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Saturday, June 06, 2026

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the US, recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from America's so-called ally in the Middle East to the highest level. DIA's civilian counterpart CIA, has always considered Israeli intelligence to be their top counterintelligence threat in the Middle East, as in the case of infamous American traitor Jonathan Pollard.

Sayanim are "helpers" or "volunteers" for the Israeli Mossad


Friday, June 05, 2026

Donald Trump and his congressional allies are escalating attacks on California's election system, demanding investigations into the state's slow vote count and accusing Democrats of rigging the results of this week's primaries. The 79-year-old president aired the accusations in a Truth Social post on Thursday night blasting California's election process as worse than that of a "Third World Country." Trump accused election officials of delaying the vote count in an attempt to manipulate the outcome. "They don't wait seven days to tell you who won, rigging the Election during each and every one of them," he said. The post came as Republicans ramped up attacks on California's election system following Tuesday's primaries. The results of the primaries for state governor and Los Angeles mayor have still to be called, with less than two-thirds of ballots counted by Thursday night. Read more


AT&T and Verizon lost an attempt to overturn fines for selling users' real-time location data without consent, as the Supreme Court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission process for issuing financial penalties did not violate the right to a jury trial.


Play us some new artists, original or covers... or just what your are listening to.


"Department of Justice lawyers made the bizarre argument while defending Donald Trump's ballroom.

"If the government decides very quickly to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, the people whose ancestors"that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast"nothing can be done?" Judge Patricia Millett asked, according to Politico's Kyle Cheney.

"I think that's right, yes," the government responded."


President Donald Trump has outlined his mandate for incoming acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte: He wants to gut the office.

Trump said in a Wall Street Journal interview published Friday he believes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is too bloated, and has tasked Pulte, who will take over for Tulsi Gabbard, with overseeing staffing cuts.

"I'd like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn't be there," he told the Journal.

The Journal reported Trump suggested Pulte prioritize firing staff who served during the Biden and Obama administrations.


Measles cases in the United States have surpassed 2,000 for the second year in a row, according to data updated Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).


Police in Italy have arrested two Pakistani nationals for the alleged murder of four migrant workers found dead in a burnt-out minivan, according to Italian media reports. Read more


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ending a policy that required the agency to report the deaths of former detainees that occurred within 30 days of their release from federal custody. The policy, issued during the Biden administration, directed the agency to review and report all detainee fatalities, including those that occurred post-release. The policy reversal by the Trump administration comes amid scrutiny from lawmakers and immigrant advocates over the rising death rate of detained immigrants in federal custody. According to an ABC News analysis of Immigration and Customs Enforcement data and the number of detainee deaths provided to Congress from ICE, the first 14 months of the second Trump administration represent the most deadly period for the federal detention system in recent years -- with the exception of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic contributed to detention deaths.


The DOD has dropped 180 religions from official recognition, now excluding Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists, and various Wiccans. Moreover, a panel from the House Armed Services Committee approved the expensive, wasteful, and abhorrent scheme to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

How would a Bronze Star hero like atheist Colonel Richard P. Mason be treated by the diabolical Trumpf junta today?


Astronauts aboard the International Space Station were told to prepare for potential evacuation because of a worsening air leak. Nasa said the leak was coming from the Russian segment of the station, where cracks have previously been detected. Four of the seven crew " two US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut " received orders from Nasa mission control to enter their Crew Dragon spacecraft docked to the station wearing their spacesuits. Nasa said Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, will carry out repairs on Friday.


President Donald Trump faced online backlash from conservatives after announcing the changes to a historical landmark.


In an open letter, Green Party leader Zack Polanski and Your Party leader Jeremy Corbyn have called for the British government to investigate approximately 2,000 British-Israeli dual nationals that served in the IDF during Israel's pogrom in Gaza, which a UN commission of inquiry concluded is genocide. How many poor Palestinians these ~2,000 Britons may have murdered in Gaza is anyone's guess unless they each confess and the numbers are then tallied up by Scotland Yard.

The British dealt harshly with their fascists during the Second World War
AIPAC has less influence in the UK, but behind closed doors their counterparts are nevertheless busy influencing the British Parliament


Thursday, June 04, 2026

A US trade judge took the unusual step of personally responding to the Trump administration's appeal of his order to refund $166 billion in tariffs the Supreme Court declared unlawful, calling the government's filings "colorful" and questioning its legal stance.


Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes plans to seek a new indictment against allies of President Donald Trump who aided his quest to overturn the 2020 election, her office said Thursday after the state's high court shot down an effort to revive her sprawling first indictment against them.


Iran and Russia have signed a sweeping $25 billion nuclear cooperation agreement to expand Tehran's civilian nuclear infrastructure, deepening strategic ties between the two countries even as negotiations with the United States continue over efforts to curb the Islamist regime's nuclear activities.


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