[IsraelTimes] Conspirators allegedly planned to attack mixed martial arts event on White House lawn that prime minister did not actually attend
Summarizing what we knew thus far: The plan was first to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event, then go after additional politicians gleaned from TrackAIPAC.com. The players are ringleader and DACA kid gone bad from Mexico, Abraham Alvarez, 31,; Tycen Proper, 19, whose parents contacted the police with their concerns, Michael Alan Thomas and Bryan Oma Roa in California, recruiter Daniel Eskridge, who is married, William Lee Spartacus Falkner, drone and explosives specialist, and Jordan W. Rincker, 28, weapons and supplies.
A US federal grand jury on Thursday indicted eight defendants who plotted an attack against a White House event last month targeting Israel-linked politicians, US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The plot targeted a mixed martial arts event held on the White House lawn that Netanyahu did not actually attend. The primary targets were members of Congress who had received funding from the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.
The alleged conspirators planned to dispatch small, explosive-laden drones that would detonate over the event, forcing an evacuation.
Attackers armed with rifles, stationed near an evacuation point, would shoot their victims as they fled the UFC event, according to the plan described by federal prosecutors.
The defendants were named as Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez of Nebraska, Daniel Eskridge and Jordan Rincker of Missouri, William Falkner of Washington, Tycen Proper of Ohio, Chandler Scaggs of West Virginia, and Michael Thomas and Bryan Roa of California. They range in age from 19 to 32.
I somehow missed Mr. Scaggs. Sorry about that, dude.
They were charged with two conspiracies — conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiracy to commit murder on federal government territory and to murder a federal government official. They face up to life in prison.
The indictment said that the conspirators had intended to murder Netanyahu, Trump, US Vice President JD Vance and other “high value targets.”
Alvarez last month sent a message to the group that cited online rumors claiming Netanyahu would attend the event. He then sent messages saying, “Targets confirmed,” and, “1. 2. VP 3. N 4. Musk.”
FBI agents interpreted the message to mean he wanted to target Trump, Vance, Netanyahu and Elon Musk.
The defendants plotted the attack on online forums, including Signal, SimpleX, Discord, TikTok and Instagram.
Suspects in the case had acquired firearms, ammunition, night vision goggles and body armor, trained in shooting and combat tactics, attempted to produce drones with a 3D printer and made travel plans.
At least two quit their jobs ahead of the planned attack, and two had started traveling to Washington, DC.
The conspirators’ ideology appeared related to accelerationism, an bully boy, white supremacist belief that violent mostly peaceful acts can accelerate societal collapse to make way for a white nationalist state.
The group "believed that the United States needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt," prosecutors said.
Proper’s mother said Proper had adopted a "Christian-based" and "ultra-religious" ideology. Federal agents only became aware of the case when Proper’s family reported his concerning behavior to local police.
The case was one in a series of violent mostly peaceful, antisemitic, or anti-Israel plots that aimed to foment revolution in the US, from both the far left and far right.
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[REGNUM.RU] A bear entered the Elmendorf-Richardson US military base in Alaska and stole a peach. UPI reported this on July 10.
>A single peach? How odd.
The incident occurred early in the morning of July 5th. The bear managed to enter the military base's shopping center through the automatic doors. Ignoring the staff, the bear made its way into the cafeteria, grabbed a peach, and walked out into the hallway.
There, he left a large pile of excrement and then left the shopping center.
So not in the woods…
Later, conservation officers ensured that the bear retreated into the forest, the report said.
Earlier in February, in the Chinese city of Nagchu, two hungry bears broke into a local restaurant and stole meat and eggs. The animals descended from the nearby mountains. They first explored the closed restaurant. Then, one of them reared up on its hind legs and began banging on the roller shutters protecting the entrance. The resulting breach was enough for the predators to enter the building.
The Justice Department's most significant case stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol — the seditious conspiracy convictions of high-ranking members of the far right Proud Boys — has officially been erased.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who presided over the six-month trial that led to the jury convictions, reluctantly granted a Justice Department motion to drop the case on Friday, concluding that he had no power to second-guess prosecutors once they decided to abandon it.
"In light of fundamental separation of powers principles ... the proper course here is for the Court simply to grant the motion in full," Kelly concluded, dismissing the case "with prejudice," which means a future Justice Department is barred from revisiting the charges.
"No one should mistake the Court's granting of the Government's motion for its agreement with those decisions," the judge added.
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concluding that he had no power to second-guess prosecutors once they decided to abandon it.
There's a novelty!
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The Department of Justice is an instrument of the president for executing the will of the people as expressed by his election. Subject to the rule of law as passed by Congress.
The entire executive branch is an instrument of the president.
[ZERO] During what will be his final years in office, Trump appears more determined than ever to defend the principles of American liberty against the influence of Marxist ideas. Employing rhetoric reminiscent of the Cold War, he declared on July 3: "There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land."
On Independence Day, the president reinforced his message, stating:
"The communist system is the opposite of the American system, and the communist system has never worked.
"Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We’re not going to let it happen. It’s like a cancer—you’ve got to cut it out, you’ve got to cut it out fast."
Predictably, Trump’s remarks were greeted with widespread cynicism by political opponents and media pundits. For decades, establishment intellectuals have dismissed concerns about communism as misguided rhetoric designed only to gin up a public reaction. Some implied that Trump was stoking ideological division and indiscriminately branding progressives, social democrats and advocates of government intervention as communists. Others argued that there is no significant communist movement in America and that the real threat to democracy is the president himself.
[BB] A 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of Ann Widdecombe, police say
Devon and Cornwall Police say a white British male is in jug after the 78-year-old was found at her home on Thursday with serious injuries
The incident is not being treated as terrorism and there is "no information" to suggest it was politically motivated, they add
Police say it is too early to comment on whether the suspect was known to Widdecombe
PM Keir Starmer says the murder investigation is "shocking news", while Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says she is "stunned" over the "horrific" incident
Widdecombe, a former Conservative minister turned Reform UK spokeswoman, served as the MP for Maidstone in Kent for 23 years.
Widdecombe found fame after leaving Parliament as a contestant on the Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity Big Brother reality television shows. She later joined the Brexit Party and became a spokeswoman for the anti-immigration Reform UK party.
She served in the House of Commons as an MP from 1987 to 2010 and was known for socially conservative views opposing child sacrifice abortion rights and expansion of LGBTQ rights.
She was also a supporter of Israel, belonging to the Conservative Friends of Israel group for many years and speaking at B’nai Brith events, according to a report in the Jewish Chronicle.
Additionally, Widdecombe wrote a novel set during the Holocaust; the story focused on the tension between a German officer’s patriotism and his opposition to the Nazi regime.
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....> called Widdecombe a "heroic Brexiteer and a great speaker who could move Tory audiences to such ecstasy that she was a very hard act to follow."
The management company that represented her after she left politics said her life and career were driven by strong Christian values and a commitment to public service.
"She loved the cut and thrust of political debate and, 16 years after leaving Parliament, was still actively campaigning for Reform UK and offering forthright views on the hot topics of the day," Cloud9 Management said.
"As Ann once said...’we get one go this side of eternity, one go. Life is not a dress rehearsal, you take opportunities that you like and you go for it, that’s my philosophy’."
[Just The News] Venezuela, as an oil-producing country, appears to be making its comeback as the Trump administration’s efforts to reform the country’s oil law come to fruition.
The South American country appeared to take another big step in that effort this week when acting President Delcy Rodriguez signed regulations reforming Venezuela's main oil law.
Under the new regulations, the country’s national oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), effectively loses control of Venezuela’s vast oil resources.
Under the former communist regime, the country’s oil industry floundered. In May 2021, Venezuela was producing less than 600,000 barrels of oil a day, despite having the world’s largest oil reserves. This past May, it was producing nearly 1.2 million barrels of oil per day.
Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in the 1970s. Then in 2007, former President Hugo Chávez forced foreign oil companies to surrender majority stakes to the state, which resulted in the departure of ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. Of the big players, only Chevron acquiesced to the communist leader’s demands.
OK! Big Oil is selling 2x as much now and doing great.
BUT!!!!!
My gas prices are again $3.49 a gallon.
So the Elites are raking in the $$$$$$. Which raises the question.
How have the lives for the common Venezuelan people improved, without socialism? We know it piss poor when a wheelbarrow full was worth less than the wheelbarrow. But, how is it now?
It would make great Anti-Socialist educational data, if it were recorded.
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[REGNUM.RU] China's decision to restrict foreign users' access to its cutting-edge artificial intelligence developments is a strategic move, not a sign of panic, according to AI entrepreneur and founder of LLM Arena, Roman Kutsev.
According to him, modern Chinese models such as DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM are not just sets of neural network weights but also comprehensive solutions, including documentation and training frameworks. While training data remains a key element, the expert believes that publishing technical documentation provides competitors with more useful information than industrial espionage.
Kutsev believes that the restrictions could negatively impact the Russian artificial intelligence ecosystem. He noted that the domestic AI stack relies heavily on Chinese open-source developments, including model architecture, training data, and inference optimization tools.
"If Qwen and DeepSeek go behind the export wall and block access to relevant solutions, we have two options: either negotiate special terms with Beijing or focus on a sovereign learning pipeline and gain experience ourselves, which, given limited resources, is a rather labor-intensive process that can't fully compete with global progress. Either way, both paths are expensive and time-consuming," says Kutsev.
The expert also noted that the era of free access to advanced AI models is gradually coming to an end. In his view, countries and companies that have not invested in their own infrastructure for developing and training AI models risk becoming dependent on the political decisions of other countries, which could lead to technological lag in the global AI race.
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[REGNUM.RU] The German manufacturer of "people's cars," the Volkswagen Group (VW), is going through hard times. Demand for German automakers is falling globally, production costs are rising due to both objective economic factors and ill-considered top management policies, and there remains no light at the end of the tunnel.
Therefore, the Volkswagen board of directors, headed by CEO Oliver Blume, intends to solve the issue radically: to shut down production at the Zwickau and Emden plants within five years.
Would it be different if they had reasonably priced and always available electrical power?
They will be followed by the commercial vehicle plant in Hanover in 2032 and the Audi plant in Neckarsulm in 2034. These four German plants employ approximately 40,000 people. Furthermore, the VW CEO plans to cut another 50,000 jobs by 2030.
Thus, over the next four years, up to 100,000 jobs at the concern’s plants are at risk.
Blume intends to more than triple Volkswagen's low profitability by 2030, bringing it to 9%. This should be facilitated, in particular, by a significant reduction in investment—from €180 billion to €135 billion between 2027 and 2031.
These two plans are closely interrelated. Blume expects that models that have been produced in German factories to date will in future be manufactured in cheaper Eastern European plants.
Investments will be directed toward plants such as the VW plant in Bratislava or the Audi plant in Győr, Hungary. The German plants are planned to be repurposed, for example, by being sold to defense companies.
"This will be the most comprehensive reorientation in the history of the group. The Board of Management is taking on responsibility for the company's sustainable future at a time when the automotive industry worldwide is under intense pressure," Blume assured.
Volkswagen is making less and less money on its cars: operating profitability in the first quarter of 2026 was only 3.3%, which is significantly below the target of 8-10%.
The main reasons are declining sales in China (once Volkswagen's primary market), competition from local manufacturers (such as BYD), and the auto tariffs imposed by Donald Trump, which cost the company €5 billion annually. Furthermore, VW, which includes brands such as Audi and Porsche, is forced to invest in both electric vehicles and internal combustion engine technologies.
At the Supervisory Board meeting on July 9, the VW board of directors failed to secure approval for the cost-cutting resolution they had submitted. The state of Lower Saxony and employee representatives voted against it, resulting in the resolution being rejected by a vote of 7 to 12.
This outcome was entirely logical, as the company's board outlined the plan's goals but said virtually nothing about how it intended to achieve them. For example, production capacity at plants in China and Europe would be reduced from 12 million to 9 million vehicles.
But how should this happen? The logical economic consequence would be the complete closure of factories or their repurposing. And ideally, where this is especially expensive, that is, in Germany. However, the plan says nothing about this.
For example, the vehicle model range is expected to be reduced by 50%, and the number of trim levels by as much as 75%. Which models will be eliminated from the portfolio and when exactly is still unclear. Of course, this will also impact the workload of individual plants. Therefore, it's not surprising that employee representatives were completely dissatisfied with this general statement.
So, although VW and its subbrands still employ more than 660,000 people worldwide, a downward trend is already evident. Observers have long criticized the company for low utilisation rates at many production sites and a lack of profitability.
However, closing or relocating plants will be difficult given the balance of power on the supervisory board, where employees hold a strong position. The cost-cutting package agreed upon two years ago excludes layoffs for economic reasons and plant closures until the end of 2030.
Olaf Lies, the minister-president of Lower Saxony, the state where the group's main production sites are located and which also has its own people on the board, stated in advance that he would not approve of any measures "based on plant closures as a supposedly simple solution."
However, the consequences of the crisis extend far beyond Lower Saxony. VW is the core of a vast industrial network. Every job within the group affects the lives of numerous employees at suppliers, logistics companies, and specialized medium-sized enterprises.
Large suppliers like Bosch and Continental are already implementing their own extensive cost-cutting programs. For highly specialized medium-sized companies, whose added value often still relies on internal combustion engines, survival is a matter of concern.
If this industrial anchor disappears, not only will tax revenues for entire regions decline, but damage will also be done to the social fabric and to trust in Germany as the engine of European industry.
In short, VW's collapse could trigger a chain of crises that would undermine the already stagnant German economy. Unfortunately, the German government seems to be unaware of this.
And instead of addressing the problems of the German economy's main export sector, they continue, with a persistence worthy of better uses, to squander taxpayers' money on military projects. These projects, like the multi-billion dollar contract for American Tomahawk missiles, will not go to the national defense industry, but will instead go overseas to American military-industrial corporations.
On the evening of July 9, Chancellor Friedrich Merz addressed the Bundestag with a government statement regarding the current political and economic situation, attempting to justify the need to increase military spending at the expense of other sectors of the economy.
He faced harsh criticism from the opposition, led by Alice Weidel, the leader of the Alternative for Germany party, who lashed out at the chancellor with accusations of economic decline, rising tax burdens, failed migration and energy policies, and the infringement of civil liberties.
Weidel stated that the country has plunged into a deep crisis due to deindustrialization, business bankruptcies, and the loss of economic competitiveness. She also noted the growing burden on citizens in the form of ever-increasing taxes and social contributions, as well as the expansion of state powers to intervene in the lives of citizens.
Her speech concluded with a direct call to the Federal Chancellor to clear the way for new elections: "You are leaving behind a pile of rubble for those who come after you. I can tell you one thing: we will still accept this challenge and do everything necessary when the voters give us the mandate. Even if you destroy everything."
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When crude oil prices go up, gas prices immediately go up (no matter what was paid for crude in storage). Costly to operate 'stripper wells' are pumping again. Let's just call it 'cost-trend anticipation.' Profit margins increase.
When the price of crude oil goes down, stripper wells are shut down. Production is reduced and prices take their time to correct. Profit margins increase.
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Sounds like VW is being "managed" into the grave, with the compliance of the labor unions. I'm reminded of the US shipbuilding industry and their collapse in the 1970s.
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Won’t that result in more immigrants on public assistance?
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Buy low and sell high makes sense. But it gets tougher to buy low after starting a fight with Russia. Oh well, I think you can still buy bugs that are Hecho en Mexico.
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With German's bull shit green policies, how much more does it cost to run those plants?
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[REGNUM.RU] More than 150 graves of Soviet soldiers were desecrated at a cemetery in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This was reported on July 10 by Remco Reiding, head of the Soviet Field of Glory Foundation.
Vandalism was committed at a cemetery in the eponymous memorial complex "Soviet Field of Glory" near the city of Leusden.
"We learned of the vandalism this morning. So, presumably, the vandals did it overnight. More than 150 graves were desecrated," Reiding told TASS.
According to him, vandals used red paint to paint graffiti on the gravestones.
Vandals previously desecrated a monument to Soviet liberator soldiers in the town of Karlovka in Ukraine's Poltava region.
Previously, unknown individuals desecrated a Soviet soldiers' memorial cemetery in Warsaw. Offensive graffiti were spray-painted on the monument's pedestal, and the entrance to the memorial was blocked with crosses and Ukrainian flags.
Russia will not forget or allow the latest desecration of Soviet soldiers' graves to go silent. This is how Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the desecration of military graves in the Netherlands.
More than 150 graves of Soviet soldiers were previously desecrated at a cemetery in Utrecht, a province in the Netherlands. Graffiti was painted on the gravestones using red paint.
"The Dutch authorities are calling what happened the work of some 'vandals.' Well, we'll tell you who these vandals are. To paraphrase Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: 'You, sir, are the vandals.' Because it was you, the Western governments, who, for decades, created the atmosphere in which such crimes became possible," Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson emphasized that it was the ruling circles of European states that, for decades, deliberately shaped the public atmosphere that made such cynical actions possible. According to Zakharova, the collective West has long nurtured far-right ideas in Ukraine while simultaneously encouraging the development of neo-Nazi cells within its own borders.
"We will not forget this latest crime and will not allow it to be silenced. Our embassy in the Netherlands will provide a comment," the diplomat noted.
In May, vandals desecrated a Soviet military cemetery at the Central Cemetery in Vienna. The gravestones of Soviet soldiers who died fighting to liberate Austria from Nazism were damaged. The Russian Embassy in Austria stated that such criminal acts cannot be considered "hooliganism" or an accident.
President Vladimir Putin noted that many countries deliberately encourage Nazism and Russophobia, attempting to distort the USSR's role in the victory over fascism. The head of state has repeatedly emphasized the importance of combating the falsification of history and the glorification of Nazism.
What odds the sudden vandalism — after nearly a century of no vandalism — is due to Moslem colonists and/or Eastern European illegal migrants acting out of ideas of conquest and colonization?
[TWZ] The U.S. Air Force has officially decided that the B-21 Raider will be flown by a crew consisting of two pilots, just like the B-2 is today. The service had previously considered operating the bomber with just one pilot alongside a weapon systems officer (WSO), or ‘wizzo.’ The plan is now to transition some number of qualifying WSOs and combat systems officers (CSOs) to become pilots for the future B-21 fleet.
The formal announcement about the standard two-pilot crew complement for the B-21 came yesterday. This follows the Air Force’s announcement in June that an operational test pilot had taken the controls of a pre-production Raider for the first time.
“Following careful analysis of the B-21’s advanced capabilities, Air Force leadership determined that a two-pilot configuration optimally supports the aircraft’s mission profile,” according to an official release. “To maximize the lethality and survivability of the Raider, it is imperative to retain the deep tactical and combat experience currently residing within the WSO and CSO communities.”
“The Air Force is establishing a pilot transition program for select weapons system officers and combat systems officers who will be chosen to attend pilot training with a follow-on assignment to the B-21,” the release added. “Eligible officers will be provided with additional information via command channels when available.”
As mentioned, the standard crew complement for a B-2 bomber is also two pilots. There is also a small cot that allows for one pilot to sleep while the other flies during portions of a sortie, which can sometimes stretch across multiple days. Having two pilots also offers an additional margin of safety. That being said, for single-pilot B-21 operations, the Air Force could have provided WSOs with additional training to be able to fly the aircraft in an emergency.
“I think the B-21 is going to be largely like the B-2 in how it supports the crews,” Air Force Gen. Stephen Davis, head of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), told TWZ in an interview with our Howard Altman in January. “There’s enough room for crew members to go on rest status. There’s a place to go to the bathroom, obviously, and to prepare food. All those things will exist in the B-21.”
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It remains unclear whether or not the Air Force might still consider single-pilot B-21 operations down the line. There was at least a stated desire for an optionally piloted mode, or the means to rapidly integrate one, as part of the requirements for the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program that led to the Raider. TWZ highlighted this all the way back in 2017 after we obtained a heavily redacted copy of a Department of Defense Inspector General report titled “Audit of the Acquisition of the Long Range Strike Bomber,” via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). That report was dated September 8, 2015, the same year Northrop Grumman was chosen as the winner of the LRS-B competition.
When reports first emerged that the Air Force was considering single-pilot B-21 operations in November 2025, TWZ pointed out that there were strong signs that a high level of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) infused autonomy had already been baked into the design.
While those capabilities might someday open doors to pilot-optional or uncrewed modes for the B-21, they could also be very beneficial for human pilots flying the bombers now. For years now, the U.S. military has been heavily investing publicly in ‘virtual co-pilot’ type technologies to increase safety margins and reduce workload for aircrew on fixed-wing planes and helicopters. This is on top of any work being done in the classified realm.
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Now, ten years after the start of the program hype, the AI is still fucked, the dream of a drone swarm hub/controller is a nightmare and on his way out the door the PM says 'throw in another pilot. That'll fix it."
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The amount of flight time, information overload, pilot fatigue and such that comes at one pilot, even with AI help is still to much for long endurance flights.
A second human butt in the seat halves the problem.
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.
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.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
[BB] A 26-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of 
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....>
