Woman assaulted by double murderer says nightmare became 'real life' when police let him attack again
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjlwlkw1m4o

INTRO: A woman who was attacked by double murderer Simon Levy eight years ago has told the BBC the police made her nightmare "real life" by letting him go on to kill and attack more women. Laura, whose surname we are not using, said she had been trying to protect other women by reporting Levy in 2018, but feels betrayed by what he was later allowed to do after being released from jail.

Levy was convicted on Friday of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins and raping another woman in London in 2025. He will be sentenced on Wednesday. He was also convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting 11 other women, 10 of them on trains and the Tube in London between 2023 and 2025.

Police, prosecutors and the courts made a series of disastrous decisions that left Levy free. He went on to attack 14 more women before being taken off the streets, despite being a sex offender who was monitored by the Met Police.

Levy was a registered sex offender because he sexually assaulted Laura – and a separate victim - in summer 2018.

Laura says that Levy is "evil" and that his attack "completely changed my life". But she now realises that what she would "think about, dream about, have nightmares about was actually happening - he was actually still out preying on vulnerable women".

Waiving her anonymity, she said she had been trying to protect other women by ensuring that Levy was jailed. "I feel like when I reported it, I was doing the right thing and I thought I was doing it to protect other women. I feel absolutely devastated for all of those women that have been affected by him – and the families."

Laura says she feels let down by the whole criminal justice system including the Met Police, the courts and judges who bailed Levy, as well as the Crown Prosecution Service... (MORE - details)

Not a danger because he only had one eye ... https://youtu.be/U9M7SRz-vPo

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/U9M7SRz-vPo

An existentialist fable wrapped up in a surreal nightmarish scenario? I'll wait for streaming..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFszhQLMNXU

Question: "Anyone who has studied physics will quickly see how fantastically successful mathematics is at describing the universe. The famous physicist Richard Feynman said in his book "the character of physical law" (pg.39):

'But what turns out to be true is that the more we investigate, the more laws we find, and the deeper we penetrate nature, the more this disease persists. Every one of our laws is a purely mathematical statement in rather complex and abstruse mathematics... It gets more and more abstruse and more and more difficult as we go on. Why? I have not the slightest idea...'

What does this imply about the nature of reality? And what can we say about this increasing complexity as we penetrate deeper?"

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/que...e-universe

It seems to me that mathematics only works in physics to the degree that it formulates law-like predictable events in the universe based on its description of abstract quantitatively-interrelated patterns. But that's it. It doesn't apply to any sorts of events or aspects of reality that doesn't conform to some generalizable pattern of happening. It's like a map, which only represents the territory in terms of roads and cities and states and the distances between them but doesn't represent the territory in terms of its varying terrain or any of its geological or botanical or topographical features. For that we have travel brochures. Trying to understand reality based solely on mathematics is thus like trying to figure out who a person was based only on their skeleton:

"Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural one; the explanation a kind of sham corbel that supports nothing."— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

This is real. I can personally vouch for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RriAr2AuU

Some pretty good stuff here.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2139296046648857

Account of black triangle over Afghanistan:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1082875558025467

Pretty amazing. Don't know what this could be if we rule out AI:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1074198688457250

And other DSA sympathizers are irritated that those below are now laughing and smiling about Woke 1.0, because those are items that they take seriously.
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Democrats like AOC are trying to shrug off their ‘woke’ era. That’s bad for our politics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/politics/...-democrats

INTRO: Democrats would very much like to figure out how to explain away some of the far-left things they said circa 2019 and 2020 — a period often referred to as “peak woke,” “woke 1.0” or “woke 1.” Kamala Harris struggled with this during her 2024 presidential campaign (think: some transgender policies), and now it looms over some key 2026 races.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday offered a prescription: Laugh it off. “I have a local city councilman that has this saying: ‘Woke 1 was crazy,’” the New York congresswoman said on ABC’s “This Week,” before laughing.

Ocasio-Cortez, who once supported defunding the police, went on to suggest Covid had expanded the range of acceptable political discourse. But she said that it’s “not rhetoric that we would use today.”

This might be a politically deft explanation for Ocasio-Cortez and her ilk. But it’s a bad one for the body politic. It continues a troubling trend of major politicians asking Americans not to take the things they say — or more specifically, that they once said — at face value. It’s a perfect recipe for a continued decline in honesty and accountability.

Ocasio-Cortez was quoting New York City Council Member Chi Ossé. Back in May, he responded to a critic who unearthed a 2021 comment of his by saying simply, “Woke 1 was crazyyyy.”

The same week, former Biden White House aide Yemisi Egbewole credited Texas Senate candidate James Talarico for distancing himself from his past woke comments. “Peak woke got weird. It’s okay to say that!” Egbewole said.

And this weekend, perhaps the one 2026 Democratic candidate with the biggest “peak woke” problem echoed Ocasio-Cortez’s comment.

Francesca Hong is the favorite in Tuesday’s Wisconsin gubernatorial primary, but her past statements about abolishing police and canceling Thanksgiving, among others, have a lot of Democrats freaked out about her potential nomination. (MORE - details)

Small boat carrying record 230 migrants crosses English Channel to UK
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/small-bo...uk/4023035

INTRO: A small boat carrying 230 people crossed the English Channel to the UK over the weekend, setting a record for the number of people making the crossing in a single vessel, local media reported Monday. The boat arrived in the UK on Saturday, surpassing the previous record set in July, when 165 people crossed the Channel in a single vessel, the BBC reported.

The Home Office confirmed that a total of 258 migrants aboard four boats crossed the Channel to the UK on Saturday. A Home Office spokesperson told the BBC that this latest incident demonstrated the "reckless and dangerous tactics employed by criminal gangs ... who continue to put lives at risk by cramming ever greater numbers of people onto unseaworthy vessels."

Despite the record number aboard the single vessel, overall Channel crossings have declined this year. Nearly 14,820 people have reached the UK by small boat so far, according to provisional Home Office data cited by the BBC, representing a 43% drop year on year and a 16% decline compared with the same time in 2024.

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Young male migrants are tearing apart the fabric of our villages and towns
https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article...EHSAN.html

EXCERPTS: We’ve become used to referring to the endless flow of illegal migrants arriving on our shores as the ‘small boats’ crisis. But the truth is that, these days, they are anything but. One mega craft that made landfall in the early hours of yesterday was carrying no fewer than 230 people, the largest number to make the journey in a single vessel.

That’s the equivalent of more than 20 football teams. If they all lived in one place, we’d be forced to describe it as a village rather than a hamlet. Andy Burnham may claim that Labour’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats is ‘working’, but if there was ever a symbol of the Government’s abject failure to get a grip on the migrant issue, this was it.

Our new Prime Minister feels most content in the comfort zone of his ‘bring back hope’ campaign – propagating feel-good policies to address the cost of living, the health and social care crisis and devolution. But the reality is that the small-boats crisis has been hugely disruptive of local civic life the length and breadth of the country.

The recent disturbances in the Norfolk town of Thetford are only the latest example of what happens when you put large numbers of usually single, young males from countries such as Afghanistan, Eritrea and Sudan, into areas which are ethnically, religiously and culturally homogenous.

[...] Some claim that it’s possible to deter migrants without leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by cutting migrant benefits, deporting foreign criminals and forcing illegals to live in reception centres. Australia is a poster boy for this sort of hardheaded approach. Under its Operation Sovereign Borders policy launched in 2013, migrant boats were intercepted and either returned to where they had travelled from or their occupants taken to detention centres on islands such as Papua New Guinea off Australia’s northern coast or the Pacific island of Nauru.

Within a year, illegal immigration by boat had fallen to zero. But the lesson of recent years is that attempts to introduce such measures in the UK are invariably thwarted by our brigades of human rights lawyers, who launch actions citing the rights granted to migrants by the European Convention on Human Rights.

The only effective answer is for us to leave the ECHR, end our self-defeating policy of offering legal aid to migrants and return them to their country of origin. As Australia has shown, the effect of such an approach can be almost immediate. The sad thing is that I don’t for one second think that Mr Burnham has the mettle to go down such a path... (MORE - missing details)