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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Next month the Education Department will begin collection on federal student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially 5.3 million borrowers. "American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies," Education Secretary Linda McMahon, a Roman Catholic convert and former Wrestlemania CEO, crowed. The US Dept of Education have previously deployed their SWAT team to collect on student loan defaults. financialpost.com read more


Dotard Trump is a "Soviet leaders' dream" according to a leading Russian scholar. read more


A swimmer is missing following an extremely rare shark attack off the coast of northern Israel about 25 miles north of Tel Aviv. Sharks are known to gather there where warm water is discharged by a local power plant, and especially at this time of year, but they are usually harmless. There have been no recorded fatal shark attacks in waters off Israel since the country was founded in 1948. Below Israelis admire a shark in the same area in 2021. Pre-attack video of the shark captured here: twitter.com read more


1) President Zelensky will attend Pope Francis' funeral at the Vatican, as will Trumpf and King Charles. The sidebar conversations will be something to note. Lipreaders might be helpful to some intelligence agencies. 2) The Kremlin is satisfied with US statements that Ukraine will not join NATO. Trumpf considers Ukraine's non-membership of NATO to be part of any diplomatic settlement to end the war. 3) Russia lost 1,130 soldiers KIA and WIA over the past day. Total Russian losses since Feb 2022: 943,060 (+1,130) troops. 4) Japan's Kyushu University Institute has agreed to provide Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. Note Bene: Russia and Japan never signed a peace treaty at the end of WWII so technically they are still in a state of war. 5) Poor little puppy rescued under rubble after Russian missile attack in Sumy Oblast: t.me read more


Passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight evacuated on emergency slides onto the Orlando International Airport tarmac in Florida after an engine caught fire. Flight 1213 was pushing back from the gate for departure at 1115HRS when the emergency began. 282 passengers were on board the full-capacity flight (an Airbus A330), as well as ten flight attendants and two pilots. There were no initial reports of injuries. read more


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