/qnotables25/ - ===Q Notables 2025===

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724441 (112216ZOCT25) Notable: Democrats include $490M for PBS, $157M for Congress security, and $437M for European bank in shutdown bill

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Democrats include $490M for PBS, $157M for Congress security, and $437M for European bank in shutdown bill

$490 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) This funding supports PBS, NPR, and local public media stations. It’s a standard line item in annual appropriations, but its inclusion during a shutdown has drawn criticism from Republicans who argue it’s non-essential.

$157 million for Capitol Police and congressional security enhancements This covers physical security upgrades, personnel expansion, and emergency preparedness for members of Congress and Capitol facilities.

$437 million for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) This is part of the U.S. commitment to international development finance. Critics argue it’s unrelated to domestic funding needs during a shutdown.

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_democratic_continuing_resolution_text.pdf

Government shutdown expected to extend into next week as Congress remains deadlocked

Where things stand

• Stalemate continues: The government shutdown is now expected to extend into next week. Congress still appears to be deadlocked on a funding plan, and the Senate isn’t scheduled to hold any votes until next Tuesday.

• Missed pay for troops: It now seems likely that military members won’t get their next paychecks, which were on schedule to go out next Wednesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson signaled Republicans won’t support a standalone bill to pay the troops, and Democrats say the missed checks won’t be enough to end shutdown alone.

• Trump’s schedule: Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is getting a medical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center this morning. Later today, Trump is expected to announce another effort to lower drug prices, according to a person familiar with the matter.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/government-shutdown-news-10-10-25

https://citizenwatchreport.com/democrats-include-490m-for-pbs-157m-for-congress-security-and-437m-for-european-bank-in-shutdown-bill/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724452 (112220ZOCT25) Notable: China just announced a port fee on all US ships docking at Chinese ports

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China just announced a port fee on all US ships docking at Chinese ports.

China has hit U.S.-owned vessels docking in the country with tit-for-tat port fees, in response to the American government’s planned port fees on Chinese ships, expanding a string of retaliatory measures before trade talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Vessels owned or operated by American companies or individuals, and ships built in the U.S. or flying the American flag, would be subjected to a 400 yuan ($56) per net ton fee per voyage if they dock in China, China’s Ministry of Transport said on Friday.

The fees would be applied on the same ship for a maximum of five voyages each year, and would rise every year until 2028, when it would hike to 1,120 yuan ($157) per net ton, the ministry said. They would take effect on Oct. 14, the same day when the United States is due to start imposing port fees on Chinese vessels.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-hits-us-ships-with-retaliatory-port-fees-before-trade-talks/ar-AA1OdDDa

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724463 (112224ZOCT25) Notable: 7:30 PM EDT Navy 250th Anniversary Gala

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October 11, 2025

7:30 PM EDT

Navy 250th Anniversary Gala

U.S. Navy and Marine Corps leaders speak at the Navy 250 Gala at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. They are joined by Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker (D).

https://www.c-span.org/event/america-250/navy-250th-anniversary-gala/436951

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724470 (112226ZOCT25) Notable: A mass casualty incident has been declared after a helicopter crashed in Huntington Beach, California/tail rotor failure, flew off

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>>110427

Tail rotor stopped spinning and then flew right off on the first complete 360 of the copter.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724472 (112226ZOCT25) Notable: A mass casualty incident has been declared after a helicopter crashed in Huntington Beach, California/tail rotor failure, flew off

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>>110429

ole Steve is on it;

Helicopter Crash at Huntington Beach, California - LIVE Breaking News Coverage

Agenda-Free TV

Started streaming 17 minutes ago

A helicopter has crashed at Huntington Beach, California. Get the latest on the helicopter crash at Huntington Beach, CA in our live breaking news coverage 10/11/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMxN3bhxad4

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724514 (112237ZOCT25) Notable: STEVE WITKOFF, JARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP SPEECHES

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STEVE WITKOFF, JARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP SPEECHES

Note: Watched the full speeches.

witkoff focused on israel and its hostages, jared kushner mentioned both both sides, ivanka spoke for trump also, bibi got booed, trump got cheered. lets hope that when this is over there can be peace in the middle east and beyond.

somehow anon doubts it but here is living in hope rather than anger. may God recieve all those lost souls on all sides and judge accordingly.

runtime: 23 mins 55 secs.

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FULL REMARKS: Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, And Ivanka Trump Address Crowd In Tel Aviv, Israel

https://youtu.be/etzN4_PLaVY

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724641 (112304ZOCT25) Notable: Military Will Receive Paychecks Despite Shutdown, Trump Says

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JUST IN: Military Will Receive Paychecks Despite Shutdown, Trump Says

Forbes Breaking News

10/11/2025

President Donald Trump said Saturday military members will receive their paychecks on Oct. 15, ending speculation troops might have to go without pay amid the government shutdown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOmeCujrdo

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724671 (112313ZOCT25) Notable: 2004 EARTH MOTHER / Author Starhawk is a spiritual leader for Bay Area witches trainersalliance.org, Alliance of Community Trainers (prev known as RANT)/Fithian

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>>110437

>Them Against the World, Part 2

Fithian will join them, but she doesn't care too much about the march. It doesn't need her. It needs numbers.Direct action to physically shut it down is her calling. Blocking the Miami airport, preventing delegates from getting inside the conference center, ripping a hole in the protective fence - these things need her. Anticorporate globalization protests like this one will attract everyone from agitprop puppeteers to Quakers to rowdy anarchists who would love to see a Starbucks on fire. Fithian stands in a willful, but not reckless, middle ground. She is peace-oriented but not passive. Destruction of illegitimate barriers is fine with her as long as it's nonviolent (a line that can be hazy) and not a senseless publicity stunt (also hazy).

So you don't go to Fithian when you want to carry a placard. You go to her when you want to make sure there are enough bolt cutters to go around. The tradition of direct action is civil disobedience staged at the point of power: civil rights era sit-ins on segregated Woolworth's stools or Act Up die-ins during speeches by Food and Drug Administration officials. But since the enemies in the global social-justice movement are transnational corporations (like on the 14th floor of some office building, said one activist) and the abstractions of liberalized trade policy, trade meetings like this one provide the most tangible target. For a handful of days, activists like Fithian work to create dilemmas: situations that might force the police, the delegates and the media into recognizing their dissent. When people ask me, 'What do you do?' I say I create crisis, she says, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.

Miami offers real stakes. The city is bidding to become the hemispheric headquarters for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, and if we create enough brouhaha, Fithian maintains, we might be able to undermine that city's ability to host it, and that would be a big win. Miami officials are taking no chances; they recently received an $8.5 million federal boost from the massive Iraq war bill to plan security for the trade meeting.

Cruising around the deserted downtown, Fithian finally spies a cluster of armored police vans and officers down a blocked street. Parking the car, she counsels her passengers to leave their ID's behind and walks determinedly toward the police. At the corner, 20 officers, wielding plexiglass shields and tear-gas guns, are rehearsing with a group of beefy fake protesters in civilian clothing. The riot police notice Fithian and in seconds force her into a corner. A nonuniformed sergeant in a Marlins shirt steps to the fore. What are you doing here? he yells. This is a secure area!

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We're citizens, Fithian answers calmly. We have a right to walk these streets.

As the argument escalates, the police pull the rest of us aside and threaten us with jail. With the exception of Fithian, we take this news with nervous, humbled nods. Fithian, on the other hand, gives it right back. So you're saying that just by coming down here where businesses are closed that we're breaking the law? she says. Get a load of that. That's just wild. She demands names and badge numbers, which are all eventually provided.

We're just trying to protect the citizens and training to protect this city, says Sgt. Mario Hernandez, Badge No. 4048. That's all.

Yeah, but you're intimidating us, Fithian responds. The sergeant throws his hands up in the air. Come on, he says. You're intimidating me!

On Nov. 30, 1999, thousands of street protesters, trained and organized days in advance, divided and occupied 13 intersections around the Seattle conference center, where delegates to the World Trade Organization were trying to meet. When the police tried to disperse them with tear gas and pepper spray, they were joined by others from a much larger, separate march of 50,000 unionists, who broke free and joined the civil disobedience.

A small number of black bloc anarchists -dressed in black and kerchiefs to hide their faces - notoriously smashed windows all over downtown Seattle, obscuring the more peaceful efforts. About 500 people were arrested, including Fithian, and amid the chaos, the W.T.O. talks collapsed.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724688 (112316ZOCT25) Notable: 2004 EARTH MOTHER / Author Starhawk is a spiritual leader for Bay Area witches trainersalliance.org, Alliance of Community Trainers (prev known as RANT)/Fithian

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>>110437

>>110439

That may very well have happened anyway; representatives from the developing countries simply refused to participate in a negotiating process they considered rigged against them in the first place. But within the anti-corporate globalization community, Seattle was a tremendous victory, a watershed, the metaphor for the movement. The direct action took this institution out of the dark and put it on the front burner, says David Solnit, a Bay Area organizer and carpenter. All of a sudden, people knew there was a W.T.O. Who could say that in 1998?

In the eyes of many activists, the greater success of the battle of Seattle was the validation of their decentralized, leaderless model. Loosely inherited from the anarchists who fought in the Spanish Civil War, affinity groups committed to holding specific sectors and consensus-based spokescouncils directed the affinity groups. When the police swept one group away, another took its place. No centralized leader could have coordinated the scene in the midst of the chaos,a Bay Area activist named Starhawk wrote in a widely circulated essay titled How We Shut Down the W.T.O. Our model of organization and decision-making was so foreign to their - the police's - picture of what constitutes leadership that they literally could not see what was going on in front of them.

But each mobilization since Seattle - from the marches against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2000, to the W.T.O. protest in Cancún this September - has had to contend with a critical lack of surprise. Fences, a heavy police presence and pre-emptive arrests have all become standard procedures. Six hundred activists were rounded up the day before the A16 protest against the I.M.F. and World Bank, and on July 20, 2001, in Genoa, Italy, where 100,000 activists gathered to protest the G-8 summit, 200 officers raided a school that was serving as a dormitory and alternative media center, arresting 92 people. The first morning of a W.T.O. mini-ministerial protest in Montreal in July, 342 activists were rounded up many blocks from the site of the march, in the designated nonviolent green zone.

Just as the global social-justice movement entered the conversation, the terms of the conversation changed irrevocably. The post-Sept. 11 Patriot Act has given government agencies wide latitude in preventing terrorism, such that the notion of pre-emptive arrests gets promoted as a prudent safeguard. Rallies and marches, even huge ones, can be ignored. In February, when somewhere between 6 and 10 million people worldwide marched against the invasion of Iraq - the largest synchronized global dissent in history - President Bush casually dismissed it, saying, You know, size of protest, it's like deciding, Well, I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group.

The possibility of shutting down a summit meeting, as it was shut down in Seattle, seems to be increasingly remote. Still, Fithian says, direct action has the most possibility for change in the quickest amount of time. Given the new reality of heavily prepared security forces, how do activists do something that doesn't end up merely highlighting their own powerlessness?

Lisa Fithian doesn't want to be the center of attention. In our conversations, she would often ask, You're talking to other people, right? (I was) and then emphasize there are 1,000 other Lisa Fithians - global activists-trainers-organizers equally as important as she. There are no leaders or spokesmen or women, just clusters of voices acting in coordination, though not necessarily in concert. The politics of the global social-justice movement are as fragmented and as postmodern as the technologies that helped give it life. That's the nice thing about being a hydra, one eco-activist told me. They can't assassinate our leader.

But I kept seeing differently. In Miami, I went with Fithian to visit a group of eco-activists who wanted to build a permaculture garden near the protests. Hey, I saw you in that documentary from Prague! said one, standing on a pile of fresh earth. She smiled at the spark of celebrity. Oh, yeah, I was training like a madwoman. Fithian listened closely to their plans for compost demonstrations and vegetable gardens, but she wasn't offering anything except that, by the fact of her visit, they had taken on a bit of her momentum. We're meeting with everybody down here, Fithian said to them, and so we're learning a lot. These are the key words in Fithian vocabulary: learning, sharing, offering, meeting - words that put everything into a process. She just swings into town and gets everything rolling, an eco-activist told me.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724706 (112319ZOCT25) Notable: A mass casualty incident has been declared after a helicopter crashed in Huntington Beach, California/tail rotor failure, flew off

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Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724711 (112319ZOCT25) Notable: CHAOS ERUPTS - ANTIFA & ICE CLASH!! PORTLAND OREGON - LIVE

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🔴 CHAOS ERUPTS - ANTIFA & ICE CLASH!! PORTLAND OREGON - LIVE

JLR© INVESTIGATES! 10/11/2025

BREAKING LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twRUl3ezK-w

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724722 (112321ZOCT25) Notable: 2004 EARTH MOTHER / Author Starhawk is a spiritual leader for Bay Area witches trainersalliance.org, Alliance of Community Trainers (prev known as RANT)/Fithian

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>>110437

>Them Against the World, Part 2

>>110439

>>110440

glownigger confrimmed

That may very well have happened anyway; representatives from the developing countries simply refused to participate in a negotiating process they considered rigged against them in the first place. But within the anti-corporate globalization community, Seattle was a tremendous victory, a watershed, the metaphor for the movement. The direct action took this institution out of the dark and put it on the front burner, says David Solnit, a Bay Area organizer and carpenter. All of a sudden, people knew there was a W.T.O. Who could say that in 1998?

In the eyes of many activists, the greater success of the battle of Seattle was the validation of their decentralized, leaderless model. Loosely inherited from the anarchists who fought in the Spanish Civil War, affinity groups committed to holding specific sectors and consensus-based spokescouncils directed the affinity groups. When the police swept one group away, another took its place. No centralized leader could have coordinated the scene in the midst of the chaos,a Bay Area activist named Starhawk wrote in a widely circulated essay titled How We Shut Down the W.T.O. Our model of organization and decision-making was so foreign to their - the police's - picture of what constitutes leadership that they literally could not see what was going on in front of them.

But each mobilization since Seattle - from the marches against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on April 16, 2000, to the W.T.O. protest in Cancún this September - has had to contend with a critical lack of surprise. Fences, a heavy police presence and pre-emptive arrests have all become standard procedures. Six hundred activists were rounded up the day before the A16 protest against the I.M.F. and World Bank, and on July 20, 2001, in Genoa, Italy, where 100,000 activists gathered to protest the G-8 summit, 200 officers raided a school that was serving as a dormitory and alternative media center, arresting 92 people. The first morning of a W.T.O. mini-ministerial protest in Montreal in July, 342 activists were rounded up many blocks from the site of the march, in the designated nonviolent green zone.

Just as the global social-justice movement entered the conversation, the terms of the conversation changed irrevocably. The post-Sept. 11 Patriot Act has given government agencies wide latitude in preventing terrorism, such that the notion of pre-emptive arrests gets promoted as a prudent safeguard. Rallies and marches, even huge ones, can be ignored. In February, when somewhere between 6 and 10 million people worldwide marched against the invasion of Iraq - the largest synchronized global dissent in history - President Bush casually dismissed it, saying, You know, size of protest, it's like deciding, Well, I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group.

The possibility of shutting down a summit meeting, as it was shut down in Seattle, seems to be increasingly remote. Still, Fithian says, direct action has the most possibility for change in the quickest amount of time. Given the new reality of heavily prepared security forces, how do activists do something that doesn't end up merely highlighting their own powerlessness?

Lisa Fithian doesn't want to be the center of attention. In our conversations, she would often ask, You're talking to other people, right? (I was) and then emphasize there are 1,000 other Lisa Fithians - global activists-trainers-organizers equally as important as she. There are no leaders or spokesmen or women, just clusters of voices acting in coordination, though not necessarily in concert. The politics of the global social-justice movement are as fragmented and as postmodern as the technologies that helped give it life. That's the nice thing about being a hydra, one eco-activist told me. They can't assassinate our leader.

But I kept seeing differently. In Miami, I went with Fithian to visit a group of eco-activists who wanted to build a permaculture garden near the protests. Hey, I saw you in that documentary from Prague! said one, standing on a pile of fresh earth. She smiled at the spark of celebrity. Oh, yeah, I was training like a madwoman. Fithian listened closely to their plans for compost demonstrations and vegetable gardens, but she wasn't offering anything except that, by the fact of her visit, they had taken on a bit of her momentum. We're meeting with everybody down here, Fithian said to them, and so we're learning a lot. These are the key words in Fithian vocabulary: learning, sharing, offering, meeting - words that put everything into a process. She just swings into town and gets everything rolling, an eco-activist told me.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724731 (112323ZOCT25) Notable: Afghan Taliban Strikes Pakistan; Heavy Fighting On 7 Border Points Along Durand Line

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BREAKING: Afghan Taliban Strikes Pakistan; Heavy Fighting On 7 Border Points Along Durand Line

Intense fighting has broken out along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, with Taliban forces launching a major assault on Pakistani military posts late Saturday night. The clashes mark a dramatic escalation following Pakistan’s airstrikes in Kabul earlier this week, according to security officials from both sides. Taliban commanders allege that Islamabad targeted Afghan territory, prompting armed reprisals in which they claim to have seized two Pakistani border posts in Helmand province — a claim partially confirmed by local authorities.This latest border flare-up underscores the deepening tensions between Pakistan and the Taliban government since the fall of Kabul in 2021, raising fears of a wider regional conflict.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRfQdgqpZIk

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724732 (112323ZOCT25) Notable: 2004 EARTH MOTHER / Author Starhawk is a spiritual leader for Bay Area witches trainersalliance.org, Alliance of Community Trainers (prev known as RANT)/Fithian

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>>110437

>Them Against the World, Part 2

>>110439

>>110440

>>110443

>glownigger confrimmed

shit...try againn

I saw this in Cancún as well. When I first met her there in September, on the third floor of a dilapidated storage building, she was part of a conversation about the tactics for the impending W.T.O. protest. She was almost twice the age of most people in the room, dressed in Tevas, khaki pants and a tank top that read Art and Revolution. This was a building she had searched for and rented for $1,800, and the options under discussion were things that she had been thinking about for more than a year, as opposed to pretty much everyone else there. To say that Fithian is not a leader is an admirable political idea, but it's not entirely honest.

As a teenager in upstate New York, Fithian was a troublemaker. It wasn't unheard of for the police to come by my house and talk to my mother, she says. In high school, she started an underground newspaper, The Free Thinker, to cover issues like littering in the cafeteria. She went to Skidmore College, where she led marches through the administration buildings to protest, among other things, the cutting of a nursing program. When she heard Abbie Hoffman speak, she said to herself, This guy is a sexist pig, but I should go work for him, and she did. Her first arrest came when she unfurled a huge banner that read No Contra Aid facing the Federal Building in Boston. We tried to get arrested like 10 times, and they just wouldn't, she says. But then I ended up for three days in the state penitentiary - my feet and hands shackled. It was really powerful. At least we did end up teaching the inmates songs by sliding words under the doors.

Then the arrests really started taking off. She tried a shutdown of the C.I.A. in 1987, when 600 people were arrested.Eight hundred were rounded up at a gay and lesbian rights action she organized outside the Supreme Court, and another 500 were arrested at a commemoration of the assassination of Oscar Romero, the El Salvadorean archbishop, in front of the White House in 1990. Jail, in some ways, has been a networking opportunity for her. She met Starhawk in jail during Seattle, and the collective they formed, RANT (Root Activist Network of Trainers), raised the money that financed most of Fithian's trips. These days, after working in the labor movement through the 90's, Fithian pays her rent via short-term consulting gigs, helping to escalate laundry-worker strikes in Las Vegas and public-service shutdowns in Boston to, as she says, create the political climate for settlements. It is an ideal role for the nomadic Fithian in that escalation doesn't require home-grown leaders as much as catalysts with tactics. She can fly in, move the energy, as she says, and then join the fight.

The W.T.O. protests in Cancún were, in a way, a real test for Fithian and the global social-justice organizing model. Cancún offered no local taproot of activists, an unpredictable crowd size and an unfamiliar police force. As the last warm-up before Miami, Cancún needed to look like escalation. But with so many unknowns, it was at risk of disintegrating into noise.

In midafternoon in Cancún, the room at the convergence center was oppressively hot; it was, after all, an airless storage space with just two small windows, two barely working fans and Mexican blankets hanging from the walls. About 75 activists in alternating levels of excitement and heatstroke sat on the tile floor. This was the headquarters - information center, puppet-making space, chill zone, networking spot - with many taped-up signs recommending local hostels and vegetarian restaurants and making requests like Some of Us Dirty Kids Need Clothes - What Do You Have?

With trade delegates arriving the following day for the W.T.O. meeting, Fithian laid out the possible direct-action plans, code-named Justicia (Spanish for justice). Of all the ideas for the W.T.O. protest in Cancún that never materialized - the pirate radio station, the five-mile parade of thousands to the doorsteps of the W.T.O. - Justicia was the most audacious. The city of Cancún is wholly separate from the narrow strip of land known as the hotel zone, where the W.T.O. conference was taking place. The hotel zone joins the city at just two juncture points: Kilometer Zero, near downtown, and Kilometer 22, at the far end of the strip near the airport. Kilometer Zero had been code-named Pachanga (after the Latin music style), the W.T.O. conference center Ballpark and the Cancún airport Justicia.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724742 (112325ZOCT25) Notable: A mass casualty incident has been declared after a helicopter crashed in Huntington Beach, California/tail rotor failure, flew off

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>>110441

>>>/qresearch/23724489

Yep, so airworthiness dated 2021.

These choppers need airworthiness maintenance at every 250 hours.

And if the hours aren't up, there is a certain time period, which I don't know the details of.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724753 (112328ZOCT25) Notable: 2004 EARTH MOTHER / Author Starhawk is a spiritual leader for Bay Area witches trainersalliance.org, Alliance of Community Trainers (prev known as RANT)/Fithian

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>>110445

The idea was to block the airport road as the delegates were arriving. Fithian had actually taken groups out to the airport, looking for access routes through the mangrove jungle. There were an estimated 1,000 international activists in the city and about the same number of students expected to arrive by bus from Mexico City that night. Could the buses be used to block the road? Could students create an altar in the highway to force the police to let them either block traffic or be photographed dismantling a sacred space?

Fithian carries with her the authority of experience, and when there is no hierarchy, that is a supreme authority. She obviously wanted Justicia to work, but it was a logistical nightmare and Fithian knew well enough to detach herself from the decision-making process. One necessary skill of operating inside an antihierarchical structure is learning to let go of your best ideas and to find instant enthusiasm for the next one. So when the group, through a torturously slow, open debate, elected to make Pachanga the location, Fithian went right along. We will be able to create an alternate world at Pachanga, she ended up saying. The police were setting up a barricade between town and the hotel zone, but that would actually be an asset for the protesters. The fence would interrupt the sense of normalcy and provide a rallying point. There would be a march, a Mayan ceremony in three languages that involved corn and water and dirt and then an attempt to flip the fence.

With a plan in place, Fithian then asked, Who wants to facilitate the next spokescouncil meeting? It's not a position with any power - you keep the agenda moving along, making sure the will of the group gets articulated - but it is essential. There was no answer. Then you'll keep seeing the same people up here time and time again, Fithian said. More silence. She wanted to give up the center, but for the moment, there were no takers.

People can deny it, but there will always be leaders and followers, Fithian told me later.The question is, How do we create an organization that is nonauthoritarian and nonhierarchical?

The paradox is that, in Cancún, it was the union of Korean farmers - the most traditional, patriarchal and hierarchical group there - that ended up impressing almost everybody. Nearly all men, they dressed in red-and-white outfits, marched to a drumbeat and carried a giant dragon that they used to ram the fence at Kilometer Zero. They are totally hard core, a black bloc anarchist named Randy told me with awe. (And this guy actually rode the rails to Cancún, hoboing it all the way from Pittsburgh.) Even anarchists could appreciate the Koreans' crisp lines and top-down precision.

The horror of actual crisis, the suicide of a 55-year-old South Korean farmer named Lee Kyung Hae at the fence, took everyone by surprise. But the total numbers in Cancún were low, around 8,000 protesters total - more than 6,000 Mexican farmers, 1,000 Mexican students and the rest internationals - not enough to take much of a political charge from Lee's death. As we milled around at the barricade for a second day in the crushing heat, an activist from Montana turned to me and said, Sometimes the march is the most demoralizing thing.

Fithian, meanwhile, seemed to be constantly in transit, urgently biking from one location to another. When I asked her to describe a typical morning in Cancún, she replied, unaware of how it sounded, I met with the Mexican farmers and then met with the students and then with the farmers again, and then I went down to Kilometer Zero, where the Koreans were camped out, and we had a meeting with everybody where we decided, 'Let's keep meeting.'

For the Americans I spoke to, there was a genuine sense of disappointment in the crowd size. Before I came, I wanted to see 100,000 people here from 60 countries and the airport shut down, said Nick Wright, a 30-year-old Bay Area construction worker and activist who had flown in. The worst-case scenario was just 5,000 people showing up. Essentially, that's what happened.

Before I went to Cancún, I had been warned that it would be different and not representative of the anticorporate globalization movement - that many protesters were staying home for fear of being detained at the border or that they simply planned on making Miami in November and not Cancún. At the same time, the global social-justice movement has two strains: the global north, which is largely white and fighting on the level of policies and argument, and the global south, which is anything but white and fighting on the level of livelihood. Cancún was a chance to see the mixing that is the inevitable future of the movement.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724763 (112330ZOCT25) Notable: LIVE: Protest at ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois/ ideas fly

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Mercado Media

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obY7pkPYlnA

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724766 (112330ZOCT25) Notable: 'ANTISEMITE': Man shouts down and chases away Zohran Mamdani, demands he denounce Hezbollah and Sharia law.

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'ANTISEMITE': Man shouts down and chases away Zohran Mamdani, demands he denounce Hezbollah and Sharia law.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724781 (112333ZOCT25) Notable: 2004 EARTH MOTHER / Author Starhawk is a spiritual leader for Bay Area witches trainersalliance.org, Alliance of Community Trainers (prev known as RANT)/Fithian

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But hardly anyone in the mobilization actually lived in Cancún: the students came from Mexico City, 48 hours away by bus; the farmers, from farther; and the American and Korean activists, beyond that. So the integration could only be provisional. If part of the premise of the global movement is that it allows activists to radicalize a new community no matter where the institutions go, it makes a terrible kind of logic that the institutions would choose places where there is no community, places like Cancún's hotel zone. Beyond that, there is a fundamental trickiness to bringing together a farmer who lives on a few dollars a day and an activist who can afford the $400 flight to join him, and it's not strictly class. At the beginning, we asked the Mexican coordinators, What are your action plans? Fithian says. And it was clear they had no plans. That's part of the way Mexicans organize: you just show up, and you do stuff.

In the end, for the activists, this is what winning looked like: about midway through the week of protests in Cancún, word spread for people to converge in front of the W.T.O. conference center as the delegates were leaving for the day. Getting that far into the hotel zone required passing as tourists, so activists sneaked in wearing trashy Cancún T-shirts and carrying plastic, yardlong margarita glasses like college students on spring break. On a whistle call, a group of about 75 activists - internationals like Fithian and Mexican students - rushed into the middle of the road outside the conference center. Some sat down, others danced while the news photographers took pictures, tourists looked on confusedly and the traffic stopped dead. After days stuck haplessly under the surveillance of the police, the action was vindication, a quick, nonviolent redistribution of control.

The next day, the South Koreans fashioned a massive rope, and the crowd used it to rupture a section of the barricade. But nobody went through, which, it turned out, was the strategy. This is what I call the art of action - you need a beginning, middle and an end, says Fithian, who helped plan the fence maneuver. If we had attempted to march to the conference center, that would have been a losing strategy. The cops were there, with guns. People would have been hurt, and the 'story' in the press would have been a melee. So how do you end it? The police thought their job was to close the road down. Our job was to open it.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724783 (112333ZOCT25) Notable: 2004 EARTH MOTHER / Author Starhawk is a spiritual leader for Bay Area witches trainersalliance.org, Alliance of Community Trainers (prev known as RANT)/Fithian

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But was this anything more than symbolic fodder for the countless photographers, journalists, filmmakers and documentarians vulturing around the hole in the fence? The next day, when it became clear the W.T.O. meeting would collapse, jubilation erupted among the activists. A block of 21 countries, including Brazil and China, had refused to negotiate until the United States and Europe agreed to drop their trade distorting agricultural subsidies (neither did; the talks fell apart), and one rebel delegate told one N.G.O. that it was because of the protests that they could stand strong, Fithian says. But the diplomatic standoff had been announced before the W.T.O. meeting even began, just as another one looms this week for the Free Trade Area of the Americas. In Cancún, it wasn't that the protesters had created the predicament; it seemed more as if they had merely entered one, assembled there and made some resounding noise.

To Fithian, she couldn't not be there, handing out bolt cutters to women who cut through the fence in a prearranged feminist action. Once you go to a summit meeting and throw your lot in, not going to the next one equates to admitting failure. Every choice you make is choosing to liberate something or oppress something, she says. We have a role that is damage control to undo all the oppression. It's our obligation.

After our night with the police in Miami, Fithian is making a daylight tour of downtown, calling real-estate agents about renting a new convergence center for the coming activists. The location has to be close enough for people to walk to and from the fence, since we know they can mess with public transport whenever they want to, she says. Though officials in Miami are bracing for as many as 100,000 people, she would be thrilled by a turnout of 30,000.

Most of the possible buildings look barricaded or squalid. Driving with her, I have a strong sense of the ceaseless responsibility of trying to remain at the front line of this struggle - or rather, of trying to set everything up so that there would be a front line.Fithian lives in Texas, her cellphone area code is Los Angeles, in four days she'd be in D.C. for a march, and though she barely knew this area, she had to try to scout out a place forpuppeteers and trainers for a whole lot of change to happen. She has articles she would like to write and a vague notion for a book (one chapter would be called Lessons From a Summit Hopper), if only she could stop moving from one summit meeting to the next.

When I asked her what she does when she's not protesting - just how exactly she pays her rent - she says, I was just trying to figure that out. She takes a minute and says, ''Well, I hope to finish my pond and garden.''

A real-estate agent calls back and wants to know why she needs two floors and 5,000 square feet for just a month. Is it some kind of party? It's for an educational project opposed to the F.T.A.A., for art-making and workshops, she says. There's a little silence. We hope you won't discriminate, because we'd like to exercise our rights. They talk a bit more, and she hangs up. She's been having a lot of calls like this. He thought that the F.T.A.A. would help the U.S. and Latin America in the long run, but maybe not in the short run, she says, immediately preparing to make another call. She smiles. But he did say he'd come to one of our workshops and maybe learn different.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/magazine/them-against-the-world-part-2.html

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724824 (112340ZOCT25) Notable: US Threatens Visa Restrictions, Sanctions Against UN Members That Back IMO Emissions Plan

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US Threatens Visa Restrictions, Sanctions Against UN Members That Back IMO Emissions Plan

Reporting by Ismail Shakil and Lisa Baertlein Reuters October 11, 2025

Oct 10 (Reuters) – The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping.

U.N. member nations are scheduled to vote next week on the International Maritime Organization’s Net-Zero Framework proposal to reduce global carbon dioxide gas emissions from the international shipping sector, which handles around 80% of world trade and accounts for close to 3% of global greenhouse gases.

Large container carriers, under pressure from investors to fight climate change, generally agree that a global regulatory framework is crucial to speeding up decarbonisation. Still, some of the world’s biggest oil tanker companies said they had “grave concerns” about the proposal.

“The Administration unequivocally rejects this proposal before the IMO and will not tolerate any action that increases costs for our citizens, energy providers, shipping companies and their customers, or tourists,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a joint statement.

The “proposal poses significant risks to the global economy and subjects not just Americans, but all IMO member states to an unsanctioned global tax regime that levies punitive and regressive financial penalties,” they said.

Without global regulation, the maritime industry would face a patchwork of regulations and increasing costs without effectively curbing climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions, supporters of the IMO proposal have said.

The U.S. is considering retaliation against U.N. countries that support the plan, the U.S. officials said in Friday’s statement.

That includes potentially blocking vessels flagged in those nations from U.S. ports, imposing visa restrictions and fees, and slapping sanctions on officials “sponsoring activist-driven climate policies.”

https://gcaptain.com/us-threatens-visa-restrictions-sanctions-against-un-members-that-back-imo-emissions-plan/

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724870 (112352ZOCT25) Notable: Aerial view shows deadly Tennessee explosion site

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The number of unaccounted individuals at a fatal explosion in Hickman County has decreased from 18 to 16, after two people believed to be on site Friday were not at the facility during the incident,* Tennessee Emergency Management Agency reports.

Drone footage from Humphreys County Emergency Management Agency shows the site of Accurate Energetic Systems where the incident took place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFPMrp9NBg4

*Likely the two people interviewed - video was in last bread. Guy said he left about 8 minutes before the explosion (after being told when it happened), iirc.

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724871 (112352ZOCT25) Notable: The seafloor is rising fast on this California beach…fault line, volcano, or something else?

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The seafloor is rising fast on this California beach...fault line, volcano, or something else?

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New land has emerged from the ocean at Portuguese Bend, a coastal area west of Los Angeles. The changes have happened fast, with the land rising from the sea over a few months. What's causing this? There are plenty of active fault lines in the area, and volcanoes also cause uplift when magma moves at depth. Can these processes explain the uplift of the new land, or is it something else entirey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gGArDGyM0w

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724882 (112354ZOCT25) Notable: Aerial view shows deadly Tennessee explosion site

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WATCH: Evening Update on deadly Tennessee bomb factory explosion

Tennessee officials update the public on the deadly blast at an explosives plant and say victims' loved ones have been notified.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buglfyhuEv0

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23724962 (120011ZOCT25) Notable: A mass casualty incident has been declared after a helicopter crashed in Huntington Beach, California/tail rotor failure, flew off

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what method is used to land a helicopter whose tail rotor fails

Landing a helicopter with a failed tail rotor is a critical emergency procedure, as the tail rotor counters the torque of the main rotor, preventing the helicopter from spinning uncontrollably. The specific method depends on the helicopter type, flight conditions, and pilot training, but the general approach is an autorotation landing with adjustments to manage the loss of yaw control. Here’s a concise overview of the procedure:Enter Autorotation: The pilot immediately lowers the collective to reduce main rotor pitch, preserving rotor RPM by entering autorotation. This uses airflow to keep the main rotor spinning without engine power, which is critical for maintaining lift and control.

Control Yaw: Without a tail rotor, the helicopter will yaw (rotate) due to main rotor torque. The pilot may:Adjust power: If partial engine power is available, reduce it to minimize torque, though this reduces lift.

Use airspeed and attitude: Maintain forward airspeed to allow the vertical fin or fuselage to provide some aerodynamic yaw control (if the helicopter has such features).

In some cases, the pilot may attempt to align the helicopter with the wind to reduce yaw forces.

Select Landing Site: Choose a flat, open area (e.g., a field or runway) to perform a controlled landing. The site should allow for a shallow approach to maintain airspeed and control.

Execute a Run-On Landing:Maintain forward speed: Unlike a standard autorotation, a run-on landing is preferred. The pilot keeps some forward airspeed during touchdown to use the landing gear or skids to slide along the ground, stabilizing the helicopter.

Minimize yaw on touchdown: The pilot times the flare (pulling back on the cyclic to slow descent) and touchdown to reduce uncontrolled yaw. A slight forward speed helps the helicopter settle onto the ground without spinning.

Shut Down: Once on the ground, the pilot shuts off the engine to stop main rotor torque entirely, preventing further yaw or potential rollover.

Key Considerations:Helicopter Design: Some helicopters (e.g., those with fenestron tail rotors or NOTAR systems) behave differently, but the principles remain similar.

Pilot Skill: This maneuver requires significant skill and practice, often trained in simulators, as the pilot must balance pitch, roll, and yaw without normal anti-torque control.

Damage Assessment: If the tail rotor failure is partial (e.g., reduced effectiveness), the pilot may retain some yaw control, simplifying the procedure.

This method is based on standard helicopter emergency procedures, as described in aviation training materials and pilot guides. If you want specifics for a particular helicopter model or scenario, let me know!

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23725112 (120043ZOCT25) Notable: China’s Shipbuilding Industry Collapses! Massive Order Cancellations, Unfinished Ships Pile Up

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China Observer

Oct 11, 2025 ✪ Members first on October 11, 2025 #chinaobserver

Many have seen China’s unfinished buildings, but few have witnessed the country’s unfinished ships. Let’s take a look at some images.

This is Huanhai Shipyard in Hubei, China, which primarily manufactures various types of ships, including large vessels capable of traveling between rivers and seas. However, due to China’s recent sharp economic downturn, many domestic shipbuilding orders have been canceled mid-construction. As a result, this shipyard has become a graveyard for unfinished ships. The images are shocking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVqn21ePLq0

what will hrc do to get her evergreen cargo moving?

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23725137 (120054ZOCT25) Notable: Dozens of CDC workers laid off by Trump administration amidst government shutdown

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11Alive

Oct 11, 2025

It’s not yet clear exactly how many workers were affected, but the cuts come during an already turbulent year for the agency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjCIoDbyJgs

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23725153 (120059ZOCT25) Notable: Hamas Says Tony Blair Not Welcome In Gaza Following Ceasefire

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Hamas has warned that Tony Blair would not be welcome in any role in governing Gaza following the commencement of a ceasefire in the enclave. Speaking to Sky News, senior Hamas official Basem Naim said he welcomed US President Donald Trump's involvement in bringing about an end to the two-year war.

However, he said that there could be no role for the former British prime minister in the governance of Gaza, despite Trump's previously announced support for Blair's involvement. "When it comes to Tony Blair, unfortunately, we Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, and maybe others around the world have bad memories of him," Naim said. "We can still remember his role in killing, causing thousands or millions of deaths to innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq."

As official envoy for the Middle East Quartet (US, Russia, European Union and UN) between 2007 and 2015, Blair was also previously tasked with attempting to bring about a solution to the Palestine-Israel question, something he was unable to achieve.

Last month, various media outlets reported that Blair was in discussions to lead a transitional authority in the Gaza Strip as part of a US-backed plan for post-war governance. The plan would establish a transitional authority in Gaza for up to five years, excluding both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

Under the reported proposal, the authority would hold "supreme political and legal authority" over Gaza during the interim period. Hamas has rejected the involvement of Blair in governing Gaza, citing in part his previous failures in the region.

Thousands of Palestinians began returning to northern Gaza on Friday after a ceasefire took effect, following Israel and Hamas's approval of a deal to "end the war" and exchange prisoners.

The Israeli military said the ceasefire officially began at 12pm local time (9am GMT) after the completion of its withdrawal to agreed-upon lines of the first phase. There was no immediate comment from Hamas. The Israeli government ratified the agreement on Friday morning, just hours after Hamas announced that a deal had been reached.

Israel's public broadcaster, Kan, on Thursday published a leaked copy of the agreement's first phase signed in Egypt, which states that the war would "immediately end" once approved by Israel.

Trump is expected to visit Egypt over the weekend to attend an official signing ceremony, followed by a visit to Israel on Monday.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hamas-says-tony-blair-not-welcome-gaza-following-ceasefire

Originally posted at >>>/qresearch/23725173 (120108ZOCT25) Notable: Intel Update - October 11 - Selective Digital Panopticon

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Note: long version, most of this channel has very short videos lasting a few minutes.

see timestamps and topics below. watching meow....

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Intel Update - October 11 - Selective Digital Panopticon

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00:00 - Global Strategic Concerns

04:53 - Strategic Movement

06:10 - Kinetic Events

07:13 - DC Church Bomber

11:12 - Tennessee Explosion

13:34 - Church Geofencing

23:57 - Counter-ICE Operations

30:36 - Orwellian England

39:52 - GhostNet Reports

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>>110433 boatfag respectfully submits there are not that many ocean-going vessels flying the U.S. flag

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>>110425 China just announced a port fee on all US ships docking at Chinese ports

>>110426, >>110430 British hedge fund billionaire Christopher Hohn Funneled $513 Million to Radical Antifa Groups

>>110434 STEVE WITKOFF, JARED KUSHNER AND IVANKA TRUMP SPEECHES

>>110436 Military Will Receive Paychecks Despite Shutdown, Trump Says

>>110442 CHAOS ERUPTS - ANTIFA & ICE CLASH!! PORTLAND OREGON - LIVE

>>110444, >>110446 Afghan Taliban Strikes Pakistan; Heavy Fighting On 7 Border Points Along Durand Line

>>110450, >>110452 'ANTISEMITE': Man shouts down and chases away Zohran Mamdani, demands he denounce Hezbollah and Sharia law.

>>110456 US Threatens Visa Restrictions, Sanctions Against UN Members That Back IMO Emissions Plan

>>110458 Telegram's Durov: We're "Running Out Of Time To Save The Free Internet"

>>110459, >>110461 Aerial view shows deadly Tennessee explosion site

>>110460 The seafloor is rising fast on this California beach…fault line, volcano, or something else?

>>110463 China’s Shipbuilding Industry Collapses! Massive Order Cancellations, Unfinished Ships Pile Up

>>110464 Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in Father of the Bride, First Wives Club and More, Dies at 79

>>110465 Dozens of CDC workers laid off by Trump administration amidst government shutdown

>>110466 Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins Dead at 48 After Prison Attack, pedo

>>110467 Hamas Says Tony Blair Not Welcome In Gaza Following Ceasefire

>>110468 Involved in the horrendous gang-rape, torture and extremely brutal murder of young teenagers, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in Houston, Tx. parole??

>>110469 Intel Update - October 11 - Selective Digital Panopticon

>>110470 Democrats have changed the definition of genocide.NYC mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani reveals Colbert show pitched shock 'game' about war in Gaza

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