[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] People will go to all sorts of lengths to keep their homes safe, from fancy locks to security cameras.
But an expert has warned there’s one thing homeowners are forgetting to do that could be putting their house at risk.
Blurring your home on Google Maps could help to deter burglars who use the tool to learn about entryways, security measures and possible possessions, he said.
And the simple tactic could stop would-be robbers from targeting your home.
Ryan Railsback, an officer in the Riverside Police Department in Southern California, said he is aware of some homeowners already taking the protective step.
And he urged others to consider doing it too.
‘The crooks are looking for new and innovative ways to victimise people,’ he told ABC News. ‘It’s good for the public to be aware of that and counter what the criminals are already doing.’
So, how do you go about blurring your home?
To blur Google Street View you must send a request.
1. Find your home in Google Maps.
2. Open the Street View image that you want to blur.
3. In the bottom right, click 'Report a problem'.
4. Complete the 'Report a problem' form and submit.
[MoneyWise] If a mystery package shows up on your doorstep, don’t assume it’s a lucky break. It could mean your personal information has been exposed.
The U.S. Postal Service is warning Americans about a fast-growing scheme known as a “brushing” scam. It may look like a harmless delivery, like a keychain, some socks, a random kitchen gadget, but it’s often a red flag that cybercriminals have gotten hold of your name and address.
Worse, experts say these schemes can be just the beginning of a broader attempt to exploit your identity or financial accounts.
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TLDR: What to do? What you should already be doing.
Except for the password manager thing. When it comes out that they're being cracked, it'll be like cloud storage. They will already have everything.
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[FoxNews] Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Denver experienced 28-59% drop in homicides after boosting law enforcement budgets
One law enforcement group says that Americans are giving an "absolute rejection" to the "defund the police movement" as cities are increasing funding to police departments, and murder rates are dropping.
Some major cities have spent recent years increasing support for their police and saw a drop in homicides, something one law enforcement group says indicates an "absolute rejection" of efforts to defund them.
Cities such as Philadelphia, Denver, Minneapolis and New York City have increased their police budgets and have seen lower homicide rates in the first quarter of 2025, compared with 2024.
The Major Cities Chiefs Association, which compiled data from Jan. 1–March 31 in 2025 and 2024, showed that several cities with increased funding for police also experienced a drop in homicides.
Philadelphia saw a 28% decrease in homicides year to date, while Minneapolis saw a 54% decrease, and Denver experienced a decrease of almost 59%.
According to the New York City Police Department, there has been a 28% decrease in murders year to date.
All of these cities have something in common: Local lawmakers voted to increase police budgets in 2024, despite pressure from activists who wanted to defund the police.
City officials in Minneapolis voted to increase their police budget by 6% in 2024, according to MPR News. New York City also increased funding to its police department in 2024.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who took over the department in November 2024, said in a January op-ed for the New York Post that her focus on recidivism is helping make the city safer.
"Make no mistake: These crime reductions were achieved thanks to the hard work and grit of New York’s Finest – but we know that many New Yorkers don’t feel safe," Tisch said. "Their perception of public safety has become their reality, and we know why: surging recidivism. . . . The deck has been completely stacked against our cops by a shocking lack of accountability for crime."
National Police Association spokesperson Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith told Fox News Digital that the drop in murders shows that Americans are rejecting the "defund the police" movement.
"I really do believe that what we are seeing in 2025 is an absolute rejection of the ‘defund the police movement,’ the ‘re-imagining police movement.’ The law enforcement profession always has room for reform. There is always room for change, but this whole cloth 'let's eliminate the police by defunding them' didn't work. People died because of it, and now the American public is wholeheartedly rejecting it," Smith said. "And the American law enforcement officer sees that."
Smith said it shouldn't be a shock that "more police work equals less crime."
"Obviously, this is something that we have been talking about for the last five years. And we have, you know, we have been trying to explain to the American public that you do need law enforcement, and when you need law enforcement, law enforcement needs resources. And finally, I think the public, the politicians, the media are catching up with that idea," she said.
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It's always nice to be reminded of the depth of racism in one community. Why should one community pay for the racism of the long past when another is actively practicing it today.
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[RIA] Russian troops are conducting a broad-front offensive in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, DPR head Denis Pushilin reported.
"This is Novosergeevka, if we are talking about the Krasnoarmeysk direction. And in general, we can say that our units are advancing there on a broad front. The situation is extremely difficult for the enemy," he noted on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.
Krasnoarmeysk is the most important transport hub of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass, located 66 kilometers northwest of Donetsk. Fierce fighting continues for the city. Its liberation would allow Russian troops to effectively reach the western borders of the DPR and continue their offensive on Zaporozhye.
According to the head of the region, the fighters advanced in Chasovy Yar, as well as in the Stupochki area.
Chasov Yar plays an important role due to its location. It is located almost next to Artemovsk, but is divided into two parts by the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal. Its liberation will allow Russian troops to develop an offensive on the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
Pushilin added that the troops are approaching Konstantinovka directly; this city is an important logistics point for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to the Ministry of Defense, last week the Russian army liberated several settlements in the DPR : Novoukrainka, Chervona Zirka, Zaporozhye, Perebudova, Yalta, Dyleevka, Novosergeevka, Shevchenko.
[FoxNews] Hamas would be very unwise to test the resolve of [President Donald Trump],' Gaza Humanitarian Foundation executive chairman warns
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is facing a new threat as Hamas terrorists allegedly place bounties on the heads of its workers, including U.S. security personnel and local aid staff.
According to GHF, Hamas is offering monetary rewards to anyone who kills or injures the organization’s workers.
I had wondered if the claims of killed Palestinians were Hamas handiwork rather than the IDF. It could be the answer is yes.
"We are aware of credible reports that Hamas is openly targeting the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and those who work with us. According to these reports, Hamas has placed bounties on both our American security personnel and Palestinian aid workers, offering cash rewards to anyone who injures or kills them," GHF said in a statement provided exclusively to Fox News Digital.
"The targets of Hamas’ brutality are heroes who are simply trying to feed the people of Gaza in the middle of a war."
GHF also said Hamas has positioned "armed operatives" near humanitarian zones in an apparent attempt to "disrupt the only functioning aid delivery system in Gaza."
Earlier this month, Hamas launched a deadly attack on GHF workers, leaving 12 dead. The organization said Hamas also tortured others. The victims were local workers, according to GHF.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee issued a statement on the alleged bounties and criticized the United Nations’ silence on Hamas brutality.
"Last month [President Trump] told us to get food to civilians in Gaza, but DON'T let Hamas steal it," Huckabee wrote on X. "NOT always pretty, but 800k+ unique recipients of food & 1ST TIME they [have] received food FREE since start of war. Hamas has stolen or taxed it & now w/ GHF they CAN'T! Hamas' main tool to control Gaza is GONE. Hamas has put a bounty on the heads of everyone at GHF — Gazans [and] Americans. The UN remains SILENT."
In response to Huckabee’s statement, Rev. Johnnie Moore, GHF executive chairman, wrote in his own post on X that reports of the Hamas bounties are based on "new and credible information received today."
"Hamas would be very unwise to test the resolve of [President Donald Trump]," Moore wrote.
GHF is demanding the international community break its silence on Hamas’ treatment of the organization’s local workers and the American security personnel, many of whom are U.S. veterans.
"Hamas, through these violent and escalating threats, is showing the world it prefers chaos and starvation to peace and aid," GHF wrote. "We call on international leaders and aid groups to stand with us and with the people of Gaza. The people of Gaza, who show up to our sites every day in defiance of Hamas’ threats and brutality, deserve it."
GHF said it has been able to distribute about 49,915,822 meals so far. The organization recently received a funding boost after the U.S. State Department announced it had approved $30 million in funding for the group.
"We call on other countries to also support the GHF, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and its critical work," State Department spokesperson Tommy Piggot said in a briefing June 26.
"From day one, we said we are open to creative solutions that securely provide aid to those in Gaza and protects Israel. The support is simply the latest iteration of President Trump’s and Secretary Rubio’s pursuit of peace in the region."
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As I understand things, Hamas has a monopoly of power in Gaza and you cant work for any NGO or Charity unless Hamas approves. Hence why every Palestinian who worked for UNRWA was associated with Hamas.
[FoxBusinessNews] Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will resume trade talks with U.S. President Donald Trump after Canada said late Sunday it was rescinding a digital services tax on American tech companies. "We didn't mean it."
The Canadian government said it was rescinding the Digital Services Tax "in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States."
"Consistent with this action, Prime Minister Carney and President Trump have agreed that parties will resume negotiations with a view towards agreeing on a deal by July 21, 2025," Canada’s Department of Finance said in a news release.
It added that a June 30, 2025 collection will be halted, and legislation is pending to rescind the Digital Services Tax Act.
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France, India, Indonesia, Italy and the UK had digital taxes of some kind in 2024.
I'm not sure of what the situation is today.
These taxes do provide some revenue but it is not enormous. For example, the UK netted about $500M in 2024.
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I saw a tweet that claimed that Canada takes something like 16% of American exports — our biggest recipient — and we take something like 70% of theirs, if I recall the numbers correctly.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An Amazon delivery van has gone up in flames in Washington DC, sending plumes of black smoke into the air that could be seen for miles.
The black petrol-powered Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van caught fire on Clark Street S near 23rd Street South in Arlington, Virginia.
Arlington Fire and EMS said the van 'caught fire due to a malfunctioning engine. There was no explosion, and no packages were involved'.
The fire spread to nearby bushes in the parking lot where it was left but buildings did not catch fire. No one was injured.
The smoke could be seen from the other side of the city in the northeast suburbs.
Mercedes in 2023 ordered a recall of 53,000 Sprinter vans from model years 2019 and 2020 after 11 of them caught on fire.
The layout of fuses can cause a wiring harness in their climate control systems to overheat, potentially leading to a vehicle fire, the recall warned.
Whether the van that exploded was one of those subject to the recall is unknown.
[PJ] Trump delivered his characterization of Omar to the world in the course of a Tuesday post on Truth Social about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling for him to be impeached for daring to strike the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program. The president paused for a moment from his likewise deadly accurate portrayal of AOC (to whom he referred as "one of the ’dumbest’ people in Congress") to go after her Squad colleague."
Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side. She is a member of The Squad, and would like to make the country look a lot more like Mogadishu... , Trump wrote, "does nothing but complain about our Country, yet the Failed Country that she comes from doesn’t have a Government, is drenched in Crime and Poverty, and is rated one of the WORST in the World, if it’s even rated at all." In this, Trump suggested that he was aware that Omar responded to Trump’s efforts to quell the riots in Los Angeles by saying:
Can you imagine that image that is going to be coming out of our country? I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship, and I don’t even remember ever witnessing anything like that. To have a democracy, a beacon of hope for the world, to now be turned into one of the, you know, one of the worst countries, where the military are in our streets without any regard for people’s constitutional rights, while our president’s spending millions of dollars propping himself up like a failed dictator with a military parade — it is really shocking.
Yes, that’s right: someone from Somalia was saying that Trump was transforming America into "one of the worst countries." And Omar wasn’t even close to finished. She continued: "It should be a wake-up call for all Americans to say, ’This is not the country we were born in. It’s not the country we believe in. This is not the country our Founding Fathers imagined, and this is not the country that is supported by our Constitution, our ideals, our values.’ And we should all collectively be out in the streets, rejecting what is taking place this week."
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“We Somalis must have the confidence in ourselves that we call the shots in the U.S. The U.S. government will only do what Somalis in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else.” She says that the U.S. government “must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia… Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system.” as the band bursts into "Hail to the Chief".
[FoxNews] SWAT team found man dead on Canfield Mountain in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho after hours-long manhunt
At least he won’t be doing that again.
A SWAT team has located a deceased man and a nearby firearm hours after a sniper shot and killed two firefighters and injured another while they were battling a wildfire in Idaho, authorities confirmed late Sunday.
The Kootenai County Sheriff's office said the deceased male was located on Canfield Mountain. A shelter in place was lifted, but an active wildfire remained, the sheriff's office said.
The update came hours after the International Association of Fire Fighters confirmed that the two victims who were killed were firefighters. Some 300 law enforcement officers were on scene.
"While responding to a fire earlier today in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, IAFF members were ambushed in a heinous act of violence. Two of our brothers were killed by a sniper, and a third brother remains in surgery," the association said. "Please keep them, their families, and law enforcement in your prayers."
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the agency responded to the scene [quickly] to provide tactical and operational support.
"FBI technical teams and tactical assets are currently on the scene providing support. It remains an active, and very dangerous scene," Bongino said just before 9 p.m.
During a news conference, Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris said two firefighters were killed and a third was fighting for his life but was in stable condition after undergoing surgery.
"We do believe the suspect started the fire and we do believe that it was an ambush and it was intentional," he said, noting that a preliminary investigation suggests there was only one gunman. "This was a total ambush. These firefighters did not have a chance."
The sheriff said a recommendation was made at about 6:30 p.m. to neutralize the shooter. Law enforcement was able to track a cellphone signal to the suspect's location.
He added that the fire compromised evidence at the crime scene, saying: "we felt that as the fire was approaching we needed to scoop up that body."
It is unclear if the suspect had more than one weapon. That determination will not be made until the fire diminishes. The investigation will continue Monday morning, the sheriff said. Crews will continue working through the night.
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office issued an alert earlier Sunday afternoon stating: "Active shooter at Canfield Mountain. Injuries have been reported, though the severity remains unknown. Please avoid the area."
Norris had said that they were developing a plan to move people out of the mountains as soon as they had the fire under control.
Officials confirmed that the firefighters were responding to a brush fire near East Nettleton Gulch Road when the shooting started.
Norris said earlier that the suspect used what appeared to be "modern-day, high-powered, sporting rifles."
"We're taking rapid fire," Norris said.
Due to the danger, fire crews had to retreat, and the brush fire continues to pose a threat. Authorities were urging residents in the vicinity to stay vigilant and exercise caution as the situation develops.
"I would encourage all of you to tell people to stay away from the area, do not come to the area. Stay away from the area," Norris said earlier. "This is going to be if these, individuals are not neutralized quickly, this is going to be a likely a multi-day operation."
Attorney General Pam Bondi shared a statement and said more support was heading to Idaho.
"Thank you to our incredible @FBI agents on the ground assisting local authorities in Idaho. We are praying for all," Bondi wrote.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also said their department is actively monitoring the situation and that "justice will be served."
Because 1st responders don't give a rat's a$$ of a person's Color, Race, sexual oddity, pronoun, political party or whatever. Shouldn't we all agree to strongly encourage anyone seeing a person(s) conducting criminal acts against 1st responders, to act quickly to neutralize such a situation?
Now the usual question:
How many Far Left kook copycat shooters will pop up in the coming weeks?
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Very sad for my adopted state but proud of the response during a crisis. That area is very remote in places, Skid and that might be what they though they needed at the time. Don't believe they knew it was a single shooter.
The usual liberal news will quickly paint this as a dangerous Trump supporter.
Two firefighters were killed by a sniper in Idaho on the 24th anniversary of a local Neo-Nazi compound being burned by the fire department for a training exercise.
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Idaho is home to my wife and my families. CDA is home mine. Canfield is a little hiking spot next to the lake. So the Sherriff announce if you see the shooter, shoot him. That is so Idaho! CDA, prior to the late 80's, was a logging and outdoorsman community. It has since turned into a tourist resort community where the mills were turned into condos and the price of home have driven most locals out. Too bad it has come to this...
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Have they released the name and description of the shooter?
Will that be before or after Chancellor Mertz’s government arrests Bibi to make the International Criminal Court happy?
[IsraelTimes] Visiting interior minister’s 5-point plan to boost ties said to include greater cooperation with Mossad, joint research center; ‘Military defense alone is not sufficient,’ he says
They need energy independence from Russia without demanding that France carry their burden, and trade independence from China, right? Are they doing anything in those directions?
Germany is aiming to establish a joint German-Israeli cyber research center and deepen collaboration between the two countries’ intelligence and security agencies, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Sunday.
Germany is among Israel’s closest allies in Europe, and Berlin has increasingly looked to draw upon Israel’s defense expertise as it boosts its military capabilities and contributions to NATO in the face of perceived growing threats from Russia and China.
“Military defense alone is not sufficient for this turning point in security. A significant upgrade in civil defense is also essential to strengthen our overall defensive capabilities,” Dobrindt said during a visit to Israel, as reported by Germany’s Bild newspaper.
Dobrindt, who was appointed by new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz last month, arrived in Israel on Saturday. On Sunday, Dobrindt visited the site of an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam where nine people, including three children, were killed and hundreds wounded overnight on June 14-15.
“We must deepen our support for Israel,” said Dobrindt, standing amid the rubble with Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, in the first visit by a senior foreign official since the Israel-Iran war ended.
Bild said Germany’s decision to expand cyber cooperation with Israel was due at least in part to the role Israeli cyber capabilities played in thwarting larger Iranian attacks during the 12-day war that ended with a US-brokered ceasefire on Tuesday.
According to the Bild report, Dobrindt has outlined a five-point plan aimed at establishing what he called a “Cyber Dome” for Germany, as part of its cyber-defense strategy.
The plan reportedly calls for establishing a joint German-Israel cyber research center; strengthening cooperation on cyber defense; increasing cooperation between Mossad and its German counterpart, the BND; expanding Germany’s anti-drone defenses; and developing a system of civil shelters and emergency warnings like that used in Israel during the Iran war.
Earlier on Sunday, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder also called for the acquisition of 2,000 interceptor missiles to equip Germany with an “Iron Dome” system similar to Israel’s short-range missile defense technology.
Iran launched over 500 ballistic missiles and around 1,100 drones at Israel in retaliation for Israeli strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program, missile production and leadership. The Iranian attacks killed 28 people and wounded over 3,000 in Israel, according to health officials and hospitals.
Israel said its operation in Iran was necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from realizing its avowed goal to destroy the Jewish state.
While Iran has denied seeking nuclear weapons, it enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. Israel said Iran had recently taken steps toward weaponization.
Speaking in Bat Yam, Dobrindt said Israel has “our support in destroying Iran’s nuclear program” and that “if Iran had the atom bomb, it would use it against Israel,” according to Bild.
[X] Texas Governor Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... signed House Bill 1056 into law on June 22, 2025, allowing gold and silver to be used as legal tender in day-to-day transactions within the state. This law, effective from May 1, 2027, also permits electronic payments backed by bullion. The legislation is seen as a move towards recognizing these metals as viable forms of currency amidst discussions on financial stability and alternatives to traditional fiat currencies.
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”Just say something to shut up the Jew-lovers — then we can get back to enjoying the music.” There are no surprises here — everyone knows what both bands are about, as well as the BBC, and clearly the powers that be agree with the sentiment or there would have been some sort of punishment. Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Minister calls performance by duo Bob Vylan ‘appalling,’ but also lashes Israel over settler violence, Gaza humanitarian crisis; BBC screened act live, is asked to explain why
The British government said on Sunday that the BBC had questions to answer over anti-Israel chants by musicians at the Glastonbury music festival that police are probing.
Officers are studying videos of rapper Bobby Vylan leading crowds in chants of "Death, death to the IDF," the acronym for the Israeli army, during his set on Saturday.
They apparently doubled their social media followers with this one trick, so perhaps selling their souls was worth it. On the other hand, that’s the kind of thing that’s a red mark for a visa application to the US State Department now, so hopefully they hadn’t planned to turn that increased social media presence into a profitable tour of the States. Kneecap’s Mo Chara just had to give up a sold out American tour because his visa was revoked.
They are also examining comments by outspoken Irish rap trio Kneecap, one of whose members wore a T-shirt dedicated to Paleostine Action Group, which is about to be banned under UK terror laws.
The IDF chants, condemned by the Israeli embassy in London, were broadcast live on the BBC, which airs coverage of Britannia’s most popular music festival.
"I thought it’s appalling, to be honest, and I think the BBC and Glastonbury have got questions to answer about how we saw such a spectacle on our screens," Health Secretary Wes Streeting told Sky News.
The Israeli embassy said in a statement late Saturday that it was "deeply disturbed by the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric expressed on stage at the Glastonbury Festival."
But Streeting also took aim at the embassy, telling it to "get your own house in order."
"I think there’s a serious point there by the Israeli embassy. I wish they’d take the violence of their own citizens towards Paleostinians more seriously," he said, citing settler violence in the West Bank and the humanitarian crisis in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Streeting made similar remarks in an interview with the BBC.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger... organizers of the Glastonbury Festival said in a statement that they were "appalled" by the anti-Israel chants in Vylan’s set.
A tad too disingenuous there — try reading the line with more honest shock. They were warming up the crowd for Kneecap, which was rewarded with a spot in the Glastonbury lineup for exactly the same thing. That sure looks like approval to me.
“Their chants very much crossed a line, and we are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the festival that there is no place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech, or incitement to violence,” said the festival.
“With almost 4,000 performances at Glastonbury 2025, there will inevitably be artists and speakers appearing on our stages whose views we do not share, and a performer’s presence here should never be seen as a tacit endorsement of their opinions and beliefs,” it added.
Yeah? How many openly pro-Israel performers were in the line up this year? Last year? The year before?
A UK government spokesperson said Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy contacted the BBC’s director general to seek explanation on how Vylan’s show was broadcast.
“We strongly condemn the threatening comments made by Bob Vylan at Glastonbury,” the spokesperson added.
The BBC said it issued a warning on screen about “very strong and discriminatory language” during the livestream.
And yet they continued airing the performance live, instead of turning away in disgust. Because they were not in the least disgusted.
A spokesperson for the BBC said some of the comments by Vylan, part of British duo Bob Vylan, were “deeply offensive” and the broadcaster had “no plans to make the performance available on demand.”
Streeting was referring to an incident last week in which settlers reportedly attacked the West Bank village of Kafr Malik, torching cars and buildings. During clashes with IDF troops who arrived on the scene, three Palestinians were killed.
Amid the anti-Israel rhetoric from some of the performers at the music festival, which draws some 200,000 people annually, some in the crowd used the tradition of waving large flags during performances as an opportunity to draw attention to the plight of the hostages taken by Hamas during the October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel.
They also drew attention to the victims of the October 7 massacre at the Nova music festival, where some 380 people were brutally killed.
One image circulating online showed a black flag with a yellow ribbon emblazoned on it waving above a flag reading “We Will Dance Again” — the name of a documentary about the Nova festival massacre.
Which Zionists know about, but everyone else just thinks is about dancing.
‘A JOKE’
Avon and Somerset police said Saturday that video evidence would be assessed by officers “to determine whether any offenses may have been committed that would require a criminal investigation.”
Kneecap, who have made headlines in recent months with its pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel stance, led crowds in a chant against UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Starmer had said the band should not perform after its member Liam O’Hanna, known by his stage name Mo Chara, was charged with a terror offense.
O’Hanna appeared in court earlier this month accused of having displayed a Hezbollah flag while saying “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah” after a video resurfaced of a London concert last year.
The Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah and the Palestinian terror group Hamas are banned in the UK, and it is an offense to express support for them.
O’Hanna has denied the charge and told the Guardian in an interview published Friday that “it was a joke — we’re playing characters.”
Kneecap regularly lead crowds in chants of “Free Palestine” during its concerts. Its fans revere band members for their anti-establishment stance and criticism of British imperialism but critics call them extremists.
The group apologized this year after a 2023 video emerged appearing to show one singer calling for the death of British Conservative lawmakers.
A senior State Department official told The Daily Wire that it is “already looking at revocation” of their visas ahead of a roughly twenty-city tour through the United States, with performances planned in several major cities, including Washington, D.C.
“As a reminder, under the Trump Administration, the U.S. government will not issue visas to any foreigner who supports terrorists,” the senior official said.
Vocalist Pascal Robinson-Foster uses the stage name Bobby Vylan for his punk duo Bob Vylan—a name that nods to legendary Jewish singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who released the pro-Israel song ‘Neighborhood Bully’ in 1983.
While performing at England’s annual Glastonbury Music Festival — which was live streamed on the BBC — Vylan incited his crowd of thousands to chant, “Death, death to the IDF.”
Half legitimately furious that the duo are getting a pass, no matter what they think about Israel, at least half agree with the band but are posturing for effect because there’s actually a backlash.
The United States says it’s revoking visas for the British punk-rap group Bob Vylan, which led chants at the Glastonbury festival calling for “Death, death to the IDF.”
“Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country,” US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posts on X.
PM Netanyahu will only meet at the UN so long as Zohran Mamdani is not the mayor of New York City, because Mr. Mamdani has promised to arrest him, unless the State Department intervenes. The Golan Heights will not ever be on the table. Withdrawal from southern Syria might be, for a suitable consideration; so start with a very good offer, because you need Israel considerably more than Israel needs you. .
[IsraelTimes] Syria has not brought up the issue of the Golan Heights in negotiations with Israel, with its main concern being the withdrawal of IDF troops from the buffer zone created in the south of the country, after the fall of president Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a Syrian official tells the Kan public broadcaster.
Perceptive — the HTS leader has a much higher EQ than any of the other Al Qaeda-related jihadi groups that I am aware of, including realizing that pure viciousness isn’t going to carry the day in the wider world. Israel no longer tries to buy peace with land — look what giving up the Sinai got them on 10/7. Also, the last time Syria held the Golan Heights, mortars regularly rained down on the Israeli towns below.
The official says that “the contact between Israel and Syria could be very meaningful,” and that the current government in Damascus is opposed to Iran and its proxy terror groups, Hezbollah and Hamas.”
“The issue of the Golan hasn’t even come up yet in the discussions. It is still early. But the Americans are a key factor here,” the official says.
President Trump recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights his last term in office, so that’s already done, in case the Hayat Tahrir al Sham government was hoping America would force Israel to surrender.
The Assad regime had demanded that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights, which it conquered in 1967 and then annexed in 1981, in exchange for a potential peace with the Jewish state.
It’s hard to miss that all Assad’s demanding did not result in Israel trading the Golan Heights for peace, or anything else for peace either. In fact all President Assad got was Israeli jets bombing his weapons stashes and Hezbollah and IRGC warehouses and drop-offs, which continued until HTS drove him out. Is this a game HTS wants to play?
The buffer zone, however, refers to a UN-patrolled buffer zone that was intended to keep Israeli and Syrian forces apart, which Israel took control of after forces loyal to Assad’s government abandoned their positions before rebel groups reached Damascus in December.
The United Nations considers Israel’s takeover of the buffer zone a violation of the 1974 disengagement accord. Israel says the accord had fallen apart since one of the sides was no longer in a position to implement it.
That’s how international law works. HTS has to start their negotiations from scratch. To their credit, they at least are ready to negotiate, and their demands are no more than testing the water to see what they’re facing.
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[IsraelTimes] Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, killed in explosion; Hamas-linked agency says 17 killed by IDF fire across Strip; PM to hold high-level meet on war, hostage talks
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, the military announced.
The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, 20, of the 601st Combat Engineering Battalion, from Ra’anana.
According to an initial IDF probe, Rosenfeld was killed by an explosive device during operations in the Kafr Jabalia area.
His death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 441.
Sunday also saw reports of yet another mass casualty event attributed to IDF fire — in what has become a near-daily occurrence — near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
I have to wonder how many of those bullets came from Hamas guns. They need the funds that come from controlling aid supplies in the Gaza Strip, now that they can’t access their smuggling tunnels.
Earlier, the military ordered Palestinians to evacuate areas in the northern part of the Strip, expecting intensified fighting against Hamas.
At the same time, a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Jerusalem was actively working to reach a hostage-ceasefire deal. Top officials are expected to meet Sunday night to discuss the war and negotiation efforts.
Palestinian and Arab media outlets reported Sunday that five people were killed and dozens more injured by Israeli army fire near an aid distribution site operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in southern Gaza’s Rafah area.
No footage from the scene has been published so far. There has been no comment from the IDF.
According to health authorities in the Hamas-run Strip, nearly 500 people have been killed, allegedly by Israeli forces, near GHF aid distribution sites, which are set up in areas controlled by the IDF and far from population centers. The GHF has denied responsibility for the deaths, noting that it is operating in a war zone.
Israeli officials have said soldiers sometimes fire on suspects who deviate from approved paths and who are deemed to be endangering the forces, and have suggested the victim numbers have been exaggerated.
Gaza’s Hamas-linked civil defense agency said that Israeli airstrikes and gunfire killed at least 17 people, including three children, throughout Gaza on Sunday.
Civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that 16 people died in airstrikes at five locations around the Strip, and another from Israeli fire near an aid distribution center.
Bassal said two children were killed in an airstrike on their home in Gaza City’s Zeitun neighborhood in the early morning, and that “the house was completely destroyed.”
The IDF has multiple times warned y’all to leave Gaza City because they would be fighting Hamas there. It does no good to complain afterward when you and yours came to harm because you stayed to be human shields for Hamas.
A member of the family, Abdel Rahman Azzam, 45, told AFP, “We evacuated more than 20 injured people, including two martyrs, two children from the family,” Azzam said.
“They bombed the house with a missile without any prior warning. This is a horrific crime. We sleep without knowing if we will wake up.”
Nobody else gives warning, especially Hamas. Stop acting like a spoilt baby and take your consequences like a mensch.
Elsewhere, Bassal said a drone strike on a tent housing displaced people near the southern city of Khan Younis killed five people including a child.
The IDF says it targets terror operatives in Gaza who it accuses of embedding within the civilian population.
See? Complain to Hamas, guys. War is not a video game.
A senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel on Sunday that Jerusalem was continuing to work actively on a hostage-truce deal in Gaza.
It would come after months of stagnation following the last deal’s collapse in March, when Israel refused to enter talks for a permanent end to the war.
“There are ongoing contacts through the mediating countries, and we are in continuous contact with the Americans,” said the official.
Overnight, US President Donald Trump called for Israel to “make the deal in Gaza.”
Also on Sunday, the Jerusalem District Court announced it was canceling Netanyahu’s scheduled testimony in his criminal trial this week, partially acceding to a request that it be delayed for the next two weeks due to diplomatic and national security issues.
The heads of IDF Military Intelligence and Mossad were present in a closed-door meeting advocating the pause. The judges said substantial additional information had been provided, leading them to agree to the pause this time, after two previous requests were rejected last week.
It is not clear whether the information pertained to a deal in Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF re-issues a wide evacuation warning for Palestinians in the Gaza City and Jabalia areas in the northern Gaza Strip.
The area was already ordered to evacuate on May 29, and has been part of a no-go zone since.
Civilians are instructed to head for the Mawasi area on the coast in Gaza’s south.
“The IDF is operating with extreme force in these areas, and these military operations will escalate, intensify, and extend westward to the city center to destroy the capabilities of the terrorist organizations,” says the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee in a post on X.
“Hamas is bringing a disaster upon you. Returning to dangerous combat zones poses a danger to your lives,” he adds.
Two days ago we learnt he’d been found. Today he came home.
[Rudaw] A Yazidi man, previously held by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), was reunited with his family on Sunday after being found in Syria - thanks to successful efforts by the Kurdistan Region Presidency.
Rawand N.H. is one of the thousands of Yazidis who were kidnapped by ISIS in their hometown of Shingal in northern Iraq more than a decade ago. He was freed in Syria nearly two weeks ago and was reunited with family in Duhok province on Sunday.
"I have never felt this much joy in my life," he told Rudaw on Sunday, expressing his happiness at being reunited with his family.
He added that he spent most of his 11 years in Syria’s Raqqa and the vicinity of the city.
Rawad is unable to speak in his mother tongue, Kurdish, anymore. He spoke in Arabic in Duhok.
His uncle, Haji Hame, thanked Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani for reuniting Rawand with his family.
"We had registered all eight members of the family as deaders. Thankfully, this one emerged alive," he told Rudaw after receiving his nephew in Duhok’s Batifa.
The uncle also noted that the Office of Rescuing Abducted Yazidis, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency, informed him a month ago that they had found his nephew.
"He will live with me because he has no one else left alive," said Rawand’s uncle.
Hame also said that 77 members of Rawand’s extended family were kidnapped by ISIS when the group attacked Shingal in 2014, adding that 39 remain unaccounted for.
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[Rudaw] US-backed forces in Syria are preparing to launch a large-scale military operation against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) cells, a spokesperson for a faction aligned with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told Rudaw on Sunday. The campaign comes amid a growing threat from ISIS across the country, especially in northeast Syria (Rojava).
Mahmoud Habib, spokesperson for the North Democratic Forces - a component of the SDF - said the campaign is in response to a recent uptick in ISIS activities. "The details of the operation are not yet known. We do not know when it will be launched, what its nature will be, or which forces will take part alongside the SDF and coalition troops," Habib stated.
The US-backed SDF functions as the de facto military force in Rojava and is the primary local partner of the Washington-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. The North Democratic Forces operate mainly in northern Syria and share the SDF’s objective of combating terrorism.
According to Habib, the upcoming operation may see the participation of other US-backed groups, namely, the Syrian Free Army (SFA). He noted that the campaign aims not only to dismantle ISIS cells but also to prevent potential attacks on major population centers, including the capital Damascus, its surrounding countryside, and the central Homs province.
The Syrian Free Army (SFA), originally a broad rebel coalition, has evolved over the past decade from earlier US-backed groups such as the New Syrian Army (NSA) and the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA). These factions were trained and supported by the US and have operated primarily from the al-Tanf garrison - a strategically located US military base near the Syrian, Iraqi, and Jordanian borders - carrying out counter-ISIS operations.
Following the fall of Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... in early December, the SFA is reportedly being integrated into the newly established 70th Division of the unified Syrian army, currently being formed by the incumbent transitional government.
Importantly, Habib noted that the upcoming operation follows recent intelligence reports indicating that ISIS cells are planning attacks near urban areas. "The goal of the operation is to stop these kinds of attacks," he said.
ISIS was territorially defeated in Syria in 2019. However,
a woman is only as old as she admits... in recent months, the group has seemingly been trying to make a comeback, capitalizing on the shifting security landscape following Assad’s ouster.
Last week, a deadly bombing struck the Mar Elias Church in Damascus during Sunday mass. Two assailants opened fire on worshippers before detonating an explosive vest, killing 25 people and injuring 63 others, according to the Syrian health ministry’s final toll.
On Tuesday, the Syrian interior ministry attributed the attack to an ISIS cell. Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba claimed the two jacket wallahs were "non-Syrian" and had infiltrated the capital from al-Hol camp, located in SDF-controlled northeast Syria (Rojava). al-Hol camp houses thousands of individuals, many of whom are family members of suspected ISIS murderous Moslems.
However,
a woman is only as old as she admits... the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) swiftly rejected the ministry’s claims, emphasizing that al-Hol primarily shelters women and kiddies rather than imported muscle. The SDF also noted that any individuals released from the camp in recent months, were freed at the request of Damascus authorities.
Notably, the upcoming military campaign also comes amid a surge of ISIS attacks across SDF-controlled areas, with both civilians and security forces increasingly being targeted.
In mid-May, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that it had documented 84 ISIS operations in Rojava since the beginning of 2025. These included armed assaults, targeted liquidations, and bombings.
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[IsraelTimes] B’nai B’rith International has condemned a statement by the World Council of Churches accusing Israel of “apartheid” and possible “genocide,” and calling for sanctions.
The WCC, an organization bringing together 356 cross-denominational churches from more than 120 countries who represent over 580 million Christians worldwide, issued a sharp rebuke of Israel at its central committee meeting in Johannesburg on June 24.
Is there something in the water down there?
While claiming that it stands against racism and antisemitism, the WCC said it was in “deep lamentation and outrage” that Israel is “flagrantly violating international humanitarian and human rights law as well as the most basic principles of morality.” It called on states, churches, and international institutions to “impose consequences for violations of international law, including targeted sanctions, divestment, and arms embargoes.”
That’s the modern definition of antisemitism, which means hating Jews while pretending they only mean Israel.
B’nai B’rith says the WCC is “beyond the pale for engagement by the mainstream Jewish community,” calling on its backers to redirect their support to non-political organizations instead.
“Tragically, the WCC on its current trajectory cannot be a credible contributor to peace, justice and reconciliation,” says B’nai B’rith’s director of United Nations and Intercommunal Affairs,
David Michaels. “As long as it habitually singles out a Jewish democracy alone for the wildest possible demonization—and shows zero actual concern for the lives, legitimacy and human rights of its diverse people—its claim to care about antisemitism is a forgery.”
“Israel is the Middle East’s sole democracy; it has protected Christian life and pursued peace with every single Arab neighbor,” Michaels continues. “Yet the WCC is moved only to discern and deplore ‘occupation,’ ‘apartheid’ and even ‘genocide’ in the case of Israel. Even now, Iran and its allied exterminationists go unmentioned. This is nothing less than false witness and moral bankruptcy.”
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[Regnum] An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.3 occurred in Stavropol Krai. Such data are provided by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC).
Earthquake of magnitude 4.3 recorded in Stavropol
It is specified that the tremors were recorded at 17:19 Moscow time between the villages of Donskoy and Bezopasnoye, approximately 60 km north of Stavropol. The center was at a depth of 10 km.
At the same time, it is reported that the tremors were felt by residents of Stavropol, as well as Trunovsky and Shpakovsky districts. There was no information about damage or casualties.
Burkina Faso: JNIM announced that in the attack they carried out against the Burkina Faso army in the Gabo area of Fada N’Gourma province, 40 soldiers were killed and a large cache of military equipment was seized. pic.twitter.com/j595d3O3w3
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[Regnum] Abnormal rains will occur in the near future in Central Russia. This was reported on June 29 by meteorologist, candidate of technical sciences Evgeny Tishkovets.
"Autumn is coming to Central Russia - abnormal continuous rains (50% of the monthly norm will fall), storm winds and record low atmospheric pressure!" Tishkovets wrote on his Telegram channel.
In Moscow on June 29, the sky is 90% covered by altocumulus clouds with a lower boundary of more than 2500 m. The air temperature during the day is expected to be +19…+22. Barometer readings by the evening will be 729 mm Hg.
"On Monday, Moscow will be pouring with rain and smelling of autumn! Cloudy weather is guaranteed, continuous rains will turn into downpours (14 mm is expected, the record is 19.0 mm - in 1980), the wind from the west and northwest will increase, reaching storm gusts of 17 m/s," the forecaster said.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, leading specialist of the Phobos weather center Mikhail Leus said that the weather in Moscow will start to deteriorate on the evening of June 29. This will happen because of a cyclone approaching from the northwest. The first day of July in the Russian capital will be one of the coldest since the beginning of the 21st century: the air temperature will be +16…+18 degrees. In two days, summer warmth will return to Moscow.
[IsraelTimes] One of the main reasons that prompted Israel to attack Iran this month was a deeply worrying “breakthrough” by Iran in its nuclear weapons program that would have enabled it to build a nuclear bomb in a much shorter time than Israel had previously believed, Channel 12 reports.
A group of scientists were working secretively on the development of nuclear weapons in a manner that “deeply troubled” Israeli experts and decision-makers, the report says, noting that it is broadcasting the news within the limitations of Israeli military censorship.
There was a need to thwart this initiative and target the scientists involved, the report says. The scientists “were indeed eliminated.”
The Iranian breakthrough, combined with the fact that Iran had stockpiled 408 kilograms (900 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60 percent, the report says, meant Israel assessed that Iran could break out to the bomb far more quickly than previously estimated.
[IsraelTimes] Israel’s Oil Refineries says it has partly resumed activities at its Haifa facility, which was shut down following an Iranian missile strike two weeks ago.
Israel’s Oil Refineries, or Bazan, says in a regulatory filing in Tel Aviv that it was gradually restoring operations and would likely be fully operational by October. It noted that it holds insurance covering damage and profit losses of up to $250 million caused by acts of terrorism and war.
The company said on June 15 that its pipelines and transmission lines in Haifa had been damaged by Iranian missile strikes, which killed three employees, and that it was examining the impact of the damage on its operations and implications on its financial results.
Energy Minister Eli Cohen says separately that Israel’s energy system “functioned flawlessly throughout the war, and the swift resolution of the issue at Bazan is further proof of the strength and resilience of Israel’s energy sector.”
Benin: Army forces neutralized numerous JNIM militants and seized military equipment in an operation at the Tri-Point area on the Burkina Faso–Niger border. pic.twitter.com/WHKxM7Y8A0
[IsraelTimes] Security agency uncovers firearms, grenades; reveals that members underwent training, conducted surveillance with intention of carrying out major attacks
The Shin Bet security agency said Sunday that it had arrested over 60 Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... operatives over the past few months as part of one of the largest crackdowns on a West Bank terror network in recent years.
In a statement, the agency said that in the past three months, during joint operations with the IDF and police, "a significant, complex, and large-scale Hamas infrastructure was exposed in Hebron," with those involved accused of planning a variety of types of attacks "in the immediate time frame."
"This is the largest and most complex investigation by the Shin Bet in the Judea and Samaria area in the past decade," a senior Shin Bet official said in the statement, referring to the West Bank.
The Shin Bet said its interrogations found that senior Hamas operatives from the Hebron area, most of whom were formerly placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! by Israel, "worked to recruit, arm, and train additional Hamas operatives from the area to carry out shooting and bombing attacks against Israeli targets."
"It was also revealed that members of the infrastructure conducted firearms training, gathered intelligence on Israeli targets, manufactured kaboom, and assembled bombs, all with the aim of carrying out major attacks on behalf of Hamas" in the West Bank and in Israel, the agency said. No attacks were actually carried out, though some of those arrested were accused of having taken part in a deadly shooting nearly 15 years ago.
Over 60 members of Hamas involved in 10 linked terror cells were detained by Israeli forces, the Shin Bet said. During their interrogations, they provided information that led to additional suspects, though no details were provided about the other arrests.
The agency said it also uncovered 22 firearms and 11 grenades, along with other weapons and large amounts of ammunition. Additionally, an underground arsenal and hideout was uncovered, it said.
Based on information provided under interrogation, some of those arrested were accused of involvement in an August 2010 shooting attack at Bani Naim Junction near Hebron, in which four Israelis — Yitzhak and Tali Ames, and two passengers in their car, Kochava Even Chaim and Avishai Schindler — were murdered.
Additionally, the interrogations led to the arrests of several suspects involved in supplying guns to a Hamas cell that shot and killed Cpl. Avraham Fetena, a Military Police soldier, in a November 2023 attack on a West Bank checkpoint on Route 60, south of Jerusalem, the Shin Bet said.
"The exposure of the infrastructure, which operated covertly while maintaining compartmentalization between the different cells, constitutes a significant thwarting of Hamas’s intentions to carry out a series of major attacks in Israel," the Shin Bet official added.
Indictments were filed against the suspects, accusing them of severe crimes, including heading a terror organization, and the equivalent of attempted murder and attempted conspiracy to commit murder.
Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas led a devastating invasion of southern Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip that triggered the ongoing war in the enclave, troops have arrested some 6,000 Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.
Update Documentation: Hezbollah terrorist Hassan Jama was eliminated this morning by an IAF drone strike in Kounin, southern Lebanon.🔥 pic.twitter.com/L6GMBjAa8f
[Rudaw] Kurdish and Iraqi security forces have eliminated "three terrorists," including a senior commander, during a joint operation in Kirkuk province, according to statements released on Sunday by the Sulaimani branch of the Kurdistan Region’s Security Agency (Asayish) and Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS).
In a statement on its official Facebook page, the Asayish announced that, in coordination with the ICTS, they "eliminated the battalion commander of Sulaiman Beg" - an area located east of Salahaddin province and south of Kirkuk - "along with two affiliated hard boyz during a direct confrontation."
An emir and two henchmen.
The operation was based on detailed intelligence as well as "credible input from informants," the Asayish added, noting that the Kurdish security forces and the ICTS were able to successfully "locate the terrorists' hideout" and "conduct a joint operation."
For its part, the ICTS said in a Sunday statement on X that they, in cooperation with the Kurdistan Region's Asayish, managed to successfully "eliminate three hard boyz in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... " describing the operation as "a specialized, qualitative operation" that was "based on accurate intelligence information."
The statement further detailed that "after setting up a tight ambush following continuous surveillance, our heroes were able to kill three terrorists, two of whom held positions as sector commanders, and the third as a battalion commander in Kirkuk province."
The ICTS confirmed the joint operation in a separate statement on X, describing it as a "specialized, high-quality operation" carried out with "accurate intelligence."
"After conducting continuous surveillance and setting a tight ambush, our forces succeeded in killing three terrorists," the ICTS said. "Two of them held positions as sector commanders, and the third was a battalion commander in Kirkuk province."
Erbil and Baghdad have recently increased joint efforts to close security gaps between their territories, which have been exploited by krazed killer groups, including Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) bad boys.
[IsraelTimes] Spokesperson says victims include administrative staff, youth doing military service, detainees and their family members, and people who lived in vicinity
Israel’s attack on the Evin Prison in Iran’s capital, Tehran, on June 23 killed 71 people, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Sunday.
At the end of an air war with Iran, Israel struck Tehran’s most notorious jail for political prisoners, in what was seen as a demonstration that it was expanding its targets beyond military and nuclear sites to aim at symbols of Iran’s ruling system.
"In the attack on Evin prison, 71 people were martyred, including administrative staff, youth doing their military service, detainees, family members of detainees who were visiting them, and neighbors who lived in the prison’s vicinity," Jahangir said in remarks carried on the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan.
The figures and details could not be confirmed.
Jahangir had previously said that part of Evin prison’s administrative building had been damaged in the attack, and people were killed and injured. The judiciary added that the remaining detainees had been transferred to other prisons in Tehran province.
Mizan has confirmed that the top prosecutor at the prison was killed in the strike.
Ali Ghanaatkar’s prosecution of dissidents, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, led to widespread criticism by human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said last week that the Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... hit the gate of the prison, a large and heavily fortified complex where Iran has incarcerated political prisoners, journalists, academics, human rights activists, foreign nationals, and others.
The bombing drew condemnation from the UN human rights office and La Belle France.
"Evin prison is not a military objective, and targeting it constitutes a grave breach of international humanitarian law," UN human rights office spokesperson Thameen al-Kheetan told news hounds in Geneva on Tuesday, without naming Israel.
He said that his office had received reports of fires inside the facility and an unspecified number of injuries.
Evin prison holds a number of foreign nationals, including two French citizens detained for three years.
"The strike targeting Evin prison in Tehran put our citizens Cecile Kohler and Jacques Gay Paree in danger. It is unacceptable," La Belle France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on social media X after the attack.
Overall, Iran is believed to hold around 20 European nationals in what some Western governments describe as a strategy of hostage-taking aimed at extracting concessions from the West.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF’s new 96th Division, set to be responsible for the entire Jordan border area, completed a first division-level drill last week, the military announces.
The exercise on Thursday simulated “emergency scenarios and rapid response to sudden events, while increasing the division’s readiness for combat,” the IDF says.
The IDF adds that the drill was “conducted in cooperation with various security bodies and local authorities.”
The 96th Division, which goes by the nickname Gilad, completed a rapid formation within a 48-hour period during the war with Iran, after initially being set for deployment on August 1. It took up responsibility for the northern Jordan Valley area.
The division is eventually set to operate from the Israel-Jordan-Syria tri-border area in the north down to Ramon Airport in southern Israel, also encompassing the Yoav Regional Brigade, currently part of the 80th “Edom” Division. Part of the territory includes the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] After weeks of speculation, Jordan’s national basketball team has informed the international basketball federation FIBA that it will not field a team to play against Israel today in the 2025 Under-19 Basketball World Cup, according to Hebrew media reports.
Israel will automatically gain a 20-0 technical victory over Jordan.
The proper response is a one-year suspension and a fine to be paid to the Israeli team for the cost of their expenses to show up, but hardly anyone seems to think actually punishing such unsportsmanlike behaviour necessary.
It defeated Switzerland handily 102-77 last night in its first-ever U-19 World Cup game, while Jordan fell to the Dominican Republic.
“On behalf of the Basketball Association, I regret the decision of the Jordanian team,” says Israel Basketball Association chairman Amos Frishman, according to the Walla news site.
“I had hoped that the Jordanians would still come to play to show everyone that it is possible otherwise, especially during this time. I believe that sport is a bridge between peoples and cultures and not a political arena. I hope that in the future there will be no doubt about holding of these games.”
#2
That’s what they did, Phatch Sproing2490. But that’s the same thing that would happen if the team bus got a flat tire and they were stuck halfway to the arena. That teaches that unsportsmanlike conduct, when aimed at Jooooooos, is perfectly acceptable.
[IsraelTimes] Opposition politicians accuse Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of selling out Israel’s national security for his own personal interests, after US President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... demanded for the second time the cancellation of the premier’s ongoing criminal trial.
Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... MK Naama Lazimi argues that by "trading his indictment in exchange for a political settlement and an end to the war," Netanyahu demonstrated his unfitness for office, alleging that he is "conditioning the future of Israel and our children on his trial."
"Those behind President Trump’s tweet are Netanyahu and his corrupt gang," agrees fellow Democrats politician Gilad Kariv, condemning Netanyahu and his circle’s "willingness to ’play’ with the national security of the State of Israel and the issue of the hostages in order to save Netanyahu from conviction in court."
Netanyahu is "acting against the Israeli public interest" by linking his legal troubles with the issue of the hostages and regional normalization agreements, tweets Yesh Atid MK Karine Elharrar, charging that Trump’s post had conditioned US aid on the prime minister’s trial.
In a late night post on his Truth Social platform, Trump stated that the United States was "not going to stand" for the continued prosecution of Netanyahu, whom he described as a "war hero" targeted by "out-of-control prosecutors."
Trump argued that "this travesty of ’justice’ will interfere with both Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... negotiations."
"The United States of America spends billions of dollar(s) a year, far more than on any other nation, protecting and supporting Israel," noted Trump in what some in Israel took as an implicit threat.
"MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!" he added in a second post on Saturday night.
In a lengthy Truth Social post on Thursday evening, Trump professed to be shocked that Israel was "continuing its ridiculous Witch Hunt against their Great War Time Prime Minister," declaring that his trial "should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State."
#1
This is ridiculous because:
(a) Trump has no control of Israeli courts.
(b) "The trial" is just a bunch of leftard fantasies - just like Trump's trials in USA.
[FoxNews] A potentially deadly fungus known as "pharaoh's curse fungus" could offer an unexpected path to fighting cancer, recent research shows.
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania modified molecules from the fungus — which is officially called Aspergillus flavus — to create a new compound and enhance its cancer-killing properties.
"Fungi gave us penicillin," said Dr. Xue (Sherry) Gao, an associate professor at UPenn and leader of the study, in a press release. "These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found."
The findings were published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.
Aspergillus flavus is found in decaying leaves and compost, as well as on trees, plants and some crops, according to Mayo Clinic.
While the fungus doesn't endanger most healthy people, it can cause respiratory issues for those who have weakened immune systems or are taking certain medications.
Some of the more severe complications of the fungus can include bleeding in the lungs and life-threatening infections in the brain, heart and kidneys, Mayo Clinic stated.
HISTORY OF THE ‘CURSE’
After archaeologists opened King Tut’s tomb in the 1920s, multiple members of the excavation team died suddenly, fueling rumors of a "curse" upon those who dared interfere with the pharaoh’s rest, according to the UPenn press release.
Decades later, doctors hypothesized that fungal spores, which had been dormant for thousands of years, could have infected the team.
In the 1970s, it happened again, the university stated.
A dozen scientists entered another tomb, this time in Poland — and 10 died within a few weeks. Later investigations were said to reveal the presence of Aspergillus flavus in the tomb.
CANCER-FIGHTING POTENTIAL
Now, the same fungus linked to King Tut's tomb could have the capability to fight leukemia in a new form of cancer therapy.
"There are a variety of compounds able to be produced by fungus," Gao told Fox News Digital.
These compounds can be toxic to different cells, she noted, depending on the "biological management we are able to mitigate."
The study aimed to find a specific kind of compound — ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides, or "RiPPs" — within Aspergillus flavus, which was previously shown to be a good source.
When this compound is able to enter cancer cells, Gao said, it may be able to stop their growth.
"Cancer cells divide uncontrollably," Gao said in the release. "These compounds block the formation of microtubules, which are essential for cell division."
[PeterBrimelowSubstack] ZMan, a.k.a. John Christopher Zander
It’s a measure of the extreme OPSEC with which the great podcaster ZMan (twitter handle @TheRealZBlog, Gab handle @TheZBlog—he was a great fan of Andrew Torba’s Gab, as are we), conducted his life that the Berkeley Springs WV sheriff had to call Lydia, while she was driving our two daughters back from 4-H camp, to tell her he had died, apparently from natural causes although he was not yet 60, and to ask if she knew his next of kin. No evidence was apparent in his home. (But his two cats, with some difficulty, had been captured and transferred to Animal Control, pending rehoming).
Zman wrote two articles for VDARE.com: Report From The Gatekeeper’s Ball: Yoram Hazony Really Hates The Right; Zionist Attempt To Co-opt National Conservatism Will Fail; and THE VIRTUE OF NATIONALISM: A Book Of Contradictions.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali special forces killed 37 Al-Shabaab militants, including senior commanders, in a coordinated overnight operation in the southern village of Maqooqaha, the army said Sunday.
The assault, led by the elite Danab Commandos of the Somali National Army in collaboration with international partners, targeted a known militant stronghold in the Lower Jubba region.
“During the operation, 37 terrorists were neutralized, including key leaders of the Al-Shabaab group,” the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. It did not identify the commanders killed.
The military described the offensive as “precisely planned,” adding that no civilian casualties were reported.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali National Army and allied militia forces have launched coordinated operations in the Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle regions targeting Al-Shabaab militants, military sources confirmed on Saturday.
The security offensive focuses on areas between Ceel Hareeri in Hiiraan and Aadan Yabaal in Middle Shabelle, with particular attention on the Mabaax area, where militant activity remains a concern.
Government forces recently regained control of small areas near Aadan Yabaal district and are working to consolidate their hold, aiming to restore state authority in the area.
Simultaneously, operations continue in Middle Shabelle and Lower Shabelle regions as part of broader efforts to weaken Al-Shabaab’s presence. The government has reclaimed key localities, including Sabiid and Caanoole, which were long-held by the militant group.
Local sources reported that the killed ISIS leader was Syria-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas (Ebou Dahdah), who played an active role in the September 11, 2001 attacks. https://t.co/Y9AI2nkJ8g
[IsraelTimes] Argentina has condemned what it said were threats against UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi after Iran rejected his request to visit nuclear facilities bombed by Israel and the United States.
Tehran has accused Grossi, an Argentine, of “betrayal of his duties” for not condemning the Israeli and US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites this month, and Iranian lawmakers voted to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency which he leads.
Argentina’s foreign ministry expresses its support for Grossi, saying it “categorically condemns the threats against him coming from Iran.”
The ministry also urges Iranian authorities to guarantee the safety of the IAEA chief and his team, and “refrain from any action that could put them at risk,” according to a statement on social media platform X.
It does not specify what threats Grossi has received.
On Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X that “Grossi’s insistence on visiting the bombed sites under the pretext of safeguards is meaningless and possibly even malign in intent.”
Iran has said it believes an IAEA resolution on June 12 that accused Iran of ignoring its nuclear obligations served as an “excuse” for the 12-day war Israel launched on June 13.
In an interview with CBS News that aired Saturday, Grossi said Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium “in a matter of months,” despite damage to several nuclear facilities from the recent strikes.
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NO !
Iran must:
* Reimburse ALL countries that it has sponsored Terrorism in.
* Compensate the USA for its numerous breaches of the agreed NUKE deal.
* Return the plane loads of $$$$$.
* Adopt commonly practiced civilized norms and laws.
* Plus, leadership MUST stand trial hang for their 47 years of crimes against humanity.
[GatewayPundit] If I recall correctly, they both were already under threat from Muslim assassins, including inspired by Iran.
IRAN: Grand Ayatollah tells "Muslims of world" to kill POTUS Trump.
Makarem Shirazi: "Anyone threatening or acting against Supreme Leader is Mohareb (enemy of Allah, designated for killing)... If harm comes to you in this mission, you will be recognized as (warriors) of Allah." pic.twitter.com/nwofafw7Zp
Iranian Shiite Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, 98, issued a fatwa calling on Muslims worldwide to assassinate President Donald Trump, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The semi-official Iranian news outlet Mehr News Agency reported on its English language site on Sunday (excerpt):
Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has issued a fatwa in which he declares anyone who threatens Leader, and Shia Marja to be the Enemy of God, who has to be fought against according to Islamic teachings.
After threats were made by the criminal American president
…Trump….
and the leaders of the child-killing Zionist regime
…Netanyahu…
against the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and the senior Shiite clerics known as Marja, a group of believers submitted a request to His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi regarding the duties of Muslims in response to such threats. Grand Ayatollah Makarem response to the question put forward by his followers is as follows:
"Any person or regime that threatens the Leader or Marja (May God forbid) is considered an enemy of God," Grand Ayatollah Makarem said in his Fatwa, which is a response to the question to him.
This is a popular one: Elmerert Hupens2660 and NoMoreBS also submitted this story.
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“We declare that any attack on the Shia Marja and Leader of the Islamic Ummah is considered an attack on the pillar of Islam and also lives of all Muslims"
#6
In doing so, IT just declared war against 98% of the USA.
☺ NOTE: Given the significant Muslim concentrations in DEMOCRAT run states like New York, California, and Illinois. Should those 3 states now be placed under Martial Law, for harboring Enemy combatants? ☺
Rooster Cogburn: [to Matty about burying the outlaws] The ground's too hard. If they wanted a decent funeral, they should have got themselves killed in summer.
[IsraelTimes] State prosecutors filed an indictment against a Rishon Lezion resident accused of espionage for Iran, charging him with contact with a foreign agent and providing intelligence to the enemy.
Dennis Lyakhov, 30, is thought to have come into contact with an Iranian agent via the Telegram messaging app and carried out various tasks at his behest in exchange for money.
The defendant was in touch with the foreign agent from late February to mid-March, and had been residing in Latvia for part of this period, the indictment charges. The indictment states that he knowingly carried out the tasks for an Iranian agent.
According to prosecutors, while he was in Latvia, the defendant was paid NIS 70 ($20) to write the words “FUCK BIBI” on a piece of paper and film himself setting it on fire.
Upon returning to Israel, Lyakhov was told by the agent to film a street and apartment buildings in Petah Tikva and send the documentation. However, he instead went to a separate location in the city and filmed that instead. The agent paid him NIS 254 ($75) for carrying out the task.
He was later enlisted to go to a car dealership in Netanya and inquire about the prices of seven different vehicles while filming the interaction. He was paid in advance, but did not follow through with the task.
Prosecutors are requesting that the Central District Court in Lod keep the defendant in custody until the end of legal proceedings against him.
[FoxNews] 'This is not an ordinary fraud case,' Judge Nina Wang said, adding that the details warranted the maximum sentence
The owner of a Colorado funeral home received the maximum prison sentence after he was found guilty of stashing nearly 190 bodies in a decrepit building and sending families fake ashes instead of their loved ones.
Jon Hallford, owner of Return to Nature Funeral Home, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 aid. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in federal court last year.
Separately, Hallford pleaded guilty to 191 counts of corpse abuse in state court and will be sentenced in August.
During Friday's hearing, federal prosecutors asked for a 15-year sentence while Hallford’s attorney requested 10 years.
Judge Nina Wang said that despite the case only focusing on a single fraud charge, the circumstances and scale of Hallford's crime, as well as the emotional impact on the families, warranted the maximum sentence.
"This is not an ordinary fraud case," she said.
Ahead of the sentencing, Hallford told the judge that he opened the funeral home to make a positive impact on people's lives before "everything got completely out of control, especially me."
"I am so deeply sorry for my actions," he said. "I still hate myself for what I’ve done."
Hallford and his wife, Carie, were accused of storing the bodies between 2019 and 2023 and sending families fake ashes. Investigators found the bodies in 2023 stacked on top of each other throughout a squat, bug-infested building in Penrose, Colorado.
Investigators could not move into some rooms because the bodies were piled so high and in various states of decay. FBI agents had to put boards down so they could walk above the fluid.
Many families learned after the discovery that their loved ones were not cremated and that the ashes they had received were fake. In two cases, the wrong body was buried.
Federal prosecutors accused both Hallfords of pandemic aid fraud, siphoning the money and spending it and customers' payments on a GMC Yukon and Infiniti worth over $120,000 combined, as well as $31,000 in cryptocurrency, luxury items from stores such as Gucci and Tiffany & Co., and laser body sculpting.
Carie Hallford is scheduled to go to trial in the federal case in September, the same month as her next hearing in the state case in which she is also charged with 191 counts of corpse abuse.
2019 to 2023 and 190+ bodies.
I have to wonder how many families got the correct body back, given it was the 2023 Biden (LSD) Puppet Admin Colorado (D) agencies handling it?
Long, information dense, lots of names to remember and correlate. Here’s a taste:
[FoxNews] The rise of Zohran Mamdani is the product of a strategy partly funded by the House of Soros, uniting socialism (red), political Islam (green), and the Democratic Party (blue)
Many people are wondering how Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old socialist Muslim who wants to defund the police, globalize the intifada, and destroy capitalism, has emerged as the Democratic Party's nominee for New York City mayor, with leaders like former President Bill Clinton fawning over him.
To understand Mamdani’s political ascent, you have to trace the red-green-blue spider’s web that brought him here. This isn’t a complete map — I've written a book, "Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America’s Freedom," to document that story — but it is a snapshot of key turning points over two decades of strategy, narrative manipulation, and activist training.
A critical moment traces back to a Friday night in 2008, according to investigative reporting I’ve done at the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative. It reveals how socialists (red) and Muslims (green) seized the Democratic Party (blue) over a long 20-year campaign. At 9:28 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2008, former ACLU civil rights lawyer Ann Beeson sent an email to former Clinton administration senior advisor John Podesta.
Beeson was executive director of U.S. Programs at George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, where she said she oversaw $150 million in annual grants to "promote human rights, social justice and accountability nationwide."
In her email, publicly discussed here for the first time, Beeson wrote, "I’m writing to follow up on one topic we discussed — what the incoming Administration could do to address domestic national security policies and practices that unfairly target Muslim, South Asian, and Arab communities in America."
She attached a memo from Farhana Khera, then executive director of Muslim Advocates, a group based in San Francisco, and Aziz Huq, then the director of the "liberty and national security project" at the William J. Brennan Center for Justice, both Open Society "grantees."
As a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has investigated the convergence of radical leftist politics and Muslim political activism for decades, I have followed a paper trail of tax returns, grant lists and confidential memos, and this email represented the culmination of a decades-long ideological drive that began with Muslim international students arriving in the U.S. in the 1960s, not just to study, as my father did at Rutgers University, but to lay the institutional groundwork for political Islam, or Islamism, in the United States. By the 1980s, they had established a strategic base at 500 Grove Street in Herndon, Va., later investigated by the FBI for alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both groups seeking to destroy Israel and America and build a global caliphate.
The transformation accelerated after December 2005, when Muslim governments convened at an "Extraordinary Islamic Summit" of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. There, they launched a campaign to weaponize the term "Islamophobia" to silence critics of extremist Islam. American Muslim leaders seized the moment to re-engineer the national security narrative, using American philanthropic networks, like the House of Soros, as a Trojan horse to racialize Islam, frame Muslims as the "oppressed" and embed illiberal ideologies within America’s liberal institutions, including the Democratic Party.
By January 2008, with Soros pumping money into Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, his philanthropy staff launched a "National Security and Human Rights Campaign" with D.C.-based Atlantic Philanthropies, committing at least $20 million to "dismantle" Bush-era counterterrorism policies. One grantee, the Proteus Fund, based in Waltham, Mass., ballooned in revenue from $9.5 million in 2008 to $73 million in 2023. Soros dollars flowed to groups including Muslim Advocates, the Brennan Center, the ACLU and many others who set their sights on targets, including the New York Police Department. Today, Mamdani says he wants to "defund the police."
A Pearl Project analysis of 38 documents detailing the operations and funding of the National Security and Human Rights Campaign revealed the coordinated efforts of progressive and Islamist activists to reframe post-9/11 narratives. The aim: clear the path for red-green candidates like Mamdani.
Muslim Advocates grew nearly 10-fold, from $76,331.03 in annual revenues in 2005 to $992,892 in 2023. The Brennan Center’s revenue exploded from $6.6 million to $57.9 million during the same period.
Soros soon funded a new "Security and Rights Collaborative" at Proteus Fund to "restore civil liberties and human rights lost in the name of the ‘war on terror.’" Headquartered in a one‑story building off Research Drive in Amherst, Mass., the new "collaborative" was run by Shireen Zaman, a Muslim activist previously at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a Washington, D.C., group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Their focus: America’s "Muslim, Arab and South Asian community," called "MASA." Zaman now works at the Ford Foundation.
Their strategy went beyond policy to narrative warfare.
Starting in late 2008, Soros pumped some $20 million into a "fieldwide communications hub" to arm Muslim groups and leftist media allies with messaging tools. The recipient: ReThink Media, a nonprofit in Berkeley, Calif., co-founded by "progressive" political operatives Peter Ferenbach and Lynn Fahselt, then a consultant to Democratic donors, including Open Society, Proteus Fund, Ploughshares Fund, Carnegie Corporation, Piper Fund, Atlantic Philanthropies, and others "progressive" donors that have since pumped money into ReThink Media.
ReThink Media became the loudspeaker for the red and the green. Last year, Proteus Fund paid ReThink Media $643,000 as a "communications consultant." Soros also backed Media Matters, run by ex-conservative-turned-Democrat David Brock, to shape media narratives about Muslims attacked by Republicans.
Over the years, ReThink Media has hired and trained alumni of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, including staffers Zainab Chaudary and Corey Saylor, to promote an "echo chamber" for liberal groups. One narrative: Muslims were under attack in the West, and the Democratic Party would defend Muslims.
This storyline took hold in the post-Obama political landscape.
In late 2010, Open Society staffers in Beeson’s U.S. Programs division distributed an internal memo, "Extreme Polarization and Breakdown in Civic Discourse," announcing they were giving Podesta’s Center for American Progress $200,000 for a new "Examining Anti-Muslim Bigotry Project" that would "document structures underlying the Islamophobia movement."
The memo detailed plans to do "opposition research" on groups like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Middle East Forum, which track Islamic extremism.
The project description noted that "progressives were caught off guard" earlier that year when New York City residents opposed the building of a "Ground Zero mosque" near the site of the former World Trade Center.
"Progressives" were in "urgent need of high-quality opposition research so that they can switch from playing defense to develop a proactive strategic plan to counter anti-Muslim xenophobia and to promote tolerance," protecting "progressive counter-terrorism policies," they wrote.
Who are those 5%? They aren’t New Yorkers because polls showed us Mamdani performing poorly with anyone over 50, with African-American, Latino and working class white voters. What’s left? White hipsters and Muslim immigrants.
#1
Pardon me for not knowing this earlier but I recently learned that Eric Adams will be on the November ballot running as an independent. I understand that Adams himself is fairly liberal but at least he's not stark, raving mad.
Text taken from a news article posted in vfokuse.mail.ru Why was the holiday of June 28 chosen to launch the color revolution in Belgrade
Taking advantage of the fact that the events surrounding the short-lived Iran-Israel war distracted the world community's attention from Belgrade and the torcida
…the internet says that’s a formal association of soccer fans. I had no idea there was such a thing…
unleashed against the country's leader Aleksandar Vucic, the anti-government forces in Serbia came into motion. The "assembly point" of the new architecture of the coup d'etat was the national Serbian holiday Vidovdan - the day of remembrance of all the holy martyrs of Serbia and the day of remembrance of the Battle of Kosovo.
On this day, all of Serbia comes into motion; the masses are seized by festive excitement, people are possessed by emotions that can easily be turned both in a positive and negative direction (directed against the current government and its specific representatives). Emotions "warm up" the masses, creating a basis for any revolutionary and especially pseudo-revolutionary actions.
In this regard, the holiday works in the same way as elections. The election issue wedged itself into the emotional upsurge of the Serbs along with the color revolution activists who appeared on the streets: the activists who emerged from the crowd of Serbs celebrating the holiday began to demand that the authorities set a date for early parliamentary elections and dismantle the tent camp of Vucic's supporters near the parliament building. Thus, the day of remembrance and sorrow became politicized. The hidden rebellion once again gave its "metastasis".
The organizers of the rebellion announced that the ultimatum expires at 21:00 local time (22:00 Moscow time), after which, if the demands are ignored, they will be ready to resort to measures of "civil disobedience" (that is, violence in the form of mass riots). Vucic himself confirmed this, stating that violence will happen: "they can no longer refuse it... But we are ready."
This showed that Vucic, unlike Yanukovych and Assad, is ready to fight for power and will not hesitate to use counter-violence (like Alexander Lukashenko in 2020).
Vucic also appealed to the protest organizers not to disturb public order: “In the evening, you will see angry people who will eventually resort to violence because they have no other choice. I again ask them in a fatherly way not to do this. It is always better to retreat than to do something stupid that you will regret for the rest of your life. I have absolutely no doubt about the final result. I just want people to be saved, especially the youth.” In the practice of information operations, this technique is known and is called “Information vaccination.” Vucic used it wisely.
But will this save the "father of Serbian democracy"? I doubt it very much. Color revolutions are not a joke, they are an extremely dangerous tool for dismantling power, and student protests on the streets of Belgrade are just the tip of the iceberg. The enemies of Serbia and Vucic are active, they act quickly and have full operational initiative, imposing their "flash mobs" on the authorities at the time and place that are beneficial to them. Imposing their rules of the game on the current authorities. And even mocking them, throwing a huge number of round badges with images of flowers and the inscription "color revolution" for some reason in Russian on the markets of Belgrade.
Vucic behaves passively. This is either infantilism mixed with the same childish naivety and irrational belief in miracles. Or the hope that at the very last moment he will still be saved - perhaps by those who prompted him to create his own public movement in support of himself, his beloved - a kind of "People's Vucic Front", and, at the same time, to pitch a tent camp of his supporters on the central square - so that no one else could pitch their tents there: the place is already occupied. But the "good people" may not make it in time this time. Because they themselves are not working for the result, but for the sake of "checking the box".
A TOOL FOR ORGANIZING COUPS D'ETAT
Modern color revolutions are technologies for organizing coups d'etat, passed off by their organizers as a "spontaneous uprising of the masses" directed against the current government. The driving force of a color revolution is a mass youth protest movement, organized by specially trained activists; the main instrument of pressure on the government is an aggressive "political" crowd formed on the "Maidan" (a permanent camp in the center of the capital's metropolis, also called the "island" (or territory) of "freedom"), into which new streams of protesters pour.
The main method of pressure on the government is blackmail, combined with the presentation of increasingly radical ultimatums. This model of a color revolution first took shape in Serbia, during the events of 2000, when the regime of Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown in Belgrade (the so-called bulldozer revolution). From that moment on, it was the "bulldozer revolution" that became the classic example and template for imitation - the organization of color revolutions in other countries. It is according to this scenario that events are developing in Serbia now, in the organization of the mass protest movement all the signs of a classic color revolution are clearly visible.
EVOLUTION OF COLOR REVOLUTION TECHNOLOGIES
In 2018, 2019 and 2020, the technologies of color revolutions underwent a change, or hybridization: their ideologists and organizers again began to give preference to faster, cruder and, at first glance, more effective tools of "hard power" - direct forceful coercion: thus, the end of the color revolution in Bolivia in 2019 was put by an ultimatum from the army command, which demanded that President Morales immediately leave his post.
In the same year, the United States attempted to overthrow the Maduro regime in Venezuela, amid mass protests, almost agreeing on the "neutralization" of Maduro with some people from his inner circle; in 2020, the United States made the same attempt when organizing a color revolution in Belarus (the physical elimination of Lukashenko was also planned there, and mass protests and riots served as a factor distracting the attention of the Belarusian leadership from the actions of the "conspirators" from President Lukashenko's inner circle); In Kazakhstan in 2022, the color revolution immediately transitioned into an armed rebellion. In principle, such a threat can also await Serbia in 2025: mass protests, transforming into mass riots, can pave the way for crime and radical nationalists, who will become the driving force of a classic armed rebellion.
But the most dangerous thing about the hybrid color revolution that unfolded in Belarus in 2020 was that Minsk became the "assembly point" for the organizers of color revolutions of the so-called best practices (for the most dangerous methods and technologies) of organizing color revolutions.
The general scheme for organizing a color revolution in Belarus is an exact copy of the Kiev Maidan of 2013-2014. (but without the Maidan itself, a permanent camp), the technologies of communication and coordination of protest groups are taken from Hong Kong 2019-2020, the technologies of conflict mobilization under a non-political agenda are borrowed from the Yerevan "electro-Maidan" of 2015.
The general scheme of the coup d'etat is an exact copy of the "Venezuelan precedent" - the technology of organizing a coup d'etat in Venezuela in 2019. There is little that is actually Belarusian in the Minsk protests: their own authentic symbols, the actual absence of a Maidan (which could be blocked, covered and dispersed) - it is now mobile, like a gypsy camp, and moves with crowds of protesters, and the widespread use of a new means of protest communication - Telegram channels.
This is being repeated in Serbia, where classic techniques of color revolutions are already being used - in particular, the "march on Rome" (when protests flare up on the outskirts, surround the capital with a "ring of fire" and this ring begins to quickly shrink as columns of protesters move from the outskirts to the center of the country, absorbing more and more crowds of people dissatisfied with the current government).
In recent times, we have seen many Western specialists in organizing color revolutions in action, and in various corners of the globe: they were underfoot in the Sahel, extremely keenly interested in how, on the basis of our methodology for training information special forces (the “Information and Hybrid Wars” program of the APN) and the experience of our leading practitioners of the Alter Academy of Political Sciences, the countries of the Sahel Defense Alliance are preparing the best information operations specialists on the African continent from ordinary peasants (especially when these specialists began to operate in the combat formations of operational-combat groups of classic special forces, making them “hybrid”).
We saw them in Tehran and some other places, where they, having been “left to settle”, slowly and painfully “woke up” in the expectation that they would now be given the go-ahead (after air strikes) to strike the Iranian regime from within (their meeting with us did not pass without a trace for them). We saw across the Strait (and even closer) how the same CIA "specialists" are preparing Taiwan to become "Anti-China" - and according to the same patterns by which the "Collective West" made Ukraine "Anti-Russia" in 20 years. They are not children. And they should be treated accordingly.
VUCIC'S REACTION
The current protests began to spoil Vucic's blood not yesterday and not "six months ago" (as you can hear from the lips of some talking heads): attempts to undermine the government began more than two years ago. In December 2023, the same thing happened as in November-December 2024 - it is somehow not customary to talk about this. That is, Vucic has been tested for strength by various forms of "student", "patriotic" and "anti-corruption" protests for a long time. And for most of this time, the government behaved passively.
The first signs of active actions began suddenly and at the very moment when Vucic, unexpectedly for everyone, officially accused the West of preparing a "color revolution" and announced the creation of a nationwide movement called "For the People and the State". At a rally organized on April 15, 2025 by supporters of the government in front of the parliament building in Belgrade, a triumphant Vucic declared: "The color revolution is over. They can walk around as much as they want, but nothing will come of it," Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told crowds of his supporters organized in support of the government.
The demonstration, organized under the slogan "We will not give up Serbia", began on Friday and lasted until Sunday. At the rally, everyone was invited to join the new movement. A 200-meter Serbian flag was unfurled near the parliament and ceremoniously carried through the streets of the city. Thousands of people from various Serbian cities, as well as Montenegro and the Republic of Srpska, came to the demonstration.
The "delegates" from Kosovo and Metohija arrived - allegedly "on foot" having slipped through the cordons of Albanian nationalists. Their speech was especially vivid and carried a colossal emotional charge. Then the "protesters in support of Vucic", in the best traditions of their ideological opponents and antagonists, occupied the main square and pitched their "Maidan" there - a permanent camp, occupying the entire city space so that future Maidanites would have nowhere to even spread a blanket.
Vucic demanded that the authorities "restore order" (probably forgetting at the moment that he himself is the authority), and also declared that it was necessary to find the "instigators of unrest" and not let them "paralyze the life of the country." And he calmed down on that. As the events of the last few days have shown - very much in vain. In general, the advice dictated to Vučić by the imported specialists who came to help was correct, although noticeably outdated: in the 2000s and even in the 2010s, it would have partially solved the problem, temporarily disrupting the rebels' plans. But not now.
In the years since the mutiny in Belarus in 2020, everyone has become smarter (the opponents first and foremost), except for the so-called Russian political strategists (or, more precisely, the people who consider themselves to be them). They just want to put on a show, and then let the grass not grow. How could they not have thought of organizing a bicycle-auto-motorcycle-bike rally in Serbia, under the slogan "Vučić's bees - against the honey of color revolutions." Like in "Radio Day." In the end, Vucic was not protected by his “Poles”: the movement in defense of the president with a new round of aggressive protests has disappeared somewhere, the tent camp of supporters is silent, the aggressive crowd has to be dispersed by means of extreme forms of “persuasion” - tear gas and flash-bang grenades. The question is, what were they fighting for?
In these conditions, Vucic is required to be constantly active: he is now like an elderly wrestler in the ring, at whom everyone is throwing themselves “from around the corner”. But instead, he did his number and left. Color revolutions today do not forgive such things.
CONCLUSION
The events in Serbia that have been taking place over the past two years (2024 and 2025) completely fit the description of modern color revolutions - technologies for organizing coups d'état, disguised as mass protests of citizens. If the government does not fight for itself and the preservation of the country, these technologies will inevitably lead to its overthrow.
Only well-trained specialists who have the trust of the country's leadership and broad powers can organize an effective fight against the organizers and executors of the color revolution, but it is unlikely that they exist in Serbia today.
As a result of the riots at the demonstrations in Belgrade, 48 police officers and 22 protesters were injured. This was reported on June 29 by the head of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs Dragan Vasiljevic.
He specified that more than 20 people sought medical help after the night protests. Two of the victims received serious injuries.
In total, the police detained 77 participants in the protest, 38 of whom were arrested.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, mass protests by students and the opposition began in the Serbian capital on the evening of June 28. Their participants took to the streets demanding that the country's parliament be dissolved and a date for early elections be set. At some point, clashes between protesters and the police began. The protesters began throwing cans, firecrackers and other objects at the security forces, and the law enforcement officers had to use force.
As the head of the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic, emphasized, those who attacked law enforcement officers during the protests in Belgrade will be identified, detained and brought to justice.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] The strike at night and in the morning was the most powerful in 2025.
More than 450 Geraniums and other types of drones were used + decoys + more than 50 missiles (Kinzhals, X-101, Iskanders, Kalibr, etc.)
Targets in 14 regions of Ukraine were hit. Among them were the Kremenchuk and Dragobych oil refineries.
The enemy also lost one F-16 (in addition to the main version about it being shot down by an air-to-air missile, there are also versions about a Geranium exploding near the F-16 and a Friendly Fire). In any case, minus one more F-16.
Such intensity of strikes leads to further depletion of the enemy's air defense and leads to an ever-increasing number of drone and missile hits.
It is also worth noting that FABs with UMPKs now reach Dnepropetrovsk (an important achievement of our military-industrial complex). Also today, Russian artillery shelled the outskirts of Sumy for the first time. The 152mm 2S5 Giatsint self-propelled guns were practicing. Drones are already easily reaching the center of Sumy.
The Russian army launched a massive strike, including with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, on military-industrial complex (MIC) facilities in the territory controlled by the Kiev regime. This was reported on June 29 by the Russian Defense Ministry.
“Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a massive strike with high-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons, including the Kinzhal aeroballistic hypersonic missile system, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, on military-industrial complex facilities <…> of Ukraine,” the department reported.
The Ministry of Defense clarified that oil refineries in Kiev-controlled territory were also hit, and added that all the strike's objectives were achieved.
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The Russian constabulary can be quite convincing...
[Regnum] The immediate perpetrators of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall were supposed, according to the organizers, to resist the security forces and die. This was stated by one of the four perpetrators, Saidokram Murodali Rachabolizoda.
According to him, the coordinator stated that when the security forces arrived on the scene, they would have to engage in battle with them and die.
But dying a martyr sends them straight to Paradise. Why on earth would they not want to die that way? No Paradise, no girls — just like their entire life before.
“However, on March 21, 2024, sent a voice message to [Shamsidin] Fariduni (included by Rosfinmonitoring in the list of terrorists and extremists), in which he indicated that he still needed us, that it was too early to die and after committing the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall we needed to go to Kiev, that is, to the territory of Ukraine, where, upon meeting with the Ukrainian guys, we would receive 1 million rubles each for our work, that is, for the terrorist attack committed,” TASS quotes him as saying.
The perpetrators of the terrorist attack tried to go to Ukraine to get the promised money there, he explained. According to the terrorist, a group was waiting for them in the Bryansk region to help them cross the border with Ukraine.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Rachabolizoda, Fariduni and their two accomplices, Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev and Mukhammadsobir Faizov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring), burst into the Crocus City Hall with weapons in their hands on the evening of March 22 last year. They opened fire on visitors and employees of the concert hall, and then started a fire. Having escaped after the attack in a car, they headed towards Ukraine and were detained in the Bryansk region.
The attack left 149 people dead and 609 injured. One person is missing.
The perpetrators of the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall admitted during interrogations that they received weapons from the territory of Ukraine. This became known on June 29 when the testimony was published.
“Since the customer of this terrorist attack was a Ukrainian state structure, the weapons arrived in Moscow from the territory of Ukraine,” RIA Novosti quoted the testimony of one of the accused.
He also said that it was easier to smuggle weapons from Ukraine than from any other country. In addition, the terrorists had a pistol, and they bought each a knife.
Investigators also established that after committing the crime, the terrorists went to Kyiv, where they were promised to be paid 1 million rubles each. At the same time, the organizers of the terrorist attack in Crocus planned for the perpetrators to die, resisting the security forces.
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[Regnum] American intelligence services intercepted a telephone conversation between Iranian officials, in which it was noted that the US strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran were not as powerful and destructive as expected. This was reported on June 29 by The Washington Post (WP).
So it might be true that this was overheard…
Senior Iranian officials are said to have said in a conversation that the attack on nuclear facilities ordered by US President Donald Trump was less destructive than they had expected, although the report cites one US official
…anonymous, so no one else can confirm…
as saying that a single conversation between anonymous Iranians does not equal an intelligence assessment that takes into account the full range of information from different sources.
Also true.
White House press secretary Karoline Levitt called the publication a "leak taken out of context" of information.
"It is complete nonsense to suggest that unnamed Iranian officials know what happened hundreds of feet under the rubble. Their nuclear program is finished," she said.
Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that, as stated by military expert, political scientist, Captain 1st Rank Vasily Fatigarov, if the Americans had hit the main storage facility for enriched uranium on Iranian territory, this would have led to a technological catastrophe on a regional scale.
Fatigarov noted that under the previously existing JCPOA agreement, Iran had the right to enrich 300 kg of uranium to 3.7%, and it was the Americans who withdrew from this agreement during the previous term of US President Trump, after which Tehran lifted all restrictions.
The main storage facility, which contained 166.6 kg of uranium enriched to 60%, was located at the Fordow facility. If the bombing of this facility had affected the main uranium storage facility, a technological catastrophe of regional proportions would have occurred, worse than that of Chernobyl.
US President Donald Trump claims that Iran may have another — secret — facility related to the nuclear program allegedly being implemented by the republic.
"We knew Iran had a lot of [nuclear facilities], probably three [major] ones plus one," the White House chief said in an interview with Fox News.
At the same time, Trump expressed confidence that Tehran did not have time to evacuate enriched uranium from its facilities before American bombers struck them.
"First of all, it's very difficult to do. It's very dangerous. <…> Also, no one thought we would hit [the Fordow facility], because everyone said it was impenetrable. <…> I think there were people at the facility, they say there were cars there. These people were trying to concrete the entrance, where the bomb would most likely hit," the American leader said.
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Given Iran, officials report what they were told to, not what actually happened.
If the FACTS get out to the Iranian Citizenry and yes maybe even a few Military commanders might decide enough is enough and take out the Tehran dictators.
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[REGNUM] Pro-Palestinian activists in "greater Europe" have suddenly stopped limiting themselves to ordinary demonstrations and have moved on to subversive actions.
In the past week, there have been two major attacks on military installations and enterprises - in the UK and Belgium. Moreover, the activists in these attacks have shown themselves to be not just an inspired crowd, but a coordinated and well-thought-out team of saboteurs, clearly selecting targets and effectively disabling them.
This gave rise to the conviction among Europeans that a much more serious force was hiding behind the masks of fighters for the rights of the Palestinian people. Especially since a more thorough inspection revealed a “common denominator” in the attacked objects.
DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT
On June 20, two unknown individuals broke into the British military base Bryce Norton. Using crowbars and a fire extinguisher converted into a spray can, they damaged the engines of two Airbus Voyager tanker aircraft, after which they painted a Palestinian flag on the ground and fled. Without causing any alarm at the facility.
The Palestinian Action movement, created in 2020 by a group of young anarchists,
…just another Black Bloc/Antifa tentacle, this one wearing a Palestinian/anti-Israel false nose and mustache...
claimed responsibility for the high-profile action. And this is far from their first major attack.
In 2021, a group with banners and smoke bombs “seized” the roof of the UAV Tactical System company in Leicester for almost a week, effectively paralyzing its work.
And in 2022, they carried out a pogrom at a Glasgow equipment manufacturing plant, causing $1.5 million in damage to local gunsmiths.
The Bryce Norton protest was the last straw for London. The British government decided to seek a ban on Palestine Action.
As the head of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs Yvette Cooper noted , the movement will soon be declared illegal in accordance with the letter of the Terrorism Act of 2000 - because it uses subversive and "socially dangerous" tactics of action. This will allow the same measures to be applied to activists as to cells of international terrorist organizations.
However, the initiative still needs to be approved at all levels. In the meantime, supporters of the movement are taking advantage of the sluggishness of the British justice system and threatening larger-scale solidarity actions – not only in London, but also in mainland Europe.
BELGIAN POGROM
However, while the activities of Palestine Action in Great Britain are well known and no longer surprise local officials, the sudden activation of similar structures in other countries has had the effect of a bomb exploding.
Less than a week after the Bryce Norton raid, more than a hundred activists armed with hammers and grinders attacked the OIP office and warehouses in the Belgian city of Tournai.
They destroyed office equipment and damaged some of the cargo in the warehouses, including several armored vehicles, and disrupted the company's information infrastructure. The total damage was estimated at approximately one million euros.
Although the activists' outrages were captured on CCTV, it will not be easy to identify the instigators. The attackers were dressed in hermetic white suits that hid their faces and figures, and wore thick gloves.
However, this did not stop the OIP leadership from suggesting that most of the attackers were women, due to the fact that they used the tools “extremely ineptly and uncertainly.”
However, the Belgian police have not yet been able to identify the culprits.
"RUSSIAN TRACE"
Increased attacks by pro-Palestinian activists on defense industry facilities in European countries have given rise to a wave of conspiracy theories.
Pro-Palestinian activists, previously famous for their spontaneous actions,
…not actually spontaneous. The October 8, 2023 protests, for instance, were ordered directly by Hamas in Gaza...
suddenly demonstrated unprecedented coordination and were able to bypass serious security systems. Moreover, the surge in their activity occurred in several countries at once, and in some of them, they do not even have a common border.
Telephone, internet, and snail mail all pass through borders as if they did not exist.
But as soon as the “Ukrainian” variable was added to the story, a “Russian trace” was immediately identified in it.
Among other things, it was revealed that part of the British military aid to Kyiv was being delivered via Bryce Norton, and the damaged tanker planes were used as "safety nets" during reconnaissance and monitoring operations, including along the Russian border. The action by pro-Palestinian activists temporarily put them out of action.
The OIP warehouses in Tournai were storing equipment that was intended for immediate shipment to Ukraine, directly to the combat zone. And as a result of the pogrom, the deliveries already announced by the Belgians had to be postponed for at least a month.
This circumstantial evidence was enough for some Western bloggers and sensation-hungry members of the press to quickly label pro-Palestinian activists as “Russian career intelligence agents.”
SIMPLE EXPLANATION
Activists explain the situation much more prosaically. Their attacks on defense concerns and military bases were intended to send an open message and to underline the readiness of pro-Palestinian forces to go beyond the usual demonstrations. Which, moreover, are increasingly ignored by national elites.
In addition, both French Airbus (whose planes were damaged in the raid on the British base) and Belgian OIP have in the past been heavily involved in Israeli defense projects, conducting joint developments, some of which were later used in the war against Hamas.
Moreover, OIP is a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, the largest defense concern in Israel. Thus, it was the Israelis, not the Belgians, who ultimately suffered the damage.
As one of the representatives of the "Palestinian Action" noted on social networks, Western weapons and ammunition supplied to Ukraine also partly end up on the balance sheet of the Israeli army through the black market. However, they are not used directly by it, but are transferred to loyalists in Gaza for additional destabilization of the situation in the sector.
I’m confused.
In particular, the unit of Yasser Abu Shabab , the leader of the "Gaza Management Committee", was armed and staffed using a similar scheme. Pro-Israeli fighters received European-made machine guns and grenades through the black market, as well as Canadian and American anti-personnel mines intended for Kiev.
The pro-Palestinian activists took the very statements that they were “working for the Kremlin” with poisonous irony, declaring that they had only one real enemy, and that was Israel. And all the others (including Ukraine, which suffered indirectly during the recent raids) were just “side targets.”
However, users in the comments were quick to point out that official Kyiv supports the political course chosen by Tel Aviv (including actions towards Iran and its Middle Eastern allies), which partly makes the recent actions even more profound and symbolic.
[IsraelTimes] Defense Ministry withdraws prohibitions after Tekuma Directorate completes many repairs; state will generally stop supporting rental payments for the seven, with some exceptions
The government on Sunday greenlighted the immediate return of residents to seven of the 13 communities worst hit by the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... terror invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
Authorities lifted all military bans and announced the completion of essential renovations that will enable members of Re’im, Kerem Shalom, Nirim, Ein Hashlosha, Sufa, Nir Yitzhak, and Netiv Ha’asara to return home starting Tuesday, should they wish it.
After July 31, the state will cease subsidizing rental accommodations for individuals from these communities who do not return.
In August, essential works are expected to be completed in Nahal Oz, enabling residents to return there before the start of the next school year.
A green light for Kissufim residents is expected in November 2025, with Holit, Kfar Aza, and Be’eri following in 2026.
Kibbutz Nir Oz was largely destroyed on October 7 when Hamas forces of Evil entered all but six of over 200 homes in the small community and either murdered or kidnapped one of every four residents — 117 people out of some 400.
The kibbutz had held out for what it saw as an acceptable deal, only agreeing with the state recently on a plan to invest over NIS 350 million ($95 million) in rehabilitation and redevelopment. Planning has just begun, and residents continue to live in state-subsidized apartments in the southern city of Kiryat Gat. There is no return date set.
Ze’ev Elkin, the minister with the overall charge of rehabilitating the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... border area in the south and the Lebanese border region in the north, said Sunday: "Thanks to a deep partnership with the communities, the Tekuma Directorate [responsible for rehabilitating the Gaza border area] and local authorities, we were able to shorten schedules, expand budgets, and create an infrastructure that allows not only a return, but growth as well."
He vowed that the Gaza border area would be "restored, developed, and be a symbol of the strength, resilience and resurrection of Israeli society as a whole."
Aviad Friedman, head of the Tekuma Directorate, said that with the removal of the security limitations, residents will be "able to return to their homes as a community."
Nir Mesika, head of the directorate’s Construction, Housing and Infrastructure Division, said his colleagues had understood in the early days that "given the extraordinary events on every scale that occurred in the region on October 7, the physical rehabilitation had to be different."
The framework created by the directorate allowed the communities to take responsibility for their own rehabilitation, "with the understanding that this was the way to advance the healing and rehabilitation processes of the communities themselves," he continued. "We will continue to work with full vigor, together with the communities, until the entire process of building and rehabilitating the settlements in the region is completed."
LOUD BOOMS, CRACKING WALLS, AND A FUTURE UNKNOWN
Immediately after the Hamas invasion, which saw some 1,200 people in southern Israel slaughtered and 251 kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, the state evacuated 46 rural communities and the city of Sderot — all of which fall within seven kilometers (4.3 miles) of the Gaza border.
By the end of May 2025, the Tekuma Directorate said that 92 percent of the population had returned home.
The state aims to double the number of Gaza border residents from 64,000 as of October 6, 2023, to 120,000 by October 2033.
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... it remains impossible to predict how many of the 5,000 residents from the 13 most battered communities will ultimately return, or how long those who do return will stay.
The Habayta Forum (habayta means "homebound" in Hebrew), which represents the hardest-hit communities, estimated in May that 30% would not go back. The State Comptroller’s projection was 13%.
Back in the day, Bibi had tailored his studies at MIT in architecture and business management toward understanding how to more effectively alleviate Israel’s acute housing shortage, so he’s probably enjoying this as a break from all the life, death, and political stuff.
The IDF is continuing to operate in Gaza, and Israeli communities nearby are having to cope with the secondary effects of the deafening explosions that have reduced much of the Strip to little more than rubble.
Loud booms from airstrikes rock towns near the border at all hours of the day and sometimes into the early morning.
Since renovations were completed to repair the damage wrought by invading terrorists, the shockwaves radiating from massive explosions in the Strip have left cracks on every building in Kibbutz Nirim, “without exception,” according to community manager Maya Liberman.
“Shutters fall out, windows burst, doors dislocate, pergolas separate from houses, and drinking glasses break. The kibbutz just moves,” Liberman told The Times of Israel, adding, “There are also big underground pipe bursts that were never an issue before this war.”
The loud noises are the result of IDF strikes on Hamas infrastructure and underground tunnels.
REHABILITATION IS ‘MORE THAN PLASTER AND PAINT’
“You don’t have to be clever to understand that there’s a war on, and it’s very hard to be here [close to the border] and to sleep, said Ziv Mazliach, chairman of the Habayta Forum and a member of Kfar Aza currently living in Kibbutz Ruhama, east of Sderot. “I live in Ruhama, and my house moves whenever [the IDF] bombs northern Gaza. I don’t know how many will come back even if the army decides it’s okay.”
He drew attention to a survey published by the Forum in May which found that many border residents were feeling economically squeezed and emotionally and mentally vulnerable.
The poll found that only 45% of 585 respondents from 11 frontline communities had full-time work, compared with 70% before October 7. Among the 28.1% who were not working at all, nearly half (45%) reported that this was due to mental and emotional reasons.
[IsraelTimes] A blast and smoke rising at Iran’s northwestern Tabriz refinery were caused by the explosion of a nitrogen tank, Iranian state media says.
There were no casualties in the incident, and the refinery continues to operate normally, the report adds.
#2
^ Which is why we need to scrub it all from our atmosphere after we are done removing the carbon dioxide. Nothing left but sweet, life-giving oxygen.
Is it wise to puff up President Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman pretensions and international Muslim Brotherhood connections?
[IsraelTimes] The Israel-Iran war has opened the way to a “new road” for the Middle East in which Turkey will have a key role to play, Washington’s envoy to Turkey says.
“What just happened between Israel and Iran is an opportunity for all of us to say: Time out. Let’s create a new road, (and) Turkiye is key in that new road,” Ambassador Tom Barrack, who is also the US special envoy to Syria, tells the Anadolu state news agency.
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[NewsFront] 20:52 Destruction of UAV crews, air defense systems and warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces —video.
19:48 The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the Novopavlovsk direction, –MAP.
19:34 Soldiers of the 2nd battalion of the 247th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment of the Airborne Forces crossed the Yanchekrak River and have gained a foothold in the northern part of the village of Kamenskoye, Zaporizhia region.
19:23 Chasovoyarskoe direction. The Russian army has come close to Belaya Gora, preparations are underway to begin the assault on this village, –MAP.
19:01 From 16:00 Moscow time to 18:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type:
Two over the territory of the Bryansk region and
One over the territory of the Belgorod region.
17:57 On frames: defeat of Ukrainian Air Defense Forces air defense systems by FAB-500 strikes in the area of Novoekonomicheskoe settlement.
17:46 Engineering and sapper units of the Novorossiysk Guards Airborne Assault Mountain Unit of the Airborne Forces demining roads with access roads to forward positions in the Orekhov direction in the Zaporizhia region.
16:45 In the Sudzhansky district continues evacuation of the bodies of the dead Ukrainian servicemen.
15:16 North Scouts detected location of the mortar crew in the vicinity of the village of Liptsy.
The coordinates were transmitted to the FPV operators of the 11th Army Corps, who carried out a targeted attack, destroying the enemy weapon.
14:28 The Ukrainian Armed Forces are abandoning damaged or broken equipment near Kupyansk in the Khar'kov region, fearing to take it back due to the active work of Russian drones, –video.
12:36 From 8.50 Moscow time to 11.10 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed eight Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
Seven over the territory of the Bryansk region and
One over the territory of the Kursk region.
12:15 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of June 29, 2025
Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons, including the Kinzhal aeroballistic hypersonic missile system, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, against military-industrial facilities and oil refineries in Ukraine.
The strike target has been achieved, all designated objects have been hit.
Units of the North group of forces improved their position along the forward edge. They inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of a mechanized brigade, two airborne assault brigades, a ranger brigade, three assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Andreevka, Yablonovka, Varachino, Yunakovka, Kondratovka and Sadky in the Sumy region.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of a mechanized brigade, an unmanned systems brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a territorial defense brigade and a border detachment of the Ukrainian Border Service were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Udy, Melove, Okop, Chugunovka, Artelnoye and Dvurechanskoye in the Khar'kov region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 190 servicemen, two tanks, four combat armored vehicles, eight cars and five field artillery pieces.
Units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of three mechanized, tank, airmobile, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Podliman, Gorokhovatka, Glushchenkovo, Petro-Ivanovka in the Khar'kov region, Karpovka and Zelenaya Dolina in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 220 servicemen, a Turkish-made Kirpi armored combat vehicle and a US-made BATT UMG armored vehicle, 12 vehicles, and two artillery pieces. Three Oktava-S electronic warfare stations and five ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved their position along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard Brigade "Azov" in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Serebryanka, Bondarnoye, Shcherbinovka and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 160 servicemen, a pickup truck and two field artillery pieces, including a 155mm self-propelled artillery unit "Braveheart" made in Great Britain. The electronic warfare station "Tuman", three ammunition depots and two warehouses of material resources were destroyed
As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the Center group of forces, the settlement of Novoukrainka in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
Defeat was inflicted on formations of three mechanized, airborne assault brigades, a brigade of unmanned systems, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of naval infantry, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Udachnoye, Lunacharskoye, Dachnoye, Novotoretskoye, Muravka, Krasnoarmeysk, Petrovskoye, Dimitrov and Razino of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to more than 400 servicemen, a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, a Cossack armored car, 15 vehicles and four field artillery pieces.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a marine brigade, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Zeleny Gai, Karl Marx, Shevchenko, Voskresenka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Berezove of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 185 servicemen, seven vehicles and four artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of a mechanized, mountain assault brigade, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Plavni, Stepovoe, Novodanilovka in the Zaporizhia region, Dneprovskoe and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
Up to 80 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, 12 vehicles, two field artillery guns, an unmanned boat, two electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged the Israeli-made RADA multifunctional radar station, workshops for the production and assembly of strike unmanned aerial vehicles and their storage sites, temporary deployment points of the armed formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and foreign mercenaries in 133 districts.
Air defense systems shot down a long-range Neptune guided missile and 102 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
663 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
66,160 unmanned aerial vehicles,
612 anti-aircraft missile systems,
24,079 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1,572 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems,
26,765 field artillery pieces and mortars,
37,447 units of special military vehicles.
12:06 As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the Center group of forces released the settlement of Novoukrainka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:53 FPV drones calculations of the special forces unit of the "Center" group of forces struck equipment and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeyskaya direction.
UAV operators of the Vostok group of forces destroyed enemy drone control points and Starlink satellite communications antennas in the South Donetsk direction.
09:46 On video: Paratroopers from the Ivanovo 217th Airborne Regiment destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment and artillery in the Sumy region, preventing them from infiltrating into Russian territory in the vicinity of Tetkino.
08:26 Mortarmen of the North group of forces provide advancement of attack aircraft in Sumy region.
Artillerymen are on combat duty 24/7, actively interacting with reconnaissance drone operators. When solving fire missions, the crews work in a coordinated manner: the first shot is fired within a minute after receiving the task to destroy the target.
07:12 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type:
One UAV each over the territories of Kursk, Rostov regions and the Republic of Crimea.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
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..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
