[IsraelTimes] Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders withdraws his party from the government in a row over immigration, bringing down a shaky coalition and likely ushering in snap elections.
Wilders has been frustrated with what he saw as the slow pace of introducing the "strictest-ever immigration policy," agreed on with coalition partners after his shock election win in November 2023.
"No signature for our asylum plans... PVV leaves the coalition," Wilders says on X, formerly Twitter.
The withdrawal opens up a period of political uncertainty in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s fifth-largest economy and major exporter, as far-right parties make gains across the continent.
The latest government crisis also comes just weeks before the Netherlands is due to host world leaders for a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... summit.
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I am not certain, but this seems like good news. The "Far-Right" label seems unjust, however. Maybe to a commie. Or the EU. They seem the same to me.
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In Europe 'Far-Right' is anything that is not Marxist.
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Geert Wilders, whose father is Dutch and mother is half Indonesian, came out of the center-right, politically. He layered on top of that a strong distrust of the EU, plus a love of Israel and a hatred of being colonized by Islam after spending some time travelling throughout the Middle East as a young man. Politically he is a plain vanilla European nationalist populist: classical liberal in terms of economic and personal freedom issues, and a rejection of mass immigration of Moslem colonists.
[Garowe] At least 109 to 174 people have been killed in 34 U.S. airstrikes conducted in Somalia so far in 2025, according to a report released by the New America Foundation, a Washington-based policy institute that monitors American drone and airstrike campaigns worldwide.
The organization did not specify the exact number of non-combatants killed. During Trump's first term, AFRICOM carried out 219 airstrikes in Somalia that left 6-31 civilians dead, according to the report.
The rise in airstrikes coincides with an escalation in U.S. military operations against extremist groups operating in Somalia, including al-Shabaab and ISIS-Somalia. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has intensified its efforts to support the Somali government in counterterrorism operations across the country.
General Michael Langley, commander of AFRICOM, recently acknowledged the uptick in strikes, saying the U.S. remains committed to “disrupting and degrading” extremist networks that pose a threat to regional and international stability.
Somalia has seen a surge in violence in recent months, with U.S. airpower playing an increasingly visible role in operations aimed at dismantling insurgent strongholds in remote regions.
Human rights groups have repeatedly called for more transparency and accountability around U.S. military actions in Somalia, particularly in cases where civilian casualties are alleged.
[ShabelleMedia] The United States military carried out two air strikes targeting ISIS turbans in Somalia late last week, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said Sunday, amid ongoing efforts to counter krazed killer threats in the Horn of Africa.
The strikes took place on May 31 and June 1, 2025, approximately 72 kilometers south of the port city of Bosaso in the semi-autonomous Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... region, AFRICOM confirmed in a statement.
While no casualty figures were disclosed, the command underscored the persistent threat posed by ISIS-Somalia, noting the group’s "demonstrated ability and willingness to attack U.S. forces."
"These strikes were conducted to disrupt and degrade ISIS-Somalia’s operational capacity in a remote area known to be a hub for the group," the statement added.
AFRICOM said initial assessments indicated no civilian casualties and that the strikes were carried out in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia.
The operations mark the latest in a series of U.S. military actions aimed at supporting Somali and regional forces in countering krazed killer groups, including both ISIS and the larger al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... insurgency.
ISIS-Somalia, though significantly smaller than al-Shabaab, maintains a foothold in parts of northeastern Somalia and has grabbed credit for a series of assassinations and bombings in recent years.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the interim government in Damascus conducted a second round of prisoner swaps in northern Aleppo on Monday, involving approximately 500 detainees from both sides.
The SDF-linked Ronahi TV reported that a total of 469 detainees from both sides were released, including 293 Kurdish fighters and civilians, as well as 176 members of groups affiliated to the Damascus authorities.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's gun out of his hand...... Syria’s state-run SANA roughly estimated the figure at around 400.
The state-owned Syrian news channel, al-Ikhbariyah, on Monday relayed that the Internal Security Directorate in Aleppo had finalized preparations for the exchange, deploying forces to the al-Awarid area, near the entrance of the Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in northern Aleppo.
Ikhbariah added that the prisoner swap was carried out under the terms of the landmark agreement signed on March 10 between SDF commander Mazloum Abdi and Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa. The Abdi-Sharaa deal outlines the integration of "all civil and military institutions in northeast Syria [Rojava] under the administration of the Syrian state."
In early April, the SDF and the Damascus administration signed a follow up agreement - reportedly in the presence of American representation. This subsequent deal established a framework for joint security oversight in northern Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority quarters of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsood, and provisions for ongoing prisoner exchanges.
The second round of prisoner exchange "comes as a culmination of previous negotiation rounds within a comprehensive national vision to address humanitarian and security issues in the country’s northeast," Ikhbariah said.
The swap of the second batch of prisoners had initially been scheduled for the previous week but was reportedly postponed after Damascus refused to release several SDF female fighters. Importantly, Monday's exchange included seven female fighters of the SDF, according to a statement by the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ). The latter is the all-women branch of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) - the backbone of the SDF.
The first round of the swap took place in early April, during which the SDF secured the release of 146 captives, while the Syrian government received 97 of its detainees.
Monday’s prisoner exchange notably came a day after a delegation from northeast Syria (Rojava) met on Sunday with the committee appointed by Syria’s new leadership to finalize the implementation of the Abdi-Sharaa March agreement.
The Rojava representatives said the talks focused on "reactivating" the file on Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh, with the aim of resolving it in a manner that "serves stability and civil peace."
[IsraelTimes] Media outlets in Gaza report that hospitals in Gaza have received several people killed or injured after being hit by gunfire while waiting for humanitarian aid at a newly opened distribution center in Rafah. Some websites affiliated with the Hamas terror group report that 15 people were killed.
There is no confirmation of the reports.
The claims come after two days of similar reports out of Rafah, with 31 people reported killed early Sunday and three more on Monday, according to Hamas, eyewitnesses and aid groups.
The IDF and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which runs the assistance distribution site, have denied that shootings occurred in the area during those hours, though a military official said warning shots were fired at individuals about a kilometer away early Sunday and again on Monday. According to the Red Cross, 179 people wounded by gunfire and shrapnel were brought to a field hospital it operates in Rafah Sunday morning, and 50 more on Monday morning.
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian suspect who allegedly was planning to throw rocks at a highway in the West Bank was shot by Israeli troops a short while ago, the military says.
Troops of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit had spotted the suspect near the village of Sinjil as he was attempting to hurl stones on a nearby road, the military says.
The IDF says the suspect threw two bottles with “dangerous material” in them at the forces, and the soldiers returned fire.
[Jpost] US President Donald Trump echoed the theme on Truth Social, writing that the attack showed why “the Muslim Brotherhood must stay banned and its sympathisers removed.”
Egyptian news outlets have seized on Sunday’s arson attack in Boulder, Colorado, to revive allegations against the Muslim Brotherhood, branding the Egyptian-born suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, as a supporter of the outlawed movement even though US investigators have provided no such finding.
Soliman, 45, is accused of hurling Molotov cocktails and blasting a makeshift flamethrower at elderly participants in a weekly walk on Pearl Street that calls for the release of 58 Israeli hostages held by Hamas. 12 people were injured, including a Holocaust survivor; one victim remained in critical condition on Monday evening, police said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is treating the incident as a suspected lone-actor hate crime. Court filings show that Soliman entered the United States on a B-1/B-2 tourist visa in August 2022, overstayed when it expired in February 2023 and received a one-year work permit that lapsed this past March. Homeland Security officials said he had made a failed asylum attempt in 2005. He is being held in Boulder County Jail on five felony counts, including attempted first-degree murder and use of incendiary devices, with bail set at $10 million.
The Cairo-based news portal Egypt Telegraph ran a prominent banner reading, “Mansoura man behind Colorado attack ‘liked’ Ikhwan pages,” claiming that archived screenshots from a Facebook account bearing Soliman’s name showed repeated endorsements of Muslim Brotherhood content and the slogan “Islam is the solution.” The site did not publish the images.
Several pro-government talk shows echoed the report, arguing that the Boulder flames reflected what they called a pattern of Brotherhood-inspired violence exported abroad since the movement was banned in Egypt in 2013. While commentators uniformly condemned the assault as terrorism, they insisted it underscored the need for Western governments to keep the Brotherhood on terror watch lists.
WORDS OF WARNING
Independent analysts urged caution. “Free-Palestine rhetoric is not unique to the Brotherhood, and so far we have only a single media claim about old social-media posts,” said Amr Fathy, a researcher at the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs. “Any organisational link must come from forensic evidence, not speculation on television.”
US law enforcement agencies have not commented on Soliman’s political affiliations. A spokesperson for the FBI’s Denver field office declined to discuss “any associations or material support” while the investigation is under way.
The Anti-Defamation League noted that fringe Arabic-language social-media accounts praised Soliman as a “hero,” but said mainstream Arab outlets reported the attack as straight crime news. “The Egyptian media focus on the Brotherhood is a domestic political lens, not a reflection of verified facts,” an ADL statement said.
Egyptian newspapers also highlighted that Soliman’s US visa was issued after 2021, with columnists faulting what they called lax American screening.
A Biden-Harris Politburo failing. Things have changed since January 20th.
A front-page editorial in the state-run Al-Gomhuria urged Washington to “re-examine its hospitality to extremists,” while a commentator on Ten TV cited the case as proof that “Brotherhood ideology remains a global threat if left unchecked.”
US President Donald Trump echoed the theme on Truth Social, writing that the attack showed why “the Muslim Brotherhood must stay banned and its sympathisers removed.”
Interesting. Will CAIR, etc soon be driven from these shores? A very happy thought…
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry, for its part, condemned the Boulder assault and said its embassy in Washington had supplied US authorities with “open-source references to the suspect’s online activity.”i
When? Did they warn us before Mr. Soliman bared his heart, his chest, and his Molotovs to the world, or after?
Run For Their Lives, the Colorado-based group whose march was targeted, vowed to continue walking every Sunday until the hostages are freed. “Terror will not silence us,” the group said in a statement.
The article is datelined yesterday at 22:00, so about the same time (if that’s meant to be EDT instead of Israel local time) as we did here. I’m impressed with our performance in comparison to their journalism professionals… ;-)
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And how many other expired student visas did 'Biden' refresh into work visas?
[WorldIsraelNews] Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claims ‘deep state’ elites in the US and Israel have targeted US President Donald Trump and Netanyahu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara Netanyahu, took aim at what she described as a foreign-funded “deep state” in Israel, which she claimed has worked to undermine her husband’s government, comparing it to institutional efforts to stymie the Trump administration.
In an interview aired on Saturday, Mrs. Netanyahu told US TV Fox News‘ Lara Trump – daughter-in-law of US President Donald Trump – that a coalition of “small, radical left-wing elites funded by foreign countries” is working to neutralize the Netanyahu government and even force Netanyahu from power.
“You have a deep state in the US that pursues President Trump and his family, and we have the same kind of deep state in Israel that pursues my husband, me, and my sons, my family.”
The wife of Israel’s longest-serving premier pointed to the ongoing corruption trial against her husband as an example of the judiciary being co-opted by Israel’s “deep state,” borrowing terminology used by the American Right.
Should Israel accept sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria? Experts in the nationalist camp respond
“The cases are now collapsing in court because there is no truth in them at all,” Sara said of the cases against her husband.
Mrs. Netanyahu also discussed her efforts to assist freed hostages and the families of hostages, while emphasizing the agreement between Israel and the Trump administration on the need to destroy Hamas as a military force.
“I live with the pain of the hostages and families every day. I am deeply involved,” she said. “The hostages are going through hard things in the barbaric Hamas captivity. They need to be at home.”
“If they could, Hamas would murder all of us. They promise to do it, again, and again, which they did on October 7. This is why President Trump and my husband agreed, Hamas must be destroyed. This is what Israel is doing.”
"Prepare another window!"
[NY Post] Ukraine has carried out a devastating strike on the only bridge connecting Russia and the occupied province of Crimea, severing a vital supply line for President Vladimir Putin’s forces, Ukraine’s security service announced.
Dramatic video shows the piers of the Crimean Bridge, also known as the Kerch Bridge, exploding on Tuesday morning after Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) agents mined it following a monthslong operation.
Ukrainian special forces used more than 2,400 pounds of explosives, which "severely damaged" the underwater pillars supporting the road and rail crossing, the SBU wrote on Telegram alongside the video.
This is the third attack on the Kerch Bridge by Ukrainian forces since the start of the war in February 2022.
Russian officials did not immediately respond to Ukraine’s claims about the attack, but all traffic on the bridge was suspended Tuesday morning, the operator for the crossing announced on its official Telegram account.
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They punch a few holes in it - it's up and operational in a couple days. This happens over and over. Battle Damage Assessment needs to be done by a "neutral" party and there is nobody doing that now on either side.
[Newsweek] Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon railed against Republican Senator Lindsey Graham over Graham's support for a flurry of drone strikes Ukraine launched over the weekend that battered Russia's strategic aviation capabilities.
Newsweek reached out to Graham's office for comment via email.
The scale and sophistication of Ukraine's strikes were unprecedented and could have far-reaching geopolitical consequences.
The drones were transported to Russia and stored in trucks carrying cargo units with retractable roofs that were parked near the air bases and launched remotely.
Kyiv said its attack, which has been described as Russia's "Pearl Harbor," struck four bases and took out 41 (about one-third) of Russia's strategic bombers.
Moscow has said only several of its warplanes were struck.
Graham, who visited Ukraine on Friday along with Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, praised the strikes on Sunday, calling Kyiv "ever-resourceful."
"The ever-resourceful Ukraine used creative drone warfare tactics to successfully attack Russian bombers and military assets used to kill Ukrainian citizens and destroy their country," the South Carolina senator posted on X, formerly Twitter.
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So Senators cheering the escalation is really bad form. Not criminal, but this is going to cost Ukraine. Putin will make them pay dearly for this stunt and it will derail any form of peace talks.
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President Zelenskyy isn’t anywhere near ready for meaningful peace talks, as far as I can tell. But given that President Putin is uninterested in anything other than Ukraine’s surrender, perhaps they will be ready to address things more seriously in the fall.
[PJMedia] It happened again yesterday, this time in Boulder, with peaceful Jewish demonstrators set ablaze with a makeshift flamethrower by a vicious antisemite named Mohamed Sabry Soliman.
But Jews are somehow modern Nazis? Yeah, right.
PJ Media's own Sarah Anderson has all the details, so I won't repeat them here. But there are still a few things we need to talk about — even while Soliman’s victims remain hospitalized.
As many others pointed out, perhaps the most worrisome thing about Sunday's violence is that it was not met with immediate retaliatory violence — what decent and reasonable people call "justice." It hardly seems right that Soliman wasn't riddled with bullets from prepared and trained civilians before the last syllable of "Free Palestine" erupted from his lungs.
Then again, this is Boulder, where "decent and reasonable" are in dangerously short supply. Literally.
It's one thing for someone like Soliman to attack two older Jews — one a Holocaust survivor. But what if he'd met the Bear Jew instead?
I recently rewatched Quentin Tarantino's World War II fairy-tale/action/grindhouse flick, "Inglourious Basterds," co-starring Eli Roth as Staff Sgt. Donny Donowitz, aka the Bear Jew. Set in Occupied France, a ragtag team of Jewish-American soldiers makes its way through Paris to assassinate a group of Nazi leaders — including Hitler himself. Donowitz's claim to fame is smashing Nazi skulls with a baseball bat.
It's satisfying stuff, if you're into dead Nazis. Personally, I take the Indiana Jones approach: "Nazis. I hate these guys."
And Another Thing: "Inglourious Basterds" was Tarantino's first — but not only — historical rewrite. The other was "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," in which a fading film star (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his body man (Brad Pitt) save a pregnant Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) from the Manson family. That they kill off the murderous Manson family members in imaginatively gruesome ways just makes the bloody fairy-tale ending that much more satisfying. "Inglourious Basterds" entertained me, but "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" was the first Tarantino flick that moved me.
America, however, is not Occupied France. A real-world protest is not a set piece in a Hollywood revenge fantasy. But Americans — particularly American Jews — must channel the Bear Jew’s unapologetic readiness to meet deadly evil with necessary force.
"Jews need to arm up," Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett warned today. "Especially for public gatherings. Become a hard target."
Not just arm up — and not just Jews. As my friend and Townhall colleague Kurt Schlichter keeps reminding people, citizenship comes with the responsibility to defend your property, yourself, your family, your neighbors, and your Constitution. Arm yourself but also get trained, and keep that training sharp with regular trips to the range (I've been negligent lately on that score; I'll do better) and training aids like the Mantis Laser Academy kit.
"Remember when George Bush said we have to fight them over there or else we'll end up fighting them over here?" former GOP operative Logan Dobson asked earlier today. "He was right, but I don't think he anticipated we'd invite them in."
Well, they're here. What are we going to do about it?
Become the Bear Jew.
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It's time Jews stopped trying to be loved and moved to being feared.
It's happening in Gaza and the world is finding out Jews react violently to antisemitism and genocide.
The Bear, indeed.
That's why we give billions in foreign aid to Israel. Fighting them over there.
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The world already knew that, and vicious parts of it assume that can be overcome by diplomatic pressure afterward. Egypt, after all, claims to have won the Yom Kippur War that they started in the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, despite almost losing Cairo to General Ariel Sharon. They believe this because in negotiations years later they got back part of the Sinai including all the improvements the Israelis made to the Sharm El Sheikh resort plus billions of dollars from America for signing a peace treaty and keeping their army on their side of the line. We now know they were helping Iran to arm Hamas, which is an issue that will shortly need to be firmly addressed.
[NYP] Border czar Tom Homan warned Monday that he’s "convinced" the US will suffer a major terrorist attack as a direct result of former President Joe Biden’s immigration and border policies.
The wonder is that it hadn’t happened years ago — look at the big attacks in Paris, Brussels, Manchester, Beslan, the one that our vacationing lads stopped on the train, Mumbai, London’s 7/7... I am convinced that when all those Moslem illegal families fled the country in 2002 rather than have their men register with the government, they took bunch of plans for major attacks with them.
"It’s coming," Homan said of the possibility of a 9/11-style attack conducted by migrants who illegally snuck across the southern border under Biden.
The roughly 2 million so-called "gotaway" migrants that border patrol agents never apprehended during the previous administration concerns Homan more than the drug smuggling or sex trafficking that took place on the US-Mexico boundary during
Biden’s only term in office, he told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Homan, who President Trump has tasked to oversee efforts to carry out his mass deportation plan, noted that it was alarming to him that millions of migrants went to great, and expensive, lengths to avoid detection when the Biden administration was quickly releasing illegal border-crossers into the US.
"Why did 2 million illegal aliens pay more to get away?" Homan told Hannity. "They could have paid half of what they paid to cross the border, turn themselves into border patrol agents, get released that same day, get a free airline ticket to the city of their choice, get a free hotel room, get three meals a day, plus free medical care and work authorization."
"Two million people paid more to get away," he argued. "They didn’t want to be vetted. They didn’t want to be fingerprinted. Why?"
"This scares the hell out of me and I’ve been doing this for 40 years. It should have scared the hell out of every American what the Biden administration did."
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The question isn't "will", but when will we see the Liberal, Socialist, Democrat (LSD) process put in place called OPEN BORDERS, that will allow it to take place.
Then, how will the Deep State/DC Swamp then try to use it, to further clamp down on our Constitutional Rights? eg: Patriot Act II?
Given, they have already;
* spent the USA into a massive $36+T deficit,
* continue to demand more of our income and retirement saving in taxes,
* continue to line their pockets,
* imposed greater restrictions on the Bill of Rights, using planted liberal judges,
* openly lie with immunity, without fear of imprisonment,
* _ _ _ agencies that apply 2 sets or even 3 sets of laws,
* refuse to prosecute their members for clear treasonous and seditious acts.
* have control of the Media, NEWS,
* are basically BIG BROTHER monitoring mail, communications and $300+ spending,
* and infected 100's of millions and forced a clearly known dangerous VAX on citizens.
* and many other things.
All in just the last 24 years.
The next 3 years will make, or break, America and the Deep State knows it.
So they are fighting Trump and MAGA every step of the way.
Let us pray the Deep State doesn't have any success.
Because, there is no telling how the citizens will respond, if there is another July 13th. Which now stands at 12 failed attempts on Trump, since 2016.
[The Free Press] Sometimes it seems as if President Trump’s trade agenda is built upon nothing more than pure ego. The recent buzz among Wall Street traders was the TACO meme—"Trump always chickens out" on tariffs. It got under the president’s skin, and two days later he went ahead and doubled tariffs on imported steel. Cause and effect? In this administration, you can never tell.
But beneath the chaos and the antics, MAGA economics are built on a powerful, enduring story: America’s working class—the people who build, drill, and weld, Americans who clock in, get their hands dirty, and wear uniforms at work—have been shafted by globalization and an elitist system of trade that is hastening their doom. It is an emotionally gripping narrative built on a sliver of truth and vast helpings of myth. It ignores the three H’s: home prices, healthcare costs, and higher-education expenses.
The myth has the upper hand, driving Trump’s tariffs and threatening to rekindle inflation and needlessly crash the economy. The first-order effect of the myth is straightforward: higher prices on everyday products. Whether tariffs are 10 percent or higher, costs borne by U.S. importers will be passed on to customers. Everything from diapers to T-shirts to cars and washing machines will get more expensive, and those increased costs land more heavily on everyday wage earners, since they spend more of their earnings on goods such as these than the wealthy, who spend more on luxuries like vacations and Pilates classes.
Then there is the ill-defined term working class. It is the focus of Trump’s trade policy, but who belongs to America’s working class? Manufacturing workers, who make up only 8 percent of the U.S. workforce? Or does it also include the vastly larger group of not-wealthy workers, from cashiers and nursing assistants to truckers, baristas, and schoolteachers, whose jobs are not connected to trade—or may even benefit from it? Tariffs are a bad deal for them.
With the exception of industries vital for national security, such as shipbuilding and semiconductors, upending the American economy for the purpose of landing more factories doesn’t make sense, not when there are persistent labor shortages in manufacturing: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 449,000 unfilled jobs as of March. MAGA nostalgia for the blue-collar glory days of the 1950s overlooks the fact that those factory jobs were dangerous, dirty, and monotonous. They are not as hazardous today, but twenty-first-century Americans aren’t interested in a life on the factory floor.
According to a Cato Institute survey, 80 percent of Americans believe it would be good if more Americans worked in factories, but only 25 percent say they would be better off in a factory job. As Dave Chappelle said in 2017, "I want to wear Nikes—I don’t want to make them."
The lack of enthusiasm for factory work is understandable, especially when many workers have more appealing alternatives. Consider other hands-on blue-collar jobs. Employers are offering some high-school students $70,000 a year to work in trades after they graduate. Plumbers, electricians, and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) specialists have jobs that can’t be shipped overseas and might even be immune to artificial intelligence, with salaries that can grow to six figures over time. Plumbers who start as apprentices often become plumbing-company owners. Entrepreneur is a career trajectory that doesn’t exist for hourly factory workers.
There is a grim tale told about the American economy over the past several generations: It has all been downhill for the working class, the middle class is vanishing, and American wages have been relentlessly punished by a heartless system of global trade that runs on Chinese workers toiling in near-slave-like conditions.
The statistics tell a different story. The median wages of American workers climbed 29 percent from 1979 to 2024, adjusted for inflation. (This period encompasses the latest era of globalization, which accelerated in the early 1990s.) While the share of U.S. households considered middle-income ($35,000 to $100,000) has notably declined—from 55 percent in 1967 to 38 percent in 2023—that is largely because of movement toward the top of the household income chart, according to economist Mark J. Perry. In 1967, only 13 percent of households were considered high-income ($100,000 or more). By 2023, the share had more than tripled to 41 percent.
In the aggregate, this presents an encouraging picture of American capitalism and its promise of upward mobility. But it glosses over developments that have punished the life prospects of working-class (or not-wealthy) Americans. And that is where the story of decline told by the president rings true.
Listen to two of the most articulate supporters of President Trump’s trade and economic agenda: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Free Press columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon.
Here is Ungar-Sargon in Newsweek: "And then there’s the cost of a middle-class life. While working-class wages are up, the hallmarks of a middle-class life—a home, adequate healthcare, an education, a retirement—have risen astronomically."
Yes, all that is true. Absolutely.
And here is Bessent at the Economic Club of New York in March: "If American families aren’t able to afford a home, don’t believe that their children will do better than they are [doing], the American dream is not contingent on cheap baubles from China, it is more than that."
Spot on.
What you don’t hear from Bessent or Ungar-Sargon is that these missing building blocks of prosperity—affordable housing, healthcare, and higher education—have nothing to do with trade or globalization. The three H’s are home-brewed, made-in-America, dysfunctional impediments to the American dream.
Over the past 40 years, home prices and healthcare costs have risen at around twice the rate of inflation, and higher education has become prohibitively expensive for most families.
The accumulated costs of the three H’s can’t be measured just in dollars and cents. They are dream killers, catalysts of disappointment and cynicism about the American project for someone who works hard and can never afford a house, faces bankruptcy over medical bills, or gets crushed by debt for an overpriced degree that is useless in the job market.
These daunting obstacles to economic well-being are homegrown and not a byproduct of globalization. They can’t be fixed with the MAGA recipe of trade wars and mass deportations. Progressives aren’t confronting this reality either and, in fact, decades of liberal policies and priorities—from mountains of regulations and permitting requirements that stifle homebuilding to legions of nanny-state administrators at universities—add to the bill for housing and higher ed.
The good news is this: Problems that are made in America can be fixed in America, too. In their book Abundance, the influential liberal writers Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson cite the damage done to the housing market by the rulemaking and regulatory obsessions of progressive lawyers and bureaucrats. They also offer practical ideas that encourage building rather than stifling it.
Healthcare costs continue to grow as America’s health-insurance colossus staggers on. It has proven immune to serious repair. But the best of the MAHA movement offers something else: a frontal attack on the garbage in the American diet—ultra-processed foods—that contribute to obesity and jack up the bill for the treatment of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
Trust in higher education is plummeting as tuition and other expenses keep climbing. That opens alternatives, ranging from a no-frills revival of classical learning and capturing the teaching benefits of large language models (LLMs) to careers based on apprenticeships that bypass college and employers dropping degree requirements for a wide scope of jobs.
America has a remarkably dynamic and adaptable economy. We don’t need to whine about other countries supposedly screwing us over and treating us badly. A true America First agenda should start with squarely facing our homegrown failures.
The original solution was Levittown built for WW2 veterans who had GI Bill mortgages. The houses were, by later standards, bare bones: 750 sq ft (70 m2), with no basement or porch.
Now people want HGTV tricked out houses. Throw in fed-state-local requirements and zoning regulations and the price keeps getting higher.
The truth is that all those responsible don't really support 'affordable housing' beyond a talking point.
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"we" didn't "commit suicide".
This was done to us by an elite class that hates us, that wants us replaced.
Why do I think if I research whoeever the fuck this writer is, I'll find out exactly what I think I will?
[Real Clear Wire] On the day of his second inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship."
Sounds innocent enough, right? But this is the infamous order declaring that birthright citizenship does not extend to children of parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily.
"Not so fast," said attorneys for illegal aliens and their children. "Our clients snuck across the border fair and square and they want the prize promised them by the Constitution — U.S. citizenship for all children born after they crossed the border."
But is that really what the Constitution says? Here are the words from the 14th Amendment:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
As President Trump noted in his executive order, the words "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" have always been used to exclude certain classes of people from birthright citizenship. That included, for instance, children of diplomats, who enjoy immunity in their host country. For several decades, it also included Native Americans of certain tribes that had entered into treaties that provided at least partial sovereignty. Those exclusions are not in the Constitution, but they are in the law. So why can’t there be an exclusion for illegal immigrants?
Trump’s executive order correctly recognizes that the higher purpose of the 14th Amendment was to guarantee citizenship for the children of former slaves, who had not only been subject to the jurisdiction of the American government, but even subject to sale. They had earned citizenship through hardship, pain, and suffering — not through an accident of birth. Obviously, the authors of the amendment recognized the high value of citizenship, and it seems unlikely they would just hand it out willy-nilly.
France didn’t plan to blow the whistle on the Muslim Brotherhood’s attempt to take over Europe. But that’s exactly what it did a couple of weeks ago, when a classified report from the Ministry of the Interior leaked to the newspaper Le Figaro.
The 73-page document, marked confidentiel-défense, was meant for top officials only.
Based on intelligence files, field investigations, and dozens of interviews, it lays out a stark diagnosis: The Muslim Brotherhood has built an extensive ideological infrastructure in France—not through violence, but through schools, charities, mosques, and soft power. It states: "The Brotherhood’s strategy is to install a form of ideological hegemony by infiltrating civil society under the guise of religious and educational activities."
The report is the most detailed government study to date of the Brotherhood’s presence in Europe. Written by two civil servants, it draws on months of fieldwork and analysis conducted in France and abroad, with input from diplomats, intelligence officials, academics, and religious figures. Its conclusion is blunt: The Brotherhood operates as a political project. Its goal is not sudden revolution, but gradual transformation. Its target is hearts and minds. Its strength lies not in secrecy, but in strategic ambiguity. And it is not coming just for France. It is coming for all of the West.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement that seeks to impose Islamic law through gradual, ideological means—primarily via schools, charities, and religious networks. While it claims to reject violence, it has extremist offshoots such as Hamas, and its influence often blurs the line between nonviolence and radicalization.
Its ideological lineage runs deep. Founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna in Egypt, the movement has always presented Islam as a total system—religious, political, legal, economic. But it was in Europe that this vision was tactically refined. After being banned or repressed in the Arab world, many Brotherhood ideologues took refuge in Western democracies. In Switzerland, al-Banna’s son-in-law Saïd Ramadan set up the Islamic Center of Geneva in 1961, and later raised his two sons, Tariq and Hani Ramadan, both of whom became leading voices of Islamist thought in Europe.
In the decades since, the Brotherhood has methodically expanded its presence across the continent—embedding itself in local communities through a network of mosques, charities, educational institutions, and civic associations, all designed to promote its vision of political Islam under the cover of religious outreach.
The numbers in France alone are startling. The Brotherhood’s French network comprises 280 associations, including 139 officially affiliated mosques and 68 more considered "ideologically close"—together accounting for nearly 10 percent of the mosques opened since 2010. Every Friday, some 91,000 people attend worship in these spaces. The movement also controls or influences 21 private schools (three of them state-funded) and 815 Quranic schools, where over 66,000 minors are taught to see themselves as part of a global Muslim community in moral and cultural opposition to Western secularism.
What, exactly, do they teach at these institutions?
Well, Brotherhood-linked schools have distributed texts that praise Sharia law as superior to man-made law, denounce interfaith marriage, and vilify Jews.
Antisemitism is not incidental in Brotherhood-affiliated organizations—it is central. "Hatred of Jews," the report states unequivocally, is a core ideological element, often laundered through anti-Zionist slogans. In one mosque near Paris, a speaker recently declared "Je suis Hamas" ("I am Hamas") to a cheering audience. In others, anti-Israel rhetoric bleeds seamlessly into classic antisemitic tropes. Hassan Iquioussen, a prominent preacher linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and recently expelled from France, is cited for repeatedly spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories. He claimed that "the Jews control the media," and that they "manipulate historical memory to maintain their grip on global opinion."
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The first black mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma has unveiled an ambitious reparations plan that would see more than $100 million invested in the descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Mayor Monroe Nichols announced on Sunday that the city is opening a $105 million charitable trust comprising private funds to address issues including housing, scholarships, land acquisition and economic development for north Tulsans.
Has the money already been donated, or is he building castles in the air?
Of that money, $24 million will go toward housing and home ownership for the descendants of the attack that killed as many as 300 black people and razed 35 blocks, according to Public Radio Tulsa.
Another $21 million will fund land acquisition, scholarship funding and economic development for the blighted north Tulsa community, and a whopping $60 million will go toward cultural preservation to improve buildings in the once prosperous Greenwood neighborhood.
'For 104 years, the Tulsa Race Massacre has been a stain on our city's history,' Nichols said at an event commemorating Race Massacre Observance Day.
No part of his plan would require city council approval, the mayor noted, and any fundraising would be conducted by an executive director whose salary will be paid for by private funding.
'The massacre was hidden from history books, only to be followed by the intentional acts of redlining, a highway built to choke off economic vitality and the perpetual underinvestment of local, state and federal governments.
'Now it's time to take the next big steps to restore.'
But the proposal will not include direct cash payments to the last known survivors, Leslie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, who are 110 and 111 years old.
They had been fighting for reparations for years, and earlier this year their attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons argued that any reparations plan should include direct payments to the two survivors as well as a victim's compensation fund for outstanding claims.
However, a lawsuit Solomon-Simmons - who also founded the group Justice for Greenwood - was struck down in 2023 by an Oklahoma judge who declared the claimants 'don't have unlimited rights to compensation.'
The ruling was then upheld by the Oklahoma Supreme Court last year, dampening racial justice advocates' hopes that the city would ever make financial amends.
But after taking office earlier this year, Nichols said he reviewed previous proposals from local community organizations like Justice for Greenwood.
He then discussed his plan with the Tulsa City Council and descendants of the massacre victims.
'What we wanted to do was find a way in which we could take in a number of these recommendations, so that it's reflective of the descendant community, of the folks that brought forth some recommendations,' Nichols said as he also vowed to continue to search for mass graves believed to contain victims of the massacre and release 45,000 previously classified city records.
No part of his plan would require city council approval, the mayor noted, and any fundraising would be conducted by an executive director whose salary will be paid for by private funding.
A Board of Trustees would also determine how to distribute the funds.
Still, the city council would have to authorize the transfer of any city property to the trust, something the mayor said was highly likely.
The violence in 1921 erupted after a white woman told police that a black man had grabbed her arm in an elevator in a downtown Tulsa commercial building on May 30, 1921.
The following day, police arrested the man, who the Tulsa Tribune reported had tried to assault the woman. White people surrounded the courthouse, demanding the man be handed over.
World War One veterans were among black men who went to the courthouse to face the mob. A white man tried to disarm a black veteran and a shot rang out, touching off further violence.
White people then looted and burned buildings and dragged the black people from their beds and beat them, according to historical accounts.
The white people were deputized by authorities and instructed to shoot the black residents.
No one was ever charged in the violence, which the federal government now classifies as a 'coordinated military-style attack' by white citizens, and not the work of an unruly mob.
Of all the demands for reparations that come and go, this one is the one that makes some kind of impression with me, and one that makes some amount of sense. It appears that the money has been already rounded up; and that it's going to real matters that it can actually help. It doesn't seem like anywhere enough to do the things they want to do, but maybe things are less expensive there. Let's see what happens.
My concern is that this is the camel's nose in the tent.
According to historian Jeffrey Ostler, "Any discussion of genocide must, of course, eventually consider the so-called Indian Wars, the term commonly used for U.S. Army campaigns to subjugate Indian nations of the American West beginning in the 1860s. In an older historiography, key events in this history were narrated as battles. It is now more common for scholars to refer to these events as massacres. This is especially so of a Colorado territorial militia's slaughter of Cheyennes at Sand Creek (1864) and the army's slaughter of Shoshones at Bear River (1863), Blackfeet on the Marias River (1870), and Lakotas at Wounded Knee (1890). Some scholars have begun referring to these events as “genocidal massacres,” defined as the annihilation of a portion of a larger group, sometimes to provide a lesson to the larger group."
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When do I get my reparations for my ancestors 400 years of slavery in Egypt? Plus, I want a percentage of the tourist fees collected from visitors to the Pyramids that my ancestors helped build.
[FoxNews] Pentagon authorizes civilian employees to volunteer at the southern border, enhancing national security efforts at DHS request
Would they accept retirees? I can just imagine how much fun some here would have, despite creaky knees and such, were you allowed to join in.
The Defense Department (DOD) is starting a voluntary program for its civilian employees to go to the southern border to support Department of Homeland Security (DHS) efforts there.
The agency released a memo Monday authorizing its civilian employees to volunteer to travel and support border operations.
"Protecting our homeland from bad actors and illegal substances has been a focus of the President and of the Secretary of Defense since Day One of this Administration," said Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson. "Whether on the border or in our communities, allowing qualified DoD civilian employees to support DHS will accelerate the progress already made by Service members in achieving our national security goals."
This voluntary program was at the request of DHS, a U.S. official told Fox News.
It was not clear how many DOD civilian employees are expected to volunteer or what kind of work they will do. Fox News Digital has reached out to the DOD and DHS.
The memo, authored by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, reads, "Detail assignments may be either reimbursable or non-reimbursable.
"Non-reimbursable details are authorized where the expected benefit of a detail would be comparable to training or development programs that otherwise would be conducted at a DoD Component's expense."
News of the voluntary program comes as the Trump administration continues to crack down on illegal immigration and target criminal illegal immigrants for deportation.
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The heat would be bearable even in south Texas but I would not trust the government to have one's back should one have to actually use force for anything.
[FoxWeather] Mumbai customs officers seized three spider-tailed horned viper snakes, five Asian leaf turtles and 44 Indonesian pit viper snakes in checked bag. An Indian traveler from Thailand was arrested.
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Every morning recently I get the following when I try to open Rantburg:
This site can’t be reached
rantburg.com’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem.
DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE
It takes several retries before I can finally load the page. I hate to sound paranoid but is there a real problem or is my service provider playing games?
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I can’t speak to the computer/internet side of things, Abu Uluque, but while I am definitely not having a first thing in the morning access issue, there is from time to time during the day a moment where it takes more than one try to open the Burg using my backstage, moderator access. Sometimes something about POSTGRES (?), sometimes 404 something… I’ve been assuming that’s the result of either the site backing itself up or heavier than usual attacks from outside. Fred and badanov have long taken hardening this place very seriously indeed, and of course the Burg has long garnered attention from interesting parties, some of whom definitely have not appreciated our balanced approach to certain world activities… not to mention decidedly unbalanced approach to other ones. ;-)
I’m sure you understand far better than I the meaning of what I wrote. It’s all a black box to me.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian reports say Israeli attacks across the Strip killed at least 27 people, including three near US- and Israel-backed aid distribution site
The Israel Defense Forces said Monday it had expanded its ground offensive against Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... over the past day, as attacks across the Strip were said to kill some 27 Paleostinians, including three near a US- and Israel-backed aid distribution site in Rafah.
"In the past day, troops expanded the ground maneuver, eliminated gunnies and destroyed many weapons depots and terror infrastructure sites, above and below ground," the IDF said. The statement added that the air force hit dozens of targets, including cells of terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, weapons depots, and other infrastructure.
The announcement came after IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir instructed the army on Sunday to begin operating in new areas in Gaza. The military has said it seeks to seize 75% of the Strip in the renewed offensive launched last month.
Paleostinian media reported overnight that Israeli ground forces were approaching southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. IDF troops were said to demolish the rear wall of the city’s European Hospital after advancing toward the hospital over the past day. The military, in response to a query by The Times of Israel, denied that troops were operating within the European Hospital compound.
A May 13 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... targeted a Hamas tunnel system that ran underneath the hospital, killing the terror group’s leader in Gaza, Muhammad Sinwar, and two other senior commanders in its military wing. The IDF confirmed Saturday that Sinwar was killed in the strike, which killed at least 28 people, according to Hamas’s civil defense agency. Hamas’s figures cannot be independently verified and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Sinwar had taken over from his slain brother Yahya, who criminal masterminded the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and saw 251 taken hostage, sparking the war in Gaza. Israel killed Yahya Sinwar in October 2024.
Israel has accused Hamas of using Gaza’s civilians as human shields and of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques. The IDF says it takes steps to mitigate civilian harm, including by use of evacuation warnings, precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
On Monday afternoon, the military carried out a strike against what it said was a Hamas command center embedded within a school sheltering displaced Paleostinians in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. The IDF said that the command center was being used by Hamas operatives to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israeli civilians.
According to Paleostinian media, at least four people were killed in the strike on the al-Aishiya school.
WAFA, the Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency, reported another person killed in an Israeli dronezap in Khan Younis, and five others killed in a fighter jet strike on a family home in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in the Strip’s north.
The Hamas civil defense agency said an Israeli strike on a family home in the northern town of Jabalia killed 14 people, including six children and three women. A front man for the agency said the strike hit a family home and there were "more than 20 missing individuals still under the rubble."
The IDF confirmed to the Times of Israel that it had carried out strikes in Jabalia, but declined to provide further details on the targets.
The military had last week instructed the entire Jabalia area, as well as other towns in the Strip’s north and several Gaza City neighborhoods, to evacuate westward.
Another strike early Monday hit a mosque in Deir al-Balah. The military told The Times of Israel that it had targeted terror infrastructure in the area, and that it had warned civilians to evacuate the site ahead of the airstrikes.
AID GROUP DENIES KILLINGS NEAR DISTRIBUTION SITE
Hamas’s media office said IDF gunfire early Monday killed three people and maimed 35 near an aid distribution site operated by the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which Washington and Jerusalem have promoted as a way to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid.
The tolls could not immediately be verified. GHF said the distribution went on without incident, with "21 truckloads of food... totaling 18,720 boxes" handed out during the site’s opening hours, from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.
The IDF said it was aware of the reports of casualties and was investigating the incident. According to the military, troops had opened fire on Paleostinian "suspects who approached forces" overnight, around a kilometer (0.6 miles) away from the distribution site, hours before it was set to open to hand out food to Gazooks.
The GHF has warned Paleostinians in its announcements that the aid sites open no earlier than 5 a.m., and that approaching the area beforehand could be dangerous due to Israeli military activity.
The IDF said it was letting GHF operate "independently to distribute aid to Gaza residents and prevent it from reaching the Hamas terror organization." The military also accused Hamas of doing "everything it can to prevent the success" of the new aid distribution system, which commenced operations last week.
"Hamas is a brutal terror organization that starves the population and puts it in danger to preserve its rule in the Gaza Strip," the army said.
GHF has accused Hamas of fabricating previous accounts of chaos and gunfire around distribution sites, which are located in Israeli military zones.
"Despite several inaccurate and, in some cases, blatantly false news reports, there have been no injuries nor fatalities during the first full week of GHF operations," the agency said Monday morning.
Over the past week, the agency said, it has distributed 5.8 million meals at three distribution sites in southern and central Gaza. But GHF’s classification of meals is based on boxes of dry food products that still require cooking equipment or community kitchens, which are very limited throughout the Strip after nearly 20 months of devastating conflict.
The IDF has acknowledged firing warning shots on previous occasions outside the distribution centers, including on Sunday, when troops fired at Paleostinians about a kilometer away from an aid site, hours before it was set to open.
The early Sunday gunfire killed 31 people, according to Hamas health authorities and eyewitnesses, though GHF denied the reports and released some 15 minutes of footage that purported to show the distribution had proceeded without incident. The military said troops "did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site."
[IsraelTimes] The IDF orders Palestinians in a new area of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis to evacuate, as the military expands its ground offensive against Hamas.
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, posts a map on X showing several blocks in western Khan Younis that are to be evacuated. The neighborhood was not included in the IDF’s previous warnings for Khan Younis.
Civilians are called to head westward toward the Maswasi area on the coast.
“The IDF will operate with great force in the areas where you are present,” Adraee warns.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Biden administration has been accused of covering up the devastating reality of a potential Ohio cancer cluster.
A new whistleblower report shows Biden and authorities like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ignored and failed to publish health data after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023.
The Government Accountability Project has obtained federal emails and documents alleging the government knew there would be 'inevitable health impacts' from the incident.
They also claim the Biden administration knew residents would need health checkups for at least 20 years after the spill — but failed to disclose that to the public.
The chemicals released during the disaster, many of which are known carcinogens, spilled into the soil of the 5,000-person town and the nearby Ohio River.
They also spread through the air in massive 'really toxic' smoke plumes,' which could increase the risk of 'cancer clusters' forming, according to the head of the watchdog group.
Two years later, East Palestine residents are still exposed to a dozen chemicals linked to respiratory issues, fatigue, high blood pressure, leukemia and kidney, lung, liver and brain cancer.
And a recent paper found 540,000 square miles, spanning 16 states, were exposed to traces of volatile chemicals during the disaster.
Lesley Pacey, an investigator with the Government Accountability Project, told NewsNation: 'They knew that there would be the potential for cancer clusters.
'These documents confirm what East Palestine residents have feared: government officials knew about the serious health risks posed by the derailment and controlled burn but deliberately kept this information from the community.'
Pacey obtained FEMA documents and emails between the agency and the White House, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Justice and the National Security council, which showed the people of East Palestine are still prone to devastating health consequences.
According to Pacey, the emails noted 'the occurrence of a cancer-cluster in [East Palestine] is not zero' and urged efforts 'to identify cancer clusters.'
The Government Accountability Project's report also revealed the Biden administration allegedly thought East Palestine residents would need at least 20 years of medical checks following the incident.
The Project also determined the findings 'point to inevitable health impacts.'
Over a dozen chemicals were in the rail cars, including several carcinogens.
Vinyl chloride, for example, travels through the blood and gets broken down by the liver into even more toxic chemicals.
When breathed in over many years, it can cause liver and nerve damage and leave people with a weakened immune system.
Exposure to the gas is also associated with a heightened risk of a rare form of liver cancer (hepatic angiosarcoma), as well as primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), brain and lung cancers, lymphoma and leukemia.
When burned, vinyl chloride creates hydrogen chloride and phosgene — a highly toxic, colorless gas with a strong odor that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble and was used as a chemical weapon in World War I.
Trichloroethylene, meanwhile, is a clear liquid used as a solvent in for rubbers, fats, oils, waxes and resins.
It's also a known carcinogen that has been linked to kidney and liver cancer, as well as non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
And colorless liquid butyl acrylate has been linked to irritation in the eyes, including redness and tearing up, a scratchy throat, issues with breathing and redness and cracking of the skin.
Continued exposure over months and years can cause the skin to itch and affected areas to ooze.
Sil Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist and former fire department chief, told WKBN 27 First News in 2023: 'We basically nuked a town with chemicals so we could get a railroad open.'
[IsraelTimes] Former State Dept. spokesperson Matthew Miller says it’s an ‘open question’ whether Israel pursued a policy of crimes, but that there are certainly cases in which they occurred
They preferred for a presumption of guilt, facts be damned.
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More antisemites in the deep state.
Not a word about Hamas' crimes.
I wonder if Trump would have done a complete rug pull of Israel if it wasn't for AIPAC holding his feet to the fire for the midterms.
[IsraelTimes] Process may take a year to complete, after PM’s questioning by defense attorney took 36 sessions.
The process is the punishment. The Israeli Deep State — with external help — is so determined to bring Bibi down that they’ve been prosecuting this case against him for five years
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Netanyahu is the only one crushing Gaza hard enough that after the war is over, the territory will be clean of them.
if he's overthrown, the result will be a disaster and Hamas will start its genocide all over again.
[IsraelTimes] Official says offer does not address Tehran’s demand to be able to continue enriching uranium, nor does it clearly set out a plan to lift sanctions
[IsraelTimes] The US proposal for a nuclear deal presented to 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... on Saturday allows some limited uranium enrichment within the country, Axios reports, citing two sources with direct knowledge.
The proposal, presented to Iran on Saturday by Omani Foreign Minister Sayyed ...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged... Badr Albusaidi, would forbid Iran from building new enrichment facilities and dismantle enrichment infrastructure, as well as stop Iran from new research and development of centrifuges.
However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Iran would be able to keep enriching in above-ground facilities to three percent, the level needed to fuel a civilian nuclear reactor.
It will have to stop enriching to higher levels, as it currently does, and will have to mothball its underground enrichment facilities for a to-be-agreed-upon period.
A regional enrichment consortium would provide Iran with any additional low-enriched uranium it needs for civilian purposes.
Sanctions would be eased after Iran "demonstrates real commitment" to the terms of the deal, as determined by Washington and the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.
"President Trump has made it clear that Iran can never obtain a nuclear bomb," says Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in response, without denying the details of the offer.
"Special Envoy Witkoff has sent a detailed and acceptable proposal to the Iranian regime, and it’s in their best interest to accept it. Out of respect for the ongoing deal, the Administration will not comment on details of the proposal to the media."
A senior Iranian diplomat said Monday that Tehran would reject the US proposal, saying that it fails to address Tehran’s interests or soften Washington’s stance on uranium enrichment.
Both the US and Israel have agreed that any deal must include a requirement for Iran to cease all uranium enrichment activity, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff has insisted that this is a red line he will not back down from.
But the Wall Street Journal reports that Israeli officials believe the US may drop the demand and proceed with a less comprehensive agreement rather than risk collapsing the negotiations.
[NAHARNET] A ''region-by-region'' plan for Hezbollah's disarmament may be proposed when ''serious dialogue'' kicks off between President Joseph Aoun and Hezbollah, a media report said on Monday.
Under such a plan, weapons would be handed over ''according to regional order and importance,'' the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said.
The priority would be for the South Litani area, where Israel has nearly destroyed all of Hezbollah's arms depots and military bases and where the Lebanese Army has 80% cleared the area, the report added.
The next area would be the North Litani area, where the army has only seized seven Hezbollah bases and depots, the report said, adding that the third area would be Beirut's southern suburbs and nearby neighborhoods, where Hezbollah's military and political leadership is based.
The last disarmament area would be the Bekaa, the report said, noting that such a plan would be better than handing over the weapons according to caliber -- heavy-caliber then medium-caliber then light-caliber.
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An al-Qaeda linked group has grabbed credit for an attack in the Malian town of Boulikessi that killed over 30 soldiers on Sunday and led to the seizure of an army base.
Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Moslemin (JNIM) said its fighters overran the military camp in a coordinated assault.
Sources quoted by Rooters reported that more than 30 soldiers were killed, though the Malian authorities have not yet confirmed the casualty figure.
In a statement reacting to the attack, the Malian army said it "reacted vigorously" before it "withdrew", suggesting a tactical retreat.
"Many men fought, some until their last breath, to defend the Malian nation," the army added.
A local source told Rooters that JNIM "cleared the camp" and left many casualties. Unverified videos seen by the agency showed dozens of bully boyz invading the base, with one clip reportedly showing fighters stepping on corpses.
On Monday, JNIM said it launched another offensive in the historic city of Timbuktu, targeting a military airport and Russian mercenaries. Residents reported hearing gunfire and explosions as the assault unfolded.
Military and security sources told AFP that they were "fighting back" but admitted the bully boyz were "everywhere in the city". A local official said the attackers arrived "with a vehicle packed with explosives" that detonated near the army camp.
Timbuktu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was captured by Islamist bully boyz in 2012 but was later recaptured.
However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the city has remained under threat in recent years.
The back-to-back attacks have highlighted the worsening security situation in Mali and across the wider Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... They came shortly after the United States Africa Command warned of increased jihadist activity aimed at gaining access to West Africa’s coastline.
Speaking at a presser on Friday, US Africom commander Gen Michael Langley said, "These groups gaining access to the coast will significantly boost their capacity for smuggling and arms trafficking."
Rooters reports that more than 400 soldiers have been killed by bully boyz since the start of last month in Mali, Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... , and Niger.
— Sahara Reporters (@SaharaReporters) June 2, 2025
A Nigerian military fighter jet has mistakenly struck and killed about 20 men of a vigilante group during an operation targeting bandidos in Garin Mani, a village in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
Inshallah.
The tragic incident occurred after armed bandidos attacked the village, killing several residents and abducting over 50 others, mostly farmers who were working on their fields.
Eyewitnesses said the attackers stormed the area on cycle of violences around noon, shooting indiscriminately and causing widespread panic.
In response, local vigilante groups mobilised and began chasing the fleeing assailants.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... a military aircraft deployed to the scene allegedly misidentified the vigilantes as bandidos and launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on them.
"We were pursuing the bandidos when we saw the fighter jet approaching," one of the vigilantes told BBC Hausa.
"It flew very low and started bombing us. Some of us survived by pretending we had been hit. When the jet left, we got up and fled to safety."
Another resident, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the incident and expressed disappointment over the lack of communication from the military.
"We understand it was an unfortunate mistake, but the military should acknowledge what happened and reach out to the victims’ families," he said.
He also appealed to the government to deploy additional troops to the area, as the bandidos had threatened to return.
This is not the first time such an incident has occurred. In January, an airstrike mistakenly killed 16 people, including vigilantes, in Tungar Kara, also in Zamfara.
Similarly, in December last year, 10 residents of Gidan Bisa in Sokoto State were killed in a misdirected airstrike.
As of the time of filing this report, the Nigerian military has yet to issue an official statement on the latest incident.
🚨BREAKING: ICE announces its largest-ever targeted operation, which led to the arrest of nearly 1,500 illegal aliens in Massachusetts throughout the month of May. pic.twitter.com/wDrtM5H62L
Nate Silver pointing out the uncomfortable truth for Democrats I’ve mentioned before…
There’s an entire demographic who take antidepressants and go to therapy, and then think we should all listen to them on how to run the country. pic.twitter.com/9aAMZ7XJpn
[SlayNews] In a move that has sparked outrage among medical experts, lawmakers, and participants, Australia’s Queensland Health has suddenly shut down one of the world’s largest real-world studies comparing Covid "vaccinated" and unvaccinated individuals and ordered the complete destruction of all samples and critical data.
So anti-scientific. One has to imagine somebody kept a back-up of the data…
The state’s health officials permanently shut down the QoVAX Safety and Efficacy Trial (QoVAX-SET).
However, the reasoning behind the sudden destruction of all data was not clear.
The announcement came in a letter to participants, in which Metro North Health stated: Read the rest at the link
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Critics, meanwhile, say the move is nothing short of scientific sabotage.
Notably, QoVAX was one of the only major global studies with access to a “comparison set” of individuals who had been “vaccinated” but had never contracted COVID-19.
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There are more than a few natural-born antisemites who need to be deported, too.
Denauralization. It happened to plenty of Jews after the Nuremberg Laws were passed. We just cancel these people's US citizenship and cast them adrift in the world.
Bye assholes! And this isn't an R or D thing, either. It applies equally to all Americans.
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There are no laws against hating Jews or anybody else. The laws forbid discrimination in action, creating a hostile environment, assault and battery.
As my sister the perfesser says, “Nobody in my classroom knows my politics.”
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Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 was spitting so hard he(?) couldn't articulate
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Family of Boulder CO flamethrower suspect has been taken into ICE custody according to the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Egyptian national Mohamen Soliman is charged with attempted murder and a federal hate crime for injuring 12 people with Molotov cocktails and a flamethrower at a rally for Israeli hostages. Now, the Department of Homeland Security says his wife and five kids have been taken into ICE custody. The White House says they are facing expedited deportation. NBC News’ Morgan Chesky reports
Any bets on how long it takes for a corrupt federal judge to issue a restraining order to free them?
"So, the alien's all, 'Jaw, jaw, jaw,'
When, suddenly, out of its maw,
Stabbed a little one--"
"Sick!"
"Like a circumcised--"
"Shtick!"
"And, to get to my point,
It was smoking a joint
As it jabbered, 'Da Jooz! Wah, wah, wah!'"
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Family of Boulder CO flamethrower suspect has been taken into ICE custody
The test case. Even if the courts put a hold on it, they’re still sequestered, and all the other families — at least those not natural born citizens, because we’re seeing naturalization reversed for cause — have been put on notice. More will be self-deporting in order to retain funds and stuff rather than lose all when ICE arrives with arrest paperwork.
[NAHARNET] Lebanese security forces have arrested Hezbollah member Mahmoud Ayoub in the Nabatieh district town of Harouf on charges of collaborating with Israeli intelligence services, sources told al-Arabiya's al-Hadath channel on Monday.
Ayoub is ''the financial director of the (Hezbollah-affiliated) Ragheb Harb Hospital'' in the Nabatieh district, the sources said.
''Mahmoud Ayoub was arrested by the Internal Security Forces' Information Branch in coordination with Hezbollah,'' the sources added.
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[Regnum] Ukraine has not informed Germany about the upcoming attacks on the Murmansk, Irkutsk and other regions of the Russian Federation, the official representative of the German government Stefan Cornelius told journalists.
"The federal government was not informed about this," Cornelius said.
He added that he did not know whether Kyiv's attacks would affect the parties' negotiating positions.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 1, the Kiev regime carried out terrorist attacks against five Russian airfields: in the Irkutsk, Ryazan, Murmansk, Ivanovo and Amur regions. The attacks were carried out using FPV drones.
At the same time, all attacks on military airfields in the Amur, Ivanovo and Ryazan regions were repelled. All fires were extinguished, there were no casualties or fatalities. The Russian Defense Ministry added that some of the participants in the terrorist attacks were detained.
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"The federal government was not informed about this," Cornelius said.
This is probably true in the sense that Ukraine did not send a formal diplomatic cable to Germany saying, "Oh, by the way, we are planning an attack on Russia's strategic nuclear forces the beginning of June". But dollars to donuts, there is someone in the German intelligence services who knew the game plan.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction in dynamics. May 2025
Chronology of changes in LBS and liberation of territory by the Vostok group in the South Donetsk direction from May 1 to May 31, 2025.
In May 2025, units of the Vostok group took control of more than 110 square kilometers of territory during a systematic penetration into the enemy's defense.
The following settlements were liberated: Volnoye Pole, Bogatyr, Otradnoye, Zelenoye Pole, Novopol.
The Far Eastern Express is moving at full speed toward the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region, cutting through the enemy's defenses. Our guys continue to liberate the Donetsk People's Republic and the Zaporizhia region from the clutches of the Kiev junta.
They have gained a good pace, considering that we are talking specifically about breaking through the enemy's prepared defenses.Higher rates in May were only in the Sumy and Konstantinovsky directions, where the enemy front was actually broken through.
With what funds? They’re spending it faster than they take it in, between the National Health Service and tender care for the mostly Moslem illegals they so strongly desire to acquire.
[Regnum] The United Kingdom intends to build up to 12 new nuclear-powered attack submarines in response to growing threats from Russia. This was reported on the country's government website on June 1.
It is specified that the submarines will be developed and built within the framework of AUKUS, a military alliance of Australia, Great Britain and the United States. The new submarines will belong to the SSN-AUKUS class, with a nuclear propulsion plant and conventional weapons. It is planned that from the late 2030s they will replace seven Astute-class attack submarines.
"With new, sophisticated submarines patrolling international waters and our own programme to station nuclear warheads on British shores, we keep the UK safe at home and strong abroad," said UK Defence Secretary John Healey.
The nuclear warhead programme will be given $15 billion. It is noted that the announcement on the submarines' construction will be made by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on June 2 as part of the presentation of the strategic review on defence issues.
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Just where are they planning to get the crews from?
The RN has new destroyers tied up to piers for lack of sailors, and it's always been harder to crew subs.
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Perfidious Albion is very adept at getting someone else to shoulder the load.
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[Regnum] An eruption of Mount Etna has begun on the Italian island of Sicily. Volcanic tremors had previously occurred in this area, the first of which was recorded on the evening of June 1.
Local residents posted videos on social media taken in the vicinity of the volcano. The footage shows a powerful ash cloud rising above the crater. The height of the ash emission reached almost three kilometers.
The intensity of the emission of hot rocks is increasing, the ANSA news agency reported, citing the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
"According to preliminary observations, the hot material apparently did not pass the edge of Valle del Leone. At the same time, explosive activity from the Southeast Crater was replaced by a lava fountain," the article says.
The eruption is also reported to be visible in all parts of the island. The region was initially placed on red alert, later downgraded to orange.
Etna is the highest and most active volcano in Europe and is considered one of the most dangerous on the planet. In April 2024, the volcano emitted smoke rings, photos and videos of which were distributed in the press and social networks. Later, in July, Etna emitted lava fountains, a column of ash and smoke.
Two towers of smoke, as alarming
As ever the scenery is charming,
Rise up to the sky.
Cries a Mafia guy,
"The Camorra was warring on warming!
So naturally we had to join in and do our part. To save the planet!"
[NAHARNET] Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Monday that his "doors are always open" for Hezbollah after he met with Parliament Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... in Ain el-Tineh, as the gap between Salam and Berri's ally Hezbollah seemed to widen over the group's disarmament.
"I am leaving plenty of room for cordiality with (Hezbollah MP) Hajj Mohammad Raad and my doors are always open for him and Hezbollah," Salam said.
Raad had recently criticized Salam for recently omitting the word "Resistance®" from the "Resistance® and Liberation Day" holiday in one of his statements, but said he would not respond to Salam's comments on Hezbollah's disarmament "to preserve what's left of cordiality."
Berri on Friday told local al-Joumhouria newspaper that "if Salam escalates, we will escalate and if he chooses to calm things down, we will calm them down," after Salam said in recent comments that the era of "exporting the Iranian revolution has ended" and that the state "will not remain silent over any arms outside the state's control".
In his interview with al-Joumhouria, Berri also urged the government to prioritize the construction of war-hit regions, saying it's the government's responsibility "whether it likes it or not."
Berri had met last Friday with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Palace, in talks he described as "excellent."
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[IsraelTimes] Latest attack from Yemen causes no damage or injuries; alerts send millions to bomb shelters; Iran-backed group claims to target Ben Gurion Airport
Israeli air defenses intercepted a ballistic missile launched at the country by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday night, the military said, in what has become an almost daily occurrence.
The missile set off sirens shortly before 9 p.m. across central Israel, the Jerusalem area, several West Bank settlements, and some areas in southern Israel, sending millions to bomb shelters.
Preceding the sirens by about three minutes, an early warning was issued by the Home Front Command to residents, alerting them of the long-range missile attack via a push notification on their phones.
There were no reports of injuries or damage in the attack, which marked the fourth from Yemen in the past week and the ninth in two weeks.
Footage posted to social media showed the aftermath of the missile interception, with burning shrapnel falling from the sky.
The Houthis took responsibility for Monday’s missile fire, claiming to have targeted Ben Gurion Airport.
A missile attack a day earlier also targeted the airport near Tel Aviv, the Houthis claimed. The IDF said Sunday that the projectile was intercepted, and there were no reports of damage.
[HotAir] Danwatch, a Danish investigative media watchdog working in conjunction with German magazine Der Spiegel, has somehow managed to get its mitts on some some pretty amazing documents and blueprints. The two organizations have spent years downloading and comparing Russian military equipment documents called 'tenders.' Additionally, Danwatch has managed to obtain millions of inadvertently uploaded blueprints and plans as part of that cache of documents.
...Russia is quietly carrying out a modernization of its nuclear missile infrastructure near the Kazakh border, according to leaked classified documents and satellite imagery analyzed by Danish investigative group Danwatch and Germany’s Der Spiegel on May 28.
The revelations focus on extensive upgrades at silo complexes in the Orenburg region, particularly near the city of Yasny, where Russia’s 621st and 368th Missile Regiments are stationed. Both regiments are equipped with the Avangard strategic nuclear missile system, a hypersonic weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
The leaked documents—part of a cache of more than two million files—include detailed architectural plans, internal layouts, and procurement records for new military installations. Much of this sensitive material was inadvertently published on Russia’s public government procurement portals, a practice that continued for years despite a 2020 shift to a classified tender system for military contracts.
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Russia has offered White Afrikaners refugee status in Russia with an option of permanent citizenship. pic.twitter.com/83JNUNbpui
— Sir Cabonena Alfred (@Lebona_cabonena) June 3, 2025
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This article is about German companys rebuilding the Russian nuclear sites from hardens bunkers, silos and buildings. Underground storage and tunnels that are hardened. Surveillance and protection hardening. Making the Russian nuclear totally modern. The Germans are not our Allies.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back Russian attacks in the east and south of Ukraine.
For the third day, the enemy has concentrated its attacks on the Pokrovsky direction. Five combat clashes are currently ongoing there.
Since the beginning of the current day, 67 combat clashes have occurred on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Monday, June 2.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the Russian attack in the Vovchansk area was stopped.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked five times in the areas of the settlements of Stepovaya Novoselovka, Peschanoye and Zelenyi Gai. Four combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invading army carried out 10 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Grekovka, Novy Mir, Ridkodub, Karpovka, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye and in the direction of Grigorovka. Three clashes are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy unsuccessfully attacked near Verkhnekamyansky.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Russians stormed towards Belaya Gora. Our defenders stopped three enemy offensive actions.
In the Toretsk direction, five armed clashes occurred in the areas of the settlements of Dilievka, Pleshchievka, Toretsk and in the direction of Yablunovka. All attacks have been stopped.
In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian invaders carried out 23 assaults near the settlements of Poltavka, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Malinovka, Lisovka, Dachenskoye, Udachnoye, Novosergeevka, Muravka and in the direction of Pokrovsk. The defense forces repelled 17 enemy attacks, five combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction , 12 attacks occurred in the areas of the settlements of Konstantinopol, Otradnoye, Novosyolka, Volnoye Pole, Zelenoe Pole, Novopol, as well as in the direction of Novoukrainka and Komar. Two clashes continue to this day.
There were 12 armed clashes in the Kursk direction.
Let us recall that on June 1, Russia lost more than 1,100 servicemen killed and wounded in 24 hours. The total number of Russian losses will soon reach 1 million people.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] The talks in Turkey have ended. As the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated, "without negative results."
They lasted a little over an hour - 1 hour and 15 minutes. They exchanged memoranda on the parameters of the settlement.
At most, they agreed on one more exchange. Which will take place in the near future. There will also be another exchange of the killed.
They report that the negotiations were held in Russian.
In general, they agreed to continue negotiating. And about the exchange. The next negotiations will take place sometime in June.
Meanwhile, the war will continue. In May, the Russian Armed Forces liberated more than 500 square kilometers of territory.
From the Russian delegation:
1. Russia handed over to Ukraine a memorandum containing specific steps to cease fire and achieve peace.
2. Russia will unilaterally transfer 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers and officers to Ukraine. 6,000 frozen corpses will be transferred to Ukraine next week. Russia is ready to accept in return any number of dead Russian soldiers that the enemy has.
3. An agreement was also reached on a new exchange of prisoners, as well as on the exchange of the seriously wounded and seriously ill, all for all. Also, prisoners under 25 will be exchanged all for all. The ceiling is no less than 1000. After that, exchanges will take place regularly. They will try to depoliticize them.
4. Russia proposed that Ukraine conclude a temporary truce on certain sections of the front for 2-3 days to collect the bodies of the dead.
Another view of the Istanbul talks, round 2.
🚨 UKRAINE-RUSSIA TALKS IN TURKEY COLLAPSE — NO CEASEFIRE, NO CONCESSIONS 🚨 🇷🇺🇺🇦 The much-hyped negotiations in Turkey ended in under an hour — with nothing achieved. No breakthrough. No agreement. No ceasefire.
[Breitbart] Political newcomer Karol Nawrocki has pulled off a stunning come-from-behind victory in the Polish presidential elections on Sunday, defeating neo-liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski of Prime Minsiter Donald Tusk’s globalist Civic Platform party.
UPDATE 0500: According to Gazeta Wyborcza, Law and Justice (PiS) party candidate Karol Nawrocki will become the next president of Poland after winning 50.89 per cent of the vote, with a total of 10,606,628 votes. In comparison, the progressive mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski won 49.11 per cent, with 10,237,177 votes. The paper reported that turnout in the hotly contested election stood at 71.6 per cent.
UPDATE 0145: A third exit poll from Ipsos covering 90 per cent of voting areas has projected conservative PiS candidate Karol Nawrocki to secure 51 per cent, §]ping liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski at 49 per cent, with a margin of error of 0.5 per cent for both candidates.
UPDATE 2245: A "late" exit poll has seen the projected results flip, although the race is still too close to call. The Ipsos exit poll conducted for broadcaster TVN projected that PiS conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki won 50.7 per cent of the vote, compared to 49.3 per cent for his liberal Civic Platform rival Rafał Trzaskowski. This reversed the initial exit poll, which gave Trzaskowski a 0.6 per cent lead.
UPDATE 2200: While the race is still too close to call, the votes from the Polish diaspora community in the United States have been fully counted. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, PiS conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki won 28,070 votes in America, or 56.65 per cent, compared to 21,479 votes, or 43.35 per cent, for liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The third round of negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine will take place over some time. This was reported on June 2 by TASS, citing a source.
According to him, there will be no continuation of the negotiations on June 2. Presumably, the delegations will leave Istanbul by the evening.
"There will be a third round. For some time," the agency's source said.
The second round of Russian-Ukrainian talks took place on June 2 at the Ciragan Palace in Istanbul. The delegations communicated in Russian behind closed doors, and the meeting lasted just over an hour. According to some reports, the parties discussed prisoner exchanges.
Moscow was represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kostyukov and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. The delegation was headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky. In addition, the negotiations were attended by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who noted in his welcoming speech that very important steps had been taken during the first meeting in Istanbul.
Before the start of the negotiations, Medinsky reported that the Russian side had received from Ukraine its version of the memorandum on peaceful settlement. The document was provided in Ukrainian and English. According to the publication of the Ukrainian publication "Obshchestvennoe", in the memorandum the Kiev regime, in particular, demanded an unconditional ceasefire as a condition for the negotiations.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on June 2, a source in Turkish diplomatic circles reported that Moscow and Kiev have not yet reached a specific agreement on new negotiations.
The previous meeting between Moscow and Kiev was in Istanbul on May 16. Following the meeting, the parties agreed to exchange prisoners in the format of 1,000 for 1,000 people. The exchange was carried out in three days. During the third stage of the exchange, 303 Russian servicemen were returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime. In exchange, 303 captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were handed over to Ukraine.
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[KavkazUzel] An unemployed resident of Astrakhan has been detained on suspicion of transferring cryptocurrency to a member of a terrorist organization operating in Syria.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that in April the Southern District Military Court fined an Astrakhan resident for calls for terrorist activity and extremism. According to the investigation and the court, the man published posts on social networks justifying the terrorist act in Beslan.
The man, detained on suspicion of financing militants, was born in Astrakhan in 2001 and is unemployed. The investigation established that the suspect transferred funds in cryptocurrency to a citizen of one of the Asian republics, who is allegedly involved in the activities of international terrorist organizations in Syria.
A criminal case has been opened against the Astrakhan resident for aiding terrorist activity, he has been detained. The suspect has confessed, the Astrakhan online publication "A24" reported with reference to the regional FSB department.
"Kavkazsky Uzel" also previously wrote about raids by security forces in Muslim gathering places in Astrakhan. Thus, in June 2024, after an attack by militants in Dagestan, security forces blocked the exits from the Red Mosque at the Bolshiye Isady market in Astrakhan and checked the documents of those gathered. A raid was conducted at the mosque to identify violators of immigration laws, the Ministry of Internal Affairs said. In addition, several dozen Muslims were taken to police stations without explanation on November 27, 2020, after prayer in an Astrakhan mosque. Muslims were offended that such checks were carried out in mosques during Friday prayer.
[Capitalist Notes] Ukraine's assault on Russia's nuclear triad and the inevitable backlash are designed to force Trump's hand and drag America into war. U.S. should declare neutrality.
The New York Post boasted in a headline on Sunday that, "Ukraine’s surprise strike deep in Russia — an excellent way to push Putin to talk peace." The headline might be the dumbest in the tabloid’s 124 year history.
The Post and other parts of the uniparty’s pro-war bandwagon have long sought a bigger war and ever-greater U.S. involvement in order to stick it to Russia. On Sunday, they got their wish, with Ukraine executing a long-planned operation that reportedly disabled dozens of nuclear bombers deep inside Russia that comprise a crucial part of Moscow’s nuclear triad—the same combination of submarines, missiles, and bombers that the United States uses to deter nuclear war.
It would be as if a foreign power armed with Russian materiel and intelligence destroyed a significant portion of America’s nuclear-capable B-2 and B-52 bombers. How would we react? Would we reach for the peace pipe or respond with fury?
Upsetting this balance of deterrence is extremely reckless and harmful to the interests of the United States. Russian military doctrine provides for the preemptive use of nuclear weapons if an adversary appears to be using conventional means to undermine its first and second-strike nuclear capabilities.
Russia will react aggressively—perhaps with greater ferocity than it has employed since World War II. Contrary to the New York Post’s make-believe about what Russia does when it is attacked, the decision by Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to authorize this assault has made a peace deal more difficult to reach than ever—which was probably his motive in the first place.
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Putin is certainly thinking if the drones can take out a third of their bombers, which really had no play in the Ukraine war, They can decimate the Kremlin and his homes. Retaliation will be thought out buy Putin, and it will be costly. I only hope these drones were not US made or purchased.
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Just like in Gaza, the war will end when Russia surrenders and withdraws.
When Hamas surrenders and the population of Gaza is relocated, probably to Egypt, Malaysia or plenty of room in the USA, that nation of immigrants.
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Sudan, yes. Egypt absolutely does not want them — they want a captive population well-brainwashed to keep attacking the Jewish entity until it disappears. And America will also absolutely not accept them.
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Canada’s current rulers are likely to welcome them with open arms, though, while preening themselves on their moral superiority to those horrid Americans.
[IsraelTimes] Israel calls a demand from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres for an investigation into reported violence at a Gaza aid site a “disgrace.”
“Even if you look very hard, there’s one word you won’t find in the Secretary-General’s statement: Hamas,” writes Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein on X.
“Not a word about the fact that Hamas is the one shooting civilians and trying to prevent them from collecting aid packages.”
“Not a word about the fact that Hamas — as stated by U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff — rejected yet another ceasefire proposal and the release of the hostages.”
Guterres said on Monday he was “appalled” by reports that Palestinians were killed the previous day on their way to a Gaza Humanitarian Fund distribution site for aid, that the UN must be allowed to provide aid to Gazans, and said that there is no military solution to the conflict in Gaza.
Multiple witnesses and Hamas authorities in the Strip said at least 31 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded early Sunday by Israeli fire as they were on their way to a Gaza Humanitarian Fund distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces said it didn’t shoot Gazans at or near the distribution site, but an Israeli military official acknowledged that troops did fire warning shots overnight around a kilometer away from the aid site.
Israel and the United States say they helped establish the new aid system to circumvent Hamas, which they accuse of siphoning off assistance.
UN agencies have refused to work with the system, which they say violates humanitarian principles.
Marmorstein says that “the real investigation that needs to be opened is why the UN continues to resist any attempt to provide aid directly to the people of Gaza.”
[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee accuses major American news outlets of “contributing to the antisemitic climate” that resulted in the recent attacks targeting Israeli embassy staffers in Washington and Israeli hostages activists in Colorado over the networks’ coverage of yesterday’s shooting of Gazans near an aid distribution site.
“Without verification of any source other than Hamas and its collaborators, the New York Times, CNN, and Associated Press reported that a number of people seeking to receive humanitarian food boxes from the Gaza Humanitarian Fund were shot or killed by the Israeli Defense Forces,” Huckabee says in a statement.
“These reports were FALSE. Drone video and first-hand accounts clearly showed that there were no injuries, no fatalities, no shooting, no chaos,” Huckabee asserts.
It is unclear what drone footage and first-hand accounts Huckabee is referring to. GHF released what it said was drone footage showing no incident at the site, but the clip was taken during daylight hours, while the incident that reportedly injured 31 Gazans took place at around 3 a.m.
Asked to elaborate on the information Huckabee had that led him to refute Hamas’s claims, an embassy spokesperson tells The Times of Israel it came from first-hand accounts from GHF staffers.
But the incident took place outside the GHF site before it had opened on Sunday.
The embassy staffer also cites IDF drone footage, but the footage released by the IDF was not shot at the time or place where the incident in question took place.
The spokesperson didn’t provide any further information.
While the IDF has denied firing at Gazans near the GHF aid site yesterday, it has acknowledged firing in the air at Palestinians. Doctors Without Borders said its aid workers treated Palestinians who said Israeli soldiers were the ones who shot at them.
“The only source for these misleading, exaggerated, and utterly fabricated stories came from Hamas sources, which are designed to fan the flames of antisemitic hate that is arguably contributing to violence against Jews in the United States,” Huckabee says.
“Media sources who willingly parrot these libelous allegations should recant their fake news stories, apologize and pledge to practice actual reporting of fact instead of engaging in dangerous propaganda that assists the terror group Hamas as they continue to hold innocent hostages for over 600 days after butchering over 1,200 people on October 7th,” he says, demanding an “immediate retraction” by the American media sites.
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Sure there is a military solution. One that ends with every single Gazan dead or off the land. Permanently.
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They were going to anyway, President Trump’s approval or no. Birds of a feather — jihadis all
[IsraelTimes] Amid countries’ rapprochement, White House okays Sharaa government’s proposal to form unit including some 3,500 fighters from abroad — mostly Chinese Uighurs
The United States has given its blessing to a plan by Syria’s new leadership to incorporate thousands of foreign jihadists, former rebel US approves of Syrian plan to absorb foreign jihadists into its army, Trump envoy says fighters, into the national army, provided that it does so transparently, US President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... ’s envoy has said.
Three Syrian defense officials said that under the plan, some 3,500 imported muscle, mainly Uighurs from China and neighboring countries, would join a newly formed unit, the 84th Syrian army division, which would also include Syrians.
Asked by Rooters in Damascus whether Washington approved the integration of imported muscle into Syria’s new military, Thomas Barrack, the US ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... who was named Trump’s special envoy to Syria last month, said: "I would say there is an understanding, with transparency."
He said it was better to keep the fighters, many of whom are "very loyal" to the new administration of Ahmed al-Sharaa, within a state project than to exclude them.
The fate of foreigners who joined Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... rebels during the 13-year war between rebel groups and Syria’s Iran-backed President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... has been one of the most fraught issues hindering a rapprochement with the West since HTS, a former affiliate of al-Qaeda, toppled Assad and took power last year.
At least until early May, the United States had been demanding that the new leadership broadly exclude imported muscle from the security forces.
But Washington’s approach to Syria has changed sharply since Trump toured the Middle East last month and met with Sharaa in Riyadh, in the first such meeting between US and Syrian leaders in a quarter century. Following the meeting, Trump agreed to lift Assad-era sanctions on Syria and named Barrack, a close friend, as his special envoy.
Two sources close to the Syrian defense ministry told Rooters that Sharaa and his circle had been arguing to Western interlocutors that bringing imported muscle into the army would be less of a security risk than abandoning them, which could drive them into the orbit of al-Qaeda or 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.... The US State Department and a Syrian government spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
The US-Syria rapprochement comes amid reports that Israeli officials have met with Syrian counterparts about the possibility of a warming of Israeli-Syrian ties, although Jerusalem has in public expressed deep suspicion of Sharaa. Trump has said he did not consult with Israel before restoring ties with Syria.
Following Assad’s ouster in December, Israel has struck the Syrian military numerous times and moved troops into the Syrian side of the two countries’ demilitarized buffer zone, citing fears it would fall into the wrong hands.
CHINESE CONCERNS
Thousands of Sunni Moslem foreigners joined Syria’s rebels early in the 13-year civil war to fight against Assad, who was himself aided by Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias, including Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
Some fighters formed their own factions, while others joined established groups such as the Islamic State, which briefly declared a caliphate in large parts of Syria and Iraq, before being routed by an array of forces backed by both the United States and Iran.
Foreign fighters within HTS earned a reputation as loyal, disciplined and experienced bad boys, and formed the backbone of the group’s elite so-called suicide units. They fought against the Islamic State and other wings of al-Qaeda from 2016, when HTS broke away from the group founded by the late Osama bin Laden ...... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...... The Uighur fighters from China and Central Asia are members of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), which Beijing considers a terrorist group. A Syrian official and a foreign diplomat said China had sought to have the group’s influence in Syria restricted.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said, "China hopes that Syria will oppose all forms of terrorism and krazed killer forces in response to the concerns of the international community."
Osman Bughra, a TIP political official, told Rooters in a written statement that the group had officially dissolved and integrated into the Syrian army.
"At present, the group operates entirely under the authority of the Ministry of Defense, adheres to national policy, and maintains no affiliations with external entities or groups," he said.
In December, the appointment of a handful of foreign jihadists who were part of HTS’s big shotship to top military posts had alarmed Western governments, raising concerns over the direction of Syria’s new Islamist leadership.
Demands to freeze the appointments and expel rank-and-file imported muscle became a key point of contention with Washington and other Western countries up until the week of Trump’s landmark meeting with Sharaa.
Sharaa has said that imported muscle and their families may be granted Syrian citizenship due to their role in fighting Assad.
Abbas Sharifa, a Damascus-based expert on jihadist groups, said the fighters being included in the army had shown loyalty to Syria’s leadership and were "ideologically filtered."
But "if you abandon them, they become prey to ISIS or other radical groups," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Officer seen telling group of journalists they cannot be let into Masafer Yatta — subject of Oscar-winning documentary — due to need ‘to keep the order in the area’
Israeli soldiers barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on Monday on a tour organized by the directors of the Oscar-winning movie "No Other Land."
The directors of the film, which focuses on Israeli settler attacks on Paleostinians in the West Bank, said they had invited the journalists on the tour to interview residents about increasing settler violence in the area.
In a video posted to X by the film’s co-director Yuval Abraham, an Israeli officer —his face concealed by a ski mask and identifiable as a major by the insignia on his uniform — was seen telling a group of international journalists that "no passage" was allowed in the area due to a military order.
"You know they are journalists. They’re coming to see the destruction in Masafer Yatta, the way you are destroying the community, the settler violence," a voice off camera could be heard telling the officer, referring to the Paleostinian village that "No Other Land" covers.
A Paleostinian man was then seen telling the officer and a soldier standing with him, whose face was also covered, that the journalists were coming to his home and should be let through. But the officer refused.
"Why didn’t you prevent the settlers when they came to burn the homes... attacking people?" the man was seen telling the officer. "Why don’t you come to do this order? Why only for journalists who are holding cameras and phones?... I have so many videos of settlers coming to attack us, shooting people here, you do nothing. Why?"
Eventually, the officer told the journalists that they were being kept out due to the need "to keep the order in this area."
Basel Adra, the Paleostinian co-director of the film who lives in the area, said the military blocked the journalists from entering two Paleostinian villages they had hoped to visit.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Since "No Other Land" gained notoriety, local villagers have faced an uptick in settler attacks, including in the villages of Tuba and Jinba. Hamdan Ballal, another of the film’s co-directors, was attacked by settlers and then arrested in March, drawing global condemnation.
Paleostinians say the settlers operate with the tacit consent of the Israeli state, which carries out home demolitions and rarely prosecutes settlers for instances of violence against Paleostinians. Locals have said the attacks are designed to intimidate them into fleeing their land.
The West Bank has seen a spike in violence since the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... attack on Israel sparked the war in Gazoo.
In the West Bank, the military has undertaken large-scale counterterrorism operations that have killed hundreds of people — the vast majority of them combatants, according to the IDF — and displaced tens of thousands.
[NY Post] A CNN correspondent at the center of a nefarious report that cost the network at least $5 million for defaming a US Navy veteran is leaving the struggling network.
Chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt landed in hot water earlier this year after a Florida jury ruled that he defamed Zachary Young in 2021 by claiming the former soldier illegally exploited Afghans during the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from the country.
Sources told former CNN media correspondent Oliver Darcy that Marquardt was fired — citing "editorial differences" with his higher-ups at the network.
“You’re too expensive for the ad income you generate. Get outa here — we don’t want you anymore!”
Marquardt — who worked at CNN for eight years and recently spearheaded its coverage of the Russian-Ukraine war — did not mention the legal debacle or the reason for his exit in announcing the departure Monday.
#2
"When I see a naked man chasing a woman through a dark alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross."
[ConservativeTreehouse] A few datapoints to keep on a post-it note as things progress; starting with a rather significant new release that I think you will find interesting.
Approximately 12.3 million Mexicans live abroad, both legally and illegally, with 97% of them living and working in the United States, according to BBVA Research. Last year Mexicans living abroad sent $64.75 billion back home in remittances, largely from Texas and California to states in central and western Mexico.
According to data just released, in April of this year remittances back to Mexico dropped 12.1%. The Mexico central bank said April saw 8.1% fewer transactions than a year earlier, that’s down to 12.4 million transactions. For Mexico this could be a devastating trend. [Sidenote: Remember, Trump is likely planning a complete overhaul of the USMCA later this year.]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Remittances sent to Mexico slumped 12.1% in April compared to a year earlier, according to central bank data published on Monday, marking the steepest drop in over a decade as U.S. lawmakers mull a tax on such payments sent abroad.
The world’s second-largest recipient of remittances, Mexico receives these payments chiefly from migrants working in the neighboring United States. In April, Mexicans abroad sent fewer transactions and smaller payments, totaling $4.76 billion.
Analysts said the slump likely resulted from a broad crackdown on migration in the U.S. since President Donald Trump came to power in January, as authorities revoke some Biden-era protections and increase raids across the country.
The latest data marks the steepest year-on-year drop since September 2012, according to central bank data.
Banco Base economic analysis director Gabriela Siller said April’s drop was likely due to a weaker U.S. job market and migrants’ fear of losing their jobs or being deported.
“The April remittance data is terrible,” she said in a post on X, attributing the drop to “the deterioration of the labor market in the U.S. and U.S. migrants’ fear of going out to work and sending their remittances, for fear of being deported.” (read more)
The Mexican domestic economy benefits from these remittances as the money flow from the United States directly fuels family purchases and the economy within Mexico. If significantly less money is flowing to Mexico due to voluntary exit and deportation, the Mexico domestic economy contracts.
Now, a few things to consider.
♦ First, a question I have often asked myself. What happens to U.S. economic data, statistically recorded based on identifiable datapoints, if the unquantifiable underground economy is forcibly reduced? If black market (cash) wages are removed, and that creates structural employment pressure leading to traditional (non-cash) wage increases, will the BEA/BLS wage increase -or income data- seem skewed?
Perhaps, just perhaps, we are seeing the answer. Last month, again recording for April, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that Personal income increased $210.1 billion (0.8 percent at a monthly rate). That’s a 9.6% annualized rate of potential wage increases. That is stunningly good.
♦ Second, Florida is now reporting the biggest decline in home prices in a decade. As reported in the New York Post, “the median price for all home types in Florida fell 1.7% in March from the same time last year, according to Redfin, a national real estate brokerage. That’s a small number with big implications.” … “Median prices for condos and co-ops fell about 7% in March.” In addition, available housing inventory is reaching record highs.
As the Hurricane season gets underway, right now in June 2025 things look a lot like June 2005. Florida was where the financial atom split in the housing crisis of ’07/08. The Florida housing values climaxed in December of 2005, then collapsed stunningly fast. However, the shockwave took until 2007 to reach nationwide impact. At least in the Florida housing market data, June 2025 looks an awful lot like June 2005.
There are a lot of factors influencing the Florida housing market, including declining in-migration, ridiculous insurance costs, high mortgage rates, high prices and now increases in unsold available inventory. However, when you overlay the potential slowdown in construction with a decline in available workers (repatriation), you get a slower overall economy to absorb that growing housing inventory.
Back to the main subject. If remittances to Mexico continue to shrink due to repatriation (voluntary and forced), the economy of Mexico could be squeezed significantly. This creates even more pressure on Mexico, and simultaneously more leverage for President Trump in a USMCA renegotiation.
What odds he will turn out to be connected, dear Reader? Day 1 can be seen here.
[JerusalemPost] The United States District Court charged Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, with a federal hate crime after wounding eight individuals demonstrating in support of the hostages held by Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... holy warriors 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... on Sunday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed on Monday that Soliman, a resident of El Paso, was arrested and was the main suspect behind the Colorado attack. He has since been charged with a federal hate crime.
During an interview with police, Soliman admitted to watching YouTube videos on how to make Molotov Cocktails and purchased the materials to make them, according to federal court documents. He also stated that he wanted to kill all Zionists, wished all Zionists dead and said he would repeat the attack if given the opportunity.
Soliman told officials that he had been planning the attack for a year but wanted to wait for his daughter to graduate from university before carrying it out.
On Sunday afternoon, a man threw Molotov cocktails and used an improvised flamethrower to target participants of a weekly walking group that raises awareness for the hostages in Hamas captivity. Officials currently believe it was a lone-wolf attack.
Soliman, who was heard screaming "Free Paleostine" and "end Zionism" before launching the attack at a group raising awareness of the plight of the 58 hostages held captive by Hamas, was booked into Boulder County Jail on multiple charges. These include first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, one count of first-degree assault, one count of causing serious injury to an at-risk adult or someone over 70, and one count of using explosives or incendiary devices.
He is currently being held on a $10 million bond.
Before being taken to jail, the FBI confirmed he was taken for medical assessments at a nearby hospital.
"Our strength as a society comes from our shared values, and our commitment to protecting one another. Any attempt to divide us through fear or harm has no place in Boulder, Colorado, or anywhere in our nation," said FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek. "We stand in full solidarity with those targeted. And we will continue to ensure that justice is pursued swiftly, support is provided to victims and their communities, and preventative action is taken to protect everyone’s safety."
"Boulder is not immune to tragedy, sadly, and I know a lot of people are scared right now and questioning how this happened and why. Boulder has recovered before from acts of violence before, and we will again recover. I urge this community to come together. Now is not the time to be divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... ," Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said.
"When this call came out today, our officers rushed to the scene as quickly as they could to protect our community and arrest the suspect and I’m very proud of their response. I also greatly appreciate all of our law enforcement and community partners who responded to help as well. I want to assure our Boulder community that we will have increased presence at many events and locations throughout the city to ensure safety."
The FBI raided Soliman’s house following the attack, the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported. An unknown woman was allowed to enter the property.
Neighbors told the media that they did not know Soliman well but that a family with three kids lived at the raided address, according to the New York Post.
Interesting. Are the family Lso here illegally? Do they need to be sent back to wherever they came from while Papa serves his prison sentence?
WHO IS MOHAMED SABRY SOLIMAN?
Originally from Egypt, Soliman arrived in the United States in 2022 with a non-immigration visa that would have allowed him to stay until February 2023, according to the Homeland Security Department.
He was later granted work authorization in March 2023, which should have allowed him to stay in the US only until March 2025.
Assistant Secretary of DHS Tricia McLaughlin said Soliman had tried to claim asylum in 2022.
Despite being granted access to the states in 2022, he had a failed asylum claim in 2005, sources told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
Exactly the kind of person the Biden-Harris Politburo actively sought to grant entry to. The Times of Israel adds:
The suspect who allegedly attacked a group of pro-hostage demonstrators in Colorado planned the attack for a year and wanted to kill “all Zionist people,” according to an affidavit filed in a federal court in Colorado on Monday.
The suspect, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, is charged with attacking the rally on Sunday with a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, wounding eight. He was arrested at the scene of the attack.
The affidavit, filed by an FBI agent in the US District Court of Colorado, was based on Soliman’s interview with law enforcement after the arrest.
After he was arrested, a black plastic container with a yellow lid was found nearby. Inside were at least fourteen unlit Molotov cocktails made of glass wine bottles or Ball jars with gasoline inside and red rags hanging out of the top.
Also nearby was a “backpack weed sprayer” loaded with gasoline. Authorities have said Soliman used a “makeshift flamethrower” during the attack.
Law enforcement found a silver Toyota Prius parked a few blocks away that was registered to Soliman. Inside were a red gas container and papers with the words “Israel,” “Palestine,” and “USAID,” the affidavit said.
Soliman told law enforcement he researched how to make Molotov cocktails on YouTube. He assembled the firebombs and bought gas at a gas station on his way to Boulder. He lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, about two hours away, with his wife and five children.
He targeted the hostage rally after learning about the group in an online search and saw that the group was planning to meet at 1 p.m. He arrived at the scene at 12:55 p.m. and waited for the demonstrators.
“Soliman stated that he hated the Zionist group and did this because he hated this group and needed to stop them from taking over ‘our land,’ which he explained to be Palestine,” the affidavit said. “He stated that he had been planning the attack for a year and was waiting until after his daughter graduated to conduct the attack.”
Soliman said he left an iPhone with messages to his family hidden in a desk drawer at his home. His wife turned an iPhone over to police.
The affidavit confirmed that Soliman is the individual seen in video from the scene of the attack. Video also showed him shouting, “End Zionists.”
The police department in Boulder, Colorado, said on Monday morning that none of the victims had perished, despite the suspect being held on a preliminary charge of murder.
“No victims have died,” the police department said in a statement.
The police department said it would hold a press conference on the attack later Monday and that more details would be forthcoming.
Police released a mugshot of the suspect, who had a bandaged ear and bruising on his face.
Soliman was set to appear in court at 1:30 p.m. local time, the police department’s daily booking report said. He was being held in the Boulder County Jail on a $10 million bond.
Other preliminary charges against Soliman included using explosive or incendiary devices during a felony, assault with a weapon, and crimes against at-risk elderly. The victims were four men and four women between the ages of 52 and 88. One of the victims was reportedly a Holocaust survivor.
Acting US Attorney J. Bishop Grewell says at a press conference that Soliman, 45, is being charged with the commission of a hate crime, a federal crime which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison when coupled with attempted murder charges he will face from Colorado.
According to Grewell, Soliman attempted to buy a firearm to carry out the attack, but resorted to homemade incendiary devices when he could not acquire a firearm because he is not a US citizen.
So it could have been much, much worse. Thank goodness he wasn’t clever enough or charming enough to get a friend to buy guns for him.
Boulder county district attorney Michael Dougherty says the state will charge Soliman with 16 counts of attempted murder in the first degree — eight for attempted murder with intent, and eight for attempted murder with extreme indifference. If convicted, and the sentences run consecutively, the maximum sentence is 384 years in state prison.
Soliman will also be charged with two counts of use of an incendiary device, carrying a maximum sentence of 48 years, and 16 counts of attempted use of an incendiary device, with a maximum sentence of 192 years. Soliman threw two Molotov cocktails at the demonstrators, and investigators recovered 16 unused Molotov cocktails from the scene of the attack.
Other charges may be forthcoming, Grewell says.
Dougherty says police have identified four more victims of the attack, bringing the total to 12. The four additional victims suffered minor injuries and came forward to investigators after the initial incident.
The authorities say Soliman was not “on our radar” before the attack. Investigators are working to put together a timeline of the attack using surveillance footage and license plate readers.
Authorities said in the news conference June 2 they believe he acted alone.
The arrest affidavit said he has a valid Colorado driver's license and no prior criminal history.
Soliman, a father of five, entered the U.S. in August 2022 on a B-2 tourist visa that expired over two years ago, said Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. An affidavit said he was born in Egypt and lived in Kuwait for 17 years before moving to Colorado three years ago.
In his Toyota Prius parked nearby, investigators discovered red rags, a jug of gasoline and paperwork with the words "Israel," "Palestine" and "USAID," according to the charging document.
He told investigators that after being denied the legal purchase of a gun due to not being a citizen, he researched on YouTube how to make Molotov Cocktails, purchased the ingredients to do so and constructed them himself, the affidavit said.
McLaughlin said Soliman applied for asylum in September 2022. That claim was likely still pending. As of March, the immigration court backlog was around 3.6 million cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on X described Soliman as an "illegal alien" and criticized the Biden administration, which he accused of approving a work permit for Soliman after he overstayed his tourist visa.
Uber on June 2 confirmed that Soliman had worked as a driver starting in spring 2023 although the company did not specify whether he worked driving passengers or for Uber Eats, or both. In a statement to USA TODAY, the company said his account has been terminated, prohibiting him from working there again. The company noted that he passed a background check and provided the legally required documents necessary to work as a contractor.“Mr. Soliman had no concerning feedback while driving on the Uber platform,” the company said in a statement. “We’ve banned the driver’s account and have been in touch with law enforcement.”
Only one thing held Soliman back from attacking sooner, he told authorities: Waiting for his daughter to graduate high school.
A Colorado Springs Gazette article published in April profiled a student matching his daughter’s description as a recipient of a scholarship. According to the article, she described in her scholarship application how her family had immigrated to the US after living in Kuwait, noting that her father had undergone a “difficult surgery” when she was young “that restored his ability to walk.”
The girl said the incident inspired her to pursue medical school – a dream that would have been impossible in Kuwait but within reach in America.
And now that her Papa will go to prison for the rest of his life, causing the authorities to look into the immigration status of his family, medical school in America — and university altogether — are also no longer possible for her. The only thing left for her to do is pack up her stolen America life and head bck to Egypt. Say thank you to your Papa for his loving care of you, habibti.
Now, Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces a federal hate crime charge and state charges of attempted murder.
Soliman was born in Egypt and lived in Kuwait for 17 years before moving to Colorado, according to a state arrest affidavit.
CNN reviewed a Facebook account matching his name and date of birth. On the account’s page, which was last updated about 10 years ago, Soliman said he attended high school and college in Egypt and later moved to Kuwait, where he had an accounting job, according to the page. That account featured photos of Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who served as Egypt’s president from 2012 to 2013, when he was ousted in a military coup that triggered mass protests and sit-ins in Cairo.
Ah hah! There always is a connection.
Posts on the Facebook page expressed support for the Muslim Brotherhood protests against the removal of Morsi. One post from August 2013 featured a four-finger salute with a yellow background, a symbol supportive of the Rabaa al-Adawiya Square encampment, which was violently dispersed by Egyptian security forces loyal to Egypt’s then-defense minister and current president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
According to the newspaper article on the student whose identifying details match those of Soliman’s daughter, her father at one point underwent a serious medical procedure on his legs – one she described in her scholarship application as “nothing short of ‘magic.’”
When the family lived in Kuwait, the daughter stated, the success of the procedure inspired her to study medicine – but “the prospect of attending medical school there was not an option” as a non-Kuwaiti. “The move to the United States provides a chance to fulfill her dream,” the article said.
“Coming to the USA has fundamentally changed me,” she wrote. “Most importantly, I came to appreciate that family is the unchanging support.”
Erm. About that….
Mohamed Sabry Soliman first tried to come to the US in 2005 but was denied a visa, law enforcement sources told CNN.
I would love to know what reason was given for that rejection.
He entered the US in August 2022 as a non-immigrant visitor and in 2023 received a two-year work authorization that expired in March, a Homeland Security official said Monday.
So many different ways the selfish, lying liar lied.
With his wife and children, he moved into a two-story home on the far eastern edge of Colorado Springs and he found work, at least briefly, as an accountant. The health care company Veros Health said in a statement he was an employee starting in May 2023 but left three months later. The company did not respond to questions about his departure.
Jewish or Christian manager/colleagues? Female manager/colleagues? Black/Hispanic manager/colleagues? A mixture of the above that ticked off the miscreant’s cultural racism/sexism/religiousism?
Soliman had also worked as an Uber driver, according to the company, which noted all drivers must pass a criminal and driving history background check and hold a valid Social Security number.
And did he have a valid SS number?
The company said his account has now been banned.
Neighbors who briefly spoke with CNN said they saw Soliman’s children playing near his house
Any of them born in America? Is the mother an American citizen or did she follow Mr. Soliman from Kuwait or even from Egypt? And who is she connected to?
but were not familiar with the family. One neighbor said she had no direct interactions with Soliman but described his wife as friendly.
As he began plotting an attack, Soliman told authorities, he researched how to make Molotov cocktails on YouTube. He also learned online about the group that eventually became his target – a weekly demonstration in Boulder urging Hamas to return the remaining hostages from Gaza.
Soliman said he took a concealed-carry class and learned to shoot a gun but as a non-citizen was blocked from purchasing a gun, so he turned to Molotov cocktails, according to a state affidavit.
Soliman told authorities that he purchased ingredients for the cocktails – including “glass wine carafe bottles or Ball jars,” according to the federal complaint – constructed them and purchased gas at a gas station on the way to Boulder. He also filled up a backpack weed sprayer with gasoline.
Before leaving for the attack, Soliman said, he left an iPhone hidden in a desk drawer at home with messages for his family as well as a journal.
As the group marched with signs on Sunday, Soliman waited nearby with a utility vest over his shirt; some witnesses thought he looked like a gardener, multiple law enforcement sources said. The state affidavit notes that he bought flowers from Home Depot.
He "said this had nothing to do with the Jewish community and was specific in the Zionist group supporting the killings of people on his land (Palestine)," the state documents said.
To be fair, he wasn’t to know that the people he was trying to murder are older and elderly Jews, including a Holocaust survivor.
Soliman, a husband and father of five, allegedly said he had been planning Sunday afternoon's attack for one year but waited until his daughter graduated from high school last Thursday to carry it out, state and federal documents said.
He said no one knew about his plans and he expected to die during the attack, the documents said.
And now he gets to die in an American prison, pondering the life path that took him there.
Soliman appeared at his first state court hearing virtually from jail on Monday afternoon, during which the judge kept his bond at $10 million.
He acknowledged that he had received and understood a protection order barring him from contacting the victims.
Soliman is due back in court on Thursday for the filing of state charges.
He said he drove about 100 miles from his Colorado Springs home to Boulder on Sunday and picked up gas at a gas station on the way, the documents said.
Soliman allegedly "filled 8 glass containers he purchased from Target with gas, he put them in a black storage bin and in order to get as close as possible to the group he dressed himself like a gardener," according to state court documents.
He allegedly used a "makeshift flamethrower" and threw an incendiary device into a crowd of pro-Israel demonstrators at a pedestrian mall, according to the FBI.
A video posted on social media during the attack showed Soliman holding what appeared to be Molotov cocktails and saying, "How many children killed" and "end Zionist," according to the court documents.
Soliman said he "only threw two at the group because he got scared," according to court documents.
The poor darling.
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"Our strength as a society comes from our shared values, and our commitment to protecting one another. Any attempt to divide us through fear or harm has no place in Boulder, Colorado, or anywhere in our nation,"
And they are, or will be, making money off of the oil field they’re making for Somalia, too.
[Rudaw] Turkey’s energy minister said on Saturday that the Gabar oil field in the southeastern Kurdish-majority province of Sirnak generates $2 billion annually and has created more than 3,200 jobs in the province.
“Two billion dollars annually is obtained from that (Gabar field). We hope that with increased production, revenue will increase. Under this project, we have now provided job opportunities for 3,200 people in Sirnak and Gabar,” Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said during a meeting of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
In December 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the discovery of the oil field on Sirnak’s Mount Gabar, containing an estimated 150 million barrels valued at approximately $12 billion.
Sirnak is a small province in southeastern Turkey, bordering the Kurdistan Region.
“Over the past 22 years, the money we spent on energy imports was one trillion dollars. The story of our energy independence is actually a story identical to the story of our economic independence,” Bayraktar added.
The oil field produces 80,000 barrels per day, according to Bayraktar.
Last month, Erdogan said that the Gabar field had produced nearly $2 billion worth of oil in total, over a combined 26 million barrels.
Turkey is struggling with crippling economic woes, its currency is losing value and people are facing soaring inflation and a cost of living crisis.
In March 2023, former Sirnak mayor Mehmet Yarka said that the city's booming economy due to the Gabar field had kickstarted a reverse migration from the bigger cities back to Sirnak.
“Sirnak has grown and developed a lot. People build homes and invest, and those who left the city due to issues, are now returning from Adana, Ankara, Mersin, and Istanbul,” Yarka said at the time.
Sirnak province has one of Turkey’s highest unemployment rates.
[NAHARNET] Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... 's health ministry has said that Israeli strikes on the country's south killed two people, as the Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members in the latest raids despite a ceasefire.
The ministry said an "Israeli enemy" strike targeted a cycle of violence in Arnoun, a village in the Nabatiyeh region about five kilometers from the Israeli border, killing one person.
It said another person was killed in an Israeli raid that "targeted a vehicle on the Debl road" in the Bint Jbeil district.
Another strike on a car in nearby Beit Leef maimed one person, the ministry said.
The Israeli military said in a statement that its forces "struck and eliminated a terrorist in Hezbollah's anti-tank array" in the Arnoun area.
It later said its forces killed an operative from "Hezbollah's artillery array" in the Aita al-Shaab area, near the village of Debl.
Photos circulated on social media of the car of Mohammad Srour who was targeted in the strike. In the photo, Srour, a father, was carrying bread, a cooking pot and a baby swing.
Israel has continued to strike Lebanon despite the November 27 ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities -- including two months of open war -- with Hezbollah, which emerged severely weakened.
On Thursday, two people were killed in Israeli strikes on the south, and another died in a raid on Saturday.
Under the truce, Hezbollah fighters were to withdraw north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers from the border, and dismantle their military posts to the south.
Israel was to pull all its troops from Lebanon but has maintained five positions it deems "strategic" along the frontier.
The Lebanese army has been deploying in the south and dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure there.
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A northern Islamic cleric, Sheik Bin Al-Qasim Asaduls, has called on Muslims across Nigeria to rise against what he described as the alleged "selective and biased" reporting of Amnesty International.
True, but not the way the honoured sheik meant.
In a video posted on his official Facebook page, the cleric accused the international human rights organisation of deliberately ignoring the killings of Muslims while amplifying incidents involving Christians.
Sheikh Al-Qasim alleged that Amnesty International has never shown genuine concern for the plight of Muslims in regions such as Maiduguri, Sokoto, or Zamfara, despite persistent insecurity and violence affecting those areas.
"Amnesty claims to defend human rights, but many of us believe it is driven by a Western agenda. They remain silent when Muslims are killed but rush to release statements whenever Muslims react to provocation or defend their Prophet," Al-Qasim said in the video.
The cleric’s remarks come in the wake of a recent Amnesty International report that highlighted human rights abuses under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Al-Qasim, however, suggested that the organisation is not interested in true justice but rather in stirring religious and political instability in Muslim communities.
“Amnesty International, under the guise of justice, is inciting conflict and trying to destabilise the North,” he said.
The North needs absolutely no help in that regard.
He further urged Nigerian Muslims to remain vigilant and resist what he termed foreign attempts to undermine their religion and their region.
However, Amnesty International’s report stated that within two years, 10,000 people had been killed due to terrorism.
According to their figures, 7000 of the victims were from Benue State, 2,600 from Plateau State, and 691 from Sokoto, Zamfara, and other Northern regions.
Al-Qasim said, "What does this imply? It appears they want to create a false narrative that only Christians are being killed, since Benue and Plateau are predominantly Christian states. They released this report to push their agenda.
He said, "Take for example a recent attack in a Christian community in Plateau State where over 100 people were gruesomely murdered.
Amnesty International publicised it widely. What are they trying to achieve? They want people to react emotionally and turn the issue into a religious crisis.
"We know that religious conflict is one of the fastest ways to destroy a nation’s stability and economy. So, think carefully: does this report by Amnesty International truly reflect the whole picture?
Not even close — it’s actually much worse than Amnesty International reports.
"I swear by God, out of the 10,000 people they claim were killed, I can tell you that 9,000 of them were Muslims. Every day, people are dying in Northern Nigeria—mostly Muslims. In Borno State alone, many of the victims are Muslims," Al-Qasim said.
According to him, "Amnesty International claims 7,000 were killed in Benue. But if I ask you which states in Nigeria are facing the worst insecurity, you will mention Zamfara, then Maiduguri, followed by Katsina and Sokoto. These are the states where people are being killed the most.
Moslems killed by Moslems, Christians killed by Moslems, both are true. Boko Haram ISWAP, Fulani herders, Moslem village lad on a tear, greedy neoghbours… so many different reasons for NigerianMoslems to pick up weapons to create corpses.
Previously, SaharaReporters reported that a coordinated propaganda campaign had been launched against Amnesty International (AI) following the release of its recent report detailing the killings in Nigeria’s Plateau and Benue states, SaharaReporters has learnt. Sources had told SaharaReporters that this is part of a broader propaganda campaign targeting the international human rights organisation.
Since the release of its report last week detailing unchecked killings in Plateau and Benue states, there has been a coordinated effort, said to be led by government officials, featuring influencers like Dan Bello, Arewa Mufarka, Sharfaddeen Bature and others who have launched an aggressive propaganda offensive against Amnesty International.
Nastura Ashir Sharif, a northern Nigerian man who once benefitted from Amnesty International’s support after his arrest and detention for speaking out, is now involved in a campaign against the organisation. Sharif had been detained for several days following a peaceful protest in Katsina State, where he voiced concerns about critical issues affecting citizens, including the wave of student kidnappings in the north-western states. After his arrest, he was transferred to Abuja and held in detention.
Once a beneficiary of Amnesty’s advocacy, Sharif has since become a vocal critic, leading what appears to be a wider effort to discredit the international human rights group.
Amnesty International’s recent report detailing rising violence and mass killings in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region has sparked backlash from various political and community leaders, especially in northern Nigeria.Nigerian cultural tours
Back in 2020, Amnesty International called on Nigerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Sharif, who had been detained for defending the right to life and demanding an end to worsening insecurity in northern Nigeria. At the time, Amnesty International stated that Sharif was simply urging the authorities to fulfill their responsibilities, and his arrest was viewed as an attempt to intimidate and silence peaceful advocates for freedom of assembly and expression.
Text taken from the Facebook page of Russian military field correspondent Aleksandr Kots.
Can you imagine in what mood the Ukrainian delegation walked into the meeting hall. As if in the light of soffits and flashes of cameras, as if on the red carpet towards the Oscar, as if David to the overthrown Goliath, who only had to be cut off his head. They even put on their best camouflage for this. It seemed to them that this wardrobe would organically complement their winning look. After all, the day before they launched their blueberry from homemade slingshot. And now there is nothing left for Russia but to agree to the conditions of Ukraine and sign, in essence, the surrender. They are not even late a day, like last time.
And here you are - the Russians' faces are not gray, heads are not sprinkled with ash, a look is not subpassionate. Nothing new in a nutshell. And after all, proposals are made such that it is uncomfortable to refuse people.
Who will argue that severely wounded prisoners of war are better to be released home with God, let their own contribute theirs. And young people (up to 25 years old) do not belong in captivity, let them go to their families. And everyone seems to be pleased. Let me remind you, Zelensky demanded all prisoners for all. Although we have many times more of them.
A fight with bodies is multifaceted. Vladimir Medinsky said that we unilaterally give 6,000 corpses of Ukrainian defenders. A staggering figure that shatters the perceptions of the Ukrainian citizen about losses based on Zelensky's lie. This is the one time.
Two are broad humanitarian gestures, like the exchange of prisoners, showing that we have at least some point of contact. It is proposed to make them fatter in certain areas of the front so that the sides can pick up the fallen. The Ukrainian delegation doesn't like this idea. Like many of our ideas. But I think the American partners will explain to him its importance.
Three - we simultaneously impose on Kyiv a serious financial obligation. After all, 15 million UAH are promised to the families of the deceased there. Generally, in the recalculation of the ruble, it will have to luxurize somewhere by 200 billion. And you can't turn away - Medinsky has already stated that he conducted both identification and DNA analysis.
Several railroad tracks with corpses in response to the blown passenger train - a strong asymmetric and layered response.
But the main thing is our memorandum. The negotiating positions have not changed due to the raid of Ukrainian drones on Russian military airports. We still demand the international recognition of the five Russian regions, the neutrality of Ukraine and its nuclear-free status, the restriction of Ukrainian Armed Forces in number, the rights of Russian and Orthodox, the prohibition of the heroization of Nazism, the removal of mutual sanctions and the election of an independent president.
Regarding the ceasefire, Russia offers two options. The first - the quick one, proposed a year ago by the Russian president (then, by the way, Ukraine was more) - the beginning of the withdrawal of Ukrainian Armed Forces from the territory of the Russian Federation, from four former Ukrainian regions.
The second option is a long one, which involves stopping mobilization in the independent, demobilization, stopping Western weapons supplies, creation of a bilateral monitoring center (which already existed during the Minsk era), abolition of military status, and again, presidential elections.
The Ukrainian memorandum is diametrically opposite. So, the fighting actions that do not go against Kiev, will continue. And together with them - the negotiations. We will not abandon dialogue either under diversion or terrorist pressure. Because Vladimir Medinsky said at the first Istanbul meeting that war and negotiations are two parallel processes. And as the history of the last 11 years shows, over time, the conditions for Kiev in both of these plains have only gotten worse.
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[NewsFront] 20:55 Russian Ministry of Defense:
From 8:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
20:06 Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov:
The Armed Forces of Ukraine with the help of drones continue attacks in the region.
An air defense system shot down a drone over the Belgorod region.
– In the settlement of Razumnoye, the windshield of a passenger car was damaged by falling debris. In the settlement of Oktyabrsky, the roof of an outbuilding caught fire from the detonation of an FPV drone – the fire has been extinguished.
– In the village of Ustinka, a private house was destroyed as a result of a drone attack. The village of Mokraya Orlovka in the Grayvoronsky MO was attacked by a drone – a power line was damaged. Some residents of the village are temporarily left without electricity. Emergency crews will begin restoration work after coordination with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
– In the village of Novostroevka-Pervaya, the detonation of two drones damaged the glazing of a private house, the fence of another house, and three cars.
– In the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Shebekinsky District, an FPV drone hit a private house – the roof was damaged and the windows were knocked out. On the Shebekino-Belgorod highway, a GAZelle caught fire as a result of a drone attack – fire crews put out the fire.
19:29 Loader of the 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, call sign Kasper told about combat missions in the Kherson region.
The call sign for the loader of the "Carnation" was given by his fellow soldiers:
"I remember I couldn't choose it for a long time. One night, a fellow soldier turned to me and said: "You have a kind face, like Casper." That's what they started calling me," the soldier shared.
The only thing the Arctic assault squad fighter has in common with the good ghost from the cartoon is their similarity in appearance. In reality, "Casper" from the Arctic loads deadly shells. Cold-bloodedly, without unnecessary fuss, as befits a real warrior and professional.
"During another duty, an order was received to prepare the gun for firing. We quickly equipped ourselves and moved to the firing point. It was necessary to solve a combat mission to provide fire cover for the soldiers changing shifts on the Dnieper islands.
The enemy was firing a mortar at them. We were required to make an accurate hit so that the enemy would not have time to hide. Thanks to the correct firing data and the coordinated work of our crew, we destroyed the enemy's firing point with a minimum expenditure of ammunition," "Kasper" said with a clear sense of pride.
18:47 Russian Army drone operators destroyed a Finnish Sisu XA-180 armored personnel carrier near the settlement of Yablonovka —video.
18:15 Artillerymen of the Vostok group destroyed a temporary deployment point of the enemy in the area of the settlement of Komar in the South Donetsk direction —video.
17:40 The "Good Guys" UAV operator squad is not resting - they are hitting the enemy in the Konstantinovsky direction -video.
17:05 FPV drone operators of the North group of forces destroyed an observation post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region and a heavy UAV of the Baba Yaga type in the Sumy region —video.
16:23 Night raid, new attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian territory, analysis by the Telegram channel “Fisherman»:
On the night of June 2, Russian air defense systems repelled a massive Ukrainian air raid on Russian territory. According to some reports, the enemy's targets were civilian infrastructure and oil complex facilities.
In total, during the night, the Russian Armed Forces intercepted 162 fixed-wing UAVs in the skies over the Kursk, Belgorod, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Bryansk, Ryazan, Oryol and Tambov regions, as well as the Republic of Crimea.
More details about the aftermath of the raid:
– On the evening of June 1, in the Belgorod region, as a result of a UAV attack on the village of Proletarsky, a local resident was killed, and a minor driving nearby was also injured by shrapnel. However, there was no information about damage to critical infrastructure facilities.
– In the Kursk region, after the fall of UAV debris, fires were recorded, private houses and garages were damaged. One drone crashed into an apartment building in the administrative center of the region, but there were no casualties.
– The authorities of the Lipetsk region reported that one person was injured in the Lebedyansky district. The victim received shrapnel injuries after parts of the drone fell on a residential area. Two private houses were also damaged.
– In the Voronezh Region, Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked the federal highway M-4 "Don". A high-voltage wire break was subsequently recorded on one of its sections. According to available information, there were no casualties or deaths.
During the raid, the Russian Air Defense Forces' air defense units performed with high efficiency and prevented damage to military and industrial facilities.
However, as the intensity of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on purely civilian targets increases, Russian troops and civilian authorities are faced with the task of ensuring the safety of the civilian population from the consequences of UAV crashes.
15:47 FPV drone crews from the Rubicon Center hit temporary deployment points, armored and automotive vehicles, communication systems, UAVs, and enemy firing positions —video.
14:50 Ukrainian serviceman sentenced to long-term imprisonment for using weapons against civilians in the village of Olgovka in the Kursk region
The evidence collected by the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was found by the court to be sufficient to sentence a serviceman of military unit A-3283 (17th separate tank brigade), grenade launcher, senior soldier Dmitry Muntyan. He was found guilty of committing a terrorist act in the Kursk region (subparagraphs "a" and "c" of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
14:05 Crew of the T-72B3M tank destroyed UAV control point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
Tankers from the Center group fired 125mm high-explosive fragmentation shells from a closed firing position.
The operators of reconnaissance UAVs carried out adjustments and control of target destruction in real time.
13:10 “Vertical pilots”, equipped with the now legendary “Vikhr” ATGM, intercept enemy equipment —video.
12:26 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of June 2, 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
– Units of the North group of forces defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of two mechanized, two airborne assault, and a ranger brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and three territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Novaya Sich, Yunakovka, Sadki, Ryzhevka, Korchakovka, Pisarevka, Khrapovshchina, and Iskriskovshchina in the Sumy region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 245 servicemen, two tanks, an armored combat vehicle, 15 vehicles and five field artillery pieces.
- Units of the "West" group of forces have taken up more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of four mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades have been defeated in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Petrovka, Novy Mir in the Khar'kov region, Vovchiy Yar, Yampol, Krasny Liman and Torskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 205 servicemen, two tanks, three combat armored vehicles, 13 cars and two artillery pieces, including a 155mm self-propelled artillery unit "Braveheart" made in Great Britain. Three ammunition depots were destroyed.
- Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved the situation along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of three mechanized, mountain assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Nikiforovka, Seversk, Zvanovka, Serebryanka, Kleban-Byk, Chasov Yar, Shcherbinovka, Zarya, Pleshcheyevka and Reznikovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 275 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, 10 cars, a field artillery gun and five ammunition depots.
- Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated the formations of the heavy mechanized, three mechanized, assault, airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two territorial defense brigades and two national guard brigades in the areas of the settlements of Novoekonomicheskoe, Novotoretske, Poltavka, Yablonovka, Novonikolaevka, Popov Yar, Rusin Yar, Petrovskoho and Alekseevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 475 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, including three US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, seven cars and three artillery pieces.
- Units of the "East" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Komar, Fedorovka, Zaporozhye, Poddubnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic and Temirovka of the Zaporozhye region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 150 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three cars, two field artillery guns and two electronic warfare stations.
– Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of a mechanized brigade and two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the populated areas of Novodanilovka, Kamenskoye, Stepovoye, Stepnogorsk in the Zaporizhia region, Nikolskoye and Ponyatovka in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost over 80 servicemen, nine vehicles, four artillery pieces, three electronic warfare and reconnaissance stations, and three ammunition depots.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged workshops for the production of strike unmanned aerial vehicles, their launch and storage sites, ammunition depots, as well as temporary deployment points for Ukrainian Armed Forces units and foreign mercenaries in 152 districts.
Air defense systems shot down two British-made Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles, four US-made JDAM guided air bombs, and 316 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles, including 205 outside the special military operation zone.
11:47 Criminal Kyiv regime continues shelling civilian infrastructure of populated areas of the left bank of the Kherson region
Yesterday, during the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces released:
– Four rounds in the village of Malaya Kardashinka;
- According to n.p. Novaya Kakhovka three rounds;
– Four rounds to the village of Aleshki;
- According to n.p. Kakhovka five rounds;
– Two rounds in the village of Staraya Zburyevka;
- Two rounds to the village of Podstepnoye.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the villages of Peschanovka, Korsunka, Dnepryany, and Novaya Zburyevka, firing a total of 20 rounds from barrel artillery. Civilian casualties and infrastructure destruction are being clarified.
11:21 Military personnel of the "Vostok" group told, how the settlement of Novopol in the DPR was liberated.
"They came in motorcycle groups - it was sharp and fast, that is, very mobile. They burst in with two feet. Everything was done in one breath," said the unit commander with the call sign "Shaman."
A serviceman with the call sign “Tatar” added that the enemy avoided direct firefights and tried to roll back.
10:40 Governor of Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov:
Information about Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes in the region over the past 24 hours:
– An air defense system shot down an aircraft-type drone over the Alekseevsky municipal district. No consequences.
- The city of Belgorod was attacked by one drone. There were no consequences.
In Belgorod district:
- Nine drones attacked the villages of Dubovoye, Komsomolsky, Oktyabrsky, the villages of Krasny Oktyabr and Repnoye, six of which were shot down by the air defense system. In the village of Oktyabrsky, a private home was damaged. In the village of Tavrovo, a private house was damaged by falling debris.
– Last night in the village of Komsomolsky, a civilian was injured as a result of a drone strike on a private home. The ambulance medics provided assistance to the woman with a concussion on the spot. She refused the proposed hospitalization. Three private homes and an outbuilding were damaged in the village.
– In the Borisovsky district, the villages of Berezovka, Bogun-Gorodok and Zozuly were attacked by four drones. In the village of Berezovka, a private house and a car were damaged, in the village of Zozuly - an outbuilding, in the village of Bogun-Gorodok - one of the buildings of an agricultural enterprise.
– In the Valuysky municipal district, the city of Valuyki, the settlement of Urazovo, the villages of Borki, Dvuluchnoye, Dolgoe, Kukuyevka and Novaya Simonovka were attacked by 11 drones, eight of which were shot down and suppressed. In the village of Dolgoe, the fence of a private home was damaged.
– In the Volokonovsky district, the village of Grushevka was attacked by an FPV drone - a GAZelle and a private house were damaged.
– In the Grayvoronsky municipal district, 22 munitions were fired and six drones struck during five attacks on the settlement of Gorkovsky, the villages of Bezymeno, Dronovka, Kozinka, Poroz, Rozhdestvenka and Spodaryushino. No consequences.
– Five drones were shot down by the air defense system over the Gubkinsky urban district. There were no consequences.
– Over the Korocha district, the air defense system shot down two aircraft-type drones. No casualties or damage.
– A total of 17 drones were shot down by the air defense system over Krasnogvardeisky District. No consequences.
– In the Krasnoyarsk district, the villages of Vyazovoe, Demidovka, Ilek-Penkovka, Popovka, Repyakhovka, Staroselye, Terebreno and the village of Vysoky were subjected to seven attacks with 19 types of ammunition and 10 drone attacks. In the village of Ilek-Penkovka, an inactive administrative building was damaged.
– Two aircraft-type drones were shot down by the air defense system over the Novooskolsky municipal district. No consequences.
– In Rakityansky district:
Two munitions were fired at the settlement of Proletarsky. A civilian was killed. A child was injured. A 12-year-old girl with a mine-explosive injury and barotrauma was hospitalized in the regional children's clinical hospital. According to doctors, her condition is moderate. Four private houses were damaged, one of which was completely destroyed, a car and a power line.
– In the Shebekinsky municipal district:
A total of 27 drones attacked the villages of Arkhangelskoye, Voznesenovka, Murom, Nezhegol, Novaya Tavolzhanka and Rzhevka, 19 of which were suppressed and shot down.
In the village of Arkhangelskoye, a fighter of the Orlan unit was wounded by a drone strike. The victim received medical care at the Shebekinskaya Central District Hospital, and continues to receive treatment on an outpatient basis.
In the village of Rzhevka, a car and a private house were damaged, in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, a private house, and in the village of Nezhegol, a passenger car.
– Early this morning in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, as a result of a drone attack, the glazing of a two-story apartment building and four cars were damaged.
10:15 Chronicle of the SVO for May 31 - June 1 from the Telegram channel "Fisherman»
Last weekend, Ukrainian forces carried out terrorist attacks and large-scale attacks on Russian territory.
Meanwhile, on the battlefield, the Russian army continues its systematic combat work: there are successes to the north of Sumy, to the south of Konstantinovka, and to the east of the border with the Dnepropetrovsk region.
09:55 Frontline report for the morning of 02.07.2025
Zaporizhzhya Front. Positional battles continue in several areas. No serious changes in the LBS are recorded, –MAP.
- Donetsk Front. In the South Donetsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have repelled yet another attempt to counterattack. The Ukrainian attacks have not brought success, but the Russian Armed Forces continue to work to improve their positions and prepare for a further offensive on Komar.
Also, Ukrainian troops are trying to stop the advance of the Russian army in the Pokrovsk direction, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are unable to seize the initiative from the Russian Armed Forces. In addition, the Russian Armed Forces liberated the village of Dyleevka, and in the village of the same name, they advanced to the center of the settlement.
- Chasovoyarskoe direction. It is reported that Stupochki has been liberated. Also, Russian troops have achieved further tactical successes within the city limits. The enemy continues to send infantry into the city.
- Sumy direction. The Russian Armed Forces continue to work on creating a buffer zone in the Sumy region. There are tactical successes of Russian troops in Yunakovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to try to attack our positions in the Tetkino area, but each time the attacks end with the destruction of enemy personnel and equipment.
09:35 Volunteer Corps drone crews struck a UAV launch point, a dugout with personnel and a light armored multi-purpose transporter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Chasov Yar.
– Servicemen of the 123rd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade destroyed a dugout and an enemy UAV control point in the Seversky direction.
08:20 Calculation of the Tornado-S MLRS of the Zapad group of forces destroyed ammunition and weapons depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region.
08:00 In the period from 20:10 Moscow time on June 1 to 02:00 on June 2, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 162 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
– 57 UAVs – over the territory of the Kursk region,
– 31 UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– 27 UAVs – over the territory of the Lipetsk region,
– 16 UAVs – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
– 11 UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
– 11 UAVs – over the territory of the Ryazan region,
– Six UAVs – over the territory of the Oryol region,
– Two UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
– One UAV – over the territory of the Tambov region.
The first one’s gone. In Moscow, Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylaš, commander of the Russian Air Force, accidentally fell out of a window. pic.twitter.com/rW3NWLvavi
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@5-7: It is my understanding that the Rooskey 'nuke capable bombers were required by treaty to be parked in the open, this to allow for sat observation.
Effing (P)Uke Pres is doing his best to draw the US into a war with Russia.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Before the start of official negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, which took place in Istanbul on June 2, the heads of the delegations of both countries — Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov — held a meeting. This was reported by Izvestia.
Medinsky confirmed to journalists that the bilateral meeting took place.
“This predetermined the productive course of further negotiations,” the publication’s source explained.
It is noted that the conversation between Medinsky and Umerov lasted 2.5 hours.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, a new round of direct negotiations on the conflict settlement took place in Istanbul on June 2. The meeting lasted more than an hour. At it, the delegations communicated in Russian behind closed doors.
Moscow was represented at the meeting by Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kostyukov and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin.
Following the talks, the head of the delegation Medinsky said that Moscow and Kiev would exchange sick and seriously wounded soldiers on the principle of "all for all." The parties would also conduct a new prisoner exchange on the formula of "1000 for 1000."
The text of the Russian memorandum on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine has been published. The document presented on June 2 suggests, in particular, Ukraine's refusal to join NATO and the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the territory of the regions that returned to Russia in 2022.
The document was handed over to the Ukrainian side during the negotiations in Istanbul. Russia proposed two options for a ceasefire. The first involves the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the temporarily occupied Russian territories.
"International legal recognition of the incorporation of Crimea, the LPR, the DPR, the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions into the Russian Federation; the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and other Ukrainian paramilitary formations from their territories," RIA Novosti quotes the text of the document.
The second option contains clauses prohibiting the redeployment of troops, ending mobilization in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the supply of foreign military aid to Kyiv, beginning demobilization, excluding sabotage against the Russian Federation, and also withdrawing troops from new regions of Russia during the 30-day truce.
The memorandum also provides for Kiev’s neutrality, its refusal to join military alliances, and a ban on military activity by other states on the territory of Ukraine.
“[The main parameters of the final settlement of the conflict include] the neutrality of Ukraine, which implies its refusal to join military alliances and coalitions, as well as a ban on any military activity by third countries on the territory of Ukraine and the deployment of foreign armed formations, military bases and military infrastructure there,” the document says.
The agreement also implies that Ukraine's status as a non-nuclear weapons state must be confirmed. In addition, the Kiev regime must ensure the rights and freedoms of the Russian-speaking population and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
The head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations with Ukraine, presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, noted that the Russian memorandum is not an ultimatum, but a proposal that will allow real peace to be achieved.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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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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[Regnum] The third round of negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine will take place over some time. This was reported on June 2 by TASS, citing a source.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
[NY Post] A CNN correspondent at the center of a nefarious report that cost the network at least $5 million for defaming a US Navy veteran is leaving the struggling network.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
