[NYPost] USAID humanitarian packages were found amidst a cache of weapons owned by terror group Hezbollah in Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , an Israel Defense Forces soldier claimed to The Post.
"From the American taxpayer to Hezbollah, with love," said Asher Fredman, a former IDF soldier and currently executive director of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, a think tank, in Jerusalem.
Asher told The Post that he found sniper rifles, anti-tank missiles and explosives alongside the care packages marked "USAID" while on patrol in an undisclosed village in Lebanon where the Iran-backed Hezbollah had a stronghold.
President Trump is in the process of dismantling USAID, which gives out humanitarian assistance to countries overseas.
He is aided by Tesla billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading up the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, which is targeting wasteful spending at federal agencies.
Last week, the 10,000 strong staff of USAID, most of whom work internationally, was drastically cut to about 300 employees. The agency spent $68 billion in 2023, according to reports.
Gerald Steinberg, a former astrophysicist and founder of NGOMonitor, a think tank that analyzes non-profits, with a focus on those that work on human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... efforts, said US humanitarian aid has flowed to terrorist groups in the Middle East for years.
"The folks at USAID knew that taxpayers’ money and ’emergency assistance’ went to terrorists," he said in a recent post on X. "@NGOMonitor has repeatedly documented systematic aid diversion by terrorist organizations in Lebanon, Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... , and 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... ."
Fredman said the care packages from USAID also featured the logo of the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... World Food Program with the English and Arabic phrases "Gift of the United States of America" and "From the American People."
Fredman said he could not disclose the name of the Lebanese village where the trove was found, citing security concerns, but told The Post it was set up by Hezbollah as a "forward base" to invade Israel.
"USAID is driving the radical left crazy, and there is nothing they can do about it because the way in which the money has been spent, so much of it fraudulently, is totally unexplainable," President Trump posted on his Truth Social account Friday.
"They had been there recently," he said. "They fled the village as they saw the IDF on the way."
A front man for the IDF told The Post they had no further information about the USAID packages.
"When I served in Lebanon last October, we found huge Hezbollah weapons caches, together with USAID care packages (not to mention UNICEF folders)," Fredman had said in an X post directed to @elonmusk last week.
Last week, President Trump vowed to cut US funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees after investigations found that several planners and participants in the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel were on UNRWA’s payroll.
[IsraelTimes] IDF representatives this morning updated the family of hostage Shlomo Mansour, that he was killed during the October 7, 2023, onslaught, the military says.
Mansour was murdered in Kibbutz Kissufim and his body was taken by Hamas terrorists to the Gaza Strip, where it remains held.
His death was declared by a panel of health experts and members of the rabbinate, following intelligence the IDF says it obtained in recent months.
Of the 76 remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip, the IDF has confirmed the deaths of 36.
[IsraelTimes] The family of twins Gali and Ziv Berman, 27, who are hostages in Gaza, says it has have received signs of life from the brothers.
“We take a deep breath, but we know whose hands they are in and how much danger their lives are in,” the family says in a message to the residents of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, from where they were taken hostage on October 7, 2023.
[IsraelTimes] The US Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to ensure $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid does not end up in terrorist hands following the Trump administration’s foreign funding freeze and idling of staffers, a government watchdog warns.
The administration’s fast-moving dismantling of the agency has left oversight of the aid “largely nonoperational,” USAID’s inspector general’s office says in a report, specifically noting past concerns of aid money going to Hamas and other terror groups.
The cutoff of funds means that the monitors charged with making sure no US aid in the Middle East or Central Asia reaches the Islamic State group, Hezbollah, the Houthis or Hamas have been told not to come to work, the watchdog says.
“This gap leaves USAID susceptible to inadvertently funding entities or salaries of individuals associated with U.S.-designated terrorist organizations,” reads the report.
The watchdog office notes that it had pushed USAID last year to boost its training of agency staff to make sure that those monitors were properly screening for any such diversion of aid.
Pointing to a July report from the ombudsman that warned of Hamas diverting humanitarian aid in Gaza, the Inspector General’s Office says that “over the past 2 weeks, staffing shortages and limitations on communications with aid organizations stemming from the cessation of U.S. foreign assistance have limited USAID’s ability to receive, react to, and report allegations of diversion.”
So, your majesty — about taking in some Gazans for the duration…
[IsraelTimes] The Trump administration’s recent decision to suspend USAID payments is reportedly already having a “devastating” effect in Jordan, according to a UAE report citing nonprofit organizations.
The National outlet reports that some 35,000 jobs have been lost as a result of the move, including both Jordanians and Americans working on projects funded by the US.
One of Jordan’s larger nonprofits is quoted in the Emirati report as saying that more than half of its budget comes from US sources and the aid suspension has affected operations “tremendously.”
The lack of funding is affecting projects covering physical and mental health, disabilities, refugees, sexual and reproductive health services, and gender-based violence protection and rehabilitation services, The National reports.
“It goes beyond the numbers. It’s a ripple effect on the whole economy,” the organization says.
Even adjusting for the pay scale differences between the Jordanian avg. monthly Min. wage of about $366 USD p/month, and the USA at around $1256.66.66. Still that could have taken care of around 10,000 of the 32,000 US Homeless VETS.
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The lack of funding is affecting projects covering physical and mental health, disabilities, refugees, sexual and reproductive health services, and gender-based violence protection and rehabilitation services
We all know that "refugees" mean. About the rest of it - in Arab society: you gotta be kidding me.
[IsraelTimes] In chilling testimony, Eyal Eshel, whose daughter Sgt. Roni Eshel was killed on the IDF’s Nahal Oz base on October 7, 2023, claims that weeks before the terror group’s onslaught, Hamas operatives had held up a sign wishing his daughter “Mazal Tov” on her birthday.
Eshel says his daughter had reported the incident to her superiors, but nothing was done about it, Ynet news reports.
He says this shows that Hamas knew intimate details about the Nahal Oz base and the surveillance soldiers who were stationed there.
“Hamas terrorists stood on the other side of the fence with a banner,” Eshel tells Ynet. “They knew about her birthday.”
“It illustrates that Hamas knew everything… They knew [the soldiers’] names in from communication networks, they listened and eavesdropped on them,” he says.
Hamas “came prepared and we lost because we didn’t even understand what they knew.”
According to Ynet, the IDF has yet to comment on Eshel’s claims.
Roni Eshel was killed on October 7, 2023, at age 19, along with 14 other surveillance troops during Hamas’s attack on the Nahal Oz base.
In the same attack, seven surveillance soldiers were abducted and taken as hostages into Gaza: Ori Megidish, who was rescued by the IDF during the early days of the war; Noa Marciano, who was killed in captivity; and Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Liri Albag, Agam Berger and Naama Levy, who were all released by Hamas and returned to Israel during the current ceasefire accord.
[IsraelTimes] A prominent Hamas operative who was planning to carry out terror attacks was detained by Israeli forces in the Jenin area in the northern West Bank last night, authorities say.
Members of the Shin Bet security agency, the police’s Yamam counter-terrorism unit, and the IDF operated last night in the village of Silat al-Harithiya and detained several suspects who had been wanted by Israel for a long time.
The detained Palestinians “over the past few months had planned to carry out attacks on behalf of Hamas against Israeli civilians and IDF troops” in the West Bank, the Shin Bet, police, and IDF say in a joint statement.
Among those detained was Alaa al-Bitawi, a resident of Jenin, identified by the Shin Bet as “one of the heads of Hamas” in the Jenin camp.
A handgun and several explosive devices were seized during the arrest of al-Bitawi and the other suspects, the statement adds.
[IsraelTimes] The Kan broadcaster reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flightpath returning from his trip to Washington, DC, yesterday was changed to avoid flying over Canada’s airspace, due to the outstanding International Criminal Court warrant for the premier’s arrest.
Canada is a signatory to the ICC’s Rome Statute, meaning it is legally required to apprehend Netanyahu if he enters its territory.
While several ICC signatories have stated that they would not arrest Netanyahu, Canada affirmed last November that it would “abide” by the court’s warrant and would carry out the arrest.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian hacker group claims to have gained access to several classified government sites and databases containing classified information including personal details of police personnel, sex offender registries, weapons licenses as well as medical and psychological profiles of soldiers and other security personnel, Channel 12 news reports.
The report says several documents were published online.
Channel 12 adds that the hackers claim to have downloaded 2.1 terabytes of classified information from Israel Police databases, and are threatening to publish more documents online.
But after the report, the Israel Police responds that an initial investigation into the alleged hack shows there is “no indication that there had been a hack or a leak of sensitive information.”
“The Israel Police operates advanced security measures and is constantly working to strengthen its defense systems, using the world’s leading technologies in the field of cybersecurity,” police say.
[IsraelTimes] ‘I thought they were terrorizing me psychologically’: Arbel says she didn’t believe her captors when they told her hostages had become a political issue in Israel
Released hostage Arbel Yehoud condemned on Monday the politicization of the issue of the hostages held 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 and called on the government to agree to a comprehensive one-time deal for the release of all those still in captivity.
Yehoud was released at the end of last month. Her remarks were delivered in a message read aloud by her father to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
"I learned Arabic within a month, and I heard my captors express joy at the division in our nation over the issue of the hostages’ release," Yehiel Yehoud read from his daughter’s statement. "I thought they were terrorizing me psychologically when the issue of the hostages became a political issue. I didn’t believe it until I returned to Israel and was exposed to this harsh reality."
Mass demonstrations of support for the hostages began soon after the war erupted on October 7, 2023, when the terror group Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... led thousands of gunnies to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 to Gaza.
Alongside these rallies, weekly anti-government protests resumed in Tel Aviv, which had focused on the proposed judicial overhaul before the war. The two movements held distinct events in the city, but participants often joined together after the hostage demonstrations ended. Over time, as the war dragged on, hostages’ families became increasingly impatient with the government for not securing their loved ones’ release. Some openly panned the government over its handling of the situation.
Amid accusations from critics that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was avoiding commitment to a ceasefire to preserve his coalition — due to threats from its right-wing flank to bolt if the war ended before Hamas was destroyed — the hostage support rallies have over time taken on an increasingly hostile tone toward the government.
After some 15 months of fighting, a three-stage hostage-ceasefire deal was reached last month. Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas is gradually releasing some of the hostages, Israel is releasing hundreds of Paleostinian security prisoners, and the fighting in Gaza has been paused. Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life... negotiations on the subsequent stages that would ultimately result in a permanent ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal from the enclave — alongside the release of all the remaining hostages — are meant to begin.
It was during the ongoing first six-week phase that Arbel Yehoud was released. Other freed hostages have also said that their terrorist guards would show them news from Israel of anti-government rallies on their behalf.
[IsraelTimes] Footage of assault in Crown Heights shows man lunging at pedestrians, the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents reported in the city in recent days
A man has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly attacking Jewish men with cutting shears in New York City on Saturday.
Kareem Govan, 47, was charged with assault in the second degree as a hate crime, a felony, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office said on Monday.
The NYPD said the suspect approached a group of men on Saturday afternoon, during Shabbat, "with metal cutting shears" in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, the home base of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement.
"The individual threatened to stab the group of males and attacked a 47-year-old male as he attempted to flee, causing minor injuries," the NYPD told The Times of Israel.
The victim was treated on the scene, the NYPD said.
Rabbi Yaacov Behrman, a community organizer and Chabad spokesperson, shared a video of the incident on X.
The footage showed a man approaching the group from behind, lunging over the head of one man, and stabbing at the face of another, who fell to the pavement.
Behrman told The Times of Israel that the targets of the attack were all Jewish.
Govan was not initially charged with a hate crime. The NYPD said on Sunday that he had been charged with seven counts including assault, menacing, and harassment. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office confirmed Monday that the top count was now the hate crime charge.
The attack was the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents reported in New York City in recent days.
Jews are targeted in hate crimes more often than any group in New York City, according to NYPD data. Last year, Jews were targeted in 345 incidents, more than all other groups combined, as antisemitic crimes surged following the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... attack on Israel.
There were 18 antisemitic hate crimes reported to police in January, a decrease from the same month last year.
The figures are preliminary and subject to change if, for example, an incident that had initially appeared antisemitic turns out to have been motivated by other factors.
An apparently mentally unstable, antisemitic man who attacked a Lubavitcher man in Crown Heights on Shabbos was charged Sunday with hate crimes, Shomrim tells Belaaz.
Kareem Govan, 47, was initially charged with assault, menacing and harassment, after being arrested for lunging at a Jewish father who was walking with his son in the area of Union Street and Troy Avenue with a pair of shears. The father suffered minor injuries to his ear.
On Sunday, the District Attorney, in collaboration with the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force, determined that his charges be upgraded to include his antisemitic motivations.
Govan uploaded a video to Youtube 10 months ago of himself walking through Crown Heights, speaking “In the name of Alla-h” and using other Muslim expressions, as he apologized for assaulting a “Muslim brother.” He also confesses to having been in jail for assault in the past. However, 8 months ago, he uploaded another video where he professes Christian beliefs.
His videos contain evidence of mental instability,
…a nutter? Then it’s Page 3: Non-WoT…
such as calls for viewers not to be able to enter a new decade without knowing his birthday. Online, he goes by the name Kareem Arkabar Govan.
Rabbi Yaacov Berhman, a Crown Heights askan, wrote on social media: “A father was walking with his son this Shabbos around Union and Troy, in Crown Heights, when someone attacked him with scissors, allegedly attempting to cut his ear off. The father suffered minor cuts but will be okay.
“[Police] immediately responded and apprehended the perp, who was later transferred to the hospital after appearing unstable. The perp is under arrest and facing felony charges. It’s unacceptable for such things to happen in broad daylight on a busy street.”
[IsraelTimes] Reform will bring families of security prisoners and slain terrorists into same welfare system as other Palestinians, be based on economic need; move was largely finalized in Biden era
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> signed a decree on Monday canceling legislation that conditioned welfare payments to Paleostinian security prisoners on the length of their sentences in Israeli jails, in addition to providing stipends to the families of forces of Evil killed while carrying out attacks.
The decree states that families of prisoners and slain attackers who require welfare assistance will be eligible for stipends based solely on their financial needs, as is the case with other Paleostinians.
Israel and other countries have long denounced the stipends that Jerusalem said actively encouraged terror, with critics dubbing it the "pay-to-slay" system.
The initiative to cancel the stipends had been in the works for years, and its pilot program was even quietly launched toward the end of the Biden administration, a source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.
Ramallah presented the reform to the US near the beginning of the previous administration, seeking to bring the PA into compliance with the Taylor Force Act — 2018 congressional legislation that suspended US aid to the PA as long as it continued granting the stipends.
The US then facilitated a dialogue with the Israeli government to explain the contents of the reform, the source said, acknowledging that it was met with skepticism in Jerusalem.
There were several points toward the end of the Biden administration’s term in which the PA decision was on the verge of being announced, a second source said, arguing that Israel seemed to be trying to stall the matter. In the months leading up to Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s October 7 onslaught, the Biden administration sought to receive a nod of approval from Israel for the reform, worried that a rejection could lead pro-Israel politicians in Congress to follow suit, thereby hampering the reform’s legitimacy in Washington. The second source indicated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office had dragged its feet on the matter, even as the premier regularly cited the controversial policy to argue that the PA cannot be trusted.
It is unlikely that the reform will satisfy the Netanyahu government, which has pledged to box the PA out of any role in the post-war governance of 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... The Foreign Ministry issued a statement Monday night dismissing the decree "as a new fraudulent exercise by the PA, which intends to continue making payments to forces of Evil and their families through other channels."
Israeli law requires the government to conduct a review of the PA’s prisoner payment system at the beginning of every calendar year, so Jerusalem could theoretically wait until early 2026 before deciding whether Ramallah is in compliance with Knesset legislation targeting the PA over its controversial stipends.
The Trump administration may also have different criteria for adjudicating the PA reform, even though it was authorized by career legal babus bureaucrats under the previous administration.
Biden officials also briefed congressional politicians about the reform last year and received support from both sides of the aisle, including Republican Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... , the second source said.
The Taylor Force Act requires the US government to review the PA’s compliance every six months.
According to the text of the decree posted on the official PA news agency WAFA, the program to allocate welfare funds will be transferred from the Social Development Ministry to a new fund called the Paleostinian National Foundation for Economic Empowerment.
The fund will be headed by current PA Social Welfare Minister Ahmad Majdalani, according to the second source.
A strict criteria system has been put in place to determine eligibility that will be reviewed twice a year, said the second source.
Many families of prisoners and slain attackers who were receiving government stipends will continue to receive financial aid, given the high poverty rate in the West Bank. This has only gone up further since October 7, with Israel ending its permit system to over 100,000 Paleostinians working in Israel and the settlements — a key component of the West Bank’s economy.
The practice of paying allowances to those convicted of carrying out terror attacks, and to the families of those killed while carrying out attacks, has been pilloried by critics as incentivizing terror, and held up by Israel as a symbol of PA corruption and its inability to serve as a partner for peace.
Paleostinian leaders have long defended the payments, describing them as a form of social welfare and necessary compensation for victims of what they said is Israel’s callous military justice system in the West Bank.
Abbas signed the decree as the US Supreme Court prepares to adjudicate a case in the coming months on whether American victims can sue the PA and its international arm, the Paleostine Liberation Organization, for damages due to Ramallah’s payments program.
According to the PA, the decree was made in part to "strengthen the status of the state of Paleostine" in the UN and other international bodies and gain further international recognition, as well as "with the aim of restoring international aid programs that were suspended in the past year."
The move was also designed to stop "the illegal deductions" that Israel made from taxes it gathered on behalf of the Paleostinian Authority, the decree added. Neither the English nor Arabic version of the announcement made any reference to the Trump administration or to the United States.
Under interim peace accords reached in the 1990s, Israel’s Finance Ministry collects tax revenues on behalf of the PA and makes monthly transfers to Ramallah, but it has withheld funds over the years due to disputes, including, most recently, in the wake of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.
In 2018, Israel passed a law requiring that a sum equal to the monthly stipends the PA pays to security prisoners and the families of slain attackers be withheld from the tax revenues it transfers to the Paleostinians.
Israel withheld hundreds of millions of shekels from the PA under the legislation, citing the payments. At the same time, Israel has in the past offered loans to the PA in order to keep it afloat and prevent its total breakdown.
While the previous administration believed that the reform would bring the PA into compliance with the Taylor Force Act, the US would still be barred from directly funding the PA, due to separate US legislation preventing such aid once Ramallah began advancing investigations against Israel at the International Criminal Court.
However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... the reform would still theoretically be sufficient enough to enable the US to fund projects that directly benefit the PA.
The decree from the PA on Monday noted that the move should also assist with "the new burdens of helping our people in the Gaza Strip."
While the effort to reform the PA prisoner payment system has been in the works for years, and was largely finalized under the Biden administration, Ramallah decided to hold off on announcing the move, preferring to save it as a goodwill gesture for the incoming Trump administration.
During the transition between the Biden and Trump White Houses, top PA officials briefed their counterparts in the incoming Trump administration regarding their plan, a third and a fourth source familiar told The Times of Israel on Monday.
However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... those two sources believed that the announcement would be put on the back burner following Trump’s declaration last week that he planned to take over Gaza and permanently displace the population. The Gaza proposal sent shockwaves throughout the Arab world, which is now in the middle of a full-throttled campaign against the Trump idea.
A Paleostinian official told The Times of Israel during the presidential transition process that Ramallah had learned lessons from the way it dealt with Trump during his first term. Abbas severed ties with the US after Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017, less than a year after taking office. The US proceeded to broker the Abraham Accords, while the Paleostinians were left out of the process.
As efforts to include Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... in those accords have intensified, Ramallah has worked to boost its ties with Riyadh, hoping that the latter will condition a deal with Israel on a credible and irreversible pathway to a future Paleostinian state. Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick...... PA officials indicated to Trump aides that they would be prepared to use his 2020 peace plan as a basis for negotiations.
The decree on Monday is Ramallah’s latest effort to improve ties with Washington and amounts to a major victory for Trump, who managed to secure a concession from the PA that repeated US administrations had worked to actualize.
The times are a-changing — a few weeks ago no one would have batted an eye.
[IsraelTimes] Malaysian businessman Ruben Gnanalingam shared posts on LinkedIn comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, calling Hezbollah a ‘resistance movement’
A part-owner of Los Angeles Football Club apologized Monday for reposting anti-Israel posts on social media that were criticized by his club and Major League Soccer as "deeply offensive." Metric Football
The Jewish Chronicle first reported that Ruben Gnanalingam reposted messages on his LinkedIn page including comments urging "armies" to "dismantle" Israel and one that compared the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... with the Holocaust.
Another repost called Hezbollah a resistance movement "whether you like it or not."
Gnanalingam, a Malaysian businessman and also vice chairman of second-division English club Queen’s Park Rangers, said in a statement that he deeply regretted that content on his social media account had caused distress and concern.
"It was never my intention to offend or harm anyone, and I take responsibility for not exercising greater caution before sharing these posts," he wrote. "I sincerely apologize to those affected, including my colleagues, friends, and family.
"As someone who values unity, diversity, and respect for all people, I take full responsibility for my actions and have since removed the reposts," he added. "I have decided to step away from social media for the foreseeable future to focus on my professional responsibilities and ensure my communication reflects the values and high standards expected of me as a global business leader."
Gnanalingam added that he was committed to learning from his action and working closely with MLS, LAFC, QPR and other organizations to ensure he handles matters of public communication with greater care.
Gnanalingam’s social media reposts were discovered by the investigative group GnasherJew and shared with The Jewish Chronicle.
The MLS and LAFC condemned Gnanalingam’s reposts in a joint statement.
"MLS and LAFC believe in unity and we stand firmly against hate in any form," they said. "The League is currently reviewing the situation and will have no further comment at this time."
Stupidly staying bought after they took almost four million dollars from USAID. But there’ll be no more for the next four years, so now it’s just about their innate hate of Bibi and whatever is left over in the bank account.
[IsraelTimes] Protesters demanding the release of hostages blocked the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on Monday night, seething at the government as the ceasefire-hostage release deal 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... appeared to be faltering, and as Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... said it would delay the next hostage release until further notice because Israel was ostensibly violating the terms of the deal.
"We demand the government of Israel not fall victim to the terror group’s spin and ensure that the door that was opened will not be shut," the Hostages Families Forum said in a statement late Monday.
"The difficult images from this past Saturday" — when an emaciated Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, and Ohad Ben-Ami were freed from Gaza — "leave no room for doubt — this government cannot in any way delay the second stage, and definitely not endanger the deal," the forum added.
The protesters stormed onto the highway at the tail end of a gathering outside the Tel Aviv Museum, now dubbed Hostages Square, to mark the 24th birthday of hostage Alon Ohel, a day after his family received the first sign of life from him following more than 16 months in captivity.
Ohel, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, is not on the list of hostages slated to be freed in the first stage of the deal. Seventeen more captives are scheduled to be returned in the coming weeks, nine of them alive, with an additional 59 still held hostage, a figure that includes 34 confirmed dead by Israel.
On Sunday, Alon’s mother, Idit, revealed that a hostage who had recently been freed from Gaza reported that her son was being held underground in a Hamas tunnel, bound, starved and suffering from untreated shrapnel wounds to his shoulder, arm, and now-partially blind eye.
Addressing those gathered, Idit Ohel slammed the government for appearing to drag its feet in talks to move ahead with the next potential phases of the ceasefire deal — which must still be negotiated — that could see her son returned.
Idit said that after receiving the sign of life from her son, her family was contacted by bigwigs from around the world, but "there was one government whose representatives didn’t bother to speak with us — the government of Israel."
In English, she asked US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... to "do everything in your power to ensure that this deal continues."
So much for that. It turns out Hamas was the problem all along, not Bibi.
Addressing those gathered in Hostages Square on Monday night, Idit implored them to "keep shouting. Keep demanding the return of every single one of them. They need to come home — they need to come home now!"
Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... Ofer Calderon, who was freed from Gaza on February 1, revealed on Monday that he was "held in tunnels without seeing daylight, had no access to media, experienced severe hunger conditions, and went entire months without showering or receiving proper care."
In a statement from the released captive shared by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, Calderon — who was kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz with two of his children — said that "immediately after the first deal [in November 2023], the conditions of my captivity and those of many other hostages severely deteriorated and became brutal."
During that weeklong truce, his children Sahar and Erez were freed from captivity as part of a deal that saw most of the women and kiddies taken hostage returned to Israel.
"We must not stop the current deal and must continue working to free all the hostages," Calderon added. "Hamas is a cruel enemy who will not hesitate to harm the hostages left behind. We must get everyone out as quickly as possible."
[IsraelTimes] UN pauses humanitarian work in northern Saada province, citing unstable security situation; 19 million projected to need assistance in Yemen this year
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... said Monday it suspended its humanitarian operations in the stronghold of 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... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels after the group detained eight more UN staffers, affecting the global response to one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.
In a statement, the UN said the "extraordinary" decision to pause all operations and programs in northern Saada province was due to the lack of necessary security conditions and guarantees.
A front man for the Houthis didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
The rebels in recent months have detained dozens of UN staffers, as well as people associated with aid groups, civil society and the once-open US Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. None of the UN staffers has been released.
Like Hamas and Iran, they want the security of markers to trade. But President Trump is no Joe Biden.
The UN statement said the pause in operations is meant to give the Houthis and the world body time to "arrange the release of arbitrarily detained UN personnel and ensure that the necessary conditions are in place to deliver critical humanitarian support" in rebel-held areas.
It said the latest detained UN staffers — taken late last month — included six working in Saada, on Yemen’s northern border with Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... Seven UN agencies operate in Saada, including the World Food Program, the World Health Organization and UNICEF, along with several international aid organizations, according to the UN humanitarian agency.
The UN late last month suspended all travel into Houthi-held areas.
The war in Yemen has killed more than 150,000 people. The Iranian-backed Houthis have been fighting Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which is backed by a Saudi-led coalition, since 2014, when they descended from their stronghold in Saada and took control of Sanaa and most of the north.
The UN had projected that over 19 million people across Yemen will need humanitarian assistance this year as many deal with climate shocks, malnutrition, cholera and the economic effects of war.
The rebels have imprisoned thousands of people during the war. In recent months, they also intensified their crackdown on dissent, including recently sentencing 44 people to death.
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"UN pauses humanitarian work..." Well, well. Even a flatworm learns to avoid pain or damage. The UN has 'ascended' to the intelligence level of a flatworm. Maybe. US out of the UN, etc.
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If Ukrainians are raking in the dough, just think about the kickbacks to the Biden Crime Family and their friends.
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Well gawd damn, what did people expect when you give billions, directly or indirectly, to the most corrupt nation in Europe?
And money continues to go thither. Europe loves to throw money at Ukraine. Good, then let them deal with it while Trump looks at beach front property in the Gaza Strip.
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Oh, you looking for MANPADS, OK pal keep going this direction for a couple blocks, hang a left on John McCain Road, and keep going until you come to a warehouse with a coffee shop named Benghazi across the street.
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Africa is probably a better market than Mexico. Lots more fighting going on there. Although, I would be unsurprised to see RPGs and MANPADS in Mexico once the US gets involved in fighting the cartels.
Also, we have seen mention of grenade attacks becoming a feature of gang war in Sweden by guys not named Sven.
[Federalist] If the Danes don’t want to sell Greenland and the locals don’t want to form the 51st state, President Donald Trump is left with a third option.
But if the Danes don’t want to sell Greenland and the locals don’t want to form the 51st state, President Trump can pursue an agreement called a Compact of Free Association (COFA).
Managed by the Department of the Interior, a COFA is a mutual agreement with select countries that are guaranteed U.S. support and protection in exchange for exclusive regional access. Under these compacts, co-opted states receive limited economic assistance and allow the American military to maintain an exclusive security presence without the host territory’s forfeiture of national sovereignty. A COFA signed with Greenland would give the U.S. rights to manage regional security while the island maintains relative autonomy from both the United States and Denmark.
The U.S. currently has COFA agreements with a trio of Pacific nation-states. The U.S. provides military defense in exchange for military access, immigration privileges, and financial aid. COFA agreements govern the U.S. relationship with the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and the Republic of Palau. The security arrangements give the Pentagon greater ability to counter Chinese aggression in the Pacific just as a compact with Greenland would provide an additional buffer in the Arctic.
Please note that Great White North refers affectionately to Canada only, not the global northern latitudes.
— trailing wife for the Moderators at 9:05 p.m. ET
[Daily Mail, where America gets ots news] Signs indicate Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner could be taking on a more prominent role in Middle East relations in the second administration.
Kushner initially said last February that he would not have a White House role in a second term after serving as a senior adviser to Trump the last time around.
But when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington, D.C., last week for meetings with Trump, he also privately huddled with Kushner, according to Axios.
Bibi and Kushner discussed the U.S. president's recently proposed plans to rebuild Gaza, detailed two sources with knowledge of the meeting. They also discussed other matters related to Israeli and Middle East relations.
It comes after Trump divulged in an interview that aired Monday evening that he doesn't see a situation where Palestinians could return to the only land they've ever known as home if he were to go in and help develop the war-torn Gaza Strip. "the only land they've ever known as home", except in 1948 they left Israel in hopes Arab armies would kill all the Juice. They chose ...poorly. Again, and again
In Trump's first term, Kushner helped negotiate the Abraham Accords in a historic move to forge relationships with Israel and its neighboring countries in the hostile region.
And reports emerged earlier this year that Kushner, who is married to Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka, would take on an unofficial advisement role from afar regarding Middle East affairs.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump had just signed five executive orders on Air Force One as he flew home from Miami when he turned proceedings over to the White House staff secretary to give traveling journalists a rundown of their contents.
And as Will Scharf, 38, stood in the gangway, setting out details of a memo to establish an iron dome missile shield over the United States, something revealing happened.
The president leaned towards his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, and whispered: 'He's very good.'
'He's a star,' she replied.
If Trump is the main attraction, the commander-in-chief and the leading man of the White House, he has found his sidekick in an unassuming former prosecutor and Missouri attorney general candidate.
Scharf's predecessors in the role carried out their work in obscurity, shuffling papers behind the scenes. But he has been thrust into the limelight, appearing beside the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office when Trump is signing orders.
Like a chamberlain at a royal court, Trump has employed him to announce each leather-bound executive order before it is placed on the desk for the ceremonial squiggle of his Sharpie
It began in impromptu style on inauguration day as the president looked around for an MC in front of a rally crowd: 'Why don't you say what I'm signing?'
And since then he has become a key character in the second season of the Trump show.
When Trump left for his first trip around the country, Scharf was at his side every step of the way, joining the president when they appeared in the press cabin to announce those new executive orders.
It marks an extraordinary moment in the spotlight for a low-key lawyer, who rose through Trump world without the flashy exuberance of other aides.
The staff secretary's role is to manage the papers that the president needs to see, coordinating the drafting of memos and statements as they move around the White House.
It gives Scharf an overview of every step of policy formulation. And it has sometimes been a stepping stone to the top of the legal ladder—the politicians and lawyers who have held the post include Brett Kavanaugh, the future Supreme Court justice under President George W. Bush.
Scharf became a familiar sight at Trump events during the past two years ... if you knew where to look.
He could be spotted behind the scenes at press conferences at Trump Tower and the president's Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, a sign that the former federal prosecutor was taking an increasingly important role in Trump's legal team.
A Princeton and Harvard Law School alumnus, he cut his political teeth with Eric Greitens, when he won the race to become governor of Missouri in 2016.
During the first Trump administration he worked on the Supreme Court confirmations of Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.
And in 2023 he launched his own political career, announcing a run for Missouri attorney general. However, he lost out to the Republican incumbent.
At around that time, he and Newsweek senior editor Josh Hammer co-founded 'Jews Against Soros', taking aim at Democratic donor and philanthropist George Soros. A favorite target of conservatives, part of their aim was to show their criticism was not based on antisemitism.
From there he joined Trump's legal team, working on elements of the New York hush money case and the presidential immunity question.
'Will is a highly skilled attorney who will be a crucial part of my White House team,' said Trump when he tapped him for the role in November.
'He has played a key role in defeating the Election Interference and Lawfare waged against me, including by winning the historic immunity decision in the Supreme Court.'
[FoxBusinessNews] OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Elon Musk is "probably just trying to slow us down" with his bid to purchase the company, insisting on Tuesday that it is not for sale.
Altman, who spoke to Bloomberg on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris following Musk’s unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion to take over OpenAI, also said that Musk is probably living his whole life "from a position of insecurity" and that "I don’t think he’s like a happy person, I do feel for him."
"Look, OpenAI is not for sale," Altman told Bloomberg. "Elon tries all sorts of things for a long time. This is this week’s episode."
"I think he is probably just trying to slow us down. He obviously is a competitor. He’s working hard to raise a lot of money for [his startup] xAI and they are trying to compete with us from a technological perspective from getting the product into the market and I wish he would just compete by building a better product but I think there has been a lot of tactics, you know many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff and now this," Altman added. "And we’ll try to just put our head down and keep working."
Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but cut ties with the company in 2018 after he was unable to persuade its other leaders to put him in charge of a for-profit OpenAI entity or merge the company with Tesla.
Both Musk and Altman started OpenAI as a charity in 2015. When Musk left, Altman became the chief executive and the company established a for-profit subsidiary to raise money from investors and Microsoft. Now, Altman is looking to turn the subsidiary into a traditional company, the WSJ reported.
Last month, Trump announced a massive $500 billion infrastructure project called Stargate. Major names including Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle plan to join forces to build data centers in the U.S. for the further development of AI.
[FoxNews] The European Space Agency (ESA) said Monday that its Euclid space telescope has detected a rare bright halo of light around a nearby galaxy.
Known as an Einstein ring, the halo was captured in photos encircling a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away, which is considered close by cosmic standards. A single light-year is measured at 5.8 trillion miles.
While astronomers have known about the galaxy where the phenomenon was captured for over a century, they were surprised when Euclid revealed the bright glowing ring,
Euclid blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 1, 2023, to begin a six-year mission to explore the dark universe.
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Perfect gravitational lensing.
(Another light source behind the near one, light from the rear one gets bent into a circle. There's a photo at the link.)
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[ConservtiveTreehouse] Yesterday, Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pointed a finger at the FBI for leaking the details of an ICE deportation sweep to the Los Angeles Times in order to tip-off criminal illegal aliens. Today, Tom Homan says, "Kristi Noem was correct, some of the information they are receiving leads to the FBI."
Yeah, those low level Special Agents are harmless.
[X] Random federal judges in blue state backwaters have no authority to unilaterally dictate who the President may talk to or what data he can access. John Roberts and SCOTUS have two options here: they can bring these inferior malcontents to heel, or they can get used to the President simply ignoring these inferior courts or Congress eliminating them entirely.
Congress created these inferior courts so the Supreme Court wouldn’t have to deal with every federal case by itself. But if these rogue inferior judges are going to routinely issue lawless decisions that the Supreme Court has to deal with anyway, Congress would be well within its rights to just eliminate them.
Roberts and SCOTUS can immediately put these lawless judges in their place, or Roberts can watch his caseload go up 1000x and his court’s precious perceived legitimacy crater overnight.
The age of tolerating this nonsense is over.
District Federal Judges should be limited to their district regional cases and legal issues.When the President issues an Executive Orders it is a NATIONAL Issue and if challenged, it should be solely address by the US Supreme Court.
Also, any judgment by the SCOTUS must be required to cite where in the US Constitution such a ruling justified. We must be a Nation ran and operated under the US Constitution, not politically or DEI mind people.
[FoxNews] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faced widespread mockery after launching a tipline to "expose corruption, abuses of power, and threats to public safety."
On Monday, Schumer shared a link calling on "whistleblowers" to report violations, arguing they "are a vital part of Congressional oversight to hold the administration accountable." The categories whistleblowers can report include "retaliation," "wasteful spending," "fraud," "criminal activity," and "other."
'Great! I wanna report: Joe Biden. Kamala Harris. Chuck Schumer,' Senator Ted Cruz replied.
In other words, if you want federal money, you will have to “certify” that you do not “operate any programs promoting” DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) “that violate any applicable Federal anti-discrimination laws.” And the order eases the way for enforcement through whistleblower claims.
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It’s the False Claims Act – the whistleblower law that allows private citizens to file what are called qui tam actions. That provision in Trump’s new order is specifically intended to make it easier to win whistleblower actions under the False Claims Act. In other words, if a university or other party falsely signs the certification that they have no DEI policies, private parties like their employees can blow the whistle, perhaps getting a cash award. Treble damages are among the possible consequences for False Claims Act violations.
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Many major law firms have posted warnings for their clients about the new Trump order and the potential for whistleblower complaints.
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As I said in another such related judge blocking info from the public.
To cut down on the LawFare abuses.
All Legal challenges to Presidential Executive Orders must be directly handled by the SCOTUS. They must addressed within 30 days. If not addressed by the SCOTUS, then the Executive Order goes into effect on day 31.
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A Gulfstream G650ER linked to Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, departed Washington, D.C., yesterday and is now entering Russian airspace, approaching Moscow.
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Grom, you can talk to Democrats all you want. The trick is getting them to listen. They scream and yell, their faces turn red and they leave the room whenever anybody says something factual.
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^On the other hand, you can talk to Russians - to mutual advantage.
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A Massachusetts judge overruled the Trump administration’s attempt to cap wasteful NIH funding that funnels millions into universities’ bloated admin costs.
Judge John McConnell, an Obama appointee, claimed Trump officials “violated” a court order by pausing grants - despite the White House legally reviewing spending.
This is yet another case of activist judges rewriting policy, protecting government waste instead of enforcing fiscal responsibility.
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Keep dragging this out kiddies, for two years, leading up to the mid-term elections. Yeah, that's the ticket, keep the fight for graft and corruption loud and clear.
#4
Impeach a couple of the black-robed partisans and watch this crap stop. Their arrogance comes from a sense of invulnerability. Change that and the malfesance ends.
[IsraelNationalNews] The US Agency for International Development (USAID), which has of late been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, has for years funneled money to terrorist entities in the Palestinian-controlled territories, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Monday, citing several former and current US officials who have worked with the agency.
According to the report, the officials fought with the agency over funding for groups that worked to undermine Israel or maintained ties to terror organizations and the organization would work to conceal how taxpayer funds were spent.
The report mentions how in November 2022, USAID granted $100,000 to an organization led by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terror group. Just six days before Hamas's Oct. 7 assault on Israel, USAID gave $900,000 "to a terror charity in Gaza involved with the son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh."
The report also notes that the Biden-era administrator of the agency, Samantha Power, actively fought pro-Israel policymaking at the State Department and that USAID staffers even recently urged the Biden administration to halt military funding for Israel.
One State Department official told the Free Beacon: "They weren't even in line with some of the Biden administration's policies. It's more than just problematic grants to anti-Israel organizations. It's also their role in the internal approval processes and statements within the administration. There's an entire bureaucratic process they're a part of. They carry out their obstructionist ideology on that front as well."
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) confirmed the report, in which he was also quoted, writing on X: "The full story of USAID funding Hamas is vast, and much of it was done in secret. Before and after October 7, USAID flowed uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward Hamas which enabled it to launch the attack and keep battling Israel afterward.
The Senator continued: "They lied about the nature of that aid in public databases, refused to disclose what groups were getting the money, and gave tens of millions in American cash to be distributed without American supervision.
"They internally admitted the aid would benefit Hamas, and even exempted themselves from anti-terrorism laws, but in public issued denials."
Cruz added: "For all four years of the Biden administration, I prevented them from confirming a Middle East administrator because they wouldn’t acknowledge what they were doing because continuing their secret pro-Hamas programs was more important to them."
[CNN] Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023.
But in a memorandum signed Monday, Hegseth instructed the Army to rename the North Carolina military installation in honor of a different Bragg: Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II veteran who was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart for extraordinary bravery during the Battle of the Bulge, according to a statement from Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot. Clever
“This change underscores the installation’s legacy of recognizing those who have demonstrated extraordinary service and sacrifice for the nation,” Ullyot said.
Before it was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023, the fort was named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, who drew criticism for his combative personality and poor field performance during the Civil War. A naming commission set up by Congress to study renaming bases noted Bragg is “considered one of the worst generals of the Civil War,” and was “widely disliked in the pre-Civil War U.S. Army and within the Confederate Army by peers and subordinates alike.”
The fort was among nine bases that the congressional commission proposed renaming during President Joe Biden’s presidency. Removing Confederate monikers from US military bases became a contentious political issue in the final months of Donald Trump’s first term. While Trump vetoed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act that included the naming commission, Congress voted to override his veto with overwhelming bipartisan support.
The Department of Defense began implementing the naming commission’s recommendations in 2023. Changing the bases back to their former Confederate names would require congressional approval.
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Moore deserves a place, Bliss and Leavenworth might be ideas, perhaps even Irwin, it needs to be a significant installation to match his contributions.
The White House has launched a near-total crackdown on migrants at the border, not even bothering to question whether they are seeking asylum, leading droves to just throw in the towel, officials and sources say.
The migrants are halting in their tracks and returning south "due to increased border security" after President Trump ended the Biden administration’s risky "catch and release" program, deployed additional troops to the border and commenced a mass deportation effort across the nation, Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks said on X.
"These individuals cited the heavy security posture along the U.S.-Mexico border and Mexico’s containment efforts as key reasons for reversing course," Banks wrote.
"Families in these groups made a life-saving decision, avoiding the dangers of cartel-controlled territory, where extortion and violence are rampant," the former Texas border czar said.
"Our enforcement efforts are working."
The Trump administration has essentially taken a "zero tolerance" to migrants even claiming asylum, sources said.
When migrants now try to cross into the US either legally or illegally and claim asylum, they are returned immediately to Mexico if they’re from Central America and several other countries or sent to ICE for detention and eventual removal, according to Homeland Security sources.
Border Patrol agents are no longer required to question migrants about their wants for asylum.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A bizarre twist in the Chinese spy balloon saga has finally revealed the contents of the mystery floating surveillance device.
Investigators discovered the balloon - which was found hovering over the US before it was eventually shot down over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023 - was secretly equipped with US-made technology.
It was full of the very same technology that may have helped Beijing spy on unsuspecting Americans, two sources with direct knowledge of the classified investigation told Newsweek exclusively.
Military analysts who dismantled the balloon found it was loaded with American-made satellite communication modules and sophisticated sensors from at least five different US companies, as reported by the outlet.
A Chinese patent uncovered during the investigation also alarmingly showed that Beijing had already mapped out exactly how to use American satellite technology to control these spy balloons and harvest sensitive data.
The necessary equipment was reportedly easily available for purchase online.
Last February, the Pentagon determined the high-altitude balloon found and intercepted by the US Military was 'likely' a 'hobby balloon.'
In a statement, NORAD, along with the Federal Aviation Administration, said at the time that the mystery balloon was monitored from ground radars 'until it left US airspace overnight.'
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When doing work on SBIR/STTR military grant projects I was shocked to see professors at US universities who were citizens of the PRC working in the projects. {I didn't start working with universities until Bush II was in office so I have no idea when it began to be common.}
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IMHO, When Reagan began the Starwars program engineers left Lawrence Livermore, JPL, EG&G, etc. for Huntsville AL. The Aerospace industry then struggled to find 'clearable' talent, which drew bodies from academia and started the wage wars. Then highly educated and motivated Chinese engineers flowed into the resulting University vacumn.
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^^^^^
Sadly, multi-generational cultural affinity is a particular consideration, even after a couple of generations in my experience.
A study of SJS (sudden Jihadi Syndrom) found higher propensity to react of those cross cultural individuals defined as ".(be)-tweens", who didn't feel significant levels of integration into American culture vs. their ethnic origins.
In parallel, I suspect it is, in part, a particular outcome of the academic, liberal, governmental attitude of America as a salad bowl, not a melting pot and "Diversity is Our Strength" memes. When we emphasize our differences, not a common embrace of our national ethos, we don't meld as well.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Chelsea Clinton claims that 'misinformation' has been weaponized against her after claims that she was gifted $84million from the under fire United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Clinton, 44, was charged with receiving $84million from USAID via the Clinton Foundation, which was founded by herself, father Bill and mother Hillary.
The former First Daughter responded on social media Monday, writing: 'Lies and conspiracies about my family and me are nothing new. Still, I am particularly troubled by the absurd claims that continue to pervade social media this week, fact checks be damned.'
'Facts: I’m proud of the Clinton Foundation work that has helped tens of millions of people worldwide. Our impact speaks for itself. I don’t take a cent from the Foundation. Never have. In fact, my family personally contributes meaningfully to our work each year,' she continued.
'Misinformation isn't just noise—it's a weapon. Efforts to undermine good work won't stop us, and we stand in solidarity with those who are committed to truth, public health, progress, and the endless potential of our future.'
Fact-checking website Snopes added that the money was not only not given to Chelsea Clinton but also not an accurate amount.
'A graph that social media users claimed showed Chelsea Clinton received $84 million from USAID is actually a reference to the Clinton Foundation,' they wrote.
'Further, government data from fiscal years 2008-24 showed that USAID had not given more than $7.5 million to that foundation. Finally, tax returns show Chelsea Clinton does not receive any compensation for her work at the foundation.'
[FoxNews] It costs nearly four cents to produce a single penny, according to the U.S Mint
President Donald Trump unveiled plans Sunday to halt production of the penny — but getting that initiative underway requires a few additional steps and possibly congressional approval.
Additionally, while Trump said he instructed the Treasury Department to stop minting them due to their high costs, supporters of the penny claim it’s wiser to evaluate changes to the nickel instead.
"For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday. "This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies."
In fact, producing pennies is even more expensive than Trump’s numbers. According to a 2024 U.S. Mint report, it costs nearly 3.69 cents to mint a single penny. The coins are primarily made of zinc and then covered in copper.
Trump’s statement comes after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who is heading up the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), posted on X in January how expensive minting pennies is.
DOGE is tasked with identifying ways to eliminate waste, and has so prompted changes, including gutting the $40 billion U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides aid to impoverished countries and development assistance.
Still, proponents of the penny exist. Americans for Common Cents, an organization that provides Congress and the White House with research on the value of the penny, claimed that efforts are better targeted at reducing the cost of the production for the nickel.
Nickels, worth five cents, cost approximately 13.8 cents to mint, according to the 2024 U.S. Mint report.
"The logical and fiscally responsible solution is not to eliminate the penny but to focus on producing a cheaper nickel," Americans for Common Cents Executive Director Mark Weller said in a Jan. 23 statement. "This approach would address the real driver of losses while preserving the functionality of small denominations in everyday transactions."
While the waters are a little murky on the next steps, experts say Congress likely would need to become involved and pass legislation to fulfill Trump’s wishes. And, historically, previous attempts in Congress to eliminate the coin have failed.
"The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear. It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies," Robert Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, told the Northeastern Global News.
Even so, there is bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill to modify minting pennies. In 2023, Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Maggie Hasson, D-N.H., reintroduced legislation to alter the composition of the penny to cut down on costs.
"It’s absolute non-cents that American taxpayers spend ten cents to make just one nickel. Only Washington could lose money making money," Ernst said in a statement in April 2023. "This commonsense, bipartisan effort will modify the composition of certain coins to reduce costs while allowing for a seamless transition into circulation. A penny saved is a penny not borrowed."
Even so, a composition change will unlikely yield cheaper results. The 2024 Mint Report said that options for different metal compositions aren’t available to reduce production costs down to face value.
There’s still some precedent for change though, and Congress has acted previously to discontinue minting new coins. The legislative branch authorized discontinuing new half-cent coins in 1857.
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...cause we went off the gold standard. That is the historical start in many civilizations to 'debasing' the coinage, aka government induced inflation.
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#11 there is a story out of the old west when the government couldn't provide enough money to a rather isolated region that caused a individual to coin money for circulation. The government arrested and tried the individual. However the jury acquitted when evidence presented in court showed 'his' coins had a higher content of gold than the government's.
Clark, Gruber and company were making silver dollars during a winter when Colorado was snowed in and cut off from the Philadelphia mint and coins were in short supply in Denver. These silver dollars had more silver in them than the dollars made by the Philadelphia mint. After the winter was over the US Treasury sued them for counterfeiting the US currency.In court they proved that they were not counterfeiting because their money was better than the US mint produced dollars. They won the case and to stop them from making dollars the US was forced to buy them out for $25,000 and converted their operations to what became the Denver Mint.
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At various points in the 1930s US municipalities were so short of cash (with all the banks closed at one point) that they printed their own currency. The currency included the promise to exchange it for real US notes (when / if they became available). Haven't heard any of them were prosecuted for counterfeiting. Their employees were glad to get something for their work at a time when others couldn't.
[FoxNews] DHS Secretary Noem requests IRS agents be provided to help ICE
The Trump administration is looking to deputize Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents to take on and assist with illegal immigration enforcement efforts, according to a senior official with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Either they obey orders or they quit. Both no doubt are acceptable.
DHS sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent requesting that the IRS provide agents to be used for immigration enforcement efforts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The senior DHS official said the expectation is that the request will be approved.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who signed the letter, said President Donald Trump directed her agency to "take all appropriate action to supplement available personnel to secure the southern border and enforce the immigration laws of the United States," even through use of the agency’s authority to deputize federal employees to perform immigration functions.
Through the implementation of Trump’s directive, Noem noted DHS has secured partnerships with a number of law enforcement officials, who have agreed to assist in carrying out the president’s immigration agenda.
For instance, DHS has deputized law enforcement components of the Department of Justice, members of the Texas National Guard and law enforcement officials with the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
"Even with these resources available, more can be done to fully implement the Executive Order," Noem wrote. "It is DHS’s understanding that the Department of Treasury has qualified law enforcement personnel available to assist with immigration enforcement, especially in light of recent increases to the Internal Revenue Service’s work force and budget."
She informed the agency that ICE needs IRS agents to assist and serve on interagency task forces to help build complex cases that blend tax, immigration and money laundering charges.
It sounds interesting and quite rewarding, actually. Kind of like a government skunkworks — lots of room for innovation and individual accomplishment.
Noem also asked for agents to help with targeting employers engaging in unlawful hiring practices, investigations into human smuggling and trafficking rings, seizing assets, contract oversight, apprehensions, detentions and removals.
While the IRS is responsible for collecting taxes and enforcing related laws, its criminal investigators also work to uncover drug trafficking, money laundering and corruption.
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Well, when they advertised for the 87,000 new tax collectors, one of the job requirements was that they be armed. Better to have them on the border than in the community.
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Except from GS-1811 Series OPM Regs-emphasis added! Making them 1811's has a downside.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management logo
"Criminal Investigation Series 1811
Individual Occupational Requirements"
"Summary of Reassignment"...
"3. The Agency's Right to Reassign
An agency may reassign an employee when:
The agency has a legitimate organizational reason for the reassignment; and
The vacant position is at the same grade, or rate of pay (i.e., if the movement is between pay systems such as from a General Schedule position to a Federal Wage System position), as the employee's present position.
The agency's right to direct reassignment includes the right to reassign an employee from a special rate position to a non-special rate position at the same grade, or to a position with less promotion potential than the present position. (Reassignment to a position with more promotion potential than the present position requires competition under the agency's merit staffing plan.) The position to which the agency reassigns an employee may be located in the same or a different geographic area (e.g., reassignment from Houston to Washington, DC)."
🧵THE UNIPARTY UNMASKED – They Believe They Are “Democracy”
The seven NGOs in the chart below, in my view, represent the Uniparty. Each of these organizations receives substantial financial support from USAID or the Department of State.
Please note that @MikeBenzCyber
is the expert on this topic—I’m just a technical person researching and learning alongside all of you.
To understand how these NGOs connect to democracy, let’s take a look at what AI says about the purpose of each one:
🟥 International Republican Institute (IRI) (EIN 521340267) – Promotes democracy by training political parties and leaders, primarily supporting U.S. foreign policy interests through a Republican-aligned lens.
🟦 National Democratic Institute (NDI) (EIN 521338892) – Advances democracy by fostering political participation and governance reforms worldwide, aligned with Democratic Party priorities.
⚖️ Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) (EIN 521943638) – A coalition of democracy-focused NGOs (IRI, NDI, IFES) that supports electoral processes, civil society, and governance reforms globally.
🗽 National Endowment for Democracy (NED) (EIN 521344831) – Acts as the primary funding hub for democracy promotion efforts worldwide, distributing U.S. government grants to NGOs supporting political and civil society development.
🗳 International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) (EIN 521527835) – Strengthens global democracy by providing technical assistance for election security, integrity, and voter participation.
📡 Internews (EIN 943027961) – Supports independent media and press freedom worldwide, shaping democratic discourse by training journalists and combating disinformation.
💰 Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) (EIN 521398742) – Promotes democracy through free-market economic policies, advocating for business-friendly governance and anti-corruption initiatives.
⚒️ Solidarity Center (EIN 472130723) – Advances democracy by supporting independent labor movements and workers' rights, often partnering with unions to promote political engagement.
Note what they all have in common? They are all dedicated to advocating democracy.
And they have redefined "democracy" to mean themselves.
Let's dig into each one in detail
Click on this article link to see each one in detail on X
🧵THREAD: I dug up archived USAID-funded Internews Annual Reports.
Here’s how this nonprofit played a crucial role in regime change across Eastern Europe in service of NATO expansion—then turned its tactics inward, calling for censorship in the West.
[YouTube] It appears to be getting ready to do some sort of big bang. Moses time again?
Santorini has been experiencing many earthquakes, resulting in evacuations...but the earthquakes aren't the only possible issue in Santorini. Santorini has a destructive volcanic history and has lots in common with "ring of fire" volcanoes elsewhere on Earth. This video shows what's under Santorini to produce its volcanic behavior. Parts of the Mediterranean are actually just as dynamic as the Pacific Ring of Fire, even though we don't always think of them that way!
[FoxNews] The discovery came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to release the JFK files
The FBI has uncovered thousands of records connected to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order to release the files.
Axios first reported that the FBI released 2,400 records tied to the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of Kennedy, which were not provided to the board that reviewed and disclosed the files.
When the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) submitted its plan to release the JFK files, it reportedly disclosed the existence of the records.
“See how compliant we are being, Mr. President?”
Fox News has confirmed with a person familiar with the records that the files were uncovered during the review.
"In 2020, the FBI opened the Central Records Complex and began a multi-year effort to first ship and then electronically inventory and store closed case files from FBI field offices across the country," the FBI told Fox News. "The resulting, more comprehensive records inventory, coupled with the technologic advances in automating the FBI's record keeping processes, allows us to more quickly search and locate records.
"The FBI conducted a new records search pursuant to President Trump's Executive Order issued on January 23, 2025, regarding the declassification of the assassination files of JFK, RFK, and MLK. The search resulted in approximately 2400 newly inventoried and digitized records that were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file," the agency added. "The FBI has made the appropriate notifications of the newly discovered documents and is working to transfer them to the National Archives and Records Administration for inclusion in the ongoing declassification process."
To be fair, J. Edgar Hoover was running things in those days, and he had very firm ideas about who owned his work product — him, not the public or the president.
Last month, Trump signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Everything will be revealed," Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office.
The executive order came after Trump had previously promised on the campaign trail to declassify the documents upon entering his second term, saying at the time, "When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination-related documents. It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the truth."
Trump had initially promised to release the last batch of documents during his first term, but such efforts ultimately dissipated. Trump then blocked the release of hundreds of records on the assassination following several CIA and FBI appeals.
"I have no choice," Trump said in a memo, where he cited "potentially irreversible harm" to national security if he allowed the records to be released. Trump said at the time the potential harm to U.S. national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs is "of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure."
A quid pro quo is only good so long as both parties keep the faith. It was during the Biden interregnum that President Trump learnt how badly the FBI and CIA had betrayed — and continued to betray — him.
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Is this where we finally learn that Oswald was a recruited US Intelligence asset ?
A most interesting question. I would expect that teasing out an answer at this late date would be difficult. Why would anyone leave paper records lying around? Not to mention that unlike regular matter, records can be both created and destroyed.
Me, I'd like to know more about Jack Ruby's involvement. Lots of funny bits in that story.
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Full text of the president's order dated 23 Jan 2025. It refers to the 1992 Act of Congress requiring it -- which had many exceptions to the full release.
I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue.
[FoxNews] US District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that SCOTUS gave Trump a 'protective and presumptive immunity cloak'
FBI records from the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe will soon be released despite the dismissal of the case against President Donald Trump and his presidential immunity, according to a federal judge's ruling Monday.
In a court filing first obtained by Politico, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found that the FBI must disclose more information related to the case by Feb. 20.
The decision concerned a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case brought by journalist Jason Leopold.
Leopold filed a request with the FBI in 2022 after reports that Trump during his first term "allegedly flushed some presidential records down the toilet when he was still in the White House and brought presidential records, including sensitive classified documents, to his personal residence in Florida," according to the filing.
The FBI asked the court to authorize withholding the records under Exemption 7A, which concerns "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that production of such law enforcement records or information…could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."
In light of the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity as well as Trump's election win in November, Trump is exempt from criminal proceedings, but Howell found the documents could still be released because of that fact, as there are no law enforcement proceedings against him.
"Somewhat ironically, the constitutional and procedural safeguards attached to the criminal process include significant confidentiality mechanisms…. with a parallel safeguard in Exemption 7(A) to help preserve the necessary confidentiality of ongoing criminal investigations leading to anticipated enforcement actions, but for an immune president, Exemption 7(A) may simply be unavailable, as it is here," Howell said.
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This ruling has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with achieving a political goal. You can copy and paste this comment in five places. Our judiciary is out of control.
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I wonder though, might these records be more embarrassing to Biden and the FBI than to Trump?
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[WESTERNJOURNAL] Democratic Connecticut state Sen. Martin Looney proposed a bill that would require Connecticut movie theaters to publish a film's actual start time.
Moviegoers know that times listed on movie tickets indicate when the previews begin, not the actual movie.
If passed, S.B. 797 would require theaters to publish both times on tickets.
''It seems to be an abuse of people's time,'' Looney told The Register Citizen. ''If they want to get there early and watch the promos, they can. But if they just want to see the feature, they ought to be able to get there just in time for that.''
So far, the only pushback has been from theater managers, Looney said, according to KNOE.
After all, they want people actually watching the previews.
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Next up will be time wasted in a Doctor's waiting room before the actual meeting begins?
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Most theaters didn't survive the lockdown and maskdown. How many people still care?
Also, is Hollyweed going to make any movies people want to go to a theater to watch?
It kind of sounds like laws passed about horse wagons about 1925 when cars and trucks had won.
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The theater wants butts in seats, and the previews are not just ad revenue but another round of snacks.
This will eliminate advanced reserved seating in favor of selecting seating at the gate to encourage early arrivals, or even just back to the free for all style.
Of course, none of that matters if pedowood continues to not produce. Think quick, what is a movie you are excited to see this year? If it took a moment to come up with one, it is settling not excitement, and a very expensive five hour commitment is a hard sell for settling.
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Actually, I have patience and will wait for the Amazon 3 for $10 events. With big screen, 4K+ TV, the screen to distance ratio, home stereo system and ability to pause to get 'cheap' food and bathroom breaks (something we face as we get older), who needs the theaters?
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I don't mind previews of coming attractions but when they start advertising Coca Cola, Milk Duds and Junior Mints it gets a bit annoying.
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But I would say the bill sounds like government overreach, typical of Democrats. If people don't like it they don't have to go to the theater and then the smart theater owners will make adjustments without any need for government.
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Actually, I have patience
...and how about moving those production credits to the end of the stream where they belong!
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This bill just begs to be named for it's founder!
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Ever notice that the lefty solution to any problem is to create an ever more complicated ruleset? Once you have a legally mandated start time, you also have penalties, civil or criminal, and an enforcement mechanism.
Will movie start times be posted in the legal notices section of the newspaper (assuming anyone still reads them)? Who is responsible for errors? Can the theater claim force majeure if the projectionist drops a reel and it takes them 5 minutes to get started? Sure smells like government overreach.
Now, about those commercials...
/disclaimer: the last movie I saw in a theater was "Avatar". It was gorgeous to look at, but the plot was so stupid it still makes my head hurt.
[TOWNHALL] President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... is challenging a federal court ruling barring members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the Treasury Department's payment and data systems.
This development comes after U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer slapped a preliminary injunction on the Trump administration after 19 Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the president.
The Trump administration made a filing on Sunday arguing that the injunction infringes on the president's ''absolute powers over the executive branch,'' The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported.
The filing by the administration came in response to a lawsuit filed Friday night by 19 attorneys general, led by New York's Letitia James, who had won a temporary pause on Saturday. The lawsuit said the Trump administration's policy of allowing appointees and ''special babus government employees'' access to these systems, which contain sensitive information such as bank details and social security numbers, was unlawful.
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"When DOGE found empty fields in Treasury's payment system, they uncovered more than missing data. They found a mechanism."...
"Because when you find something like empty fields in Treasury's payment system, you're not just finding missing data. You're finding purpose. When basic controls sit blank while billions vanish weekly, that's not incompetence. That's design. The machine is fighting back."
[NYPOST] WASHINGTON — The nearly 1,700 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) were told Monday not to come to the office or do any work — as the agency became the latest target of President Trump's effort to shrink the federal government.
Russ Vought, the newly confirmed director of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and acting director of the CFPB, told the workforce that they would have a surprise week off — after similar actions preceded last week's bloodbath at USAID.
''Good morning CFPB staff, As you have been informed by the Chief Operating Officer in an email yesterday, the Bureau's DC headquarters building is closed this week. Employees should not come into the office,'' Vought wrote in a staff-wide email.
[CTH] This is a good strategic move. Security Clearances are the credentialed currency of those who work in the DC administrative state. Specifically, a lawyer inside the DC machine is essentially of no value without a security clearance.
Additionally, the absence of a security clearance opens up both parties in DC to legal exposure from discussing or receiving information that is defined by the apparatus as NSI (national security information). And the cherry on the top of the proverbial cake is that Lawfare uses their definitions of NSI in an attempt to stop sunlight on their corrupt activity.
Revocation of security clearances is a win, win, win; a triple whammy.
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_________ Has your Security Clearance ever been suspended or revoked? Explain below.
[FoxNews] Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd highlights need for infrastructure as ICE arrests criminal aliens
A Florida sheriff said that federal immigration authorities need to remove the "shackles" from local law enforcement agencies so they can work hand-in-hand to make their communities safe from illegal criminal migrants.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told Fox News Digital that local departments could be the "biggest assets" for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations in carrying out President Donald Trump's promise to deport illegal immigrants.
He highlighted the need for infrastructure to house migrants, saying federal authorities need to "take the chain off" local municipalities.
"There's got to be an infrastructure at the federal level to house these folks because we can scoop them up in large quantities because they're here illegally committing crime and or they already have," he said. "There's 1.4 million with a federal warrant or a removal order. If we can identify them, put them in the computer, we can go pick them up."
"You can't just flip the switch on and off. You've got to put infrastructure together. But we will be an ally at an even greater level than we already have been," he said. "We'll load up ICE with illegal immigrant criminals."
Polk County, which is located between the Orlando and Tampa metro regions, signed a memorandum of agreement in 2019 – during Trump's first term – to work alongside ICE officials.
"And they [ICE under the previous Trump administration] came and got a lot of people from us that we had arrested on other criminal charges. But we saw those numbers diminish under the Biden administration," he said. "You know, quite frankly, they thought it was better to keep criminal illegal aliens in this country so that they could victimize people than to get rid of them."
"I give great compliments to Gov. [Ron] DeSantis, to our speaker of the house, Danny Perez, and to our president of the Senate, Ben Albritton, because we're creating state legislation, and they're working on the details now to make sure that every government in Florida cooperates and has infrastructure to help immigration at a federal level," he said.
Judd pointed out an information gap between local law enforcement and federal officials. He explained that migrants with an active deportation order are not listed in the National Crime Information Center, which is a central information database that law enforcement uses to see individuals' criminal history.
"I think that is an officer safety issue. When we stop vehicles, the people that we stop may very well be in this country illegally with an active deportation order, knowing, 'My Gosh, they've caught me.' But we don't know that," Judd said. "We also can't pick them up and hold them on this order to deport them because the federal government won't put it in the system. So we know we can be an even bigger help to ICE if they will make sure that they give us information to help them."
"We've got to have open communications between the federal government, between ICE and us, in order to help them," he said. "That's what we're working through right now."
It wasn’t just the US State Department and very rich Progressives, but also USAID has been working since Barack Obama was president to prevent/overthrow Bibi Netanyahu.
[PJMedia] In July of 2023, just a few months before the horrific events of October 7 and the war we have all been suffering through subsequently, I was in Israel with my family for two weeks. It was an amazing journey filled with the beauty and magic that can only happen in the Holy Land, which brought us both King David and Jesus. But I was shocked at the time by the demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sponsored mostly through an Israeli NGO called Blue and White Future. They were too well organized to be "organic," and clearly seemed like BLM 2.0 in their tone and behavior. Now, with the latest information uncovered by DOGE about USAID, we know that I was right: They were not organic Israeli demonstrations, but were unknowingly funded by U.S. taxpayers.
As an alumnus of UC Berkeley (1984), I have some experience with organic demonstrations. They never start or end on time, and are always chaotic. But in Israel, I saw protests against Netanyahu that were produced like a well-oiled machine. I was in my hotel room in Jerusalem and saw from my window an "organic demonstration" start promptly at 10:00pm; end exactly at 10:30pm; and be run by coordinators using a high-end professional sound system that must have cost at least $5000. It just didn’t look like any demonstration I had ever seen before.
And this was consistent throughout the country. Expensive billboards in Tel Aviv had a black fist (ala Black Power salute) on a bright yellow background with the Hebrew word "Resist" in large letters. Marches were taking place that had food stands along the way giving out free juices, sandwiches, and even expensive sun umbrellas by the thousands. This seemed to clearly be an extremely well-funded and well-planned attempt at a political coup against Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli elected officials.
Thanks to the good work being done to dismantle USAID, we now know that it was just that: an attempt to create political upheaval and hurt Netanyahu. Much of the funding came through USAID, which in 2023 gave NIS 14,000,000 (almost 4 million USD) to Blue and White Future and the Kaplan protest.
A little research on Blue and White Future leads to even more disturbing information. It is a NGO that has a history of operating outside the legalities of Israel and possibly the U.S., and was part of the financial sponsorship of the Kaplan Force, which was "moving from defense to attack against what they called a dictatorship." Formed in 2009, the organization was originally created to promote a two-state solution through surrendering Israeli territory. But in 2013, the Obama State Department (probably as an act of Dire Revenge against Netanyahu, who was not going along with Obama’s anti-Israel foreign policy) provided funds for One Voice, a partner of Blue and White Future, and in 2015 they worked together on the anti-Netanyahu political campaign Victory 15 using U.S. taxpayer money to try to influence Israel's election.
By 2023, Blue and White Future had hired the Washington-based public relations firm Trident DMG, founded by Democratic Party strategist Josh Galper, former CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... journalist Eleanor McManus, and infamous Clinton allies and attorneys Adam Goldberg and Lanny Davis.
It seems safe to assume all are extremely expensive, so it’s a good thing the money came from Uncle Sugar…
Blue and White not only got involved in the protests that I saw in Israel, but used American media outlets and social media. It even took out a full-page ad in the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... to attack Netanyahu.
I believe the NYT got at least $50 mil from USAID, so it’s all in the family.
As a result of all this a few things happened: Many Americans started having a negative view of Netanyahu; an investigation was opened up in Israel if find out if these protests were actually an attempt at a coup; and a perceived 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... ness was projected both within Israel and between Israel and the U.S.
Let’s be clear: Without that perceived divisiveness, Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... would never have planned the evils of October 7. If Israel had been perceived as unified, and if the alliance between the U.S. and Israel had been perceived as strong, the kidnappings, rapes, and murders of October 7 would not have happened.
As an American Jewish leader, I put a large portion of blame for October 7 at the feet of 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.... , Barak Obama, and the Democratic hypocrites who betrayed Israel, the Jewish people, and Western Civilization.
Yes.
President Trump is 100% correct when he says that had he been president, the horrors of October 7 would not have happened.
Thanks to DOGE, it is clear that Biden and company supported Blue and White Future and its affiliated organizations not only with their words, but with hidden direct contributions of American taxpayers’ money. For misusing taxpayer money, USAID should be dissolved. Against the evils they created through their financial improprieties, we need to fight.
[Breitbart] The county of San Francisco, California, on Friday led a coalition against the Trump administration’s crackdown against sanctuary jurisdictions for illegal aliens.
San Francisco and Santa Clara counties in California, as well as King County, Washington, and the cities of Portland, Oregon, and New Haven, Connecticut, sued the Trump administration over its sanctuary crackdown.
CNN reported:
The suit, filed Friday, cited President Donald Trump’s executive order directing federal funds be withheld “from jurisdictions that refuse to use their local resources to carry out his immigration agenda,” and a February 5 Department of Justice memo the suit alleges “threatens not only termination of funding but also civil and criminal prosecution of any jurisdiction that refuses to comply.”
The plaintiffs say their lawsuit seeks to “check this abuse of power,” and asks the court to declare the Trump administration’s actions unlawful and prevent their enforcement.
“This is the federal government illegally asserting a right it does not have, telling cities how to use their resources, and commandeering local law enforcement,” San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said in statement announcing the lawsuit.
Chiu continued, “This is the federal government coercing local officials to bend to their will or face defunding or prosecution. That is illegal and authoritarian.”
In 2017, the city of San Francisco filed suit against Trump over an executive order declaring sanctuary jurisdictions ineligible for federal grants.
“In flagrant disregard of the law, President Trump seeks once again to punish those who disagree with him, coerce local authorities, and commandeer them into carrying out his agenda,” the lawsuit argued.
“From our perspective, we think any and all sanctuary jurisdictions are going to be targeted,” Chiu said, contending that he believes that more jurisdictions will join the suit against the Trump administration.
[FoxBusinessNews] The Trump admin extended the deferred resignation offer deadline until 11:59 pm EST Monday
As Big Labor challenges President Donald Trump’s federal employee buyout order, Republican attorneys general from 22 states came to the administration’s defense late Sunday.
On Monday, a federal judge in Boston will weigh the legality of the Trump administration's U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) "Fork Directive."
Federal employees have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to decide if they are submitting their deferred resignation in return for eight months of paid leave.
On Feb. 2, 2 million federal employees received an email after business hours closed advising them of a "fork in the road" – they were told they could accept eight months of paid leave if they agreed to resign by Feb. 6. The buyout offer, which came as part of Elon Musk’s effort to reduce federal waste at the Department of Government Efficiency, prompted a swift blow back from federal labor unions, which argued the Fork Directive is unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act and Antideficiency Act and that they will suffer "irreparable harm."
Montana Attorney General Austen Knudsen – joined by the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia – challenged those arguments brought by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations in court.
The late Sunday amicus curiae brief filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said the federal labor unions "complain" about Trump’s executive orders about the federal workforce and allege the president is eliminating offices and programs supported by congressional appropriations, but "do not challenge the authority to issue the Fork Directive or its constitutionality" because "such a challenge would inevitably fail."
"Courts should refrain from intruding into the President’s well-settled Article II authority to supervise and manage the federal workforce," the filing said. "Plaintiffs seek to inject this Court into federal workforce decisions made by the President and his team. The Court can avoid raising any separation of powers concerns by denying Plaintiffs’ relief and allowing the President and his team to manage the federal workforce."
The Republican attorneys general asked the court to deny the plaintiffs' motion for a temporary restraining order.
The Fork Directive reports that Trump is reforming the federal workforce around four pillars: return to office, performance culture, more streamlined and flexible workforce, and enhanced standards of conduct. It is intended to "improve services that the federal workforce provides to Americans" by "freeing up government resources and revenue to focus on better serving the American people," the filing said.
The filing noted that 65,000 federal workers had already accepted the voluntary deferred resignation offer by its original Feb. 6 deadline.
In an order from the bench, Boston US District Judge George O’Toole Jr. paused a deadline requiring all federal employees to either take the severance offer or return to their offices until he determines whether to slap the administration with a preliminary injunction sought by three public sector unions.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered the buyouts on Jan. 28 to more than 2 million federal workers after President Trump signed an executive order requiring agencies “to terminate remote work arrangements” and to force employees back to “their respective duty stations” full-time.
“We are pleased that today the court continued his injunction from last week, continuing to enjoin OPM and defendants from implementing the fork in the road directive, the so-called bailout,” said Elena Goldstein, a lawyer for Democracy Forward, which is repping the unions.
“We hope that this decision today will provide civil service workers with the assurance that the American people have their backs. And we will continue to pursue all legal options to ensure that they are protected and that the law is upheld.”
OPM warned last week that government employees who did not take the buyout by Feb. 6 would not be given a second chance to receive full pay and benefits until the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30.
O’Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, lifted that deadline indefinitely following the afternoon hearing.
Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity…
OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions. Stop. Panicking. First, no one should…
First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come.
Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road. And we want to fight on these orders because 1) they are manifestly the result of bad faith judge shopping and the opinions themselves are both procedural and 2) they are substantively ridiculous. They are legal jokes. Don’t listen to the dummy lawyers on Twitter - only listen to me or the people I tell you that you can rely on. Everyone telling you these are reasoned, valid legal decisions is either a legal illiterate or thinks you are stupid.
Third, the way this fight is happening is to our advantage. Wait, you ask, we’re getting decision after decision against us! How can that be good? Because they are leaving the Supreme Court no choice. People want Trump to sound off about this, but he doesn’t need to. What’s left unstated is the fact that he can just not obey these manifestly improper orders. They say it’s a constitutional crisis now, but that becomes a real one when they push Trump too far. He’s not going to submit forever to micromanagement of the executive branch by activist District Court judges in blue cities across America. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it.
CJ Roberts and majority of the court know these are ridiculous legally, and the last thing they want to do is stake the credibility of the Court – which famously has no divisions – on this kind of nonsense. They are not going to jump on the grenade that is these decisions. There might someday be a fight with a president about something where he is legally in the wrong, but this is not that time. This is not the hill the Supreme Court will die on. Wisely, Trump’s not adding fuel to the fire by threatening to do what it’s very clear he can do, which is disobey. This provides SCOTUS the cover it needs to deal with these upstart district courts without looking like Trump strong-armed it.
So relax and let the process go forward. We’re going to win on all these injunctions, and I expect fairly quickly
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Yes, yes, drag this out for two years. Let the commies run on the work of graft, corruption, and illegals for the midterms while destroying what remains of the integrity of the court.
[Breitbart] Sweden is planning gun bans and tighter gun control after the country’s stringent controls failed to a prevent a February 4, 2025 school shooting.
On February 4, Breitbart News reported at least five people were killed in the shooting. On February 7, Reuters noted the reported number of deceased had increased to eleven.
Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told Reuters they are looking to ban AR-15 rifles as a “preventative measure.” Strommer said this even though the specific type of firearm(s) used in the attack has not been reported.
Authorities have only indicated that the attacker, a 35-year-old man, had rifles with him which he was licensed to own.
BBC noted that Sweden also plans “to increase vetting around gun purchases.”
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said, “We have to ensure that only the right people have guns in Sweden.”
Breitbart News pointed out Sweden’s gun laws are already restrictive and includes the licensing of all would-be gun owners. The licensing requires “[being] able to certify the purpose of your need to possess a weapon,” according to the Swedish Police.
There are various types of gun licenses, each with specific requirements. For example, the Government Offices of Sweden points out that acquiring a license for a firearm to use in target shooting requires “active membership in a shooting club and a certificate verifying that the applicant is an experienced target shooter.”
Sweden has gun storage controls, too. Again, the Government Offices of Sweden notes that “all weapons, including essential parts and ammunition, must be stored in secure cabinets tested and approved in accordance with the applicable Swedish standard.”
There is also an ammunition license requirement and a requirement that a license be shown for any weapon borrowed from a friend.
In 2016, Tom Heberlein used a VOX column to gush over Sweden’s gun controls, noting that in Sweden, “Only responsible people are trusted with firearms. Sweden licenses guns in much the same way we license cars and drivers. You can have up to six guns but can get more with special permission.” He went so far as to suggest, “Sweden may have the answer to America’s gun problem.”
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Let me see if I understand the logic here.
Take Self Defensive firearms out of the hands of responsible citizens. Then TRUST the mentally insane, criminals, and the growing Islam radical population will also turn in their weapons. Plus Russia won't invade, and the Swedish Gov with arrive in seconds to protect you.
[GatewayPundit] WAYNE ROOT: President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE are Super Heroes. Here is a Creative 3-Part Proposal for Elon that Will Supercharge DOGE Times 1,000.
With President Trump’s direction, coordination and approval, Elon and his team of young genius coders and “algorithm Houdini’s” have proven our tax money has been ripped off, looted and wasted.
Elon and his team have found the Deep State/DC Swamp/CIA slush fund.
But now let’s take this discovery to the next logical conclusion…
A) This is not limited to USAID. We will find the same theft, looting, waste and fraud in every government agency.
B) Start thinking- who got the loot? For over 20 years- first as a guest on thousands of talk shows…then for ten thousand hours as host of my own TV and radio shows for the past decade…I’ve screamed from the highest mountains that everyone in government – from the politicians to the government bureaucrats- are all making $170,000 a year (or more) PLUS ALL THEY CAN STEAL.
So now, we must come to the next logical conclusion. Finding money is missing, stolen or wasted is one thing. But now the DOJ, FBI and Treasury agents must get involved- along with forensic accountants. We must trace where it all went and who got a cut.
Then the indictments, arrests and perp walks must begin. And equally important, we must begin the process of clawing back all the money.
Any politician or government bureaucrat who got a cut must be held financially accountable. Seize their bank accounts, offshore accounts, homes, cars and all other assets- along with arresting and perp walking them.
Now to my three ideas to speed this process along…
Elon should offer a $1 billion award- this will capture the attention and imagination of the whole country (and the whole world). This $1 billion pool of reward money will go to all the people who come forward to rat out the government theft, fraud, looting, waste and bribery. This will dramatically speed up the discovery. Greed will motivate thousands of people to come forward to report these crimes.
Second, offer amnesty and immunity to the criminals themselves. If they turn themselves in now, and confess, and hand over what they’ve stolen, and rat out all the others involved, they get immunity- no prison, no fines. And they get part of the reward money for every dollar the government claws back based on their tip and/or testimony.
Third, don’t just investigate government spending. Go straight to “the source.” Hire teams of your young MIT geniuses, and coders, and forensic accountants to investigate every member of Congress and every agency head who is a multi-millionaire.
We know they’re all crooked. How did they make millions, or tens of millions, on a $170,000 salary? They’re all suspect. Make them prove where their money for their mansions, yachts, private jets and millionaire’s lifestyle came from.
[BREITBART] Two former disaster recovery experts at Hagerty Consulting, which L.A. Mayor Karen Bass appointed to lead rebuilding efforts after the recent wildfires, pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to defrauding New York City of Hurricane Sandy relief funds.
Walter Melnick, who had been hired as a contractor for Evanston, Illinois-based Hagerty Consulting firm, was accused in 2022 of having claimed lodging reimbursements to which he was not entitled, and of making false statements to Sherlocks.
Melnick was described in a blurb by another firm as having ''managed New York City's post-Sandy $15 billion recovery program'' while at Hagerty. He has since evidently retired from the industry.
Another then-Hagerty consultant, Mark O'Mara, was accused of claiming more than $250,000 in reimbursements to which he was not entitled, and of trying to destroy evidence.
Both pleaded guilty after reaching plea agreements.
Melnick was sentenced to a year of home confinement, plus two additional years of probation. O'Mara was sentenced to probation. Both had to pay back the total money they had received unlawfully (over $380,000 and over $250,000, respectively).
A press statement by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2022 described the charges against Melnick:
Beginning in or about 2013, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the City of New York received billions of dollars in federal money to fund Hurricane Sandy-related recovery efforts. The City used certain of these funds to hire Company-1 [Hagerty] to assist with Hurricane Sandy relief (the ''Sandy Project''). Company-1 hired MELNICK as an independent contractor to work on the Sandy Project.
[BREITBART] Comedian and former TV host Chelsea Handler took a vicious swipe at first lady Melania Trump by inferring that Trump is a hooker while hosting the Critics Choice Awards on Friday.
In one of her bits on stage, Handler, who is responsible for a long and growing list of shows that were canceled after one or two seasons, joked that there have been a lot of biographical movies lately
''It was a huge year for biopics — Anora, about Melania Trump,'' she said.
The 2024 film Anora is described as following the life of a ''young sex worker from Brooklyn'' who ''meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened.''
Handler next attacked actress Cheryl Hines for daring to be married to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., by quipping that actors who didn't win anything at the awards show ''will just be in the background, questioning your life choices, like Cheryl Hines at a Senate confirmation hearing.''
The comedienne also took a shot at President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... over his efforts to eliminate bad boy, race-based Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies by calling herself a DEI hire. She then joked, ''I wanna acknowledge that we've been through a lot lately — our entire country, waking up every day, not knowing what news we're gonna hear that will disappoint and horrify us..''
This is the third year in a row that Handler has emceed the Critics Choice Awards.
Does anyone watch that? I didn’t.
In 2023, Handler admitted that show thought that the sun and the moon were the same thing until she was 40 when her sister informed her that the sun and moon were actually two different bodies in our solar system.
''This is true. I didn't know until I was 40 years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing,'' Handler told Jimmy Fallon ahead of her hosting duties at her first Critics Choice Awards hosting gig.
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[PJMedia] The Leftist rag New York Magazine
…how much did they get from USAID?
not only earned ridicule for its story falsely framing a MAGA event as a sort of white supremacist Klan bake, it now faces legal consequences from one of the black conservatives who co-hosted the event.
New York Magazine writer Brock Colyar fear-mongered that "casually cruel Trumpers" are "conquering Washington." He titled his piece about the inauguration event "The Cruel Kids’ Table" and quoted a whiner asserting "the entire room is White." So that his cover image would not contradict his lying source, the writer or his bosses at NY Mag carefully cropped their cover photo to exclude multiple black people, who were obviously visible in the original image. Yet another example of leftists canceling black people from public imagery. Aunt Jemima and Uncle Remus were unavailable for comment.
CJ Pearson told Fox News he has warned NY Mag a lawsuit is imminent. "They don't get to slander us as racist. They don't get to libel us in print. We need to fight back and hold their feet to the fire," he said fiercely. He’s the co-chair of the Republican National Committee's Youth Advisory Council, and said the event in question was held to honor major influencers of the 2024 election season.
He went on, "I am sick and tired of the left-wing mainstream media having a license to lie about conservatives and never be held accountable. If they want to slander us as racist, they ought to pay the cost when they do it."
The party, which brought together conservatives of many ethnicities, "blew up because a New York Magazine news hound... decided to essentially slander everyone in the room, trying to depict the event as if it was some KKK kumbaya pizza party," as Pearson put it to Fox.
The reality was far different. "This was a jubilant celebration celebrating the fact that we are back and that we finally have someone who’s coherent, someone who actually cares about the American people in the White House," he stated. "I think the New York Magazine was very clear in the body of their piece that they wanted to, you know, describe this and depict this as an all-White exclusive affair."
Politician Vernon Jones humorously commented on the story on X, "I was at the @realDonaldTrump inaugural event hosted by @thecjpearson and @tiktok_us. And I am as Black as Dr Martin Luther King Jr. I’m in the bottom right photo waving the Trump scarf banner."
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Trump confirmed that he had already spoken with Putin by phone, but preferred not to disclose the details of the conversation. Obviously, there is nothing to announce yet, so the contacts are taking place without unnecessary fuss. As soon as (if) they agree on something, we can expect contacts along the CIA/SVR and the State Department/Russian Foreign Ministry related to the preparation of a possible meeting between Putin and Trump in a neutral country (not in Europe).
It is also worth noting that today the Russian Foreign Ministry once again announced that the Russian Federation will only contact the legitimate authorities of Ukraine, to which Zelensky no longer belongs. Zelensky himself refuses to hold elections, because for him this is the end. This issue will have to be decided (or not decided) by the Americans.
In any case, the war will continue one way or another even during the negotiations, because Russia has repeatedly made it clear that there will be no new Minsk, during which the war continued. The hostilities will stop only after the conclusion of diplomatic agreements. Not earlier.
The war itself is partially paid for by both sides until 2027, if we consider the long-term orders for the production of equipment and ammunition for the war in Ukraine in the United States, Europe and Russia. Nevertheless, in the last month, the discussion about the possibility of ending the war in the spring-summer-fall of 2025 has noticeably intensified, although in fact there are no agreements between the United States and the Russian Federation at the moment, as the White House and the Kremlin have repeatedly stated.
P.S. In the photo, a gas facility in Ukraine that was destroyed recently, which belonged to the Burisma company and was associated with Hunter Biden.
More from regnum.ru Kellogg Prepares Several Ukraine Plan Options for Trump
US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, intends to present several options for ending the conflict in Ukraine in the coming weeks. This was written by the Bloomberg agency, citing its own sources.
It is noted that Keith Kellogg will collect opinions from officials at the security conference in Munich, during visits to Kyiv and European capitals.
According to the publication, such work by the special envoy could pave the way for direct negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the regime Vladimir Zelensky. At the same time, Kellogg does not plan to travel to Russia.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on February 10 that Trump plans to “begin to chart a broad path forward.” According to Rubio, the American president is ready to talk directly with Putin, although the media has repeatedly written that Trump has threatened new sanctions if the Russian leader does not negotiate.
Kellogg is expected to discuss with European officials their willingness to provide a deterrent force to ensure compliance with the peace settlement. The United States is unlikely to provide troops for the effort, but could provide other support.
General Kellogg will urge allies to spend more on defense, something Trump has demanded. Some European officials are advising the United States to step up measures against Russia's energy sector, including lowering the oil price cap and using frozen Russian assets.
Trump and his aides are calling on Europe to step up its support for Ukraine and expect Kyiv to provide access to natural resources and buy more American energy in exchange for support, the authors concluded.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, White House officials have suspended the development of a plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine; the Trump administration explained this decision by saying that they want to take into account the opinion of the European Union.
Keith Kellogg has said he intends to hold individual talks with NATO allies before finalizing a "peace plan." Kellogg is interested in the views and input of other heads of state.
The special envoy assured the EU that the US wants to strengthen Ukraine's position in any negotiations with Russia.
On January 31, Kellogg said he believed it was possible to achieve peace in Ukraine within the next 100 days. Resolving the conflict was in the interests of the entire world, he added.
The conditions for ending the conflict in Ukraine proposed by Zelensky, whose presidential term expired on May 20, 2024, are a provocation, believes State Duma deputy from the Crimean region (United Russia), member of the security committee Mikhail Sheremet.
Only the complete and irreversible elimination of the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine can open the way to its end, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on February 10.
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that Moscow is ready for talks on Ukraine, but the goal of the dialogue should be long-term peace, not a truce. He has emphasized that Russia's legitimate interests must be taken into account.
Even more from regum.ru White House Suspends Development of Ukraine Peace Plan – Media
White House officials have suspended the development of a plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine — the administration of US President Donald Trump explained this decision by saying that they want to take into account the opinion of the European Union. This was written by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
"The Trump administration has suspended its Ukraine peace plan to give Europe a seat at the negotiating table," the newspaper reported.
It is noted that Trump's special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said he intends to hold individual talks with NATO allies before finalizing the "peace plan." Kellogg is interested in the opinions and input of other heads of state.
According to the newspaper, the special envoy assured the EU that the US wants to strengthen Ukraine's position in any negotiations with Russia.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Mad Maxine went on a rant today attacking Elon Musk on Monday with her Democrat friends from Congress in front of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Trump recently fired the CFPB Chief, a Biden holdover.
OMB Director Russ Vought said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will be closed all week and told employees to stay home.
''Pursuant to the Consumer Financial Protection Act, I have notified the Federal Reserve that CFPB will not be taking its next draw of unappropriated funding because it is not ''reasonably necessary'' to carry out its duties. The Bureau's current balance of $711.6 million is in fact excessive in the current fiscal environment. This spigot, long contributing to CFPB's unaccountability, is now being turned off,'' OMB Director Russ Vought said.
Protests erupted on Monday in front of the CFPB headquarters.
The crowd looked a bit small today. Maybe that USAID money did not come in to pay the extra protesters?
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... are very upset that President Trump, Elon Musk, DOGE, and Republicans are saving Americans tens of billions of taxpayer dollars.
Mad Maxine went on a particularly slanderous rant accusing Elon Musk of being a ''thief'' and a ''gangsta.''
The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for life from California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 33.19907 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 48.19702 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... : Wow, wow, wow! Look at this crowd. Elon Musk, where are you? Bring your ass over here so you can see who's here and what we're doing. We're not afraid of you.
We know that you are the co-president now of the United States of America. But ladies and gentlemen, I want you to follow very closely what he's doing and how he has done it.
First of all, we're here at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. What is it? This is so important. Prior to this being organized in the Dodd-Frank reforms, consumers didn't have any place to really file complaints. They didn't have anywhere to go when the biggest banks in America was ripping them off. The student loans were being undermined. They didn't have any place to go.
Why does Elon Musk want to get rid of all of this? Because he's a thief. He's a gangster. He brings his billionaire friends along with him because they think that they can take over this country. Trump has said, You give me enough money, you can have.
What a nasty lying woman. No wonder Trump calls her Low-IQ Maxine.
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Oh what is the name of the horror story where various people go to stay and have supernatural experiences, one of which a doll like woman creeps at the window asking to be let in?
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Didn’t FEMA reps tell Congress that this wasn’t happening?
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What a novel foreign agent recruitment method. Shi*loads of USD, a "Room With A View", laundry service, and 3 meals per day. They arrive in USAID sneakers, they leave in tailored clothing and Edmond Allen's Park Avenue Oxfords.
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From what I’ve read, that double price isn’t nearly enough to pay for necessary repairs, though that may just be whining. But I would believe it — I knew a man who specialized in Section 8 apartment buildings, and each time he acquired a new property he proactively went through it replacing drywall with cement board, hollow core doors with solid slab or steel, and simple but very sturdy appliances and fixtures. The upfront investment paid out in significantly reduced repairs down the line, he said. None of that sturdiness would be in place in luxury hotels, whose normal clientele respond very differently to their environment.
[IsraelTimes] Raid alarms foreign diplomats as court keeps booksellers in custody for another day on charge of disrupting public order by selling texts of ‘incitement and support for terrorism’
Israel Police officers raided a prominent bookstore in East Jerusalem that focuses on Paleostinian identity and the Arab-Israeli conflict, confiscating books and arresting the owners of the chain on Sunday night.
Police accused Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna, who run the Educational Bookshop, of selling texts containing "incitement and support for terrorism," citing one children’s coloring book they found titled "From the River to the Sea."
Law enforcement requested that the booksellers be held in jug for a further eight days, but the court on Monday granted an extension of only one day.
Officers came to the Educational Bookshop’s two stores with a court-granted search warrant Sunday night and arrested the two booksellers, who spent the night at police headquarters in the Russian Compound.
Haaretz quoted the brother of one of the owners claiming the officers used Google translate to determine which books — most of which are in Arabic — to confiscate.
"They took any book they didn’t like," he reportedly said. "They even saw a Haaretz newspaper with images of hostages, asked what it was and said it was incitement. They took any book with a Paleostinian flag."
The owners are formally suspected of disrupting public order rather than of incitement, since the latter charge requires approval by prosecutors.
Ahead of the hearing, a number of European and South American diplomats representing eight countries crowded into the courthouse hallway.
Steffen Seibert, Germany’s ambassador to Israel, came out against the arrests on social media platform X and declared himself a patron of the East Jerusalem establishment.
"I, like many diplomats, enjoy browsing for books at Educational Bookshop. I know its owners, the Muna family, to be peace-loving proud Paleostinian Jerusalemites, open for discussion and intellectual exchange," he said.
A small group of demonstrators, including left-wing politicians and prominent authors, gathered outside the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning to protest the arrests.
Hadash-Ta’al chair Ayman Odeh told The Times of Israel during the demonstration that he viewed the raid as a sign of "weakness" on the part of law enforcement authorities.
"There is a Paleostinian nation, and they [the police] want to deny that idea, so it has now gotten to the point where they are raiding bookstores," Odeh said. "The only thing missing now is for them to burn the books and dance around [the fire]; that will be their next step."
Author Nathan Thrall also showed up at the protest. A long-time friend of the owners, he held an event in the Educational Bookshop to showcase his 2023 book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama," which recently won a Pulitzer for general nonfiction.
Protesters announced plans to demonstrate in front of the Educational Bookshop later on Monday in light of the owners’ extended detentions.
USAID won’t be paying for that protest, but no doubt they have equipment left over from previous protests or they can borrow from Blue and White Future on one of their down days.
[FoxNews] The Navy’s TOPGUN school launched a secret program to study brain injuries in fighter pilots
The U.S. Navy took on a secret project to learn more about brain injuries suffered by its most elite fighter pilots and now congressional lawmakers are demanding more information about the effort.
The Navy’s TOPGUN school launched Project Odin in the fall of 2024 to detect and treat an onslaught of symptoms consistent with brain injuries in fighter pilots, some of whom later died by suicide. But the program went on in secret, according to a New York Times report cited by House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and the rest of the Navy reportedly did not even know about it.
"Landing aboard an aircraft carrier, it's literally a car crash. It's the equivalent force of sitting in your driveway, in your car, and having a crane take you up to the second story and dropping you," said Matthew ‘Whiz’ Buckley, a TOPGUN graduate and F/A-18 fighter pilot, who told Fox News Digital in an interview he suffers from the brain injuries scrutinized by the project.
"The catapult shot, you go from zero to about 150, 200 miles an hour in a second to a second and a half. So your brain's kind of being jarred, you know, back and forward."
"As a fighter pilot, pulling Gs, so I would fight the jet on the edge of consciousness," said Whiz, referring to the gravitational pull pilots experience when maneuvering tight turns in a jet.
"I’d merge with a bad guy in training, pull seven, eight, nine Gs. When you do that, the blood rushes out of your head."
Comer’s investigation will look at the Navy’s efforts to "mitigate possible physiological and psychological effects inflicted on certain naval aviators and flight officers, including those within the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program (TOPGUN)," as well as Project Odin’s Eye.
The project, which reportedly was adopted without formal approval from Navy Medical and Air Commands, "raises additional questions about the Navy’s knowledge of potential issues and whether it is acting to mitigate these issues in a comprehensive and effective manner," according to the Oversight letter to acting Navy Sec. Terence Emmert.
The letter requests a briefing of Oversight staff by next week and a litany of information on the mental health struggles and resources of aviators.
The Navy did not respond to requests for comment before publication time.
Buckley, founder of veterans' anti-suicide group No Fallen Heroes, said the Navy loves to capitalize on the "cool" factor of flying jets popularized with movies like Top Gun, but fails to warn pilots about the risks associated with years of high-speed flights.
The recent New York Times report detailed how a number of F/A-18 Super Hornet crew members suffered brain injuries after years of catapult takeoffs and dogfighting training.
Symptoms included insomnia, anxiety, depression and PTSD-like feelings.
"The military does an incredible job of training us to do some pretty awful things to another human," he said.
"But when they're done with us, they do a pretty crappy job of transitioning us back to being a human."
He said he fought the Veterans’ Affairs Department for years after they classified his injuries as not service-related.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] Considering they just spectacularly lost a major defamation suit, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... has seemed remarkably unconcerned about throwing around wild accusations. On Monday's episode of Inside Politics With Dana Bash, Bash seemingly suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had made his money through illegal means, though she never provided evidence. She also lashed out at President Trump's voters, calling them ''the problem.''
Bash summed up what has always been CNN's transparent view of Trump when she said that what we ''cannot lose sight of,'' is that the President had a ''history'' of ''being litigious, slowing things down. I mean, we've seen that throughout his career in real estate and in business, and of course, as he made his way back to the presidency.''
''Elon Musk,'' she continued, ''has that same MO, just the rules are there to be broken effectively, and that's how he became the richest man of the world, when it comes to disrupting. But now he is applying that to the federal government''
In effect, she accused Musk, while offering zero actual evidence, of being a criminal, of becoming the ''richest man in the world'' through illicit means, and of now bringing his criminality right into the heart of the Capitol itself. Not the best look when your outfit was just found liable of defamation.
Bash went on to trash Musk for his proposal to systematically weed out corrupt and incompetent judges, which she sneered was ''just a window into his worldview.''
Washington Post national political news hound Sabrina Rodriguez agreed:
I think hearing Elon Musk express his world view, and hearing Trump and J. D. Vance and other Republicans talk this way is chipping at public confidence in these institutions. I think that is something that Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... has done very effectively since he came into politics—The way he's talked about the justice system over many years, can make people skeptical of it.
It could be pointed out that when the Biden administration came down very hard on more conservative courts and judges that they viewed as an impediment, CNN applauded heartily, particularly with Biden's action on student loans. CNN also gushed about the ProPublica hit pieces on conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices funded by liberal dark money, which the liberal media eagerly amplified because it damaged the court's credibility. Hypocrisy or double standard, anyone?
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If Dana Bash helps take down Musk and SpaceX well when Asteroid 2024 YF4 likely hits the Earth in 2032 possibly killing millions with no other big rockets to help .. She's going to have far too much BAD KARMA to ever deserve any afterlife or heaven in any religion.
[FOXNEWS] President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... said if Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... does not return all hostages by noon on Saturday, he will call for the ceasefire 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 to be canceled and "let all hell break out."
All hostages? FAFO. Oh, and betcha those who took USAID’s thirty pieces of silver for the joint project of driving Bibi Netanyahu out of office in the name of their kidnapped children are sorry now that they pulled President Trump into it. His hardball is a lot harder for a lot of reasons.
Trump made the comments after signing executive orders in the Oval Office Monday evening.
When asked if he felt the ceasefire deal should be canceled, the president said that is "Israel's decision."
"If all the Gaza hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 p.m., I would say cancel the ceasefire," Trump said in the Oval Office. "Let all hell break out; Israel can override it."
Trump stressed that Hamas needs to release "all of them—not in drips and drabs."
"Saturday at 12pm and after that, I would say, all hell is going to break out," Trump said.
A Hamas spokesperson said Monday that the terrorist group will delay the next planned release of hostages in the Gaza Strip after accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement.
"Over the past three weeks, the resistance leadership has monitored the enemy's violations and failure to fulfill its obligations under the agreement; including the delay in allowing the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with direct shelling and gunfire in various areas across Gaza, and denying relief supplies of all kinds to enter as agreed, while the resistance has implemented all its obligations," Abu Obeida,
…his mother calls him Hudhaifa Kahlout. His wife probably says, “Yes, O Master,” then returns to silence…
Speaking to reporters, Trump conceded that Israel might want to override him on the ultimatum and the Saturday noon deadline, adding that he might speak to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But expressed fears for the fates of those still being held captive, predicting that many would not survive if not released in the coming days.
The announcement prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move up a planned meeting of his high-level security cabinet, and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the military on high alert.
NEW THREATS TO ARAB ALLIES
Trump also told reporters in the White House that he could withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt if they don’t take in Palestinian refugees he wants to relocate from Gaza.
Egypt and Jordan are longstanding security partners for Israel, and rely heavily on US defense and economic support.
“If they don’t agree I would conceivably withhold aid,” he said in response to a question suggesting it as a possibility.
Both Egypt and Jordan have joined the rest of the Arab world in rejecting Trump’s proposal for all Palestinians to leave Gaza and instead settle in other countries, allowing the US to take over the Strip and redevelop the piece of coastal real estate.
Trump is set to meet Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday.
In comments to Fox News aired Monday, the US president said Palestinians would not be allowed to return to the Gaza Strip under his proposal to redevelop the war-torn territory, contradicting his own officials who insisted that Gazans would only be relocated temporarily.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who will depart later this week for his first visit to the Middle East in the office, said last week that Palestinians would have to “live somewhere else in the interim,” during reconstruction, although he declined to explicitly rule out their permanent displacement.
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the disparity between Rubio and Trump’s most recent remarks on the plan.
Rubio met Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in Washington on Monday. Egypt’s foreign ministry said Abdelatty told Rubio that Arab countries support Palestinians in rejecting Trump’s plan. Cairo fears Palestinians could be forced across Egypt’s border with Gaza.
Trump said in the Fox News interview that between two and six communities could be built for the Palestinians “a little bit away from where they are, where all of this danger is.”
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Think about. Trump needs someone to feel the pain, so when he turns to Iran or Russia or China they pay attention. Hamas volunteers to be the example?
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
As it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make things right
If I surrender to His Will;
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life
And supremely happy with Him
Forever and ever in the next.
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[Korrespondent] The General Staff reported 127 clashes on the front since the beginning of the day.
In particular, in the Kursk direction, 27 armed clashes have occurred since the beginning of the day, two of which are still ongoing, and the invading army has also carried out 37 airstrikes, dropping 49 UABs, and carried out 378 shellings.
Since the beginning of this day, 127 combat clashes have occurred. Ukrainian defenders continue to decisively rebuff the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting fire damage on them. This was noted in the General Staff's report on Monday, February 10.
Russian troops carried out two missile and 77 air strikes, used two missiles and dropped 101 guided air bombs. In addition, more than a thousand kamikaze drones were used to destroy the positions of our troops and populated areas, and more than five thousand shellings were carried out.
In the Kharkov direction, the enemy attempted to storm the positions of our units in the Volchansk area four times.
In the Kupyansk direction, the aggressor carried out offensive actions in the areas of Kondrashovka, Petrovpavlovka, Stepnaya Novoselovka and Zagryzovo, where Ukrainian defenders stopped eight enemy attacks, one clash continues to this day.
In the Liman direction, Russian invaders attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 12 times near the settlements of Kopanki, Novoegorovka, Novolyubovka, Yampolevka, Terny and Kolodezi.
In the Seversky direction, our defenders repelled five assaults by occupation forces near Belogorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye, Serebryanka and Grigoryevka; two clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our defenders near Vasyukovka, Belaya Gora and Chasovy Yar. The defense forces repelled five attacks by the invaders, and currently battles are taking place in three locations.
Eleven times, the Russians stormed the positions of Ukrainian units in the Toretsk direction in the areas of Toretsk and Shcherbinovka.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of this day, the enemy has attacked in the areas of the settlements of Baranovka, Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Mirolyubovka, Promin, Lisovka, Dachenskoye, Zverovoe, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Nadeyevka, Andreyevka and Dachnoye. Our defenders have stopped 40 enemy assaults, and seven battles are still ongoing. Sukhoi Yar, Pokrovsk and Bogatyr were subjected to air strikes.
Today, according to preliminary data, 285 Russians have been neutralized in this direction, 130 of them irretrievably. Ukrainian soldiers destroyed a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, two armored combat vehicles, one MLRS, an artillery system, ten vehicles, five motorcycles and 11 UAVs of the occupiers; three infantry fighting vehicles, two vehicles, four tanks, four armored combat vehicles, two artillery systems and one MLRS were also damaged.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried to break through the defense of our defenders 12 times in the areas of the settlements of Zelenovka, Vremovka and Novosyolka. Currently, one combat clash is ongoing. The occupiers struck with UABs at the settlements of Konstantinopol, Shevchenko and Dneproenergiya.
In the Orekhov direction, enemy aircraft struck Tavrichesky, dropping 13 UABs.
In the Kursk direction, 27 armed clashes have occurred since the beginning of the day, two of which are still ongoing, and the invading army has also carried out 37 airstrikes, dropping 49 UABs, and carried out 378 shellings.
The General Staff recognized the soldiers of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky, the 102nd Separate Territorial Defense Brigade and the 406th Separate Artillery Brigade, who are effectively destroying the enemy and inflicting significant losses on him.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 1,170 Russian invaders. The total combat losses of the Russian Federation exceeded 850 thousand soldiers.
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[KavkazUzel] Milana Kurbanova received eight years in prison for living in the territory of Syria controlled by the Islamic State. The court decided that she was involved with the militants.
According to court documents, in 2014, the Derbent native flew with her family to Turkey, and then to Egypt for treatment. In February 2015, the family moved to Syria, to territory controlled by ISIS. In the city of Raqqa, the couple was separated, and a month later, the husband died during an airstrike. At that time, Kurbanova already had a child, and she was pregnant.
In the summer of 2017, she moved to Turkey, where she lived with relatives and worked in a restaurant. The woman applied to the Russian consulate several times to receive her lost passport, but was refused. She voluntarily returned to her homeland after learning about the criminal case.
In court, Milana Kurbanova testified that she did not participate in the hostilities; at that time, she was pregnant and raising a small child. Relatives told the investigator that after her marriage, the accused became religious, wore a hijab and performed namaz. However, the court considered the fact that the accused lived in the territory controlled by the militants as "an additional factor of instability and a threat to the security of the state."
The 32-year-old woman was found guilty of participating in an illegal armed group and sentenced to eight years in prison. The minimum sentence was imposed taking into account that Kurbanova has two small children and admitted her guilt, according to the case materials on the website of the Dagestanskiye Ogni City Court.
Kurbanova is included in the register of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.
Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" wrote that on December 5, 2024, in Ingushetia, a court found a local resident guilty of collecting money for the "Islamic State"* and sentenced him to 11 years in prison.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of one territorial defence brigade and one National Guard brigade near Zhovtnevoye and Sinelnikovo (Kharkov region).
The AFU lost up to 25 troops, one artillery gun, and one electronic warfare station.
The Zapad Group of Forces has improved the tactical situation. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one airborne brigade, one mountain assault brigade, and one jaeger brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and one territorial defence brigade near Zeleny Gai, Petropavlovka, Novoplatonovka, Boguslavka (Kharkov region), Yampol, Serebryanka, and Zvanovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 190 troops, two tanks, two armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles. Three field artillery guns, two ammunition depots, and one Anklav-N electronic warfare station of the enemy were neutralised.
??The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Three mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were engaged near Minkovka, Seversk, Chasov Yar, and Predtechino (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 160 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, and two motor vehicles.
The Tsentr Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of enemy defences. Strikes were delivered at formations of six mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, two jaeger brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one territorial defence brigade, and two National Guard brigades near Nadezhdinka, Kotlino, Yasenovo, Muravka, Uspenovka, Dimitrov, Petrovka, Grodovka, Peschanoye, and Udachnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy lost up to 525 troops and three armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M-1117 armoured personnel carrier. Five artillery guns, six motor vehicles, and one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36 counterbattery warfare station were destroyed.
The Vostok Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line. Russian troops inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one tank brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades close to Vremevka, Novoselka, Burlatskoye, Novopol, Skudnoye (Donetsk People's Republic), and Gulyaipole (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses were up to 125 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, three motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns.
The Dnepr Group's units defeated two mechanised brigades, one coastal defence brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades near Novoandreyevka, Kamenskoye, Stepnogorsk (Zaporozhye region), and Berislav (Kherson region).
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 80 troops, two artillery guns, three motor vehicles, and one radar station. Three enemy ammunition depots were destroyed.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck infrastructure of military airfields as well as engaged manpower and hardware of the enemy in 142 areas.
Russian air defence systems have shot down three U.S-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, one French-made Hammer aerial bomb, and one 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS projectile, as well as 51 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 653 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 42,851 unmanned aerial vehicles, 592 anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,278 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,514 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,477 field artillery guns and mortars, and 31,438 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.
In the course of the offensive actions, the Sever Group's units inflicted fire damage on formations of two tank brigades, one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and three assault regiments of the AFU near Gogolevka, Guyevo, Zaoleshenka, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolosky, Novaya Sorochina, Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo, and Sudzha.
Operational-tactical, army aviation and artillery fire hit enemy manpower and hardware close to Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Kazachya Loknya, Pervy Knyazhy, Kurilovka, Loknya, Martynovka, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Vodolagi, Veselovka, Zhuravka, Pisarevka, Sumy, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses sustained losses of more than 380 troops, two tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, three armoured personnel carriers, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, one artillery gun, seven mortars, seven UAV command posts, and three ammunition depots. Five AFU servicemen surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to more than 59,250 troops, 357 tanks, 260 infantry fighting vehicles, 207 armoured personnel carriers, 1,833 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,908 motor vehicles, 423 artillery guns, 48 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 18 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 106 EW stations, 15 counter-battery warfare radars, six air defence radars, 38 units of engineering and other materiel, including 18 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, a bridge launcher as well as nine armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 02/10/2025 to 00:00 02/11/2025.
A total of 21 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There were reports of a civilian being injured.
DAMAGED:
Seven residential buildings,
One civil infrastructure facility.
A total of 21 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 64 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:11 Change in the situation south of Pokrovsk –MAP
18:57 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces near Yampolovka –MAP
17:55 From Dnepropetrovsk direction reports war correspondent Yuri Kotenok
It was possible to advance in the direction of Novopavlovka along the plantings up to 1.6 km, southwest of Nadezhdinka - up to two km. The advanced assault groups came out from the north to Preobrazhenka at 700-800 m.
16:20 FPV drone crews of the 11th Airborne Brigade destroyed weapons, military equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border areas of the Kursk region –video.
12:55 Fighting on the Kursk Front: The 34th Motorized Rifle Brigade destroys the occupiers dug in the forest and their positions –video.
12:30 Around 11:10 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.
9:45 Crews of T-72B3M tanks with improved combat characteristics of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the "West" group destroyed camouflaged machine gun positions, fortified positions and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower.
8:25 A crew of the 152mm 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer of the Center group of forces destroyed a mortar crew and a warehouse with ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, –video.
7:30 Russian Ministry of Defense:
During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed:
seven UAVs over the territory of Krasnodar Krai;
three UAVs over the territory of Bryansk Oblast,
two UAVs over the territory of Rostov Oblast,
one UAV over the territory of Belgorod Oblast, one UAV over the territory of Kursk Oblast, and
one UAV over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are waging heavy defensive battles in the east and south of Ukraine.
The hottest battles continue in the Pokrovsky direction, where the Russians have carried out 28 assaults in the areas of 12 settlements.
Since the beginning of the current day, 83 combat clashes have occurred on the front in eight directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Monday, February 10.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the enemy tried to advance in the Volchansk area and was rebuffed.
In the Kupyansk direction, Russian occupiers attacked six times in the areas of Kondrashovka, Petrovpavlovka, Stepnaya Novoselovka and Zagryzovoye. The battle is currently ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invading army carried out nine attacks near the settlements of Kopanki, Novolyubovka, Yampolevki, Ternov and Kolodyazi. Four of the clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling five assaults. The enemy is trying to break through in the Vasyukovka and Chasovy Yar areas.
In the Toretsk direction, our defenders repelled three attacks by the occupiers near Toretsk and Shcherbinovka; six combat clashes continue.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russians made 28 attempts to push our defenders from their positions in the areas of the settlements of Baranovka, Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Mirolyubovka, Promen, Lisovka, Dachenskoye, Zverevoye, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Nadeyevka, Andreyevka and Dachnoye. The defense forces repelled 23 enemy attacks. Five clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried to break through the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 10 times in the areas of the settlements of Zelenovka, Vremyevka and Novosyolka. Currently, six battles are ongoing.
In the Kursk direction, 15 combat clashes have occurred since the beginning of the day, six of which are still ongoing. In addition, the enemy carried out 19 air strikes, dropping 31 UABs.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 1,170 Russian invaders . The total combat losses of the Russian Federation exceeded 850,000 soldiers.
[BREITBART] Thousands of British farmers descended upon Westminster on Monday morning to protest the leftist Labour Party government's plans to impose inheritance taxes on family farms, which critics warn will force farmers to sell their land after their parents die to pay the tax collector.
Rows of tractors clogged Whitehall outside Downing Street, stretching from Parliament to Trafalgar Square on Monday as Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer's government has vowed to plough ahead with plans to slap a 20 per cent death tax on farms valued at least 1 million ( 2m for married couples) by next year.
The leftist government has justified removing the inheritance tax exemption for farmers because some wealthy individuals have bought farmland to safeguard their assets from the state, and this wealth is needed to pay for social services like the state healthcare system.
However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... others have noted that while some farms may have high land values, many farmers operate on a thin profit margin and, therefore, would be unable to pay the tax bill without selling land.
The protest on Monday comes as the government said that it will stand ''steadfast'' with its death tax agenda as a petition calling for reversal gained 150,000 signatures.
Some of the placards seen at the demonstration read: ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you'', ''Make Agriculture Great Again'', and the phrase seen at protests throughout Europe: ''No farmers, No food''.
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And you thought driving white farmers from the land is purely South African phenomena.
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"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" (alternatively "You'll own nothing and be happy") is a phrase from 2018 predictions for 2030 published by the World Economic Forum (WEF)
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[REGNUM] The Russian Armed Forces continue to advance within the framework of the SVO. Combat operations are taking place along the entire front line in the DPR, LPR, Kharkiv and Zaporizhia regions.
The main event of the past week was the completion of the operation to liberate Toretsk (Dzerzhinsk).
"As a result of active offensive actions by units of the 1st, 9th and 132nd Guards separate motorized rifle brigades of the 51st Army and the volunteer formation "Veterans" of the "Center" group of forces, the city of Dzerzhinsk in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated," the Defense Ministry reported.
The battles for the city continued for several months. As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces were forced to retreat to the area of the village of Konstantinovka.
At the same time, in general, a decrease in the offensive activity of the Russian Armed Forces is observed in Donbass, while the main burden of fighting has shifted to the north - to the Kharkiv region.
The fighting is taking place in the north of the Kharkov region, where the Russian army is building on its previous successes. Ukrainian sources report that the situation on the front in the Kupyansk area is constantly deteriorating, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces command is transferring all combat-ready reserves to the Kursk region and leaving certain sections of the front without cover.
Fighting in the Kharkiv region continues in several directions at once. South of Kupyansk, assault units of the Russian army are expanding the bridgehead on the left bank of the Oskol River near the settlement of Kruglyakovka. At the same time, north of Kupyansk, the Russian Armed Forces crossed the river near the settlement of Dvurechnaya and occupied the nearby settlements of Figolovka and Zapadnoye.
According to information from the front, the enemy's main forces in this direction are concentrated for the defense of Kupyansk and Kovsharovka itself and to the north - in the area of the regional center Velykyi Burluk. Kyiv lacks either reserves or equipment to create a continuous line of defense, as in Donbass, and attempts to prolong the fighting in small settlements do not produce the desired result.
Rare AIFV-B-C25 infantry fighting vehicles, a Belgian modification of the American M113 equipped with a 25mm cannon, were spotted for the first time in the Kupyansk direction. At least two vehicles were destroyed by fiber-optic-controlled drones in a closed position near the village of Kolodeznoye.
There are also reports of the intensive work of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which are carrying out strikes against the enemy’s rear.
The advance of the Russian army creates a real threat for the Ukrainian Armed Forces to lose a large section of the border between the Belgorod and Kharkov regions. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces can develop the achieved success by launching an offensive on Kupyansk, the front-line sources of the Regnum news agency report.
"Someone says that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have overslept our offensive here, but in fact they see everything, they just can't keep up with everything. Now we can advance along the border, bypassing their main defensive lines, create a new front - without sudden breakthroughs, but effectively. And then develop the achieved success in strategic terms," the source told the publication.
The minimum task on the section of the front north of Kupyansk remains the liberation of the settlements of Kolodeznoye and Velykyi Burluk. Further advancement of Russian troops will complicate the situation for Ukrainian troops in Vovchansk, where fierce fighting has continued in recent months.
Russian troops can reach the rear of the enemy group and force the Ukrainian Armed Forces to leave the city. The Russian Armed Forces can also expand the bridgehead on the right bank of the Oskol River and develop an offensive in the direction of Kupyansk, cutting off the supply routes of the enemy group in the strategically important city.
THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES ARE TRYING TO COUNTERATTACK
Success in the Kharkov region may create a serious threat to the enemy group in the Donetsk direction. The day before it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have sharply increased their activity in several sections of the front in Donbass, in some places going on the counteroffensive. This was reported, in particular, by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
"Krasnoarmeyskoye direction: here we see that the enemy is trying to counterattack. But the initiative is now completely, 100%, with the troops of the Russian Federation. Also in this direction we see a gradual cutting off of all logistics along the Dimitrov-Konstantinovka-Chasov Yar highway," Pushilin wrote on his Telegram channel.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to slow down the victorious offensive of the Russian army with local counterattacks, notes the French publication Le Figaro. According to journalists, Ukrainian troops have launched a series of attacks in the area of Chasov Yar, Toretsk and Pokrovsk. The commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Major General Mykhailo Drapatiy, has arrived in Donbas to lead the counterattack and coordinate between individual units.
The authors of Le Figaro suggest that the counteroffensive of Ukrainian troops is intended to fix the existing line of attack in Donbass against the backdrop of reports of peace talks being prepared to resolve the situation in Ukraine. But so far, the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have not led to significant changes on the line of combat contact, sources of the Regnum news agency note.
"There is some movement, but local counterattacks have been undertaken before. Now, perhaps, the intensity has increased a little, because reinforcements have appeared from the enemy's fresh mobilization. And in general, their formations have become denser. But in strategic terms, the situation has not changed at all, we will continue to press in any case," the agency's interlocutor notes.
Ukrainian sources expect that Russian troops may soon go on the offensive again in one or several directions. It is assumed that the "pause" in Donbass is caused by the regrouping of assault units that are preparing to begin the final stage of the operation to encircle the city of Pokrovsk.
ENCIRCLEMENT BEFORE THE ASSAULT
As the operation to liberate the city enters its decisive stage, the question arises about another major enemy defensive line in the Donbass – the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
The day before, it became known that the front had become more active in the area of the settlement of Torskoye northeast of Slavyansk. According to reports from the field, Russian troops were able to advance 500–600 meters deep into enemy positions.
Further advance in this direction will allow Russian troops to advance towards the city of Krasny Liman.
In combination with the success of the offensive in the Kupyansk direction, the advance in the Torskoye area will give Russian troops the opportunity to hang over the enemy's Slavyansk fortified area from the north. Further south, assault units of the Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the direction of Konstantinovka.
The fighting in Chasovy Yar, another city turned into a fortified area by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is expected to end soon, after which Russian troops may begin to advance on Slavyansk from the east.
Russian troops are confidently completing preparations for the final stage of the battle for Donbass.
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[REGNUM] Lebanon continues to gradually emerge from a long-term political crisis. Following the election of the president and the approval of the prime minister's candidacy, official Beirut approved the composition of the government. For the first time in a long time, it included only a few representatives of Hezbollah - and they did not occupy the most important positions. There was also a scandal.
Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus tried at the last minute to put pressure on the Lebanese authorities in order to achieve the "complete expulsion" of pro-Iranian forces from the cabinet. However, to no avail: Prime Minister Nawaf Salam did not follow Washington's lead and did not change the approved composition of the government.
This principled approach did not bring Hezbollah much joy: the movement, although it retained some of its leverage over Lebanese politics, effectively lost its influence over the military-political situation within the country, and was left alone with old problems.
ALMOST WITHOUT HEZBOLLAH
The new Lebanese government included 24 ministers, with posts equally divided between Muslim and Christian forces, a major achievement for Prime Minister Salam. Previous attempts to secure such a clear consensus had only exacerbated rivalries.
Representatives of Hezbollah and its allies received at least five portfolios in the government. In particular, the Ministry of Labor ( Muhammad Haidar ) and the Ministry of Administrative Development ( Fadi Makki ) remained under the control of the Party of God.
Moreover, Makki also retained the unofficial status of “mediator minister” between the legislative and executive branches, which ensured Hezbollah’s integration into the political dialogue at the highest level.
As for the Hezbollah-allied but more moderate Shiite Amal party, its creatures have taken over three structures: the Ministry of Health ( Rakan Nasreddin ), the Ministry of Finance ( Yassin Jaber ) and the Ministry of Environment ( Tamara al-Zein ).
Despite some discord between Hezbollah and Amal after the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, the tactical alliance of the two Shiite parties was preserved. This means that in the new formation, the pro-Iranian forces still have the opportunity to control the country's financial flows through the hands of their allies.
Of course, five portfolios for all is a rather modest result for the Shiite parties. Especially compared to the pre-crisis period, when Hezbollah and its allied forces could simultaneously control up to half of the cabinet, as well as part of the parliament. However, given the losses suffered by the Shiite forces during the conflict with Israel, preserving at least part of the political capital can already be considered a tactical victory.
SYMBOLIC POSITIONS
The inclusion of Hezbollah protégés in the new government does not mean that the movement has been able to recover from the months-long war with Israel without losing political points. On the contrary, the new cabinet formation has consolidated the trend of gradually distancing Shiite forces from military decisions.
Not a single representative of the pro-Iranian wing made it into the “power” bloc (even as deputy ministers), and leadership positions in key departments were occupied by figures dissatisfied with the “excessive independence” of the Hezbollah units.
The movement's leadership remembers well the promise of the country's new president, Joseph Aoun, to return the national army's "monopoly on the use of force" (including through the disarmament of numerous militias and "personal guards" of Lebanese politicians) and sees the redistribution of spheres of influence within the cabinet as the first step in this direction.
In theory, Hezbollah can still resist the pressure being put on it, for example by stalling some of President Aoun's initiatives through the permanent speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri.
The latter, himself a Shiite, has been sympathetic to friendly parties for many years and is interested in ensuring that the influence of Hezbollah, which many Lebanese Shiites still see as their only protector, does not wane.
But pushing too hard through parliamentary channels could backfire, plunging the country into a constitutional crisis. And Hezbollah will inevitably bear the brunt of the blame.
NEW FRONT
The challenges facing the "Party of God" are growing day by day. In southern Lebanon, sporadic clashes continue between militias from Shiite villages along the border (who are reportedly supported by Hezbollah volunteers) and armed formations of the "new Syria".
Beirut and Damascus are effectively on the brink of a new armed conflict.
The Lebanese establishment has so far preferred to ignore the tensions in the border area and has not made any claims to the Syrian side. Lebanese troops are inactive in the region.
At the same time, the central government does not allow Hezbollah units to act independently, apparently fearing that their return to southern Lebanon will disrupt the agreement on the withdrawal of the Israeli contingent from Lebanese territory.
Hezbollah's leadership is also in no hurry to get into trouble, preferring to support the border Shiite villages behind the scenes, without entering into direct confrontation with Damascus. In any case, until the framework of the ceasefire agreement with Israel is in effect.
However, time is not on Hezbollah's side. Delays in the south threaten to undermine the movement's credibility among ordinary border residents. And this is fraught with difficulties in the further restoration of Hezbollah bases in southern Lebanon.
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[Regnum] In two weeks, the court will begin hearing the case on recognizing the mass murder of civilians by the Nazis and their accomplices in the occupied territories of the Murmansk region during the Great Patriotic War as genocide. This was reported on February 10 by the united press service of the region's courts.
It is specified that the corresponding statement from the prosecutor's office was accepted by the Murmansk Regional Court.
“The civil case is scheduled to be heard in open court on February 24, 2025 at 14:30,” the press service said in a statement on the VKontakte social network.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on February 7, the Murmansk Region prosecutor's office filed a claim with the court to establish the fact of genocide of the peoples of the USSR by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. The agency demanded that the Nazi atrocities be recognized as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
During the war of 1941-1945, the territory of the Murmansk region was partially occupied by Wehrmacht troops. As a result of massive bombings, more than 1,500 houses were destroyed in the region.
Red Army soldiers captured by the Nazis were kept in camps in inhumane conditions and forced to do grueling work. The Red Army soldiers died from exhaustion and cold. The total number of Nazi victims in the Murmansk region exceeds 15 thousand people. The amount of damage caused to the region is 1.3 trillion rubles, converted to the current ruble exchange rate.
In the Kursk region, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) tortured a veteran of the Great Patriotic War to death, the Telegram channel "Krylatye", associated with the Russian airborne troops, reported on February 10.
The channel's publication contains photographs of a man's body with no signs of life. It is specified that Ukrainian soldiers tortured the veteran and then killed him. The location where the photographs were taken is not disclosed. The authors of the channel noted that the settlement where the veteran lived was captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"This is far from the first case. Many bodies were found in the liberated territories both in the Kursk region and in the DPR," the publication says.
Earlier, residents of the Kursk region, released from Ukrainian captivity during the exchange, told how the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers deprived them of water and food, including for a careless word. The Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador for Special Assignments for the Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik stated that the residents of the Russian region were kept on the territory of a closed institution.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, captured Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter Yevgeny Fabrisenko admitted during interrogation that he and his fellow soldiers had entered the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, where they killed men, raped women, and then killed them. In doing so, the militants were following orders from their command to destroy all residents of the settlement.
The Russian Investigative Committee has established the involvement of five Ukrainian servicemen in the murder of 22 civilians in a liberated village. It was established that Fabrisenko and his fellow servicemen illegally crossed the Russian state border in September 2024 and invaded the territory of the Kursk region.
For many decades I used the nyme "3 Days of the Condor" shortened in this venue to 3dc all based on the last scene in that 1975 movie. For some reason most people did not get it or would smirk. Well with what is coming out in the USAID unveiling by Musk and Company it is quite clear that the ending in that movie was quite correct. That being that MEDIA and the NY-Times in particular were completely controlled assets of the "CIA". To remind folk who never saw the movie or might not have been born yet, here is that last scene:
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I used to think when Higgins (Cliff Robertson) said, "Are you sure" (the NYT will print it) that he was just messing with Redford. Now I think he knew they would not print it, because the CIA would prevent it.
So that's yesterday's conspiracy theory; today's revelatipn.
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If you control the media and the money, and are free to task the military, what else is necessary.
[RT] Russia’s fifth-generation stealth fighter, the Su-57, has made its debut at India’s largest air show, Aero India, where it was displayed alongside America’s F-35. This is the first time that both Russian and American fifth-generation fighters have been present at the show, amid intense competition between the two nations for the South Asian country’s defense market.
[FoxNews] A federal court on Sunday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp as part of the president's efforts to remove illegal immigrants from the U.S.
Lawyers for the trio said in a legal filing that the detainees "fit the profile of those the administration has prioritized for detention in Guantánamo, i.e. Venezuelan men detained in the El Paso area with (false) charges of connections with the Tren de Aragua gang."
In the filing, the lawyers asked a U.S. District Court in New Mexico for a temporary restraining order to block the administration from flying them to the U.S. military base. The lawyers noted that "the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction."
Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales granted the temporary restraining order, according to attorney Jessica Vosburgh, who represents the three men.
"It's short term. This will get revisited and further fleshed out in the weeks to come," Vosburgh told The Associated Press.
The filing came as part of a lawsuit on behalf of the three men filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and Las Americas Immigrant Advisory.
Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt separately said that flights carrying detained illegal immigrants had been sent to Guantánamo.
Immigrant rights groups sent a letter on Friday demanding access to people who are now being held at the U.S. naval station, arguing that the base should not be used as a "legal black hole." Guantánamo has been criticized around the world for its inhumane abuse and torture of detainees, including interrogation tactics.
The immigrants are being held in the Guantánamo detention camp that was set up for detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The immigrants are separated from the 15 detainees who were already there, including planners in the 2001 terrorist attack.
Trump has promised to expand the detention camp to hold up to 30,000 "criminal illegal aliens."
Leavitt said Wednesday that more than 8,000 immigrants have been arrested since Jan. 20 as part of Trump's plan to detain and deport immigrants in the country illegally, although hundreds of those arrested have since been released back into the U.S.
Here's MAGA suggestion to cut down on the LawFare abuses.
All Legal challenges to Presidential Executive Orders must be directly handled by the SCOTUS. They must addressed within 30 days. If not adressed by the SCOTUS, then the Executive Order goes into effect on day 31.
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Note to Chief Justice Roberts. Every institution that has gone after Trump has become significantly diminished in trust and respect among the populous. Do you really want your branch of government to follow the same path? You can nip it in the bud or you can standby and let it erode, day after day, month after month.
[JustTheNews] Vance said he hopes to have good conversations with world leaders while at the summit.
Vice President JD Vance arrived Monday in France to attend a high-profile artificial intelligence summit in Paris.
While at the summit, Vance is expected to push back on attempts in Europe to tighten AI oversight and advocate for an innovative approach to the phenomenon, according to The Associated Press.
The summit will have tech executives, policymakers and world leaders such as Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing in attendance.
Vance said he hopes to have good conversations with world leaders while at the summit.
“I think there’s a lot that some of the leaders who are present at the AI summit could do to, frankly — bring the Russia-Ukraine conflict to a close, help us diplomatically there — and so we’re going to be focused on those meetings in France," he said in a statement to the Breitbart News media outlet.
Next week, Vance will go to Germany for the Munich Security Conference. He likely will talk to European allies and request an increase in North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commitments.
[CBSNEWS] The Department of Justice told federal prosecutors in New York to drop their corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... , citing his "restricted" ability to help the Trump administration enforce its immigration policies.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo instructing prosecutors in the Southern District of New York to abandon the charges.
"You are directed, as authorized by the Attorney General, to dismiss the pending charges," Bove wrote in a memo Monday, adding that the department "reached this conclusion without assessing the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based," and "in no way calls into question the integrity and efforts" of the prosecutors who brought the case.
Instead, Bove wrote that the "timing of the charges" and the former U.S. attorney who brought the case created "appearances of impropriety," and that the probe into Adams' office "has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent mostly peaceful crime" that occurred in his city under President Biden.
Bove added that the charges against Adams can be reconsidered by the Southern District of New York after the November 2025 New York City mayoral election.
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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.36 Since the beginning of this day, 127 combat clashes have occurred. Ukrainian defenders continue to decisively rebuff the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting fire damage on them. This was noted in the General Staff report on Monday, February 10.
22.14 The German arms concern Rheinmetall has transferred five more of the latest Caracal airborne assault vehicles to Ukraine. This was reported by the German Aid to Ukraine project.
20.27 A unit of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck enemy equipment and communications, destroying 14 Russian soldiers, howitzers, self-propelled guns and several vehicles. This was reported by the press service of the Special Operations Forces on Monday, February 10.
19.45 Over the past week, from February 4 to 10, Ukrainian troops stopped 741 attacks by Russian invaders on Defense Forces positions. This was reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky and he published a video of the military's combat work.
19.21 Russian troops attacked the village of Tavriyskoye in Zaporozhye with ten guided air bombs. As a result of the shelling, housing and transport were damaged. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration Ivan Fedorov on Monday, February 10.
19.20 Three suspects in the terrorist attack near the TCC building in Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk region, have been given preventive measures - detention without the alternative of posting bail.
18.10 The new administration of US President Donald Trump is demonstrating interest in resuming dialogue with Russia, and Moscow is ready for this. A "window of opportunity" has appeared. This was stated by Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov.
17.49 Russian propagandist Sergei Mikheyev has been sentenced in absentia by a Ukrainian court to eight years in prison. This was reported by the SBU. The attacker, who positions himself as a "political scientist", called on the Russian military command to carry out a series of massive missile, bomb and artillery strikes on Sumy. He proposed turning the frontline Ukrainian city into a "dead zone" in which, according to him, "there should be no living people left."
17.37 The number of casualties as a result of shelling by Russian troops in the north of Donetsk Oblast has increased to 17 people. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Monday, February 10.
15.59 Special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense destroyed more than 70 enemy fortifications, dozens of pieces of equipment and 42 Russians in a week. The corresponding video was published by the press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate on Monday, February 10.
15:50 Since the beginning of 2025, 17 Ukrainian citizens have been evacuated from the temporarily occupied territory. Among them are women with limited mobility, a deported grandmother, a persecuted family and others in need of help.
15:29 The Ministry of Defense has codified and approved for service in the Defense Forces of Ukraine the Ukrainian-made BATON unmanned aerial systems. This was reported by the Main Directorate for Support of the Life Cycle of Weapons and Military Equipment on Monday, February 10.
14:35 In the Kherson region, a 60-year-old local resident was injured due to the detonation of Russian explosives in the village of Veletenske, and a 51-year-old man was blown up by a mine in the village of Stoikoe.
12:07 The fifth edition of the basic combined arms training (BOWP) program with an emphasis on psychological stability is being implemented in training centers that prepare mobilization personnel for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense. Based on the results of successful training, servicemen receive a certificate and a class qualification in VOS-100 "shooter".
10:55 The use of long-range weapons is one of the key elements in reducing Russia's military potential. Therefore, the military's task this year will be to create means that can hit enemy targets at maximum range with high accuracy. The details were reported by the Ministry of Defense.
10:22 Russian invaders attacked the cities of Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk region. One person was killed and 12 were injured. Significant destruction was recorded in the cities.
9:40 Since the evening of February 9, Russian occupiers have attacked Ukraine with 83 Shahed-type strike UAVs and various types of drone imitators. Air defense forces shot down 61 drones, and another 22 were lost. This was reported by the Ukrainian Air Force.
8:59 Russian troops shelled the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region with Grads and heavy artillery. This was reported by the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak. Two industrial enterprises were damaged, houses, a store, cars, gas pipelines and power lines were damaged.
8:46 Over the past 24 hours, 99 combat clashes between units of the Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded at the front; in the Pokrovsk direction, Ukrainian troops repelled 33 enemy assaults. This was reported on February 10 by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:04 In the Poltava region, as a result of falling debris from a downed Russian drone, damage was recorded in a dacha cooperative. This was reported by the Poltava OVA. It is noted that a car body caught fire. The fire has been extinguished. Also, according to preliminary data, 30 dacha plots were damaged. There were no casualties.
7:24 Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian troops have destroyed 1,170 Russian invaders . In addition, Ukrainian soldiers have also destroyed 9 tanks, 16 armored fighting vehicles, 35 artillery systems, and 3 air defense systems of the enemy. This was reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
3:57 Russia is actively improving drones and electronic warfare (EW) systems based on the experience gained in the war against Ukraine. Russia is also using new technological developments in hybrid operations against NATO member states. This is stated in a report by the Institute for the Study of War
2:59 Ukrainian troops recently advanced southeast of Sudzha in the Kursk region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces advanced along the 38K-028 Sudzha-Oboyan highway southwest of Russkaya Konopelka. This is stated in a new report by the American Institute for the Study of War.
The ISW added that the Ukrainian Defense Forces also recently advanced near Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region.
1:54 Several explosions thundered in Kiev on the night of February 10. Before that, the movement of enemy drones towards the capital was recorded. This was reported by Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
[X] Random federal judges in blue state backwaters have no authority to unilaterally dictate who the President may talk to or what data he can access. John Roberts and SCOTUS have two options here: they can bring these inferior malcontents to heel, or they can get used to the President simply ignoring these inferior courts or Congress eliminating them entirely.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
...every time you hear the phrase 
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
