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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Bukele says Trump has 350 million Americans to 'liberate' by ending crime, terrorism
[FoxNews] Bukele condemns 'violence against women' when Trump asks if he lets men in women's sports

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss how the two countries could coordinate on reducing violent crime in the United States.

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele told President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday that he has 350 million Americans to "liberate" by ending crime and terrorism in the United States.

"We know that you have a crime problem and a terrorism problem that you need help with. And we're a small country, but we can help," Bukele said. "We actually turned the murder capital of the world -- that was [what] the journalists called it – the murder capital of the world to the safest country in the Western Hemisphere."

"And I like to say that we actually liberated millions," Bukele said, with the line drawing praise from Trump.

"Mr. President, you have 350 million people to liberate," Bukele told Trump. "You cannot just, you know, free the criminals and think crime is going to go down magically, you have to imprison them so you can liberate 350 million Americans that are asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism, and it can be done."

The Trump administration has been coordinating with Bukele on deportation flights, sending hundreds, including alleged Tren de Aragua gang members, to El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT.

Trump's 2024 campaign was critical of the Biden administration's catch-and-release border policies, as well as liberal bail reform laws in many Democratic jurisdictions that forced police to release suspects back onto the streets to reoffend.

Trump on Monday derided the "Democratic establishment," championing how the country would now be run by "common sense" after his election.

"Do you allow your men in women's sports? Do you allow men to box women?" Trump asked Bukele, referencing how the left has pushed for biological men to compete in women's sports.

The president of El Salvador remarked, "That's violence."

"That's abuse of a woman," Trump agreed. "But we have people that fight to the death because they think men should be able to play in women's sports."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11122 views] Top|| File under:


-Great Cultural Revolution
The Ingraham Angle 4/14/25: Political Violence Is Now Ingrained in American Youth
[YouTube] This time the Angle is about how political violence has become mainstreamed in American youth today.

Laura starts with a picture of Luigi Maglione, and an odd photo of an unidentified guy who killed someone.

A clip is played of Taylor Lorenz [has been a journalist for many left wing publications, like the Times, the Post, the Beast, and apparently Substack.] She’s a 40 year old immunocompromised vegan who’s had many recent online harassment attacks including threats of death and violent rape, and has had her share of problems with stalkers and "swatters" as well.

By an act of the Lord, it seems, she has been engaged now for 10 years to Christopher Mims, an author and a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal. (I wonder if this might be something like the Stalwell situation.) Laura continues with how Taylor has bragged about murderers, like those displayed on the screen, of how cool they are, including the CEO healthcare murderer. "Why he’s a famous handsome young revolutionary, smart, and the sort of guy that any girl would want to become involved with." In a clip she laughs off the healthcare murder as "this is America, as if we don’t lionize murderers, as if we don’t give then Netflix shows," and is glad that some journalists are now finally "standing up and speaking out about the anger that we all feel."

Laura tosses in a clip [The Daily Show/Comedy Central 12/11/24] of a comedian who says that the recent google search for "conjugal visit" is now trending. Laura appreciates that we now know more about the guy who recently threatened Trump, rather than, for example Thomas Crooks. See:

https://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2024-09-17&SO=&HC=6&ID=715034

The rest of the show follows in the same vein, including the Tesla attacks (one perpetrator is now a folk hero), the break-in of Governor Shapiro [PA]’s residence where the place was torched, and Trump comes in to suggest the perpetrator is just a whack job, etc. I’m already 7 minutes into the program I haven’t reviewed anything beyond this point but I don’t really care to and this is enough.



Posted by: Fairbanks || 04/15/2025 05:44 || Comments || Link || [11123 views] Top|| File under:

#1  MODS: the person in picture two above is now identified as 40 year-old Jameson Wagner of NM and Pam Bondi says if convicted he will serve all 40 years behind bars. He's accused of fire bombing 2 Teslas at the dealership in Albuquerque, and spray painting 6 more as well as the building with swastikas and he doesn't appear to like Elon Musk. Seven weeks later he's charged with torching the GOP building in Albuquerque.
Posted by: Fairbanks || 04/15/2025 13:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Either YouTube or FoxNews took that YouTube link private. I found another — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BieMUmdWuLk — and replaced it, so hopefully the new one will work without problems.

The instructional knitting tutorial YouTube had quietly provided is no doubt of interest to some, but does not suit our purpose here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2025 13:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Posted by Fairbanks elsewhere in the Burg at astonishingly early in the morning:

MODS: (This is not related to this article). A few minutes ago I posted my own article, "Political Violence Is Now Ingrained in American Youth," citing the Ingraham Angle as it's source, and this Gateway Pundit article might be a good alternative mention as it deals with the same Taylor Lorenz story, along with her love for Luigi Maglione:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/liberal-journalist-taylor-lorenz-fangirls-accused-murderer-luigi/
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2025 13:36 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
FSB declassifies documents on the 1944 death of pioneer hero Vitya Korobkov in Crimea
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The FSB has declassified archival documents containing testimonies of witnesses about the death in Feodosia of the pioneer hero Vitya Korobkov and his father Mikhail Korobkov, who were captured by the Nazis in 1944. This was reported on April 14 by the department's department for Crimea and Sevastopol.

Father and son were members of a partisan detachment. In February, they were sent to the city because the elder Korobkov's tuberculosis had worsened. They were captured by the fascists in Feodosia.

The declassified documents contain information from Soviet intelligence officer Ibragim Aganin, who infiltrated the Nazis and worked as their translator. He reported that the Korobkovs did not admit to being partisans during interrogations.

"Investigator Büld shouted at the boy that he did not believe him, and in my presence he began to beat him. He hit him with his strong fists, and with each blow the boy hit the wall with force. In my presence the boy was also hit several times with a forged German boot by the translator Lamp," the document says.

Aganin reported that the boy's father was also beaten and then shown his son lying bloody on the floor and threatened that they would both die if they did not tell about their connections with the partisans. The elder Korobkov admitted that he had been given the task of helping if the underground fighters approached him. The father was shot on February 28, his son on March 9. The boy was 15 years old.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 11, the FSB published materials from interrogations of Nazi executioners who served in the German death camp in Treblinka. The fascists not only shot prisoners en masse, but also beat them with sticks, buried them in the sand, and killed them in other painful ways for fun.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that about half of the losses suffered by the USSR during the Great Patriotic War were civilians. There is ample evidence that the Nazis carried out mass executions of the civilian population. They also planned to turn those who survived into slaves, deprived of their native culture.

Posted by: badanov || 04/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11123 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
VDH: China Would Lose a ‘Trade War' With the US‐'Gradually, then Suddenly'
[AmericanGreatness] No one wants a "trade war" with China, or for that matter with any nation. Nonetheless, China has been waging one for years and is now locked in a tariff recalibration with the Trump administration.

In this American effort to find trade parity and equity, China can do some short-term damage to the U.S., especially in terms of ceasing exports of some pharmaceuticals, phones, and computers. But ultimately, it cannot win—and will eventually lose catastrophically. It will likely accept that reality sooner rather than later.

We are only in the first week of the escalating rhetoric and tariffs. But already China is appealing to its Asian rivals, Australia, and the EU to join in fighting the supposed American bully.

But so far, there are understandably few takers.

An exasperated China is now also running vintage Korean War-era propaganda videos of Mao Zedong bragging about how he was standing up to then-President Dwight Eisenhower.

Does Beijing really believe that airing ossified threats from decades ago—issued by the greatest mass killer in human history to the one U.S. president who warned of the military-industrial complex—is going to win over neutral nations?

Or maybe China thinks calls to Western nations to stop American trade "bullying" will resonate — this, from the greatest trade bully, cheat, and rogue commercial nation in history.

China is running a nearly $1-trillion trade surplus with the world. Its mercantilism is the result of market manipulations, product dumping, asymmetrical tariffs, patent, copyright and technology theft, a corrupt Chinese judicial system, and Western laxity — or what might be mildly called "bullying." The U.S. accounts for about a third of China’s trade surplus, with most of the EU and Asian nations accounting for the other two-thirds.

In the past, third-party nations did not appreciate the ends to which China has gone to warp the international trading system. In one sense, unable to address their deficits with China, our friends and neutrals turned to America, where they sought to make up their trade asymmetries by going China-light and running surpluses with the U.S.

However much they criticize the United States, it is unlikely that European and Asian nations will join China—which imposes high tariffs and steals from them—in order to gang up on the U.S., which has tolerated massive trade deficits for decades.

To the degree that the world accepts China as an international commercial rogue nation, it does so out of fear —or, again, on the assumption it can recycle its deficits with Beijing by running surpluses with the vast open American market.

...In sum, if the Trump administration can conclude first-round—good enough but not yet perfect— trade deals in the next few weeks with major EU countries, Japan, and other Asian and Pacific powerhouses, and then redirect to China, it will gain both political support and economic advantage. It also must message strategically, given that China, for a half-century, has waged a quiet trade war that has now birthed a loud reaction. So, the administration must remember that the current status quo is the aberration, and its correction is a return to normalcy.

After all, in the end, the EU and Asian nations should know the difference between their protective and rules-based ally, with whom they have run up huge and unfair surpluses, and a rogue bully, whose flagrant violations of trade norms and unfair tariffs have ensured them large trade deficits. And if they don’t calibrate their economic self-interest, but act emotionally, then they should at least consider realpolitik facts, such as which nation has the larger economy, the more open political system, and the largest and most lethal military that, in extremis, would come to their aid—against a bullying China.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/15/2025 06:30 || Comments || Link || [11122 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Back a few years I went to a conference with a lunch time speaker from China. He spoke beautiful unaccented English. He was asked to address the issue of intellectual property rights. He said~, "We in China are working on this but we have to work deliberately because we don't want to violate the rights of our citizens."
I laughed but no one else in the conference (several hundred people) did so and they gave him a standing ovation when he finished.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/15/2025 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  A few years ago Until January 20th, China sold itself as the world’s shop floor. A lot of countries and companies had all their eggs in that one basket, and so daren’t offend the one who held the basket.

Conditions have changed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2025 17:59 Comments || Top||


Economy
US has 10 Blast Furnaces Left (UK Just Nationalized Their Last One - For a Museum?)
Posted by: Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 || 04/15/2025 06:07 || Comments || Link || [11123 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One of the nastiest places in the world to work.

Temps well over 120F [160 in the PPE], fumes, dirt/grit/coke dust(the bad kind), hydration breaks. Inland Steel/Indiana Harbor, 6 years.

A lot like Texas summers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/15/2025 10:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Quick search - in 1875 there were 700 blast furnaces in the US making an average of 25 tons of steel a day. In 1950 the US Steel Works in Gary, Indiana had 12 operating. Serious decline. Amazing that the Chinese purchased the last one in the UK and then were going to shut it down before the LABOR government decided to nationalize it.
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 04/15/2025 11:33 Comments || Top||

#3  My oldest brother worked at Armco in Middletown, OH first as a mason relining the blast furnace and later as a Mill Wright repairing the manufacturing equipment. His wife had to wash his work cloths at the laundromat because all of the grit and ironing filings would destroy a home washer. I believe that it still has an operational Blast Furnace.
Posted by: TZSenator || 04/15/2025 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  12 operating. Serious decline.

Decline in numbers, certainly (my darling father-in-law worked at Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna (Buffalo), NY until it closed in the 1980s). But I suspect those twelve produced considerably more — and better — steel than the 25 tons/day it needed 700 to make three quarters of a century earlier. Are America’s ten now all specialty manufacturers, or are some mass producers like the old days?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/15/2025 13:22 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
MoveOn.....NO!
[News With Views] Americans have become accustomed to "going-along to get-along," but there are some things that we just can’t move-on from without confronting the issue and fixing what was broken. In a nation focused on precedence rather than the rule of law, we cannot allow bad precedence to stand.

Our Founders knew this day would come... "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed;" — Declaration of Independence, 1776

The MoveOn.org domain name was registered on September 18, 1998, following the September 11, 1998 release of the Independent Counsel Starr Report. The organization founders were computer entrepreneurs Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, the married co-founders of Berkeley Systems, an entertainment software company based in San Francisco.

It was originally created to oppose the impeachment of then President Bill Clinton, who had been caught sexually abusing a young intern in a room off the Oval Office, lying about it to the American people, and under oath. Clinton was indeed impeached by the House and even convicted by the Senate. But he was not removed from office due to a massive grassroots campaign led by the DNC and folks at MoveOn.org.

Today, that operation is a full-blown extreme left community organizing operation under the new domain front.moveon.org. Along with the DNC ACT BLUE international money laundering scheme, BLM, ANTIFA, the WEF, WHO, Davos Group and UN, and hundreds of Soros NGOs and "non-profits" scattered all over the globe, this is the Obama "community organizing" machine responsible for the ongoing efforts to "fundamentally transform America" into a 3rd world Marxist toilet. It’s also the money machine for every anti-American protest and riot on American soil.

Today, treason from within is as common as the sunrise and despite a lot of political chatter about it, nobody ever seems to face treason charges. It all emanates from these organizations and is deeply embedded throughout the U.S. government, all in the democrat party and some in the republican party, often referred to as "the deep state" or "shadow government" actually running things in America.

Americans need to face the reality that our country is under siege, swamped with immoral and unethical anti-American Marxists and dumbed-down fruitcakes, hanging from the proverbial cliff by our fingernails, and the fight would already be over had we not stopped another stolen election last November.

To be clear, the newly minted Trump administration should have already frozen all related funds pending the outcome of criminal investigations into the anti-American actions of these groups. I don’t know why they haven’t, but it likely has something to do with the following...

At the epicenter of it all in the USA is one Barack Hussein Obama, the American leader of the "cultural revolution" not unlike the revolution that destroyed China many years ago. His entire history is one great big fat fraud.

The utter destruction of the USA since 2009 has been massive. Citizens who remember what America was like before can barely recognize the country today, and they fear for their children and grandchildren’s future.

Obama’s unlawful occupation of our Oval Office isn’t just the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people...it is an overt act of treason.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/15/2025 07:54 || Comments || Link || [11122 views] Top|| File under:


Outstanding Work, Doctor: How Jill Biden's Lust for Power Saved America
[Free Beacon] Many have suspected that Dr. Jill Biden played a key role in saving the country by facilitating Donald Trump's long-awaited return to the White House. Many have assumed the former first lady (and acting president of the United States) was possessed of an insatiable lust for power, which drove her to insist that her enfeebled octogenarian husband, Joe Biden, run for reelection. The ill-advised decision nearly destroyed the Democratic Party when Biden's cognitive impairment became impossible to ignore. It forced the party to rally around Kamala Harris, the most incompetent presidential candidate since Hillary Clinton, all but ensuring that Trump would win a second term and usher in the Golden Age of America.

The revelations unearthed in several new books by political journalists—conveniently published after the election—confirm that these suspicions and assumptions were correct.

"[L]et’s be honest, Jill was a thousand percent behind this," a Biden ally told journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, authors of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. "So, she was pushing it. The staff was all pushing it. At the end of the day, I don’t think anyone in that inner circle was presenting the president any contrary advice that this thing is not going to be easy or maybe this is not the best thing for the Democratic Party."

Allen and Parnes note that many of Joe Biden's longtime aides were also desperate to cling to power, and refused to consider advising the president to retire after a single term. "Nobody walks away from this," senior adviser Mike Donilon reportedly told a prominent Democrat. "No one walks away from the house, the plane, the helicopter." This burning desire to retain the perks of the White House, the authors explain, was "doubly true for the first lady." Dr. Jill had enjoyed them for nearly a decade, and "the trappings of the most elite levels of Washington power had grown on her." The reporting confirms what presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said about Jill Biden in February 2024: "She likes power. She wants to stay. She wants some sense of revenge."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/15/2025 07:38 || Comments || Link || [11123 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Oft evil will shall evil mar." Theodin King, The Two Towers
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/15/2025 13:47 Comments || Top||


How Democrats used NGOs to end-run voters — and democracy
[NYPOST] I'm often darkly amused by common examples of inherently false nomenclature: ''Jumbo shrimp.'' ''Government ethics.'' ''Unbiased news media.''

And one of our society's biggest falsehoods-in-a-name: ''Non-governmental organizations.''

Until recently these groups have been widely seen as international, idealized versions of domestic non-profits.

We thought of them as do-good organizations set up by people who really care — about the environment, or poor people, or children, or freedom.

We imagined they raise money, help the downtrodden, send out blurbs and engage in other private activities to promote the causes they favor.

They're not government entities, we thought — the very name says that — but a species of private charity whose good intentions deserve the benefit of any doubt.

Perhaps some NGOs do operate in that way.

But as we've learned recently, partly as the result of Department of Government Efficiency digging, many ''non-governmental'' entities are really just fronts for government activities that Americans would never stand for if Washington attempted them directly.

For example, America’s border crisis was funded in large part by Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
’s government, which sent large sums of money in the form of grants to various NGOs that helped train migrants colonists on how to get to the United States — and how to claim asylum when they arrived.

NGOs helped the illegal immigrants colonists with expenses on their way, and then provided legal resources and more than $22 billion worth of assistance for them — including cash for cars, home loans and business start-ups — once they got in.

This was US taxpayer money, laundered through "independent" organizations that served to promote goals contrary to US law, but consistent with the policy preferences of the Biden administration.

Under President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
, this funding halted — and, unsurprisingly, the flow of illegal immigrants colonists did, too.

Likewise, the weird wave of sudden global enthusiasm for "trans rights" and novel ideas about gender turns out to have been largely funded by the US government through USAID grants.

Federally funded NGOs spent millions on everything from a transgender opera in Colombia, to a campaign promoting "being LGBTQ in the Caribbean," to an LGBTQ community center in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Posted by: Fred || 04/15/2025 01:10 || Comments || Link || [11122 views] Top|| File under: Malevolent NGO

#1  Trump admin freezes $2.3 billion in Harvard funding
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/15/2025 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2 
So having fraudulently abused US Taxpayer funds, violated Millions of US Citizens Civil Voters Rights, and broken a few dozen Federal, State and International laws.

How many have been arrested, posted bail, and gone to trial?

How many?
I am waiting... just like I am waiting for ALL of the, JFK, RFK, MLK and Epstein files. Not just the pre-screened releases
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/15/2025 5:23 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Huh.....lemme see. What agency with a massive undisclosed budget has DOGE NOT investigated just yet ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/15/2025 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  The media finally notices.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/15/2025 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  I recall when the big 'caravans' were in the news, people wondered, 'where does all the money come from'?

We shoulda known - US taxpayers.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/15/2025 11:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
That's One - 49 to Go (Murder by Psychotropics)
[GatewayPundit] Tennessee Passes Landmark Legislation Addressing the Big Pharma Role in Mass Violence and Behavioral Health – AbleChild Leads National Charge for Accountability

Tennessee Passes Landmark HB 1349/SB 1146 Targeting the Behavioral Health & Big Pharma Industries’ Role in Mass Violence—AbleChild Leads National Charge for Accountability

Nashville, TN — In a historic move to address systemic failures in mental health care and public safety, Tennessee has enacted HB 1349/SB 1146, a groundbreaking law requiring autopsies of suspected mass shooters to include toxicology screenings for psychotropic drugs. The legislation, co-drafted by AbleChild—the nation’s leading nonprofit advocating for informed consent and the right to refuse psychiatric products and services—and Amy Miller, former director of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Reform Pharma initiative, marks a seismic shift in how States confront mass violence.

THE LAW’S CORE MANDATE: SHINING LIGHT ON HIDDEN FACTORS
The bill, signed into law on April 10, 2025, mandates toxicology testing for deceased mass shooters who killed four or more individuals, including consultation with their mental health providers. It also calls for University of Tennessee Health Science Center (HSC) studies on interactions between psychotropic drugs and other substances in perpetrators’ systems, and public disclosure of psychotropic drug use by shooters upon request, with personal identifiers redacted.

The law amends Tennessee codes to prioritize transparency over privacy in cases of mass violence, directly challenging pharmaceutical and behavioral health industries to confront potential links between their products and practices and public safety risks.

ABLECHILD’S NATIONAL CRUSADE
AbleChild, a nonprofit with a 25-year history of battling psychiatric overreach and corporate influence, spearheaded the legislation as part of its national campaign to focus on HIPAA exceptions for perpetrators of mass violence, ensuring public access to critical drug histories, expose conflicts of interest between mental health organizations and pharmaceutical funding and combat off-label prescribing and unsafe psychotropic drug use in vulnerable populations, including children in foster care.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11123 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A lot of people do not take the medicine that gets prescribed for them.

So, when you hear that a killer was "on psych meds" there's a good chance that in fact the killer was not taking the medicine, or was taking it irregularly.

Just sayin
Posted by: Marcus Quincey, MD || 04/15/2025 2:28 Comments || Top||

#2  And the presence or absence of drug in brain tissue at autopsy has never been studied systematically -- in killers, in non-killers, in any large groups of humans.

Nevertheless, this TN law is a start.

The unforfunate reality is that a lot of people -- young and old -- do not function safely responsibly peacefully in civil society.

That's the reality -- past, present, future.

Whether we like it or not.
Posted by: Marcus Quincey, MD || 04/15/2025 2:39 Comments || Top||

#3  The truth is that you have no way of knowing anything about your child's classmates.

Your child might be seated next to a classmate who regularly fantasizes about mass murder. And might be "seeing a therapist" for it.

You would have no idea.

You are not permitted to find out.

-----

It has never been this way, up until recently.

Like it or not, American public schools are not safe.
Posted by: Marcus Quincey, MD || 04/15/2025 2:51 Comments || Top||

#4  IMO, any shrink who prescribes Ritalin should be shot. And yes, I know that I'm talking about - I've taught math to a special class of zombies children on Psychotropics.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/15/2025 3:51 Comments || Top||

#5  there's a good chance that in fact the killer was not taking the medicine

Even though it's a daily maintenance drug, stopping to feel better really requires a 'stepdown' dosage.

Just sayin'
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/15/2025 10:58 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2025-04-15
  Borno Under Siege: Boko Haram Kills 300 In Six Months, Controls 3 Local Govt Areas —Senator Ndume
Mon 2025-04-14
  Greek extremist group dedicates bombing to ‘the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance’
Sat 2025-04-12
  Commander of Hamas's sniper units in Rafah permanently neutralized by the IDF
Fri 2025-04-11
  6 Arab Israelis charged with funneling money from Turkey to West Bank terror groups
Thu 2025-04-10
  At least 10 more US airstrikes on Sana’a, Hodeidah
Wed 2025-04-09
  Hezbollah sets preconditions for disarmament talks with Lebanese govt
Tue 2025-04-08
  Supreme Court rules Trump can deport illegal migrants
Mon 2025-04-07
  Hamas Begs Iran for $500M War Chest to Obliterate Israel
Sun 2025-04-06
  State-controlled Iranian newspaper calls for firing bullets into Trump's ‘empty skull'
Sat 2025-04-05
  Egypt acts to keep pro-Gaza people in Sinai away from border
Fri 2025-04-04
  Failed Car Bombing in Public Square in Amsterdam
Thu 2025-04-03
  Turkey-PKK clashes intensify in Duhok province
Wed 2025-04-02
  Iran's IRGC Quds Force commander Gen. Esmail Qaani is confirmed safe in Israel
Tue 2025-04-01
  Submarine carrying 6.5 tons of cocaine is seized with the help of the UK police


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