NY Times has obtained a handwritten memo by Yahya Sinwar with plans for the October 7 Massacre & intercepts of Hamas communications.

The cruelty was premeditated. Burning houses with people inside. Stomping on people’s heads. Filming it all for the whole Islamic world.

Language: ‘Journalists’ Defense Of Islam BACKFIRES In Footage From A Second Camera!

'Go to Hell': Hamas Spox Gets Touchy As Accountability Looms in Arab World

Hot Air

“It’s a great deal for Israel, but it’s a great deal for everybody,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “I can tell you that I saw Israel dancing in the streets, but they were dancing in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, many, many countries.” DJT

Does Mandami know these guys personally?

"Hamas might have expected a hero's embrace in the Arab world after signing off on the hostage-exchange and ceasefire agreement. They have spent the last two years proclaiming their victory for "Palestine" in the October 7 massacres that started the war, and they have doubled down on that spin since agreeing to Donald Trump's proposal this week.

"After two years of destruction -- much of it involving investment from the Arab world in Gaza -- reality could be a bit different. In the cold light of a cease-fire, not even nominally friendly forums are letting Hamas spokespeople off the hook. Hamas co-founder Mousa Abu Marzouk told a Qatari interviewer to "go to hell" and show him some respect for asking the obvious question: What the ever-loving f*** were you idiots thinking on October 7?

"To be fair, the Pan-Arab Ghad interviewer put it more politely, but still ...

Abu Marzouk, who lives in Qatar, tried to justify the terror organization’s crimes by saying that Hamas “fulfilled its national duty.” At that point, the journalist asked: “Was what you did on October 7 to lead the Palestinians to liberation?”
Visibly annoyed and embarrassed, Abu Marzouk remained silent and then responded that “no sane person would claim that on October 7, with just a thousand or so fighters, it was possible to liberate Palestine.”
He then demanded from the interviewer: “Please, at least make your questions respectful.”
The journalist calmly continued, “I am asking you the questions that are being asked on the streets of Palestine, by the residents of Gaza.”
At that point, Marzouk lost his temper and began to shout: “These are your questions! Show some respect for yourself. I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t want to see you. Cut it out. Cut it out. Go to hell!”

"Marzouk had better get used to this question. Those left in Gaza will ask it, especially when Hamas has to step aside for the proposed pan-Arab force that will take control of Gaza at the end of the ceasefire proposal. At that point, the only accomplishments that Hamas can claim will be:

1200 dead Israelis and foreign workers
Tens of thousands of dead Gazans
The destruction of Gaza infrastructure, in the tens of billions of dollars
The presence of the IDF in Gaza
The elimination of Iranian domination
The loss of Syria
The destruction of Hezbollah
At least another decade of miserable poverty in Gaza . . . More...

Brandon out of control

Silvio Canto, Jr.

"What makes Mayor Johnson even more ridiculous is that he is doing nothing to attract prosperity or support local businesses desperately trying to keep thieves from their stores. He is a first rate demagogue obsessed with President Trump, rather than making his city a better place to live."

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"Is there a worse city mayor than Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago? I don’t know, but it’s hard to deny that Chicago is a mess. This is from Professor Jonathan Turley:

As a native Chicagoan, I must confess that I have little patience for Mayor Brandon Johnson, a politician who has been a disaster for the city. One of the most unpopular mayors in the city’s history, Johnson has been using the increased ICE operations to try to ride a wave of rage back into popularity. His language has become more and more inflammatory in calling for citizens to ‘resist’ and ‘fight’ federal law enforcement. Now, he is claiming the authority to not only mandate ‘ICE-free zones’ in the city but to arrest federal officers.
Ironically, Johnson has declared that President Donald Trump wants a ‘rematch of the Civil War.’ However, it is Johnson who is pursuing antebellum policies. It was the South that claimed independence from the Union and fought to expel federal troops.

"I guess that Mayor Johnson don’t know much about history either, as Sam Cooke’s song goes. (“Don't know much about history....”)

"The latest nonsense from Mayor Johnson is to effectively exempt Chicago from federal law. Back to Professor Turley:

Johnson signed a ridiculous executive order creating ‘ICE-Free Zones’ to ban federal agents from using city-owned properties and property of unwilling private owners as staging areas for immigration enforcement.
The federal government has its own jurisdictional authority and can enter city and private property in pursuit of lawful operations. In terms of ‘staging’ operations, the Constitution, not Brandon Johnson, protects citizens from having their property seized or used for the quartering of troops.

"So Mayor Johnson doesn’t know that one about the federal government and supremacy over state law (of course, as long as it’s “in pursuance” of the Constitution). Maybe he should chat with President Obama and how they attacked Arizona for trying to pass a secure border law back in 2012. Remember that one? I do." . . . More...

Trump’s Middle Eastern success recipe: Don’t do what Democrats did

Jack Hellner

. . . "The media and other Democrats have said Trump doesn’t like strong women, but he surrounds himself with very strong and intelligent women, including his wife. It is a shame that the mainstream media doesn’t cover Melania’s speech from yesterday about Russia, Ukraine, and the children she helped save."

"For confused journalists and other analysts or supposed experts wondering how Trump is succeeding in bringing peace to the Middle East, all that they must do is look at how Obama, Biden, Europe, and their career diplomats handled Iran to see why they failed where Trump has succeeded. The Democrats’ goal has been to harm the West; Trump’s policy has been to benefit America and the Western world.

"Iran has been a threat to the World for decades, as they developed dangerous weapons and supported multiple terrorist groups that were killing and maiming people throughout the Middle East and the world. So, what did Obama and Biden do? They spent years building up Iran and appeasing the mullahs instead of trying to destroy them.

"Trump, on the other hand, has spent his first and second terms working on weakening Iran by destroying their finances. Doing so also cuts off the funds Iran delivered to terrorists.

"In Trump’s first term, he finally kept the promise several U.S. presidents had made to move our embassy to Israel, despite warnings about how dangerous that was to the region. It didn’t cause problems, but it did show the world and the region that he would keep the promises.

"Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who is not a career Middle East expert, worked to implement the Abraham Accords across the region.

"Trump took out a top terrorist Iranian terrorist (Qassim Soleimani). Biden and the Democrat crowd said that doing so was terribly dangerous. It wasn’t. Iran barely retaliated.

"Trump imposed severe sanctions on Iranian oil. Biden refused to enforce any sanctions, allowing Iran to go back to funding its war machine and terrorist organizations.

"Heck, Obama shipped Iranian leaders billions in unmarked cash and also dictatorially shut down a long investigation into Hezbollah’s billion-dollar drug-running operation to reach the worthless and dangerous Iranian nuclear deal.

"Trump also did everything he could to keep oil prices low, which greatly harmed both Iran and Russia. Biden set out to destroy low-priced oil. He succeeded in jacking up prices, which hurt Americans and financed wars and terrorism.

"In Trump’s second term, he began by meeting with several Middle Eastern leaders to negotiate business deals and improve relations." . . . More...

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Who's Paying for Antifa and Why Are They Protected by Progressives? Let's Look at the Books.

Victoria Taft

"I asked Bruner to come back on my Adult in the Room Podcast to break it all down for us. And I asked him why do these progressive blue-city, blue-state governments force their citizens to tolerate this violence?"

"How do they afford it? How do Antifa militants on the streets of Portland afford all the stuff that allows them to spend hours a day in waiting till the night so they can make life a living hell for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers trying to come in or go out of the driveway? And why does the city protect them?

"We all know somebody's paying for all the prepared deli sandwiches and pastries that keep that topless lady in the wheelchair and her theater kid pals in rolls and butter.

"That storage unit full of their supplies costs money. Who's paying for that safe house down the street that Antifa militants use for rest and costume changes? Why do they get a pass from the cops? Why do elected officials make excuses for their violence and pretend it's not happening?

"Someone's getting paid for being willing to go to jail for harassing people and picking fights. How much did they get paid for being willing to hold armed checkpoints on behalf of Black Lives Matter on the streets of Portland in 2021, and beating two drivers? Who pays for their training?

"Antifa thugs chased reporter Andy Ngo through the streets of Portland and beat him... again. Why? Holding a summer camp in Portland parks to grow a new generation of mind-numbed bots isn't cheap.

"One of my West Coast, Messed Coast™ readers tasked me with the question: Why are they protecting Antifa?

"There are probably many answers, but the easiest one is that the big-money donors and unions handing out cash to politicians are also funding this unrest. They're of one hive mind. They are ideological twins.

"In Oregon, where a lot of this unrest plays out, the biggest funders of the progressive causes, not necessarily street violence, is government. But as we know, money is fungible.

"This is according to Open Secrets:

Oregon Health & Science University: $491,765
Portland State University: $343,309
State of Oregon: $750,194
VoteVets.org: $1,832,500
WE Communications: $808,166
Nike Inc: $695,141

"The Associate Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), Seamus Bruner, has written a book about the billionaires funding all manner of direct action violence on the streets. That means Antifa, BLM, and their fellow violence merchants. He presented his findings to the president and his key cabinet members at Wednesday's Antifa summit.

"In his presentation to the president, Bruner named five funders whose money is used for violence on the streets, whether they know it or not. The information is contained in his book The Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life." . . . More...

Antifa Has Awakened the Sleeping Giant "It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive, even apprehensive. He later wrote in his private diary,

“I fear all I have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”

"It took the attack on Pearl Harbor to awaken Americans to the threat that the world faced, a bit over 82 years ago. A couple weeks ago, in my daily column, I raised what I considered at the time an unlikely but logical parallel between the 9/11 attacks and Charlie Kirk's death. I may have even used the same Yamamoto passage in that piece. But in researching today's piece over the last few days, and particularly in light of recent Antifa activity, I find the comparison more even more apt than I did then." . . .

. . . "I always liked the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne’s quote, which given the attachment of Antifa to our supposed institutions of "higher leaning" seems very appropriate here:

“I prefer the company of peasants as they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”

"I note that there seems to be an inverse relationship between educational credentials and what we used to refer to as common sense. Alas, that sense seems lacking in commonality in those places, these days." . . .

Disney World raises ticket, annual passes prices: Here's when, how much

FOX 35 "Walt Disney World tickets and annual passes are going up, including annual pass renewals.

A one-day, one-park ticket varies by theme park:

Disney's Animal Kingdom: $119-$174
EPCOT: $129-$194
Disney's Hollywood Studios: $139-$194
Magic Kingdom: $139-$199

"Disney said increases would begin after October 2026 and the highest of its price points would be around the major holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas." . . .

JUST IN: Biden Undergoing 5-Week Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer

The Gateway Pundit

"Joe Biden is reportedly undergoing radiation therapy to treat his prostate cancer. Fox reports that the treatment will last five weeks."

"Per NBC News, a spokesperson for Biden said, “As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment.”

" 'He has already been taking a pill form of hormone medication,” NBC reports.

"As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biden’s office announced that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, which had spread to his bones, in May.

"Many, including medical professionals, questioned how long the former president’s team knew about his condition, given the severity of his initial diagnosis. According to multiple doctors, Biden likely had cancer for years.

"This wouldn’t be the first time they covered up Biden’s health concerns. Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, has been accused by House Oversight Chairman James Comer of engaging in a “conspiracy to cover up President Biden’s cognitive decline” after he refused to testify and pleaded the 5th Amendment at his deposition.

"It is believed that O’Connor likely also knew about Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis long before it was made public.

"Biden was also recently treated with surgery for skin cancer." . . .

15 YEARS LATER? WashPost Editorial Board Says Obamacare ‘Was Never Actually Affordable’

Joseph Vazquez

That is how the Democrat Party works. Install entitlement, blame Republicans when anyone tries to limit it in any way.

"Hold on to your britches because you’re not going to believe this one. The Washington Post Editorial Board just admitted that the so-called "Affordable Care Act," one the most notorious pieces of Obama-era legislation foisted upon consumers by legislators and the liberal media as the saving grace of American health care, turned out to be an expensive mess.

"The Post tried to play both sides of the fence in the ongoing government shutdown stand off with Republicans and Democrats, the latter of which demanded “Republicans agree to extend the Covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it.” Then The Post ran one of the biggest plot twists ever to hit American politics in the last 15 years: “The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was never actually affordable.”

"Nope, your eyes didn’t deceive you. The architects of former President Barack Obama’s 2010 “signature achievement,” wrote The Post, “assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.”

"Gee, that’s an awfully different tone than the liberal rag was striking in 2024 when the editorial board celebrated how “Obamacare is working brilliantly — for now.” That’s despite the fact that premiums for individual market plans doubled in costs and “the per enrollee cost of Medicaid expansion is nearly 60 percent greater than what experts projected,” as the Paragon Health." . . .(All emphases in the original). More...

With A Single Question, Brennan Proves Schumer Has No Interest In Ending Shutdown: All The Questions From Face The Nation

The Federalist

"Have you tried calling President Trump? He seems to take phone calls directly. . . "So, no. OK."

"Perhaps even Democrat accomplice Margaret Brennan has lost faith in Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a regular guest on her CBS Sunday show, Face The Nation.

"During a discussion about the government shutdown, Schumer, 74, was going on and on — the way an oldster sometimes does — about how the Republicans are “not serious” about negotiating a solution.

He complained about Trump’s memes, whined that Trump was busy playing golf, and said Speaker Mike Johnson is not serious either. Schumer had a nice little narrative going about those darn Republicans when Brennan hit him with the most beautifully obvious question.

“ 'Have you tried calling President Trump? He seems to take phone calls directly.”

"Schumer stammered just a little, then said Democrats “tried to get Trump to sit down” weeks before the shutdown.

"Brennan tried to stop him there with three words.

“ 'So, no. OK,” Brennan said, but Schumer kept yapping, claiming there was a meeting a while back where Schumer claims Trump “didn’t even know what was happening.”

"In one question Brennan zeroed in on the problem and the solution. Schumer knows how the phone works, and he knows Trump is always ready to talk. If he does not make the call, Schumer remains the grandfather of this shutdown.

"Brennan also asked Schumer about comments Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. made on Fox News, saying there are “there are conversations with Democrats who want to find an offramp here. Is he having conversations with Democrats other than you?”

"Peel away the hemming, hawing, and redirection in Schumer’s answers and the questions reveal the real story — Schumer is losing control of his party." . . . More...

The Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel War Prize

American Spectator

"María Corina has stood firm, like a stake in the desert, for freedom and against Maduro’s dictatorship."

"The funniest thing about the campaign to give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize is that, since they didn’t want to give it to him, they ended up awarding it to María Corina Machado — so nobody could complain and everyone would be happy. These are complicated times for the Left. Trump has achieved something incredible in Palestine, dealt a historic blow to the UN, and exposed the entire high-cost, high-failure European social-democratic diplomacy and its monstrous institutions. They are furious because the Left needs things to go wrong. This isn’t a barroom comment — it’s an uncomfortable truth, a historical truth.

"The nature of revolution, the seed of the Left, is destructive, not constructive. The symbol of the Right is a normal family living a normal life and a national flag. The symbol of the Left is a raised fist, a defiant woman showing off a muscle, a hammer, and sickle — almost always bloodied — or an antisemitic banner.

"Conservatives have a positive vision of life. The Left doesn’t have a vision; it has a plan to destroy the conservatives’ way of life. Progressives are usually angry, because living in opposition is frustrating enough… but now that they’re running out of protests to attend, taxes to raise, and immediate reasons to destroy businesses and trash cans, they’re even angrier.

"The driving force of the Left is hatred disguised as love. The driving force of the Right is love, often caricatured as hate. We can debate this for hours and pretend it’s just a normal ideological clash, but we’d be wasting our time if we ignore the fact that there’s no political symmetry between the two sides — and there never has been. For too long, we’ve lived under the white — and dangerous — lie that it does.

"As for the Nobel Peace Prize itself, it’s completely discredited. It’s been awarded to Amnesty International, Rigoberta Menchú, Yasser Arafat (insert your laugh here), the scoundrel Kofi Annan, the sharpest pencil in Jimmy Carter’s pencil case, Al Gore the bear whisperer, and Barack Obama, who got it as soon as he took office because it had been reserved for him from the day he was born, regardless of his actions or words." . . .

AOC's district saw massive shift to Trump during presidential election

NY Post

"We have had an enormous setback in this election because the fascists won a lot of working-class support, which has happened before in history,” she said."

"AOC’s home base is seeing red.

"Far-left Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s constituents swung toward President-elect Trump in Tuesday’s presidential election by one of the largest margins citywide.

"In 2020, 77% of voters in AOC’s congressional district, which covers parts of the Bronx and Queens, cast their ballot for Joe Biden, while Trump snagged just 22%, according to an analysis of voting records by the progressive news outlet Daily Kos, which used the current district lines.

"That yawning, 55-point gap was cut by nearly half this week, with Vice President Harris securing just under 65% of the ballots cast in NY-14 to Trump’s 33%, according to unofficial city voting records and the Daily Kos data.

"The once deep-blue city saw a roughly 15-point swing overall toward Trump from 2020 overall, with Harris raking in roughly 68% of the votes compared to a little more than 30% for the Republican nominee.“Like the rest of the country, New York City saw a big shift rightward on Election Night as voters soundly rejected the Biden-Harris-AOC record of inflation, open borders and radical progressivism,” New York State GOP spokesman David Laska told The Post

"The far-left firebrand’s own outer borough district notably overlaps with Bronx neighborhoods such as Throgs Neck and Schuylerville that elected City Councilwoman Kristy Marmorato, the first Republican to hold public office in the borough in nearly two decades.

“ 'Everyone sees AOC as a darling of the left, and coming from a district that reflects those politics,” said Democratic strategist Jake Dilemani. But the part of the borough she represents is “one of the most conservative parts of the Bronx,” he added.

"Her sprawling district also boasts sizable Latino and Asian populations, two groups that have recently shifted rightward and were crucial to Trump’s triumph, GOP political consultant Ryan Girdusky suggested." . . .

AOC backs Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor - POLITICO

"Ocasio-Cortez, 35, and Mamdani, 33, share progressive values in addition to the parts of Queens they represent. She also represents parts of the Bronx. He has rallied left-leaning, younger voters with his call for free and fast bus service, a freeze on the rent and a push to tax the wealthy."

Zohran Mamdani joins NYC Dems in left-wing love fest as they fiercely defend indicted AG Letitia James

. . . "The Trump-hating, James-loving rally also served as the latest chapter in a budding political romance between Mamdani and the attorney general.
The pair have bonded as unsparing critics of Trump and targets of his wrath."

Letitia James now reaps what she had sown — so spare us the faux outrage

Virginia Dem Gov Candidate's Appalling Response on Political Violence Is Now an Ad. It's Brutal.

Matt Vespa

"We’re not the ones with a political violence problem. Democrats have one, and Spanny’s silence is violence. I was told that was the rule by her people. This reaction is why more leftists will commit violence. They see that they have a political party giving them a rubber stamp on acts of domestic terrorism."

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— Augustina 🇻🇦 (@AugustinaJJD) October 11, 2025

"There’s a reason why Democrats wanted to keep Abigail Spanberger gagged and locked in a basement until the tail end of this election: she’s a total disaster. The Virginia congresswoman, who is running for governor against Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, has been elite at tossing word salads. Her incoherent mess of an answer about men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms showcases how liberals are gutless in standing up for what’s sane. It’s almost as if there’s an allergy to joining the popular end of public policy issues that are no longer debated: men shouldn’t be in women’s locker rooms. It’s insane that this is even an issue. But on political violence, she’s worse.

"Democratic candidate for attorney general, Jay Jones, is sinking due to recently released texts showing him wishing death upon his GOP colleagues in the state legislature and their families. He even went so far as to hope the children of then-Speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert would die of gunshot wounds so he would change his mind on gun control. Spanberger was asked about this during a debate this week, and her answer was atrocious. Leah had the story: . . .

Brutal ad that drives home how terrible Abigail Spanberger's debate strategy was pic.twitter.com/HQfgMSxrc0
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) October 10, 2025

Abigail Spanberger Was Asked About Men in Women's Bathrooms. Her Answer Was a Trainwreck "She finally answered a question, and it was a nightmare. We can see why Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger’s people have been trying to keep her away from the media. If this were a dangling of one’s foot into that pool, they’re likely going to whisk her away, because this was a hefty helping of word salad over a simple question: Do you support men in women’s bathrooms? The question was pitched to her by WJLA’s Nick Minock."