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Good Morning



Wednesday 07/15/2026

JoanCollins03Prehistoric
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon arrests %u2018high-level agent%u2019
close to Hezbollah for allegedly spying for Israel
-Lurid Crime Tales-
Judenfrei: Mike Pence denounces antisemitism
after arson allegedly targets Israeli flag in hometown
Europe
Czech FM: We%u2019re in talks to buy Israeli air defense systems; Israel developing ties with multiple countries
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Government announces NIS 1.3 billion
toward establishing new West Bank settlements
Arabia
55 detained Iranian fishermen
freed in UAE, Iran embassy says
Iraq
Trump tells Iraqi PM that US forces will
leave Iraq by September 30 as PM seeks deeper US ties
Pennsylvania boy Brodie Terry loses hand in alligator attack while on fishing vacation with his family

Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2026 || Comments || Link || [321 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My apologies. Premature amalgamation: thr Naval Blockade of Iran article is now stacked under this headline.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2026 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Joan Collins at (squints) 16 years old? 18? looks nice.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/15/2026 4:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Joan started her career when she was 18 so my guess is Joan in the picture is 18/

John has always looked yonger than her true age (now 93)

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/15/2026 6:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Lota paint on that battleship.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2026 7:38 Comments || Top||

#5  ...Great Ooogly Moogly.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 07/15/2026 10:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Lota paint on that battleship.
Posted by Skidmark


Maybe so Skid, but Joan still looks a lot better than Tammy faye Barkker ever did!

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/15/2026 16:06 Comments || Top||

#7  From Letterman's top 10 list circa 1988

rejected names for Joan Collins new perfume

Fleet's In
Who's Frying Eggs
Better than that crap Linda Evans is selling
Sixtysomething
If symptoms persist call your doctor
Suddenly Exxon
Kennel Cough
Joan Collin's latest cynical attempt to cash in on her popularity before the whole world gets sick and tired of her once and for all
Really Old Spice
Next!
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/15/2026 16:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Irony as only the French can do...

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/15/2026 16:46 Comments || Top||

#9  #4 given her 'reputation' more like a Battlecruiser.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2026 16:57 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Muslim man stabbed in Utah over his religion, police say; victim in critical condition
[IsraelTimes] A man was arrested in Utah for stabbing a Muslim man multiple times and stated that he targeted the victim because of the victim’s religion, police say in court records.

Police say the suspect told them he “intends to kill Muslims” and that he constituted “a substantial danger to the public if released based on his violent actions … ideologies and pre-planned mass casualty events.”

The incident took place inside the Valley Fair Mall in Utah’s West Valley City on Monday. The male victim had “multiple stab wounds all over his body and was bleeding profusely,” police say in an affidavit.

Authorities say the suspect was pinned to the ground by bystanders before officers arrived on the scene.

The suspect, Peter Michael Larsen, 48, was booked into the Salt Lake County jail for a probe over attempted murder and prohibited dangerous weapon conduct, jail records show. The victim was a male Muslim kiosk worker.

The suspect said “he had targeted the victim with intent to kill him because of his religion (Muslim),” according to the police booking affidavit.

The suspect approached the Muslim man, asked for his name, asked about his religion and indicated he wanted a bottle of water, the Salt Lake Tribune reports, citing comments from Imam Shuaib Din, who leads the Utah Islamic Center and has been in contact with the victim’s family.

As the victim turned to get the water, the attacker began stabbing him, according to Din.

The victim was hospitalized and in critical condition. A friend set up a GoFundMe page for him, which said the Muslim man was stabbed 15 times and needed surgeries.

The attacker was also hospitalized because of wounds sustained while he was subdued by bystanders, before being booked into the Salt Lake County jail.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2026 2026-07-15 02:55 || Comments || Link || [266 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/15/2026 10:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Peter Michael Larsen is known to the state of Utah and their courts.

During his first parole hearing in 2023, a soft-spoken Larsen claimed he had relapsed on alcohol after seven years of sobriety and called the events of the day he was shot by police "hazy" in his memory.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/15/2026 12:32 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/15/2026 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  That may have been what the attacker also though Alfie.
Posted by: chris || 07/15/2026 18:10 Comments || Top||


Judenfrei: Mike Pence denounces antisemitism after arson allegedly targets Israeli flag in hometown
[IsraelTimes] Fire in Zionsville, Indiana, causes $150,000 in damage to historic home; neighboring Indiana Jews join town’s small community in rally condemning alleged attack

Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [252 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Successful op. by the National Mobilization Front of Afghanistan in Nourgram District of Nooristan Province

Translated Text:

Successful operation carried out by the heroic fighters of the National Mobilization Front of Afghanistan #NMF under the command of General Shams Wafadar, Deputy, in Nourgram District of Nooristan Province

On the night of June 20 to 21, 1405 solar Hijri (corresponding to June 10-11, 2026 Gregorian), for the first time, forces of the National Mobilization Front conducted an operation against a joint base affiliated with the terrorist groups of the Taliban and the Pakistani TTP in Nourgram District of Nooristan Province.

As a result of this operation, 5 individuals were killed, including 3 members of the Pakistani TTP and 2 members of the Afghan Taliban.

Additionally, 4 others, who were wounded, fled the scene along with other Taliban members.
The National Mobilization Front claims to be the organization of the youth and former security personnel of the northern and eastern provinces of Afghanistan to fight the Taliban in league with the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) and the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF). They consider themselves Third Wave, ie.a grassroots, youth-led movement, as opposed to the old fuddie-duddies of NRF and AFF.
More at the link

Former Afghan Officers’ Group Announces Guerrilla Operations Against Taliban
January 15, 2026
[HTNworld] Ex-Afghan military and intelligence officers organize National Mobilization Front against Taliban, announcing guerrilla operations.

Resistance against the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
government in Afghanistan is gaining momentum. The National Mobilization Front of Afghanistan, composed of former Afghan military and intelligence officers loyal to the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan, has re-emerged after a long period of inactivity. The group, which had previously suspended its operations, is now fully organized.

In a recent meeting, the National Mobilization Front of Afghanistan’s leadership council announced new appointments. These appointments show that the organization is now active not only politically and in the media, but also in intelligence, military operations, and foreign relations. The new leadership includes experienced officers from the former Afghan National Army, the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
, and other security institutions, who have been working in exile, underground, or covertly since the Taliban came to power.

LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS SIGNAL RENEWED ANTI-TALIBAN ACTIVITY
Javed Ahmed Kargar, a former Afghan Army officer, was appointed Political Director. After the Taliban came to power, he led media campaigns against the Taliban. He currently resides in the Netherlands and will handle international political advocacy.

General Shams Wafadar, former commander of the 205th Army Corps from Balkh, now serves as Deputy Intelligence Chief. He previously held key positions in Kandahar and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
. After a period in the United States, he has moved to Tajikistan to strengthen intelligence networks.

Engineer Ahmad Soheil Parto, a former member of the General Directorate of National Security, was appointed Deputy Commander. He is currently in 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and focuses on reporting protests, which may provide covert operational advantages for the National Mobilization Front of Afghanistan.

Engineer Abdullah Nawabzadeh, a former ambassador and head of the Refugees and Migrants General Council, leads Foreign Relations. He is also based in Iran and actively seeks international support.

Idris Sadiq, former garrison commander of Shahr-e-Kabul, is now the Central Commander in Afghanistan, leading covert operations inside the country.

Mahdi Panjshiri, a former National Directorate of Security officer, was appointed Commander for Kabul, coordinating operations from Tajikistan.

The National Mobilization Front of Afghanistan was founded by General Javed Dehsabzi, who remains its General Commander.

RENEWED OPERATIONS POSE GROWING THREAT TO TALIBAN
In recent years, the National Mobilization Front of Afghanistan has carried out multiple attacks targeting Taliban positions in Kapisa, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
, and northern regions. In 2024, the group launched a major operation in Lalpur, Nangarhar, near the Pakistain border, killing several Taliban and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain members.

In June 2025, a youth group joined the National Mobilization Front of Afghanistan, which welcomed them and promised to supply military equipment.

These new appointments and renewed mobilization represent a serious challenge to the Taliban. With experienced former officers, the Front now operates as a structured military and intelligence network. Its members in Tajikistan, Iran, and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
increase the organization’s capacity to secure external support.

If this trend continues, the Taliban’s grip in Afghanistan may weaken as guerrilla tactics and covert operations intensify.
Posted by: badanov || 07/15/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [231 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa Horn
Heavy military operations backed by U.S. air support continue across Lower Juba

Text:

#Jubbaland | Heavy military operations backed by U.S. air support have continued across Lower Juba in recent weeks, as Jubbaland Security Forces and the Danab Commandos target militant hideouts between Kismayo and Afmadow.

The campaign is aimed at driving Al-Shabaab out of the area and reopening the strategic Kismayo–Afmadow road, which has long faced security threats. The operations have included airstrikes, ground offensives and repeated clashes with Al-Shabaab fighters.

Jubbaland is home to some of Somalia’s strongest and most experienced Danab Commandos and Jubbaland Armed Forces, widely regarded as among the country’s most successful units in the fight against Al-Shabaab. Despite 17 years of war, however, Al-Shabaab continues to control large areas of southern Somalia, with military operations against the group still ongoing.

Posted by: badanov || 07/15/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [208 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


US says it carried out air strike against Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia
[ShabelleMedia] US forces, in coordination with the Somali federal government, carried out an air strike against al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
bully boyz in southern Somalia, the US military said Monday.

The strike was conducted on July 13 near Sablaale in the Lower Shabelle region, about 190 kilometres (120 miles) southwest of Mogadishu, according to the US Africa Command (AFRICOM).

"AFRICOM, alongside the Federal Government of Somalia and Somali Armed Forces, continues to take action to degrade al-Shabaab’s ability to threaten US forces and our citizens abroad," the command said in a statement.

AFRICOM did not disclose whether there were any casualties or provide further details about the outcome of the strike.

In a separate statement, Somalia’s Ministry of Defence said the elite Danab special forces had killed seven al-Shabaab fighters, including a commander, during an overnight operation in Lower Shabelle on Sunday.

The ministry did not say whether the ground operation was linked to the US air strike.

Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked bully boy group, has been waging an insurgency against Somalia’s federal government for more than 15 years despite sustained military operations by Somali forces supported by international partners.

There was no immediate comment from al-Shabaab on the reported operations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [177 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Somalia says 19 Al-Shabaab fighters killed in joint intelligence operations
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said that 19 al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
fighters, including a senior commander, were killed in coordinated operations carried out with international partners in the central regions of Middle Shabelle and Hiiraan.

In a statement, NISA said the first operation targeted a location near Geel-gub, close to Masaajid Ali Gaduud in Middle Shabelle, where the bully boy group was allegedly gathering fighters to prepare attacks.

The agency said 12 al-Shabaab members were killed during the operation, adding that the group’s bases and shelters used for planning and coordinating attacks were destroyed.

A second operation in the Buq-aqable area of Hiiraan targeted what NISA described as a weapons storage facility used to stockpile arms collected from the Middle Shabelle, Hiiraan and Galgaduud regions.

According to the statement, seven additional al-Shabaab members were killed, including a commander identified as Faruuq, whom NISA said was responsible for managing the group’s weapons depot.

The intelligence agency added that the operation also destroyed military equipment stored at the site, including two Cabdi Bile trucks, a Noah minivan and two cycle of violences.

NISA said the raids form part of ongoing efforts to target the group’s leadership, infrastructure and supply networks in a bid to strengthen security and stability across Somalia.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [173 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) repelled an attack on a logistics convoy near the village of N'Djéla, close to Niono

Text:

MALI — The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) announce that they have repelled an attack on a logistics convoy near the village of N'Djéla, close to Niono. The army reports several armed combatants neutralized, while sweeping operations continue in the area.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the attack occurred on July 12 while the convoy was immobilized after becoming bogged down due to heavy rains that fell on the route.

Military authorities indicate that the deployed units reacted swiftly and repelled the assault carried out by armed terrorist groups, allowing the convoy to be secured.

The army specifies that pursuit and search operations for the attackers are still ongoing in order to fully secure the sector.

The General Staff reaffirms its determination to continue security operations across the entire national territory and calls on the population to continue supporting the engaged forces.
Posted by: badanov || 07/15/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [186 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Houthis claim to shoot down Saudi surveillance drone
[IsraelTimes] Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis claim to have shot down a Saudi-operated reconnaissance drone, as hostilities erupted a day earlier between the two sides for the first time in years.

The fighters “succeeded in shooting down an enemy Saudi ‘Wing Loong II’ reconnaissance aircraft while it was carrying out hostile missions at dawn today over Al-Bayda Governorate in the center of the country,” says Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2026 2026-07-15 02:56 || Comments || Link || [169 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Police 'shoot gunman who screamed ‘Allahu Akbar' outside a supermarket in Germany
"We'll probably never know his motive"
[DM] Police have this morning shot a man who witnesses say screamed 'Allahu Akbar' and fired a 'musket-like' gun outside a German supermarket.

The 41-year-old man was seen with a weapon in front of a supermarket in the Friedrichstadt district of Dresden at around 8.20 this morning.

Witnesses called police, who quickly arrived. Special forces shot at the man, a Turkish citizen who was wielding 'what appeared to be a musket', after he screamed the Islamic religious saying.

Footage from the scene showed two armed police officers taking cover behind a car on the road next to the supermarket.

Another shot showed an armed cop peering round the corner of the supermarket and taking a shot at the man.

Following the exchange of gunfire, the gunman fell to the floor and screamed, apparently hit with a bullet.

Footage showed him lying on his back, with blood pooling around him.

After officers gave him first aid, he was taken to hospital with injuries and is now under investigation for making threats and violating weapons laws.

Dresden police said in a statement that no officers or civilians were injured during the incident.

Pictures from the scene taken by local media showed several armed and masked police officers surrounding the entrance of the supermarket, while a man was seen lying in the back of an ambulance.

A small pool of blood was seen in front of the entrance to the shop.

Police have cordoned off the supermarket and said there is no longer any danger to the public.

It is not known why the man carried out his actions. Cops are looking into whether he had any connection to any of the employees of the store.

Police are looking into whether the weapon in the man's hand was live.

They are also looking at whether the police's use of service weapons was legal.

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2026 11:33 || Comments || Link || [156 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


FBI snares an American heir indicted for allegedly bankrolling anti-cop, pro-Hamas communist revolution
[FoxNews] Chambers, who praised the Oct. 7 attacks as a 'moment of hope,' faces extradition after Spanish police detained him

The Justice Department and FBI have a new communist financier in their crosshairs for alleged financial crimes: James "Fergie" Cox Chambers Jr., the estranged bad-boy heir to the Cox cable empire.

On Friday, Spanish police detained Chambers on the luxury island of Ibiza, in response to an international arrest warrant, according to sources. Chambers is allegedly wanted for money laundering and providing support to Hamas, following years of financing anti-Israel and anti-West organizations and protests. The transnational network he helped fund and support is kicking in to cast him as a victim of the Trump administration's "fascism," while critics are cheering the arrest as long overdue.

A spokesman for Spain's Balearic Islands police branch, which includes Ibiza in its jurisdiction, told Fox News Digital that a U.S. citizen was arrested on charges tied to an international arrest warrant Friday under an international arrest warrant seeking his extradition to the United States. The spokesman did not confirm the identity of the citizen, but sources told Fox News Digital that the individual is Chambers.

The police spokesman added that the individual is being held at the central jail in Ibiza pending a judicial decision that will be conducted by videoconference. Supporters now plan a "Free Fergie Chambers" protest on Tuesday at 7 p.m. outside the prison in Ibiza, demonstrating against "DEL FASCISMO DE TRUMP," or the "TRUMP'S FASCISM IN PERSECUTING DEFENDERS OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE."

A spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment. Chambers and his representatives couldn't be reached for comment.

A convert to Islam, Chambers represents the fusion of socialist and communist activists with Islamist interests that seek the destruction of the West, free enterprise and the state of Israel and the rise of political Islam, communism and a new Palestinian state.
A convert to Islam, Chambers represents the fusion of socialist and communist activists with Islamist interests that seek the destruction of the West, free enterprise and the state of Israel and the rise of political Islam, communism and a new Palestinian state.
The whole red-green package, tied up with a designer bow.
Chambers' ideological comrades leaked news of the detention to trusted colleagues on far-left media platforms – some of which Chambers funds – and his communist, socialist and Islamist comrades are flooding social media to frame the narrative around the arrest as the Trump administration unfairly targeting Chambers.

The arrest is a significant move by the Trump administration as it targets far-left financiers allegedly engaged in supporting political violence. In this case, as in other investigations, federal authorities are following the money and investigating potential tax and financial crimes.

FBI Co-Deputy Director Chris Raia recently told Fox News Digital that investigators at the FBI's Joint Mission Center have identified subjects tied to financing violent protest activity and have been building prosecutable cases.

Like Neville Roy Singham, the American tech tycoon accused of financing communist and far-left nonprofit organizations from his base in Shanghai, China, Chambers has made a name for himself as a financial backer of anti-Israel and anti-American causes around the world. As reported exclusively at Fox News Digital, the Justice Department has launched a grand jury investigation into Singham for alleged money laundering and other financial improprieties. It is currently prosecuting the Southern Poverty Law Center for alleged money laundering, bank fraud and wire fraud.

Chambers was born in 1985 in Brooklyn as James Cox Chambers Jr. to his father, James Cox Chambers, and mother, actress Lauren Hamilton. He is the great-grandson of James M. Cox, a former Ohio governor, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee and founder of the media company that became Cox Enterprises. Forbes estimates the Cox family empire is worth about $27 billion.

Chambers is now the estranged heir of Cox Enterprises, walking away from the family company in 2023 with a payout estimated at about $250 million after a falling out with his family over the company's support for Atlanta's controversial public safety training center, known by critics as "Cop City."
We closely followed the shenanigans there at the time.
In April, a grand jury indicted three alleged Antifa-linked protesters accused of throwing firebombs at the general contractor of the Atlanta police training center.

Chambers openly redirected his fortune into communist collectives, bail and legal underwriting and groups engaged in hard-edged protest and property disruption.

Raised mostly in Brooklyn after his parents divorced, Chambers attended Saint Ann's School and later enrolled at Bard College but didn't graduate. He briefly worked for a Cox Enterprises subsidiary before operating gyms in Georgia and later became increasingly involved in left-wing activism following the anti-police protests in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 and the demonstrations in Standing Rock, S.D., in 2016 against an oil pipeline.

Around 2019, Chambers established the "Berkshire Communists" collective in Alford, Mass., in a wealthy corner of western Massachusetts, where he built a commune, operated the Berkshire People's Gym and launched a publication called "Combat Liberalism."

Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks, Chambers became one of the most prominent financial backers of "Palestine Action," later renamed "Unity of Fields," while also funding legal defense efforts for activists involved in anti-Israel demonstrations and direct-action campaigns in the United Kingdom and the U.S.

He praised the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks as a "moment of hope and inspiration," told Mother Jones that "the most important thing for the prosperity of humanity is the destruction of the US" and said, "I chant death to America every day."

Local and national reporting place him behind the "Stop Cop City" opposition, bail after occupations and protests against Elbit Systems, a company that provides services to Israel, in Merrimack, N.H., and the U.K., and ongoing legal support for networks in the U.S. and U.K. led by the controversial "Palestine Action."
Local and national reporting place him behind the "Stop Cop City" opposition, bail after occupations and protests against Elbit Systems, a company that provides services to Israel, in Merrimack, N.H., and the U.K., and ongoing legal support for networks in the U.S. and U.K. led by the controversial "Palestine Action."

After Alford, Mass., shut his Berkshire People's Gym for zoning violations and law-enforcement scrutiny intensified, Chambers relocated to Tunis, in the North African nation of Tunisia.

In early February 2024, Chambers was photographed in his newly adopted city of Tunis in the North African nation of Tunisia, framing his narrative as a pious Muslim convert, with a red-and-white Palestinian kefiyyeh scarf draped over his shoulders, a black Muslim prayer cap on his head and a small beard on his face, a tradition that follows the sunnah, or practice, of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

The photo shoot included images of Chambers in Muslim prayer, at one point with his hands on his chest and at another point in "ruku" position, bent forward with his hands on his knees, staring at a point of concentration in front of him. In other shots, he walked by a local mosque, sat behind the wheel of a car with orange and green Muslim prayer beads, called "tazbi," hanging on the rearview mirror. A pair of decorative boxing gloves with "RUSSIA" across the wrists, positioned on a red-and-white kefiyyeh spread along the dashboard.

Unconventional for traditional Muslims, who don't often have dogs as pets because of a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that bars dogs as pets in the home, Chambers also was photographed smoking a cigarette and walking on the beach with two small dogs who look like bulldogs. He also wore tattoos, including a sickle-and-barbells on his left hand.

By May 2026, his social media posts placed him in Ireland. This month, the self-declared communist vacationed among the wealthy in Ibiza, is now sitting in prison.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [307 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Every rich family has their stupid black sheep. Most smother them in the crib, take them on "unfortunate" hunting trips, or let them marry a racialist harlot from America before disowning them.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2026 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  They should be culled from the herd!
Posted by: Chris || 07/15/2026 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Seems our new batch of commies relies heavily on nepo babies to promote collectivization. Time to reign in trust funds to those who are truly physically or mentally incapable of looking after themselves.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2026 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Now do Soros and sons!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/15/2026 15:19 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Reports: 7 killed in IDF strike on Hamas police station in northern Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Hamas-affiliated media in Gaza report that seven people were killed in an IDF strike on a Hamas police station in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza.

There is no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2026 2026-07-15 02:55 || Comments || Link || [150 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran executes two men convicted of links to Islamic State, planning attacks
[IsraelTimes] Tehran says two men part of cell operating along Iran-Iraq border, were hanged after final decision from Supreme Court

Iranian authorities on Tuesday hanged two people convicted of being part of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, the judiciary’s news website reported.

"Following the Supreme Court’s final verdict and in accordance with legal procedure, two members of the terrorist Islamic State group, Mohiyodin Abdollahi and Hossein Palani, were hanged this morning," Mizan Online said.

It did not specify the date of their arrest or of the legal proceedings against them.

According to Mizan, the two men "were planning to launch terrorist operations" in the country, adding that their cell had planned attacks in 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
after operating from the Bamo heights along the Iran-Iraq border.

They were sentenced to death for "armed rebellion against the Islamic Theocratic Republic."

ISIS has claimed multiple attacks on Iran in the past few years, most notably massive bombings targeting a commemoration for IRGC Gen. Qassem Soleimani
that killed 95 people in 2024.

Iran executes more people annually than any other nation besides China, according to rights groups including Amnesty International.

Authorities have stepped up executions in the country since the start of the war sparked by US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28.

Last month, the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
said Iran had executed at least 40 people, including 18 protesters, since the start of 2026.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2026 2026-07-15 02:56 || Comments || Link || [154 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Lebanon arrests ‘high-level agent’ close to Hezbollah for allegedly spying for Israel
[IsraelTimes] Judicial official says man handed Israel precise intelligence that led to the killing of four top security leaders and others; he was detained at airport trying to leave country

Lebanese authorities have arrested a man close to the Hezbollah terror group, accusing him of spying for Israel and of providing intel that led to the killing of commanders in the Iran-backed group, a judicial official told AFP on Tuesday.
It might even be true — who knows?
The official, who is following the investigation and requested anonymity, said "a high-level Israeli agent was arrested last week in Beirut."

He alleged that the suspect had been "involved in providing the Israeli side with precise information that led to the liquidation of Hezbollah officials, including four top-tier security leaders."

"He was very close to commanders in Hezbollah, and possessed a wide range of information due to his relationship with them," the official added.

According to the official, the man was detained last week at Beirut’s airport as he prepared to board a flight to Iraq.

The detainee hails from southern Leb
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
, where Hezbollah holds sway, and has made several trips to Iraq, where his wife is from.

From there, according to the same official, he used to go to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
"to meet with officers and agents linked to the Israeli Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
, and provide them with information about targets he was gathering data about in Beirut."

The official did not specify the identity of the Hezbollah leaders targeted by Israel nor the date of their deaths.

Scores of the group’s senior commanders have been killed in Israeli strikes since Hezbollah fired at Israel in support of Paleostinian terror group Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
after the October 7, 2023, massacre, and again when it drew Lebanon to the broader Middle East war in March of this year.

This includes former leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
, killed by Israel in a major strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs in September 2024.

Lebanon and Israel have officially been at war for decades, and Lebanese security services have arrested dozens of people on suspicion of working for Israel, many of whom were allegedly recruited online following the country’s economic collapse beginning in 2019.

In October, a judicial source told AFP that more than 30 people had been arrested on suspicion of providing Israel with precise information on Hezbollah facilities and the movements of its members during its previous war with Israel in 2023 and 2024.

People convicted of working for Israel have been sentenced to up to 25 years in prison in the past.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2026 2026-07-15 01:28 || Comments || Link || [241 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


US targeting IRGC training sites, renews Strait of Hormuz naval blockade
The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷

🚨 Heavy IRGC losses are mounting under continued U.S. strikes, with one military source claiming that American forces have turned IRGC training facilities into "killing fields."

The IRGC has officially confirmed five deaths:

🔴 IRGC commander Mohammadreza Khazimi was killed in Mahshahr on July 8.

🔴 Second Brigadier General Saeed Tavakolzadeh and Basij member Mohsen Nejati were killed in Khuzestan on July 9.

🔴 Second Lieutenant Mohammad Nasser Delirvar was killed on Farur Island.
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in the image, one of these guys has adopted an Elvis haircut
"I'm ALL shook up!"

Courtesy of badanov:
US has renewed its naval blockade of Iran
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] The naval blockade of Iran has taken effect. US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced this on July 14.

"Today at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (11:00 p.m. Moscow time), the naval blockade of vessels traveling to or leaving Iranian ports and coastal areas was resumed," the CENTCOM press service clarified on social media.

More than 20 US Navy ships and hundreds of military aircraft were involved in the operation in the Middle East.

The escalation of tensions in the Middle East was provoked by the United States and Israel, which launched a military operation against Iran on February 28. On June 15, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum calling for a cessation of hostilities and the creation of conditions for a conflict resolution. However, on July 8, US President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire no longer in effect, and on July 10, he officially notified Congress of the resumption of military operations against Iran.

The American leader also claimed that Tehran had failed to comply with the terms of the memorandum and suggested further strikes, including on the Natanz nuclear facility. On July 13, Trump announced that the United States was resuming the naval blockade of Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.

In the following days, the US repeatedly launched strikes on Iranian territory. On the night of July 14, CENTCOM reported the end of a nearly five-hour wave of attacks that hit Iranian military facilities in Bushehr, Jask, Konarak, Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, and Abu Musa Island.

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IRGC announced strikes on US targets in Kuwait and Bahrain.

On July 14, Iranian armed forces launched missile and drone attacks on US positions in Kuwait and Bahrain, destroying weapons hangars, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported.

"During the operation, several weapons and spare parts depots for enemy ships and aircraft were destroyed at the Sheikh Isa airbase in Bahrain using missiles and UAVs. A site housing enemy MQ9 drones at the Ali al-Salem airbase in Kuwait was also attacked, with several drones destroyed and damaged," Iran's state broadcaster IRIB quoted the IRGC statement as saying.

It is emphasized that the operation was a response to US strikes on several military facilities in southern Iran. The IRGC stated that until US actions in the Middle East end, not a single drop of oil will be removed from the region.
The Times of Israel adds:
US President Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
on Tuesday reimposed a naval blockade of all Iranian ports and threatened to hit power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran resumes negotiations, as the interim ceasefire deal unravels and concerns grow about a return to all-out war.

The US first imposed the blockade in mid-April and then lifted it in mid-June, a day after the signing of the interim deal aimed at permanently ending the war. The deal set a 60-day timeline to also negotiate an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, but talks have stalled as fighting over the strait has intensified, with Tehran proclaiming last week it again closed Hormuz.

There are at least 19 US warships in the Arabian Sea, including two aircraft carriers and an amphibious assault ship with more than 1,000 Marines aboard. US Central Command also said in a social media post that there are "hundreds of military aircraft operating across the Middle East."

Before renewing the blockade, US Central Command announced another series of strikes, hitting "missile and drone sites, naval capabilities and coastal defense systems during the seven-hour wave to further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping and civilian crews."

"US forces are holding 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
accountable for unwarranted aggression that continues to endanger innocent lives," said Adm. Brad Cooper, who heads US Central Command.

According to Cooper, Iran intentionally attacked seven fat merchantmen over the past seven days resulting in "nearly a dozen" civilian crew members being killed, injured or going missing. He said Iran also launched dozens of missiles and drones at neighboring Gulf countries, including early Wednesday as Iranian forces claimed attacks on US positions at Jordan’s Azraq base and in Bahrain and Kuwait.

There were reports of injuries; material damage was reported in Kuwait from a fire caused by an Iranian attack, while Jordan said it intercepted three Iranian missiles fired at the kingdom.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, said in an interview aired by IRIB, Iran’s state broadcaster, that the US was seeking to prevent Tehran from exercising what he described as "effective illusory sovereignty" over the Strait of Hormuz, which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed would remain closed "until the United States ends its acts of aggression."

"We’re going to hit them very hard tonight. We’re going to hit them very hard tomorrow night. We’re going to hit them very hard the night after, and then next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges. We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate," Trump told Fox News in an interview that aired Tuesday night on "Special Report with Bret Baier."

"I’ll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we’ll hit energy targets," he added.

Trump has threatened numerous times to bomb Iranian energy sites only to hold off in the end, apparently due to concerns that doing so would result in Iran becoming a failed state — a scenario the US is looking to avoid.

Listing Trump’s war aims as preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and to degrade Iran’s military capabilities, Baier asked if they can be accomplished through an air campaign alone.

Trump claimed his war aims have actually already been achieved even though the US has not secured Iran’s stockpiles of enriched uranium and traffic through Hormuz is only at 10% of prewar levels.

"It’s open if people want to go through it," Trump said.

As for Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, Trump again downplayed the importance of securing it, saying the US was surveilling Iran’s nuclear sites.

Asked whether the US was capable of striking the nuclear site deep underground at Pickaxe Mountain, Trump responded, "Nobody knows about Pickaxe," before insisting the US is watching that site too and could act if needed.

Trump gave a similar answer regarding the Taleghan facility outside Tehran, which satellite imagery suggests Iran has started repairing since it was struck during the war. "We can hit that one very easily," the president claimed.

Asked if he has been negotiating with the right people in Iran, Trump said he does not want to negotiate anymore because Iran purportedly reneged on a deal over the weekend.

But seconds later, he said his aides have been talking to Iranian negotiators in just the past hour.

Asked what message the US passed along to Iran, Trump said, "You better make a deal. You’re not going to have anybody left. We’re being very careful with the civilian population, but you better make a deal [or] you’re not going to have anything left."

According to two regional officials, mediators are still trying to get the United States and Iran back to the negotiating table. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
to discuss the delicate diplomatic process, said Pakistain-led mediation was working around the clock to reactivate the ceasefire.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/15/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [370 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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  US has renewed its naval blockade of Iran
Wed 2026-07-15
  US targeting IRGC training sites, renews Strait of Hormuz naval blockade
Tue 2026-07-14
  America vs. Iran round-up July 13, 2026: US continues to degrade Iran’s war stuff, reinstates naval blockade since Iran won’t comply with MOU they signed
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  IDF bombed a Hamas weapons manufacturing site in Gaza City
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Fri 2026-07-10
  Mali:Russian African Corps abandoned some of its armored vehicles amid fierce strikes by the Azawad Liberation Front
Thu 2026-07-09
  Pentagon confirmed the resumption of strikes on Iran
Wed 2026-07-08
  US announced the beginning of a series of powerful strikes on Iran, hit over 80 targets; IRGC claims they hit 85
Wed 2026-07-08
  IDF fire said to kill 7 in Gaza, including terror operative, aid worker and child
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  Internal Hezbollah documents sheds light on years of coordination between the two Iranian tentacles in the run-up to the attack
Sun 2026-07-05
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Sat 2026-07-04
  There aren't any Islamic pom-pom girls…
Fri 2026-07-03
  Iran hits Kurdish dissent groups with missiles, drones in Erbil province
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  A US helicopter made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea, leaving one person missing
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  2 IRGC members shot dead at home in Iran, in what state media calls ‘terrorism’


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