[IsraelTimes] A vehicle used by four US Army soldiers that went missing yesterday afternoon in Lithuania has been found submerged in water and the search for the missing soldiers is continuing, the US Army says.
“The M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle the four missing US Soldiers were operating during a training exercise, has been located in Lithuania,” it says in a statement.
While on a visit to Warsaw, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said earlier today that the soldiers had died but that he did not know any details.
Lithuania’s military writes on social media X that it is continuing an “intensive” rescue operation and has no information confirming the deaths.
The soldiers had been training near Pabrade in eastern Lithuania near the border with Belarus, the US Army says.
“We regret any confusion about remarks @SecGenNATO delivered on this today. He was referring to emerging news reports & was not confirming the fate of the missing, which is still unknown.”
[IsraelTimes] The IDF confirms carrying out a drone strike last night in the Tyre District of southern Lebanon, killing a senior Hezbollah commander.
According to the IDF, the strike in the village of Derdghaiya, adjacent to Maaroub, killed Ahmed Adnan Bajija, a battalion commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force.
The military says the commander was involved in directing numerous attacks on Israel and IDF troops during the war and that in recent months, amid the ceasefire, he “continued to engage in advancing terror attacks against the Israeli home front.”
[Rudaw] Kurdish security forces (Asayish) in northeast Syria (Rojava) announced on Wednesday that they seized over 2.7 million Captagon pills in Qamishli.
"A huge quantity of 2,765,000 Captagon pills was seized, and two individuals considered key members of the drug trafficking network" in the area were arrested, Asayish said in a statement.
Captagon is an amphetamine-type stimulant that has been sweeping the Middle East for years.
The Asayish described the operation as "one of the biggest blows to drug pushers in the region" and said that the narcotics had been brought from a "neighboring country for the purpose of trafficking."
The suspected drug pushers were ambushed on Monday night when Asayish found "small bags" inside their vehicle in Qamishli, the statement added.
Syria, under fallen dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , was a major source for the Captagon trade. The drug was one of the power cards used by the Assad regime for political leverage, and his brother Maher is believed to have been largely behind the illegal business.
With the collapse of Assad’s rule, observers have urged the international community to make ending the Captagon trade among the prerequisites for providing relief to the new Syrian leadership.
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces on Wednesday arrested seven suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) bully boyz in operations across several provinces, state media reported, as the country continues tightening the noose on jihadist remnants.
Military intelligence forces carried out separate operations "through well-planned ambushes and raids on terrorist locations" that "resulted in the arrest of seven gunnies wanted by the Iraqi judiciary under the provisions of Article 4 of the Counter-Terrorism Law in the provinces of Anbar, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Nineveh," state media said.
The article says that anyone found guilty of committing a terror offense is given a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... , with life imprisonment given to those who assist or hide those convicted of terrorism.
"The gunnies were operating and belonging to ISIS terrorist gangs in various ranks, and had also participated in several terrorist attacks against Iraqi security forces in the past," the statement added.
Iraqi security forces have intensified their operations against ISIS cells in recent months, particularly in areas disputed between Baghdad and Erbil, which stretch across the Kirkuk, Salahaddin, Nineveh, and Diyala provinces.
Iraq’s air force also frequently carries out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against ISIS hideouts in the disputed territories.
In late February, the head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell told Rudaw that Iraqi security forces have largely eradicated ISIS from the country, with only a few hundred bully boyz remaining in remote areas.
Sure, but the numbers can be quickly replenished from the tens of thousands still locked up in Syrian prison camps guarded by the Kurds, like Al Hol camp, or from those repatriated from Syria by the Iraqi government.
[Rudaw] The Israeli military on Thursday launched fresh Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Syria despite international condemnations, targeting the western coastal city of Latakia where injuries are currently unknown, state media reported.
"Israeli occupation planes launched several airstrikes in the vicinity of the port and the city of Latakia a short while ago," Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said, citing its correspondent.
A deadly Israeli airstrike on the southern province of Daraa on Tuesday drew international condemnation from regional and global powers such as Germany, Jordan, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... , and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... . The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it was targeting "several hard boyz who opened fire toward them" while Damascus said six were killed.
SANA added that authorities are "working to ensure that there are no injuries in the targeted place."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, reported that Israel "fired at least six missiles" on ammunition depots in Latakia.
"The raid caused extensive material damage and destroyed the ammunition depot. The explosions continued for tens of minutes, and no reports of casualties have been reported so far," the Observatory said.
Another day, another excuse for a leftywing anti-government protest.
[IsraelTimes] Some opposition MKs join anti-overhaul protesters; rally organizers accuse government of ‘declaring war on the people’; bar association chief: ‘They won’t break democracy’
Thousands of people rallied outside the Knesset on Wednesday to protest against the government, continuing a recent wave of demonstrations, as inside the building politicians prepared for final votes on a controversial judicial bill that has further stoked outcry.
The bill, which will change the composition of the judicial selection committee, has drawn harsh criticism from opposition politicians, who say that it will significantly damage Israel’s democracy. It comes amid an already heated reaction to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to resume fighting in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and his moves to fire the head of the Shin Bet and attorney general.
Demonstrators marched through Jerusalem past the Supreme Court building to the Knesset. In the afternoon, some blocked Route 1 at the entrance to the capital, lighting flares on the road.
Demonstrations were also held in other parts of the country, including Tel Aviv.
Protest organizers said in a statement that the government "abandoned the hostages, is harming Israel’s security, and is passing aggressive and extreme legislation without batting an eyelid," a reference to those who were kidnapped during the devastating Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -led invasion of southern Israel that opened the war.
The legislation debated in parliament would remove the two representatives of the Israel Bar Association currently on the nine-member Judicial Selection Committee, which makes all judicial appointments, and replace them with one lawyer to be directly chosen by the coalition and another chosen by the opposition.
Chair of the Israel Bar Association Amit Bahar spoke about the removal of the IBA seats on the judicial panel.
"They won’t break us, and they won’t break democracy," he told the rally. "We will petition against the law."
"This is a complete coup, which we warned of and against which we campaigned," Bahar said.
An opposition filibuster was expected to keep the Knesset session on the judicial bill going through the night and into Thursday.
Protesters outside the Knesset set up a mock "Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i embassy" featuring multiple people in white robes fanning themselves with money as Arabic music played in the background, in reference to the investigation into allegedly illicit ties between Doha and the Prime Minister’s Office. One demonstrator used ropes to control the arms of a person wearing a Netanyahu mask as if he were a marionette.
"Welcome to the Qatari embassy in Jerusalem," they announced on a microphone.
The display was organized by Brothers in Arms, a prominent anti-government protest group.
"Firing the head of the Shin Bet in the middle of a war, in the midst of a significant security probe, and the attempt to push out the attorney general that opposed the firings is crossing a red line," the group said in a statement.
"Instead of focusing on the hostages and the war with Hamas, the Israeli government is busy with getting rid of anyone who tries to probe the dangerous ties between those around the prime minister and those funding the enemy, said Oren Shvial a leader of the Brothers.
Hebrew media reported Tuesday that Netanyahu was warned at least twice before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, that the terror group’s military chief Muhammad Deif was appropriating funds provided by Qatar to Gaza with the premier’s approval.
According to near-identical reports by Channel 12 and the Kan public broadcaster, Netanyahu was warned in 2019 by then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman and again in 2020 by the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate.
Under Netanyahu, Israel allowed millions in Qatari funds to be transferred to Gaza since 2018, with the aim tof maintaining a fragile ceasefire with enclave’s Hamas rulers.
Several of Netanyahu’s top aides are currently under investigation over alleged financial ties with Qatar, which is one of the mediators in the ceasefire and hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
There was a similar protest outside the Knesset on Tuesday.
The government fired Shin Bet head Ronen Bar last week with Netanyahu saying it was over his lack of trust in the security agency leader. Critics say the prime minister could now appoint a new spy chief who would close the probe into the Qatar ties.
The government is also moving to fire Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara who has repeatedly opposed coalition legislative moves, including the judicial appointments committee bill which is part of a wider judicial overhaul she also opposes.
“Israel has been and will remain a democracy,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told opposition lawmakers at the Knesset on Wednesday, pushing back against allegations that his government is systematically undermining the rule of law.
Netanyahu also appeared to endorse a harder line on Gaza than previously taken by his government, threatening to take control over territory in the coastal enclave to pressure Hamas to release the remaining Israeli hostages.
Slamming his fist on the podium, Netanyahu condemned “bullying,” “incitement,” and “violence against elected officials” while members of the opposition yelled and jeered at him during a so-called 40-signatures debate — a plenum discussion that the opposition can call once a month and that the prime minister is legally obliged to attend.
While the debate was officially called to discuss the rising crime rate in the Arab sector, much of the discussion was focused on the government’s recent moves to fire top officials and gain greater control over the judiciary, which have been slammed by critics as anti-democratic.
“Democracy isn’t in danger; the rule of bureaucrats is in danger. The deep state is in danger,” Netanyahu insisted, railing against a “small coterie of officials” who he alleged are working against the elected government.
Netanyahu, who has been in power since 2009 except for an 18-month period, has in recent weeks stepped up accusations that there is a “deep state” running the country that is out to thwart him, echoing political rhetoric from the US.
“In a democracy the people are sovereign, and the people demand that its free vote in the polling booths be practically carried out in decisions, appointments, policies,” he declared — adding that while the government does not have “unlimited power,” it “cannot be that the government has zero power… There must be a balance between the branches of government.”
Netanyahu’s critics say he is working to undermine the democratic checks and balances on his power.
The legislation removes the two representatives of the Israel Bar Association currently on the nine-member Judicial Selection Committee, which makes all judicial appointments, and replaces them with one lawyer to be directly chosen by the coalition and another chosen by the opposition.
It also gives political representatives from the coalition, opposition and judiciary on the nine-member Judicial Selection Committee veto power over lower court appointments, as opposed to the current system where no side has a veto. And it removes any influence of the three judges on the committee over appointments to the Supreme Court while granting the coalition and opposition vetoes.
Critics say the bill, which will only take effect in the next Knesset, will politicize judicial appointments.
The debate on the bill ahead of the final votes in back-to-back second and third readings lasted through the night, due to the unprecedented 71,023 objections the opposition filed against the legislation.
The opposition boycotted the final votes on the bill, with MKs leaving the plenum as the coalition voted.
[IsraelTimes] Department of Homeland Security accuses Rumeysa Ozturk of ‘engaging in activities in support of Hamas’ after piece in school paper called for divesting from Israeli firms amid war
US immigration authorities late Tuesday detained a Ottoman Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University near Boston who voiced support for divesting from Israel amid the war with Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and have revoked her visa.
Rumeysa Ozturk’s supporters say her detention is the first known immigration arrest of a Boston-area student engaged in such activism to be carried out by President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... ’s administration, which has detained or sought to detain several foreign-born students who are legally in the US and have been involved in pro-Paleostinian protests.
The actions have been condemned as an assault on free speech, though the Trump administration argues that certain protests are antisemitic and can undermine US foreign policy.
The 30-year-old Ottoman Turkish national was taken into custody near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday evening while she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.
US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin in a post on X said authorities determined Ozturk "engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans."
"A visa is a privilege not a right," McLaughlin said.
Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE.
A video shared with GBH News shows a man in a hoodie approach her, then grab her wrists. Ozturk screams, then asks “Can I call the police?” before being told “We’re the police.”https://t.co/6dwvEmqjVr@sweetadelinevt @GBHNews pic.twitter.com/NAAgGVpp9G
— Tori Bedford (@Tori_Bedford) March 26, 2025
She did not specify what activities. But her arrest came a year after Ozturk co-authored an opinion piece in the school’s student paper, the Tufts Daily, that criticized the university’s response to calls by students to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide.”
“Based on patterns we are seeing across the country, her exercising her free speech rights appear to have played a role in her detention,” Khanbabai said.
Following Ozturk’s arrest, Khanbabai filed a lawsuit late Tuesday arguing she was unlawfully detained, prompting US District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston that night to order US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to not move Ozturk out of Massachusetts without at least 48 hours notice.
Despite the judge’s order, by Wednesday afternoon, Khanbabai in a motion said she had been unable to locate her client in New England and had just been informed by a US senator’s office that Ozturk was transferred to Louisiana.
Clearly Louisiana is the place for them.
She sought a court order requiring ICE to permit access to Ozturk.
The student’s detention was condemned by Democratic lawmakers, including US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who said the “arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties.” A rally in her support was expected later Wednesday in Somerville.
The Trump administration has targeted international students as it seeks to crack down on immigration, including ramping up immigration arrests and sharply restricting border crossings.
Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio in particular have pledged to deport foreign pro-Palestinian protesters, accusing them of supporting Hamas terrorists, posing hurdles for US foreign policy, and of being antisemitic.
Protesters, including some Jewish groups,
…that’s “Jewish” groups, funded by Progressive dark money groups like Arabella Advisors, the Soros’ Open Society Foundations, and in some cases founded and led by Hezbollah members…
say the administration wrongly conflates their criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian rights with antisemitism and support for Hamas.
Ozturk is a Fulbright Scholar and student in Tufts’ doctoral program for Child Study and Human Development, according to her LinkedIn profile, and had previously studied at Columbia University in New York.
She has been in the country on an F-1 visa, which allows living in the United States while studying, according to the lawsuit.
Tufts President Sunil Kumar in a statement said the school had no advance knowledge of the arrest, which he recognized would be “distressing to some members of our community, particularly the members of our international community.”
Later Wednesday, hundreds of people demonstrated in a Somerville park, with speaker after speaker demanding her release and accusing both major political parties of failing to protect immigrants and stand up for Palestinians.
“Free Rumeysa Ozturk now,” the crowd chanted, along with traditional protest slogans such as “Free, free Palestine.” Many held Palestinian flags and homemade signs supporting her and opposing ICE.
Ozturk was taken into custody less than three weeks after Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and lawful permanent resident, was similarly arrested. He is challenging his detention after Trump accused him of supporting Hamas, which Khalil denies.
Federal immigration officials are also seeking to detain South Korean-born Columbia University student Yunseo Chung, who is a legal permanent US resident and has participated in pro-Palestinian protests against Israel, a move blocked by the courts for now.
Both Khalil and Chung took part in a protest at Barnard College earlier this month during which activists handed out pamphlets from the “Hamas media office.”
The Trump administration has also targeted students at Cornell University in New York and Georgetown University in Washington.
[IsraelTimes] US president suggests American forces will continue to attack the Iran-backed rebels ‘for a long time’ as fresh strikes reported in capital of Sanaa, elsewhere across Yemen
US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... on Wednesday claimed Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels now "want peace" after more than a week of US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, which he said have "been very, very strong."
"The Houthis are looking to do something. They want to know, ’How do we stop? How do we stop? How can we have peace?’ The Houthis want peace because they’re getting the hell knocked out of them," he told news hounds in the Oval Office.
"The Houthis are dying for peace. They don’t want this... They were knocking ships out of the ocean.... In the Suez Canal, they only have about 20% of the ships going through. They have to go through a different way, which takes weeks of travel, and that really affects commerce."
"But the Houthis have been hit hard, and they want to negotiate peace," Trump continued. "The Houthis have been horrible to the world. They’ve killed a lot of people and knocked out a lot of ships and planes and anything else... They have been hit harder than they have ever been."
Houthi-held parts of Yemen have witnessed near-daily attacks that the group has blamed on the United States.
Last week, Trump threatened to annihilate the Houthis and warned Tehran against continuing to aid the rebel group.
In his remarks Wednesday, Trump suggested the US strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen may continue for some time.
"They want us to stop so badly... They’ve got to say, ’No mas.’ But I can only say that the attacks every day, every night... have been very successful beyond our wildest expectations... We’re going to do it for a long time. We can keep it going for a long time," Trump said.
His remarks came as Houthi media reported new US strikes hit the rebel-held capital Sanaa, after earlier reporting 19 American raids elsewhere in Yemen.
"A series of strikes by the US aggression have hit the south and north of the capital," the al-Masirah channel said, without providing further details.
The station had earlier reported 17 raids by the United States "on the Saada governorate," on top of two more on Amran.
The Iran-backed rebels’ news agency, Saba, said "the American aggression targeted the Oncology Hospital building in Saada."
The hospital, which Houthi media said was under construction, was also hit last week. The rebel health ministry said two civilians were maimed in the latest hospital attack, which they described as "a full-fledged war crime."
Early on Wednesday, a Houthi military spokesperson said the group targeted "enemy warships in the Red Sea, led by the US aircraft carrier (USS Harry S.) Truman" blamed for the Yemen strikes.
The rebels also claimed a drone attack on Tel Aviv, but did not specify when it occurred. Israel did not report such an attack.
I guess the IDF has more work to do to get them to accept defeat, or destroy enough that their defiance is immaterial.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas official says war has not broken Palestinians’ will; Houthi chief vows attacks to continue, while Hezbollah leader insists ‘no room for normalization’
Leaders from the Iran-backed axis of resistance sworn to the destruction of Israel struck a defiant tone on Wednesday ahead of an annual Tehran-sponsored pro-Paleostinian commemoration later this week, Hezbollah’s al-Manar television reported.
Quds (Jerusalem) Day commemorations, when 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 its allies organize marches in support of the Paleostinians and call for Israel’s annihilation, were launched in 1979 by Iran’s revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
They are traditionally held on the last Friday of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, which this year is expected to finish at the end of March.
Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s Khalil al-Hayya said in a statement broadcast on al-Manar that Israel had been "unable to break the will of our people and our resistance," despite more than a year "of killing, terrorism, and destruction, and despite the full assistance and support of the United States."
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 was sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel, when Hamas-led bully boyz massacred some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages.
The leader of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, said his group would continue to support the Paleostinian people "without retreat," al-Manar reported.
The Houthis have launched scores of drone and missile attacks at Israel, as well as ships passing Yemen in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden during the war — vessels with no known Israeli connections — saying they are acting out of solidarity with the Paleostinians.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said, "We will not accept the continued [Israeli] occupation," referring to the ongoing presence of Israeli troops in south Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... after a recent war.
The Lebanese terror group initiated cross-border fire with the Israeli military in support of Hamas on October 8, 2023.
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah dramatically spiraled into all-out conflict last September, and the terror group remains a target of Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s as it continues to operate in southern Lebanon in violation of a November 27 ceasefire.
Under the ceasefire, Hezbollah was obligated to pull its forces north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the Israeli border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south, while the Lebanese army deploys to control the area.
Israel, in parallel, was obligated to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon, though it retains the right to respond to immediate threats.
Following an initial postponement, with US and Lebanese approval, of the deadline to withdraw, Israel pulled all its troops out of Lebanon in February, except five strategic posts along the border.
"The prisoners must be released," Qassem said, referring to those captured by Israel during the war, adding: "There is no room for normalization or surrender in Lebanon."
The 2023-2024 conflict severely weakened Hezbollah, which saw a slew of senior commanders killed, including its longtime chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> . In agreeing to the November ceasefire, the terror group gave up on its initial promise to only end its attacks once Israel’s operation in Gaza came to an end.
Esmail Qaani, commander of the Islamic Revolutioanry Guard Corps’ expeditionary Quds Force, said that "the Islamic republic has always stood and continues to stand alongside the Paleostinian people in defense of the holy al-Quds [Jerusalem]," in his speech, also aired by Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?"God willing, this steadfastness will continue until the final victory of liberation and the reaching to al-Quds," he added.
[IsraelTimes] An Egyptian proposal to end renewed fighting 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... would see five living hostages released on the first day of the restored ceasefire, with another five living hostages released every 7-10 days, two foreign diplomats with knowledge of the details told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.
Dual US-Israeli citizen Edan Alexander would be released on the first day, said the diplomats.
The Prime Minister’s Office has denied receiving any new Egyptian proposal.
According to the diplomats, the IDF would withdraw to the positions it held during the first phase of the ceasefire that collapsed earlier this month. Israeli troops held a buffer zone inside the border with Gaza and were stationed on the Philadelphi Corridor, but had withdrawn from the Netzarim Corridor dividing the Strip in two.
Since the resumption of fighting in Gaza last week, IDF ground troops have reoccupied part of the Netzarim corridor.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... under the Egyptian proposal, the sides would negotiate over the IDF’s withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the Gazook side of the border with Egypt.
The outlines also guaranteed that negotiations over Phase Two of the ceasefire would take place, something Israel had avoided engaging in despite agreeing to do so.
Israel would release hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners under the Egyptian plan as well.
Mid-level Israeli teams have made multiple trips to Cairo over the past two weeks to discuss the proposal, according to one of the diplomats.
Egypt presented the proposal last week, security sources told Rooters on Monday, with a Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... official saying that the terror group had "responded positively" to the idea.
The security sources added that the US also agreed to Egypt’s plan, but an Israeli official denied on Monday that Jerusalem had received any such proposal.
According to the Israeli official, Israel is still trying to get Hamas to agree to a US-backed proposal spearheaded by Trump’s special envoy to the Mideast, Steve Witkoff, which would not entail a full Israeli withdrawal from the Strip.
The narrower "Witkoff proposal" rejected by Hamas thus far, would have seen the ceasefire extended through April 19 and have the terror group release five living hostages in exchange for a large number of Paleostinian security prisoners.
Israel said it accepted Witkoff’s proposal but was seeking the release of 11 living hostages.
If Hamas does not agree to Israel’s terms, "we will keep increasing the pressure until Hamas breaks," the official said on Monday, threatening "a widespread ground campaign" in Gaza.
It sounds like Israel is not interested in anything less than all the hostages and Hamas entirely gone, not just officially stepping away from the reins of power while playing the power behind the throne for whoever steps up to hold the scepter.
[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar says Israel has not ruled out negotiating a ceasefire extension with the Hamas terror group in Gaza, but that there is limited time to do so.
“Alongside the IDF’s still-limited operations in Gaza, we are still allowing space for dialogue aimed at reaching an agreement to extend the ceasefire and release the hostages — but we will not wait forever,” Sa’ar tells Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, according to a statement put out by his office.
During meetings at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem today, Sa’ar briefed his counterpart on Israel’s resumed military operations in the Gaza Strip, which began last week after the first phase of a hostage-prisoner exchange ended on March 2.
“Hamas, which insists on continuing to hold the hostages and refuses to demilitarize the Gaza Strip, is pushing for the resumption of war in Gaza,” he says.
“If the Arabs put down their weapons, there will be no more war. But if Israel puts down its weapons, there will be no more Israel,” Sa’ar continues, quoting late prime minister Golda Meir.
“Israel will no longer tolerate the ongoing threat from the Gaza Strip to its security and citizens,” he tells Stenergard, according to the Foreign Ministry.
[IsraelTimes] Report says Rachel Zegler’s tweet in 2024 led Israeli star to receive death threats; film’s Jewish producer purportedly flew to meet ‘Snow White’ actress, but her tweet stayed up
When Rachel Zegler tweeted "free palestine" last year after sharing the trailer for her latest movie, the live-action "Snow White," millions of people saw it — more than 9 million, as of this week.
But until Tuesday, few knew the extent to which Zegler’s one-line tweet caused a firestorm for Disney as well as her co-star, Israeli actress Gal Gadot.
According to an article in Variety, the tweet caused the movie’s Jewish producer, Marc Platt, to fly to New York to meet with Zegler face-to-face.
It was far from Platt’s first encounter with the issue. His wife is Julie Platt, the chair of the Jewish Federations of North America, which has raised hundreds of millions for Israel following Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... ’s October 7, 2023 massacre, which killed some 1,200 people and took another 251 hostages, launching the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... The content of their conversation is unknown, but the tweet stayed up — and caused more fallout: Zegler’s Israeli costar Gal Gadot received death threats, which led Disney to hire additional security for her, according to Variety.
Months later, after last year’s election, Zegler posted "F— Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... " and wished that his supporters "never know peace." That triggered another conversation with Platt; Disney hired a social media adviser who would approve her posts until the movie’s premiere this month.
The controversies surrounding Zegler may be one reason "Snow White" opened last weekend to a box office of just $43 million domestically, which fell far short of expectations. The film had a production budget of $270 million and a marketing budget of $100 million.
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Not to drop a Weinstein joke, but Zegler is the cream of hollywood grooming.
Making a mere some $2million this week so far and with Minecraft coming out in a week, this show is so cooked there is a pool on how long before Zegler blames Gadot directly for its failure.
[IsraelTimes] If the trial is successful, Israel said to hope thousands will follow and possibly permanently resettle in south Asian country
A first group of 100 Gazooks is set to fly to Indonesia for work as part of a pilot program to encourage the voluntary migration of Paleostinians from the Strip, according to a Hebrew media report Wednesday.
The program will be run by Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, who heads the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories, a Defense Ministry body known by its acronym COGAT, Channel 12 news reported.
The report added that the Gazooks will likely be employed in construction.
Israel reportedly hopes that if the pilot program is successful, thousands of Gazooks will be encouraged to voluntarily move to Indonesia for work and potentially decide to permanently resettle in the country — which would require Jakarta’s consent.
Since Israel and Indonesia — the world’s largest Moslem country — do not have diplomatic relations, a special communication channel was opened between Jerusalem and Jakarta to develop the program, the report said.
If the pilot is successful, a "migration administration" being established by the government will become responsible for the program, according to the report.
Defense Minister Israel Katz, responsible for the administration, is likely to appoint Brig. Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter, a controversial senior officer in the military who is beloved by the national religious community, to lead the project.
According to a United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... analysis from September, over two-thirds of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s structures have been damaged or destroyed during the war sparked on October 7, 2023, when Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... rampaged through southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting 251 hostages.
US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... triggered global perplexity in early February by suggesting the US "take over" Gaza and turn it into a "Middle East Riviera" while forcing its Paleostinian inhabitants to relocate to Egypt, Jordan, or other countries. He said this month, however, that no Gazooks would be expelled.
While senior ministers in the government who have urged using the war as an opportunity to reestablish Israeli settlements in the Strip lauded the plan, the Paleostinian Authority and Arab nations rejected it outright.
Earlier this month, two key Arab nations’ organizations instead endorsed an Egyptian counterproposal for rehabilitating Gaza that is based on leaving inhabitants in place.
Despite public opposition among the region’s leaders, the government has moved forward with plans to encourage Paleostinians to relocate.
In January, The Times of Israel’s sister site, Zman Israel, reported that the coalition was conducting secret contacts with Congo and other nations for accepting thousands of immigrants colonists from Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] Justices finds district court was wrong not to conclude that man who contacted defendant and asked for sensitive security information was an ‘enemy’ agent
An Israeli woman was convicted on Wednesday on a spying charge for 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... after the Supreme Court overturned a previous 2023 ruling by a district court exonerating her.
A panel of three judges accepted an appeal by prosecutors that the woman, who cannot be named in media, should be convicted of passing information that could be useful to an enemy agent. However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the court did not alter her original sentence of two and a half months in prison for contact with a foreign agent, despite feeling it should be adjusted, because the appeal had not contested that part of the case.
In their ruling, Supreme Court Justices Judge Yosef Elron, Alex Stein, and Ruth Ronen focused on the aspect that information was passed to an "enemy" agent, rather than just a foreign actor, finding that the Jerusalem District Court should have reached the same conclusion.
The Shin Bet security service announced in January 2022 that it had arrested five Jewish Israelis accused of assisting an Iranian operative calling himself "Rambod Namdar," who often pretended to be a Jewish man, in gathering intelligence and making connections in Israel. The five suspects — four women and one man — were all Jewish immigrants colonists from Iran or descendants of Iranian immigrants colonists.
Four were eventually acquitted, or the charges were dropped, but the woman was charged with maintaining contact with an Iranian agent between 2014 and 2018 and providing him information, including photographing various sites in Israel. Namdar presented himself as an Iranian Moslem bachelor interested in Judaism, but prosecutors said the woman suspected that he was working for the regime in Tehran.
The Jerusalem District Court in 2023 convicted the woman of contact with a foreign agent, but cleared her of the charge of conveying information that may benefit the enemy.
Elron said there was enough evidence to show that Namdar was an "enemy" agent, rejecting the lower court’s conclusion that though he was apparently a foreign agent, it was not clear that he was working for an enemy.
"His obvious interest in the security of the State of Israel, its institutions, and its operations, while working tirelessly to collect sensitive information, indicates that this is someone who acted on behalf of the enemy," the justices wrote.
In their appeal, prosecutors pointed to the topics Namdar showed interest in when conversing with the Israeli women he contacted, the tasks he asked of the women, and the kind of information he asked them to obtain for him, which included attempts to identify family members in the security forces. He also asked for information about the location of military bases, Mosssd ...... and Shin Bet headquarters, security arrangements in public places, and sought personal details of security bigshots.
In addition, the woman herself told police during her investigation that she "99 percent" suspected that Namdar was an Iranian agent.
"Someone who appears to be an Iranian agent and behaves like an Iranian agent is an Iranian agent," Stein wrote.
Elron criticized the prosecution for only appealing against the acquittal and not the two-and-a-half-month jail sentence that the woman was given for her conviction, a punishment he described as "ridiculous."
However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... because the appeal was not against the sentence, he said the court’s "hands are tied" in adjusting the prison time which he said should have been "a most significant period behind bars."
The prosecution responded to the ruling in a statement that the court’s decision "stresses the duty Israeli citizens have to take extra caution in ties with foreign entities and strengthen state security defense against intelligence threats."
Namdar was reportedly in contact with around 20 other Israelis, the majority of them women.
Over the past two years, Iranian intelligence operatives have ramped up their efforts to recruit ordinary Israelis as spies in exchange for money.
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While I am all against Iran, Terrorism and such violent funded groups.
My comment is not about her guilt or innocence. My issue with this is.
This Yes, No, Yes verdict, about a woman who cannot even be named in media. Has now, set the stage, to allow abusive prosecutors to continue to pursue charges, even having initially lost, and to hounding defendants beyond their physical or $$$$ ability to defend themselves.
[IsraelTimes] No injuries as rocket lands in Zimrat near southern border, IDF intercepts another projectile; Gazans protest against Hamas rule over the Strip for 2nd consecutive day
Two rockets were launched from the central Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip at southern Israel, the military said on Wednesday, as the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group warned Israel that if it pushed ahead with military operations, the hostages would return to Israel in coffins.
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... grabbed credit for the rocket attack. One rocket was intercepted by air defenses and a second impacted outside Zimrat, causing no injuries.
The IDF issued an evacuation warning for Paleostinians in and around Gaza City, where the projectiles were fired from, before it carried out strikes in the area.
The IDF later said it struck a terror operative behind the rocket fire who was spotted at the launch site.
The IDF added that it also hit a building in the area used to set off the launches and two other nearby rocket launching sites.
It published footage of the strikes.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... Hamas threatened that the hostages would return "in coffins" should Israel continue air strikes and ground operations in the Strip.
"Every time the occupation attempts to retrieve its captives by force, it ends up bringing them back in coffins," it said in a statement.
The group claimed they are "doing everything possible to keep the occupation’s captives alive, but the random Zionist bombardment is endangering their lives."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to hit back at Hamas during a speech in the Knesset, warning that Israel would seize territory in Gaza if Hamas continued to refuse to release the remaining hostages.
"The more Hamas persists in its refusal to release our hostages, the stronger the pressure we will exert," Netanyahu said in the plenum. "This includes the seizure of territories, along with other measures I will not elaborate here."
Wednesday also saw dozens of Gaza City residents gathered in the Shejaiya neighborhood to protest Hamas rule in the Strip. They burned tires and chanted "Hamas out," calling for an end to the war.
The demonstrations, exceedingly rare in the past due to the terror group’s often violent mostly peaceful suppression of political dissent, marked the second consecutive day of anti-Hamas protests.
Similar protests against the terror group took place across the territory on Tuesday, in Beit Lahiya, the Jabalia refugee camp and Khan Younis.
Footage showed around 100 residents of Beit Lahiya, 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."
Israel resumed intense Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s across the Strip last week, followed by ground operations, shattering the relative calm of a January ceasefire with Hamas.
Hamas, in 1st response to protests, claims they are against Israel, not itself
[IsraelTimes] Hamas issues its first official response to the demonstration against the organization, claiming they are actually against Israel and that “there are those who are trying to divert the spontaneous protests to serve the occupation’s agenda.”
Senior Hamas official Basem Naim tells the Qatari channel Al-Araby that “demonstrations are expected from people facing extermination, against war and destruction… People are calling to stop the aggression, but the enemy and other parties with political agendas are diverting the spontaneous protests to serve the occupation’s agenda and trying to portray it as if the demonstrators are against the resistance” — a reference to Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza.
This is Hamas’s first on-the-record response to the anti-Hamas and anti-war demonstrations in Gaza in the last few days.
“They made the residents into rabbits, and now they have broken free of the fear because they have nothing to lose,” a Gazan man named Sami Ubayed told Israel’s Ynet news outlet.
“Residents have no water or electricity. Hamas is destroying Gaza and making us into stones, they must be removed from power. We won’t stop demonstrating, Hamas needs to be flexible and release the hostages.”
Demonstrators carrying banners reading, “Hamas does not represent us,” were seen marching in Gaza City and the town of Beit Lahiya in the north of the territory.
In Beit Lahiya, where a similar but far smaller protest took place Tuesday, about 3,000 people demonstrated Wednesday, with many chanting, “The people want the fall of Hamas.” In the hard-hit Shejaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, dozens of men chanted, “Out, out out! Hamas get out!”
In some incidents, protesters at rallies urged Hamas to release hostages it is holding to expedite an end to the war that has devastated most areas of Gaza, making conditions harsh for residents.
— Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferzeng97) March 26, 2025
Commander of the Eastern Theater Command Navy, Wang Zhongcai (王仲才)
Commander of the 73rd Group Army, Ding Laifu (丁来富)
The above senior military officials have been removed from their posts and taken away.
In addition, two important political figures have also been taken away. They are:
Xiao Pei (肖培) , Deputy Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and Deputy Director of the National Supervisory Commission
Wang Huimin (王会民), Head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection’s Discipline Inspection Team stationed at the China Securities Regulatory Commission
These individuals are the latest targets of investigation, and their purge is directly related to the escalation of political struggles.
The above information comes from Zhao Lanjian
@uyunistar
, a former Chinese journalist who was the first to report the arrest of He Weidong, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
Before the military restructuring in 2017, the 73rd Group Army was the 31st Army, which had long been stationed in Xiamen City, where Xi Jinping once served as deputy mayor. Therefore, it is considered Xi Jinping’s “direct-line troop.” Due to its proximity to Taiwan, it has also been regarded as the main force for attacking Taiwan.
Recently fallen or rumored-to-have-fallen key military figures, including He Weidong, Director of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission Miao Hua, Commander of the Eastern Theater Command Lin Xiangyang, and former Commander of the Southern Theater Command Wang Xiubin, all came from the 31st Army.
Meanwhile, Rocket Force Commander Wang Houbin was transferred from the navy to the Rocket Force as commander by Miao Hua in 2023, following the downfall of the previous commander. Thus, it can be said that all these individuals are Xi Jinping’s close confidants in the military.
I believe that the downfall of these people signifies that Xi Jinping’s power base in the military has been fundamentally shaken, increasing the likelihood of Xi Jinping stepping down at or before the Fourth Plenary Session of the CCP.
[WashingtonExaminer] Georgia is planning to eliminate approximately half a million voters from its registration rolls in one of the largest registration removals in U.S. history.
Around 455,000 inactive voter registrations will be removed from the state’s registration list this summer, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. More than half of the registrations that are set to be canceled were identified by the Electronic Registration Information Center, which involves 24 states that identify when a voter moves out of state and is no longer eligible to vote, in this case, in Georgia.
"We want to do everything we can within the law to have the cleanest voter list possible," State Elections Director Blake Evans said.
Under Georgia law, voters become "inactive" when they appear to have moved, such as by filling out change-of-address forms. Their registrations can be canceled if they miss the next two general elections.
This is the first year since ERIC began operations in 2021 that voters who have been designated as "inactive" will be removed.
"ERIC is the best tool out there right now, and it gives us valuable information you can’t get anywhere else," Evans said.
Of those whose registration will be canceled, ERIC identified 255,000 voters who moved out of state and are therefore ineligible to vote in Georgia elections, according to the outlet.
As we have said since 2020.
The GA Election is corrupt and should have been voided.
Numerous Independent investigations clearly showed 1000's of people living in same vacant lots, Voters dead for years, but voted twice in 2020, people registered to vote in more than 1 county/Metro area, Democrat Poll Workers caught with 1000's of illegally printed Absentee ballots, videos of people stuffing ballots in remote ballot boxes with 100's of fake votes, US Postal employees trashing ballots from certain districts. Vans showing up, after the Poll Monitors were forced to leave, voting machines shown to be internet connected and the SW hacked ..... and on and on.
YET! Gov. Kemp and GS SOS Raffensperger found no problems with that election and certified it. Did keeping their jobs helped their decisions?
[ShabelleMedia] ISIS fighters have reportedly attacked a Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... military base, signaling a shift in guerrilla tactics after losing direct battles.
The Lions of Islam raided the military base in the Xabley Mountains, Dhaban Xoogle, Bari region, sparking an exchange of gunfire followed by mortar shelling.
Puntland officials confirmed their forces repelled the attack, killing several turbans.
Reports suggest both sides suffered casualties, with the fighting lasting for hours.
The situation is stable, with Puntland forces in control of the battlegrounds. They have pushed ISIS out of several areas, including Cali Miskaad.
Puntland forces took key positions, including caves used by ISIS fighters as hideouts. Officials vow to remove ISIS from the region, including Cali Miskaad.
Since December, Puntland has been fighting Lions of Islam in the rugged highlands, where they had major bases and caves to hide.
ISIS remains much smaller in number compared to the al-Qaeda-linked group, al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... , which controls large parts of Somalia.
The group’s fighters are estimated to be 1,500, mostly scattered in the al-Maskad region, according to security experts
[HodhodYemenNews] The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled on Tuesday an underground “missile city” containing tunnels filled with thousands of precision-guided missiles of various types, including the ‘Khaybarshegan’, ‘Sejjil’, ‘Emad,’ and ‘Haj Qasem.’
Iranian media reported that the new city was unveiled in the presence of Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri and Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
During the event, Major General Bagheri emphasized the rapid development of Iran’s missile capabilities, noting the continued strengthening of defenses and progress beyond the operation known as “True Promise II,” with a significant portion of the planned implementation completed.
Iran’s military chief claims capabilities are now 10 times stronger than thoseused in October missile attack on Israel; several Iranian-made missiles identified in footage
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps revealed one of its underground "missile cities" to Iranian media outlets Wednesday, as tensions with the West boiled over its nuclear program.
An Israeli flag could be seen placed on the ground in the footage at the unveiling — a practice common in the Islamic Theocratic Republic that allows people to trample the flag as an offense against the Jewish state.
Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, and the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, were present in the footage, touring around on vehicles and speaking to personnel at the undisclosed location.
Bagheri told personnel during the tour of the base that "Iran’s iron fist is far stronger than before," and claimed that Tehran was developing its defensive capabilities faster than its rivals, as quoted by Press TV.
"The enemy will definitely fall behind in this balance of power," he said.
"All the [defensive] dimensions that are required for generating a [military] capability that is 10 times [greater than] the one deployed during Operation True Promise II, has been created," Bagheri added, mentioning Iran’s name for its second missile attack on Israel in October.
Iranian media outlets identified several domestically produced missiles in the footage, including the "Emad," a missile with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles); "Sejil" with 1,500-2,500 kilometers (930 to 1,550 miles); "Qadr H" with 1,700 kilometers (1,056 miles); "Kheibar Shekan," with 1,450 kilometers (900 miles) and "Haj Qassem," with 1,400 kilometers (870 miles).
Iranian media outlets said the base was new, but such a claim could not be verified.
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... launched its first-ever direct attack on Israel in April 2024, firing some 300 attack drones and missiles in response to the killing of several Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... near Tehran’s consulate in Damascus.
Months later, in October, Iran launched some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel in retaliation for the killings of His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> and Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continued as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintained a separate PM in the West Bank. Zapped during the 2023-24 war, to eveyone's satisfaction... , the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... , respectively.
In both instances, the Iranian assaults were largely thwarted by Israel’s air defenses in cooperation with the US and its regional allies. Israel twice bombed Iran in response, the second time destroying much of its air defense systems as well as some rocket and drone manufacturing sites.
Amid growing concern in the West over Iran’s continued nuclear enrichment, US President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... sent the Islamic republic’s leadership a letter offering talks for a new nuclear deal earlier this month while restoring a sanctions campaign and threatening military action if diplomacy is unsuccessful.
The letter was delivered to Tehran on March 12 by UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said Monday the door was open for "indirect negotiation" on the matter but dismissed the prospect of direct talks "until there is a change in the other side’s approach toward the Islamic republic."
The top Iranian diplomat said Tehran would not engage in direct talks with Washington under threats so long as Trump maintains his "maximum pressure" policy of economic sanctions.
Iran, which is sworn to Israel’s destruction, denies seeking a nuclear weapon, but it has ramped up its enrichment of uranium up to 60 percent purity, the only country in the world without a nuclear weapons program to do so, and has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities.
[HodhodYemenNews] US aggression forces resumed airstrikes on Wednesday, striking the Sahar district in Yemen’s Saada governorate.
Security sources in the governorate reported that US warplanes conducted two airstrikes on the eastern part of the city, followed by three more strikes on the Al-Salem district.
Meanwhile, sources in Amran governorate confirmed that US aircraft targeted the Harf Safyan district with two airstrikes. Additionally, five airstrikes hit the outskirts of Saada city.
A local source stated that a total of 17 US airstrikes struck Saada governorate overnight.
Under the Biden administration in 2024, CISA released a "Mobile Communications Best Practice Guidance" for "highly targeted individuals," who were defined as high-ranking government officials or politicians who are "likely to possess information of interest to these threat actors." The document specifically addressed high-targeted politicos and officials, though it noted the guide was "applicable to all audiences."
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The document, published in December, details that highly-targeted government officials should use "end-to-end encrypted communications" as part of its "best practices" advice.
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A Department of Defense memo from 2023 under the Biden administration detailed that while Signal was approved for some use by government officials, they could not use the platform to "access, transmit, process non-public DoD information." CISA's guidance related to Signal was released after the Department of Defense guidance.
Are you telling me that the Signal App, known to have compromises, recommendation for use was made after the election?
[Gateway] A shocking new report reveals that a third of Washington, D.C. district judges were not born in the United States, and to make matters worse, many of them had no prior experience as judges before being appointed.
What are we even doing here?
This was not always the case. There was a time, as recently as the 1980s when all of these judges were American born.
These judges make decisions on incredibly important issues. Is it too much to ask that they be Americans who have experience as judges?
[ZeroHedge] The man was released from prison after serving sentences for sex offences, but was subsequently charged again after assaulting a teenage girl.
The Home Office issued a deportation order, however, the guy successfully appealed it using the European Convention on Human Rights whilst serving another one year sentence in prison.
His legal representatives argued that without proper treatment for his addiction in Pakistan, his “uncontrollable” alcoholism could worsen and potentially lead to “further suffering.”
Respondents on X expressed disbelief at the UK justice system, with many pointing out that there are people currently serving longer prison sentences for spicy tweets.
This case follows similar incidents, including one just last month where another Pakistani pedo was permitted to remain in the UK with a judge ruling that deportation would be “unduly harsh” owing to the fact that his family in Pakistan took a “dim view” of his crimes.
Conservative MP Sir Alec Shelbrooke urged that “The Government needs to stop dangerous criminals being allowed to stay in this country.”
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By all means; let's Join the Commonwealth.
Maybe everyone outside UK, Canada, and A/NZ is sick of this too. Entertaining to think of joining, running and getting club president, and dismissing those three to 3rd tier status.
UK: we are outraged, outraged! with these accusations of the government sponsoring assault on children and we....
US: sh sh shhhsh...Eswatini has the floor
Eswatini: we, the Eswatini, believe pe3dr enablers should be burned at the stake as well.
[ZeroHedge] revelations, Bondi then declared that she had been bamboozled by the FBI’s New York field office. Regardless of how we slice Bondi’s actions, she has to shoulder the blame for the fiasco, because either she lied on national television, or she didn’t diligently review the documents on her “desk.” I’m a charitable person, so I’ll ascribe her actions to incompetence instead of mendacity.
On February 21, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Epstein client list was “sitting on my desk” for review. On February 26, she proclaimed on national television that the “Epstein files” would be released the following day: “What you’re gonna see tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.” But when the highly anticipated tranche of documents was released, her words had been much ado about nothing.
I uploaded Epstein’s Black Book on the internet in 2015, and I believe that’s the closest we’ve come to an Epstein List, because the Black Book contains the names of numerous perps. I also uploaded flight logs from Epstein’s various sojourns, which contain the names of perpetrators, too. In fact, I singlehandedly released more information about the Epstein case in 2015 than Bondi released last month.
In the Epstein List narrative, I’m surmising, Epstein kept a list of his child molesting clients as if he were a travel agent at the Jeffrey Epstein Travel Agency. The List narrative is problematic, because he had their names and numbers in his Black Book.
At best, the Epstein List is wishful thinking. At worst, it’s a contrived meme.
Now … the news cycle is on to the next bright, shiny object, which is the recently released JFK files. But let’s step back and take a hard look at the Epstein case: I’ll demonstrate that we don’t need the fictitious, vaunted Epstein List to have a list of Epstein perpetrators that’s fully grounded in reality.
According to July 8, 2019, New York Times article, federal authorities seized “hundreds—possibly thousands—of sexually suggestive photographs of girls who appear underage, as well as hand-labeled compact discs with titles like ‘Girl pics nude,’ and, with the names redacted, ‘Young [Name] + [Name].’”Judging by the titles on the discs, Epstein was a purveyor of child rape material. The latter disc named by the New York Times is perhaps an indication of blackmail? Moreover, Business Insider reported that an FBI agent later confessed that “hard drives” were taken from the safe.
Lots of previously released names and their stories discussed.
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[JustTheNews] Republicans in Congress have zeroed in on federal judges unilaterally blocking key Trump executive orders on immigration and government reform. The Constitution gives Congress the right to delineate the authority of district courts.
That's great, and no doubt it’ll all get passed in the House. But will any of it get through the Senate?
As President Donald Trump faces stiff challenges from federal judges across the country, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is laying out a sweeping agenda for judicial reform to rein in judges that he says are being overtly political.
In just under 65 days of President Trump’s second term, federal judges have issued at least 15 nationwide injunctions, where single judges on the district court level have attempted to block certain administration policies nationwide. Republicans have roundly decried the injunctions because of their sweeping nature and have accused some of the judges of being motivated by politics instead of sound legal arguments.
“[When] you have a judge whose behavior is so politically, so political against President Trump, you kind of got to start asking the question, really, is this just a bad judicial decision, or is this based on politics?” Jordan told the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show on Tuesday.
THREE REFORMS BEING PROPOSED
Jordan, who leads the House committee responsible for overseeing the federal law enforcement and court system, told Just the News that he is planning to address reforms to the judicial system in three ways: passing legislation to limit nationwide injunctions by individual federal judges; wielding Congress’s appropriations power to curtail judicial activism; and conducting hearings on judicial conduct.
“[There’s] three avenues that Congress has to deal with this situation. One is legislative, and we're already working on that. We've passed the bill out of committee two and a half weeks ago that the Speaker has indicated they're gonna put on the floor next week. But that bill says, when you have one of these federal district judges who issues an injunction, you know, some some judge in Timbuktu California issues an injunction, it should only apply to parties in the case and in that respective jurisdiction, it shouldn't have nationwide application. So we think that makes sense,” Jordan said.
The Judiciary Committee last week approved the “No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025” sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. That legislation would curtail federal judges from making nationwide injunctions in the cases before them, “except in the case of such an order that is applicable only to limit the actions of a party to the case before such district court with respect to the party seeking injunctive relief from such district court and non-parties represented by such a party acting in a representative capacity.”
The bill would provide a new pathway for injunctive relief in cases where three or more states challenge a federal law. In such a case, the challenge would be referred to a three-judge panel selected randomly which would be given the authority to issue the types of nationwide injunctions currently being used by individual federal judges.
The administration has so far faced dozens of lawsuits, mostly over Trump’s executive orders and the actions of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, resulting in injunctions—known as Temporary Restraining Orders—that freeze administration policies as the case is adjudicated. Most of the injunctions have come from the Democratic-friendly Maryland or DC courts, though their rulings currently apply nationwide, frustrating efforts by Trump to enact his agenda.
[DM] The return of Donald Trump to the White House in January unsurprisingly heralded a raft of rapid policy changes.
But the US President's fixation on subsuming Greenland - the world's largest island adrift in icy seas - has the potential to fundamentally reshape the landscape of global security and trade as we know it.
Trump has refused to rule out using military or economic action to acquire the island, leading some analysts to warn that Washington could even attempt to annex the territory in a move shockingly similar to that of Russia wresting control of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office yesterday, the US President made an alarming, if somewhat ambiguous, statement of intent.
'We need Greenland for national security and international security - so I think we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark,' he said.
'If we don't have Greenland, we can't have good national security,' he concluded as his Vice President JD Vance geared up for a visit to a US military base at Pituffik in the island's north.
The Vice President had planned to tour the island and attend a popular dog sled race tomorrow with his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance - but the event was cancelled after widespread anti-American protests from locals and claims the Vances' vacation-like engagements were concealing more sinister motives.
Trump recently said his administration was working with 'people in Greenland' who 'want something to happen' with the US, claiming: 'They're calling us - we're not calling them.'
But opinion polls have shown that nearly all Greenlanders oppose becoming part of the United States, and in recent weeks anti-American protesters have staged some of the largest demonstrations ever seen on the Arctic island.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has firmly opposed Trump's overtures since his return to office, praised Greenlanders' defiance of Washington amid the historic protests.
'The attention is overwhelming and the pressure is great, but it is in times like these that you show what you are made of,' she wrote in an address to the island's inhabitants. 'You have stood up for who you are.'
Danish Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen later piled on, declaring his nation 'would not let the United States decide what the Danish realm, including Greenland, should look like in the future'.
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We need Greenland for national security and international security - so I think we'll go as far as we have to go
So since Putin looks to be getting away with invading another country, Trump is going to give it a shot?
Assuming you're not stupid enough to actually use military force, a word of warning, Mr. President: The Obnoxious New Yorker Persona has a lot of drawbacks.
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I appreciate the Daily Mail going to the trouble of laying it all out for us in such nice detail. But I wonder:
Is GCHQ is trying to get back at Trump for not playing along in Ukraine?
I can't help notice one of the tells for when the DM is trying to sell something: Person X has refused to rule out doing crazy stuff.
Of course Trump has refused to rule out invading Greenland, since that would shut down the conversation. The story stays in the news only if it is about the impending destruction of the current World Order. The Greenland independence movement is just not sexy.
Trump's super power is making deals, not playing armchair general. Although, it is interesting to imagine the New York real estate market with armies and warlords.
A pity we don't have a Rantburg Futures Market for predictions. I would go all in on "Trump doesn't invade Greenland".
This is Egypt, where Mr. Wife almost was arrested for taking a photo of the soldiers standing guard near the Mena House hotel, their sandals and rifles both held together with duct tape, where he had to clean out all the mummified desert rat skeletons from his factory equipment during the start-up debug because no one bothered to look before, and it took the local staff months to notice that the reason his chemicals had not yet arrived is that no one had actually placed his order — and they were the best of Egypt’s best: Mr. Wife got the workers at a local chemical supplier to wear steel-toed shoes by telling them the spilt chemicals on the floor would cause impotence when absorbed through bare feet, but he never did get them to cover the huge hole in the mezzanine floor with anything sturdier than a piece of cardboard so it couldn’t be seen. Inshallah maintenance is the best case there — I wouldn’t trust my life to their equipment on a bet. The culture has changed a great deal since they built the pyramids.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] At least six people have died after a submarine carrying dozens of tourists sank off the coast of Egypt.
A further nine have been injured, four critically, in the disaster which happened around a kilometre off the holiday resort of Hurghada this morning.
The tourist submarine, named Sindbad, had been carrying around 44 international passengers, including children, at the time of the sinking, which took place off the marina of the Sindbad Club Hotel.
Rescue services have so far managed to save 29 people, according to a statement released by the Red Sea governorate.
Egyptian officials have said at least six are dead while Moscow's embassy in Cairo says all passengers were Russian with four of its citizens among the deceased.
According to Russian media, the death toll may be as high as nine with unconfirmed reports claiming that the vessel may have collided with a reef and 'depressurised' at 65ft.
Russian media, citing the Russian consul in Hurghada, has claimed that two children are among the dead, as well as an anesthetist husband and his wife.
The medics were named as Ravil Valiullin, 40, and Kristina, 39, a children’s doctor.
Their daughters, aged ten and 15, who were also reportedly on board the doomed vessel have survived the ordeal. They are now in hospital being treated for their injuries, after being left orphaned by the tragedy.
[FoxNews] U.S. authorities have captured the MS-13 top leader for the U.S. East Coast, the FBI announced on Thursday.
Officials captured the 24-year-old suspect in Woodbridge, Virginia, just south of Washington, D.C. Authorities have yet to release the suspect's name, but they say he is one of the top three leaders of the MS-13 gang in the U.S.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel watched the arrest unfold from a nearby tactical operations center. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and senior DOJ official Emil Bove were also present.
"They executed a clean, safe operation and the bad guys in custody. And thanks to the FBI, we got one of the worst of the worst of the MS-13 off the streets this morning. Virginia and the country is a lot safer today," Bondi told Fox News following the arrest.
More from the Daily Mail about the El Salvadoran illegal picked up in upscale Dale City in Prince William County.
[FoxNews] Ezra Klein said the Obama administration was '0-for-3' on the most ambitious proposals in his stimulus package like high-speed rail
New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein said Wednesday liberals need to get upset over the failed promises of the Biden and Obama presidencies.
Klein joined California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's podcast where he talked about his new book with The Atlantic's Derek Thompson, "Abundance," which examines why liberal government isn't delivering and finds it's often their own well-intentioned policies and regulations getting in the way. He said the Obama and Biden administrations suffered from this problem.
"So much of the political theory of the Biden administration was that if you can show liberal democracy can deliver, you will pull people out of wanting these strongmen who say they're going to burn the whole thing down and give you something out of the ashes," Klein said.
He gave the example of the Biden administration celebrating the $42 billion for rural broadband passed in the 2021 infrastructure bill. But with all the multi-stage processes and red-tape, "By the end of the administration, of the 56 states and jurisdictions that were trying to apply for the money, three had made it through."
"If the things don't move fast enough, if they don't get to the people fast enough, it's much harder for liberal democracy to make the case that it delivers," he said.
Klein then recalled a conversation he had with former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau about California’s high-speed rail effort, which has been in the works for almost two decades with little progress.
"I was saying that, the stimulus bill under Obama, that had three big headline projects for reinvestment," he said. "It had high-speed rail, it had smart grid, and it had a nationwide system of interoperable health records."
"I remember those days," Newsom responded.
"Yeah. 0-for-3," Klein said. "At some point, we gotta be upset about this, you know?"
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It's easy to promise stuff when somebody else has to do it.
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actually the USA has made some progress on 'smart grid' which actually started under W - a long way still to go
The Cal HSRail is under construction and has gobbled up billions of $ so far. It is likely to carry passengers by 2030 or so but ridership is likely to be far below expectations.
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Will it be like BART and be illegal...sorry...require a film permit in order to video the happenings because you are a bigot?
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It is likely to carry passengers by 2030 or so but ridership is likely to be far below expectations.
There is no business model when LA or SD to SFO flights are <$100. Currently only a mid-central valley segment is under construction with NO actual track laid (other than a single siding...with great fanfare). California high-speed rail project needs $7 billion by next summer
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[FoxNews] Attempted Chinese southern border crossings spiked between 2022 and 2025
U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia have started to target the northern U.S. border with Canada, FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers Wednesday.
During testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee, Patel told lawmakers that the "effective resolution" to the crisis at the southern border has caused adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran to shift their resources to targeting the U.S. northern border.
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China has fentanyl labs in Canada. And chinese fentanyl precursors are shipped to Canada to be manufactured and shipped across the formerly porous northern border into the Unites States.
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One could be forgiven for thinking that Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China. It does explain their reaction to Trump's demand to kill the fentanyl trade or get some tariffs. I hear the ports have a lot of Chinese "influence" too.
[FoxNews] New York City arts college, The Cooper Union, is attempting to thwart the Trump administration’s efforts to deport foreign students accused of supporting Hamas, a campus-wide email obtained by Fox News Digital revealed.
"The news of the arrest by federal agents of a Columbia University graduate and the raid of two Columbia University dorm rooms in the last week is deeply troubling," the email began, sent by Associate Dean of Students Grace Kendall and Vice President for Enrollment Troy Kogburn.
"In addition, the State Department announced a new effort to utilize AI to review student visa holders’ social media accounts to identify individuals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups. Please know that we are monitoring these situations closely," it continued.
The email went on to warn students with "less secure" immigration status about the risks associated with protest activity and social media posts about protest activity. It also announced that the administration would be distributing "Know Your Rights" pamphlets to assist students who fear deportation, and listed members of faculty who could provide assistance.
If this gets the vicious idiots to stop their “protests” and to stop attacking those they assume to be Jewish, and to be considerably more circumspect in their social media posts and social associations, I am all for it. The goal is not kicking them out of the country, but to get them and their fellow travelers to act as if they were civilized. Although actually this lot have already so badly misbehaved that all this will do is improve the school atmosphere until they’ve been picked up and kicked out. But at least those who follow will understand the risks and act accordingly.
"The Cooper Union does not tolerate nor support endorsement of terrorist groups or their actions. Our focus is 100% on supporting our full community of students, including international students. The purpose of our communication was not to endorse any student actions or positions, but rather to educate our students so they can make informed decisions," a representative for Cooper Union told Fox News Digital.
The university has emerged as a symbol of the nationwide antisemitic surge on college campuses. In October 2023, weeks after Hamas launched their brutal terrorist attack which saw the most Jews killed on a single day since the Holocaust, Jewish students were forced to take refuge in a library as they were surrounded by an unruly mob of anti-Israel demonstrators who beat on the doors and banged on the windows of the space.
The Lower East Side school was harshly reprimanded by a Manhattan judge last month after it argued a lawsuit brought by students in the matter should be dismissed on the grounds that they should have left the building or hid in a room above the library.
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Was at the Dr 2 days ago - saw stacks of these fliers - all printed up by SEIU for an org called iAmerica.
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To all NON-US CITIZENS in the USA, supporting HAMAS, a known US DHS/FBI/DOJ listed Terrorist group that brags of it murders, child rapes, kidnapping Group and more.
If you assault, occupy a building, keep others from attending school, vandalize properties, vehicles, arson, toss firebombs, block emergency traffic, and hold people against their will.
Consider yourself lucky IF you are only deported and banned from returning. An don't have to spend time in prison, where you will likely end up being a much loved shower room play toy.
The above suggests they are only interested in legal immigrants, which very likely is not true. At least until now — at some point in the near future it no doubt will become illegal to unionize illegal aliens, no matter how well intentioned.
[FoxNews] Human smugglers were openly flaunting their illegal excursions on TikTok, using the hashtag #CartelTok
The popular social media platform TikTok has removed a hashtag from its search engine after cartel members were caught using it to highlight their crimes and recruit human smugglers.
A TikTok spokesperson told Fox News Digital that in addition to removing "#CartelTok," from its search engine, the platform also removed "known leaders of cartels or gangs" that violated the organization's policy.
Many of the videos in question showed cartels flashing piles of money, jewelry and luxury items that were used to entice teens in America and Mexico to smuggle illegal immigrants across the U.S. border.
The videos proved that the cartel members were not afraid to boast about their illegal operations, often flaunting their cash on TikTok and other apps, bragging about the ease at which they can evade authorities.
"Carteltok is WILDDD," read a caption from a TikTok video posted on X.
"On TikTok there's currently a trend called 'carteltok', where Mexican cartels hire drug mules who are then paid in crypto. It almost seems as if the cartels are striking back at the Trump administration," another X user wrote, sharing another video of cartels at work from another social media site.
The smugglers not only targeted TikTok for their recruitment, they used other social media sites, including Snapchat and Instagram, among others. They then use encrypted messaging apps, usually WhatsApp, to communicate anonymously with cartel members, getting audio or text messages instructing them where to pick up their human payloads, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Chris Olivarez previously told Fox News Digital.
Representatives for Snapchat, TikTok and Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, told Fox News Digital that they have policies in place to crack down on such content and remove such content when it does appear on their platforms.
In August, 22 people were indicted in Arizona for allegedly recruiting truck drivers using Snapchat posts of cash glamorizing illegal migrant smuggling. Many of the posts claimed drivers can make hefty sums of money without the risk of being arrested.
In September, an Arizona man was sentenced to 71 months in prison for transporting hundreds of illegal immigrants, and investigators found Snapchat posts in which he gloated about cramming people into overcrowded vehicles in unsafe conditions. He also used minors to facilitate certain smuggling operations.
A conviction for conspiring to transport illegal aliens for profit carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Arizona.
[FoxNews] US District Judge Ana Reyes denied the DOD's motion to dismiss her order
A federal judge denied President Donald Trump’s administration’s efforts to ban transgender people from joining the military, which was set to go into effect Friday.
The Department of Justice has since filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia.
Washington, D.C.-based U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, on Wednesday, denied the government’s motion to dissolve her order that prevents the military from denying transgender people the ability to enlist in the military.
Reyes presided over a hearing on March 21, when she requested the Department of Defense (DOD) delay its original March 26 deadline to enact the policy.
On March 21, the defendants in the suit, who include Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, filed a motion to dissolve the injunction blocking the Pentagon's ban. The filing argued that the policy is not an overarching ban but instead "turns on gender dysphoria – a medical condition – and does not discriminate against trans-identifying persons as a class."
The Trump administration further requested that, if the motion to dissolve is denied, the court should stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal.
The government cited new guidance issued March 21 that it expected to enact the policy if not for the ongoing litigation. The guidance clarified that "the phrase ‘exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria’" solely applies to "'individuals who exhibit such symptoms as would be sufficient to constitute a diagnosis.'"
Reyes said she wanted to allow more time for the appeals process. She also said she had previously allowed plenty of time to appeal her earlier opinion blocking the ban from going into effect.
On Saturday, Hegseth said Reyes should report to military bases since she is "now a top military planner."
"Since 'Judge' Reyes is now a top military planner, she/they can report to Fort Benning at 0600 to instruct our Army Rangers on how to execute High Value Target Raids…after that, Commander Reyes can dispatch to Fort Bragg to train our Green Berets on counterinsurgency warfare," Hegseth wrote on X.
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"Gender dysphoria is not like other medical conditions, something Defendants well know," Reyes continued. "It affects only one group of people: all persons with gender dysphoria are transgender and only transgender persons experience gender dysphoria."
What vision requirements for service?
Only the blind cannot see.
Are they a excluded class?
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Since any human is physically & genetically what they are, NOT what they wish, want and or think.
Then just require them:
* to pass a mental test,
* pass a background check for a clearance,
* dress and wear an assigned uniform,
* pass all 365/200 and annual PT tests,
* and be placed in proper troop quarters.
All according to their physical genitalia and XY or XX Chromosome.
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Place every one in the same unit. Give them BS duties and no clearances. A window seat if you will. Not as punishment but keep them together and safe, and keep our trust away from them.
Aren’t they required to apply for asylum in the first country they arrive to? In this case, that would be Belarus.
[BBC] Poland has temporarily suspended the right of migrants arriving in Poland via its border with Belarus to apply for asylum.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced it would be happening after the controversial bill, which will allow Polish authorities to suspend this right for up to 60 days at a time, was signed into law by President Andrzej Duda.
Tusk had said it would be adopted "without a moment's delay" while Duda said the changes were needed to strengthen security on the country's borders.
But the law has been criticized by rights groups including Human Rights Watch, which said the EU should take legal action against Poland if it was implemented.
The group urged the country's parliament last month to reject the bill, saying it "flies in the face of Poland's international and EU obligations" and could "effectively completely seal off the Poland-Belarus border, where Polish authorities already engage in unlawful and abusive pushbacks".
The government said previously the suspension would only be applied temporarily to people who pose a threat to state security, for example "large groups of aggressive migrants trying to storm the border".
Exemptions will be made for unaccompanied minors, pregnant women, the elderly or unwell, anyone exposed to "real risk of serious harm" by being returned and citizens of countries accused of conducting the instrumentalization of migration - like Belarus
Tusk has dismissed criticism from human rights groups.
"Nobody is talking about violating human rights, the right to asylum, we are talking about not granting applications to people who illegally cross the border in groups organised by Lukashenko," he said in October.
[LawEnforcementToday] On Wednesday, March 26th, it was announced that the United States Supreme Court has voted to uphold a Biden administration effort to regulate "ghost gun" kits that allow people to easily obtain parts needed to assemble firearms from online sellers.
Will Trump will rescind the Biden Regime's clear violation of the US Constitution Bill Of Rights?
Do the SCOTUS Justices understand the words "Shall Not Infringe"?
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Washington gun law does a great breakdown of this. They didn't really "uphold" it, but more kicked it down to the lower courts again as a lot of the definitions and rules were a mess.
Polymer arms got the worst of it as their "80%" didn't need drilling to put together and the SC slapped that one down. The rest where you do have to do minor tooling should withstand the added court scrutiny .
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If Trump blocks the import of 200-300k students from China paying a full ride at American colleges, that will change some stuff in American academia.
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what was supposed to collapse?
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[FoxBusiness] Auto industry groups warn that tariffs could lead to higher prices for car buyers, causing automakers to slow production and cut jobs.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced new tariffs on auto imports during a press conference at the White House.
The president said he will impose a 25% tariff on all imported autos, up from 2.5% previously. He indicated the auto tariffs will take effect on April 2, when his reciprocal tariff plans are also expected to be announced.
Trump, who views tariffs as a way to bring in tax revenue to finance his plans for tax cuts while spurring a revitalization of domestic manufacturing, previously suggested that he could impose auto tariffs that run "in the neighborhood of 25%."
In his Oval Office remarks, Trump said the tariffs "will lead to the construction of a lot of plants, in this case auto plants, and you're going to see numbers that you haven't seen both in terms of employment. It take a little while, you'll have great construction numbers initially, and then ultimately you're going to have a lot of people making a lot of cars."
Trump automakers' responses to his tariff plans varied in conversations he had with them.
"If they have factories here, they are thrilled. If they don't have factories here, they're going to have to get going and build them because otherwise they have to pay tariffs. It's very simple. And most of them have pretty big factories here," he explained.
Canada's government signaled it plans to impose retaliatory tariffs. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a post on X that Trump's 25% tariffs "on cars and light trucks will do nothing more than increase costs for hard-working American families."
Tariffs could increase the cost of cars for consumers by thousands of dollars, according to analyses by auto industry groups. Higher costs could cause automakers to curb production and potentially lead to job losses in the industry, the Center for Automotive Research said.
The U.S. imported $474 billion of automotive products last year, including passenger cars worth $220 billion. The biggest suppliers were Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Canada and Germany, all of which are close U.S. allies.
Cox Automotive said Wednesday that if there aren't tariff carve-outs for the auto industry's imports from Canada and Mexico, the cost of a U.S.-made vehicles would increase by about $3,000, while car prices for vehicles made in Canada or Mexico would rise $6,000.
It expects that by mid-April, there will be disruption to "virtually all" North American vehicle production, leading to about 20,000 fewer vehicles produced per day, or about a 30% hit to production.
"Over the longer term, we expect sales to fall, new and used prices to increase, and some models to be eliminated if those tariffs persist, and we've yet to hear details about tariffs on the European Union, Japan and South Korea," Cox Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke said in a report by Reuters. "Bottom line, lower production, tighter supply, and higher prices are around the corner, reminiscent of 2021."
Markets were down Wednesday in anticipation of the tariff announcement, with the S&P 500 down 1.12%. Shares in automakers also declined, with Tesla down 5.6% and General Motors down 3.1%.
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I think the big three can shift capacity back to the states. I think the Japanese and Koreans can to a certain extent. I suspect that the Europeans will not be able to shift as much. The company that I work for mirrors the construction industry. We are vertically integrated but we get steel from Canada. It will be a scramble for us, but I can’t even imagine what a mess it will be for logistics folks at Stellantis. They were in the midst of buying out all their experienced folks. Hopefully, the COOps are proficient at proficient at import export details.
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[NewsFront] 21:22 Ukrainian International Maxx Pro caught on a pre-planted mine, then finished off with a drone, Vrem'evsky direction —video. 20:53 Destruction of the Ukrainian engineering vehicle Wisent 1 in Sumy Oblast —video.
20:00 "Bird" pursued enemy M-2 Bradley, then waited for the militants to start climbing out of it, and was dropped on them.
19:16 Around 17:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
19:03 Strike drone crews of the Southern Military District struck personnel and equipment of Ukrainian militants in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
One of the strike UAV crews destroyed an assault group of Ukrainian militants who were disembarking from an armored vehicle.
18:01 Joint work of UAV operators and artillery crews of the 64th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 1198th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 35th Combined Arms Army of the Vostok group.
Far Eastern soldiers smashed to pieces the positions and fortifications of Ukrainian soldiers in the Pologsk direction, video.
17:32 Servicemen of the North group of troops revealed enemy infantry movement. The detected targets were quickly destroyed by FPV drone crews of the 44th Army Corps.
17:30 Zaporizhia direction
Kamensko-Orekhovsky area.
Intensive clashes. Counter battles in the area of Lobkovoe - Stepnoe (Stepovoe) - Malye Shcherbakii - Shcherbaki. The Ukrainian Armed Forces counterattack. Airborne units of the 108th and 247th Airborne Regiments repel enemy attacks and continue to push through them in Lobkovoe and Shcherbaki.
Lobkovoe is almost completely under our control. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are still holding the northern outskirts. In Shcherbaki, they have occupied the southern part beyond the highway.
Our artillery and aviation are intensively processing the identified enemy positions in Novoandreyevka.
In the area of Rabotino - Malaya Tokmachka - there are positional battles, in places with local advances of our units.
17:09 Russian Armed Forces storm Volnoye Pole in the South Donetsk direction, –MAP.
16:01 Attack aircraft of the Rus detachment of the 88th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the volunteer corps, operating as part of the Southern group of troops, evacuated the wounded under heavy fire during the assault on the stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Chasov Yar, –video.
14:18 Belgorod borderland
Since the morning the enemy has been active in the area of Demidovo, Popovka and Grafovka.
The artillery is working intensively. The Ukrainians do not give up their attempts to make another passage in the obstacles. This time on the approaches to Popovka, using two IMRs covered by two BMPs. The enemy IMR was destroyed at the "dragon's teeth", the second was blown up by a mine. BMPs were destroyed.
The enemy is still present in Demidovka, but is suffering heavy losses. Our units counterattacking in Demidovka are successful.
14:16 Belgorod borderland
Due to weather conditions (fog), the intensity of the fighting has decreased slightly. Especially the use of UAVs.
There are no Ukrops in Popovka; attempts to attack here ended only in losses for them.
The enemy still remains present in Demidovka. The enemy uses buggies and quad bikes for attacks, movement/evacuation, but mostly advances on foot. An attempt to use an armored personnel carrier during the assault near Demidovka ended with it being blown up by a mine.
All attacks by enemy assault groups have been repelled.
Our units are clearing the area.
Overall, the situation in the Krasnoyarsk region remains tense.
14:05 Hit by unmanned aerial vehicles "Geran-2" at the site of preparation for the launch of UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units. Dolinskoye settlement, Zaporizhia region.
12:39 Today at noon the enemy, using an engineering vehicle, attempted to make a breach in our fortifications on the border with the Krasnoyarsk district of the Belgorod region.
Ukrainian technology destroyed on the approaches to the "dragon's teeth".
11:06 In the area of the settlement Maryino (Sumy region) FPV operators GV "Sever" opened the movement of an SUV with Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who were trying to break into the territory of the Belgorod region under cover of night.
The kamikaze drone Severian confidently dived onto the windshield of a pickup truck, destroying the equipment and manpower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
09:56 In Kursk region destroyed the rarest CRARRV (Challenger Armoured Repair and Recovery Vehicle) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is used together with Challenger 2 tanks. This is one of the few vehicles capable of repairing and restoring these British tanks in the field.
09:18 Destruction of an enemy UAV crew in the area of the Dyleevka railway station north of Dzerzhinsk, –MAP.
08:18 Signalmen of the command brigade of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the "West" group provide command of the association with reliable communications.
Military personnel lay cables, install repeaters, set up satellite channels, and, in the event of damage, restore communications under fire.
07:35 Changes tomapover the past 24 hours:
The enemy was driven out of the Sudzha border crossing;
Mirnoye was liberated;
Malye Shcherbaki was liberated;
Advance in the Lobkovo area;
The Russian Armed Forces are fighting for Veselovka.
07:19 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed nine Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:
Five over the territory of the Belgorod region,
Two over the territory of the Kursk region,
Two over the waters of the Black Sea.
05:01 Calculations of the TOS "Solntsepek" of the "Vostok" group of forces destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds. South Donetsk direction.
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[Regnum] Residents of the capital will be able to see a partial solar eclipse on Saturday, March 29. This was reported by Professor of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sergei Bogachev .
"The maximum eclipse will occur around 14:50-15:10 Moscow time. But it will be noticeable only in the north of the country. In Moscow, the Moon will cover less than 10% of the solar disk, and in St. Petersburg - about 20% ," he noted in a conversation with the Moscow city news agency.
Bogachev also clarified that a similar eclipse will also occur on September 21, but residents of the European part of Russia will not be able to see it.
As reported by the Regnum news agency , a total solar eclipse occurred on April 8, 2024. For some of the inhabitants of the Earth, the Moon completely blocked the Sun and cast a shadow on the surface of the planet, the width of which was 198 km.
The peak of the eclipse was observed by residents of Mexico - for them, the sunlight dimmed for 4 minutes and 28 seconds. This happened at 21:17 Moscow time in the north of the country.
[BBC] "mass exportation of children" by private agencies that were driven by profit, and found examples of fraud, falsified records and coercion.
South Korean governments committed numerous human rights violations over decades in a controversial programme that sent at least 170,000 children and babies abroad for adoption, a landmark inquiry has found.
It said the government's lack of oversight enabled the "mass exportation of children" by private agencies that were driven by profit, and found examples of fraud, falsified records and coercion.
Since the 1950s, South Korea has sent more children abroad for adoption than any other country, with most sent to Western countries.
South Korea has sinced moved to tighten its adoption processes, but some adoptees and their biological parents say they are still haunted by what they went through. The BBC spoke to one woman who claimed her adoptive parents "took better care of the dog than they ever did of me".
The report was released on Wednesday by the independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission following an investigation that began in 2022.
Since then, 367 adoptees - all of which were sent overseas between 1964 and 1999 - had filed petitions alleging fradulent practices in their adoption process.
Some 100 petitions have been analysed so far, of whom 56 adoptees were recognised as victims of human rights violations. The commission is still investigating other cases, with the inquiry set to end in May.
In the aftermath of the Korean war, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world and few families were keen on adopting children.
South Korea's government then began a transnational adoption programme handled by private agencies, which were given significant powers through special adoption laws.
But there was a "systemic failure in oversight and management", which led to numerous lapses committed by these agencies, according to the report.
The report noted that foreign agencies had demanded a set number of children every month and Korean agencies complied, "facilitating large-scale intercountry adoptions with minimal procedural oversight".
With no government regulation on fees, the Korean agencies charged large amounts and demanded "donations", which turned adoptions into "a profit-driven industry", according to the report.
Other lapses include adoptions conducted without proper consent from birth mothers and inadequate screening of adoptive parents.
The agencies also fabricated reports that made children appear as if they were abandoned and put up for adoption; and intentionally gave children wrong identities.
Because many adoptees had false identities listed in their paperwork, they now struggle to obtain information about their birth families and are left with inadequate legal protection, the report noted.
The commission has recommended the government deliver an official apology, and to comply with international standards on transnational adoptions.
South Korea has moved to tighten its adoption processes in recent years. In 2023, it passed a law ensuring that all overseas adoptions would be handled by a government ministry instead of private agencies, which is due to come into effect by July.
The South Korean government has yet to respond to Wednesday's report.
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I know we're supposed to treat them as an ally, but have no conviction about any Asian countries. They have no real conviction about right and wrong, good or evil, God or other. They do what they wish to do.
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...few families were keen on adopting children.
Koreans wouldn't adopt 'out of blood' (aka kin) children. A long cultural tradition. If Koreans wouldn't adopt them, someone else would. There is also the racial stigma with a lot of GI babies.
I know we're supposed to treat them as an ally, but have no conviction about any Asian countries. They have no real conviction about right and wrong, good or evil, God or other. They do what they wish to do.
Applies across the board. We may have shared common interest, that's about it. Witness the UK, Canada, Australia throwing out hundreds of years of English laws and rights happening right now.
[BBC] Thousands of people in Turkey have turned out for a seventh night of protests which have so far seen more than 1,400 people detained, including students, journalists and lawyers.
The nightly unrest began last Wednesday when the city's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - who is seen as the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival - was arrested on corruption charges.
Rights groups and the UN have condemned the arrests and the use of force by police on the protesters.
Imamoglu said the allegations against him were politically motivated, a claim the Turkish president has denied.
Speaking to a group of young people at a Ramadan fast-breaking meal in Ankara on Tuesday, President Erdogan urged patience and common sense amid what he described as "very sensitive days."
He added that people who want "to turn this country into a place of chaos have nowhere to go", and the path protesters have taken is "a dead end".
On Tuesday evening, thousands of students from many universities in Istanbul met in Maçka Park and then marched towards Şişli.
Turkey's main opposition party said Tuesday would be the last nightly vigil in Istanbul but called for a mass rally on Saturday to demand early elections
Authorities in Istanbul banned protests and closed some roads "in order to maintain public order" and "prevent any provocative actions that may occur".
As students marched through the Nisantasi district they chanted "government, resign!" and waved flags and banners as they were watched by a large deployment of riot police.
Many students had their faces covered with scarves or masks, and acknowledged they feared being identified by the police.
Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), said that Tuesday's rally outside Istanbul's City Hall would be its last in a run of nightly gatherings - and that it is planning a rally in the city on Saturday.
"Are you ready for a big rally in a large square in Istanbul on Saturday?" Ozgur Ozel told crowds.
"To support Imamoglu, to object to his arrest, to object to the detention of each of our mayors. To demand transparent, open, live broadcast trials, to say that we have had enough and we want early elections."
Since last Wednesday, Turkey's interior minister said 1,418 protesters have been detained following the days of demonstrations that the government has deemed "illegal."
Posting on social media Ali Yerlikaya wrote: "While there are currently 979 suspects in custody, 478 people will be brought to court today.
"No concessions will be made to those who attempt to terrorise the streets, to attack our national and moral values, and to our police officers."
Elsewhere on Tuesday, seven journalists appeared in court including AFP news agency photographer Yasin Akgül who had been covering the demonstrations.
AFP chairman Fabrice Fries has written a letter addressed to the Turkish presidency urging Erdogan to "intervene" in Akgul's imprisonment which he described as "unacceptable".
"Yasin Akgül was not part of the protest," Fries said. "As a journalist, he was covering one of the many demonstrations that have been organized in the country since Wednesday 19 March.
"He has taken exactly 187 photographs since the start of the protests, each one a witness to his work as a journalist."
In Washington, Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced "concerns" following a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, the US State Department said in a statement.
Imamoglu was one of more than 100 people detained last week as part of an investigation. Others arrested included politicians, journalists and businessmen.
His arrest does not prevent his candidacy or election as president, but he will not be able to run if he is convicted of any of the charges against him.
The opposition mayor is seen as one of the most formidable rivals of Erdogan, who has held office in Turkey for 22 years as both prime minister and president.
Erdogan's term in office is due to expire in 2028, and under the current rules, he cannot stand again – but he could call an early election or try to change the constitution to allow him to remain in power for longer.
Turkey's Ministry of Justice has criticised those connecting Erdogan to the arrests, and insisted on its judicial independence.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:58 Russia is trying to add its conditions to the ceasefire agreement in the Black Sea, but the US must ensure silence at sea. This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron.
21.43 Russian war criminals carried out drone strikes on Kharkiv, there is damage to civilian infrastructure, a 12-year-old girl was injured. This was reported on their Telegram channels by the chairman of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov and the mayor Igor Terekhov.
20.57 Explosions were heard in Kharkov on the evening of March 26. Russian troops are attacking the city with "shaheds". Kharkov Mayor Igor Terekhov reported this on Telegram.
20:45 French President Emmanuel Macron said that Paris will provide 2 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine. He made the corresponding statement at a press conference.
20.17 Russian troops struck the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region with various types of weapons. Four people were injured. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak.
19.37 Ukrainian defenders have repelled Russian occupiers near Vovchansk: they repelled another offensive by the invaders, destroying both the equipment and the Russian soldiers themselves. This was reported by the operational-strategic group of forces Khortytsia on Telegram.
19.19 In Sumy Oblast, mandatory evacuation was announced from Osoyevka, Khmelevka, Veseloye and Lozovoye. This was reported by the press service of the Sumy OVA.
19:00 Relations between Ukraine and the United States have returned "to the right track." This was stated by the head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, in a comment to Reuters . According to him, the Ukrainian side demonstrated at the talks in Saudi Arabia that it is very serious, and the Americans understood this.
18:59 The Air Force has published the first interview with a Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot. The pilot spoke about combat missions, tactics, and the team that successfully mastered Western technology and new approaches to its use. The Ukrainian Air Force Command published the corresponding interview on its YouTube channel.
18.24 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived in the capital of France, Paris. This was reported by the head of state's press secretary, Serhiy Nikiforov. Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron will meet in the evening. They will agree on their positions ahead of the "coalition of the willing" summit.
17.59 In Donetsk Oblast, they are planning to increase the evacuation of families with children by force. This was reported by the head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, Vadim Filashkin.
Currently, forced evacuation of families with children is taking place from settlements located 10 kilometers from the front line. But this distance is planned to be increased to 15 km.
17.42 A diesel fuel tank has been damaged at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgy Tykhy reported . The fuel that spilled from the tank was enough to power the nuclear power plant's emergency generators for 25 days.
17.33 In the Kherson region, law enforcement officers detained two officials of a military unit who demanded money from servicemen for the accrual of fictitious “combat” payments.
Thus, in 2024, the perpetrators illegally received almost one and a half million hryvnia.
The penalty for the incriminated article (receiving an undue benefit - Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) provides for up to ten years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.
17:00 Since the beginning of the current day, 156 combat clashes have occurred on the front, a third of which were in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00.
16.03 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine denied Russia's statement about drone attacks. The Ukrainian military did not strike Russian energy infrastructure in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, nor energy facilities in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
15.59 The Russian occupation court sentenced Energodar resident and Zaporizhzhya NPP employee Sergey Poting to 19 years in prison. This was reported by the city mayor of Energodar Dmitry Orlov.
Sergei Poting is an engineer at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, a civilian, who was kidnapped by Russians on June 23, 2023 and has been illegally held for almost 2 years.
He is facing trumped-up charges of "terrorism."
15:57 Russians are trying to group and consolidate in the area of the settlements of Novenkoye and Zhuravka in Sumy region in order to separate or cut off the logistics routes of the Defense Forces, which are supporting the operation in Kursk region. This was reported by the spokesman of the State Border Service of Ukraine Andriy Demchenko.
15:36 The Russian Federation is increasing the number of "shaheed" crews to increase launches and is preparing new sites. This was reported by the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, Andrey Kovalenko.
15.24 As of today, there are about 2,000 Russian military personnel on the territory of Belarus, who are engaged in issues of support and logistics. This was reported by the spokesman of the State Border Service of Ukraine Andrei Demchenko. According to him, this is not about combat units that can conduct assault operations.
14.50 In Sumy, 108 people sought medical assistance as a result of the Russian strike on a residential area on March 24, including 24 children; 31 people were hospitalized.
14:25 A military court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don sentenced 23 Ukrainian prisoners of war, who served in the Azov regiment at different times , to imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony.
Yaroslav Zhdamarov, Aleksandr Merochenets, Nikita Timonin, Aleksandr Mukhin, Oleg Tishkul and Artur Gretsky were sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security penal colony. Aleksandr Irkh and Artem Grebeshkov were sentenced to 20 years, Oleg Mezhgorodsky to 17 years, Oleg Zharkov to 13 years, Anatoly Gritsik to 19 years and Aleksey Smykov to 23 years. They all plan to appeal the verdict.
Eleven people were sentenced in absentia because they returned to Ukraine as part of the exchange. David Kasatkin and Dmitry Labinsky were sentenced to 23 years in a maximum-security penal colony.
14.13 The agreement on a "moratorium" on strikes on energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine is a good step forward, and it must be observed. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He praised the American side for a "pragmatic and constructive dialogue" and did not forget to criticize Ukraine.
13.46 Sanctions against Russia cannot be eased because it will continue to promote deception rather than negotiations. This was stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga.
13.19 SBU officers detained two Russian agents who were preparing a double terrorist attack near the TCC in Ternopil . Two drug addicts from Poltava region worked for the Russians. They were looking for money "for a fix" in Telegram channels, and there they were recruited by the Russians.
13:13 On the eve of the National Guard Day of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky met with NGU servicemen, awarded them state awards, conferred officer ranks, and presented combat flags and ribbons of honorary distinction.
12:45 In their statement after the talks in Riyadh, the Russians said that the ceasefire on strikes against energy facilities had allegedly been in effect since March 18. But since then they have attacked energy facilities at least eight times. This was reported by adviser to the President of Ukraine Dmitry Litvin.
12:26 Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said that Russia seeks to end the war against Ukraine by 2026, since a protracted war will not allow it to compete with the United States and China.
According to him, the Kremlin has developed 15 scenarios of possible military conflicts until 2045, six of which concern Northern Europe and four concern Poland.
Skibitsky stressed that Ukraine plays a key role in the new European security system.
11:59 President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded the honorary distinction "For Courage and Bravery" to three regiments, two brigades and a separate battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine. The decrees were published on the website of the head of state. The awards were received by the 50th Regiment named after Colonel Semen Vysochan, the 36th Regiment, the 34th Kherson Regiment, the 17th Poltava Brigade, the 13th Operational Purpose Brigade and the 15th Separate Battalion.
11:19 In the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, military correspondent of the First Channel Anna Prokofieva died, who was in the combat zone in the village of Demidovka on an editorial mission. According to one version, 35-year-old Anna died as a result of a drone strike. According to another version, she had a fatal shrapnel wound. In recent days, Prokofieva worked in Sudzha and participated in the evacuation of local residents. The First Channel confirmed Prokofieva's death and added that cameraman Dmitry Volkov was also wounded.
10:48 Last year, Russia increased its import of Chinese machine tools for the defense industry. The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR MO) published data on 37 units of foreign equipment used by the Russian military-industrial complex, in particular, the Almaz-Antey enterprise, which produces anti-aircraft weapons, and the largest Russian manufacturer of tanks and armored vehicles - Uralvagonzavod. Among the published equipment are Chinese machine tools purchased by Uralvagonzavod in 2023-2024.
11.44 The 117 drones that Russia used against Ukraine last night are 117 proofs that Moscow is dragging out this war. President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote about this in Telegram . In his opinion, launching such large-scale strikes after ceasefire negotiations is clearly showing everyone in the world that Russia is not going to make real peace.
10.31 Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Defense has signed contracts with 12 Ukrainian arms manufacturers for almost UAH 130 billion. We are talking about the Victory Weapons program , which allows building long-term partnerships with Ukrainian manufacturers.
10:20 Law enforcement officers prevented a terrorist attack that Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU) was preparing in frontline Zaporizhia. This was reported on March 26 by the SBU.
9:50 As a result of an attack by Russian drones in the Cherkasy region, an infrastructure facility was damaged. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration Igor Taburets. According to him, at night, "most of the Russian attack drones headed for the regional center." There were no casualties. In the region, the Air Defense Forces destroyed 12 UAVs. An infrastructure facility was damaged. The fire there has already been extinguished. In addition, the drone debris damaged the warehouse premises of a private enterprise.
9:24 On the night of March 26, 2025 (from 20:00 on March 25), the Russians attacked Ukraine with 117 Shahed-type attack UAVs and drone imitators of various types from the following directions: Millerovo, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF), Chauda (Crimea). This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As of 09:00, 56 Shahed-type attack UAVs (drones of other types) were confirmed to have been shot down in the south, north, east and center of the country. 48 enemy drone imitators were lost (without negative consequences).
8:55 On the front, over the past day, March 25, 207 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and the Russian invaders were recorded. The day before - 165. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:30 As a result of the attack by Russian drones in Krivoy Rog, fires broke out, an administrative building, warehouses, an enterprise and six cars were damaged. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak.
8:13 On the night of March 26, Russian troops struck Akhtyrka in Sumy Oblast with drones. As a result of the attack, damage to urban infrastructure was recorded. This was reported by the Sumy Regional Military Administration. It is noted that as a result of the strike by three drones, two apartment buildings, four stores, the administrative premises of an enterprise, several cars, outbuildings and kiosks on the territory of the market were damaged.
7:50 The total combat losses of the Russian Federation since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine amounted to approximately 907,220 people. Over the past 24 hours, 1,280 Russian occupiers were destroyed. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
04:11 Russian troops launched a massive attack on Krivoy Rog. At least 15 explosions thundered in the city. Despite significant destruction, there were no casualties.
03:16 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are the best guarantee of our country's security. However, now - and in the near future - the Ukrainian army is also part of European security. That is why the burden of financing and arming the Armed Forces of Ukraine with our state should also be shared by Ukraine's partners, the president believes.
01:33 The US is considering the conditions set by Russia for the implementation of the ceasefire agreement in the Black Sea. The Kremlin previously announced five conditions for the attacks in the Black Sea to stop, which was previously agreed upon with US representatives in Saudi Arabia.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] The Kremlin reported that Russia is adhering to the agreement with the United States to suspend strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities for 30 days.
Putin's order to ban strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities within the framework of the moratorium is in effect and is being implemented by the Russian military (c) Peskov
Which, in fact, does not prevent strikes on other objects, which was clearly visible at night in the same Krivoy Rog. The tactics of massive strikes with "Geraniums" are justifying themselves.
Meanwhile. The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that the agreement, as expected, is not being implemented.
Despite Zelensky's public statement on the acceptance of the Russian-American agreements reached in Riyadh on March 24 to stop attacks on civilian energy facilities, the Kiev regime continued to strike the energy infrastructure of the Russian Federation.
On the night of March 26, off the coast of Crimea in the area of Cape Tarkhankut, two Ukrainian attack UAVs were shot down by duty air defense systems, the object of the attack of which was the ground equipment of the Glebovskoye underground gas storage facility.
Also, on March 26 at about 4.45 Moscow time in the Bryansk region as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV on a facility of a branch of PJSC Rosseti Centre - Bryanskenergo, a 10 kV high-voltage line was disconnected, as a result of which consumers in the Komarichsky district were left without power.
In addition, on the afternoon of March 25 in the Kursk region as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV on a power facility of a branch of PJSC Rosseti Centre - Kurskenergo, a cascade shutdown of a number of substations occurred, as a result of which more than 4 thousand consumers in the Khomutovsky district were left without power.
Thus, the Kiev regime, continuing to damage the civilian energy infrastructure of Russia, is in fact doing everything to disrupt the Russian-American agreements reached on step-by-step measures to resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
This has never happened before, and here it is again. However, in the current realities, if necessary, it will not be difficult to resume strikes on energy facilities.
More from regnum.ru Kremlin reveals list of targets prohibited for strikes - 1126th day of SVO
On March 25, the Kremlin website published an agreed list of Russian and Ukrainian facilities subject to a temporary 30-day moratorium on strikes against the energy grid. This is the result of a meeting of Russian and US expert groups in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The list includes oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines, and storage facilities, including pumping stations.
The list of targets prohibited from striking also includes infrastructure that generates and transmits electricity, including power plants, substations, transformers, and distributors. The fourth and fifth items on the list are nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams. It is also specified that the moratorium will take effect on March 18, 2025, and that if one of the parties fails to comply with the agreement, the other has the right to consider itself free from obligations to comply with it. This news marks the new, 1,126th day of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.
The initiative to stop the strikes on energy facilities by the parties to the conflict was put forward by President Donald Trump during a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on March 18. The Russian president supported it and gave the Russian Armed Forces the corresponding order. Russian forces neutralized seven of their own drones, which were planned to attack an energy facility in the Nikolaev region - six devices were shot down by the Pantsir air defense missile and gun system, and one was shot down by a Russian Aerospace Forces fighter jet on duty.
Zelensky also gave his consent to stop attacks on energy facilities. But in fact, the Kiev regime continued to deliberately strike Russian peaceful energy infrastructure facilities.
Thus, on March 24, against the backdrop of Russian-American negotiations in Riyadh, which lasted more than 12 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attacked the infrastructure of the Kuban branch of PJSC Rosseti in the Krasnodar Territory, disconnecting the high-voltage line (500 kV) Rostov NPP - Tikhoretsk No. 2.
On the same day, according to the Ministry of Defense, a Ukrainian FPV drone struck the Svatovo gas distribution station of the Luganskgaz Main Gas Pipeline Administration. And on the evening of March 24, in the area of Cape Tarkhankut (Republic of Crimea), Russian air defense systems intercepted an enemy attack UAV, the target of which was the ground equipment of the Glebovskoye underground gas storage facility.
But despite these and other attempts by Kiev to disrupt Russian-American negotiations, the parties note that work within the framework of existing contacts is proceeding in a constructive manner, the Kremlin website reports. Its main result was the development of five points of possible interaction. But there are nuances. For example, ensuring the implementation of the Black Sea Initiative and US assistance in restoring access of Russian exports to the world market are possible with the lifting of a number of restrictions and sanctions from Russia.
Even more from regnum.ru Defense Ministry: Kyiv Continues Strikes on Russian Energy Infrastructure
Despite public statements by the leaders of the Kiev regime, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continued to strike at the Russian energy infrastructure. This was announced on March 26 by the Russian Defense Ministry.
The department noted that on the night of March 26, near the coast of Crimea in the area of Cape Tarkhankut, air defense systems on duty shot down two Ukrainian Armed Forces attack drones that were attempting to attack the ground equipment of the Glebovskoye underground gas storage facility. Another attack was carried out in the Bryansk region.
“On March 26, at about 4:45 Moscow time, in the Bryansk region, as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV on a facility of a branch of PJSC Rosseti Center - Bryanskenergo, a 10 kV high-voltage line was disconnected, as a result of which consumers in the Komarichsky district were left without power supply,” the report says.
In addition, the day before, on March 25, a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attacked a power facility of a Rosseti branch in the Kursk region. A cascade shutdown of a number of substations occurred. More than 4 thousand consumers in the Khomutovsky district of the region were left without power supply.
“Thus, the Kiev regime, continuing to damage Russia’s civilian energy infrastructure, is in fact doing everything it can to disrupt the Russian-American agreements on step-by-step measures to resolve the Ukrainian conflict,” the Defense Ministry emphasized.
[FoxNews] DOGE claims it has saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it had terminated 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion Tuesday, including a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) consulting contract for Peru's climate change activities.
"[Tuesday] agencies terminated 113 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $4.7B and savings of $3.3B, including a $145K USDA consulting contract for ‘Peru climate change activities,'" the department posted on X.
DOGE also announced the Department of Labor had canceled $577 million in "America Last" grants, totaling $237 million in savings.
The funding that was canceled included $10 million for "gender equity in the Mexican workplace," $12.2 million for "worker empowerment in South America" and $6.25 million for "improving respect for workers' rights in agricultural supply chains" in the countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Also eliminated was $5 million to elevate women’s participation in the workplace in West Africa, $4.3 million to assist foreign migrant workers in Malaysia, $3 million to enhance Social Security access and worker protection for internal migrant workers in Bangladesh and $3 million for safe and inclusive work environments in the southern African country of Lesotho.
The department has canceled numerous diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at federal agencies, consulting contracts, leases for underused federal buildings and duplicate agencies and programs.
As of March 26, DOGE claims on its site it has saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer.
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You know I adore you, NN2N1, but please wait until there actually is money to share rather than a slightly smaller gigantic hole before demanding a bigger piece of the pie. In exchange I promise never to collect my own share of Social Security — as Mr. Wife’s someday widow, I mean, because I got sick six months short of being vested in my own right, so all my donations to the fund will not be credited to me.
The Millennial generation is paying twice as much into Social Security as we did per dollar earnt, with the warning that they will never get any of it back because the fund will be bankrupt before they retire.
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AFAIK, there is vesting for Medicare but not for social security. SS payments are based on the average of your highest earning 35 years. Only worked 1 year? That will get averaged in with 34 years of $0 income. You may not get much but you will get something.
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Me? I started paying into Social Security when I was sixteen, Difar Dave, as an assistant gymnastics coach at the local Jewish Community Center (the newspaper route I had from 9th grade didn’t involve government paperwork that I’m aware of), worked full time ages 19-29, then part time for two years in my mid-thirties after we returned from Europe, once trailing daughter #2 was in school full time. I had planned to do something more than wife-and-mothering once the trailing daughters were in junior high, but in my case Chronic Fatigue Syndrome doesn’t allow such luxuries. Social Security informs me every year that I need to work six months more to be vested to get Social Security payments in my own right, but that should I become the widow of a working man I am entitled to some monthly amount that I can’t remember.
For our civil engineers and those who love knowing. Considerably more at the link, including the current situation and what is being done about it.
[BBC] Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept this watery city afloat for more than 1,600 years – using only wood.
As any local knows, Venice is an upside-down forest. The city, which turned 1604 years old on March 25, is built on the foundations of millions of short wooden piles, pounded in the ground with their tip facing downwards. These trees – larch, oak, alder, pine, spruce and elm of a length ranging between 3.5m (11.5ft) to less than 1m (3ft) – have been holding up stone palazzos and tall belltowers for centuries, in a true marvel of engineering leveraging the forces of physics and nature.
In most modern structures, reinforced concrete and steel do the work that this inverted forest has been doing for centuries. But despite their strength, few foundations today could last as long as Venice's. "Concrete or steel piles are designed [with a guarantee to last] 50 years today," says Alexander Puzrin, professor of geomechanics and geosystems engineering at the ETH university in Zurich, Switzerland. "Of course, they might last longer, but when we build houses and industrial structures, the standard is 50 years of life."
[ZeroHedge] That's what Balaji Srinivasan argues in the post below. First, for those unfamiliar with him, here's why his opinion is worth considering here. In a nutshell, it’s because he combines deep technical expertise with a strong track record of predicting where technology is headed.
Srinivasan is a tech entrepreneur, investor, and futurist known for his influential ideas at the intersection of technology, society, and decentralization. He was formerly the CTO of Coinbase and a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms. With a background in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. from Stanford, he’s been a vocal thought leader on trends like blockchain, AI, and the future of governance.
What prompted Balaji's post, was this question on X, about why China was essentially giving away its new AI models.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] 1. "Signal" has not been a secure messenger for a long time. The US intelligence services and a number of NATO countries have full access to it. This was confirmed back in 2023 during the leak of documents from the NATO summit in Vilnius, where Signal was positioned as a "trusted NATO messenger".
2. Back in 2018, it was demonstrated that end-to-end encryption does not protect correspondence and secret group chats. WhatsApp had similar security issues, although the owners of both messengers tried to deny it.
It is important to note that it was in 2018 that one of the creators of WhatsApp (whose owner closely cooperates with the CIA and NSA) began investing in Signal. The encryption protocol implemented in Signal works in all popular instant messengers Microsoft, Meta, Google.
All these companies openly admit that they transfer information to the CIA and NSA (now they complain that "they were forced to", but of course we will not believe them). Since the beginning of 2022, Signal has been headed by the former co-founder of WhatsApp.
At the same time, having access to Signal servers, you can delay the detection of the addition of a new user, making it difficult to determine who added a person to the chat. Of course, having access to the servers, the NSA and the CIA can read any electronic correspondence in the United States, including in supposedly "secret chats"). Here we do not even consider the issues of interception of electronic messages of foreign leaders and politicians, starting with Merkel.
4. The most likely scenario is that US intelligence officers affiliated with Deep State with access to Signal servers secretly added the editor-in-chief of the globalist Atlantic (supposedly by mistake, Waltz) to a secret chat where Trump's team condemned the strikes on Yemen in order to discredit Trump adviser Waltz and the entire Trump team as a whole ("for leaks" and "inadequate level of secrecy"). The technical possibility of doing this has existed since 2018.
Through the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, who allegedly accidentally got into the chat, a campaign is launched with measured publications of secret correspondence, where the editor-in-chief is part of the legend of this correspondence getting into the public domain.
After this, a prepared information attack by media associated with the Democratic Party and Deep State on the Trump administration begins.
5. The goal of this event is to try to force Waltz to resign (following the example of General Flynn's resignation in 2017, who was also ousted on the topic of "non-compliance with secrecy") and to increase internal unrest in the Trump administration. In the long term, to defeat it in its current composition in order to increase the chances of the Democratic Party winning the 2026 midterm elections. Trump's first team was defeated during a series of such scandals involving the intelligence services during 2017. Now the second series.
P.S. Signal was blocked in Russia on 08/09/2024.
WhatsApp is still operating and continues to serve as a tool for collecting information in the interests of the American intelligence services. The story of Waltz and Co. clearly shows what trust in such tools leads to.
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I'm going with #4. Accidents and coincidences, not so much. Unauthorized recipient just happens to be Editor of the Atlantic? Not unlike David Petraeus' attic papers, this was likely a targeted hit job.
The Signal platform is not popular with the Intelligence Community. 'Two birds, one stone.'
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I agree, #4 for sure. Waltz has a disloyal staffer (No doubt there are more). The op was to get Waltz and Hegseth to resign. The Trump team needs to circle their wagons and stay united. There will be more attempts made.
I had Signal loaded on my Cell for a while.
I halted regular ITSEC use about 2 years ago.
As it was said to have been compromised by Israeli Grp. called Cellebrite.
Oddly several more dark, than gray hats I know, verified it compromised.
But then there were the official sources jumping in telling us now it was just a rumor?
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Folks, I think we respect each others. Let's not kid ourselves.
Hegseth posted info that MUST have been top secret at the time he published it. Many of you have military or intelligence background, and you know it.
Signal is not approved for anything classified, not even at the "confidential" level.
Self deleting messages violate the Federal Records Act. Since VP was in that chat, they would also violate the Presidential Records Act.
The Atlantic probably did America a huge favor. It is quite likely that the Russians and Chinese have cracked Signal, and they would certainly stay silent about it. I suppose Signal will no longer be used, and that's a good thing.
I don't allow any company info to be relayed over Signal (or any other messenger). Guess why?
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This is no war plan says Hegseth. Please...
TEAM UPDATE:
TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/ CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.
1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)
1345: "Trigger Based" F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME—also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)
1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)
1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier "Trigger Based" targets)
1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts—also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.
MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)
We are currently clean on OPSEC [operational security]
Godspeed to our Warriors.
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Even sound end-to-end encryption works only end-to-end. Depending on Witkoff's usage and his location during usage of his phone in Russia "breaking" the encryption could have been done literally by having a small camera peek over his shoulder.
I still think this was deliberate, either to protect some Houthi assets fro Israel in a failure theater operation in deference to Russia, or to send some political message unofficially.
If the strikes were successful this would weaken the failure theater hypothesis. If some targeted assets managed to escape time that would sustain the hypothesis.
So, let's say it was an accident info release and some _ _ _ did not assist.
Either way the Atlantic morally turned its back on the US and our Service people, by this Traitorous act for personal fame and profit.
Were they so Anti-Trump Admin set on revenge seeking, that they did not care about the US service personnel or their family members, that they place in harms way?
Did they stop to think, what if RUSSIA/CHINA/IRAN used that data to wipe out the US military operation?
It seems, they were so hellbent on screwing over Trump Admin people, they even shared it to spread the word. Any idiot would have known it was placing the US and our military in harms way, by doing so.
I hope those involved pay dearly for this traitorous act in the courts.
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Quite a few of the parties involved have as much experience with such things as you lot. (Not me, of course, for which we all should be grateful.) It seems to me that a canary trap is plausible, whether aimed at someone in particular —the lawyer who actually tagged the Atlantic editor— or just to surface the fact that there is a canary.
I am not usually cynical, but the fact that it is strongly asserted every time that the editor was included by accident reeks of protesting too much. There is no reason his name should have been on anyone’s address list. Not the principles’, not the aides’, none of them. Not unless someone from the Biden administration preloaded it, and deliberately messed with the name.
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Sorry tw, but that doesn't make sense. The supposed "canary" would have known that he'd be immediately exposed by inviting the journalist.
They key issue is rather: Why was highly sensitive info, that just HAD TO BE top secret at the time it was given, shared over a messenger system, that is - for several legal reasons - NOT ALLOWED to be used?
Anyone in the military who would have shared such info with a journalist would be immediately court-martialed.
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/\ Info/cyber warfare is very sophisticated. If message content can be manipulated (and we know it can be), so can recipients and distro.
With 300m (+/-) potential US email recipients, this Atlantic fellow gets plugged into distro ?
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I would really appreciate if one member with a military background would be so kind to answer my question. How could Hegseth's detailed info about the immediate attacks not be classified info?
My son, who served in Afghanistan, did answer that question, of course. His reply would probably be eaten by your word filter.
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The supposed "canary" would have known that he'd be immediately exposed by inviting the journalist.
Should have, yes, and reportedly was. But the Left and the NeverTrump right really do hold as an article of faith that all those horrible MAGA Trumpsters are mentally retarded, cousin-marrying, toothless rednecks — JD Vance, PhD, Vivek Ramaswamy (who like JD is a Cincinnati local), Elon Musk, and President Trump’s large collection of Successful Very Rich People to the contrary. I am privy to more of those conversations than I would like, with people I otherwise love and respect; it's very annoying to those of us who are reasonably bright and have all our teeth.
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Well that's what I find curious, all the outrage about a high level messaging coordination discussion and not the outrage that it was snooped on.
Some wanna be in an established hack magazine got butterfingered into this chat is not believable. And on the heels of 2 weeks of trying to play gotchya with that glorified Pentagon budget pitch?
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How could Hegseth's detailed info about the immediate attacks not be classified info?
An interesting question. I've heard the transcript has been released, but have not looked at it.
Worth noting is that Signal was approved by the Brandon administration and came pre-installed on multiple devices. I know, not exactly a recommendation, but a fact nevertheless.
Message content by the originator (originator holding classification/de-classification authority) may have been judged to be a non-issue or low risk due to events timeline and limited distribution.
The addition of an unauthorized rogue media recipient via Offensive Info-Warfare methodology was obviously not anticipated. These SOB's are supposed to be on our side,
'Top Level People talking about hush hush things gets snooped on, so they should be prosecuted because they discussed hush hush things.' is an interesting take.
If they were talking about, say, selling US weapons under the table to dubious or even terrorist designated middle east war tribes, selling firearms to Mexican cartels, or other illegal or blatantly immoral activity, one could make a whistleblower case. This conversation has all the drama of how to pick up a first down on 3rd and 1 with Refrigerator Perry and Walter Payton on the roster.
At least they’re supplying their own power instead of draining the entire community.
[BBC] The roar of the Zambezi is deafening as millions of gallons of water crash over rocks and tumble down rapids.
But there's another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush - the unmistakable high-pitched whine of a bitcoin mine.
"It's the sound of money!" says a smiling Philip Walton as he surveys the shipping container with 120 computers busily crunching through complex calculations that verify bitcoin transactions.
In exchange they are automatically rewarded bitcoin by the network.
We're in the far north-western tip of Zambia near the border with the DRC, and of all the bitcoin mines I've visited - this one is the strangest.
Water and electronic equipment don't usually mix well but it's precisely the proximity to the river that's drawn bitcoiners here.
Philip's mine is plugged directly into a hydro-electric power plant that channels some of the Zambezi's torrent through enormous turbines to generate continuous, clean electricity.
More importantly for bitcoin mining - it's cheap.
So cheap it made business sense for Philip's Kenya-based company Gridless to drag its shipping container full of delicate bitcoin mining computers across bumpy narrow roads 14 hours from the nearest major city to set up here.
Each machine makes about $5 (£3.90) a day. More if the price of coins is high, less if it drops.
Occasionally Philip glances down at his smart watch - the home screen showing the ever-changing squiggly line of bitcoin's dollar value.
At the moment it's around $80,000 a coin, but Philip says they can make a profit even when the value of the bitcoin goes low thanks to the cheap electricity on the site and the partnership they have with the energy company.
"We recognised that in order to get better mining economics we needed to partner with the power company here and give them a revenue share. And so the reason we're willing to come out here somewhere so remote is it allows us to effectively get cheaper power," he says.
Zengamina hydro-power plant is huge but technically it's a mini grid - a standalone island of power for the local community.
FROM THE REPORT
The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) is the Intelligence Community’s (IC) official, coordinated evaluation of an array of threats to U.S. citizens, the Homeland, and U.S. interests in the world. A diverse set of foreign actors are targeting U.S. health and safety, critical infrastructure, industries, wealth, and government. State adversaries and their proxies are also trying to weaken and displace U.S. economic and military power in their regions and across the globe.
Both state and nonstate actors pose multiple immediate threats to the Homeland and U.S. national interests. Terrorist and transnational criminal organizations are directly threatening our citizens. Cartels are largely responsible for the more than 52,000 U.S. deaths from synthetic opioids in the 12 months ending in October 2024 and helped facilitate the nearly three million illegal migrant arrivals in 2024, straining resources and putting U.S. communities at risk. A range of cyber and intelligence actors are targeting our wealth, critical infrastructure, telecom, and media. Nonstate groups are often enabled, both directly and indirectly, by state actors, such as China and India as sources of precursors and equipment for drug traffickers. State adversaries have weapons that can strike U.S. territory, or disable vital U.S. systems in space, for coercive aims or actual war. These threats reinforce each other, creating a vastly more complex and dangerous security environment.
Russia, China, Iran and North Korea—individually and collectively—are challenging U.S. interests in the world by attacking or threatening others in their regions, with both asymmetric and conventional hard power tactics, and promoting alternative systems to compete with the United States, primarily in trade, finance, and security. They seek to challenge the United States and other countries through deliberate campaigns to gain an advantage, while also trying to avoid direct war. Growing cooperation between and among these adversaries is increasing their fortitude against the United States, the potential for hostilities with any one of them to draw in another, and pressure on other global actors to choose sides.
This 2025 ATA report supports the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s commitment to keeping the U.S. Congress and American people informed of threats to the nation’s security, representing the IC’s dedication to monitoring, evaluating, and warning of threats of all types. In preparing this assessment, the National Intelligence Council worked closely with all IC components, the wider U.S. Government, and foreign and external partners and experts to provide the most timely, objective, and useful insights for strategic warning and U.S. decision advantage.
This 2025 Annual Threat Assessment details these myriad threats by actor or perpetrator, starting with nonstate actors and then presenting threats posed by major state actors. The National Intelligence Council stands ready to support policymakers with additional information in a classified setting.
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Does the annual threat assessment of the intelligence community include threats to our nation from the intelligence community?
Who shaves the barber?
[FoxNews] 'Can you imagine if a school district had a program only open to White teachers?' William A. Jacobson of Legal Insurrection Foundation asked
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an investigation into a Rhode Island school district to determine whether its student loan forgiveness program for teachers discriminates against White applicants.
In a March 21 letter sent to Providence Public School District (PPSD) and the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE), the Justice Department's Civil Rights Office announced an investigation into whether the district and education office's employment practices — specifically a student loan forgiveness program — have engaged in racial discrimination against White teachers.
"It is important to note that we have not reached any conclusions about the subject matter of the investigation. We intend to consider all relevant information, and we welcome your assistance in helping to identify what that might be," the letter states, as first reported by The Boston Globe.
PPSD's "Educator of Color Loan Forgiveness Program" offers student loan forgiveness for educators of color through a grant from a nonprofit, the Rhode Island Foundation.
Recipients can receive up to $25,000 of college loans forgiven once the teacher completes three consecutive years of teaching in the district. The eligibility requirements indicate recipients must "identify as Asian, Black, Indigenous, Latino, biracial, or multi-racial" and must have at least $5,000 in student loans to repay.
Legal Insurrection Foundation (LIF), a Rhode Island-based, nonprofit investigative and research group that fights discrimination in education, filed a complaint with the Department of Education in 2022, claiming that the district was engaged in an ongoing "practice of discrimination" by making this program only available to non-White applicants.
The group was unsuccessful in getting the Biden administration to take up the case, but was "thrilled" upon learning the Trump administration's Justice Department would be investigating.
"It's been almost two and almost two and a half years since we filed it," Cornell Law School professor and LIF President William A. Jacobson told Fox News Digital.
"We followed up. It got transferred to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We followed up with them repeatedly. We couldn't get the Biden administration to do anything to stop this. And finally, the new Trump administration under the Department of Justice Civil Rights Office has brought an action. So we're very pleased with that," he added.
Jacobson said they were "extremely thankful" that the DOJ was taking action because the case had "no other place to go."
"The Rhode Island attorney general could have brought suit here. There are Rhode Island laws that are being violated. But nothing was done. The political infrastructure in the state of Rhode Island unfortunately insulates powerful political and economic players from the rules that everyone else has to abide by," he said.
"If this was just a private company doing this, probably the regulators would have gotten involved. Probably somebody would have been willing to sue. But because it's the largest school district in the state, being run by the state Department of Education, funded by the largest charity in the state, I think they felt immunity from the rules everyone else has to abide by," he continued.
Jacobson called the program an "outrageous" example of racial discrimination that would have caused a national uproar if it had favored White applicants.
"Can you imagine if a school district had a program only open to White teachers? It would be a national uproar," he said. "But there seems to be an attitude that as long as the discrimination is against Whites, it's lawful. But it's not. The civil rights laws protect everybody equally. And that's what we're seeking here. "
Jacobson said his group launched its Equal Protection Project, which focuses on combating racism and other equal protection violations, because of how "egregious" the PPSD program was.
The LIF is also calling on the Justice Department to investigate the nonprofit charity which funds the PPSD loan forgiveness program, the Rhode Island Foundation, alleging the nonprofit has been a "major funder of discrimination" in Rhode Island schools.
The Rhode Island Foundation did not respond to a request for comment.
PPSD confirmed to Fox News Digital that the DOJ notified the district and the Rhode Island Department of Education on Friday that an investigation into their student loan forgiveness program had been launched.
"It is important to understand that this is an investigation, and no conclusions have been reached at this time," a spokesperson for PPSD told Fox News Digital. "PPSD is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, national origin or other protected status. We remain committed in our efforts to recruit and retain a teaching population that reflects the diverse community we serve."
PPSD also shared with Fox News Digital a letter that Providence Schools' Superintendent Javier Montañez sent to the school board on Sunday, reiterating that PPSD was "an equal opportunity employer" that does not "discriminate on the basis of race."
Montañez said the legal counsel for PPSD and the Rhode Island Department of Education would collaborate with the DOJ on the investigation.
The superintendent said the loan forgiveness program had been created in 2021 to help the district attract more diverse educators, at a time when non-White students represented approximately 80% of the student population, but less than 20% of educators in the district identified as teachers of color.
"Increasing the diversity of our teaching force is not only aligned with the core values of the District, but also has a direct, positive impact on student outcomes as demonstrated by years of educational research," he wrote.
"This loan forgiveness program was created with the best interest of students in mind to ensure that our students are taught by individuals to whom they can both identify and relate as well as those who are talented and skilled in their academic craft," he added.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces arrested 20 wanted suspects overnight in counterterrorism operations across the West Bank, according to an IDF statement.
The IDF says troops seized two firearms, a grenade, and other weapons during the raids.
In a targeted operation in the village of Tayasir in the northern West Bank, IDF forces arrived by helicopter to apprehend a suspect as part of increased coordination between the IDF’s West Bank division and the Israeli Air Force, according to the statement.
Troops of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit had been waiting in an ambush when soldiers monitoring surveillance cameras spotted a masked Palestinian holding a rock in his hand approaching the highway at the so-called Huwara bypass section.
The troops opened fire on the suspect, killing him, the army says.
The attacks included planting bombs, throwing Molotov cocktails and rocks at vehicles and more.
“One of the serious incidents occurred on January 21, 2024, when the three attacked an Israeli bus carrying about 30 civilians,” a statement says. “The suspects threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the bus, and as a result of the attack, the bus driver was injured in the chest. By sheer luck, the driver managed to stop the vehicle just before it rolled down into a valley.”
In another incident in August 2024, the suspects combined an improvised explosive device with a gas balloon and detonated it near an Israeli settlement, though no one was hurt.
The three have confessed to the charges and have been indicted, the statement says.
[FoxNews] Elevating the task force would undoubtedly give it more resources, but it would also require significant coordination with existing panels already overseeing border security.
Tensions are flaring in the House GOP as Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, continues to push Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to open the gates for a select committee to crack down on Mexican drug cartels.
Crenshaw has hit the airwaves in recent days to push Johnson to hold a vote on his resolution to create such a panel, and a source close to the Texas congressman accused the House speaker of slow-walking the effort due to budgetary reasons.
"Back in early February, the speaker gave Crenshaw a roadmap to introduce his resolution creating a Select Committee to Defeat the Mexican Drug Cartels – and to bring it to a vote on the House floor, just like the Select Committee on China," the source familiar with Crenshaw's thinking told Fox News Digital.
"Dan has done all of the heavy lifting: securing support from House chairs, coordinating with the White House to ensure alignment, and even speaking directly with President Trump, who made it clear he wants to take down the cartels."
'We will give a nod of approval to what you are already doing, so long as everything comes through this committee for us to approve according to our "judgement".'
UPDATE: Al Shabab claims to have seized Masjid Ali Gadud town in Middle Shabelle region, killing 11 soldiers, capturing five, and seizing weapons. The group intensified pre-dawn attacks despite President @HassanSMohamud's recent visits to frontline areas in the region. pic.twitter.com/4PV6MXK7ZQ
[ShabelleMedia] Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... gunnies have reportedly reinforced their presence in several areas of the Middle Shabelle region, advancing towards the key towns of Jowhar and Balcad.
Local sources say that heavily armed fighters from the group have entered the region, patrolling roads and establishing new checkpoints. The areas affected include the stretch between Jowhar and Balcad, as well as the zone between Qalimoow and Balcad, and Qalimoow and Jowhar.
The gunnies are also said to have expanded their control into the western part of the Middle Shabelle region, particularly near the town of Afgooye in Lower Shabelle, an area that had previously been cleared of al-Shabaab fighters.
Despite some territories being under the group’s control in recent months, reports indicate that al-Shabaab has extended its influence, regaining areas previously freed by Somali forces.
In response, the Somali government has deployed additional military units to the region, with troops from various branches of the armed forces now stationed in the area. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has reportedly set up a command post in the town of Cadakke to oversee operations against the bad boys.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by Somali military aircraft have intensified in recent days, targeting al-Shabaab strongholds in a bid to weaken their grip on the region.
The situation in Middle Shabelle remains volatile, with frequent festivities between Somali security forces and al-Shabaab bad boys. The government is reportedly ramping up its efforts to push the gunnies out of the region once and for all.
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[Regnum] In April 2025, Tatarstan will begin to conduct a census of brown bears, after which applications will begin to be collected for hunting the animal, which was previously excluded from the Red Book. This was reported on March 26 by the Deputy Chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Tatarstan for Bioresources Ramil Sharafutdinov.
Brown bear hunting is carried out in spring and autumn. At the moment, this cannot be done on the territory of the republic, since the quota has not yet been determined.
"After conducting the analysis, we will be able to say the approximate number of brown bears in September. After the census is completed, it will be necessary to compare the numbers and collect applications," Sharafutdinov said during a press conference at the Tatar-inform news agency.
According to him, the limits and quotas for harvesting in a certain season will be determined based on the number of bears. The deputy chairman noted that the habitat of brown bears is expanding in the republic. They come from the territory of Bashkortostan, Udmurtia, Mari El and the Kirov region. Previously, the animals lived in the Sabinsky, Mamadyshsky, Kukmorsky, Rybno-Slobodsky and Arsky districts of Tatarstan, he added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in 2023, a bill was introduced to the State Duma to increase fines for violating hunting rules. In the same year, a draft law was adopted on the mandatory passing of an exam to obtain a hunting license; the law will come into force on September 1, 2025. It is noted that the knowledge and skills of candidates will be tested by the executive authorities of the corresponding Russian region.
ISTANBUL (AP) ; Turkey's president on Wednesday accused the political opposition of "sinking the economy" during the country's largest protests in more than a decade over the arrest of Istanbul's mayor, the biggest challenger to Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 22-year rule.
The opposition has called for a boycott of companies that it says support Erdogan's government. The Turkish president accused the opposition of being "so desperate that they would throw the country and the nation into the fire."
In his address to lawmakers with his Justice and Development Party, or AKP, Erdogan added that "sabotage targeting the Turkish economy will be held accountable before the courts."
------------- Unemployment about 9%, inflation about 40%, deteriorating currency and that was before the protests
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Practicing Islam hurts the economy, but that seems to be the outcome either way.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian defenders have repulsed Russian occupiers near Vovchansk: they have repelled another offensive by the invaders, destroying both the equipment and the Russian soldiers themselves. This was reported on Wednesday, March 26, by the operational-strategic group of forces (OSGV) Khortitsa on Telegram.
Around Vovchansk, pilots of the reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial complexes (RUBpAK) Sky Riders demonstrated their skills, and together with other units they successfully stopped the assault of the occupiers.
"As a result of combat operations, the following were destroyed: MT-LB - five units and 11 occupiers - 200 KIA," the Khortytsia group of forces noted.
The OSGV also showed a corresponding video from the 113th Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces.
As we have already written, on March 21, the Ukrainian Air Force successfully hit the area of concentration of forces of the Russian 1st Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 103rd Motorized Rifle Regiment in a shelter and basement of a shelter in the city of Toretsk in the Donetsk region.
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[Regnum] The Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) attacked several American warships in the Red Sea and struck military targets in the area of Israeli Tel Aviv. This was stated by the movement's representative Yahya Saria.
They did say so, yes. Both were, however, once again the usual Houthi wish casting rather than reality.
According to him, the operation lasted several hours.
The Houthis attacked warships led by the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman with missiles, drones and naval forces.
Drones also struck Israeli military targets in the occupied Jaffa area.
The goal of the operation was successfully achieved, Saria assured.
The goal was shooting off the various things. Everything thereafter was in Allah’s hands. Unfortunately, Allah likes Israel and America better.
As reported by Regnum news agency, fighters from the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah launched a missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. They used a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile for the attack.
On March 22, a US air strike on Hodeidah International Airport in western Yemen wounded Houthi naval commander Mansour al-Saadi. It was reported that at least seven other members of the movement were also injured.
On March 20, the US Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on Ansar Allah targets in the province of Al-Hodeidah in western Yemen. It was specified that at least four strikes were carried out.
The rather grandiose Houthi statement can be read here— provided by Hodhod Yemen News in English translation.
[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Belgorod direction, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted damage on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defence brigades close to Krasnopolye, Ugroyedy, Prokhody, Miropolskoye, and Petrushevka (Sumy region).
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 55 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, a motor vehicle, and an artillery gun.
The units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the situation along the front line, hit units of three mechanised brigades, an assault brigade, and an airborne brigade of the AFU near Lozovaya, Petropavlovka (Kharkov region), Nadiya (Lugansk People's Republic), Kirovsk, and Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic) as well as Serebryansky forestry.
The AFU lost up to 250 troops, a U.S.-made HMMWV armoured vehicle, and two pickup trucks. Three artillery guns and three ammunition depots have been neutralised.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian troops engaged eight mechanised brigades of the AFU, a territorial defence brigade, and two national guard brigades near Novoolenovka, Romanovka, Minkovka, Chasov Yar, Druzhba, Kalinovo, Zarya, Katerinovka, and Tarasovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 310 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, a U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, and two U.S.-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-fire radars. Two electronic warfare stations, an unmanned aerial vehicle depot, and a fuel depot were also destroyed.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. The Russian Armed Forces inflicted losses on a mechanised brigade, a jaeger brigade, two assault brigades, an unmanned aerial vehicles brigade, an assault regiment, an assault battalion of the Vostok special operations centre, a naval infantry brigade, and a national guard brigade near Mirolyubovka, Kotlino, Dimitrov, Zverevo, Krasnoarmeysk, Uspenovka, Udachnoye, Grodovka, Alekseyevka, Nadezhdinka, and Novoaleksandrovka (Donetsk People's Republic).The AFU losses amounted to more than 480 troops, two tanks, two Kazak armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, two field artillery guns, and a signal intelligence station.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of enemy defence. Russian forces engaged four mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade of the AFU, a naval infantry brigade, and two territorial defence brigades near Shevchenko, Voskresenka, Fyodorovka, Novopol, Razliv, Zelenoye Pole of the Donetsk People's Republic, and Gulyaipole The AFU losses amounted to up to 150 troops and three motor vehicles. Three field artillery pieces, including a Swedish-made 155mm Archer self-propelled artillery system and a supply dump were eliminated.
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged units of two mechanised brigades, a mountain assault brigade, three coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two territorial defence brigades close to Sadovoye, Pridneprovskoye, Antonovka, Vesyoloye (Kherson region), Malaya Tokmachka, Orekhov, and Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region).
Over 65 troops, seven motor vehicles, a U.S.-made MLRS multiple rocket launcher, and two ammunition depots were neutralised.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack drones, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, a facility repairing military hardware, workshops, control posts of unmanned aerial vehicles, ammunition depots, and clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 143 areas during the day.
Russian air defence systems shot down two JDAM guided bombs, a U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile, and 58 fixed-wing aircraft.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation the enemy has lost 659 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 48,462 unmanned aerial vehicles, 601 anti-aircraft missile systems, 22,499 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,532 MLRS combat vehicles, 22,987 field artillery guns and mortars, 33,368 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 a mechanised brigade, three air assault brigades, a naval infantry brigade, a presidential brigade, and a territorial defence brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Gogolevka, Gornal, Guyevo, and Oleshnya.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and Artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Gornal, Gogolevka, Guyevo, and Oleshnya as well as Basovka, Belovody, Varachino, Velikaya Rybitsa, Vesyolovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Zapselye, Loknya, Miropolye, Pisarevka, Sadki, Yunakovka, and Yablonovka (Sumy region).
For the past 24 hours, the AFU lost over 230 troops, a tank, an armoured personnel carrier, an armoured fighting vehicle, six motor vehicles, an electronic warfare station, a UAV command post, and an ammunition depot.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk direction, the AFU losses amounted to more than 70,190 troops, 402 tanks, 327 infantry fighting vehicles, 290 armoured personnel carriers, 2,223 armoured fighting vehicles, 2,548 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, 122 EW stations,18 counter-fire 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.
[UKDEFENCEJOURNAL] The United States has now moved at least seven B-2A Spirit stealth bombers to Diego Garcia, significantly expanding its military presence at the remote British-controlled island in the Indian Ocean.
This marks a further escalation in the ongoing preparations for large-scale military action, potentially targeting Houthi forces in Yemen and, as some analysts suggest, Iranian military infrastructure.
This continued buildup follows last week’s airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen—described as the largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025. The Houthis claim at least 53 people were killed in the latest round of strikes, while the U.S. has reiterated its intent to continue operations until Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea cease.
The activity was first reported by open-source intelligence (OSINT) specialist “IntelFrog” on X (formerly Twitter), who has been using publicly available aircraft tracking data to monitor movements of military assets. IntelFrog initially reported that 18 U.S. Air Force KC-135 tankers were staged at key locations across the Pacific—including Travis AFB in California, Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Hawaii, and Andersen AFB in Guam.
These tankers, operating under sequential RCH0## call signs, were followed by flights to Diego Garcia, where multiple C-17A Globemaster III aircraft have also been tracked arriving in recent days. The arrival of these cargo planes indicates a substantial logistics effort—likely involving the delivery of personnel, munitions, and support equipment required for long-range bomber operations.
IntelFrog’s verified flight data now shows at least seven B-2 stealth bombers on or en route to the island, a highly unusual concentration of the platform in one location. These aircraft, which are capable of penetrating sophisticated air defences, are typically reserved for high-value strategic missions and are rarely deployed in such numbers.
The increased military presence comes amid warnings from U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has made clear that airstrikes will continue for as long as Houthi aggression disrupts global shipping lanes. A U.S. official speaking to Reuters stated the operation may continue “for weeks,” suggesting the buildup is part of a sustained campaign rather than a short-term show of force.
Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea have caused serious disruption to global trade, prompting multiple shipping companies to divert vessels around the Cape of Good Hope. The U.S. sees freedom of navigation in the Red Sea as a strategic imperative, and recent movements suggest an effort to neutralise Houthi launch capabilities and, potentially, to deter Iranian interference in the wider region.
The arrival of the seventh B-2A bomber raises the stakes considerably.
Diego Garcia has long played a crucial role in U.S. strategic bomber operations, having hosted B-52 and B-1 missions during the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Its remote location and long runway make it a key forward operating base for long-range operations, especially when regional basing options are constrained by diplomatic or security concerns.
The deployment of at least seven B-2s, combined with a logistics tail of tankers and transports, represents a highly flexible and potent strike capability. It also signals a return to Diego Garcia’s historic role as a launchpad for power projection across the Middle East and South Asia.
As of now, the U.S. Department of Defense has not formally confirmed the purpose of the deployment. However, the scale, timing, and composition of forces all suggest a significant new phase in the campaign against the Houthis, and possibly beyond.
Courtesy of NoMoreBS, Zero Hedge has more on the build up, adding this very interesting perspective:
Most Americans have never heard of the tiny 38-mile-long island, nor has any journalist been allowed access in over three decades. The island features a runway long enough to accommodate B-52, B-1, and B-2 bombers and massive C-5M, C-17, and C-130 military cargo planes. The U.S. hosts upwards of 5,000 military personnel and civilian contractors on the secretive island, which is considered a lynchpin of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and across the Indo-Pacific.
Counterpunch's Conn Hallinan noted in 2019: "Diego Garcia is central to the U.S. war in Somalia, its air attacks in Iraq and Syria, and its control of the Persian Gulf, and would be essential in any conflict with Iran."
Meanwhile, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz recently confirmed that the Trump Administration demanded the "full dismantlement" of Iran's nuclear program, including its capacity to enrich uranium for civilian use. Russia issued a statement rejecting U.S. demands, saying Tehran has the right to a peaceful nuclear program.
What happens if Tehran doesn't play ball with Trump? Well, stealth bombers parked on the tarmac at Diego Garcia should be a huge concern.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] As a result of the shooting near the residential complex "Olgino Park" in the Moscow Region city of Zheleznodorozhny, an employee of the Russian Defense Ministry was injured, a source told Izvestia on March 26.
It is noted that the victim was wounded and was quickly hospitalized. Later, the shooter's body was found in a forest belt in Balashikha. Police officers are conducting an investigation, the cause and circumstances of death are being established.
Regnum reported about the shooting in the Moscow region earlier on March 26. The footage shows that the shooter was waiting at the entrance, and when a man came out, he opened fire on him. At that moment, the driver of the victim ran out of a car parked nearby and started shooting at the attacker.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces repel Russian attacks along entire front line.
A third of all Russian attacks are concentrated in the Pokrovsky direction. There, enemy troops are trying to advance in the areas of 12 populated areas.
Since the beginning of the current day, 156 combat clashes have occurred on the front, a third of which were in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Wednesday, March 26.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the Russians twice stormed towards Volchansk.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy tried to advance three times in the Golubovka and Zagryzovoye areas. One battle continues.
In the Liman direction, the aggressor attacked five times in the areas of the settlements of Kopanki, Yampolovka, in the directions of Novoye and Novomikhaylovka. Currently, one combat clash is ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy carried out seven offensive actions near the settlements of Belogorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye and Ivano-Daryevka. Four combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, three enemy attempts to advance forward near Chasovy Yar, Predtechiny and Belaya Gora have been repelled. Another Russian attack continues.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked 15 times in the areas of Toretsk, Dachny, Krymsky and Dilievka. Two combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy attacked 53 times in the areas of the settlements of Alexandropol, Tarasovka, Elizavetovka, Promen, Lysovka, Novoukrainka, Vozrozhdenie, Kotlinoe, Uspenovka, Novoaleksandrovka, Novosergeevka and Preobrazhenka. Seven combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, our defenders repelled 17 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinopol, Razliv, Skudnoe and Veseloe. Five more attacks are still ongoing.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, the enemy carried out 15 assault operations in the areas of the settlements of Rivnepol, Novosilka, Privilnoye, Volnoye Pole and Novopol. Five combat clashes are ongoing.
Seven enemy attacks have been successfully stopped in the Orekhovo direction . The enemy attempted to advance in the areas of the settlements of Malye Shcherbaki, Stepovoye, Lobkovoye and Shcherbaki. One combat clash continues.
In the Dnieper direction, our defenders successfully stopped one enemy attack.
There have been 19 military clashes in the Kursk direction , two of which are ongoing.
As a reminder, Russia lost almost 1,300 servicemen killed and wounded in the space of 24 hours on March 25. The total number of Russian losses may exceed 1 million people by the end of spring.
What do the experts expect us to do — send the Marines against Chinese companies in Africa? How is that different than going to war against China altogether? Perhaps a better approach is to jumpstart mining here at home, which would make China’s African mines much less profitable, despite slave-labour labor costs.
[Breitbart] A panel of experts testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Chinese companies mining for “green” energy minerals throughout Africa – particularly in resource-rich countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are creating a “catastrophic and unacceptable” situation for locals.
The experts urged American officials to act to contain the malignant Chinese influence destroying an entire generation of African children and the environment in which they live, stressing that the minerals in question – cobalt, lithium, tantalum, and copper, among others – are pivotal to any high-tech economy.
The hearing, hosted by the Subcommittee on Africa and chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), occurred as the nation of Zambia struggles to address the virtual death of the Kafue River, drowned in toxic residue when a dam holding the residue, created through Chinese copper mining activities, collapsed. Among the specific environmental threats mentioned at the hearing were the threat to the endangered okapi and the destruction of entire communities, displaced by companies looking to mine the land and polluted to the point that no one can safely return.
In addition to environmental disasters, the growing presence of exploitative Chinese companies in the DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere has brought with it growing rates of child slavery as children as young as eight are forced into mines with no protective equipment, greatly endangering their lives. Furthermore, the mineral wealth and corruption is also fueling chaotic guerrilla warfare, particularly in the DRC, where rival militias regularly commit atrocities for control of the mines and violence has been exacerbated by Rwandan intervention. As of February, the death toll of the ongoing DRC conflict is estimated to be in the high thousands and the United Nations has documented a large number of instances of the use of rape as a weapon of war.
The issue of child slavery in the mines featured prominently during the hearing. Sasha Lezhnev, a senior policy adviser with the Sentry, stated that, in the DRC alone, “there are an estimated 25,000 to 35,000 child miners … working at mines that send cobalt and copper to Chinese crude refiners.”
“I have witnessed the horrors of child soldiers and child miners as young as eight years old at mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” Lezhnev shared, “as well as the warlords and corrupt companies and officials making money from this system of exploitation—all in the name of getting us cheaper smart phones, jewelry, and electric vehicles (EVs). This has got to stop.”
“We see cases of child and forced labor—averaging 40,000 children–digging cobalt for Chinese buyers without adequate protective equipment and payment,” Joseph Mulala Nguramo of the Atlantic Council Scowcroft and Freedom and Prosperity Center told the subcommittee. “Some of these children are under 10 years old—leaving them exposed to toxic substances—causing serious health and environmental problems, per Amnesty International investigations.”
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Nguramo described the situation of those children, as well as the lives of locals in areas affected by Chinese mines generally, as “catastrophic and unacceptable.”
“In the DRC, ongoing civil unrest and an unmitigated humanitarian crisis are largely due to China’s ruthless and irresponsible grip on the country’s natural resources,” Nguramo testified. “Controlling almost 90% of the Congo Mining Sector, China has failed to use its economic and financial power to defend and promote the Rule of Law, Freedom, and Quality Governance. But China has, instead, mastered strategies to take advantage of a country in chaos—often bribing government officials to acquire Mining concessions.”
The experts testified that China had spent over $10 billion buying up mines in Africa, benefitting the most so far in Zambia, the DRC, and Zimbabwe, though the Communist Party has significantly expanded its influence elsewhere in the continent, as well. The founder of the due diligence firm Accountable Africa, Thierry Dongala, noted that widespread corruption in local governments enables this colonialism and pointed to the example of Niger to show that African governments can rapidly expel offending Chinese companies if they choose to. Niger, currently under military coup regime that calls itself the “National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland,” reportedly expelled Chinese oil executives from the country in mid-March and shut down a Chinese-owned hotel for allegedly engaging in “discriminatory practices.”
“The recent case of Niger expelling Chinese management shows that when African countries get serious about their moral sovereignty in their extractive industries, Chinese actors are often the first to lose,” Dongala observed.
Dongala noted that local populations are well aware of the evil that illicit, slave-driven mining brings to their land, recalling that the pastor who married him to his wife conducted a “sudden sanctification prayer” to cleanse their wedding bands of evil energy, a product of their provenance, when he noticed they appeared to be made of real gold. He recommended close cooperation with locals in affected countries to track and shut down theft, slavery, and other abuses.
“We’ve been monitoring the school attendance levels, that data is very valuable because we know that if we start to see the school attendance levels drops, we have to find where these kids are going,” he said of his firm.
“The local school principal , the local fishers union, the mothers of the children,” he suggested, could be critical allies.
Rep. Smith, chairing the hearing, noted that China’s dominance of the mining industry there, in addition to facilitating unspeakable human rights and environmental atrocities, put America at a disadvantage given the importance of the minerals in question in technology.
“The reliance on China for these critical minerals is a clear vulnerability,” he emphasized in his opening remarks.
“The greatest beneficiaries of this system—China’s state-owned mining companies—remain silent, refusing to confront an undeniable reality: from dirt to battery, from cobalt to cars, the entire supply chain is built on violence, exploitation, and corruption,” he continued. “This must change—and the time for change is now.”
Rep. Smith recently reintroduced the COBALT Supply Chain Act, a bill that would, in its own words, “ensure that goods made using or containing cobalt refined in the People’s Republic of China do not enter the United States market under the presumption that the cobalt is extracted or processed with the use of child and forced labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” Rep. Smith first introduced a version of the bill in 2023.
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It’s almost as if the CCP does not value people as individuals. American universities are doing a poor job of instilling Western values in all these Chinese students.
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[RedState] According to a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday, the Trump administration is looking into turning off the federal funding pipeline to one of its most controversial recipients, the euphemistically named Planned Parenthood, as they investigate where the money is actually going.
The WSJ wrote:
The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars in federal family-planning grants to certain organizations while it investigates whether the money was used for diversity efforts, people familiar with the matter said.
The groups that would be subject to the freeze, which include Planned Parenthood affiliates, were set to get about $120 million this year.
Founder and President of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk weighed in on social media:
🚨BREAKING: The Trump Administration is about to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood.
Between 2019-2021, Planned Parenthood performed 1.11 million abortions while receiving approximately $1.78 billion in federal funding. This is an average of $592 million every year or… pic.twitter.com/TG98fhqTtj
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 25, 2025
Kirk’s tweet continues:
Between 2019-2021, Planned Parenthood performed 1.11 million abortions while receiving approximately $1.78 billion in federal funding. This is an average of $592 million every year or over 40% of their revenue. Nobody is fooled: For Planned Parenthood, money is fungible. Federal funds help prop up the murder mills they operate all across America.
American taxpayer dollars must NOT be used to kill innocent unborn babies.
Republicans in Congress spent decades promising to do this, without delivering. Once again, Trump is getting it done.
Trump wants to make sure all the taxpayer money we give them isn’t going to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the poisonous ideology he has vowed to rid the federal government of. Conservatives have always been against funding abortion, however:
Planned Parenthood clinics in about a dozen states were set to receive roughly $20 million in family-planning grants this year.
During the freeze, the department plans to examine whether the funds were used for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the people said.
Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office directing his administration to scrub DEI efforts from all corners of the federal government.
HHS could later decide to fully rescind the grants or reallocate the money to other organizations.
The freeze would partially fulfill a longtime conservative goal of defunding Planned Parenthood because it provides abortions and advocates for abortion rights. In 2019, the first Trump administration moved to bar organizations that refer patients for abortions from receiving family planning grants. The Biden administration rescinded the rule.
Huge win!
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) March 25, 2025
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Lithuania’s military writes on social media X that it is continuing an “intensive” rescue operation and has no information confirming the deaths.
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