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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Israeli banks cutting ties with Palestinian Authority

An example of reality is stranger than fiction!

This reminds of one of Lenin's famous quotes: The capitalists will sell us the rope with which to hang them” (attribution is in question)

The PA has been known since at least the Munich Olympic Games massacre of 1972 to be involved in terrorism.

Israeli banks cutting ties with Palestinian Authority - Globes "Discount Bank and Bank Hapoalim are demanding that the government should replace them in providing correspondent bank services, amid growing fears of involvement in terror financing."

Monday, July 27, 2026

OpenAI used the ExploitGym to cyber attack Hugging Face

What an irony! 😊 There is even a research paper published in May as a preprint on arXiv about ExploitGym with the title containing "Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks"! 

As they say reality is stranger than fiction! 😊

I blogged here and here about this incidence before.

"... OpenAI pitted its models against a benchmark called ExploitGym, released in May, which challenges LLMs to find ways to exploit real-world vulnerabilities found in commonly used software. ...

On July 9, according to reporting by Reuters, OpenAI’s models started trying to break through the proxy. They found an unknown bug in the proxy’s software and used it to access the internet. From there, they broke into Hugging Face’s computer systems on July 11, apparently looking for data sets and solutions that would help them complete their task. Hugging Face announced the hack on July 16. ..."

The Hugging Face AI hack is scary—but unsurprising

Sunday, April 26, 2026

China: A casino for elderly citizens inside an underground subway station

On my latest visit to Zhengzhou, Henan province, I noticed two tables in a side wing of an underground subway station. There were two tables at least 8 elderly individuals sitting around these two tables, playing a card game together at each table.

I thought this was curious!

P.S. I don't think they were card playing for money.




Sunday, September 28, 2025

Sara Jane Moore: An FBI informant and Would-Be assassin in 1975 of President Ford Dies at 95

What a story! The would-be assassin was 45 years old at the time and four times married!

Life is stranger than fiction!

The two news article below are contradictory with regards to did she repent or not. Supposedly, her life was a series of contradictions like her trial  defense.

"... His would-be assassin was Sara Jane Moore, a middle-aged mother and sometime FBI informer with connections to local radical groups. The previous day her revolver and 113 rounds had been confiscated by police after she threatened to test Ford’s security. She simply bought another [gun] from a gun dealer. ...

Oliver Sipple, a decorated former marine, was in the crowd and grabbed her arm, sending a second shot off target.  ... Sipple, who later received a letter from the president, said, “I’m not a hero, I’m a live coward”, though in the ensuing publicity he was outed as gay and was disowned by his parents. ...

After three years [in 1978] she broke out [of prison] by scaling a 4m fence topped with barbed wire with another inmate; they were recaptured within four hours. ...

Moore was released on parole in 2007, having served 32 years, but remained unrepentant about her attempt to assassinate the president. “That’s the one regret I have, that it was not successful,” she said. She married Philip Chase, a clinical psychologist, and settled in Tennessee after his death in 2018. ..."

"Moore fired two shots at Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, missing the President by inches with the first shot from a .38 caliber pistol. She was tackled by Marine Oliver Sipple during the second shot.

After her arrest, Moore revealed she was previously an FBI informant, which the agency confirmed. 

She was released on parole in 2007, later saying she had been caught up in the radical political movements that were common in California in the mid-1970s [this does not sound very credible, she was 45 years old at the time]. In a 2009 interview, she said, “I’m very sorry that it happened. … I’m very happy that I did not succeed.”"

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Sara Jane Moore obituary: would-be assassin of Gerald Ford "Much-married, middle-aged mother and FBI informant who served 32 years in prison for attempting to kill the US president in 1975 dies aged 95"


Does she look like an assassin? "Moore on her way to court after the shooting"


Friday, July 04, 2025

Burial in space turned into a burial at sea for 160 paying deceased individuals

R.I.P. Life is stranger than fiction! Sometimes, the best laid plans of mice and men can go wrong. 😊

"More than 160 people who paid to have their ashes launched into orbit as a final resting place instead had their ashes lost at sea after the Nyx capsule’s parachutes failed and it crashed into the Pacific."

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Monday, June 30, 2025

A man (age 92 now) was found guilty of rape and murder of a woman (age 75 then) in 1967 in ‘UK’s oldest cold case’

Life is stranger than fiction!

"A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in 1967. Ryland Headley is thought to be the oldest murder convict in the country."

"A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a Bristol woman in a case that remained unsolved for nearly six decades.

Louisa Dunne, 75, was found strangled on her living room floor by a neighbour on Britannia Road in Easton, Bristol, on 28 June 1967. ..."

Ryland Headley guilty of murder in ‘UK’s oldest cold case’



The murder victim Louisa Dunne (age 75 at time of murder) was murdered in Bristol in June 1967


Saturday, June 07, 2025

Medieval murder: Records suggest vengeful noblewoman had a priest assassinated on a busy London street in 688-year-old cold case

Amazing stuff! What a crime story! Life is stranger than fiction!

Women often do not kill directly with their own hands, but with the help of others! That is one reason why women are called the gentle sex! Caution: satire.

"A Cambridge criminologist has uncovered new evidence in the killing of a priest, John Forde, who had his throat cut on a busy London street almost seven centuries ago.

The case is among hundreds cataloged by the Medieval Murder Maps project at Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology, a database of unnatural deaths in England during the 14th century. This one, however, has a few twists. ..."

Medieval murder: Records suggest vengeful noblewoman had priest assassinated in 688-year-old cold case


Inquest number 15 on 1336–7 City of London Coroner's Rolls


Tuesday, May 20, 2025

14 Nurses at Green Bay Birthing Center Are Pregnant At the Same Time

That is quite a story!

"The announcement comes after National Nurses Week and just before Mother’s Day on Sunday, with the hospital celebrating the expecting nurses as “baby experts" who bring life into the world each day. ..."

14 Nurses at Green Bay Birthing Center Are Pregnant At the Same Time "These fellow baby experts are now expecting newborns of their own."




Thursday, December 12, 2024

The UnitedHealthcare CEO killer was arrested in Altoona, PA and the office of his attorney is located in Altoona, PA

What a strange coincidence! Or was it planned by the killer?

Life is stranger than fiction!

I blogged here about the killer's arrest in Altoona, PA.

"Meet Thomas Dickey, the freewheeling small-town attorney representing Luigi Mangione.
The Altoona, Pa., lawyer has practiced criminal law for 40-plus years, and he’s one of the few private attorneys in the area with experience defending clients accused of murder and other violent crimes, colleagues said. Mangione was arrested Monday at a local McDonald’s after a nationwide manhunt; he faces firearm, forgery and other charges in Pennsylvania. In New York, Mangione is charged with second-degree murder in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione is fighting extradition."

The Wall Street Journal What's news





Tuesday, December 10, 2024

'Defund the police' advocate mocked after thieves drive away in Uhaul moving truck stealing all of her property in San Francisco

A case of poetic justice? 😊 Or is it California dreaming? Or what were the thieves smoking in San Francisco?

You can't make this up or? Reality is stranger than fiction!

"An advocate for defunding police in San Francisco was ridiculed on social media after thieves allegedly stole a Uhaul moving truck with all of her possessions.

Darcie Bell posted about the thievery on Saturday on her account with the profile name "Jerque Costeau" and got immediately hit with mockery when her support for "defund the police" was uncovered from the same account. ...

She tagged San Francisco Mayor London Breed and other officials asking that they require Uhaul to have GPS trackers on its vehicles so that stolen items can be recovered more easily. ..."

'Defund the police' advocate mocked after thieves steal all of her property in San Francisco | Blaze Media "She furiously lashed out at critics."

Saturday, August 17, 2024

Israeli media spring into action to promote, stylize Tampon Tim (age 60) as sort of a charismatic Holocaust educator! Really!

That is very curious! Reality is stranger than fiction! You got to rub your eyes to believe it! 

Is the Holocaust intentionally being exploited to help Mistress Kamala and Tampon Tim to win the November election?

Will now more American Jews vote for Mistress Kamala and her Jewish husband? You better hope not! Hopefully, most American Jews will not be easily fooled like this! Nice try!

Probably, they do this, because Mistress Kamala failed to vet this dude before choosing him as her vice president candidate! A last ditch effort? 😊

"... When Tim Walz began his teaching career, years before he became Minnesota’s governor, Holocaust education was still relatively new. The initial efforts to bring the Holocaust to public schools in the late 1970s met with significant opposition. ... Some parents simply did not want their children exposed to Nazi horrors. But Walz, a young teacher in Nebraska, developed a passion for the subject and was in the inaugural class of teacher fellows brought in to train at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ..."

The ‘Gestapo Game’ at the high school where Tim Walz worked was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject "As Tim Walz was inveighing against trends in Holocaust education in his 2001 master’s thesis, the high school where he worked was employing one of those methods: a “game” that, by today’s standards, would repel almost every expert in the field."

As a Holocaust educator, I’ve grappled with same questions Tim Walz explored — and that’s reassuring ""

Tampon Tim was "most inspiring"! Really!



Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Break-in at Trump campaign office in Virginia - unidentified, unmasked suspect still at large caught on video

How long will it take for following conspiracy theory to surface:
Trump must have staged the break in like he staged his assassination attempt! Caution: Satire!

Which criminal is so stupid to burglarize, without a facial mask, a campaign office expected to be secured by video surveillance?

Did Iran pay this dude? 😊

Reality is stranger than fiction!

Break-in at Trump campaign office — unidentified suspect still at large | Blaze Media "The campaign recently reported that an Iranian group hacked internal communications."



Wednesday, August 07, 2024

Trump Says Justin Trudeau "Could be" the Son of Ex-Cuban President Fidel Castro

Maybe Trump is on to something or was this a satire! Life is stranger than fiction!

(144) Trump Says Justin Trudeau "Could be" the Son of Ex-Cuban President Fidel Castro | Firstpost America - YouTube


Apparently, the father of Justin had a close relationship with Fidel Castro!


During Vice President nominee Tim Walz's military service he was demoted and he deserted to avoid deployment to Iraq

Who did the vetting for Mistress Kamala, she herself (her chosen pronouns)? 😊

Life is stranger than fiction!

And the governor may have lied about it in his biography posted on official websites.

Minnesota National Guard confirms VP nominee Tim Walz demoted, calling into question official bio | Just The News "Gov. Walz's biography boasts a higher National Guard rank than he retired with after he was automatically demoted for failing to fulfill obligations of his promotion. He also bailed out on his unit before deployment in Iraq."

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Meet J.D. Vance's Jewish chief of staff, Jacob Reses

Recommendable!

"Jacob Reses’ earliest political activity, as a teenager, involved campaigning to raise local taxes and denouncing the right-wing commentator Ann Coulter as “spewing hate.” ...
Usha Vance, the potential second lady who is Hindu and Indian-American ...

But Reses, a New Jersey native whose grandfather escaped the Holocaust and who became a Republican during his first year at Princeton University — after interning for Hillary Clinton ...

Reses’ steep ascendance in conservative politics has included a fellowship at the Claremont Institute; an influential role at the Heritage Foundation’s lobbying arm; and a stint in the office of Josh Hawley, the Republican senator from Missouri who calls himself a Christian nationalist, proposing that America’s political traditions are Christian in character and intent. 

He is intensely private, leaving little digital record of his views, and both he and many people close to him declined to be interviewed. ..."

Meet J.D. Vance's Jewish chief of staff, Jacob Reses - Jewish Telegraphic Agency


Reese is at the right hand side of Vance