At 11:18am on October 12, 2000, a small boat pulled alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Cole in Aden Harbor, Yemen. After waving to the sailors on deck, the crew of the smaller boat detonated an explosive shaped charge estimated at 200-300 kg, killing themselves and seventeen U.S. sailors onboard the USS Cole.
Costing close to two-billion dollars and designed in the 1980s to counter the Soviet threat, this symbol of U.S. military power and technological superiority was nearly sunk by a non-state actor for a relatively small investment of resources. The attack on the USS Cole was a victory for bin Laden and al-Qaeda, attracting funds and recruits to the cause. As with previous attacks on U.S. military assets and civilians abroad, the U.S. did not respond. Bin Laden had issued “fatwās” declaring war on America in 1996 and 1998 and had attacked the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The United States failed to realize it was already at war. That realization would come on a sunny Tuesday morning less than a year later on September 11, 2001.
For more on the attack on the USS Cole, read FRONT BURNER by Commander Kirk S. Lippold, USN (Ret) @KirkLippold .
There’s not a leader in the past immune to criticism except Jesus. But I tell you this – the virtue of Christopher Columbus is towering. Happy Columbus Day, everybody! @thegnewsroom
🚨 It’s official the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” AB 2624 is now law in California. This bill was created by the Attorney General’s WIFE after I exposed widespread fraud inside immigrant communities in America and now they want to penalize journalists and citizens for looking into potential fraud inside of “immigration support service providers”.
Enough is enough, how much longer will you let these people get away with this? Show up to the Sacramento Capitol on Wednesday at 11am, see you there 🫡 Share this around.
Fun fact, Newsom has directed over $300 million to nonprofits while governor and AG Rob Bonta when he was an assemblyman directed over $500,000 to nonprofits associated with his wife 🤔
Reports out today allege that Mayor @ZohranKMamdani’s own City Hall is running a secret bot farm on X to fake public support for him.
Here’s what that means in plain terms: instead of real New Yorkers liking and sharing his posts, cyber experts say a network of automated accounts, have been mass-liking, replying, and boosting his content. Which makes it look far more popular than it actually is, tricking the platform’s algorithm into showing it to millions more people.
Investigators say they’re “100% sure” the IP addresses behind this operation trace back to City Hall itself, meaning taxpayer-funded infrastructure may have been used to manufacture fake grassroots enthusiasm.
If confirmed, this isn’t a PR embarrassment, it’s potential misuse of public resources, a probable violation of city ethics rules, and a platform manipulation scheme dressed up as “digital savvy.”
New Yorkers deserve real accountability, not an astroturfed illusion of popularity built on their own dime.
I visited Seattle’s $165 million dollar downtown library and it was OVERRUN with drug addicts.
Not only is this library filled with adults who are high on drugs, but they also offer FREE fentanyl test strips, syringes and injectable narcan that anyone, including children, can access.
Visitors have complained of “foul odors”, unusable restrooms and harassment by the homeless and I experienced all of this while at this location.
Seattle residents just passed a tax increase to raise $480 million dollars for libraries just like this one and this is unfortunately the state that they’re in:
🚨 JUST IN: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just dropped a truth nuke OF THE AGES
"People don't want to admit it: where ICE goes, RENTS GO DOWN."
"Was it 10, 15, 25 million illegals? There's NO new housing stock. So you saw rents go through the roof."
Mass deportations solve almost any problem you can think of in your head.
Every. Problem.
@AndrewKolvet
New York City will require IDs to prove you live in the city in order to shop in the city owned grocery stores. So you need an ID to shop in the city’s stores, but it would be racist to require an ID to vote. Perfection.
Just a quick reminder that they arrested this guy for paddleboarding alone in the ocean during Covid while Anthony Fauci had dinner with Jake Tapper and his wife in DC and Gavin Newsome hosted a party with friends in California.
These young women are heroines. They're peacefully protesting against the grotesque unfairness of men playing in women's sport. The only people who are "f*cking insane" here are those making a mockery of fair sport for women and trying to bully girls like this into silence.
🚨 John Terry responds to Enzo Maresca’s letter:
“I read every word of Enzo’s letter, and all I saw were excuses. You don’t walk away from Chelsea halfway through a season because Manchester City called. That’s not a ‘difficult decision’ that’s choosing your own career over the club that trusted you and picked you up from Championship.
You say Chelsea treated you well, yet you left the players, fans and staff to deal with the mess. That’s sneaky behaviour, and no apology changes that. If you can abandon Chelsea for Manchester City today, don’t be surprised if you abandon Manchester City for Real Madrid tomorrow. Loyalty isn’t something you write in a farewell letter it’s something you prove with your actions.”
Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup released a new “Hershey’s Simply 5 chocolate syrup” that only contains 5 ingredients
But this begs the question, if they can make this syrup with only 5 ingredients. Why have they been selling us the normal one with 12 ingredients and chemicals. Here are the full ingredients for comparison
Classic Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup ingredients:
• High Fructose Corn Syrup
• Corn Syrup
• Water
• Sugar
• Cocoa
• Potassium Sorbate
• Salt
• Xanthan Gum
• Mono- and Diglycerides
• Polysorbate 60
• Vanillin (artificial flavor)
It includes HFCS, preservatives, stabilizers, and artificial flavor
Hershey’s Simply 5 Chocolate Syrup ingredients:
• Sugar (or cane sugar)
• Organic Invert Syrup (or organic invert cane syrup)
• Water
• Cocoa
• Natural Vanilla Flavor
Many people are saying the new Simply 5 tastes much better. They’re saying it’s more natural, richer chocolate flavor and less artificial aftertaste