Ruger 10/22 Disassembly, Cleaning, Reassembly
October 10th, 2026In the 45 years I’ve been shooting Ruger 10/22s, I’ve gone from cleaning them after every shooting session to wiping out the chamber every six months with an oily cloth, whether they need it or not. *chortle*
How often do you clean your 10/22 like this?
Via: Iraqveteran8888:
Russia Will Sell Small Amount of Diesel Fuel Into Global Markets
October 9th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
With less than a month left until the midterms, and with Trump’s approval rating at daily all time lows largely due to record – for this time of year- gasoline and especially diesel prices – the President badly needed some good news, even if largely superficial, and he announced it late on Friday just an hour before the close when Trump posted on Truth Social that Vladimir Putin had agreed to release (a modest amount) of diesel supplies into the global market, as the administration looks to tame price hikes for the critical fuel.
Trump said on Truth Social that “it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter.”
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Trump claimed the releases would help lower diesel prices for US farmers, ranchers and truckers – key voting blocs ahead of November midterm elections in which costs of living, including for energy, are the dominant issue.
Maybe, but when one does the math, one has to scratch one’s head: the 300K tons released in October amounts to just over 2.2 million barrels of diesel. Considering the US consumes just over 4 million barrels of diesel per day that amounts to half a day of consumption.
Extending the math for November we get 3.725 million barrels or less than a full day’s consumption, and the “1,000,000 tons thereafter” is a little over 4 days of consumption. We doubt the “3,000,000 to be delivered within a short period of time” will ever happen, so in reality Putin will sell the US just over 5 days of Diesel consumption.
Planning For Pitchforks: AI Labs Are War-Gaming A Catastrophe, Public Revolt, And The Crackdown That Follows
October 9th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
The AI industry has been war gaming not only how it might destroy humanity, but is also considering what an angry public could do to the industry.
Senior executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately gaming out scenarios in which a major AI incident triggers a public and political revolt, Axios reported Friday. The potential trigger is a cyberattack that disrupts banking, internet access, or essential services such as power and water. The next crisis would be political: an angry public, demands for accountability, and pressure to shut the technology down.
Spacex to Build Starlink Mobile Phone Network
October 9th, 2026Via: Basenor:
SpaceX has struck a deal to acquire a nationwide 800 MHz spectrum portfolio, a move Elon Musk is calling the ‘last critical piece’ needed for Starlink Mobile to provide complete phone coverage across America. The announcement, made public on October 8, 2026, sent shares of Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile tumbling roughly 7% in after-hours trading as investors absorbed the implications of a satellite-native carrier entering the U.S. mobile market with the frequencies required to punch signals through building walls.
The deal pairs with the FCC’s approval just two days earlier of Starlink’s Gen2 constellation, authorizing up to 15,000 next-generation satellites. Together, the two developments transform Starlink Mobile from a text-only emergency backup into a credible competitive threat to the entrenched U.S. carrier trio.
The Federal Government Ran Up a $2 Trillion Deficit in 2026
October 8th, 2026Via: Reason:
Fiscal year 2026 ended last week, and while official figures aren’t out yet, it looks like the federal government spent $2 trillion more than it took in. That’s not quite a record—in dollar terms, the federal government ran a bigger deficit in 2020 when the feds showered money on the country in hopes of offsetting COVID-19 lockdowns (fueling inflation in the process), and the deficit was a bigger share of GDP both that year and during the Great Recession. But given the federal government hasn’t balanced its books in 25 years, a $2 trillion deficit adds to already staggering national debt and looming disaster.
Ottumwa, Iowa: Satanic Prayer at City Council Meeting
October 8th, 2026HOLY SH*T
@City_of_Ottumwa in Iowa opened up their most recent city council meeting with a prayer to SATAN.
"Let us pray. Dear dark father… HAIL SATAN"
WTF is wrong with these people??? https://t.co/Ge92TpnLG6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 7, 2026
Via: Ottumwa Courier:
An invocation at the beginning of Tuesday’s Ottumwa City Council meeting overshadowed everything else that took place over the course of 80 minutes.
Resident and former council member Matt Dalbey read a satanic prayer — capped off by “Hail Satan” — to kick off the meeting at City Hall, leading to a reaction from New Life Center pastor Rick Bick during a contentious opening few minutes of the meeting.
Russia: Plague?
October 8th, 2026Questions, questions…
Via: Dr. John Campbell:
Ex-CIA Official Found with Gold Bars Admits to Sprawling Scheme, Agrees to Forfeit $194 Million
October 6th, 2026If the tens of thousands of posts on Cryptogon had metrics for weirdness, this would easily be far out in 3 sigma territory.
At a minimum, this demonstrates that there is an existing infrastructure for CIA to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars of black budget money into real estate, gold bars and other valuables using contractors inside the United States.
David Rush obviously did these types of things as a matter of routine as part of his day job and, apparently, decided to off the reservation a bit.
Apparently.
Who knows…
Via: CBS:
Ex-CIA official found with gold bars admits to sprawling scheme, agrees to forfeit $194 million
By Stefan Becket, Caitlin Yilek
Updated on: October 6, 2026 / 3:25 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — A former CIA official who was found with $40 million in gold bars in his home in May pleaded guilty on Tuesday, admitting he invented fake classified programs to divert nearly $200 million in government money that he used to buy Florida mansions and gold.
David Rush entered a guilty plea on a single count of wire fraud during a hearing in federal court in Virginia.
As part of his plea agreement, Rush agreed to forfeit at least $194 million, including 298 gold bars, two BMWs, 35 luxury watches and four luxury homes in Florida. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
In a filing known as a criminal information detailing the allegations Rush admitted to, prosecutors said he invented a fake classified program to steer $145 million in government funds through a front company, using the money to purchase the homes in Florida that he intended to resell for profit. Separately, he “fabricated a separate purported sensitive government activity to justify the acquisition of gold bars,” prosecutors said.
“Although the real estate and gold acquisitions involved different transactions and intermediaries, they were executions of the same overarching scheme — RUSH created false classified authorities, directed and approved the associated expenditures, caused contractors and subcontractors to carry out the transactions, and thereafter exercised possession or control over the acquired assets,” the filing said.
Prosecutors said Rush had access to “highly sensitive and classified government programs,” although the filing does not name the CIA as his former employer. The spy agency and FBI said previously that the investigation began when the CIA referred the matter to the bureau. In the affidavit supporting the original criminal complaint against him, he was described as a “former Senior Executive Service level employee” at a government agency in eastern Virginia.
The document said Rush caused an unidentified contractor known as Company 1 to transfer about $145 million to a holding company set up at his direction. He then instructed employees at that company and a subcontractor to route that money to a holding company that he controlled, and used the funds to purchase four properties in Palm Beach and Hobe Sound, Florida.
Rush was arrested in May. FBI agents found the gold bars, $2 million in cash and luxury watches when executing a search warrant at his home. Prosecutors said Tuesday that the holding company had about $38.6 million left in its account.
The gold bars were purchased after Rush told the unnamed contractors “that he was working on a Top-Secret project in which he had to deliver high-value commodities to unnamed individuals,” the information said. One of the contractors wired $45 million to the holding company in January, a transaction that forms the basis of the wire fraud charge.
Rush was originally charged with one count of stealing public money, with investigators saying he had provided false information about his education and military service on his government application, and fraudulently took military leave after his service ended.
In June, a federal judge ordered Rush to remain in custody as the case proceeded, determining that he posed a severe flight risk.
At his detention hearing, government lawyers called Rush a “master manipulator” who lied to his neighbors about being a pilot, lied to his co-workers and leveraged his “access to seniority.” A Justice Department lawyer said Rush “cannot be trusted” and is “fully willing and able to skirt the rules.”
Trump Allows Farm Diesel for Vehicles Used on Public Roads
October 6th, 2026Via: CNBC:
President Donald Trump has allowed the use of cheaper red-dyed diesel, typically reserved for farm operations, to be used more broadly in an attempt to bring down record-high fuel costs.
Trump signed an executive order Monday evening stateside to temporarily allow truckers and farmers to use red-dyed diesel — which is exempt from highway fuel taxes — and deferred related taxes on the fuel through the end of this year.
The tax-free diesel is typically used by farm equipment, construction machinery, trucks and other off-road vehicles. It is therefore exempt from a 24.4-cent-per-gallon tax applied to diesel fuel sold for highway transportation.
Using dyed diesel in vehicles operated on public roads is considered illegal, and could result in fines for tax evasion. But several states this year have relaxed restrictions on the tax-exempt diesel to help Americans cope with surging fuel prices.
British Whistleblower Who Revealed Howard Lutnick’s Links to Jeffrey Epstein Found Hanged in Thailand
October 6th, 2026It’s so much worse than anyone knows, especially the 9/11 stuff. Will be covering new findings on that front in my next investigation with @markgoodw_in , out later this month.
For now, all I can say is, you don’t hate Lutnick enough.— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) October 5, 2026
Via: Daily Mail:
A British banker who revealed links between Jeffrey Epstein and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick died from hanging in Thailand, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Simon Andriesz was found dead in a town just outside Bangkok on the morning of September 23.
The whistleblower had claimed his former employer Mr Lutnick – a key aide of Donald Trump – failed to disclose a business relationship with the paedophile financier.
The banker uncovered emails from 2018 which he claimed showed Mr Lutnick and Epstein were discussing a start-up business in which they had involvement.
Epstein died in prison one year later. The messages were exchanged a decade after the sex offender was convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a child.
Khlong Luang Town’s municipality office recorded the death of the 57-year-old Briton, who had worked on Wall Street but was recently living in Cornwall. His cause of death listed as ‘asphyxiation from hanging’.
