[KhaamaPress] In major cities across The Sick Man of EuropeTurkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , widespread protests continued for the sixth consecutive night, resulting in the arrest of over a thousand people and severe crackdowns by security forces. The unrest, which began after the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, has now evolved into one of the largest movements of civil disobedience the country has seen in over a decade.
Reports indicate that during the sixth night of protests, Ottoman Turkish police used tear gas, plastic bullets, and water cannons to disperse the crowds. Images from major cities like Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir show intense confrontations between protesters and security forces.
Turkey’s Interior Minister confirmed that over 1,133 people have been arrested across the country, with the number increasing since the protests began on March 19. Among those detained are at least 10 journalists who were covering the events.
The level of violence has been described by eyewitnesses as shocking, with police allegedly using excessive force against peaceful demonstrators. The protests began after Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest on March 19, charged with "financial corruption" and "ties to terrorist organizations." Opposition groups view the arrest as a political maneuver to eliminate Imamoglu, a major rival to President Erdogan in the upcoming elections.
What started as protests in Istanbul quickly spread to over 55 provinces out of 81 in Turkey. Slogans such as "Erdogan Resign" and "Justice for Imamoglu" echoed through the streets.
In response to the protests, the Ottoman Turkish government has implemented strict measures, including banning public gatherings in major cities and limiting access to social media platforms like X, YouTube, and Instagram, in an attempt to control the situation. Erdogan has labeled the protests as a "violent mostly peaceful movement" and accused the Republican People’s Party (CHP) of inciting unrest.
The widespread crackdown has sparked international condemnation. The European Commission, along with countries like Germany and La Belle France, has criticized the actions, seeing them as a regression of democracy in Turkey. This growing international concern highlights the political and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... implications of the ongoing events.
[KhaamaPress] Elon Musk’s political involvement, including support for far-right parties, has significantly impacted Tesla’s sales in Europe, causing a sharp decline.
Tesla sales in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... dropped by 44% last month, reaching the lowest market share for the company in five years. Analysts attribute this decline to various factors, including Elon Musk’s involvement in politics and his controversial support for certain political figures.
According to data from Jato Dynamics, Tesla sold fewer than 16,000 vehicles in Europe last month, marking a 44% decrease compared to the brand’s average sales in 25 European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries, the UK, Norway, and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... In January 2024, Tesla’s sales in Europe also fell by 45%, dropping from 18,161 units to 9,945 units. Despite this decline, the UK saw a 21% increase in new Tesla registrations, with models 3 and Y becoming the second and third most popular vehicles after the Mini Cooper.
Analysts suggest that Tesla’s sharp decline in sales in Europe could be influenced by several factors, including the halt in production of the current Tesla Y model, increased competition in the electric vehicle market, and the effects of Elon Musk’s political involvement.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has recently caused a stir with his support for the far-right AfD party in Germany and his participation in controversial conservative gatherings. Some believe that his political stance has led potential Tesla buyers to distance themselves from the brand.
The combination of political controversy, increased competition, and production issues has resulted in Tesla’s market position weakening in Europe. This trend could have long-term effects on the company’s growth and sales in the region.
At least four people have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli shelling on Syria’s southwestern Daraa province on Tuesday, according to local reports.
The province’s official channel on Telegram reported that four people were killed and several others injured, including a woman, in an "Israeli shelling” that occurred during “an incursion" by Israeli forces into the town of Koya, west of Daraa.
The Israeli bombardment “was followed by tank shelling, which instigated panic among locals. A reconnaissance aircraft was also flying over the area," the report added.
Later in the day, the channel reported "a large wave of displacement from Koya, west of Daraa, amid the fear from the new incursion of the Israeli occupation army into the town."
Other Syrian media reports raised the number of fatalities to six.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Tuesday confirmed that they had launched airstrikes on two military bases in Syria’s central Homs province, to destroy "military capabilities" in the area.
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, Israel has scrambled to destroy Syria’s military stockpiles. It also sent troops across the border into a buffer zone east of the annexed Golan Heights, justifying the move as a precaution against political instability in Syria.
Throughout the Syrian civil war, Israel carried out hundreds of strikes, often claiming to target pro-Iran armed groups, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, that supported Assad at the time.
In a series of attacks, Israeli occupation forces carried out airstrikes in southern and central Syria, leaving at least seven people dead, according to Syrian state media.
The strikes began with an assault on the town of Koya, west of Daraa, where tank shells killed seven people and injured several others, Syrian sources reported.
Residents were forced to flee the area as the shelling continued. The Israeli occupation military later conducted raids targeting Palmyra Airport and the T-4 military base in the eastern countryside of Homs province. The enemy army claimed it had “bombed Syrian military targets” in these strikes.
[IsraelTimes] The Jerusalem District Court issues a first-of-its-kind order to freeze NIS 50 million ($13.7 million) worth of Palestinian Authority funds, the Ynet news site reports.
The move comes after Rabbi Leo Dee, whose wife and two daughters were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in April 2023, initiated a lawsuit against the PA’s Prisoners Club and Martyrs Fund over stipends known as the “pay for slay” policy, which provides monthly payments to the families of Palestinian assailants killed or imprisoned for attacking Israelis.
“PA resources should not support terrorism,” Rabbi Dee says. “I urge other terror victims in Israel to pursue similar action. Together, we can strip the enemy of their assets.”
The order aims to compensate the families of terror victims by withholding funds diverted to terror salaries, the plaintiff’s legal team says, according to Ynet.
In February, PA President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree canceling legislation.
Dee’s legal action follows the Knesset’s approval last year of the Compensation of Victims of Terrorism Bill, which enabled victims of terrorism and their families to file damages-seeking lawsuits against parties offering financial support or compensation for committing acts of terrorism.
[IsraelTimes] A US intelligence report assesses that Iran isn’t currently building a nuclear weapon, according to Reuters.
But will they, as soon as they have all the parts ready for assembly? And are they working toward getting all the parts ready to be assembled?
It also finds that Russia is developing a new satellite meant to carry a nuclear weapon, which could have “devastating consequences” for the US and the world.
Is this a five year thing or a sometime in the future one? And what about China?
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From the people who failed to predict the collapse of the Soviet empire, pick up on 9/11, and have engaged in regime change in our own country. Yeah, right.
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I recall the 2007 Intelligence Estimate when Bush came to power and the IC said the same darn thing, that Iran was not pursuing a path to nuclearization.
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My comment yesterday
"The 1 on 1 personal touch has always seemed to have had greater deterring impact to those that followed such scum, than an air strike. "
No doubt. Doing the best with what they believed at the time — everything changed on 10/7/2023.
[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned twice that Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif was appropriating funds provided by Qatar, Channel 12 reports, citing three security sources.
The first warning came in 2019 when then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman warned that Deif was taking millions from the funds entering Gaza, a year after the monthly payments began being transferred, the report says.
Then, in 2020, Military Intelligence warned Netanyahu again that $4 million was being taken by Deif each month, the report says.
Deif was slain in an airstrike last year amid the Israel-Hamas war.
The Prime Minister’s Office denies that Netanyahu ever received such warnings. It says it was warned that Hamas’s military wing was siphoning $4 million from its public funds, which came from “other sources,” and not the Qatari aid, the PMO says.
From 2018, Qatar provided hundreds millions of dollars in cash to pay for fuel for the Strip’s power plant, to pay Hamas’s civil servants and to provide aid to tens of thousands of impoverished families. The payments were publicly encouraged by Netanyahu.
The payments came under renewed scrutiny following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, as their apparent goal of keeping Israel’s southern border quiet by improving the economic situation in Gaza dramatically backfired.
[IsraelTimes] The United States has handed Syria a list of conditions that it wants Damascus to fulfill in exchange for partial sanctions relief, six people familiar with the matter tell Rooters, including ensuring foreigners are not in senior governing roles.
US Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Levant and Syria Natasha La Belle Franceschi gave the list of demands to Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani at an in-person meeting on the sidelines of a Syria donor conference in Brussels on March 18, according to two of the people — a US official and a Syrian source familiar with the matter.
Rooters is first to report both the list and the in-person meeting, the first high-level direct contact between Damascus and Washington since US President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons... took office on January 20, has been previously reported.
Rooters spoke to six sources for this story, including two US officials, a Syrian source, a regional diplomat, and two sources in Washington familiar with the matter. They all requested anonymity to discuss the high-level diplomacy.
Among the conditions placed by the United States are Syria’s destruction of any remaining chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... stores and cooperation on counter-terrorism, the two US officials, the Syrian source, and both sources in Washington say.
Another demand was making sure imported muscle are not installed in senior roles in Syria’s governing structure, the US officials and one of the sources in Washington say.
Syria has already appointed some foreign ex-rebels, including Uyghurs, a Jordanian, and a Turk, to its defense ministry — a move that alarmed foreign governments.
Washington also asked Syria to appoint a liaison to assist US efforts to find Austin Tice, the US journalist who went missing in Syria over a decade ago, according to two US officials and both sources in Washington.
In return for fulfilling all the demands, Washington would provide some sanctions relief, all six sources say. One specific action would be a two-year extension of an existing exemption for transactions with Syrian governing institutions and possibly the issuance of another exemption.
The US would also issue a statement supporting Syria’s territorial integrity, the source says.
Washington did not provide a specific timeline for the conditions to be fulfilled.
Syria’s foreign ministry did not respond to requests for comments. A spokesperson for the State Department says the agency does not "discuss our private diplomatic conversations publicly." Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce last week said Washington was monitoring the actions of the interim rulers.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli military estimates that it has killed over 150 Hamas operatives and members of other terror groups since it resumed its offensive in the Gaza Strip a week ago.
Hamas has claimed that over 700 Palestinians have been killed in that time. The figure has not been verified and does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Over 420 targets have been hit by the Israeli Air Force, Navy, and ground troops in the offensive so far, according to the IDF.
The IDF has so far named 10 senior Hamas political officials and mid-level military commanders who have been killed in the strikes. Other Hamas commanders were targeted, and the IDF is still working to confirm they were killed.
Ground troops are currently operating in Rafah’s Tel Sultan and Shaboura neighborhoods in southern Gaza and several areas in the Strip’s north. The IDF also pushed into the Netzarim Corridor and captured about half of it.
[IsraelTimes] Some 120 Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... bully boyz were tasked with assaulting the southern city of Beersheba on October 7, 2023, around 40 kilometers from 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... , but were stopped by security forces, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The bully boyz who failed to arrive at the southern city did not return to Gaza but joined the massacres in other communities closer to the border, according to recordings of Col. Elad Shushan, the IDF officer in charge of investigating the day’s events at Kibbutz Nirim.
The information came from documents recovered in Gaza during the early months of the military’s ground offensive, Kan reports.
The report says that the dispersal of forces who failed to attack targets farther from the border contributed to the fact that some southern communities were attacked by hundreds of terrorists, and not 30 each as originally planned by Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] Ilan Goldenberg, a former senior aide in the Biden and Obama administrations, announces that he will be joining the dovish, pro-Israel lobby J Street
…the Soros Open Foundations sock puppet analogue to AIPAC, whose role is to provide a “pro-Israel” cover for leftwing and Democratic politicians who hate Israel...
as its senior vice president and chief policy officer.
No doubt a good fit.
Goldenberg most recently served as director for Jewish outreach on former US vice president Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign.
And then she lost — by a lot. That must be symbolic of something.
“J Street is already uniquely positioned with its reach both into Jewish and progressive circles. But I hope to help build on that by helping grow coalitions that can fight to bring all the hostages home and end the war in Gaza; prevent annexation and reverse the negative trends of settlements and violence in the West Bank; support progress toward a regional peace that leads to Israel’s integration into the Middle East and the creation of a Palestinian state; prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon while avoiding an unnecessary military conflict; counter antisemitism; and fight for American and Israeli democracy,” Goldenberg writes in a Substack post announcing the move.
[The 'A' Register] After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.
Like many government projects before it, the US Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS) promised big things when it was kicked off nearly a decade ago.
According to a memo [PDF] signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth late last week, the program was intended to streamline a large portion of the DoD's legacy HR IT systems, but it's being axed after officials concluded pouring more funds into it would be "throwing more good taxpayer money after bad."
DCHRMS started in 2018 with a planned development timeline of one year and a budget of $36 million, "but instead it's taken eight years and is currently $280 million over budget - that's 780 percent over budget," Hegseth said in a video announcing the DCHRMS and other spending cuts. "We're not doing that anymore."
[ZeroHedge] After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.
Like many government projects before it, the US Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS) promised big things when it was kicked off nearly a decade ago. According to a memo [PDF] signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth late last week, the program was intended to streamline a large portion of the DoD's legacy HR IT systems, but it's being axed after officials concluded pouring more funds into it would be "throwing more good taxpayer money after bad."
DCHRMS started in 2018 with a planned development timeline of one year and a budget of $36 million, "but instead it's taken eight years and is currently $280 million over budget - that's 780 percent over budget," Hegseth said in a video announcing the DCHRMS and other spending cuts. "We're not doing that anymore."
That's not to say the DoD is giving up on modernizing its civilian HR systems - the memo noted that the Pentagon still wants a new solution, with Hegseth directing officials to develop a fresh plan within 60 days to achieve the project's original goals.
While the headline item in the memo is the cancellation of DCHRMS, Hegseth ordered cuts to additional programs, contracts, and grants too.
The memo mentioned the cancellation of more than $360 million in grant programs "in areas of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and related social programs, climate change, social science, COVID-19 pandemic response" and the like, stating these efforts were not aligned with the DoD's current priorities.
We've reached out to the Defense Department to get a more complete list of the programs being terminated, but Hegseth did single out a couple in the video. In particular, he pointed to a $6 million grant for decarbonizing the emissions from US Navy ships and a $9 million university grant to develop "equitable AI and machine learning models."
"I need lethal machine learning models," Hegseth said. "Not equitable machine learning models."
The memo also directed the cancellation of $30 million in contracts with Gartner and McKinsey for analysis products and what Hegseth described as "unused licenses" from "external consulting services." The move echoes the ongoing scrutiny of federal consulting contracts, such as reviews of deals involving Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
In total, the memo states DoD is eliminating $580 million of government spending, though only $170 million will be able to be reallocated.
Hegseth credited Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency for its ability to root out the canceled programs, which, in addition to the cuts announced at the end of last week, now totals $800 million "in wasteful spending canceled over the first few weeks" of the Pentagon's DOGE review - but it won't be the last.
"Stay tuned," Hegseth said. "We have a lot more coming."
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" Hegseth directing officials to develop a fresh plan within 60 days to achieve the project's original goals."
These are sort like naval building projects, people keep adding things and changing things trying for the 100% solution and the 'next' big thing. Settle for 80% and get it done.
[JustTheNews] Gov. Newsom’s order granting extensions for mandatory ethics disclosures of behested payments in Los Angeles County means it could be easier for corruption to go undetected amid an influx of cash.
(The Center Square) - Los Angeles is seeking a $1.9 billion state bailout after receiving $2.5 billion in state aid thus far.
Los Angeles faces a $1 billion deficit due to spending vastly outpacing revenues — issues that predated the fire and which City Controller Kenneth Mejia has long said are making the city go “broke.”
Much of that funding is set to go toward existing city issues, such as ballooning liability payouts, with $38 million requested to cover revenue lost from the fires.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order granting extensions for mandatory ethics disclosures of behested payments or conflicts of interest for government officials in Los Angeles County means it could be easier for corruption to go undetected amid an influx of cash.
The area’s state legislators sent a joint letter to Assembly Budget Chair Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, outlining their funding request.
Longish list of details can be read at the link for those interested.
The legislators are looking for $15 million for emergency housing vouchers for displaced residents and $75.5 million for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services to “expedite CalOES processing of FEMA Public Assistance from previous emergencies, particularly COVID-19.”
The last request suggests CalOES has significant unspent funding due to its inability to process paperwork and that the $75.5 million may be required to be spent on processing labor to unlock already allocated, but paperwork-protected funds.
“These amounts reflect the City’s ongoing need for support in the areas of site cleanup, housing assistance, public safety, infrastructure restoration and economic support for impacted communities,” concluded the legislators. “These investments are essential not only for immediate relief but also for fostering the City’s long-term stability and preparedness.”
With the state’s revenue highly reliant on capital gains from the stock market, ongoing market volatility could threaten the state’s proposed $322 billion budget, which includes a $7 billion reserve withdrawal. This revenue volatility could spell trouble for the state’s ability to bail out Los Angeles, as broad budget cuts may be necessary.
"It's rare that states do that because they're usually like 'gimme, gimme, gimme,' but the reality is we all have a role in trying to change the fiscal trajectory of this country," DeSantis said. "The reality is what we're doing is unsustainable."
**unless you are an independent business operator in California who thinks this money will just go to the normal grease while you make up the shortfall, then dealer's choice.
Lara turned up at a conference in Bermuda with industry executives, rather than at a state legislative hearing, as thousands of homeowners are still waiting for help after the Los Angeles fires
[JustTheNews] "Conducting patrols, either on foot or mounted, creates a more proactive and adaptable posture compared to static posts," Army Maj. Jennifer L. Staton, a Defense Department spokesperson, said in a statement.
The Department of Defense on Tuesday announced that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered troops at the U.S. southern border to begin conducting patrols to dissuade people considering entering the country illegally.
The directive, which was given last week, is a change after the troops were largely static in Texas and Arizona. There are currently 9,000 active troops along the southern border, who have largely carried out logistics and back-end work, per Politico.
Defense officials said that the troops will still not be used for law enforcement activities, which is prohibited by federal law, but will report all illegal crossings to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
"Conducting patrols, either on foot or mounted, creates a more proactive and adaptable posture compared to static posts," Army Maj. Jennifer L. Staton, a Defense Department spokesperson, said in a statement. "The dynamic approach of patrolling allows service members to cover a larger area of the border, affording them dynamic observation across multiple angles and distances."
Service members assigned to the Joint Task Force Southern Border can now move either on foot or onboard Stryker armored vehicles.
The troops will be armed and are allowed to protect themselves if necessary, Army Maj. Jared Stefani said last week.
[News with Views] RFK, Jr.’s cousin, John F. Kennedy, Jr. called out Biden as a "traitor" in 1994 in a letter found among the FBI’s Washington DC, field office. John-John’s plane went down in 1999. This was the most revealing part of the recent "reveal", to me anyway. Bar none.
If you’ll remember (or, if you’ve read of it) the slain President John F. Kennedy’s son’s plane "came down", in the Martha’s vineyard area in 1999, killing the President’s son, wife and her sister. The official cause? "Spatial disorientation" from flying at night, or so said the NTSB, which even then apparently didn’t need DEI to be a Deep State tool. The press of the day hustled to say that John., Jr. was an amateur pilot, etc., etc.
Rumors had been circling that the young man, "John John", was thinking of running for the Senate in 2000. The world’s memory of him, saluting his father’s casket as the horse-drawn caisson bore the slain President through the streets of DC to his final resting place, made a powerful spring-board to election.
After John-John’s death, Hillary Clinton was elected to that same Senate seat in NY. Remember when she suddenly moved there? Lots of us still do.
Just as Oswald was murdered before he could talk, so has killing anyone who gets in the way of the Globalists become a deadly pattern. Even Oswald’s killer was immediately taken out. There have been many more. I’m sure. Hillary’s list will always haunt me.
Now, it becomes easier to understand the strange handling of the supposed "lone gunman" in Butler, PA who was shot and left to rot on a rooftop before his body was hauled off. Somehow the attending officials left things as vague as possible (social media accounts, foreign connections, appearances in Black Rock commercials, guns owned and their sources, parents hiding/protected from involvement, etc., etc.). Then, the subject of an attempted assassination of a former and possibly future President, was just dropped.
The deadly pattern was to have continued, of course, with the murder of Donald Trump on July 14, 2024, but God interfered. I will believe that always.
In August, 2024, RFK, Jr., our current Secretary of Health and Human Services, son of JFK’s brother, Bobby, surprised many when he joined in support of Donald Trump in the run-up to the 2024 election. Kennedys had been Democrats from the get-go; none had ever strayed to Republican support! The Kennedy clan squawked loudly.
RFK. Jr., I believe, did not need the recent reveal of the "unredacted" (THAT didn’t happen, even this week) reports on the death of his uncle to know the truth — that the Deep State protects their own and murders their way to power.
I believe that RFK, JR., may have carried this knowledge all his life. He was 45 yers old when his cousin’s plant came down in 1999. He may well have known John, Jr.’s thoughts about Joseph Robinette Biden, revealed in the latest document dump.
I believe that our Bobby, Jr., had Biden and the Deep State clearly defined.
When he saw the Butler assassination attempt, it struck too close to home.
In August, 2024, RFK,, Jr., suspended his own Presidential campaign and joined forces with Trump. RFK, Jr., wanted to do everything in his power to avenge the deaths of his father, uncle and cousin. He didn’t need the release of any documents. He grew up with what they said.
This is just what one Kat’s sniffing has assembled out of the dust of all that has gone down since 11/22/1963. We still trusted our government then. Mostly. We had a lot to learn and we STILL DO.
One thing we know for certain: The Deep State has NOT changed its deadly plans. They still want us to shut up and sit down. They still want us to "own nothing and be happy". Our Constitutional government gets in their way, and they will do anything and everything to win.
God bless RFK, Jr., God bless our President, God bless our nation and its people.
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There is no particular good reason to believe that the "assassination papers" are complete, accurate and/or unmolested by political motives since being covered up since 1963. Operatives of various sorts have had 62 years to mess with the record.
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A former longtime Department of Homeland Security official, described as a whistleblower who penned a book criticizing the Obama administration’s handling of terrorism, was found dead Friday morning in Amador County, authorities said. Philip Haney was identified as the man found dead adjacent to Highways 16 and 124 near the city of Plymouth. Haney, 66, was found on the ground with a single gunshot wound, according to two news releases from the Amador County Sheriff’s Office.
[BBC] "It must be a policy of the United States," President Harry Truman announced, "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressure."
It was the start of what became known as the Truman Doctrine. At its heart was the idea that helping to defend democracy abroad was vital to the United States' national interests.
There followed two major US initiatives: the Marshall Plan, a massive package of assistance to rebuild the shattered economies of Europe, and the creation of Nato in 1949, which was designed to defend democracies from a Soviet Union that had now extended its control over the eastern part of Europe.
It is easy to see this as the moment that leadership of the western world passed from Britain to the United States. More accurately it is the moment that revealed that it already had.
The United States, traditionally isolationist and safely sheltered by two vast oceans, had emerged from World War Two as the leader of the free world. As America projected its power around the globe, it spent the post-war decades remaking much of the world in its own image.
Yet the fundamental assumptions on which the United States has based its geostrategic ambitions now look set to change.
Donald Trump is the first US President since World War Two to challenge the role that his country set for itself many decades ago. And he is doing this in such a way that, to many, the old world order appears to be over - and the new world order has yet to take shape.
A CHALLENGE TO THE TRUMAN LEGACY
President Trump's critique of the post-1945 international order dates back decades. Nearly 40 years ago he took out full-page advertisements in three US newspapers to criticise the United States' commitment to the defence of the world's democracies.
"For decades, Japan and other nations have been taking advantage of the United States," he wrote in 1987. "Why are these nations not paying the United States for the human lives and billions of dollars we are losing to protect their interests?
"The world is laughing at America's politicians as we protect ships we don't own, carrying oil we don't need, destined for allies who won't help."
It's a position he has repeated since his second inauguration.
And the fury felt by some in his administration for what they perceive as European reliance on the United States was apparently shown in the leaked messages about air strikes on Houthis in Yemen that emerged this week.
Trump's own position appears to go beyond criticising those he says are taking advantage of the United State's generosity. At the start of his second presidency, he seemed to embrace Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling Russia that Ukraine would not be granted Nato membership and that it should not expect to get back the territory it has lost to Russia.
Many saw this as giving away two major bargaining chips before talks had even started. He apparently asked Russia for nothing in return.
The United States' foreign policy is now driven, in part at least, by the imperatives of its culture wars. The security of Europe has become entangled in the battle between two polarised and mutually antagonistic visions of what the United States stands for.
Some think the division is about more than Trump's particular views and that Europe can not just sit tight waiting for his term in office to end.
"The US is becoming divorced from European values," argues Ed Arnold, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London.
I would argue, rather, that it is Europe and Britain that have abandoned European (and English) values, and not merely turned their backs on America but repeatedly given us the cut direct — with mockery appended.
"That's difficult [for Europeans] to swallow because it means that it's structural, cultural and potentially long-term. "
"I think the current trajectory of the US will outlast Trump, as a person. I think Trumpism will outlast his presidency."
NATO ARTICLE 5 'IS ON LIFE SUPPORT'
The Trump White House has said it will no longer be the primary guarantor of European security, and that European nations should be responsible for their own defence and pay for it.
"If [Nato countries] don't pay, I'm not going to defend them. No, I'm not going to defend them," the president said earlier this month.
For almost 80 years, the cornerstone of European security has been embedded in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that an attack on one member state of the alliance is an attack on all.
In Downing Street last month, just before his visit to the White House, the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told me during an interview that he was satisfied that the United States remained the leading member of Nato and that Trump personally remained committed to Article 5.
Others are less sure.
Ben Wallace, who was defence secretary in the last Conservative government, told me earlier this month: "I think Article 5 is on life support.
"If Europe, including the United Kingdom, doesn't step up to the plate, invest a lot on defence and take it seriously, it's potentially the end of the Nato that we know and it'll be the end of Article 5.
Precisely.
"Right now, I wouldn't bet my house that Article 5 would be able to be triggered in the event of a Russian attack… I certainly wouldn't take for granted that the United States would ride to the rescue."
If you are not for yourselves, who should be?
According to polling by the French company Institut Elabe, nearly three quarters of French people now think that the United States is not an ally of France. A majority in Britain and a very large majority in Denmark, both historically pro-American countries, now have unfavourable views of the United States as well.
And yet Trump is by no means the first US president to tell Europe to get its defence spending in order. In 2016 Barack Obama urged Nato allies to increase theirs, saying: "Europe has sometimes been complacent about its own defence."
Nor was President Obama the first Democratic president to say so. The malfeasance and mockery — and promises that soon they’ll start to fulfill long-signed treaty commitments — are practically ancient.
HAS A 'FRAGMENTATION OF THE WEST' BEGUN?
All of this is great news for Putin. "The entire system of Euro-Atlantic security is crumbling before our eyes," he said last year. "Europe is being marginalised in global economic development, plunged into the chaos of challenges such as migration, and losing international agency and cultural identity."
In early March, three days after Volodymyr Zelensky's disastrous meeting with Trump and Vance in the White House, a Kremlin spokesman declared "the fragmentation of the West has begun".
'WE FORGOT THE LESSONS OF OUR HISTORY'
Of history, period. And mocked those who remember.
One of the great challenges Europe, in particular, faces from here is the question of how to arm itself adequately. Eighty years of reliance on the might of the United States has left many European democracies exposed.
Britain, for example, has cut military spending by nearly 70% since the height of the Cold War. (At the end of the Cold War, in the early 1990s, Europe allowed itself a peace dividend and began a decades-long process of reducing defence spending.)
"We had a big budget [during the Cold War] and we took a peace dividend," says Wallace. "Now, you could argue that that was warranted.
"The problem is we went from a peace dividend to corporate raiding. [Defence] just became the go-to department to take money from. And that is where we just forgot the lessons of our history."
The prime minister told parliament last month that Britain would increase defence spending from 2.3% of GDP to 2.5% by 2027. But is that enough?
"It isn't enough just to stand still," argues Wallace. "It wouldn't be enough to fix the things we need to make ourselves more deployable, and to plug the gaps if the Americans left."
Then there is the wider question of military recruitment. "The West is in freefall in its military recruiting, it's not just Britain," argues Wallace.
"At the moment, young people aren't joining the military. And that's a problem."
Y’all not only mock America, but you mock your own militaries. Why would your young people put their lives on the line for those who abuse them?
But Germany's new Chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has said Europe must make itself independent of the United States. And "Europeanising" NATO will require the build up of an indigenous European military-industrial complex capable of delivering capabilities that currently only the United States has.
Others share the view that Europe must become more self reliant militarily - but some are concerned that not all of Europe is on board with this.
"Where we are at the moment is that the East Europeans by and large, don't need to get the memo," says Ian Bond, deputy director, Centre for European Reform. "The further west you go, the more problematic it becomes until you get to Spain and Italy."
Masters of Seduction shows the way!
Condensed from the book Masters of Seduction
(Plus Vital New Facts)
MASTERS OF SEDUCTION
Beguiling Americans Into Slavery and Self-destruction
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'Cornerstone of European security'? Really now. More like the cornerstone of the Euro welfare state. They haven't yet begun to pay their own keep in the slightest.
US out of NATO, now as in get an 'effin wiggle on boys. While we're about it they can take the UN with them.
[Breitbart] Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) said a Government Accountability Institute (GAO) report found lax oversight by the SBA over hundreds of billions of dollars in coronavirus aid loans and grants doled out during the Biden-administration was either “jaw-dropping incompetence or willful negligence.” Ernst cannot decide which is worse.
The GAO, a nonpartisan watchdog, released a study on the SBA’s four-step antifraud process as the SBA distributed over $1 trillion in loans and grants to over ten million small businesses during the 2020-2022 coronavirus pandemic.
The four-step process consisted of screening, data analytics, human-led reviews, and referrals of likely fraudulent applications to the SBA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).
Even though the process and various steps were introduced at different times for the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan (COVID-19 EIDL) and the Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP), the “SBA did not implement the process until more than half of the programs’ funding had been approved, thus limiting its impact in preventing fraud,” the GAO wrote.
“Specifically, for COVID-EIDL, over $210 billion of an eventual $385 billion (or about 55 percent) had already been disbursed before the full process was implemented. For the PPP, over $525 billion of an eventual $800 billion (or about 66 percent) had already been approved,” the watchdog group continued.
The GAO recommended that SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler “should collaborate with the SBA’s OIG to develop an effective plan, including the data elements to be provided and the process to be used, for referrals of potential or likely COVID-19 EIDL fraud cases.”
Caitlin O’Dea, a spokesperson for Administrator Loeffler, told Breitbart News that the SBA is working around the clock to hold those who committed fraud accountable. She said in a statement:
The SBA fully supports all efforts to crack down on fraud within its loan programs – in stark contrast to the last Administration, which failed to investigate or address more than $200B in estimated pandemic-era fraud. Under Administrator Loeffler, the SBA has already taken action to enhance fraud prevention and will continue working to hold pandemic-era fraudsters accountable in partnership with law enforcement.
The SBA will not be alone in these efforts.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), the chair of the Senate Small Business Committee and the chair of the Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus, said that she remains committed to working with the SBA to find the coronavirus pandemic-era fraud, recouping the funds, and holding the criminals accountable.
“The Biden SBA was completely asleep at the wheel pursuing fraud in pandemic relief programs,” Ernst said in a statement to Breitbart News. The agency’s shortcomings prevented millions of investigations from occurring and allowed potential criminals to get away. This report exposes either jaw-dropping incompetence or willful negligence by the bureaucrats overseeing these programs.”
DOGE recently revealed that $312 million in coronavirus aid fraud went to children under 11 years-old; Ernst said that this fraud was just the “tip of the iceberg.”
Ernst’s office has catalogued many of the ways that coronavirus aid has been abused:
While SBA ran the relief programs on a “first come, first serve” basis, the money ran out quickly, and many qualifying businesses were turned away as felons, gang members, and drug traffickers raked in cash. Some swindlers uploaded pictures of Barbie dolls as photo identification on SBA loan applications that were approved.
One alleged fraudster took home $8 million while nearly 2,000 struggling restaurants in Iowa were left empty-handed. Ernst detailed this in her report titled Small Business COVID-19 Fraud: Three Years Later State of Play – where she outlined the Biden SBA’s effort to discount the full extent of fraud and cast doubt on the legitimate estimates made by expert investigators.
An 2023 Ernst and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) investigation found that there was $5.4 billion in total loans to fraudulent Social Security numbers.
[Breitbart] During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Greg Kelly Reports,” President Donald Trump stated that his tariffs will “probably be more lenient than reciprocal, because if I was reciprocal, that would be very tough on people.”
Trump began by saying he doesn’t want “too many exceptions” to the tariffs.
He added, “I know some people are saying, oh, do you think it’s too much? Well, they’ve been doing this to us for many years, whether it’s China or India or Brazil or so many other places. And all we’re going to do, it’s reciprocal, we’re just going to be reciprocal. In fact, I’ll probably be more lenient than reciprocal, because if I was reciprocal, that would be very tough on people.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Health chiefs in Washington D.C. have confirmed a case of measles in a patient who visited multiple locations while contagious.
The individual traveled throughout the nation’s capital within the last week, including two Amtrak stations and an urgent care center.
Anyone who is unvaccinated, or who got their MMR shots before 1968, and came into contact with the infected person is being urged to contact their care provider.
The patient traveled on a Amtrak Northeast Regional 175 Train Southbound from Union Station on March 19 between 7pm and 11pm.
They then visited the MedStar Urgent Care Adams Morgan on 1805 Columbia Road on March 22 between 7pm and 11pm, local health officials said.
The growing measles outbreak in the US has infected over 300 people, mostly in West Texas, which is more than the number of total cases in the country last year.
It comes at a time of falling vaccination rates and low trust in public health institutions.
[DM] Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has delivered a pointed warning to judges nationwide as local courts have slowed the rollout of Donald Trump's political agenda.
'We do have authority over the federal courts,' Johnson shared at a press conference Tuesday. 'We can eliminate an entire district court,' he noted.
'We do have power over funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.'
His statement appeared to be a veiled reminder, if not threat, that Congress has their eyes on district judges that have issued injunctions and rulings against Trump's policies.
Though the Supreme Court is the highest judicial body in the country, district courts, which have been issuing nationwide rulings foiling White House executive decisions, are overseen by Congress.
The White House has been frustrated with injunctions impeding Trump's immigration, DOGE and other top priorities, prompting the 78-year-old to call for judges standing in his way to get removed.
The president has called for D.C. district court judge James Boasberg to be impeached for issuing an injunction on the administration's deportations of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act.
Trump has also railed against district judge John James McConnell Jr. after he sided with 22 states and the District of Columbia to reinstate the flow of federal grants and loans that the White House froze as DOGE sifted through spending.
Republican lawmakers have already introduced articles of impeachment against McConnell and another Maryland based district judge, Theodore Chuang, who recently ruled that dismantling USAID is unconstitutional.
However, impeachment is unlikely as the maneuver would require Democratic support.
The 2/3rds to win requirement makes Senator Chuck Schumer very happy. Find another way.
Though the speaker later clarified that he was not planning on destroying any court, he did say he wanted to remind people of Congress's many authorities.
Article III of the Constitution states its up to Congress to 'ordain and establish' courts beneath the Supreme Court, meaning lawmakers fund and organize the lower court structure.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is currently looking into ways where Congress can reign in district judges.
Next week the committee is holding a hearing to examine Boasberg and other judge's recent rulings.
Jordan spoke with Trump about the upcoming hearing while the pair were watching the NCAA wrestling championships in Ohio over the weekend.
Eliminating lower courts and redistributing judges to other posts has been ordered by Congress before, but the practice is uncommon.
Judges playing nasty little games at the executive branch is unheard of, but here we are. Spank ‘em good, Mikey!
The issue may come to a head during the upcoming appropriations and government funding process, during which lawmakers may or may not push to defund or reorganize some lower courts.
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This headline stinks to high heavens. How about
"House speaker reminds USA that Congress has authority to regulate federal courts below the level of the US Supreme Court".
This is not a "nuke option" This is not impeachment. This is not a "chilling new threat". This may be "uncommon" but is no ways illegal. Abolition of the DC District Court actually happened in 1863 and it was no big deal at the time. Chief Justice Roberts recent BS pronouncement "For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision." was an inappropriate response to the spate of insane federal judicial decisions and the spinelessness of the Supremes. Congress and only Congress has the authority & responsibility to impeach federal judges. A Supreme Court justice has no standing on the issue of impeachment, except perhaps to preside over an impeachment trial. It will be interesting to read what crap Roberts will come up with in response to this CHILLING NEW THREAT /S.
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Judges serve for LIFE.
If people are pushed hard enough, or get angry enough, they can do "unusual" things. People have been getting angrier and angrier for more than a decade now. That pressure requires an outlet. Civil war, rioting, open rebellion, are only a few of the choices that MIGHT be made. Someone needs to remind people to "stay in their own lane" or those choices WILL be made. That's human nature, as history records time and time again.
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"Judges serve for LIFE" Not in the following case:
William Matthew S. Merrick (1818-1899) was appointed federal associate justice of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia by President Franklin Pierce. Merrick served in that court until its abolition by act of Congress. On March 3, 1863, Congress abolished the federal Circuit Court, district court, and criminal court of the District of Columbia, and replaced them with the "Supreme Court of the District of Columbia". This resulted in the removal of judges from the bench (including Judge Merrick) who had ruled against the US in United States ex rel. Murphy v. Porter. Merrick returned to Maryland and resumed the practice of law. He lived another 36 years after losing his position on the abolished federal DC court. He was not impeached. He may have been a federal judge for life, but the court he served on had been legally abolished, so that his "service" for life had become moot.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump said he wants to set up a 'compensation fund' for the people who were imprisoned for their roles in the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, two months after he pardoned them.
On his first day back in the White House, Trump said he was pardoning about 1,500 defendants and issuing six commutations, calling them 'hostages.'
He also directed the attorney general to seek dismissal of about 450 pending criminal cases against Jan. 6 defendants.
The controversial decision fulfilled Trump's promise to release supporters who tried to help him overturn his election defeat four years ago.
Speaking Tuesday, Trump said that he's now looking to find a way to help them out after being suggested that he start up a 'compensation fund.'
'There's a lot of talk about that,' he said about the fund. 'A lot of the people that are in government now talk about it because a lot of the people in government really like that group of people.'
Trump reiterated that he felt that those imprisoned were 'patriots' and added that Joe Biden had treated them 'very unfairly.'
'A group of people went down there, peacefully and patriotically, remember that,' Trump added.
In reaction, liberals melted down over the plan as writer Ron Filipkowski among several others labeled the plan: 'Reparations'
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, however, added: 'We should vote on this. They should demand a vote on this.'
Newsmax host Greg Kelly also asked Trump about Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a police officer as she attempted to break through a door while in the Capitol building.
The Department of Justice is still fighting a lawsuit filed by her family and Kelly asked: 'Shouldn’t that be something that can just be settled at this point?'
Trump said that Babbitt 'was a really good person' and said that he would 'look into that.'
The president's controversial decision to pardon those involved in the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was made with an expletive at the last minute.
As his team wrestled with the top issues to tackle on Inauguration Day, during their first hours in office, Trump weighed in, saying: 'F **k it: Release 'em all,' a source told Axios.
His decision to sign a blanket pardon for at least 1,500 people charged over the riot in Washington D.C. rankled many on his team and some officials in the Republican Party.
While Trump had talked about pardons for some of the rioters, the blanket dispensation - including those who used violence and attacked police officers - came as a surprise to many.
The former leaders of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, who were convicted of seditious conspiracy, were both released from prison hours after Trump signed the clemency order.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, of Granbury, Texas, was serving an 18-year prison sentence.
Enrique Tarrio, of Miami, the former Proud Boys leader, was serving a 22-year sentence.
Trump supporters, meanwhile, shrugged off his decision to pardon all those involved.
'He is who he is,' a Trump official told NBC News. 'Expectations are sometimes set as best as can be expected, and sometimes they change quickly.'
With a simple swipe of his pen, Trump released from prison his followers who were caught on camera breaking into the Capitol and fighting with police as they attempted to overthrow Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.
His pardon proclamation on day one of his second term offered 'a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.'
The federal Bureau of Prisons, by the next day, had released all of the more than 200 people in its custody for January 6 crimes, officials told The Associated Press.
Some critics pounced on Trump's decision.
More than 150 police officers were injured on the day of insurrection and many blasted Trump for issuing the blanket get-out-jail-free card to his supporters.
But the president defended his decision.
He called the prosecutions 'ridiculous and excessive.'
Trump said he issued the pardons because in many cases, 'these people have already served a long period of time, and I made a decision to give a pardon.'
On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly vowed to pardon those in the Capitol that day.
But he also indicated he'd look at cases individually.
'I'm going to do case-by-case, and if they were non-violent, I think they've been greatly punished,' he told Time magazine during the campaign.
'And the answer is, I will be doing that, yeah, I'm going to look if there's some that really were out of control.'
How many of those who were out of control will turn out to be Antifa and/or paid Biden-Harris administration Justice Department instigators? If so, there will be a trail to other things for which they can be prosecuted.
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At least one member of Azov and other Ukrainian Speakers were in the Jan 6th crowd, I have no doubt other deep state assets were deployed as well as I saw video (Chans) of another group changing outfits into MAGA Swag inside the Capital.
Today he served as the Senior President (the Alterspräsident) at the inaugural meeting of the twenty-first Bundestag — a role awarded to the parliamentary representative with the greatest seniority.
Since the nineteenth century, the Senior President was simply the oldest member of parliament, but in 2017 the cartel parties of Germany changed the rules, awarding the Senior Presidency instead to whomever has the most parliamentary experience. They did this to prevent the office of Senior President from accruing to anyone from Alternative fur Deutschland.
According to the traditional, pre-2017 rules, the 84 year-old AfD representative Alexander Gauland would have acted as Senior President today. The reforms have happily spared us that profoundly undemocratic fate and granted us the eminently democratic Senior President Gysi instead. We should all be very grateful and also relieved, because the Senior President gets to chair the Bundestag until the election of a proper President, and he also gets to give a speech. You can only imagine how a cryptofascist like the elderly ex-CDU politician Gauland might use these prerogatives to abolish democracy and establish the Fourth Reich all within the space of a few hours. This is literally how democracies die.
[FoxNews] Charbel Garza Macias was found with 4,800 rounds of ammunition during a July 2024 traffic stop in a Texas border city, authorities said
An illegal immigrant living in a Texas border city was hired to purchase thousands of rounds of ammunition for the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) in Mexico, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Charbel Garza Macias pleaded guilty on Oct. 8, 2024, to illegally possessing ammunition after he was found with 4,800 rounds during a traffic stop.
He was sentenced in federal court to more than five years in prison. He is expected to be deported upon serving his time, authorities said.
"This defendant’s goal was to get this ammunition to Mexico and, if he had succeeded, would have contributed to the cartels’ ongoing campaign of brutality," said U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. "Those who work to arm, supply, fund or otherwise aid these organizations take notice; you are going to be found and prosecuted."
On July 16, 2024, Homeland Security Investigations, along with the Laredo Police Department and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, set up surveillance in a Laredo parking lot, which sits across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Macias attempted to elude law enforcement as they followed him after departing the parking lot, federal prosecutors said.
During a traffic stop, authorities found 4,800 rounds of .223/5.56 caliber ammunition in the vehicle. At the time, Macias admitted that he was hired by the CDN to buy 20,000 rounds to be smuggled into Mexico.
Authorities noted that he didn't have a license to export ammunition or firearms
…of course — they don’t give them to illegal aliens…
and knew it was illegal to smuggle ammunition into Mexico.
In exchange for smuggling the ammunition, Macias expected to be paid $600 per transaction, the Laredo Morning Times reported, citing a federal affidavit.
[FoxNews] DHS Secretary Kristi Noem vowed to deport the suspects, one of whom allegedly has HIV, according to a police report
Two illegal immigrants from Mexico were arrested and charged Friday for allegedly molesting a minor on a Royal Caribbean cruise off the coast of Miami.
Jose Prudencio Diaz, 36, and Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal, 37, are charged with child molestation and exhibition on a child in connection with an incident that occurred on an Independence of the Seas cruise.
Additionally, Diaz is charged with having sex with another person without disclosing his HIV infection, and Leal is charged with sexual battery of a minor, according to arrest records.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted about the incident on X Tuesday.
"One of them has HIV. Both have ICE detainers on them. We WILL get these sickos out of our country," Noem wrote.
The defendants were detained without incident, police said. No further information was available at the time of publication.
Unvetted ship employees or guests whose passports were not properly checked?Either way, the company has a liability problem.
[FoxNews] 'We are not a sanctuary state and therefore we’re not supporting localities that are declared sanctuary cities,' Youngkin said
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, is threatening to withhold state funding from local governments if they do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement officials.
The proposal comes as the governor seeks to eliminate the Commonwealth's "sanctuary cities," which are areas that choose to protect migrants without legal status rather than cooperate with federal officials to enforce immigration law.
Youngkin first floated the idea of withholding funding in December. The governor has now proposed it as an amendment to the state budget passed by the General Assembly, according to Fox 5 DC.
The proposal would ensure that state funding does not go to counties or cities with "sanctuary city" policies such as ignoring detainer requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the outlet reported.
The governor has been particularly critical of Democrat-run counties in northern Virginia, including Fairfax. He said there must be full cooperation on immigration enforcement to continue receiving funding.
"This is not a decision for people to make locally," he said, according to Fox 5 DC. "This is for the betterment of all our safety. We are not a sanctuary state and therefore we’re not supporting localities that are declared sanctuary cities."
[FoxNews] 2 foreign nationals were arrested after they allegedly flew drones over military bases in Florida, California
Federal officials face a looming threat of foreign nationals utilizing drones to surveil United States military bases after two recent arrests and a string of mysterious incursions suggest the country’s airspace is ill-equipped to handle the rapidly evolving technology.
In late 2024, the Department of Justice announced charges against Yinpiao Zhou, 39, for allegedly flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and taking photos of the facility. The Chinese-American citizen was detained as he attempted to board a China-bound flight and was charged with violation of national defense airspace and failure to register an aircraft.
"Anyone operating a drone over a restricted space, like a military base, would be subject to prosecution," Ken Gray, a former FBI agent and military analyst, told Fox News Digital. "A foreign national operating [a drone] raises a concern about that person being involved in some type of espionage or intelligence gathering."
An affidavit revealed Vandenberg’s drone detection systems registered Zhou’s drone flying over its base on Nov. 30, 2024. When base authorities tracked the drone’s origin to a nearby park and confronted Zhou and a second individual, he allegedly attempted to conceal the drone in his jacket.
Two months later, a Canadian tourist was arrested for allegedly flying a drone over a defense installation in Florida.
Federal prosecutors allege Xiao Guang Pan, 71, used a drone to photograph sensitive defense installations at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, according to the DOJ. Pan allegedly took photos of munitions bunkers, Space Launch complexes, a submarine wharf and payload processing facility as he flew his drone on three separate days in January.
Chinese-Canadian, eh? We seem to have a theme…
"The response to [drones] is not standard," Gray said. "Depending on the place the drone is spotted, their response could be anything from just making note of it to trying to detect where the drone is coming from, and the success of those types of responses has really varied drastically."
A string of high-profile mysterious incidents thrust drones into the national spotlight as public speculation grew.
In February, the highest-ranking general for all air defenses in North America took to Congress to sound the alarm over nefarious drones flying over the U.S., two months after a swarm of drones wreaked havoc over New Jersey’s skies for weeks.
"The General’s comments provide further proof that the Biden national security team was dismissive and downplayed the risks presented by the mystery drones spotted all over New Jersey, especially those that flew over sensitive sites within my own district, such as Naval Weapons Station Earle," said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., in a press release.
While the White House insists the drones seen across the Garden State were "authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons," the revelation has done little to calm Americans’ unease.
Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, commander of NORTHCOM and NORAD, expressed concern over the influx of mysterious drones flying throughout American airspace, specifically over sensitive military sites. The four-star general cited widespread reports of drones infiltrating classified locations throughout the country in his attempt to turn up the heat on lawmakers’ response to the increased sightings.
"The primary threat I see for them in the way they’ve been operating is detection, and perhaps surveillance, of sensitive capabilities on our installations," Guillot said in a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. "There were 350 detections reported last year on military installations, and that was 350 over a total of 100 different installations of all types and levels of security."
Last year, Virginia’s Langley Air Force base was defenseless as drones invaded the skies above for 17 nights, according to a report obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
Two months earlier, five mysterious drones invaded the skies over a government nuclear weapons experiment site in Nevada, stumping officials.
"Due to the use of drones in Ukraine, we see that drones pose a real risk of being used as a weapon system against targets," Gray told Fox News Digital. "Even hobby-level drones can be modified to carry explosives or other types of dangerous substances that could be used to cause all kinds of problems for people on the ground."
Military officials are also faced with the increasingly hard task of determining where the drones are originating from. NORAD’s radar systems were developed during the Cold War, making them ill-equipped to detect and identify drones.
"Radar coverage would not cover something as small as a drone operating at altitudes of less than a couple of hundred feet," Gray said. "So the ability to see where [the drones] originate or where they are being recovered really depends upon either having an aerial asset that is tracking it, following from the air or teams on the ground that are operating to determine where the drone is being recovered."
Normies responding to Judicial Activism in Israel
[IsraelNationalNews] Activists from the right-wing Im Tirtzu organization on Wednesday morning protested outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Gila Canfy Steinitz in Mevaseret Zion, blasting her decision to intervene in the dismissal of ISA chief Ronen Bar.
The activists protested the judge's interference in the government's decisions, when the government acted with full legal authority on the matter. They also noted that Bar "is responsible for the horrific intelligence failure and also did not awaken the Defense Minister and Prime Minister on October 7, and did not update them on the situation.
Bnayahu Ben Shabbat, task coordinator at Im Tirtzu, said, "Judge Canfy Steinitz appropriated authority without any permission or legal basis. The Supreme Court dictatorship tramples the will of the nation. In a sane world, Ronen Bar would have stepped down or been fired on October 8 [,2023]. He cannot have remained in his position for even another minute. The Supreme Court judges must not interfere."
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is pausing some green card applications, including refugees brought to the United States by former President Joe Biden, to better screen and vet applicants.
“To better identify fraud, public safety, or national security concerns, USCIS is placing a temporary pause on finalizing certain Adjustment of Status applications pending the completion of additional screening and vetting,” a spokesperson for the agency told Breitbart News:
This is in alignment with Presidential Executive Order 14161, Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats, and the presidential action Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Specially Designated Global Terrorists. [Emphasis added]
The pause, first reported by CBS News, will include hundreds of thousands of refugees brought to the U.S. by the Biden administration — including perhaps some Afghan refugees — who are now looking to adjust status and secure green cards.
Likewise, some immigrants who secured asylum under the Biden administration have also had their green card application processes halted for the time being.
In late January, Trump signed an executive order suspending all refugee resettlement to the U.S. after the Biden administration imported hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants who were given humanitarian parole.
Though non-governmental organizations (NGOS) and a federal judge out of Seattle, Washington, sued to prevent Trump from halting refugee admissions, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will allow the administration to carry out its executive order.
[FoxNews] 'The gravy train is over,' said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Sexy.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner and Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem have forged a new inter-agency initiative aimed at ensuring federal housing funds do not go to illegal immigrants.
The two secretaries signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monday cementing the partnership, which will serve to end what they call "wasteful misappropriation" of taxpayer-funded public housing resources going to illegal immigrants rather than U.S. citizens. The new initiative will facilitate data sharing between the two agencies via newly established lines of communication, according to a press release about the effort, which added that U.S. veterans stood to benefit from the move.
"American tax dollars should be used for the benefit of American citizens, especially when it comes to an issue as pressing as our nation’s housing crisis," Turner said Monday. "This new agreement will leverage resources, including technology and personnel, to ensure American people are the only priority when it comes to public housing. We will continue to work closely with DHS to maximize our resources and put American citizens first."
In total, per HUD, there are roughly 9 million people who live in subsidized housing across the country. Meanwhile, about 59% of noncitizen households – those including green card holders or illegal immigrants – use one or more public assistance programs, costing taxpayers as much as $42 billion annually, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for lower immigration levels.
Tens of millions of dollars – at least – went to housing for migrants, including for all-expense-paid stays at hotels for some, during the Biden administration. Some states, such as Pennsylvania and Arizona, passed measures during the Biden administration aimed at ensuring illegal immigrants do not take public housing resources from Americans who need them.
President Donald Trump, shortly after his inauguration, signed an executive order calling for an end to illegal immigrants' use of public resources.
"The Biden Administration prioritized illegal aliens over our own citizens, including by giving illegal aliens taxpayer-funding housing at the expense of Americans. Not anymore," Noem said in a statement Monday. "The entire government will work together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally. If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over."
As part of the new initiative, HUD will provide a full-time staff member to assist with operations at the federal government's Incident Command Center, which facilitates information sharing between agencies during national crises.
Additionally, in conjunction with the establishment of the new initiative, Turner ordered numerous federal housing programs under his purview to comply with Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980, which bars HUD-funded service providers from providing assistance to illegal immigrants.
[FoxNews] The U.S. Customs and Enforcement agency (ICE) announced that a massive operation in Massachusetts resulted in nearly 400 arrests, including over 200 apprehensions of illegal immigrants who had serious criminal convictions or charges.
"The Commonwealth is a safer place for our residents to live and work because ICE and our federal law enforcement partners arrested hundreds of alien offenders and removed them from the streets of Massachusetts," ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston acting Field Office Director Patricia H. Hyde said in a press release.
The operation, which took place between March 18 and March 23, netted the arrests of 370 illegal immigrants in the Boston area. Among those, 205 of the migrants arrested had "significant criminal convictions or charges," the release noted, including six who were "currently facing charges or convictions for murder, drug trafficking, organized crime, and money laundering."
The six-day operation targeted "egregious criminal alien offenders," the release notes, including members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua who were operating "in and around Boston."
The raids came despite Boston's status as one of several so-called "sanctuary" cities across the country, jurisdictions that restrict local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu has doubled down on those policies in recent days, vowing to continue protecting illegal immigrants in the city during her State of the City address last week.
"No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings. Boston was born facing down bullies," she said.
"You belong here," she told immigrants.
That’s nice, dear. Would you like a lollipop to help you sit in the corner, or will your thumb suffice?
[FoxNews] Critics immediately said the order will disenfranchise millions of voters.
Prove it. Show us the disenfranchised, O critics.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order requiring people to provide proof of American citizenship when they register to vote and demanding that all ballots be reviewed by Election Day.
The order requires government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms, directs the attorney general to enter into information-sharing agreements with state election officials to identify cases of election fraud or other election law violations and conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with federal election integrity measures.
"There are other steps that we will be taking in the coming weeks," Trump said just before signing the order. "We think we'll be able to end up getting fair elections."
"It's an honor to sign this one," he added. "I sign all of them, but to sign this one is a great honor."
The U.S. has failed "to enforce basic and necessary election protections," the order states.
Election experts immediately criticized the move, saying it would disenfranchise millions of voters.
"This executive order would block tens of millions of American citizens from voting," the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University wrote on X. "Presidents have no authority to do this. This order, like the SAVE Act now before Congress, would hurt voters and suppress the vote."
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, is a bill being pushed by Republicans that would make sweeping changes to voter registration, including requiring voters to present documents proving U.S. citizenship.
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[ColonelCassad] The administration of US President Donald Trump supports Israel in the war against Hamas not only with diplomacy, arms supplies and intelligence, but also by sending a private military company (PMC) to the Gaza Strip. What is the mission of this company and who is behind it? Military observer Alexander Hoffmann specially for VFokus Mail. STRATEGIC CORRIDOR
In January of this year, the little-known American PMC UG Solutions received a major contract to provide security in the Netzarim corridor during the truce between Israel and Hamas. The corridor is of strategic importance for the Gaza Strip, since it provides communication between the north and south of the enclave. The presence of “third party” forces there was a condition of the agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinian movement.
Another American PMC, Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), is responsible for the logistics and planning of UG’s operations in the Gaza Strip. Together with them, security in the corridor is provided by contractors from Egypt, agreed upon with the special services of the Arab Republic.
According to SRS, the contractors for the contract were determined by the "agreeding parties." And it is being financed by unnamed "Arab countries." The United States, Qatar, and Egypt participated in mediating between the Israelis and Hamas.
UG hired at least a hundred U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) veterans and former CIA officers to work in the Netzarim corridor. Their salary is up to $1,250 per day and an advance of $10,000. Insurance in the event of death or injury to a mercenary is $500,000.
Although Israel's participation in financing the contract is denied, it is extremely unlikely that it will be implemented without the support of Tel Aviv. After all, PMCs must work in one of the jurisdictions.
"GREEN BERETS"
The founder of UG is Jameson Govoni, a U.S. Army SOF veteran. The Green Beret served in the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), where he carried out combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The SRS is led by a more experienced Green Beret from the 7th Group, Philip Reilly. After the SOF, he spent almost 30 years in the CIA, where he headed the Special Activities Division (now the Special Activities Center) of the Operations Directorate, which specializes in carrying out covert military and political missions, and also led the operations of the Counterterrorism Mission Center (CTMC), which is responsible for the combat use of attack drones.
At the same time that Govoni was on a mission in Afghanistan, Reilly was the CIA chief of station in that country. After working for the agency, the latter took the position of senior vice president for operations at the American PMC Constellis (the successor to Blackwater, the famous contractor for the Pentagon and the CIA).
Govoni and Reilly knew each other before their meeting in the Gaza Strip and continued their "combat career" in the private sector. The PMC status allows them to deny official Washington's involvement in the military intervention.
MISSION IN GAZA
The UG and SRS contract covers the "first stage" of the truce - until Hamas and Israel release some of the captives within 42 days (the deadline expired on March 1), or until hostilities between the parties continue (they have already resumed). Last week, Hamas representatives reported that on March 19, US mercenaries allegedly left the Netzarim corridor before IDF forces entered it.
However, the American PMCs will remain in the Gaza Strip until their "customers decide that their services are no longer needed" - so they say themselves. That is, in fact, they are there indefinitely. Where does their desire to stay there come from?
SRS PMC, as investigative journalists have found out, is a front company of the American company Two Ocean Trust, established a couple of months before the ceasefire. It is engaged in private capital management - it helps wealthy clients with investments.
Here we should think about the seriousness of Trump's plans to turn the Gaza Strip into a "Middle Eastern Riviera". In addition to investments and the eviction of Palestinians, its creation will require the presence of American PMCs, mastering the financial flows from investors from Trump's entourage.
Mercenaries will receive fees for ensuring the security of US investments in the future "resort", the territory of which Israel will first raze to the ground - to clear the site for construction. Therefore, American PMCs are there for a long time.
SPONSORS AND PATRONS
UG was established in March 2023. Since 2017, Govoni also headed the operations of the American non-governmental organization (NGO) Sentinel Foundation. The PMC indicated that UG is a "commercial division" of Sentinel.
The NGO receives funding from major evangelical Christian donor organizations such as Samaritan's Purse, as well as from the foundation of American football star and Protestant fundamentalist Tim Tebow. They are ardent Trump supporters.
Govoni founded Sentinel together with another Green Beret, Glen DeWitt, who also headed the NGO. The co-founder of the organization was an Army Special Operations Forces specialist in intelligence and knew Govoni from his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In October-November 2023, DeWitt already conducted "reconnaissance" in the Gaza Strip - he was there for two and a half weeks, evacuating American citizens. At the same time, in the first month of the war in Gaza, it was almost impossible to get into the enclave without the help of Israeli or Egyptian intelligence services.
As emphasized in Sentinel, DeWitt acted with the "knowledge of the US State Department." His mission was organized with the support of Republican Senators Mark Mullin and Lindsey Graham, an ideological Russophobe who is included in Russia's list of terrorists and extremists.
Senator Graham? Now that’s an unexpected turn!
"THE GRAY ZONE"
The presence of American PMCs in the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict allowed the Trump administration to influence the situation in the Gaza Strip and intervene in it "on the ground" without the use of American armed forces. This is the very "gray zone" for which the "Green Berets" are being trained.
Thus, in mid-February, employees of the supposedly "humanitarian" Sentinel were spotted in the Netzarim corridor with weapons in their hands. This once again reminded us that the Sentinel NGO and the UG PMC are a single entity, and the good intentions under the veil of Christian virtue are just a screen for mercenaries attracted to the implementation of Trump's plans in the Gaza Strip.
This practice is traditional for the CIA - to breed legal entities between which SOF veterans with experience in participating in operations under the agency's leadership roam. SRS and UG are just shell companies paving the way for a larger mercenary presence in the Gaza Strip.
The idea of deploying a US contingent there to protect the "resort" is almost impossible to push through Congress. And finding a reason to attract mercenaries with US passports there is not that difficult - a plausible "humanitarian" reason will always be found.
Thus, the US, through PMCs, created a bridgehead in the Gaza Strip. While the Israelis are razing it to the ground, Washington is accumulating forces there, conducting reconnaissance and preparing for a large-scale project of Trump's "riviera".
[IsraelTimes] Israeli forces raided the West Bank city of Qalqilya overnight, killing a wanted terrorist who had been planning an imminent attack and two other operatives, the IDF, Shin Bet and police say in a joint statement.
A combined IDF and police special forces team went into the city, acting upon information from the Shin Bet after receiving information that the “terrorist planned to carry out a terror attack against Israeli citizens in within in an immediate timeframe,” the statement says.
The suspect opened fire on the troops who responded with live fire, shoulder-launched rockets and an explosive drone, killing him and two others.
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[Regnum] On March 25, the Kremlin press service published a list of Russian and Ukrainian facilities agreed upon by the Russian Federation and the United States that fall under the moratorium on attacks on the energy system.
The list includes oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines and storage facilities, including pumping stations, electricity generation and transmission infrastructure, including power plants, substations, transformers and distributors, as well as nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams.
"The temporary moratorium is valid for 30 days, starting from March 18, 2025, and, by mutual agreement, may be extended. In the event of a violation of the moratorium by one of the parties, the other party has the right to consider itself free from obligations to comply with it," the statement said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on March 18, Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agreed on an initiative to stop mutual strikes on energy facilities by Moscow and Kiev. The Russian President gave the corresponding order to the Russian Armed Forces, after which the military shot down seven of their own drones that had been previously launched towards Ukraine. The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, also publicly supported the agreement, pointing out that Ukraine had allegedly always advocated for stopping strikes on energy facilities.
That same night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched three drones at an oil depot near the village of Kavkazskaya in the Krasnodar Territory. On March 21, Ukrainian forces blew up the Sudzha gas distribution station in the Kursk Region. On March 23, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck an electrical substation in Polohy in the Zaporizhia Region. On March 24, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station in the Krasnodar Territory and a gas distribution station near Belgorod with a drone.
In addition, on March 25, the military department reported attempts to attack energy facilities in the Krasnodar Territory, the LPR and Crimea. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that Zelensky, continuing daily attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, confirms his inability to negotiate and uncontrollability for guarantors of compliance with any agreements.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that Russia reserves the right to respond symmetrically to the Kiev regime's ongoing strikes on energy facilities. The president's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, reported that Putin has not yet cancelled the order to suspend strikes on the Kiev regime's energy facilities. He added that Washington has the ability to monitor the situation with the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes on energy facilities in Russia and draw appropriate conclusions.
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[REGNUM] The streets of Swedish cities are shaking from explosions and filled with the sounds of gunfire. Ethnic gangs
…Kurds, Syrians, Iraqis, mixed Moslem, and the occasional Eastern European and Caucasian …
that have flooded the country are sorting out their relationships with each other and settling scores with businessmen who do not want to pay tribute to the bandits. The Swedish authorities are unable to curb the criminals, but the US authorities have intervened in the situation.
The US government has imposed sanctions against Foxtrot, the largest criminal group operating in Sweden and actively penetrating other EU countries. However, the Americans did not do this out of a desire to ensure the safety of ordinary Swedes – Washington was alarmed by information about Foxtrot’s connections with hostile intelligence services.
THE GANGS HAVE BECOME CRAMPED
With the police powerless to deal with the ethnic gangs that have infested Sweden, Swedes are increasingly turning to the Almighty. It has gotten to the point that the Stockholm diocese of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church recently introduced the practice of regular prayer services, during which believers call on the Lord to stop the bombings in city districts and suburbs.
No doubt the gangsters are glad for it, as it keeps the locals happily occupied without visibly interfering in the proceedings.
Bishop Andreas Holmberg explained: "We pray that the spiral of threats, revenge and violence will be broken. That those who are about to commit crimes will come to their senses and see their enemies as their neighbours."
But once upon a time, prayers for liberation from the fury of the Scandinavians, that is, including the ancestors of today's Swedes, were heard in Catholic churches throughout Europe. Who could have imagined that now the defenseless victims of alien raids have become the descendants of the ruthless Vikings.
By the way, the idea of holding prayers appeared after a corresponding request from police officers working in one of the municipalities of Stockholm. They are now frankly not coping with their duties and decided to enlist the support of heaven.
And at the beginning of the year, an event occurred that could become a terrible harbinger of the situation in the country deteriorating even further. On January 29, the 65-year-old uncle of the famous mafioso Rawa Majid, known as the Kurdish Fox, was shot dead in Stockholm.
Majid, the leader of Sweden's largest criminal network, Foxtrot, emigrated to Turkey several years ago and runs his group remotely. His competitors, unable to reach the Kurdish Fox himself, have decided to eliminate Majid's relative, who is believed to have held a prominent position in Foxtrot.
Police officers who quickly arrived at the scene of the elderly Kurd's death managed to spot the killer before he escaped. The 30-year-old criminal tried to shoot at the law enforcement officers, but was detained by them.
The investigation concluded that the killer was hired by another large group, Dalennätverket (named after its place of origin, the Dalen district in the Stockholm suburb of Enskede). Like Foxtrot, Dalennätverket is involved in drug trafficking, racketeering and contract killings – and the two are a bit cramped in small Sweden.
Majid will undoubtedly now seek revenge on his rivals. Crime experts predict a return to 2023, when the number of street shootings increased sharply due to the escalation of gang wars.
Therefore, on the same day, January 29, a decision was made to transfer an additional police force of one hundred people to Stockholm, who were called in from other cities. Investigators attribute the sharp increase in the number of explosions on the streets of Swedish cities at the beginning of the year to the feud between Foxtrot and Dalennätverket.
NEED TOO MUCH MONEY
In total, according to police data, there are 14,000 active criminal groups in Sweden – but the most powerful of them are Foxtrot and Dalennätverket. Moreover, a process that was widely discussed last year is continuing in the Swedish criminal world – criminals are becoming increasingly younger.
In 2024, a quarter of suspects in criminal cases were under 18. In fatal shootings, a third of suspects in 2024 were under 18, and about ten were under 15.
Ethnic gangs are happy to hire underage killers, whose fear threshold is significantly lowered because they do not face the same harsh punishments as adults.
At the same time, criminals have reached such a level of power that they are already influencing the activities of large corporations, which are forced to evacuate from crime-ridden areas.
Thus, recently the “great exodus” from the Chista district in Stockholm has begun – the telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson, the property management company Coor, the electronics manufacturer Fujitsu, the Royal Institute of Technology, and the software and hardware manufacturer IBM have moved their offices and production facilities from there.
If five years ago the occupancy rate of business facilities in Chista was 91%, then by the end of last year this figure had dropped to 53%. The reason is simple - in recent years, migrants have begun settling in the area en masse, and it has become extremely unsafe.
Employees of the companies located here began to be attacked on their way to work, and such incidents became more and more frequent. And eventually the management of the companies considered it best to leave the dangerous territory altogether.
More and more Swedish taxpayers' money is being spent on fighting crime. This year, 2025, the amount allocated from the state budget for these purposes will be 86.7 billion kronor (769 billion rubles, or 7.5 billion euros). This is 8 billion kronor (10%) more than the year before.
It is expected that in 2027 the corresponding expenditure item will reach 100 billion crowns. For comparison: in 2023 it was 69 billion. That is, every year the amounts that have to be spent on the fight against crime are growing rapidly. And this is against the background of a parallel increase in defense spending and chronic underfunding of infrastructure.
UNCLE SAM CAME TO THE RESCUE
The scale of Foxtrot's activities has been assessed even in the United States. Washington is frightened by the ambitions of Rava Majid and his associates. American intelligence agencies claim that Foxtrot cooperates with the Iranian Ministry of Information and National Security and is involved in the attacks on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm.
Early last year, unknown persons threw a grenade at the embassy building, which flew over the fence, landed near the building, but fortunately did not explode. Sappers were called to the scene and defused the explosive device. The police opened a criminal case in connection with an attempted terrorist act.
The embassy building was later attacked in May and October 2024. Mossad said it believed Iran, acting through Swedish crime groups, was behind the incidents.
The Israeli embassy in Copenhagen suffered similar troubles, with several grenades thrown at it on October 2, 2024. Danish police quickly arrested a teenager, who is currently under investigation. The Swedes suspect that this teenager may have information about the attacks on the embassy in Stockholm, and may have even participated in them.
There is every reason for this suspicion: it is known that Foxtrot and other groups operating on Swedish territory, as mentioned above, are increasingly hiring minors to commit criminal acts.
Moreover, there have already been cases of these, as the press calls them, "soldiers" being sent on missions from Sweden to Denmark. On February 5, the Copenhagen City Court ruled that the suspect would be extradited to the Swedish authorities after the completion of the trial in Denmark.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that the Foxtrot network is involved in arms smuggling and violent crime throughout northern Europe. He said Foxtrot members are responsible for numerous shootings, contract killings and assaults.
For this reason, the US authorities have imposed sanctions on Foxtrot. This means that all property and financial assets belonging to Rava Majid and his accomplices in the US are blocked. And if they themselves come to the US, they are subject to arrest. The purpose of the sanctions is to hinder the work of the criminal network and limit its opportunities for international activity.
Donald Trump is considered one of the most "pro-Israel" US presidents and is extremely hostile towards Iran. And so the news that a criminal group created in Sweden by people from the Middle East is cooperating with Iran and attacking the Israeli diplomatic mission has prompted the US authorities to act.
The Swedish government is extremely reserved about Trump's activities. They do not dare to openly criticize him in Stockholm, but they do not approve of his declared desire to quickly end the military actions in Ukraine - since, in the opinion of the Swedes, this would be a "victory for Russia."
But Washington's decision to "sanction" Foxtrot is welcomed by Swedish authorities. Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer said that these sanctions will help strengthen the effectiveness of the Interior Ministry's work in combating organized crime.
His joy in this case is understandable. The Swedish authorities have long demonstrated their helplessness in the face of organized ethnic crime - they are unable to defeat it, or even deal a powerful blow to it. And so the Swedes are pleased that at least part of the solution to this problem has been taken on by their overseas "partner".
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His joy in this case is understandable. The Swedish authorities have long demonstrated their helplessness in the face of organized ethnic crime - they are unable to defeat it, or even deal a powerful blow to it. And so the Swedes are pleased that at least part of the solution to this problem has been taken on by their overseas "partner".
Europe is lost. All Trump will do is handicap their enemies money. If Europe won't stand up and do the fighting...oh well!
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[NewsFront] 21:55 Arrival of the Lancet on the Ukrainian 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika in the Kupyansk direction —video. 21:29 Telegram channel «Fisherman»:
Advance near Shcherbaki. The situation in the Zaporizhzhya direction by the end of the day on March 25, 2025:
– On the western flank of the Zaporizhzhya direction, the offensive of Russian troops continues on the Kamenskoye-Shcherbaki line. In recent days, assault units have managed to advance in several areas.
More about the situation in the Zaporizhia direction: To the north of Zherebyanki, Russian troops were able to advance on a wide front. Units of the 429th Motorized Rifle Regiment were operating in the area, as became known from objective control footage.
– In Lobkovo, the Russian Armed Forces continue their offensive within the village boundaries. Russian fighters were able to gain a foothold on the buildings and are advancing further north.
- Heavy counter-battles continue in the Stepovoye area. The enemy has deployed reinforcements and carried out several counterattacks. Most of the settlement remains under the control of Russian troops. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the complete liberation of Malye Shcherbaki. The fighting in the settlement continued for quite a long time and stable control in the south of the village was achieved several days ago. Now, apparently, Russian troops have managed to consolidate their positions completely.
The situation in neighboring Shcherbaki Obyknovenny remains unclear. Russian attack aircraft managed to reach the southwestern outskirts at the same time as Malye Shcherbaki, but according to our information, they were unable to make significant progress and hold on to the village in the first few days.
Overall, the situation in the area remains tense. Ukrainian formations have recovered from the shock of the initial advance of Russian troops with a dash to Stepovoye, and are now actively counterattacking from Kamenskoye and Novopavlovka. In addition, as in other areas, there is a high activity of enemy drone operators, including "Bab-Yag".
20:59 Aerospace Forces missile strike on the dam across the Solenkaya River in the Pokrovsk direction —video.
20:27 Servicemen of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the "East" group of forces, using 240mm 2S4 heavy self-propelled mortars "Tulip", continue to inflict damage on the enemy. South Donetsk direction -video.
19:26 Ukrainian armored vehicle in Pokrovsk direction tracked down and destroyed by kamikaze drone —video.
18:54 Attack aircraft with the call sign "Simon" told about the tasks he carried out as part of his unit during the liberation of the village of Dachnoye in the DPR:
"Our task was to liberate the village of Dachnoye. We were led in groups of three. We went around the enemy for about five or six kilometers and came straight at him, he did not expect it. "Fortifications" were organized in their houses, firing points. Of course, they resisted, but we accomplished our task," said "Simon".
18:05 Krasnopol shell from artillerymen of the 25th Army arrives at the location of the Ukrainian Armed Forces drone operators in the Liman direction —video.
17:22 Crews of 152mm Msta-B howitzers of Tula paratroopers destroyed the militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces who fled.
16:10 Artillery crews of the 36th Combined Arms Army of the "Vostok" group are working on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' air defense in the villages of Bogatyr, Komar and Fedorovka, -video.
15:19 Units of the Dnepr group of forces, as a result of active and decisive actions released settlement of Malye Shcherbaki, Zaporizhia region.
15:12 As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the West group of forces released settlement of Mirnoe, Donetsk People's Republic.
14:44 Against the backdrop of the Russian-American expert-level talks on the topic of resolving the conflict in Ukraine that took place in Riyadh on March 24, the Kiev regime continued deliberate attacks using UAVs on Russian peaceful energy infrastructure facilities.
As a result of an attack on the infrastructure of the Kuban branch of PJSC Rosseti in Krasnodar Krai on March 24 by a Ukrainian UAV, the high-voltage line (500 kV) Rostov NPP - Tikhoretsk No. 2 was disconnected, which, thanks to the prompt and competent actions of the personnel, did not lead to negative consequences for consumers.
In the Luhansk People's Republic, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out an attack using an FPV drone on the Svatovo gas distribution station of the Luhanskgaz Main Gas Pipeline Administration.
On the evening of March 24, in the area of Cape Tarkhankut (Republic of Crimea), Russian air defense systems intercepted another Ukrainian attack UAV, the target of which was the ground equipment of the Glebovskoye underground gas storage facility.
By continuing daily attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, Zelensky confirms his inability to negotiate and his uncontrollability for external guarantors of compliance with any possible agreements
14:00 Assault units of the West group of forces committed a raid on a stronghold of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in a forest belt in the Rubtsovsk direction. According to the assault data, there were up to five Ukrainian servicemen in the shelter, two of whom surrendered during the battle.
13:12 The crew of the Strela-10 air defense missile system of the Center group, covering the positions of ground troops in the Krasnoarmeysk direction,destroyedUnmanned aerial vehicle "Leleka-100" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:50 Two NATO aircraft are working near the borders of Russia. Both are in the northern direction.
The first aircraft is a Gulfstream IV of the Swedish Air Force, designed for electronic reconnaissance. The second is a Bombardier Challenger 650 Artemis with the same functionality.
In the first case, the aircraft operates along the Russian border in the St. Petersburg area. The monitoring zone of the second aircraft includes the Kaliningrad region, Belarus and the Russian border with Latvia and Estonia.
11:43 Operators of fiber optic FPV drones "KVN" burned Humvee of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Northern direction.
10:47 To the Belgorod borderland profit reserve forces of the RF Armed Forces
The enemy has been driven out of Popovka and the surrounding area.
The strong point where the border guards fought was partially destroyed. The arriving units, under enemy fire, dismantled the destroyed fortifications and evacuated the wounded border guards. Popovka is under our complete control.
In Demidovka, Russian units identify a group of the enemy hiding in buildings and destroy the survivors. The enemy is being destroyed in the plantings and gullies in the area.
The enemy was unable to break through to Krasnaya Yaruga, which is presumably the target of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive in this area, despite all efforts.
10:27 FPV drone operators of the "Southern" group destroyed UAV control center and Ukrainian Armed Forces mortar near the village of Markovo in the DPR.
Having identified the landing site of the Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV and followed the crew to the shelter, our drone operators destroyed the control point along with the personnel. The Ukrainian Armed Forces mortar position was also detected and destroyed.
9:34 They report about the fire in Zaporozhye after the Geranium strike.
9:31 FPV drone operators of the Southern Group of Russian Forces hit Ukrainian infantry in the area of the village of Petrovka, video.
9:19 During the night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine applied artillery shelling of the Kherson region, firing a total of 20 rounds from barrel artillery. The following were subjected to shelling: Kozachi Lagerya, Sagi, Aleshki, Golaya Prystan and Peschanivka.
8:30 Frontline report for the morning of 03/25/2025
Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes in LBS. Russian troops continue to show offensive activity, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to retreat from the first blows of our army and were able to organize in defense. Fighting continues in the direction of Lobkovoe and in the area of Malye Shcherbaki.
Donetsk Front. Fierce fighting continues here in several directions. Russian troops repelled a counterattack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Constantinople area. There are advances by the Russian Armed Forces in Udachny. The enemy is trying to counterattack in this area and dislodge our troops from the occupied lines in Udachny and Kotlino. Fighting continues in Shevchenko, where Russian troops are regaining positions lost as a result of Ukrainian counterattacks.
Kursk Region. The Russian Armed Forces continue to liberate the remaining territory of the Kursk Region under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Heavy fighting is underway in a number of areas. Also, Russian troops continue to develop their offensive in the Sumy Region. Yesterday, it became known about another section of the border where the Russian Armed Forces were able to enter Ukrainian territory near the settlement of Veselovka. It is also reported that the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the direction of Zhuravka.
Belgorod Region. Here, fighting continues in the Demidovka area, which, apparently, has turned into a gray zone. Also, Ukrainian troops attacked a stronghold border point in the area of the settlement of Popovka. The enemy group's attack was repelled, but the situation in the area may have changed over the past night. There is currently no reliable information about the status of Popovka.
8:04 It is reported about the successful strike of the "East" group of troops on the operational control point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As a result of the strike, several Ukrainian Armed Forces officers and 3 units of military equipment were destroyed.
7:04 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
6:42 Crew of the 152mm Giatsint-B gun of the Dnepr troop group struck M-777 howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Orekhovsky direction in the Zaporizhia region.
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[Regnum] Two Alpha Jet jets collided during training flights in eastern France. This was reported on March 25 by the Minister of Defense of the Republic, Sebastien Lecornu.
"There has just been an accident in eastern France involving two Alpha Jets [of the aerobatic team] of the Patrouille de France, which were taking part in a rehearsal. Rescue services are involved, coordination is underway between the Ministry of the Interior and the armed forces," he wrote on the social network X.
Earlier, the Puissance Télévision portal published footage of the accident, showing the planes colliding during training. The site also posted a photo of what appears to be the pilot parachuting amid rising black smoke.
The publication claims that both pilots were able to bail out of the aircraft in time after the collision. One of the damaged aircraft crashed into a Calin silo in the commune of Saint-Dizier, in the sky above which a training flight was being conducted.
According to open sources, the Alpha Jet aircraft was developed by specialists from the French company Dassault and the German Dornier. The aircraft is a light attack aircraft, it is also used as a training aircraft. The aircraft's first flight was made in 1973, and it has been in service with the French Armed Forces since 1977.
Earlier, on March 22, a jet plane crashed during the West Coast Air Show in South Africa. During the demonstration, the pilot of the Impala Mark I made several turns in the air, after which the aircraft lost control and crashed to the ground. The pilot did not have time to eject and died, the spectators were not injured.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in October 2024, two light aircraft collided in mid-air in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Three people died as a result of the accident.
The presumption of the meaning of the phrase 'international terrorist organization' is ISIS.
Bless you for defining that, badanov — I’ve been very frustrated because I couldn’t figure out which group they meant.
[KavkazUzel] Four residents of Ingushetia, including two minors, are suspected of failing to report terrorist crimes.
According to the investigation, in August 2024, the suspects, during a personal meeting with two residents of Ingushetia, learned that they had sworn allegiance to the leader of an international terrorist organization. Knowing about the terrorist crimes, they did not report this to law enforcement agencies. Earlier, a case was opened against the two residents of the republic with whom the suspects met for participating in a terrorist organization and preparing a terrorist attack, the Investigative Committee for Ingushetia reported.
Cases have been opened against four residents of the republic under Article 205.6 of the Russian Criminal Code (failure to report a crime). The punishment under this article is up to one year of imprisonment, according to a statement on the department's website today.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" previously reported that on March 19 it became known about the detention of a resident of Ingushetia, who helped the participants of the attack on the security forces to hide. According to the investigation, in his house he hid people wanted for an armed attack on law enforcement officers in the Republic of Ingushetia and the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania. The man also provided them with food and transportation services.
On March 20, it became known that a resident of Ingushetia is suspected of failing to report a crime due to a meeting with a suspected member of a terrorist organization.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 20.46 Ukrainian Defense Forces have destroyed Russian armored vehicles in the Serebryansky forest of Luhansk Oblast. The enemy hid them for an attack on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions. This was reported by the Khortytsia operational-strategic group of forces.
19:28 The United States could play a role in sending a European military contingent to Ukraine. In particular, they could become a "support" for such an initiative. This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a briefing.
18:47 The issue of Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russia was not discussed at the latest talks in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky at a briefing. At the same time, he suggested that the American side was talking to the Russians about the territory.
18.26 Participants of the Brave1 cluster for the development of military technologies in Ukraine have developed a secret drone Katran, "destroying targets at sea, on land and in the air." This was reported on his Facebook page by the Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov.
17.48 Russian war criminals attacked the city of Izyum in the Kharkiv region with drones on the evening of March 24. As a result, the local bakery was destroyed. This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov on the air of Unified News.
16:55 The Security Service detained two Russian agents in Lviv who were preparing to blow up a car of a Defense Forces soldier. Both defendants were detained "red-handed" when they were planting an improvised explosive device (IED), disguised in a sports bag, under the soldier's car
The orders from the Russian Federation were carried out by two residents of Zakarpattia, aged 22 and 23, who came to the attention of the occupiers while searching for “easy money” on Telegram channels.
16:38 Since the beginning of the day, 105 combat clashes have occurred on the front in 11 directions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the disruptions in fighting in its operational summary as of 16:00.
16.06 President Volodymyr Zelensky met with SBU employees and awarded them with state awards on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the creation of the special service. This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian leader. The head of state noted the special service for its successes at the front, in the battle on the Black Sea and in protecting the internal situation in the state.
15.23 In Kherson, a National Guard serviceman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for treason. He collected and transmitted information about the movement of units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces to the aggressor. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General on Tuesday, March 25.
14:55 The Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the Russian Engels-2 airbase on the night of March 20 was the most successful strike against Russia this year. This was stated by the press service of the British Ministry of Defense.
"This strike was the most successful in 2025 against a munitions depot at a Russian airbase and is part of regular Ukrainian UAV attacks deep into Russian territory. It also highlights the challenges of Russian air defence in protecting its strategic military assets," UK intelligence officials said.
14:25 The Security Service prevented a terrorist attack in Dnipropetrovsk region. A Russian agent was detained in Kryvyi Rih, who, on orders from the FSB, was preparing an explosion near the local TCC.
The terrorist was supposed to leave camouflaged explosives near the checkpoint of a military facility. The Russians planned to detonate it together with the agent in the morning during rush hour. The perpetrator of the potential terrorist attack turned out to be a 26-year-old Lviv resident, whom the Russian special service recruited through a Telegram channel looking for "quick" money.
14:20 Two thirds (66%) of Ukrainians have a negative attitude towards the idea of holding presidential or parliamentary national elections in Ukraine before the end of the war. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the sociological service of the Razumkov Center. Less than a quarter (22%) of Ukrainians have a positive attitude towards holding elections. According to the survey, among those who trust the President of Ukraine, and there are 60% of those surveyed, only 11% would support such elections, 79% would not support them. Among those who do not trust the President, support for the idea of such elections is higher (40.5%), but the relative majority (47%) of them also oppose holding national elections in Ukraine during the war.
13:01 An attempt by the Russian army to expand its bridgehead on the Oskol River in the Kupyansk direction has been repelled. This was reported by the OSGV Khortytsia. It is noted that the attacks of the occupiers were stopped near Petrovpavlovka, Kopanki and Zagryzovoye.
12:49 On the evening of March 24, Russian troops launched a massive drone strike on Izyum, there is significant destruction. This was reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.
The enemy used more than ten attack drones, which hit a civilian enterprise. As a result, a large-scale fire of 8,800 square meters occurred, buildings and transport were destroyed - both cars and trucks.
Also, as a result of the shelling, contact lines on the railway were damaged.
12:45 In Denmark, the government is introducing a new state guarantee, which provides for coverage of up to 70% of investments by Danish companies in Ukrainian defense enterprises (a total of 130 million euros) through the Danish Export Investment Fund. This was reported by First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko.
12:35 The SBU military counterintelligence detained an agent of the Russian military intelligence (GRU) in the Sumy region border area, who was adjusting the Russian Federation’s fire on units of the Security and Defense Forces in the Kursk direction.
The mobilized serviceman was recruited by the occupiers through a Telegram channel, where he published comments in support of the Russians. While at the front, the "mole" prepared coordinates for the aggressor's missile and bomb strikes on the locations of Ukrainian troops.
12:19 The United States condemns the consequences of the missile strike on Sumy carried out by Russia on March 24, which resulted in more than a hundred casualties. This was stated by the representative of the US State Department Tammy Bruce during a briefing.
According to her, Washington continues to work on a ceasefire, including through negotiations in Saudi Arabia.
At the same time, she did not directly name Russia as guilty of regular shelling of Ukrainian cities.
11:53 The majority of Ukrainians (77%) have a positive interpretation of the proposal for a temporary 30-day truce. This is evidenced by the results of the all-Ukrainian public opinion poll Omnibus, conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
11:43 In Sumy, the aftermath of yesterday's Russian missile attack continues to be eliminated. The number of victims continues to grow and has reached more than 100 people , including 78 adults and 23 children.
11:28 In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a new meeting between Ukrainian and American delegations continues. This is reported by AFP . The talks are taking place after the US and Russian delegations held a 12-hour meeting the day before.
9:40 The Ukrainian Air Force successfully hit a Russian manpower concentration site in Kondratovka, Kursk Oblast, Russia, completely destroying the facility and killing up to 30 invaders. The Ukrainian General Staff reported this on March 25. The destruction of this element of military infrastructure reduces the ability of the Russians to conduct combat operations against units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Sumy and Kursk Oblasts.
9:33 As a result of Russia's attack on a residential area in Sumy on March 24, six educational institutions were damaged, but no students were hurt. This was reported by the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Oksen Lisovyi.
"Sumy. Another terrorist act from Russia... Six educational institutions were damaged. Fortunately, all the students who were studying at the time of the attack are alive and well. The educational process in the city is taking place in shelters," he wrote.
09:10 On the night of March 25, Russia attacked Ukraine with an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 139 Shahed-type attack UAVs and drone imitators of various types.
Air defense forces destroyed 78 drones. Another 34 enemy drone imitators were lost without negative consequences.
As a result of the Russian attack, the Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Kirovograd, Kiev, Cherkasy and Odessa regions suffered.
8:50 Over the past 24 hours, aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit 15 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, one cannon and a command post of the enemy. Over the past 24 hours, 165 combat clashes took place on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:35 On the night of March 25, Russian troops fired kamikaze drones at the Zaporizhzhia region, two people were injured. This was stated by the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Ivan Fedorov.
8:22 On the night of March 25, fires occurred in warehouses in two districts of the Kyiv region as a result of falling debris from downed Russian drones. This was reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. It is noted that at night in the Fastiv and Boryspil districts, fires in warehouses caused by falling UAV debris were extinguished.
7:47 Ukrainian military killed 1,180 Russian occupiers in 24 hours. The enemy's total combat losses from 24.02.22 to 25.03.25 were approximately 905,940 people. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
04:23 US President Donald Trump admits that the Kremlin may exert influence on some members of his administration and team. This may be explained by the intentions of US officials to end the Russian-Ukrainian war. Trump added that he appreciates the work of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, his special representative for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, who is negotiating with the Russian authorities, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
03:44 Russian troops carried out airstrikes in Krasnopolye, killing the grandmother of Olympic biathlon champions Semerenko sisters. Sisters Vita and Valentina Semerenko responded to the loss of their grandmother on social media, expressing anger and grief.
02:19 A group of US senators has called on President Donald Trump and Western allies to hand over more than $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. The letter, sent to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, was signed by Democrats Richard Blumenthal and Tim Kaine, as well as Republicans Todd Young and Lindsey Graham. According to the agency, about $7 billion in Russian assets are stored in US financial institutions.
01:11 President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after the US-Russian talks in Saudi Arabia, a second meeting of the Ukrainian and US teams will take place. He noted that Russia is "the only entity that is prolonging this war and mocking our people and those from all over the world."
00:30 The number of victims of the Russian attack on Sumy has risen to 94 people, the city council reported. According to preliminary data from local authorities, 26 buildings of various purposes and types of ownership were damaged, including three schools, a kindergarten, a hospital, and 16 residential buildings.
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] Muslim Americans in Public Service's ties to terrorist supporters could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside government
Muslim Americans in Public Service is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that coordinates with federal agencies to help Muslims obtain and advance careers in government. To do so, it partners with Islamic organizations, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations,
…one of many branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in America…
that have either condoned terror attacks or have been linked to terrorist organizations.
In addition to CAIR, the nonprofit known as MAPS touts the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations as one of its partners and the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and Helping Hand for Relief and Development as two of its sponsors. MAPS has worked with CAIR to host events that bring together MAPS members "across all levels and branches of government." And while it does not disclose its donors, it says it receives "sizable in-kind donations" from its partners, as well as funding from "federal agencies," nonprofits, and state commissions.
Perhaps it’s time to cut them off from federal agencies — turn DOGE loose on them to figure out donation flows, and maybe member connections if they have a little spare time and bandwidth in the midst of all else that they’ve got going.
MAPS’s affiliation with those groups—all of which have praised or been linked to terrorist organizations—could raise concerns about its efforts to place employees inside the federal bureaucracy. While it's unlikely MAPS will have success placing political appointees in the Trump administration, which has opposed affinity groups that support DEI initiatives in federal agencies and is staunchly at odds with MAPS's criticism of Israel, the group's top members include some career officials entrenched in the federal government.
MAPS thrived during the Biden administration and now boasts thousands of members, including intelligence community officials who hold high-level security clearances, according to Maaty, the group’s chairman.
Formed in 2021, MAPS is led by a board of current and former career federal employees, according to the group’s website and their LinkedIn profiles. Ahmad Maaty, the founding chairman of MAPS, is a senior economist at the Department of Justice. Other board members include Veterans Affairs official Hasan Shanawani, Office of Management and Budget examiner Farrah Pappa, United Nations mission adviser Mariya Ilyas, and White House policy analyst Ameer Abdulrahman, a former official for Democratic Senate candidate Morgan Harper.
While MAPS largely focuses on job-related issues that impact its members, it has weighed in on some political issues. The group criticized the Biden administration over its support for Israel in the war against Hamas, saying that it "disagrees with many of the policy positions taken by the current Administration." It also condemned the 2023 censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) over her statements calling for the eradication of Israel and denounced the removal of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee over anti-Semitic remarks.
Since then, MAPS has hosted panels and networking events thanks to support from its terror-tied partners.
Earlier this month, for example, MAPS hosted an event that ICNA and Helping Hand cosponsored. One of its featured speakers, Nicole Fauster-Bradford, is the community advocacy director at CAIR. She spoke alongside Sarah Khasawinah, a senior policy adviser in the Senate.
Former ICNA president Mohsin Ansari has spread anti-Semitic tropes about the "liberal anti Muslim media headed by Jews," according to reports. He has also praised Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, a Bangladeshi cleric convicted of war crimes against Hindus, as a "very, very, very special person." Congress has investigated both ICNA and Helping Hand over their alleged links to Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , a Pakistani terrorist group.
CAIR, for its part, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal Hamas financing case in 2008. The Biden White House distanced itself from the group after its executive director stated he was "happy" about the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023.
In addition to the March event, MAPS held an annual networking event in January that ICNA and Helping Hand cosponsored. It featured Ansari as a speaker.
In a statement sent to the Washington Free Beacon, MAPS said it "engages independent organizations with various audiences," like CAIR, ICNA, and Helping Hand, "to increase its civic engagement and reach those with a desire to serve the public." It did not answer questions on CAIR's Oct. 7 rhetoric and the groups' ties to terror organizations.
MAPS thrived during the Biden administration and now boasts thousands of members, including intelligence community officials who hold high-level security clearances, according to Maaty, the group’s chairman.
Oh? Tracing connections could prove profitable, should the Trump administration be interested in reducing the concentration of probable jihadis in America…
In 2023, then-transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg recorded a video message praising MAPS, saying that "so many core Islamic values reflect American values." In April 2024, the group hosted an event at the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Agriculture where then-secretary Tom Vilsack spoke in praise of the group. ICNA and Islamic Relief USA, a subsidiary of Islamic Relief Worldwide, which Israeli authorities sanctioned for allegedly funneling money to Hamas. The State Department condemned Islamic Relief Worldwide in 2020 over its leaders’ "vile anti-Semitic vitriol."
[GatewayPundit] Yesterday, a mysterious spiral appeared in the night sky over multiple Parts of Europe, causing many to look up with a mix of awe and fear.
Sputnik reported:
"Residents across multiple countries, including La Belle France, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, were left stunned by a glowing spiral formation in the night sky. The unusual phenomenon sparked widespread speculation, with many turning to social media to share photos and theories."
Today, after the usual number of social media users have spent their time with outrageous theories, the mysterious swirl that appeared in the night sky over Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... was revealed to be have been made by a SpaceX rocket.
The Telegraph reported:
"Social media was abuzz with stargazers on Monday night, who spotted the strange spiral moving slowly across the sky from north to south at around 8pm for 30 minutes."
"Ben Thomson of Hampshire, wrote on X that it was ’too slow for a satellite but appeared to be at a high altitude’. He added: ’It was very bright at its central point and created a swirl effect which was also lit up as it went’."
“Experts said the phenomenon was created by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 5.48pm UK time. The frozen exhaust was illuminated by the Sun as they spun across the sky, creating the glowing blue spiral.
A spokesman for the Met Office said: ‘We’ve received many reports of an illuminated swirl in the sky this evening. This is likely to be caused by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched earlier today. The rocket’s frozen exhaust plume appears to be spinning in the atmosphere and reflecting the sunlight, causing it to appear as a spiral in the sky’.”
[IsraelTimes] Chanting ‘Hamas out,’ ‘we want to eat’ and holding signs saying ‘stop war,’ Palestinians in at least three locations in the Strip gather to voice anger at the terror group
Hundreds of Paleostinians protested against Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... rule and against the war in at least three locations 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... on Tuesday, in a relatively rare occurrence in the Strip due to the terror group’s often violent mostly peaceful suppression of political dissent.
Footage showed around 100 residents of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, holding a protest calling for an end to the war and an end to Hamas’s governance, with some demonstrators carrying signs reading "Stop war" and "Children in Paleostine want to live."
Additionally, a few video clips captured residents chanting "Hamas out," "Hamas terrorists," "The people want to overthrow Hamas" and "Yes to peace, no to the ongoing war."
One gathering of residents took place in front of the Indonesian Hospital. Some of the protesters carried white flags.
"I don’t know who organized the protest," said Mohammed, a demonstrator who declined to give his last name for fear of reprisals.
"I took part to send a message on behalf of the people: Enough with the war," he said, adding that he had seen "members of the Hamas security forces in civilian clothing breaking up the protest."
Majdi, another protester who did not wish to give his full name, said the "people are tired."
"If Hamas leaving power in Gaza is the solution, why doesn’t Hamas give up power to protect the people?" he asked.
Hours after the first protest, another anti-war and anti-Hamas demonstration was held in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, with dozens of demonstrators burning tires and chanting, "We want to eat."
As news of the protests spread, other demonstrations broke out across Gaza, including one in the major southern city of Khan Younis, where protesters were filmed chanting "down with Hamas," and calling for an end to the fighting.
🚨 Breaking: Large-scale Protests Against Hamas in Gaza
"Down with Hamas, we’ve had enough, Hamas!”
"The people are demanding Hamas to release the hostages, to step down from ruling Gaza, and to end this war" pic.twitter.com/c9XzbeE4Hw
Hamas did not officially comment on the protests, but some media outlets in Gaza, including those associated with the terror organization, published photos and videos from the events under the framing “demonstration for stopping the war” without mentioning the calls for the terror group’s downfall.
Protests are relatively rare events in Gaza, especially against Hamas, which has maintained an iron grip on the Strip since it ousted the Palestinian Authority from the territory nearly two decades ago.
While there have been more public statements by individuals in Gaza against Hamas rule since the war started, large-scale demonstrations against the group have been almost nonexistent.
The last documented protest in the Strip against Hamas took place in January 2024, when Palestinians in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis called for an end to the war, the end of the terror group’s rule over Gaza and the release of the Israeli hostages.
Before the war, anti-Hamas protests were also relatively rare events, and were often suppressed violently by the terror group.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s currency drops to a record low of 1,039,000 rial to the US dollar today, according to Iranian currency tracking website Bonbast.com, losing more than half its value since President Masoud Pezeshkian took office in August.
I seem to recall a couple thousand people were involved in the riots, so convicting them all will take a while, even when done in batches.
[KavkazUzel] Two courts in Staropolye sentenced 13 residents of Dagestan to terms ranging from 7 to 10.5 years. Two of the defendants, in addition to participating in mass riots and violating transport safety regulations, were found guilty of attacking police officers.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the first hearing on the case of riots at the Makhachkala airport took place in November 2024 in the Industrial Court of Stavropol. Two of the eight defendants, in addition to participating in mass riots and violating transport safety rules, are accused of attacking police officers. Earlier, the Soviet Court in Stavropol began considering the second case on riots in Makhachkala, five defendants are accused of participating in mass riots and violating transport safety requirements.
The case of the riots at the Makhachkala airport needs further investigation, since at the latest trial the prosecution presented evidence with general wording, without examining the guilt and actions of each of the defendants, believe the lawyers who represented the interests of the defendants in the Soviet District Court.
The Sovetsky District Court of Stavropol Krai and the Promyshlenniy District Court of Stavropol have sentenced thirteen residents of Dagestan accused in the case of riots at the Makhachkala airport in October 2023, Interfax reported today.
"The court, taking into account the position of the state prosecutor, taking into account the nature and degree of public danger of the crimes committed and the role of each, sentenced the defendants to 7 to 10.5 years in a general regime penal colony," the agency quoted the Stavropol Territory prosecutor's office as saying.
The defendants were found guilty of participating in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and failure to comply with transport safety requirements (Part 3 of Article 263.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Also, two of them (Mukhamad Asadov and Shamil Gulmagomedov, as indicated in the case file on the court's website) were found guilty of attacking police officers, according to a message on the Telegram channel of the Stavropol Territory Prosecutor's Office.
[IsraelTimes] Treasury department says the three, who work in Tehran’s Ministry of Intelligence, all played a role in Levinson’s abduction, detention and probable death
The United States has imposed sanctions on three Iranian intelligence officers for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of former FBI Special Agent Robert Levinson, the US Treasury and State departments said in blurbs on Tuesday.
The sanctions on Reza Amiri Moghadam, Gholamhossein Mohammadnia, and Taqi Daneshvar of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are the latest linked to the disappearance of the former FBI agent, who Washington believes was kidnapped in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and died in captivity.
As a result of the sanctions, any property of the men under US jurisdiction must be blocked, and Americans are generally barred from dealing with them. Foreign persons also risk blacklisting for dealing with them.
"Iran’s treatment of Mr. Levinson remains a blight on Iran’s already grim record of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuse," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement. "The Department of the Treasury will continue to work with US government partners to identify those responsible and shine a light on their abhorrent behavior."
Levinson, who was working as a private investigator, disappeared in March 2007 after traveling to an island controlled by Iran for a meeting seeking information on alleged corruption, but the Washington Post reported in 2013 that Levinson, who had retired from the FBI, was working for the CIA and had gone on a rogue mission aimed at gathering intelligence on Iran.
The three sanctioned individuals all played a role in Levinson’s abduction, detention, and probable death, as well as efforts to cover up Iran’s responsibility, the Treasury Department said.
The sanctions are being imposed under an executive order signed by former President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... , which seeks to hold to account terrorist organizations, criminal groups, and other "malicious actors" who take hostages for financial or political gain.
The US previously sanctioned two other Iranian officials in December 2020 whom it accused of involvement in Levinson’s disappearance.
[IsraelTimes] Graduates, including a former Dutch Supreme Court justice and a former foreign minister, accuse UvA of capitulating to violent anti-Israel activists who occupied campuses last year
More than 50 alumni of the University of Amsterdam will return their diplomas on Friday to protest their alma mater’s decision to unilaterally cut ties with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The board of the school, which goes by the acronym UvA, decided last week to put an end to the school’s student exchange program with Hebrew University because of what it calls "concerns about academic freedom" and the risk that academic cooperation could benefit the Israel Defense Forces.
But critics, including a growing number of Dutch politicians, accuse the university of bowing to the demands of violent mostly peaceful anti-Zionist activists
…not even pretending that it’s sheer love of the Palestinians that moves them to hate Israel…
who occupied two of its campuses in the Dutch capital in May. Vandalism and violent mostly peacefulfestivities between police and masked rioters caused more than 4 million euros ($4.3 million) in damage.
At the time, UvA rector Peter-Paul Verbeek was heavily criticized for negotiating with masked protestors and not dismissing their demands to cut all ties with Israeli universities. Instead, the school agreed to set up a committee to examine its ties with outside schools.
The university said this month it had decided to accept the commission’s recommendations to end its cooperation with Hebrew University, as well as some Hungarian institutions. At the same time, it announced it would continue collaborating with the Chinese Scholarship Council, despite concerns of PhD students being forced to share information with Beijing or pledge allegiance to the Chinese government.
Detractors characterized the decision as a double standard toward the Jewish state. In a statement announcing the protest, the 50 alumni expressed "shame" over the school’s behavior.
"UvA should instead have taken measures to protect the safety of Jewish students who feel threatened by the explicitly anti-Zionist character of protests at the university," the statement read.
Their diplomas "are no longer a source of pride," the alumni added.
On Friday, the alumni will return their diplomas to UvA board chair Prof. Edith Hooge. This will be done on the school’s Roeterseiland campus, one of the sites that had to be cleared by riot police last year.
Among the alumni taking part are former Dutch foreign affairs minister Uri Rosenthal, who initiated the campaign, former deputy chief justice of the Dutch Supreme Court Ernst Numann, and Ronny Naftaniel, founder of the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel.
Another notable participant is Keyvan Shahbazi, an Iranian writer who fled to the Netherlands in 1983 after being tortured by the Islamist regime in Tehran.
Rosenthal is currently chairman of the Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... Free Committee, for which he was put on an Iranian terror list. Many Dutch Persians can be seen at pro-Israel protests.
"The quality of universities degenerates when they cowardly have their policies dictated by professional activists who often have no connection to said universities," the alumni statement said.
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The Gateway Pundit reported on the disgusting comments coming from Obama Judge Patricia A. Millett, who serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
In recent remarks, Millett claimed that Nazis received ''better treatment'' under the Alien Enemies Act than the violent mostly peaceful mostly peaceful gangsters deported by the Trump administration.
''There were planeloads of people,'' Millett said during a hearing about the legality of the deportation flights.
''There were no procedures in place to notify people.''
''Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than has happened here.''
Border Czar Tom Homan did not hold back when responding to Millett's unhinged remarks.
Homan told Fox Business host Stuart Varney, ''Well, it's disgusting, right? What? Comparing this to the Holocaust? Comparing this to the Nazis? I mean, come on, give me a break. I don't even know what the comparison even means.''
''All I know, we follow the process. The President of the United States, through his proclamation, invoked the authorities he has within the Alien Enemies Act, an act that was enacted by Congress and signed by the President.''
''We're enforcing the law with the laws that are on the books.''
''We're not making this up. Unlike the last administration, who several district court judges said, not only were they ignoring the law, they were actually violating the law when they were abusing the parole process.''
''We're going to use every tool in the toolbox to arrest public safety threats and national security threats and get them out of this country. The President Trump committed to the American people, the worst first, that's what we're doing.''
''That plane, TD8, MS-13, they're a designated terrorist organization. We were removing over 200 turbans from this country, and we're going to keep doing it because that's what the American people want.'' I'm relying on memory here, and I'm getting pretty old, so memory's probably not perfect. In June 1942 eight Nazi spies were put ashore by submarine in Operation Pastorius. Four went ashore at Long Island, and the other four went ashore in Florida. Two of the eight Aryan Soopermen (not the two who were American citizens, either) turned themselves in and testified against the other six. They were tried by a military tribunal (see Supreme Court decision ex parte Quirin 317 US 1 (1942)) and all eight were sentenced to death. President Roosevelt commuted the sentences of the two who had turned themselves in. The other six swung within ninety days of getting their feet wet.
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Since she is making such POLITICALLY OVERTONE comments, then her Legal judgment and objectively are in SERIOUS question.
The DOJ should conduct a judicial review of Obama appointed Judge, Patricia A. Millett, on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Then present its findings to Congress.
Congress has the authority to remove her, according to the US Constitution w/o SCOTUS approval.
#2
The Congress could, and should, abolish the entire DC federal system, including the Appeals Court, and start all over with sane and unbiased judges.
The Nazis who were tried at Nuremberg got better judges than Judge Patricia A. Millett.
[HodhodYemenNews] US attacks over the past three days on multiple areas in 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... have killed eight children and displaced civilians, particularly in the coastal city of Hodeidah, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... children’s agency (UNICEF) said, warning that Western coastal areas are "on the verge of a catastrophe" due to malnutrition.
Peter Hawkins, UNICEF’s representative in Yemen, described his observations from Hodeidah, stating, "I was in Hodeidah over the past three days. I passed through the western plains, where people are out in the streets and along the roadsides, begging and seeking help. They have lost hope. I personally saw a heavily damaged building where three children were maimed in the bombing yesterday."
"We’ve seen figures of 33% severe and acute malnutrition in certain areas. Especially on the west coast, in Hodeidah it is on the verge of a catastrophe...where thousands will die," Hawkins told news hounds in Geneva via video link in Sanaa.
He confirmed that eight children have been killed in the latest Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on northern Yemen, emphasizing that these attacks have had a direct impact on the people living near the targeted areas.
"Some of our staff members have also been affected by these bombings. It is truly shocking," Hawkins added.
Additionally, the UNICEF official warned that the ongoing humanitarian crises in Yemen amount to "a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... for thousands of children," calling on the international community to urgently respond by securing an additional $157 million in humanitarian aid for 2025.
#3
We can rest 100% assured, the mission wasn't to kill kids.
Which does bring up the pointed questions.
Why do these Radical attacking groups always to use civilian communities for cover, and many times the communities let them, support them and help hide them? (eg. Gaza)?
Why is UNICEF trying to make the USA look bad?
Especially when the USA contributions to UNICEF equal about 1/3 of UNICEF's total budget.
Maybe DOGE needs to look into how those $ Billions are being spent also?
#6
"We’ve seen figures of 33% severe and acute malnutrition in certain areas. Especially on the west coast, in Hodeidah it is on the verge of a catastrophe...where thousands will die," Hawkins told news hounds in Geneva via video link in Sanaa.
I don't suppose it's occurred to them to, you know, NOT SHOOT AT PEOPLE.
#9
33% severe and acute malnutrition in certain areas.
This was so before the Houthis overthrew whatsisname. Yemen has been an overpopulated, underemployed, khat-drugged mess — where being kidnapped by one or another of the local tribes is part of the tourist experience — for generations.
for generations.
[IsraelTimes] Military also says it hit ‘remaining military capabilities’ at pair of Syrian airbases overnight, after initial round of strikes over the weekend
Israeli troops operating in southern Syria came under fire Tuesday by a group of button men, the Israel Defense Forces said, while local media reported that several Syrians had been killed in the exchange of fire.
Israeli soldiers were unharmed.
In a short statement, the military said that button men opened fire on Israeli forces operating in southern Syria, close to the border.
The IDF said the troops returned fire and an Israeli Air Force drone carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against the button men.
Syrian officials reported that at least five people were killed in the incident that took place near the village of Kuwaya in the Daraa Governorate in south Syria, not far from the Israeli border. There were also reports of ground forces operating in the area.
Residents of the village had fled the Israeli fire, authorities added.
Israeli troops have been stationed inside the buffer zone along the Israel-Syria border since the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... ’s regime in December 2024.
The IDF has described its presence in the buffer zone, which was manned by UN peacekeepers until the Assad regime’s ouster, as a temporary and defensive measure, although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last month that troops would remain there for "an unlimited period of time" to maintain Israel’s security. Defense Minister Israel Katz has said that troops will remain deployed to nine army posts in the area "indefinitely."
Netanyahu has also said that Israel demands the "full demilitarization of southern Syria from troops of the new Syrian regime in the Quneitra, Daraa and Suweyda provinces."
On Tuesday, the military announced that over the past few weeks, the Paratroopers Brigade and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit carried out several raids in southern Syria, following intelligence on weapons storage sites. The troops seized and destroyed numerous weapons in the raids, including bombs, ammunition, mortars, and other military equipment, the IDF added.
Earlier on Tuesday, the IDF announced that it had struck targets at two airbases in Syria, the latest strikes targeting military sites linked to the former Assad regime. The strikes were carried out at the Palmyra and T-4 airbases in the province of Homs, which has repeatedly been hit because of its role in regional weapon smuggling. In a statement, the military said that it targeted "remaining military capabilities" at the airfields, after hitting them both with an initial round of bombings days earlier.
"The IDF will continue to act to remove any threat to Israeli citizens," it added.
The initial strikes, carried out overnight on March 21, were described by military sources as "extensive," and were said to have taken out capabilities that would ensure the preservation of Israel’s aerial superiority in the region.
Following the collapse of Assad’s regime to Islamist-led rebels in December, Israel has vowed to destroy weapons in Syria it fears could fall into the hands of "hostile forces" that may seek to attack it. The strikes in Syria have drawn condemnation and concern, including from Syria’s interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, as well as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... On Monday, during a visit to Jerusalem, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas warned that Israeli strikes on Syria, as well as on Hezbollah targets in Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , were threatening to worsen the situation.
"Military actions must be proportionate, and Israeli strikes into Syria and Lebanon risk further escalation," Kallas said at a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
"We feel that these things are unnecessary because Syria is right now not attacking Israel, and that feeds more radicalization that is also against Israel," Kallas told journalists.
While Assad’s fall brought an end to the country’s more than decade-long civil war, a renewed wave of sectarian violence sparked fears that the new government would not be able to effectively keep the peace in Syria.
Israeli leaders have consistently stated that they do not trust Sharaa.
[IsraelTimes] Hassan Kamal Halawi targeted near Nabatieh; army says he posed threat to Israel amid ongoing ceasefire
A Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli dronezap in southern Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... on Monday evening, the military said on Tuesday.
The incident was the latest in a series of Israeli strikes on members of the Lebanese terror group amid an ongoing ceasefire, whom Israel says posed a threat.
Lebanon’s health ministry said the dronezap on a vehicle late Monday in the village of Qaaqaait al-Jisr, near Nabatieh, killed one person.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the strike targeted and killed Hassan Kamal Halawi, the chief of Hezbollah’s anti-tank missile unit in southern Lebanon.
"During the war, Halawi was responsible for numerous terror attacks against Israel. He facilitated the movement of operatives and the supply of weapons into southern Lebanon. In recent months, Halawi continued to engage in terrorist activity against Israeli civilians," the army said in a statement.
The IDF added that he was targeted because he posed a threat to the country.
Footage published by Lebanese media purported to show the aftermath of the strike.
On Sunday, the IDF said it killed another Hezbollah operative in a dronezap in southern Lebanon.
Saturday saw the most intense escalation since a November ceasefire halted the war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, after six rockets were fired from Lebanon at the northern Israeli community of Metula.
Hezbollah denied any involvement in the Saturday rocket attack on Metula and called Israel’s accusations "pretexts for its continued attacks on Lebanon."
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it foiled an attempt to smuggle 50 kilograms of drugs into Israel from Egypt earlier today, using a drone.
The drone had been identified crossing the border from Egypt into Israel by troops of the Home Front Command’s 991st Reserve Battalion, before it was downed.
The drugs and the drone were handed over to police for further investigation.
In recent months there have been frequent attempts to bring weapons and drugs over the Egypt border using drones. There have also been attempts to smuggle similar contraband from Israel into Gaza using drones.
[HodhodYemenNews] The Ministry of Health in Gaza Strip announced on Tuesday that its hospitals received 62 martyrs and 296 wounded citizens over the past 24 hours.
The ministry added in its daily statement that two of the martyrs were recovered from under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
It pointed out that the casualties of the Israeli renewed aggression since March 18 had thus reached 792 martyrs and 1,663 injured.
The overall number of casualties since Israel launched its war of genocide on Gaza on October 7, 2023 had thus reached 50,144 martyrs and 113,704 wounded, it added.
The ministry pointed out that an unspecified number of victims are still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings or lying on roads and rescue teams cannot reach them.
[NYPOST] The Columbia University student facing deportation after she was arrested at an anti-Israel protest can't be detained by the feds, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Manhattan federal court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald issued a temporary restraining order blocking immigration authorities from detaining 21-year-old Columbia junior Yunseo Chung.
A Korean green card holder who arrived in America at the age of seven, the high school valedictorianess naturally joined in the fun — just part of the American college experience, donchaknow. Given that she was arrested, it seems safe to assume that the police finally winkled her out of her hiding place, wherever that was.
''I don't think there is any evidence in the record that she would be a danger to the community,'' Buchwald said in court before issuing the ruling.
''The notion of putting this 21-year-old, who nothing in the record suggests is a danger — into ICE detention — is not a particularly appealing result,'' the judge said.
The feds have not claimed, for instance, that Chung had illegally possessed weapons or communicated with a foreign terrorist group, Buchwald noted.
But she’s a green card holder who acted to support a listed international terror group, so she broke the rules.
#3
Another judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York giving Congress another reason to abolish that court system and set up a replacement with better judges.
[IsraelTime] The United Nations is cutting its international staff in Gaza by around a third, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday, citing safety concerns.
“We are trying to reduce the number of international staff by about one-third and this is really because the Secretary-General (Antonio Guterres) doesn’t have the power of guaranteeing the safety of UN staff,” UN spokesperson Alessandra Vellucci tells a Geneva press briefing, saying that this meant around 30 of 100 international staff.
The agencies affected included the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and the UN children’s agency, she adds.
[IsraelTimes] PA president under growing pressure to make space for new generation of leaders, as world community hopes Ramallah can gear-up to take on larger task of resuming governance in Gaza
The world community is full of fools. Ramallah’s PLO/PA can’t, even if Israel would trust them to try.
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....> is planning to replace his longtime intelligence chief Majed Faraj, capping off a wider purge of security heads in Ramallah that began several months ago, a Paleostinian official, a European diplomat and a Paleostinian source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.
Faraj is one of Abbas’s closest confidants and has worked to bolster security coordination with Israel in the West Bank since becoming head of the PA’s General Intelligence Service in 2009.
But Abbas is facing mounting pressure from Arab and Western allies to reform the Paleostinian Authority and make way for a new generation of leaders, so that the PA is better equipped to potentially take on the larger task of once again governing 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... after the war there. After Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005, Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... violent mostly peacefully took power there in 2007, pushing out Abbas’s Fatah faction.
Fatah being the largest faction in the PLO, and therefore of its figleaf, the PA.
Last March, Abbas fired all of his ministers and formed a new cabinet led by Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa, another longtime ally. In recent months and weeks, he has replaced the heads of the PA’s Security Forces, Preventive Security Service, police and civil defense. Three of those four agencies are now headed by former senior members of Abbas’s security detail.
Not looking far afield, then, to bring in young, new blood with new ideas.
Faraj is the last security chief to remain in his post, and the three sources speaking to The Times of Israel said he is hoping to avoid the fate of his now-former counterparts. At the very least, Faraj is hoping to shift to a spot on the Paleostine Liberation Organization’s powerful Executive Committee.
The sources said a final decision regarding Faraj’s fate is expected in the coming weeks, with the PA president likely to appoint a new intel chief. Spokespeople for Abbas and Faraj did not respond to requests for comment.
In a further bid to address demands from allies and donor countries to reform the PA, the 89-year-old Abbas
….oh my — I hadn’t realized he was quite that elderly…
announced earlier this month that he would create the position of vice president in addition to granting amnesty to expelled members of his Fatah party.
A placeholder to run things until a new Number 1 is chosen — or chooses himself — after President Abbas dies in office?
Speaking at a Cairo summit of Arab leaders to discuss plans for the post-war management of Gaza, Abbas said he would also soon convene the PLO’s long-dormant legislative body, the central council.
Soon being totally undefined, we note. Not that it matters— the PLO is not capable of holding Gaza, which has an entirely different set of clans.
Abbas, who has not stood for elections since winning a four-year term in 2006,
…now approaching his sixth extension of that four year term…
insisted he is willing to do so if Israel allows balloting in East Jerusalem.
Israel annexed East Jeruslaem in 1980, taking it off the table, but President Abbas like to pretend he would hold elections if he could, though all know that his party would lose resoundingly to Hamas if elections were actually held. This is why they have not been since Hamas drove the PLO out of Gaza.
In November, Abbas declared that if his post were to become vacant before elections are held, he would be temporarily replaced by Rawhi Fattouh, the former speaker of the Paleostinian Legislative Council.
A statement posted to the PA’s official Wafa news site said that in such an event, Fattouh would serve as interim president for no more than 90 days, during which presidential elections would be held. But if it were not possible to hold elections, the Paleostinian Central Council could grant a one-time extension to the interim president’s term.
Another reform announced by Abbas in February — which was aggressively pushed by Western countries — saw the cancellation of legislation that conditioned welfare payments to Paleostinian security prisoners on the length of their sentence in Israeli jails.
A.k.a. Pay to Slay. They like to pretend it’s something else in the new, improved version.
Payments to prisoners and the families of slain attackers have not yet been updated, though, because the cash-strapped PA is running several months behind on the stipends, two Paleostinian officials told The Times of Israel last week.
American academia watches closely to see what will soon happen to them.
[IsraelTimes] Union also seeks court order against deportation of non-citizen activists; separate suit by Oct. 7 victims accuses protesters of spreading Hamas propaganda, knowing ahead of time about attack
Groups representing Columbia University professors on Tuesday sued the administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th and 47th President of the United States... over its effort to force the Manhattan university to tighten rules on campus protests and put a Middle Eastern studies department under outside oversight, among other measures.
Which law firms are supporting the Hamas-lovers pro bono, or is this a service provided by the law school?
Faculty groups also filed a separate lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the Trump administration from deporting non-citizen anti-Israel campus activists, following the arrest earlier this month of Columbia graduate and Paleostinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident of the United States.
Do faculty groups have standing to sue in this situation?
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's knife out of his hand...... nine US and Israeli citizens who were victims of the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... onslaught of October 7, 2023 — including relatives of people murdered or taken hostage, and two people affiliated with Columbia who reported mistreatment there — sued organizers of the pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protests on Monday, accusing them of serving as Hamas’s "propaganda arm" and having prior knowledge of the terror group’s shock assault.
Oh. That does change things.
The defendants included Khalil.
All three lawsuits were filed in Manhattan federal court.
In one of the lawsuits on Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation accused the Trump administration of trying to force the university’s hand by canceling $400 million in federal funding and threatening to withhold billions more in the future.
The university is not entitled to billions of dollars of government money, after all.
The plaintiffs said the lawsuit "challenges the Trump administration’s unlawful and unprecedented effort to overpower a university’s academic autonomy and control the thought, association, scholarship, and expression of its faculty and students."
"The Trump administration is coercing Columbia University to do its bidding and regulate speech and expression on campus by holding hostage billions of dollars in congressionally authorized federal funding — funding that is responsible for positioning the American university system as a global leader in scientific, medical, and technological research and is crucial to ensuring it remains so," they said.
The Trump administration hasn’t got as far as forcing anything. This is just to get the university’s attention to get them to the table. Forcing will put several billion dollars of federal funding at risk. The university has something like a $15 billion endowment, so in theory they could walk away, getting by on their savings — and no doubt there are plenty of Progressive donors who would do their bit to make up the shortfall — but apparently the university is not keen to give up what has up to now been easy money.
Columbia has been a focal point of anti-Israel activity since thousands of Hamas-led snuffies stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, triggering the ongoing 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... war.
The Trump administration has accused the university of having antisemitic harassment on campus and demanded that it place one specific department — Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Studies — into academic receivership, an unusual move where university administrators take control away from the faculty at a department that has been deemed dysfunctional. The Trump administration declined to specify evidence of its claims.
The evidence is all over the internet, O intepid Reuters reporter. Run and find out for yourself, instead of trusting those horrid MAGA Trumpsters to tell you the truth. They would, but you are the one getting paid to report — do your job.
Critics of the Trump administration have said that the receivership demand did not provide constitutional, statutory or regulatory authority and is meant to punish scholars in the department for views that the Trump administration does not like.
Views? No, though they aren’t keen on the Jew-hate. It’s the vicious behaviours that the current government has a problem with.
Columbia has already partly acquiesced to the administration’s demands in an effort to regain funding, saying it had already begun hiring security with arrest powers, that it was working to hire new faculty with joint positions in the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies and the School for International and Public Affairs, as well as hire a new administrator to review the leadership and balance of Middle Eastern programs.
Let’s take a look in a few months and see how many of the new hires are Progressive “Jews” who hate Israel.
The actions against Columbia have created a "pervasive climate of fear and self-censorship" not only at its New York City campus but at universities around the country fearing retaliation from the administration, the lawsuit said, adding the actions chilled speech, threatened academic freedom and that students from all backgrounds should be protected from harassment.
Being forced to think instead of their custom of letting their freak flags fly does feel that way.
It is asking the court to order the administration to restore the $400 million in canceled grants and contracts and to block it from taking any action to enforce its demands.
No.
Also on Tuesday, the AAUP and other academic associations sued for a court order barring the Trump administration from deporting or threatening students based on their political views.
Also no.
The lawsuit said the arrest of Khalil and Trump’s threat of further arrests had "created a climate of repression and fear on university campuses."
Khalil, who was born and raised in a refugee camp in Syria, entered the US on a student visa in 2022 and became a legal permanent resident in 2024. A federal judge last week ruled that he must remain in the United States for now.
Khalil was a leading member of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which has endorsed "armed resistance" against Israel and called "for the total eradication of Western civilization."
We know. That and his activism for Hamas are why he lost his green card.
The Trump administration claimed after Khalil’s arrest that he had withheld his previous work for UNRWA, the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... agency for Paleostinian refugees, in his visa application, saying that was grounds for his deportation.
Lying or incomplete information on the application is longstanding grounds for deportation.
UNRWA has said Khalil was briefly an unpaid intern. Israel has accused the aid agency of serving as a front for Hamas, and at least one Israeli hostage has reported having been held in an UNWRA facility in Gaza.
Both Columbia faculty lawsuits accuse the Trump administration of trampling on the right to free speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
Constitutional free speech does not encompass activism for listed terror groups or overthrowing the government of the United States or organizing riots.
For its part, the US Justice Department said it "makes no apologies for its efforts to defend President Trump’s agenda in court and protect Jewish Americans from vile antisemitism." Columbia, which is not a party in either lawsuit, did not respond to a request for comment.
ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS ACCUSED OF ACTING AS ’PR FIRM’ FOR HAMAS
In a lawsuit filed Monday, people behind the anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia were accused of having coordinated their efforts with Hamas to further its attacks since 2023.
Besides Khalil, the defendants include Within Our Lifetime-United for Paleostine, Columbia Students for Justice in Paleostine ("CSJP"), Columbia-Barnard Jewish Voice for Peace, and some of the groups’ leaders.
The civil lawsuit accuses the defendants of violating US antiterrorism legislation and the law of nations and seeks unspecified compensatory, punitive and triple damages.
"It would be illegal for Hamas to directly retain a public relations firm in the United States or hire enforcers to impose their will on American cities." the complaint said. "Yet those are precisely the services that the [defendant groups] knowingly provide to Hamas."
The plaintiffs also accused some group defendants "on information and belief" of having prior knowledge of the Hamas attack. They cited the timing and substance of statements made shortly before, during and after the atrocities occurred, including a CSJP post on Instagram three minutes before the attack that said "We are back!!"
The defendants or lawyers who have represented them in Columbia-related litigation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mark Goldfeder, a lawyer at the National Jewish Advocacy Center representing the plaintiffs, said in an email that the defendants’ coordinating activities with Hamas were known because they have said so repeatedly.
"There is nothing wrong with being pro-Paleostinian, and pro-Hamas speech is still protected speech in most contexts," he said. "The issue here is the material support of and coordination with a designated foreign terrorist organization."
#1
Freed hostage says NY pro Hamas protests bolster terrorists Shlomi Ziv, rescued from Gaza, joins lawsuit filed against pro-Palestinian groups protesting at Columbia University, claiming they were a public relations campaign for Hamas
[HodhodYemenNews] 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... i Armed Forces attacked Ben Gurion Israeli airport with two ballistic missiles, and attacked USS Harry Truman US aircraft carrier, the Yemeni military forces announced early on Tuesday.
In a statement, Yemeni Armed Forces front man Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said the Yemeni forces targeted Ben Gurion Airport in occupied Jaffa with Zulfiqar and Paleostine-2 ballistic missiles.
He added that the Yemeni forces also attacked the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman with a number of missiles and drones.
The attack on the US aircraft carrier lasted for several hours and thwarted an aerial attack against Yemen, the front man added.
[EngamilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Belgorod direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, an assault regiment of the AFU, and a territorial defence brigade close to Ugroyedy, Miropolye, and Krasnopolye (Sumy region).
The AFU losses were up to 50 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, one motor vehicle, and two artillery guns.
As a result of active and decisive actions of elements of the Zapad Group of Forces, Mirnoye (Donetsk People's Republic) has been liberated.
The Group inflicted fire damage on two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades near Malaya Shapkovka, Kamenka, Krasnoye Pervoye, Grigorovka, Tishchenkovka, Kondrashovka (Kharkov region), Torskoye, Novoye, and Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU lost more than 250 troops, one tank, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles. Four artillery guns, including two Western-made ones, were neutralised.
The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. They inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one territorial defence brigade, and two national guard brigades near Tikhonovka, Katerinovka, Dyleyevka, Novomarkovo, Chasov Yar, Verkhnekamenskoye, Kurdyumovka, and Tarasovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy sustained losses of up to 200 troops, one tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicle, one Croatian-made Heron MLRS launcher, and three pickup trucks. Two field artillery guns and three ammunition depots were neutralised.
Elements of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. They hit two mechanised brigades, two assault brigades, one UAV brigade, one assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one naval infantry brigade, and one national guard brigade near Alekseyevka, Yelizavetovka, Kotlino, Dimitrov, Zverevo, Krasnoarmeysk, Novotoretskoye, and Novosergeyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Ukrainian armed formations lost up to 430 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, 12 motor vehicles, and one Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system.
The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defences. They inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one mountain assault brigade, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and one naval infantry brigade near Veseloye, Razliv, Volnoye Pole, and Novopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to over 140 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, and three motor vehicles. Three field artillery guns, including a French-made 155mm Caesar self-propelled artillery system and an ammunition depot, were neutralised.
With intensive and resolute operations, elements of the Dnepr Group of Forces liberated Malye Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region).
The Group engaged units of one mechanised brigade, two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defence brigade near Pridneprovskoye, Sadovoye, Berislav, Antonovka (Kherson region), Novodanilovka, and Novopokrovka (Zaporozhye region).
Over 70 troops, two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, two motor vehicles, and three artillery guns of the enemy have been neutralised.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have inflicted damage on infrastructure of military airfields, UAV command posts, ammunition depots, and repair and recovery base of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as on clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 148 areas.
Air defence systems shot down one U.S.-made JDAM aerial guided bomb and 92 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
Since the beginning of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have neutralised 659 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 48,404 unmanned aerial vehicles, 601 anti-aircraft missile systems, 22,490 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,531 MLRS combat vehicles, 22,961 field artillery and mortar guns, 33,347 units of support military vehicles.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
The Sever Group of Forces in offensive inflicted fire damage on elements of one mechanised brigade, three air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, one presidential brigade, and one territorial defence brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Gogolevka, Gornal, Guyevo, and Oleshnya. Three enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-Tactical, Army Aviation, and artillery fire hit enemy manpower and hardware close to Basovka, Belovody, Varachino, Velikaya Rybitsa, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Zapseleye, Loknya, Miropolye, Mogritsa, Obody, Pisarevka, Sadki, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka (Sumy region).
In the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to over 260 troops, a tank, an infantry fighting vehicle, three armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, three mortars, and two UAV command posts.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to more than 69,960 troops, 401 tanks, 327 infantry fighting vehicles, 289 armoured personnel carriers, 2,222 armoured fighting vehicles, 2,542 motor vehicles, 585 artillery guns, 53 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and seven of MLRS made by the USA, 26 anti-aircraft missile launchers, one self-propelled anti-aircraft system, ten transport-loading vehicles, 121 EW stations, 18 counter-battery radars, ten air defence radars, 56 units of engineering and other materiel, including 23 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, five bridge launchers, one engineering reconnaissance vehicle as well as 15 armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[Korrespondent] The ZSU is holding back the Russian offensive in the east and south of Ukraine.
The Russian invaders are concentrating their main efforts in the Pokrovsky direction, where fighting continues in the areas of 12 settlements.
Since the beginning of the day, 105 combat clashes have occurred on the front in 11 directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Tuesday, March 25.
Thus, in the Kharkov and Kupyansk directions, the Russians attacked once each in the area of Kamyanka and Zagrizovo.
In the Liman direction, the army of the invader advanced 12 times near the settlements of Yampolovka, Kopanki and in the direction of Novomikhaylovka, Novoye, Katerinovka. Five combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled four enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Verkhnekamyanskoye and Ivano-Daryevka. Two combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy attacked once in the direction of Predtechino.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy stormed 17 times in the areas of Toretsk and near Dilievka and Krymskoye. Currently, seven battles are underway.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the Russians organized 43 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Sukhaya Balka, Kalinovo, Aleksandropol, Zelenoe Pole, Elizavetovka, Kotlino, Udachnoye, Preobrazhenka, Andreyevka, Bogdanovka and in the directions of Novosergeyevka and Kotlyarovka. The defense forces repelled 39 attacks, four clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy attacked 16 times near the settlements of Razliv, Dneproenergiya, and Konstantinopol. Six battles are still ongoing.
In the Orekhov direction, the enemy is trying to advance in the direction of Lobkovo. Two combat clashes are continuing there.
One armed clash occurred in the Dnieper direction .
Six Russian attacks have been repelled in the Kursk operational zone . Another battle continues.
We remind you that in the course of 24 February Russia lost almost 1,200 fighters killed and wounded. The total number of Russian losses is approaching one million.
[IsraelTimes] Deputy cyber defense chief Nitzan Amar says that the intensity of cyberattacks against Israel has tripled since the outbreak of the Hamas war on October 7, 2023, as Iran and its proxies, including Hezbollah, joined hacking efforts.
“The last year was not a normal year, but a challenging and unique one,” says Amar speaking at the global Cybertech 2025 conference in Tel Aviv. “Ever since the war broke out, we have observed a major amplification in the scope of Iran and Hezbollah malicious activity targeting Israeli entities.”
“Despite our enemies’ efforts, not a single attack targeting an Israeli entity was able to harm neither our national infrastructure, nor the IDF operational freedom to fulfill its missions since October 7,” Amar remarks.
Amar cautions that Israel experienced a 300 percent increase in phishing attacks, the highest ever, seeking to “exploit information, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and disrupt the daily life of Israeli civilians.”
He listed various types of cyberattacks, including rapid exploitation of newly discovered security vulnerabilities, such as “unprecedented-scale DDoS attacks, and cyber intrusions via Managed Service Providers (MSPs).”
“During the war, we began implementing the ‘Cyber Dome’ program to bolster national cyber defense,” says Amar. “We deployed advanced defensive technologies that played a crucial role in mitigating these threats.”
[IsraelTimes] Police arrest six protesters during an anti-government demonstration near the Knesset building in Jerusalem earlier today.
Demonstrators blocking roads near government buildings were dragged off the sidewalk by police officers.
The demonstrators are protesting the 2025 state budget, which is being voted on inside the Knesset, and calling for the government to reach a deal to bring back the hostages from Gaza.
A law enforcement spokesman says that some demonstrators attempted to block traffic by parking their cars in the middle of the road, and adds that cops attempting to tow the vehicles were met with resistance from the protesters.
“So far, the police have arrested six suspects for disturbing public order and they were taken for questioning at the police station,” the spokesman says.
A lawyers’ network representing detained anti-government protesters accuses police of using excessive force to carry out arrests, saying they tore demonstrators’ clothing unnecessarily.
[FoxNews] Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain, have unearthed sketches believed to be 200,000 years old.
The evacuation was led by the Municipality of Marbella’s Department of Culture, Education, and Historical Heritage, which found a stone block with etchings, according to a press release.
"The significance of this discovery is twofold: on the one hand, it confirms the presence of settlers in Marbella during the Early Middle Paleolithic, a period little known in Spain and unprecedented in the province of Malaga," the release says.
"Furthermore, it provides this unique stone, which contains a set of graphic representations of human origin that could be 100,000 years older than the oldest cave art depictions," it continued.
The stone was unearthed at the Coto Correa site in Las Chapas and is known for housing the oldest remains in the city.
A study is being conducted by the Department of Culture to confirm the age of the stone and its origin. .
"The techniques applied for absolute dating consist of quartz analysis of different sediment samples, which will allow for a precise chronology of the samples," says the press release.
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So curious ... I see 4 quadrants of the unit circle, an equilateral triangle in q1 forming an bound isosceles triangle with the axes, and a 45 deg ray in q4.
If that ray represents a Z axis then perhaps we have a map.
#4
'Tis ogham the aliens taught 'em
That points to the stuff that they sought. Um...
"For water and game,
Mating, fortune and fame,
Follow arrow to... uggh... Foggy Bottom."
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"These Ancient Stone Etchings Could Be an Extremely Early Form of Animation"
They could flip the stone tablets really fast back in the day, but then they cast the yetis to the fringes of civilization and animation was set back several thousand years.
[IsraelTimes] In the capital, protesters gather in anger and despair, beseeching the PM to reach an agreement; outside Knesset, cops shove, forcibly remove several people protesting budget vote
Thousands of protesters rallied Thursday in Jerusalem, demonstrating against the government and demanding an immediate hostage deal, as the recent wave of protests continued to intensify in reaction to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to resume fighting in Gazoo and his moves to fire the head of the Shin Bet and attorney general.
Tuesday’s demonstrations in the capital were divided into several areas near the government compound, with different sections for anti-government and hostage release protests and sit-ins.
A large group gathered outside the Prime Minister’s Office, where some family members of hostages gave speeches to the crowd
Outside the Knesset building, as the government voted on the 2025 state budget, several hundred anti-government protesters marched, with some yelling into bullhorns about the prime minister being "a dishrag" and accusing him of betraying Israeli values.
Police forcibly removed several protesters from outside the Knesset, and images and footage showed coppers dragging demonstrators one by one.
The third protest area was a mostly silent sit-in organized by the Shift 101 group, which included hostage family members and their supporters, sitting on the asphalt at the intersection between the National Library and the Israel Museum.
At the sit-in, Family members spoke every so often, talking about their utter despair and the lack of contact with any members of the government.
Ugly details at the link, for those who want to know.
[IsraelTimes] 31-year-old, whose partner Matan Zangauker is still captive, tells NYT she was groped during abduction, passed out and woke up half-naked in Gaza with 7 gunmen standing over her.
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[Regnum] Argentine President Javier Miley has ordered that archives be opened to documents on German Nazis who fled to the country after World War II. This was stated by Argentine Prime Minister Guillermo Francos in an interview with the DNews TV channel.
"There are still documents that have not been made public, especially those related to banking operations. President Miley gave the order to open access to all documents that any state body may have," Francos told the TV channel's journalists.
According to him, the Argentine leader's decision is connected with the visit of American Senator Steve Daines, who is fighting "for all documents from the time when Argentina protected those who fled Nazi Germany to be published." Francos noted that the order was given immediately after a request from Daines.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in 2023, the issue of declassifying the list of Nazi war criminals who hid in the country from punishment was discussed in the Canadian government.
At that time, according to the journalists of The New York Times (NYT), it was stated that the list that could be made public included 883 people who fled to Canada after the end of World War II. This concerns the second part of the report on war criminals in the country, which was prepared in 1986. At that time, only the first part was published, and the second was classified.
See Part 2 here and follow the links.
[ColonelCassad] Flight of the fiber-optic drone "KVN" in the direction from the state border to the territory of Sumy Oblast along the main supply artery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces bridgehead in Kursk Oblast - the Yunakovka-Sudzha highway.
It was the cutting of this logistics highway by the operators of the FPV drones "ICPBT Rubicon" (http://t.me/icpbtrubicon) of the Russian Armed Forces, who organized a real hunt for enemy vehicles, that created the necessary conditions for the collapse of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in the Kursk region.
It is noteworthy that the enemy attempted to protect a section of the highway from the Russian FPV drones dominating the sky by creating a continuous mesh barrier along the roadway, but was forced to curtail the work as the bridgehead collapsed and the Russian Armed Forces reached the state border in the area of the Sudzha checkpoint.
Destroyed and abandoned equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the frame:
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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[FoxNews] Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain, have unearthed sketches believed to be 200,000 years old.
