Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: No Kings🚨Bend; Temple; Fort Hood; Israel🔫

Friday, October 16, 2026

No Kings🚨Bend; Temple; Fort Hood; Israel🔫

(DemocracyNow.org) Top US/World Headlines: Oct. 16, 2026

"NO KINGS" - What's next after October 17th mass action?

King Trump mocks ‘No Kings’ protests across the nation with AI videos as King of USA

No Kings in America since 1776
Election defense mass call to action following the Oct. 17th No Kings: Vote Early: mass day of activations, gather online with the No Kings movement on Wednesday Oct. 21 at 8:00 pm (ET)/5:00 pm (PT) to talk about the final push for voter turnout. What happens post-election? We're preparing for election enforcement, so we can start to plan now to be ready to protect the results of the election. More: nokings.org. (Has anyone reached out to Greg Palast at gregpalast.com?

Will midterms catch up with GOP?

Evening to celebrate 30 years of Democracy Now!

Amy Goodman will appear in-person at a screening of the new documentary about her life, her journalism, and the news program she co-founded 30 years ago, Democracy Now! She will participate in a Q&A following the film, joined by one of the film’s Oscar-nominated directors, Tia Lessin. Hosted by the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ Outside the Box [Office] series.

BLOODY HEADLINES

White teenage school shooter murders three children and one teacher in Bend The community of Bend, Oregon, is in mourning following a school shooting at the Silver Rail School: 2026 Silver Rail Elementary School shooting. Police say three children, ages 5, 8, and 11, and a teacher were fatally shot by a white 16-year-old resident of the town who used a long rifle shotgun to blast his way through the school’s locked doors. A 7-year-old student was also critically injured along with a teacher. The suspected shooter was reportedly fatally shot to death by a father of a student at the school described as "an armed member of the community" who pursued the boy into the school.
White teen shooter kills three children and teacher at Oregon elementary school (France 24)
French teen charged in school shooting cites REVENGE for being bullied

Student gunman kills 7 people in home, school shooting outside Bangkok, Thailand

Oops, collateral damage! No war crime here.
Pentagon to withhold internal report on US mass murder bombing of Iranian school children until after the midterms to help Republicans win races Bloomberg reports that top Pentagon officials have expressed their intention to hold off on releasing an internal report into their attack on an elementary school in southern Iran until after the U.S. midterm elections at the earliest. The U.S. military killed at least 156 people — 120 innocent children, 26 noncombatant teachers, and ten terrified parents.

Illegal Jewish 'settlers' attack Jews

(The Young Turks) Vicious Israelis attack US journalist as IDF watches

Jewish American victim: photojournalist Heidi Levine

More gunships will Make Israel Great Again
US approves sale of helicopter gunships for Israel's genocide and war crime attacks on helpless Gaza [for more efficient ethnic cleansing] Israeli strikes on Gaza killed four Palestinians and left nine others hospitalized Thursday, say Palestinian health officials. Gaza City resident Mahmoud al-Naqla says he narrowly escaped with his life after militant IDF Israelis gave him less than 10 minutes to evacuate his home before bombing his entire neighborhood.

We have many ways to spy. Right, Bari Weiss?
Zionist cybercrimes: Israeli firm used targeted ads to infect AJ devices with zero-click spyware: Al Jazeera reports that an Israeli advertising tech firm infect devices with malicious spyware designed to collect a wide range of sensitive data on journalists at the network. AJ condemned the cyberattack as an “assault on press freedom.” These findings were corroborated by the Citizen Lab, which found in an investigation that the Israeli ad company Discover-Tech used personalized advertisements to deliver spyware from Candiru, an Israeli spyware company, that was blacklisted by the U.S. government in 2021 over its malicious software. It’s the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. See Israeli spying in the United States

Chicago suburb police foil alleged shooting plot targeting Hindu temple in Aurora: White teen and fast-food cashier couldn't wait to kill Indian people

Hateful US teen inspired by Hitler?
White neo-Nazi supremacist teenager alleged to have attempted mass shooting at Illinois Hindu Temple, but rifle jammed In suburban Chicago, a self-described "neo-Nazi teenager" has been arrested for allegedly planning to carry out a mass shooting at the largest Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois. Police say 19-year Alexandros Paporakis visited the holy site on Sunday, but his AR-15 rifle jammed. Authorities were alerted by one of the teenager’s co-workers at Taco Bell. At his mother’s house, police found a rifle, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, tactical gear, and a "manifesto" in which the teenager described himself as a “sociopathic white supremacist Neo Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.” He has been charged with making a terrorist threat and illegal gun possession and faces a stern warning from a judge to behave from now on and leave these sorts of shooting to local authorities and officers.
India asks USA for thorough probe after white teen’s arrest over temple plot

Hegseth justice by firing squad public display
King Trump cancels Sec'y of War Pete Hegseth’s plans to live-stream firing squad execution of man in wheelchair ~~dead~~ live at Fort Hood The reigning monarch has called off his Dept. of War leader Hegseth’s plan to livestream a state-sanctioned execution murder of Nidal Hasan, the former U.S. Army major who is said to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. Major Hasan is scheduled to be shot to death on Dec. 3, 2026. In a statement, Trump said livestreaming such executions “might have been a strong deterrent for the world,” but he acknowledged many people would rather not watch Major Hasan being slaughtered by the state. Last week, the U.N. Human Rights Office warned that livestreaming such executions amounts to a "public execution" that violates the international prohibition on torture.
“Abolish and replace ICE”: Rep. Analilia Mejía blasts ICE for secretly using NJ warehouse | Democracy Now!
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