Vance Says He Would Not Watch Livestreamed Execution

Has Catholic convert JD Vance found loopholes in Church doctrine on “the sanctity of life” and its stance on capital punishment? He seems OK with fire-squading Maj Hasan, but watching it live might be a sin. “I’m not going to be watching it.” Good Boy! JD.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/us/politics/vance-livestream-execution.html?campaign_id=57&emc=edit_ne_20261009&instance_id=183341&nl=the-evening&regi_id=69540701&segment_id=227891&user_id=e69a6cb2bbba5cd47ffe27ec9fb45fbe

20th Anniversary of Wikileaks

On 20th anniversary of Wikileaks, recall its hopeful role brilliantly substituting for the drivel in government-controlled 4th Estate. If WikiLeaks were now in full swing, we could perhaps confirm or deny alarming reports that US has given Israel the green light to nuke Iran.

 

 

When Humans Were in the Loop

Putin on what is likely to happen if there is no human in the nuclear warning loop. https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2105710694964306232?s=20 

Cites example of Lt Col Stanislav Petrov, the human who saved us from nuclear war in 1983. I had added Vasily Arkhipov & Melvin Goodman at min 46:30 of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxOUGHXQjo8&t=402s

I feel a particular affinity to Petrov, since we were of the same vintage. I was born seven days before WWII began, he seven days after it started.

Hat tip to Jason Ross of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR)*** who wrote a timely piece on September 26 (the 43rd anniversary of Petrov’s bold and felicitous inaction).

‘Always Under Human Control’: From Petrov to the Summit

https://eir.news/2026/09/daily-brief/daily-alert-always-under-human-control-from-petrov-to-the-summit/

*** As for the EIR, in my view it is perhaps THE most thoughtful daily publication. (And I wrote CIA’S “current intelligence analysis” for decades).

I recommend the EIR highly; might even say, “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it!”

 

 

 

Golden Shower Scribes of Easy Virtue

Scott Ritter, Joe Lauria & I discuss why journalists like Isikoff and Corn, who were never held to account for their Russiagate fairy tales, keep slithering out of The Swamp with new Russophobic drivel. Is it more than simply to earn tickets to cruise with hoi aristoi?