Hi there, !
Today Sun 10/12/2025 Sat 10/11/2025 Fri 10/10/2025 Thu 10/09/2025 Wed 10/08/2025 Tue 10/07/2025 Mon 10/06/2025 Archives
Rantburg
582850 articles and 1985007 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 39 articles and 71 comments as of 10:59.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Background    Non-WoT    Opinion    Local News    Politix   
Israel, Hamas sign off on first Phase of Peace Plan
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
5 23:34 trailing wife [1809] 
1 18:27 JohnQC [1826] 
0 [1771] 
0 [1784] 
0 [1776] 
4 14:09 NoMoreBS [1807] 
0 [1784] 
0 [1781] 
2 13:50 swksvolFF [1818] 
1 10:21 Skidmark [1787] 
Page 2: WoT Background
3 16:52 alanc [1829]
0 [1796]
0 [1798]
0 [1813]
2 10:42 Glenmore [1801]
2 17:10 Rambler [1800]
0 [1753]
0 [1754]
2 18:39 Lord Garth [1858]
0 [1760]
1 09:10 Grom the Affective [1762]
0 [1779]
Page 3: Non-WoT
2 05:54 Grom the Affective [1770]
3 15:35 DarthVader [1803]
4 11:12 Silentbrick [1764]
0 [1766]
1 07:00 Procopius2k [1772]
0 [1779]
7 18:45 Lord Garth [1805]
0 [1819]
Page 4: Opinion
0 [1749]
16 16:54 Seeking Cure For Ignorance [1795]
0 [1754]
0 [1787]
2 12:39 Abu Uluque [1813]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
0 [1775]
0 [1768]
Page 6: Politix
9 22:43 JohnQC [1796]
3 10:16 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [1813]
Good Morning



Senate Confirms More Than 100
Trump Nominees During Schumer Shutdown
Thursday 10/09/2025

AudreyHepburn3
Caribbean-Latin America
Ecuador President Noboa's motorcade
attacked with rocks in alleged assassination attempt
The Grand Turk
Leveraging long-nurtured Hamas ties,
Turkey in the thick of efforts to end Gaza war
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
More about the IDF's capture of
the latest Gaza flotilla idiots, all 150 of them
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Band of brothers: Israeli-Americans
held as spies in Egypt and Lebanon forge unique bond
Iraq
Elizabeth Tsurkov recalls her Iraqi
captors were 'overjoyed' by news of Oct. 7
Arabia
Judenfrei: Dubai Airshow bars Israeli
defense firms after 'technical review'
At least 24 killed as army paraglider
bombs Myanmar Buddhist festival

Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2025 10:11 || Comments || Link || [1809 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My favorite.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/09/2025 11:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Difficult to improve upon perfection.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/09/2025 12:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Besoeker, you can say that again!
Posted by: Rambler || 10/09/2025 12:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Audrey Hepburn had that inner beauty that is more than physical perfection.
Posted by: magpie || 10/09/2025 22:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Also she was a scion of the aristocracy on her mother’s side, so she had the advantage of certain kind of upbringing, and studied ballet after she left school, which shows in her beautiful carriage and graceful movements. But while her parents favoured the Fascists, she used her dance to raise money for the Resistance, so was in all ways entirely admirable. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2025 23:34 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
ICE Arrests 91 Illegal Migrant Semi-Truck Drivers in Licensing Crackdown; Since January 493k illegals deported, 1.6mil left, 457k more arrested, 0 let into country
[Breitbart] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the arrests of 91 illegal aliens driving semi-trucks on fraudulent licenses in Oklahoma as the feds continue a crackdown on migrants colonists driving commercial trucks.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol made the arrests during a three-day operation along Oklahoma’s I-40. Along with the 91 illegal drivers, ICE took an additional 29 illegal aliens into custody during the operation, DHS said in an October 6 blurb.

The criminal activity committed by those taken into custody includes driving on multiple DUIs, illegal re-entry into the U.S., money laundering, human smuggling, assault, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and possession of a controlled substance.

"ICE’s 287(g) program clearly demonstrates how federal and local law enforcement agencies can work together to make America safe again," said ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan. "Illegal aliens have no business operating 18 wheelers on America’s highways. Our roads are now safer with these illegal aliens no longer behind the wheel. We encourage more state and local law enforcement to sign 287(g) agreements to help remove public safety threats and receive reimbursement funds available to our law enforcement partners."

The crackdown on illegal aliens working as commercial truck drivers on fraudulently issued state drivers licenses comes after another migrant semi-truck driver killed three Americans in Florida while trying to make an illegal u-turn on a highway. Police arrested Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India who entered the U.S. in 2018 across the U.S. border with Mexico, and charged him in the deaths.

Singh reportedly had state-issued Commercial Drivers Licenses (CDLs) from both Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and Washington State despite being ineligible because he is an illegal alien.

As more migrants colonists hit our roads — many of whom cannot read or speak English — the corpse count on our highways has skyrocketed.

The Trump administration has taken notice of this horrible statistic, and recently, Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, directed federal highway safety offices to enforce a law requiring foreign drivers to be able to read English.

Trump's mass deportation effort removed staggering amount of migrants from US in first year of term: 'Just the beginning'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump's deportation agenda is on pace to get rid of two million illegal migrants in 2025 and officials say it's 'just the beginning'.

Around 493,000 migrants have been deported since Trump took office in January, while another 1.6 million have self-deported. Another 457,000 illegal migrants have been arrested by ICE agents since January.
Around 493,000 migrants have been deported since Trump took office in January, while another 1.6 million have self-deported.
As was previously reported…
Trump and Kristi Noem are responsible for having 'jumpstarted an agency that was vilified and barred from doings its job for the last four years,' spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said.

Another 457,000 illegal migrants have been arrested by ICE agents since January,
So we’re closing in on 2.5 million, and accelerating as staffing increases? Goodness!
as McLaughlin says law enforcement has made 'meteoric progress to carry out President Trump's promise of arresting and deporting illegal aliens who have invaded our country.'

'Illegal aliens are hearing our message to leave now or face the consequence. Migrants are now even turning back before they reach our borders,' she told The New York Post.

The final year of Biden's presidency saw just 271,000 removed, which was an increase from 142,000 in 2023.

On the other side of the border, federal agents have only apprehended 238,000 migrants trying to illegally get into America during the 2025 fiscal year, a 55-year low. That's a shocking drop from the height of the border crisis under President Joe Biden, when in 2022, a record 2.2 million were taken in at the border, CBS News reports.
Shocking, indeed. Not mentioned is the number of illegals imprisoned with deportation scheduled at the end of their sentence.

Trump's DHS Releases Zero Migrants into U.S. for Fifth Consecutive Month
[Breitbart] Under Biden, it is estimated that millions of migrants were released into the U.S. interior in just four years. Biden’s Catch and Release network was aided by several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with a financial stake in getting as many migrants into the U.S. interior as possible, as their federal contracts and budgets depended on it.

Last year, for instance, Alliance for a Safe Texas issued the bombshell report that revealed how the Biden administration funneled nearly $800 million to Catholic Charities USA to help facilitate its illegal immigration pipeline.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1818 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  How many total illegal immigrants are there?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/09/2025 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like a poo poo number, but every time one of these guys pulls a 3rd world driving move some 4 people die. Also, I tend to believe the unreported disaster of I-40 winter driving conditions mash-up.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/09/2025 13:50 Comments || Top||


Illegal pleads guilty to luring 13-year-old girl and raping her
[GeorgiaGazette] Sergio Palomares-Guzman, 36, pleaded guilty in a Gwinnett County (GA) court on Tuesday to multiple charges, including rape, aggravated child molestation, child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, false imprisonment and first-degree cruelty to children for the crime that happened in June 2023.
"She looked 15!"
He was sentenced to 30 years, with the first 20 to be served in prison without parole. He will be deported after completing his sentence, the district attorney’s office said.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1787 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Arizona Drag Queen Charged for Having Sex with 13-Year-Old Boy

The alleged victim told authorities he posed as an 18 year old online, then arranged for two men to meet him for sex at different times. The boy claimed he did not know the men but law enforcement found one online conversation from the boy’s laptop which helped them identify the suspect.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/08/2025 10:21 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
The man who spit in a Border Patrol agent’s face outside ICE Portland has now been charged with FELONY ASSAULT
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
…"Nobody spits on the brave men and women of federal law enforcement and gets away with it,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford said.

“If you spit on a federal law enforcement officer, you will be hit with federal charges.”

🎥
@RheinDAmacher
Posted by: Fred || 10/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1807 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  He's lucky he's not spitting teeth like Chiclets
Posted by: Frank G || 10/09/2025 0:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Pro-Palestinian agitators attack police as riot erupts in Dem-run city, officials say

Protest organized by Students for Justice in Palestine chapters escalated into violence
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/09/2025 5:10 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 that was in Boston MA. I doubt either a grand jury or petit jury from Boston MA would vote to indict or convict the accused of anything.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/09/2025 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4  ref #1 - there was a time when such things were certain to invite the "Hickory Mouthwash" response Frank!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/09/2025 14:09 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
More about the IDF’s capture of the latest Gaza flotilla idiots, all 150 of them
Does Hamas own the boats for this flotilla like they did for thr previous one? Does Israel have a spy on this one, too?
[IsraelTimes] Naval commandos rappel onto large passenger ship, board 8 other sail boats in Mediterranean; Israel says ‘futile attempt’ to breach blockade on Strip ‘ended in nothing’

The Israeli Navy early Wednesday intercepted a new flotilla attempting to break its maritime blockade on the Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-ruled Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, detaining some 150 activists who were being brought to Israel for deportation.

The incident came a week after the Navy intercepted 42 vessels that formed the Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest to challenge the Gaza blockade to date. Israel has deported the vast majority of the 479 activists who took part in that armada, including Swedish climate activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now...
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday morning that the new flotilla that attempted to break the maritime blockade on Gaza was prevented from realizing its goal, with its vessels and passengers intercepted and taken to Ashdod Port.

"Another futile attempt to breach the legal naval blockade and enter a combat zone ended in nothing," said the Foreign Ministry on X. "The vessels and the passengers are transferred to an Israeli port. All the passengers are safe and in good health. The passengers are expected to be deported promptly."

The Navy’s interception of the flotilla came after organizers rejected calls to transfer the small amount of symbolic aid they had been carrying with them to Israel or international organizations to be taken to the Strip and distributed.

The nine-boat flotilla organized by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, said to include about 100 activists on one of the boats and around 50 others on the other eight ships, set sail from Italia some two weeks ago.

The interception took place in the pre-dawn hours of Wednesday, in the Mediterranean Sea, around 150 nautical miles off the Gaza coast. Within 40 minutes, forces of the Shayetet 13 naval commando unit and other Navy forces took control of the nine vessels, including one named Conscience, a 68-meter-long passenger ship.

Because of the size of the Conscience, the naval commandos rappelled from an Israeli Air Force helicopter onto the ship’s deck.

The other eight sailboats were boarded by naval commandos from Navy vessels.

The organizers of the Conscience said in the early morning that "Our vessel is currently being attacked by an Israeli military helicopter while the eight sailboats are being illegally intercepted and hijacked."

The FFC said "participants — humanitarians, doctors and journalists from across the world — have been taken against their will and are being held in unknown conditions."

"The Israeli military has no legal jurisdiction over international waters," it said. "Our flotilla poses no harm."

The ships carried aid worth more than $110,000 in medicines, respiratory equipment, and nutritional supplies intended for Gaza’s hospitals, the FCC claimed on its Instagram account.

Footage published by the activists showed Israeli Navy forces boarding the vessels.

All nine ships with the 150 activists were being taken to Ashdod Port by the Navy, where they will be processed by police and immigration authorities before being deported.

In addition to last week’s flotilla, Israel blocked similar attempts in June and July, amid spiking international anger at Israel over the hunger crisis in the Strip. Israeli officials have denounced the flotilla missions as pro-Hamas stunts.

The Global Sumud Flotilla’s 42 ships were carrying only around two tons of aid, according to the Foreign Ministry. "This amounts to less than one-tenth of a single aid truck," it said. Around 300 aid trucks enter Gaza daily.

Israel and Egypt have imposed varying degrees of blockade on Gaza since the Hamas terror group seized power from rival Paleostinian forces in 2007 in a violent mostly peaceful coup.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/09/2025 2025-10-09 02:13 || Comments || Link || [1826 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Flotilla idiots. I like that TW.

“The Israeli military has no legal jurisdiction over international waters,” it said. “Our flotilla poses no harm.”

This argument may not hold water since Israel is under wartime conditions and the 12 mile limit may not apply. Israel has a right to intercept flotillas that may be smuggling arms beyond the 12 mile limit.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/09/2025 18:27 Comments || Top||


Golani Brigade combat team eliminated 3 Hamasniks who attacked IDF position in Gaza City
[X] Not at all the behavior of those getting ready to surrender.
Text:
Golani Brigade combat team forces eliminated several terrorists who attempted to attack an IDF position in the Gaza City area.

Earlier today, Golani Brigade combat forces operating in Gaza City identified a group of terrorists on their way to target IDF troops in the area.

The combat team, in coordination with the Israeli Air Force, attacked and killed several of the terrorists. Searches for additional attackers are still underway. No Israeli forces were injured in the incident.

Hamas attempts raid on army post in Gaza City outskirts; IDF says 3 gunmen killed

[IsraelTimes] Five operatives emerge from tunnel, approach encampment before being struck by air force; military scanning for 2 who fled.

Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
operatives tried to raid an Israel Defense Forces position on the southern outskirts of 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...
City on Wednesday, the military said, the latest in a series of recent attempts by the group to attack army sites in the Strip.

The incident took place at an army encampment near the Netzarim Corridor area of central Gaza, south of Gaza City, where troops of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit were stationed.

Five Hamas button men emerged from a tunnel and approached the post, according to preliminary findings by the military.

The IDF said the troops, with air support from the Israeli Air Force, struck and killed at least three of the button men. Scans were being carried out to locate the other two operatives, who, according to an initial IDF probe, likely fled back into the tunnel.

The military said no soldiers were maimed in the incident. It also published images showing weapons left behind by some of the button men.

Defense Minister Israel Katz had visited troops in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood shortly before Hamas launched an attack on the nearby army position.

Katz’s office said the defense minister was briefed by commanders on the IDF’s activities in the area and he "praised them for their powerful actions, which created the conditions for negotiations to secure the release of all the hostages and the achievement of the war’s objectives."

The attack came amid ongoing indirect ceasefire talks in Egypt between Israel and Hamas. Both Paleostinian and Israeli sources said Wednesday that the sides are close to inking a deal on ending the war in Gaza.

Hamas in recent weeks have stepped up its attacks on army encampments in Gaza. Military officials believe the terror group is seeking to capture soldiers or cause heavy casualties to the IDF to influence the talks.

On October 2, during Yom Kippur, a Hamas gunman managed to breach an army post in Israel’s buffer zone in central Gaza — some 800 meters from the Israeli border — and open fire on troops, the IDF said. After a shootout with the soldiers at the post, the gunman was killed. An officer was seriously maimed, and two other troops, including a reservist, were lightly injured in the battle, according to the military.

Days earlier, on September 30, a Hamas gunman who approached an Israeli army position in Gaza City was killed by troops, the military said.

A day prior, on September 29, Hamas made two attempts to raid an army encampment in Gaza City. In the first attempt, two button men were identified approaching the position and were killed in a dronezap, the IDF said.

An hour later, a cell of five Hamas operatives managed to breach the encampment and set off two bombs against a tank. Troops at the encampment exchanged fire with the button men, killing at least two of them — one by tank shelling and one in a close-quarters shootout, according to the IDF. The attack left five soldiers seriously injured and six others lightly hurt.
Posted by: badanov || 10/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1771 views] Top|| File under:


The IDFcarries out three simultaneous brigade-wide operations across Judea and Samaria


Yalla, yalla!

Text:

The IDF just carried out three simultaneous brigade-wide operations across Judea and Samaria, a coordinated show of force rarely seen.

🔹 Binyamin Brigade: 180+ locations searched near Ramallah and Jalazone; terrorists arrested; weapons and incitement materials seized.
🔹 Efraim Brigade: Hamas flags and a live pipe bomb destroyed in Qalqilya and Tulkarm.
🔹 Yehuda Brigade: Raids across seven Hebron-area villages; arrests and confiscations of combat gear.

This is Israel’s silent war — fought nightly to prevent the next massacre.
We generally forget, because they don’t have a snappy name like Hezbollah and the Houthis, that the West Bank was supposed to rise up in mighty anger, simultaneously with Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran, terrorizing their Jewish neighbours, and keeping half the IDF too busy to mount an effective defense of the homeland. But by 10/7 the IDF had been raiding them nightly for months, confiscating weapons and funds, destroying secret underground hideouts, and jailing thousands of fighters to await trial.
Posted by: badanov || 10/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1784 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority


Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency and the IDF thwart a major Iranian weapons smuggling attempt


Text:
Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency and the IDF announced they thwarted a major Iranian weapons smuggling attempt bound for terror operatives in the West Bank.

A shipment of advanced arms from Iran, including anti-tank rockets, explosive drones, grenades, and machine guns, was intercepted in a recent joint operation. The seizure follows similar interdictions in March and November 2024.

Investigators arrested a Ramallah-area weapons dealer linked to Iranian smuggling networks. The shipment was reportedly organized by the IRGC’s Special Operations Directorate (Unit 4000) and Quds Force Unit 840, under As'har Bakri.

The Times of Israel has a few more details here.
Posted by: badanov || 10/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1781 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US cargo plane loaded with advanced weapons arrived in the Rojava region on October7 to reinforce Syrian Democratic Forces
Posted by: badanov || 10/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1784 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria/HTS


Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deployed troops to Dayr Hafir Axis in Aleppo against Syrian Army (HTS).
Posted by: badanov || 10/09/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1776 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria/HTS



Who's in the News
15[untagged]
7Hamas
3Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
2Commies
2Govt of Syria/HTS
2Antifa/BLM
2Islamic State
1[untagged]
1Govt of Iran
1Moslem Colonists
1Govt of Iran Proxies
1Palestinian Authority
1Sublime Porte

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2025-10-09
  Israel, Hamas sign off on first Phase of Peace Plan
Wed 2025-10-08
  Around 200 members of the Texas National Guard have arrived outside Chicago.
Tue 2025-10-07
  Oklahoma troopers, ICE detain 120 illegal immigrants in three-day interstate enforcement sweep
Mon 2025-10-06
  Hamas keen to reach deal, begin prisoner exchange 'immediately'; claim they’ve started collecting hostage bodies
Sun 2025-10-05
  Ceasefire in Gaza
Sat 2025-10-04
  US approves $230 million for Lebanese forces amid push to disarm Hezbollah
Fri 2025-10-03
  Hamas military chief rejects Trump's cease-fire plan
Thu 2025-10-02
  Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla, detains Thunberg and others, says ‘she and her friends are safe’
Wed 2025-10-01
  Sham marriages, elder 'exploitation,' fake death certificates uncovered in massive Minnesota immigration bust
Tue 2025-09-30
  School superintendent placed on leave after ICE arrest
Mon 2025-09-29
  Hezbollah refuses to be disarmed
Sun 2025-09-28
  Police Arrest Nearly 400 Illegal Aliens Across Central Florida
Sat 2025-09-27
  Clashes between Lebanese army and Hezbollah
Fri 2025-09-26
  Jubaland Forces Capture Kamsuuma, Advance on Al-Shabaab Stronghold Jamaame
Thu 2025-09-25
  123 Boko Haram militants, 3 soldiers killed in Cameroon


Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
216.73.216.103
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Background (12)    Non-WoT (8)    Opinion (5)    Local News (2)    Politix (2)