Zohran Mamdani's Good Family

 Extended Family,

  Many of us have become curious about who Zohran Mamdani is as a human being, and where his 34 years of life have carried him, and what company he has kept in that time.  The basic facts are readily available, and Wikipedia has biographies of his academic Anthropologist/Historian father and movie-director mother, who are Muslim and Hindu members of the Indian diaspora. His wife is a Muslim US-born Syrian from Houston. All of them share a core anti-colonialist value system.

  Zohran's work in public service appears to have been sincere public service to the poor. He has considered himself privileged, as he "never wanted for anything".

​  What does a ‘socialist’ in charge of New York really mean?​  (Thanks Wiggs.)
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is hated both by Republicans and his own fellow Democrats because he wants to bring change. But can he?

​  What makes Mamdani’s victory significant is that he is a self-styled “democratic socialist” who was elected mayor without being endorsed by the Democratic Party leadership – most of whom, including Chuck Schumer, minority Senate leader from New York, refused to endorse him at all.
  Mamdani is an intelligent, 34-year-old Muslim of Indian heritage who was born in Uganda. His father is a prominent black studies academic and his mother is an acclaimed filmmaker.
  Mamdani, a former celebrity rapper, social worker and state assemblyman, ran on a left-wing populist program that focused almost exclusively on alleviating cost-of-living pressures for ordinary New Yorkers – especially young New Yorkers. He promised to deliver rent freezes, free public transport, free childcare, city-owned grocery stores and universal health care. He also promised to build 200,000 affordable new houses with union labor.
​  Whether Mamdani can actually implement this program is by no means clear – New York city is $5 billion in debt, and the New York state government and governor can severely limit what a New York mayor can do.
​  Mamdami is a strong critic of America’s support for the Netanyahu and Zelensky regimes, and has stated explicitly that he would fund his reforms by increasing taxes on New-York-based large corporations and the ultra-rich that control them.
​  Mamdani’s program is a pragmatic social democratic one – that contrasts starkly with the MAGA populist agenda, which is based on magical thinking, demonizing America’s supposed internal enemies and leaving America’s economic structure and widening inequalities of wealth completely intact.​..

​..Some left-wing commentators – as does Mamdani himself – have seen Mamdani’s rapid political ascendency as the harbinger of a radical transformation of the Democratic Party – into a party that is, as it once was, focused on representing the traditional working class and other groups in American society that have been economically pauperized and culturally alienated by globalization.
​  Right-wing commentators have branded Mumdani a “communist,” “terrorist sympathiser” and anti-Semite, and see him as a dangerous threat to American society.
​  Both of these views are, however, fundamentally mistaken. Mandami is a perculiarly New York phenomenon.​   https://www.rt.com/news/627430-new-york-mayor-socialist/

​  Anti-Zionism: The Debate That Changed Everything
The defining moment of the campaign arrived in early June, when Mamdani’s debate performance electrified the city.  He articulated his anti-Zionist position — opposition to the political ideology of Zionism’s influence on U.S. foreign policy, not opposition to Israel or to Jewish identity — with unusual moral clarity. By separating criticism of a state from prejudice against a people, Mamdani broke a political taboo and invited honest debate.

​  That distinction resonated widely, even among segments of New York’s Jewish community, including the Hasidic voters, who saw in him a man of principle rather than opportunism. The debate redefined him overnight — from activist to statesman — and his commanding victory in the June Democratic primary confirmed that a new political language had found its audience.​   https://www.defenddemocracy.press/zohran-mamdani-and-the-revolt-against-the-neo-feudal-order/

​  Wikipedia: Zohran Kwame Mamdani[c] (born October 18, 1991) is an American politician who is the current mayor-elect of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, he has served as a member of the New York State Assembly from the 36th district since 2021, representing the Queens neighborhood of Astoria.
  Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair, both of whom are of Indian descent. The family moved to Cape Town, South Africa, when Mamdani was five years old. When he was seven, they moved to the United States, settling in New York City. Mamdani graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He received a bachelor's degree with a major in Africana studies from Bowdoin College in Maine in 2014.
  After working as a housing counselor and musician, Mamdani entered local New York City politics as a campaign manager for Khader El-Yateem and Ross Barkan. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020, defeating five-term incumbent Aravella Simotas in the Democratic primary. Representing Astoria, Queens, he was reelected without opposition in 2022 and 2024.
  In October 2024, Mamdani announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City in the 2025 election. In June 2025, Mamdani won the Democratic primary in an upset victory over Andrew Cuomo, former governor of the state. He was elected mayor in the November 4 general election against Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, with 50.4% of the vote.
  Mamdani campaigned on an affordability-focused platform in support of fare-free city buses, universal public child care, city-owned grocery stores, a rent freeze on rent-stabilized units, additional affordable housing units, and a $30 minimum wage by 2030; he additionally expressed support for LGBTQ rights, comprehensive public safety reform, and tax increases on corporations and those earning above $1 million annually...

​..The family moved to the United States and settled in New York City when Mamdani was seven, and he was raised in Morningside Heights.​ He has described his upbringing as "privileged", saying, "I never had to want for something, and yet I knew that was not in any way the reality for most New Yorkers."​ As a child, he was often present on his mother's film sets.​..

..Before running for office, Mamdani worked as a foreclosure prevention and housing counselor. There, he assisted lower-income immigrant homeowners in Queens with eviction notices and efforts to remain in their homes. He said the experience motivated him to run for office to address the housing and affordability crisis.​   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani

​  Wikipedia: Rama Sawaf Duwaji (Arabic: راما صواف دوجي; born June 30, 1997) is an American animator, illustrator, and ceramist. Throughout her career, her illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker and The Washington Post, as well as at BBC, Apple, and Tate Modern.

​  Married to politician Zohran Mamdani, who was elected mayor of New York City in the 2025 election, Duwaji will assume the role of First Lady of New York City on January 1, 2026.
​  Rama Sawaf Duwaji​ was born on June 30, 1997​ in Houston, Texas, to Syrian Muslim parents from Damascus. Her father is a software developer and her mother is a doctor.​ The family moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when she was nine years old,​ and she spent the remainder of her childhood living among the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.​..
..Duwaji's illustrations often explore Arab culture and focus on social justice in the Middle East, particularly women's rights,​ but also depict scenes of daily life in those countries.​   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_Duwaji

​  Wikipedia: (serious academic) Mahmood Mamdani FBA (born 23 April 1946) is a Ugandan anthropologist, academic, and political commentator. As of November 2025 he is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies at Columbia University. He also serves as the chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda, and honorary professor at the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
  He was previously the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) in Kampala, Uganda, from 2010 until 2022. Mamdani specialises in the study of African and international politics, colonialism and post‐colonialism, and the politics of knowledge production. He is married to filmmaker Mira Nair. He and Nair are the parents of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmood_Mamdani

  Wikipedia:  Mira Nair (IAST: Mīrā Nāyar; born October 15, 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker. She is known for directing independent dramas through her production company Mirabai Films. She has received two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival and four prizes from the Venice Film Festival as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards and two César Awards. Her films have also received two Academy Award nominations.
  Nair made her feature film debut directing the drama film Salaam Bombay! (1988), which received nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best International Feature Film. Her next film was the romantic drama Mississippi Masala (1991), for which she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film.
  She directed the comedy-drama Monsoon Wedding (2001), which won the Golden Lion at the 58th Venice International Film Festival; it was also nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best International Feature Film.
  She is the mother of Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City...

​..Mira Nair was born on October 15, 1957,​ in Rourkela, Orissa (now Odisha), India,​ the youngest of three children, and the only girl.
​  Her father, Amrit Lal Nair, was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, and her mother, Praveen Nair, was a social worker.​ Her family is of Punjabi origin with roots in Delhi, and are Hindu...

​..In July 2013, Nair declined an invitation to the Haifa International Film Festival as a "guest of honor" to protest Israel's policies toward Palestine.​ In posts on Twitter, Nair wrote: "I will go to Israel when the walls come down. I will go to Israel when occupation is gone...I will go to Israel when the state does not privilege one religion over another. I will go to Israel when Apartheid is over. I stand w/ Palestine for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) & the larger BDS Mov't."​   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Nair

​  What if mothers could raise their own children at home​ again?  Democrats’ NY mayor will shake things up starting with child care
Mamdani’s promises on rent, transportation, groceries also resonated with New Yorkers struggling with the high cost of living​   https://asiatimes.com/2025/11/democrats-ny-mayor-will-shake-things-up-starting-with-child-care/

​  Zohran Mamdani plans to revamp how the NYPD operates. Here's a look at his proposed Department of Community Safety.

​  Following his resounding victory on Tuesday night, all eyes will now be on how he tries to make good on many of his policy proposals, including potentially spending $1 billion on a Department of Community Safety, which he says would give civilians some of the responsibilities currently handled by police officers.
​  The centerpiece of the projected winner's public safety plan relies on mental health workers responding, before the NYPD, to certain situations involving emotionally disturbed individuals -- like some homeless people on the subways.​   https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-department-of-community-safety/

​  Mamdani can't run for POTUS: Marjorie Taylor Greene tells allies she's running for president in 2028 as firebrand reinvention gains momentum   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15262753/marjorie-taylor-greene-run-president.html

Family Man (took this picture of Jenny with November tomatoes and confused pear tree)

Breakfast At Mamdani's

 Populist Reformers,

  Surplus Energy Economics, How Wealth Dies, The Notional Value Trap

Just as growth in the “real” economy of material products and services has been decelerating towards contraction, so aggregates of financial wealth have carried on increasing relentlessly.
  Since the widening disequilibrium between the monetary and the material must eventually crash the financial system, the probability is that notional wealth will reach its peak at the same moment at which the monetary system collapses.
  We can see this unfolding effect in microcosm in the United Kingdom, where the most recent official calculation put national “net worth” at a near-record £12.2 trillion, or 450% of GDP. Yet you don’t need SEEDS analysis to know that the British economy itself is at an advanced stage of disintegration...

..What we have been exploring here is a paradox that is no paradox at all. The world will keep setting new wealth records until the financial system collapses.
  Investors have lived with supportive intervention from the authorities ever since 1987, which means that very few of them have ever experienced anything else. Throughout this period – and certainly since official support became explicit in 2008 – the “momentum trade” has been the only game in town. It’s been like gambling in a casino where the house stacks the deck in favour of the punter.
  So ingrained has this thinking become that there are likely to be many still determined to “buy the dip” even as the financial system goes finally into the blender. This, in short, is why wealth is destined to collapse – swiftly, not gradually – from an all-time peak.
  Our necessary insight here is that, since any value contained in money exists only as a “claim” on a material economy that is now contracting, there must come a point of fatal disequilibrium between claim and substance.
  The sheer scale and complexity of the aggregates of claim stock are now so extreme that the authorities will be powerless to backstop the next big crash.
It’s scant consolation to know that these enormous aggregates never, in any meaningful sense, actually existed in the first place.
  Thus understood, it might not seem to matter all that much if aggregate (and individual) values collapse. Your house, for instance, will still fulfil its essential function of providing somewhere to live, even if its supposed value slumps from $1m to $200k. Even if you’d decided to sell at the highest price, buying a replacement would have been equally costly.
  But this comfort only applies if you hadn’t used the property as security for a large mortgage.
  And the financial system as a whole has done exactly that. The entirety of the system is enormously cross-collateralized, and this is where the destruction of “meaningless” aggregate asset values becomes enormously meaningful.   https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/314-how-wealth-dies/#like-45377

  Henry Ford infuriated other large industrial capitalist by paying his workers 3 times as much, so they could buy the products they made. 

"Fordist Capitalism" turned out to be very good for the industrial economy. What might be the opposite of that these days?

  One Little "K"... And The End of America

It’s a long-term view of job openings (blue) vs the S&P 500 (black). The dotted line shows when ChatGPT launched in November of 2022.   

  As you can see, historically job openings and the stock market have moved in parallel. When the economy was good, both metrics moved up. When it was bad, they fell.
  But in November of 2022, this relationship snapped like a twig. That’s when OpenAI released its groundbreaking ChatGPT app.
Ever since, job openings have plummeted while the S&P 500 soared to new highs.
  AI has simultaneously caused a stock bubble and cratered job openings...
..Entry-level positions are especially vulnerable to AI, but it’s disrupting the entire white collar job market.    https://dailyreckoning.com/one-little-k-and-the-end-of-america/

‘Godfather of AI’ says tech giants can’t profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced   https://fortune.com/2025/11/01/geoffrey-hinton-godfather-of-ai-investment-tech-company-profits-human-labor-replacement/

  Tokenization: BlackRock's Larry Fink Says 'We're At The Beginning Of The Tokenization Of All Assets,' Promotes Necessity Of Digital ID To Form A Social Credit Score
  "Small merchants who rely more on cashless payments with detailed and traceable paper trails get better access to working-capital loans. In effect, digital footprints are the new credit scores."   https://thewinepress.substack.com/p/tokenization-blackrocks-larry-fink

Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them   https://theconversation.com/private-equity-firms-are-snapping-up-mobile-home-parks-and-driving-out-the-residents-who-can-least-afford-to-lose-them-264456

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/wealth-billionaires-increase-trump

  The Honest Sorcerer on UAE's best case scenario for solar in the equatorial desert with battery back-up. The Emirates Shows Us How Not To Build Solar

Implications of the U.A.E.'s solar megaproject, and how solar could still help

  The Emirates has recently commenced construction on a $6 billion solar project, combining a 5.2 GW solar plant with a 19 GWh battery storage. The system aims to provide one gigawatt of continuous, “renewable” energy on a 24/7 basis. But why does one need to store so much electricity in one of the sunniest regions of the world to do that? And what does this tell us about the rest of the planet trying to switch to wind and solar? ...

..The batteries would have supply the electric grid 19 hours a day on average, and then would have to be fully recharged in 5 hours, when the sun is at its highest. (Which by the way corresponds to the average peak sun hours in the UAE at 5 hours and 50 minutes a day). The solar panels would then need to play a dual role during these five peak hours: besides delivering power to the grid (at a rate of 1 GWh), they would have to charge the battery cells using the remaining 4 GW of their rated capacity...

..This little exercise ... shines a light on a rarely discussed metric when talking about power generation: the capacity factor; or the ratio of actual electrical energy output over a given period of time to the theoretical maximum electrical energy output over that same period...

..Solar can only deliver less than a quarter of it’s rated capacity on an annual basis; even in the middle of the sunniest of deserts...

..Germany’s dismal geographic location thus yields a capacity factor of 11% for solar on an annual basis. Practically speaking you would need to buy PV panels with ten times the nameplate capacity — compared to what you actually need — and we haven’t even talked about battery storage…

..Pumped hydro, hydrogen etc., while theoretically being much better options than Li-ion for long term storage, are also not available at such a scale. For reference Germany produces 500,000 GWh of electricity a year, while battery storage is slated to reach 3 GWh by the end of this year...

..The shut-down of hard coal due to the depletion of Germany’s once rich reserves and the banning of cheap imports, combined with the dismantling of nuclear power plants, could not be compensated by wind and solar...

..Realizing a return on investment in a 24/7 solar plus battery project is highly unlikely without resorting to heavy government subsidies...

..The cost of wind turbines, solar panels and battery cells now seem to have reached their minimum, and rely on one major supplier, China. As energy and raw materials become scarcer, and geopolitical tension grows, costs can be expected to rise in the years and decades ahead...

..Moving away from a grid supported and stabilized by fossil fuel use seems highly unlikely. As fossil fuel supply becomes scarcer still, grids relying heavily on “renewables” can be expected to experience frequent blackouts and power rationing...

..Gulf states already experience limitations in oil production and clearly see that demand might soon outstrip supply, as world oil output peaks then rolls over. Hence the recent multi-billion surge in solar investment to free up as much oil for export as possible...

..There are so many things which are possible using the power of the Sun, but running a 24/7 high consumption lifestyle, unfortunately, is not one of those...   https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-emirates-shows-us-how-not-to

  Martin Armstrong, US Manufacturing Declines for Eighth Consecutive Month

Tariffs may be harming new orders and exports, but US manufacturing has been on the downswing far longer than April 2025. There are deeper structural forces at play from regulatory burdens to high corporate taxes and supply chain stress, but most notably, other countries are not interested in buying. Everyone is grappling with their own debt burdens and the global economy, not merely the US, has been contracting overall.
  Manufacturing is not driving the US economy. The current administration has been keen on expanding the sector but orders are down and this has proven to be more than a temporary drop. Capital is fleeing to non-traditional assets as confidence in the established economic framework continues to decline.   https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/us-manufacturing-declines-for-eight-consecutive-month/

  Schumer Rejects Shutdown Solution For 14th Time As Dems Block Bill Yet Again  [Take good care of your own health, please.]

  During a speech on the Senate floor, Schumer blamed Republicans for refusing to maintain pandemic-era Obamacare enhancements that were always meant to be temporary. Remember this next time a Democrat says something is temporary...
  "The only plan Republicans have for healthcare seems to be to eliminate it, and then to tell working people to go figure it out on their own," said Schumer. "That's not a healthcare plan. That's cruel."
  That said, some Senate Democrats - 6 or so according to Fox News, are meeting behind closed doors to find a way out.   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-demands-nuclear-option-warns-dems-will-win-midterms-next-election-if-filibuster-not

  Schumer And Jeffries Demand Meeting With Trump To End Record Gov't Shutdown

"We write to demand a bipartisan meeting of legislative leaders to end the GOP shutdown of the federal government and decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis. Democrats stand ready to meet with you face to face, anytime and anyplace," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote.   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-weigh-ending-record-shutdown-conveniently-after-socialist-wins-nyc-mayoral-race

Trump vows the US will NOT pay ANY SNAP benefits during the government shutdown   https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/11/trump-vows-the-us-will-not-pay-any-snap-benefits-during-the-government-shutdown/

  Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City in a Youthquake, November 5, 2025 , Nat Wilson Turner

Mamdani is the Mayor-Elect of New York City, having won a majority of the vote in a three way race against Republican Curtis Sliwa and former governor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary...

,,Record Setting Turnout, Youthquake Powered Mamdani... More than two million New Yorkers cast their ballots. That figure was almost double the 1,100,000 people who voted for mayor four years ago. In some areas of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, participation approached presidential election levels...  Early vote numbers were enormous...

..He reiterated some key campaign promises

  "We will hire thousands more teachers. We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy. We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered."

  "Safety and justice will go hand in hand as we work with police officers to reduce crime and create a Department of Community Safety that tackles the mental health crisis and homelessness crises head on."

  He also addressed the spurious charges of anti-Semitism that have been relentlessly hurled at him by zionists throughout the race and his status as a Muslim New Yorker:                                                                                                                                                                                                           "We will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism. Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong — not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power. No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election."...  "I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."
  And he closed with a reiteration of his key promises in a call and response with his supporters:
  "Together, New York, we’re going to freeze the… [rent!] Together, New York, we’re going to make buses fast and… [free!] Together, New York, we’re going to deliver universal… [child care!]"...                                                                                                                                                                                ..Mamdani also commented on the massive oligarch-funded campaign against him and issued a challenge in his victory speech ..."The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long-broken system. We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore. They can play by the same rules as the rest of us."...                                                                                                                                                                                                 ..Despite running as an independent, Cuomo represented the Democratic party establishment, AIPAC, the oligarchy, and POTUS Donald Trump, who endorsed Cuomo in the final days of the race...                                                                                                                                                                                 ..The single issue that Mamdani’s opponents and critics fixated on—his longstanding support for Palestinian self-determination—only served to distinguish him from a Democratic establishment many distrusted. He held true to his beliefs, but perhaps he also saw which way the wind was blowing:   Democratic voters’ views on Israel have shifted dramatically over the last two years, but their leaders’ haven’t. That some prominent Democrats lodged baseless accusations of antisemitism against him—or even dabbled in Islamophobia over his Muslim beliefs—only served to remind voters that he represented a clean break from the party’s leaders....                                                                                                                                                               ..Mamdani explicitly called out President Trump in his victory speech:
  "if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.
  This is not only how we stop Trump; it’s how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up." ... For his part, Trump chose to make excuses for the GOP losses around the country rather than confronting Mamdani...                              
..Perhaps Trump was reluctant to attack Mamdani because he saw that the Mayor-elect cut right into the demographics that put Trump over the top in 2024 majorities: young men and ethnic minorities...                                                                                                                                                                      ..Now Mamdani Will Have to Deliver                                                                                                                                                                                            Those readers who are having painful flashbacks to the “Hope and Change” of 2008 and burn at the memory of Obama’s failure to deliver anything resembling positive change are right to worry.                                                                                                                                                      Ominously, the big BO himself is promising to be in Mamdani’s ear as a “sounding board” following one of two phone calls he placed to Mamdani during the campaign.   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/zohran-mamdani-youthquake-new-york-cuomo-trump-democrats.html

​  Thread-the-needle with nationally-important negotiations: Jewish groups issue post-election warning to Mamdani as he prepares to lead New York City

The UJA-Federation of New York, JCRC-NY, ADL New York/New Jersey, AJC New York and the New York Board of Rabbis issued a joint statement after Mamdani's victory in the high-stakes race.
​  "New Yorkers have spoken, electing Zohran Mamdani as the next Mayor of New York City. We recognize that voters are animated by a range of issues, but we cannot ignore that the Mayor-elect holds core beliefs fundamentally at odds with our community’s deepest convictions and most cherished values," the statement said.​   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jewish-groups-issue-post-election-warning-mamdani-he-prepares-lead-new-york-city

​  Mayor Eric Adams posted a brief video message Tuesday night, accepting the results of the election.
“I want to say congratulations to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani," he said, wearing a white shirt and sporting a serious face as he congratulated his successor.
​  Mamdani’s win marks the beginning of the end of Adams' one term.​ By Wednesday morning, the 110th mayor was already in transition mode.
​  “I wanted [Andrew] Cuomo to win? Yes, but he’s the pilot now. And all of my criticisms, all of my dislikes of his policies, all things the [Democratic Socialists of America] has done, to me that’s not significant now. He's the mayor now. Any mayor is going to get my 100% support because New York can’t fail," he told reporters.
​  But Adams said he’s not done yet.
On Wednesday morning, he offered 2,900 city employees, who were terminated for not getting COVID-19 vaccinations, their jobs back.​..
​..With the closing of Adams' chapter also comes the mass exodus of top officials.​   https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/11/06/mayor-adams-mamdani-win-end-of-term

​Lots of work to do right away: Mamdani’s Real Fight Has Just Begun - He won the election. Now he'll need to overcome these political challenges.   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/06/mamdanis-real-fight-has-just-begun-00639466

​  Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team as he prepares for New York mayoralty
Team includes Lina Khan, the FTC commissioner under Biden, and other Democratic former city officials

​  The selection of Khan, who gained national prominence for her aggressive antitrust enforcement at the FTC under Joe Biden and is admired by both progressives and populist Republicans, signals Mamdani’s intention to bring bold reformers into his administration as he prepares to lead the nation’s largest city.​   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-transition-team

Poll: 52% of voters want Biden admin. officials prosecuted for autopen use   https://www.oann.com/newsroom/poll-52-of-voters-want-biden-admin-officials-prosecuted-for-autopen-use/

​  Hal Turner exposes the huge NATO weapons cache Russia has captured in Pokrovsk, and the NATO "advisors" trapped there: 

Russians Grab Half a BILLION in NATO Military Gear, Ukraine Now Desperate

​  Russian Army troops have grabbed large stocks of NATO equipment and military property worth about half a billion dollars remain in the area of Ukrainian city of ​Pokrovsk, which the AFU did not have time to take out of the city.​

​  "In Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and Dimitrov (Myrnograd), large stocks of NATO equipment and military property worth about half a billion dollars remain, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not have time to take out of the city, said reserve lieutenant colonel Oleg Ivannikov.
​  Ivannikov said that in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad there are warehouses with NATO machinery and special equipment with a total value of about $ 500 million.
According to him, it is for this reason that Volodymyr Zelensky does not allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to surrender these cities, despite the difficult situation at the front.
​  Ivannikov added that the surrender of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad would put the position of the Ukrainian leadership at risk, since the West would not forgive the loss of NATO's strategic reserves...

​..Earlier, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian troops, Alexander Syrsky, announced his intention to unblock Krasnoarmeysk in seven days and ordered to hold positions.
​  The Russian Armed Forces have already stopped an attempt to land a new group of GUR troops in Krasnoarmeysk. Russian servicemen also destroyed another group of 11 people of the GUR landing force, landed from a helicopter near Krasnoarmeysk.
​  Those 11 people and two US-Supplied Blackhawk Helicopters were destroyed during what is described as a "Hot Extraction" operation.  They were sent to evacuate ACTIVE DUTY NATO TROOPS allegedly from the U.S> Delta Force, accompanied by other active duty NATO member military forces.
​  Russia has already encircled these forces.  If the Russians are able to capture (or kill) active-duty NATO member country troops, taking-up arms on the battle field, this will be the definitive proof Russia needs to show the world that the U.S. and NATO themselves are, in fact, "at war" with Russia.
​  Capturing or killing such active-duty forces would be a Casus Beli for Russia - cause for war - with the US and NATO.
​  So desperate is NATO to evacuate these troops, they sent two Blackhawk Helicopters - previously gifted to Ukraine - to try to hot-extract the troops from an active combat zone.   Both helicopters landed, and were destroyed y the Russians.   The extraction didn't take place.
​  Now, the race is on to see if NATO can get their troops out before Russia captures or kills them; thereby making the Ukraine war, an actual war with NATO.
The West is, as you might guess, desperate to avoid BEING CAUGHT in direct war with Russia.​   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/russians-grab-half-a-billion-in-nato-military-gear-ukraine-now-desperate

​  The west is preparing a nuclear false flag attack on Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to stop Russia's accellerated battlefield advances, a new Chernobyl:    ​ Оn the Verge of New Disaster​ - Shakhove Counteroffensive Bears First Fruit​ - Military Summary 2025.11.6​   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuZR1nQT6ic

​  Andrew Korybko on Federalizing EU Finance: What’s The Real Reason Why The Economist Wants Europe To Spend $400 Billion More On Ukraine?

Federalizing the EU, not the political fantasy of defeating Russia, is the real goal, which requires another four years of proxy warfare and at least another $400 billion to complete.
​  The Economist argued that the EU and the UK should meet Ukraine’s estimated $390 billion financing needs over the next four years. In their words, “Another half-decade of [Russia’s supposedly worsening economic-financial situation] would probably trigger an economic and banking crisis in Russia”, while “Any long-term financing solution for Ukraine would help Europe build the financial and industrial muscle it needs to defend itself.”​   https://korybko.substack.com/p/whats-the-real-reason-why-the-economist

  Andrew Korybko, France’s Plans To Deploy Troops To Ukraine Risk Sparking A Major Crisis

Putin must decide whether to reach a deal with Trump over this for escalation-management purposes or climb the escalation ladder by authorizing strikes against those troops if they deploy there.
​  Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported that France is plotting to deploy up to 2,000 soldiers, the core of which will be Latino assault troops from the Foreign Legion who are presently undergoing intensive training in Poland, to Central Ukraine in the near future. This follows Chief of Staff of the French Army Pierre Schill declaring that his country will be ready to deploy troops to Ukraine next year as part of “security guarantees”. Putin earlier warned that any foreign troops there would be legitimate targets.
​  Nevertheless, SVR reported in late September that “the first group of career military personnel from France and the United Kingdom has already arrived in Odessa”, yet no crisis followed.​    https://korybko.substack.com/p/frances-plans-to-deploy-troops-to

Kyiv has issued an ultimatum to the EU: if you don't give us Russian money, we'll stop maintaining the front.​   https://en.topcor.ru/65694-kiev-postavil-ultimatum-es-ne-dadite-rossijskih-deneg-prekratim-derzhat-front.html

Germany Reconfirms Decision Not to Send Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missiles to Ukraine​   https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Germany-Reconfirms-Decision-Not-to-Send-Taurus-KEPD-350-cruise-missiles-to-Ukraine/

​6 coastal cities at once - Negotiate!: Russia Launches "Khabarovsk" Nuclear Submarine to Carry Six Poseidon Drone System​   https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Russia-Launches-Khabarovsk-Nuclear-Submarine-to-Carry-Six-Poseidon-Drone-System/#google_vignette

​  Negotiating? We have enough nukes to blow up the world 150 times – Trump
The US president has reiterated a nuclear testing threat while calling for global denuclearization​   https://www.rt.com/news/627303-trump-nuclear-weapon-testing/

​  Negotiating-position? Ukraine-Russia war latest: Bulgaria to seize Russian refinery after Putin issues nuclear weapons test order
Burgas refinery is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria and was a vital party of Lukoil's foreign business empire​   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-trump-putin-nuclear-weapons-pokrovsk-latest-news-b2859596.html

Russia 'Closely Monitoring' Venezuela Crisis As US Builds Up 16,000 Troops Off Coast​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-closely-monitoring-venezuela-crisis-us-builds-16000-troops-coast

Trump Considering Menu Of Venezuela Attack Options, Including Oil-Field Seizures​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-considering-menu-venezuela-attack-options-including-oil-field-seizures

​   Moscow Just Gave Venezuela Air Defenses, Not Ruling Out Strike Missiles: Russian Official

Pantsir-S1 and Buk-M2E systems were recently delivered to Caracas by Il-76 transport aircraft, a Russian lawmaker claims.​   https://www.twz.com/news-features/moscow-just-gave-venezuela-air-defenses-not-ruling-out-strike-missiles-russian-official

​  Russia is ready to supply hypersonic missiles to Venezuela

​Alexei Zhuravlyov, the deputy chairman of Russia’s parliamentary defence committee, warned that “the Americans may be in for some surprises” as he opened the door to a weapons transfer to Venezuela.
​  “I see no obstacles to supplying a friendly country with new developments such as the Oreshnik or, let’s say, the well-proven Kalibr missiles,” Mr Zhuravlyov told the Russian news website Gazeta.Ru.​   https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/11/russia-is-ready-to-supply-hypersonic-missiles-to-venezuela/

​  US spy jet spotted patrolling cartel stronghold off Mexico's coast for hours

The US Navy's P-8 Poseidon, an aircraft designed for anti-submarine warfare, surveillance, and reconnaissance, was spotted circling a drug-smuggling hub off Mexico's coast.​ On Tuesday, flight trackers recorded the jet performing multiple loops miles offshore from Tijuana, a city long plagued by violent organized crime and considered a major corridor for cartel operations.​   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15257365/US-spy-jet-patrolling-drug-cartel-hub-Mexico.html

Cartels Control Tribal Lands In California, Grow Drugs And Impose Narco-Slavery​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cartels-control-tribal-lands-california-grow-drugs-and-impose-narco-slavery

Report: US Preparing Mexico Mission Against Cartels That Would Include Troops and Drone Strikes​   https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/04/report-us-preparing-mexico-mission-against-cartels-that-would-include-troops-and-drone-strikes/

Sheinbaum says US ‘won’t’ attack cartels on Mexican soil​  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2621435/world

​  Hegseth announces another alleged drug boat strike, killing 2 ‘narco-terrorists’

Hegseth said U.S. forces struck a vessel operated by a designated terrorist organization, and the boat was operating in international waters.​ It is unclear which terrorist group the Defense secretary is referring to.   https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5589558-us-military-strike-narco-terrorists-hegseth/

​Yemeni announcement: US, allies have killed almost 3m people in Muslim countries   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/238421/US-allies-have-killed-almost-3m-people-in-Muslim-countries

Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray​   https://theconversation.com/starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war-how-ethiopia-created-a-famine-in-tigray-268395

US Working With Arab Partners To End Sudan Conflict, White House Says​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-working-arab-partners-end-sudan-conflict-white-house-says

Israel keeps bombing Gaza despite truce, kills more in occupied West Bank​   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/11/03/758108/Israeli-air-strikes-hit-Gaza-as-two-Palestinians-killed-in-occupied-West-Bank

​  Gaza Ceasefire Illusion: The Art of Turning Truces into Tactical Pauses

​  For decades, Washington has positioned itself as both Israel’s staunchest ally and the world’s most active broker of Middle East ceasefires. Yet time and again, when those fragile truces collapse, U.S. diplomacy seems to cushion Israel from accountability rather than curb its actions. Behind the rhetoric of “peace mediation” lies a pattern of support that enables repeated Israeli breaches of ceasefire agreements.​   https://21stcenturywire.com/2025/11/04/the-ceasefire-illusion-washingtons-quiet-role-in-israels-endless-wars/

​  Good-Cop-Bad-Cop?​ Now playing in Israeli domestic politics: Trump Boasts He "Pushed" Netanyahu Into Gaza Ceasefire In Candid Reveal

He painted a picture of bringing strong pressure to bear against 'Bibi' after which the Israeli leader complied with Trump's policy and wishes. "He's a guy that's never been pushed before actually," Trump stated, in an unusually candid assessment coming from a sitting US president. "I don't think they treat him very well... I pushed him. I didn't like certain things that he did, and you saw what I did about that."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-boasts-he-pushed-netanyahu-gaza-ceasefire-candid-reveal

Money, mercenaries and mayhem: How Israel and UAE are investing in regional chaos​   https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/money-mercenaries-propaganda-israel-uae-are-inevesting-regional-chaos-how

Not Enough Tents, Food Reaching Gaza as Winter Comes, Aid Agencies Say​   https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5205032-not-enough-tents-food-reaching-gaza-winter-comes-aid-agencies-say

​  A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.​  Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.​   https://archive.is/imNVS#selection-549.11-549.149

​  Israel continues to strike Gaza and block entry of tents despite truce deal
Winter is set to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis faced by Palestinians across the ravaged territory​   https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-continues-strike-gaza-and-block-entry-tents-despite-truce-deal

Oscar-winning Palestinian films daily ‘Israeli impunity’ in West Bank​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2621413/media

​  The guys who near-fatally sodomized a Palestinian prisoner with barbed wire on video:  Alleged Israeli rapists announce they ‘will win’ (VIDEO)

The IDF servicemen suspected of abusing a Palestinian detainee have demanded “support and gratitude”​   https://www.rt.com/news/627302-idf-soldiers-abuse-palestinian-prisoner/

Israeli Military Accused of Palestinian Organ Theft Again​   https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-military-accused-of-palestinian-organ-theft-again/

Candace Owens Claims 'Zionists' Who Hated Charlie Kirk Are Now Going After Tucker Carlson​   https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/candace-owens-claims-zionists-who-hated-charlie-kirk-are-now-going-after-tucker-carlson-1752433

​  GOP congressman calls Tucker Carlson the ‘most dangerous antisemite in America’
Florida’s Randy Fine accuses conservative media personality of choosing to ‘take on the mantle of leader of a modern-day Hitler Youth’​   https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-antisemitism-randy-fine-b2857267.html

​  ‘All you damn MAGA freaks, you will follow Kirk to hell!’ – German Antifa claims responsibility for arson attack against AfD politician’s family vehicle
In Germany's democracy, AfD politicians are routinely targeted by violence from far-left thugs, with Bernd Baumann just one of many victims​   https://rmx.news/article/all-you-damn-maga-freaks-you-will-follow-kirk-to-hell-german-antifa-claims-responsibility-for-arson-attack-against-afd-politicians-family-vehicle/

​  Helium-3 powers fusion reactors, and is rare on earth:  China Confirms Crewed Lunar Landing by 2030, Plans Permanent Moon Base by 2035 to Harness Helium-3 Energy   https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/China-Confirms-Crewed-Lunar-Landing-by-2030-Plans-Permanent-Moon-Base-by-2035-to-Harness-Helium-3-Energy/

SpaceX to Lead $2 Billion Satellite Constellation for Trump’s Golden Dome Missile Defense Program​   https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/SpaceX-to-Lead-2-Billion-Satellite-Constellation-for-Trumps-Golden-Dome-Missile-Defense-Program/

​ The good feeling of helping-people was always my main motivation: The Primary Care Puzzle: Can It Be Solved?​  
​ Lisa Rosenbaum, MD, is a national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).  She has just published Is a Long-Simmering Crisis Boiling Over? U.S. Primary Care Today. 

​  This is where the naked truth of the Neoliberal Dispensation enters the discussion. [3]  We have described Neoliberalism as the dogma that “the market is the measure of all things, including those that cannot be measured.”  When it comes to health and wellbeing, MAHA and its minions beg to differ.  Only those health metrics that can be measured count, beginning with your plasma glucose level, right now:
​  This belief…contributes to widespread misunderstanding of what primary care is (care for the whole person from before conception to death).  And this misunderstanding is accelerating its demise.  As (Dr. Kurt) Strange told me, ‘In trying to improve the parts of primary care, we’ve actually killed the whole thing.”
​  And in the meantime, so-called influencer culture “has rendered the idea of a long-standing doctor irrelevant,” especially when a wearable will tell you everything you need to know, right there on your smart (sic) phone.  Just ask the current Secretary of Health and Human Services.
​  But, it could be that an escape from corporatized medicine may be possible.  From Dr. Rosenbaum:
​  Given the high rates of burnout among PCPs, one of the more surprising findings in my reporting was the sense of joy and gratification described by some of the rural PCPs with whom I spoke. Though practicing in resource-poor settings is challenging, constraint evidently breeds creativity. An uninsured patient in florid heart failure who’s declining the hospitalization that would bankrupt him and force him to sell his farm? He makes a plan with his trusted physician to come to the clinic daily for IV diuresis and weight and electrolyte checks. A woman with nephrotic syndrome who can’t get to the nephrologist at the academic medical center 3 hours away? Her physician emails with the nephrologist and learns to manage her disease himself. Does rural physicians’ gratification arise from autonomy, opportunities to treat widely varied diseases, their central role in their communities? Yes, probably all those things. But most strikingly, these physicians “meet patients where they are” regardless of circumstances. Most of U.S. primary care, constrained by large health systems, has been denied this crucial ability.​   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/the-primary-care-puzzle-can-it-be-solved.html

RFK Jr. Calls For Global Ban On Mercury In Vaccines​   https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/rfk-jr-calls-global-ban-mercury-vaccines

​[I never watch the videos.]  Peter McCullough MD, Routine Childhood Vaccination Largest, Modifiable Risk Factor for Autism   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/routine-childhood-vaccination-largest

​  SAFER TO WAIT: Dr Peter McCullough and Nic Hulscher Announce A New Ground-breaking Childhood Vaccine Study With Implications for the Future of the Immunisation Schedule
​  World Council for Health interviewed Dr Peter McCullough and Nic Hulscher to explore their new study which highlights shocking safety signals - urgent action must be taken to protect our children.​   https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/safer-to-wait-dr-peter-mccullough

​Steve Kirsch, Time-series analysis of the Czech data shows a 50% mortality increase just 15 weeks after the shot   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/time-series-analysis-of-the-czech

​  ‘Horror story’: RFK Jr. reveals chilling organ harvesting scandal

On a recent segment of Newsmax, RFK Jr. detailed a case in which a woman allegedly awoke while her organs were being harvested and did not live to tell the tale.

​  “It’s a horror story, and part of it is because of the capture of the agency that was regulating ORR, had a — the board that was actually regulating organ harvesting was overlapping with the contractor that was actually harvesting the organs,” he began.
​  “I had one instance where a family was waiting at the hospital for the body of their deceased relative. The relative was brought to one of these private organ harvesting centers, awoke while they were harvesting her organs, and then was brought back to the hospital ... where she died eventually,” he continued.​   https://www.theblaze.com/shows/pat-gray-unleashed/horror-story-rfk-jr-reveals-chilling-organ-harvesting-scandal

​Sort of like the surface of a catalytic converter - Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water​, by Raji Natarajan, Rice University   https://phys.org/news/2025-10-eco-friendly-technology-toxic-pfas.html

Solar Storm arrived early last night, with more waves to come through this weekend:  Kp7 Solar Storm, Two More Coming, Alert Level is High   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9I2P5gcrp4

Solar Collector (pictured with kale that lived through the summer and young broccoli plants for this fall-winter)