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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!
Amy Goodman (democracynow.org, Oct. 16, 2026); Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Let's kill this woman together? (Pike)

LIVE: Tennessee to carry out first execution of a woman in 200 years with the state-sponsored exhibition-murder of Christa Pike

UPDATE: “Cruel amd torturous”: Christa Pike in critical condition after botched Tennessee execution | Democracy Now!

State's attempted murder fails

"Nothing about today was normal...we could hear a little crying...at times"

(WBIR Channel 10) Condemned prisoner Christa Gail Pike is still

breathing (snoring loudly) after two deadly lethal injection doses

LIVE: Tennessee to carry out execution of Christa Pike

Christa Pike alive after botched execution: Live updates

What results from collective karma?

(WSMV 4 Nashville) Streamed live 6:00 pm. The U.S. Supreme Court appointed and under corrupt Republican Pres. Don Trump has decided to allow Tennessee to follow through on its delayed ~~state-sanctioned murder~~ execution of Christa Gail Pike. Read the full story: wsmv.com/2026/09/30/tns-o...

WHAT HAPPENED? Tennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years (NPR) But something goes wrong, and she is heard snoring loudly. So they inject her again. And she snores again, even more loudly.

Peaceful demonstrators gather during March 4th "mercy demonstration" to stop death penalty in front of Tennessee State Capitol, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. ahead of the Sept. 30th scheduled execution of Christa Pike (George Walker IV/AP)

What does KARMA mean? | Wisdom Quarterly
Wisdom Quarterly opposes the death penalty
Christa Gail Pike: Killed for love and Satan?

Nature/God says "no" to killing Christa?

Time to end USA's barbaric death penalty

Capital punishment, also known as "the death penalty," formerly called judicial homicide [1, 2], which was changed because it sounded too much like it is, MURDER BY WE THE PEOPLE, is the state-sanctioned killing.

This kind of murder, which is really called the democide of a person as "punishment" for actual, suspected, or supposed misconduct [3].

The sentence ordering that an offender be "punished" in such a manner is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying it out is an execution.

A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row" and while alive is usually referred to by cruel staff and fellow inmates as "dead man walking."

Etymologically, the term capital (lit. "of the head," a reference to decapitation, derives from the Latin capitalis, from caput, "head") refers to execution by beheading [4].

But there are various other methods of execution the state and its agents and cheerleaders enjoy -- all of them guilty, without seeming to know it or to care about it, of grave karmic offenses.

For to applaud, approve of, promote, speak in praise of, enable, and/or argue for, even in ignorance, will lead the doers to thereby face misery unutterable when their karma of grave wrong speech -- which is tantamount to murder (like a leader yelling "Fire!" in front of a death squad during an execution -- ripens and bears its bitter fruit in this and/or future lives. More

COMMENTARY

"Hang him high!" scream the murderers.
For readers who find this hard if not impossible to believe, consider the case of Buddhist monks and nuns. Unlike ordinary Buddhists who uphold the Five Precepts (to abstain from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, wrong speech, and consuming intoxicants that occasion heedlessness), they by their ordination hold themselves up to a higher standard. That means between 227-311 monastic rules, and countless additional rules of etiquette and conduct. Among all those hundreds of precepts and observations, there are FOUR extremely important "defeat" offenses (parajikas).

Foremost among these is killing. So the question comes up, "What constitutes 'killing'?" As detailed in the Vinaya (Monastic Disciplinary Code), if a monastic were to so much as praise abortion, euthanasia, suicide, or any other kind of killing and it were to result in someone dying (by abortion, suicide, euthanasia, etc.) that monastic would instantly be guilty of the most grave defeat offense, murder, killing, wrong speech. That person would instantly not be a monk or nun and could never re-ordain in this lifetime. This person would face the karmic consequences of killing. How then could anyone think that encouraging, enabling, defending, praising, or otherwise promoting killing in the case of the death penalty (capital punishment) is a trivial or defensible thing?

There are only three reasons for bad karma (unskillful actions), and they are greed, hatred (which includes fear), and delusion (affection/attachment or aversion/cowardice or delusion/ignorance. One speaks and acts in ignorance with an aversion to murder and the murderer and thereby becomes a party to murder and therefore a murderer. What kind of foolishness is this? We will say we are innocent, that we didn't know, that we didn't mean it, that we were only following God's injunction and biblical interpretations by evil men and bad men of the church, patriarchs, fools... It will not matter. We will be guilty of murder just the same. Now one may bring up this poorly worded term "mercy killing" (a euphemism for euthanasia) and defend it, even as one has made excuses to imagine that abortion is fine and even good.

But I don't want to be killed. - Then don't kill.
Why would euthanasia, which we imagine is motivated by mercy, goodness, wanting to save money, not wanting to see someone suffer, offering them "dignity" to spare us and save themselves any embarrassment... The fact is when killing -- by drugging, injecting, pulling the plug, depriving the dying of nourishment or water or warmth (as by the ancient killing method of exposure) or air, suffocating, or use of an automatic Kevorkian device (Jack's Thanatron) -- one necessarily needs aversion, even if for the decisive moment of injecting, administering deadly drugs, pulling the cord, and so on. Because that intentional, willful act is accompanied by aversion, the doer is guilty of murder/killing and so faces the results at some time in the future, even if one is praised now or deludedly imagines oneself an "angel" of death with the strength and courage to "kill for the good."

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

I saw Border Patrol execute Alex Pretti

ICE: she should come to us, we'll 'talk' to her
(CNN) Pretti shooting witness Stella Carlson tells everything she saw to [CIA trained] mainstream media insider Anderson Cooper about the Border Patrol/ICE execution of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Homeland Security Head Kristi Noem blatantly lies for Trump and killers

Monday, January 26, 2026

Executions of Pretti, Good, anti-ICE riots

“ICE Out”: Tens of thousands march in Minnesota in general strike against immigration raids

We will not stand for Trump's America on ICE

Peaceful and legal protests and demonstrations have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse [like they executed Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother] who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday.

ICE: Shoot 'n keep shootin
Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene where innocent Pretti was shot to death, where protesters are clashing with federal agents.

“We’ve seen everything from [teargassed] people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,” said Melissa, a local resident.

State Senator Omar Fateh responded to the killing with outrage: “He had a camera on his hand. He was tackled, he was pummeled, and he was executed.” VIDEO:

“What are you hiding?” Minnesota AG Ellison says ICE killing of Good must be investigated

Racist agents enforce racism with impunity.

Democracy Now! speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse ICE shot to death, acting as Trump's federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago, says he lived with “kindness, compassion, and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens.” VIDEO:

ICU nurse Pretti worked at VA
Federal Immigration Agents Fatally Shoot 37-Year-Old ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis
Attorney General Bondi Demands Access to Minnesota’s Voter Rolls and Welfare Data
FBI Agent Resigns After Unsuccessfully Trying to Probe ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
Israel Kills Three Palestinians in Gaza, Violating U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire
U.K. Authorities Arrest 86 Protesters Demanding the Release of Palestine Action Prisoners
Venezuela Releases Dozens of Political Prisoners Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Measles Shots Should Be Optional
Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92
Economic Blackout: Businesses Close for Day in Minnesota to Protest ICE Crackdown
Minnesota Activists Arrested for Anti-ICE Church Protest; White House Posts Doctored Photo
Outrage Grows over ICE Detaining 5-Year-Old Liam Ramos
Seven Democrats Back Spending Bill to Fund DHS & ICE
Israel Kills 4 in Gaza as Jared Kushner Lays Out Plan for Turning Gaza into Seaside Resort [paving over a genocide crime scene]

Doctor who fought to treat Alex Pretti says Border Patrol moved body to count holes, not CPR

Russia, Ukraine & U.S. Negotiators Hold Trilateral Talks in Abu Dhabi WSJ: U.S. Seeks Cuban Collaborators to Help Topple Government
Public Health Advocates Decry U.S. Leaving World Health Organization
Trump Orders Review of All Federal Funding Going to Democratic-Led States
Ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith: Not Holding Trump Accountable for Trying to Steal Election Could Be “Catastrophic”
Larry Ellison’s Oracle Part of New Deal to Own U.S. Version of TikTok
Filipino Radio Journalist Sentenced to Up to 18 Years in Prison
Trump Backs Down on Threats to Take Greenland — at Least for Now
Trump Launches Board of Peace; Critics Warn It Could Undermine U.N.
Israel Kills Three Journalists in Gaza Working with Egyptian Humanitarian Group
ICE Claims Right to Forcibly Enter Homes Without Warrant: Leaked Memo
Federal Agents Detain 5-Year-Old Coming Home from Preschool in Minnesota
U.S. Moves to Deport 2 Men Who Witnessed Cuban Man Killed Inside ICE Facility in Texas
Trump Administration Launches New Immigration Crackdown Targeting Somali Communities in Maine
ALL HEADLINES: democracynow.org
Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow.org, Jan. 26, 2026; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Friday, January 9, 2026

Be Good. Stop ICE. Dump Trump

ICED: Renee Good’s family speaks out (Newsweek)

ICE murderer Jonathan Ross about to kill

Woman pulled from car after apparently blocking agents in Minneapolis

(The Young Turks) Tucker Carlson's shocking take on ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good

Large vigil after ICE agent murders woman in Minneapolis: Killing of Renee Good

Trump's domestic terrorists ICE: Poster showing victim Renee Good (Getty Images/Newsweek)

White ICE execution victim Renée Nicole Macklin Good, MN (hyperallergic.com)

ICE agent's view seconds before deciding to shoot her in the face

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Jimmy Kimmel on the awful ICE shooting in Minneapolis and a baseline of decency in America [and what a douchebag fascist Trump Zionist henchman Jewish supremacist Stephen "Goebbels" Miller., who was a budding racist elitist politician in Santa Monica.]