[IsraelTimes) Israel is set for the first time to deport citizens convicted of terrorism who are receiving payments from the Paleostinian Authority, Defense Minister Israel Katz and Coalition Whip Ofir Katz announce.
In a joint statement, the officials say four individuals are currently in advanced stages of the deportation process, with proceedings initiated against hundreds more.
The announcement follows a classified Knesset committee meeting earlier attended by Interior Minister Moshe Arbel, where they reviewed the implementation of a February 2023 law allowing the revocation of citizenship from convicted holy warriors and their deportation.
Officials say four individuals are currently in advanced stages of the deportation process, with proceedings initiated against hundreds more.
Defense Minister Katz says, "Terrorists and terror supporters who are citizens or residents of Israel will receive no reward for their actions," adding that "those who choose murder and hatred will be deported and stripped of their citizenship."
Coalition Whip Katz calls the move "a historic moment," adding: "In the fight against terror, there are no compromises."
The law, an amendment to Israel’s 1952 Citizenship Law, applies to both Israeli citizens and permanent residents incarcerated following a conviction for terror, aiding terror, harming Israeli illusory sovereignty, inciting war, or aiding an enemy during wartime.
The law enables citizenship to be revoked even if the person has no other citizenship, provided they have a permanent residence status outside of Israel. Once citizenship is revoked, the person would be denied entry back into Israel.
A source familiar with the discussions held at the Knesset meeting told Haaretz that Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon told participants that the attorney general has assessed that the four cases would stand up to challenges in the High Court.
The joint statement said that after a delay of two years spent preparing to implement the law, this week the defense minister instructed relevant bodies in the security establishment to pass on to the interior minister the details needed to immediately apply the law.
The PA practice of paying allowances to those convicted of carrying out terror attacks on Israelis, and to the families of those killed while carrying out attacks, has been pilloried by critics as incentivizing terror, and held up by Israel as a symbol of PA corruption and its inability to serve as a partner for peace.
Palestinian leaders have long defended the payments, describing them as a form of social welfare and necessary compensation for victims of what they said is Israel’s callous military justice system in the West Bank.
Haaretz reported that those subject to the law can also be expelled to the Palestinian Authority.
Under pressure from the Trump administration, in February, the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree ending what critics had dubbed the “pay-to-slay” system.
Rather than conditioning welfare payments to Palestinian security prisoners on the length of their sentences in Israeli jails, the decree stated that families of prisoners and slain attackers will be eligible for stipends based solely on their financial needs, as is the case with other Palestinians.
In April, the PA invited the Trump administration to verify that the change is being implemented.
[IsraelTimes] The EU imposes sanctions on three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders for serious human rights abuses over their alleged involvement in deadly ethnic violence in March, an official document showed.
All three are units in Turkey’s Syrian National Army.
The Sultan Sulaiman Shah Brigade, the Hamza Division and the Sultan Murad Division, as well as the heads of the first two kkgroups, were added to Brussels’ sanction list for their “part in the violence in the coastal region of Syria, targeting civilians and especially the Alawite community,” the EU’s official journal reads.
“In relation to the wave of violence that took place in Syria’s coastal region in March 2025, the Council has introduced new restrictive measures under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, targeting two individuals and three entities for serious human rights abuses,” the EU Council said in a statement.
Included in the sanctions list are Mohammed Hussein al-Jassim (Abu Amsha) and Seyf Boulad Abu Bakr, the notorious commanders of the Turkish-backed Suleiman Shah Brigade and Hamza Division, respectively, as well as their associated factions and the Sultan Murad Division.
The SNA is a coalition of militias backed by Turkey that have largely been integrated into the Syrian defense ministry. Throughout the course of the Syrian civil war, they have been complicit in attacks on minority communities such as Kurds and Alawites.
The EU accused all three factions of “targeting civilians and especially the Alawite community, including by committing torture and arbitrary killings of civilians,” stressing that they are “therefore responsible for serious human rights abuses.”
The measures are binding and directly applicable in all EU member states.
In March, violence erupted in Alawite-majority areas after armed groups, many loyal to ousted president Bashar al-Assad, 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.
Two weeks ago, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Damascus to exclude those with records of abuse from the Syrian security forces - referring to SNA militants - and said the fighters continue to detain and extort civilians in northern Syria.
Syria’s new authorities have faced backlash, particularly from the Kurds, for appointing militia figures complicit in serious human rights abuses against the community.
Sharaa’s interim government, headed by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, 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.
On May 20, the EU officially decided to lift all economic sanctions on Syria.
“The Council has also removed 21 entities from the EU list of those subject to the freezing of funds and economic resources,” the Council said on Wednesday. “Several of these entities are banks, including the Central Bank of Syria, or companies operating in key sectors for Syria’s economic recovery.”
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas hailed the decision, saying it comes at a “historic” time to safeguard Syria’s economic recovery.
“The EU has stood with the Syrian people throughout the last 14 years, and it will continue to do so. Today the EU reaffirms its commitment as a partner for the transition,” Kallas said.
[IsraelTimes] Iran may pause uranium enrichment if the US releases frozen Iranian funds and recognizes Tehran’s right to refine uranium for civilian use under a “political deal” that could lead to a broader nuclear accord, two Iranian official sources say.
The sources, close to the negotiating team, say a “political understanding with the United States could be reached soon” if Washington accepted Tehran’s conditions. One of the sources says the matter “has not been discussed yet” during the talks with the United States.
The sources tell Reuters that under this arrangement, Tehran would halt uranium enrichment for a year, ship part of its highly enriched stock abroad, or convert it into fuel plates for civilian nuclear purposes.
A temporary pause to enrichment would be a way to overcome an impasse over clashing red lines after five rounds of talks between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to resolve a decades-long dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program.
US officials have repeatedly said that any new nuclear deal with Iran – to replace a failed 2015 accord between Tehran and six world powers – must include a commitment to scrap enrichment, viewed as a pathway to developing nuclear bombs.
The Islamic Republic has repeatedly denied such intentions, claiming it wants nuclear energy only for civilian purposes, and has publicly rejected Washington’s demand to scrap enrichment as an attack on its national sovereignty.
Iran’s nuclear program currently enriches uranium up to 60% purity, which has no civilian purpose and is a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump confirms that he asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call last week not to take military action against Iran that could disrupt Washington’s ongoing nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic.
“Well, I’d like to be honest. Yes, I did. Next question,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office in response to a direct question on the matter.
“I told [Netanyahu] this would be very inappropriate to do right now because we’re very close to a solution,” Trump says.
“That could change at any moment. It could change with a phone call. But right now, I think [Iran] wants to make a deal, and if we can make a deal, [that would] save a lot of lives.”
“We’re having very good discussions with [Iran], and I said [to Netanyahu], ‘I don’t think that’s appropriate right now.’ Because if we can settle it with a very strong document — with inspections and [not based on] trust,” he continues. “I want [the deal to be] very strong where we can go in with inspectors, we can take whatever we want. We can blow up whatever we want, but [with] nobody getting killed.”
[IsraelTimes] Amnesty International issues a scathing condemnation of Hamas amid the terror group’s crackdown on protesters demonstrating against its rule in the Gaza Strip.
The rights group says that over the past two months, it interviewed 12 people — 10 men and two women — who organized or took part in protests against Hamas and were interrogated, threatened, or beaten by the terror group’s security forces as a result.
The interviews revealed a “disturbing pattern of threats, intimidation and harassment, including interrogations and beatings by Hamas-run security forces against individuals exercising their right to peaceful protest” even amid Israel’s ongoing war, Amnesty says.
One of the protesters, a resident of northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia who lost multiple family members in an Israeli strike, tells Amnesty that after he took part in a protest in April, he was dragged to a makeshift detention center and beaten by armed men in civilian clothes.
“They accused me of being a traitor — a collaborator with the Mossad,” he tells Amnesty. “I told them we took to the streets because we wanted to live, we wanted to eat and drink.”
He says he was released after nearly four hours of detention and interrogation, and was warned not to attend any further protests.
In total, seven of the 12 protesters interviewed say that they were accused by Hamas of being “traitors” and of working with Israel.
In another instance, a protester from Beit Lahia says he was summoned to an interrogation but refused to show up, until Hamas forces came to his home and “beat me with sticks, and punched my face.”
He says a Hamas member later threatened to shoot him in the foot if he attended another protest.
“The authorities in Gaza must allow peaceful protesters, dissidents, and journalists to exercise their rights without intimidation, harassment, or violence. Interrogation of protesters must cease immediately, and those responsible for violence or threats should be held accountable,” says Erika Guevara-Rosas, a senior director for research, advocacy, policy and campaigns at Amnesty International.
“The authorities in Gaza must respect the rights of the people in Gaza and protect them, at a time when their survival is at stake.”
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The American ACLU also seems to cherry pick some fringe group case every few years so they can claim nonpartisanship ...while sneering their superiority to the "right wing subhumans" at the same time.
[IsraelTimes] Anti-government protesters face off with police officers, some on horseback, outside Metzudat Zeev, the Likud party headquarters in central Tel Aviv, where at least 57 activists were arrested after dozens of people stormed the building, according to a group of lawyers representing anti-government protesters pro bono.
During the protest, activists projected a Qatari flag with the caption “Embassy of Qatar” in Hebrew and Arabic onto the building, which is named for Revisionist Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky and houses an institute that published his writings.
Senior aides to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the Likud party, are suspected of committing multiple offenses while working for a pro-Qatar lobbying firm.
The Detainee Support Organization says those detained at “Metzudat Zeev Tel Aviv, turned this evening into the Qatari embassy,” have been taken to the Salame police station in the city’s south.
Cops at Metzudat Zeev drag protesters from the road to the sidewalk. Some of the protesters wear orange jumpsuits and masks with Netanyahu’s face.
The stench of horse droppings hangs heavy in the air, and a cloud of smoke is yet to dissipate from a fire the protesters had lit. The protesters chant “Civil rebellion” and “Ben Gvir is a terrorist,” referring to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who oversees the police.
A statement from police says two officers were taken for medical treatment after being wounded in the clashes, including one who broke his arm.
Thousands rally across Israel to mark 600 days since Oct. 7 Hamas assault
[IsraelTimes] Thousands of Israelis rally in different parts of the country to mark 600 days since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led assault, when some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage, and to call for the return of the remaining 58 hostages.
Reichman University students march the 15 kilometers from Herzliya to Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, where they join students from Tel Aviv University. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, students and faculty at the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus gather for a 58-minute demonstration for the 58 hostages still held captive.
Hundreds of young Israelis learning in pre-army preparatory programs take part in a series of marches that depart every two hours from Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square and follow a path around the nearby Defense Ministry compound.
A motorcade of dozens of cars drives from Latrun to Tel Aviv, and hundreds of people participate in the silent sit-in held by Shift 101 at Tel Aviv’s historic Bialik Square.
Maccabit Meir, aunt to hostage twins Ziv Berman and Gali Berman, says that victory in Israel can’t be achieved without the return of the brothers to their mother’s arms, along with the return of the rest of the hostages. Only then can Israeli society heal, she says.
“I hope you are able to remember your hopes and dreams and transmit your thoughts to one another even if you’re not together,” Meir tells her nephews.
Meir is joined by Ruti Strum, the mother of hostage Eitan Horn and released hostage Iair Horn, as well as Dalia Cusnir, the Horns’ sister-in-law and Niva Wenkert, the mother of released hostage Omer Wenkert.
Singer-songwriter Rona Kenan joins them and softly leads the gathering in singing ‘Sahki, sahki,’ a social protest song written by Shaul Tchernikovsky 120 years ago.
[IsraelTimes] In defiant speech to Knesset, Netanyahu says accomplishments wouldn’t have been made if government had listened to opposition; Lapid blames him for Oct. 7, ‘nadir’ in US relations
In a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speech to the Knesset plenum on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed what he said were his government’s "tremendous achievements" in the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... that "changed the face of the Middle East" and that "broke the stranglehold of the Iranian axis."
Reeling off a list of accomplishments, including the liquidation of senior Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... leaders, Netanyahu also announced for the first time that the IDF had successfully eliminated Muhammad Sinwar, a key Hamas leader and the brother of slain Hamas leader in Gaza and October 7 architect Yahya Sinwar.
The prime minister rejected allegations that he had given up on efforts to release the remaining 58 hostages in Gaza, and took credit for having secured the release of 197 hostages, "148 of whom are alive." He contended that only military pressure had brought about their release.
Netanyahu also claimed that if the government had listened to the opposition, none of the achievements would have been obtained.
Netanyahu made his speech in the Knesset plenum after the opposition secured 40 votes to require the prime minister to be present at a debate on the topic of "The total failure of the government in achieving the war aims — returning the hostages and destroying Hamas."
Netanyahu tore into the opposition parties from the plenum podium and said they were "disconnected from reality" in failing to see the government’s achievements.
"Have you fallen on your heads? Are you on planet Earth? ... In Israel’s wars there have never been so many achievements on so many fronts," averred the prime minister.
"We repelled the terrorists, eliminated Deif, Haniyeh, Yahya Sinwar and Muhammad Sinwar. We cut off the supply of weapons to Hamas, returned about 90 percent of the residents of the Gaza border region to their homes, and we are making a dramatic change in the Gaza Strip."
The premier argued that Israel’s military campaign had also "changed the face of the Middle East" and "broken the strangleholds of the Iranian axis," describing these achievements as "the total opposite" of the failure claimed by his opponents.
Beyond accusing the government and Netanyahu of shirking responsibility for the disaster of October 7 itself, critics say the leadership has failed to steer the war in a clear direction with obtainable goals, dragging out the campaign and refusing to build an alternative to Hamas in Gaza while leaving Jerusalem increasingly isolated globally.
Netanyahu described claims he had given up on efforts to bring about the release of the remaining hostages as "lies," and maintained that the government was still committed to that goal.
"Every hostage means the world to me. I am working to return all our hostages, the living and the dead," he said.
The prime minister also argued that most of the 251 hostages taken on October 7 would not have returned if the government had listened to opposition parties, claiming that they would have stopped the war and eased the military pressure on Hamas.
"Hamas would have fortified its power in Gaza... We would have had more kidnappings, more rape, more massacres, more Hamas on the fences," argued Netanyahu, and said that the "total victory" he envisioned was the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip and the exile of Hamas’s remaining leaders.
"We achieved all the achievements because we didn’t listen to you," Netanyahu said.
"We withstood pressures at home and abroad and stuck to the goal of destroying Hamas’s military and governmental capabilities and returning the hostages. The majority of the people support us," he asserted, claiming that polls showing otherwise are deliberately skewed.
[IsraelTimes] The Gaza Humanitarian Fund denies reports of deaths, mass injuries and chaos at its aid distribution sites, saying that only two people have been injured at its compounds since it began operating in Gaza three days ago.
“To-date two Gazans have required medical care that was delivered on-site — one relating to dehydration and another who was injured by others seeking aid,” says a GHF statement.
It says Hamas and other parties are bent on GHF failing and spreading false reports in order to harm the US and Israeli backed organization. One of those false reports claimed that GHF halted operations due to gunfire at one of its site earlier Wednesday.
While GHF urges journalists to verify sources before publishing developments pertaining to GHF, the organization yesterday issued a statement claiming that only a “small number” of Palestinians overran one of its aid sites when footage showed that thousands looted their sites.
In reviewing that incident in its latest statement, GHF avoids downplaying the scope of yesterday’s overrun, but says it was anticipated due to “acute hunger and Hamas-imposed blockades.”
[IsraelTimes] Hamas-run health ministry says one killed, 48 hurt in Tuesday riot when shots fired at crowd; GHF denies site was overrun, problems were ‘anticipated,’ says no deaths at its locations
The Israel- and US-backed 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... Humanitarian Foundation said Wednesday it had successfully opened its second aid distribution center in southern Gaza, after the launch of its first site a day earlier descended into chaos when crowds stormed the facility.
Gaza’s Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... -run health ministry said Wednesday that at least one Paleostinian was killed and 48 others were maimed the day before when shots were fired on the crowd that swarmed the first site, in Rafah. The second site is also located in Rafah.
GHF said late Wednesday that there had been no deaths at any of its locations.
GHF "is continuing its operations today, opening another Safe Distribution Site and distributing aid without incident," the organization said.
"The situation remains urgent. But every hour, more people are fed," it added.
According to the foundation, both sites were now fully operational.
GHF said that the newly opened site delivered "all available aid without incident — approximately eight trucks’ worth."
In total, GHF said it has distributed "approximately 14,550 food boxes," or 840,262 meals across the two sites. Each box is intended to feed an average of 5.5 people for 3.5 days.
"Operations will continue scaling across all four sites, with plans to build additional sites across Gaza in the weeks ahead," the foundation said.
On Tuesday, crowds of Paleostinians broke through the fences around the first distribution site. An News Agency that Dare Not be Named journalist heard Israeli tank and gun fire, and saw a military helicopter firing flares.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops only fired warning shots into the air.
It was not known whether the alleged death and the injuries were caused by Israeli forces, American private contractors securing the site, or other parties. The foundation said its military contractors had not fired on the crowd but "fell back" before resuming aid operations.
Footage of the event appeared chaotic amid the looting and the gunfire.
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office for the Paleostinian territories, told news hounds in Geneva on Wednesday that 47 people were maimed, mostly by gunfire.
"From the information we have, there are about 47 people who have been injured" in Tuesday’s incident, Sunghay told the UN correspondents’ association.
He added that "most of those injured are due to gunshots" and based on the information he has, "it was shooting from the IDF."
Sunghay stressed that his office was still assessing and gathering information on the full picture of events.
"The numbers could go up. We are trying to confirm what has happened to [the injured]," in terms of their condition, Sunghay added.
He also expressed concern about whether injured people would have access to medical aid in the devastated Strip.
A medical source in southern Gaza told AFP that after Tuesday’s stampede at the GHF site, "more than 40 injured people arrived at Nasser Hospital, the majority of them maimed by Israeli gunfire," adding that at least one had died since.
The source added that "a number of other civilians also arrived at the hospital with various bruises."
IDF front man Colonel Olivier Rafowicz told AFP, referring to the maimed civilians, "We are checking information from the UN. At the time we are speaking, we have no information on this matter."
Israeli soldiers "fired warning shots into the air, in the area outside" the center managed by the GHF, he said, adding that "in no case [did they fire] towards the people."
Rafowicz added that "Hamas is doing everything to prevent humanitarian aid."
GHF on Wednesday denied that the site had been overrun or destroyed, and said it had "anticipated" coming under pressure "due to acute hunger and Hamas-imposed blockades, which create dangerous conditions outside the gates."
"As in all emergency response situations, particularly in conflict zones, this type of reaction from stressed beneficiary populations is expected and we remain prepared to continue providing life-saving assistance should disruptions occur," the group said.
There was reportedly more trouble overnight Tuesday, with footage circulating on social media showing dozens of Gazooks taking control of a humanitarian aid truck that arrived in the Nuseirat area in central Gaza and unloading its contents.
According to reports, during the night, looters pillaged 18 trucks carrying aid that had been intended for the northern Gaza Strip, and beat the drivers. Four trucks were said to have been destroyed. It was not immediately clear if the trucks were operating under the GHF. Some aid distribution is still being carried out using previous systems.
Aid organizations had warned of the risk of looting by desperate civilians when aid was resumed.
War in the Paleostinian enclave was triggered on October 7, 2023, when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas, which rules Gaza, led a devastating invasion of southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
The incident in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip came days after the partial easing of a total aid blockade on the Paleostinian territory that Israel imposed on March 2, leading to severe shortages of food and medicine.
Since aid deliveries have resumed, 876 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza, according to the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, including 121 trucks on Wednesday.
Some of the truckloads were to the new aid distribution sites in southern Gaza’s Rafah. The contents of many of the trucks were still awaiting collection on the Gazook side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, after first being inspected there by Israeli authorities.
Israel has said it means for the GHF to take over aid operations, to prevent Hamas from siphoning off supplies that are supposed to go to the general population.
The UN and other international organizations have withheld backing for the GHF.
Not Invented Here syndrome, common to all organizations.
[RedState] We got good news from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) head Russ Vought on Wednesday when he announced on Fox Business that the first bill codifying DOGE cuts would be coming next week.
The first bill will include foreign aid, USAID, and NPR, among other items. How much it will encompass in terms of money is not yet clear but those subjects could cover a lot.
That sounds like a good start. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was eager and ready to act on the bill so they could deliver even more cuts for the American people.
But there's more coming because they're still working and finding wasteful spending, and there are some of the big items at the Pentagon.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered an important statement on X on Wednesday in which he said they'd identified an enormous amount in potential cuts.
They identified an overreliance on "management consultants and contractors." He said they likely had more contractors than they had civilian employees.
He said reviewing these contracts with DOGE, they'd identified $5 billion in savings, in addition to the $5 billion they'd already identified. So that's "$10 billion in real savings at the Department of Defense," Hegseth explained. "And we're just getting started." If they found $5 billion in two weeks, think what they could do with a little more time.
Hegseth outlined how he'd delegated Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg to work with DOGE and the services to review all their consulting contracts. They needed to be focused on financial responsibility, stewardship, and warfighters.
[PJMedia] A large part of the world is focused on the conflicts unfolding between Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... and Israel as well as Ukraine and Russia, with international observers closely scrutinizing these two wars.
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood... the plight of civilians who have been enduring extreme suffering for decades, such as in the remote areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... in Pakistain, largely goes unnoticed by the same level of sharp scrutiny from Western eyes.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, documented attacks by Pak forces in May and April demonstrate the scope of violence against civilian populations. On May 19, for instance, a dronezap attacked North Wazoo, murdering four young children.
Six people, three children among them, were maimed when mortar shells fired by Pak security forces hit houses in Tirah from May 5 to May 8. Other events included quadcopter drone attacks in Shawwal and a landmine blast in Tehsil MadaKhel, Waziristan. The latter killed one young man.
The May 11 quadcopter drone attack in JaniKhel, Bannu, injured eleven women and five children. Operations in Betni Area, Tank, on May 9 resulted in the deaths of three young men and one injured. A separate mortar shelling incident in Tirah Valley on May 9 murdered a woman, completing a week that left dozens of civilians dead or maimed.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... residents of Tirah Valley staged a protest demonstration against the murder of a 12-year-old girl in a mortar fire in April.
All these incidents and more make a significant point that the Western world has remained oblivious to the use of modern weaponry, including armed drones, by the Pak state against its own citizens.
These Pak drones are largely procured from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... and China. They appear to be rigorously tested by targeting the country's own civilian population in these areas. This causes not only immense loss of lives and property but also instills a perpetual sense of fear in the minds of residents, including children.
Pakistain's use of drone technology against its own population began during Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... , when the military first acknowledged using armed Burraq UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) in 2015. While officials described the move as counterterrorism operations, civilian casualties from these strikes have created resentment among affected communities.
A March 2025 drone attack in Mardan that massacred eleven people, including women and kiddies, resulted in the government’s acknowledgment of "collateral damage" only after local protests demanded compensation for the victims' families.
A recent dronezap in northwest Pakistain's Mir Ali murdered four children and maimed five others, prompting thousands of residents to stage protests by placing the children's bodies on the main roads as a symbol of their demand for justice. Local communities have responded with organized resistance, led primarily by the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). From February through May 2025, PTM organized demonstrations across the region, beginning with protests at Bakka Khel camp in Bannu on Feb. 3, followed by a Jirga gathering at Tirah Maidan, Khyber, on Feb. 15.
The movement expanded with the "Aman Quami Pasoon" protest in Wana, South Waziristan, on Feb. 18, continuing with demonstrations at Qambarabad Market, Bara, on Feb. 22. A sit-in protest at Jani Khel, Bannu, on April 25 led to the ongoing protest at Army Cantonment Mirali that began on May 19. This protest involved PTM leaders, tribal elders, and various political parties.
The situation in Balochistan presents perhaps the most systematic documentation of human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... violations. The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons has recorded approximately 7,000 cases of enforced disappearances since 2004, while the government's own Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances listed 2,752 active cases as of January 2024. The significant disparity between these figures and official government claims suggests the deliberate underreporting of the crisis.
The recent bombing of a school bus in Khuzdar, Balochistan, which massacred five people — including three girls — and maimed 53 others, mostly children, exemplifies Pakistain's reflexive strategy of deflecting blame for its internal failures.
The Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) attack targeted innocent children traveling to school. Within hours of the massacre, the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) issued a statement accusing foreign powers of orchestrating the assault without providing any evidence to support these claims.
This pattern of shifting blame has become a familiar response whenever Pakistain faces scrutiny over violence against its own civilians.
Pakistain's heavy-handed approach against its people is largely driven by its failure to provide equitable governance to populations across the country. The majority of the population in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan live in abject poverty, deprived of even basic facilities such as functional medical or educational institutions.
Incidentally, several schools and colleges in Balochistan have been closed for at least the last six months on government orders. This order serves as collective punishment for people who are demanding basic civil liberties and human rights as promised in the country's constitution.
Pakistain's willful neglect of certain regions within its borders is reflected in several international indices, including Amnesty International reports and various human rights assessments that consistently highlight the deteriorating situation for civilians in these areas.
The systematic targeting of civilians extends far beyond isolated incidents, with documented evidence revealing a disturbing pattern of state-sponsored violence across multiple provinces.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... the discovery of over 200 decomposing bodies on the rooftop of Nistar Hospital in Multan ...Home of the Multan Sultans... in 2022 has raised serious questions about the treatment of unidentified individuals in state custody. Many activists believe these remains may belong to political activists who disappeared from Sindh and Balochistan. The additional discovery of 168 unidentified bodies in Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... suggests this may represent a broader pattern that requires investigation.
The international community has begun to take notice of these developments through various human rights reports and documentation efforts. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood... the level of international attention and intervention remains limited compared to other global conflicts. Pakistain's strategic importance in regional politics and its nuclear capabilities may contribute to the relatively muted international response to domestic human rights concerns.
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ISLAMABAD: 5-15=2025
Pakistan has proposed a zero-tariff bilateral trade agreement with the USA aimed at expanding trade relations in multiple sectors, The Express Tribune has learnt on the authority of credible sources.
The development came after the US president expressed interest in enhancing trade with Pakistan, the sources said, adding that Pakistan proposed a bilateral agreement based on mutual interests, offering zero tariffs on selected tariff lines. They added that Pakistan wants to expand bilateral trade with the USA in multiple sectors.
Islamabad’s offer came after the US president brokered a ceasefire agreement between Pakistan and India following tit-for-tat military strikes between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
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Just remember Bangladesh once was East Pakistan, till the military started to butcher its own citizens.
[Daily Caller] Washington’s Reagan National Airport (DCA) has announced its celebration of 50 Years of Pride amid recent safety concerns following a deadly crash and other incidents.
In the wake of a fatal January crash that killed 67 people and multiple collisions and other incidents, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) and DCA both made an announcement to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pride in Washington, D.C.
"Join the momentous celebrations as the nation’s capital is painted with pride, featuring a variety of events to inspire, empower and connect the international LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning) community and their allies," the DCA announcement read.
[MAIL] Lord Mandelson has squirmed on live TV when he was confronted about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Britain's new ambassador to the US did not deny he stayed at the paedophile financier's New York home in 2009 after Epstein was jailed for child sex offences.
'I'm not answering any questions about him', Lord Mandelson said in response.
Lord Mandelson was doorstepped by Sky News this week and looked uncomfortable.
Epstein affectionately referred to Lord Mandelson as ‘Petie’. A photo, thought to have been taken in 2005 or 2006, showed Lord Mandelson shopping with Epstein at a boutique in the US Virgin Islands. He appeared to be trying on a belt.
Sky reporter James Matthews asked him why he had associated with Epstein, even after he had been jailed for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Mr Matthews asked him if he had stayed with Epstein at that time.
Lord Mandelson began to walk away but the camera crew stayed with him. When pressed again he said: 'My knowledge of him is something I regret, I wish I'd never met him in the first place'.
Mr Matthews asked again: 'Why did you have an association with him? He was in jail at the time'.
Lord Mandelson said: 'Why did many people meet him? He was a prolific networker. And I wish I'd never met him in the first place'.
In March the Mail on Sunday revealed it appears Peter Mandelson could have met Jeffrey Epstein on a taxpayer-funded trip to America when the disgraced financier was under house arrest for sex offences.
Epstein’s private schedule, unearthed by The Mail on Sunday, revealed Lord Mandelson was due to have two meetings with the convicted paedophile at his £60 million New York mansion on consecutive days in March, 2010, while on a trip that cost taxpayers more than £8,000.
At the time Lord Mandelson was Business Secretary and First Secretary of State – effectively the second most powerful politician in Gordon Brown’s government as de facto deputy prime minister.
Epstein, meanwhile, was under house arrest after being sentenced in 2008 to 18 months in jail by a Florida court for procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute.
Lord Mandelson and the financier are believed to have been first introduced by Ghislaine Maxwell, who was jailed in 2022 for 20 years for helping Epstein traffic under-age girls.
During his sentence Epstein was able to go on ‘work release’ to his Florida office for 12 hours a day, six days a week. He then faced a year under house arrest until July 2010.
He spent much of that year at home in Palm Beach, Florida, but could also fly to his mansion in New York and his private island in the US Virgin Islands.
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Just think what Trump could get done if he had the support of the Republican Party. I think they're trying to lose the mid-terms so they can be relieved of any responsibility.
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[Breitbart] South Africa appears to have reversed its position on Elon Musk’s Starlink, targeting the company for alleged unauthorized access by users within the country, after appearing to invite Musk to invest there last week.
As Breitbart News reported in the wake of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House on May 20, South Africa appeared to relax its racial ownership requirements to allow Starlink to invest.
Musk had long said that he could not bring Starlink to South Africa because he is not black. Instead of 30% black ownership, South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi announced last Friday that the communications industry would replace black ownership with “equivalents” such as investment in local communities. That appeared to open the industry for Musk and for Starlink.
But Malatsi’s proposal, while welcomed by South African businesses and consumers, was rejected by some South African politicians, for whom so-called “Black Economic Empowerment” has become not just a sacred principle but a path to rent-seeking wealth opportunities.
Everything wrong with South Africa in one sentence — it’s all about the crab bucket.
Notably, Malatsi is a member of the Democratic Alliance, an opposition party that has traditionally opposed the larger African National Congress (ANC).
Though the DA and the ANC now serve together in a Government of National Unity (GNU), they fight frequently over policy — and it appears Malatsi’s outreach to Starlink did not have consensus support.
That is the context in which South Africa’s communications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), said Wednesday that it was investigating Starlink.
News24.com reported:
South Africa’s communications regulator is launching a probe into the illegal usage of Starlink in the country, and has threatened to lodge a complaint against Elon Musk’s SpaceX if it doesn’t like what it finds.
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The statement comes a day after Communications and Digital Technology Minister Solly Malatsi addressed his department’s parliamentary portfolio committee on the proposed policy direction he issued on the recognition of equity equivalents for communications licence applicants.
The proposed policy direction may have a significant bearing on whether Starlink will meet the BEE licensing criteria needed to acquire a communications licence – a prerequisite for operating legally in South Africa.
Though Icasa’s board is nominally politically independent, it is appointed by the government, which has been dominated by the ANC since 1994. The ANC favors a racial redistribution policy known as “transformation.”
Separately, the government has proposed new minerals legislation that would expand “transformation” as well as injecting government control into more minutiae of management in South Africa’s mining sector.
Ramaphosa appeared eager to “reset” relations with the U.S., but backed the “Kill the Boer” chant earlier this week as a “liberation chant,” days after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized it in their Oval Office meeting.
[Breitbart] On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Harvard Professor, author, American Enterprise Institute President Emeritus, and columnist for The Atlantic Arthur Brooks stated that the Trump administration’s actions on Harvard are “overreach” but “the toolkit was actually set during the Obama and Biden years.” And Harvard needs a lot of change.
Brooks stated that at Harvard, “it’s pretty chaotic, of course, because a lot of researchers that have nothing to do with any of the controversies are being affected by this. A lot of labs are getting shut down. A lot of researchers are getting laid off at this point. And that’s sort of the collateral damage to what’s happening. And then, of course, there [are] the students. … It’s creating a lot of big problems outside of the blast zone of what I think anybody’s intended to try to change.”
He added, “[N]one of the things that the President is bringing to bear or the administration is bringing to bear on Harvard is nothing new. During the Obama administration, they were doing exactly the same thing with Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, and they were bringing all of the DEI stuff and all of the what they were talking about then and talking about, they were threatening to cut off funds then, too. And so, this is — the toolkit was actually set during the Obama and Biden years.”
Brooks also pointed to past actions against Bob Jones University before Obama and stated, “So, there’s nothing new that’s actually going on here. What’s new is that it’s such pressure so quickly on one particular university.” And the Trump administration is actually following through “And the fact that the media is actually paying attention to it right now, the media wasn’t paying attention to it when the Obama administration was doing exactly the same thing.”
He added, “There’s a ton of reform that needs to get done. And the good news is we have a new President who’s dedicated to it. Alan Garber is a very, very good President. He’s a very reasonable and tough guy.” And that while he thinks change is needed, the Trump administration is engaging in “real overreach. And it’s actually affecting things that it shouldn’t be affecting”, including on foreign students and their social media accounts and that the prohibition on foreign students is even hitting science students, which has nothing to do with DEI or antisemitism.
Brooks further stated that both sides have been “hot” but they’ll eventually work out a deal, which will lead to improvements.
[Wired] Google, Apple, and Facebook part of data breach affecting login info for 184 million users
A data breach exposed nearly 200 million records, including login credentials for Google, Apple, Meta, and more. The stolen information contains usernames, passwords, and login URLs connected to services like Spotify, PayPal, and Netflix. If exploited, cybercriminals can use this information to commit identity theft.
[LegalInsurrection] It was only a few, short weeks ago that a sudden and unprecedented power outage struck the entire Iberian Peninsula, plunging nearly all of Spain and Portugal into darkness for several hours.
This weekend, the outages continued as southeastern France experienced two major power blackouts that disrupted daily life in Cannes and Nice, affecting more than 200,000 homes and critical infrastructure. The incidents are being investigated as acts of sabotage and arson, with anarchist groups claiming responsibility.
The first major outage occurred early Saturday, coinciding with the final day of the Cannes Film Festival. It is being reported that a fire broke out overnight at an electrical substation in Tanneron, west of Cannes, leading to a blackout that impacted approximately 160,000 homes. Why do bad things happen to good people?
[Archive-WSJ] Paramount Global in recent days has offered $15 million to settle, according to people familiar with the situation. Trump's team wants more than $25 million and is also seeking an apology from CBS News, one of the people said.
Earlier this month, CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon told staff she is leaving the network, the second high-profile departure from the news unit. One point of tension between McMahon and Paramount was her unwillingness to issue an apology to Trump as part of any potential settlement of the lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Personal Comment.
Given the number of Lawsuits Trump has won, exposing the media deliberate bias and defamation, this could get costly for Paramount (CBS).
[NY Post] Flashback time
The wife of a former Justice Department official gave “demonstrably false” testimony to Congress about her involvement in drafting and disseminating since-debunked dossiers about Donald Trump’s purported collusion with Russia in 2016, according to a bombshell trove of internal FBI records released Wednesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Nellie Ohr worked for research firm Fusion GPS when it was hired in the lead-up to the 2016 election to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign’s alleged links to Russian organized crime — but later told a House panel she did not know about the DOJ’s parallel investigation into the matter.
Evidence assembled by the FBI indicates that Ohr helped compile two dossiers — including the notorious file pushed by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele — that helped launch the bureau’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
The Fusion GPS research repeated errors or included information similar to that discovered later in the Steele dossier.
Ohr also sent emails — some of which she later deleted — directly to DOJ prosecutors, not all of whom she admitted to interacting with in subsequent congressional testimony.
Ohr’s husband Bruce, then a deputy associate attorney general, received more emails as well as a thumb drive from Nellie containing Fusion GPS research that was passed on to the FBI.
The couple personally met Steele at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on July 30, 2016, and discussed allegations — later relayed to the bureau — that Trump campaign aide Carter Page had met with Russian officials and that Kremlin intelligence had the Republican candidate “over a barrel.”
While the Ohrs invoked spousal privilege before Congress on the question of whether they discussed the Trump-Russia probe, the declassified FBI files put out by Grassley reveal the bureau determined there was “little distinction” between the couple’s professional and personal lives.
“There is probable cause to believe that Bruce and Nellie did communicate with each other about their respective activity in furtherance of the Russia-collusion investigations and/or narrative,” the 43-page FBI document written in September of 2019 states.
The records were compiled in response to a criminal referral made that year by then-Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) that claimed Nellie Ohr knowingly gave false testimony about her involvement with the collusion investigation to the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees in October 2018.
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The ruling opens the door for the discovery process, in which Trump’s lawyers are seeking the board’s internal deliberations in its 2018 awards to two media outlets for Russia collusion coverage.
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It ain't news until David Muir covers it!![scowl]
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Eric CIAramella's Dirty Whistle
"The FBI/DOJ didn’t just just hide the Nellie Ohr Doc that showed she lied to Congress. They made it unreachable. Unsearchable. From other agents and Congress. Hidden from their own Sentinel system. Talk about losing faith in the system. Half of my frustrations come from the active measures that must have taken place by MULTIPLE people to protect those lying to Congress. This isn’t one person. This is a group and they will all go free. This looks horrible. Either our FBI is corrupt and would do anything to hurt Trump or they are so stupid they fell for the Russia narrative and went all in to protect their names from embarrassment. Or somewhere in between."
[Project Veritas] Project Veritas today released Part One of an explosive undercover investigation revealing shocking truths about who truly controlled the Biden White House. Through covert meetings with David Hogg, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and Deterrian Jones, former staffer in the Biden White House Office of Digital Strategy, Veritas uncovered a web of influence centered around Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff, Anthony Bernal, and a tight-knit inner circle.
In candid, on-camera admissions, Hogg stated, "Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff [Anthony Bernal] had an enormous amount of power," emphasizing that "the bigger issue was the inner circle that was around Biden." These revelations point to a hidden power structure that operated behind the scenes, raising questions about transparency and accountability in the Biden administration.
Deterrian Jones, who worked directly in the Biden White House, described Bernal as a "shadowy, wizard of oz-type figure" who "wielded an enormous amount of power." Jones admitted to avoiding Bernal, calling him "scary" and noting that his influence was an "open secret" among staff. These statements expose a culture of fear and unchecked authority within the administration.
No surprise there.
Other than a (LSD) outed a (LSD).
What she did was a page right out of the DNC history book from over 100 years ago.
Google: Edith Wilson
I'd only be surprised if Mrs. Biden is ever indicted for any of the 100's crimes or deaths, that resulted from her Illegal criminal puppet government operation.
Now the questions are.
Will the DNC Propaganda arm, skin and roast Hogg for doing it?
Or is the goal, to discredit the old leadership and push for younger more Liberal DNC leadership, to recapture the 18-30 y/o vote?
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What if Hogg is just a distraction? I mean, we know it wasn't Joe who was calling the shots but Tony Bernal? I still think the DNC has a group of heavy weights who were calling the shots and I'm not at all sure Bernal is a heavy weight. If anything, he was just relaying orders from the heavy weights, the politburo, if you will.
Certainly it wasn't Bernal who engineered the backroom deal in which all those 2020 Democrat presidential candidates deferred to Joe. And it couldn't have been Bernal who ordered Biden to step aside after the 2024 debate with Trump. Find out who was behind that and you'll find out who was really running the country while Biden served as a figurehead. Bernal is a squirrel.
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Have to agree, a gatekeeper not a broker. I'd think at that level he didn't take bribes, but he would accept tips.
[ZERO] The big question in recent weeks: Why are House Republicans hesitating to codify the waste and fraud identified by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) into law?
Musk's CBS News interview on Tuesday, where he called the "Big, Beautiful Bill" (BBB) a "disappointment," appears to have kicked off a broader information campaign aimed at pressuring the White House to push House Republicans toward formally codifying some DOGE-related spending cuts.
By Wednesday afternoon, Politico reported, citing two anonymous Republican sources, that the White House plans to send a rescissions bill (appropriations bill) to Congress next week to formally propose the spending cuts.
The package is expected to target funding for NPR, PBS, and certain foreign aid agencies previously reduced under President Trump.
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[REGNUM] Recently, an expert report on the activities of the extremist group Muslim Brotherhood (an organization banned in the Russian Federation) in the EU, prepared at the request of the French government, was published. The strengthening of Islamist extremists is observed not only in France itself, but also in some other EU countries,
The authors of a report prepared for the French government warn that the extremist Muslim Brotherhood* movement has gained a foothold in the country, threatening both the values of local secular society and the safety of ordinary citizens.
It has been estimated that the group controls at least 200 mosques in France and has hundreds of subsidiaries.
The report stresses that the further growth of the influence of radical Islamism will have devastating consequences for the country.
At the same time, the document did not ignore the situation in other EU countries, where Islamists feel especially at ease. First of all, Sweden was named among these countries, where, according to French experts, very favorable conditions have been created for Islamic radicals.
Indeed.
Sweden is mentioned in the report several times, and it is noted that it is the active branch of the Muslim Brotherhood* that has established itself in this Scandinavian country.
The report explains this as follows: “The favourable position of the Muslim Brotherhood* in Sweden is explained by the great tolerance of Swedish multiculturalism and the good relations between the movement and local political parties, especially the Swedish Social Democrats.”
SWEDEN'S REACTION
In Sweden itself, the report did not go unnoticed.
Local Labour Minister Mats Persson has announced that he is putting together his own expert group to draw up a full picture of the spread of radical Islamism in the country.
Run a search of the Rantburg archives, your Excellency. There you’ll find much of what you need to get started.
Persson threatens that he will not let this go so easily: "We will cut off foreign funding for religious communities, especially where foreign countries finance radical mosques."
The Swedish Social Democratic Party is alarmed - they deny that they have supported or assisted extremists in any way.
On the contrary.
Party Secretary Tobias Bodin justifies himself: "We have zero tolerance for connections with extremist organizations."
“Call them something else, though, and we’re good to go!”
It should be noted that in the spring of 2023, the Social Democrats were already harshly criticized for the fact that their MP Jamal El-Hajj took part in a conference organized by the Palestinian organization Hamas.
See?
The Social Democrats then asked El Hadj to "take a break" from his parliamentary duties, but did not expel him from the party. However, a year later, the Swedish press revealed that the deputy had tried to obtain refugee status in Sweden for a certain Egyptian imam whose sermons were openly extremist. Only then did the Social Democrats ask their disgraced colleague to leave the party.
At the same time, the Swedes remember how the “social democrats”, in the name of their misunderstood “tolerance”, while they headed the government from 2014 to 2022, opened the country’s doors wide to migrants from “third world” countries.
It is not surprising that Sweden was the third country in Europe after Belgium and Austria from which the largest number of Muslims left to fight for the Islamic State*.
Definitely not surprising, no, except that France is lower on the list.
DEFENSE UNIVERSITY REPORTS
Experts have been sounding the alarm about the radicalization of Sweden's Muslim community for a long time. Back in 2018,
…alarms were sounded considerably earlier than that…
the local Defense University prepared a study on the increase in the number of Salafists in the country — supporters of "pure" Islam, advocating, in particular, for jihad against "infidels."
One of the most famous Salafi jihadists was, in particular, Osama bin Laden. Salafis advocate for the restriction of women's rights, and many of them also insist on not having friends among the "infidels" and keeping communication with them to a minimum.
At the same time, as noted at the university, radicalization often goes hand in hand with ethnic crime. Criminals really like to imagine themselves as “warriors for the faith” - this is how they justify their own actions in their own eyes.
"A gang of bastards walk into a grocery store. If the cashier isn't wearing a hijab, they take whatever they want without paying. They call the cashier a 'Swedish whore' and spit at her," says a police officer from the city of Västerås.
"Often young Muslims ask Syrians and Kurds, restaurant or shop owners, about their religion. If the answer is 'not Islam', they are persecuted. We have also seen Muslims as young as 10 or 12 say to older Swedish women: 'We are at home here,'" he adds.
In Gothenburg, Salafists demanded that Muslims not vote in local elections because it is "haram." The radicals threatened their fellow believers that they would answer "on the day of judgment" for all the actions of the dishonest politicians for whom they voted.
“In some areas they raised the flag of the Islamic State (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation),” the local police shared.
And there they told about the preacher Said Regea (a native of Somalia) who came from Canada and, speaking in one of the mosques in Gothenburg, emphasized the importance of “purity.” In order to maintain it, it is important, according to him, not to allow children to be interested in the customs of “Jews, Christians or Zoroastrians.”
Seven years ago, the Defense University emphasized that cafes and shops owned by non-Muslims periodically become victims of vandalism, and that Christian priests are threatened with beheading.
However, the radicals are no better at treating so-called "secular" Muslims who do not adhere to Salafism. They are often harshly ostracized and discriminated against in every possible way. As a result, some refugees have begun to complain that, having moved to Sweden, they are faced with scenes familiar to them from their native Iraq or Afghanistan - for example, they see three-year-old girls in niqabs.
BANDIT JIHAD
In addition, as already mentioned, experts from the Defense University noted the alarming fact of the fusion of religious radicalism and organized crime - sometimes jihadists and members of ethnic gangs join forces to make it easier to terrorize the surrounding population.
Salafis and Islamists are actively taking control of mosques and Muslim cultural associations, as well as businesses created by former refugees, forcing them to pay tribute.
At the same time, the native Swedes, for a time, simply had no idea what processes were taking place in the vicinity of their large cities, where people from Asia and Africa settled.
The police didn’t open files, the news media didn’t report about it, and the politicians kept their eyes firmly shut while piously lecturing the voters about the necessity of tolerance. And when the native Swedes tried to talk about the viciousness of thr Moslem newcomers, they were shut up, by force if necessary.
But there are areas where local legislation has lost its force: gender segregation is actively practiced; radical religious leaders order women not to complain to the authorities about their husbands’ cruelty.
The text of the study ended with criticism of the Swedish authorities for their inability to put obstacles to the spread of radical ideology. In particular, examples were given from the activities of ordinary Swedish secular schools, where the administration, having yielded to the demands of radical parents, forced girls to wear hijabs.
Seven years have passed since then, and the problem has become even more acute. And it’s not as if Sweden’s current moderate-conservative ruling coalition, which replaced the migrant-loving Social Democrats in 2022, is doing nothing at all to counter radicalism.
For example, the authorities are closing radical Islamist schools, trying to legislate against women covering their faces, tightening entry rules, and promising migrants money to return home. The trouble is, these measures are both insufficient and long overdue.
Fortunately for the Swedes, the numerous ethnic gangs do not act as a united front, otherwise the natives would have a very bad time. Criminal organizations fiercely fight each other for food supplies - they shoot and blow up competitors with enthusiasm. In this case, selfish interests are higher than empty slogans about the "unity of brothers in faith."
INVASION OF NORWAY
The fierce competition between Swedish gangs has already led to them, like a cancerous tumor, beginning to subjugate neighboring countries, in particular Norway.
The head of the local National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos), Christine Quinje, recently addressed the government with a warning about the growing threat from organised crime.
Despite all the efforts of the police, criminal networks in Norway continue to grow and develop, according to Kvinje.
And although the national budget for 2024 allocated 600 million Norwegian kroner (52 million euros) to combat organised crime, according to Kvinje, this has not produced tangible results.
She seriously fears that organised crime will grow to such proportions that it “will threaten democracy and the welfare state and will cause destabilisation of society.”
A characteristic feature of Swedish gangs is the hiring of minors, who do not face the same harsh penalties as adults. According to police, the number of underage robbers in Oslo has doubled between 2023 and 2024.
And in Norway in 2023, 21,800 criminal cases were initiated against minors, which is 28% more than in 2022. The Norwegian publication Aftenposten writes that more and more criminal elements are now appearing in this country, having managed to “leave their mark” in Sweden.
According to Norwegian police inspector Yngve Myrvoll, branches of the Swedish gangs Foxtrot and Gottsunda have emerged in the country, actively recruiting young people. These gangs are involved in large-scale drug trafficking and various fraudulent operations.
Foxtrot's presence in Norway was widely reported after a powerful explosion rocked the streets of the local town of Drøbak last October. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but police suspected attempted murder.
Experts noted that this is a typical “Swedish manner” – it is members of Swedish criminal groups who have recently taken to blowing up competitors in the criminal business right in their homes.
These suspicions were confirmed during the investigation - it turned out that the explosion was carried out by members of Foxtrot.
Since then, members of this network have given Norwegians many more reasons to speak ill of them. The criminals who came from Sweden, who so often like to pose as "true Muslims", make Norway forget that until recently it was considered a peaceful and safe country.,
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[NewsFront] 21:27 Drone operators from the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade have driven their drones on fiber optics right into the dugouts of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Sumy Oblast —video. 20:54 FPV drone of the 6th Army destroyed a pickup truck of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement Dvurechanskoye in the Khar'kov region —video.
20:26 Fiber-optic drone destroys Ukrainian tank —video.
19:50 Units of the North Group of Forces continue advance in the Sumy region and expanded the offensive front, liberating the settlement of Konstantinovka (west of Vladimirovka, on the road to Khoten, in the direction of the settlement of Sumy).
Assault operations continue in Yunakovka and in the village of Vodolaghi (about half of the village is under our assault units).
19:23 Calculation of 152mm "Giatsint-B" of the "Center" group destroyed artillery installations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during counter-battery combat.
Having received the coordinates of the targets identified with the help of reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles, the gun crew hit the area where the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and fire weapons were located.
17:15 Around 15.50 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the airplane type over the territory of the Kursk region.
16:50 In the Sumy direction, support for the Severyan assault groups rendered a detachment of UAVs from our group of troops, which destroyed an enemy tank.
15:50 In the South Donetsk direction, fighters of the "East" force group are destroying heavy hexacopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of the Baba Yaga type, providing reliable protection for our units.
FPV drones and small arms with thermal imaging sights are used to “land” enemy UAVs.
14:20 Specialists of the Rubicon Center are are destroying equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
13:30 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of May 28, 2025
Applied defeat of concentrations of manpower and equipment of three mechanized, two airborne assault brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and three territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Khotyn, Alekseyevka, Bessalovka, Osoyevka, Sadki, Varachino, Khutor Krasny and Alexandria in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov direction, armed formations of the mechanized and motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the border detachment of the border service of Ukraine were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Eskhar, Volchansk, Volchanskie Khutora and Kreydyanka in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 210 servicemen, six vehicles, four field artillery guns. Two electronic warfare stations, two counterbattery radar stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of forces have taken up more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of three mechanized, assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade have been defeated in the areas of the settlements of Dvurechanskoye, Kupyansk, Novoosinovo, Peschanoye in the Kha'rkov region and Kirovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 190 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, nine cars and an artillery piece. An electronic warfare station and five ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved the situation along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of seven mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Minkovka, Berestok, Vasyukovka, Seversk, Slavyansk, Serebryanka, Shevchenko, Konstantinovka, Aleksandro-Shultino, Druzhkovka and Ivanopolye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 80 servicemen, four combat armored vehicles, five pickups, an electronic warfare station, a counter-battery radar station, two ammunition depots and two supply depots.
Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to advance into the depth of the enemy's defense. Formations of six mechanized, ranger, and assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two brigades of naval infantry, and two brigades of the National Guard were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Stepanovka, Vladimirovka, Rusin Yar, Grodovka, Yablonovka, Dimitrov, Novotoretske, Ulyanovka, Petrovskoye, Novosergeevka, Krasnoarmeysk, and Novoekonomicheskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 440 servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, two Kozak armored combat vehicles and seven cars.
The manpower and equipment of four mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Komar, Novopil in the Donetsk People's Republic, Gavrilovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Gulyaipole in the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 165 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, 10 cars, two field artillery guns and an electronic warfare station. An ammunition depot was destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of a mechanized, mountain assault brigade, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and four territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoye, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilovka, Chervona Krynytsya in the Zaporizhia region and Nikolaevka, Antonovka, Osokorovka in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost up to 60 servicemen, 10 vehicles and an artillery piece. Two electronic warfare stations, three ammunition depots and three supply depots were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex that produce strike unmanned aerial vehicles, the parking area of combat and unmanned boats, field launch sites for unmanned aerial vehicles, ammunition depots, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in 144 districts.
12:40 Division of the Group of Forces "Vostok"continue to break through the enemy's defenses.
In the Zelenoye Pole - Novopol area, units of the 394th Motorized Rifle Regiment finished off the enemy in the village, continue the offensive and reached the next defensive line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces along the eastern border of the Zaporizhzhya region. Behind it, two km away, there is another one already on the border of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
10:40 Artillerymen of the "East" group of forces inflicted a high-precision strike on a radar station of Ukrainian forces in the area of the settlement of Zelenoye Pole in the South Donetsk direction.
The strike destroyed a vehicle-mounted radar with a lifting antenna, designed for aerial reconnaissance and tracking of UAVs. This significantly limited the enemy's ability to monitor the air situation and use UAVs.
10:10 Overnight in Moscow region were 42 enemy UAVs were shot down, Governor Andrei Vorobyov reported.
10:00 Destruction of the PVD of the 114th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using FAB-1500 in the village of Kupyansk, –video.
9:30 During the past night from 21:00 Moscow time on May 27 to 07:00 on May 28, air defense systems on dutydestroyedand 296 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type were intercepted over the territories of the Moscow region, Bryansk, Belgorod, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, Tula regions.
8:20 FPV drones of the Russian Armed Forces destroy strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, –video.
8:10 From 21:00 Moscow time on May 27 to 0:00 Moscow time on May 28 by air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed and 112 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
– 59 UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region;
– 19 UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region;
– 13 UAVs – over the territory of the Tula region;
– 10 UAVs – over the territory of the Kursk region;
– Eight UAVs – over the territory of the Oryol region;
– Three UAVs – over the territory of the Kaluga region.
BREAKING: Palestinian demonstrators have completely blocked Uplands, severely limiting and slowing down access to Ottawa International Airport.
They are also blocking access to a Federal Facility. You can see the wind tunnel and the National Research Council sing here. pic.twitter.com/pweHI8i7Nc
[AmericanGreatness] California’s ruling elites have priced out the middle class, replacing opportunity with oppression under the guise of equity and climate justice.
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Although many people are leaving, I'm afraid many people are still moving into the state. Real estate prices continue to sky ball. Our next door neighbors are renters and they pay upwards of $5000 a month for a rather ordinary four bedroom, three bath, 2300 sq. ft. home. So you can see why people are leaving. I would too if I hadn't bought my house so long ago before it got as crazy as it is. These days, just the property taxes are more than I ever paid for the mortgage.
I don't talk much with those neighbors, They're kinda weird. Actually, they're weird as hell. But I'd like to know how they come up with $5000 a month.
Newsom keeps telling us we need more affordable housing and he's usurped local zoning in order to let developers run roughshod all over San Diego County. Apartment buildings, big ones, are popping up all over the place. But they're not affordable. Two thousand dollars a month would be about the lowest you can find...for a cracker box.
I wish more people would leave, especially if they tend to vote for Democrats like Newsom.
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That is what communism does, it destroys the middle class.
We need to break California up, exile the commies and illegals, and liberate the West Coast. #FanFiction
[IsraelTimes] Pedram Madani was found guilty of ‘spying in favor of the Zionist regime,’ judiciary news outlet says; last month, another alleged Mossad collaborator was executed
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... executed a man accused of spying for Israel, according to a report from judiciary news outlet Mizan on Wednesday that identified him as Pedram Madani.
"After identification, arrest, and judicial proceedings against Pedram Madani, who was spying in favor of the Zionist regime, and following the complete process of criminal procedure and the final confirmation and upholding of the verdict by the Supreme Court, he was brought to justice and executed," Mizan reported.
Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has put to death many individuals it accuses of having links with Israel’s Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... intelligence service and facilitating the latter’s operations in the country, notably liquidations or acts of sabotage meant to undermine its nuclear program.
Arrested in 2020, Madani is said to have attempted to convey classified information to Israel about critical locations in Iran, Mizan said, adding that he was also accused of acquiring wealth by illegal means.
Another Iranian, Mohsen Langarneshin, was executed last month on charges of espionage and intelligence cooperation with the Mossad.
According to Mizan, Langarneshin was accused of involvement in several cases, including the death of a Revolutionary Guards colonel in 2022. State media said he also provided operational support for an attack on an industrial center in Isfahan, affiliated with the Iranian Defense Ministry.
[Spectator] Some Palestinians reject terrorism and Hamas, but a new poll shows they appear to be outnumbered.
A recent poll conducted by the Paleostinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) from May 1-4, 2025, highlights the reality of Paleostinian public opinion amid the ongoing war 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, now 19 months in from its start with the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... -led attack on October 7, 2023.
The survey, covering 1,270 respondents (830 in the West Bank, 440 in Gaza) with a margin of error of ±3.5 percent, reveals strong support for Hamas, the October 7 attack, and "armed struggle." Most Paleostinians oppose Hamas’s disarmament, do not believe Hamas committed atrocities on Oct. 7, and believe the decision to attack Israel that day was "correct."
This poll challenges the dubious claim that all Paleostinian civilians are innocent. Parents who teach their children it is okay to kill Jews are complicit with the terrorist holding a gun. And indeed, many of these children did grow up to become terrorists. This was proven on October 7, 2023, when a terrorist called his parents, bragging he had killed Jews and knowing he would receive his family’s support.
And this support has not changed drastically. Paleostinian civilian support for Hamas’s October 7 attack still stands at a disturbing 50 percent and it was even higher in the past — 54 percent in September 2024 and 71 percent in March 2024. In Gaza, 38 percent of "innocent" Paleostinians still view the attack as "correct," compared to 59 percent in the West Bank. Notably, 87 percent of respondents deny Hamas committed atrocities against Israeli civilians, despite video evidence.
According to the poll, most Gazooks (51 percent) blame Israel for their suffering, followed by the U.S. (28 percent), while only 12 percent primarily blame Hamas. Although Hamas launched a major war against Israel, Hamas’s popularity still stands at 32 percent (it was 36 percent seven months ago) and even remains higher than Fatah’s (21 percent), the more "moderate" of the two parties.
In hypothetical legislative elections, Hamas would garner 43 percent of the vote among participants, while Fatah holds steady at 28 percent. In Gaza, Hamas’s support is stronger (49 percent) than in the West Bank (38 percent). Marwan Barghouti, a terrorist in Israeli prison, remains the most popular leader, securing 50 percent of voters in a presidential race against Hamas’s Khaled Mashal (35 percent) and Paleostinian Chairman the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> (11 percent).
The poll reveals complex sentiments in Gaza. Nearly half (48 percent) of Gazooks support recent anti-Hamas demonstrations demanding the group relinquish control, though 54 percent believe these protests are driven by "external hands." Opposition to disarming Hamas is strong, with 85 percent in the West Bank and 64 percent in Gaza rejecting it as a condition to end the war. Similarly, 65 percent oppose expelling Hamas’s military leaders.
The question is, why? Innocent people are not supposed to support terrorists. Why do the Paleostinians?
Interestingly, 43 percent of Gazooks express willingness to emigrate postwar, and 49 percent would apply to Israel for emigration assistance, despite Egypt and Jordan rejecting U.S.-backed displacement proposals.
Satisfaction with Hamas’s performance still stands at an unbelievable 57 percent (43 percent in Gaza, 67 percent in the West Bank), outpacing the PA (23 percent), Fatah (24 percent), and Abbas (15 percent). Among regional actors, although Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s continue to indiscriminately attack Israel’s civilians — Arab and Jew alike — by firing ballistic missiles, the Paleostinians highly approve of their attacks (74 percent), followed by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... (45 percent) and Hezbollah (43 percent).
Additionally, the United States, which has worked around the clock to get Paleostinians humanitarian aid, received a disturbingly low approval rating of just 3 percent. Shockingly, Paleostinians gave China (26 percent) and Russia (21 percent) a much higher approval rating.
Paleostinians living in the West Bank (88 percent) say they would rather remain rather than flee to Jordan. What this means is that even with fears of Israeli counter-terrorism operations, Paleostinians understand life is better on the Israeli side of the Jordan River.
With regard to the two-state solution, support remains stable at 40 percent, rising to 61 percent when framed as a Paleostinian state on 1967 borders. Support for armed struggle is an incredible 41 percent.
Looking at these numbers, it is difficult to make the case that the Paleostinian people are a peace-loving nation. According to the data revealed by this poll, Paleostinians support Hamas, want the terrorist group to remain armed, and want to kick the Jewish people out of the Old City of Jerusalem and bar them from the Western Wall.
This is not peace. This is bullying and a desire to erase the Jewish people’s connection to their ancestral homeland, while supporting a Moslem Brüderbund terrorist group responsible for the destruction of Paleostinian life in Gaza and the deaths of thousands.
[NEWARAB] Egypt is ringing alarm bells over a potential plan for the transfer of a sizeable number of Paleostinians from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip to areas controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
“Welcome to Sudan, gentlemen and camp followers. Just like the Irish who got off the boat in America during their civil war, you have a choice: fight with us or die. Your uniforms are over there, the tents for your families are ranged beyond. There is also a school and playground for the children, courtesy of America — it does not have any flaming hoops or tunnels. Again, welcome in brotherly solidarity!”
The concerns come against the background of a plan by US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... to take over the coastal Paleostinian enclave, kick its people out and build it into a "Middle East Riviera".
They also come in the wake of media reports about United Arab Emirates-sponsored attempts by RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, to curry favour with Trump's administration by proposing to take in some of the people of Gaza in areas controlled by his militia in Sudan.
Such a plan angers Cairo, which has been lobbying hard to foil the US president's plan.
”How dare those upstarts connive with that horrible Trump person to enable that uppity Jewish state to win against pious Muslims! Don’t they know that we were already civilized when they still painted themselves blue and danced around with bones through their noses?!”
"Egypt staunchly opposes the displacement of the people of Gaza because it is keen on protecting the rights of the Paleostinians to their land," Egyptian political researcher Mohammed Rabie al-Dehi remarked to The New Arab.
They’re no good as a weapon against the Jooooos once they’re scattered and working on survival and improving their lot.
"Hemedti's proposal to take in Gaza refugees makes it necessary for all Arab states to act to rescue Paleostinian statehood dreams," he added.
LITTLE INFLUENCE OVER RSF
There has been no confirmation of the aforementioned reports from either the US or the UAE. The RSF commander Hemedti has not spoken openly about such a plan either.
Nonetheless, Abu Dhabi maintains close relations with the paramilitary Sudanese group which has been locked in a war with the Sudanese army since mid-April 2023, one that has so far destroyed most of Sudan, caused the displacement of millions of Sudanese citizens, both inside and outside Sudan, and opened the door for the emergence of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
Close relations between the UAE and the RSF have turned the Sudanese army and Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, the ruling body in Sudan, against Abu Dhabi, with the council accusing the Gulf state of offering arms and financial support to its rival militia.
The Sudanese government has also filed a lawsuit against the UAE at the International Court of Justice, accusing it of complicity with the RSF in perpetrating genocide in Sudan.
Egypt's problem with a scenario where the RSF proposes to take in Gaza refugees in areas it controls in Sudan derives from the little influence it has over the Sudanese militia.
The RSF shares control over Sudanese cities with the Sudanese army. In recent weeks, the paramilitary group intensified its military campaign against the army, having apparently received a fresh supply of arms from its regional benefactors, especially unmanned aerial vehicles.
Now, the RSF controls large swaths of eastern Sudan, along with areas in the western part of the African country where allied militias prevail.
The intensification of the RSF campaign also came hard on the heels of significant victories by the Sudanese army, especially in Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
Cairo has been a strong backer of the Sudanese army, a policy enshrined in Egypt's foreign policy doctrine which bans relations with non-state actors or militias.
This backing has caused relations between Cairo and the RSF to teeter on the edge of hostility, with the militia repeatedly accusing the Egyptian air force of striking its positions and killing its fighters.
"The RSF is a fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... militia that has suffered one defeat after another in the past period," Sudanese political analyst Amgad Farid told TNA.
"It works tooth and nail to prove its relevance by criticising and antagonising Egypt, a regional heavyweight whether it likes it or not," he added.
IDF reveals it used laser system to intercept dozens of Hezbollah drones last year
[IsraelTimes] During the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... last year, the Israeli Air Force intercepted dozens of drones launched by the terror group using a new laser interception system, the military and Defense Ministry revealed on Wednesday.
The new system used during the fighting is a lower-powered version of the Iron Beam laser interceptor, which is set to be delivered to the Israel Defense Forces later this year. Both systems are developed by Israeli defense firm Rafael.
The ministry said the development of the system was advanced in light of the Hezbollah drone threat in the north.
Hezbollah fired more than 300 explosive-laden drones at Israel amid the fighting, with many evading air defenses and causing damage and casualties.
"Throughout the current war, the IAF, including its Aerial Defense Array soldiers, studied and deployed the laser systems in the field, achieving outstanding interception rates that saved civilian lives and protected national assets," the IDF and Defense Ministry said.
The ministry released footage showing some of the successful interceptions.
A laser interception system shoots down drones over northern Israel, in an undated video published by the Defense Ministry on May 28, 2025. (Defense Ministry)
Also on Wednesday, the IDF said it was reorganizing its defenses on the Lebanese border, six months into the ceasefire that ended the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
The 146th Reserve Division, which was tasked with the western portion of the border with Lebanon since the beginning of the war, has been withdrawn, and instead, the 91st "Galilee" Regional Division is retaking responsibility for the entire frontier, from Rosh Hanikra up to, but not including, Mount Dov.
The actual number of forces on the Lebanese border, triple the amount of troops compared to before the war, will remain more or less the same even after the demobilization of the 146th Division, as the troops will be placed under the 91st Division instead.
The 91st Division is also forming a third regional brigade to be tasked with the central region of the border, in addition to the 300th "Baram" Brigade in the west and the 769th "Hiram" Brigade in the east.
Currently, the as-yet unnamed central regional brigade is being staffed by the division’s 8th Reserve Armored Brigade.
The division is also in the process of incorporating the newly revived 946th Air Defense Battalion, which operates anti-drone systems, including the new laser system.
During the ongoing ceasefire in Lebanon, the IDF has continued to strike Hezbollah operatives and sites it says violate the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.
On Wednesday, during a visit to Northern Command headquarters in Safed, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said Israel would continue to "weaken" Hezbollah.
"We will continue to act, remove threats and weaken Hezbollah to protect the northern communities and the State of Israel," Zamir said in remarks published by the IDF. "The Northern Command changed the security reality in the area and strengthened the security on the border."
Since the start of the ceasefire, the IDF says it has killed over 180 Hezbollah operatives, including 38 senior commanders and another 28 lower-ranking officers in the terror group.
An Israeli dronezap on Tuesday night in southern Lebanon’s Yater killed a commander in Hezbollah, the military announced Wednesday.
According to the IDF, the operative, named by local media as Nabil Balaghi, was the commander of Hezbollah’s forces in the Yater area. During the war, Balaghi "advanced attacks against IDF troops and Israel," the IDF said, adding that recently he attempted to restore Hezbollah’s capabilities in the Yater area, which "constitutes a blatant violation of the [ceasefire] deal."
The November 2024 ceasefire ended more than a year of fighting, including some two months of open war, between Israel and Hezbollah. The fighting began on October 8, 2023, when the Iran-backed terror group started attacking Israel daily with missiles and drones in support of Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... Israel was obligated to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon under the ceasefire. It pulled out from all but five strategic posts located several hundred meters inside Lebanon, which it says are necessary to defend Israeli communities.
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[REGNUM] The months-long saga of appointing the head of the Israeli General Security Service (Shabaq) is nearing its end. General David Zini, who foresaw the Hamas breakthrough six months ago, is tipped to replace counterintelligence chief Ronen Bar.
Despite the fact that Zini does not cause much anger among the opposition, they are trying with all their might to disrupt his imminent appointment. Or at least to delay it. Otherwise, the victory in the protracted struggle between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Shin Bet could be officially awarded to the former.
Guys, when even Russia calls you out on it, it’s time to give up the nonsense,
GENERAL-SEER
General Zini's career path is not much different from the stories of his colleagues in the craft. Behind him is service in the elite anti-terrorist unit "Sayeret Matkal", specialized infantry and armored units; leadership of reserve brigades and training units.
In addition, shortly before his invitation to the Shin Bet, Zini oversaw an army project to increase the military conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews - one of the most sensitive and controversial in the history of the Israeli army.
However, the average person will remember the future chief of counterintelligence not for his management and command skills, but for his foresight.
In March 2023, more than six months before Hamas broke out of the Gaza Strip, Zini prepared a report for the Gaza Division command on the results of the division's combat readiness.
The conclusion was negative - the soldiers serving near the danger zone relied too much on advanced technology and were hardly prepared to stop serious incidents. The threat of a breakthrough existed in almost all areas entrusted to the military.
Although the central command ignored Zini's report, considering that the "old commando" was exaggerating, subsequent events confirmed that he was right.
Moreover, Zini’s forecast served as one of the arguments for his transfer to the Shin Bet – the Israeli leadership needed a person who could take a fresh look at the “battlefield” of the Iranian and Israeli intelligence services, where Tel Aviv is currently primarily in the position of being attacked.
SUPPORT FOR THE "HAWKS"
Conservative and right-wing forces in the Israeli government were very happy about Zini's move to the Shin Bet. The "hawks" saw in him an "offensive officer" and a man who would "reboot" the agency and lead it out of crisis.
The ruling coalition's support for Zini's candidacy for the post of head of counterintelligence was unanimous.
Of course, the process was not without its incidents.
Prime Minister Netanyahu was so keen to keep the decision to appoint Zini a secret until the very end that he forgot to consult with Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, to whom the latter was directly subordinate.
And although the "tank general" ultimately accepted the prime minister's position, recommending that Zini retire to the reserves in a timely manner, the decision and behavior of his subordinate clearly hurt him. Especially since after the purges and reshuffles in the General Staff initiated by Netanyahu, there were not many trusted officers left around Zamir.
Moreover, the prime minister's desire to reach into the army's personnel reserve with every appointment, without taking into account the interests of the military, deepens the contradictions between the General Staff and the government, which plays even more into the hands of the opposition. Almost half of the Knesset dreams of luring Zamir to their side.
OPPOSITION AGAINST
It is worth recalling that Zini is not the first candidate for the high post. Before him, the laurels of Shin Bet chief were tipped for Vice Admiral Eliyahu Sharvit, whose appointment was agreed upon at the end of March and then just as quickly recalled by the prime minister without explanation.
And while the opposition, albeit reluctantly, approved Sharvit’s candidacy, Zini’s figure caused more controversy in the Knesset.
Not all Israeli politicians considered the choice of prime minister adequate, especially considering that the future Shin Bet chief's previous experience was exclusively in the army, without any contact with counterintelligence work.
The opposition rightly notes that the new head of the department will have no one to rely on: under pressure from the prime minister’s office, his key deputies are planning to resign following the disgraced Bar.
The leader of the "generals' opposition" Benny Gantz decided to go even further and actually suggested that Zini ask to resign even before he was officially confirmed in office. And thus make a public demarche with the aim of sobering up the prime minister.
Otherwise, Gantz believes, the Shin Bet will become mired in political squabbles, turning into a punitive instrument in the hands of the prime minister.
The opposition is echoed by the government's legal adviser, Gali Baharav-Miara. According to her expert opinion, the appointment cannot be considered legal, since it contains a clear conflict of interest.
By choosing the most loyal figure from among the security forces, Netanyahu may well try to collapse the case of corrupt ties between Israeli officials and Qatar (“Qatargate”), in which he himself is a suspect.
However, Netanyahu has already managed to overcome the “legal veto” more than once. Earlier, he returned Itamar Ben-Gvir to the post of Minister of National Security in a similar manner.
After his demonstrative exit from the ruling coalition, he came under the attention of the financial police and could not apply for a high post until the end of the investigation. Zini's appointment is apparently proceeding in the same way.
There are a little more than two weeks left until the official "changeover" of the Shin Bet chiefs. During this time, Bar will have to settle the bureaucratic formalities and also hand over the affairs to his successor.
And although Zini continues to appear in all official counterintelligence releases as a “candidate,” few doubt his assertion any more.
Everyone expects the new boss to make quick and precise decisions. At least in those matters that affect the image and position of the prime minister's office.
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[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and Chairman of the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Presidential Council Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi
…that’s the rump state in southern Yemen, headquartered in Aden. The Presidential Council succeeded the Southern Transitional Council as the government of what now calls itself the Republic of Yemen. It’s backed by Saudi Arabia…
began talks in Moscow. This was reported on May 28 by the Kremlin press service.
The Russian President and the Yemeni leader shook hands and exchanged greetings before the start of the talks.
Putin noted that the Russian side is very pleased with the visit of the Yemeni leader and thanked al-Alimi for finding the time for this.
"Before we begin our conversation, I would like to once again, this time personally, congratulate you on the national holiday — the 35th anniversary of Yemeni unity," the head of state said.
Putin clarified that Russia and Yemen are interacting on the international stage and thanked al-Alimi for this cooperation.
"Our diplomatic and foreign policy departments are in constant contact, which is good news," he added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the head of state's press secretary Dmitry Peskov spoke on May 25 about Putin's upcoming talks with al-Alimi in Moscow. Later, the Kremlin reported that the Russian president and the Yemeni leader would discuss bilateral relations, including trade.
On May 23, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met with Deputy Secretary General of Yemen's ruling General National Congress Party Faiqu Baalwi. The parties discussed steps to resolve the military-political crisis in the republic and exchanged views on current issues on the regional agenda.
Al-Alimi came to power in April 2022 in the territories of Yemen not controlled by the Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s, the Shiite movement Ansar Allah. The Presidential Leadership Council, formed in the territories controlled by the internationally recognized authorities, included leading politicians from North and South Yemen.
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[Regnum] Seismologists recorded an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 off the west coast of Mexico. This was reported on May 28 by the US Geological Survey ( USGS ).
The tremors were registered at 01:30 UTC (04:00 Moscow time). The epicenter of the seismic event was located at a depth of ten kilometers and 367 km southwest of the city of Cabo San Lucas, where more than 68 thousand people live.
There were no reports of possible casualties or damage to infrastructure.
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MORE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY: Earth's magnetic field is still reverberating from the impact of a CIR, which produced a strong geomagnetic storm during the early hours of May 29th. The storm is subsiding now, but it might not be over. NOAA forecasters say that minor (G1) to moderate (G2) storms are possible in the hours ahead.
STRONG GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A co-rotating interaction region (CIR) hit Earth on May 29th, sparking a strong G3-class geomagnetic storm with auroras in both hemispheres.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The units of the "Vostok" group liberated the settlement of Zelenoye Pole
During the offensive actions of the 394th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 5th Army of the "Vostok" group, the settlement of Zelenoye Pole was liberated.
Control was established over a fortified defense area more than 3 km deep and up to two km along the front.
The Far Easterners are consolidating their positions.
As a result of fierce battles, up to 460 buildings were cleared, up to a company of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed.
It was the soldiers of the 394th Motorized Rifle Regiment who paved the way for further advancement. The Far Eastern "Express" picked up speed and is approaching the Dnipropetrovsk region at full speed.
The "Vostok" group continues its offensive, breaking through the enemy's defenses, demoralizing them and leaving the Nazis no chance!
We continue to monitor the successes.
In fact, after the liberation of Zelenoye Pole, the road opens for advancement to the Zaporizhzhya and Dnipropetrovsk regions in another area. The enemy's defense in Novopol should soon fall. The Far Easterners are really going well.
But the main intermediate target in the South Donetsk direction is Komar. It is still about 1.5 kilometers away, while our troops are bypassing Fedorovka. The fall of Komar will complete the liberation of the southwest of the DPR.
“As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the Vostok military group, the settlement of Zelenoye Pole in the Donetsk People’s Republic has been liberated,” the department’s Telegram channel says.
Konstantinovka was taken under control by fighters from the Russian military group "North".
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 27, the Russian military group "South" liberated the village of Staraya Nikolaevka in the DPR. The Russian Defense Ministry also reported a series of massive strikes on military facilities in Ukraine over the past week in response to provocations by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On May 28, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said that Russian troops were successfully advancing along virtually all sections of the front during the special operation in Ukraine. On May 26, DPR head Denis Pushilin reported that the Russian Armed Forces had advanced along the entire line of combat contact in a week, liberating several populated areas. The loss of some of them was critical for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in military terms.
“The capture of Konstantinovka in the Sumy region made it possible to clear a section of the administrative border of the Russian Federation and create a small buffer zone,” TASS quoted him as saying.
The expert added that Russian troops are currently advancing northwest of this settlement and driving the enemy away from the administrative border of the Russian Federation.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on May 28, the military of the Russian military group "North" liberated Konstantinovka in the Sumy region. Also, units of the military group "East" liberated the village of Zelenoe Pole in the Donetsk People's Republic. The day before, the Russian Armed Forces liberated the village of Staraya Nikolaevka in the DPR.
Earlier that day, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov reported that the Russian army was successfully advancing on almost all sections of the front in the SVO zone. Before that, on May 26, DPR head Denis Pushilin reported that Russian troops had advanced along the entire front line and liberated several settlements, the loss of some of which was critical for the enemy in military terms.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
This is a series of videos from the GoPro camera of a Russian soldier taken at a Ukrainian naval infantry position. Not sure where.
Broadly, Russian state media routinely mentions naval infantry units in their official dispatches, but fails to tell where.
There are three Ukrainian naval infantry brigades extant and in the Ukrainian forward zone: 36th Naval Infantry Brigade, 37th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 38th Naval Infantry Brigade.
The Ukrainian soldier left alive and seen hunkering down in the slit trenches appears to be a filler only.
[ColonelCassad] First-person assault action.
Footage from a GoPro camera of a Russian assault trooper during the clearing of an enemy stronghold.
Hamxs opened fire on a crowd in Gaza City as thousands gathered near a warehouse for flour, killing at least five Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/sC3yIVeKxM
According to reports, the warehouse is situated along Salah al-Din Road, which runs through the Strip, in the Al-Maghazi area of central Gaza.
One Telegram channel critical of Hamas claims that the warehouses belong to the terror group, but this has not been independently confirmed.
Both the Hamas-run local government in Gaza and UNRWA later put out a statement claiming that the warehouse belonged to the UN’s World Food Program, and not Hamas.
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"Look what you made me do"
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Footage from Gaza shows hundreds of people breaking into warehouse, stealing flour
Ah, I think the food was sent to them, not Hamas - or, at least, that's what UN said.
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When Hamas starts killing people, of its own faith, over food. They violated the teaching of their own book of faith, and are not true Muslims. Just dogs.
"Murder in Islam: One of the greatest major sins. Murder (killing a person deliberately), if the victim is a believer, is one of the greatest of major sins. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning): "And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein"
[NYPOST] Venus is concealing at least three city-killer asteroids that could strike Earth in weeks without warning, potentially wreaking havoc upon our planet before we can react.
"Twenty co-orbital asteroids [space rocks in the orbit of two celestial bodies] of Venus are currently known," the authors warned in the arockcalyptic study, which was published in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics."
The international research team, led by Valerio Carruba of São Paulo University in Brazil, wrote that at least three of the asteroids — 2020 SB, 524522 and 2020 CL1 — that circle the sun in tandem with our twin planet have unstable orbits that take them dangerously close to Earth, the Daily Mail reported.
If this shaky trajectory is shifted only slightly by a small gravitational change or other force, the asteroids could be set on a collision course with our planet, per the study.
''Co-orbital status protects these asteroids from close approaches to Venus, but it does not protect them from encountering Earth,'' the researchers warned, according to the Daily Galaxy.
Carruba & Co. came to this conclusion by using imitation space rocks to simulate a range of possible outcomes over 36,000 years.
Carruba & Co. came to this conclusion by using imitation space rocks to simulate a range of possible outcomes over 36,000 years, finding that there is a sizable population of low-eccentricity asteroids — those previously thought to be harmless — that could be propelled toward Earth via gravitational shifts and other factors.
To make matters worse, the aforementioned cosmic rocks' orbits make them almost invisible to Earthly detection devices.
While scientists at NASA and other space agencies routinely track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, the telescopes can't spot rocks in a suborbital path with Venus due to the sun's glare, which shields them like a cosmic cloaking device, WION reported.
Due to this interstellar blind spot, the Rubin Observatory in Chile would have only two to four weeks to spot deadly asteroids, leaving us little time if they were on a collision course.
For reference, a mission to engineer something that could deflect a killer space rock generally takes years to formulate.
''Low-e [low eccentricity] Venus co-orbitals pose a unique challenge, because of the difficulties in detecting and following these objects from Earth,'' the authors wrote in their conclusion.
It would be bad news if one of these intergalactic gravelstones hit home.
Asteroids 2020 SB, 524522 and 2020 CL1 measure between 330 and 1,300 feet in diameter, making each one capable of destroying entire cities and causing massive fires and tsunamis, the Daily Mail reported.
An impact would leave a crater over two miles wide and generate 1 million times more energy than the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.
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I'd rather not know. Just hit me with your best shot. But after LA, SF, and NYC, please.
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Ugh... so tired of the inflammatory Campi Flegrei stories. Yes, it may erupt again. Yes it matches the data so far for the 1608 eruption which was small. It isn't going to destroy the world. Or even Naples.
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#5, 7, 8 -- adding thousands of tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. How do the climate changers say we should compensate? What do their models reveal? Calling Dr. Mann, Dr. Michael Mann? /sarc
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Yeah, pretty much at any time since the beginning of time.
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[GEO.TV] Sharjah authorities raided a residential property operating as a fake Zamzam water factory, arresting the individual behind the illicit operation. The accused was caught bottling ordinary water and fraudulently marketing it as the sacred Zamzam water.
According to officials, the accused was filling ordinary water into attractive bottles and labeling them as Zamzam water, misleading consumers with false claims about its authenticity.
During the operation, authorities seized bottles with Zamzam labels, cartons, and other evidence of fraudulent activity. Investigations revealed that the individual was also using the name of a licensed water trading company to carry out financial fraud.
Following the operation, the company's license was revoked, and the case was referred to Sharjah Police for further legal action.
Authorities have called on the public to remain vigilant and avoid purchasing unlicenced products, particularly those promoted on social media. Residents are urged to report suspicious activities by contacting the municipality's call center at 993.
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Breaking: Violent Trantifa members attacked a detransitioned gay man (in the glasses and grey suit) who was attempting to go to the Christian worship event at City Hall in Seattle. Video by @camhigby: pic.twitter.com/ItwL6vX2cw
[France24] Speaking at African Lion, the largest joint training exercise on the continent.
General Michael Langley urged African nations to take the lead in their own security, calling for greater self-reliance in the face of growing threats.
The shift comes as Islamist insurgencies gain ground while Russia and China intensify their push for influence across the region.
Let's talk more on this and speak to Paul Melly who's a consulting fellow for the Africa Programme at Chatham House.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] UN trucks delivering food to 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... were stopped and looted overnight, Gaza residents and merchants said on Wednesday, hours after desperate Paleostinians overran a distribution site run by a US-backed group trying to start delivering aid.
The incidents underscore the problems getting supplies to hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians facing worsening hunger and starvation after a weeks-long Israeli blockade.
On Tuesday, Israeli troops fired warning shots as crowds rushed to a distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed group that began supplying aid under a new system which Israel hopes will prevent aid reaching Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and other international aid groups have refused to take part, saying the scheme violates the principle that aid should be distributed neutrally, based only on need.
As the new system began, the Israeli military also allowed 95 trucks belonging to the UN and other aid groups into the enclave, but three Gaza residents and three merchants said a number of trucks were targeted by looters.
One Paleostinian transport operator said at least 20 trucks belonging to the UN World Food Programme were attacked shortly before midnight.
''Some trucks made it through, then it seems that people became aware of that,'' one witness told Rooters via a chat app, declining to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
''They woke up, some placed barriers on the road intercepted and stole the goods.''
Israeli forces, which resumed their operation in Gaza in March following a brief truce, continued strikes on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people including eight members of the family of a local journalist, Paleostinian health officials said.
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…enormous amount of power. I can't stress to you how much power he had at the White House."
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Mr. Bernal has been described as the second Mrs. Biden’s top adviser and “work husband,” despite being accused of sexual harassment. Well done, Project Veritas!
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And there are now claims that Elizabeth Warren was giving the autopen orders. Man this gets better every day...I just hope something gets done about it.
[Breitbart] 60 Minutes’ chief pompous ass Scott Pelley, and CBS Mornings host Gayle King (who identifies as an astronaut), are reportedly on the CBS News chopping block, per a Daily Mail exclusive. That'd certainly warm the cockles of my cold, black heart.
I'm filing this under Opinion because Nolte calls Scott Pelley a pompous ass. Although I agree with that opinion, it is opinion and should be labeled as such just like the — tee hee —. Then there's the word schlonging, which is certainly inappropriate for a straight news article even though I think it is appropriate treatment of these so-called journalists.
According to the report, far-left CBS News is in crisis — tee hee — "with staffers crying in the hallways, fighting over story coverage and seating, and scrambling to update their resumes amid fears of mass layoffs."
According to the insiders who spoke with the Daily Mail, "morale has plummeted across the network, from the flagship Sunday news show 60 Minutes to CBS Mornings," all of it due to two things: 1) CBS parent company Paramount Global’s impending merger with Skydance Media and President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News for interfering in the 2020 presidential election.
Currently, the Trump suit is in arbitration and all indications are that Skydance does not want to inherit that mess, so it needs to be resolved before the merger is official.
Then there’s the reported $500 million Paramount is looking to cut "in preparation for the lucrative merger with Skydance Media against the backdrop of a ratings freefall" and the ongoing, high-level personnel shake ups.
Fallout from the merger and the Trump suit has already hit hard. No less than Wendy McMahon, the president of CBS News, and Bill Owens, the executive editor of the disgraced 60 Minutes, have already resigned.
So...
Where to cut? Where to cut?
Well, according to the report, Gayle King has become $10 million in damaged goods. Not only is she hosting the forever-in-last-place CBS Mornings, her grotesquely elitist Space Origin flight, combined with her claims that those few minutes in space mean she’s now an astronaut, have scalded her reputation.
"People don’t want to say it out loud in the office but the entire space debacle really hurt us," one 60 Minutes staffer told the Daily Mail. "Gayle being part of that is not a good look for our brand. I think a lot of people resent Gayle for that. I know I do."
King’s $10 million per-year contract is up in September.
"Multiple sources told the Daily Mail that 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley could also be on the way out."
Pelley, of course, is infamous for his self-regard, unbridled bias, and dishonesty.
"We’re in the middle of a bloodbath," a 60 Minutes staffer told the Daily Mail. "The axe is falling, people are leaving, no one knows what to do next. We’re all updating our resumes because it really feels like this is a sinking ship."
Some call it a long overdue reckoning for a corrupt regime media that, at long last, has lost its influence over public opinion.
I prefer to call it The Schlonging:
Ruth Marcus — Washington Post columnist resigns.
538 — Disney/ABC’s wildly biased polling site shutters.
Paul Krugman — Always wrong New York Times columnist forced out.
Jim Acosta — CNN anchor forced out.
Norah O’Donnell — Failed CBS anchor out.
Chuck Todd — NBC’s former Meet the Press host DEI’d out.
Andrea Mitchell — NBC harridan ages out of job.
Chris Wallace — Son of Someone out at CNN.
Joy Reid — Racist MSNBC anchor too racist for MSNBC. Fired.
Neil Cavuto — Fox News anchor scurries away.
Alex Wagner — Demoted at MSNBC.
Mohyeldin — Lost MSNBC show. Apparently he is Ayman Mohyeldin, the Cairo-born Egyptian (dad)-Palestinian (mom) former Al Jazeera reporter who was one of the first Western reporters allowed in Iraq after Saddam Hussein was captured. He also covered the 2008-9 Gaza war and the Arab Spring, and claims it was in his interview that Moammar Ghadaffy announced he was giving up Libya’s WMD program. His Master’s thesis was titled, “The News Media Paradigm in the War on Terrorism,” which sounds awfully grand.
Olivia Nuzzi — Out at New York Mag for allegedly stalking RFK Jr.
Katie Phang — Lost MSNBC show.
Jonathan Capehart — Lost MSNBC show. Steps down from Washington Post editorial board.
Lester Holt — Out as NBC Nightly News anchor.
One-third of New York Times Editorial Board — Say, bye.
Eugene Robinson — Washington Post columnist quits in snit.
Ryan Lizza — Scurries to Substack over credible misconduct allegations.
Bill Owens — 60 Minutes chief resigns in crybaby disgrace.
Wendy McMahon — CBS News president resigns after less than two years.
Trump’s triumphant reelection proved the corporate media are nothing more than an elite salon where everyone talks to each other because Normal People have stopped listening to their lies and hoaxes. The corporate media are over, and the fallout has just begun.
[NEWARAB] Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Tuesday urged Syrians to join the "battle for reconstruction" as he spoke at an event in the northern city of Aleppo, which has been heavily damaged in regime bombing during the war.
The event, titled "Aleppo, the Key to Victory", was held at the Aleppo Citadel's amphitheatre to mark the "victory of the Syrian revolution" and the city's liberation from Assad regime control.
Aleppo was the first city to fall in a rebel offensive in November and December, which eventually led to the collapse of the former regime and flight into exile of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... "Oh, great Syrian people, the battle of reconstruction has just begun. Let us all join hands and seek God's help to create a bright future for a venerable country and a deserving people," al-Sharaa said.
"Our war with the tyrants has ended and our battle against poverty has begun."
The interim president paid tribute to the sacrifices of the people of Aleppo, which fell to rebel forces for the first time in December 2024 - shortly before the Assad regime's collapse.
Parts of Aleppo, particularly a former rebel stronghold in the city's east, were destroyed in regime offensives and years of regime bombing.
Abeer Fares, an official in the Public Relations Office of the Political Affairs Department, told The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site, al-Araby al-Jadeed, that the event was not only a celebration of Aleppo's liberation but also a way of raising support for the families of those killed in the uprising from the city.
The event was also attended by figures who took part in the Syrian revolution and have now joined the state's security apparatus. Among them was Mohammed Fawaz Qalb, a fighter from Hayaat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... 's (HTS) elite Red Headbands Brigade which participated in Aleppo's liberation.
[GEO.TV] Russia has asked for fresh peace talks with Ukraine to be held in Istanbul next Monday. But Ukraine has said that it wants to see Russia's peace plan in writing before agreeing to meet.
Kyiv insists that future talks must be serious and lead to real progress, not just more delays.
The call for talks comes as the war enters its third year with no sign of a ceasefire.
Diplomatic efforts to end the three-year conflict have picked up speed in recent months, but Moscow has repeatedly rejected calls for an unconditional ceasefire and has shown no signs of backing down from its maximalist demands.
The two sides last met in Istanbul on May 16 — their first direct talks in over three years — but that meeting failed to bring any breakthrough.
US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... , who has been pushing for a peace deal, has become increasingly frustrated with Moscow's apparent stalling and warned on Wednesday he would decide within ''about two weeks'' whether Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... was serious about ending the fighting.
Ukraine said it had already submitted its peace terms to Russia and insisted that Moscow must do the same.
''We are not opposed to further meetings with the Russians and are awaiting their memorandum,'' said Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov, who represented Kyiv at the last talks, in a post on X.
''The Russian side has at least four more days before their departure to provide us with their document for review. Diplomacy must be substantive, and the next meeting must yield results.''
More from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
2. The fighting will not cease during the negotiations.
3. The Ukrainian delegation is negotiating under the current ban on negotiations with Russia.
4. Russia is officially raising the question of the legitimacy of the current regime in Ukraine.
5. Russia also reaffirmed today that all stated goals of the Joint Military Council must be achieved, including the denazification and neutralization of Ukraine.
Related from Boris Rozhin: Recruitment for war
Medvedev reported that from the beginning of January 2025 to the end of May, about 175,000 people signed up for a contract in the Russian Armed Forces. Plus another 14,000 signed up for volunteer formations. In total, the increase over 5 months was almost 190,000 people.
The opponent of the statement is that on average he manages to mobilize about 25,000 people a month. That is, 125,000 in 5 months.
The lack of volunteers increases the disproportion, and relying only on the busified gradually leads to a decrease in the stability of some brigades, even in defense. So the balance is slowly changing in favor of the Russian Federation, even without full mobilization. Which affects certain areas, where the enemy clearly lacks troop density even in the context of relying on drones.
But at the same time, the current grouping of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine is still insufficient to achieve all the military goals of the SVO. But the decision not to mobilize is a political decision, so we will only know the answer to how justified the refusal of a large mobilization was after the war. In this case, Russia is waging a limited war, while the enemy is waging a total war.
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[GEO.TV] Pak automakers comply with only 18 of 200 global safety standards, ignoring 182 entirely, despite vehicle prices being above international levels, officials in a meeting of the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Industry and Production revealed.
The committee members expressed serious concerns over the production of unsafe vehicles and demanded immediate and strict action against companies that ignore global safety standards, The News reported.
Chairman of the committee, Syed Hafeezuddin, said that major traffic accidents are taking place in Pakistain and it is the responsibility of vehicle manufacturing companies to implement safety standards in vehicles.
''Due to the decline in safety standards and quality in vehicles, we are not even able to export vehicles, while in our neighborhood, India and China have become major exporters of vehicles,'' he added.
The Secretary of Industries and Production informed the committee that the facility of two airbags in cars continues to be provided. The chairman of the committee said that the three foreign companies are not complying with rules.
Committee member Muhammad Ali Sarfaraz said that instead of giving more time to the companies that have installed plants in Pakistain for thirty to forty years and are still not following safety standards, action should be taken against them.
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"Do you want to live forever? Be a martyr for Zam-Zam Autos!"
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In a country where following traffic laws is "driver optional"?
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But they really need these car manufacturers so they can train our taxi drivers.
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Liked the nice green and white window stickers, possibly authentic, in Raazi. "CRUSH INDIA" in huge type visible from a block away. Underneath, in little bitty letters: "Pakistan Zindabad"
[NEWARAB] Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... 's municipal elections, which concluded on 24 May, were considered by observers as an important test for Hezbollah's popularity following the recent war with Israel.
The devastation caused by the conflict, which spanned from October 2023 until the ceasefire agreement in late November 2024, as well as the delayed reconstruction process, are factors that have impacted the group's popularity.
Moreover, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024 and the Lebanese government's heightened scrutiny at the Lebanese-Syrian border have also affected the group financially, as Hezbollah had been receiving funds and weapons from 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... through Syria for years.
Considering these elements, Hezbollah had invested a lot of importance in local elections to show domestic players in Lebanon, as well as foreign countries, that it still dominates its popular base despite the challenges it faces.
Before this month's vote, the last municipal elections were held in 2016, having been postponed three consecutive times since 2022 due to logistical, security, or financial reasons.
Although municipal elections are not widely seen as an accurate reflection of popular sentiment due to low voter turnout and the distinct nature of local political dynamics, at least compared to the national level, they still give some indication of the influence of political parties on local populations.
Uncontested councils
Hezbollah and the Amal Movement managed to win a large number of municipalities in Bekaa and Southern Lebanon through convincing people and potential contestants not to participate in the elections or to withdraw their candidacies, meaning the council was uncontested.
In the villages where the elections took place - rather than decided by acclamation - the Hezbollah-Amal lists won a majority of seats in Shia villages, albeit with exceptions in some Southern Lebanon municipalities.
While the acclamation strategy was initially presented as a way to limit risks to voters amid the tense security situation in Southern Lebanon, both parties may have sought to demonstrate that they are uncontested in their areas of control.
Despite the ceasefire agreement, Israel continues to bombard Southern Lebanon almost daily and still occupies five areas within Lebanese territories.
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[NEWARAB] Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on 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... have killed dozens of people on Wednesday morning, as the Israeli army presses its offensive in the enclave, while a newly created aid distribution system is slammed by humanitarian groups.
Bombing across the enclave has killed at least 23 people, according to Paleostinian news agency Wafa, with nine people killed and 15 maimed in a strike on Gaza City.
Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... a new aid distribution system in the enclave has faced further criticism following chaotic scenes on Tuesday of Paleostinians clamoring for life-saving aid.
The UN has said that 47 Paleostinians were maimed, including gunshot wounds, while attempting to receive food aid at distribution sites on Tuesday, as famine threatens Gaza.
Phillipo Lazzarini, the chief of the UN's agency for Paleostine Refugees (UNRWA), said that the new mechanism for aid distribution "is a waste of resources and a distraction from atrocities".
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says dozens of targets were struck by the Israeli Air Force across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours.
Among the targets was a rocket launcher used to fire projectiles at the Kissufim area and troops operating in Gaza on Monday, the military says.
The IDF says the targets also included terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, anti-tank launch posts, weapon depots, and other infrastructure.
Troops of the 98th Division, meanwhile, killed several operatives planning to carry out a sniper and anti-tank missile attack on the forces in southern Gaza, the IDF adds.
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[NEWARAB] A Swedish man was indicted Tuesday in connection with the killing by 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.... group of a Jordanian pilot whose plane went down in Syria on Christmas Eve 2014, prosecutors said.
The 26-year-old Jordanian, 1st Lt. Mu'ath al-Kaseasbeh, was taken captive after his F-16 fighter jet crashed near the holy warriors' de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria. He was forced into a cage that was set on fire, killing him on camera in early 2015.
The suspect was identified by Swedish prosecutors as Osama Krayem, 32, who is alleged to have travelled to Syria in September 2014 to fight for IS.
The airman became the first known foreign military pilot to fall into the krazed killers' hands after the U.S.-led international coalition began its aerial campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq in 2014. Jordan, a close U.S. ally, was a member of the coalition, and the pilot's killing appeared aimed at pressuring the government of Jordan to leave the alliance.
Krayem is set to go on trial on June 4 in Stockholm. He was previously convicted in La Belle France and Brussels for fatal Islamic State attacks in those countries.
Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Swedish jihadist over the 2014 capture and subsequent killing of a Jordanian pilot, Moaz al-Kasasbeh, who was burned to death in a cage in Syria by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Osama Krayem, 32, was charged with “participating in the brutal execution of a pilot” near the city of Raqqa, prosecutor Reena Devgun told a press conference.
Krayem, who is already serving a 30-year sentence for involvement in the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, was charged with “serious war crimes and terrorist crimes.”
According to prosecutors, who had announced they intended to charge Krayem last week, an aircraft belonging to the Royal Jordanian Air Force crashed in Syria on December 24, 2014. The pilot was captured by IS fighters the same day near the central city of Raqqa, and killed sometime before February 3, 2015. The execution was filmed and a 22-minute video accompanied by a specially composed religious chant was published.
In the video, the victim is seen walking past several masked IS fighters, including Krayem, according to prosecutors. The pilot is then locked in a cage that is set on fire, leading to his death, Henrik Olin, the other prosecutor in charge of the case, told reporters.
“This bestial murder, in which a prisoner was burned alive in a cage, was staged in a carefully produced video that was broadcast around the world. Its publication marked an unprecedented escalation in the Islamic State group’s violent propaganda,” Olin said.
Prosecutors have been unable to determine the exact day of the murder, but the investigation has identified the location where it took place.
‘OBLIGATION’ TO PROSECUTE
The defendant’s lawyer, Petra Eklund, told AFP that her client admitted to being present at the scene but disputed the prosecution’s version.
“He denies the acts for which he is prosecuted,” she said.
“He acknowledges having been present at that place during the event but claims not to have acted in the manner described by the prosecutors in the account of the facts.”
Krayem, who is from Malmo in southern Sweden, joined the IS group in Syria in 2014 before returning to Europe. In June 2022, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison in France for helping plan the November 2015 Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed. The following year, he was given a life sentence in Belgium for participating in the bombings on March 22, 2016, at Brussels’ main airport and on the metro system, which killed 32 people.
“Even though this is a person that’s already sentenced and is serving very long prison sentences in other countries, we will still charge him and we have an international obligation to do so,” Devgun told AFP.
Krayem has been “temporarily handed over to Sweden to participate in the trial,” which is scheduled to begin June 4, according to the Swedish Prosecution Authority.
“It is painful for my parents to be confronted with this event again, but we are grateful that the Swedish authorities want to give us justice,” Jawdat al-Kasasbeh, the pilot’s brother, told broadcaster Sveriges Radio.
[NEWARAB] Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that fighter jets had carried out strikes on Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... "terror targets" at the airport in the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i capital of Sanaa, a day after the group fired two projectiles at Israel.
"Air Force jets have just struck terror targets of the Houthi terrorist organization at the airport in Sanaa and destroyed the last aircraft remaining," Katz said in a statement.
"This is a clear message and a continuation of our policy: whoever fires at the State of Israel will pay a heavy price," he added.
Houthi media shortly after reported that Israel had struck the airport.
The strikes comes a day after the Israeli military said that it had intercepted a missile and another projectile fired from Yemen by the Iran-backed group.
The Houthis, who control large swathes of Yemen, later confirmed that they had launched two "ballistic missiles" towards Israel.
The Houthis have repeatedly fired missiles and drones targeting Israel since 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... war broke out in October 2023 following Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... 's attack on Israel.
Over 54,000 Paleostinians have been killed in Israel's onslaught on the enclave,
…possibly this number is true, though Hamas certainly can’t be bothered to do the work when imaginary horrors work well enough for propaganda purposes. The IDF claims to have killed some 25,000-30,000 jihadis between Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the minor terror groups. At any rate, various studies in recent years have demonstrated that while the normal ratio of civilian to military deaths in urban warfare is 9:1, in Gaza the IDF has held it to 2:1 — not that the haters are interested in that kind of reality check...
which is increasingly being slammed internationally over military plans to occupy the costal enclave. Israel is increasingly being accused of ethnically cleansing, and committing genocide in Gaza.
The Yemeni rebels, who say they are acting in solidarity with Paleostinians, paused their attacks during a two-month Gaza ceasefire that ended in March, but resumed them after Israel restarted its military campaign in the territory.
While most of the projectiles have been intercepted, one missile fired by the group in early May hit the perimeter of Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv for the first time, sparking wide cancellations of international flights to Israel.
Israel has carried out several strikes in Yemen in recent months in retaliation for the attacks, including on ports and the airport in Sanaa.
The Israeli military said the strikes on Wednesday had destroyed aircraft belonging to the group.
"Similarly to the Hodeida and Salif ports that were struck last week, the main airport of Sanaa is continuously operated by the Houthi regime and is used by them for terror purposes," the army said.
Israeli fighter jets bombed the Houthi-controlled Sanaa International Airport in Yemen on Wednesday, in response to the Iran-backed group’s near-daily ballistic missile attacks on Israel.
Since the Israel Defense Force’s last strike on Yemen, on May 16, the Houthis launched at least seven missiles and several drones at Israel, the latest of them on Tuesday morning.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets, refuelers, and spy planes participated in Wednesday’s operation.
In a statement, the IDF said the strikes hit the airport and an aircraft used by the Houthis “to transport terrorists who advanced terror attacks on Israel.”
Defense Minister Israel Katz said the aircraft was the last remaining plane in use by the Houthis. The other planes were destroyed in an Israeli strike on the airport on May 6, also in response to frequent Houthi attacks.
The strike earlier this month destroyed the airport’s terminal and six planes, and left craters on its runway, according to Yemeni authorities. The airfield reopened for a flight 11 days later.
”Air traffic control? Who needs air traffic control when we have Allah in his heaven willing the airplanes up and down as he wills?”
Also this month, the IAF struck the Houthi-controlled Hodeida and Salif ports in Yemen in response to the Iran-backed group’s repeated attacks on Israel.
“Similar to the ports of Hodeida and Salif that were struck last week, the main airport in Sanaa is routinely operated by the Houthi regime and serves its terror purposes. This is another example of the cruel use made by the Houthi terror organization of civilian infrastructure for terror activities,” the IDF said Wednesday.
Katz said, “The ports in Yemen will continue to be struck heavily, and the airport in Sanaa will be destroyed again and again, as will other strategic infrastructures in the area used by the Houthi terror organization and its supporters,” Katz continued.
“The Houthi terror organization will be under naval and aerial blockade, as we pledged and warned. Anyone who harms us will be harmed sevenfold,” he said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, similarly said, “We operate by a simple principle: Anyone who harms us — we will harm them.”
“The Houthis are just a symptom. The main power behind them is Iran, which is responsible for the aggression emanating from Yemen,” he said.
IRGC personnel decamped for safer environs weeks ago, leaving the Houthis completely defenseless against such IDF body punches But after the IAF destroyed Iran’s anti-aircraft defenses last year, is Iran any safer from IDF attack?
Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched 41 ballistic missiles and at least 10 drones at Israel. Several of the missiles have fallen short.
…fallen in the sea, fallen on Saudi Arabia — wherever they went down, it was beyond the ken of Man.
Anomalous Sources responded to Breitbart’s report on the subject:
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) responded to days of missile attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on Wednesday, targeting the Sanaa airport and destroying the Houthis’ last serviceable airplane. No doubt in answer to yesterdays post.
Note: I would have preferred the headline "Israel Destroys Remaining Half of Houthi Airplanes", but a win is a win.
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Good Wednesday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio just announced: Visa Restriction Policy Targeting Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans:
"Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected… pic.twitter.com/DAx47GaqTe
…responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States. It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on U.S. citizens or U.S. residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on U.S. soil. It is similarly unacceptable for foreign officials to demand that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or engage in censorship activity that reaches beyond their authority and into the United States. We will not tolerate encroachments upon American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech."
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Last I checked - State is halting ALL Student Visas and is a launching a department to vet visa applicants social media posts. And it is about damn time.
[IsraelTimes] As Riyadh eyes advanced weaponry, Washington’s commitment to Israel’s defense supremacy means coveted F-35 fighter jets likely won’t be part of $142 billion in potential sales
A landmark $142 billion arms deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... has the potential to reshape the way the Middle East looks from a defense perspective, significantly boosting Riyadh’s military might. But despite its high profile and even higher price tag, the arrangement will likely be limited by a longstanding US defense doctrine safeguarding Israel’s regional defense superiority, experts say.
While details about the deal remain scant, speculation surrounding what it may include has been colored by Saudi Arabian requests to purchase state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jets. But any such sale, analysts point out, would run afoul of a US commitment to Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge, or QME, which has long curtailed the transfer of certain advanced weaponry to the region.
The White House unveiled the deal, described as "the largest defense sales agreement in history," on May 13. According to a White House fact sheet, the US will supply Saudi Arabia with "state-of-the-art war-fighting equipment and services" from more than a dozen American defense contractors.
The Trump administration has not detailed what the agreement entails, beyond sketching out five key areas it says the deal covers: advancing air force and space capabilities; strengthening air and missile defense systems; bolstering maritime and coastal security; modernizing border protection and ground forces; and upgrading information and communications technology.
Two anonymous sources briefed on the matter told Rooters earlier this month that the US and Saudi Arabia have discussed Riyadh’s potential purchase of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter. But it’s unclear how serious any discussions are or if they are progressing to more advanced stages.
The Saudis have long had their eye on the F-35, hoping to become the second country in the Middle East, after Israel, to acquire the world’s most advanced aircraft.
In 2017, Saudi Arabia signaled interest in purchasing the F-35 fighter jet following what was described as a $110 billion arms agreement with the US earlier that same year.
That arms agreement took the form of commitments rather than actual defense deals, and it’s unclear if the Saudis purchased more than a fraction of that promised $110 billion. What is clear is that while Riyadh got its hands on plenty of munitions, it was ultimately unable to purchase any F-35 fighter jets.
JET-SETTERS
Despite repeated interest from regional powers, the US has consistently blocked the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries in order to preserve Israel’s QME.
"The US is committed to Israel’s QME and has taken this into account in its arms sales to the region," Zain Hussain, a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s arms transfers program, told The Times of Israel. "Exporting F-35s to other states in the region would present a significant shift in that policy."
Israel today is the only country in the Middle East with F-35 fighter jets in its arsenal, currently operating 45 of the advanced aircraft with additional units on order.
"The export of the F-35 to another state in the region would potentially mean that state acquiring stealth, data fusion, and deep-strike capabilities widely considered superior to other aircraft currently operated in the region," Hussain said.
At the same time, he emphasized that Israel still holds a significant operational advantage: "Israel remains the most experienced operator of the F-35 in the region and has been allowed to modify the aircraft to meet its specific needs."
Indeed, Israel has uniquely customized its fleet of F-35s, rebranding the stealth fighter jet as the "Adir," Hebrew for "mighty." Through close cooperation with Lockheed Martin, Israeli defense firms have integrated proprietary technologies into the aircraft — including advanced electronic warfare systems, enhanced command and control capabilities and locally developed weapons systems.
Washington’s commitment to ensuring Israel maintains a qualitative edge in military capability dates back to Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency. In 2008, it was formally codified into a law requiring that Jerusalem’s position be considered before any weapons sales to the region.
The doctrine is rooted in Israel’s position as a democratic ally surrounded by often-hostile neighbors. Given its geographic and demographic disadvantages, Israel cannot rely on quantity in warfare and instead depends on technological and tactical superiority.
Over the decades, US arms sales to Arab states have repeatedly put Israel’s QME to the test. At times, they have only gone through thanks to US assurances or complementary arms sales to Israel.
In 1981, Jerusalem strongly objected to Washington’s decision to sell AWACS surveillance planes and advanced F-15 enhancement packages to Saudi Arabia, fearing it would erode Israel’s technological superiority. Despite fierce opposition, Congress narrowly approved the deal, with then-president Ronald Reagan offering Israel a set of reassurances, including an additional $600 million in military aid and 15 new F-15s.
More recently, the Trump administration in 2020 agreed to sell 50 F-35s to the UAE following Abu Dhabi’s agreement to normalize relations with Israel, though officials denied any linkage between the two.
The potential F-35 sales raised red flags in Israel, but Jerusalem eventually said it would not oppose the deal, after the US agreed to sign a formal agreement reaffirming Washington’s legally enshrined commitment to maintaining Israel’s regional military advantage.
In the end, the sale was torpedoed by the UAE rather than the QME. In 2021, the Emirates suspended talks with the Biden administration on buying the planes due to various disagreements over the sale, including their price tag, and in 2024, officials in Abu Dhabi said they did not plan to revive the deal.
TRUMP AND THE SAUDIS
Ahead of Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, some believed that arms sales would similarly be used as part of a package that would see Riyadh normalize relations with Israel, which would have likely played a role in overcoming any QME-related hurdles.
Instead, Israel was left off to the side as Trump and the Saudis heaped lavish indulgences and effusive praise on each other.
During his visit, Trump addressed the Saudi-US Investment Forum, hailing the "close partnership" between Washington and Riyadh and praising Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists... for the kingdom’s sweeping transformation since Trump’s last visit as president.
"Exactly eight years ago this month I stood in this very room and looked forward to a future in which the nations of this region would drive [out] the forces of terrorism and extremism... and take your place among the proudest, most prosperous, most successful nations anywhere in the world as leaders of a modern and rising Middle East," Trump said.
"Critics doubted that it was possible," he added, "but over the past eight years, Saudi Arabia has proved the critics totally wrong," citing the kingdom’s emergence as a global business leader.
In tandem with its ambitions to become a business hub, Saudi Arabia has dramatically ramped up its military spending, signaling its intent to play a more assertive role on the regional and global stage.
According to a February statement by Ahmad al-Ohali, governor of the Saudi General Authority for Military Industries, the kingdom increased its defense budget from $75.8 billion in 2024 to $78 billion in 2025. al-Ohali also noted a consistent 4.5 percent annual growth in defense spending since 1960, placing Saudi Arabia as the fifth-largest military spender in the world, and the largest in the Arab world.
NO FAIRY GODMOTHER
After his stop in Riyadh, Trump continued to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and the UAE, notably skipping over Israel — a move that raised concern in Jerusalem over potential shifts in regional priorities and the optics of Israel being sidelined during a major US diplomatic tour.
"This week there was a party in the Middle East — a grand ball full of colorful costumes, money and gold changing hands — and we found ourselves playing the role of Cinderella before the transformation," columnist Sima Kadmon wrote in Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth daily.
"The fairy godmother we thought we had, flew off to Saudi Arabia and Qatar."
The Trump administration has made several moves lately that have left some wondering whether Washington is still committed to taking Israel’s position into account in cases where it is not required by law.
These include nuclear talks with Iran, a ceasefire with Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels that allows them to continue firing ballistic missiles at the Jewish state and a deal with Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... to free Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander that bypassed Jerusalem.
The agreement to arm the Saudis at record numbers comes amid growing frustration from Trump over Israel’s prolonged war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... — a conflict he reportedly sees as complicating his efforts to broker a landmark regional deal.
Trump has made no secret of his ambition to secure Saudi-Israeli normalization as a cornerstone achievement of his second term. But Riyadh has made it clear that any such agreement is contingent on a ceasefire in Gaza and tangible progress toward Paleostinian statehood.
Although Saudi Arabia was not among the original signatories of the 2020 Abraham Accords, it has cautiously endorsed the initiative from the sidelines. Still, the kingdom has repeatedly stressed that its participation depends on movement toward a two-state solution — a goal that now appears increasingly remote amid the ongoing war.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reaffirmed that Trump "wants to see this conflict in the region end," but the administration has firmly denied reports that it is threatening to "abandon" Israel over its Gaza campaign.
Dr. H. A. Hellyer, a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London, told The Times of Israel that Trump’s visit "was primarily about the [Gulf Cooperation Council], not about the appalling situation in Gaza, and applying ’America First’ transactionalism to foreign policy in [the Middle East and North Africa] more generally."
He added that while "there is frustration in DC with Tel Aviv’s conduct in Gaza... DC is still very much supportive of Tel Aviv."
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Unless USA also supplies personnel to operate these weapons, what's the point?
[SYRIAHR] A first lieutenant in a faction of the ''National Army,'' his wife and his daughter sustained various injuries by the earth-shattering kaboom of an IED planted earlier by unidentified individuals.
The officer's car was targeted on the road to al-Kusa village in the eastern countryside of Jarabulus.
The injured persons were taken to the hospital.
According to SOHR sources, the officer was an official in an ISIS prison in the city which is now under the control of the Ottoman Turkish-backed ''National Army,'' while no parties have grabbed credit of the attack.
The explosion comes nearly 22 days after a similar attack in the same area, where SOHR sources reported on May 6 that an IED planted by unidentified individuals went kaboom! near al-Kusa complexes in areas controlled by factions of the ''National Army'' in the eastern countryside of Aleppo. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... no casualties were reported.
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[Regnum] The Russian space industry is working on creating a transport system with a nuclear power plant that will be able to deliver up to 10 tons of payload to the near-Mars orbit. This was announced on May 28 by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Bakanov.
“Russia is working on creating a transport system with a nuclear power plant that will make it possible to deliver about 10 tons of payload to Mars orbit,” Roscosmos’ Telegram channel quotes him as saying.
According to Bakanov, the ninth flight of the Starship rocket demonstrates the complexity of the technological task of delivering a large volume of payload to Mars.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted the potential for using nuclear power plants in space. According to the head of state, Russia needs to make a qualitative step forward in the field of creating electric jet engines and other systems for autonomous operation on space objects.
Earlier it was reported that during the meeting Putin called the space industry the flagship of the development and technological renewal of the Russian economy. Research also allows improving the quality of life of citizens. Plans in this area must correspond to the status of the country, which is an advanced space power.
[GEO.TV] An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China on Tuesday killed at least five people, with six more still missing, state media said.
The blast occurred at the Youdao Chemical plant at around 12pm local time in Gaomi, a town in Shandong province around 450 kilometres southeast of the capital Beijing, according to Xinhua news agency.
Videos broadcast by the Beijing newspaper Xinjingbao showed a gigantic column of grey smoke rising into the sky, a fire in an industrial zone and shop windows apparently blown out by the earth-shattering kaboom.
The disaster "left five people dead, six missing and 19 lightly injured", Xinhua said citing local officials.
Clips also showed debris strewn across a road, a car with a smashed windscreen, and dark orange flames devouring installations in the background.
Emergency services dispatched 55 vehicles and 232 first responders to the scene, the national Ministry of Emergency Management said in a statement.
Youdao Chemical manufactures "low-toxicity" pesticides and employs around 300 people on a site of 47 hectares (116 acres), according to the Chinese online media The Paper.
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[GEO.TV] President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... 's administration has asked the US Supreme Court to let it deport migrants colonists to other countries without giving them any warning or chance to explain why they might be in danger.
The request is part of the president's push to speed up deportations and crack down on immigration.
The Justice Department requested that the justices lift Boston-based US District Judge Brian Murphy's nationwide injunction, which requires that migrants colonists be given the opportunity to seek legal relief from deportation before they are sent to so-called ''third countries,'' while litigation in the case continues.
The administration said in its filing that the third-country process is critical to removing migrants colonists who commit crimes, as their countries of origin are often unwilling to take them back.
''As a result, criminal aliens are often allowed to stay in the United States for years on end, victimising law-abiding Americans in the meantime,'' it told the justices.
The filing marked the administration's latest appeal to the country's highest court as it seeks greater freedom to enforce Trump's hardline immigration policies and challenge lower court decisions that have blocked them.
The administration argued that Murphy's injunction is holding up potentially thousands of deportations. It said the ruling ''disrupts sensitive diplomatic, foreign policy and national security efforts.''
In February, the Department of Homeland Security moved to determine whether people granted protection against removal to their home countries could instead be detained and sent to a third country.
Immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of migrants colonists who want to stop rapid deportation to third countries without prior notice or a chance to explain the dangers they might face.
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I still feel some procedural delay is needed, to do a background check, say 7 days.
Is the person wanted from felonies?
Does the person have family that should join them?
Was the person illegally employed by a US Business that failed to E-verify?
Does the person owe $$$$ to US Citizens that did not know the person was illegal?
(rent, car, tools, payment etc.)
Like it or not, zero day deportation could cost the private sector harm or monetary grief.
While we are at it.
How about offering repeat felony convicted US Citizens (non-murders) no jail time if they renounce US citizenship, surrender all properties, give up future claims to SSA funds, accept deportation to South America and agree never to return to any USA owned areas?
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That is a tall ask. I would say if they are already violent with warrants, yes you can. Arrests can be done without warning for the rest, but they do have to have some due process. Even if it is just a judge looking at their case and going... nope, no reason for you to be here. Bye.
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You get the rule of law when you accept the rule of law! The courts deny judicial review all the time for plantiff;s who lack "standing". How is it that an illegal entrant into our nation somehow automatically gets due process by the act of criminal entry?
Per the 5th amendment: No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
SCOTUS has said that it applies to anyone residing in the US.
Of course, due recourse IS denied to the unborn, who, although residing in the USA, are not considered persons under the law. They can be murdered at will. Such is the thinking of progressives.
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[KavkazUzel] A comment on a social network, which security forces considered a justification of terrorism, gave rise to the criminal prosecution of a resident of North Ossetia.
A criminal case was opened against a resident of Vladikavkaz after her comment on a social network was noticed by employees of the "E" center in North Ossetia.
According to investigators, the woman left a text comment on a video recording on a social network in the summer of 2023. In this comment, Center "E" operatives found a "positive assessment" of the actions of an organization recognized as terrorist in Russia, the republican Investigative Committee department said in a statement on May 28.
A criminal case was opened under the article on public justification or propaganda of terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia). This article provides for imprisonment from five to seven years.
The investigation's report does not specify whether the suspect was detained or whether a preventive measure was chosen for her.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote about other cases of persecution of residents of the south of Russia under the article on justification of terrorism. Thus, on May 22 it became known that the security forces suspected a 21-year-old Volgograd resident of propaganda of terrorism after a comment under a publication about the counter-terrorist operation in Karabulak.
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[Korrespondent] The ZSU is holding back the Russian offensive in the south and east of Ukraine.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the enemy organized 32 assaults in the areas of 13 settlements. Most of the attacks have already failed.
Since the beginning of the day, 114 combat clashes have occurred on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report on Wednesday, May 28.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, two armed clashes with Russians took place in the areas of Staritsa and Krasnoye Pervy.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy stormed the areas of Zagrizovy and Zelenyi Gai seven times. Three combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the aggressor attacked 14 times in the areas of the settlements of Ridkodub, Kolodyazy, Nadiya, Grekovka, in the Serebryansky forest, as well as in the direction of Karpovka, Sredny, Novy Mir, Zelenaya Dolina. Six combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy carried out two offensive actions near Belogorovka and in the direction of Verkhnekamyansky.
In the Kramatorsk direction, seven enemy attempts to advance towards Markov and near Chasovy Yar and Belaya Gora have been repelled. Two more clashes are ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked 13 times in the areas of Toretsk, Dilievka and Druzhba. Three combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy organized 32 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Mirolyubovka, Malinovka, Mirnoye, Lisivka, Kotlin, Udachnoye, Kotlyarovka, Gorikhovoye, Alekseyevka and in the direction of the settlements of Zarya, Rusin Yar, Novomikolayevka, Yablunovka. Six combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, our defenders repelled eight enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Novopol, Zelenoe Pole, Volnoe Pole and in the direction of Voskresenka.
Four enemy attacks have been stopped in the Orekhov direction . The enemy attempted to advance near the settlements of Shcherbaki, Stepovoye, Novodanilovka and Robotino.
There were 16 military clashes in the Kursk direction , three of which are still ongoing.
Let us recall that on May 27, 216 combat clashes occurred on the front , the largest number (65) in the Pokrovsky direction.
Over the past 24 hours, Russia has lost more than 1,000 fighters killed and wounded. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1 million people.
[CityJournal] Parties opposed to the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) continue to block it from exercising its rights—all in the name of stopping “fascism.”
Germany’s self-proclaimed democracy defenders are at it again: blocking a law-abiding party from exercising its rights—all in the name of protecting democracy.
The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a pro-free market, anti-EU, anti-mass migration party, placed second in Germany’s recent parliamentary elections, earning nearly 21 percent of the vote to the top vote-getter’s, the Christian Democratic Union’s, 28 percent. The AfD placed well ahead of the once-dominant Social Democratic Party (16 percent) and the Greens (11 percent).
By longstanding tradition, the AfD should have been allotted committee chairmanships and vice chairmanships based on its February vote share. Doing so would have meant that the powerful budget, interior, and finance committees, along with three other committees, would have been under AfD direction, giving it the possibility of shaping legislation. But in a reversal of what is normally an automatic affirmation, on Wednesday, May 21, the other parties in Parliament voted down the AfD chairmanships and put those six committees in the control of other, often less popular, parties. The far-left Die Linke (the Left) party, which had garnered just 9 percent of the parliamentary vote, was awarded two chairs.
The rationale given for this anti-democratic coup is a recent designation of the AfD as a right-wing extremist party. On May 2, 2025, four days before parliamentary power was to change hands, outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the Social Democratic Party announced that Germany’s domestic spy agency (the BfV) had slapped that label on the AfD, based on a 1,000-page secret dossier. According to press leaks, the dossier appeared to consist of public statements by AfD leaders, many already chewed over endlessly by the party’s opponents, relating to Germany’s mass migration problem.
AfD representatives have asserted, for example, that Germans have a cultural history tied to their ethnic and national identity; that this history and identity deserve protection; and that unchecked illegal migration threatens national cohesion.
The dossier also contained statements "implying," as a scandalized Reuters put it, that "immigrants from Muslim countries were more likely to be criminals." Actually, those AfD statements didn’t "imply" that immigrants from Muslim countries were more likely to be criminals; they asserted that fact outright, because that is what government crime statistics overwhelmingly show.
After Faeser’s announcement, the AfD accused the outgoing government of orchestrating the release to inflict maximum damage on the party in the next Parliament. The AfD’s charge then seemed speculative. Now, it looks prescient. Before the "right-wing extremist" designation had come out, a high-ranking member of the Christian Democratic Union had suggested that the AfD should be treated "in parliamentary procedures and processes like any other opposition party." Now, however, CDU chancellor Friedrich Merz says that it would be "unthinkable" to allow the AfD any of its parliamentary rights in light of the secret dossier, because, you know, democracy.
Never mind that the "extremist" designation has been suspended pending resolution of a lawsuit filed by the AfD for violation of its free speech rights. In a desperate attempt at justifying the CDU’s exploitation of the now-suspended "extremist" proclamation, the party’s parliamentary whip, Steffan Bilger, told public broadcaster ZDF on May 21 that he and his fellow elected officials had observed the AfD’s radical and extremist nature in Parliament of late. What this accusation referred to was left unexplained. In truth, nothing has changed in the AfD’s political positions or the lawful comportment of members.
In any case, the "right extremist" designation was a mere pretext for shutting the AfD out of power. Half a year before Nancy Faeser revealed the existence of the secret dossier, the establishment parties had pulled the same trick in the state government of Thuringen. They denied the AfD its earned state committee chairmanships through novel parliamentary maneuvers, even though the AfD had been the biggest vote-getter in the state election.
In mid-April, the AfD was also as usual denied a vice president position in the Bundestag. Vice presidents, ordinarily one from each party, oversee parliamentary rules and issue calls to order. The AfD’s lack of representation allows the establishment parties to rebuke it on specious grounds without check.
It is amusing to see who fervently supports democracy against the alleged incursions of the AfD. A representative of Die Linke, Clara Buenger, told ZDF that the AfD must never be "normalized," because it seeks to "infiltrate and eliminate democracy." Die Linke, by its own admission, seeks to "overcome capitalism." On May 24, 2025, hundreds of masked anti-fascists showed up in Bielefeld to counter a memorial for the victims of another stabbing by a failed asylum seeker. The counterdemonstrators waved red hammer and sickle flags.
Contrary to "eliminating democracy," the AfD has acceded to every power grab that strips it of its rights, while trying to overturn those decisions through lawful means. To add insult to injury, the Social Democratic Pary (SPD) has refused to give up the spacious caucus room that it occupied when it ran the last government, despite much diminished numbers. Having lost 86 seats in the last election, the SPD now holds a mere 120 out of 630 parliamentary seats, while the AfD, having gained 69 seats in the last election, counts 152 MPs. Even a reporter from a mainstream media outlet acknowledges that the AfD’s assigned caucus room is too small.
The reason for stiffing the AfD on real estate is the usual threat of fascism. The SPD has nicknamed its large hall Otto Weis Hall, in honor of an SPD politician who opposed the rise of National Socialism. Though Otto Weis Hall is not an official name, having the AfD take over the space would allegedly dishonor the opponents of fascism.
Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the AfD, was uncharacteristically at a loss for words in reacting to the committee chair boycott and the meeting room tantrum, before alighting upon the mots justes—"bottomless impudence"—to describe the mainstream parties. Meantime, a day after two members of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. were assassinated by a pro-Hamas sympathizer, Weidel called for the end of a planned evacuation of Gaza residents to Germany:
While police officers are being seriously injured at anti-Israel demonstrations in German cities and imported anti-Semitism is spreading... anyone who continues to conduct mass reception operations in the face of thousands of anti-Semitic crimes and a growing propensity for violence in radicalized circles... has learned nothing from 2015... The protection of Jewish life, our police, and public order must finally be a priority again. Humanitarian aid must be provided locally—not through further border expansion and immigration into an already overwhelmed system.
The AfD has been Israel’s strongest supporter in the Bundestag; it alone has tried to defund UNRWA and other Palestinian fronts for promoting anti-Israel ideology. Yet the party is reflexively labeled a threat to Jews, while the spawn of the establishment’s immigration policies scream their support for the Intifada’s martyrs in Berlin, Hamburg, and Stuttgart.
Ten million of Germany’s voters have again been disenfranchised in the elite’s desperate attempt to preserve the status quo. That elite’s claim to represent democracy against fascism is now long past being a silly pose. It is a blatant lie. Germany is at the forefront of the battle between power and censorship on the one hand and regime change and free speech on the other, all centered around the twenty-first century’s central issue: mass Third World migration. What happens next in Germany will be an augury for the future of democratic systems.
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Lavrov and his government act
To survive Barbarossa! "In fact,
If the Poles should attack,
We've got Germany's back!"
[text of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]
So far, Vladi mir Vladimirovich has succeeded in murdering many, adding Finland and Sweden to NATO and energizing the German people for the first time since 1945 to re emerge as a military power.
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Noticed an EU judge didn't jump in and overturn travel restrictions on AfD, or smack down Merz when he was talking hard about immigration for a couple days.
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I also notice that van der Leyen fellow didn't get kicked out of politics and thrown into an ankle monitor for using public funds for private advancement.
#8
A parliamentary system does have advantages over a two party system. For one a party can keep itself in power or close to power whereas in a two party, one is on the outs.
Designed in Russia? Fine — they grow incredible mathematicians and physicists over there. But how trustworthy is tech made in China?
[GEO.TV] China and Russia have reached an agreement for the construction of a nuclear power plant on the moon.
A contract of cooperation inked by China and Russia states that the Russian reactor will power the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), which is jointly headed by China and Russia and is expected to be finished by 2036, reported Space.com.
The news was made shortly after Nasa unveiled a budget proposal for 2026 that would eliminate the agency's orbital lunar outpost plans.
The news was made shortly after Nasa unveiled a budget proposal for 2026 that would eliminate the agency's orbital lunar outpost plans.
According to a 2024 interview with Yury Borisov, director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, on the Russian state-owned news site TASS, the Chinese-Russian reactor's construction will probably be completed autonomously "without the presence of humans." Although it's still unclear exactly how this may be accomplished, Borisov stated that the technology steps are "almost ready."
"The station will conduct fundamental space research and test technology for long-term uncrewed operations of the ILRS, with the prospect of a human being's presence on the Moon," Roscosmos stated in a notice released on May 8 after the memorandum was signed.
Egypt, Pakistain, Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... , Thailand, and South Africa are among the 17 nations that have joined the initiative thus far. The new research station is a permanent, manned lunar colony situated on the moon's south pole. China's 2028 Chang'e-8 mission, the country's first to land a man on the moon, will lay the foundation for it.
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[REGNUM] The year 1812 is naturally associated in our historical memory with the First Patriotic War. But on the eve of Napoleon's Great Army's attack on Russia and four months before the Battle of Borodino, our country won a victory on another front.
On March 28, 1812, in Bucharest, the Russian Empire signed a treaty with the Ottoman Empire, according to which the Turks handed over to us the lands between the Dniester, Prut and Danube. The new territory was called "Bessarabia" - now this is Moldova and the southwestern "corner" of the Odessa region. Thus ended the next, eighth Russian-Turkish war - and the same Bonaparte had a significant role in this clash of neighbors.
FRENCH INTRIGUE
At the beginning of the 19th century, Russia, involved in the wars of the European allies with Napoleonic France, did not make plans for Bessarabia. Following the precepts of Grigory Potemkin, our country actively developed trade with the Ottoman Empire.
Order in the south was guaranteed by the Treaty of Jassy in 1791. This treaty was concluded following the results of the previous, 7th Russo-Turkish War and was the fruit of victories of two geniuses of the Catherine era - the commander Alexander Suvorov and the administrator, Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky. Russia then secured Crimea and Novorossiya for itself and acquired the territory between the Southern Bug and the Dniester, where the "southern capital", Odessa, appeared on the site of the Turkish fortification of Khadzhibey.
Beyond the Dniester began the lands of the Moldavian Principality, a state with its capital in the city of Iasi (now in Romania). Chisinau was a provincial town, Bender and Akkerman (Belgorod-Dnestrovsky) were Turkish fortresses. In those years, Bessarabia was the name given to the southern steppe part between the Dniester, Prut and Danube rivers - in Tatar, this region was called Budzhak.
The Moldavian rulers, the hospodars, who sat in Iasi were vassals of the Turkish sultan. Just like the hospodars of another trans-Danubian principality, Wallachia, whose capital was Bucharest. But the Treaty of Iasi changed the order beyond the Danube. Moldavia and Wallachia effectively fell into Russia's sphere of influence. By the mid-2000s, the pro-Russian hospodars, Alexander Muruzi and Constantine Ypsilanti, were in power in both parts of what would become Romania.
Turkey and Russia maintained peaceful and almost allied relations. In 1798–1800, a Russian-Turkish squadron under the command of Fyodor Ushakov undertook an expedition to the Greek Ionian Islands, from where the French were expelled.
But the European agenda spoiled everything. On November 20 (December 2, new style) 1805, the famous battle of the "three emperors" took place on the field near Austerlitz: Napoleon's marshals defeated the commanders of the Austrian Emperor Franz II and our Alexander I.
The fact that Russia was drawn into a European war, and that military fortune rarely smiled upon our army at that time, did not go unnoticed by our southern neighbors, Turkey and Persia. The Persian Shah declared war on Russia back in 1804 (this campaign ended in 1813 with the complete defeat of the Persians). And Napoleon's triumph at Austerlitz prompted the Turkish Sultan to begin weaving anti-Russian intrigues.
Relations between France and Turkey were much better than they are today; Paris had been considered an ally of Istanbul since the 16th century. So the Sultan followed the lead of his European partners: in early 1806, Napoleon sent Marshal Horace Sebastiani as ambassador to Istanbul, who convinced Sultan Selim III to remove the pro-Russian rulers of Wallachia and Moldova. This was a flagrant violation of the Treaty of Jassy and a challenge to Tsar Alexander. And when the Turks closed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to the passage of Russian warships, war became inevitable.
RESETTING THE TRUCE
In November 1806, the Russian army crossed the Dniester and, as if reluctantly, occupied the border fortresses of Khotin, Bendery and Akkerman. The Turks did not offer serious resistance at that time. And Russia acted according to the logic that Vladimir Medinsky recently recalled : at the first stage of the conflict, we offered the enemy to end the war on lenient terms.
Petersburg showed in every way that the presence of its troops in the Bessarabian possessions of the Ottoman Porte and the eastern districts of vassal Moldova was temporary. But gradually the fighting became more intense, and Russia began to consider the Danubian principalities as compensation for the costs incurred.
Moreover, an important part of the Franco-Ottoman military plans was the invasion of the Russian Black Sea region via the Dniester. The full-flowing Danube could have become a much more reliable border line.
The course of the Turkish campaign was again influenced by European affairs. In 1807, Alexander I was forced to sign the Peace of Tilsit with Napoleon. The campaign of 1808-09, which France waged against Austria, did not start very well for Bonaparte. The Emperor of the French, in order to secure the support of his "new friend", Alexander, even supported our claims to Bessarabia, Moldavia and Wallachia. But soon fortune smiled on Napoleon again, and he forgot about his promises to Russia. At the same time, the French still had cordial agreement with the Turks. Our European "ally" continued to support our Asian enemy.
CURATOR OF THE "ISTANBUL PROCESS"
By the beginning of 1811, it became clear that things were heading towards a new direct clash with France. Our country ignored Napoleon's anti-English sanctions - the continental blockade, so the French emperor decided to "punish" Russia. In view of the inevitable war with the first army of Europe, the protracted campaign on the Danube had to be ended.
Mikhail Kutuzov, who arrived in the Danube Army in April 1811, was given a very difficult task: to achieve peace in the shortest possible time with fewer forces than the enemy (45 thousand Russians against 75 thousand Ottomans), and even with territorial gains.
In June–September 1811, Kutuzov carried out the brilliant Ruschuk-Slobodzeya operation, as a result of which the main part of the advancing Turkish group was blocked on the left (Russian) bank of the Lower Danube. Having good connections in Istanbul from his diplomatic work there, Kutuzov promptly began preliminary negotiations with his old acquaintance, the Grand Vizier Ahmed Pasha.
The parties agreed on a new border along the Siret and Danube rivers. In this case, the core of the Moldavian Principality with the cities of Iasi and Galati would come under Russian control. But French intrigues again prevented this from becoming a reality. Napoleon sent a message to the Sultan about his readiness to take back the possessions ceded to Russia by the Ottomans after his victory over Russia and hand them over to restored Poland.
The "too accommodating" group of Turkish negotiators was replaced, and after a pause in the conference, a final agreement was reached on the Prut-Danube demarcation. Kutuzov could not insist on the Siret border, since the French invasion was approaching.
The ratification of the Treaty of Bucharest by Alexander I took place on June 23, 1812. The day before the start of the Patriotic War.
SPECIAL STATUS
Bonaparte was very annoyed by this turn of events - the defeat and withdrawal of the Turks from the war gave Russia new territories. But due to French intervention, Russia was able to annex only the sparsely populated eastern outskirts of the Moldavian Principality, to which the name of its southern "corner" was extended - Bessarabia. The native Moldavian lands, with the bulk of the population of the principality, did not go to the Russian Empire.
Such a course of events will be fatal for subsequent attempts to create a Russian Moldova: Chisinau will never become an equivalent replacement for Iasi.
In the area between the Dniester, Prut and Danube rivers, Russia received a conglomerate of several outlying districts of the Moldavian Principality, former Ottoman fortress cities, and the steppe possessions of the Nogais. The absolute majority of Turks and Nogais left the area between the rivers during the fighting.
Therefore, the question of settling the sparsely populated region with a loyal Christian population immediately arose, as well as the question of local government. Both of them were resolved in the spirit of Catherine II's policy of settling Transnistria, annexed by the Treaty of Jassy in 1791. At one time, the empress ordered that Moldavian boyars with their peasants be attracted to the Dniester "especially near the Moldavian borders, for the most convenient population of these". The boyars themselves were recommended to be appointed to administrative positions.
Moldovans made up a very significant part of the broad stream of immigrants that poured into the Bessarabian region of Russia, formed in 1812, from the Ottoman possessions. In the fifth year of Bessarabia's stay in the empire, the region's population almost doubled, reaching 492 thousand people. Moldovans then made up 78% of the region's inhabitants.
Later, the migration process was balanced by the influx of Slavs from the internal provinces of Russia and from Bulgaria, which was under Turkish rule. At first, the Bulgarians included the culturally close Orthodox Turks - the Gagauz, who had migrated from Dobrudja (the Black Sea coast beyond the Danube). Thus, the Bulgarian city of Bolgrad and Gagauzia appeared in southern Bessarabia.
On the issue of power, two currents immediately emerged - "Moldavian" and "imperial". Moreover, the first included not only ethnic Moldovans. They were united by the perception of the Bessarabian region as a fragment of Greater Moldova.
The "imperialists" advocated the unification of local laws with all-Russian norms and the integration of Moldavian boyars who had entered Russian service into the all-imperial elite.
The "pro-Moldavian" trend was patronized by the actual head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Greek Ioannis Kapodistrias, the future first ruler of independent Hellas. Kapodistrias considered Bessarabia as a base for the fight against the Ottomans in the Danubian Principalities.
But most importantly, Alexander I himself was inclined to favor the special status of Bessarabia. He saw the new territory as an autonomy, similar to the recently created Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland. More precisely, such a third "state in personal union" could be Greater Moldova with its center in Iasi.
The Bessarabian region of the time of Alexander I - if we draw a parallel with Soviet history - played the role of Transnistria in 1924-40, where the Bolsheviks created the Moldavian ASSR with the aim of returning the territory between the Prut and the Dniester captured by the Romanians.
In the "Temporary Rules" for the governance of Bessarabia, drawn up by Capodistrias and adopted in 1812, the Regional Council copied the structure of the Divan (government) of the Moldavian Principality. It was specifically stipulated that Moldavian boyars should constitute the majority of its members.
The symbolic special status of the Bessarabian region was confirmed by the coat of arms approved in 1817, on which the imperial double-headed eagle was adjacent to an ox's head - the ancient symbol of the rulers of Moldova.
PUSHKIN'S LAWS
The first civil governor of the region, the Moldavian boyar Scarlat Sturdza, when appointing district police chiefs, emphasized the priority of local laws and customs over Russian ones. The latter were allowed to be addressed only when it was not possible to find the necessary article in the Moldavian codes.
But the laws of the feudal principality were quite archaic, and they had to be modernized on the fly. In 1821, Kapodistrias brought in an official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who had been sent into exile to the south to develop a new Civil Code of Bessarabia. The "seconded" official's name was Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
“I occupied him with translating into Russian the Moldavian laws written in French,” Pushkin’s immediate superior, Infantry General Ivan Inzov, reported to Kapodistrias
The poet's contribution to the drafting of the Moldavian Civil Code was rather symbolic - in essence, the work was done by the Greek scholar, lawyer Pyotr Manega. But Pushkin's Bessarabian impressions gave Russian literature the brilliant poem "Gypsies".
As for the dispute between the supporters of the "Moldavian" and "imperial" paths of development of Bessarabia, the "imperialists" clearly won. The reason was simple - it was necessary to defeat corruption, which, together with the deeply rooted Ottoman administrative customs, interfered with the normal management of the new territory. The Moldavian Sturdza was replaced as governor by the German Ivan (Johann) Harting in order to restore order.
He began the Russification of office work and legal proceedings, and appointed Russian officials to the post of district police chiefs. The dispute was settled in 1823 by Alexander I, who was disappointed with the results of the experiment on broad autonomy for the Kingdom of Poland.
The annexation of the Danubian principalities (including the part of Greater Moldavia that remained abroad) was highly questionable. Later, in the late 1850s, with the help and participation of Western powers, the Moldavian Principality (with Iasi, but without Bessarabia) would unite with Wallachia into a state called Romania.
And in the late 1820s, Bessarabia was united with Novorossiya into a single governorate-general with its capital in Odessa, headed by the viceroy Count Mikhail Vorontsov.
The exiled Pushkin's move from Kishinev to Odessa was connected precisely with these changes in the viceroyal apparatus. The poet, as is well known, did not have a high opinion of the failed capital of the "grand principality of Moldavia": "Cursed city of Kishinev! / The tongue will tire of scolding you. / Someday on the sinful roof / Of your soiled houses / Heavenly thunder will certainly strike..."
Decades later, Chisinau would become a thriving Novorossiysk city, one of the important centers of the south, adorned with a monument to Pushkin by Alexander Opekushin, a "twin" of the Moscow monument. But that's a completely different story.
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Thus ended the next, eighth Russian-Turkish war -
Eight? And those are just the ones that got into the historical record. Historically, over the centuries, and even the millennia, Russians have had one hell of a time with the Turks. I suppose they're not the only ones. It's a tough neighborhood. I think the Greeks have complaints as well.
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[GEO.TV] Pakistain's National Cyber Emergency Response Team (NCERT) has urged citizens to change their social media passwords after a major global data leak exposed 184 million unique account credentials.
In an advisory issued on Monday, the body said that the breach exposed usernames, passwords, emails, and associated URLs tied to services from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, as well as government portals, banking institutions, and healthcare platforms worldwide.
The leaked database is believed to have been compiled using infostealer malware — malicious software that extracts sensitive information from compromised systems.
This data, the advisory mentioned, was stored in plain text and left completely unprotected, with no encryption or password safeguarding.
The body said that immediate action is recommended to mitigate associated risks and to secure systems potentially impacted by this breach.
Breach's impact
Successful exploitation of the leaked credentials may result in:
1. Credential stuffing attacks — automated login attempts across services using reused credentials
2. Account takeovers — unauthorised access to user accounts and personal services.
3. Identity theft and fraud — theft of digital identity for committing scams or impersonation.
4. Ransomware deployment and espionage — assassinations on individuals and enterprises.
5. Government and critical sector compromise — unauthorised access to sensitive government systems.
6. Targeted phishing and social engineering — tailored scams using personal communication history.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
Google, Apple, and Facebook part of data breach affecting login info for 184 million users 
[NY Post] 
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
Due to this interstellar blind spot, the Rubin Observatory in Chile would have only two to four weeks to spot deadly asteroids, leaving us little time if they were on a collision course.
[GEO.TV] Sharjah authorities raided a residential property operating as a fake Zamzam water factory, arresting the individual behind the illicit operation. The accused was caught bottling ordinary water and fraudulently marketing it as the sacred Zamzam water.
[Breitbart] 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
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...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
