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Wednesday, October 07, 2026
The Breach The FEDS Missed for Nine Months
By Worldview Report, 06 October, 2026
Defense One reported this week that a Pentagon personnel breach and a separate FBI breach are raising the same old question: can the federal government even tell when it has been broken into?
The answer, on the evidence, is not for months.
Between October 2025 and July 16, 2026, unauthorized users reached a file-sharing system at the Defense Manpower Data Center. That office holds the personnel records the military and other agencies use. The files were not encrypted. They included Social Security numbers, and, depending on the person, names, dates of birth, contact information, and military job specialties. A defense official later put the exposure at about 2.76 million living people and another 294,000 who are deceased. Roughly three million records. Nine months of access. The flaw was patched after it was found. Affected people were offered a year of credit monitoring. That is the government’s idea of a response.
At the same time, the FBI is dealing with a separate intrusion claimed by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters. Reporting tied to that breach says sensitive records of personnel in intelligence and surveillance roles were exposed. No public evidence has linked the two intrusions. Both, though, hand an adversary a map of who works where, what they do, and how to impersonate them.
Nitay Milner of the data-security firm ORION put the real point in one sentence: three million people may be the headline, but months of unauthorized access to highly sensitive data going undetected is the warning. He is right. And he is describing the Pentagon and the FBI, not a county clerk’s office.
If the institutions charged with national defense cannot see a stranger in their own personnel files for the better part of a year, the country should stop pretending those same institutions are ready for a deliberate strike on the systems that keep daily life running.
Start with the banks. A payments system does not have to be destroyed to be crippled. It has to be distrusted. Freeze clearing. Corrupt account records. Knock out the networks that move payroll, card authorizations, and wire transfers. Households do not keep weeks of cash. Businesses do not keep weeks of operating money in a drawer. A serious disruption in the financial pipes is a disruption in food, fuel, and medicine within days, because those things are bought, not stockpiled, by most families.
Water treatment is worse, because it is quieter. In 2021 an intruder reached the controls of a plant in Oldsmar, Florida, and tried to raise the level of sodium hydroxide in the drinking water to a dangerous concentration. An operator noticed and reversed it. That was one plant, one attempt, caught by a person at a screen. There are thousands of water systems in this country. Many of them run on aging equipment, remote access, and a staff of a few people. A coordinated campaign does not need to poison a city. It needs to force plants offline, or force operators to stop trusting their own readings. Boil-water orders and tanker trucks are a local fix. They are not a national one.
The electric grid is the system everything else sits on. Pumps, card readers, traffic lights, cell towers, refineries, hospitals after the generators run down. Federal agencies have already warned that Chinese state-sponsored actors, tracked publicly as Volt Typhoon, have burrowed into American critical-infrastructure networks, not only to steal files but to be in position. Pre-positioned access is the point. The attacker does not have to win on the day of the strike. He has to be inside before the day arrives. Colonial Pipeline in 2021 showed what one ransomware hit on one fuel operator can do to the East Coast. That was crime. A state campaign against generation and transmission would not be solved by paying a bitcoin demand and restarting a billing server.
Then the FAA. In January 2023 the Notice to Air Missions system failed and flights across the country stopped. The government later blamed a damaged database file and a failure to follow procedure, not a hack. Remember that. The nation’s airspace was grounded by a file error and a bad process. If a clerical failure can halt departures, a deliberate attack on flight-data, radar-adjacent, or airline operational systems does not have to be exotic to produce the same picture: aircraft on the ground, crews out of position, cargo not moving. The FAA has spent years trying to modernize systems that still carry the habits of another era. Modernization is not the same thing as resilience under attack.
Here is the part official Washington will not say plainly. In a real strike on banks, water, power, and aviation at once, the federal government will not arrive with restoration crews in the first week. It will arrive with press conferences. The Pentagon could not see unauthorized users in a file share for nine months. The FBI is notifying its own people that criminal hackers reached personnel data tied to intelligence work. Treasury disclosed in 2024 that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had reached unclassified documents through a remote-support tool. The federal courts and the Congressional Budget Office have had their own intrusions. These are the scorecards of the institutions that would be asked to coordinate a national recovery.
Recovery from a grid event is measured in weeks for the hard-hit regions, and longer where large transformers or specialized control equipment are destroyed. Those are not items on a warehouse shelf. Water systems come back plant by plant. Banks come back when ledgers can be trusted again, which is a different problem from flipping a switch. Air travel comes back last, because it depends on power, communications, fuel, and confidence at the same time.
So the practical truth is this. If critical infrastructure is disrupted at scale, Americans will be on their own for weeks, and in the worst pockets for months. The household that has assumed the state will keep the lights on, the water safe, the card reader live, and the airport open is making a bet the recent record does not support. The government that cannot detect a nine-month breach of military personnel files is not a government prepared to win the first day of a real infrastructure war. It is a government that will learn it has been hit the same way it learned this time. Late.
DOJ report claims Biden administration labeled parents 'domestic terrorists'..
DOJ report claims Biden administration labeled parents 'domestic terrorists'; targeted moms and dads protesting DEI, COVID rules, and gender policies
DOJ report claims Biden administration labeled parents ‘domestic terrorists’; targeted moms and dads protesting DEI, COVID rules, and gender policies. BY: MEGA
A new Justice Department report claims the Biden administration used federal law enforcement against parents who challenged school policies. Some of them were even described as potential "domestic terrorists" for speaking out at school board meetings.
The 273-page report, released Monday by the DOJ's Weaponization Working Group, examines former Attorney General Merrick Garland's October 2021 memorandum directing federal authorities to address alleged threats against school officials. The department says the memo followed pressure from the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and Biden White House officials.
DOJ report details investigations into parents
Attorney General Todd Blanche said the report and newly released records shed light on efforts to restrict parental speech and rights. BY: MEGA
According to the report, the FBI opened 25 "Guardian assessments" involving parents following Garland's memo.
One investigation involved a mother whom an FBI whistleblower said was scrutinized because she belonged to a "right-wing mom's group" and owned a gun.
The department also says internal DOJ and FBI personnel raised concerns about the memo, questioning its constitutional basis and whether the effort was becoming political.
One employee reportedly called the initiative "stupid, stupid, stupid," while another warned it could become an "Anti-MAGA Task Force." The report says more than a dozen DOJ and FBI personnel expressed concerns about the directive.
France keeps 400 schools closed as country gripped by student protests
France keeps 400 schools closed as country gripped by student protests
AP Archive
Oct 7, 2026
(2 Oct 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France - 2 October 2026
1. Various of high school students protesting outside Voltaire high school with people driving by and honking in support
2. Wide of protest signs and students' feet on barricade at Voltaire high school protest
3. Mid of various protest signs
4. Mid of protesters singing French National Anthem: 'La Marseillaise'
5. Wide of students protesting outside a high school in France, holding signs and banners.
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Sophie Bordy, literature teacher: "The youth is extremely anxious. High school students are very anxious, mainly because of Parcoursup (France’s online platform for university admissions). Regarding all high school students in France, there is a lack of places in higher education, and the algorithms make it unclear why some of our students don't have a place in higher education even though they have excellent records, have passed the baccalaureate with honors, and therefore, we as teachers understand this movement."
7. Wide of Voltaire bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon at Voltaire high school
8. Mid of students clapping and chanting during the high school protest
9. Wide of high school students gathering on the street during protest in France and drivers passing by and honking in support
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Sophie Bordy, literature teacher:
"I think the French support the movement because, those who have children understand the anxieties that students, young people, experience regarding Parcoursup (France’s online platform for university admissions) and the future being offered to them. We are coming out of an extremely severe heatwave. Here, they took their exams in gyms, basements, on ping-pong tables. The public needs to know that we did not have the same study conditions; I am 50 years old. It has deteriorated significantly."
11. Mid of protest sign reading (French) 'Anger' at protest
12. Close up of protest signs at the high school demonstration in France demanding justice and critiquing police presence. (French) 'Police Everywhere, Justice Nowhere'
13. Mid of protester holding a sign reading (French) 'To protest is a fundamental right'
14. SOUNDBITE (French) Sophie Bordy, literature teacher:
"In my opinion, the treatment by the State and police violence only make things worse. It seems quite urgent to me that the State considers having the minister meet with the young people and understand that their anxieties are real. And these are young adults, you know, they are 16, 17, 18 years old. They are future citizens. Some of them are even citizens already. They must be urgently received so that a genuine signal of appeasement is given by the government."
15. Wide of students gathering outside a high school in France during the protest
STORYLINE:
High school students built a barricade in front of Voltaire High School in northeastern Paris on Friday, in a fifth day of protests in the French capital demanding more resources for education and denouncing pressure on students.
Voltaire High School is one of the 400 high schools that remained closed on Friday, but students nevertheless gathered in front of it. Students taking part in the protest cited staff shortages, deteriorating conditions in some schools, long school days and Parcoursup, France’s national online platform for university admissions.
Sophie Bordy, a literature teacher in Voltaire high school says there are reasons for the students to be anxious and that parents and, more generally, the population have understanding.
AP video shot by Oleg CETINIC.
Evidence Shows Catholic Officials Abused 944 Children: Massachusetts AG
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Pastor Hal Mayer Speaker / Director
Evidence Shows Catholic Officials Abused 944 Children: Massachusetts AG
Pastor Hal Mayer Speaker / Director
Evidence Shows Catholic Officials Abused 944 Children: Massachusetts AG
Tuesday October 6th, 2026
The Epoch Times, by Zachary Stieber: Catholic clerics abused nearly 1,000 children across three dioceses in Massachusetts, the state’s attorney general said in a report published on Sept. 30.
A years-long investigation found evidence that 275 clerics, including priests and nuns, abused children, and that 944 kids reported being sexually abused, according to the report released by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.
The probe examined allegations of child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic dioceses of Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester, and how the dioceses handled the allegations.
Investigators said the dioceses failed to respond adequately to child sex abuse allegations, including by failing to act on some allegations, transferring accused priests to other parishes without disclosing reasons for the transfers, and failing to consistently report allegations to law enforcement.
The alleged abuse largely took place before 2002, before The Boston Globe reported that priests at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston abused children, and that officials covered up the abuse. The dioceses under examination have improved policies since then. The Springfield Diocese has signed a policy that mandates reporting suspected abuse of children.
“For decades, survivors of clergy sexual abuse, including those who are no longer alive, have carried the devastating consequences of abuse, while the institutions entrusted with their care too often failed to protect them. This report provides for the first time a public accounting of the unimaginable harms afflicted on children in the Fall River, Springfield, and Worcester dioceses,” Campbell said in a statement.
Tuesday, October 06, 2026
Unrest, Fear, and Upheaval
Prophecy
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Luke 21:25-26.
Fulfillment
This sounds strangely like an editorial from a current newspaper--a perfect picture of the world today--and there is a reason: We are the people of the very last days of earth's history.
All around us the world is manifesting intense activity. There is a feeling of apprehension among all people; they are looking for some great event, but know not what it is to be. The nations are filled with anxiety, and there is a spirit of unrest and tumult on every hand. If ever there was a time when men should look to the Bible it is now.
The tense atmosphere present in the world today should not surprise us. Christ foretold it. It should convince us that His coming is near.
Supreme Court Set to Hear Case Involving Religious Exemptions for Private Schools to Receive Public Funds
by Craig Nash | Oct 6, 2026 | News
(Credit: Mark Thomas / Pixabay / https://tinyurl.com/5tnsvvak)
Among a handful of religious-liberty cases the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) will hear this session, which began yesterday, one pits a Colorado nondiscrimination law against the state’s Universal Preschool Program (UPK). The early childhood program provides preschool tuition for up to 15 hours per week for students in their final year before kindergarten. Yet Colorado law prohibits funding for preschools that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
Two Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Denver contend the nondiscrimination policy, which forbids them from denying admission to students with same-sex parents, violates their First Amendment rights. They have refused to sign the nondiscrimination agreement, denying them state funds from the UPK program.
According to Linda Greenhouse, who covers SCOTUS cases for The New York Times, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy concerns a 2022 ruling that declared Maine’s exclusion of religious schools from receiving publicly funded private school subsidies was unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the Colorado case are arguing that the religious exemption in the Maine case also applies to Colorado religious schools.
The State of Colorado argues that the Maine decision prohibited disqualifying private schools from public funding solely because they provided religious education. They contend that their refusal to allow a school to receive UPK funds has nothing to do with the schools’ right to provide religious education, but with their refusal to serve particular students.
The case, scheduled to appear before the court in early November, will clarify what counts as a religious exemption in public education.
I’ve seen the horrific content that some kids watch – it’s no wonder our children are in trouble
From reports of child-on-child abuse in schools to the Cornell 7 case, every day we see more examples of society’s inability to educate boys properly. Rebecca Spargo writes about what she’s learned while researching for her new novel and how the issue isn’t just teaching kids right and wrong – but also not to stay silent
Tuesday 06 October 2026 01:00 EDT
The drama ‘Adolescence’ displayed to many the dark places that teenagers go without proper guidance (Netflix)
Like most women, I was pretty horrified at the stories that emerged from the “Everyone’s Invited” campaign in 2021. The campaign invited young women to publish anonymous testimonies of peer-on-peer sexual misconduct and violence they had experienced at school. At the time, you could search all of the schools that had been mentioned and every single school I could think of, both primary and secondary schools, appeared when I searched. It was really shocking.
I would love to say that this is now a thing of the past, but it’s not.
A recent report in The Guardian revealed that thousands of cases of child-on-child sexual abuse in schools, including multiple rapes, are reported to police every year. More than a third of the rape victims were children under 13. Of those where the sex of the victim is documented, two-thirds were girls.
Like most women, I was pretty horrified at the stories that emerged from the “Everyone’s Invited” campaign in 2021. The campaign invited young women to publish anonymous testimonies of peer-on-peer sexual misconduct and violence they had experienced at school. At the time, you could search all of the schools that had been mentioned and every single school I could think of, both primary and secondary schools, appeared when I searched. It was really shocking.
I would love to say that this is now a thing of the past, but it’s not.
A recent report in The Guardian revealed that thousands of cases of child-on-child sexual abuse in schools, including multiple rapes, are reported to police every year. More than a third of the rape victims were children under 13. Of those where the sex of the victim is documented, two-thirds were girls.
A report found thousands of cases of child-on-child sexual abuse in UK schools (Getty)
Every single woman I know is appalled by this. I have two daughters, but quite a few of my friends have sons. We all consider ourselves feminists, and we talked a lot at the time of the “Everyone’s Invited” campaign about how devastating it would be to have to consider whether your son was capable of behaving that way. That was the spark for my novel, entitled Such a Nice Boy: what if you are confronted with the truth of what your son has done and are forced to consider what he might be capable of?
When I was growing up, a parent’s greatest fear was that their teen might fall in with a bad crowd. Now, that “bad crowd” is their phone, and the wrong people are being actively pushed to them by algorithms, strangers, or their friends, often in the form of extreme and violent porn and misogyny.
Many parents aren’t fully aware of how common it is for boys and girls to see this sort of material and what it’s actually doing to them. There’s a very common belief that if you’ve brought your child up to be good and decent, you have somehow inoculated them against this kind of influence; that it would never be “my child” who would do something like this. But many parents just don’t really understand what their children are looking at.
Every single woman I know is appalled by this. I have two daughters, but quite a few of my friends have sons. We all consider ourselves feminists, and we talked a lot at the time of the “Everyone’s Invited” campaign about how devastating it would be to have to consider whether your son was capable of behaving that way. That was the spark for my novel, entitled Such a Nice Boy: what if you are confronted with the truth of what your son has done and are forced to consider what he might be capable of?
When I was growing up, a parent’s greatest fear was that their teen might fall in with a bad crowd. Now, that “bad crowd” is their phone, and the wrong people are being actively pushed to them by algorithms, strangers, or their friends, often in the form of extreme and violent porn and misogyny.
Many parents aren’t fully aware of how common it is for boys and girls to see this sort of material and what it’s actually doing to them. There’s a very common belief that if you’ve brought your child up to be good and decent, you have somehow inoculated them against this kind of influence; that it would never be “my child” who would do something like this. But many parents just don’t really understand what their children are looking at.
The Siberian “Plague” the Ventilator, and the mRNA That Was Already Waiting!!!
The Siberian “Plague” the Ventilator, and the mRNA That Was Already Waiting!!!
October 5, 2026
A Siberian anti-plague lab technician is dead after severe pneumonia, with reports of a broken tube of live bacteria circulating alongside official claims of “pneumonia of unknown etiology,” negative pathogen tests, and no lab accident.
In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth walks through what Russian outlets and health authorities are actually saying, the WHO’s low-risk assessment, the timing of a recently published mRNA vaccine paper aimed at a deadly bacterium, and the questions the headlines are not asking.
COVID was the launch platform for mRNA.
The fear and the marketing worked and the architects were rewarded.
So why wouldn’t they run the playbook again?
...
Age Of Delusion
OPINION
INGERSOLL: Age Of Delusion
October 05, 2026 11:36 AM ET
Below is State of the Day, a morning newsletter by Daily Caller Editor-at-Large Geoff Ingersoll.
__________
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Welcome back to State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection off that day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.
I should also welcome you to the …
AGE OF DELUSION
Richard Barrera entered a long recent history of left-wing politicians openly encouraging delusion when he sat for an Oct. 4 interview with Conan Nolan of NBCLA.
Recently, we’ve got Lindsay Clancy as innocent and Sydney Sweeney as guilty. We’ve got a girl who literally admitted to planning a fake rape accusation at the center of a new actual rape investigation in NY. We’ve got AI orgy polycules lobbying Dems to recognize their code has a soul and should be given special economic status.
And now we’ve got Barrera.
He’s the leading candidate for state superintendent in California, the chief executive of K-12 public education. In a clip posted by NBC, Nolan asks a simple question (emphasis mine):
Conan Nolan:
“Turning to higher education policy: there’s been an ongoing debate across California universities regarding admissions standards and standardized testing. Would you vote to bring back the SAT?”
Richard Barrera:
“Absolutely not. That, again, is an approach that’s about — if kids are struggling or not ready to do college-level work …
Below is State of the Day, a morning newsletter by Daily Caller Editor-at-Large Geoff Ingersoll.
__________
Greetings, Dear Reader,
Welcome back to State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection off that day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.
I should also welcome you to the …
AGE OF DELUSION
Richard Barrera entered a long recent history of left-wing politicians openly encouraging delusion when he sat for an Oct. 4 interview with Conan Nolan of NBCLA.
Recently, we’ve got Lindsay Clancy as innocent and Sydney Sweeney as guilty. We’ve got a girl who literally admitted to planning a fake rape accusation at the center of a new actual rape investigation in NY. We’ve got AI orgy polycules lobbying Dems to recognize their code has a soul and should be given special economic status.
And now we’ve got Barrera.
He’s the leading candidate for state superintendent in California, the chief executive of K-12 public education. In a clip posted by NBC, Nolan asks a simple question (emphasis mine):
Conan Nolan:
“Turning to higher education policy: there’s been an ongoing debate across California universities regarding admissions standards and standardized testing. Would you vote to bring back the SAT?”
Richard Barrera:
“Absolutely not. That, again, is an approach that’s about — if kids are struggling or not ready to do college-level work …
How the brain uses memory to imagine what might have been
October 3, 2026
Philosopher and 2026 MacArthur “genius grant” recipient Felipe De Brigard explains how our brains use imagination to reconstruct the past
By Allison Parshall edited by Claire Cameron
PM Images/Getty Images
Neuroscience
A month ago philosopher Felipe De Brigard received a strange phone call. “Are you in a private place where you can have a private conversation?” the voice on the other end asked.
He was on a work retreat surrounded by colleagues. “Just say you need to talk about your taxes,” the caller said. De Brigard excused himself to find a private space, panicking the whole time about his taxes—but it was actually the MacArthur Foundation on the line. De Brigard had been awarded a prestigious “genius grant,” an $800,000 fellowship with no strings attached.
“I just was floored. And I had to put everything back together and walk back in like nothing happened,” says De Brigard, who is a professor at Duke University and originally from Bogotá, Colombia. He is only the second philosopher to be awarded the fellowship in the past 30 years.
De Brigard would be the first to tell you that his recollection of that day may be flawed. As a philosopher and cognitive scientist, he studies the fallibility of memory. Our brains don’t work like digital cameras recording our experiences to a mental hard drive, he explains. We store only some parts of our experience—gestures, stories, the gist. When we go to retrieve those memories, our brains need to fill in the gaps.
De Brigard’s research shows just how intertwined our brain’s memory is with imagination. We use some of the same mental machinery to reconstruct the past as we do to imagine the future—and to imagine what might have been.
Scientific American spoke with De Brigard about why false memories form, why we dwell on the roads not taken, how forgiveness influences memory and whether we should worry about artificial intelligence becoming conscious.
[An edited transcript of the conversation follows.]
UK government reportedly hands out 974 hijabs to small boats migrants
Reports suggest 974 hijabs were handed
By Ethan Davies
01:31, Sun, Oct 4, 2026 Updated: 01:31, Sun, Oct 4, 2026
Small boats crossings are down this year, by 13 percent (Image: Getty)
The government has given nearly 1,000 hijabs to migrants who crossed the Channel in small boats this year, according to reports.
The Mail on Sunday claims internal government documents show officials gave 974 hijabs this year, a religious headdress some Muslim women and girls wear. The hijabs were handed out in clothing packs given to every migrant that reaches the UK via small boats over the Channel, reports suggest.
The Home Office has responded by insisting it has the legal duty to provide them under the government short-term holding facility rules, first established under the Conservative government in 2018, and last amended when Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister.
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A spokesperson told the Mail on Sunday: “All arrivals receive a basic dry clothing pack where required. The items available form part of standard welfare arrangements.”
In total, 15,406 packs have been given to migrants as 19,000 small boat crossings have been attempted so far this year, the report says. The breakdown of the packs reflects the fact the vast majority of small boats migrants are male, as 10,694 clothing packs for men were given out.
Only 2,760 packs were given to women, and 773 to boys and 829 for girls. Another 350 babygrows were also handed out.
The packs typically include dry, clean tracksuits to be worn while migrants are placed in 'holding rooms' or 'residential holding rooms' by immigration authorities, and disposable slippers.
Small boats crossings have fallen this year, according to Oxford University. The university’s Migration Observatory says around 36,000 people arrived by small boat in the year to May 2026, 13 percent less than in the same period the year before.
There were 41,000 arrivals in 2025, more than in all other years except 2022, when 45,000 did so.
Monday, October 05, 2026
French students close hundreds of schools in protest
Reuters
Oct 5, 2026
French high school students have blockaded hundreds of schools across the country in protest against poor conditions in education. According to officials, between 400 and 500 schools remain closed amid the unrest.
BREAKING: Supreme Court starts term with PIVOTAL cases
Fox News
Oct 5, 2026
Fox News' David Spunt reports the latest on the upcoming cases involving climate change, gun rights, religion, voting and more. John Yoo, who served Justice Thomas as a law clerk, also weighs in on the docket during 'America's Newsroom.
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