[Rudaw] The joint deployment of Iraqi and Kurdish forces has curtailed 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) activities in the Kurdistan Region’s southernmost reaches, once a hotbed of jihadist activity because of a security gap, the local mayor said on Saturday.
"The movement of armed fighters and sleeper cells of ISIS has ceased in the Kifri border areas, especially after the deployment of a joint brigade regiment equipped with surveillance cameras and advanced security devices, which has had a significant positive impact on eliminating ISIS fighters' movements," Kifri mayor Sahir Ali told Rudaw.
Kifri is part of Sulaimani’s Garmiyan administration and borders federally-held areas. Erbil and Baghdad are working together to close a security vacuum that exists between their areas of control and allows ISIS forces of Evil space to manoeuvre.
Ali said that additional Peshmerga forces are present in the area, particularly in the borders of Nawjul, Ghara, Kariz, and other locations, and that "this provides reassurance to people."
A commander of Peshmerga forces in Garmiyan told Rudaw on the condition of anonymity that "Each Peshmerga brigade in this border has been assigned a specific area to oversee security. Some of these designated areas fall within security vacuum zones."
"Currently, about 80% of the security gaps in Garmiyan have been filled and the majority of these areas are now secured by Peshmerga forces," the commander added. "A joint brigade regiment is stationed on the Garmiyan border, which has been effective, but there remains a security gap of approximately eight to 10 kilometers between this regiment and the Popular Mobilization Forces that hasn't been filled."
[Rudaw] Three people were killed and six were maimed in a boom-mobileing in northern Syria on Saturday, according to reports.
"A boom-mobilewent kaboom! near a position of ’National Army’ factions on al-Rabitah Street in Manbij city in eastern Aleppo, leaving several people injured," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) stated, referring to the Ottoman Turkish-backed militias of the Syrian National Army (SNA).
The White Helmets, a volunteer search and rescue organization, said three people were killed and six were maimed in the earth-shattering kaboom, which also caused two fires.
The perpetrator of the attack has not immediately been identified.
The attack took place on a day of multiple festivities between Kurdish forces and militias in northern Syria.
Fighting has raged between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the SNA in northern Syria for more than a month. The SNA have carried out intense attacks on SDF-held areas near Manbij, including Tishreen Dam and Qere Qozaq bridge on the Euphrates River.
Ten fighters from the SNA were killed on Saturday, according to SOHR.
The Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), affiliated with the SDF, destroyed a "Ottoman Turkish army tank and radar system," the watchdog stated.
An SDF drone also destroyed "a tank and an armored vehicle belonging to the Ottoman Turkish forces," the statement from SOHR added.
[KhaamaPress] Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) has announced that the U.S. State Department has instructed the organization to immediately halt all activities related to U.S. financial assistance due to an executive order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... On Sunday, February 2, NPA issued a statement saying that, following the directive, their mine clearance activities funded by the U.S. were suspended for an 85-day period. These activities, which were carried out in 12 countries, including Afghanistan, have been put on hold as part of the suspension.
Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... the organization emphasized that mine clearance is crucial for reducing global poverty, enhancing security, and promoting economic development and stability and NPA hopes that the new U.S. administration will continue to prioritize this essential work and support demining efforts worldwide.
The organization’s mine clearance operations have been suspended not only in Afghanistan but also in 11 other countries, including Angola, Cambodia, Iraq, Kosovo, Laos, Palau, Peru, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Yemen.
According to the statement, the organization’s mine clearance operations have been suspended not only in Afghanistan but also in 11 other countries, including Angola, Cambodia, Iraq, Kosovo, Laos, Palau, Peru, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Vietnam, 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... We might be considered to owe some level of moral debt to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Ukraine, just because we were at one point involved in a war there, but for the rest it has been a free-will gift. By now they should have their own trained people, and it’s time for them to cultivate their own gardens at their own expense.
The organization reported that in 2023, the world witnessed 7,000 casualties caused by landmines and cluster munitions.
NPA also expressed their intention to engage in discussions with U.S. authorities and other affected stakeholders to explore ways of resuming their work and continuing their mission to create mine-free communities. They are hopeful that these efforts will lead to a safer, more stable future for the affected regions.
The suspension of U.S. foreign aid under Trump’s policies has led to significant disruptions in humanitarian projects worldwide, including mine clearance operations. Organizations that rely on U.S. funding are now faced with the challenge of either halting essential activities or seeking alternative funding sources. This situation highlights the vulnerability of critical global assistance programs to shifts in U.S. foreign policy.
Despite the setbacks caused by the suspension, organizations like NPA remain hopeful that dialogue with the U.S. government will lead to the resumption of funding for their vital projects. The ongoing efforts to clear mines and provide essential support to conflict-affected regions demonstrate the importance of maintaining consistency in international aid, which is crucial for long-term stability and development.
[KhaamaPress] Foreign media reports have revealed that the government of Kyrgyzstan has recently imposed a ban on wearing the Arab-style veil (niqab) in the country. The government has also introduced fines for individuals who wear this clothing in public spaces.
According to Radio Free Europe, Kyrgyzstan, a predominantly Moslem country in Central Asia, has now joined the ranks of other nations in the region by prohibiting the wearing of the niqab, a long garment that covers the body, hair, and face except for the eyes. This ban went into effect on February 1st, with a fine of 20,000 som (about $230) imposed on women who wear the veil in public.
Kyrgyz politicians have argued that the ban is necessary for security reasons, as it allows people’s faces to be visible and helps with identification. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... opponents of the ban argue that it strips women of their freedom to choose their attire, viewing it as a limitation of personal rights.
Previously, Kyrgyzstan was the only country in Central Asia that allowed the niqab in schools and government institutions. However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... with the new legislation, the country has followed in the footsteps of its regional neighbors, such as Tajikistan, which also passed a similar law last year that prohibited the niqab in public spaces, labeling it as foreign attire.
In recent years, Central Asian countries have been focusing more on reviving their indigenous cultures and traditions, particularly in clothing and cultural celebrations. These nations have taken steps to limit the influence of foreign cultures, such as the Arab-style clothing, in favor of promoting local customs and heritage.
The ban on the Arab-style veil in Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian nations reflects broader efforts to preserve cultural identity and regulate foreign influences. While governments argue that such measures are necessary for security and social cohesion, they also raise debates about individual freedoms and the role of tradition in shaping modern society.
[ToloNews] Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... , former US president,
…and current US president, a thought that ought to give such as the Taliban pause…
once again emphasized the significance of Bagram Airbase for the United States, stating that the strategic airbase in Afghanistan is now under China's control.
Trump highlighted that Bagram's proximity to China makes it crucial for the US. He stated: "I was getting out, but I was going to keep Bagram. Right now, China has Bagram. I was going to keep one of the biggest airbases in the world, they left it."
This is not the first time Trump has stressed the importance of Bagram Airbase for the US. Previously, during his election campaigns, he had criticized the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and pledged that if re-elected, he would reclaim the base.
However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... US policy towards Afghanistan and its future relationship with the interim government remain uncertain.
Mohammad Ameen Karim, a political analyst, told TOLOnews: "Their priority is the release of three American citizens from Afghanistan, but reclaiming Bagram Airbase is nothing more than a dream, an illusion, and madness. It will never happen again."
The Islamic Emirate has not commented on Trump's recent remarks. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... in an exclusive interview with TOLOnews, the acting foreign minister had previously rejected any possibility of handing over Bagram Airbase to the US.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting foreign minister, had stated: "Even if they recognize us and rebuild all of Afghanistan, not just Bagram, we will not give them even a meter of land. This is the stance of the Emirate and the people."
Sayed Qareebullah Sadat, another political analyst, said: "The Americans think only of their own interests. We, the people of Afghanistan, should also focus on our national interests and how we can meet the needs of our own people."
Bagram Airbase, located in Parwan province in northern Afghanistan, was the largest US military base in the country during its two-decade-long military presence.
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Sarah Adams says that there is at least one of our bases in each province that AQ is using to train foriegn fighters in large numbers for simultaneous attacks against unknown American and European interests. Osama’s oldest son married one of Mullah Omar’s daughters merging AQ with the Taliban. The Biden Admin set up weekly deliveries of between $40M-80M to the AQ-Taliban leadership for antiterrorist activities. Hate the Biden’s more now?
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maybe we could trade them several thousand PRIDE flags in exchange for the air base
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From what I understand, forcing PRIDE into the local population poisoned the population against the, um, nation building effort.
Saw a video of some advanced students, learned American English and everything, receiving a lecture about 'Western Art and Philosophy' from the PRIDE viewpoint, all stereotypes confirmed, and the all women class was rolling their eyes harder than a game of Risk.
Could see them in real time reject the message as if you hate yourself so much, why should we follow you? And you know what, I hate Duchamp too.
A very incomplete collection of whatever articles I happened across while collecting the usual mostly WoT articles for Rantburg. I’ve seen claims that even before President Trump announced that anti-Israel/anti-Jewish foreign campus agitators would lose their visas and sent home, following the summer break there were fewer incidents, but I have not spent the time to research the subject.
In the final days of the Biden administration, the federal Department of Education has resolved a small number of its many remaining Title VI cases involving allegations of antisemitic and anti-Palestinian discrimination.
The resolutions at the University of Washington, Emory University, Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and Howard County Public Schools in Maryland come in the waning days of the administration’s closely scrutinized handling of campus issues during the Israel-Hamas war.
The Trump administration will now take over a portfolio that includes dozens more outstanding cases. Trump has signaled hostility to both higher education and public education, and has even floated the idea of shuttering the Department of Education altogether.
A new institute dedicated to eradicating Israel has been founded by a collective of elite professors. But some pro-Israel academics have blown their whistle, with one vocal member likening the institute to a “terrorist think tank” that should be reformed.
The Institute for Critical Zionism Studies (ICSZ) was founded in 2023 by former Sarah Lawrence professor Emmaia Gelman — a self described Irish-Jewish queer New Yorker who is known to have cheered for Hamas in a protest the day after October 7th and who is known to justify Palestinian violence against Israelis as retribution.
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EXCLUSIVE: Amy Wax has sued the University of Pennsylvania for race discrimination, arguing that Penn punishes speech that offends racial minorities but not speech that offends Jews.
Here is a table from the complaint, which was filed in federal court this morning.🧵 pic.twitter.com/mIdKNDftfs
An investigation into an Oakland, California English teacher’s conduct recently concluded he created a “divisive” and “unwelcoming” environment for Jewish students. The independent probe found Arvind Reddy of Montera Middle School had “posted ‘antisemitic materials’ in and near his classroom” during the previous school year, The Jewish News of Northern California reports. The posters (pictured) — which Reddy “refused to take down” — read “END GENOCIDE NOW,” “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and Nelson Mandela’s quote “Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
Harvard settles 2 lawsuits over antisemitism on campus
Among other commitments, university to adopt International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, report its responses to harassment for next five years, form official partnership with a university in Israel instead of divesting.
Both lawsuits accused Harvard of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars federal funds recipients from allowing discrimination based on race, religion and national origin. The settlements include unspecified monetary terms. Harvard did not admit wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.
Students Against Antisemitism, a Harvard group, sued last January, accusing Harvard of selectively enforcing its anti-discrimination policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment, ignoring their pleas for protection, and hiring professors who supported anti-Jewish violence and spread antisemitic propaganda.
Then in June, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education filed another lawsuit accusing the university of ignoring campus antisemitism.
The lead plaintiff in the SAA lawsuit, Shabbos Kestenbaum, has refused to accept the settlement and intends to continue litigation on his own, the Crimson reported.
American Historical Association Council vetoes resolution about ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza
The council of the American Historical Association (AHA) vetoes a resolution passed earlier this month condemning Israel’s “scholasticide” in Gaza. The resolution, which was approved 428-88 at the AHA’s annual conference, accused Israel of intentionally destroying the Palestinian enclave’s education system amid the 15-month war against Hamas. However, that resolution was subject to the approval of the AHA council. Last Friday, the council concluded that the measure “contravenes the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws, because it lies outside the scope of the Association’s mission and purpose.”
The average United Auto Workers training session involves discussions on how members can negotiate strong health programs, meet federal safety standards, and investigate work accidents. For UAW chapter 4811, which serves the University of California, it involves a panel with the Palestinian Youth Movement, a leading anti-Israel group that's organized protests across the country condemning the "brutal US-Israeli genocide."
The chapter held that panel last summer as part of "four days of classes, conversations, and workshops" through which "members learned about the critical tasks ahead of us: winning strong contracts, helping hundreds of thousands of new workers form unions, and continuing to fight for justice in Palestine." Those classes came in the wake of a UAW-backed strike within the UC system that centered not on wage or working hour disputes but rather on the arrests of illegal anti-Israel protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles, months prior.
The ordeal reflects the growing influence unions like the UAW and American Federation of Teachers have on anti-Israel campus unrest. Those unions typically represent graduate students who work for their universities—a far cry from the high-paid administrators who determine school rules. And yet, they've increasingly provided institutional support for controversial activism.
Those grad students, Frank notes, launched a strike in 2022 to obtain significant increases in wages, childcare subsidies, and paid leave—provisions that he said are "bankrupting the University of California." Shortly thereafter, "they tried to go on strike again, but this time, it's for the right to discriminate against Jews with these protests."
A similar dynamic has emerged at the University of Michigan. There, the Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO), which also represents grad student workers, has promoted and endorsed anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns on campus. It's done so in part thanks to support from the American Federation of Teachers, the country's second-largest teachers' union, which provides the GEO with legal defense and strategic support and collects 18 percent of union dues in exchange.
Columbia University identifies 2 more activists who disrupted Israeli professor’s class
Masked anti-Israel activists barged into Professor Avi Shilon’s class on modern Israeli history last week, on the first day of the spring semester, accusing the lesson of fomenting “genocide.” The university said last week that it had identified one of the protesters, a “Columbia participant.”
The university says in a statement that its investigation into the incident has identified two more of the activists. The protesters are not Columbia students, but “from an affiliated institution,” the statement says. The protesters have been barred from Columbia’s campus and “referred to their home institution for further investigation and discipline,” the university says.
The affiliate institutions in this case are Barnard, Union Theological Seminary, and Teachers College. In addition to condemning the behavior, the school's interim president has also discussed the possibility of bringing NYPD officers back onto the campus. Finally, there is also a new effort to create a mask policy on campus which would prevent activists from hiding their identities when they pull these stunts.
NY governor condemns NYC university system’s faculty union for Israel boycott vote
Resolution passed by CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress, representing 30,000 members, puts organization at odds with the university administration and state government. The union, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), has been a battleground for anti-Israel activism for years. Jewish professors said the boycott resolution was the latest discriminatory measure by the union, their sole labor representation. The resolution also divided the union’s delegate assembly, the governing body that voted on the measure.
The resolution passed PSC’s delegate assembly by a close vote of 73-70, on January 23, the union confirmed. The union’s executive council and principal officers opposed the resolution, the PSC told The Times of Israel.
OSU student protesters target Israeli veterans wounded on October 7
Ohio State University activists led by the campus branch of Students for Justice in Palestine demonstrate against lecture by 2 soldiers hurt in Hamas attack who are on Belev Echad American campus tour. The protest gained attention among pro-Israel students, causing attendance at the IDF veterans’ lecture to swell. The morning of the event, 45 attendees had registered, but around 130 showed up.
“We didn’t know what to expect,” Saar Arie told The Times of Israel in a phone interview, recounting how he and Maya Desiatnik arrived to find around 60 protesters outside the event in Columbus.
“The first couple seconds I was halfway scared, but after I saw the security at the place and I saw all of the great people that came to support us I wasn’t scared anymore,” he said.
Columbia anti-Israel protesters post ‘anonymous’ video of activists blocking campus sewage lines
Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University in New York City post a video of activists vandalizing the campus by spraying red paint on a building and blocking campus sewage lines. Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student groups led by the campus branches of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, posts the video showing a vandal dousing Columbia’s Kravis Hall with red paint. The video also shows what appears to be a row of blocked toilets. Text accompanying the post says the bathroom is at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
U of Michigan suspends Students for Justice in Palestine’s local chapter for 2 years
A pro-Palestinian group at the University of Michigan has been suspended for two years and will lose its funding in connection with protesters’ demands for divestiture from companies doing business with Israel. Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, also known as SAFE, was accused of violating the university’s standards of conduct for recognized student organizations following a protest last spring outside a regent’s home and a demonstration without school permission on its Ann Arbor campus.
2 High School Basketball Coaches Fired for Antisemitism and Pro-Hamas flags: Denver
[ToniAiraksinen] A Colorado School is facing backlash after their Palestinian baseball coach refused to shake hands with Jewish students on the opposing team, and another staffer also showed up to the Jewish school and decked out the rafters with keffiyehs and Palestinian flags with him.
The basketball game happened on the 22th of January, and many of my readers in the Denver area sent the story to me. Their —“Coach O”, also known as Samir Omar —arrived in a Lotus School uniform and keffiyeh has been fired (as well as Sami Jabai, another coach who wore a keffiyeh).
“The coaches were suspended for 1 day until the end of the investigation, and as of last Friday morning, January 24th, both were fired,” said Lotus School Executive Director Mehmet Nalcaci in an email he sent at 4:45pm EST Wednesday.
According to Lotus School executive director Mehmet Nalcaci, two coaches wore a keffiyeh and a Palestinian scarf flag, which may have triggered the events.
“As a public charter school, Lotus School for Excellence (LSE) does not encourage or tolerate the display of any political or religious symbols.
Encourge, Mehmet? Perhaps not. But clearly both of your coaches believed their display was tolerated or they would not have done it.
In response, we took immediate action and suspended the high school basketball coach and his assistant, both of whom are hourly part-time staff and not full-time employees.”
[IsraelTimes] In addition to fresh antisemitic vandalism in Sydney, a home in Perth on the other edge of Australia has similarly been targeted with anti-Jewish graffiti and a swastika, according to local media.
[IsraelTimes] Cars and houses in Sydney have been daubed in antisemitic graffiti, police said early Sunday, the latest in a string of incidents targeting Jews in Australia’s biggest city.
The spate of attacks in recent months has alarmed the country’s Jewish community, drawn criticism from Israel and placed pressure on the government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who faces re-election in polls that must be held by May.
In the latest incident, police say that vehicles and residences were damaged with antisemitic graffiti in Sydney’s east, an area with a significant Jewish community, overnight.
“Crime scenes have been established,” police say in a statement, a day after they doubled to 40 the number of officers in a special task force set up in December to target antisemitic crime in the country’s most populous state of New South Wales.
David Ossip, president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, says in the attack “cars and homes were defaced with hate speech for the sole purpose of intimidating and terrorizing the Jewish community and destabilizing Sydney’s social harmony.”
Another bad night in Sydney. More antisemitic vandalism in Kingsford and a petrol can found in a vehicle in Rose Bay after a police pursuit. Further evidence of a situation out of control. pic.twitter.com/bVTIFw8f3O
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It's amazing that a country that was able to find people going outside for a walk during the COVID tyranny can't seem to find the people committing these acts.
Australia has turned into a clownshow seemingly overnight.
[IsraelTimes] Thirty-seven patients were transferred from Gaza to Egypt on Saturday via the Rafah border crossing after it reopened for the first time since May 2024, the director-general of the World Health Organization says.
The patients, 34 children and three adults, were transferred to Egypt for continued medical treatment, says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X.
“We are grateful to the government of Egypt for their continued support and for providing specialised care to patients from Gaza,” he adds, calling for medical evacuations “to be expedited through all possible routes.”
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So when are they coming back for the rest of them?
Let them escape with their caretakers — it’s what something like 75% of the population has wanted to do for years, and it’s what President Trump is pushing. The more who leave now, the fewer for Hamas to hold hostage later.
[IsraelTimes] Iran test-fired an anti-warship cruise missile with a range of 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) capable of reaching US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman, Iranian state TV reports.
“This is a Ghadr-380 mile type L. It has over 1,000 kilometers range. It has anti-jamming capability,” said Gen. Ali Reza Tangsiri, the head of the navy of the Revolutionary Guard, in a report that shows an underground missile facility on the southern coast of Iran.
The report elaborates neither on the warhead that the missile carried, nor the time of the test.
Tangsiri said the facility is “only one part of the missile systems of the Guard,” adding that the missiles can create “a hell for the enemy’s warships.”
The report says the new weapon was a “sophisticated missile,” without elaborating, which could be launched from the underground facility. The missile was launched from central Iran into the Sea of Oman, it says.
It claims the missile can be made ready and launched by one member of personnel in less than five minutes.
Since 2011 Iran has occasionally announced the inauguration of underground missile facilities along with missile tests. It has boasted of underground facilities across the country as well as along the southern coast near the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Iran claims to have missiles that can travel 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles), placing much of the Middle East, including Israel, within range.
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Gotta have spotters or GPS directional over that range.
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It interesting to see Grenell in the Armitage role of designated threatener.
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How to Speak Persians
It has over 1,000 kilometers range
It goes really far but has a CEP the size of North Africa. We will be lucky to hit the ocean.
It has anti-jamming capability
In the sense of having nothing to jam because the missile has no guidance. It flies to its target by the Will of Alan(bees pee upon him).
the new weapon was a “sophisticated missile
We finally got it working, praise be to Alan(more bees).
the missile can be made ready and launched by one member of personnel in less than five minutes
It is a solid fuel missle which means it is ready to go. There is only one button so it can be launched by any monkey with a thumb.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF acknowledges that it did not kill the commander of Hamas’s Shati Battalion in December 2023, after Palestinian media reported that Haitham Hawajri was among those who handed over hostage Keith Siegel to the Red Cross today.
In a statement, the IDF says that after Hawajri was targeted on December 3, 2023, “it was determined with a high level of probability by the IDF and Shin Bet that he had been eliminated, following which an IDF spokesperson statement on the subject was issued.”
“After further examination, it emerged that the intelligence finding on which the Intelligence Directorate and Shin Bet relied was not correct and the terrorist was not eliminated in this strike,” the military says.
Last month, the IDF acknowledged that it did not kill the commander of Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion as it had previously announced.
In October, the IDF said that a previous announcement on the elimination of the commander of Hamas’s Tel Sultan Battalion was incorrect, but he was killed in a separate strike.
[IsraelTimes] Israelis rallied on behalf of hostages held in the Gaza Strip Saturday as they whiplashed between jubilation for three more captives released hours earlier and worries for the fates of dozens yet to be released from hellish, subhuman conditions.
With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to meet US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... in Washington this week, both the main hostage rally and a weekly protest featured appeals from relatives of hostages thanking the American leader and demanding that the Israeli premier not allow pressure from far-right political allies to scuttle the ceasefire and hostage release deal reached with 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... ’s Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group.
"Today we were filled with joy and hope to see families reunited," Romi Cohen, twin sister of hostage soldier Nimrod Cohen, told the Hostage Square gathering. "This was only possible because of the deal, it is the result of a massive 15-month effort by everyone, especially President Trump and the negotiating team."
"Keep fighting," she urged the crowd. "Don’t let the deal collapse before everyone comes home."
Hamas has so far released 18 hostages — civilians, soldiers and Thai nationals — during a ceasefire that began on January 19, including the three men freed on Saturday: Keith Siegel, Ofer Calderon and Yarden Bibas.
Seventy-six of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
Plans are in place for the release of at least 20 more hostages under the first phase of the deal, but negotiations for the release of the rest under future stages are only set to begin this week.
Netanyahu, facing pressure from right-wing allies to end the ceasefire and resume battling Hamas, has reportedly asked the Israel Defense Forces to draw up plans for restarting the 15-month-old war, Channel 13 news said Saturday.
At an anti-government protest for the hostages outside Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, relatives of hostages accused Netanyahu of already laying the groundwork to torpedo the deal but spin the move so Hamas is blamed.
#1
Taking hostages was Hamas' key decision that not only ensured its survival but also maintained its and its sponsors' political power and relevance after 10/7.
This establishes a dangerous precedent.
The West should be on alert for the danger of attacks that enable the transfer of hundreds, if not thousands of Western civilians to the custody of avowed enemies.
Cruise ships and tourist infrastructure in dangerous locations would be vulnerable to such attacks.
Also there could be abductions of traveling individuals or families. Or even abductions of ordinary residents of Western nations to adversarial countries.
I cannot pass judgment over people who are in a situation I've never experienced, but objectively this creates dangerous incentives.
Rat bastards. Get as many hostages home as possible, Bibi, then make them pay.
[IsraelTimes] Reports say Bibas, Ofer Calderon were beaten, held in cages during early days of captivity; Keith Siegel says food was scarce, had to eat meat to survive despite being vegetarian
Released hostage Yarden Bibas was taunted by his Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... captors about the fate of his wife and children during his nearly 16 months in captivity, Hebrew media outlets reported Saturday upon his return to Israel on the 14th day of the ceasefire-hostage deal.
Bibas, 35, was released by Hamas on Saturday morning along with Ofer Calderon, 54, in a handover in southern 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... ’s Khan Younis. American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, 65, was released almost two hours later at the Gaza City port.
Bibas was maimed and kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion and massacre in southern Israel.
His wife Shiri and their two sons were taken separately. At the time, Kfir was 10 months old and Ariel was 4.
Hours after their abduction, a video circulated of Shiri, holding both boys in her arms, a look of terror on her face as she was surrounded by terrorists. The footage became a symbol of the cruelty of the Hamas-led onslaught.
Hamas claimed last year that Shiri and the two children had been killed in captivity, and while Israel has not confirmed the claim, it has expressed "grave concern" for their fate and last week reportedly demanded that the terror group clarify their condition, to no avail.
Upon Bibas’s return to Israel on Saturday, the Kan public broadcaster reported that he had been subjected to grave psychological abuse throughout his captivity, including an incident in which he was compelled to film a video after his captors told him that his wife and young children had been killed in an IDF Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... The Hamas operatives would talk to him incessantly about his family, Kan reported, adding that he was now "clinging to hope" about their fate.
Freed hostage Nili Margalit, who spent nearly 50 days in Hamas captivity, revealed in December 2023 that she was with Bibas when Hamas gunnies told him his wife and two young children had been killed and ordered him to film a video in which he accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of refusing to return their bodies to Israel. It was branded a "propaganda video" by the IDF, and was not published by Israeli media.
Bibas spent the early days of his captivity held alongside Calderon, and learned Arabic. Over the course of the 484 days he spent in captivity, he was transferred from place to place in Khan Younis, moving between homes and tunnels, the report said.
Both men were subjected to physical and mental abuse, the report said. They were beaten by terrorists, and held in cages. They have said, however, that they watched coverage of the campaign in Israel for the release of the hostages, and were able to draw strength and hope from it.
Following Bibas’s release, his cousin Oriah told Channel 12 that he had lost weight, and that his family hoped to one day see him smile again.
Calderon, a dual French-Israeli national, was treated by his captors like an IDF reserve soldier, Kan reported. This treatment was evident upon Calderon’s release, as he appeared dressed in military-style clothing, similar to the outfits worn by the five female IDF soldiers released in recent days.
Calderon was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz along with two of his four children, Erez and Sahar, who were later released during a week-long truce in November 2023.
Upon Calderon’s release, his mother Kochi told Channel 12 that he looked "more or less okay," even if "a little thin and pale."
Kan said that Calderon had asked the IDF soldiers accompanying him back to Israel for a beer, but was advised not to do so until his health improved.
While Bibas and Calderon were held in southern Gaza, American-Israeli citizen Siegel was held in Gaza City along with other hostages, Kan reported.
He was mostly moved from house to house, but spent some time in the terror group’s underground tunnel network, the report said. His captors kept him out of sight by locking him in a room. He spent many months in captivity uncertain as to whether his son Shai had survived the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Eventually, however, he heard him speaking on the radio.
According to the report, Siegel has said that food was extremely scarce. His captors would occasionally give him meat, which he ate despite being a vegetarian, as he knew he needed it to survive.
The report said that he was last given food some 24 hours before his release.
The families of the freed hostages have recounted that their loved ones were frequently told they were "going home tomorrow," and that their captors would give them food and then take it away again while laughing at them.
The constant taunting meant that when the hostages were finally informed that they were going to be released as part of the ceasefire deal, they didn’t believe their captors were telling the truth up until the last minute, Channel 12 reported.
Similar testimony was said to have been shared by the five Thai hostages released on Thursday outside of the framework of the ceasefire deal. They also asserted that their captors would give them false hope by telling them from time to time that their release was imminent.
Some of the freed hostages were subject to heavy violence, Channel 12 said, and were handcuffed for long periods. Some were put into cages for "opposing the terrorists," and others were held in humid tunnels with little air for long periods.
The news outlet also reported on Saturday that one of the female hostages released earlier in the ongoing ceasefire-hostage deal had assessed that Hamas did not seem to have been badly hurt by the war with Israel.
The freed hostage said that she and the other captives were transferred smoothly from house to house; there was only one mess-up when she saw another hostage in the street. All in all, she said she had the sense that Hamas was being run professionally.
So far, 13 Israelis have been released as part of the ceasefire-hostage release deal, which mandates the release of 33 so-called "humanitarian hostages" during its first 42-day phase.
As those hostages are gradually released, Israel is to release some 1,904 Paleostinian security prisoners, including more than 100 serving life sentences for deadly terror attacks. Ninety security prisoners were to be freed Saturday, nine of them believed to be gunnies serving life terms.
The three-phase deal’s later stages are subject to negotiations with the stated goal of reaching a "sustainable calm" in the enclave, alongside the release of the remaining hostages held in Gaza, the release of more Paleostinian security prisoners and an Israeli withdrawal from the Strip.
The second stage of the three-part deal is supposed to result in the release of all remaining living hostages not included in the first stage — mainly men of fighting age — but the sides must still hash out the number and identities of Paleostinian prisoners to be let go as part of the deal.
The talks on the next stage are slated to begin no later than February 3, or 16 days after the deal went into effect. Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... are scheduled to meet in the White House on February 4.
The freed hostages are among 251 Israelis and foreigners kidnapped on October 7, 2023, when some 3,000 Hamas-led gunnies burst into Israel, killing some 1,200 people, amid rampant acts of brutality and overt targeting of civilians.
[Garowe] Elite troops guarding Villa Somalia, the official residence and office of the president, shot down one of the two drones sighted over the building, in what could raise serious security concerns in one of the most protected areas in the country.
According to officials, the two drones were hovering around the vicinity of the building but the presidential guards managed to bring one down. It is not clear who were the owners of the gadgets and the immediate mission around the palace.
The airspace within the residence is not public leading to the immediate response by the security forces, who are tasked to guard the president of Somalia. No single group has taken responsibility for the incident which happened on Friday evening.
This comes at the time reports indicate that hard boy groups - ISIS and al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... have begun using drones to carry out kabooms. While ISIS forces of Evil are predominantly stationed in Public states, al-Shabaab is mostly in central and southern regions.
[Garowe] The federal state of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... shall extend the crackdown against the IS-Somalia murderous Moslems by targeting their sympathizers, regional leader Said Abdullahi Deni said while recognizing the sacrifices by the military teams engaging the fighters.
Deni, who ordered for activation of Operation Lightning, said the military teams on the frontlines had made significant progress in pursuing the IS-Somalia bully boys, adding that most strategic towns are now in the custody of local forces.
"After defeating ISIS, we will hunt down its sympathizers who hold misguided beliefs and are hiding in the cities," said Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni, speaking at the passing out parade of army recruits in Bosaso.
However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Deni, who visited the Bari region, the epicenter of the bully boys, called on the people not to harm those seeking a better life in Puntland and directed security agencies to take responsible and effective action against bandidosbully boyz hiding among foreign nationals arriving and residing in Puntland.
Locals have been working closely with the regional troops, frogmarching those believed to be associates of the ISIS bully boys. At least 300 people have been arrested for further interrogation, the majority of them believed to be foreigners.
He praised the troops for their bravery in fighting ISIS, specifically highlighting their successful operations in the Cal-Miskaad mountain caves where they defeated the group in a short period.
The operations saw the local forces intercept at least 12 drones used by the IS-Somalia bully boys, with the military killing at least 15 murderous Moslems who are suspected to have been coordinating attacks against innocent civilians in the northern state of Somalia.
Puntland has made this milestone without support from the federal government, which has, however, lauded the forces for their successes. Puntland is one of the most stable states in Somalia but has lately been battling infiltration of the violent mostly peaceful krazed killer groups in the region.
[ShabelleMedia] In an effort to secure its military operations against Islamic State (ISIS) strongholds in the Al-Miskat mountains, Puntland has prohibited media outlets from communicating with the group, the region’s Information Minister Mahmoud Aydiid Dirir announced on Saturday.
The decision aims to safeguard operational secrecy and ensure that journalists adhere to official guidelines during this critical phase of the campaign, according to a statement.
Key points of the media restrictions include:
No access to conflict zones without explicit permission.
Information on military activities must be sourced exclusively from government channels.
Travel to battlefronts is off-limits without clearance from the Information Ministry.
Dirir underscored the importance of these measures in protecting the lives of reporters and maintaining the confidentiality of military strategies as Puntland’s forces strive to dismantle ISIS enclaves.
[ShabelleMedia] On Friday, the Somali National Army (SNA), in close collaboration with local communities, continued its strategic military operations targeting al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... bases in central Somalia. The joint operation is focused on the area between Bulobarde District and Halgan village, key regions that have seen heightened holy warrior activity in recent months.
Speaking exclusively to Somali National Television (SNTV), Army officials confirmed that the operation has made significant strides, with several key milestones achieved in weakening the presence of snuffies in the region. The SNA has successfully targeted and dismantled several al-Shabaab strongholds, with reports indicating heavy losses among the holy warriors.
A bit bare of details, but we are to be assured that the fight against Al Shabaab continues.
[IsraelTimes] Military says strikes targeted armed terror operatives amid ongoing operation in northern West Bank
The Israeli military on Saturday said it carried out two dronezaps on terror operatives in the northern West Bank, with Paleostinians reporting four people killed and several others maimed.
One dronezap targeted a group of armed Paleostinian terror operatives in the Jenin area in the northern West Bank, the army said. Another strike, in the city of Qabatiya, near Jenin, targeted a car with several terror operatives in it.
The military said that further details would be provided later.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry reported two dead in the dronezap in Jenin and another two dead in the strike in Qabatiya. Paleostinian officials said the strike in Jenin killed a 14-year-old.
Two other people were also taken to a hospital after being maimed in the Jenin attack, according to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy.
The strikes came amid a major counter-terrorism operation in the northern West Bank.
Jenin governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told AFP that the teenager, Ahmad Sadi, and the two others "were hit by an occupation drone when they were in the street."
The ongoing IDF offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, has primarily focused on the city and refugee camp of Jenin but on Monday expanded to Tulkarem.
Visiting Jenin Wednesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed the IDF would remain in the camp even after the military operation there, "to ensure terror does not return."
The West Bank has seen a surge in violence since Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel out of 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... Strip ignited the war there.
Since then troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 858 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or bully boyz carrying out attacks.
There has also been a significant uptick in settler violence against Paleostinians since the start of the war.
During the same period, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Troops of the Bislamach Brigade — the IDF’s School for Infantry Corps Professions and Squad Commanders in peacetime — entered the town overnight, and have so far located several weapons, the military says.
Last week, a drone strike in Tamun killed 10 Palestinian terror operatives.
The ongoing IDF offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, has primarily focused on the city and refugee camp of Jenin but also expanded to Tulkarem last week and now to Tamun.
IDF says it targeted 3 West Bank terror cells in strikes last night, including freed prisoner
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it targeted Palestinian terrorists in three separate aerial strikes within several hours in the northern West Bank last night, including a cell that was on its way to carry out an imminent attack, confirming that it took out a prisoner set free as part of a 2023 deal with Hamas.
The military says the strike on the cell on its way to carry out a terror attack occurred in Qabatiya, with secondary explosions observed as a result of bombs that were in the car going off.
That strike, the IDF says, killed terror operatives Salah Zakarneh and Abd al-Hadi Kamil, the latter of whom was released as part of a hostage deal in November 2023.
The IDF publishes footage of the Qabatiya strike.
Video can be seen at the link.
The two other strikes occurred in Jenin, the army says, adding that they targeted two armed terror cells.
The Palestinian Authority health ministry reported two killed in the Qabatiya strike, two killed in one of the Jenin strikes, and 16-year-old Ahmad al-Sadi killed in the other Jenin strike along with others critically wounded.
Alawneh had been previously detained by Israel, and was released in the November 2023 hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.
He is the fourth Palestinian released in the November 2023 deal to have been killed by Israel.
A separate drone strike in Jenin this evening killed three more Palestinians, according to media reports.
المقــاوم عبد عصام عــلاونة، أحد الأسرى الذين حررتهم المـــقاومة خلال اتفاق تبادل التهدئة بالحرب عام 2023، واستشـــهد قبل قليل بقصف طيران الاحتلال مركبة في بلدة قباطية جنوب جنين. pic.twitter.com/Ks6ROJjfXs
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He is the fourth Palestinian released in the November 2023 deal to have been killed by Israel.
Random coincidence, or is someone keeping a list?
Given the huge number of Paleos that have been arrested for violent misbehavior and subsequently released as part of some deal, it may be impossible to swing a cat without hitting one. One the other hand, there is historical precedent for hunting such creatures down. Paging Mr. Wiesenthal to the white courtesy phone.
As for the bowl haircut, Moe Howard went pretty far with one. And from an image processing/target-acquisition point of view, it gives a nice sharp high contrast edge to lock on to.
[PJMedia] The decades-long Nigerian genocide continues with ever more escalation of Islamic jihadi violence against Christians, which continues to make Nigeria the deadliest place in the world to be Christian.
The genocidal violence in Nigeria, ongoing since around 2009, has killed 60,000+ Christians and displaced tens of millions over the years. Yet the Biden administration removed Nigeria from the list of Countries of Particular Concern that have "severe violations of religious freedom." Hopefully, Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... will reverse that and finally recognize the horrendous persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Indeed, in 2023, the sobering statistics are that Nigerians accounted for an estimated 82% of Christians killed globally for their faith.
Unfortunately, most Westerners only seem to care about jihad-loving Gazooks. When Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... operatives are killed in Gazoo, there are marches and protests and aid donations and political furor. Not so for Christians daily persecuted and murdered in numerous countries across Africa, South America, and Asia (including in Gaza). That would require woke Westerners to admit that Islam and Communism are the two ideologies most responsible for the severe persecution of Christians worldwide.
From International Christian Concern’s (ICC) Persecution.org, Jan. 24:
Boko Haram is escalating attacks on Christian communities in Chibok, Borno state, displacing more than 4,000 Christians in recent days. In a series of coordinated raids, Boko Haram targeted the Christian villages of Njila, Banziir, Shikarkir, and Yirmirmug, burning homes, torching churches, and killing five people.
During the most recent attack on Monday, terrorists descended on Shikarkir and Yirmirmug in the early morning, displacing more than 1,500 residents.
Eyewitnesses reported that Boko Haram militants targeted Christians during these raids, intimidating them and demanding they convert to Islam or face death. The violence destroyed Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa, a church, and the loss of livestock, food supplies, and livelihoods.
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Sometimes 'turn the other cheek' is not a survival strategy.
Onward, Christian soldiers,
marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
going on before!
Christ, the royal Master,
leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
see his banner go!
[AmGreatness] Schumer faces scrutiny over past threats to justices, while Trump dismantles DEI, deports migrants, and strikes ISIS, signaling a shift in Washington’s priorities.
Senator Chuck Schumer is a lawyer, so presumably he is familiar with the provisions of 18 U.S. Code § 115. In case he has forgotten—after all, there are a lot of statutes to keep track of—Edward R. Martin, Jr., the Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney, is in the process of reminding him.
Among other things, that statute holds that anyone who threatens a federal government official or their family with the "intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties," shall be punished with a term in the slammer, the length of the sentence being dependent on the actual harm caused.
When the Supreme Court was hearing an abortion case in March 2020, Schumer showed up at a protest rally in front of the Court and shouted, "I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price."
That was the FA stage.
Perhaps Nicholas John Roske had that speech in mind in June 2022. It was then that he traveled from California to Maryland to pay the Kavanaughs a visit. It was not intended to be a friendly visit. In the dead of night, he took a taxi to their home. According to the court filing, he carried a suitcase in which was a "black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crowbar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items."
When apprehended, Roske admitted that he had come to kill Brett Kavanaugh. I wonder what Chuck Schumer thought of that. It looks like Edward Martin is going to find out. On Friday, Martin announced not only that he was firing more than two dozen federal prosecutors; he also announced that he was opening an investigation into Schumer for his threats against two U.S. Supreme Court justices. For most mortals, issuing such threats would earn one a visit from the authorities. As a paid-up member of the Washington elite, Senator Schumer doubtless thought he was exempt from all such rules. Until January 20, he probably was.
But now FO is on the table. The honourable senator from NY would have been perfectly safe had he made the threat on the Senate floor, but he chose to emote in the street, in front of a crowd of hysterical persuadables who broadcast his words to the world.
A lot of things began to change that day. If you visit the personal data hoovering site known as Google, you will be informed that, beginning yesterday, February 1, we are in the midst of a month-long feria denominated "Black History Month." The Pentagon used to celebrate such racially informed pseudo-celebrations as well. But our new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, put a stop to that right speedily. On Friday, he issued a "Guidance" memorandum titled Identity Months Dead at DoD. Since singling out certain groups for celebration is bad for unity and morale, Hegseth reasoned, the cornucopia of "diversity" months that has covered public calendars like fungi is at an end. "Going forward," we read,
DoD Components and Military Departments will not use official resources, to include man-hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, including National African American/Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month [! who knew?], Pride Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month.
Is the page on all that woke insanity really turning? I think it might be. Within hours of taking office, Donald Trump pounded a stake into the heart of federal DEI initiatives with an executive order prohibiting them. Among other things, that means no more putting your preferred pronouns in your official correspondence. Thank God for that. As Senator John Kennedy put it, "They/them are now was/were." The mask having been ripped off all these absurdities, they will shrivel and waste away in the cold light of day of what Trump hailed as the "revolution of common sense." The nonsense will not be easy to revive.
Elsewhere, Trump is repatriating illegal migrants, freeing hostages, and bringing water back to Southern California, "putting people above fish" (in this case, the tiny Delta Smelt). It also looks like the market in caves in Somalia has taken a serious hit. Yesterday, Trump ordered air strikes against "the Senior Isis attack planner and other terrorists" who were hiding in caves in that ravaged country. The troglodytes, Trump said, threatened the United States. Ergo, he
destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did! The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that "WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!"
The ancien régime just hates it when Trump talks like that. The aspersions cast upon his political opponents, the braggadocio, the typographic bravado—it’s just not the way official Washington is supposed to sound.
Not, that was, until January 20. Expect a lot more where that came from. I for one, am deeply grateful for it.
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Welcome to "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." KJV
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A case on Schumer before a DC judge with a DC jury is going nowhere.
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^The process is the punishment.
I would remind Rantburg of the three basic laws of politics.
1) "He who makes the exceptions has real power." So you want your friends in those positions. President, governor, district attorney, and county sherif are all good ones.
2) "There is a distinction between my friends and my enemies." Friends are good. Enemies are bad. So...
3) "For my friends, everything. For my Enemies, The Law."
[JustTheNews] Homeless encampments were behind three wildfires that rocked San Diego earlier this month, sparking concerns that homelessness is a significant factor in Southern California’s recent blazes. The Los Angeles Fire Department has reported that 54% of fires citywide that it responded to were caused by homeless individuals.
The San Diego Metro Arson Strike Team told NBC 7 that the Friars Fire in Mission Valley, the Center Fire in Rancho Bernardo, and the Gilman Fire in La Jolla all started in homeless encampments, damaging buildings, injuring firefighters and residents, and requiring evacuations.
These fires reflect fire trends throughout Southern California that link a significant portion of fires to homeless individuals.
In 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom shared that a major underpass fire that shut down the Interstate 10 freeway — one of the nation’s most important and well-traveled roadways, which stretches from California to Arizona — for days was determined to be the result of “malice.” While the cause of the fire was never released, the underpass in question is associated with homeless encampments.
City Journal has reported on how the Los Angeles Fire Department spent approximately $427 million of its $854 million total on homeless-related fires.
Congressman Kevin Kiley, whose district includes wildfire-prone sections of the Sierra Nevadas and unsuccessfully called for an audit of the state’s homelessness spending, wondered why cities are not using newly granted powers to remove and ban homeless encampments from high-risk areas.
“This is absolutely unacceptable. Our victory at the Supreme Court last year enabled cities to clear homeless encampments,” Kiley said Kiley X. “Those that refuse to do so are willfully putting their residents at risk.”
Last year, federal courts overturned an earlier ban on anti-camping ordinances, allowing cities to clear out homeless encampments. Enforcement action in San Francisco which, along with Gov. Gavin Newsom, supported overturning the ban, has resulted in a 60% decline in homeless tents since their peak in July 2023.
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Couldn't watch the whole thing. A little bit of that goes a long, long way.
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It is a tough watch indeed; like if your spouse got really drunk and decided they wanted a retarded dog, gets it anyways, and you have to watch it shit on the carpet and eat the shit. The payoff being, you don't have to clean up the shit.
Wakanda chic is absolutely insufferable.
To make a contributing point, notice the escalation of the frog marching: it started with uniformed security doing the process, sure, but did you notice that as it escalated, the old white dude came out front with an obvious camera. What does that mean? Well, besides the obvious peer pressure intimidation to quiet the voices, those images are used to dox and intimidate, expunge, those whose pictures are taken. You can see him target, focus, and isolate individuals.
The hilarious part, at least to me, is that the crowd is intimately knowledgeable about that tactic, and continued anyways. I wonder how many experience a scheduled demise of some sort.
[Breitbart] The Trump Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a massive overhaul of its practice allowing journalists to work from inside the building is beginning a program to remove four establishment media news outlets from their workspaces for one year to replace them with new media outlets, including Breitbart News.
Acting Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot issued a memo on Friday to the Pentagon Press Association announcing that the NBC News, the New York Times, National Public Radio, and Politico must give up their physical workspaces in the Pentagon for one year to the New York Post, Breitbart News, and the Huffington Post.
“Each year, one outlet from each press medium — print, online, television and radio — that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps,” the memo said.
The Pentagon is giving those outlets two weeks to vacate their offices, effective Friday, February 15, 2025.
[NYP] The pilot of the passenger plane that hit a military chopper and crashed in the Potomac River this week may have attempted a last second move to evade the collision, NTSB said at a news conference.
The CRJ was at 325 feet at the time of impact "plus or minus 25-feet" the NTSB revealed at the press conference, Saturday.
"At one point, very close to the impact, there was a slight change in pitch, an increase in pitch," NTSB board member Todd Inman said of the nose of the plane.
[Zero] The development comes after Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office to designate "cartels and other organizations as foreign terrorist organizations."
The order stated that "The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs."
Hegseth urged "We’re finally securing our border. We’ve been securing other people’s border for a very long time. The military is orienting, shifting toward an understanding of homeland defense on our sovereign territorial border."
"That is something we will do and do robustly. So we’re already doing it," Hegseth continued, adding "Should there be other options necessary to prevent the cartels from continuing to pour people gangs and drugs and violence into our country — we will take that on."
"So the president will make that call. I’ll work with him in that decision making process. Ultimately, we will hold nothing back to secure the American people," he emphasized.
While campaigning, Trump repeatedly vowed to use the military against the cartels, suggesting that special forces could be deployed in Mexican territory.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s deputies have frozen an expanding federal bureaucracy used by elite-run groups to import migrant workers via a private door in the nation’s borders.
The shutdown comes just before the private migration groups were to be aided by a $5 billion migration fund created by Congress in 2024 for additional migration inflows in 2025.
Trump’s deputies froze the bureaucracy by delaying the approval of paperwork needed by migrants to get into the United States. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency announced it is “pausing acceptance of Form I-134A, Online Request to be a Supporter and Declaration of Financial Support until we review all categorical parole processes as required,” the agency announced on January 28.
The form is critical to get migrants through the border doorway operated by the elite-backed, private-sector migration group Welcome.US.
The group claims to have already welcomed “200,000+ newcomers.” since it was approved in 2023 by President Joe Biden’s pro-migration, pro-investor border chief Alejandro Mayorkas.
The “Honorary Co-Chairs” of Welcome.US include Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush,
…clearly thrilled to get to sit with the kewl kids, no longer tarred as the Hitler of his time..
and Bill Clinton.
Three former presidents pushing this thing. Oy.
The group also boasts of a “Welcome Council” with many CEOs, Walmart’s PR chief, several journalists including NBC’s news chief, business lobbyists, many migration advocates, multiple Muslim leaders, and even former governor Jeb Bush.
Why Muslims? But Jeb Bush makes sense — he needs something to do, since he doesn’t get to be an ex-president like Papa and Bro Bush.
The Welcome.US group also served as the PR face of President Joe Biden’s Welcome Corps government program. The program merged government and private efforts to further inflate the U.S. economy and stock market with an enlarged inflow of foreign workers, renters, and consumers.
The group’s migrants flood Americans’ workplaces, communities, housing markets, schools, and civic support agencies. That inflow lowers wages, raises rents, crowds schools, and jams waiting rooms — but also spikes stock prices for Wall Street investors.
Under Biden, this merger of government and private advocacy helped support roughly 100,000 people via the formal refugee programs. It was also expected to import 125,000 more refugees in 2025 — plus hundreds of thousands of additional picked migrants in the next few years,
Saved by the bell. Whew!
But this expanded migration program damages the moral claim that justifies the refugee programs, said Nayla Rush, a migration expert at the Center for Immigration Studies.
Refugee programs are supposedly all about saving unfortunate people from poverty, crime, and war,
But the Welcome Corps program allows migrants to help pick the next wave of migrants, said Rush. For example, the program allows new migrants to provide refugee status — and then citizenship — to their siblings and cousins even when they face no dangers, or to grant that status to people eager to pay for green cards and U.S. citizenship, according to Rush.
“A program meant to ‘save [refugee] lives‘ had been turned into one that resettled people who [know]… somebody [who] made it to the United States and gotten a green card,” Rush wrote on January 24. She added:
By launching the “Welcome Corps”, a private sponsorship program within the [refugee program], the former administration chose not to resettle the most vulnerable, but rather to privilege those who happen to have friends or family who made it here before them. It opened the door to non-refugees to be picked for resettlement by non-citizens based in the United States.
Sponsored individuals did not need to actually be [endangered] refugees according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Refugee Status Determination, let alone in that subset of refugees determined by the UN to be in “need of resettlement”. And the sponsors could themselves be earlier refugees or other newcomers.
The “Welcome Corps” was further expanded to include the “Welcome Corps on Campus”, bringing “refugees” straight to U.S. campuses; the “Welcome Corps at Work”, bringing them straight to [employers and] U.S. jobs; and the “Welcome Corps for Afghans” allowing U.S.-based non-citizens to sponsor Afghan nationals through USRAP. Another branch, the “Welcome Corps for Refugees in Latin America”, offered individuals of any nationality who are in Latin America “a path to permanent legal status in the United States.”
The “Welcome Corps at Work” program recreates President George W. Bush’s “Any Willing Worker” program because it allows U.S. employers to hire cheap, subordinate, and government-funded migrants, regardless of the damage to Americans’ right to a fair labor market.
The Welcome Corps site said:
The Welcome Corps enables U.S. employers to recruit from a diverse, qualified pool of refugee candidates abroad. As an employer participant in Welcome Corps at Work, you will be able to review resumes from our pool of refugee candidates abroad, interview candidates, and offer employment to the refugee candidates directly. Welcome Corps at Work then helps those refugees navigate the process of being considered for resettlement in the United States through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) …
Federal spending to import more people multiplied fivefold under Biden, Rush wrote:
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the estimated “Funding for Refugee Processing and Resettlement” totaled $2.8 billion in FY 2024 and were set to amount to $5.1 in FY 2025. For comparison, the estimated cost was $2.2 billion in FY 2023, $1.4 billion in FY 2022, $967 million in FY 2021, $932 million in FY 2020, and $976 million in FY 2019.
Much of the funding was intended to accelerate the inflow of migrants through the Department of State’s refugee programs and the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). In 2024, Biden’s deputies described their plan to spend the 2025 funds on the parole programs that were pulling many Haitians and Cubans into the United States:
In addition to refugee arrivals through the USRAP, ORR is projecting to serve 531,500 other arrivals in FY 2025, the majority of whom are expected to arrive as Cuban and Haitian Entrants through [supposedly] lawful pathways.
The ORR program has long been used by government agencies and cartels as a convenient waystation for delivering left-behind foreign children to their illegal migrant parents in the United States.
Congress also expanded the ORR rules to allow funding for job-seeking migrants from Cuba and Haiti, including the Haitian migrants who crowded into Springfield, Ohio.
The 2025 money would also have supported the “Labor Neighbors” program that was intended to import cheap workers from South America for jobs that otherwise would have gone to better-paid Americans.
The 2025 spending plan statement also described plans to import more diverse and expensive groups of people into Americans’ society:
Innovations and efficiencies made over the last three years have provided new hope and opportunities to refugee applicants in the USRAP, including longstanding refugee populations from Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Syria, as well as Rohingya refugees who are facing increased threats and dwindling assistance, among many others. In FY 2025, the United States will remain focused on these populations while continuing to expand the resettlement of other key populations of concern, including vulnerable people from Latin America and the Caribbean; Afghan allies; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) individuals; and individuals persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Biden’s deputies were “changing the meaning of resettlement, which was to save lives… [to allow] somebody, a friend or a neighbor or something, say ‘Hey, we want that person,'” Rush told Breitbart News. “It’s a good thing that [Trump is] just shutting down the whole system,” she added.
[Breitbart] Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.
Musk, the owner of social media platform X and the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency — which is tasked with slashing government waste, fraud, and abuse — installed allies at the government resources agency known as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Reuters, citing government officials who spoke to the outlet anonymously, said career bureaucrats have had their access to governments systems revoked.
“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one official said.
“That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications,” the official claimed.
The unnamed career official is mistaken. The DOGE team is the oversight, sent in when the career officials refused to let them see their systems without being forced. This is the Find Out point of this particular campaign.
OPM has sought to remove many in the federal government; the agency has sent out memos encouraging bureaucrats to take buyout offers to quit and take a vacation to a “dream destination.” The buyout package includes eight months pay if the civil servant chooses to retire.
Musk’s allies have figuratively set up camp at the OPM headquarters so they work round the clock:
Actually, for once setting up camp is indeed literally what they are doing.
/pedant
A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said.
The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.
“It feels like a hostile takeover,” one employee lamented.
It literally is a hostile takeover, my dear, which should have been unnecessary, but again we’re at the FO stage of the proceedings.
The OPM is reportedly run by Amanda Scales, a former Musk employee, who now serves as the agency’s chief of staff. Riccardo Biasini, a former engineer at Tesla, also works as a senior adviser to the agency.
DOGE posted to X in late January, “Answering the most common question about the Deferred Resignation offer. Can take the vacation you always wanted, or just watch movies and chill, while receiving your full government pay and benefits.”
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My guess - any attempt to hide DEI folks by removing records in the personnel system were not successful. All the people who participated in the coverup will be canned.
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"You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity"
/Snatch
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any attempt to hide DEI folks by removing records in the personnel system were not successful.
I seem to recall that the NSA takes daily snapshots of the internet and archives them. If yes, then deleting records today wouldn’t clear the archives of any communications and records created previous to the day of deletion, right? Or am I totally off base?
[Breitbart] Letters of Marque would allow private organizations to operate in the “dead space” in between government bureaucracies where the Mexican drug cartels operate, Erik Prince, an American veteran and the founder of Unplugged Technologies explained during an interview with Breitbart News Saturday.
Prince spoke with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle about a recent post from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), discussing what Letters of Marque and Reprisal were and how they could be used to weaken the drug cartels. Prince admitted that he had “helped put this idea in Senator Lee’s head.”
“Letters of marque and reprisal are government-issued commissions that authorize private citizens (privateers) to perform acts that would otherwise be considered piracy, like attacking enemy ships during wartime Privateers are rewarded with a cut of the loot they ‘bring home,'” Lee explained in his post.
When asked by Boyle “what the process would be for a Letter of Marque to be issued” and if it would come from the White House or Congress, Prince explained that the “last Letter of Marque” had been issued after Pearl Harbor “to a blimp operator who was authorized to hunt Japanese submarines.”
“I believe the last Letter of Marque was actually issued after Pearl Harbor in 1942, and it was actually issued to a blimp operator who was authorized to hunt Japanese submarines off the coast of California. And, I don’t know if that was a simple vote of Congress, or if that was a committee procedure, or what. But, that model — you could actually do something similar with a presidential finding today, giving an entity — a private organization a hunting license. And, then of course, when they were issued to ships, you’d have to post a bond — a performance bond of certain rules you’re going to follow, effectively rules of engagement for them to proceed,” Prince explained.
“So, that could be done in certain areas of Mexico, certain areas of Latin America, to soak up the spoils of the illegal trade and of course the cartels’ ability to operate and to terrorize local civilian populations,” Prince said.
When asked by Boyle if Prince thought this “would help solve the problem of the Mexican drug cartels” and help the United States “do certain things that maybe we aren’t doing” in order to stop the flow of drugs and human trafficking across the border, Prince explained that “one of the system problems” the U.S. has with its security apparatus “is all kinds of stove pipes.”
“One of the systemic problems we have — call it a structural problem of the U.S. security apparatus is all kinds of stove pipes. Because now you have China organizing fentanyl. So, you have a paycom area interest, pushing chemicals into Mexico, where they’re now fabricated into fentanyl and then pushed north. So, is it a northern command issue? Is it a DEA issue? Is it a border patrol issue? Is it a paycom issue?” Prince said.
“The problem is, you have so many different bureaucracies involved that no one is able to swim in between those bureaucracies in that dead space — the cartels do, but no government entity can move that quickly. So, the cartels basically operate inside of the OODA Loop of the U.S. government. And, really, only a private organization is going to be able to move that decisively with the flexibility required.”
“The cartels make enormous amounts of money that let’s them buy very good technology, very high end talent, very high end weaponry. They out gun Mexican law enforcement. I feel terrible for a state or local cop, or a federal cop in Mexico, because within days of coming on to a certain drug team, their family members are getting visited,” Prince continued.
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Not sure about the keeping a percentage of the spoils; suppose the gov’t could offer s bounty on the drugs and guns/weapons, but since the cartels deal in illicit things/ operations, where is the legitimate reward for the holders of such letters?
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They deal in the illicit and illegal — and avocados — but they own all sorts of fancy cars, guns, airplanes, houses, jewelry, decorative items, USN, Ret. All the usual things collected by stereotypical nouveau riche gangster types.
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There is also head money- paid per enemy captured or killed.
Along with both ears, of course.
The live wire here is potential liability for actions. Can the actions under Marque cause you go to war?
Not a lawyer, but in practical terms, yes. There will be f**kups mistakes, of course, some of them appalling. But think of it like hiring a cleaning crew to tidy up the office. You could do it in-house, but outsourcing to the commercial world is simply simpler.
It is another tool in the toolbox. You can chastise miscreants without having to go all To the Shores of Tripoli on their bothersome asses. That card you can save for later when it is time to escalate.
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I don’t think the letters work on land in Mexico. The cartels have RPGs and above. The army and police are bought off. There will be too many civilian casualties. They work on the high seas against cigarette boats in the Caribbean. They would also work against the Houthi and Somalis. They would probably work on land with regard to drones.
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The Pangas off San Diego are pretty much all Cartel human trafficking. Drugs, et al, are via inland
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I don’t think the letters work on land in Mexico. The cartels have RPGs and above. The army and police are bought off.
I agree. It is a matter of scale. If your PMC is the size of Wagners with organic artillery and capable of invading a country, maybe. But at some point, you need to fire up your national army and go to work.
It will be interesting to see if there is enough functional government left in Mexico for our military to coordinate with.
[Breitbart] South Africa and eight other nations, including totalitarian Cuba, formed the so-called “Hague Group” on Friday with the explicit aim of opposing Israel, and denying it the mean to defend itself against Palestinian terrorist attacks.
The “joint inaugural statement,” signed by Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Malaysia, Namibia, Senegal, and South Africa, does not include a single Arab state or any nation actually located in the Middle East.
It cites “our obligations to end the Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine [sic] and support the realisation of the inalienable right of the Palestinian People to self-determination, including the right to their independent State of Palestine.” It does not mention Hamas, or terror, at all; the only mention of civilians refers to Palestinian civilians.
South Africa has long led the charge against Israel, most recently by filing claims of “genocide” at the International Court of Justice. In that sense, post-apartheid South Africa resembles apartheid South Africa, which also clashed, at least initially, with Israel in diplomatic forums. Post-apartheid South Africa has also, like its apartheid predecessor, sided with rogue states outside the international consensus, exchanging right-wing states for left-wing dictatorships.
President Donald Trump has taken a firm stance opposing the abuse of international legal institutions against the democratic nations of the world, restoring an executive order applying sanctions to members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) if they attempt to investigate U.S. soldiers or military personnel from U.S.-aligned countries.
Democrats, however, led by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), are blocking broader sanctions against the ICC.
[BREITBART] Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council in the White House, told Breitbart News exclusively that the White House intends to release the video of the successful operation conducted on Saturday morning to eliminate a top 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.... terrorist in northern Somalia.
''We are working diligently right now—the White House Situation Room, so WHSR, the Counterterrorism Directorate of the National Security Council, and the Defense Department—are working right now as we speak to scrub the actual footage of the munitions detonating and destroying the cave complex,'' Gorka told Breitbart News in a phone interview on Saturday after the operation. ''We're working right now to scrub that and make it available in an unclassified form so it can be briefed from the press briefing room so National Security Adviser Waltz and the president can share that.''
''To see it in real time, look, let me say this—it's as if you're in a movie but it's so much more important because it isn't a movie. It's not special effects,'' he explained. ''It's real, and American lives are being saved 11 days into the Trump administration.''
There are multiple reasons why the White House intends to release the footage publicly at a press briefing next week, Gorka said, including showing those who voted for Trump in November that their president and his administration are committed to acting quickly to keep them safe.
''We are working right now on converting the footage of the operation, of the neutralization, into a format that allows us to share it with America and the world,'' Gorka said. ''I will leave that to DOD and the White House Situation Room and the whole team responsible for that. We want the 77 million Americans [who voted for Trump] and everyone else who cares about defeating global jihadism to see what is possible in less than two weeks of a new Trump administration.''
But perhaps more importantly than that, Gorka said, the White House hopes releasing the footage will act as a deterrence to potential future hard boyz and discourage possible recruits from joining ISIS down the road.
''You can think you're safe and you can try and build a safe haven in an ungoverned part of the world like northern Somalia, but our capabilities—it's like the president said,'' Gorka said. ''You can run but you'll only die tired. We will find you, but unlike the Biden administration, we're not going to watch you around the clock for four years. We are going to kill you if you threaten American lives and that is what the president just proved this morning at 9:50 with his incredible leadership.''
Early Saturday afternoon, the president announced on social media that he had ordered a successful strike on the ''Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other hard boyz he recruited and led in Somalia.''
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[Regnum] The atrocities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Kursk region should receive international publicity, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on February 1.
“The bloody nature of the actions of Kiev militants in the Kursk region should be widely presented at international venues: the UN, the OSCE and their specialized structures, recorded by representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross,” noted Zakharova, whose commentary is cited on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
International human rights institutions, including non-governmental organizations, should pay attention to the information that has been made public, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized.
According to Zakharova, Moscow is confident that the true nature of the Kyiv regime was most clearly revealed in Russkoye Porechnoye. She emphasized that the name of the village was one of the factors for the attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 31, the representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric, commenting on the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Russkoye Porechny, stated that the United Nations is against the killing of any civilian population.
In turn, the official representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Fatima Sator, noted that in accordance with international law, civilians in temporarily occupied territories must be protected from torture and murder. She added that international humanitarian law also provides additional protection for particularly vulnerable groups of the population - children, women and displaced persons.
The bodies of civilians killed by Ukrainian militants were found in Russkoye Porechny after Russian military units of the North group of forces liberated the settlement on January 17. Zakharova said that torture chambers set up by Ukrainian soldiers in the basements of residential buildings were found in the liberated village. She called the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces a cannibalistic act.
The Russian Investigative Committee has established the involvement of five servicemen of the 92nd separate assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the murder of 22 civilians from Russkoye Porechny between September 28 and November 24, 2024.
On February 1, Wikipedia administrators deleted an article about the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Russkoye Porechny in the Kursk region.
The corresponding data appears when trying to open the page "Massacre in Russkoye Porechny".
"Unfortunately, this page has been removed within the last 24 hours," the message said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 19, the remains of seven civilians with tied hands, bruises and bullet wounds were found in two basements of houses in Russkoye Porechny. Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers pulled hats over civilians' heads, shot them in the legs and left them to die from blood loss. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the fact of the murder of civilians.
Investigators have established the involvement of five Ukrainian servicemen in the murder of 22 civilians in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, liberated by the Russian Armed Forces. From September 28 to November 24, 2024, the suspects killed 11 men and three women, and also raped and killed eight more women. They then moved the 22 bodies to the basements of private homes.
On January 25, the Kursk court arrested one of the defendants in the case, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Yevgeny Fabrisenko. He was charged under the article on a terrorist act resulting in death, as well as under the article on a crime against sexual inviolability. Fabrisenko admitted his guilt and during interrogation spoke in detail about torture, rape and murder of civilians.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces a cannibalistic act. Acting Governor of Kursk Region Alexander Khinshtein stated that the Ukrainian military who killed residents of Russkoye Porechny should be tried by an international tribunal.
In April 2023, Chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeyev proposed blocking Wikipedia because it contains a lot of unreliable information. Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, in turn, noted that first it is necessary to create an analogue of Wikipedia.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back Russian assaults in the east and south of Ukraine.
The largest number of Russian attacks have been recorded in the Pokrovsk area. Eight clashes are currently ongoing there.
Since the beginning of the day, 71 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The Russian invaders are attacking mostly in the Pokrovsky, Kupyansky and Limansky directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational summary as of 16:00 on Saturday, February 1.
Thus, in the Kupyansk direction, the enemy made 15 attempts to advance in the areas of the settlements of Topoli, Dvurechnaya, Petrovpavlovka, Stepnaya Novosyolka, Glushkovka, Zagryzovoe and Lozovaya. Four combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the aggressor attacked 12 times near Novoegorovka, Terny, Yampolevka, Kolodtsy, Torskoye and in the direction of Novomikhaylovka. Currently, four combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled three attacks near Verkhnekamenskoye and Belogorovka. One clash is still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders repelled two attacks by the occupiers. Three clashes are still ongoing. The Russians are conducting active operations in the area of Chasovy Yar and Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy tried to advance five times in the Toretsk region. Currently, two combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Pokrovsky direction, clashes of varying intensity have begun 22 times. Our soldiers are repelling enemy attacks in the areas of Zelenoe Pole, Yelizavetovka, Luch, Zverevoy, Udachny, Uspenovka, Novoaleksandrovka, Serebryany and Dachny. Eight more clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the occupiers once unsuccessfully tried to break through in the direction of Constantinople.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, the aggressor attacked the positions of our defenders in the Novoselka area and was rebuffed.
In the Orekhov direction, two battles are being fought in the area of Shcherbaki and Nesteryanka.
Three Russian attacks have been repelled in Kursk region . One clash is still ongoing.
Let us recall that the losses of the Russian Federation have approached 840 thousand fighters since the beginning of the great war. In just one day on January 31, more than 1,400 Russians were "minus" at the front.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22.59 President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the airstrike of Russian troops on a boarding school in the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. The Ukrainian leader published a corresponding statement and a video from the scene on the social network X. In turn, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that as of 22:00 in Sudzha, four people were killed and four were wounded.
22.33 The death toll from the Russian missile strike on a multi-story residential building in Poltava has increased to 10 people. This was reported by the local OVA. According to the latest data from the State Emergency Service, there are 17 victims in Poltava, including four children. 22 people have been rescued. Psychologists have helped 194 people, including 11 children.
21:51 Russian occupation forces advanced and occupied 325 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in January, the lowest level since August 2024, according to the DeepState analytical project.
21:00 The aggressor country Russia will not give peace to Ukraine. But it can be forced to a fair peace through joint efforts. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video address. According to the head of state, the Russians could not attack Ukraine if the sanctions worked better. Violation of sanctions should be considered complicity in the war, he noted.
20.32 The Russian army committed a war crime in the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region - a guided aerial bomb (GAB) was deliberately dropped on a boarding school with civilians. There could have been about 100 Russian civilians in the building.
18.45 The death toll in Poltava as a result of Russia's missile strike has risen to eight. Rescuers have found the body of a dead child, the State Emergency Service reported. At the same time, the number of injured has risen to 17. Of these, four are children - aged 3 months, 2, 8 and 12 years.
17.59 Law enforcement officers have collected evidence on a Russian businessman who manufactured and supplied more than 13,000 Geran-type attack drones, which are the Russian version of the Iranian "shaheeds", to the Russian armed forces. According to the SBU, this is the CEO of the joint-stock company. Special economic zone of industrial and production type Alabuga Timur Shagivaleev.
17.25 An explosion occurred in the building of the local Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center (TRC SP) in Rivne. According to the National Police, one person was killed and six others were injured.
16.54 Since the beginning of the day, 71 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The Russian invaders are attacking most in the Pokrovsky, Kupyansky and Limansky directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational summary as of 16:00.
16.20 As a result of the missile strike that the Russians carried out on Odessa on the evening of January 31, about 15 cultural heritage sites were damaged. The Bristol Hotel building suffered significant damage, the extent of which has not yet been determined. The details were reported by the city mayor Gennady Trukhanov.
15.53 On Saturday night, Russia launched a combined attack on Ukraine with various types of missiles and drones. In total, the enemy used 165 air attack weapons. The Ukrainian Air Force reported details of how to repel the enemy attack .
15.34 The death toll in Poltava as a result of a Russian missile strike on a residential building has increased to seven people, another 14 people were injured, including three children. More than 460 rescuers, security forces and utility workers are working at the scene. About 100 units of equipment are at work.
15.21 Law enforcement officers neutralized the activities of the neo-communist organization "Workers' Front of Ukraine". Its members tried to disrupt mobilization in Ukraine and called on the military to leave their place of service. The SBU reported the details .
14.53 Ukraine will expand its pilot military training project. As part of the program, recruits undergo basic combined arms training in brigades. This was reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrsky.
14.30 A Russian agent who was preparing to detonate explosives near the building of one of the structural divisions of the SBU has been detained in Kiev. This was reported on February 1 by the press services of the SBU and the OGP.
13.50 The death toll from the Russian missile strike on a residential building in Poltava has risen to four. This was reported by the State Emergency Service. It is noted that 13 people were injured, including three children. 22 people were saved. More than 400 workers from municipal services, enterprises and city government institutions were involved in eliminating the consequences of the missile strike.
13.04 In Sumy Oblast, as a result of a Russian airstrike on the Yunakivska community on the night of February 1, three patrol police officers were killed . This was reported by the Sumy OVA. At first, there was information about two dead patrol police officers who were on duty. Later, the body of another police officer was found under the rubble.
12.45 As a result of falling debris from downed Russian drones, there is damage in two districts of the Kiev region. This was reported by the acting head of the regional military administration Mykola Kalashnik. In the Fastiv district, as a result of falling debris, a fire broke out in a warehouse of one of the enterprises. In the Boryspil district, a house was on fire.
10.51 The death toll from the missile strike on Poltava has risen to three , 10 people were injured, including a child. This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
9.57 Over the past 24 hours, 134 combat clashes between units of the Defense Forces and Russian invaders have been recorded at the front; in the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian troops have repelled 61 enemy assaults. This was reported by the General Staff on February 1. Two areas of concentration of Russian army personnel, one air defense system, four artillery systems, and three enemy command posts were hit.
9.34 As a result of the morning Russian missile strike on a residential building in Poltava , two people were killed and seven were injured . Among them is a child. This was reported by the State Emergency Service.
9.18 A woman was killed and five people were injured as a result of shelling in the Kholodnohirsk district of Kharkiv .
8.51 Emergency power outages are being introduced in seven regions of the country on the morning of February 1 due to a missile attack by the Russians. This was reported by the press service of NEC Ukrenergo. Restrictions are being applied in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovograd and Zaporizhia regions.
8.33 Russians shelled Poltava region, damage to energy infrastructure in the Mirgorod district. This was reported by the Poltava OVA. 165 consumers were left without power. A residential building was also hit in Poltava .
8.12 On the morning of February 1, Russians struck the Kholodnohirsky district of Kharkov. As a result of the Russian strike, two people were injured . A fire broke out in a private residential building.
7.50 The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to February 1, 2025 amount to about 839,040 people, of which 1,430 people - in the past 24 hours. This was reported by the General Staff.
05.22 Zaporizhia reported the most massive strike in recent times. The city was attacked by 18 UAVs. An educational institution, houses and cars were damaged.
01.50 Russia attacks Ukraine with missiles and UAVs. Explosions were reported in Odessa, Kiev, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv region, Pavlograd in Dnipropetrovsk region, Kharkiv region, Akhtyrka in Sumy region, Cherkasy region and Myrhorod in Poltava region. In some regions, explosions were heard repeatedly.
01.11 In Odessa, new explosions thundered amid the missile threat.
[IsraelTimes] 150 sent to Gaza, 32 released to West Bank and one sent to Egypt; among those freed is a Gaza aid worker jailed for funding Hamas
Israel freed 183 Paleostinian prisoners on Saturday, shortly after three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... on October 7 were released by the terror group in 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... Strip.
According to Paleostinian authorities, 18 of the prisoners were serving life sentences. Over 100 were from the Gaza Strip, arrested after October 7, 2023, and were being held without trial.
Thirty prisoners, including three serving life sentences, were released for each of the hostages Keith Siegel and Ofer Kalderon, and 12 prisoners serving life sentences were released for Yarden Bibas.
In addition to the specified number of Paleostinian prisoners to be freed per released hostage, Israel has also agreed to release over 1,000 Gazook detainees over the course of the agreement’s implementation.
On Saturday, Israel freed 111 detainees who were detained by troops in the Gaza Strip but were not involved in the October 7 onslaught.
Of the 183 released in total, 150 were sent back to or deported to the Gaza Strip, 32 were released to the West Bank, and one was sent to Egypt.
Inmates being sent to the West Bank were released from Ofer Prison near Ramallah, the Israel Prison Service said, while other prisoners were freed from Ktzi’ot Prison in southern Israel and brought to the Kerem Shalom Crossing into Gaza, near the Egyptian border.
"Prison Service troops are acting to release Death Eaters in line with the diplomatic deal for the return of the hostages, in full coordination with all security services," the IPS said in a statement.
According to the Ynet news site, those released included Egyptian national Fareeq Barikat, tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! for his role in a deadly suicide kaboom at an Eilat bakery in 2007, and Salim Awad, a Fatah member involved in the planning of a 2002 attack on the West Bank settlement of Homesh in which three Israelis were killed.
One of the most prominent Paleostinians released was Gaza aid worker Mohammed el-Halabi, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for funding the Hamas terror group in a high-profile case that drew criticism from rights groups.
El-Halabi had worked as the Paleostinian manager of the Gaza branch of World Vision, a major Christian aid organization.
He was arrested in 2016 and accused of diverting tens of millions of dollars to Hamas. Both el-Halabi, 47, and World Vision vigorously denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! Also among those released on Saturday was Shadi Amouri, a Fatah operative who was convicted of involvement in a June 2002 suicide kaboom on a bus near Megiddo in northern Israel which killed 17 Israelis, including 13 IDF soldiers, and injured over 40.
Amouri was sentenced to 17 life terms for his role in the attack.
Another Fatah operative released on Saturday was Ashraf Abu Srour, who was involved in the 2000 killing of IDF Sgt. Shahar Vekret. Abu Srour was at the time a member of the Paleostinian Authority security services.
Saturday’s releases take the number of Paleostinian prisoners set free under the ceasefire and hostage deal to 583.
’INDESCRIBABLE JOY’
Three buses carrying Paleostinian prisoners arrived to a cheerful crowd in the territory’s southern city of Khan Yunis on Saturday.
The prisoners, many wearing grey prison uniforms, were greeted by hundreds of Gazooks who gathered around the buses as they approached the city’s European Hospital, an AFP journalist reported.
Rabi al-Kharoubi, 40, who came to see their arrival said he felt "indescribable joy" at seeing them freed. "We are proud of them."
"I saw the shock in their eyes as they looked at Rafah and Khan Younis, destroyed, with piles of rubble and streets completely ruined," he added.
The prisoners were to undergo medical checks at the hospital before heading to their homes.
"In blood and spirit, we shall redeem you, prisoner!" chanted some in the crowd as the men left the buses one by one.
According to the Paleostinian Prisoners’ Club in Ramallah, 150 of the 183 detainees released on Saturday as part of the truce between Israel and Hamas were to be transferred to Gaza.
"This is a new day of victory for our people. Today, a new group of our heroes is being released, seeing freedom despite the occupation’s will," a Hamas official who did not wish to be identified told AFP.
’THESE CHILDREN ARE THE AMBASSADORS OF FREEDOM’
Stepping off a bus in Ramallah with two dozen other released prisoners on Saturday after 23 years imprisonment, Ata Abdelghani had more than his freedom to look forward to.
The 55-year-old was also to meet his twin sons, Zain and Zaid, for the first time.
The encounter was made possible by his release in an ongoing hostage-prisoner exchange as part of a January ceasefire deal for the Gaza Strip agreed by Israel and Hamas.
The twins, now 10 years old, were conceived while Abdelghani was incarcerated after his sperm was smuggled out of his prison.
He had been serving a life sentence on a number of counts including murder, according to a list released by the Paleostinian Prisoners’ Club in Ramallah.
"These children are the ambassadors of freedom, the future generation," Abdelghani said as he hugged the boys tightly.
"It’s hard to describe in words," Abdelghani said.
"My thoughts are scattered. I need a great deal of composure to control myself, to steady my nerves, to absorb this overwhelming moment."
He added that the situation in prison had been "difficult, tragic".
[IsraelTimes] Derided by Israelis as a ‘glorified taxi service’ for failure to help hostages in captivity, the ICRC insists it has little power beyond what belligerent parties afford it
The Red Cross'>Red Thingy, accused of not doing enough to help hostages 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... , has defended itself in a rare statement outlining the limits of its role.
Insisting on its neutrality, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said the escalation of violence in Israel and the Paleostinian territories has triggered "a proliferation of dehumanizing language and of false and misleading information about the ICRC and our work in the current conflict."
The organization, dedicated to aiding victims of war, including by visiting prisoners and detainees, has faced heavy criticism in Israel since October 7, 2023, for its failure to secure any meaningful aid for the 251 hostages taken by hard boyz that day — whether by monitoring their conditions or providing them with basic humanitarian assistance, including medicine.
For its limited role in facilitating the transfer of freed hostages from Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... to Israeli forces — both during the November 2023 ceasefire and the current one — many Israelis have come to derisively refer to the ICRC as little more than a glorified taxi service.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... in response to Hamas’s refusal to allow ICRC visits to its hostages, Israel has blocked the agency’s visits to Paleostinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, leading to criticism on that front as well.
The ICRC faced fresh Israeli anger as Thursday’s hostage transfer in Khan Younis descended into chaos, with masked terror operatives from Hamas and 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... struggling to hold back a surging crowd and Red Thingy workers seeming powerless to protect hostages Gadi Mozes and Arbel Yehoud.
ICRC officials "did nothing to interfere with this intimidating display of indignity and public humiliation," Gerald Steinberg, president of the Israeli organization NGO Monitor, wrote in the Australian-based online magazine Quillette.
The ICRC said: "Ensuring the safety and security of the handover operations is the responsibility of the parties to the agreement."
Furthermore, it asserted, "interfering with armed security personnel could compromise the safety of ICRC staff, and more importantly that of the hostages."
The Geneva-based organization said it had not given permission for "people carrying Hamas flags to get on top of our buses in Ramallah" during the release of Paleostinian detainees, but "nor did we have the capacity to prevent people from doing so."
In late 2023, Israel’s then-foreign minister Eli Cohen said the Red Thingy had "no right to exist" if it did not visit the hostages in Gaza.
The organization insists it relies on the belligerents’ goodwill.
"From day one, we have called for the immediate release of all the hostages, and for access to them," it said in a statement.
In World War II, the ICRC visited prisoners of war, but its mandate did not explicitly extend to civilians unless governments allowed it.
The ICRC acknowledges that during World War II, it "failed to speak out and more importantly act on behalf of the millions of people who suffered and perished in the death camps, especially the Jewish people targeted, persecuted and murdered under the Nazi regime."
In its statement, the ICRC reaffirmed that this was the "greatest failure" in the organization’s history, and said it unequivocally rejects antisemitism in all its forms.
At the same time, the ICRC has been accused by pro-Paleostinian activists, particularly on social media, of not putting pressure on Israel to secure visits to Paleostinian detainees since October 7, 2023, and also of not doing enough to help the maimed in the Gaza Strip.
The humanitarian organization says it has been actively engaging with the Israeli authorities "to allow for the resumption of ICRC visits and family contacts for these detainees."
As for the maimed in Gaza, the ICRC said it had received requests to evacuate hospitals in the north, but could not regularly safely access the area due to the "extremely difficult security situation — together with roads blocked and unreliable communications."
Following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that came into effect on January 19, the ICRC, which already had 130 staff in Gaza, is deploying more personnel, including doctors.
In 1968, Leopold Boissier, a former ICRC president, noted that the criticism most frequently leveled at the organization "is the silence with which it surrounds some of its activities."
Nearly 60 years later, the ICRC is facing similar accusations, not only regarding the Israel-Hamas war but also since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Founded in Geneva in 1863, the organization, which has more than 18,000 staff in over 90 countries, denies being "complicit" and says it establishes trust through "confidential dialogue with all parties to the conflict."
"Our neutrality and impartiality are critical to our ability to operate in any context."
[IsraelTimes] Hamas-run authorities say sick, wounded children and carers evacuated through gateway; reports say injured Hamas fighters also set to cross under terms of hostage-ceasefire deal
The Rafah Border Crossing reopened on Saturday, the first opening of the gateway to Egypt since Israel captured 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... side nearly nine months ago.
Officials familiar with the discussions said the crossing was to be run by Paleostinian Authority representatives alongside monitors from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . A Channel 12 report indicated that some US observers were also involved.
A group of sick and maimed Paleostinian children began crossing to Egypt on Saturday, according to officials from the Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... -run health ministry in the Gaza Strip.
According to Hebrew-language media reports, maimed Hamas button men were also set to cross to Egypt, as agreed to under the terms of the hostage and ceasefire agreement.
Egyptian television showed Paleostinian Red Thingy ambulances pulling up to the crossing gate, and children were brought out on stretchers and transferred to ambulances on the Egyptian side. Gaza’s health ministry said around 60 family members were accompanying the children.
The children were the first in what are meant to be regular evacuations of Paleostinians through the crossing for treatment abroad.
Over the past 15 months, the war in Gaza sparked by the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, has decimated the Strip’s health sector, leaving most of its hospitals out of operation.
Mohammed Zaqout, the director of hospitals in Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, said more than 6,000 patients were ready to be evacuated abroad, and more than 12,000 patients were in urgent need of treatment.
He said the small numbers set to be evacuated will not cover the need, "and we hope the number will increase."
The Rafah Crossing with Egypt was one of the main entry points into the Gaza Strip and a vital conduit for aid, but the border has been closed since Israeli forces seized it in May last year, largely due to Egyptian refusal to keep the passage open so long as Israeli forces held it.
It took some diplomatic gymnastics to reopen the crossing and overcome security disputes between Israeli, Egyptian and Paleostinian officials. Hamas had overseen the border since 2007, when it seized control of Gaza from its rival, the Paleostinian Authority.
Management of the crossing is a sensitive issue — Israel has long accused Hamas of using its control of the border to smuggle weapons.
Israel has also refused to allow the Paleostinian Authority to officially take over management of the crossing.
Instead, the crossing will be staffed by Paleostinians from Gaza who previously served as border officers with the PA, but they will not be allowed to wear official PA insignia, a European diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... because the official was not authorized to brief the media.
Israel has screened the officers to ensure they have no affiliation with Hamas, the European diplomat added.
European Union monitors will also be present, as they were before 2007.
[NYPOST] Donald J. Trump is back to killing faceless myrmidons and threatening anyone that harms Americans — and it is glorious.
In 2017, Trump approved an anti-ISIS campaign plan that relaxed the military rules of engagement and sped up the violent mostly peaceful destruction of the jihadi group.
By 2019, the ISIS in Iraq and Syria had collapsed. During the Biden administration, ISIS came back.
Since Biden's disastrous and humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan, ISIS-K has regenerated and is carrying out attacks inside the country that could extend and recruit internationally.
Chad and Niger kicked US forces out of their countries where US forces had been conducting counter-terrorism campaigns.
The Biden administration was unable to stop the growing threats and was quite literally getting pushed around by even the weakest regimes.
But on Saturday, Trump informed the world on social media that he ordered precision military air strikes on ''the senior ISIS attack planner and other faceless myrmidons he recruited and led in Somalia.''
He went on to detail that the strikes destroyed ''the caves they live in'' and that ''The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that 'WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!'''
This is consistent with Trump's new executive order, which redesignated 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, essentially Islamist pirates — a foreign terrorist organization — and said the US will ''eliminate the Houthis' capabilities and operations'' and ensure the United States and its allies can get back to the business of trade.
Since Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... 's genocidal attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Iran-directed Houthis have been attacking cargo and energy shipments moving between Asia and Europe.
This sends a strong signal that so far, Trump 2's version of America First and peacemaking is repeating the strategies of Trump 1, which means that for peace, security, and freedom — Trump is willing to use decisive and deadly force.
[TOWNHALL] The Democratic Party has found its new leader, and it's clear that the battle lines for the next election cycle have already been drawn. With the party's fresh leadership, they're vowing to take on President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... 's agenda head-on, promising to ramp up opposition from economic policies to immigration. While this new face may offer a sense of hope for the left, conservatives are preparing for another wave of radical leftist policies that aim to dismantle the progress America will make under Trump's leadership.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC (If you're white you ain't right!) ...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate... ) has chosen Minnesota party leader Ken Martin
Who?
as its next national chair. Martin's party aims to move forward and recover from a disappointing 2024.
''We have one team, one team, the Democratic Party," Martin said. "The fight is for our values. The fight is for working people. The fight right now is against Donald Trump and the billionaires who bought this country.''
Martin won a commanding victory on the first ballot, securing more than 100 votes over the second-place finisher, Ben Wikler,
…apparently both are white men, which says all you need to know about the post-Kamala Harris Democratic Party…
the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, out of the 428 DNC members who voted.
Martin has been a vocal advocate for progressive policies and strongly opposes Trump. He has frequently criticized the president's approach to governance, depicting him as a threat to democratic values. Martin has also rallied the Democratic Party to combat Trump's influence in Minnesota and beyond. He has claimed that Trump's policies are divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... and harmful to the values of American democracy.
He directed his post-victory speech at Trump and the Republican Party, cautioning them that they would not sit back and ''not take you on when you fail the American people.''
''It's also to make sure we're defining them and we're out there making sure the American people know what the stakes of not only these coming elections are, but what's happening in this country,'' he continued.
Winning is the only thing. How many of this lot are refugee or first generation America-born Somali, and so perhaps easily deported under the new Trump rules? Because this lot are also legally adult — someone should ask ICE if they’d be interested.
[Patch] NEW HOPE, MN — Five teenagers are accused of attacking a Fridley High School varsity basketball player with a tire iron during a game at Robbinsdale Cooper High School on Tuesday night
The charges are as follows:
Yahya Abdul Khanyare, 18
Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon.
Dursa Muktar Mohamed, 18
Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon
Fleeing a peace officer in a motor vehicle
Ayub Mohamed Ali, 19
Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon
Salman Abdurashid Mohamed, 16
Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon
Mubashir Nasir Ali, 18
Second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon
Second-degree riot, armed with a dangerous weapon
In Minnesota, a second-degree assault charge carries a maximum of seven years in prison and a $14,000 fine.
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This is America. You can afford 5 tire irons. Somalia will never learn.
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Could not help but note the commonality of the Attackers names?
Was the student they attacked white / Jewish by chance?
[BREITBART] The third soldier inside the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines jet at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was identified as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, who had been a White House social aide under the Biden administration.
In a blurb issued by the U.S. Army, it was revealed that ''at the request of and in coordination with'' Lobach's family, the U.S. Army was releasing the name of the third soldier who had been on the Black Hawk helicopter during a training mission on Wednesday.
CBS News reported that Lobach had also worked as a White House social aide under the Biden administration.
Lobach also served as a White House social aide during the Biden administration, Brown said. Just last month, she escorted Ralph Lauren through the White House when he was among those awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run.... Lobach was described as being ''kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong,'' her family said in a statement, adding that Lobach was ''a warrior and would not hesitate to defend her country in battle.''
''We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Rebecca,'' the Lobach family statement said. ''She was a bright star in all our lives. She was kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious and strong. No one dreamed bigger or worked hard to achieve her goals.''
Rebecca began her career in the United States Army as a distinguished military graduate in ROTC at the University of North Carolina, and was in the top 20% of cadets nationwide. She achieved the rank of Captain, having twice served as a Platoon Leader and as a Company Executive Officer in the 12th Aviation Battalion, Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. With more than 450 hours of flight time, she earned certification as a pilot-in-command after extensive testing by the most senior and experienced pilots in her battalion.
Rebecca was a warrior and would not hesitate to defend her country in battle. But she was as graceful as she was fierce: in addition to her duties as an Army aviator, Rebecca was honored to serve as a White House Military Social Aide, volunteering to support the President and First Lady in hosting countless White House events, including ceremonies awarding the Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Taken with a grainblock of salt. It does tell us something about why names were withheld. No, after the family has been notified, it becomes a public record.
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I still don’t understand the delay and the wipe of social media. The info was always going to come out. Why put the family through the added trauma of getting the Men in Black flashy thing treatment?
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/\ My guess is they needed time to scrub social media accounts.
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I still don’t understand the delay and the wipe of social media.
Since she was 'in like Flynn' with the Biden administration (a "social aide"), it was highly likely her social media posts and any other public statements she has made would reflect that her politics was radical left. It would take a little time to clean that up.
Of course, any statements she made to anyone will tend to surface eventually.
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The few facts that have surfaced look bad: she only had 500 hours of experience in the Blackhawk and was training in one of the worst possible environments with multiple near-misses reported from other mil pilots over the years. Her trainer was said to have only 1000 flight hours experience. Blackhawk was 200 feet too high at the moment of impact per reports. Congressional meddling aka negligence aka nonfeasance aka dumbfeasance with the safety culture of air traffic control at DCA has been known for decades.
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/\ Trump was calling out DEI before the smoke cleared. Appears to be a case of DoD DEI meets FAA DEI.... or am I jumping to conclusions ?
What we still don't know, what control tower FAA employee was handling the traffic that night; name, time on the job, work history, training, current status, etc.
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I was thinking about the altitude issue also. It seems almost incredible that someone would fly at the wrong altitude in that corridor. Is it possible the altimeter in the helicopter gave a false altitude?
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Like so much else, the 80/20 Rule is likely in effect. Eternal vigilance will be required to prevent resurrection. But the hardest part was starting — because really Ronald Reagan began the work when he was elected president.
[FREEBEACON] Liberalism's radical turn began in Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... 's second term. The MeToo movement and anti-Trump Resistance®, COVID-19, and the death of Saint George Floyd ...The patron saint of Minneapolis... in 2020 catalyzed the intemperate demands of BLM, Greta "Pippi" Thunberg ...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now... 's climate hysteria, the 1619 Project, Defund the Police, Abolish ICE, and the transgender rights movement into the worldview of most Democratic elites.
Former president Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... embedded these revolutionary ideas within the federal bureaucracy. Where earlier welfare states delivered benefits, Biden's welfare state became a crusader for economic, social, and cultural change.
In Biden's vision, America would adopt a Net Zero economy. Mass immigration would produce economic and demographic growth. DEI and gender ideology would make America a more diverse and equitable place. And if people didn't like it, well, they would face censorship, cancellation, and prosecution.
By 2024, this agenda had become so unpopular that Biden retired, and Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor pretended she'd worked at McDonald's while packing heat. Trump won every swing state and the popular vote not just because of the open border, inflation, and chaos abroad and in the streets. He won because of an anti-woke cultural appeal made most famously in the "Kamala is for they/them" television ad.
Now comes the hard part. You exorcise wokeness from government by tackling spending, for sure. But you also wrestle back control of the bureaucracy through hiring freezes, a return to the office, Schedule F, offers of early retirement, moving federal agencies outside the Beltway, and attrition.
Just don't expect it to be easy. The snafu over the OMB memo was a reminder that de-wokeifying the government isn't a matter of snapping one's fingers. The federal workforce backs Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... both politically and financially. Powerful interests are invested in the status quo. The response to the spending freeze revealed the extent of government dependence. Only careful planning, precise language, consistent messaging, and effective legislation will rein in the federal Leviathan. And wipe the smile off Schumer's face.
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But it first must be said, and sober people realize that just that was tough, and only the beginning, like escaping out of the set down position in wrestling.
[Yahoo] Fauxcahontas' Fav Despot Defenestrated
President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.
Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job since Trump took office on Jan. 20. Chopra's tenure saw the removal of medical debt from credit reports and limits on overdrafts penalties, all based on the premise that the financial system could be fairer and more competitive in ways that helped consumers. But many in the financial industry viewed his actions as regulatory overreach.
Under the law, Chopra was to serve a five-year term, which meant he could have stayed on as the CFPB director. But he had publicly stated that he would leave his post if the new president asked.
The bureau was created after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages, car loans and other consumer finance. It has long been opposed by Republicans and their financial backers.
Last year, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge that could have undermined the bureau, ruling that the way it is funded does not violate the Constitution. Unlike most federal agencies, the bureau does not rely on the annual budget process in Congress, but is funded directly by the Federal Reserve.
In addition to being a pet project of Senator Fauxcahontis, venture capitalist and Trump convert Marc Andreessen blamed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the debanking issue many in tech and cryptocurrencies were damaged or destroyed by in recent years.
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Pete Hegseth ended ghay Highander haggis farting month in DoD, and all the rest of the rediculous entitlement months and days as well. Hat tip to him for that brave move.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the Liz Warren concoction that exists like an unaccountable NGO.
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A business should ignore a regulation and fight the fine to the Supreme Court. Didn’t the Chevron decision eliminate the bureaucracy from such antics?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back Russian offensive in eastern and southern Ukraine.
The enemy continues to conduct active offensive operations in many areas, but almost everywhere it has been possible to slow down the pace of the offensive, analysts say.
Russian occupation forces advanced and occupied 325 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in January, the lowest level since August 2024, the DeepState analytics project reported on Saturday, February 1.
"The enemy continues to conduct active offensive actions in many areas, but almost everywhere we manage to slow down the pace of the offensive. Basically, significant enemy advances are due to our mistakes, which are constantly repeated," the statement says.
According to published statistics, from August to November 2024 inclusive, Russians occupied larger territories every month - from 363 sq km in August to 730 sq km in November. From January to July, the occupiers occupied smaller areas - from 39 sq km in March to 317 sq km in May.
Let us recall that the losses of the Russian Federation have approached 840 thousand fighters since the beginning of the great war. In just one day on January 31, more than 1,400 Russians were "minus" at the front.
On Saturday, as of 16:00, the Russians carried out 71 attacks on the front. The enemy is attacking most in the Pokrovsky, Kupyansky and Limansky directions.
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[EngMilRu] Last night, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a long-range high-precision strike against the gas and energy infrastructure that ensured operation of Ukrainian defence industry enterprises. The goals of the strike were achieved. All the assigned targets were engaged.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces defeated units of one motorised infantry brigade, one air assault brigade, and one National Guard brigade of the AFU close to Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses were up to 30 troops, three motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the AFU, one territorial defence brigade, and the Lyut Brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Zagoruykovka, Peschanoye, Novaya Kruglyakovka (Kharkov region), Novolyubovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Grigorovka, Yampol, and Seversk (Donetsk People's Republic)
The AFU losses were up to 320 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, 15 pickup trucks, and one field artillery gun. Four ammunition depots and two electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops hit units of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and two territorial defence brigades close to Ulakly, Dileyevka, Belogorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Zelenovka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 220 troops, five pickup trucks, and two NATO-made field artillery guns. Four AFU field ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units continued active offensive actions and liberated Krymskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops eliminated manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, one motorised brigade, airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one National Guard brigade near Novoaleksandrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Druzhba, Lysovka, Slavyanka, Baranovka, Novoandreyevka, and Kotlino (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 570 troops, two tanks, including one German-made Leopard tank, four armoured fighting vehicles, nine pickup trucks, and three field artillery pieces.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defences. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on units of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and three territorial defence brigades close to Novopetrovskoye (Dnepropetrovsk region), Zelyonoye Pole, Rovnopol, Dneproenergiya, and Razliv (Donetsk People's Republic)
The AFU losses were more than 130 troops, one German-made Leopard tank, one armoured fighting vehicle, and one motor vehicle. The Russian Armed Forces eliminated four field artillery pieces, including one 155-mm French-made Caesar self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Primorskoye, Novoandreyevka, Pyatikhatki (Zaporozhye region) and Antonovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 40 troops, four motor vehicles, and one electronic warfare station.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, storage and training sites for the launch of unmanned aerial vehicles as well as clusters of manpower and hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 156 areas.
Air defence systems shot down 10 U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 108 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 42,095 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,984 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,511 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,100 field artillery guns and mortars, and 31,097 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on units of one heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malay Loknya, Makhnovka, Mirny, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, and Sverdlikovo. Two counter-attacks launched by enemy units were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Zamostye, Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky, Oleshnya, Staraya Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Vesyolovka, Zhuravka, and Obody in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses have amounted to more than 155 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, 15 motor vehicles, and one field artillery gun.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 56,570 troops, 327 tanks, 241 infantry fighting vehicles, 185 armoured personnel carriers, 1,663 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,750 motor vehicles, 397 artillery guns, 45 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 106 EW stations, 15 counter-battery warfare radars, five air defence radars, 33 units of engineering and other materiel, including 14 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
[FreeBeacon] America’s adversaries are finding new ways to break the internet. This weekend, Sweden detained a ship for allegedly destroying an underseas cable shortly after leaving Russia. Around Thanksgiving, a Chinese ship dragged its anchor across a hundred miles of the Baltic Sea, severing other seabed internet connections. And earlier this month, the Taiwanese Coast Guard ran down another Chinese-owned ship that sailed over one of the few cables connecting Taiwan to the rest of the world just before it snapped.
Chinese apps like TikTok and DeepSeek dominate headlines, but the battle for control of the internet is not only taking place in cyberspace. Russia and China are breaking parts of the global internet, and they are revealing parts of their strategy for toppling the United States.
Dominating the internet is a priority for China. In 2015, it launched the Digital Silk Road to make China a world leader in internet technology. Building undersea cables is an important part: When countries connect to the rest of the world through China, Beijing can spy on them more easily, steer them toward other Chinese-dominated technologies, and even police their internet activity. Chinese telecom giant Huawei built out 15 percent of the global internet before the Trump administration sanctioned it in 2019, and Chinese companies will install nearly half of the underwater internet cables planned for 2023-2028.
American sanctions are much more effective than Chinese ones, so China uses other methods to damage the West's internet. Beijing blocks internet projects that run through the South China Sea despite The Hague dismissing its territorial claims there in 2016. And it is ramping up its sabotage campaign.
Attacking NATO’s internet infrastructure is part of China’s overall strategy to weaken the United States. Beijing despises NATO and accuses it and the United States of adopting a "Cold War mentality." When Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin announced their "no limits" partnership shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, they agreed to "oppose further enlargement of NATO" as well as "the formation of closed bloc structures and opposing camps in the Asia-Pacific region." After NATO observed that China was enabling Russia’s war effort, a Foreign Ministry spokesman told the alliance to "avoid messing up Asia the way it messed up Europe." Chinese and Russian ships are now destroying internet and energy infrastructure for Finland and Sweden, both of which joined NATO after Russia’s belligerence made their former neutrality untenable.
At first glance, this is a strange maneuver. Most countries do not go out of their way to make enemies, as China is doing in Europe. NATO’s security commitments stop far from China’s borders too. Beijing nonetheless sees NATO as a threat because it views all American alliances that way. A diplomatically isolated United States seems weaker to Beijing, so it is trying to break up America’s alliances all around the globe. In this case, America’s adversaries are trying to show that Sweden’s and Finland’s decision to join NATO was foolish.
Beijing is using a similar strategy closer to home. It is trying to convince Taiwan that resistance is futile and that accepting integration with the mainland is the smarter move. Cutting off the island’s internet connections, bombarding it with propaganda, and effectively blockading it with military drills and missile tests are all designed to make the island democracy surrender without needing an invasion.
Losing Taiwan would be catastrophic for Americans. Most people are by now familiar with the significance of Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing, which both Joe Biden and Donald Trump want to bring to the United States. But that industry is not nearly the most important reason for defending Taiwan. If China takes the island, it will have a base that dominates the shipping lanes Japan and South Korea rely on for food and fuel. How well could either country stand up to Beijing then? And if they buckle under, there is little chance for the United States to keep together a coalition that can prevent China from dominating Asia.
The underwater cables that make the global internet work exemplify the larger strategic problem. When the internet spread around the world after the Cold War, the U.S. military dominated the "global commons," the air and waterways that most international trade traverses. There was little need then to think about securing these cables from sabotage or destruction. Those days are gone.
So far, the damage from China's cable-cutting campaign has been minimal. Traffic has been redirected with relatively little fuss. But each cable becomes more important as fewer and fewer remain. And China’s threats will grow more persuasive the longer its aggression goes unpunished.
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...Unless the ships turn off their transponders, its like having video of someone entering an establishment after hours and then leaving the scene of a crime. You have who, when and where correlated.
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BTW: If you use the Vessel Finder App, note that CHINA only shows military ship in operation. While the USA lists a 333+/- Military ships that are trackable.
Maybe the US Navy needs to mimic China in coat ops?
[IsraelTimes] State TV says base holds ‘hundreds of cruise missiles,’ which IRCG chief Salami asserts can ‘create hell for enemy vessels’
The naval arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unveiled a new underground missile facility on the south coast in footage aired by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Saturday, two weeks after unveiling an underground naval base.
"Hundreds of cruise missiles capable of countering enemy destroyers’ electronic warfare are stationed in these underground cities," the station said in its report.
"The systems are being kept hundreds of meters underground and can be operational in a very short time," it said, without giving an exact location of the base.
"These systems and missiles can be armed and fired from hundreds of kilometers away and can hit targets far out at sea."
IRGC chief General Hossein Salami toured the base with naval arm commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri.
The report also unveiled a new model of cruise missile dubbed Ghadr-380 which Tangsiri said had "anti-jamming capabilities" and a range of more than 1,000 kilometers (over 600 miles).
He said the new missiles could "create hell for enemy vessels."
Last month, the Guards unveiled an underground naval base for assault boats operating in Iran’s southern waters, which include the Gulf and the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
In early January, Iran’s armed forces began a series of exercises, dubbed Eqtedar (Might in Farsi), which are set to continue until mid-March.
The drills have included naval maneuvers that saw the unveiling of an advanced reconnaissance ship as well as exercises on safeguarding Iran’s nuclear facilities from attack by Israel or the United States.
The military exercises come as 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... waits to see what policy US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... will follow in his second term.
During his first term that ended in 2021, Trump pursued a policy of "maximum pressure" against Iran, withdrawing the United States from a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and major powers, and reimposing biting sanctions.
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[NewsFront] 20:03 Russian Armed Forces liberated Novomlynsk –MAP. 19:33 The Russian Armed Forces have expanded the bridgehead on the western bank of the Oskol River –MAP.
19:24 Artillerymen covered mortar crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Aerial reconnaissance revealed the firing position of an enemy unit's 120mm mortar.
The detected target was quickly destroyed by an artillery crew of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the West group.
19:01 Russian Armed Forces advance near Kolodezi and Makeyevka –MAP.
18:32 Attack aircraft push back the enemy in the Kurakhovsky direction
Assault detachments of the separate guards motorized rifle brigade of the 51st guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District capture strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and occupy more advantageous positions.
17:53 There is a launch – there is a hit: the crew of the Pantsir-S1 air defense missile and gun systemstruckEnemy UAV in the border area of Kursk region.
The armament of the Pantsir-S1 air defense missile and gun system allows it to destroy any air attack weapons within the established operating range. To destroy air targets, the system has 12 anti-aircraft missiles, as well as two 30mm twin-barreled guns with 1,400 rounds of ammunition.
17:53 In January 2025, the Russian Armed Forces liberated 334 sq. km of territory, excluding the North group –MAP.
An unmanned boat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, heading towards the Crimean Peninsula, destroyed by the Black Sea Fleet's duty fire weapons in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
15:11 Snipers do not allow the enemy to raise their heads.
Snipers of the combined arms army of the "West" group of forces continue to secretly destroy particularly important targets, enemy manpower, supporting the combat work of Russian assault, motorized rifle and tank units.
The versatility of these fighters has been proven more than once during the SVO. They can work as "free hunters", scouts and spotters, and are capable of disrupting rotation and stopping enemy armored vehicles.
13:49 Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Andrei Belousov thanked the command and personnel of the 101st Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment for the successful completion of combat missions during the liberation of the settlement of Krymskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
12:46 Around 11:10 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.
11:44 "Bars-Kursk" controls the sky.
Volunteers of the "Bars-Kursk" formation daily carry out fire cover for emergency response teams in the Korenevsky district of the Kursk region.
The footage shows volunteers providing security while specialists work on the electrical networks.
11:13 The Russian army has occupied strongholds west of Baranovka –MAP.
10:52 Russian Armed Forces advance west of Razdolnoye –MAP.
10:52 Frontal attack.
Calculation of FPV drones of the Rubicon center destroyed combat armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk direction.
10:39 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces south of Chasovy Yar –MAP.
08:28 Missile strike inflicted on military facilities in Ukraine. So far, the scale of the strike does not allow us to talk about the destruction of dozens of facilities, but among the traditional targets, the Mirgorod airfield in the Poltava region was worked out, as well as the Khar'kov military facilities. After the first missile firing, Tu-22M3s went to the launch lines.
08:02 A powerful salvo under cover of night.
Artillerymen of the "East" group of forces inflicted strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in the South Donetsk direction.
07:16 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed nine Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: seven UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region and one each over the territories of the Belgorod and Saratov regions.
The Black Sea Fleet's duty fire weapons destroyed one unmanned boat in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, which was heading towards the Crimean Peninsula.
[BREITBART] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday issued guidance to the entire Department of Defense to end the practice of celebrating months tied to racial or gender identities using official resources.
He said in his guidance: ''Our unity and purpose are instrumental to meeting the Department's warfighting mission. Efforts to divide the force — to put one group ahead of another — erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution.''
He added:
Going forward, DoD Components and Military Departments will not use official resources, to include man-hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, including National African American/Black History Month, Women's History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month. Service members and civilians remain permitted to attend these events in an unofficial capacity outside of duty hours.
He said that military installations, units, and offices are still encouraged to ''celebrate the valor and success of military heroes of all races, genders, and backgrounds as we restore our warrior culture and ethos.''
''We are proud of our warriors and their history, but we will focus on the character of their service instead of their immutable characteristics,'' he said, concluding, ''This guidance is effectively immediately.''
The move follows a memo he issued earlier in the week implementing President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... 's executive order banning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the military.
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Now let loose with height and weight standards and follow up with appropriate PT standards*. As for support personnel, don't ever forget the 507th. There is no rear area.
* banged up but ambulatory are good to relieve the 3 Rs (Reserve, ROTC, Recruiting) releasing healthy and recyclables.
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[REGNUM] The Russian Investigative Committee has revealed details of the mass murder of civilians by Ukrainian militants in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in the Kursk region. Investigators have established the involvement of at least five Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen in these crimes, and one of them was captured.
During interrogation, captive Yevgeny Fabrisenko admitted his guilt and spoke in detail about the atrocities committed by him and his fellow soldiers from the Ukrainian 92nd Separate Assault Brigade. According to him, the unit's command gave the order to clear the village of civilians.
MURDER AND VIOLENCE
Arriving in Russkoye Porechnoye, Fabrisenko and other Ukrainians abused defenseless people, robbed them, killed men and raped women, who were then also killed. To "celebrate" their actions, the Ukrainian servicemen drank vodka and used drugs.
According to law enforcement agencies, from September 28 to November 24, 2024, Ukrainian Armed Forces militants killed 11 men and three women in the village. In addition, they raped and killed eight more women. " Then the accomplices moved the bodies of the 22 citizens they killed to the basements of private residential buildings in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye," the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation notes.
At the same time, the residents of Russkoye Porechny had no chance to escape, because the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants were deliberately firing at civilians. "Our guys were shooting at the village from their positions. They couldn't leave, they tried to leave, but they were killed," Fabrisenko said.
This is far from the first recorded case of atrocities by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region. Thus, in August, Ukrainian militants Valeriy Malchenko, Sergey Bochenko, Sergey Litvinenko and Sergey Bilichenko from the 11th separate battalion of the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were captured, and a criminal case against them is currently being considered by a military court.
“While in the Sudzhansky and Korenevsky districts of the Kursk region, they prohibited the movement of civilians, occupied private homes, and opened fire on Russian military personnel and civilians,” the Russian Investigative Committee says of their crimes.
Russkoye Porechnoye, a village in the Sudzhansky District of the Kursk Region, was occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in August 2024. On January 17, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the village had come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces - at that time, during offensive actions, units of the North group of forces liberated the settlement.
After liberation, Russian Armed Forces soldiers found the remains of civilians with signs of torture in the basements of houses : the hands of the dead were tied, there were hematomas and bullet wounds on the bodies. It was also noted that Ukrainian militants pulled hats over the heads of civilians, shot them in the legs and left them to die from blood loss.
As our military told us, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to prevent the evacuation of people's bodies by shelling Russkoye Porechnoye. "Apparently, the enemy does not want all this to be made public, so that the public sees all these atrocities that they did to civilians," they explained such actions of the Ukrainian armed forces.
On January 19, the Main Military Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against Ukrainian Armed Forces militants involved in the murder of civilians in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye; the incident was classified by law enforcement as a terrorist attack.
On January 23, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reported that torture chambers set up by Ukrainian soldiers in the basements of residential buildings were also discovered in the liberated village. The politician called the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces a cannibalistic massacre of civilians.
The fact that people in Russkoye Porechny were deprived of life with particular cruelty was later confirmed by forensic experts. They said that residents were tortured with electricity and beaten: on the emaciated bodies there are traces of torture, as well as gunshot and shrapnel wounds. As experts add, it was mainly elderly people who were killed.
NOT AN ISOLATED CASE
On January 18, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik, commenting on the videos of crimes against civilians from Russkoye Porechny that appeared, noted that they are traces of Nazis who arrived on Russian territory.
“These are blood-curdling atrocities, but they show the true face of the Zelensky regime,” he wrote on his channel.
As Rodion Miroshnik later stated, citing the words of captured Ukrainian soldiers, the militants in the Kursk region received orders to kill Russian-speaking civilians. “ In essence, we are talking about the destruction of any civilian population,” the diplomat explained.
According to the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, Ukrainian Nazis who commit monstrous acts are not simply ideological heirs to the Nazi occupiers who tortured people and exterminated them in concentration camps: “They are the same beasts who deserve the most severe punishment.”
“ A new Nuremberg must await the executioners of the peaceful inhabitants of Russian Porechny,” wrote Khinshtein.
During a briefing on January 31, Maria Zakharova called the massacre of people in Russkoye Porechnoye another outrage by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, explaining that the Kiev regime, in its military and political impotence against the backdrop of defeat at the front, committed a cannibalistic act against civilians.
" The point is that this is a mass action. And it is not isolated, " Zakharova emphasized. " This also shows that, despite all the monstrous discoveries, all those who have been sponsoring the Kiev regime for many years know what it is doing and continue to supply it with money and weapons."
The UN has commented very reservedly on the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, where a massacre of people was committed. As the representative of the Secretary General of the organization Stephane Dujarric stated the day before, the UN is against the killing of civilians by the Ukrainian military.
"We have been very consistent in our opposition to the death and killing of any civilian population," Dujarric said at a press conference.
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[Regnum] On February 1, US President Donald Trump announced that he had ordered airstrikes on targets in Somalia where one of the commanders of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia) was located.
“This morning, I ordered precision military airstrikes against a senior ISIS attack planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” the American leader wrote on the social media site Truth Social.
The head of the White House added that the terrorists posed a threat to the United States. According to him, the airstrikes destroyed the caves in which the terrorists were hiding. At the same time, as Trump noted, this happened without causing harm to civilians.
Earlier, NBC, citing the US Africa Command, said that the US military had struck the leader of the ISIS terrorist group in Somalia. The US government publicly named the target of the strike as the head of the group's branch in Somalia, Abdulkadir Mumin, who had secretly become the world leader of the terrorist organization.
American President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... confirmed multiple Arclight airstrikes ...KABOOM!... s against the ISIS gunnies in the Bari region of Somalia, noting that the bombardments targeted a senior 'planner' who has been on the run in deep caves within the mountainous areas of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... Without disclosing the identity of the planner, Trump said the airstrikes destroyed several caves killing 'many terrorists' in the process. No non-combatants were killed or armed during the operations on Saturday, he said in a tweet.
"This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other snuffies he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies," Trump said in a shocking statement.
"The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many snuffies without, in any way, harming civilians," he added.
Traditionally, such announcement comes from the US Africa Command, which has bases in Djibouti and trains the Danab Special Forces of the Somali National Army (SNA). Trump blames his predecessor — Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... , for failing to take action against ISIS gunnies in Somalia.
"Our military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did! The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that "WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU," he said.
Pete Hegseth, the Defence Secretary, said the airstrikes were undertaken by the US Africa Command following the order by President Trump, but the government of Somalia was in charge of coordination.
In its assessment, the Pentagon said multiple operatives were killed, adding that no civilians were maimed. The statement corroborated Trump’s assessment.
Multiple sources confirmed to Garowe Online that approximately six airstrikes hit various locations in the al-Miskaad mountains, causing significant impact, particularly in the Qurac, Buqo, Wangable, and Dhasaan areas. The strikes have been part of ongoing military operations targeting ISIS bases in the Bari region, officials said.
For the last one month, Puntland security forces, bolstered by support from local communities, have escalated their campaign against 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.... , launching what they describe as an all-out offensive against the IS-Somalia murderous Moslems.
The operations aim to dismantle ISIS positions nestled in the rugged terrain, and authorities report significant territorial gains in their fight against the murderous Moslems. Last year, the State Department raised concerns about the capabilities of the ISIS murderous Moslems, terming them 'dangerous'.
While cautioning Somalia, the State Department warned that if actions are not taken, the group could expand territories in Somalia, consequently, affecting the fight against terrorism. In southern regions, Somalia is battling al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... murderous Moslems.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud asked Trump to assist the country in the fight against terrorism, noting that 'we need your support in this war as we endeavour to stabilise Somalia'.
Trump’s direct involvement in Saturday's airstrikes showcases his commitment to assist the Horn of Africa nation in effectively fighting both al-Shabaab and ISIS.
…or his determination to push this thing to closure by winning the war. It remains to be seen whether he is actually interested in supporting either Somalia or Puntland beyond the short term.
America has close to 500 soldiers in Somalia whose primary duty is to train and equip local troops.
ISIS is based in Puntland, where it was established in 2015 by former Al-Shabaab leader Abdulkadir Mumin,
…that’s Somali-British ex-Al-Shabaab preacher Sheikh Abdulkadir Mumin or sometimes Abdul Qadir Mumin to you, bub. Show some respect! Born in Puntland in the early 1950s, he spent his forties in Sweden before moving to England in 2005. He preached to eager audiences (including Michael Adebolajo, involved in the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby) at Masjid Quba in Leicester and the Greenwich Islamic Centre in London, but it was in 2010 when he joined a press conference with Guantanamo Bay prisoner Moazzam Begg for the charity CAGE that MI-5 took an interest, driving his return to Puntland, where he joined Al Shabaab. Then in 2015 he and a mere two dozen followers pledged to Al Baghdadi and ISIS, growing tenfold within a year thanks to the romantic viciousness demonstrated by the Iraq/Syria caliphate and material support and training from ISIS in Yemen across the way…
and the group has now been under an offensive for two months by the troops of Somali Federal State, which saw the capture of dozens of its bases and murder of many fighters, including foreigners, according to local authorities.
The Pentagon’s counterterrorism strategy in Africa has been strained as two key partners, Chad and Niger, ousted U.S. forces last year and took over key bases that the U.S. military had used to train and conduct missions against terrorist groups across the Sahel, the vast arid expanse south of the Sahara Desert.
U.S. military officials have warned that IS cells have received increasing direction from the group’s leadership that relocated to northern Somalia. That has included how to kidnap Westerners for ransom, how to learn better military tactics, how to hide from drones and how to build their own small quadcopters.
A U.S. military airstrike in Somalia last May targeted IS militants and killed three, according to U.S. Africa Command.
The number of IS militants in the country are estimated to be in the hundreds, mostly scattered in the Cal Miskaat mountains in Puntland’s Bari region, according to the International Crisis Group.
[FOXNEWS] Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has arrested two illegal migrants who the agency says were running a drugs and narcotics operation in Maryland and Georgia.
Officials say they busted the two migrants on Thursday, just one day after prosecutors in Queens indicted 10 Tren de Aragua gang members and their associates for similar operations in New York City.
HSI Baltimore posted an image to X of one of the migrants -- with a chain wrapped around his waist -- being led into a law enforcement vehicle by two HSI agents.
The agency also posted images of the arsenal of guns and ammunition they seized as part of their operation. They said they seized more than 30 weapons.
HSI Baltimore said the operation to apprehend the duo was part of a joint operation with HSI Atlanta. ATF's Baltimore field division, the Baltimore Police Department and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency also coordinated with the agencies in their take-down.
The two illegal immigrants were not named. Fox News Digital has reached out to HSI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for more details on the migrants and the scope of their operations.
In New York City on Wednesday, police said that eight illegal immigrants were now in custody charged with running an extensive arms and drugs-running operation spanning at least six states.
Prosecutors said they had plans to expand on an international level to Colombia.
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We know, 10 millions times over, the root cause is the Obama/Biden/Democrat party and Globalists with their proven failure called OPEN BORDERS.
On a less serious note.
Couldn't help but chuckle a little, when I read They call 30 weapons "Massive Gun Running". To some Southerners, that's just a basic family collection. 🤭
[Reuters] VATICAN CITY, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church considers possible future priests.
Although the Vatican had not explicitly barred gay men from entering the priesthood in the past, an earlier 2016 instruction had said seminaries cannot admit men who have "deep-seated homosexual tendencies".
The new guidelines, posted without fanfare on the website of the Italian bishops' conference on Thursday, say seminary directors should consider a priestly candidate's sexual preferences, but only as one aspect of their personality.
"When referring to homosexual tendencies in the formation process, it is also appropriate not to reduce the discernment to this aspect alone, but... to understand its meaning within the whole framework of the young person's personality," state the guidelines.
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It was bad idea last time around — about a generation ago. They seemed to finally be cleaning out the last of the pedophiles that came in under that permission. At least this time they know how to recognize and handle the problem, but once again it will be expensive in terms of money and damage to the souls in their keeping.
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Good. Like every other transnational organization nowadays, Catholic Church was taken over by Globalists. So, the more offensive its behavior toward actual Catholics - the higher a chance for a meaningful reform.
#11
While I am far from knowledgeable in the complex business workings that too many religions have become.
I do read my bible.
If you're a Protestant Christians following KJV
Regarding Homosexuality - Genesis 19 Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed, Leviticus 18:22 - Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.
Regarding Women Bishops - “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet” (1 Timothy 2:11-12).
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If you're Catholic
Regarding Homosexuality - Both Genesis 19 & in Leviticus are both just as clear. No matter what some liberal modern era Pope has said for whatever personal reason ?
Regarding Women Preachers - 1 Timothy 2:11-12
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If you are Jewish
Regarding Homosexuality - Same as Christianity - Leviticus (Leviticus 18:23 and Leviticus 20:13)
Regarding Women Preachers - Complex and requires a lot of study. New school vs old school issues.
A latecomer. ;-) Consider Miriam, the elder sister of Moses and Aaron. Proverbs 31:10-31. Queen Esther, who set herself against the prime minister of the king of the Medes and Persians, and won, saving her people. As described in the book of John: Mary Magdalene was the one charged by Jesus to carry word of his ascension to the disciples.
Jewish women do not sit silent and obedient, leaving the men to dictate what to think and do. Nor did the early Christian ones. What changed, that Timothy could say such a thing and be confident of carrying his way?
[NYPOST] For four years, I've reported about how a large, organized constellation of United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... agencies partnered with hundreds of private nonprofit groups to direct billions of mostly US-taxpayer dollars into supporting historic illegal southern border crossing levels during President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... 's term in office.
Even for the new Trump administration, this conglomerate of 15 UN agencies and 230 NGOs was proposing to spend yet another $1.4 billion on the migration trail in 2025, $1.2 billion more for 2026.
That's in addition to the more than $6 billion from 2020-2024 during the greatest mass migration event in American history.
Separately, hundreds of millions more went through NGOs to migrants colonists arriving on the US side for their soft landing resettlements.
But now it looks like little to none of that funding will come from US taxpayers going forward.
New Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday issued an ''exclusive announcement'' to Fox News' Will Cain that Trump has turned off that firehose.
''We have stopped all grant funding that's being abused by NGOs to facilitate illegal immigration into this country,'' Noem said. ''I've taken action to stop those funds, to re-evaluate them, and to make sure that we're actually using taxpayer dollars in a way that strengthens this country, to keep people safe.
#4
And the brazen behavior of the Reconquista attitude is on full display-here in Oregon they boldly confront the police, who retreat instead of confront. https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1886034020875600250
#6
^^My bad Argentinian flags, and my son just returned from a rugby tour to the Argies, beat their Navy side by 50 now you know why they lost the Falklands
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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
[PJMedia] The decades-long 
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[AmGreatness] Schumer faces scrutiny over past threats to justices, while Trump dismantles DEI, deports migrants, and strikes ISIS, signaling a shift in Washington’s priorities.
[Breitbart] Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.
[Breitbart] Letters of Marque would allow private organizations to operate in the “dead space” in between government bureaucracies where the Mexican drug cartels operate, 
[Breitbart] 
...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 
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...Democrat National Committee, where all those off-the-wall talking points originate...
[Patch] NEW HOPE, MN — Five teenagers are accused of attacking a Fridley High School varsity basketball player with a tire iron during a game at Robbinsdale Cooper High School on Tuesday night
...46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run....
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...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
