[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” host Brian Kilmeade criticized Vice President JD Vance’s comments on Israel by saying, “That’s stuff that you would expect extremists, extreme Squad members to say” and maybe “he wants to kiss up to the podcast class, who seemingly jumped off support for Israel.”
Kilmeade played a clip of Vance saying, “[I know,] beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there have been people within the Israeli government who are trying to, like, actually, shift us away from that policy, because they want to continue the military campaign. …
Of course. Israel still has a list of targets they need to hit.
[T]here are some people within their system we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, who are manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely.
No Israeli wants war indefinitely. That’s nuts.
Again, not towards any objective. But just indefinitely.”
Kilmeade responded, “That is not true. Now, are there people within the Knesset that are AOC or Squad-like characters on the fringe? Sure, I guess, I don’t know.
But what JD Vance and every Democrat — the 103 Democrats that voted not to fund — give funds to Israel should understand is, if their enemies were not rocketing them, making Israel an enemy…Israel would not be looking to stay on the war footing. Nobody wants war in Israel, nobody. They’re looking to survive, and they’re not going to be victims. If you’re going to send rockets into the northern part of their country, like Hezbollah, and Hamas into the southern part of their country, from Gaza, and if you’re going to do long-range missiles from — and other things in drones from Iran, you’re going to get attacked back, you’re going to get preemptive strikes. They’re not interested in fighting. Why would he, as Vice President of the United States, say there are people who just want perpetual war? Who? Who are these people? Are you saying the prime minister wants perpetual war? That’s stuff that you would expect extremists, extreme Squad members to say. And I wonder if he even pre-thinks his stuff. I think it’s really detrimental for the Vice President to be saying stuff that’s so erroneous, maybe because he wants to kiss up to the podcast class, who seemingly jumped off support for Israel.”
[ACLEDDATA] ACLED’s Middle East Research Manager Sherwan Hindreen Ali comments on recent Yemen-Saudi tensions after years of hiatus
Sherwan Hindreen Ali, Middle East Research Manager at ACLED, said:
“Suspected Saudi forces launched several airstrikes at the Houthi-controlled Sanaa International Airport on 13 July in a significant escalation between the Houthis in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
“The strikes would mark the first Saudi strikes on Sanaa airport ACLED has recorded since 27 February 2022 and were intended to prevent an Iranian Mahan Air aircraft carrying a Houthi delegation from Tehran from landing.
“The Houthis responded swiftly, by launching several missiles on the same day targeting the Abha International Airport in the Saudi Asir province, which were ultimately intercepted by Saudi defenses.
“This sudden flare-up directly threatens a period of relative calm between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia. Since the UN-sponsored truce went into effect on 2 April 2022, Saudi Arabia had reduced its military strikes against the Houthis to a small fraction of what they were during the active phase of the Yemen war. Aside from occasional strikes in Sada governorate and other border areas —usually to deter approaches by African migrants or Yemeni civilians–- the last confirmed Saudi airstrikes in Yemen took place in January 2026, targeting STC forces rather than the Houthis.
Similarly, Houthi attacks targeting Saudi Arabia had reduced in number considerably since the ceasefire: the last such attack ACLED records is a Houthi drone attack against Saudi-Bahraini joint forces in the Asir border province on 30 September 2023, while the Abha airport, historically a frequent target of Houthi attacks, was targeted last on 10 February 2022.”
[DW] Last night, President Trump gave a prime time address. On its face, the president’s speech was about election meddling.
In general, of course, he’s right. We do need to pass the SAVE America Act and secure our elections. It’s not Jim Crow 2.0 to require ID to vote or to show proof of citizenship to register to vote.
But beneath the president’s big speech last night lurked a threat far greater than the question of election interference or election security.
No one seems particularly interested in covering that threat, and it is the greatest external threat our country has ever faced.
That threat is China.
They’re a threat to America. They have many allies here in the United States. Bernie Sanders does open events with the Chinese. Hassan Piker has an actual Chinese flag in the background. Zohran Mamdani, China-friendly Democratic Socialists of America, and many big corporations that want to do business over there are all a part of this.
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When the Wall came down and the Soviet Union fell, our universities should have been purged of their apologist and agents. Instead, we find ourselves in the situation we have today.
Friday, during an appearance on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) criticized the Canadian government for the handling of its wildfires that have resulted in persistent smoke over the American Midwest.
“[L]ook, it’s very simple — we’re being gassed,” he said. “We are being systematically gassed here in Ohio. We have a very short summer, we’re in peak summer right now, you can’t go outside, it’s absolutely horrifying. You wake up in the morning, you see air quality index that says hazardous, stay indoors. And like you said, this isn’t the first time, it’s not the second time, it’s the third time this has happened, and we’re not going to put up with it. This is totally avoidable. And it’s not due to climate change. It’s due to leadership change in Canada that’s caused this problem.”
“Well, and we’re in Washington, and I was leaving very early this morning, and you could see the news feeds of the Lincoln Memorial looking toward the Capitol, except you can’t see the Washington Monument,” host Laura Ingraham said. “There’s no Washington Monument, it’s just a cloud of smoke, and you’re thinking, who knows what kind of damage this is going to do to vulnerable lungs, and people who have no alternative but to work outside. So, there’s a real health issue, there’s an entertainment, recreation issue, and a business losses, clear business losses.”
As a former waterbomber pilot who used to lead an aerial firefighting fleet, I can tell you “send help” is an extremely dishonest framing by the Canadian government.
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Evidently, Canada used to pay First Nations folks to perform controlled burns that removed undergrowth a prevented larger fires but stopped the program.
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This is what politicians do. Doesn't matter if they say they like you or not, when you need something they're going to ignore you, because it would get in the way of stealing money.
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[JtN] President Donald Trump on Thursday released a trove of declassified intelligence documents that his administration says expose long-suspected vulnerabilities in U.S. election infrastructure, in addition to alarming intelligence pointing to prior administrations' and officials' knowledge of such issues that were kept from the president, Congress and the American people.
"The intelligence community withheld information from his president's daily brief. That's a big deal. That's where the intelligence community gives him the absolute most classified data, what he needs to know for that day, and frankly, during his first term, they withheld it. That is a black mark on the intelligence community," Rep. Keith Self, R-Tex., told Just The News.
Self continued, "They should be charged because they hold positions of great responsibility, and they have violated our trust. They have violated the actual agreements that they sign when they get that level of classified data, so this is very, very easily charged and indicted."
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...CIA withheld information on Nicaraugua from Ronald Reagan and Bill Casey, because some in the Agency thought if they reported the truth we'd invade.
And we couldn't have that now, could we?
Amazing how this withholding sh!t seems to only go in one direction.
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....prior administrations' and officials' knowledge of such issues that were kept from the president, Congress and the American people.
Perhaps the "issues" were contrived and were only intended as a backstop, a light or shallow cover for action ?
Had the "issues" been legitimate, would measures or actions to prevent a reoccurrence not been taken? If not, why not ?
Lastly, the "issues" originated from collected intelligence. What type of collected intelligence? Single source reporting? All-source reporting? Over what period of time (start date - end data)? What other collection methods corroborated the reporting ?
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats disputed claims that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. election, declaring that they are perfectly capable of rigging elections without China's help.
In a passionate primetime address, President Donald Trump rebuked China for what he called the "largest compromise of election data in history" and called on lawmakers to pass legislation to secure future elections. This only served to offend Democrats, however, who insisted they are perfectly capable of rigging elections without any foreign assistance whatsoever.
"Trump wants you to believe Democrats are working with China to undermine election integrity," Senator Chuck Schumer said, responding to the president's accusations. "Nothing could be further from the truth. Why would I use China to rig an election when I can support election interference made right here in America?"
Democrats pointed to their support of automatic voter registration, vote by mail, and ballot harvesting as examples of their grassroots approach to election rigging. "We don't need China's help. We don't want China's help," Representative Rashida Tlaib said. "Although if any Muslim countries wanted to join in, I would welcome the collaboration."
Republican leaders were quick to condemn Democrats' bragging about how they've rigged elections in the past. "If only there was some kind of law we could make that would prevent rigging elections, like if we had required voter ID or something. I don't know, I'm just spitballing here," Senate Majority Leader John Thune said. "Some type of act that could save America. That's what we could use right now. Oh well."
At publishing time, Democrats assured the public that their party was already well on its way to rigging the 2026 midterms.
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[AT] On one hand, we are winning the war with Iran. This week, bombings greatly accelerated and are not likely to end without real capitulation and surrender. On the other hand, the Vice President seems to be at odds with the administration, unhappy that we are in a (winning) war and casting blame for the failure of his peace effort, which is really only Iran’s fault.
On one hand, the President has declassified documents credibly showing foreign influence and interference with our elections. On the other hand, major news outlets seem determined to keep their viewers from knowing this. If viewers did know how insecure our elections are, they might support remediation measures -- like SAVE -- to the detriment of the media’s darlings, the Democrats, whose decades-long election cheating is manifest.
The president has made clear that he regards what are known as the groypers as stupid and not worth paying attention to:
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@realDonaldTrump I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon -- Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs. They're stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! Look at their past, look at their record. They don't have what it takes, and they never did!
Yet, this week Vice President Vance, who has yet to distance himself from Tucker Carlson, had a lengthy three-hour interview with Joe Rogan in which he blamed Israel for the war in Iran and, by inference, suggested the President is a tool of Israel.
Vice President JD Vance needs to get his head out of the conspiratorial "rabbit holes" he says he loves to explore and drop the bizarro line he just pitched to Joe Rogan that the Israelis blew up the Iran peace deal because they want "to keep the war going on indefinitely."
It was Iran that broke the 60-day "comprehensive cease-fire" established by the Memorandum of Understanding by attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz, period: No Jews involved.
Before the ink was dry on the MOU, which guaranteed open passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard asserted Tehran’s control and ownership of the waterway and warned that merchant ships must obtain its OK to transit; then it started firing on vessels that didn’t comply.
Blocking sea lanes reopened the war, and Israel had nothing to do with it.
It’s also preposterous to charge that Jerusalem wants the war to drag on "indefinitely"; it’s always been clear about its objectives on Iran: destroy its nuclear capability, eviscerate its conventional-war machine; if possible, foster the end of the regime that makes Tehran an enemy of civilization.[snip]Vance went to other ugly places in his chat with Rogan: pretending that an open Israel-funded PR effort to counter antisemitism among younger conservatives somehow is actually a secret drive to undo peace with Iran and smear him; suggesting that the craziest Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories are true and Israel is part of the plot.
Maybe he wanted to deflect responsibility for the failure of an MOU he helped negotiate; maybe he resents how Trump opted for a war he likely opposed and then stuck him with trying to negotiate an exit.
My own view, for what little it may be worth, is that Trump and Rubio never thought it possible to negotiate peace on our terms with Iran. Vance insisted we could, and Trump allowed him to try it, letting him give it his best shot. The result was a meaningless Memorandum of Understanding which Iran immediately violated. While Vance was negotiating, however, Plan B was further developed -- strategies to force Iran to do what we wanted -- opening the Strait to shipping and foregoing nuclear capability forever. The Vance negotiations allowed Trump more time to work with Iran’s neighbors to encourage them to join us and offer them protection from anticipated Iranian aggression while setting in play steps to keep oil flowing to prevent a worldwide economic catastrophe. Vance willingly but naively believed in his mission. No one else in the Administration did, although they did nothing to undercut him. If he succeeded, it was good. If he failed -- and he certainly did because the task was futile from the outset -- he bore the brunt of it. Now, because of his own naivete, he’s exposed as unfit to handle defense matters, which is, after all, the most important role of a chief executive.
To the shame of ABC, NBC and CNN, none of these outlets carried the President’s address this week. Clayton Wood spells out the networks’ failings:
This is not a network declining to air a stump speech or a policy pitch dressed up as news. Obama's 2014 immigration address was Obama telling the country what he intended to do next. Biden's 2022 speech was Biden characterizing his political opponents as a threat to the republic. Both of those were arguments. Tonight was a president presenting documents, ordering federal agencies to investigate them, and inviting the public to read the underlying material for themselves at a public website. No network has ever before declined to carry a president's own documentary disclosure live. They have only ever declined to carry his rhetoric.
Strip away the spin and look at what that decision actually communicated. Three of the six major networks decided, on their own authority, that the American people should not see their own president lay out evidence in his own words, live, unfiltered, and unedited. They decided the public was better served by a curated summary after the fact, written by the same institutions that had already decided what to think about it before a single document was reviewed. That is not neutral journalism protecting the public from misinformation. That is a handful of executives deciding the public cannot be trusted to watch and think for themselves.
If you want the details of the President’s address, they can be found here: The President declassified documents that show China’s alleged election meddling, detail our election infrastructure vulnerabilities, provide evidence of fraud and non-citizen voting, and allege the perfidy of members of the intelligence community in deliberately hiding from the president evidence of Chinese influence and interference in our elections. Among the revelations are these:
China purchased and hacked — mostly illicitly acquired — 220 million voter files, including addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and phone numbers.
China was alleged to compile intelligence to force resignations or block reelection in order to disrupt the 2019 midterms and the 2020 election.
"Electronic voting and vote counting machines are unreliable and hackable, and... officials knew it, naming Russia, North Korea and China as capable actors...Venezuela’s government used voting machines to digitally manipulate the 2020 count [in their country] in a way immune to audit detection."
There is substantial evidence of Michigan voter registration fraud. 278,000 non-citizens are registered to vote, and because Democrat-led states are withholding information, the actual count is probably higher.
I am certain more revelations are to come with the seizure of Georgia’s voting records, the ongoing grand juries in Florida, and the likelihood of Maduro and his former aides talking to federal investigators. Maybe our largest news organizations will find it fit to actually report them. If not, the alternate media certainly will.
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This week, bombings greatly accelerated and are not likely to end without real capitulation and surrender.
Nonsense. We bombed North Vietnam for years and they never capitulated. Hitler bombed England with everything that Goering could give him and it only stiffened the British resolve to keep fighting.
We may have damaged the Iranian nuclear program. We may hope they run out of missiles to shoot at oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. But they are nowhere near capitulating.
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If the under-thugs quit getting paid, starvation is imminent, power's off, and bridges/rail are disabled (not hard to do)?
I'd guess different, Abu.
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[19FortyFive] DEFENSE The US Military Just Emptied A Third Of Its Deepest Missile Magazine Into Iran — And The Pentagon’s Own Wargames Say The Next War Empties It In Days: More than a thousand Tomahawks have gone into Iran — the largest expenditure in the weapon’s history, against an adversary with broken defenses. The Pentagon’s own wargames already priced a China war. Set the two numbers side by side, and the deepest magazine in the American arsenal looks very different.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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....prior administrations' and officials' knowledge of such issues that were kept from the president, Congress and the American people.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democrats disputed claims that China interfered in the 2020 U.S. election, declaring that they are perfectly capable of rigging elections without China's help.
