A "Pedophile Palace" to Honor Epstein? New Ballroom is Larger than the Blight House and Funded by Zionists. Master Trump Tells His Subjects There was No Need for Public Input to Change His Public Bldg

A Pedophile Palace in Honor of Epstein? Trump’s New Ballroom is Larger than The White House and Funded by Zionist Billionaires. Master Trump Tells His Subjects There was No Need for Public Input and They Love It!

President Donald Trump and his Zionist Billionaires are funding a new addition to the White House that is being advertised as a “Ballroom”.

“Health Impact News” has named this new addition to the Blight House “Pedophile Palace” which is a true symbol of American Culture here in 2025, and it is in honor of Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein financial system that runs the United States today. [MORE]

PUBLIC MASTER DISREGARDS PUBLIC INPUT FOR THE PUBLIC’s BUILDING. From [HERE] A new lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, demands a temporary restraining order to halt any demolition and construction efforts until a public review process by the National Capital Planning Commission can be completed.

Any such order, however, may only be able to freeze construction on the ballroom, as The Washington Post reported around 3 p.m. that the East Wing has been demolished.

The plaintiffs, Charles and Judith Voorhees, claim the Trump administration has violated the National Capital Planning Act of 1952 by refusing to submit the final plans for the construction of a new ballroom to the planning commission.

Further, the administration has violated the National Historic Preservation Act by not identifying and evaluating the historic property, assessing potential impacts on the property and not consulting with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office to mitigate those impacts.

The government is also meant to obtain review from the Commission of Fine Arts, the Voorheeses say, which reviews and advises on the “design and aesthetics of the exterior modifications” to the White House.

“Defendants are unilaterally decoupling the demolition of the East Wing of the White House from the construction approval process to expedite the project, effectively bypassing the historic preservation and planning reviews required under federal law for a project of this magnitude on a protected national landmark,” the Voorheeses say in their complaint.

The Trump administration has defended plans to construct a 90,000-square-foot ballroom as merely the latest renovation to the “executive mansion,” creating a page on the White House website placing the construction at the end of a timeline that starts with the initial designing and construction under President John Adams. [more]

Is the Fear of a Vote on Releasing the Epstein Files Keeping the Government Shut Down? Massie Can Force a Vote After AZ rep is Sworn in- Mike Johnson and Melania Trump Sued Over Epstein Scandal

From [HERE] While the official narrative of why the U.S. Government has been shut down so long follows typical partisan political fighting with each side blaming the other, the real truth appears to be that Mike Johnson, the GOP Speaker of the House, refuses to swear in the newly elected representative from Arizona, Adelita Grijalva, who would become the 218th person to support Congressman Thomas Massie and Congressman Ro Khann’s discharge petition to force a vote on the House floor to release the Epstein files.

Johnson has used the excuse of the Government shutdown as the reason he will not swear in Grijalva, even though he swore in two Republicans earlier this year when the House was not in session after they won their elections in Florida.

As a result, the Attorney General for Arizona has now sued Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva after winning the election to represent her constituents in Arizona.

Here are two reports that include interviews with newly elected Adelita Grijalva, and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes. [MORE]

The Oldest Colony, the Newest War: Puerto Rico as a Launchpad for War on Venezuela

From [HERE] When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S drones struck another small boat off Venezuela’s coast, few people in the United States realized that much of this militarization begins on the soil of a land denied its own sovereignty: Puerto Rico.

The island that has lived under US rule since 1898 is once again being used as a staging ground for U.S. militarism, this time for Washington’s latest “war on drugs” narrative, masking a campaign of coercion against Latin America’s independent governments.

After invading Puerto Rico in 1898, the United States quickly turned the island into a strategic military outpost: the “Gibraltar of the Caribbean,” with naval bases in Ceiba, Roosevelt Roads, and Vieques designed to dominate the eastern Caribbean and protect the new artery of empire: the Panama Canal.

From World War I onward, Puerto Ricans were drafted into every major U.S. war, fighting and dying for a flag that still denies them full citizenship rights. Meanwhile, the island’s lands and waters were expropriated for bombing ranges, naval training, and intelligence operations.

For six decades, the U.S. Navy used Vieques as a live-fire testing ground, dropping millions of pounds of explosives and munitions, including napalm and depleted uranium. The result was environmental devastation and one of the highest cancer rates in the region. It took a mass civil disobedience movement to finally force the Navy out in 2003.

That victory proved Puerto Ricans’ capacity for organized resistance, but the structures of empire never disappeared.

Two decades later, those same bases and runways are being reactivated. In 2025, Washington quietly expanded military operations on the island, deploying F-35 fighter jets, stationing P-8 maritime patrol aircraft, and rotating Marine and Special Operations units through Puerto Rican ports and airfields. The official justification is “counter-narcotics operations,”  but the timing and scale point to something far larger: a regional military buildup aimed at Venezuela.

The aggression has now extended to Colombia, where Trump has cut off all U.S. aid and accused President Gustavo Petro of being a “drug leader.” The announcement came just days after Colombia’s president denounced the U.S. drone strikes off Venezuela’s coast, one of which, he warned, hit a Colombian vessel and killed Colombian citizens. Instead of accountability, Washington answered with insults and economic blackmail.

The Trump administration’s designation of a “non-international armed conflict with drug cartels” gives legal cover for drone strikes and covert missions far from U.S. territory. Puerto Rico’s colonial status makes it the perfect staging ground: a place the Pentagon can operate freely without congressional debate or local consent.

For Puerto Ricans, this militarization is not an abstract issue. It means more surveillance, more environmental risk, and a deeper entanglement in wars they never chose. It also signals a return to the same imperial logic that made Vieques a bombing range: using occupied territory to project power abroad.

Puerto Rico remains the oldest colony in the modern world, a U.S. “territory” whose people are “citizens” but not sovereign. They cannot vote for president, have no senators, and possess only a symbolic representative in Congress. That absence of sovereignty is what makes it so useful to the empire: a gray zone of legality where wars can be prepared without democratic consent.

This is not the first time Puerto Rico has been used as a military springboard. Its bases have served as logistical hubs for interventions across the hemisphere,  from the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965, to Grenada in 1983, and Panama in 1989. [more]

Map Shows an Unusually Large US Military Presence in the Caribbean Sea or 'Venezuela War Theater'

The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast of Venezuela since this summer, when the Trump administration first began to shift assets to the region as part of its so-called war against narcoterrorism.

Here is a look at the ships, planes and troops in the region:

Racist Lawlessness and Arrogance: D.C. Aims for Regime Change to Steal Resources in Caracas

From [HERE] The Trump administration is ramping up military aggression against Venezuela. U.S. attacks on several boats in the Caribbean have killed at least 27 people as of Friday, October 17, The Independent reports. Now, President Donald Trump has signed a presidential finding, which approves CIA covert action in Venezuela.

The military and national security veterans at the Eisenhower Media Network disagree strongly with the use of the U.S. military in the Caribbean and the bullying of Latin America more broadly.

Senior fellow Michael Baker assesses the situation succinctly: The airstrikes in the Caribbean are “murder in international waters of unknown people and without due process.”

“Members of the Trump administration are like vigilante cops,” says senior fellow Bill Astore. “They think they can enforce the law by breaking the law. In attempting to display toughness, they’re showing moral weakness by murdering people who could well be innocent.”

The White House and the Pentagon have not even released the identities of the people on board or the precise nature of the cargo.

Senior fellow Matthew Hoh recalls the Tom Clancy war novel A Clear and Present Danger, which featured a well-funded covert program against a drug cartel in a Latin American country. “That storyline is now being implemented with one important addition: regime change,” Hoh explains.

“Tom Clancy was a hawk’s hawk, but even he knew the limits of military power, as well as the great dangers that come from a President’s constitutional crimes. Clancy’s story is a tragedy and a cautionary tale, not a triumph.” Citing the United States’ catastrophic military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, Hoh stresses that Washington’s efforts at regime change never end well.

Legality

The legal foundations for murder in the Caribbean are shaky, as Congress has authorized neither missile strikes nor war.

The administration designated the Cartel of the Suns (“Cartel de los Soles”) a terrorist organization and continues to argue that the cartel is a criminal group headed by Venezuelan President Nicholás Maduro. Such a designation triggers an asset freeze and certain travel restrictions. It also demonizes the group and convinces some members of the American public to support attacks on that group.

The administration further argues that it’s self-defense to strike boats that allegedly bring drugs to the U.S.

“Self-defense” is a tried and true pretext for U.S. military activity. It was used to justify bombing Libya in 1986, invading Panama in 1989, bombing Iraq in 1993, invading and occupying Iraq in 2003, and bombing West Asia and Africa (e.g., Syria, Yemen, Somalia).

“In a world where government lies may be easily refuted in seconds, Trump’s initiation of war for Venezuelan oil and resources presented as a war on drugs and made up narco-terror is as illegal as it is embarrassing,” concludes senior fellow Karen Kwiatkowski.

A Bipartisan Affair

The U.S. government’s history of aggression against Latin America is extensive. Washington, D.C., makes sure that no country, especially one in the United States’ “backyard,” opposes the U.S.-led capitalist order or dares to use natural resources to benefit people instead of multinational corporations.

Hugo Chavez attempted to do just that in 1999. A coup soon followed – one which CIA, at the very least, knew about in advance.

It was the Obama administration that originally declared Venezuela to be a national security threat, unlocking many legal authorities, including the imposition of economic sanctions.

The first Trump administration expanded economic sanctions and imposed an embargo barring financial transactions with Venezuelan government officials and freezing all of the government’s assets in the U.S.

The Biden administration then levied more economic sanctions against Venezuelan officials and the oil industry and increased bounties on Venezuelan government officials. [MORE]

Advocates/Italian Archbishop Seek Release of Reiner Fuellmich: Attorney Kidnapped and Locked Up by Authority b/c He Investigated COVID Shots as Genocide and Attempted to Convene "2nd Nuremberg Trial"

From [HERE] Dr. Reiner Fuellmich was kidnapped from Mexico in October 2023, taken to Germany, arrested and incarcerated.  He has been in a German prison ever since.

There are many things about his case which expose that the German criminal justice system is broken, but above all, extradition laws prohibit someone from being extradited for political prosecution or persecution reasons.

Earlier this month, Andrew Bridgen posted on Twitter (now X) that he was arranging to visit Dr. Reiner Fuellmich in prison “as soon as is possible.”

A couple of weeks earlier, Ni-Vanuatu film director Philippe Carillo had compiled calls from around the world, from well-known freedom advocates, for the immediate release of Dr. Fuellmich.  One of the contributors was Bridgen.

“Reiner is a courageous lawyer who was an early warner about the dangers of the covid jabs and the whole pandemic response … The German government saw him as a danger to their narrative … Reiner Fuellmich is a political prisoner and his continued incarceration is an affront to freedom in Europe and Germany,” Bridgen said.

Adding, “I would urge Donald Trump’s Administration to acquaint themselves with the facts around this case and put pressure on the German government to release him as soon as possible.

“Remember Reiner Fuellmich. He’s in prison for warning us of the threats, the existential threats from the pandemic response. He must not be forgotten. He must be released.”

Reiner Fuellmich (also written as Füllmich) is a German lawyer and former spokesman for the Corona Investigative Committee, a non-governmental investigative group based in Germany.  He has been involved in efforts to pursue class action lawsuits in the United States against entities he alleges were responsible for damages stemming from the management of the covid pandemic, including claims related to the alleged misuse of PCR testing by German virologist Christian Drosten.

In September 2022, Viviane Fischer, a partner in the Corona Investigative Committee, accused Dr. Fuellmich of embezzling funds through overbilling for legal services.  Fuellmich denied the allegations, claiming they were politically motivated to undermine the Committee’s investigation into deep state involvement in the global pandemic response.

Not to be deterred by Fischer’s false accusations, Dr. Fuellmich left the Corona Investigative Committee and founded the International Crime Investigative Committee (“ICIC”) to continue his work.

An arrest warrant for Dr. Fuellmich was issued in March 2023 while he was in Mexico.  In October 2023, he was abducted by agents of the German state at an embassy in Mexico and taken to Germany, where he was arrested and held in pre-trial detention at Rosdorf prison.

In April 2025, Dr. Fuellmich was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.  The Berlin prosecutor’s office had previously stated there was no cause for a criminal investigation. [MORE]

Global Push for a Digital ID—and Its Threat to Freedom

International Man: Recently, the State Bank of Vietnam deactivated more than 86 million bank accounts as part of its shift toward a new national digital ID system.

Officials call it a ‘security upgrade,’ but it effectively cut off millions from their own money overnight.

In Thailand, we’ve seen a similar push to tie financial and online activity to state-issued digital IDs.Freedom or Surveillanc...Rane, TheoBuy New $14.00(as of 12:27 UTC - Details)

Is this part of a coordinated global push toward centralized control through digital ID systems?

Doug Casey: Without doubt.

Money is a primary manifestation of personal freedom. Money isn’t just an economic good; it’s a moral good. It represents the hours of your life you spent earning it, and all that you hope to provide for yourself and others in the future. It is, in effect, congealed or crystallized life.

Those who want to control other people—collectivists, statists, Marxists, the Woke, socialists, and the like—naturally want to limit the uses and the value of money. Enforcing the use of fiat currencies issued by central banks is the ideal way of doing that. It amounts to a giant fraud. But the average person stupidly accepts it as part of the cosmic firmament.

People have been told that in a democracy, they’re the rulers. In reality, democracy in today’s world is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie. It amounts to a secular religion, where the State is a god, and politicians are its priests. When it comes to financial matters, the public has become accustomed to doing what they’re told.

This is nothing new. Few remember that when Roosevelt confiscated gold in 1933, he used an Executive Order—the same vehicle that Trump uses for so many things today. You’d have thought that, almost a hundred years ago, Americans would have resisted the president’s wholesale theft. But they were already used to the Federal Reserve issuing currency, and the government collecting income tax. When ordered to turn in their gold, they acted like obedient little lambs. [MORE]

In Response to a 2024 DOJ Report, Phoenix Police Claim They Won't Use Force Excessively on Kids. Yet, All Force Used Offensively on People is Excessive, Authority to do so is Immoral and Illegitimate

From [HERE] In June 2024, the Department of Justice issued a damning report on the abuses of Phoenix police, laying out in painstaking detail how cops routinely trampled the rights of residents. Some of those abuses involved minors, who were on the receiving end of unnecessary force and aggressive treatment by police.

“(The Phoenix Police Department) does not take into account the vulnerability of children and their stage of development,” the DOJ report read. “As one sergeant explained, ‘We don’t really treat youth any differently than adults.’”

Now, in an announcement that reads like a direct response to the DOJ report, the police department has avowed it will treat youth differently from adults. On Thursday, Phoenix police publicized its new “Youth Interactions” policies, which are meant to guide officers in their encounters with minors.

The department is seeking public input on the new policies, which are not merely updates to previous policies. Phoenix police spokesperson Sgt. Jennifer Zak confirmed to Phoenix New Times that the department “did not previously have a policy specifically for the interactions with our youth, who are an important part of our community.”

“This new policy is all part of the Phoenix Police Department’s commitment to continuous improvement,” she added.

The city is accepting comments on the policy through Nov. 22.

The new policies begin with an assertion that should seem obvious: that “youth are developmentally different from adults” and that police should calibrate their interactions according to those differences. From there, the policies go on to provide guidelines on practices that were specifically called out in the DOJ report.

Answering the DOJ report

One portion of the new policies discusses when and why cops can place handcuffs on minors. The DOJ report noted that Phoenix officers “use excessive force during encounters with kids,” and that “nearly every child we interviewed complained officers closed handcuffs on their wrists so tightly that they reached the point of pain and injury.” In some cases, the cuffs were so tight that kids’ hands went numb and their wrists carried marks for months.

“Others said they sustained deep cuts on their wrists and, when they asked officers to loosen the cuffs, PhxPD instead tightened them further,” the report said.

Seemingly in response, the new youth interaction policies state that “the Department recognizes that detaining or handcuffing youth may cause trauma.” The policies now prohibit cops from handcuffing kids “to intimidate or scare them” or when kids “are not under arrest or detained and/or do not pose a safety risk.” If kids are found to have committed no offense, they are to be uncuffed “immediately.” [MORE]

After the Marshall Project Found that Cleveland Police Stopped and Searched Black People 3X More than Whites, Liberal Authorities Hired a Firm to Create a Report that Refutes It w/rigged Mythematics

ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:  

mythematics – the manipulation of statistics to formulate and reflect the validity a preconceived desired result or position in an academic and/or socio-political context. (See: Statistics)

From [HERE] Amid public perception that Cleveland police target Black drivers, city officials have contracted with a data analytics firm to help department leaders monitor potential bias and discrimination by officers.

The move comes one year after a Marshall Project - Cleveland and News 5 analysis of 17,000 police stops found police searched Black people more than three times as often as White people during 2023 stops — despite finding contraband at similar rates.

Leigh Anderson, executive director of Cleveland’s Police Accountability Team, said the contract delivers on a promise that city leaders made in October 2024 to engage outside experts to review traffic stop data.

“Our commitment is really to the community to make sure that that wasn’t rooted in racial bias,” Anderson said. “I recognize the weight of public concern when it comes to trust in law enforcement.”

The new partnership with Sigma Squared adds more oversight to a department under a federal consent decree since 2015, following years of excessive force complaints and paying millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements and judgments for police misconduct.

Cleveland police searched Black people more than three times as often as White people during stops in 2023 — despite finding contraband at similar rates, a Marshall Project - Cleveland and WEWS News 5 analysis found.

The analysis examined the race of people stopped by Cleveland officers and was developed using data the city was required to provide under a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice in 2015, following years of excessive force complaints and paying millions of dollars in lawsuit settlements and judgments for police misconduct.

A preliminary analysis of 2024 traffic and investigatory stops by Sigma Squared found that Cleveland police did not target Black drivers, records show.

The analysis also found that police recovered contraband at similar rates regardless of race, records show. The city expects to release a final analysis once it is completed.

Harvard economists Roland Fryer and Tanaya Devi founded Sigma Squared in the wake of nationwide social justice protests in 2020. Police departments in Louisville and New Orleans also hired Sigma Squared recently.

Sigma Squared will provide the city with a dashboard where Police Chief Dorothy Todd and her command staff can see the number of police stops in any area of the city. The data will help them analyze whether the encounters triggered an arrest, a warning, a citation or a search and seizure, officials said.

Todd said she looks forward to being able to examine practices in near real time and make necessary adjustments instead of waiting a year for data.

“This is our commitment and dedication to compliance with the consent decree,” Todd said. “This shows that what we're doing is working. This shows the changes that have been made.”

As shootings continue to make headlines, the biggest task is to reduce violent crime and keep residents safe by targeting crime hot spots — regardless of the location, Todd said.

Are Authorities Scaring Non-White People Into Supporting a Digital ID? On Video ICE Race Soldiers Arbitrarily Stop a Latino Looking Woman Outside a Walmart and Demand to Know Where She Was Born

In Nazi Germany How Could Cops Tell Who Was Jewish & Who Was Not? During Nazi Gernamy Jews were identified by the outward marking of persons - as Jews six years or older could only appear in public when wearing the Jewish star on their clothing. [Identification papers are an importatnt part of any police state system as are restrictions on people's freedom of movement.] In a system of racism/white supremacy there is no need for any such star or outward marking because your skin color makes you their target.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services Renews Request to Require People to Disclose All Social Media Platforms, Identifiers Used Over Past 5yrs for Visas, Visa-free entry, Residency or Citizenship

Doubling down on its attack on anonymity and disregarding comments from the Identity Project and more than a thousand other organizations and individuals, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has renewed its request for blanket authorization to require applicants for US visas, visa-free entry, residency, or citizenship to disclose every social media platform and identifier they have used in the last five years.

Today the Identity Project and Restore The Fourth (RT4) filed comments opposing this USCIS proposal for dragnet social media surveillance of foreign visitors and residents and the US citizens with whom they communicate and associate on social media.

USCIS made no significant changes in response to the first round of public comments and ignored most of the issues we and others raised, including the ways that social media surveillance would impact First Amendment rights of assembly and association. [MORE]

Under the Guise of Immigration Enforcement, ICE Is Mounting a Mass Surveillance Campaign on American Citizens

While a federal judge scrutinizes the constitutionality of tactics used by federal immigration authorities during ongoing protests in Chicago, these same agencies are quietly amassing behind-the-scenes surveillance technology. Originally slated to target undocumented immigrants, the technology is now being used to investigate protestersof President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. 

Backed by funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in July, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has entered into contracts with companies to provide surveillance capabilities like facial recognition algorithms, an iris-scanningidentification app, controversial spyware on smartphones, and a real-time smartphone location and social media tracking system. In September alone, ICE racked up $1.4 billion in new surveillance technology contracts, the highest in at least 18 years, according to The Washington Post

These contracts are in addition to any privately owned surveillance networks to which ICE has access. Flock Safety, for example, has allowed ICE to access over 80,000 of its AI-powered license plate reader cameras installed nationwide, according to 404 Media. The expansive—and growing—mass surveillance camera network captures the license plate number, make, model, and any distinctive features of all passing vehicles, making it possible to track cars and, by extension, drivers, often without a warrant

Although ICE has sold its surveillance campaign as necessary to locating and deporting undocumented immigrations, the Trump administration has signaled that the technologies will also be used on American citizens. In September, Trump signed an executive order designating antifa a domestic terrorist organization and signaled that federal agencies, including ICE, should devote resources to investigating the network. Todd M. Lyons, acting director of ICE, told Glenn Beck during an interview shortly after the executive order was signed that the agency would "track the money," "ringleaders," and "professional agitators" who are "being brought in" from outside the Chicago area to protest against immigration enforcement. But whether from Chicago or elsewhere, protester or "domestic terrorist," constitutional rights and limitations still apply, although adherence by federal agencies is being questioned. [MORE]

Experimental AI Technology Used at a Public School in Baltimore County Confused a Bag of Chips with a Firearm, Which Led Cops to Falsely Detain, Search and Niggerize Student at Gun Point

From [HERE] He ate a bag of Doritos and crumpled it up in his pocket when he was done.

But he had no idea that action would lead to guns in his face 20 minutes later.

"Police showed up, like eight cop cars, and then they all came out with guns pointed at me talking about getting on the ground. I was putting my hands up like, 'what's going on?' He told me to get on my knees and arrested me and put me in cuffs," Allen said.

Officers searched him and then found the empty bag by the door.

He said an officer then showed him a picture from the AI detection system the school uses saying the crumpled-up chip bag looked like a firearm.

Superintendent Dr. Myriam Rogers told reporters that the system worked how it was meant to.

"The program is based on human verification and in this case the program did what it was supposed to do which was to signal an alert and for humans to take a look to find out if there was cause for concern in that moment," Rogers said.

But Allen is skeptical.

"I don't think no chip bag should be mistaken for a gun at all," he said.

The school's principal Kate Smith sent a letter to parents saying in part, "Please know that ensuring the safety of our students and school community is one of our highest priorities."

But Allen said Smith didn't come to speak to him until three days after the incident happened.

"I was expecting them to at least come up to me after the situation or the day after, but three days later that just shows like, do you really care or are you just doing it because the superintendent called me," Allen said. 

He told WMAR-2 News that the principal asked him how he was and to come to her if he needed anything.

Now, he feels on edge at a place where he's supposed to feel safe.

"Now, I feel like sometimes after practice I don't go outside anymore. Cause if I go outside, I don't want - don't think I'm safe enough to go outside, especially eating a bag of chips or drinking something. I just stay inside until my ride comes," said Allen.

Finding the Racist Roots of Maryland’s Juvenile Justice System [a state controlled by elite white liberals]

From [HERE] The Maryland juvenile justice system dates back to 1830, when the state adopted what was then a radical policy of jailing children and adults separately. The point was to shield kids, who were often jailed for minor offenses like vagrancy, from what corrections officials described as “the contaminating influences of evil and corrupt companions” in an 1870 report.

The state’s first juvenile correctional facility — the House of Refuge — opened its doors in 1855. But this Baltimore City jail was only for White boys. It would take the state almost 20 more years — and the end of the Civil War — to open the House of Reformation in Cheltenham for Black boys as young as 5.

The two youth prisons were by no means “separate but equal.” Our research revealed that, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the White facility received more funding from the state government and Baltimore City, more positive press attention, and more programming than the Black one. Even the facility names spoke to different attitudes about what these children were in need of: White youth required “refuge;” Black youth needed “reformation.”

While the Whites-only facility emphasized education, the state’s 1870 report prescribed work for Black “juvenile offenders” who could not “be expected to rise superior to the favored race.” To this end, boys at the House of Reformation were leased out to local farmers, often in cruel conditions. “I was at Cheltenham [three] years, [five] months, and a few days, and I had school two afternoons during this time,” a former prisoner named William Creasy told The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper in 1925. “They would hire the boys out with mean people who hated colored people, and the boys were worked just like slaves.” [MORE]

Alabama Authorities Tortured Anthony Boyd Before "Executing" Him Using Nitrogen Suffocation. For 38 Minutes the Black Man Jolted, Trembled, Took Deep, Open-Mouthed and Chest-Heaving Gasping Breaths

From [HERE] The State of Alabama executed Anthony Boyd by nitrogen suffocation yesterday. It was the longest execution recorded as a result of this experimental method of execution that raises serious concerns that Alabama is subjecting people to torture and cruelty.

His execution was carried out after three justices of the Supreme Court warned about the risk that Mr. Boyd would suffer during the execution. Earlier this week, Mr. Boyd’s lawyers had asked the Court to stay the execution, arguing that Alabama’s use of nitrogen suffocation as a method of execution was unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. While a majority of the Court denied the stay request, Justice Sotomayor, writing on behalf of Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissented due to concerns about the significant and lengthy suffering Mr. Boyd would be subjected to during his execution by nitrogen suffocation.

Justice Sotomayor wrote that Mr. Boyd would be subjected to “unnecessary psychological terror” throughout his execution, as he faced “up to seven full minutes of conscious, excruciating suffocation,” during which time he would undergo “severe emotional suffering” while “consciously experiencing the ‘primal urge to breath.’” This result amounted to a “superadded psychological torment” that “goes well beyond what is inherent in any constitutional method of execution.”

Excruciating and Tormenting Effects of Nitrogen Suffocation

Justice Sotomayor pointed to witness accounts of the seven executions that have been carried out by nitrogen suffocation to date as evidence for the dissent’s concerns about the excruciating and tormenting effects of the execution method.

In January, 2024, Kenneth Smith was forced to inhale nitrogen gas through a mask, writhed in pain, “thrash[ed] against the straps” binding him to the gurney, “violently jerk[ed]” his head and body back and forth for several minutes, “heav[ed] and retch[ed] inside the mask,” clenched his fists, and gasped for air as fluid filled his mask. Mr. Smith was not pronounced deceased until 32 minutes had elapsed.

In September, 2024, Alan Miller “started to shake very intensely,” “gasped, shook[,] and struggled against his restraints,” and was not pronounced dead until more than 16 minutes elapsed.

In November, 2024, Carey Grayson “shook ‘his head vigorously,’” “struggled[] while clearly still breathing,” and “raised both of his legs far off the gurney as he pushed against the restraints” until he, too, was pronounced dead after 16 minutes.

In February and June 2025, respectively, Demetrius Frazier and Geoffrey Hunt both suffered from “apparent consciousness for minutes, not seconds; and violent convulsing, eyes bulging, consistent thrashing against the restraints, and clear gasping for the air that will not come.”

And in September 2025, Geoffrey West “coughed and gasped deeply,” “appeared to foam at the mouth,” and rolled his head from side to side as his face became purple. These seven executions have made clear, Justice Sotomayor wrote, that “nitrogen hypoxia is not at all what it was promised to be.

“Shuddering, Open-mouthed, Chest-heaving Gasps”

The reality of Mr. Boyd’s execution proved that the three dissenting justices’ concerns over the continued use of nitrogen suffocation as an experimental method of execution were correct.

After being administered nitrogen gas through a mask, 38 minutes went by before Mr. Boyd was officially pronounced dead, a period of time the Commissioner for the Alabama Department of Corrections conceded was the longest for any execution carried out by nitrogen suffocation.

During those 38 minutes, Mr. Boyd’s body “began to jolt,” he “appeared to tremble and stutter,” and “take deep, gasping breaths” that “appeared to speed up” and turned into “shuddering, open-mouthed, chest-heaving gasps” before Mr. Boyd took “a few shallow, choke-like breaths” that caused his head to “loll back and then to the side,” all signs of suffering in line with the other individuals executed by nitrogen suffocation.

One witness commented that it looked like Mr. Boyd was “gasping for air,” just as Justice Sotomayor feared.

Lee Hedgpeth, an official media witness, documented Mr. Boyd’s suffering, including the fact that he “thrash[ed] against his restraints,” that his “eyes rolled back, leaving only their whites, the color of the sheet,” and that Mr. Boyd took a “series of deep, agonized breaths that last for more than 15 minutes, each break shuddering Boyd’s restrained head and neck,” and noted that Mr. Boyd was “still visibly moving during what may have been a consciousness check” many minutes after the execution had begun.

The Hague Court Grants Israel Another Extension in Genocide Case brought by South Africa

From [HERE] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague has granted Israel another extension to submit its evidence in response to South Africa's argument that it has committed genocide in Gaza

In an order dated 20 October and published on Thursday, the ICJ said it has accepted Israel's request to further extend its deadline by two months to 12 March 2026, after an earlier extension to 12 January. 

The ICJ's original deadlines for the two states to deliver their written arguments were 28 October 2024 for South Africa and 28 July 2025 for Israel to file its counter-arguments, known as “counter-memorials”. 

South Africa complied with its deadline, but Israel in April requested an extension of six months, which South Africa opposed.

The ICJ compromised, granting a five-and-a-half month extension to 12 January 2026.

Israel then sent a letter to the court on 14 October, asking for a second extension of at least five months.

Its representative explained that some evidentiary issues related to South Africa's submission remained "unresolved" due to "the status of a number of documents referred to via hyperlinks which had not been annexed to that pleading".

Israel added that another reason for its request relates to its devotion of "significant attention and resources" to engage with the court on the Advisory Opinion on Israel's humanitarian obligations, which the court delivered on Wedesday.

South Africa urged the court to reject Israel's request, since the latter had already been granted an extension on the same grounds raised in its latest letter.

"The extension requested would be irreconcilable with the urgency of the case and the principle of equality between the Parties," the ICJ cited South Africa as saying. [MORE]

Do You Believe in the Existence of Antifa? Small, Inconsequential Loose Group of Fake Anarchists Have No Presence in Most Cities. Exaggerated as Boogeyman by Republicrats to Expand Governmental Power

ANARCHISTS/VOLUNTARYISTS CANNOT ALSO BE STATIST. Democratic strategist James Carville has reignited the debate over the existence and nature of Antifa, proclaiming the left-wing movement to be literally "non-existent" during a fiery appearance on the "Politics War Room" podcast this Wednesday.

Carville, the colorful political commentator, launched into an inflammatory rant dismissing the movement—which garnered significant national attention during the Summer 2020 riots in cities like Portland and Seattle—as little more than "vapor" because it lacks a formal structure or leadership.

"I don’t know who the f--k Antifa is. I want to punch the president of Antifa? Give me his address," Carville challenged in a clip posted to Politicon’s YouTube channel. "Where do I find this son of a b--ch? … Where’s the headquarters? Who is the board of directors?"

The strategist was unyielding in his assertion, arguing that attacking Antifa is akin to "attacking air."

"There is no such thing as Antifa. It’s like attacking vapor. There is no Antifa," he insisted. "It’s not an organization. There’s no nothing!"

Carville is not alone in the Democratic sphere in downplaying Antifa's organizational status. ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel previously asserted, "There’s no Antifa... This is an entirely imaginary organization."

However, the political and legal implications of the movement are far from imaginary for the Trump administration. President Donald Trump previously designated Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" via executive order and later announced plans to designate it as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

Furthermore, the Department of Justice brought its first federal terrorism case against two individuals linked to the left-wing ideology who allegedly coordinated an attack on a Texas federal immigration detention facility.

Despite the administration's actions and the movement's prominent visibility during the unrest, Carville stands firm: "They loop into this and they keep repeating it and it doesn’t exist. There is no such thing as Antifa." [MORE]