[GEO.TV] The Trump administration has warned that Columbia University's accreditation may be in jeopardy after federal agencies found the school failed to protect Jewish students from campus harassment.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services accused Columbia of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by ''acting with deliberate indifference'' toward antisemitic harassment. The law prohibits discrimination by institutions receiving federal funding.
The statement said Columbia's inaction had denied Jewish students ''equal access to educational opportunities'' and created a ''hostile environment'' for over 19 months. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon ...business executive, and former professional wrestling performer. She was the 25th administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019. McMahon has been nominated to lead the Department of Education under the second Trump administration. McMahon, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, founded sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) where she worked as the president and later CEO from 1980 to 2009. During this time, the company grew from a regional business in the northeast to a large multinational corporation. She made occasional on-screen performances, most notably in a feud with her husband that culminated at WrestleMania X-Seven. In 2009, she left World Wrestling Entertainment to run for a seat in the United States Senate from Connecticut as a Republican, but lost to Richard Blumenthal in the 2010 general election. She was the Republican nominee for Connecticut's other Senate seat in the 2012 race, but lost to Chris Murphy because that's the kind of guy people in Connecticutt like best. ... described the university's response as ''immoral and unlawful''.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Columbia's accreditor, has been urged to ensure the university complies with civil rights requirements. Accrediting agencies serve as gatekeepers for federal student aid, and non-compliance could threaten Columbia's access to funding.
Columbia has been a centre of pro-Paleostinian student protests since April 2024, with high-profile activists arrested and facing deportation. While protest leaders deny any threat to Jewish students, the Trump administration reiterated its concerns in Wednesday's statement.
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Columbia's history of antisemitism goes back further than 2024. Lots of full time professional antisemitic professors and many antisemitic student orgs since the 90s.
In 2024, the antisemitism got to be obvious among the administrators and several administrators were put on leave.
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[AnNahar] President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... is nominating Vice Adm. Brad Cooper to take over as the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, the Pentagon said Wednesday. If he is confirmed, it would mark just the second time that a Navy admiral has held the job.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement that Trump also is nominating Air Force Lt. Gen. Dagvin Anderson to head U.S. Africa Command. Anderson would be the first Air Force general to lead the command, which was created in 2007.
Cooper is currently deputy commander of U.S. Central Command and has extensive experience serving and leading troops in the Middle East. The current head of the command, Army Gen. Erik Kurilla, is slated to retire after more than three years in the post.
It is a crucial role as the region has been shaken by conflict, with the Trump administration pushing to broker a ceasefire deal after 20 months of war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and pressing for an agreement with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in negotiations over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program.
A 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Cooper commanded naval forces in the Middle East for close to three years as the head of the Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain. He left in February 2024 to take over as deputy at Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in the Middle East and is based in Tampa.
Army and Marine generals have largely held the Middle East job since it was created in 1983. And two of the recent leaders — former Army Gen. Lloyd Austin and former Marine Gen. Jim Mattis, went on to serve as defense secretary. Central Command covers 21 countries across central and south Asia and northeast Africa and has overseen the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Syria and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... The only Navy officer to ever lead Central Command was Adm. William Fallon, who resigned after a year and retired. At the time, Fallon said he was stepping down due to press reports that suggested he was opposed to then-President George W. Bush's Iran policies. He said the reports were wrong but the perception had become a distraction.
Cooper is a surface warfare officer and served on guided-missile cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. He commanded a destroyer and a cruiser.
During his time leading the 5th Fleet, Cooper set up the Navy's first unmanned and artificial intelligence task force, and he led naval operations against the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels in Yemen. He also oversaw the Navy's role in Operation Prosperity Guardian, the U.S.-led coalition created in late 2023 to counter Houthi attacks on fat merchantmen in the Red Sea.
He previously served as commander of Naval Surface Force Atlantic and commander of U.S. Naval Forces Korea. Cooper is the son of a career Army officer and got his master's degree in strategic intelligence from the National Intelligence University.
Anderson, nominated to lead operations in Africa, is a pilot who has flown the KC-135 tanker, the C-130 transport aircraft and the U-28A surveillance aircraft used largely by special operations forces. He has flown more than 3,400 flight hours, including 738 in combat.
He is currently serving as the director of joint force development on the Joint Staff.
According to the Air Force, he commanded a special operations squadron, an expeditionary squadron, an operations group and a special operations wing. He also led the task force that coordinated the repositioning of U.S. forces from Somalia and headed Special Operations Command, Africa, from 2019 to 2021.
Africa Command is the newest of the Pentagon's geographic commands and covers the bulk of the African continent. Much of the U.S. military's efforts there have focused on combatting holy warrior groups and training local forces.
Anderson would be the seventh general to head Africa Command. To date, four of the previous leaders were Army generals and two were Marines.
Anderson is from Ypsilanti, Michigan, and graduated from the ROTC program at Washington University in St. Louis.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Wednesday dismissed the military's recent moves to form a new government as ''fake,'' saying battlefield gains would not end the country's two-year civil war.
In a rare interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Hamdok, who now leads a civilian coalition from exile, said no military victory, in Khartoum or elsewhere, could end the conflict that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
''Whether Khartoum is captured or not captured, it's irrelevant,'' Hamdok told AP on the sidelines of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's governance conference in Morocco. ''There is no military solution to this. No side will be able to have outright victory.''
Hamdok became Sudan's first civilian prime minister in 2019, following decades of military rule, and attempted to lead a democratic transition. He resigned in January 2022 following a turbulent period that included his ouster in a coup and brief reinstatement. The following year, warring generals plunged the country into civil war, triggering one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has left at least 24,000 people dead, though many believe the true toll is far higher. Both factions are accused of war crimes, with the RSF, which has roots in Darfur's Janjaweed militia, accused of carrying out genocide. The army is accused of using chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... and targeting civilians.
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[IsraelTimes] US administration spokesperson highlights repeated changes British broadcaster made in report on aid center violence; BBC says adjusting death tolls is normal in a developing story
Coming from the SDF’s prison camps for their ISIS captives, I assume
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan reported on the repatriation of 13 citizens of the country who were victims of the armed conflict in Syria.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, Azerbaijan periodically organizes the return of its citizens from camps in Syria and Iraq. In June 2024, six Azerbaijani citizens - a woman and five children - were repatriated from Syria, and in October, the country's Foreign Ministry reported the repatriation of two citizens from Iraq. In November 2022, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry estimated the total number of its citizens repatriated from Syria and Iraq over the years of operation at 409 people.
The Azerbaijani government announced the return of 13 citizens from Syria on June 4, without specifying the gender and age of the repatriates.
According to the country's Foreign Ministry, the group of repatriates arrived in Baku the day before, on June 3. The Azerbaijani embassy in Turkey worked on their return. At the first stage, diplomats established the location and identities of the Azerbaijani citizens, confirming their citizenship, then they were provided with temporary identity cards - certificates for returning to Azerbaijan and air tickets, according to a publication on the department's website.
Back in Turkey, specialists from Azerbaijan conducted an initial medical examination of the repatriates and their psychological assessment. Social rehabilitation and reintegration programs into society are provided for them.
"The Azerbaijani government will continue to take the necessary measures to repatriate Azerbaijani citizens who have become victims of armed conflict in foreign countries," the ministry said in a statement.
[IsraelTimes] French president promotes recognition of Palestinian statehood; German FM says move would send ‘wrong signal,’ vows to keep sending arms to Israel but calls for more aid to Strip.
”Need to placate our Moslem colonists to stop them rioting in the streets — but what can we do that won’t make the Israel-lovers mad? If only they would go back to not paying attention!”
Contrast with:
[IsraelTimes] The decision by Studio 303 has triggered debate among its attendees, including Israelis, who question whether boycotting the pro-Palestinian Israeli choreographer ‘misses the mark’.
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[IsraelTimes] A federal judge in Boston temporarily blocks US President Donald Trump from barring US entry of foreign nationals seeking to study or participate in exchange programs at Harvard University.
Under a two-page temporary restraining order granted to Harvard, US District Judge Allison Burroughs enjoins Trump’s proclamation from taking effect pending further litigation of the matter amid an escalating dispute between the Ivy League school and Republican president.
The judge rules that Trump’s directive prohibiting foreign nationals from entering the United States to study at Harvard for the next six months would cause “immediate and irreparable injury” before the courts have a chance to review the case.
Burroughs last month had blocked Trump from implementing a separate order prohibiting Harvard from enrolling international students, who make up more than a quarter of its student body. Harvard on Thursday amended its lawsuit to challenge the new directive, claiming Trump is violating Burroughs’ decision.
Burroughs’ order also continues a separate temporary restraining order she issued on May 23 against the administration’s restriction on international student enrollment at Harvard.
[IsraelTimes] Harvard adds US President Donald Trump’s proclamation barring new foreign students at the university from entering the United States to existing legal action against the administration, which it accuses of “retaliation” action.
“This is not the administration’s first attempt to sever Harvard from its international students… (It) is part of a concerted and escalating campaign of retaliation,” it says in an amended complaint filed in federal court.
In response, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson calls Harvard “a hotbed of anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist agitators,” claims that the school has previously denied.
“Harvard’s behavior has jeopardized the integrity of the entire US student and exchange visitor visa system and risks compromising national security. Now it must face the consequences of its actions,” Jackson says in a statement.
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In a related consequence to Harvard's intransigence, Ace of Spades today has a Buck Throckmorton editorial with some telling observations:
"THE MORNING RANT: Harvard’s Doom Loop: The Poison Ivy is Considering Selling Some of its Illiquid Endowment at a Discount for Some Fast Cash
—Buck Throckmorton"
"...Harvard is in a doom loop. Its donor base is diminishing and sitting on their wallets, as many of them are repulsed by what the school has become and how tainted its brand is. President Trump is cutting off the flow of federal dollars to the school. Harvard has tapped out the bond market, and further bonds will likely start to be priced at junk bond levels if the school has to keep borrowing to plug holes in its cash flow. The endowment is crashing in value, and its illiquid assets are being sold at a fire sale.
The Harvard asset that always held the most value was its reputation. Having foolishly decided to destroy that asset in service to a globalist political ideology that is hostile to the United States and western civilization, the seeds were planted for the doom loop that is consuming the disgraced university."
The saga continues — follow the links at the bottom of this post back from article to article back to the original attack on june 2nd. No new names — yesterday we added wife Hayem El Gamal to high school graduating daughter Habiba Soliman, but today we learn that the two spellings of the miscreant’s Christian name are from the affidavit.
[IsraelTimes] Mohamed Sabry Soliman also charged with assault, use of incendiary devices and animal cruelty for hurling firebombs at demonstrators; faces over 600 years in prison if convicted
A man accused of yelling "Free Paleostine" and throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... was charged with 118 counts, including 28 for attempted murder, in a Colorado court Thursday.
Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, who has been nabbed anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not since his arrest following Sunday’s attack, was advised of the charges during a hearing in Boulder, where he appeared in person. Investigators say Soliman, who posed as a gardener, planned it for a year.
The 118 counts include attempt to commit murder, assault in the first and third degrees, use of explosive or incendiary devices and animal cruelty. He has also been charged with a hate crime in federal court and is nabbed anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not on a $10 million cash bond.
Soliman’s attorney, Kathryn Herold, waived a formal reading of the charges Thursday. A preliminary hearing has been set for July 15 to determine whether the state has enough evidence to move forward.
"The charges reflect the evidence that we have regarding this horrific attack that took place and the seriousness of it," Michael Dougherty, the Boulder County district attorney, said at a news conference after the hearing.
The attempted murder charges alone could result in Soliman being sentenced to as many as 672 years if convicted, Dougherty said.
Authorities have said 15 people and a dog were victims of the attack. Not all were physically injured, and some are considered victims for the legal case because they were in the area and could potentially have been hurt. The dog was among the injured, Dougherty said.
Soliman is accused of trying to kill 14 people and faces two attempted murder charges for each.
Soliman had intended to kill all of the roughly 20 participants the weekly demonstration at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall, but he threw just two of his 18 Molotov cocktails while yelling "Free Paleostine," police said.
Soliman did not carry out his full plan "because he got scared and had never hurt anyone before," police wrote in an affidavit.
Officers responded and took Soliman into custody about five minutes after the 911 call, Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said at the news conference.
According to an FBI affidavit, Soliman told police he was driven by a desire "to kill all Zionist people." Authorities said he expressed no remorse.
Boulder County officials said in a statement that the victims included eight women and seven men ranging in age from 25 to 88.
The attack unsettled the community just a week before the Boulder Jewish Festival. Redfearn said there will be enhanced security for that event, including SWAT teams, drones and likely plainclothes officers.
DEFENDANT’S FAMILY INVESTIGATED
Soliman told authorities he acted alone and did not inform his wife and five children, who have not been charged in the attack but were taken into custody Tuesday by immigration officials. The following day a judge granted a request to block their deportation.
Attorneys for the family had sued over their detention, writing in their complaint that "It is patently unlawful to punish individuals for the crimes of their relatives."
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called the plaintiff’s claims "absurd" and "an attempt to delay justice." She said the entire family was living in the US illegally.
When asked whether Soliman’s family was under investigation, Dougherty, the district attorney, did not give a clear answer and said the investigation was ongoing.
Soliman’s wife, Hayam El Gamal, a 17-year-old daughter, two minor sons and two minor daughters were being held at an immigration detention center in Texas, said Eric Lee, an attorney representing the family. El Gamal said she was "shocked" to learn of his arrest, according to the lawsuit.
THE FAMILY’S IMMIGRATION STATUS
Before moving to Colorado Springs three years ago, Soliman spent 17 years in Kuwait, according to court documents.
He arrived in the US in August 2022 on a tourist visa that expired in February 2023, McLaughlin said in a post on the social platform X. She said he filed for asylum in September 2022 and was granted a work authorization in March 2023, but that has also expired.
Hundreds of thousands of people overstay their visas each year in the United States, according to Department of Homeland Security reports.
Soliman’s wife is an Egyptian national, according to her lawsuit. She is a network engineer and has a pending EB-2 visa, which is available to professionals with advanced degrees, the suit said. She and her children all are listed as dependents on Soliman’s asylum application.
Oh well. Too late for that now.
A VIGIL FOR THE VICTIMS
Hundreds of people squeezed into the Jewish Community Center in Boulder for a vigil Wednesday evening that featured prayer, singing and emotional testimony from a victim and witnesses of the the attack.
Rachelle Halpern, who was part of the demonstration Sunday, recalled thinking it was strange to see a man with a canister looking like he was going to spray pesticide on the grass. Then she heard a crash and screams and saw flames around her feet.
"A woman stood one foot behind me, engulfed in flames from head to toe, lying on the ground with her husband," Halpern said. "People immediately, three or four men immediately rushed to her to smother the flames."
Her description prompted murmurs from the audience. One woman’s head dropped into her hands.
"I heard a loud noise, and the back of my legs burning, and don’t remember those next few moments," one victim, who did not want to be identified and spoke off camera, said over the event’s speakers. "Even as I was watching it unfold before my eyes, even then, it didn’t seem real."
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, disguised as a gardener, had planned to kill all of the roughly 20 participants in Sunday's demonstration and had 18 Molotov cocktails, but he threw just two while yelling "Free Palestine," police said. Soliman, who federal authorities say has been living in the U.S. illegally, didn't carry out his full plan "because he got scared and had never hurt anyone before," police wrote in an affidavit.
The two incendiary devices he threw were enough to injure 12 of the participants in the weekly demonstration held at the popular Pearl Street pedestrian mall in downtown Boulder, authorities said, noting that he expressed no remorse about the attack.
Soliman told authorities that no one, including his family, knew about his plans for the attack, according to court documents that, at times, spelled his name as "Mohammed."
Soliman was born in el-Motamedia, an Egyptian farming village in the Nile Delta province of Gharbia that's located about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Cairo, according to an Egyptian security official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media. Soliman was also a handball player for a club in Cairo, the club's former chairman wrote on Facebook.
Witnesses and police have said Soliman threw two incendiary devices, catching himself on fire as he hurled the second. Soliman took off his shirt and what appeared to be a bulletproof vest before police arrived and arrested him, said witness Alex Osante of San Diego.
Solimon told authorities he had gas in a backpack sprayer but didn't spray it on anyone but himself because "he had planned on dying," officials said.
[Federalist] Returning noncitizen children and noncitizen parents to their countries could save taxpayers hundreds of billions, especially in state budgets.
A few simple calculations indicate that as much as one-quarter of U.S. public school enrollment could be anchor babies, meaning children with at least one parent illegally present in the United States. This alone amounts to at least $145.6 billion in public resources diverted from U.S. citizens every year.
Here’s the math. In April, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 17 percent of school-age children, or nine million kids, in the United States are children of at least one illegal alien. The New York Times has reported on the estimate. Some of these children are also foreign citizens, while some were born in the United States. Under a longstanding court misinterpretation, being born in the United States currently confers U.S. citizenship. Almost no other developed countries confer citizenship solely by birth location.
That’s already one in six kids in the United States who are legally subject to deportation to continue living with their parents. If you also assume that all of this population attends public schools, the percentage is more than 17. That’s because only 80 percent of U.S. kids attend a traditional public school, according to 2024 figures from EdChoice.
There were 50 million school-age kids in the United States in 2024, according to ChildStats.gov (adding in the five-year-olds to match the anchor baby age range and assuming there were 4 million of them, an equal age distribution among the 0-5 figure). Eighty percent of 50 is 40, so 40 million of the total 50 million U.S. kids went to public schools in 2024. Nine million anchor babies out of that total 40 million public-school attendees suggests 22.5 percent of U.S. public school enrollment could be anchor babies.
WHY THIS IS A REASONABLE FIGURE
Yes, these are estimates, and some very broad math. If anything, however, official estimates tend underestimate illegal migration, given its, well, illegal and illicit nature. So it’s absolutely within a reasonable range to assume somewhere around a quarter of U.S, public school enrollment is anchor babies.
It’s also fair to assume just about all anchor babies attend assigned public schools, for multiple reasons. First, public benefits are a key motivation for many foreign trespassers, as virtually all come from countries that spend far less on public services, including education. Even Kaiser says, “about three in four (77%) immigrant adults say they moved to the U.S. for a better future for their children.”
Plus, as even Kaiser and the NYT acknowledge, illegal immigrant households on average have significantly less income than the average American household. If the average U.S. household would prefer to enroll their children in private schools but doesn’t because of tuition, as EdChoice surveys have shown for years, illegally present foreigners are hardly likely to do so in any noticeable number.
HUGE IMPLICATIONS
Now for some more math related to the taxpayer costs just of educating these nine million kids who would not be in the United States without lawbreaking. Federal statistics estimate U.S. taxpayers spent an average of $16,280 per student in school year 2020-21, the latest data available.
Nine million anchor babies times $16,280 each is $145.6 billion. Per year. Again, this is probably a lowball figure, for several reasons. First, taxpayer spending per pupil is higher today than in 2020, given the vast “Covid” money shoveled out and the resulting inflation pressuring legislatures to raise education spending for “teachers’ salaries” since then.
Second, the illegal immigrant population disproportionately hides in higher-spending blue states such as California, Illinois, and New York. New York taxpayers will shell out approximately $35,012 per student in the coming school year. In 2023, California public schools spent nearly $19,000 per student per year. In 2024, Illinois schools spent nearly $24,000 per student. This is another reason U.S. taxpayer spending on students who shouldn’t be in the United States is likely far higher than our $145.6 billion per year estimate.
Some might dismiss this astronomical figure as a rounding error in at least the federal budget. (Please, donate such “rounding errors” to my retirement fund!) But every dollar spent on a child who is rightly another country’s responsibility is a dollar not available for an American citizen. Further, this figure extended just seven years — about half of a child’s K-12 experience — totals $1 trillion. That’s half the current federal deficit.
A HUGE CHUNK OF STATE BUDGETS
The fiscal distortions of just this one cost of illegal immigration are enormous, perhaps especially at the state level. States spend about half of their budgets on K-12, meaning 22.5 percent of fraudulent public school enrollment deprives legislatures of approximately one-tenth their annual revenue. That’s a ton of money not spent on other things taxpayers might prefer instead, including a pretty good tax cut.
To take an example: This year Indiana faced a $2.4 billion shortfall out of its $44 billion two-year budget. Indiana still managed to increase K-12 spending by 2 percent to $19 billion over the next two years. Indiana has approximately 1 million K-12 students, so that means it is spending $9,500 per student per year at solely the state level, meaning not including local and federal tax dollars.
If the average 22.5 percent of Indiana’s public school students are illegal aliens or their children, sending them to their home countries would alone have nearly solved Indiana’s $2 billion budget shortfall. That would be 225,000 students, at an annual state cost of $2.14 billion. Again, that doesn’t include the local and federal tax costs, which together are about the same amount as state expenditures, meaning it would have saved local taxpayers across Indiana another approximately $2 billion, not to mention all the downstream potential savings in smaller school buildings, less curriculum and supplies, and so on.
This means Indiana’s entire 2025 budget shortfall could have been due to the presence of illegal aliens, and solved by sending them where they belong. At the very least, illegal migration was a significant factor in the shortfall the legislature solved mostly with cuts to services and a dramatic cigarette tax increase.
Other spending on illegals — Medicaid, housing and food aid, etc. discussed at the link.
[IsraelTimes] Measures target pair of judges on panel that authorized arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant; two others okayed probe into alleged war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan
The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court who have been involved in proceedings against Israel and the United States.
The four judges will be barred from entering the US and their assets in the country will be seized, measures typically used against officials from countries hostile to America.
"The United States will take whatever actions we deem necessary to protect our illusory sovereignty, that of Israel, and any other US ally from illegitimate actions by the ICC," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... said in a statement.
"I call on the countries that still support the ICC, many of whose freedom was purchased at the price of great American sacrifices, to fight this disgraceful attack on our nation and Israel," Rubio said.
The court swiftly hit back, saying in a statement: "These measures are a clear attempt to undermine the independence of an international judicial institution which operates under the mandate from 125 States Parties from all corners of the globe."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on the other hand hailed the sanctions, thanking the Trump administration for imposing them.
"Thank you President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio for imposing sanctions against the politicized judges of the ICC. You have justly stood up for the right of Israel, The United States and all democracies to defend themselves against savage terror," said a statement from the premier’s office.
Two of the judges, Beti Hohler of Slovenia and Reine Alapini-Gansou of Benin ...Benin, a French-speaking West African nation, that they put where Dahomey used to be. It is a birthplace of voodoo and zombies. In Abomey, Dahomey's former capital, the Historical Museum occupies two royal palaces with bas-reliefs recounting the kingdom’s past and a throne mounted on human skulls. To the north, Pendjari National Park offers safaris with elephants, hippos and lions and tigers and bears, oh my!... , took part in proceedings that led the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan to issue in November arrest warrants against Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant.
Khan claimed to find "reasonable grounds" of criminal responsibility by the pair for actions that include the war crime of starvation as a method of war in Israel’s massive offensive in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... following Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s unprecedented October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in which some 1,200 were killed and 251 were taken hostage. Israel has strongly rejected the charges.
Gansou also served on the bench that originally approved the investigation into alleged war crimes in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in 2021.
Before being elected ICC judge in 2023, Hohler worked in the prosecutor’s office at the court, leading Israel to object to her participation in the proceedings involving Israeli officials. Hohler said in a statement last year that she had never worked on the investigation that began in 2021 during her eight years as a prosecutor.
The two other judges sanctioned by the US, Luz del Carmen Ibanez Carranza of Peru and Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda, were part of the court proceedings that led to the authorization of an investigation into allegations that US forces committed war crimes during the war in Afghanistan. They both have also worked on ICC cases involving Israel.
In February, Khan was placed on Washington’s list of "Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons," barring him from doing business with Americans and placing restrictions on his entry into the US Khan stepped aside last month pending an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct.
Neither the United States nor Israel is party to the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court. The Paleostinian Authority, on the other hand, is a Rome Statute signatory, in what the court has deemed is sufficient for hearing cases on alleged crimes that took place in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Moreover, almost all Western allies of the United States as well as Japan and South Korea, the vast majority of Latin America and much of Africa are parties to the statute and in theory are required to arrest suspects when they land on their soil.
Trump, in his first term, imposed sanctions on the then-ICC chief prosecutor over the Afghanistan investigation.
After Trump’s defeat in 2020, then-US president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... took a more conciliatory approach to the court with case-by-case cooperation.
Rubio’s predecessor Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... rescinded the sanctions and, while critical of its stance on Israel, worked with the court in its investigation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
ICC judges in 2023 issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... over the alleged mass abduction of Ukrainian children during the war.
Both Putin and Netanyahu have voiced defiance over the ICC pressure but have also looked to minimize time in countries that are party to the court.
The ICC arrest warrants have been especially sensitive in Britannia, a close US ally whose Prime Minister Keir Starmer is a former human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... lawyer.
Downing Street has said that Britannia will fulfill its "legal obligations" without explicitly saying if Netanyahu would be arrested if he visits.
Hungary, led by Trump ally Viktor Orban, has parted ways with the rest of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... by moving to exit the court.
Orban spurned the court by welcoming Netanyahu to visit in April.
Set up in 2002, the ICC seeks to prosecute individuals responsible for the world’s gravest crimes when countries are unwilling or unable to do so themselves.
Israel and the US have argued that they have their own independent judiciaries that eliminate the need for an international court of last resort.
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The ICC cites: "These measures are a clear attempt to undermine the independence of an international judicial institution.....". A list of ICC Judges. Not one is from the USA. Many are from nations already overrun by Muslims or in conflicts with them
SO Independent? Or applying a political bias?
Because, Israel is kicking Hamas and other Anti-Israel Terrorist groups butts.
Remember these terrorists chose to attack, rape, murder and take civilian captives on Oct 7th.
Israel tried to deal with them, releasing 1000's of jail terrorists for the release of only a few captives. Then Hamas started playing games and milking it.
Now we know the Captives, that Hamas has, are being brutalized, starved and even children are being raped while in their tunnels.
Now add to it, the Palestinians in GAZA have helped Hamas, by hiding them and supplying them.
Israel is only responding to their attack on Israel and the JIHAD open declaration to killed anyone in Israel not of the Islamic/Muslim faith.
[GEO.TV] The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , a move condemned by Pakistain's Permanent Representative to the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... , Ambassador Asim Iftikhar.
Speaking at the Council, Ahmad said that Gaza "is no longer a humanitarian crisis. It is a collapse of humanity and of international law and all that this Council is supposed to stand for".
He criticised the US decision as blocking the Council from fulfilling its responsibilities.
He remarked that US veto "will be remembered as a complicity, a green light for continued annihilation, a moment where the entire world was expecting action. But yet again, this Council was blocked and prevented by one member from carrying out its responsibility".
Pakistain expressed regret over the veto, and vowed to continue its support for the Paleostinian people, said the ambassador. Pakistain also demands an end to the war, the establishment of an independent Paleostinian state, and unrestricted humanitarian aid to Gaza, he added.
More than 54,000 Paleostinians have been killed in the conflict, Ahmad stated, adding that civilians were ''being killed for food.''
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[IsraelTimes] New distribution point opens in Tel Sultan area of Rafah after over 24 hours of closures; videos, eyewitnesses said to bolster claims IDF behind recent deadly fire near aid centers
The Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Humanitarian Foundation resumed operations near Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, a front man for the organization said, after it shut down aid distribution for over 24 hours to work out security issues, prompted by three straight days of mass casualty incidents.
After Wednesday’s shutdown stretched unexpectedly into Thursday morning, an Arabic-language message was published in the early afternoon, informing Gazooks that a new aid distribution site had opened in the Saudi neighborhood of Tel Sultan.
The center is located in one of the large school complexes in the center of the neighborhood, a GHF spokesperson told The Times of Israel.
The new site is intended to replace another location in the so-called Swedish Village area on Gaza’s far southern coast, which was permanently shuttered on Thursday, after just a few days of operations.
Images shared by GHF showed Gazooks picking up food from the Swedish Village distribution site ahead of its closure.
The scenes near the unfinished Kuwaiti hospital along the Egyptian border showed some disorder as civilians opened boxes and filled bags to carry, but the area appeared to be relatively uncrowded.
A video clip shared by the group showed a staffer with a camera photographing about a dozen smiling and waving Gazooks.
GHF said 18,240 boxes of food were delivered at the Tel Sultan "Swedish Village" site, and 6,720 were picked up at the new site in the nearby Saudi neighborhood.
The foundation says that food in all of those boxes amounts to roughly 1.5 million meals. The products are largely dry foods, though, which require cooking equipment or community kitchens in order to prepare.
The new location in the Tel Sultan area was opened after a brief shutdown of all GHF aid centers, implemented to give time for the US and Israel-backed organization to carry out logistical work needed to accommodate larger crowds.
The closure was also intended to give the IDF time to prepare safer access routes to the sites, a GHF spokesperson said, following days of mass-casualty incidents across the various GHF locations.
The initial mass casualty event came on Sunday as hundreds of Gazooks made their way to an Israeli and US-backed aid distribution compound in Rafah — the only one open that day, amid the partial easing of a more than two-month blockade on aid into the Strip.
Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... -controlled health authorities in the war-torn enclave reported that 31 people had been killed and nearly 200 had been maimed in the pre-dawn shooting near the distribution center in Rafah, for which the IDF largely denied responsibility.
The corpse count could not be verified, nor were the subsequent Hamas-issued tolls of three killed on Monday and 27 killed on Tuesday in similar incidents.
CLAIMS OF IDF RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEADLY FIRE
The IDF has acknowledged firing warning shots at Paleostinians headed to the distribution site before it was open or who approached it from outside the designated safe route. The military said that its fire hit an unspecified number of people, but did not acknowledge killing anybody.
At the same time, it said that Hamas’s claims of dozens killed and maimed were "exaggerated." In an international press briefing, a government front man claimed that reports of IDF troops firing at civilians near aid sites were "based on Hamas propaganda."
Eyewitness accounts, video testimony, and expert analysis cited by separate US and Israeli news outlets on Thursday bolstered claims that Israeli forces had indeed shot at Gazook civilians seeking aid near Rafah.
According to the analyses published Thursday, the IDF was potentially firing in an apparent attempt at crowd control, which experts said was a recipe for disaster given the masses of people involved. However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... some eyewitnesses quoted in the reports claimed the military was intentionally shooting to kill.
A CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... investigation cited more than a dozen eyewitnesses, including some who were maimed amid the incident, who said Israeli troops "shot at crowds in volleys of gunfire that occurred sporadically through the early hours of Sunday morning."
The report noted that GHF had said Israeli forces were operating in the same area during the same period.
The shooting took place around half a mile from the aid distribution site in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, the report said. The shooting’s location, where hundreds of Paleostinians had gathered, was confirmed via CNN’s geolocation of videos from the scene.
None of the videos definitively showed who fired the shots.
However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the CNN report cited weapons experts who said the rate of gunfire, as well as photos of retrieved bullets, were consistent with tank-mounted machine guns used by the IDF, and inconsistent with weapons used by Hamas. Multiple people also told CNN they saw gunfire coming from Israeli tanks in the area.
A separate report by Haaretz also cited eyewitness accounts and video pointing to Israel having carried out the shooting. The outlet quoted an unnamed military official as saying that senior officers sought to lay down fire as a way to direct Gazooks away from the military position and toward the aid site.
"The intention was to direct the population via fire," the officer was quoted as saying. "The army treated this like a regular situation of suspects entering a combat zone, but it’s impossible to direct a population at scales this large with fire if you want them to feel safe getting to areas you have opened."
The military initially denied any role in Sunday’s shooting, although military sources were said to have acknowledged it in private. On Tuesday, however, the IDF confirmed that Israeli troops had indeed fired shots in the area, and said that they were warning shots intended for suspects about a kilometer away.
The IDF did not respond to the CNN report on Thursday, nor did it respond to the Haaretz report.
Although the number of dead and maimed in the incident could not be verified, the International Committee of the Red Thingy reported that its field hospital was overwhelmed on Sunday as a result of the shooting, calling it the "highest number of weapon-maimed in a single incident" since it opened the field hospital a year ago.
Doctors at nearby Nasser Hospital, which also absorbed some of the maimed, shared with CNN photos of the bullets taken from the bodies of patients killed in the incident. They were consistent with the type of ammunition used by Israeli weapons, including the FN MAG.
Dr. Ahmad Abou-Sweid, an Australian working at Nasser, told CNN, "There was a heavy proportion of head-targeted injuries from bullet wounds."
Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... Gazooks who spoke to Haaretz rejected the claim that there were armed Paleostinians in the area who may have been responsible for the shooting, rather than the IDF.
One local, identified only by the Hebrew initial Aleph, called the claim "baseless."
"There were no button men. There were planes, artillery and drones. The people who were there were innocent civilians who came to receive a share of the aid," Aleph said.
"What I saw there is hard to digest — fire for long minutes, in all directions," they continued. "There was a machine gun on a crane and I saw it firing as if it were a robot, and that’s in addition to the drones."
"The shooting came from all sides, as though the people who came to the compound were planning an invasion, and not hungry people who wanted food."
Another eyewitness dismissed suggestions that the first was a failed attempt ...Curses! Foiled again!... at crowd control, telling CNN that he had witnessed the deliberate targeting of civilians.
"I have seen a lot of soldiers in this war. When they want to clear an area or warn you, they shoot around you. But yesterday, they were shooting to kill us," said Mohammad Abu Rezeq, who was shot in the stomach.
While the IDF has not directly responded to the allegations laid out by CNN and Haaretz, it appeared to try and rebuff them in an indirect manner.
On Thursday afternoon, the military published an audio recording that it said was of a conversation between a Gazook man and an officer from the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, in which he claimed that Hamas is the one who opened fire on Paleostinians near the Rafah aid distribution site.
"The people who fired were Hamas terrorists," the Gazook man says, according to a translation provided by the IDF.
"They don’t want the people to receive aid, they want to foil the plan so that the aid will go to them, allowing them to steal it. They’ve gone completely bankrupt," the man said.
AID DELIVERY DIFFICULTIES CONTINUE
Even with the reopened distribution centers, problems continued to plague aid delivery efforts on Thursday, after a labor union representing Gazook truck drivers said it was going on strike, halting aid deliveries within the Strip.
The Private Transport Association said it was calling the strike in response to an incident on Wednesday in which a convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid was attacked by button men in central Gaza.
The union said button men had shot and killed several drivers in the Deir al-Balah area, and had maimed and kidnapped several others.
Israel has said that hundreds of trucks packed with food, medicine and other assistance were awaiting transport from the Kerem Shalom crossing to warehouses run by the UN and other humanitarian groups throughout Gaza.
The union’s ties to Hamas are also hazy, as before the war, most unions in Gaza were affiliated with the terror group.
STRIKE TARGETS GAZA CITY HOSPITAL
The IDF’s military offensive continued across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, with operations including an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... at a hospital in Gaza City.
The military said that the strike at the al-Ma’amadani Hospital targeted a Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... command center in the medical center’s courtyard.
The Hamas-run health ministry claimed, however, that the strike had hit a press compound and killed three people.
Reports named one victim as Ismail Badr, a cameraman for the Islamic Jihad-affiliated Paleostine Today channel. A second journalist, Suleiman Hajaj, was also killed, according to reports.
The IDF said the compound was being used by Islamic Jihad operatives to plan and carry out attacks on troops and Israeli civilians.
As always, it said it took steps to minimize civilian harm, including by using a precision munition, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
Elsewhere in the Strip, Nasser Hospital said it had received the bodies of 10 Paleostinians killed in Israeli strikes in Khan Younis overnight.
[IsraelTimes] The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announces that 92 humanitarian aid trucks carrying flour and food entered the Gaza Strip today.
Israel resumed aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19, after a pause since March 2. Since then, 1,289 trucks have entered the Strip.
Some of the truckloads have been taken to the new aid distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The contents of many of the trucks that entered Gaza in recent weeks are still awaiting collection on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom crossing.
The aid underwent an inspection first by Israeli authorities before entering Gaza via the crossing.
[IsraelTimes] Massive exports come despite pressure by foreign governments to cancel deals over Gaza war; air defense systems account for nearly half of sales.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli firm says family of ‘high-energy laser weapon systems’ includes mobile interceptors that can be mounted on trucks, APCs to target drones, rockets and other aerial threats.
But not for those vile, leftwing idiots currently running Spain.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military has warned it will take measures against the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, as a vessel chartered by the activist group approaches Gaza to protest Israel's blockade on the Palestinian enclave, reported Al Jazeera.
When asked about the vessel by British newspaper The Times, Israeli military spokesperson Effie Defrin said, ''For this case as well, we are prepared.''
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Israel should take the ‘high road’. Save Greta! I say impound the ship if it won’t agree to return to its launch site. Fly Greta back to Sweden though!
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In response, Israel should say "Fine. Since the Freedom Flotilla Coalition is supplying Gaza, we will stop allowing the hundreds of aid trucks to enter. Let the Coalition do all the aid."
A high-profile activist mission sailing to Gaza to challenge Israel’s blockade on the territory has taken a detour to pick up Sudanese migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, according to a person on board the ship.
Activist Rima Hassan reports that the Madleen changed tack to the south to rescue a boat carrying migrants off the Libyan coast. They reached the ship just as Libya’s coast guard overtook the dinghy, but four people jumped into the water and were picked up by the so-called Freedom Flotilla.
“We were able to rescue them, they are with us on the boat,” she writes.
The ship, which has earned international attention thanks to its inclusion of climate protest leader Greta Thunberg, is not expected to reach Gazan waters for several days. It is unclear whether it now intends to bring the four Sudanese migrants along for the ride to Gaza or if it will now take a further detour to Europe.
Trying in vain to game the situation while the IDF kills more Hamas, et al bad guys and breaks more Hamas things into rubble and dust.
[GEO.TV] The head of Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , Khalil al-Hayya, said in a pre-recorded speech on Thursday the group had not rejectedthe latest US proposal for a ceasefire with Israel but demanded changes that would secure the end of the war in the enclave.
The group was ready to engage in a new round of ceasefire talks, and communication with mediating countries was ongoing, he added. The latest US proposal came via President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... 's special envoy, Steve Witkoff.
"The movement (Hamas) didn't reject the Witkoff proposal, but we have demanded some remarks and improvement to ensure an end to the war," Hayya, who is also chief Hamas negotiator, said in a pre-recorded video speech.
Hayya reiterated demands for an end to the war and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, conditions Israel has rejected.
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[GEO.TV] The international medical group MSF has said that Israeli displacement orders and movement restrictions in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... have pushed Nasser Hospital to the edge of ''becoming non-functional''.
''Ordering hospitals to refuse new patients and making it harder for people to reach places of care has been a pattern by the Israeli forces throughout this war, aimed at closing the hospitals,'' the group said in a news release.
''Nasser is the last remaining referral hospital in the south of Gaza, a vital lifeline for people in need, and its full functionality must be immediately restored and preserved,'' it said.
Jose Mas, head of MSF emergency programmes, said that putting the hospital out of commission would be a ''death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... '' for severely maimed patients, the critically ill, and women in need of emergency obstetric care.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also called for the protection of Nasser and al-Amal Hospitals in Gaza.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel confirms that 2,790 Palestinian detainees from the Gaza Strip are currently held in Israeli jails and detention facilities.
The information is revealed in the state’s response to a petition by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and other organizations against the Law for Unlawful Combatants.
The law enables the holding of suspected terrorists and combatants from terror groups fighting Israel without providing them with a “prisoner of war” status under international humanitarian law, since they are not members of the legal armed forces of a sovereign state.
According to the state’s response to PCATI, 660 of the Gazan detainees are being held in military detention facilities.
The state’s response also confirms that a military detention facility at the Anatot base has been closed, following reports of harsh conditions there, and a facility at the Amiad base used to hold Hezbollah operatives captured in Lebanon was also shuttered.
Since December, Israel has freed 1,244 Gazan detainees — mostly in the hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas — and has detained 455 more, according to the state response.
PCATI notes that there is a “discrepancy” of 144 detainees since the state’s last update. “The fate of these detainees is unknown, and has not been explained by the state authorities,” the organization says.
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[Jpost] Sources estimated that if delivered, the materials could produce around 800 missiles.
Iran has ordered thousands of tons of ballistic missile ingredients from China as part of an effort to rebuild its military capabilities while navigating ongoing nuclear talks with the United States, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the transactions.
The shipments, which are expected to reach Iran in the coming months, include ammonium perchlorate, a key component in the solid propellant used for ballistic missiles. Sources indicated that these materials could potentially fuel hundreds of missiles.
Some of the ammonium perchlorate is expected to be sent to militias aligned with Iran, including the Houthis in Yemen, one of the sources revealed. This move aligns with Iran’s broader strategy to strengthen its regional influence and rebuild its missile arsenal while continuing to negotiate with the Trump administration over the future of its nuclear program.
Iran has been expanding its stockpiles of uranium enriched to just below weapons-grade levels, despite calls from the US to curb its nuclear activities. At the same time, Iran has made it clear that it has no intention of negotiating limits on its missile program, a point that has remained a major sticking point in international discussions.
According to sources, the order for the missile ingredients was placed in recent months by an Iranian entity, Pishgaman Tejarat Rafi Novin Co.. The material was sourced from Hong Kong-based Lion Commodities Holdings Ltd., a company that did not respond to requests for comment. The Iranian mission to the United Nations also declined to comment on the matter.
In a statement, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson denied knowledge of the deal, asserting that China has “always exercised strict control over dual-use items in accordance with China’s export control laws and regulations and its international obligations.”
PART OF REBUILDING IRAN’S 'AXIS OF RESISTANCE'
The shipment of ammonium perchlorate is part of Iran’s broader efforts to rebuild its so-called "Axis of Resistance" network, which includes a number of terror proxies across the region.
These groups have faced significant setbacks over recent years, as well as the ongoing war. These setbacks include Israeli strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon and the assassination of key leaders such as Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, former Hezbollah secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and multiple Hamas leaders.
While US and Israeli strikes have damaged the Houthis' capabilities in Yemen, they continue to periodically launch missiles at Israel.
Beyond supporting regional militias, Iran has also reportedly transferred ballistic missiles to Shia militia groups in Iraq, which have previously targeted both US and Israeli forces in the region.
EARLIER SHIPMENTS OF MISSILE INGREDIENTS
Earlier this year, Iranian ships docked in China to load over 1,000 tons of sodium perchlorate, a precursor for ammonium perchlorate. The material was delivered to Iranian ports in mid-February and late March, according to shipping trackers. This quantity of sodium perchlorate is said to be enough to fuel around 260 short-range missiles.
The new order for ammonium perchlorate, which was placed months before President Trump’s proposed nuclear talks with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in early March, could supply Iran with enough material to produce approximately 800 missiles, one official estimated.
In response to Iran’s missile activities, the US Treasury Department sanctioned six individuals and six entities from both Iran and China on April 29 for their involvement in procuring ballistic missile propellant ingredients.
Two weeks later, the Treasury expanded these sanctions to include additional Chinese and Hong Kong entities. The US Department of the Treasury also added sodium perchlorate to the list of materials it believes are being used in Iran’s military, nuclear, or ballistic missile programs.
Iran’s reliance on foreign material for missile production is due, in part, to domestic production bottlenecks. Fabian Hinz, a military analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, noted that Iran’s defense industry struggles to meet its needs without the continued importation of missile propellant materials.
The storage and handling of these materials, however, come with significant risks. A deadly explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port in April, which killed dozens, was reportedly caused by the mishandling of explosive materials by a unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Some of the sodium perchlorate imported earlier this year was lost in that explosion, an official confirmed.
“These substances are a major fire and explosive hazard,” said Hinz. “Iran’s defense industrial complex does not have a strong track record in ensuring safety standards.”
Not just perchlorates, and not just Iran. It was ammonium nitrate sent with brotherly Moslem affection from Iran to Hezbollah that destroyed the Port of Beirut and a good chunk of the nearby city. The Times of Israel adds:
Much of the material will reportedly remain in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... as the country works to repair missile production plants that were damaged in October, when Israel responded to Iran’s second-ever direct attack some six months after an earlier missile-and-dronezap. Israel’s October strike destroyed about a dozen so-called planetary mixers, which serve to blend ballistic missile ingredients, the Journal said.
A report earlier this week said Iran is also working to revive its air defense system after Israel’s successive attacks on it.
An earlier Chinese shipment of missile fuel material has been linked to a blast in a southern Iranian port that state media said killed at least 18 people and maimed hundreds. That shipment, which Iran has not acknowledged, contained enough ammonium perchlorate precursor to produce 260 short-range missiles, the Journal said, attributing the blast to mishandling by a unit from the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for Iran’s enrichment capabilities and nuclear facilities to be fully dismantled. US intelligence has assessed that Israel will attack the nuclear facilities this year.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Israel has assured the White House that it won’t launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities unless Trump signals that the ongoing negotiations with Tehran have failed, Axios reported Thursday, citing two Israeli officials familiar with the matter. One official said it could take several months before that happened, and Iran would try to prevent the talks from collapsing.
During a visit last week by Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... Director David Barnea and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, Israeli officials reassured the White House that Israel would not surprise the US by unilaterally striking Iran, the report said. An Israeli official quoted by the news site said, "We calmed the Americans and told them there is no logic in launching an attack if a good diplomatic solution can be found. This is why we are going to give it a chance and wait with any military action until it is clear that negotiations have been exhausted and [White House envoy to the Middle East] Steve Witkoff has given up."
Though the IDF is constantly training for a strike on Iran, separate preparations for strikes on the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s have been misread by the US and other countries as a sign of an imminent Israeli attack on Iran, according to a senior Israeli official cited by Axios.
The report added that Iranian and US negotiators are not expected to hold talks this weekend, despite reporting earlier this week that a sixth round could take place in the Middle East.
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My understanding is that they’re engaging in parallel track development/acquisition, so that they’ll have the missiles ready to go as soon as they have the nuclear warheads ready to attach.
#8
If your obnoxious neighbor has been perfecting his manufacture of Sarin gas mortar rounds and you discover he has now ordered a lot of pipe, do you wait until you see the delivery truck in the driveway to pay him a visit?
[Rudaw] The United States has begun a gradual withdrawal of troops from Syria, reducing its presence by several hundred to maintain roughly 1,000 forces on the ground, a US defense official told Rudaw on Tuesday.
Asked by Rudaw about reports that Washington had started scaling back its military personnel in Syria and that several hundred troops had already been withdrawn to consolidate the force at around 1,000, the official responded, "I confirm the reports on the background."
According to the official, US troop numbers in Syria have already been decreased from approximately 2,000 to 1,500, with plans to reach the target of 1,000 in the coming months.
"Coordination with the State Department is ongoing, and a formal announcement from the Pentagon is expected soon," the official added to Rudaw.
This development follows a mid-April announcement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell, who said the "Secretary of Defense directed the consolidation of U.S. forces in Syria under Combined Joint Task Force — Operation Inherent Resolve to select locations in Syria."
Parnell explained that "this consolidation reflects the significant steps we have made toward degrading [the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ] ISIS's appeal and operational capability regionally and globally." He then added, "This deliberate and conditions-based process will bring the U.S. footprint in Syria down to less than a thousand U.S. forces in the coming months."
"During the last ten years, the [US-led] Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS has made major gains, including those which led to the territorial defeat of ISIS in 2019," the Pentagon chief spokesperson noted. Parnell further emphasized that "as this consolidation takes place," the "U.S. Central Command will remain poised to continue strikes against the remnants of ISIS in Syria."
Following the April 18 announcement by the Pentagon, well-placed sources on the ground informed Rudaw that the US military had begun relocating equipment from the Green Village base and the Omar Oil Field in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, signaling the drawdown’s implementation.
Importantly, the same US defense official clarified on Tuesday that the number of troops in Northeast Syria (Rojava) is not fixed, but are adjusted according to the evolving security situation and could change as conditions evolve.
Late last year, a coalition of opposition groups led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) launched a swift offensive, toppling Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... In the aftermath, the US increased the number of its troops in Syria from 900 to around 2,000, describing the deployment as a temporary measure aimed at preventing ISIS from exploiting the changing security dynamics to regroup.
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[AnNahar] Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... leader Samir Geagea ....Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005.... accused Wednesday the Hezbollah-led camp of trying to delay Paleostinian disarmament and called for a government timetable for removing all illegal Lebanese arms.
"The Hezbollah-led camp is pressuring Lebanese officials to delay the disarmament of Paleostinian camps and inciting some Paleostinian factions to oppose the disarmament," Geagea said in a statement.
A joint Lebanese-Paleostinian committee had agreed last month that the disarmament of the first Paleostinian camps in Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... will begin in mid-June in three Beirut camps, and other camps will follow.
"Any procrastination would show that the government is not serious and would delay the creation of an actual Lebanese state, keeping Lebanon isolated, especially from its Arab friends and obstructing any aid for the reconstruction (of war-hit regions) or for reviving the Lebanese economy," Geagea said, urging the President and the government to start taking serious steps to build a state that has a monopoly on arms and has war and peace decisions "like any other normal state."
Lebanon hosts about 222,000 Paleostinian refugees, according to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... agency UNRWA, many living in 12 overcrowded official camps.
Most are descendants of Paleostinians who fled or were expelled from their land during the creation of Israel in 1948.
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[AnNahar] Syrian Interior Minister Anas Khattab said Wednesday that authorities had seized all production facilities of illicit stimulant captagon, which became Syria's largest export under ousted ruler Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... In an interview with state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, Khattab said that "we were able to stop the production of this drug and seize all the materials and factories that were producing" captagon.
"There are now no more factories producing captagon in Syria," he said.
Most of the factories, which he said numbered in the dozens, were located "in the Damascus countryside and a large number in the Lebanese border area" as well as on the coast.
"Most were in areas under the control of the former Fourth Division," he said, referring to the notorious Syrian army division headed by Assad's brother Maher.
Captagon became Syria's largest export during the civil war that erupted in 2011, and a key source of illicit funding for Assad's government.
Since his overthrow in December, the new Islamist authorities have announced the discovery of millions of captagon pills in warehouses and on military bases.
Last month, authorities said they had thwarted an attempt to smuggle out four million captagon pills, days after seizing another nine million that were headed for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... Neighboring countries also occasionally announce captagon seizures.
"Shipments initially prepared for export have been intercepted" daily, Khattab said, noting Syria has begun coordinating with countries including neighboring Jordan and Turkey as well as Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... -- a key market for the drug
The interior minister also noted other security challenges, including Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group jihadists who according to Khattab had moved from "absurd acts... to studied attacks on strategic targets".
Last month, IS claimed its first attack on Syria's new government forces.
Also last month, Syrian authorities said they arrested members of an Islamic State cell near Damascus, accusing them of preparing attacks, while another anti-IS operation in the northern city of Aleppo saw the death of one security forces officer and three IS members.
Khattab said IS had also attempted "to carry out attacks against the Christian and Shiite community" that the authorities had thwarted.
Once in control of large swathes of Syria and Iraq, IS was territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 largely due to the efforts of Kurdish-led forces supported by an international coalition.
Reported IS attacks in areas controlled by the Syria's Islamist-led authorities have been scarce, while frequent attacks have persisted in areas under Kurdish control in the country's north and northeast.
[IsraelTimes] Syria's new government has agreed to give inspectors from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog access to suspected former nuclear sites immediately, the agency's head told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Demonstrating that they really do intend to be mostly harmless, though as they haven’t anyone with the skills to continue the work it’s truly no loss to give it up.
The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency's director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, spoke in an exclusive interview in Damascus, where he met with President Ahmad al-Sharaa and other officials.
He also said al-Sharaa expressed an interest in pursuing nuclear energy for Syria in the future, adding, "Why not?"
The agency's aim is "to bring total clarity over certain activities that took place in the past that were, in the judgment of the agency, probably related to nuclear weapons," Grossi said. He described the new government as "committed to opening up to the world, to international cooperation" and said he is hopeful of finishing the inspection process within months.
An IAEA team in 2024 visited some sites of interest while former President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... was still in power. Since the fall of Assad in December, the IAEA has been seeking to restore access to sites associated with Syria's nuclear program.
Syria under Assad is believed to have operated an extensive clandestine nuclear program, which included an undeclared nuclear reactor built by North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... in eastern Deir el-Zour province.
The IAEA described the reactor as being "not configured to produce electricity" — raising the concern that Damascus sought a nuclear weapon there by producing weapons-grade plutonium.
The reactor site only became public knowledge after Israel, the Mideast's only nuclear power, launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in 2007 destroying the facility. Syria later leveled the site and never responded fully to the IAEA's questions.
Grossi said inspectors plan to return to the reactor in Deir el-Zour as well as to three other related sites. Other sites under IAEA safeguards include a miniature neutron source reactor in Damascus and a facility in Homs that can process yellow-cake uranium.
"We are trying to narrow down the focus, to those or that one that could be of a real interest," he said.
While there are no indications that there have been releases of radiation from the sites, he said, the watchdog is concerned that "enriched uranium can be lying somewhere and could be reused, could be smuggled, could be trafficked."
He said al-Sharaa — who has courted Western governments since taking power — had shown a "very positive disposition to talk to us and to allow us to carry out the activities we need to."
Apart from resuming inspections, Grossi said the IAEA is prepared to transfer equipment for nuclear medicine and to help rebuild the radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and oncology infrastructure in a health system severely weakened by nearly 14 years of civil war.
"And the president has expressed to me he's interested in exploring, in the future, nuclear energy as well," Grossi said.
A number of other countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Jordan, are pursuing nuclear energy in some form. Grossi said Syria would most likely be looking into small modular reactors, which are cheaper and easier to deploy than traditional large ones.
[GEO.TV] Western allies are planning to file a resolution to the world nuclear watchdog condemning Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... for ''non-compliance'' over its nuclear programme, diplomatic sources told AFP on Thursday.
It is the latest move in years-long efforts to restrict Iran's nuclear activities over fears that it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, which it denies.
The United States and European countries will submit the resolution to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board next week, with the threat of referring the issue to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... , the sources said.
After a recent IAEA report showed ''a general lack of cooperation'' by Tehran, the United States, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany ''are tabling a resolution that will find Iran in non-compliance'' with its nuclear obligations, a senior diplomatic source said.
Recent rounds of talks between the United States and Iran, mediated by Oman, have aimed to secure an agreement on limiting enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief.
Two other diplomats confirmed the resolution initiative in comments to AFP, saying it would ''increase pressure'' on Iran, with a vote scheduled at the IAEA board in Vienna on June 11.
Iran rejected last week's IAEA report, calling it a ''political'' manoeuvre, and accused Israel of contributing ''unreliable and misleading information'' to it.
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...business executive, and former professional wrestling performer. She was the 25th administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019. McMahon has been nominated to lead the Department of Education under the second Trump administration. McMahon, along with her husband, Vince McMahon, founded sports entertainment company Titan Sports, Inc. (later World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.) where she worked as the president and later CEO from 1980 to 2009. During this time, the company grew from a regional business in the northeast to a large multinational corporation. She made occasional on-screen performances, most notably in a feud with her husband that culminated at WrestleMania X-Seven. In 2009, she left World Wrestling Entertainment to run for a seat in the United States Senate from Connecticut as a Republican, but lost to Richard Blumenthal in the 2010 general election. She was the Republican nominee for Connecticut's other Senate seat in the 2012 race, but lost to Chris Murphy because that's the kind of guy people in Connecticutt like best. ...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
