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Revealed: Israeli military's own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war

Emma Graham-Harrison, Yuval Abraham
The Guardian
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:30 UTC
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© Getty Images/KJNGaza: Death and Heartbreak
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000.

Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.

As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or "probably dead", a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found.

At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a toll that included combatants and civilians. Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians.

Comment: The collective power of psychopaths at war: No mercy, no survivors, no remorse.

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Columbia University student among 5 killed in New York tour bus crash after Niagara Falls visit

Alexandra Koch
Fox News
Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:54 UTC
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© Libby March/Buffalo News via APFirst responders work to rescue victims at the scene of a tour bus that crashed and rolled over on the New York State Thruway in Pembroke on Friday, August 22, 2025.
Police identify dead passengers from horror NY State Thruway rollover that injured 24 others on board

A Columbia University student was among five people killed Friday when a tour bus returning from Niagara Falls rolled over on a rural stretch of Interstate 90 of the New York State Thruway in upstate New York, according to authorities.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Columbia University said it is mourning the death of Xie Hongzhuo, 22, of Beijing, China, who was a student in New York City.

"This heartbreaking loss is felt deeply across our community," a spokesperson wrote in a statement. "We are in close contact with her family and offering them our full support. ... Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with her family, friends, and all who have been touched by this tragedy."

The university said it is providing counseling and other resources to students who may need them.

Comment: Missing from the report is the status of the driver and his CDL (commercial driver license).



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World Boxing will now require sex testing for fighters before world championships

Greg Beacham
Associated Press
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:35 UTC
Imane Khelif olympics boxing women cheat
© AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, FileAlgeria’s Imane Khelif, right, fights China’s Yang Liu in their women’s 66 kg final boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024, in Paris, France. (
The governing body for Olympic-style boxing will require sex testing for all fighters wishing to compete in the women's division at its world championships next month.

World Boxing already had announced its plan to require competitors to undergo a polymerase chain reaction test or an equivalent genetic screening test to determine their sex at birth. The rules will be implemented ahead of the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool, England, in early September, the organization announced Wednesday.

The tests identify the presence or absence of Y chromosome genetic material as the indicator of biological sex.

"World Boxing respects the dignity of all individuals and is keen to ensure it is as inclusive as possible," World Boxing president Boris Van Der Vorst said. "Yet in a combat sport like boxing, we have a duty of care to deliver safety and competitiveness fairness, which are the key principles that have guided the development and creation of this policy."

Comment: Amen. May the madness be ending.



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Dutch foreign minister quits over failure to secure sancions against Israel

Cleo Skopeliti
The Guardian
Sat, 23 Aug 2025 06:22 UTC
Veldkamp
© Sem van der Wal/ANP/AFP/Getty Images.Caspar Veldkamp said he was 'insufficiently able to take meaninful additional measures'
Caspar Veldkamp resigns after cabinet reaches deadlock on adopting harsher measures over situation in Gaza.

The Dutch foreign minister, Caspar Veldkamp, has resigned after a cabinet meeting failed to secure sanctions against Israel, weakening the Netherlands' already fragile caretaker government.

Veldkamp's colleagues from the centrist New Social Contract (NSC) party also walked out after the cabinet debate late on Friday reached an impasse over adopting harsher measures against Israel.

The discussions about taking further steps against Israel came after the Netherlands joined 20 other countries in signing a joint declaration on Thursday condemning Israeli plans to build an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. Critics say the 3,400-home settlement would split the territory in half.

The Netherlands barred the far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country in July.
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The creepy agenda behind Australia's proposed "bedroom tax"

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:57 UTC
“bedroom tax”
© Off-Guardian
An Australian think-tank has proposed a radical solution to the supposed "housing crisis" - tax people for unused bedrooms.

The thinking is simple: There are many people, mostly older couples whose children have left home, living in family-sized homes with one or more bedrooms sitting empty. If the state were to impose a tax on unoccupied bedrooms, whilst abolishing stamp duty, they will incentivise those people to sell their family homes and downsize, thus freeing up homes for young families looking to buy.

But is that really how it would work?

Of course not.

What will happen is that newly incentivized sellers will bump up against hedge funds and private equity firms who are willing to pay 10-20% over market price. I covered this back in my 2021 article What's REALLY behind the war on home ownership?
The incipient "Great Reset" is a multi-faceted beast. We talk a lot about vaccine passports and lockdowns and the Covid-realated aspects - and we should - but there's more to it than that.

Remember, they want you to "own nothing and be happy". And right at the top of the list of things you definitely shouldn't own, is your own home.

The headlines about this have been steady for the last few years, but it has picked up pace in the wake of the "pandemic" (as has so much else). An agenda hidden on back pages, behind by Covid's meaningless big red numbers, but perhaps no less sinister.
It has been progressing steadily since then. By December 2022 private equity firms were accounting for almost 30% of home purchases in the united states. BlackRock et al. are projected to own around 40% of American homes by 2030.
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Piece by piece: BlackRock bid for Minnesota Power company worries consumer advocates

Brian Martucci
Minnesota Reformer
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:14 UTC
Blackrock
Private equity shops have earned outsized returns on investments in health care, telecommunications and housing — with mixed results for consumers.

Now, they may be running the same playbook on the once-sleepy utility business, with BlackRock's proposed takeover of the parent company of Duluth-based Minnesota Power as a key test case. Public filings in the hotly contested matter show ratepayer advocates, labor unions, environmental groups and major customers of Minnesota Power on different sides of the issue.

At the heart of the matter is a simple question: Is it a good or bad thing for the world's largest asset manager to have a controlling stake in a regional utility?

A private equity buyout of the electric utility serving large swathes of northern Minnesota could weaken its finances and jeopardize its compliance with Minnesota's carbon-free power standard — while raising rates and reducing reliability for more than 150,000 customers, administrative law judge Megan J. McKenzie said on July 15. McKenzie's lengthy report called on the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission — or the PUC — to reject the proposed deal.

Comment: Corporations never make a move unless there's money to be made. So it's smoke and mirrors on the green front. What matters is the net effect on consumers, and they tell a different story:







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Marine Corps wife, mom blasts New York state for wrongful levy on their savings: 'Left us with pennies'

Jasmine Baehr
Fox News
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:50 UTC
Jon Ogasian new york state bank account drained msrra
© Courtesy of Sarah OgasianMaster Sgt. Jon Ogasian with his wife, Sarah, and their children during his most recent promotion.
Sarah Ogasian says state tax officials were unaware of federal protections for servicemembers

Sarah Ogasian, a Marine Corps spouse, mother and ER nurse, remembers the exact moment her husband, Master Sgt. Jon Ogasian, discovered their savings account had been wiped out.

The couple lived in Highland, New York, while Jon was stationed at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, before moving to Texas, where he is currently at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.

"[Jon] said that he woke up, went to work at the military base, opened up his cellphone and looked on his app, checking our bank accounts, and that it was completely drained," Sarah Ogasian said in an interview with Fox News Digital. "There was absolutely no money left in our bank account, and he just literally wanted to just vomit. ... As soon as the money was gone, it literally left us with pennies."

Comment: Wilfully ignoring the SCRA provisions for military families has been a long-standing problem:



Banks uncover additional wrongful foreclosures on military members

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Israel has started the invasion of Gaza City, and is now annihilating one of its most historic neighborhoods

Tareq S. Hajjaj
Mondoweiss
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00 UTC
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© Saeed Qaq/ZUMA Press Wire/ZUMA Wire/APA ImagesIsraeli army tank deploys near the Gaza border • May 20, 2025
Earlier this month, the Israeli army confirmed its plans to occupy Gaza City, with the invasion reportedly set to start on October 7. But on the ground, the invasion has already started.

On August 10, the Israeli army began invading the eastern parts of Gaza City, with Israeli ground forces moving into one of the city's largest neighborhoods, al-Zaytoun. The neighborhood borders the Netzarim corridor to the south.

Locals from the Zaytoun neighborhood told Mondoweiss that they had received orders via phone calls to evacuate their homes to the southern Gaza Strip. Shortly after, the Israeli army started relentlessly bombarding the neighborhood.

Based on the pace of the carpet-bombing, locals in Gaza are now speculating that October 7 would not be the date Israel's occupation of the city began, but the deadline for when Gaza City would be completely erased.

Comment: When resolve outlasts the population...where to go from there?

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Get woke, going broke: Cracker Barrel latest to give leftist branding a try

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:30 UTC
cracker barrel logo change
© CopyrightResturant Cracker Barrel has changed its logo to comport with the new 'woke' values of its CEO, Julie Felss Masino
Cracker Barrel faces "Bud Light" Moment

Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino is steering straight into a "Bud Light" moment - learning nothing in recent years - by abandoning the restaurant chain's half-century-old logo that symbolized nostalgia for rural Americana and the "old country store" experience. Instead, the company has embraced the woke rebranding of many other household names.

The soulless rebranding of the new Cracker Barrel logo has sparked backlash across various social media platforms among conservatives. The previous logo once featured an older gentleman in working-poor clothes, leaning on a wooden barrel, which historically held crackers and dry goods in general stores. In fact, the name "Cracker Barrel" comes from how people a century ago gathered around barrels in country stores to talk, eat crackers, and share stories. The greater understanding of the barrel is that it symbolizes community.

Comment: Will Cracker Barrel suffer the fate of Bud Light, Harley Davidson, Tractor Supply, and others who have taken this fatal path? Will Robby Starbuck set his sights on CB? Apparently, yes:





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Training for therapists instructs mental health professionals to view Trump supporters as 'cult members'—even their own patients

Pamela Garfield-Jaeger
The Post Millennial
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:00 UTC
Marich/Lalich
© UnknownDr. Janja Lalich • Dr. Jamie Marich, Ph.D 
According to the training, MAGA is a "cult on a national scale" that "presents an image of bringing the country back to a white majority and white power."

A new training out for therapists and mental health professionals paints President Donald Trump as a cult leader and the Make America Great Again movement as a "cult on a national scale." The course, designed for therapists, is entitled The Impact of Donald Trump on America - A Cultic Studies Perspective and it was held on August 7, 2025.

The course is a violation of ethical guidelines for therapists and encourages therapists and mental health professionals to position themselves both in opposition to Trump-supporting clients and to bring activism into their treatment.

Comment: Do you know YOUR therapist's bias?

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