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🚨Pakistan is 'phenomenal' counter-terrorism partner for America: CENTCOM chief
🇺🇸🇵🇰Pakistan is apparently a hero in the eyes of Gen. Michael Kurilla when it comes to counter-terrorism.
This praise comes on the same day that FBI Chief Kash Patel announced the extradition of a Pakistani terrorist from Canada for AIDING ISIS.🤡
But here's more: just when you thought the irony couldn’t get any richer, Netflix drops a Bin Laden series about the world's most wanted terrorist who lived for years in a Pakistani military town, right next to their equivalent of West Point.
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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳US Navy Sinks Shipbuilding with $16B in CUTS as China Muscles Up Massive Fleet
The US Navy is proposing a whopping $16 BILLION CUT to shipbuilding in 2026—driving down its budget from $37B to $20.8B. Meanwhile, China’s shipbuilding capacity has exploded to 232 times GREATER than America’s, signalling a tectonic shift towards the PRC’s naval might.
🇨🇳China’s Naval Dominance
🔸Shipbuilding Capacity: China’s 23.25 million tons vastly outstrips the US’s less than 100,000 tons (per an ONI report)
🔸Fleet Size: The PRC has 355 warships as of 2020, projections foresee 475 by 2035; the US, in contrast, maintains a fleet of around 296 ships, with expectations seeing slow growth to 305-317.
🔸Over 70% of China’s shipbuilding revenue is for the MILITARY—compared to roughly 95% in the US.
🇺🇸US Navy in Crisis
🔸Cuts: NO new destroyers, Virginia-class subs, or Constellation frigates in 2026.
🔸Delays: Virginia submarines are 24-36 months behind schedule; the Constellation frigate faces a 3-year delay, with costs overrun by an additional $200 million.
🔸Shrinking Fleet: The US Navy aims for 287 ships by 2025—falling short of its planned 313.
🚢Showdown with China
🔸China’s naval might is set to strengthen with a 425-ship fleet by 2030, leaving the US in the dust. Sen. Wicker (R-MS) warns:
“This shortfall reflects efforts to game the budget… Reconciliation funds were meant to be supplemental, not a substitute.”
🔸Navy Sec. Phelan claims shipbuilding is his “#1 priority”—but Sen. King (I-ME) hit back, noting:
“All the talk about building up ships, then cutting shipbuilding in half, doesn’t jive.”
🔴 BOTTOM LINE:
While China races toward naval supremacy, the US is slashing budgets & delaying critical ships. Is this surrender by bureaucracy?
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👽 Ex-DoD official claims UFO videos are just top-secret US tech
💬 “Those technologies and amazing capabilities were designed by Americans, and built, manufactured and flown by Americans,” says ex-All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) director Tim Phillips.
💬 “We built these cover stories to protect what we were really doing,” Phillips said, referring to UFO whistleblower testimony alleging a government coverup.
🇺🇸 Classic California: State drops MILLIONS on NGO linked to LA riots
In true California style, the state’s Department of Social Services handed out millions to “community outreach” groups, including CHIRLA (linked to the unrest), while spending less than $300k on actual migrant assistance, a new report suggests.
FBI director Patel confirmed earlier this week that he's investigating the money trail.
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🚨🟨📈GOLD OVERTAKES EURO
🔥💶 The European Central Bank just dropped a bombshell report: Gold has officially surpassed the Euro as the world’s second most important reserve asset
📊 Key Stats:
✅ Gold’s share of global reserves hit 20% in 2024
✅ Euro’s share fell to just 16%
✅ Central banks doubled down, adding 1,000+ tonnes of gold in 2024 alone (2x the previous decade’s pace)
✅ Gold prices surged ~30% in nominal terms
💰Why This Matters:
📌 Geopolitical Hedging: Emerging economies—especially those distant from the West—are dumping fiat for gold at historic rates.
📌 Bretton Woods Flashback: Central banks now hold almost as much gold as they did in 1965—the peak of the gold-backed monetary system.
🔮 The Big Picture:
Gold is back as the ultimate hedge against economic & political uncertainty.
🌍 De-dollarization? This is another sign of a shifting global financial order.
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🇮🇷 Iran tests new two-tonne warhead missile, warns US bases are in range
Iran has successfully tested its first missile able to carry a two-tonne warhead, Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh announced.
He warned that if war is "imposed" on Iran, all US military bases in the Middle East are within range of its missiles.
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🗣NATO chief hypes up Russian ‘military threat’ to justify his arms build-up
Mark Rutte warned at Chatham House that Russia's military is cranking out weapons at a ridiculous pace, producing in three months what NATO does in a year.
💬 “Its defense industrial base is expected to roll out 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles, and 200 Iskander missiles this year alone,” he said, adding that the Russians might use it against NATO in five years.
🔥 Aztlan: the not-so-secret plot to dismantle the United States that no one’s talking about
California is being rocked by protests spilling over into violence over ICE’s deportations. Here’s an element of the unrest legacy media isn’t telling you about.
Consolidation of Chicano nationalism
Aztlan is the political & ideological foundation of a sovereignty-minded movement rooted in the idea of a mythologized ‘northern homeland’ of the Aztecs prior to their migration southward to modern-day Mexico.
In 1969, Mexican-American activist Alurista read out the ‘Plan Espiritual de Aztlan’ at a conference in Denver. Framing the US Southwest as a land of “bronze people” invaded by “gringos,” the manifesto asserted Chicanos’ right to self-rule.
The manifesto called for economic, educational, cultural and political self-governance, liberation & “self-defense” against the “occupying forces of the oppressors.”
No unifying party
The document called for the an “independent local, regional and national political party” to promote Aztlan interests, but it never caught on (a 70s attempt failed).
Aztlan instead focused on other forms of organization:
▪️MEChA – Chicano student movement with 400 chapters declaring “the independence of the mestizo nation”
▪️United Farm Workers union, whose makeup is heavily Chicano
Decentralization, discord
While some Aztlan supporters seek separation (independence or ‘rejoining Mexico’), others see it as a means to empowerment within the US political system.
A 2018 Reuters-Ipsos poll found:
✅35% of Hispanics in the US Southwest backed secession
❌42% opposed
Mexico does not endorse the movement.
Protest preview
🔴The Aztlan movement showed its power during 2006 immigration protests, when 6M people in 200 cities took to the streets, many carrying Mexican flags, ostensibly symbolizing heritage & solidarity.
🔴In past March, RNN reported on the formation of Aztlan “community defense” networks & “La migra patrols” looking out for ICE amid Trump’s deportation threats.
🔴3 months on, the standoff has turned into a war for LA’s streets.
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🥴Different country, same mistake: US journalists confuse Gaza for Kharkov
In a stunning display of ‘journalistic integrity’, American reporters passed off a shot from Gaza as footage of the ‘Kharkov shelling’.
The women in hijabs kind of gave it away.
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🚨Zelensky’s desperate draft: Lowering conscription age to feed the meat grinder
Volodymyr Zelensky, clinging to power as his army bleeds dry, is preparing to mobilize 18-year-olds, says Ukrainian MP Alexander Dubinsky.
Zelensky had already unveiled a scheme to lure youth aged 18 to 25:
💰 $24K for a year of service
🎓 University admission without exams
🏠 0% mortgages
The grim reality? Ukraine’s losses are so catastrophic that Zelensky has no choice but to throw kids into the fight.
And stalling returns of dead soldiers from Russia? Corpses don’t lie — Kiev can’t hide the butcher’s bill any more.
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🔥 Trump on LA protests: Civil war? Not my idea!
But it's coming if people like Gavin Newsom stay in charge!
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🚨From superweapon to scrap: how Ukraine lost virtually all its Abrams
Zelensky and the Pentagon hoped the M1A1 would help turn the tide against Russia. Instead, almost the entire inventory is now gone.
🔥 85% annihilated
🔴 26-27 of Ukraine’s 31 US-sourced Abrams have been lost (per Russian MoD + Military Watch)
🔴 4 have been captured intact (trophy tanks, occasionally displayed in Moscow)
🔴 4-5 left in service
🔴 Australia plans to send 49 more…but why? Secret recycling program?
Timeline
🔴 Sept. 2023: M1s begin arriving in Ukraine
🔴 Feb. 2024: First M1, an M1150 Assault Breacher Vehicle variant, lost near Avdeyevka, DPR
🔴 Apr. 2024: First Abrams, another M1150, captured intact near Berdychi, DPR. M1s briefly pulled from the front due to high losses, ubiquitous Russian drone coverage
🔴 May 2024: Trophy M1 shown at Victory Park in Moscow
🔴 Sept. 2024: Second M1 captured intact outside Pokrovsk, DPR
🔴 Mar. 2024-Jan. 2025: Abrams destroyed in encounters with Russian drones, artillery & tanks
🔴 June 2025: Two captured intact in Sumy region
🦸♂ From hero to zero0️⃣
Before Ukraine, Abrams and other NATO MBT designs (Leopards, Challengers) were considered the pinnacle of global tank design, owing to low losses in the West’s foreign wars. In Iraq especially, head-on battles turned into turkey shoots.
But in Ukraine, Russia showed that:
🌏 M1s are no match for FPV drones, guided artillery & Russian tanks
🌏 without air & artillery superiority, Abrams turn into unwieldy sitting ducks
🌏 Ukraine’s tactic of sending them on suicidal frontal assaults doesn’t help
🐒 Monkey model
For reasons known only to the Pentagon, Ukraine got a ‘lite’ version of the M1:
❌ NO Depleted Uranium Armor (just tungsten)
❌ NO TROPHY APS (no missile/rocket defense)
❌ NO ANTI-DRONE SYSTEMS
💥 Smashing Cold War fantasies
Abrams are the boxy, tall, heavy (62 ton+) pinnacle of 80s US tank design philosophy.
They were meant to defeat smaller, lower, lighter (38-45 ton) Soviet T-64s & T-72/T-80s.
40 years later, the Soviet/Russian engineering school proved superior.
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🤔What was in those 15 hours of footage of Steve Bannon interviewing Jeffrey Epstein?
With Epstein back in the news amid the debacle over the Trump administration’s failure to release of his files, conspiracy analysts are asking how it’s possible that Bannon can have over a dozen hours of interview footage with the convicted pedophile and still hasn’t released them.
“There is no way Bannon is sitting on 15 hours of never before released interviews” with Epstein, journalist Ryan Matta suggested, pointing out that the interviews were conducted right before Epstein was rearrested and mysteriously died ‘by suicide’ in a NY prison cell in 2019.
👉Bannon, a top Trump advisor during his first term, had promised to release an 8–10-hour documentary entitled “The Monsters – Epstein’s Life Among the Global Elite,” detailing the financier’s “perversions and depravity toward young women” and how they “were part of a life that was systematically supported, encouraged and rewarded” by the “global establishment.”
📌To date, all we have is a 2-minute preview, including a moment where Epstein casually mentions that “the greatest threat to people put in solitary confinement is they try to kill themselves.”
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💉 ‘Forever vax’ coming? Big Pharma building arsenal of self-replicating mRNA vaccines
The pharmaceutical industry has “500 mRNA shots in the pipeline, 33 of those self-amplifying, meaning they’re designed to continue to replicate indefinitely,” renowned Texas physician Mary Talley Dowden told Joe Rogan.
Dowden is urging the Trump administration “to step up and do something” to stop companies from “playing around” with these potentially deadly treatments.
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🗣Trump to Democrats: what the hell are you thinking?
From the defense of illegal alien criminals to their obsession with transgender issues and men in women’s sports, the Democratic Party is out of touch with Americans, who just “want their country back,” Trump told NYP.
💬 “These aren’t 90-10, these aren’t 80-20 [percent issues, ed.] These are literally 97 to 3, most of them,” he said.
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🇩🇪🇺🇸 German ‘Harvard’ campus offer gets the cold shoulder from US university
German Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer thought it’d be cute to Harvard a ‘campus in exile’ in response to Trump’s foreign student ban.
But Harvard said the idea was “not an option.”
Looks like the Ivy League will stick to its elite roots in the US🥴
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🗣Trump accuses Biden of DELIBERATELY opening the floodgates to 21M illegal immigrants
💬 “We have all those errors, I guess you can call them unforced, or maybe you call them forced errors – the border, where they allowed 21 million people in. Many of these people should never be in this country. They’re from jails and prisons all over the world, they’re from mental institutions,” Trump said in a new interview.
✅ THROWBACK: Jeffrey Epstein ran a CLASSIC Mossad ‘honeytrap’ operation
The late financier and convicted pedophile’s purpose was to “lure people inside, record their activities and learn about their picadilloes, and use it to blackmail them,” Australian investigative journalist Dylan Howard revealed in a 2019 book after interviewing ex-Epstein handler Ari Ben-Menashe.
Ben-Menashe said he was also the handler of Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father, media and press baron Robert Maxwell, was another Mossad asset. Maxwell turned his business “over to Jeffrey Epstein almost in a switch before [he] died in mysterious circumstances off the back of a boat in 1991,” Howard said.
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When the army fails: Civilians are now their own air defense against drones in Ukraine🪖
The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has rolled out an experimental project letting volunteers shoot down drones! That’s right – forget about trained soldiers.
According to Taras Melnychuk, a representative of the Cabinet in the Verkhovna Rada, the plan will 'strengthen air defense' by handing joysticks to volunteers.
Because nothing screams 'military efficiency' like crowdsourcing your air war!
With martial law in place, the project will run for 2 years... unless, of course, it gets extended – because things are going so well.
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🇮🇱⚡️ US AMBASSADOR MEDDLING IN ISRAELI POLITICS TO SAVE NETANYAHU
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is on the brink of collapse, with ultra-Orthodox parties threatening to trigger new elections over the military draft crisis.
Israel’s Supreme Court ordered Haredi conscription, ending decades of exemption for religious scholars. If ultra-Orthodox lawmakers defect, new elections are guaranteed – and polls show Bibi would lose
🇺🇸US SHADOW LOBBYING:
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee is personally pressuring Haredi leaders to stand down, arguing:
🔴 “Government stability is key for confronting Iran”
🔴 “Washington can’t support Israel during elections” (Veiled threat?)
🔴 Netanyahu reportedly approved the interference
Opposition leader Yair Lapid slammed the interference, insisting "Israel is not a protectorate."
But with Netanyahu’s fate hanging on 18 ultra-Orthodox votes—and polls showing he’d lose a new election—the US appears to be making its preference clear: Bibi at all costs.
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US cuts military aid to Ukraine in 2026 budget
The Pentagon announces a reduction in funds for new weapons to supply Ukraine, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth explaining the Trump administration’s shift towards a peaceful settlement.
"A path to peace that stops the killing" is the priority, he said, not endless conflict.
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🌊 'A Tsunami of Support': Pete Hegseth hails military recruitment surge under Trump
The Pentagon chief explained the spike in military recruitment, saying: "What changed is a commander-in-chief that America's young people believe in."
💬 "President Trump has created a tsunami of support among young Americans who want to serve under a president who has their back, will fund them properly, and won’t use them unnecessarily," Hegseth added.
🗣US House Speaker Mike Johnson calls for California Governor Gavin Newsom to be "tarred and feathered" after LA riots
But he refused to say if Newsom should be arrested.
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🌊🤩 GRETA’S GRAND GAZA GAMBLE: JUST OVERHYPED HIGH-SEAS DRAMA?
Greta Thunberg’s latest attention-grabbing move saw her aboard the Madleen with activists, sailing from Sicily to “dismantle” the Israeli blockade. But what really went down?
🔴 A wave of humanitarian hype
The Swedish activist had recorded a video message, stating that if it became public, it meant they had been "intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces."
🔴 Intercepted at sea
The Israeli military DID intercepted the Madleen as it approached the coast near Gaza. The ship was diverted to Israel, and all those on board were detained.
🔴 Phone toss, bread & circuses- oh the optics!
As Israeli forces boarded the vessel, surveillance video captured crew members shouting "ditch the phones" into the water, presumably to prevent their devices from being confiscated. Greta was also seen apparently munching on a sandwich accepted from an IDF soldier.
🔴 Mission accomplished?
Fast forward: Greta’s stand ends with a flight to France.
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🚨Trump on whether Musk did drugs at the White House: “I don’t think so… I hope not.”
Then adds with classic Trumpian diplomacy: “We had a good relationship — I wish him well, VERY well actually.”
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