[HotAir] The first rule in any investigation: Follow the money.
The New York Post did just that with the man who slaughtered two Israeli embassy employees outside a Jewish museum this week. Isabel Vincent traces the path that Elias Rodriguez has taken over the last several years on his way to becoming a cowardly terrorist assassin, taking particular note of his allegiance to the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), as well as International ANSWER and other radical-leftist alliances. And the funding for PSL runs through one man, who also has a particular affinity for the regime in Beijing:
The suspected terrorist charged with gunning down two Israeli embassy workers in Washington Wednesday is associated with radical socialist groups funded by the far-left Chinese sympathizer, millionaire Neville Singham and his activist wife Jodie Evans.
Elias Rodriguez, 31, who allegedly confessed to killing the couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum and chanted "free, free Paleostine!" was part of that network through his association with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a Communist political organization that has fielded presidential candidates since 2008. ...
Both the PSL and ANSWER Coalition are connected to People’s Forum — a Manhattan-based non-profit which has ties to the Chinese Communist Party — through funding from Singham, 71.
The funding -- $20 million -- also got filtered through Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund (GSPF). If it seems strange that a capitalist financial institution is funding radical socialists like ANSWER and the PSL, it is, but it's hardly the only bastion of free markets to buy the rope by which the forces of Evil want to lynch them. The Ford Foundation comes to mind, as does the Tides Foundation, founded on the RJ Reynolds tobacco fortune, among others. Arabella Advisors, a shadowy coalition of the world's wealthiest industrialists, also pours a tsunami of money into radical-left causes.
And in case you wonder, that's the same Jodie Evans that co-founded Code Pink ... a U.S. anti-war group. The group describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. It was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and of the other usual antiwar suspects. Its website lists hysterical allegations of US war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Maybe it was millions. Benjamin was a 2000 candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket. She lost... with Medea Benjamin to protest the Iraq War. Apparently Evans only cares about some violence, and has completely flipped on China after marrying Singham. That impression comes from another affiliation with the Singhams that Vincent points out to her readers:
Another group, the Bronx Antiwar Coalition is also connected to groups in Singham’s orbit. The Bronx group applauded the murders of the Israeli diplomats on X Thursday.
"What Elias Rodriguez did is the highest expression of anti-Zionism," a tweet from the group proclaimed.
So Rodriguez has connections to both PSL and ANSWER, and an endorsement from the Bronx Antiwar Coalition, all of which have ties to Singham and Evans. What about China? In a book written by Evans, Vincent reports that she and her husband fund something called the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. According to a May 2024 report from the Network Contagion Research Institute linked by Vincent, this entity as well as the People's Forum get support from the Chinese Communist Party as part of an effort to wreak political havoc in the US:
Evans is set to release a book in January 2025 titled "China is Not Our Enemy," which she co-authored with a researcher employed by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and Dongsheng News.17 Both the Tricontinental Institute and Dongsheng News have ties to the CCP and have received funding from Singham, with the Tricontinental Institute also receiving partial funding from Code Pink.
Are Singham and Evans the only source of that funding? Not according to NCRI, which also suspects that the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund is operating as a dark-money clearinghouse for overseas funding:
Between 2017 and 2022, the People’s Forum received over $20 million in grants from the GSPF, with $12 million transferred in 2019 alone. As previous reporting has detailed, GSPF appears to function as a dark money clearinghouse, obscuring the identity of donors while facilitating the transfer of substantial sums to American non-profits.
In November 2023, a Tax-Exempt Organization Complaint was filed with the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... against The People’s Forum, alleging that: "De Los Santos and the People’s Forum Inc. have been advocating in support of the U.S. designated foreign terror organization Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... in its war on Israel and Jews and also advocates for the overthrow of the United States."
How does Singham make his money? The NCRI report is equally interested in that question:
According to an investigation conducted by the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... (NYT), Singham’s "ties to the propaganda machine date back at least to 2019, when, corporate documents show, he started a consulting business with Chinese partners. Those partners are active in the propaganda apparatus." According to a report in Newlines Magazine, Singham is invested in at least two other major Chinese companies, underscoring the depth of his business interests in mainland China. In July 2023, Singham was photographed at a strategic communications workshop hosted by the CCP in Shanghai.14 As recent as November 2023, India’s Enforcement Directorate summoned Singham for questioning regarding his Delhi-based news portal NewsClick, which was raided in 2021 for suspected acceptance of illegal funds from China to promote CCP propaganda deemed a threat to India’s national security.
In 2023, even the New York Times found Singham's cash flow to be highly suspicious:
In fact, a New York Times investigation found, it is part of a lavishly funded influence campaign that defends China and pushes its propaganda. At the center is a charismatic American millionaire, Neville Roy Singham, who is known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes.
What is less known, and is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.
From a think tank in Massachusetts to an event space in Manhattan, from a political party in South Africa to news organizations in India and Brazil, The Times tracked hundreds of millions of dollars to groups linked to Mr. Singham that mix progressive advocacy with Chinese government talking points.
At the time, the NYT didn't report any connection specifically to Hamas or Paleostinian propaganda, but this was less than five months before Hamas' atrocities on October 7, too. People's Forum makes an appearance, as does the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, although the NYT only refers to it as a charity:
Since 2017, about a quarter of Code Pink’s donations — more than $1.4 million — have come from two groups linked to Mr. Singham, nonprofit records show. The first was one of the UPS store nonprofits. The second was a charity that Goldman Sachs offers as a conduit for clients’ giving, and that Mr. Singham has used in the past.
Ms. Evans now stridently supports China. She casts it as a defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war.
Vincent's reporting raises a lot of questions about the "globalize the intifada" movement in the US. Hamas may not be the only malefactor behind it, and it's time to start asking Goldman Sachs about their "charity" work -- as well as Singham and Evans about their cash flow, and whether they're redirecting Beijing's resources into violent mostly peaceful terrorism in the US.
Eric Rodriguez is a member of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the most radical left unions in the U.S. He made a video for SEIU the same day he was honored by Rep. Garcia, in which he referred to himself as an Iraq War veteran and Veterans Affairs employee.
“I’ve been with the VA for three years, and the reason why I’m in Washington, D.C., is because I’m concerned about what Donald Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE are doing to the VA system,” he said in the video.
Addressing the monumental problems at the VA is almost an exercise in futility. The agency that is supposed to care for our veterans is a bloated, inefficient mess.
The VA stated that the canceled contracts "were identified through a multi-level review" and "will not negatively affect Veteran care, benefits, or services," though this claim has been met with skepticism, reports NBC News.
Lischinsky was a Messianic Jew, that is, a Jewish person who believes in Jesus (or Yeshua, to use His Hebrew name.)
Messianic Judaism is a touchy subject in the larger Jewish community, but One for Israel has an excellent, extensive history that’s worth reading. My Jewish Learning drips with condescension when it characterizes Messianic Judaism as a movement that “has tried to straddle the line between Judaism and Christianity.” The headline of that explainer uses mock-quotes to ask, “Who Are Messianic ‘Jews’?”
In its profile of Lischinsky, the Jewish news site Forward explains:
Messianic Judaism is a religious movement made up of people who identify ethnically and culturally as Jewish and believe that Jesus — whom they call Yeshua — is the promised Messiah.
Most adherents consider themselves Jewish, a position rejected by the mainstream Jewish community but embraced by congregations like Melech Ha’Mlachim [where Lischinsky worshiped].
Forward adds that “most Messianic congregations in Israel are locally run and culturally Jewish, with Torah readings, Hebrew prayer and Jewish holiday observance.” Many, if not most, American Messianic synagogues do as well.
The controversy over Messianic Judaism isn’t lost on Forward:
Still, Lischinsky’s religious identity has stirred confusion in the wake of his death. Ronen Shoval, dean of the Argaman Institute in Jerusalem, where Lischinsky participated in a yearlong program, described him to The New York Times as “a devout Christian” who “tied his fate to the people of Israel.” Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, also referred to him as Christian in a tribute posted to social media.
But [Lischinsky’s friend David] Boskey pushed back on that framing. He said that Lischinsky, like others in their congregation, saw himself as a Jew who believed Jesus was the Messiah — and that this belief did not negate his Jewish identity.
One third? Ridiculous! You can’t run a country that way — which is why, in the end, they didn’t.
[IsraelTimes] Syria’s Interior Ministry front man Noureddine al-Baba says that more than eight million people were wanted by the intelligence and security services of longtime ruler Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... , who was ousted in December.
Baba tells a presser in Damascus that "the number of people wanted by the former regime for political reasons exceeds eight million," adding that "we are talking about around a third of the Syrian people who had records and were wanted by the repressive intelligence and security agencies of the former regime."
[IsraelTimes] Lebanon’s army says it has taken into custody a suspect in last year’s killing of a Christian political official, with help from Syria’s new authorities, in a case that sparked public outrage.
Pascal Sleiman, a coordinator in the Byblos (Jbeil) area north of Beirut for the Lebanese Forces (LF) Christian party, was abducted and killed in April 2024. The army had said he was killed in a carjacking by Syrian gang members who then took his body across the border.
The army received “one of the main individuals involved in the crime of kidnapping and killing” Sleiman after coordinating with Syrian authorities, a military statement says.
The suspect “heads a gang involved in kidnapping, robbery and forgery and has a large number of arrest warrants against him,” the statement says, adding that investigations are underway.
Sleiman’s LF party opposed Syria’s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in December, as well as its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
Beirut and Damascus have been seeking to improve ties since the overthrow of Assad, whose family dynasty for decades exercised control over Lebanese affairs.
Sultan Erdogan Recep Tayip I “the much beloved” is feeling feisty again.
[AnNahar] Prosecutors in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... issued arrest warrants for 63 active-duty military personnel Friday over links to a group accused of attempting a coup in 2016.
Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said the suspects included four colonels and came from the army, navy, air force and gendarmerie. Early morning raids across the country resulted in 56 suspects being detained.
They are allegedly tied to an outlawed group that Turkey refers to as the Fethullahist Terror Organization, or FETO. Its leader, Fethullah Gülen >... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost. He pegged out in 2024...> , died in October last year in the United States, where he had lived since 1999 in self-imposed exile.
Some 290 people were killed in July 2016 when rogue military units erupted into the streets of Ankara and Istanbul in a bid to depose the government of President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... . Jet fighters bombed the parliament building and presidential palace while Erdogan narrowly escaped liquidation or capture while vacationing on the west coast.
A subsequent purge of the military, police, judiciary and other state agencies saw tens of thousands arrested. Schools, businesses and media organizations tied to Gulen were closed down.
The prosecutor's statement said those targeted Friday were identified through telephone communications and said FETO still posed the "greatest threat to the constitutional order and survival of the state." Since the failed coup, 25,801 military suspects have been detained, it added.
The statement did not specify the exact charges against the suspects.
Gulen, a former holy man, amassed a worldwide following over decades and aided Erdogan's rise to power in 2003. The alliance broke down after the government closed some Gulen-run educational establishments and Gulenists ...the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag... in the police and judiciary pursued corruption allegations against Erdogan's government.
Gulen always denied any involvement in the failed coup. He was wanted in Turkey, which repeatedly demanded his extradition from the U.S.
The coup attempt contributed to the acceleration of authoritarian tendencies in Turkey, with Erdogan's government implementing measures that consolidated his powers.
[AnNahar] 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... has multiple major sites associated with its rapidly advancing nuclear program, now the subject of several rounds of negotiations with the United States.
The sites across the country, including one in the heart of Tehran, the capital, show the breadth and history of the program. One in particular, Iran's Natanz enrichment site, has been targeted several times in suspected sabotage attacks by Israel amid tensions between the two Mideast rivals.
Here's a look at some of those major Iranian sites and their importance in Tehran's program.
NATANZ ENRICHMENT FACILITY
Iran's nuclear facility at Natanz, located some 220 kilometers (135 miles) southeast of Tehran, is the country's main enrichment site. Part of the facility on Iran's Central Plateau is underground to defend against potential Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s. It operates multiple cascades, or groups of centrifuges working together to more quickly enrich uranium. Iran also is burrowing into the Kūh-e Kolang Gaz Lā, or "Pickaxe Mountain," which is just beyond Natanz's southern fencing. Natanz has been targeted by the Stuxnet virus, believed to be an Israeli and American creation, which destroyed Iranian centrifuges. Two separate sabotage attacks, attributed to Israel, also have struck the facility.
FORDO ENRICHMENT FACILITY
Iran's nuclear facility at Fordo is located some 100 kilometers (60 miles) southwest of Tehran. It also hosts centrifuge cascades, but isn't as big a facility as Natanz. Buried under a mountain and protected by anti-aircraft batteries, Fordo appears designed to withstand airstrikes. Its construction began at least in 2007, according to the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency, although Iran only informed the U.N. nuclear watchdog about the facility in 2009 after the U.S. and allied Western intelligence agencies became aware of its existence.
BUSHEHR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
Iran's only commercial nuclear power plant is in Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, some 750 kilometers (465 miles) south of Tehran. Construction on the plant began under Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the mid-1970s. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the plant was repeatedly targeted in the Iran-Iraq war. Russia later completed construction of the facility. Iran is building two other reactors like it at the site. Bushehr is fueled by uranium produced in Russia, not Iran, and is monitored by the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ' ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.
ARAK HEAVY WATER REACTOR
The Arak heavy water reactor is 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of Tehran. Heavy water helps cool nuclear reactors, but it produces plutonium as a byproduct that can potentially be used in nuclear weapons. That would provide Iran another path to the bomb beyond enriched uranium, should it choose to pursue the weapon. Iran had agreed under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers to redesign the facility to relieve proliferation concerns.
ISFAHAN NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY CENTER
The facility in Isfahan, some 350 kilometers (215 miles) southeast of Tehran, employs thousands of nuclear scientists. It also is home to three Chinese research reactors and laboratories associated with the country's atomic program.
TEHRAN RESEARCH REACTOR
The Tehran Research Reactor is at the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, the civilian body overseeing the country's atomic program. The U.S. actually provided Iran the reactor in 1967 as part of America's "Atoms for Peace" program during the Cold War. It initially required highly enriched uranium but was later retrofitted to use low-enriched uranium over proliferation concerns.
[AnNahar] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... is seeking to arrest those responsible for the failed launch of its second naval destroyer, as it denied the warship suffered major damage — a claim quickly met with outside skepticism.
A statement from North Korea on its handling of the botched launch came after leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... expressed fury over the incident that he said was caused by criminal negligence. The main military committee said Friday that those responsible would be held accountable for their "unpardonable criminal act."
Satellite imagery on the site showed the vessel lying on its side and draped in blue covers, with parts of it submerged. North Korea says it will take about 10 days to repair the damage, but outside observers question that timeframe because damage to the ship appeared much worse than what North Korea claims.
Here is what you need to know about the failed ship launch:
HOW MUCH DAMAGE WAS THERE TO THE SHIP?
North Korea's state media said Friday the severity of the damage to the 5,000-ton-class destroyer was "not serious" as it canceled an earlier assessment that the bottom of the hull had been left with holes.
It said the hull on the starboard side was scratched and some seawater had flowed into the stern section. It said it needs a total of 10 days to pump out the seawater, set the ship upright and fix the scratches.
It's almost impossible to verify the assessment because of the extremely secretive nature of North Korea. It has a history of manipulating or covering up military-related setbacks, policy fiascoes and other mishaps, though it has periodically acknowledged some in recent years.
Lee Illwoo, an expert with the Korea Defense Network in South Korea, said the North Korean warship likely suffered much worse damage, including the flooding of its engine room located in the stern section, and holes in the starboard. He said North Korea could simply set the ship upright, paint it over and claim the ship has been launched, but that repairs could take more than a year as the replacement of an engine requires cutting the hull.
WHY THE SHIP'S LAUNCH FAILED
According to the North Korean account, the destroyer was damaged when a transport cradle on the ship's stern detached early during a launch ceremony at the northeastern port of Chongjin on Wednesday.
Moon Keun-sik, a navy expert who teaches at Seoul's Hanyang University, said North Korean workers are probably not familiar with launching a 5,000-ton-class warship, which is a few times heavier than its existing main navy ships.
Observers say North Korea tried to launch the destroyer sideways, a method it has never used for warships, although it has previously employed it with big cargo and passenger ships.
Compared with those non-military vessels, Lee sad it would be more difficult to maintain balance with the destroyer because it's equipped with heavy weapons systems. He suspected North Korean scientists and officials likely did not factor that in.
HOW KIM HAS REACTED
The damaged ship is assessed as the same class as North Korea's first destroyer, launched with great fanfare last month with a floating dry dock at a western shipyard. It is North Korea's biggest and most advanced warship to date, and Kim called its construction "a breakthrough" in modernizing North Korea's naval forces to cope with what he calls U.S.-led security threats.
Subsequently, a failure to launch the second destroyer was an embarrassment for Kim. But by disclosing the failure both internally and externally, Kim could be trying to show his resolve in building greater naval forces and boosting discipline at home. He ordered officials to repair the warship before a ruling Workers' Party meeting in late June.
The official Korean Central News Agency said Friday that a team of prosecutors and experts began steps to arrest and investigate those responsible as part of their full-scale investigation into the case. KCNA said that Hong Kil Ho, manager of the Chongjin shipyard, has been summoned for questioning.
"No matter how good the state of the warship is, the fact that the accident is an unpardonable criminal act remains unchanged, and those responsible for it can never evade their responsibility for the crime," the North's Central Military Commission said in an instruction to the investigation team, according to KCNA.
Kim Dong-yub, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said North Korea appears to be using the failed launch as a chance to strengthen the ruling party's control over science and technological sectors.
Lee Choon Geun, an honorary research fellow at South Korea's Science and Technology Policy Institute, said that North Korea's handling of the damaged warship could have long-term consequences for its defense science sector.
"If scientists are held severely accountable, I would say the future of North Korea's defense science doesn't look very bright, as it would be a sign that political responsibility is being prioritized over technical accountability," Lee wrote on Facebook.
[IsraelTimes] The number of al-Qaeda members killed in strikes on southern Yemen blamed on the United States has increased to nine, a Yemeni security source tells AFP.
The official in Abyan province, which borders the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognized government in Aden, says the strikes killed nine members of the group, including a local leader.
The security official, who earlier said the attack had taken place on Friday evening in north Khabar Al-Maraqsha, adds that the strikes hit several locations in the mountainous area known to be used by Al-Qaeda.
“I saw five charred bodies at one of the targeted sites, as well as a burned-out car,” a local tribesman tells AFP, adding others killed in the strikes were at another location.
Earlier, a second security official, who confirmed an initial toll of five al-Qaeda members killed in the attack, also said that while the names of those killed were unknown, it was believed one of the group’s local leaders was among the dead.
[HodhodYemen ...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... News] Two people were killed in a suspected US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... that targeted a car in the Shamatit area of Ayn District, northwest of Shabwah province, which is under the control of UAE-backed factions in eastern Yemen.
A local source explained that the strike, carried out by a drone on Friday, hit a car carrying two individuals believed to be members of al-Qaeda, completely charring their bodies.
The source added that the identities of the two dead have not been identified, and the circumstances of the incident remain unclear, with no official comment from the local authorities loyal to the Saudi-led coalition.
The incident coincides with an escalation in US air operations in Shabwah, where several vehicles have been repeatedly targeted by airstrikes, including strikes inside the provincial city of Ataq, over the past few months.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian authorities announced yesterday an interior ministry restructuring that includes fighting cross-border drug and people smuggling, as they seek to improve ties with Western nations that have lifted sanctions.
Keen to reboot and rebuild nearly 14 years after a devastating civil war broke out, the new authorities in Damascus have hailed Washington’s lifting of US sanctions.
The move was formalized Friday after being announced by President Donald Trump on a Gulf tour this month during which he shook hands with Syria’s jihadist-turned-interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Spokesman Noureddine al-Baba said the interior ministry restructure included reforms and creating “a modern civil security institution that adopts transparency and respects international human rights standards.”
It includes setting up a citizens’ complaints department and incorporating the police and General Security agency into an Internal Security command, he told a press conference.
A border security body for Syria’s land and sea frontiers will be tasked with “combating illegal activities, particularly drug and human smuggling networks,” Baba said.
The restructure includes “strengthening the role of the anti-drug department and further developing its importance within Syria and abroad” after the country became a major exporter of illicit stimulant captagon, he added.
[IsraelTimes] Police say smuggling is a security threat since drones could fall into Hamas’s hands; Danish authorities nab man for selling drones to terror group to be used in attack
State prosecutors on Monday filed an indictment against three Arab Israelis, after they were arrested by security forces on suspicion of smuggling drugs into the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip via drone.
Police officers, Shin Bet agents and IDF soldiers arrested the three Negev residents — Muhammad Sarahin, Sharif Abu-Gardud, and Younes Abu-Gardud — in April.
They were accused of carrying out multiple drug and cigarette smuggling operations from Israel to Gaza, leaving the drones in the enclave.
Police said the smuggling posed a "direct threat to national security" given the worry that the drones, which can carry loads of dozens of kilograms, could fall into the hands of Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... Officers requested to extend their detention until the end of legal proceedings.
The three defendants "were involved in exporting dangerous drugs by drone to the Gaza Strip during wartime, while fully aware that the entity controlling Gaza is the Hamas terror group, which would be able to use the drones that the defendants brought to Gaza for terrorist activities," state prosecutor Assaf Bar Yosef said.
The Wall Street Journal reported last year that cigarettes were regularly smuggled into war-torn Gaza via humanitarian aid trucks, having been placed there by UN and Israeli accomplices. Once past inspection and inside Gaza, the aid trucks were targeted by both smugglers retrieving their goods and other criminals hoping to get to them first, drawn by the contraband’s sky-high prices.
Following the outbreak of the war with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack— when some 5,000 murderous Moslems invaded southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages— Israel limited imports into Gaza to essential goods, a category that does not include cigarettes.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the resumption of "basic" aid to the Strip on Monday, after a two-month ban following the collapse of a ceasefire-hostage release deal.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... a 28-year-old man was remanded in jug in Denmark on Monday on suspicion of purchasing drones to be used in a Hamas "terrorist attack," Danish intelligence said.
Flemming Drejer, head of operations at Denmark’s PET intelligence service, said in a statement that the service believed that "this individual purchased drones intended for use by Hamas in a terrorist attack at an unknown location in Denmark or abroad."
Appearing before a court on Monday, the man was remanded in jug until June 11.
PET said the case has links to both Hamas and criminal gangs in Denmark, and is related to a number of arrests made in December 2023 as part of an operation to prevent a suspected planned "terrorist attack."
Six people were ordered detained at the time, four in absentia, among them the 28-year-old man, who Danish media reports said was a prominent figure in organized crime in Copenhagen. According to public broadcaster DR, the suspect had been extradited from Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... over a separate double murder case.
Terror groups have intensified efforts since October 2023 to carry out attacks on Jewish and Israeli sites in Europe.
[IsraelTimes] Peru has opened up a war crimes investigation into an Israeli citizen who served in the war against Hamas in Gaza, the Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation
…a project launched last October by the March 30 Movement, itself named in memory of the Palestinian general strike on that date in 1976 in the West Bank against the Israeli government, since referred to as Land Day. Both groups are lawfare boiler rooms generating endless lawsuits against Israelis and those who support Israel in Western Europe and elsewhere, and between times propagandizing against Israel using the currently fashionable far left shibboleths. March 30 is the hobby of lawyer Haroon Raza, appearing at the end of 2023, but at bottom it’s a Hezbollah front founded by Dyab Abou Jahjah (Dyab Abu Jahjah) …
says in a statement.
The foundation says the combat engineering soldier “is alleged to have played a direct role in the methodical and systematic destruction of civilian neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip during the 2023–2024 military offensive.”
“Justice is not optional. Justice is imperative,” said foundation chairman Dyab Abou Jahjah. “This investigation marks a decisive step in the dismantling of Israeli impunity,” he added.
Launched in September 2024, the Hind Rajab Foundation has used social media posts by Israeli soldiers, officers and reservists in an attempt to have them arrested for alleged war crimes when they travel abroad.
War erupted in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, when Hamas led over 5,000 attackers to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and taking 251 as hostages to Gaza.
Israel responded with a military campaign to destroy the terror group, remove it from power in Gaza and save the hostages.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
Not specific to fostering Jew-hate, but related and eminently satisfying.
[CampusReform] Harvard University President Alan Garber asserted that the Trump administration is sidestepping private institutions’ constitutional freedoms. This comes after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that the university will no longer receive federal grants.
Prof who called Jewish Temples “Synagogues of Satan” Has Been Fired.
[ToniAiraksinen] A professor at the prestigious Berklee College of Music — often compared to The Juilliard School in Manhattan — has been fired after years of antisemitic comments have surfaced, with the African American professor now surprisingly claiming that he himself is the victim of antisemitism.
Berklee College of Music has fired their Brass Department Chair, Nicholas Payton, only months after promoting him to the position. While the school says it cannot comment on “personnel matters” to explain any details, it did confirm that Payton had been terminated. Payton, 51, considers himself a “social activist” in music. His unique commentaries on Black music, such as arguing that “jazz” is a slur and referring to it as #BlackAfricanMusic (BAM) has earned the outspoken musician spots on a number of podcasts and nearly 50,000 followers on Instagram.
US terminates additional $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] The US Department of Health and Human Services says that it was terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University saying the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus. US President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen or ended federal grants and contracts for the university worth nearly $3 billion in recent weeks. The administration has accused Harvard of continuing to consider ethnicity when reviewing student applications and of allowing discrimination against Jews as a result of the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protest movement that roiled American campuses last year.
Bloomberg Reporter Arrested With Pro-Hamas Group That Took Over Columbia Library
[Townhall] A reporter from Bloomberg News was arrested when pro-Hamas rioters took over Columbia University’s Butler Library earlier in the month. The reporter, Jason Kao, had graduated from Columbia in 2022. He was charged with criminal trespass and was given a desk appearance ticket.
Eighty-one activists were arrested in total.
“During the unrest, rioters injured two, passed out pamphlets endorsing Hamas’s violence, vandalized and damaged the library, and renamed the building after Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian terrorist killed in a 2017 shootout with the Israel Defense Forces,” according to the Washington Free Beacon:
“Kao’s personal website is exclusively devoted to negative coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza,” the outlet continued.
“Kao was employed by Bloomberg News as of May 1, based on a social media post from a colleague,” but Bloomberg told the Free Beacon that they no longer employ Kao.
Because the man is a propagandist, not a reporter — and certainly not a journalist.
George Washington U bans student for commencement speech calling to divest from Israel
[IsraelTimes] Speaker at George Washington graduation urges alumni not to donate, decries Gaza ‘genocide’; DC school apologizes for ‘inappropriate’ speech that strayed from approved text. Cecilia Culver made the comments while addressing the school’s liberal arts college on Saturday.
Culver had to take frequent breaks for sustained applause she received during her speech, delivered at GWU’s largest graduation ceremony. According to GWU’s own communications, during Culver’s time at the school the economics and statistics dual major was a recipient of a prestigious award and received an award from the Federal Reserve as part of an internship she completed.
“Cecilia is in every way a distinguished scholar,” the school noted.
GWU’s student newspaper noted that Daiya’s profiles have since been scrubbed from the university’s websites and directory. Her LinkedIn page is also disabled.
The finding was announced late Thursday by the US Health and Human Services Department. It comes hours after the Department of Homeland Security said it would revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in the administration’s monthslong feud with higher education.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act blocks federal funding recipients from discrimination based on race, color or national origin. That final category, the press release notes, includes “discrimination against individuals that is based on their actual or perceived Israeli or Jewish identity or ancestry.”
The announcement did not include new sanctions against Columbia, which is already facing $400 million in federal cuts by the Trump administration over its response to pro-Palestinian campus protests. A spokesperson for Columbia said the university is currently in negotiations with the government about resolving its claims of antisemitism.
Students Sabrina Soffer, Ari Shapiro, and a group of anonymous plaintiffs accused GW of failing to address a surge in hostility towards Jewish students, particularly following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claims the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by allowing a “hostile educational environment” to flourish unchecked.
The 176-page complaint details a litany of incidents that paint GW as a campus where Jewish students face relentless intimidation. According to the filing, anti-Semitic acts include physical assaults, vandalism, and verbal harassment, with university administrators allegedly turning a blind eye. The lawsuit cites specific examples, such as anti-Israel protests that escalated into violence and Jewish students’ property being defaced with anti-Semitic slurs.
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I notice that a disproportional number of the Hamasnicks are female which shouldn't be unusual given that they constitute the majority of college students these days. Given that the young men who've been demonized in public schools and have seen too many male acquaintances and relatives divorced, falsely accuse, exploited by females, they've gone their own way. Now the entitled dames have no one talking to them and are seeking new people and venues to destroy.
"We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming," he continued. "We want those names and countries.
[IsraelTimes] Sweeping economic relief doesn’t include removal of Sharaa’s HTS from terror blacklist; some US officials pushed for phased approach that would include normalizing ties with Israel
The Trump administration granted Syria sweeping exemptions from sanctions Friday in a big first step toward fulfilling the president’s pledge to lift a half-century of penalties on a country shattered by 13 years of civil war.
While broad, the administration’s actions could possibly be reversed. Syrians say they need permanent relief to secure the tens of billions of dollars in investment needed to rebuild after a conflict that fragmented the country, displaced or killed millions of people, and left behind thousands of imported muscle.
A measure by the State Department waived for six months a tough set of sanctions imposed by Congress in 2019.
A measure by the State Department waived for six months a tough set of sanctions imposed by Congress in 2019. A Treasury Department action suspended enforcement of sanctions against anyone doing business with a range of Syrian individuals and entities, including Syria’s central bank.
Trust but verify. And quietly watch where the money flows…
Syria is now led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former militia commander who helped drive longtime autocratic leader Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... from power late last year.
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... announced last week that the US would roll back the heavy financial penalties in a bid to give the interim government a better chance of survival. The Trump administration said businesses and investors are getting the protection against sanctions they need to come back to Syria, calling it "the opportunity for a fresh start."
"The only other option was Syria becoming a failed state and civil war," said Mouaz Moustafa, a Syrian American advocate who had campaigned for quick, broad relief. "Now there is hope for a future democratic Syria."
The congressional sanctions, known as the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, had aimed to isolate Syria’s previous rulers by effectively expelling those doing business with them from the global financial system. They specifically block postwar reconstruction, so while they can be waived for 180 days by executive order, investors are likely to be wary of reconstruction projects when sanctions could be reinstated after six months.
The Trump administration said Friday’s actions were "just one part of a broader US government effort to remove the full architecture of sanctions." Those penalties had been imposed on the Assad family for their support of Iranian-backed militias, their chemical weapons
...have not been used since WWI except for in Iraq, by the late, unlamented Saddam Hussein and in Syria, but really, honest, not by the Syrian government. And in Germany in WWII, but that was against civilians. Lots of them, just one of many reasons Hitler's also late and unlamented... program and abuses of civilians.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAYS IT EXPECTS ACTION FROM SYRIA
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... said in a statement Friday that in return for sanctions relief, Trump expects "prompt action by the Syrian government on important policy priorities."
Al-Sharaa’s own past has fueled doubts. The group that he led, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , was originally affiliated with al-Qaeda, although it later renounced ties and took a more moderate tone. It is still listed by the US as a terrorist organization.
But if al-Sharaa’s government fails, the US and others fear renewed conflict in Syria and a power vacuum that could allow a resurgence of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and other bad boy groups.
"If we engage them, it may work out, it may not work out. If we do not engage them, it was guaranteed not to work out," Rubio told politicians this week.
Trump met al-Sharaa last week in Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , a day after announcing his intention to lift the sanctions: "We’re taking them all off. Good luck, Syria. Show us something special."
Rubio said sanctions relief must start quickly because Syria’s transition government could be weeks from "collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions."
But asked by politicians this week what sanctions relief should look like overall, Rubio gave a one-word explanation: "Incremental."
DEBATE WITHIN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
While some sanctions can be quickly waived through executive actions like those taken Friday, Congress would have to permanently remove the penalties it imposed.
Some Trump administration officials have been pushing for relief as fast as possible without demanding tough conditions first. Others have proposed a phased approach, giving short-term waivers right away on some sanctions then tying extensions or a wider executive order to Syria meeting tough conditions.
Critics said that could slow or prevent longer-term relief, hindering the interim government’s ability to attract investment and rebuild.
Proposals circulated among administration officials, including one shared this week that broadly emphasized taking all action possible, as fast as possible, to help Syria rebuild, according to a US official familiar with the plan who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Another proposal — from State Department staff — that circulated last week suggested a three-phase road map, starting with short-term waivers and then laying out sweeping requirements for future phases of relief or a permanent lifting of sanctions, the official said.
Removing "Paleostinian terror groups" from Syria is first on the list of conditions to get to the second phase. Supporters of sanctions relief say that might be impossible, given the subjectivity of determining which groups meet that definition and at what point they can be declared removed.
Other conditions for moving to the second phase are for the new government to take custody of detention facilities housing Islamic State fighters and to move forward on absorbing a US-backed Kurdish force into the Syrian army.
To get to phase three, Syria would be required to join the Abraham Accords — normalized relations with Israel — and to prove that it had destroyed the previous government’s chemical weapons.
Israel has been suspicious of the new government, although Syrian officials have said publicly that they do not want a conflict with Israel. Since Assad fell, Israel has launched hundreds of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and seized a UN-patrolled buffer zone in Syria.
[IsraelTimes] Law enforcement dropped charges, but only after after 8-month ordeal; interrogator asked suspect if he thought placard would offend pro-Hezbollah protesters
British police arrested and charged a Jewish man in London in September with racial harassment for holding a poster satirizing Hezbollah — with officers at one stage expressing concern that supporters of the terror group would be offended — only dropping the charges earlier this month, the Telegraph reported Friday.
The placard mocked His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> by showing the Hezbollah leader with a pager and the words "beep, beep, beep," a reference to the Israeli operation in September that saw pagers and walkie-talkies explode and kill 42 people.
The man, who was a counter-protester on September 20 at an anti-Israel demonstration near the home of Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in Swiss Cottage, north-west London, held the placard for less than three minutes; he chose to remain anonymous out of fear for his safety.
On September 27, an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed Nasrallah in Beirut. That same day, the man returned to Swiss Cottage for another counter-protest and was arrested.
Before being kept overnight at a local cop shoppe, police searched his home for the poster, which they could not find, despite the man telling them it was not his.
"Two police vans and six officers turned up at our house to search for ’offensive material’, which was quite invasive. It was a horrible experience," he told the Telegraph.
"They put me in the lounge and asked my partner to go with them around the house. They weren’t very pleasant to her and even went through her knicker drawer. It was totally ridiculous."
Video from the man’s interrogation obtained by the Telegraph shows a policewoman repeatedly asking him about the poster: "Do you think that showing this image to persons protesting who are clearly pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel that by doing so would stir up racial hatred further than it is already?"
The man’s attorney, Carl Wolf, replied: "Are you saying that there were pro-Hezbollah people there? Because it is a proscribed terrorist organization." The officer said she was "aware of that" and continued her line of questioning.
Despite denying that he intended to incite racial hatred or insult supporters of Hezbollah, which is recognized as a terrorist organization in the UK, police charged him for "causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words or writing," the Telegraph reported.
The charges were dropped on May 10 after the Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.
"The Met Police are still completely out of their depth when it comes to policing the anti-Israel hate marches we’ve seen on our streets week in, week out since the October 7 attacks," the man told the Telegraph.
"It beggars belief that police could think that this placard may be offensive to supporters of Hezbollah. If there are Hezbollah supporters at these marches, then why weren’t charges brought against them for terrorist offenses, rather than me being charged for holding a sign that can only be construed as political satire?
"I didn’t realize how relieved I was until I heard I wasn’t going to court."
London police told the Telegraph that the officer "clearly misspoke when she described those in the protest as pro-Hezbollah instead of pro-Paleostinian," adding that the man "was charged following a careful consideration of the evidence."
John Woodcock, the UK’s former extremism tsar, told The Telegraph: "We all understand the police have a difficult job preventing protests escalating into disorder, but the idea that officers intervened on the side of supporters of a proscribed terrorist organization is grotesque."
He added that "it’s an implausible explanation from the police that this officer simply misspoke. She was reading from a list of pre-prepared questions. They should just own their mistake and use this opportunity to ensure lessons are learnt."
Chris Philip, the UK shadow home secretary, told the Telegraph: "In recent times, the police have failed to act when confronted with protesters calling for jihad and intifada in London. Yet this man was apparently arrested because he might have offended supporters of a banned terrorist organization.
"This is two-tier policing in action. The law is rightly clear that supporting banned terrorist groups, inciting violence, inciting racial hatred or harassing people is illegal. Beyond that, free speech applies to everyone. The police sometimes turn a blind eye when applying the law might be difficult, yet over-police at other times. The law should be applied equally to all, robustly and without fear or favor. That is not what happened here."
Ian Austin, a man who was investigated by UK police for calling the terror group Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... "Islamists" on social media, told the Telegraph: "It beggars belief that someone would be arrested, put in the cells and then charged for holding this sign because it might upset supporters of Islamist holy warriors and a proscribed organization, rather than take action against the terror supporters.
"There is clearly a systemic problem when it comes to dealing with the hate marches and, instead of telling us they disagree with individual decisions, ministers need to get a grip and sort it out."
A front man for the police told the Telegraph that 28 arrests have been made since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught under the UK Terrorism Act "for offenses at protests, including wearing clothing or displaying symbols that indicated support for such groups, including Hezbollah. This is in addition to the hundreds of arrests made for other offenses."
🚨🇬🇧BREAKING: Today, in over 76 towns and cities across Britain, thousands of protesters called on Keir Starmer to resign immediately. pic.twitter.com/nYfZ7wEBAB
@UpdateNews724 The protests across the UK, part of the "Great British National Strike," demand Keir Starmer's resignation and a new election. Protesters cite alleged electoral fraud, dissatisfaction with policies on immigration, justice, Net Zero, and Ukraine spending. Over…
[IsraelTimes] Apparent spam calls use voice of Yosef-Haim Ohana from Hamas video released earlier this month; Hostages Forum say its members also received calls, stresses it is not behind them
Israelis reported receiving recorded voice messages overnight Friday and Saturday of hostages pleading to be released and sounds of explosions in the background, with the National Cyber Directorate saying that the calls were an apparent attempt to create panic among the public.
The calls, which came from unidentified numbers, used recordings taken from a propaganda video released by Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... in May of hostages Yosef-Haim Ohana and Elkana Bohbot.
In the video, Ohana is seen sitting up next to Bohbot, who is lying down on a mattress. "What will happen when I soon won’t be able to be near him and he will remain alone?" Ohana says in the recording.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum released a statement saying that its members had also received the voice messages and that the forum was not behind the recordings.
The National Cyber Directorate said the messages were "an attempt to create panic among the public."
The directorate added that receiving such a call does not harm the phone, but the call should not be answered, and the number should be blocked.
The directorate said the calls were received from the following numbers: 079-9444000; 074-7375311; 072-2604986.
Since taking 251 hostages on October 7, 2023, Hamas has often published videos of the captives as a form of propaganda and psychological warfare.
Bohbot and Ohana were both kidnapped by forces of Evil at the Supernova festival while trying to help injured people.
Terror groups in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip are holding 58 hostages, including 57 of the 251 kidnapped by Hamas-led forces of Evil on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 35 confirmed dead by the IDF, and 20 are believed to be alive. There are grave concerns for the well-being of three others, Israeli officials have said.
Hamas released 30 hostages — 20 Israeli civilians, five soldiers, and five Thai nationals — and the bodies of eight slain Israeli captives during a ceasefire between January and March, and one additional hostage, a dual American-Israeli citizen, in May as a "gesture" to the United States. The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that in the early weeks of the war. In exchange, Israel has freed some 2,000 tossed in the slammer anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not Paleostinian terrorists, security prisoners, and Gazook terror suspects detained during the war.
A number have already been rearrested for misbehaving, and another number have gotten themselves killed, likewise. It’s likely in the end all will achieve one or the other stqte, in boring repetition.
Eight hostages have been rescued from captivity by troops alive, and the bodies of 41 have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors, and the body of a soldier who was killed in 2014.
The body of another soldier killed in 2014, Lt. Hadar Goldin, is still being held by Hamas and is counted among the 58 hostages.
[IsraelTimes] After initially condemning killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, Guy Christensen tells his over 3 million followers that shooter ‘isn’t a terrorist. He’s a resistance fighter’
A sweet-faced, vicious asshole.
Guy Christensen, a TikTok influencer with more than 3 million followers, came out in support of the shooting attack that killed two Israeli embassy employees.
"I do not condemn the elimination of the Zionist officials who worked at the Israeli embassy last night," Christensen, an American Gen-Z influencer who goes by YourFavoriteGuy on TikTok, said in a video posted Thursday.
"I want to urge you first to support Elias’ actions," he added later, referencing the alleged shooter. "He is not a terrorist. He’s a resistance fighter, and the fact is that the fight against Israel’s war machine, against their genocide machine, against their criminality, includes their foreign diplomats in this country."
The video represented a reversal for Christensen, who had earlier posted a video condemning the murders. The video supporting the attack later disappeared from TikTok and Instagram. He appeared to suggest that the platform had removed it: "also tiktok banned my vid LOL," he wrote on a subsequent post.
With the video, Christensen joined a growing collection of voices openly supporting the attack. He may be the one with the largest audience.
For nearly all of the time since Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7, 2023, attack and the war it launched 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... , Christensen has been a constant, vocal pro-Paleostinian activist. In a November 2023 essay, penned when he was still in high school, he wrote that his support began when he discovered "more than what the media was telling me."
Since then, videos condemning Israel and voicing support for Paleostinians have populated his feed, and helped him rack up followers in the process. In the video supporting the murders, Christensen — as in many of his videos — was decked out in pro-Paleostinian paraphernalia. He wore a keffiyeh as well as a shirt that appeared to say "Jesus was a Paleostinian." A Paleostinian flag hung behind him.
In his initial denunciation of the attack — which killed Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, a young couple who were attending an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee — Christensen said, "I don’t support the slaughter of civilians. That’s not the way to go about it and bring justice."
In the earlier video, he made clear that he still condemned the victims’ activities and affiliations — just not their murders. "These people deserve to be tried and punished and sentenced to jail for their facilitation of this genocide," he said.
He spent much of the video predicting that the attack would lead to a government crackdown on pro-Paleostinian activists, which he compared to Kristallnacht, the mass Nazi pogrom that is considered by many to be the beginning of the Holocaust.
Some of Christensen’s followers said they agreed with that stance. But others rejected it. Many made the case that they believed that the attack had been a "false flag" operation perpetrated by supporters of Israel to galvanize opposition to pro-Paleostinian activism.
Similar comments were unfolding across the internet on Thursday. Pro-Paleostinian activists and groups that denounced the shooting drew a flurry of rebuttals: "Condemn yourselves," one popular account responded to Jewish Voice for Peace’s post decrying the attack on X.
News stories related to the shooting, meanwhile, saw fights play out in their comments section. When the news site Block Club reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... reported on a search of the alleged gunman’s apartment, for example, several responses included requests for Rodriguez’s legal defense fund. The progressive radio show "Democracy Now" elicited comments likening Rodriguez to Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in December — reflecting a trend peeking out across the internet.
Amid this context, by Thursday night, about a day after the murders, Christensen reversed course.
"Israel has livestreamed a genocide to the entire world the last two years," he said regarding the war that began 19 months ago with Hamas’ invasion. "And you cannot expect to do such a thing in this world without the people standing up to fight, to stop you in any way they can, to resist against you, and that is exactly what happened."
Like some who have praised the attack, Christensen denied that it was antisemitic by citing Lischinsky’s self-identification as a Christian. (Lischinsky had posted that he was Christian, and appears to have affiliated as a Messianic Jew, a movement that couples Jewish practices with belief in Jesus as the messiah — an idea considered incompatible with Judaism by all Jewish denominations.)
"Do not let yourself be fooled by the media, by the Zionists in this country who are telling you that this was an antisemitic terrorist attack," he said. "It was not. First of all, the man who was assassinated was a Christian Zionist, proclaiming it so on his social media. He spent his days working at the Israeli Embassy fighting to maintain Israel’s genocide and support for that genocide in this country."
Christensen continued, "He is a war criminal, and the same is true for the woman. This was not because they were Jewish, it was because they were Zionists."
(On Friday afternoon, he posted a "disclaimer" video where he said the following: "Since Zionists on Twitter are going rabid over what I just posted, I just want to disclaim that I’m not suicidal, I would never make a threat that would jeopardize my position to influence and educate people about the atrocity and evils that Zionism is currently bringing down upon the Paleostinian people, especially in Gaza. I hate Nazis and I hate Zionists, so I don’t have a problem with you much if you’re not one of those things.")
He spent much of his video supporting the attack reading the entirety of a manifesto that appears to have been posted by the gunman, titled "Escalate For Gaza, Bring The War Home." In a subsequent video, he expressed fear that pro-Israel activists would spur a federal investigation of him.
After reading the document, Christensen reiterated the reversal of his condemnation of the attack, comparing himself to Luke Skywalker, the protagonist of the Star Wars franchise.
Condemning the attack, he said, would be like "condemning Luke Skywalker for attacking the Death Star because the Empire might crack down on the resistance."
He then signed off.
"We must meet with escalation and stronger resistance," he said. "I hope my retracted condemnation does not allow our government to condemn me to a cell. But I don’t know. Follow my page for more. Thank you and free Paleostine."
The pride of vile lions who've tried to hide
Behind their civilians ["No way! They died?"]
Enlist a vaudevillian
[his smile crocodilian]
To fight seven million...
Alongside two billion
Mohammedan wolves crying "Genocide!"
[Yahoo] Hamas has not paid its fighters for three months due to Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid preventing the group seizing and selling supplies, according to reports.
Members of the al-Qassam brigades, Hamas’ military wing, have not received any pay since around February, a source from within the terror group told the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
Families of terrorists killed or captured during fighting with Israel are also reported to have not received their usual remuneration.
Hamas’s civil workers were said to have received a reduced salary equivalent of $250 four months ago, which “sparked resentment among employees”. It is not clear if they have been paid since.
Budgets allocated towards ministries and government agencies were also reported to have been put on hold around the same time.
Israel cut off supplies of humanitarian aid to Gaza in March, some of which Hamas had reportedly been seizing and selling to raise money. Around 100 aid lorries were allowed to reenter the strip on Friday, but this was much reduced from the around 600 a day that were crossing the border before March.
Moumen Al-Natour, a Palestinian lawyer from the Al-Shati camp in central Gaza, told the Wall Street Journal last month that the cash-strapped terror group had “a big crisis” on its hands.
"One Lion of Labor... er, pipsqueak,
A striking high-cheekboned Hamasnik,
Was interviewed grieving
The high cost of leaving
In skinny jeans, Nikes, and upspeak."
[Euro News] The European Union vowed to drastically cut imports of gas from Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine but data shows the bloc's purchases of Russian-made liquefied natural gas (LNG) have soared.
According to new findings released by Global Witness, an environmental watchdog organisation, the European Union bought 21.6 million cubic metres (mcm) of Russian LNG between January and July of this year, a small increase compared to the same period in 2022, when imports totalled 21.3 mcm.
But when the 2023 figure is measured against the same period in 2021, prior to the Kremlin's decision to wage war on Ukraine, it results in a 39.5% surge, an embarrassing percentage for a bloc that has forcefully condemned the invasion as an illegal, brutal and ruthless attempt to subjugate Ukraine's independence.
Making matters more uncomfortable, three member states can be found among the five major clients of Russian LNG in the first seven months of his year: China came on top with 8.7 mcm in purchases, followed by Spain (7.5 mcm), Belgium (7.1 mcm), Japan (7 mcm) and France (4.5 mcm).
As coastal countries, Spain, Belgium and France have become busy destinations for LNG carriers, which need to unload their supplies on sophisticated terminals where the cooled-down liquid is turned back into gaseous form and sent to power plants.
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So - any comments on the uninterrupted purchase of nuclear fuel rods from Russia since day one of this exercise from all the members of the "allies"?
[FoxNews] Heart-pounding video has been released showing the moment two brave New Jersey police officers pulled an impaired man from a car stuck on railway tracks, seconds before the speeding locomotive rams the vehicle.
Police vehicle dashcam footage shows quick-thinking officers in a life-or-death incident, desperately pulling the driver from the car just after midnight May 12 as the railroad crossing gates are dropping down with warning lights flashing and bells sounding.
"We’re dragging him out of the car. The car is stuck," an officer can be heard saying over the police radio system.
Seconds later, the train smashes into the car, which appears to be a Tesla.
The two officers, Devin Hinchcliffe and John Ward of the Piscataway Township Police Department, have been praised for their heroism in saving the driver’s life.
"Recognizing the imminent danger posed by an approaching train, the officers swiftly and safely removed the driver just seconds before impact," the Piscataway Township Police Department said in a news release on Facebook.
"Their quick action prevented a potential tragedy, and we commend Officer Hinchcliffe and Officer Ward for their prompt and effective response."
Police said that because of the driver's impaired condition, "he was unable to follow instructions to exit the vehicle."
"Their professionalism and quick decision-making undoubtedly prevented a tragedy," the department wrote in another post. "Excellent job!"
It is unclear what was wrong with the driver and how the car became stuck on the tracks.
Facebook users gave high praise to the officers and hailed them as heroes for their selfless actions.
[TurkiyeToday] European intellectuals were once staunch enemies of the Turks due to geopolitics and historical enmities. Many European thinkers wrote works on how to dismantle the Ottoman Empire. Alongside this, the Ottoman style of governance was also cited as an example in the works of intellectuals.
In the 16th century, theorists of absolutism in Europe, such as Jean Bodin and similar thinkers, stated that the Ottoman Empire was an example of an ideal political system. Writers and thinkers like Giovio, Frense-Caneye, and Busbecq also praised the Ottoman military and administrative system in their works.
Erasmus, a renowned European thinker who gained great fame with his book "The Praise of Folly," in his work "Utilissima Consultatio de Bello Turcis Inferendo .." (A Most Useful Consultation Concerning the War Against the Turks), described the Turks as barbarians of obscure origin. He stated that they had conquered a significant part of Europe due to the differences in opinion among Christians and then emphasized the need to liberate their brethren who were now under captivity. While Erasmus did not justify religious war, he argued that for Christianity to survive, the Turks needed to be eliminated.
Another famous European thinker and scientist, Francis Bacon, in his work "An Advertisement Touching An Holy Warre," written in 1622 and published in London in 1629, argued that waging war against the Turks was justified by the laws of nature, human laws, and sacred laws.
The famous German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, in his work "Memoire de Leibnitz a Louis 14, sur la conquete de l'Egypte, publie avec une preface..." (Leibniz's Memoir to Louis XIV, on the Conquest of Egypt, published with a preface...) presented to King Louis XIV of France in 1672, told the Sun King that "the conditions for the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire are very favorable, and not only Egypt but the entire East awaits a liberator whom it will fearlessly follow in revolt."
Leibniz put forward very appealing ideas to persuade Louis XIV to go to war: "If France wars with Holland, it can only find allies by paying for them. However, if it wars against the Turks, many will come to Your Majesty's aid. The Pope, the Italian princes, Sicily, and Spain will support you. When the anticipated success in the Egyptian war is achieved, the sea and land routes of Eastern trade will be seized. The honor of being the commander-in-chief of the Christians and the elimination of the Turkish Empire will belong to the King of France. The title of Emperor of the East, the arbiter of the world, and the ruler of the Christian world will be remembered with glory and honor for the king."
[TurkiyeToday] Türkiye has cleared approximately 50 million square meters of land as part of its humanitarian demining efforts, coordinated by the National Mine Action Center (MAFAM) under the Ministry of National Defense.
Deputy Defense Minister Musa Heybet addressed Parliament's Planning and Budget Committee, responding to lawmakers’ questions about the country’s mine clearance activities.
Heybet recalled that Türkiye became a party to the Ottawa Convention on March 1, 2004, and established MAFAM in 2015. The Convention commits signatories to refraining from using, developing, producing, transferring, or stockpiling anti-personnel mines.
He stated Türkiye has a total of 219.9 million square meters of mine-contaminated land and that since its establishment, MAFAM has cleared around 50 million square meters.
MODERN SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE REPLACES OUTDATED BORDER MINES
Türkiye aims to replace outdated border security systems based on landmines with a modern physical security system.
According to Heybet, this new system includes modular concrete walls, surveillance and reconnaissance towers, access roads, and lighting, designed to prevent smuggling and illegal border crossings while ensuring effective border protection.
He also confirmed that demining activities are being conducted in coordination with the construction of this new border infrastructure.
250,000 MINES NEUTRALIZED
Approximately 250,000 landmines have been destroyed under the coordination of MAFAM.
Demining operations continue in several provinces, including Igdir, Tunceli, Sirnak, Sanliurfa, Kilis, and Hatay, where teams from both the Ministry of National Defense (OMAT) and the Ministry of Interior (JOMAT) are actively engaged.
BLACK SEA MONITORING IN RESPONSE TO DRIFTING NAVAL MINES
In response to naval mines adrift in the Black Sea due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Türkiye’s Naval Forces have been conducting continuous 24/7 surveillance.
All detected mines are being safely neutralized to protect maritime navigation and security.
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BLUF: Suffering an excess of adrenalin after an exciting exercise, they acted like thoughtless idiots in public, scaring innocent civilians. Take your punishment like gentlemen, guys, and don’t be that kind of stupid again.
[ZeroHedge] New viral video has emerged showing an incident near a beach and popular tourist island spot off Florida, which the US Army is now investigating. The unusual incident has quickly made national headlines.
Eighteen soldiers with the 6th Ranger Training Battalion were temporarily suspended as instructors amid a formal inquiry into the May 16 incident, which involved some of them discharging their weapons at a public beach. Soldiers shot blanks into the air from a small tactical boat while closely surrounded by civilian boats.
The shots from machine guns caused enough of a scene for people nearby to call 911 - not realizing they were blanks. It all happened at a crowded beach and boating area along Florida’s Emerald Coast, and in one social media video a woman can be heard frantically asking whether real bullets were being fired.
Many cars can also be seen in one video traversing a nearby bridge at a distance behind where the weapons discharges were happening aboard the Army boats.
Apparently there was screaming and some bystanders ran for cover, thinking there was some kind of mass shooting incident. According to the NY Times:
Earlier that day, the Rangers had gone to a popular boating area several miles away, Crab Island, which is in Choctawhatchee Bay, and some fired blanks there, too, according to city officials.
Video posted on social media showed two small boats with uniformed military personnel in a crowded area near other vessels carrying passengers as well as bathers in the water. In the video, at least one of the personnel fires into the air.
It seems not every incident of shooting was caught on film, but other locations where blanks were fired may have caused more chaos among unsuspecting beach revelers.
"At least five calls reporting the gunfire came in to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office just before 3:30 p.m. on May 16, a spokeswoman said," NY Times notes.
A local city official said as follows: "What happened at Crab Island was not part of the Billy Bowlegs Pirate Festival, nor was it approved by either the City of Fort Walton Beach or the Billy Bowlegs organization."
The comment was based on speculation that the firing of blanks by the Army Rangers had been part of a large boating festival which involves mock gun battles and fireworks displays.
"We take this situation seriously and are investigating," an Army spokesperson has said. "The Army will ensure accountability based on the outcome of the investigation."
The large-scale suspension of the instructors, which is highly unusual, may actually delay a training program which had been ongoing.
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The instructors will probably be removed as instructors, banned from re-joining the Regiment, sent to legland with a permanent albatross around their neck. In two years they will either be working for Constellis, the ISA or staring at a mirror in a bar. Being booted from the Regiment for cause is the biggest sanction a Ranger can face.
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Not saying it is fine, and The Good Idea Fairy was probably perched on a shoulder, but pretty innocuous, not like they rolled up trying to clear Margaritaville.
[Hot Air] The surest way to trigger the collapse of New York City is to elect an antisemitic mayor.
Throughout history, rising antisemitism is a bellwether of societal ruin: When attacks on Jews are tolerated or encouraged, the dissolution of everyone's rights and the abandonment of basic freedoms follow.
See the Spanish Inquisition, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for examples.
It could happen here. Electing a Jew-hating mayor who turns a blind eye to antisemitic crime will drive out huge numbers of city residents -- including some of its wealthiest -- erode the real estate market, hollow out cultural institutions and lead to moral implosion.
Everyone who can leave, Jews and non-Jews alike, will flee.
Being Jewish in NYC is already getting uncomfortable.
We see swastikas scrawled on walls and desks in some public schools, students elsewhere casually referring to high performers in math as "the Jew table," a Queens community garden posting a ban on Zionists, a 13-year-old Jewish boy slapped in the face while riding his bike through his neighborhood -- such incidents are no longer shocking.
The most dangerous wolf in sheep's clothing: Zohran Mamdani,
…like Ilhan Omar he is the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidate. The red diaper baby of ethnic Indian immigrant academics (Columbi U, natch) parrots all the usual anti-Jew/Israel shibboleths while insisting he is also a Shiite Moslem, suggesting an important Iran connection…
a state assemblyman currently polling second in the Democratic primary behind former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Never forget what he did to the old folks during Covid, though he most assuredly has…
Mamdani is making the rounds at Jewish events. He's attended at least seven public and private meetings and meals with Jewish leaders in the last month.
On Friday he posted an official campaign video proclaiming himself a defender of the Jewish people, promising an "800% increase" in city spending to "combat antisemitism."
"In this election, we're seeing ... the pain of Jewish New Yorkers being weaponized as a talking point," he moaned.
Don't fall for his new guise: Mamdani has backed the odious Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement,
…a soft jihad project by the PLO (remember them?) against Israel when the wars and intifadas failed that taken up with glee by Progressive “thinkers” around the world who love to claim that Jew-hate is a phenomenon only of the Right…
calls Israel's actions against Gaza "genocide," and recently refused to cosponsor two Assembly resolutions to condemn the Holocaust and recognize the state of Israel.
His campaign claims are just not credible.
"Mamdani has been fanning the flames of antisemitism, and now he wants us to believe he's the firefighter," warns David Greenfield of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a major Jewish charity.
The New York Times calls Mamdani's stance on Jews and Israel "nuanced." Nonsense: He's a morally bankrupt Jew-hater.
Meanwhile, Cuomo is betting big on Jewish voters, relying on a track record of supporting Israel and promoting its business ties with New York, as well as signing an anti-BDS bill in 2016.
But his outreach appears to be inch-deep: After leaving the governor's office in shame, Cuomo launched the group Never Again NOW! at the tony Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton, promising a lecture series and a paid media campaign to combat anti-Jewish hate.
But nothing followed -- and not even the website has been updated.
Was it merely a convenient way for a disgraced former governor to reconnect with the donor class? Probably.
Maybe Mayor Eric Adams'
…thrust out by the ones who brung ‘im for daring to complain about the harms caused by the couple ten thousand illegals bussed to his city from Texas and Florida when the Biden-Harris Politburo were letting in millions, he has solidly turned to the pro-Israel /Jewish, anti-illegal, law-and-order voters he first appealed to before pivoting to the Defund The Police branch of the Democrats. He handles rotational dizziness well…
newly announced Office to Combat Antisemitism will produce real results.
Adams, who is not competing in the June 24 primary, hopes to appear on November's general election ballot as an independent candidate on two lines -- including one called "EndAntiSemitism."
It's outright pandering, but there's no question Adams has been a staunch ally of the Jewish community and a backer of Israel's military campaign against Hamas.
[PJ Media] According to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Iran is now capable of spinning up enough of its highly enriched uranium (HEU) from its current level of 60% to the 90% necessary to build a nuclear bomb, in "probably less than one week."
The timeline for Israel to act against Iran's nuclear program has now compressed considerably. Coupled with the glacial pace of U.S. talks with Iran on its nuclear program, and the state of readiness of Israeli strike forces, some analysts have concluded that Israel is prepared to strike Iranian nuclear facilities in a matter of days.
The impasse in nuclear talks with Iran is "irreconcilable," according to the Israelis. Iran insists it will not give up its ability to enrich uranium. The U.S. demands a complete end to Iran's enrichment. For Iran, it is a matter of national honor to be able to enrich uranium. It's now part of their national identity and will not give it up under any circumstances.
The talks are continuing with minor progress on ancillary points in the dispute. The fundamental differences are broad and deep. The question now is, why continue the negotiations?
Indeed, chief U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff left the talks in Rome early on Friday, citing his "flight schedule." The technical experts were left to make a list of the dozens of issues that still need to be resolved before formal talks can even begin.
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...The Mullahs are so far into a corner that the only card they have left is 'if they hit us, we're hitting you."
The former resident at 1600 Pennsylvania - or his regents - would be tripping all over themselves to give in at this point, not to mention throwing Israel under the nearest bus.
[American Thinker] Most of us are old enough to remember Ann Coulter. Back in the early days of this here century, Coulter briefly cut a gigantic figure within the American Right. Many found her good-looking (no rarity among con women, it’s true) with traditional WASP features and a mane of blonde hair, though others found her a trifle horse-faced. For a time, it seemed possible that she’d attain a status second only to El Rushbo himself. She appeared on the covers of national magazines, became a go-to source for quotes, and was profiled and tracked in the gossip columns. For a year or two, Coulter appeared unstoppable.
Then it all started to fall apart, thanks largely due to her inability to control the mean-girl aspects of her persona. Coulter’s default was nastiness greater than was strictly called for. The most notorious example involved John Edwards, a confused and not-quite-competent Democrat pol who was somehow maneuvered into taking the VP slot next to the walking target Al Gore. When asked what she thought of Edwards, she had one response: "Faggot."
The comment was out of line and resulted in immediate blowback. Edwards, while gifted with bland Midwestern good looks, had no gay mannerisms or queeny aspects. In fact, when scandal did break, it was of the exact opposite nature: Edwards had knocked up a staffer while on the campaign trail. To his credit, Edwards left public life, presumably to help raise the child and take the pressure off the young woman, by all indications a rather neurotic and needy type. He came out looking better than he likely deserved.
As opposed to Coulter, who didn’t seem to grasp the fact that plenty of gays have conservative instincts and needed to be cultivated, not driven away. Dave Rubin, Link Lauren, and Tammy Bruce can all serve as exemplars of gay conservatism.
But her real downfall came, along with so many others, with the advent of Donald Trump. Coulter had no use for Trump and made that fact quite clear. Her beef involved illegal immigration, for she was angry that Trump had failed to build a ten-story-high two-thousand-mile-long border wall on the first day he was in office. Coulter came across as somebody who didn’t understand the Constitution or quite grasp the fact that Trump wasn’t elected dictator, but instead had to work within a system designed to prevent sudden dislocations, and one furthermore that was largely devoted to working against him.
Coulter wouldn’t back off , and her already damaged brand faded still further. MAGA masses wouldn’t touch her. Today, she is effectively forgotten, unquoted, and unacknowledged. I was quite surprised to learn that she still has a column that appears here and there.
(Matt Drudge’s career followed a similar trajectory, sliding from mammoth influence to irrelevance, and for largely the same reason: a world-class case of TDS.)
[The Federalist] Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were a young couple "in the prime of their lives" and planning to get married, according to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
"Instead of walking you down the aisle, we are walking with you to your graves," wrote embassy spokeswoman Tal Naim in an X post after Thursday after a suspected Jew-hating terrorist shot and killed the embassy employees as they exited the Capital Jewish Museum in Northwest D.C.
The accused killer, 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, shouted, "I did it for Gaza," and then chanted "free Palestine" as he stormed out of the museum, according to The Washington Post. Rodriguez reportedly has been involved in numerous leftist causes, including Marxist-Leninist groups and the anti-Israel movement. Authorities are investigating terrorist ties.
They need only look to the death cult of the far left, spreading antisemitism messages across U.S. college campuses, Democrat-led cities, even in the halls of Congress for such murderous inspiration. The "Free Palestine" crowd of "From the River to the Sea" chanters are the progeny of a radical left bent on burning down America and the rest of the Western World. And the hands of the modern-day Democrat Party that has been commandeered by these Marxists are covered in blood — dripping from its clenched fist.
"These horrible D.C. killings, based obviously on antisemitism, must end, NOW!" President Donald Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA. Condolences to the families of the victims. So sad that such things as this can happen! God Bless You ALL!"
[Modernity] House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer has announced that he is seeking depositions from four former Biden staffers in addition to former White House physician Kevin O’Connor in an effort to find out if they were influencing the cognitively impaired Joe Biden and acting as ’de facto Presidents’.
Describing the former handlers as "unelected bureaucrats", Comer told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the committee has identified them "as the main gatekeepers for the Biden White House."
When asked who they are, Comer responded that "they’re no names that anyone that normally watches Fox would know," adding "They’re behind the scenes."
[Breitbart] A quarter of people in Germany have “immigration history,” rising to as many as a third among the youngest cohort, but Germany’s restrictive definition of what constitutes a migrant may mask even greater numbers of foreign-heritage residents.
The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) published a demographical bulletin this week, noting that, for the first time, the proportion of people who are either migrants themselves or born to two migrant parents is one-quarter of the national population. This works out at 21.2 million people, an increase of four per cent in a year, or 873,000 people from 2023 to 2024.
Destatis notes migrant communities in Germany tend to skew younger, and in the 20-39 cohort, a full third of people living in Germany have that “immigration history”.
While this rate of demographic change is significant, Destatis’s categorisation of its data may conceal further change. Only first-generation migrants and those born to two migrant parents are counted in the headline figures, and those born to one migrant parent and one German parent are excluded.
“They are therefore not considered part of the population with an immigration history,” the nation’s official statistician said.
Single-migrant parent individuals will account for a further 4.1 million people in Germany in 2024. Per the Destatis figures, accounting for all first- and second-generation migrants, this puts the total “immigration history” population of Germany at 30.7 per cent.
Depending on the degree to which various migrant communities have successfully integrated into German society, and given Germany’s Gastarbeiter (guest worker) programme — a misnomer given very few ever return home — is now 70 years old, the statistics are not designed to capture individuals who may have four migrant grandparents, for instance.
The rate of immigration has surged in recent years. Destatis said 6.5 million people arrived in Germany since 2015, the first year of the European Migrant Crisis. In the most recent cohort of arrivals, the top countries of origin are Ukraine, Syria, and Turkey.
Meanwhile, in a development reported by Germany’s Die Welt newspaper, the most productive source of migration to Germany, in terms of economic engagement and tax revenue, is showing signs of drying up. Describing migrants from Eastern Europe as “a key pillar of the German labour market,” the report notes that the number of arrivals is plummeting, down two-thirds in recent years.
The paper noted that, because of the decline in this source of migrant labour, which the German government believes it needs to survive, the German Economic Institute advises attempting to attract more immigrants from non-European countries.
[Breitbart] The Swedish government has announced an investigation into the “Islamist infiltration” in the country following the publication of the bombshell French report claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood has waged a decades-long campaign to penetrate European institutions with the aim of subverting the West and imposing Sharia law.
A French intelligence report published this week by the Ministry of Interior warned of Islamist fifth columns embedded across Europe, with EU institutions, Muslim associations, and migrant communities all falling prey to a vast network of sworn Muslim Brotherhood members operating in plain sight, often using Western liberal values to veil their nefarious aims in a shroud of legitimacy.
While the report focused heavily on the Brotherhood’s activities in France and the EU, the Paris intel identified numerous other countries throughout Europe, including Austria, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
The report also said that “evidence collected attests to the active presence of the movement” in Northern European countries like Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
Following its publication, Swedish Minister for Integration Mats Persson said: “I will convene an expert group to get a picture of the situation of Islamist infiltration in Sweden. This is against the background of what has emerged in France.”
“Sweden is mentioned in the French report and in many respects has similar challenges to France in terms of integration and counteracting parallel social structures that challenge liberal democracy,” he added.
Persson went on to say that the government will “strangle foreign funding of religious communities, where states fund radical mosques” to push back against “these Islamist and undemocratic forces.”
According to the French report, Sweden “hosts an active branch of the movement which, in addition to its small size, is characterised by its influence on European movement structures.”
The Muslim Brotherhood’s operation in Sweden accomplished this influence with the backing of money from Qatar, Paris claimed.
Additionally, Sweden appears to have been an easy target for the Islamist movement given the Nordic nation’s “great tolerance of multiculturalism,” the report found.
The French government investigation also alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood took advantage of “good relations” with local political parties, particularly the Swedish Social Democratic Party, the traditional party of government in Stockholm, which oversaw the vast majority of recent mass migration into the country.
Social Democrats Party Secretary Tobias Baudin said that the report “does not elaborate” on the alleged ties between his left-wing party and the Muslim Brotherhood, but said: “We have zero tolerance for association with extremist organisations. That line is crystal clear in our party.”
However, some have noted that just last year, the leftist party was forced to expel one of its members of parliament, Jamal El-Haj, over his alleged ties to Hamas and for reportedly attempting to lobby the Swedish Migration Agency on behalf of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked Imam to remain in the country.
“Jamal El-Haj is no longer a member of our party. It is because we are clear: There should be no interaction with extremist organisations,” Baudin said.
[Breitbart] Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) as part of the tech giant’s efforts to stop the governor from passing legislation in the state that would require app stores to verify the ages of its users.
Last week, Cook called Abbott to ask for changes to the online child safety legislation, or if that failed, the Apple CEO requested a veto, people familiar with the call told the Wall Street Journal.
The sources added that the conversation between the two men was cordial, noting that the purpose of the call was to make it clear to Gov. Abbott that Apple’s desire to see the law stopped goes all the way to the top of the company.
The Texas governor has not yet revealed whether he plans to sign the bill, which has already passed through the state’s legislature with veto-proof majorities.
Notably, Apple deployed lobbyists to pressure lawmakers in the weeks leading up to the legislation passing through the Texas legislature, but those moves were apparently to no avail.
If the bill is signed by Gov. Abbott, it would make Texas the largest state in the nation to implement what is known as an App Store accountability law. So far, Utah is the only state that has passed similar legislation, while at least nine other states have seen the law proposed.
But the legislation being passed in Texas is crucial, as some believe it could set the precedent for more states to follow suit, and thus, possibly create new costs for Apple and Google, tech giants that are currently worth 2.92 trillion and $2.076 trillion, respectively.
The online child safety law would mandate that tech giants housing app stores verify the age of a device owner, so that if the user is a minor, their app store account will be connected to a parent’s account, allowing parents to have more control over what their children are doing on their smartphones.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A military submarine that crashed over 100 years ago has finally been found on the bottom of the ocean.
The huge Navy vessel was discovered off the coast of California after being lost during a training accident in 1917.
It was spotted in sand next to a training aircraft that had crashed into the sea in an unrelated incident in 1950.
Researchers released incredible images of the sunken vehicles after finding them using advanced underwater technology and expert divers.
The US Navy submarine USS F-1 collided with its sister sub - USS F-3 - during surface exercises off the coast of San Diego on December 17, 1917.
The F-3 tore a massive hole in her sister ship's port side, causing the F-1 to sink in just ten seconds, the Submarine Force Library and Museum Association says.
Nineteen out of its 24-man crew were unable to escape, going down with the vessel as it sank to the seafloor.
Underwater Archaeologist Brad Krueger said: 'It was an incredibly exciting and humbling experience to visit these historically significant wrecks and to honor the sacrifice of these brave American Sailors.
'All of us at the NHHC are grateful for this collaboration, which also enabled us to document and assess the condition of the crafts.'
He continued: 'USS F-1 was conducting a 48-hour engineering run and performance test traveling from San Pedro and San Diego, CA, when the accident occurred.
'USS F-2 and USS F-3 were alongside performing similar testing when all three vessels entered a fog bank.
'USS F-3 collided with USS F-1, and following the collision USS F-3 remained on scene to help rescue survivors from the water.'
The wreck remained undiscovered for nearly 60 years until it was located by a Navy deep submersible vehicle looking for a jet fighter that crashed in 1972.
In October of 1976, Lt. Dave Magyar took a deep-sea rescue submersible down off the coast where he found the submarine 'intact'.
'It looked like a big ax had hit her,' he said about the discovery. The 142-foot, 330-ton submarine was found lying on its right side, facing west-northwest on the ocean floor.
'It will remain the grave of 19 men,' Captain Willard Johnson, commander of Submarine Development Group I, said. 'There is no reason at this time to bring it up.'
Those students are unfortunately a sunk cost. But the new cohort coming in will be inspired by the idea of stripping the work to its essence — making war, not “love” — and the teaching staff will be forced to accept the change or likewise give way.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Top military schools have faced a swift backlash after using underground means to discuss books and topics banned by the Trump administration.
Cadets and staff at the US Naval Academy have been creating non-governmental emails to chat about the banned ideas, including the likes of critical race theory.
The president has cracked down on what made up the curriculum at the school, with faculty saying they run their research through an AI tool screen their findings.
Words that are flagged include 'barrier', 'Black', 'allyship', 'cultural differences' and 'The Gulf of Mexico'.
Professors have been told to teach that 'America and its founding documents remains the most powerful force for good in human history' after a memo Pete Hegseth.
One unnamed professor told the Washington Post: 'We at the Naval Academy are here to prepare young officers to command.
'They need to know what we have learned from our study of politics and history and literature and languages.
'We are failing them and we are failing in our jobs if we suppress some things we know are true and we parrot other things we know are false.'
They also said that students are feeling conflicted about the possibility of being deployed under the current White House. One professor said they had advised cadets to serve until they receive an order that they feel might be illegal. He told them if that point comes to 'reject it rather than compromise yourself'.
Graham Parsons, a former professor of philosophy at West Point Military Academy, left his position earlier this month in protest over the changes to the curriculum. He said that the entire US armed forces have been left up in arms over Trump's reversal of DEI initiatives and social justice programs. Parsons told the outlet: 'It's a feeling of real whiplash. We used to raise the possibility in the military and beyond, there are still real structural problems with racism and sexism. That would not fly now.'
He stood down from his post after writing a scathing opinion piece for The New York Times. In it, he said: 'I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form.'
Trump was at West Point Academy on Saturday to give a commencement speech in which he vowed to ditch DEI programs and support for transgender service people. He said: 'We´re getting rid of distractions and we're focusing our military on its core mission: crushing America's adversaries, killing America's enemies and defending our great American flag like it has never been defended before.
He later said that 'the job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows or transform foreign cultures,' a reference to drag shows on military bases that President Joe Biden's administration halted after Republican criticism.
Trump said the cadets were graduating at a 'defining moment' in Army history as he accused political leaders in the past of sending soldiers into 'nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us.'
He said he was clearing the military of transgender ideas, 'critical race theory' and types of training he called divisive and political.
Past administrations, he said, 'subjected the armed forces to all manner of social projects and political causes while leaving our borders undefended and depleting our arsenals to fight other countries wars.'
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In the 80s the faculty was fine. I’m not sure whether this creeped in slowly or they made a special effort after the 2000’s. Cleaning it up won’t be hard as the core curriculum includes so much STEM and weapons system stuff that doesn’t leave much room for indoctrination. The Leadership curriculum ought to be reviewed first. Political Science and History second.
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The change pretty much coincided with the establishment of liberal arts degrees and the end of the mandatory engineering curriculum.
You can draw you own conclusions, but yes, 'math be hard.'
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I was always taught that you do not have to obey an illegal order. However, you had better be sure that is actually illegal, and not just "I disagree with it" or "I don't like it ".
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My takeaway was that it is morally incumbent to disobey an illegal order, but living in the real world means accepting the consequences of that refusal, very likely a lost job and being shunned for it by those who chose to go along to get along. Or jail, concentration camp, or firing squad, depending on the order and those giving it.
Ditto for refusing to join in the fashionably vile/decadent social behaviors of the moment. Some people get nasty about that.
A series of ten maps can be seen at the end of the linked article.
[Korrespondent] Ukrainian defenders repelled five enemy attacks in the Kupyansk direction.
The occupiers made two unsuccessful attempts to advance in the Dnieper direction, the General Staff reported.
Russian troops have stepped up attacks along the entire front line. Over the past 24 hours, 202 combat clashes have been recorded on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on its Facebook page.
Kharkov direction. The enemy tried to break through the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces five times in the areas of Vovchansk, Vovchanskie Khutors, Kamyanka and Dvurechnaya.
Kupyansk direction. Ukrainian defenders repelled five enemy attacks in the areas of Kolesnikovka, Kruglyakovka and Zagrizove.
Liman direction. 16 enemy assault actions were recorded near Novoye, Novomikhaylovka, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye, Grekovka, Yampolivka, as well as in the directions of Grigoryevka and Belogorovka.
Kramatorsk direction. The enemy carried out four attacks near Kurdyumovka, as well as in the directions of Belaya Gora and Predtechnoye.
Toretsk direction. The enemy attempted to storm the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Romanovka, Ozaryanovka, Krymskoye, Druzhba and Toretsk 21 times.
Pokrovsk direction. The Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled 61 assault operations in the areas of Shevchenko Pervy, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Malinovka, Lisivka, Udachny, Novomikolaevka, Troitskoye, Kotlyarovka and Andreevka.
Novopavlovskoye direction. The occupiers attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders 30 times near Novopol, Zeleny Pole, Volny Pole, Bogatyr, Veseloye, Burlatskoye and in the direction of Otradnoye.
Orekhovskoye direction. The enemy tried to break through the defense in the Stepovoye and Novodanilovka areas five times.
Dnieper direction. The occupiers made two unsuccessful attempts to advance.
Kursk direction. The defense forces are holding back the invader, who carried out eight airstrikes (12 air strikes), 281 shellings, 13 of which were from MLRS, and 43 assault actions in 24 hours.
It will be interesting to see whether the HTS government absorbs the ISIS fighters into their ranks or sees them as the undesirable other.
[Rudaw] The Syrian government will assume control of al-Hol and shift focus to rehabilitation of the thousands of 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) sympathizers and family members being held in the camp in northeast Syria, an Interior Ministry spokesperson said on Saturday.
"Regarding the al-Hol camp issue, it is part of the agreement signed between the Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian Democratic Forces, which stipulates that the Syrian Arab Republic will assume control over all areas in the Syrian Jazira region - namely, in Hasakah and Raqqa areas," Interior Ministry spokesperson Nouraldeen Albaba told Rudaw in a presser on Saturday.
The goal will be to ensure the camp is no longer a source of unrest and extremism. "Now, it will become a comprehensive societal rehabilitation dossier targeting the victims and families of individuals who joined ISIS," he said.
Al-Hol camp in Hasaka province is infamous for its squalid conditions and has been branded a breeding ground for terrorism. Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the 40,000 ISIS-linked people who have been held at the camp since the defeat of the group in 2019. There are also people in the camp from around the world who had traveled to join the so-called ISIS caliphate.
A delegation from the Syrian government visited al-Hol camp on Saturday, according to local media. The delegation consisted of 10 people and was the first visit to the camp by the interim government. They were also joined by representatives from the US-led global coalition against ISIS, Ronahi TV reported.
The purpose of the visit was to inspect conditions in the camp and explore returning Syrian nationals to their home regions, according to Ronahi, which is affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) in January announced that its doors are open to the "voluntary return" of Syrians in the camp to their hometowns. Iraq has been repatriating its nationals in groups, putting them through a rehabilitation program before they return to their original homes.
Rojava authorities also have thousands of ISIS fighters detained in jails.
United States President Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... , when he met interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa last week, urged him to assume responsibility for ISIS detention centres in Rojava. The newly-appointed US envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack noted progress Damascus has taken on meeting Trump’s request when he met Sharaa in Istanbul on Saturday.
[Rudaw] Three suspected members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) were arrested by Kurdish security forces (Asayish) in separate operations in Sulaimani province, the Asayish said on Friday.
"In three separate operations and in coordination with the Iraqi national security forces, three wanted holy warriors were arrested in the areas of Sulaimani, Chamchamal, and Sharazur," Colonel Salam Abdulkhaliq, head of the Sulaimani-based Asayish media team, told Rudaw.
All three suspects "were active members of the ISIS organization," Abdulkhaliq said.
ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi land in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions.
The snuffies have taken shelter in an area of land stretching across the provinces of Salahaddin, Diyala, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Nineveh where there is a security vacuum because it is disputed between Baghdad and Erbil.
Kurdish and Iraqi security forces frequently cooperate and carry out joint operations against ISIS cells in the Kurdistan Region.
Thousands of people have been detained across Iraq since 2014 for suspected links to krazed killer groups, including ISIS, and hundreds have been executed.
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…a port in western Russia, the capitol of the republic of Tartarstan…
a native of Turkey killed his ex-wife at their little son's birthday party. This was reported on May 24 by the Telegram channel " 112 ".
"Mete Etzfela from Turkey came to the children's party, but the fun was short-lived. The man once again provoked a conflict and stabbed his ex-wife Elena with a knife. The child also got hurt in the scuffle," the channel said in a statement.
The neighbors called the police, but the attacker locked himself in the apartment and did not open it until his relatives arrived. He gave them his son and his suicide note, after which he locked himself on the balcony again, the article says. The police and relatives are negotiating with the man, persuading him to surrender.
Later, the SHOT Telegram channel clarified that the murdered woman was the director of a Kazan sports school. 34-year-old Elena divorced her husband, but he continued to stalk her.
The three-year-old child, according to the channel, was hospitalized. The attacker is still in the apartment, continuing to threaten to commit suicide, the authors of the material specified.
There is no information about Etzfel's Russian citizenship.
[YouTube] John "Boxer" Mendoza is a former high-ranking member of the Nuestra Familia. He was part of the organization from 1994 to 2007 and was incarcerated at San Quentin, Pelican Bay, and Corcoran. Nowadays, he has a YouTube channel called Paradigm Media News and is the author of Nuestra Familia.
Manuel Medrano is a former member of the Arizona Mexican Mafia, also known as the New Mexican Mafia, a US prison gang. Medrano speaks with Business Insider about the gang structure, hierarchy, and its ties to the cartels. He covers gang tattoos, language, and the loose alliance the gang had with the Aryan Brotherhood. Medrano now runs Phase Two of Life, a charity in Arizona. He also runs the YouTube channel Chronicles, where he speaks with former gang members.
Vidal Guzman was a member of the East Coast Bloods and was incarcerated on Rikers Island. Rikers Island, in New York City's East River, is home to some of the most notorious and violent jails in the world. Most of its detainees have not yet been convicted of a crime and are either remanded in custody or held on bail. Guzman is a prominent voice in the Close Rikers campaign and the executive director of America on Trial. He founded the End Qualified Immunity in NY and #FixThe13thNY campaigns.
Pieter Tritton, a former cocaine smuggler, speaks with BI about his experience trafficking drugs from South America to the United Kingdom. Tritton was arrested in Ecuador and served 10 years in prison there, first in Garcia Moreno in Quito and later in Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, which is home to some of the world's most violent prison gangs.
Leroy Smith was a member of the African Crew prison gang in the UK during the early 2000s. Smith became a hit man and a drug dealer for the African Crew during his time as a category A inmate in the Full Sutton, Frankland, Long Lartin, and Whitemoor high-security prisons. He speaks with BI about the violence and weapons, smuggling contraband, selling drugs, and becoming a hit man for the gang.
[IsraelNationalNews] Hamas captivity survivor Agam Berger tells France's Foreign Minister that "diplomatic solutions" are futile against Hamas, stating, "it's us or them."
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"It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet."
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[ShabelleMedia] Reports from the eastern Galgaduud region in central Somalia indicate heightened military activity over the past several hours, as combined forces of local militias and the Somali National Army (SNA) have launched coordinated operations aimed at dislodging Al-Shabaab militants entrenched in several key areas.
The government-backed troops have received significant logistical support, including arms and equipment, to strengthen their capacity to reclaim territory under extremist control. These reinforcements are part of a broader push to regain control of eastern Galgaduud, where Al-Shabaab maintains a presence.
During a blistering Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) was visibly floored after Energy Secretary Christopher Wright dropped a bombshell: the Department of Energy handed out a staggering $93 billion in loans and commitments during the final 76 days of the Biden administration, a figure that more than doubled the loan total from the previous 15 years combined.
Kennedy, in classic fashion, drilled in with precision. “The 76-day period you’re talking about, that’s the period between the time that President Trump was elected and President Biden left office. Is that right?”
“That is correct,” Wright confirmed.
Kennedy didn’t mince words when he asked how any agency could properly vet such massive spending in such a short window. “How do you do due diligence on one loan, much less $93 billion?” he asked.
Wright’s answer was damning.
“I think it’s probably pretty clear it wasn’t done in many cases,” he said. “There were commitments made from businesses that provided no business plan, no numbers about their own financial solvency, or how this project actually worked.”
The senator appeared almost incredulous and asked for clarity: “So, so you're telling me that the Department of Energy in the 76-day period before their boss was gonna leave office, gave or loaned money to, to entities that had no business plan?”
“Correct,” Wright replied bluntly.
“No financials?” Kennedy asked.
“Correct,” Wright told him. “I've come in with great concern about how this institution, this great American institution, has been run and how American taxpayer money has been handled.”
Wright also acknowledged that his department is now conducting a sweeping review of those loans and grants.
Kennedy raised concerns about the nature of applicants who sought these funds, pointing out the potential for fraud.
“Is it conceivable that some of these folks… came to you with a half-baked idea?”
“Very conceivable,” Wright told him. “In fact, I’ve seen such plans… that didn’t have a business plan — just a promise to develop one later.”
What shocked Kennedy most wasn’t just the lack of oversight but the arrogance of it all: “They were spending money at the Department of Energy like it was ditchwater,” he said, noting the department’s ballooning budget. “Their budget went from $60 billion to $160 billion since fiscal year 2021.”
Wright didn’t defend the indefensible. He pledged to turn down wasteful projects and refer “the thieves” to the Department of Justice. “They shouldn’t be upset,” he said. “They should be ashamed.”
[Epoch Times] China is experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19, with patients reporting symptoms of severe, burning throat pain, experts say. "Razor blade throat" is a term used in China to describe severe throat pain, akin to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades.
Dr. Li Tongzeng, director of the Infectious Diseases Department at Beijing You’an Hospital, told Chinese media that the new wave of COVID-19, which began in March, is expected to peak in late May.
According to Zhong, the dominant strain in this wave is the Omicron XDV variant, which is highly transmissible but relatively less virulent. Early symptoms include fever, headaches, fatigue, a burning throat, and severe coughing.
A female Beijing resident, infected for nearly 10 days, told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times: "I had a fever, sore throat, yellow phlegm with blood streaks, nosebleeds, cough, sneezing, a runny nose, dizziness, and no energy. It’s terrifying—I sneezed once and my nose started bleeding, which scared me to death. This round of COVID is too severe."
COVID-19 cases have also risen in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
Dr. Zhong said that from a pathogenic perspective, the COVID-19 virus may reduce its virulence to ensure its survival, but it is too early to judge whether it will become "flu-like" in the future. FWIW, I tracked CDC upper respiratory deaths for three years and deaths from regular ol' pneumonia was always just 20-30% less than COVID deaths. There are two established vaccines for pneumonia, covering 35 strains. I've had both vaccines, and still had pneumonia twice. Strangely, pneumonia never caught the media's attention.
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Also, I'd like to point out that the "vaccine" for pneumonia is for Streptococcus pneumoniae. BUT it's possible to get pneumonia from other kinds of bacteria. MRSA, for instance.
[Epoch Times] President Donald Trump announced on May 23 that he has approved the "planned partnership" between U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel, stating that the company will stay in Pittsburgh and is expected to create at least 70,000 jobs.
"I am proud to announce that, after much consideration and negotiation, U.S. Steel will REMAIN in America, and keep its Headquarters in the Great City of Pittsburgh," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Nippon Steel, the world’s fourth-largest steelmaker, announced in December 2023 that it would purchase U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion in an all-cash agreement. A few months later, U.S. Steel shareholders approved the takeover bid.
However, President Joe Biden opposed the deal, citing national security concerns.
"U.S. Steel has been an iconic American company for more than a century, and it should remain totally American," Biden told union workers during a speech at the United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh on April 17, 2024. Ironic, Joe and Trump agreeing. Except Trump made something positive happen.
In February, standing alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Trump said Nippon Steel would "invest heavily in U.S. Steel, as opposed to [owning] it," and welcomed the proposed capital infusion. "Investment is mutually beneficial," Ishiba said during the joint press conference at the White House.
"Japanese technology will be provided, and better quality products will be manufactured in the United States."
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Nippon will help US Steel in my opinion.
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...I think this is a very good thing, and I hope it works. My concern is that USS' infrastructure might be an issue - a lot of it is old.
[TheSpectator-archive] Cyclists. I’ve become a tolerant cove in my old age but if there’s one word certain to raise my dander, it’s cyclists. In Brighton they think they own the place, enabled by successive stupid councils, who have spent tens of thousands of pounds on cycle lanes and those eyesore e-bikes all over town. With a murderous version of droit de seigneur — at odds with their right-on, self-righteous self-image — cyclists appear to believe that walkers are a lower order who they are free to run over as they please.
Cyclists in Brighton seem particularly fond of riding on pavements, where the most damage can be done. It’s like they see pedestrians as targets in some sort of video game — ten points for a man, 20 for a woman, 50 for a child. And it’s not just Brighton; London sounds a pedestrian’s nightmare. I asked around on Facebook and got nearly two hundred horror stories in a few hours: Personally, I'd have a hunting season for cyclists.
I’ve found that people who support green politics are slightly nastier than others in their everyday life, feeling that they had ticked the nice box and therefore somehow won the right to be nasty. When I was a volunteer at a blind home a while ago, I’d regularly take a couple of sightless ladies out for a walk; we’d set out along the bustling main streets of our city, one on each arm, only for me to have to shove them roughly into the nearest doorway as some hulking brute drove a bike at us right there on the pavement.
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In many states, cyclists are required by law to adhere to traffic laws. They just need to be made aware that if they don't, they're on the losing side of any civil action they may contemplate for the consequences of their actions.
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I live near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The peloton wannabes there are law abiding and polite. There isn’t a sense of entitlement among those folks at least at this point.
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Pix/heartwarmingcover.jpg[Daily Mail, whree America gets its news] When three San Diego police officers walked up Anthony Elliott's driveway, they mentally prepared to deliver the awful news that their colleague and friend had been shot in the head.
But before they could even ring the doorbell, Tony's voice crackled through the speaker - calm, unmistakable, alive.
It was December 2023 when Sergeant Elliott, a decorated San Diego police officer, former Navy sailor, SWAT team member, and father-of-two, was chasing a suspect through rows of shopping carts at the front of a grocery store in the leafy suburb of Carmel Valley when everything went black.
The suspect, involved in a domestic violence case and known to be dangerous, climbed over a brick wall before turning back around with a concealed weapon and firing.
'He jumped a wall. I was right behind him. I didn't even see the gun because of the angle. Next thing I know, I'm five feet away and he shoots me in the head.'
The bullet struck Elliott in the head, entering his skull, burrowing into his brain, but incredibly stopping just short of ending his life - but remarkably, Elliott never lost consciousness.
He remembers the moment with chilling clarity - the way he caught himself on nearby shopping carts with the one side of his body that still worked, preventing a second impact to his head that might have proven fatal.
'It's ironic,' he said. 'It's usually the secondary blow - hitting the pavement - that finishes you off. But I caught myself. That probably saved my life.'
While blood pooled onto the concrete beneath him, Elliott still had the presence of mind to issue instructions to his squad - not about tactics or arrests, but about love.
'Tell my kids daddy's going to be okay,' he told one of them. 'Tell my wife I love her. I wanted them to know I tried.
He remembers telling his fellow officers how to tend to his wound and remembers thinking of his toddler son and his newborn brother.
'I knew what was happening. I told my guys to check for an exit wound. I knew I was shot. I couldn't move my left side. I figured this is it. So I started saying my goodbyes.'
Touchingly recalling the moment, Elliott explained: 'I wasn't thinking about my career. I wasn't thinking about my house or my job,' he said. 'I was thinking about my wife and my boys. That's all.'
Medics rushed him into an ambulance and began ripping off his uniform on the trauma bed, and Elliott somehow still had his phone.
'I've seen that bed a thousand times - I've stood over it while others laid on it. Now it was me.'
He tried calling Laura, but her phone was off. With two babies at home, she was catching up on some sleep. His experience told him what would come next.
'I knew they were going to come to my house and say I'd been shot in the head,' Elliott recalled in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
'Before they can say "...but he's okay," she'll already think I'm dead. I couldn't let her feel that.
'I wanted my wife Laura to hear my voice. I figured, how could I be dead if she could hear me talking?'
So he waited for the Ring camera to activate. And when three of his fellow officers showed up to deliver the dreaded news, Elliott spoke through the speaker, shocking his colleagues while also attempting to soothe his wife in his darkest moment.
Officers flinched in disbelief. Elliott, laying in a trauma unit with a bullet lodged in his brain, had accessed his Ring camera remotely - all to spare his wife a few seconds of anguish.
'You guys are good looking,' Elliott said through the Ring camera.
'What’s up dude?' one of his colleagues said casually in response.
'She's going to freak out when she sees you, just be prepared,' he told them, with one officer telling him he was there because she would recognize them.
Another asks 'how are you feeling?' prompting a candid, 'I'm feeling like I got shot in the head' from Elliott.
As they walk in, one officer says, 'hey Tony, we're inside... we'll see you soon alright.'
Doctors were stunned Elliott survived the initial injury. Even more astonishing was the fact he was talking, thinking, planning. His brain had absorbed the bullet, but it hadn't shut down.
'The doctors wanted to see what I could do - if I could still speak, if I still had presence of mind. They let me go through with the call.'
Days later he was flown on December 23, 2023 to Craig Hospital in Colorado, one of the nation's top neurological rehab centers.
Upon arrival, the Denver Police SWAT team stood at attention in salute - a rare and emotional show of solidarity for one of their own from across the country.
At Craig, doctors told Elliott he would likely leave in a wheelchair but such was his level of determination to overcome his injuries he walked out less than four weeks later.
'It was like drinking from a fire hose,' Elliott said. 'They push you hard - walk on one foot, recite the alphabet, balance, everything. But I said yes to everything.
'I pushed myself every day. They told me to take one step - the next day, I asked to do five. Instead, they said, 'We're climbing stairs today.' So we did.'
His mission was to flood the brain with motion, activity, memory - anything to rebuild neural pathways before the window of opportunity closed.
'I had to do as much as possible in six months, before the swelling went down. That's the sweet spot for recovery.'
By January 16, 2024, Elliott was back in San Diego - standing, walking, holding his kids. But the recovery wasn't over.
He entered a brain therapy outpatient program at Scripps to relearn how to write, plan, and organize.
His left leg remained numb. He struggled with brain fog. But he kept pushing.
'Still feels like static, like a fuzzy TV screen. But I run on it anyway,' he said referring to his leg.
He told how the best therapy of all was wrestling with his toddlers on the floor of the family's North County apartment every evening.
'My wife brought the kids to Denver. After therapy, I'd come home to our little apartment, and they'd want to wrestle. So I wrestled with one arm. That was the best therapy.
'That's what healed me. Not just the rehab - the routine. The bedtime stories, the tickle fights, the diapers. That's what made me fight.'
In September 2024, Elliott returned to work, initially first in a desk role with the SWAT unit. Then, just one week ago, he stunned his department again as he was back on patrol.
'I'm not going to do it forever,' he insists. 'My wife, Laura, is sacrificing so much just to let me try. It's hard on her. But I needed closure. I needed to know I could still do it.'
The first day back in the car was jarring.
'I felt like I didn't belong, like I'd forgotten everything. But by day two, it all came back. It was like I never left.'
For now, he's back on graveyard shifts, checking boxes, closing cases, and proving the impossible is sometimes just a mindset.
Elliott says he doesn't plan to stay forever - just long enough to prove he can. Then, he'll find a role that's safer for his family. Because while his job matters, his home is everything.
'When I was dying, I wasn't thinking about promotions. I was thinking about bedtime stories. That's what matters.'
Elliott has now begun to try his hand at public speaking, sharing his journey to motivate others.
His themes: resilience, mindset, never getting complacent, and always remembering what matters most.
'Everyone preaches resilience,' he said. 'But unless you've really had to claw your way back from something, it's just talk. I've lived it. I want to help others live through it too.
'And if my kids grow up knowing daddy didn't quit - that he fought to come back, for them - maybe that'll mean something.
'If I learned anything,' he said, 'it's that family is everything. When I thought I was dying, I didn't think about medals or jobs. I just wanted to tell my kids I love them. I just wanted to play with them one more time.'
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#1 - He dead Curtis Harris of San Diego allegedly opened fire on police after they tried to contact him at 4S Commons Town Center. Three officers returned fire, mortally wounding Harris, according to the county Sheriff's Department, which investigates uses of lethal force on the part of SDPD personnel
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[Regnum] Archaeologists have discovered traces of a settlement in one of the gorges located in the Dzheyrakh district of Ingushetia, which may be an ancient proto-city. This was reported by the press service of the school of masons and restorers "Heritage".
"In the Galgaevsky Gorge along the Akhk-Khiy (Tetritskali) River, traces of a settlement were discovered, which may be an ancient proto-city - the cradle of the Ingush people. Under an untouched layer of turf, regular stone walls were hidden, indicating previously unknown structures," the report says.
The school of mason-restorers noted that this discovery could change the understanding of the history of the region.
“We discovered not just individual walls, but a whole system of structures, which allows us to talk about the possible existence of an ancient proto-city here,” said Ramzan Sultygov, general director of the Heritage school.
It is specified that earlier in the same area, structures of cyclopean masonry dating back to the second millennium BC were discovered. The new finds, say archaeologists, may indicate the continuity of life in this territory and confirm the hypothesis about the existence of a large settlement that played an important role in the formation of the Ingush ethnic group.
[Daily Mail where America gets it news] An Italian tourist was chained up, electrocuted, and taunted with a chainsaw for weeks inside a lavish SoHo apartment by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, it's been revealed.
John Woeltz, 37, was arrested in New York on Friday after the unnamed tourist escaped the house of horrors and informed a police officer that he had been kidnapped and tortured for weeks.
Kentucky-born Woeltz was allegedly part of a group that concocted a sadistic scheme to lure the tourist to New York so they could access his crypto account.
Police said the victim was tied up with electrical cords and electrocuted as Woeltz attempted to gain access to his passwords, reports the New York Post.
The victim, a 28-year-old man, was then tasered with his feet in the water and pistol-whipped.
The alleged kidnappers even had a chainsaw and threatened to cut the victim's legs off if he didn't reveal his passwords to his crypto accounts.
In addition to the disturbing physical torture, Woeltz and his associates are accused of forcing the victim to take cocaine.
They documented the bone-chilling acts using a Polaroid camera. Police uncovered the photographs in the house of horrors, sources told the Post.
Investigators said the victim met Woeltz on May 6, and the two had prior business dealings with one another.
Woeltz then led the man back to his luxury townhouse in SoHo, where he allegedly snatched his passport and held him captive.
The victim told police that he escaped the house of horrors on Friday after his captors allegedly warned they were planning on killing him later that day.
He flagged down a nearby police officer, and Woeltz was subsequently arrested barefoot in his bathrobe.
The victim was transported to a local hospital with cuts and injuries he sustained from the torture.
A jewelry vendor on the block told the New York Post, 'I knew there was something weird going on, I just assumed they were shooting porn or something. I couldn’t have guessed all this.'
Woeltz is a crypto entrepreneur and investor from Kentucky and was renting the luxurious 8-bedroom 10-bathroom home on Prince Street.
The photos show an absolutely beautiful property — a wonderful example of big city living, for those who can afford such things.
The listing was most recently rented for $75,000.
A woman named Beatrice Folchi, 24, was also arrested in connection with the kidnapping, the NYPD confirmed.
Two other individuals believed to have worked for Woeltz were also interviewed by police, but no other arrests have been made.
Soon to be the basis for the usual crime television shows.
A waste of time, but at least it gets the information into the historical record.
[Rudaw] A French-Syrian group has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing Syria’s interim president of being responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, according to a media report.
The Franco-Alawite Collective, which is composed of Alawites, Druze, Kurds, Christians, and Sunnis, filed the complaint against interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, La Belle Franceinfo reported on Friday. They accuse him of orchestrating massacres in March and May that left between 1,700 and 2,000 people dead.
In March, violence erupted like lava from a volcano in Alawite-majority areas after gangs, many loyal to ousted president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... , launched attacks on forces allied with the government, prompting Damascus to respond with force. Around 1,500 people, mainly Alawite civilians, were killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said most of the casualties were caused by government or government-affiliated forces. Amnesty International said the mass killings must be investigated as a "war crime."
In April and May, deadly festivities broke out between government forces and Druze fighters.
The collective claims the deaths qualify as genocide or crimes against humanity and say they have video evidence to support their accusations.
"This complaint is in the name of the Syrian people," said Lina Peron, a member of the collective’s legal committee, La Belle Franceinfo reported.
The complaint was submitted to the ICC prosecutor’s office, which will decide whether to open a formal investigation.
Facing international criticism, Sharaa, who led the Islamist Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) militia that spearheaded the offensive to topple dictator Bashir al-Assad, ordered an investigation into violence against minorities.
Sharaa’s interim government has faced repeated criticism for its treatment of minority groups, with many Syrians and foreign powers fearing it will impose strict religious rule, posing a threat to Kurds, Druze, Christians, and Alawites. The violence heightened concerns over the future of these populations.
[IsraelTimes] Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Thomas Barrack in Turkey, is also hosted by Erdogan, amid reports he kicked Palestinian factions out of Syria as part of US conditions for lifting sanctions
US President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... ’s special envoy to Syria said Saturday he met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and commended the steps he has taken regarding imported muscle and relations with Israel.
Thomas Barrack, a special envoy to Syria and the current US ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member, but not the most reliable... , said in a statement that the two met in Istanbul on Saturday, and that he commended Sharaa for "taking meaningful steps" on imported muscle as well as "relations with Israel."
The meeting came a day after a report that leaders of Iran-backed Paleostinian terror groups in Syria, who were close to former president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... , left the country under pressure from Sharaa, citing Paleostinian sources.
The crackdown did not appear to affect the Syrian presence 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... -based Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... , which is also backed by Iran, nor that of Fatah, the secularist faction that dominates the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority.
The White House had demanded that Sharaa crack down on Paleostinian terror groups as a condition for the removal of Washington’s sanctions on Damascus.
There have also been unconfirmed reports that Syria’s new regime has held indirect talks with Israel on potential normalization between the two countries, despite Israeli leaders’ deep suspicion of Sharaa due to his jihadi past.
Sharaa was in Istanbul this weekend for an unannounced meeting with Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... , according to the Anadolu state news agency.
The two leaders were seen greeting each other outside Erdogan’s office, ahead of a meeting that private Ottoman Turkish news channel NTV said lasted more than two and a half hours.
The Syrian delegation included its foreign and defense ministers and would "discuss a number of common issues" with the Ottoman Turkish side, the Syrian presidency said on Telegram.
Turkey’s foreign and defense ministers, its intelligence chief and the head of the state defense industry agency also took part, according to Anadolu.
Since Assad’s ouster, the new administration has been looking to build relations with the West and roll back sanctions, but some governments have expressed reluctance, pointing to the Islamist past of leading figures.
Ankara is a firm supporter of Syria’s new Islamist authorities and is seeking to roll back sanctions and rebuild the country’s infrastructure and economy after almost 14 years of civil war. Erdogan also hosted al-Sharaa in February.
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[Regnum] At least 76 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. This was reported on May 24 by the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera. This all will stop the minute Hamas lays down its arms, returns the hostages — living and dead — and decamps from Gaza. But Hamas likes the world reaction to dead Gaans, so they ensure there is a steady supply.
In addition, more than 200 people were injured.
"The death toll continues to rise as attacks continue," the report said.
According to the channel, the Israeli army (IDF) struck a house in Khan Yunis, killing seven children, among others. A residential building in Jabaliya was also hit. The search for survivors under the rubble is still ongoing.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on May 18, the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began conducting a large-scale ground operation, “Gideon’s Chariots,” in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported 96 dead and more than 140 injured after the Israeli attack in the morning that same day. The ministry noted that civilian targets were hit. The ministry also added that after the resumption of shelling by Israeli troops in Gaza, a total of more than 3,000 people were killed and about 9,000 were injured.
In turn, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported that Israel would allow the import of a “basic amount” of food products into the Gaza Strip to prevent the threat of famine in the enclave. In addition, Netanyahu’s office added that Israel intends to work to deprive Hamas of the ability to take control of the distribution of humanitarian aid so that it does not end up in the hands of terrorists.
The IDF also struck the Palestinian semi-exclave in early May. According to Al Jazeera, at least 66 people were killed in an Israeli air force attack on May 7, and 63 Palestinians the day before.
[IsraelTimes] Army acknowledges attack on suspects in Khan Younis, says it came after warning for civilians to leave ‘combat zone’; all standing infantry and armored brigades now deployed to Strip
Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... -run civil defense agency said Saturday that an Israeli strike in the southern city of Khan Younis had killed nine children of a pair of married doctors, with the Israeli army saying it was looking into the reports.
According to Paleostinian media, the strike hit a home in Khan Younis, killing nine children of the same family, all under the age of 12. The father of the family and one of the children, aged 10, were seriously maimed. The mother, Alaa Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital, was on duty at the time of the strike.
In response to the reports, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed it carried out a strike in Khan Younis, saying it targeted several suspects identified at a building near where ground troops were operating.
"The Khan Younis area is a dangerous combat zone that the IDF ordered civilians to evacuate for their safety before the start of the operation," the military said, referring to a warning on Monday.
"The claims about harm to uninvolved [civilians] are being looked into," it added.
Israel has stepped up its campaign in Gaza in recent days, drawing international criticism as well as calls to allow in more supplies after it partially eased a total blockade on aid imposed on March 2.
Hamas’s civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal said the agency had retrieved "the bodies of nine child deaders, some of them charred, from the home of Dr Hamdi al-Najjar and his wife, Dr Alaa al-Najjar, all of whom were their children."
He added that Hamdi al-Najjar and another son, Adam, were also seriously maimed in the strike, and that the family was taken to Nasser Hospital. A medical source at the hospital gave Adam’s age as 10 years old.
Bassal told AFP that Israeli strikes since the early hours had killed at least 15 people across Gaza as of Saturday afternoon. He said the dead included a couple killed with their two young children in a pre-dawn strike on a house in the Amal quarter of Khan Younis.
To the west of the city, at least five people were killed by a dronezap on a crowd of people that had gathered to wait for aid trucks, he alleged.
In a statement, the military said that over the past day the air force had struck more than 100 targets across the territory, targeting terror operatives and sites. The military says it takes steps to minimize harm to civilians, while adding that terror groups operate from within Gaza’s civilian population.
The IDF said Saturday that all standing army infantry and armored brigades were now deployed to the Strip, as Israel prepared to further intensify its offensive against Hamas.
In addition to the Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th, and 401st brigades, a small number of reserve units are also in the enclave, it said.
The IDF had previously announced that five divisions were operating in Gaza, amounting to tens of thousands of troops.
Despite the easing of the blockade, distribution has also been hampered by looting by groups of men, some of them armed, near the city of Khan Younis, an umbrella network representing Paleostinian aid groups said.
"They stole food meant for children and families suffering from severe hunger," the network said in a statement.
Israel imposed the blockade in early March as hostage-ceasefire talks broke down, accusing Hamas of stealing aid meant for civilians.
The UN World Food Program said 15 trucks carrying flour to WFP-supported bakeries had been looted since Monday, which it said reflected the dire conditions facing Gazooks.
Israel has announced that a new system, sponsored by the United States and run by private contractors, will soon begin operations from four distribution centers in the south of Gaza, but many details of how the system will work remain unclear.
The UN has already said it will not work with the new system, which it says will leave aid distribution conditional on Israel’s political and military aims.
Israel says its forces will only provide security for the centers and will not distribute aid themselves.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, criticized Israel on Friday, saying that the UN had brought in 500 to 600 trucks per day on average during a six-week ceasefire that broke down in March, about five times higher than current rates.
"No one should be surprised, let alone shocked at scenes of precious aid looted, stolen or ’lost’," he wrote on X, adding that "the people of Gaza have been starved" for more than 11 weeks.
Footage published in Arabic media on Friday showed hundreds of Paleostinians crowding around a bakery in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp as bread was being distributed for the first time in weeks.
As the aid has begun to trickle in, the IDF has continued the intensified ground and air operation launched last week, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would end with Israel taking full control of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said 83 trucks carrying flour, food, pharmaceutical drugs, and medical equipment entered the Gaza Strip from the Kerem Shalom crossing point on Friday, for a total of 388 since Monday, when the blockade was eased.
However, an umbrella network of Palestinian aid groups provided a separate figure, saying only 119 aid trucks have passed the Kerem Shalom crossing point and into Gaza. The discrepancy was likely because many of the trucks were not picked up by the aid groups from the Palestinian side of the crossing for distribution.
The UN World Food Program said 15 trucks carrying flour to WFP-supported bakeries had been looted since Monday.
With most of Gaza’s 2 million population squeezed into an ever-narrowing zone on the coast and in the area around the southern city of Khan Younis by Israel’s military operation, international pressure to get aid in quickly has ratcheted up.
The military said Friday that it had struck over 75 targets in Gaza over the previous 24 hours, including terror operatives, rocket launchers, buildings used by terror groups, weapon depots, and other infrastructure.
On Friday, Hamas-run Palestinian medical services said at least 25 people had been killed in the strikes. Another Hamas official told AFP that at least 71 people were killed. Neither of the figures could be independently confirmed.
In Gaza’s north, Al-Awda hospital reported Friday that three of its staff were injured “after Israeli quadcopter drones dropped bombs” on the facility. The Hamas-run civil defense agency later said it had successfully contained a fire at the hospital.
Meanwhile, the military said Friday that ground troops had killed several operatives across Gaza and destroyed other Hamas sites.
The targets included a launcher used to fire a rocket at southern Israel yesterday afternoon. Other targets included terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, and other infrastructure, the IDF says.
[FoxNews] For Caroline Laubach, being a Wandercraft test pilot is about more than just trying out new technology. It's about reclaiming a sense of freedom and connection that many wheelchair users miss. Laubach, a spinal stroke survivor and full-time wheelchair user, has played a key role in demonstrating the personal AI-powered prototype exoskeleton's development, and her experience highlights just how life-changing this device can be.
"When I'm in the exoskeleton, I feel more free than I do in my daily life," said Laubach. "It gives me the opportunity to walk around and talk to people at eye level. I don't have to look up at people all the time.
"It makes me feel more visible and able to connect with others. One thing I noticed right away, was how inclusive the exoskeleton would be to a wide variety of disabilities. The goal is to have disabled people able to use this exoskeleton to live their daily life out in the world; I can definitely see that happening in the future."
Laubach's story is at the heart of Wandercraft's mission: to help people move through the world with greater walking independence and upright mobility.
Police in Fairfax, Va. have released the footage showing an armed Afghan migrant trying to kill police on April 23.
Jamal Wali, who was given refuge in the U.S. and has four children, made racist anti-white statements against the police, showed his firearm, and said he wished he… pic.twitter.com/bWU35FBP7L
The Fairfax County Police Department released body camera footage and press conference from the attempted murder of officers in Fair Oaks on April 23.
At 2:36 p.m., an officer was conducting traffic enforcement in the 4000 block of Majestic Lane near Greenbriar. The officer stopped a 1999 Toyota Corolla driven by Jamal Wali, 36, of Fairfax, for an expired safety inspection.
Wali was argumentative and refused to obey commands. Backup was called and once on scene, Wali reached for a firearm and shot two officers. A third officer discharged his weapon, striking Wali four times.
Responding officers quickly began performing life saving measures on the two officers and suspect. The two officers were transported in non-life-threatening condition to local hospitals. Wali was pronounced deceased at the hospital.
The officer involved in the shooting, Officer Ian Lachapelle has been identified is a 2-year veteran assigned to the Fair Oaks Patrol District.
In Chief Davis’ press conference (7:44), the Chief said that Wali has been in our country lawfully since 2014. That in fact, he did work with American military forces overseas prior to 2014. Chief said that he believes that's what gave him the pathway to be lawfully present in the United States. He's with his family now, his four children and his wife chief said.
Chief also said that the references that you'll hear him make to the Taliban are historical references. The FBI has shared with them that there are no open, ongoing, current investigations, or any insight that they have into Mr. Walli whatsoever.
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"Liberated Afghanistan" was, from a Western perspective a hostile and evil entity.
Maybe there was a realpolitical rationale for collaborating with this entity but flooding Western nations with masses of settlers whose allegiance was with the "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan" is and always has been madness.
In the midst of all the horrors, a small thing worth celebrating.
[Garowe] The 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... Ministry of Education and Higher Learning announced Saturday that 23,768 students are registered to sit for the unified 8th and 12th grade exams this year, representing a 9.61% increase compared with 2024.
Last year, 21,685 students took the exams, meaning an increase of 2,083 candidates in 2025. The ministry attributed the rise to ongoing efforts to improve education quality and expand equal access to learning opportunities across the Federal State in northeastern Somalia.
The exams are being held at 151 centers across 33 districts. Puntland’s Vice President, Ilyas Osman Lugatoor, officially inaugurated the unified exams on Saturday Morning, May 24.
Officials said the growing number of exam candidates reflects increasing public confidence in the government’s education system. The ministry emphasized its commitment to providing quality education services, particularly in remote areas and underserved communities.
This year, the ministry also expanded exam centers and strengthened measures to ensure transparency and integrity throughout the exam process.
Passing the 8th grade exam typically allows students to advance to secondary school, while success in the 12th grade exam opens doors to university studies.
Parents, teachers, security officials, and local communities were praised for their support during the exam period.
The ministry pledged to continue enhancing education in Puntland to further increase student enrollment and improve education standards in the future.
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Would it be wrong to call Egypt a racist apartheid anarchotyrannical third world sh**hole?
If so, why?
What would be the reaction if demonstrations were held in the US, where flag burning is protected speech, calling for death to Egypt and sanctions against Egypt, and for a Crusade against Egypt. where Egyptian flags would be stomped on and burned?
[IsraelTimes] Residents of southern Lebanon voted Saturday in the country’s municipal elections that will test support for Hezbollah in the predominantly Shiite areas, nearly six months after the ceasefire that ended Israel’s war with the Iran-backed terror group, whose leadership was decimated.
Hezbollah is running in an alliance with the Amal group of Lebanon’s powerful Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. Both are expected to win mayoral races and the majority of seats in municipal councils, and have already won many municipalities uncontested.
South Lebanon is the fourth and last district to vote in the elections since May 4. Among those who voted Saturday were Hezbollah members wounded on September 17, 2024, when Israel blew up thousands of booby-trapped pagers it had covertly sold to the terror group.
The attack, which Israel claimed in November, killed at least a dozen people, including at least two children, and wounded some 3,000 people, crippling Hezbollah’s fighting force ahead of an Israeli invasion some two weeks, which sought to end the terror group’s near-daily rocket fire.
“The will of life is stronger than death and the will of construction is stronger than destruction,” Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said during a tour of southern Lebanon on Saturday. He told reporters in his hometown of Aaishiyah that he voted for the first time in 40 years.
Democrats won two House seats in Cali due to the counting of ballots received AFTER Election Day. Strangely, House Republicans don't want to do anything about it. https://t.co/ODgOfs8NEi
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[NewsFront] 20:51 Captured Ukrainian serviceman on how Ukrainian Armed Forces commanders are punishing for their misdeeds detained soldiers were thrown into a pit and forbidden to drink water
According to prisoner of war Vitaliy Gunter, during the training he and his fellow soldiers realized that they had signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in vain. For misdeeds and violations, Ukrainian Armed Forces commanders put soldiers in a pit.
“Someone didn’t finish a bottle of water, and the senior officer at the training ground found the bottle and declared a ‘dry law’, forbidding people to drink water,” the prisoner says.
Gunter also said that when they sent him on a mission, his group was not given any water or food, they were only given a point on the map, which they photographed with a phone or tablet, and sent into battle.
"While we were sitting in the iron container, our guys were shooting at us. With drones and 'cassettes'. Well, what can you do, we're just meat," Gunter added.
20:00 Russian Ministry of Defense:
From 16.20 to 18.20 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type:
Two over the territory of the Kursk region and
One over the territory of the Belgorod region.
19:30 Russian fighters in Khar'kov region are tracking and attacking military equipment and Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters in built-up areas and forest belts.
18:25 From 13.30 to 14.50 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type: one UAV each over the territories of the Kursk region and the Republic of Crimea.
17:35 May 23 by the Iskander OTRK crews inflicted a group missile strike on a container ship that was transporting military equipment to the port of Odessa, as well as on a container warehouse in the port.
The ship was carrying about 100 containers of military cargo, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ammunition.
As a result of the fire damage to these targets, a secondary detonation of the ammunition and containers unloaded onto the pier occurred, as well as a strong fire.
16:20 Canine units of the military police of the Dnepr group of troops daily conduct demining of liberated territories of Zaporizhia region.
16:05 Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate the criminal actions of Ukrainian armed groups against civilians in the Tula region
According to information from executive authorities, three people were injured as a result of the attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces drones on the Tula region.
14:55 Destruction of a 155mm self-propelled gun "Bogdan" using the UAV "Inohodets" in the area of the settlement of Petrovskoye, Sumy region.
14:10 From 11.50 to 12.50 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type:
One UAV each over the territories of the Belgorod and Kursk regions.
13:30 May 24, in accordance with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached on May 16 in Istanbul, from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime returned another 307 Russian servicemen. In exchange, 307 Ukrainian Armed Forces prisoners of war were transferred.
Currently, Russian military personnel are on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary psychological and medical assistance.
13:05 Summary of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of May 24, 2025
Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian FederationinflictedA group strike with high-precision ground-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against a Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprise that produces missile weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, a radio-technical reconnaissance center, and a position of a US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system. The strike's objectives were achieved. All designated objects were hit.
Concentrations of manpower and equipment of two airborne assault brigades, an infantry brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Yunakovka, Bessalovka, Miropolye, Sadki, Maryino in the Sumy region and Rublenoe in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 155 servicemen, a tank, four armored combat vehicles, four cars, ten field artillery pieces and an ammunition depot.
Units of the "West" group of troops took up more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region, Redkodub and Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 215 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, including a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, 17 vehicles, two artillery pieces, including a UK-made 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery unit. An electronic warfare station and two ammunition depots were destroyed.
The manpower and equipment of three mechanized, mountain assault, and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Zvanovka, Seversk, Serebryanka, Konstantinovka, Berestok, Zarya, and Aleksandro-Shultino of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 280 servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, ten cars, two field artillery pieces, an electronic warfare station and an ammunition depot.
Units of the Center group of forces defeated formations of the heavy mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the naval infantry brigade, the special forces brigade, the territorial defense brigade and the national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Muravka, Yablonovka, Novosergeevka, Nikolaevka, Novoekonomicheskoe, Alekseevka and Dimitrov of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 410 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, including a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, 11 cars and three artillery pieces.
The manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Komar, Zelenoye Pole, Novopil in the Donetsk People's Republic and Gulyaipole in the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 200 servicemen, seven combat armored vehicles, seven cars and three field artillery guns. Two electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of a mountain assault brigade, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhia region, Maryevka in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Tyaginka, Tokarevka and Zelenovka in the Kherson region.
Up to 70 military personnel, eight vehicles, two artillery pieces and two electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
12:25 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with high-precision ground-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against a Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprise that produces missile weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, a radio-technical reconnaissance center, and a position of a US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.
12:20 As a result of successful actions, units of the North group of forces released settlement of Loknya in Sumy Oblast. Units of the "Southern" group of troops, as a result of decisive actions, liberated the settlement of Stupochki in the Donetsk People's Republic. Units of the "East" group of troops, as a result of decisive actions, liberated the settlement of Otradnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:55 FPV drone calculations at Rubicon Center destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces ammunition depot in the area of the Shevchenko settlement in the Donetsk direction.
11:15 Calculation of the 152mm 2S19 self-propelled gun "Giatsint-S" of the "Center" group of forces destroyed a mortar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
10:50 From 8.30 to 9.30 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Tver region.
10:00 RF Armed Forces destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the Sumy direction – video.
9:28 In the period from 8.00 to 8.30 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
9:00 Military communications specialists of the "West" group provided satellite communications for the 152mm Msta-S howitzer crews.
The mobility of the Belozer station allows for the shortest possible time to organize communication with the control point for the transmission of target designations and fire adjustments.
8:30 During the past night and the morning of May 24, air defense systems on duty destroyed 94 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
– 64 UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– 24 UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
– Two UAVs – over the territory of the Kursk region,
– Two UAVs – over the territory of the Lipetsk region,
– One UAV – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
– One UAV – over the territory of the Tula region.
8:10 Calculations of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the "Vostok" group inflicted a strike on a temporary deployment point for Ukrainian forces.
Reconnaissance using drones discovered a concentration of enemy manpower and equipment in the Zaporizhia direction. After confirming the coordinates, an aimed salvo was launched.
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[REGNUM] The Russian Armed Forces continue their successful offensive on the border between Russia and Ukraine at the junction of the Kursk and Sumy regions.
In this way, Russian troops are creating a “buffer zone” or barrier in the border areas to prevent new attempts by Ukrainian troops to invade and to prevent the creation of new groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area.
For the first time, the question of the need to create a buffer zone that could protect border regions from attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces was raised after the liberation of the city of Sudzha in the Kursk region.
During a visit to the command post of the Russian troops, President Vladimir Putin instructed the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, to consider the issue of taking control of part of the territory of the Sumy region of Ukraine adjacent to the border with Russia.
"Completely liberate the territory of the Kursk region. Restore the situation along the state border line. And, of course, we need to think about creating a zone along the state border in the future," the president noted during the meeting.
A month later, Russian army units began to implement the plan. However, according to statements by officials, the troops will not be limited to the territory of Sumy region, but will also expand the buffer zone in the Chernihiv and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine.
A number of observers believe that the zone will expand to a depth of tens, if not hundreds of kilometers, but for now military operations are limited to a small border zone.
SUDZHA AND BEYOND
The transfer of hostilities to Ukrainian territory became possible after the complete liberation of the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region and the arrival of Russian troops at the state border.
According to reports from the field, in recent weeks Russian troops have launched a successful offensive in the Sumy region, liberated the village of Loknya and reached the outskirts of the village of Yunakovka, from where the invasion of the Kursk region began almost a year ago.
The liberation of Yunakovka will allow the creation of a full-fledged bridgehead that will be able to cover the Sudzhansky district from new attempts at invasion by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
At the beginning of 2022, more than a thousand people lived in the village. As military actions escalated, the settlement was evacuated and turned into a major logistics center due to its convenient geographic location. The N-07 highway, connecting Kursk and Sumy, passes through Yunakovka
Earlier in the same area, the villages of Basovka, Zhuravka and Veselovka were liberated. The Ukrainian army units, previously withdrawn to Sumy Oblast from Sudzha, are suffering heavy losses due to the incompetence of local leadership and Kiev's inflated demands, stated Alexander Shirshin, battalion commander of the 47th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, online.
“People’s lives are being spent like extra money at a party, and the proportionality of losses and results indicates a low level of efficiency,” he wrote on social media.
Earlier, the commander submitted a report for dismissal and accused the leadership of "moronic orders." The Ukrainian General Staff responded to the situation by promising to "sort it out." However, Ukrainian troops in the border area continue to retreat.
STRIKES AT THE REAR
In parallel with the offensive along the border, the Russian armed forces are striking at the enemy's rear throughout the border zone.
Recently, the Iskander missile system hit the Ukrainian National Guard training ground in the city of Shostka, where mobilized personnel were being trained. According to the Ukrainian side, dozens of people were killed and wounded as a result of the strike, but the actual losses could be much higher.
The targets of the missile attacks are shelters and logistics points on the outskirts of Sumy and within the city limits.
According to reports from the area, Russian aircraft also struck a bridge across the Psel River between the settlements of Mogritsa and Barilovka in the border area. Several sections of the bridge collapsed.
The bridge has been the target of airstrikes on several occasions in the past, but Ukrainian military engineers have built several crossings to supply the group in the Mogritsa area.
Presumably, after the liberation of Yunakovka, Russian troops will continue to advance along the border to establish control over a significant area of territory with further access to the Psel River.
Thus, the size of the buffer zone could increase to 13 km in length and 10 km in depth of Ukrainian territory.
There are no large settlements or fortified positions in this section of the border, which creates favorable prospects for a Russian offensive.
This bridgehead can be used in the future both for the direct defense of Russian territory and for a possible offensive deep into Ukraine, right up to the suburbs of the city of Sumy.
However, even control over this section of the border will allow the establishment of an “artillery blockade” regime over the outskirts of Sumy and surrounding settlements, preventing the Ukrainian Armed Forces from concentrating their forces there.
In many ways, the operation in the border area is a continuation of the operation to liberate the Kursk region.
BOOMERANG EFFECT
Despite reports from a number of sources that the buffer zone will soon be expanded in depth and along the Ukrainian border all the way to Sumy, Kharkov, and perhaps even deeper, for now Russian troops are limiting themselves to a small zone, seeking to take control of key settlements, bridges and road junctions.
The offensive is largely hampered by the predominantly wooded nature of the terrain along the northern section of the border between Ukraine and Russia.
However, this same factor also works against the Ukrainian Armed Forces, since all movements of Ukrainian equipment along the few roads are tracked using aerial reconnaissance, after which the targets are destroyed by artillery and kamikaze drones.
And for now, Russian troops have no need to expand the buffer zone in depth, military expert Alexander Mikhailovsky told IA Regnum. "If the command sets the task of ensuring the safety of our territories from a possible breakthrough, then there is no need to expand the buffer zone deeper than 20-30 km. The main thing is that the enemy cannot concentrate a breakthrough group and use artillery to shell border areas.
If a decision is made to secure the borders from shelling from, say, HIMARS, then it will be possible to move deeper. But for now, it seems, somewhat different tasks are being solved,” the expert explained.
Thus, the adventurous offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region has returned to Ukraine like a boomerang. At the same time, Kyiv has no reserves left to contain the Russian offensive in two directions at once.
Russians managed to gain a foothold in Sumy region.
The project analysts have updated the map of military actions in Sumy region. 62.6 sq. km of the region's territory are designated as occupied.
Russian troops managed to gain a foothold in Sumy region along the Veselivka-Zhuravka-Novenke-Basovka section, this territory is now marked on the map as occupied, and not as a "gray zone". This was reported by the analytical project DeepState on Saturday, May 24.
The map of military actions in Sumy region has been updated. The project analysts have designated 62.6 sq. km of the region's territory as occupied.
"For a long time, Sumy region could be perceived as a gray zone, because the fighters of the Defense Forces tried and are trying to contain the enemy, striking with drones at movements and attempts to accumulate. In this area, the Russians use infantry and attract ATVs for quick access to a given point of assault.
However, it is worth noting that they managed to consolidate their position along the Veselevka-Zhuravka-Novenkoye-Basovka section and they continue to make attempts to enter Belovody, and the situation in Loknya is also difficult. In particular, our units are actively working against Russians in these settlements. Recently, for example, enemy infantry that ran into houses in Belovody was eliminated by drones of the State Border Service of Ukraine," the report says.
It is noted that the Defense Forces managed to somewhat stabilize the sharp advance of Russian troops into the depths of Sumy region. At the same time, the crews of the Defense Forces daily and every night destroy the infantry of the occupiers, who are trying, albeit with great losses, to occupy more territory, because after pushing the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of Kursk region, the Russians planned to create a "buffer zone" in Sumy region.
According to DeepState, Russian troops have advanced near Odradnoye, Troitskoye, Novenkoye, Basovka and Zhuravka. Since May 24, part of the territory in Sumy region in the area of the settlements of Veselevka, Zhuravka, Novenkoye and Basovka has been designated as occupied by Russians.
Recall that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin recently stated that the Russian army is creating a "buffer security zone" along the border between Russia and Ukraine.
Russian troops are actively transferring personnel to the border areas of the Kharkiv region. Ukrainian military assumes that the enemy is preparing for active assault actions.
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