REBEL NEWS: The forgotten history of Ireland: Muslim slave traders emptied an Irish village in a night in 1631 🇮🇪 More than 100 villagers were captured during the Sack of Baltimore and sold into North African slave markets as part of a wider era of Muslim raids across Europe’s coasts that have been ongoing throughout history.

The forgotten history of Ireland: Muslim slave traders emptied an Irish village in a night in 1631 🇮🇪 More than 100 villagers were captured during the Sack of Baltimore and sold into North African slave markets as part of a wider era of Muslim raids across Europe’s coasts that have been ongoing throughout history. On June 20, 1631, the small harbour village of Baltimore in County Cork, Ireland, was devastated when Muslim slave traders descended on the community and carried off its people. During the attack known as the Sack of Baltimore, men, women and children were captured by Muslim pirates operating from the Barbary Coast and transported to slave markets in Algiers. Some captives were eventually ransomed, but most disappeared into forced labour, domestic servitude or sexual slavery. The raid was part of a broader campaign of slave-taking carried out by Muslim raiders between the 16th and 19th centuries. Historians estimate that more than a million Europeans were captured in coastal attacks stretching from Ireland to Iceland and throughout the Mediterranean. The threat became significant enough that the Barbary Wars were later fought by the United States to protect its ships and citizens from the same Muslim slave raiders. Today, Baltimore has been rebuilt as a fishing and tourism village. A memorial plaque marks the tragedy, though the story remains little known outside historical circles. The past shouldn’t be weaponized or erased, and the Sack of Baltimore is a reminder that Europe’s history includes both outward conquest and vulnerability at home

— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) March 1, 2026

This book was referenced, The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates, Des Ekin, 2008.

 

SCOTT MECHKOWSKI: . . . I would suggest you re-evaluate what you think you know. “Crimmigration” is real.

John , I would suggest you re-evaluate what you think you know . “ Crimmigration” is real . I’ve followed cases throughout my career and can tell you NYCs DAs don’t work for the victims, they work for the violator’s who aren’t Citizens. You may think you know them but trust me you haven’t a clue . A two tier justice system in NYC . I would love to sit down and discuss this at length with proof . It won’t be long until you realize they hate NYPD and anything that resembles law enforcement.

— Scott Mechkowski (@ScottMechkowski) October 29, 2026

Today’s episode of “you can’t make this up” In NYC the DAs provide “Crimmigration” training to help non citizens avoid a deportation charge . @QueensDAKatz sent an email to a NYPD detective and advised him that the deal was “ Immigration Safe”…. Two sets of justice in NYC one for citizens and another for Non citizens and absolutely nothing for the VICTIMS. @ICEgov @DHSgov @USCongress_ needs to act now and stop this madness. @Phase2Deport

— Scott Mechkowski (@ScottMechkowski) October 28, 2026

MJ MURPHY: So when an idea becomes attached to a desirable identity, many people stop evaluating whether it's true. They start asking what do people like me believe?

Identity Hijacking: https://t.co/Hf6o4uZaBo

— MJ Murphy (@hothingsgirlsay) October 29, 2026

All right, breaking the spell: identity hijacking.  So one of the most powerful persuasion techniques isn't changing your argument, it's changing your identity because once your identity changes you're thinking often follows.  I call this identity hijacking.  

Here's how it works.  

Instead of asking, "Is this idea true?" the conversation quietly shifts to "What kind of person believes this?"  

Notice the difference. Notice a difference.  We are no longer debating evidence, we're debating identity.  

Suddenly you're told "a good person believes this."  

"A compassionate person says this."

"An educated person knows this."  

"Only hateful people question this."  

Do you see what happened?  The argument disappeared.  Now your reputation is on trial.  This is incredibly powerful because human beings don't just want to be right, we want to be good.  We want to be good.  We want to belong.  We want other people to think well of us.  So when an idea becomes attached to a desirable identity, many people stop evaluating whether it's true.  They start asking what do people like me believe?  This happens everywhere.  Politics, religion, marketing, corporate culture, families, social media, even friendships.  Companies don't just sell shoes, they sell identity. Political movements don't just sell policies, they sell belonging.  Activists don't simply argue ideas, many also invite you into a moral community where agreement becomes part of who you are.  Once that happens, disagreeing doesn't just feel like changing your mind, it feels like betraying yourself.  That's identity hijacking.  Instead of asking people to examine an idea, you teach them to become the kind of person who would never question it.  And once identity is attached, evidence becomes much less persuasive because facts threaten conclusions. Identity threatens belonging.  That's why identity is often the strongest force.  

The antidote is surprisingly simple.  Separate the person from the proposition.  

Ask yourself, "If someone I admired believed the opposite, would I at least examine their evidence?"  

Or, "if this idea came from someone outside my tribe, would I evaluate it differently?"  

Those questions break the spell because your identity should never become a prison.  You are not your political party.  You are not your ideology.  You are not your hashtags.  You are not your social media bio.  You are a person that is capable of changing your mind when the evidence changes, and that's a strength not a weakness.  And that's exactly why I wrote Breaking the Spell.  It's about recognizing the psychological patterns that quietly shape how we think before we even realize they're happening. 

DR. BRYTE: Dave Foley was ordered to pay his ex-wife $17,700 a month in child support. That was five times what he actually earned. If he set foot in Canada, he would be arrested at the border.

@thedrbryte The child support laws are predatory. No wonder men don’t want to get married or have kids. Even sperm donors have been chased down for support payments.

— Tim Scoles (@Drunk_on_Books) October 28, 2026

Dave Foley was ordered to pay his ex-wife $17,700 a month in child support. That was five times what he actually earned. If he set foot in Canada, he would be arrested at the border. When he asked the judge how he’d feed his daughter from his second marriage, he says the court’s answer was simple: “They can rot in hell.” In 1997, Foley was starring on NBC’s NewsRadio and making about $1 million a year. That year, he separated from his first wife, Tabatha Southey. An Ontario judge set his payments at $17,700 a month, or $212,400 a year after taxes, based on his sitcom salary. Two years later, NBC canceled the show. His income dropped by nearly 80%. He went back to court to lower the payments. The judge said no. The court ruled he had made $1 million once, so he should keep paying like he still did. His ex-wife lived in a $2.5 million house on a park in Toronto. Foley rented a small loft in downtown LA. By 2011, he owed more than $500,000 in back payments. Ontario threatened to pull his passport and issued a warrant for his arrest if he came home. In the video below, Foley explains the math: “I’m paying about five times my income every month in child support, based on a show that hasn’t been on for 12 years.” He couldn’t work in Canada again until he landed a new sitcom in 2014 and had his paychecks garnished at the source. The case for the court: a parent shouldn’t get to slash support just because their career slows down.

The case for Dave: locking a canceled actor into 1990s sitcom money under threat of prison is extortion. 

Should child support be tied to what you earn today, or the best year you ever had? 

SPYCRAFT101: In April 1953, biochemist Dr. Sydney Gottlieb was chosen to head a new program at CIA called MKUltra, exploring the use of chemical and biological agents for covert operations. The following month, he sent a man to Switzerland with a briefcase full of cash, intending to buy Sandoz’s entire supply of LSD.

A Swiss farm girl inoculated rye with ergot fungus in 1942. Once cultivated, the ergot produced the primary alkaloid compounds needed to synthesize lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz recruited farmers in the Emmental valley to deliberately infect their crops with ergot beginning in the late 1930s. Ergot was normally seen as a toxin to be destroyed on sight to prevent illness and even psychosis if it was accidentally baked into bread and consumed. But Sandoz had already brought several profitable medicines to market developed from lysergic acid and sought to ramp up their supply of ergot. Before long the Emmental farms were transformed by the new cash crop which they sold only to Sandoz. Intelligence organizations, particularly CIA, saw great potential in LSD. In April 1953, biochemist Dr. Sydney Gottleib was chosen to head a new program at CIA called MKUltra, exploring the use of chemical and biological agents for covert operations. The following month, he sent a man to Switzerland with a briefcase full of cash, intending to buy Sandoz’s entire supply of LSD. Gottlieb set up front companies all over the US and dosed unsuspecting test subjects in order to observe the results. He financed research in dozens of universities, none of whom knew their funding was coming from CIA. And at least 33 people outside the US were covertly dosed without their knowledge, all in an effort to learn how to better control and direct the human psyche. Dr. Frank Olson, a CIA bacteriologist, jumped (or was pushed) out of a high window two days after being dosed with LSD in November 1953, in an incident which is still not fully understood. Meanwhile, LSD and other psychedelics made their way into popular usage and had a radical impact on American culture for years to come. For episode 169 of the Spycraft 101 podcast, I spoke with Norman Ohler, author of Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age. We discussed the impact of LSD on culture, politics, medicine, and intelligence operations worldwide. The episode is available now. #lsd #cia #psychadelic #coldwar #mkultra https://t.co/9uNgQW5cbZ

— Spycraft101 (@spycraft101) October 28, 2026

A Swiss farm girl inoculated rye with ergot fungus in 1942. Once cultivated, the ergot produced the primary alkaloid compounds needed to synthesize lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD.

The Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz recruited farmers in the Emmental valley to deliberately infect their crops with ergot beginning in the late 1930s. Ergot was normally seen as a toxin to be destroyed on sight to prevent illness and even psychosis if it was accidentally baked into bread and consumed. But Sandoz had already brought several profitable medicines to market developed from lysergic acid and sought to ramp up their supply of ergot. Before long the Emmental farms were transformed by the new cash crop which they sold only to Sandoz.

Intelligence organizations, particularly CIA, saw great potential in LSD. In April 1953, biochemist Dr. Sydney Gottlieb was chosen to head a new program at CIA called MKUltra, exploring the use of chemical and biological agents for covert operations. The following month, he sent a man to Switzerland with a briefcase full of cash, intending to buy Sandoz’s entire supply of LSD.

Gottlieb set up front companies all over the US and dosed unsuspecting test subjects in order to observe the results. He financed research in dozens of universities, none of whom knew their funding was coming from CIA. And at least 33 people outside the US were covertly dosed without their knowledge, all in an effort to learn how to better control and direct the human psyche. Dr. Frank Olson, a CIA bacteriologist, jumped (or was pushed) out of a high window two days after being dosed with LSD in November 1953, in an incident which is still not fully understood.

Meanwhile, LSD and other psychedelics made their way into popular usage and had a radical impact on American culture for years to come.

For episode 169 of the Spycraft 101 podcast, I spoke with Norman Ohler, author of Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age. We discussed the impact of LSD on culture, politics, medicine, and intelligence operations worldwide. The episode is available now.

"#169: MKUltra and the Real Mind-Altering Potential of Psychedelics with Norman Ohler," Spotify, October 14, 2024.https://

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