[IsrdaelTimes*] y resources, including ships, in the Middle East in response to Israel’s strikes on Iran and a possible retaliatory attack by Tehran, two US officials said Friday.
The Navy has directed the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner, which is capable of defending against ballistic missiles, to begin sailing from the western Mediterranean Sea toward the eastern Mediterranean and has directed a second destroyer to begin moving forward so it can be available if requested by the White House.
US President Donald Trump was meeting with his National Security Council principals Friday to discuss the situation. The US officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not yet made publi$
The forces in the region have been taking precautionary measures for days, including having military dependents voluntarily depart regional bases, in anticipation of the strikes and to protect those personnel in case of a large-scale response from Tehran.
Typically around 30,000 troops are based in the Middle East, and about 40,000 troops are in the region now, according to a third US official. That number surged as high as 43,000 last October amid the ongoing tensions between Israel and Iran as well as continuous attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.
The Navy has additional assets that it could surge to the Middle East if needed, particularly its aircraft carriers and the warships that sail with them. The USS Carl Vinson is in the Arabian Sea — the only aircraft carrier in the region.
The carrier USS Nimitz is in the Indo-Pacific and could be directed toward the Middle East if needed, and the USS George Washington just left its port in Japan and could be directed to the region if so ordered, one of the officials said.
Then-president Joe Biden initially surged ships to protect Israel following the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas that launched the war in Gaza. It was seen as a deterrent against Hezbollah and Iran at the time.
The forces in the region have been taking precautionary measures for days, including having military dependents voluntarily depart regional bases, in anticipation of the strikes and to protect those personnel in case of a large-scale response from Tehran.
Typically around 30,000 troops are based in the Middle East, and about 40,000 troops are in the region now, according to a third US official. That number surged as high as 43,000 last October amid the ongoing tensions between Israel and Iran as well as continuous attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.
The Navy has additional assets that it could surge to the Middle East if needed, particularly its aircraft carriers and the warships that sail with them. The USS Carl Vinson is in the Arabian Sea — the only aircraft carrier in the region.
The carrier USS Nimitz is in the Indo-Pacific and could be directed toward the Middle East if needed, and the USS George Washington just left its port in Japan and could be directed to the region if so ordered, one of the officials said.
Then-president Joe Biden initially surged ships to protect Israel following the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas that launched the war in Gaza. It was seen as a deterrent against Hezbollah and Iran at the time.
The Islamic Republic regime is so desperate that they are publishing video game footage claiming it is from the interception of an Israeli F-35 🤣pic.twitter.com/zlE9EKRj50
[IsraelTimes] Demonstrators from 80 countries intended to walk toward Egypt-Gaza border to highlight Israeli restrictions on aid into enclave, but hundreds detained and deported in Cairo
A planned march protesting aid restrictions 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... faced uncertainty Friday, as organizers in Cairo awaited Egyptian approval and Libyan authorities blocked a convoy of activists en route.
Activists from 80 countries planned to march to Egypt’s border with Gaza to spotlight the deepening humanitarian crises facing Paleostinians since Israel began blocking aid trucks from entering the coastal enclave in March. It slightly eased restrictions last month, allowing limited aid in, but experts warn the measures fall far short.
The Global March on Gaza was slated to be among the largest demonstrations of its kind in recent years, coinciding with other efforts, including a boat carrying activists and aid that was intercepted by Israel’s military en route to Gaza earlier this week.
Organizers said hundreds arriving in Cairo were tossed into the calaboose and deported to their home countries in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and North Africa. They said they planned to gather at a campsite outside of Cairo on Friday to prepare for the Sunday march, noting that authorities had not yet authorized them to travel through the Sinai, which Egypt considers a highly sensitive area.
"We continue to urge the Egyptian government to permit this peaceful march, which aligns with Egypt’s own stated commitment to restoring stability at its border and addressing the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza," they said in a statement.
Hicham El-Ghaoui, one of the group’s spokespeople, said the group would refrain from demonstrating until receiving clarity on whether Egypt will authorize their protest.
The planned demonstrations cast an uncomfortable spotlight on Egypt, one of the Arab countries that has cracked down on pro-Paleostinian activists even as it publicly condemns aid restrictions and calls for an end to the war.
The government, a major recipient of US military aid that maintains ties with Israel, has arrested and charged 186 activists with threatening state security since the war began, according to a June tally by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights. Many of them said they were protesting peacefully and collecting donations for Gaza.
Still, the severity of the crackdown surprised European activists. Antonietta Chiodo, who traveled to Cairo from Italia, said those awaiting further instruction were tossed into the calaboose, interrogated, treated harshly by Egyptian authorities, or deported.
Alexis Deswaef, a Belgian human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... lawyer, said he woke up on Friday to dozens of security vehicles packed with uniformed officers surrounding Talat Harb Square, where he and other activists had found hotels. Members of his group snuck out of the lobby as security entered, holding up a guidebook and asking an officer for assistance booking taxis to the Pyramids of Giza, where they have been since.
"I am so surprised to see the Egyptians doing the dirty work of Israel," he said from the pyramids. He hoped there would be too many activists at the new meeting point outside Cairo on the road to Gaza for Egyptian authorities to arrest en masse.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon... an aid convoy traveling overland from Algeria picked up new participants along the route in Tunisia and Libya, but it was stopped in the city of Sirte, about 940 kilometers (585 miles) from the Libya-Egypt border.
Organizers of the overland convoy said late Thursday night that they had been stopped by authorities governing eastern Libya, which has been divided between dueling factions for years. The convoy was allowed to cross from Tunisia to Libya but halted near the front line, where territory shifts to a rival administration whose backers include Egypt.
The Benghazi-based government, in a statement, urged activists to "engage in proper coordination with the official Libyan authorities through legal and diplomatic channels to ensure the safety of all participants and uphold the principles of solidarity with the Paleostinian people."
It said they should return to their home countries and cited Egypt’s public statements that marchers had not been granted authorization.
Organizers leading the overland convoy said authorities had allowed them to camp in Sirte and await further approval. Their group, which includes thousands of participants, had already traversed parts of Algeria, Tunisia and the western Libyan cities of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and Misrata.
They "called on all relevant parties to intervene and help facilitate the mission of our convoy."
FAFO: Democrats arriving in Egypt planning to ‘March to Gaza’ in solidarity with the Palestinians are being attacked and thrown out by Egyptians who won’t tolerate Palestinian sympathizers. pic.twitter.com/mTWLMiTDa0
[Townhall] Former Democratic vice presidential nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz shocked many by suggesting that China could serve as the world’s "moral authority" in the wake of Israel’s targeted strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and military leadership. His comments come at a time when the U.S. and its allies are confronting clear threats from Iran’s nuclear ambitions, making Walz’s praise of an authoritarian regime both baffling and concerning.
At a Center for American Progress event titled "What’s Next: Conversations on the Path Forward," Walz addressed a question from CEO Neera Tanden regarding the escalating tensions caused by the recent strikes. Walz remarked that, from Iran’s perspective, retaliation is inevitable, adding that the conflict in the Middle East has reignited and is spreading more widely than before. He questioned who has the moral authority and ability to negotiate peace in the Middle East, suggesting that the U.S. is not viewed as a neutral party and may never have been. Neera Tanden - one of Biden's Politburo
He stated that the U.S. previously attempted to mediate during the Iran Nuclear Deal talks. However, Walz said that Americans need to accept the possibility that China may now be the only neutral party with the moral standing to lead negotiations in the Middle East effectively.
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Tim said something moronic that reveals that he is a CCP stooge. I am not shocked at all. It’s like seeing Ronald McDonald eat some fries. It’s sort of expected to the point of being mundane.
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That's his abnormal fetish for Chinese boys talking.
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"Now let's see, how can I best position myself for a 2028 run? I got it! I'll say that the Chinese Communist Party is the moral authority of the world."
The only good thing about that is that it's what he really thinks.
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I didn't know that communists have morals.
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[PJ] I’m not a coffee connoisseur. I’m not really a wine connoisseur; I just took a course to get certified at Level 1 because I thought it would be a cool hobby. We make most of our coffee at home, and so while there are a few varieties of beans I like, the truth is that in a blind taste test, I would not be able to tell Starbucks from Dunkin’ Donuts or Maxwell House. As I understand it, Dutch Bros is particularly beloved among those who are devoted to the mystical ways of java.
The fine people of Oregon, and particularly the residents of Grants Pass, are singing the bean blues this week over the fact that Dutch Bros is moving its headquarters to Arizona. Last year, the company began the process of relocating much of its workforce there at a cost of millions of dollars, and the announcement that the corporate office was officially hitting the road was made this week. So the whole kit and caboodle (or is that beans and basket?) is decamping from the northwest, which leaves Nike as Oregon’s heavy-hitter.
As the wise philosopher Gomer Pyle once said, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
The Portland Business Journal had the company’s official statement:
[Breitbart] WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Breitbart News on Thursday evening that Breitbart News is in fact his "number one source" for news "every morning," and that it is the first thing he reads every day.
"It’s my number one source every morning," Bessent said about Breitbart News. "It’s the first thing I click in the morning."
Bessent also said he is a regular reader specifically of the Breitbart Business Digest daily newsletter from Breitbart News financial and economic editor John Carney, whom he said he is in touch with regularly. Carney just joined Bessent in London in the United Kingdom earlier this week when he, at the direction of President Donald Trump, traveled there to lead the U.S. delegation in trade talks with the Chinese government. Bessent said he enjoyed that Carney came for the trip.
"John and I are in constant touch," Bessent said. "I think he is one of the top three business reporters in America. You’re lucky to have him. It was great having John in London."
Bessent’s comments came earlier this week after, upon his return from London to the United States, he testified before a House panel and during an interaction with Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) he made a comment about Breitbart News when Gomez asked him about recent reports of a physical altercation between him and Elon Musk at the White House.
Gomez had asked how Bessent was doing, and this is what happened next in the conversation during the hearing:
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Breitbart has a lot of good stories but, IMHO, they give too much space to the insane rants of celebrities like Rob Reiner, Bette Middler, Rosie O'Donnell and Jennifer Lawrence. We already know those people hate Trump and I don't care what else they have to say.
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[Alt-Market] This week I was researching the history of the modern African economy as well as the financial effects of "colonialism", largely in an effort to discern if Africa is actually better off with or without western influence. One can of course argue that racial divisions like Apartheid in South Africa or segregation in Rhodesia have their own oppressive social effects beyond the financial. There’s also the argument that only "white colonists" ever benefited from the infrastructure they built (which is actually untrue, wherever white colonists were established, everything from water access to roads to medical care improved for everyone).
However, I think it’s fair to ask if these nations were experiencing growth and prosperity under white governance, or if things were relatively the same. We’re not supposed to talk about it — We’re only supposed to say "colonialism bad". I don’t care about that, I just want to know what the realities are.
In the process I came across an interesting video featuring a black South African man who presented the race issue and the South Africa issue in a way that was simple but it brought impressive clarity. In summary he said:
[Alt-Market] If you thought that the leftist delusions of grandeur had finally hit their peak you are about to be unpleasantly surprised. There are no limits to the insanity that progressives will embrace in their pursuit of power, and they continue to adhere to the fantasy that they are the "good guys" despite the fact that most of the world has been telling them for the past several years that their ideology is repugnant.
The events in Los Angeles are just the beginning and the path this situation will take is relatively predictable. There is a large enough percentage of the US population (around 25% to 30%) that is inexorably rooted in the ideologies of Marxism and multiculturalism. Many of them might not even understand what they’re supporting, but they’ll still do what they’re told by their gatekeepers.
For decades now the progressives have treated America like an experiment in social engineering; the US has been their personal multicultural playground. What has them enraged today is the fact that they are hitting a wall of opposition. They aren’t used to being told "No" and the only way they know how to respond is by lashing out.
The agenda is simple enough to understand — Open borders, third world replacement of the native population, a complete overhaul of our culture’s fundamental principles and ultimately the utilization of the foreign populace and leftist activists as a weapon to eliminate any resistance.
Interference on a political level is met with mob violence, looting, rioting and eventually terrorist actions and assassinations. This is the classic model of leftist revolutions throughout modern history. They seem to be disjointed and reactionary, yet their efforts end up highly coordinated and conveniently timed. There is nothing "grassroots" about these movements.
Currently, there is a push to make the LA riots go national with something called the "No Kings" protests scheduled to take place in cities across the country this weekend at the same time as the US Army’s 250th anniversary celebration (and Donald Trump’s birthday). The Democrats continue to spin the narrative that Trump is a dictator or "king" when he was duly elected by the majority of Americans and almost everything he has done so far is in line with what he promised during his campaign. All the usual suspects are pushing the spread of the riots, from NGOs to Democrat politicians to the corporate media.
[ZeroHedge] Following Ukraine's long-range drone assault on June 1st which was dubbed 'Operation Spider's Web' - and which resulted in the destruction of at least several aircraft, including strategic bombers - Russia has relocated dozens of strategic bombers to remote airbases, new satellite imagery shows.
Ukraine had claimed that during the daring operation airbases Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ryazan, and Ivanovo, were hit, damaging or else completely destroying up to 41 aircraft, including Tu-95s, Tu-22M3s, and A-50s. However, Russian media sources have repeatedly said these numbers are exaggerated, and in some instances have claimed decommissioned and inactive planes were hit.
The Russian military is scrambling to reduce the vulnerability and exposure of the country's most advanced and expensive aircraft, as Ukrainian drones have continued to come over the border on a nightly basis, sometimes in waves of hundreds.
The air force's bomber fleet is also likely to be rotated more often, including to remote or even previously inactive airfields.
According to analysis of the new satellite imagery in the Amsterdam-based Moscow Times:
Satellite imagery analyzed by the OSINT research group AviVector shows that all Tu-160 bombers previously stationed at the Belaya airbase in Irkutsk and the Olenya airbase in Murmansk had vacated their positions by early June.
Two of those bombers were redeployed to Anadyr in the Chukotka region, three to Yelizovo in the Kamchatka region and another three to the Borisoglebskoye airbase in the republic of Tatarstan.
Tu-22M3 and Tu-95MS aircraft were also relocated from Murmansk to bases in Tatarstan and the Amur and Saratov regions, as well as to Mozdok in the republic of North Ossetia — a facility that had not been actively used by the Russian military in recent years.
3dc noticed this 1 1/2 weeks ago and concluded it was a Trump gesture to Putin and Putin took it. (No Ukrainians in Kamchatka etc. to blow them up there)
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[ColonelCassad] Air defense lasers.
At one of the testing grounds, successful tests of promising laser air defense systems for countering UAVs were conducted, which will be integrated into the object air defense system.
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[KavkazUzel] A young resident of Ingushetia has become a suspect in justifying terrorism after sympathetic comments about the killed militants. The girl is under a written undertaking not to leave the country.
The law enforcement agencies of the republic reported a criminal case against a 24-year-old resident of Ingushetia. The girl's messages in Telegram chats were noticed by operatives of the Ingush center "E".
The suspect herself administered an open chat group on Telegram, where she posted a message about the special operation in Karabulak with a video on March 4, 2024. In her post, she “negatively characterized law enforcement officers and expressed sympathy for the victims,” the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a statement today.
On March 3, 2024, during a counter-terrorist operation in Karabulak, security forces killed six people. According to sources, Amirkhan Gurazhev, Zelimkhan Tsuroev, Magomed Barkinkhoev, Tagir Tsuroev, Mikail Tutaev and Bers Chemurziev were killed. Security forces declared the dead to be militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization, banned in Russia. The "Caucasian Knot" prepared a report " How the special operation in Karabulak took place."
In addition, in the chat of one of the messenger groups, security forces found a girl's comment to a publication dated November 12, 2023. This publication was dedicated to militants killed in the North Caucasus back in 2005. Under it, the girl expressed sympathy for those killed.
In the publications and comments of the Ingush resident, the specialist found “psychological and linguistic signs of justification of terrorism”, after which FSB investigators opened a case against her under the relevant criminal article (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code provides for imprisonment from five to seven years).
The suspect “has been given a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave,” the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia noted. The “Caucasian Knot” does not yet have any comments from the suspect regarding the law enforcement agency’s version.
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🙌The average age of mobilized Ukrainians at the assembly point exceeds 50 years, said captured Ukrainian militant Yuriy Soloshenko.
According to him, many of the mobilized could not even read, and some were missing fingers.
In the first part of the interrogation, he talks about the catastrophic shortage of personnel and massive losses in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The prisoner of war himself was sent to the front with a non-working arm and untreated pneumonia.
In the second part of the interrogation, Semilyut's life path and a traditional blitz questioning.
As it turned out, there was no point in checking the prisoner of war's knowledge - he simply does not have it. He does not know the history of his native country, does not know geography, and is not familiar with politics.
The prisoner of war's level of education was influenced by his life path: first, he stole a wind instrument from a collective farm club, then he disassembled and stole a tractor, for which he ended up in prison.
The prisoner of war liked it much more in places of imprisonment than in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. He regrets that he did not escape from the Ukrainian army, as many of his fellow soldiers did during basic military training.
🙌Another captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier, Andriy Matchany from the 111th Troops Brigade, complained that there are piles of dead Ukrainians lying in the fields, and the command is in no hurry to collect them. Moreover, in many cases they even prohibit and punish for collecting bodies!
No one wants to pay compensation and deal with relatives!
The prisoner also revealed the secret of demobilization from the Ukrainian Armed Forces after being wounded: the only way to leave is to bribe the doctors!
Born April 12, 1989. Master of sports in taekwondo, until 2014 was a member of the Ukrainian Olympic team. He was captured by the TCC in 2024 and sent to undergo a medical examination, taking away his phone. Despite very serious health problems due to sports, he was still mobilized. During the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces, he decided, together with Khashchevsky Igor Bogdanovich and two other colleagues, not to take up arms and save LIFE.
Servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this material demonstrates the only correct way out of the situation, which guarantees to save your life.
They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings. We are in for a massive number of high level funded, nationwide protests.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 12, 2025
…federal sources to final recipients, prioritizing direct paths (not via DAFs) whenever possible.
👉 IMPORTANT: most paths still went through Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs)—the black box of the nonprofit world. Unfortunately, it's a common and opaque funding structure that deserves scrutiny.
💥 Explore it for yourself:
Click on "Federal Grant Flow" for any NoKings organization to open any visual flowchart, tracing dollars from origin to destination.
🖼️ Also, you can save any graph as an SVG and take it wherever you need.
📌 I'll keep updating the database as more EINs come in. Got a group to investigate? Send it my email address with an EIN.
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia has signaled a major shift in its foreign policy by strengthening diplomatic ties with Russia while distancing itself from its traditional international allies.
In a notable move, the Speaker of Somalia’s Upper House, Abdi Hashi Abdullahi, paid an official visit to Moscow, where he met with the Chairman of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin. The discussions focused on enhancing bilateral cooperation in the areas of security, economy, and political affairs.
The visit comes amid Somalia’s growing discontent with the C6+ group — an informal international coalition including the United States, United Kingdom, European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... , African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... , IGAD, Æthiopia, Kenya, and Sweden.
This week, the Somali government formally called for the dissolution of the group, arguing that its existence perpetuates the notion of external control over Somali affairs and undermines the country’s political illusory sovereignty.
The twin developments mark a clear pivot in Somalia’s foreign strategy — away from long-standing Western partners and toward emerging alliances with countries such as Russia. Somali officials have characterized the new approach as one grounded in mutual respect, equality, and shared interests.
While no formal agreements with Russia have yet been announced, the tone and symbolism of the high-level meetings in Moscow suggest that the Kremlin could become a key strategic partner for Mogadishu in the coming years.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali government forces, backed by international partners, have killed at least 13 Al-Shabaab fighters in a planned operation near the village of Buurta Cadayga, close to Ceel Baraf in the central Middle Shabelle region, Somalia’s Ministry of Information announced on Wednesday.
The ministry said in a statement that the operation targeted a site used by the group to plan attacks against civilians in the area. Among the dead were senior commanders, while an undisclosed number of other militants were wounded. Security forces also destroyed a cache of weapons and equipment prepared for future assaults.
“This was a preemptive strike against a known hub of terrorist activity,” the statement read. “We are committed to eradicating Al-Shabaab and protecting our people, with the support of both the Somali public and our international allies.”
The operation comes amid rising tensions in Middle Shabelle, where Al-Shabaab has recently regained control over several areas, including the strategic town of Adan Yabal. The group recently released footage of their takeover, showing heavy clashes and the killing of government troops.
The Somali government has vowed to intensify its military campaign in the region, aiming to retake territory lost to the insurgents in recent months.
Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda-linked militant group, has waged a deadly insurgency against the Somali government for over 15 years, frequently launching attacks on civilians, military targets, and international peacekeepers.
[Garowe] al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... fighters have released images purportedly of El Hareeri, a strategic village in central regions, further reaffirming that they are still in total control, with no indication of government soldiers within the vicinity.
On Wednesday, the snuffies released images showing their fighters maintaining control of the town of El Hareri in central Somalia's Hiran region for a second week, despite sustained fighting and repeated attempts by government forces and allied clan militias to retake it.
The snuffies seized the town last week, and there are reports that they are attempting to push deeper into the eastern Hiran region, prompting government troops and allied clan militias to launch repeated counterattacks. However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... none of the offensives have succeeded in retaking lost ground.
According to multiple sources within Hiiraan, the snuffies are sending more reinforcements every day, with local security teams noting that the snuffies are aiming to capture Moqokori and Mahas towns, which are also considered key in the battle for the control of the country.
Ali Jayte, a senior militia coordinator, warned the frontlines could collapse unless President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud intervenes. According to him, the al-Shabaab fighters are gaining ground due to a lack of cooperation by Hirshabelle state officials.
The bully boyz have stepped up operations in central Somalia, despite Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s and resistance from government troops and allied militias. Hiiraan and Galgaduud regions have seen increased attacks, with the government troops relying on international partners for counteroffensives.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been accused of directing his focus on political issues in the country at the expense of supporting the Somali National Army in the fight against al-Shabaab. Currently, the government is preoccupied with the changing of the constitution, the targeting model of elections and the structure of the executive.
Hassan Sheikh is glaring at the political fallout in the country, with al-Shabaab fighters also making gains on several frontlines. The government of Somalia has been criticised for failing to support efforts to defeat both the ISIS and al-Shabaab murderous Moslems.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Iran has struck Israeli military sites, including the IDF headquarters, as Tel Aviv braces for another round of attacks.
At least three people have been killed and dozens more have been wounded in the Iranian strikes on Israel as 'painful revenge' for a series of IDF attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear program and its armed forces.
Social media video show interceptor missiles blasting off before a flash, a boom and an explosion of a warhead incoming.
One missile breached the Jewish state's air defenses is seen hitting an area where several IDF facilities are located, including its main command center, their equivalent to the Pentagon.
The Israeli military said it is operating to intercept the threat and warned its entire population to remain close to 'protected spaces' like bomb shelters.
Air sirens are sounding and loud blasts have been heard in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, according to local media.
An Israeli military official said: 'Dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles are en route to Israel.
'The people of Israel have been instructed to remain in bomb shelters until further notice.'
The Israel Defence Forces had warned its attack on Tehran could last up to two weeks as Iranian military commanders and top officials were blown up in their headquarters and homes in a coordinated strike last night.
Operation Rising Lion targeted military sites in Iran as well as nuclear facilities in a devastating wave of air strikes - escalating fears the Middle East is on the brink of all-out war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the sophisticated operation targeted an Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz as well as the country's ballistic missile program.
Iran vowed to enact 'painful revenge' after the strikes, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Israel will face 'severe punishment'.
Washington distanced itself from the strikes and warned Iran not to attack US bases in the region in retaliation, while Tehran warned that the US would pay 'a heavy price' along with Israel.
Israel Defense Forces launched a sweeping strike on Iran following months of attempted, and seemingly failed, nuclear negotiations.
Israel carried out strikes in Iran, adding that explosions were heard in the capital of Tehran.
Israel said it launched “Operation Rising Lion” to target Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure.
Iran launched a retaliatory large-scale ballistic missile attack on Israeli cities hours later.
Commander-in Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, was killed during Israel’s airstrikes on Iran.
The strikes came after Israel first threatened to go after Iran’s nuclear facilities in early November following a series of back-and-forth missile attacks between April and October last year.
The following courtesy of badanov:
Iran fired about 200 missiles at areas of Israel
[Regnum] Iran fired about 150-200 missiles at Israel, nine falls were recorded. This was reported on June 13 by the Israeli TV channel N12.
"The first salvo from Iran involved about a hundred rockets fired at Israel. Shortly after, another salvo of about 50 rockets was launched," the publication specifies.
According to preliminary data, at least five people were injured as a result of the shelling.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that the Iranian Armed Forces struck dozens of targets in Israeli territory, military and air bases, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement. Several missiles fired from Iran hit the Israeli National Security Ministry building.
Iran also launched two missile strikes on the Israeli Defense Ministry building in Tel Aviv.
On the night of June 13, the IDF launched large-scale military operations against Iran, calling it preventive measures against the "threat of Iranian nuclear weapons." Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that most of the Iranian Air Force leaders had been eliminated.
Iran has confirmed the death of the IRGC Aerospace Forces Commander Amir-Ali Hajizadeh. Also killed were the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri and the IRGC Commander Hossein Salami. In addition, six nuclear scientists were among the victims.
At the same time, many civilians were killed in the attacks. Fars news agency reported that at least 78 people were killed in the strike on Tehran, with another 329 injured.
In response to the attacks, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed that Israel would face a painful fate for its actions.
"Israeli Defense Ministry targeted for second time," IRNA writes.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense is located in the Kirya neighborhood of Tel Aviv.
Earlier, Iranian media reported that an attack had been carried out on the building of the Israeli Ministry of National Security.
Israeli authorities have not yet confirmed or denied these statements.
Even more from regnum.ru Nebenzya called Israel's actions against Iran a gross violation of the UN Charter
Israel's actions against Iran are a gross violation of the UN Charter and international law, said Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation around Iran that has developed since Israel began its military operation.
“This unprovoked attack, no matter what Israel claims to the contrary, is a gross violation of the UN Charter and international law,” the Russian diplomat explained.
Nebenzya pointed out that Israel's "military adventures" are pushing the region to the brink of a major war. He noted that the escalation in the Middle East is due to Israel's actions and called it extremely dangerous and requiring urgent attention from the UN Security Council.
"We would like to express our condolences to the leadership and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran in connection with the numerous human casualties, including civilians, as a result of Israeli strikes," the Russian diplomat added.
Nebenzya stressed that the Russian Federation strongly condemns Israel’s actions.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that, as the Kremlin press service stated after telephone conversations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of Iran and Israel, Russia will continue close contacts with both sides of the Israeli-Iranian conflict in order to prevent the harmful consequences of escalation for the entire Middle East.
On the evening of June 13, Putin held telephone conversations with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a conversation with his Iranian counterpart, the Russian leader expressed condolences over the deaths of civilians in the Islamic Republic as a result of Israeli air strikes. Netanyahu, the Russian president, said that Moscow condemns Tel Aviv's decision to launch a military operation against Iran.
On the night of June 13, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a series of strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities. The Israeli military command said the operation was dubbed "The People Like a Lion" and was aimed at "eliminating the threat of Iranian nuclear weapons."
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the international community cannot remain indifferent to the events that are destroying peace and damaging regional and international security. The statement by Russian diplomats specifically noted that the particular cynicism of the situation is that Israel struck Iran before the next round of indirect contacts between representatives of Tehran and Washington.
The show was recorded while the usual suspects were starting yet another war in the Middle East, this time with Iran. At this point it is hard to know where it leads,
…it leads to the end of the Mad Mullah’s plans for nuking Israel and Saudi Arabia, not to mention the previous end of their long-cherished idea of crushing the Jewish state between Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, with Iran providing the crushing blow from safely afar. It might even lead to the end of the Mullahcracy, though not, I suspect, the reestablishment of the heir of the House of Pahlavi on the peacock throne…
but we know Trump is powerless to do anything about it. It is sadly clear over the last three administrations that no White House runs foreign policy. The important decisions are made by people outside the political system.
As an aside, is the ZMan Jewish? In Hebrew zman means time… Anyway, Mr. Time somehow fails to notice that no Americas were used in this war except that President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio fibbed a little about being ignorant of Israeli plans.
It couldn't be clearer that the blob does not answer to our elected government.
True. That’s why they are being pared down, both financially and employment numbers in the federal bureaucracy.
Trump is fighting hard but they are simply too strong.
The moment his term is up it's right back to the old ways of starting wars all over the planet and open borders.
That assumes a Democrat wins in 2028. This seems increasingly unlikely….
That is why war is on the list of things that could bring doom to America. The people making these decisions are not thinking about what is best for the United States or the American people. Therefore, the United States and the American people could easily be sacrificed, deliberately or accidentally, in service to the alien cause. Civilization ending wars tend to be tragic accidents.
Even so, America is in no danger of being conquered militarily, so it is hard to see war as the direct cause of our demise.
Kurt Schlichter yesterday suggested it is time for Americans to carry (legally, of course) because of the likelihood that infiltrated Iranian sleeper cells will be given orders to act here in CONUS.
War could trigger other things, like a massive spike in oil prices
….when American production — along with everyone else — is ramping up again??
that then set off a financial collapse. If Iran decides it needs a regional war and blows up Saudi oil facilities, then we could see an energy crisis. Unlike the 1970’s, an energy crisis today could trigger collapse.
That is the show for this Friday the 13th. I go through the possible end times scenarios and rank them on a scale of one to ten. A bit of a spoiler, but war is pretty far down the list of possible doomsday scenarios. It could be a triggering event that eventually leads to one of the other items on the list, but war itself is not a likely end for us. The most likely cause of our doom is, well, you will just have to listen.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] An important tactical achievement of our troops.
As a result of joint assault actions, the servicemen of the 336th Separate Guards Naval Infantry Brigade and the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 36th Army liberated the settlement of Komar - a large defense and logistics hub of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South Donetsk direction, prepared and equipped with fortifications, well protected by a natural water barrier and surrounding buildings.
After long and stubborn battles, it came under the control of the "Vostok" group, becoming an important step towards the liberation of the Donetsk People's Republic.
A defense area of 4 km by 3.5 km was taken under control. Our soldiers installed Russian flags in various parts of the settlement. The Far Easterners are consolidating their positions.
As a result of the military actions, more than 1,100 buildings were cleared.
The Far Eastern "Express" of the "Vostok" group picked up speed and is breaking into the Dnipropetrovsk region at full speed. Our guys continue the offensive, breaking through the enemy's defense, demoralizing him and leaving the Nazis no chance!
Thus, the Russian Armed Forces are already quite close to liberating the DPR territory south of the Krasnoarmeyskaya agglomeration.Also liberated today were - Yablonovka (Sumy region), Orekhovo (South Donetsk direction, near the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region) and Koptevo (northeast of Mirnograd (Dimitrov). Judging by the pace of advancement, the May record for the liberation of territory will be confidently broken in June.
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[Regnum] The Israeli military recorded a rocket attack from Yemen. This was reported on June 13 by the press service of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Records *snicker*
"The Israel Defense Forces have detected a missile launch from Yemen towards Israeli territory, and the Israeli Air Force's air defense systems have been deployed to intercept the threat," the IDF reported on its Telegram channel.
An entire single missile?? Lookit the Houthis’ wholehearted support of Iran’s current exchange with Israel, especially after Hezbollah announced they were not getting involved this time!
It was also reported that sirens sounded in several areas of Israel after a projectile was launched from Yemen.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 13, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Israel, by striking Iranian territory, had condemned itself to a " painful fate " that would inevitably befall it. Later, Iran raised the red flag of revenge after massive strikes by Israel. This flag symbolizes the republic's desire to avenge the unjustly shed blood.
Israel's attack on Iran began around 3 a.m. on June 13. After the explosions, the IDF announced it had carried out a "preemptive, precise, combined attack" to hit targets related to Iran's nuclear program. The attack was in response to "the Iranian regime's ongoing aggression against Israel," the Israeli Defense Ministry said. The IDF said it had destroyed dozens of Iranian radars and surface-to-air missile launchers.
The attack in Iran killed not only soldiers but also civilians, including children. According to the Iranian Fars news agency, 78 people were killed and 329 were injured.
The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli attacks and called them a violation of the UN Charter and international law. The ministry called IDF strikes on peaceful cities and Iranian nuclear energy infrastructure unacceptable.
That’s nice. Join the large crowd condemning and deploring, while doing absolutely nothing else.
Middle East specialist, leading researcher at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Yashlavsky expressed confidence in an interview with Regnum News Agency that Iran's response to the IDF attack will not be long in coming. According to him, the lack of a response could be a step towards the political demise of the current government in the republic.
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[REGNUM] On the night of June 13, meteorologists looked at their instruments in confusion. The Earth's magnetic field suddenly jumped to G2.3, above average, although no one expected it. The storm came unexpectedly, forcing experts to admit that our ability to predict space weather is far from perfect.
Missed the boat is too harsh a word to describe the work of scientists who monitor solar activity around the clock. But the fact remains: a medium-intensity magnetic storm hit the planet completely unexpectedly.
The laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences recorded an increase in plasma density and an increase in the magnetic field, but the speed of the plasma flow - the main indicator of an approaching ejection of solar matter - remained normal.
3D PUZZLE
Alexander Shadov, a specialist in space weather, explained the complexity of the situation in a conversation with the Regnum news agency : "In essence, a magnetic storm is an ejection of a plasma cloud from the Sun that reaches the Earth. Scientists have two methods of observation: photographs of the luminary and data on the parameters of the solar wind at the L1 Lagrange point - a special region in space between the Sun and the Earth, where observation satellites are installed."
The catch is that no more than two hours pass from the moment the emission is registered at the L1 point until it arrives on Earth - there is practically no time for preparation. Therefore, all long-term forecasts are based on images of the Sun, where specialists try to measure the speed, density and direction of the emission, and then create a three-dimensional model.
“Obviously, creating three-dimensional models from flat photographs is a very difficult task, ” Shadov admits. “ And assessing the level of impact of the emission on the magnetosphere is even more difficult.”
Astronomer Alexander Kiselev adds details: coronal mass ejections are especially insidious when they occur not from the central part of the solar disk, but from the edges: “If the ejection occurs from an area not located directly opposite the Earth, predicting its exact impact on our planet becomes much more difficult.”
INVISIBLE RIVERS OF PLASMA
But it's not just coronal mass ejections that can cause geomagnetic turmoil. Sometimes the culprits are solar wind streams from coronal holes — areas of low density in the solar corona. These cosmic "rivers" are less powerful, but if a coronal hole suddenly turns toward Earth or the stream turns out to be denser than predicted, the result is the same — a sudden storm.
“This means that the Earth’s magnetosphere was subjected to an unexpected energy blow,” Kiselev explains the mechanism of what is happening.
While people on Earth are clutching their heads, astronomers are observing fascinating pictures on the Sun itself. “Prominences are plasma that is held by the Sun’s magnetic fields, making them visible,” says Shadov.
Unlike the simple Earth magnetic field with two poles, the solar magnetic field has a complex configuration with many entry and exit points for magnetic lines. It is this complexity that creates those fascinating prominences - huge arches of hot plasma that rise above the surface of the star for hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
They can only be seen through special solar telescopes with H-alpha filters or during a total solar eclipse, when they become visible to the naked eye as reddish tongues of flame on the edge of the solar disk covered by the Moon.
A HEADACHE ON A PLANETARY SCALE
While scientists are sorting out the cosmic causes, doctors are recording quite mundane consequences. Neurobiologist Tatyana Smirnova, in a conversation with IA Regnum, admits: although the scientific community has not yet come to a consensus on the direct impact of magnetic storms on health, weather-sensitive people do experience an increase in unpleasant symptoms.
"Those who are prone to migraines, hypotension or vegetative-vascular dystonia may experience fatigue, drowsiness, anxiety or headaches," the specialist explains. Presumably, fluctuations in the magnetic field affect the autonomic nervous system and increase vascular reactivity.
The recipe for survival during geomagnetic disturbances is simple: reduce your workload, plan simple tasks, take breaks for walks and breathing exercises. If you have a headache, you should first try basic measures - fresh air, a cold compress, enough water - and only then resort to medication.
"Weather dependence is not a death sentence, " Smirnova reassures. " It often intensifies with chronic fatigue, irregular sleep, and lack of movement." Prevention is simple: a stable regime, physical activity, foods with magnesium - buckwheat, nuts, dark chocolate.
THE SITUATION REMAINS UNSTABLE
However, Alexander Shadov calls not to dramatize the situation: "Magnetic storms are not at all scary, but incredibly beautiful phenomena. There is no evidence of their serious impact on humans, except perhaps that some people become obsessed with observing space weather."
There are technical consequences, however: interruptions in radio communications, temporary failures in satellite operation, voltage fluctuations in power grids. But modern infrastructure is quite resistant to such impacts, and telecom operators and energy companies have long learned to take preventive measures when receiving warnings about geomagnetic disturbances.
As for the nearest forecasts, analysts warn: the geomagnetic situation will remain unstable for the next two or three days. From June 13 to 14, the impact of a large coronal hole is expected, which may intensify the current storm or provoke a new wave of disturbances.
The sudden magnetic storm of June 13 was another reminder: despite all the achievements of science, space is still capable of presenting surprises. The Sun remains an unpredictable neighbor, whose “moods” we have learned to read only partially. And perhaps this unpredictability has its own charm – it does not allow us to forget that humanity does not live in a vacuum, but in a Universe full of mysteries and surprises.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Elon Musk is again calling for NASA to scuttle the International Space Station (ISS) after a former engineer of the agency revealed hidden problems with its structure.
Casey Handmer, a physicist and engineer who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for four years, posted on X that the 26-year-old station's structure integrity is far worse than the public knows.
'We could wake up tomorrow and find, with zero warning, that it has failed catastrophically,' Handmer warned on X Thursday.
Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, quickly responded, saying that even though his commercial space company makes billions from delivering cargo and astronauts to the station, it should be brought down by 2027.
'There are potentially serious concerns about the long-term safety of the [ISS]. Some parts of it are simply getting too old and obviously that risk grows over time,' Musk posted early Friday morning.
The renewed push to decommission ISS came hours after NASA delayed a private astronaut mission by Axiom Space Inc because of a pressure leak in one of the station's Russian-built sections, meaning there could be less air to breathe.
The billionaire leader of SpaceX, Tesla, and X has been calling for NASA to scrap the $150 billion project since February.
At the time, Musk was also the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and recommended to President Trump that the station be brought down 'as soon as possible.'
#1
...This isn't really anything new; it's been assumed for a few years now that ISS was going to have to come down. It would save money if it was deorbited sooner, but that's about it.
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Amid news that at least thirty-five Mexican citizens have been detained during a series of protests in Los Angeles, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has condemned the violent immigration raids and violence and said the detainees are already receiving consular support from the Mexican government.
Sheinbaum also said that Mexican men and women living in the United States are not criminals, but good, honest people who went to another country in search of a better life for themselves
…illegally…
and their families. In addition, the Mexican leader condemned any form of violence at mass demonstrations.
And so they should.
A few days later, Sheinbaum reiterated her support for the detainees and said the government would “continue to use all available diplomatic and legal channels” to express its displeasure with a practice that criminalizes migration and threatens the safety and well-being of Mexican communities in the United States.
At home one must obey local and national laws. Abroad one must obey that nation’s laws, including not entering the nation without permission.
According to official Mexico City, the majority of those against whom the Trump administration has claims are actually in California legally and, even if they do not have the necessary documents, they have lived there for more than five years, regularly pay taxes and support the American economy.
Not legal if they don’t have the necessary documents. Dumb if they break laws while protesting and get themselves arrested.
Soon, Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente revealed a new number of arrested compatriots: forty-two people. They were caught not at protests, but at their workplaces, for example, at a textile factory.
Based on this report, Sheinbaum again began to talk about the benefits migrants bring to the United States and how unfair it is to subject them to forced removal, brutal detention, and economic sanctions.
In the latter case, she referred to a new White House initiative to impose an additional tax on cross-border remittances that migrants regularly send to their families.
Among other things, Sheinbaum also spoke about the fact that if necessary, all Mexicans will “mobilize” because they do not want taxes on transfers from their own compatriots.
Too bad. So sad.
The phrase was immediately picked up by international media, which interpreted it as a call for Mexicans living in the United States to protest.
Even US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem condemned Sheinbaum and accused her of inciting those who vandalized Los Angeles. The Mexican president immediately rejected the accusations, saying that she condemns any kind of violence and does not encourage any side in the conflict to do so.
AGGRESSION IS GROWING
The words of the Mexican leadership are perceived skeptically in the information field and are successfully used to further inflame protest sentiments. This could not have happened without the "help" of members of the ruling party MORENA, namely the president of the Senate of Mexico Gerardo Fernandez Noronha, who stated that the territories where anti-immigration protests are currently taking place belonged to Mexico until 1830, and the Mexicans living there are in their homeland.
He hinted that he wanted to return the legendary Aztlan, the semi-mythical ancestral home of the Aztecs, and also outlined the territories lost by Mexico during the war with the United States in 1846-1848 - California, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, part of Wyoming, Arizona and others.
In the United States, the ideology of the return of Aztlan is quite popular among Chicanos - Americans of Mexican descent who combine two cultures and live right on the territory of the "disputed" states.
They speak Spanish, celebrate certain holidays with their people, and have fairly nationalistic views. However, they are US citizens, often not in the first or even second generation.
It was these people who suddenly found themselves in the sights of federal immigration enforcement - agents grabbed and arrested them by mistake, it was their neighborhoods that were raided in less than friendly ways and shaken down for helping illegal immigrants.
To be honest, it was not in vain that they shook - the tradition of helping fellow countrymen, and at the same time numerous relatives, is quite strong among Chicanos.
However, the excessive pressure on the communities contributed to their increased aggression and also to their predisposition to recruitment by members of the Democratic Party, who made the Chicano communities the face of the new American protest.
They were the first to wave Mexican flags in Los Angeles County, and a little later to shout that the main illegals here were the Americans themselves, who should have “gotten out” of this foreign land long ago.
CONFLICT AT THE LEVEL OF MEANINGS
Some experts believe that a kind of “bomb” was planted under the United States during the period of the seizure of part of the Mexican territories, as well as through the exploitation of the economic dependence of the Central American countries.
The last many years have been a kind of symbol of the "power" of the White House, but in the end it came back to haunt them: the population of poor countries, unable to earn a living in their homeland, either joins the ranks of the next drug cartel, or tries to go where there is work.
The mistake of the Californian leadership was that, in an effort to win the standoff with the Republican Party, it demonstratively refused any immigration control and launched even more of their compatriots into an already problematic territory with a Spanish-speaking population. And then it simply left everything as it was.
The Republicans, in turn, did not take into account the specifics of the region and began to arrest all Hispanics and Indians indiscriminately, naturally provoking negativity towards the federal center. In addition, Donald Trump's regular economic threats to neighboring countries do not improve the migration situation, but only heat up the situation in the border region.
Thus, talk of a “new civil war” in the United States is not without foundation. Of course, such narratives are still more relevant for the southern American lands, but the conflict at the level of meanings has clearly gone much further.
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The Louisiana PURCHASE of 1803 was where Thomas Jefferson BOUGHT Louisiana from the French, who had "conquered" it (not very convincingly beyond Baton Rouge). The Gadsden Purchase was also a financial deal, not conquest, as was Alaska. Maybe it's time Mexico City received an ARCLIGHT strike or six to remind them we, too, are a sovereign nation, and have become very tired of their "reconquesta" bullsh##.
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Didn't the Aztecs get their asses kicked in what is northern Chihuahua and never really advanced past there?
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The more I read about the Aztecs, the more I think it was a good thing that the Spaniards conquered them.
Many of the ancient Mesoamerican cultures practiced human sacrifice but the Aztecs did it more. They would take people from other tribes that they conquered, haul them to the top of one of their pyramids, hold them down on a stone slab, cut their chests open, rip their hearts out and show it to the cheering crowd. Quetzalcoatl told them not to do it but then they kicked him out and went at it with renewed gusto.
Yes, they were good at math, astronomy and architecture but a lot of what they did in those fields they learned from the Mayans.
They were enthusiastic conquerors themselves, making war on neighboring tribes to expand their empire.
We don't need that shit in America.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has condemned the violent immigration raids...
The raids only get violent when ICE agents are met with violent resistance from the immigrantscriminals.
Hey, Claudia! Take your criminals back. Bitch, we're onto you and your little reconquista will not succeed.
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[NewsFront] 20:53 Russian fiber-optic drone hits Ukrainian self-propelled gun, exploding ammunition —video. 20:27 A driver with the call sign "Hachiko" works in a group that lays fiber optic cables and provides communications between units in the liberated territories.
Signalmen are always a priority target for the enemy, since the entire command of the troops depends on their work. Therefore, encounters with enemy drones during combat missions for the Hachiko group are not uncommon.
A fighter about one of the difficult duels with the Ukrainian "bird"toldto the correspondent of the newspaper "Ural Military News" Konstantin Kamensky.
19:23 Stepovaya Novoselovka came under the control of the Russian Federation. Kupyansk direction –MAP
18:44 Fierce fighting near Pokrovsk –VIDEO
A selection of combat work by fighters of the Center group of forces on June 13 to destroy robotic complexes, military equipment, weapons, infantry and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during active combat operations in the Pokrovsky direction.
17:49 Sappers of the Dnepr group of troops are improving skills of working with UAVs at the training ground
The use of UAVs allows engineers to conduct preliminary reconnaissance of the area and identify minefields from a safe distance, significantly reducing risks.
16:50 Tor SAM system crew of the Vostok group of forces destroyed enemy attack UAVs
The anti-aircraft missile system crew successfully repelled an attack by Ukrainian Armed Forces unmanned aerial vehicles in the South Donetsk direction —video.
15:57 Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces – First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov checked execution of combat missions by the West troop group in the area of the special military operation.
At the command post, the Chief of the General Staff heard reports from the commander of the West group of forces, Colonel General Sergei Kuzovlev, and other officials of the group on the current situation in the area of responsibility.
Summing up, General of the Army Valery Gerasimov noted the successes of the units and military units of the West group of forces in fulfilling the assigned tasks and gave instructions for further actions.
At the end of the work, the Chief of the General Staff presented state awards to the most distinguished servicemen of the West group of forces and thanked them for the courage and bravery they demonstrated during the military operations.
15:25 Criminal Kyiv regime continues shelling civilian infrastructure of populated areas of the left bank of the Kherson region
Yesterday, during the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces released:
– 11 rounds in the village of Novaya Kakhovka;
- According to n.p. Vasilyevka Four rounds;
– Four rounds in the village of Sofievka;
- According to n.p. Kakhovka 5 rounds;
– Two rounds in the village of Malokakhovka;
– Six rounds to the settlement of Velikaya Lepetikha.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Aleshki, Kazachi Lagerya, Korsunka, Malaya Lepetikha, and Knyaze-Grigorovka, firing a total of 22 rounds from barrel artillery. Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction are being clarified.
14:44 Operators of Ussuri paratroopers' attack UAVs destroyed enemy vehicles and armored vehicles in Sumy Oblast.
In the South Donetsk direction, FPV drone crews of the Vostok group of forces destroyed the firing position of a T-72 tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a forest belt –VIDEO
12:35 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation from June 7 to June 13, 2025
During the week, units of the North military group liberated the settlement of Yablonovka in Sumy Oblast during offensive operations.
Air strikes, unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery fire damaged the manpower and equipment of four mechanized, a Jaeger, two airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and four territorial defense brigades. Over the week, in the area of responsibility of the North group of forces, the enemy's losses amounted to over 1,135 servicemen, two tanks, 14 combat armored vehicles, 29 cars and 39 field artillery guns. Five electronic warfare stations and 10 ammunition depots were destroyed.
📍The units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous positions. They defeated the formations of three mechanized, motorized infantry, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade.
The enemy lost over 1,555 servicemen, three tanks, 13 armored combat vehicles, including two US-made M-113 armored personnel carriers, and 87 cars. Nineteen field artillery pieces were destroyed, including five made by NATO countries, 17 electronic warfare stations, and 30 ammunition depots.
🚩Units of the Southern Group of Forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defenses and liberated the settlement of Zarya in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The manpower and equipment of four mechanized, motorized infantry, two assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were damaged. Over the week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 1,175 servicemen, a tank, three combat armored vehicles, 21 vehicles and 15 field artillery guns. Six electronic warfare stations, 11 ammunition and material depots were destroyed.
Units of the Center group of forces have reached the western border of the Donetsk People's Republic and are continuing to develop the offensive on the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
As a result of decisive actions, the settlements of Petrovskoye, Alekseyevka and Koptevo of the Donetsk People's Republic were liberated.
💥Defeat was inflicted on formations of five mechanized, two airborne assault, and assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade, two territorial defense brigades, two national guard brigades, and the Azov* special forces brigade.
The enemy lost over 3,660 servicemen, 38 armored combat vehicles, 41 cars and 40 field artillery pieces.
Over the past week, units of the "East" military grouping have liberated the settlement of Komar in the Donetsk People's Republic as a result of active operations.
💥The manpower and equipment of three mechanized, airborne assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and two territorial defense brigades were damaged. The enemy's losses amounted to more than 1,435 servicemen, two tanks, 17 combat armored vehicles, 39 cars, 28 field artillery guns and five electronic warfare stations.
💥Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 610 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 47 vehicles and 15 field artillery guns. 26 electronic and counterbattery warfare stations, as well as nine ammunition depots, were destroyed.
12:15 During the offensive, the settlements of Yablonovka in Sumy Oblast, Komar and Koptevo in Donetsk People's Republic were liberated –MAP
12:14 Last week RF Armed Forces inflicted seven massive group strikes with high-precision weapons and attack UAVs on military facilities in Ukraine.
As a result, the following are affected:
Enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine;
Infrastructure of military airfields;
Radar stations;
Production workshops, storage areas and launch sites for attack drones;
Arsenals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
Temporary deployment points for Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries.
11:40 Far Easterners advance near Komar. Attack aircraft gradually push the enemy into the village, also driving the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the plantations near Zaporozhye –MAP
10:26 Paratroopers of the North group of forces brokes tubborn resistance of the enemy and liberated the settlement of Yablonovka in the originally Russian Sumy region.
08:50 Crew of the 152mm 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled gun of the West group of forces stopped rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the Svatovo-Kupyansk direction.
07:36 In the period from 21:45 Moscow time on June 12 to 05:25 Moscow time on June 13, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 125 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
70 UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
15 UAVs over the territory of the Oryol region,
11 UAVs over the territories of the Kursk and Saratov regions,
Nine UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region,
Seven UAVs over the waters of the Black Sea,
One UAV over the territories of the Bryansk and Voronezh regions.
07:32 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:
Advance towards np Katerinovka
Orekhovo has been liberated
Expansion of the control zone in Chasov Yar
Advance to the village of Komar and further north➡️
Expansion of the control zone in Grigorovka
Enemy controls Torskoe
Adjustment of the control zone in the area of the settlements of Zeleny Kut and Novoukrainka
06:33 Snipers of the Guards Airborne Assault Don Cossack Regiment of the Novorossiysk Guards Airborne Assault Mountain Unit of the Airborne Forces shared features of their combat work. They told what targets they shoot at and demonstrated one of the downed drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
05:28 Calculation of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the group of forces "Center" inflicted a massive attack on the fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are engaged in heavy fighting in the east and south of Ukraine.
The most active battles continue in the Pokrovsk direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have repelled more than 30 attacks in the areas of 10 populated areas.
Since the beginning of the current day, 113 battles have taken place on the front. The Russian army is most active in the Liman, Pokrovsk, Novopavlovsk and Kursk directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational summary as of 16:00 on Friday, June 13.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the enemy is trying to advance in the area of Vovchansk and Kamyanka. One attack has been repelled, two combat clashes are continuing.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked five times near Stepova Novoselovka, Novaya Kruglyakovka and towards Novoplatonovka. The battle is currently ongoing.
In the Liman direction, nine attacks were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Novy Mir, Sergeyevka, Lipovoye, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye and Grigoryevka. Four more attacks are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces stopped two assaults towards Serebryanka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, there were five enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Markovo, Kurdyumovka and in the direction of Belaya Gora. The clash is still ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the Russians carried out 11 assaults in the area of Toretsk, Aleksandro-Kalinovye, Yablunovka and Rusiny Yar. Two combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the occupiers have already carried out 35 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Popov Yar, Mirolyubovka, Promen, Lisovka, Zvirovo, Kotlin, Novosergeevka, Udachnoye, Gorikhovoye and Alekseyevka. Our defenders have already repelled 33 attacks.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the invaders launched an offensive 16 times near the settlements of Otradnoye, Skudnoye, Vesyoloye, Burlatskoye, Novosyolka and Zelenoe Pole. Six battles are ongoing.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, our defenders repelled an attack in the Malinovka area.
In the Orekhov direction, a battle is underway in the Nesteryanka area.
In the Dnieper direction, Ukrainian units are currently fighting one battle.
In the Kursk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled 17 attacks, three combat clashes continue.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on June 12, Russia lost more than 1,200 servicemen killed and wounded. The total number of losses of the aggressor country exceeded 1 million people.
[Washingtonian] A man who climbed a radio tower at American University on Tuesday jumped from the structure Friday morning in what appears to be a suicide, police say.
The man, who has yet to be identified, climbed halfway up the 321-foot-high tower and refused to come down. Officials on the scene Thursday told Washingtonian they were in communication with the man via a cell phone they’d managed to get to him. They said the man threatened harm anyone who tried to get him off the structure, which WAMU, WTOP, and other broadcasters use as an antenna.
"The matter is now a death investigation," a police spokesperson tells Washingtonian.
[GEO.TV] Seven men of Asian-origin have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two vulnerable white schoolgirls in Rochdale, following a harrowing case that exposed years of grooming, abuse, and coercion.
Everyone knows. Every few years they convict a few Pakistani groomers for committing the fun jihad of rape for decades, but nothing happens to the police, politicians, and social workers who covered it up for decades and continue to cover it up today through a culture of public disbelief and intimidation, all because they don’t want to rock the boat, given how poorly the local Moslem colonists respond when the local kaffirs forget the submission required from the conquered native.
According to police, the defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as ''sex slaves'' from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.
It started decades earlier and is still going on today.
Both girls had ''deeply troubled home lives'' and were given drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, places to stay and people to be with, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
That’s what grooming looks like.
Soon after, they were expected to have sex ''whenever and wherever'' the defendants and other men wanted in filthy flats, on rancid mattresses, in cars, car parks, alleyways and disused warehouses.
Jurors deliberated for three weeks before delivering their unanimous guilty verdicts on Friday.
Why on earth did it take them longer than three minutes?
Three of the abusers, Mohammed Zahid, 64, Mushtaq Ahmed, 67, and Kasir Bashir, 50 — all born in Pakistain — were stallholders on the town's indoor market.
Father-of-three Zahid — known as Boss Man — gave away undergarments from his lingerie stall to both complainants, and also money, alcohol and food in return for the expectation of regular cohabitation with him and his friends.
In 2016, Zahid was tossed in the slammer
anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not
for five years in an earlier grooming gang case after he engaged in sexual activity in 2006 with a 15-year-old girl whom he met when she visited his stall to buy tights for school.
If the sentence for all involved did not include castration with a rusty spoon and confiscation of all their worldly goods, to be given to the victims, it is grossly inadequate.
Bashir did not attend the current trial as jurors were ordered not to speculate, but it can be revealed that he absconded while on bail before the trial got underway.
Add his name to Interpol Red Notice and international NoFly lists. Let hi be stuck in Pakistan, if he likes it so much.
It can also be reported that co-defendants Mohammed Shahzad, 44, Naheem Akram, 48, and Nisar Hussain, 41, were remanded in jug with their bail revoked in January before the jury was sworn in.
Police received intelligence that the three Rochdale-born taxi drivers were planning to leave the UK and had already paid a deposit for their transport, the court heard.
All three denied the accusation but Judge Jonathan Seely said the court was not prepared to take a risk that they too would abscond.
A seventh defendant, Pak-born Roheez Khan, 39, also featured in another previous Rochdale grooming trial in 2013 when he was one of five men convicted of sexually exploiting a ''profoundly vulnerable'' 15-year-old girl in 2008 and 2009.
Khan was tossed in the slammer
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for six-and-a-half years for engaging in sexual activity with a child and witness intimidation.
Israel has resumed its strikes on Iran, targeting the underground Fordow nuclear facility. Natanz has suffered heavy damage, and explosions are being reported across several areas in Tehran.
#BREAKING Israeli airstrikes target position in Iranian city of Fardis, located in north-central province of Alborz, according to local media reports pic.twitter.com/uVDS7ScADY
Israeli airstrikes hit Iran’s Nojeh airbase, located near the city of Hamadan, twice within an hour on Friday, with no immediate details on casualties or damage https://t.co/rgykehR73Xpic.twitter.com/ehXHDYmhY1
Fires reported at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport
[GEO.TV] Following reports of fresh explosions in Tehran, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency has released footage appearing to show fires blazing at Mehrabad International Airport. Thick plumes of smoke can be seen rising from the site, though the cause of the fire has not yet been confirmed.
Commentary by Russian military field correspondent @epoddubny
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The idea of carrying out an operation aimed simultaneously against Iran's missile and nuclear programs, which Netanyahu called existential threats to Israel, arose after Iran struck Israel in October 2024 during a new round of escalation between the countries, Axios writes.
The military operation included not only airstrikes, but also the active work of the Mossad, which has its agents in Iran to carry out sabotage, primarily on Iranian air defense facilities.
Axios also notes that even after Donald Trump resumed negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal, Israel continued to prepare for the operation - collecting intelligence, accumulating resources, conducting training. At the same time, Washington could not have been unaware of this.
According to the publication, the United States only pretended to be against Iran's attack. Washington's disagreement was only formal. "We had a clear green light from the United States," one of Axios's sources in the Israeli government said.
According to them, the real purpose of this publicity stunt was to mislead Iran — to create the impression that an attack was not planned and to prevent potential targets from changing their location.
In the first hours after the strikes, the Trump administration seemed to distance itself from the Israeli operation, but now we hear another statement from the owner of the White House — either Iran makes a deal on its nuclear program, or it will be even worse.
Now superimpose this situation on the war in Ukraine and negotiations with the United States, when the United States also declares to gullible listeners in Moscow that it is also against attacks on Russian facilities...
More from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin: Israel attacked Iran. 06/13/2025 Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Early in the morning, Israel attacked Iran.
The use of up to 200 aircraft that dropped up to 330 bombs and missiles was declared.
A number of Iranian nuclear program facilities were hit, including the reactor in Natanz. Several nuclear physicists were killed. The facility in Fordow and the nuclear power plant in Bushehr were not damaged.
Some Iranian military facilities associated with Iran's missile and drone programs were also hit.
In addition, strikes were carried out on the accommodation of high-ranking Iranian officials - among the dead were the Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Bagheri and the commander of the IRGC Salami.
The strike was carried out with the help and support of the United States, which used, among other things, its tanker aircraft and were aware of the targets and time of the strike. Thus, the United States began to actively help Israel repel the retaliatory attack by Iranian drones.
Oil immediately rose in price by 13%.
Iran promised a retaliatory attack in the near future. We are waiting.
Iran launches new round of missiles at Israel
Iran early Saturday launched a new wave of missiles strikes against Israel from Tehran and Kermanshah, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
Ahmad Vahidi,
… previously Iran’s Interior Minister (2021-2024), still member of the Expediency Discernment Council. His resumé includes commanding the IRGC Quds force (1988-?) and Minister of Defense (2009-2013) under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Possibly all that means he is clever enough to go toe to toe with Israel, but at least he won’t be going into the job blind…
the new head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that Iran’s Operation True Promise III will continue “as long as necessary.”
Footage provided by AFP shows one of the Iranian missiles striking a large building in central Tel Aviv.
Iran downs two Israeli jets, captures pilots: Tasnim
Iran’s air defense systems shot down two Israeli F-35 fighter jets and captured two pilots, the semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported. One of the captured pilots is a woman, according to Tasnim. A large number of smaller aircraft were also destroyed, the news agency added.
Iran fires retaliatory missiles at Israel
Iran’s armed forces have launched retaliatory strikes on Israel, state media IRNA reported. Israeli Defense Forces said Iran fired “dozens” of missiles.
Israeli airstrikes killed 86, injured over 340 in Iran
At least 86 people were killed and over 340 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Iran Friday, including senior military officials and nuclear scientists, according to figures from media and provincial crisis authorities.
In the capital Tehran, 78 people were killed and 329 were injured, according to unofficial figures reported by Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In East Azerbaijan, in northwest Iran, the provincial Crisis Management Office announced that “The number of martyrs of the Zionist regime's attacks on Tabriz has reached eight. The number of injured in this crime is also 12,” according to Fars.
Among those killed in the Israeli strikes were top IRGC officials General Hossein Salami, General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, General Gholam Ali Rashid, and Aerospace Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, along with nuclear scientists Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, Amir Hossein Faqhi, and Fereydoun Abbasi. Five professors from Shahid Beheshti University were also among the dead.
Civilians are also among the casualties of airstrikes that targeted residential areas.
Trump says Iran should make a deal before ‘nothing left’
Prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al Sadr urges Baghdad to stay out of Israel-Iran conflict
Working on a future income stream for the Erdogan neo-Ottoman sultinate.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Thursday visited the Ottoman Turkish research vessel Oruc Reis, which has been conducting offshore oil exploration along Somalia’s coast, following the completion of a key seismic survey.
The president hailed the mission as a "strategic milestone" and praised Ottoman Turkish and Somali personnel for their joint efforts in advancing the country’s energy ambitions.
"This is a significant achievement that strengthens our objective for Somalia to fully benefit from its natural resources and convert them into economic and social progress," Mohamud said during the visit. "The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has consistently played a leading role in demonstrating that Somalia is a country worth investing in."
The president reiterated his administration’s commitment to boosting the national economy by tapping into Somalia’s vast untapped natural resources, which officials say could play a crucial role in addressing the country’s development challenges.
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[FoxNews] Texas officials vow swift accountability for property damage as nationwide unrest continues
The Austin Police Department (APD) has released mugshots of eight people who were arrested after anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators turned violent this week.
The arrests came amid nationwide unrest that began in Los Angeles on June 7, when protests against recent ICE raids in the LA area turned violent, with agitators burning cars, throwing objects and fireworks at police, vandalizing property, blocking roads and resisting arrest throughout last weekend.
The LA riots have since bled into other major cities across the country, which are bracing for more protests and potential violence on Saturday.
After Monday's protests in Austin, Texas, APD said the department "is committed to transparency and public safety and is sharing details regarding the events, officer injuries, arrests, and preparations for the days ahead."
"APD fully supports the constitutional right to peaceful protest and values civic engagement. However, unlawful actions that place the community or officers at risk will not be tolerated, and these incidents will be addressed," APD said in a press release.
The Austin demonstration began at the Texas Capitol on Monday evening, which was closed at the time. Protesters moved through downtown Austin and eventually gathered at the J.J. Pickle Federal Building, "where individuals began defacing property with graffiti," APD said.
"Officers issued dispersal orders and moved the crowd west along 8th Street. Two individuals were arrested for criminal mischief related to the graffiti," police said.
Tensions continued to escalate throughout the evening as agitators began throwing rocks at officers, and one person spat in an officer's eye, according to police.
"In an effort to de-escalate, officers briefly withdrew, but the crowd advanced again. Officers held their position to prevent further damage and to protect both protesters and themselves, deploying pepperball towards the ground, to saturate the area," APD said.
Officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety, which helped respond to the rioting, deployed tear gas to deter agitators from the federal building. Some protesters threw scooters and barricades into roadways as officers continued trying to contain the crowd.
By the end of the evening, APD made eight arrests, noting that a total of four officers were injured and hospitalized in the riots. Three of the four officers were struck by rocks and the fourth suffered a shoulder injury. They are expected to make full recoveries, APD said.
Conor Williams and Abigail Pore are charged with criminal mischief related to graffiti on a federal building, Alexandra Haddix is charged with failure to obey a lawful order, Cody Bates is charged with harassment of a public official, Edgar Tovar is charged with reckless driving, Shaneal Harun is charged with rioting and resisting arrest, Margarito Perez Montalvo is charged with interference with public duties and resisting arrest and Hayden Perez is charged with failure to obey a lawful order and harassment of a public servant.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday announced the deployment of National Guard troops across the state in response to protests.
"The State of Texas stands ready to deploy all necessary personnel and resources to uphold law and order across our state," Abbott's press secretary, Andrew Mahaleris, told Fox News Digital in a statement earlier this week. "Texas National Guard soldiers are on standby in areas where mass demonstrations are planned in case they are needed."
Mahaleris noted that while "peaceful protests are part of the fabric of our nation," the Lone Star state "will not tolerate the lawlessness we have seen in Los Angeles."
"Anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property will be swiftly held accountable to the full extent of the law," Mahaleris said.
Early Tuesday evening, as National Guard troops faced off against protesters and rioters on the streets of Los Angeles, powerful teachers’ union president Randi Weingarten hosted a virtual town hall with Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.and two leading political operatives in Democratic Party politics, Leah Greenberg, founder of a political nonprofit, Indivisible, and Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of another political nonprofit, National Action Network.
Greenberg hailed an upcoming wave of protests this Saturday — set to sweep through even "really red areas of the country," marked with mostly Republican voters — as a stand against President Donald Trump. Throughout the call, Weingarten beamed, excited. Sharpton phoned in his enthusiasm about people with "different political beliefs" uniting. They touted Saturday’s campaign as the "#NoKings" protest.
But what they didn’t detail is the massive network of Democratic organizations funding and orchestrating this supposedly spontaneous uprising.
As editor-in-chief of the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative I founded in honor of my friend and colleague, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, I’ve spent the past two decades investigating how ideology, identity politics, and sectarian hatred can turn violent. Radicalized Pakistani militants brutally murdered Danny after kidnapping him in 2002 on the streets of Karachi, Pakistan, and demonizing him as an American, a Jew and a grandson of Israel. I have warned about an unholy alliance between far-left radicalism and Islamist extremism, and it has now come home to the streets of the United States.
In my 2023 book, "Woke Army," I documented how this alliance has morphed into a new threat inside our institutions, from higher education to politics — weaponizing identity and cause-based activism, like immigration, to undermine civil society.
The #NoKings protest is the latest front in this propaganda war.
According to new research by the Pearl Project, the #NoKings protest is being organized by an estimated 198 groups, all of which are aligned with the Democratic Party and many of which claim tax-exempt, "nonpartisan" nonprofit status. Collectively, these groups take in $2.1 billion in annual revenues.
Here is the breakdown of 198 "partners" listed in the official publicity material for the financial and political machine behind #NoKings:
Three official entities of the Democratic National Committee: College Democrats of America, Manhattan Young Democrats and Westside Democratic Headquarters in Norwalk, Calif.
16 Democratic political action committees, or PACs, including Friends of Bernie Sanders, Progressive Democrats of America and Vote Blue — with about $19.4 million in spending power for Democratic political candidates.
18 Democratic-aligned 501(c)(5) labor unions, including lead organizer, the American Federation of Teachers, along with the United Auto Workers, the Communications Workers of America and the National Treasury Employees Union, with a total of $1.1 billion in revenues, most of their political contributions going to Democratic candidates.
76 Democratic-aligned 501(c)(4) political nonprofits, including the ACLU, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, Working Families Organization Inc., Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood Action Fund and lead organizer Indivisible Project, all with another $734.3 million in revenues.
47 501(c)(3) nonprofits, legally restricted from partisan advocacy, including innocuous-sounding groups like the Unitarian Universalist Association, Accountable US and the American Humanist Association, with $286.7 million to the cause.
38 additional Democratic-aligned groups, including Michigan Resistance Coalition, Families Over Billionaires, 50501, Tax the Greedy Billionaire and Mennonite Action, with undisclosed financials.
I’ve made the research public in an online database that I am working on making into a user-friendly digital encyclopedia for the protest industry, so everyone from parents to police officers can understand the organizations fomenting chaos from our streets to our campuses.
I’ve been tracking the anti-Trump protesters since 2017 when #Resistance became the buzzword for activists like Palestinian American Linda Sarsour, leading the Women’s March against Trump. Since Trump’s inauguration this past January, I’ve investigated the companies behind the #TeslaTakedown, #HandsOff and #MayDay protests that have marked "resistance 2.0" over the past several months against the Trump administration.
The groups include several organizations, including Jewish Voice for Peace and Sarsour’s MPower Change Action Fund, that represent the unholy alliance of Islamist sympathizers and leftists who have fueled fiery protests against the existence of the state of Israel, following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas on Israelis. I’ve identified 1,500 groups in the anti-semitism protest industry.
Most certainly, this week’s protests and the protests coming up are not an organic, citizen-led "resistance."
This is top-down political warfare, branded as grassroots activism but actually an AstroTurf political operation.
The anti-Trump protest industry is very broad, and these are some additional findings:
Along with the 198 groups behind #NoKings with revenues of $2.1 billion, there are another 267 groups that have been organizing protests against Trump with revenues of $1.3 billion.
That makes a total of about 465 groups aligned with the Democratic Party with combined revenues of $3.4 billion organizing protests against Trump since January.
The #TeslaTakedown protests included an estimated 32 local and state affiliates of the Democratic National Committee, from Florida to California, who put Tesla CEO Elon Musk in their crosshairs.
These organizations are not your local knitting club. They are professional protest organizers.
For the #NoKings protest, the "Indivisible Digital Asset Management" team has assembled an online digital "brand folder" with 29 brand "assets" in a folder marked "Flyers, Rally Signs, & Printed Materials," 25 "assets" in a "Graphics" folder, 8 "Templates," two logos, a brand palette of four vibrant branding colors, easy-to-read fonts and engaging "design elements."
Indivisible also created a 12-page digital "NO KINGS Toolkit for Hosts," shared on Google Docs, with "messaging," "NO KINGS Mobilization Tactics," "sample event agenda" and tips on "getting media attention." Its tips noted: "Identify at least 1 group member to be responsible for firing up the crowd…" I’m including various parts of this orchestrated protest in an online protest industry folder.
Some of the sample messages for signs: "NO KINGS IN AMERICA!," "Stop the Shakedown!" and "We are Not For Sale!" They will be repeated across the country.
The templates have been leveraged to now create a cookie-cutter production of graphics on social media orchestrated around the hashtag #NoKings.
Importantly, just as the mainstream media examines the dynamics of "white supremacy," "fascism" and "MAGA," we must not be naïve about the ideological undercurrents driving "progressive" protests to violence.
A while back, The New York Times exposed a wealthy tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, for funding and promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda, and he has been tied to funding many of the groups – Party for Socialism and Liberation, the People’s Forum, the Answer Coalition and CodePink — engaged in the most confrontational protests in recent days and months against Israel and the United States. These groups are proudly self-described socialist organizations stoking discontent to push an anti-capitalist, anti-American agenda.
While Singham doesn’t yet appear to have his fingerprints directly on the #NoKings protest, the ideological DNA is the same.
The #NoKings protest is likely to be the next playing field for the anti-ICE, anti-Trump agitators. Indeed, #ResistTrump, one of the "partners" for Saturday’s protests, promotes an "orientation" slide deck that itemizes the elements of "expressing political dissent" from "voting to violence." While the group claims to promote "non-violence," it includes – without comment – "political violence" as a part of the continuum of protest, including "armed revolts," "riots," "terrorism" and "insurrections."
#ResistTrump outlines a "theory of change" to "remove or replace Trump" and realize a "future without Trump."
As an investigative journalist, I am reporting on the protest industry and its propaganda, because these protests are not just political statements. They are well-financed, orchestrated performances—designed to generate viral imagery, manipulate public perception and blur the line between civic engagement and ideological agitation.
Fairfax County resident Lissa Kenkel, a researcher who helped me cull data for the #NoKings protest, has been studying protests since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas in Israel, and she said: "The irony is staggering about the groups driving the NoKings uprisings."
"The very people bankrolling and leading these so-called grassroots movements are the crowned royalty of the non-profit world, sitting in their air-conditioned offices, collecting six-figure salaries, while encouraging the common folk to torch their own cities in the name of ‘saving democracy," she said. "It’s manufactured chaos, sold as revolution, by people who wouldn’t last five minutes in the rubble they’re creating."
[FoxNews] Sheriff warns of 'violent agitators' as law enforcement prepares for more demonstrations against Trump administration
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert G. Luna announced Friday that nearly a dozen deputies were injured during the ongoing riots.
The riots began June 6 as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was conducting raids in the city and surrounding counties.
Luna said 10 deputies were injured after protesters hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and "high-grade pyrotechnics" at them.
"We have been encountering some interesting weapons out there," Luna said. "[There is a] big difference between the peaceful protesters and the individuals who are coming out with weapons to attack our folks."
The news conference focused on plans to address planned nationwide protests Saturday against the Trump administration.
"It's a good cause, but we do not want violent agitators out there destroying property or committing acts of violence specifically against our police officers, deputy sheriffs and CHP [California Highway Patrol] officers," Luna said. "I just want to remind everybody that our deputies have and continue to face a dangerous situation out there."
Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said the LAPD is "fully prepared" for the upcoming planned demonstrations and "unprecedented" crowds.
"We're closely monitoring developments and deploying our personnel and resources strategically to protect public safety while safeguarding every individual's right to protest peacefully," McDonnell said.
"If you come to our city with the intent to commit crimes, damage property or harm others, including our officers, you will be arrested," he added. "We will not allow violence, vandalism or threats to public safety to undermine the rights of those who are demonstrating lawfully. We're asking everyone who plans to participate in Saturday's event to do so peacefully and respectfully."
Since the onset of the protests, McDonnell said hundreds of people have been arrested.
Good to know. How many were arrested by local police and sheriffs vs. the feds. and of those how many were not released immediately on their own recognizance?
He added that a curfew, which will remain in effect through the weekend, "has played a key role in helping to restore order, particularly by curbing the criminal activity that was largely occurring during the evening hours."
CHP troopers will be on active patrol throughout the state looking for areas of concern.
There will also be a focus on protecting state infrastructure.
"If you're an adult, come down and do stupid stuff, then you're going to have the consequence of going to jail. So just understand that. You come down, and you want to play, we will take you to jail and if we gotta use force, we'll use the appropriate force to take you into custody."
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[Korrespondent] Active fighting continues in certain areas of the front.
At present, the Russians are besieging areas along the border highways - up to Chasovy Yar and Toretsk, but there are no real successes. Street battles in the cities continue.
Fighting near Dvurechnaya in the Kharkiv region continues, Russian troops have failed to break through the defense of the Ukrainian military, despite the statements of propagandists about successes. This was stated by the spokesman of the operational-strategic group Khortytsia , Major Viktor Tregubov, ArmyInform reported on Friday, June 13.
"Active battles are taking place directly in Dvurechnaya. Ukrainian soldiers are trying to hold their positions in the city, despite constant attacks from the enemy," Tregubov noted.
At present, the Russians are besieging the strips near the border roads - up to Chasovy Yar and Toretsk, but there are no real successes. Street battles in the cities continue.
According to the speaker, the Russian troops are trying to use light motor vehicles for quick maneuvers. However, the terrain and engineering defenses are on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"The splinter has become a serious obstacle for the occupiers: forcing the crossing is impossible due to problems with equipment and logistics," he added.
As of today, the enemy is unsuccessfully trying to advance across the bridges and the highway.
"Without viable logistics, they cannot deliver heavy equipment - as a result, they try with motor vehicles, cars and motorcycles," the speaker explained.
Earlier, the analytical project DeepState reported on the occupation of the village of Dvorichnaya by Russians.
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But, but, but, I was in charge. The money never actually never left the government. It was simply an accounting redirection of funding. "Iceberg"...no, no, no, it's the way we've always done business. Your account, my account, no one is actually accountable. All classified transactions which I am not at liberty to discuss.
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They get government funding, charge for abortions and sell baby parts. It’s a non-profit; so they jump up the salaries and dump kickback make donations to Dem politicians. The kiddie hormones are a side business that also serves to degrade our families.
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[Regnum] An unpredicted average magnetic storm has begun on Earth, which may reach a stronger level. This was reported on June 13 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“A magnetic storm has been registered on Earth since 11 p.m. Moscow time and as of 4 a.m. it has not stopped, reaching the G2.3 level at the moment,” the report says.
Scientists noted that the G2.3 score is considered above average, exceeding the threshold at which the impact on energy systems and radio propagation becomes noticeable.
"The causes of the storm are not clear at the moment. In recent hours, measuring instruments have shown a noticeable increase in plasma density, as well as magnetic field induction in the solar wind surrounding the Earth," the experts explained.
They added that the plasma speed is not increased, and this is the main indicator of the arrival of mass ejections or a flow of matter from a coronal hole to the Earth.
Scientists said that the development of the event is difficult to predict. According to current data, the planet is prematurely entering a 2-3-day period of complex geomagnetic conditions with strong fluctuations in geomagnetic indices.
On June 8, specialists from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Russian Academy of Sciences IKI reported that an exceptionally large plasma emission had occurred in the region of the Sun's south pole. According to specialists, a cloud of rare size and density was formed as a result of the destabilization of a giant solar prominence. Since it was located on the far side of the Sun, it was impossible to observe it from Earth.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: The CCP’s "Ignition Plan" is fueling chaos in Los Angeles! 💥 I reported in 2023 that the CCP aims to destabilize the U.S. from within. Now, violent unrest in Los Angeles may be part of that plan.
⚡️🇷🇺🛠 A new video has surfaced showing the replacement of a T-72 tank gun barrel in field conditions.
Tank crews from the Alexander Nevsky Brigade carried out a scheduled replacement of gun barrels on their active combat vehicles. The brigade’s Telegram channel shared footage… pic.twitter.com/SQrozBWfwv
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Tank crews from the Alexander Nevsky Brigade carried out a scheduled replacement of gun barrels on their active combat vehicles. The brigade’s Telegram channel shared footage of the process on a T-72B3 tank. Alexander Nevsky Brigade is a component of the Russian 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade.
At the start, the interior of the old barrel is shown, revealing the extent of wear caused by intensive use. By the time of filming, the thermal insulation sleeve had already been removed. The fume extractor, which channels propellant gases away from the breech, was the last component left to be dismantled.
Thanks to modern tank designs, there’s no need to remove the turret. The barrel tube can simply be unscrewed in place using a sledgehammer and the crane of a maintenance vehicle.
Once that’s done, a brand-new smoothbore barrel is installed in reverse order.
It was noted that, after final testing, the tanks would be returned to combat missions.
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[Regnum] The wreckage of a ship that sank in the 19th century has been found off the coast of Great Britain. CNN reported this on June 12.
According to diver Dom Robinson, he learned about the unidentified wreck from the British Hydrographic Office and decided to investigate it. The 53-year-old diver dove to the wreck and found a broken plate with the seal of the Cunard Steamship Company. Thanks to it, Robinson realized that he had found the steamship Nantes, which sank 140 years ago.
Plymouth University history professor Harry Bennett said the Nantes sank in November 1888 after colliding with the German vessel Theodor Ruger, which tore a huge hole in its side and smashed its lifeboats. The crew tried in vain to plug the leak. Of the 26 people on board, only three survived.
“The idea that you’re looking at a plate that the crew may have eaten their last meal off of is very, very moving,” Bennett said of the find, adding that he considers every shipwreck a time capsule.
Robinson shared Bennett's enthusiasm. According to him, there is nothing for the average person to explore, except to go down to the bottom of the sea, explore it, find things and identify them.
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[Regnum] At least 622 people were evacuated from the burning Asrin Beach Hotel in the Turkish resort of Alanya in Antalya Province. This was reported on June 12 by the IHA agency.
It is specified that the fire occurred on the night of June 12 in the basement, where the sauna and laundry are located. Ten fire brigades and doctors arrived at the scene.
"In total, 622 tourists were evacuated during the one-hour operation. Three tourists were hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning," the statement said.
The fire was localized and extinguished within an hour. The rescued people were moved to nearby hotels. As Alanya Mayor Osman Tarık Özçelik noted on the X social network, "the firefighters responded to the situation quickly and in a coordinated manner."
As Ozcelik noted, on April 22, the city authorities found that Asrin Beach Hotel did not have a license to receive guests, and the hotel was sealed to correct the deficiencies. But two days later, the hotel owners received a court order to postpone the measures to close. Alanya City Hall filed an appeal, which the court upheld, and on June 11, the hotel management received an official notice that the hotel would be sealed, and the owners were given time to resettle the guests.
According to the preliminary version, the fire was caused by faulty electrical wiring.
[BBC] Chancellor Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out future tax rises after the UK economy suffered its worst contraction for a year and a half in April.
The economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.3% after taxes increased for businesses, household bills jumped and exports to the US plunged.
The figures come a day after Reeves set out spending plans aimed at boosting growth, with funding increases for the NHS and defence, but budgets squeezed elsewhere.
Economists warned that a failure to increase UK growth would "almost certainly" lead to more tax rises later this year for the government to balance its spending commitments.
Reeves acknowledged the latest economic figures were "clearly disappointing" and refused to rule out tax rises when she next lays out her plans for the economy in the autumn Budget.
"No chancellor is able to write another four years of Budgets within a first year of government, you know how much uncertainty there is in the world at the moment," she told the BBC.
Monthly figures on the economy are volatile, and the more stable three-month figure to April showed the economy grew by 0.7%.
"With spending plans set... any move in the wrong direction will almost certainly spark more tax rises," said Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), an influential think tank.
Ruth Curtice, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation, agreed.
"A weaker economic outlook and the unfunded changes to winter fuel payments mean the chancellor will likely need to look again at tax rises in the Autumn," she said.
In Wednesday's Spending Review, Reeves prioritised ploughing billions into long-term projects, in a bid to boost economic growth and improve living standards.
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Sounds like they plan to take decisive action to accelerate the shrinkage. It’s like George Costanza pouring a glass of ice water down his bathing suit.
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Whoa— such insight! No wonder he’s paid the big bucks.
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