Comment: Parliament has been plagued by stories of sexual impropriety and deviance of late, with many stories stretching back decades. Calling it a 'witch hunt' is a deflection from the documented fact that Westminster has been a den for cover ups and perverts for a very long time.

Previously:

• Women staffers in Westminster are naming MPs with histories of sexual harassment in secret WhatsApp group
• UK parliament sexual harassment scandal: MP's staffer reported assault four times but was 'ignored by authorities'
• Westminster's sexual assault 'dirty dossier' a 'witch hunt'?
• Sexual harassment isn't just a Westminster problem it plagues local government too
• UK police officers threatened with prosecution under 'Official Secrets Act' in Cyril Smith pedophile cover up
• Courageous abuse survivor accuses Tory MP of murdering boy during 'depraved Westminster VIP paedophile party'
• Powerful pedophiles are seemingly everywhere and above the law in the UK

Comment: 'Social divisiveness' has become shorthand for 'Trump is ruining everything'. All the popular kids are doing it. The state of America is bad, but it is bad in different and much more horrifying ways than is likely imagined by most of those who are stressed. When Americans have to live on an hour of electricity a day, when gangs rule their neighborhoods, when members of their families are bombed by drones, and when they have little to no access to food and water, they will know the deep stress that their government inflicts on people throughout the world. The social divisiveness pushed by identity politics loses its mighty and influential ground when compared to genuine brutality.

Americans may generally understand how the media distracts and blows certain things out of proportion. However, that in itself doesn't stop its influence, nor does it bring awareness of reality. Underlying specific fears and various sources of anxiety, there may be some basic recognition that things aren't right. Unfortunately, that sense can be manipulated and vectored by authorities to push their agenda. This becomes all the more powerful when people are strained by hardship, and it is made worse through the acceptance of lies. Navigating through the lies is no easy task, but it is a necessary one for those who seek freedom from our pathological systems.

Comment: The suspect is Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old Uzbek native living in the States since 2010 - his residence was Tampa, FL, according to his driver's license. Since 2010 he has lived in Ohio, Florida, and New Jersey. He came to the U.S. on a "diversity visa program", which targets people from countries with historically low immigration rates to the U.S. According to the NY Post, authorities found "either an IS flag or an image of the flag along with his note pledging allegiance to the terrorist organization" in the vehicle.

On Tuesday, the New York Post interviewed Kobiljon Matkarov, 37, a friend of Saipov, who described him as "very friendly" and a "very good guy."

"My kids like him too, he is always playing with them. He is playing all the time," Matkarov said.

Matkarov told the Post that Saipov worked as an Uber driver and he did not know him to have any connections to terrorist organizations.

Governor Cuomo said this was a lone wolf attack. So far that looks to be the case, but isn't it too early to make such a definitive statement?


Witnesses say Saipov emerged from the truck yelling "Allahu Akbar". The weapons initially reported as guns turned out to be a BB gun and a paint gun.


The attack is being treated as a terror attack by authorities. Trump tweeted:





November 1 Updates

Among the dead: five Argentinian friends vacationing in the city, and a Belgian woman visiting Manhattan with family. Uzbek President Mirziyoyev has promised Trump that his country is "read to use all its resources and means to assist in investigation of this terrorist act." (As a Central Asian nation, Uzbekistan has long been a target of NATO's "Gladio B" operation, i.e. covert support of jihadists using assets like Fethullah Gulen.)

A longtime acquaintance of Saipov, Mirrakhmat Muminov, told RFE/RL he was shocked at the news, but recounted "verbal run-ins" Saipov had with others in the Uzbek community, calling him "a little aggressive":

Mirrakhmat Muminov, a fellow Uzbek and permanent U.S. resident who met the 29-year-old suspect shortly after Saipov arrived in the state of Ohio in 2010, added in comments to RFE/RL that the fresh émigré was not "[very] religious" when he arrived. Saipov lived within a community of several dozen Uzbek families in Stow, Ohio, from 2011-13 and attended the local mosque "once [in] a while," Muminov said. He said he last saw Saipov about two years ago, in Ohio, although he spoke to him as recently as two months ago.
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Muminov said of the allegations that "no one understands how he became a terrorist" but speculated that Saipov might have been radicalized after moving to Florida in 2013. Muminov said Saipov appeared to have been educating himself on Islam and might have found extremist Islamic literature online.
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An ethnic Uzbek acquaintance of Saipov's in Ohio who asked not to be identified told RFE/RL's Uzbek Service on November 1 that he had had "an argument on a religious issue" several months ago with Saipov and that the latter displayed "very radical views."

"After that argument, he stopped contacting us," the source said. "We warned him over his radical views."

The same source said Saipov "seemed to be in depression," adding, "He kept everything inside him. He isolated himself from the outside world."

Retired US Army General Paul Vellely told RT that even if Saipov was a lone wolf radicalized in the States, this is still an attack in a war waged by ISIS supporters against the entire Western world. (Actually it's a war on the entire world outside of ISIS, East included.) However, even then he disagrees with the term "lone wolf":

"These are not lone wolves, they are part of being a jihad, being a warrior for Islam... The tactics they use is terrorism.

"We have to realize that this is active jihad. This is a war against the West, this is the war against the United States... This is the caliphate trying to expand, to be more powerful," Vallely said.

It's not necessary for the attacker to have been to a war zone to be indoctrinated, as they can be as easily radicalized on home turf, he added.

"We have noticed almost, I think, ten training sites in the US right now and I'm certain they are all over Europe as well," Vallely said.

Problem is, elements within the intelligence services are totally on board with "active jihad", and actively support it. FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley:

"Police are quite desperate now in trying to assure the public that they can keep them safe, but the truth is unless they really examine some of the root causes for this, which go back now decades, there's not going to be any change, we are just going to see one incident after the other, and the police authorities are going to be rather helpless in the face of it."
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"Some of those countries, for instance, Iraq, obviously, Syria, Libya was another one, some of those countries had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda, ISIS-type Islamic extremism. Some of these countries that the US had chosen to target were actually the countries that were a buffer between Al-Qaeda terrorism and were enemies of it," Rowley said.

"So you see almost everything being done wrong after 9/11, and we get to this really sad state 16 years later. Perpetual war."

See also:

• Agenda-pushing NYT columnist gets torched for tweeting gun control talking points after NYC terror attack
• New York hit-and-run suspect Sayfullo Saipov being investigated for links to terrorism (hint: they won't find any)
• NY truck attacker was interviewed by DHS 2 years ago for possible ties to terrorists
• New York vs Las Vegas attacks: Where's the call for stricter truck rental controls?
• Trump orders 'extreme vetting' escalation in response to Manhattan terrorist attack
• New York attack suspect: Who is Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov?
• Panic on school bus caught up in New York terror attack

Comment: SJW blog warns against 'culturally appropriated' Halloween costumes