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Israel 'on the brink of civil war' as Netanyahu's self-serving judicial overhaul bill progresses

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:11 UTC
Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz
© Jerusalem Post/Flash90Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz
Several ultra-controversial issues have come to a head in Israel this week, sparking more huge protests outside the country's Knesset and in various locations.

Israel's Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz is warning alongside former Israeli army Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, and former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Israel is on the brink of civil war.

The mounting crisis was sparked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's dismissing Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar. "It's true that there are many security challenges from abroad, but Israel's security is at risk because of the internal division," Gantz said at the start of the week.
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FBI's weekend homework: Redact the Epstein files

Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz
CNN
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00 UTC
DC DrainoRaichik Wheeler
© Jim Watson/AFP/Getty ImagesUS conservative activist Scott Presler carry binders bearing the seal of the US Justice Department reading, "The Epstein Files/ Phase 1
White House • Washington D.C.
FBI agents are working around the clock - some in 12-hour overnight shifts - on a frenzied mission this week.

The urgent work isn't an impending national security threat, but instead reviewing documents and other evidence in the investigation of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to make redactions before the Justice Department releases them publicly, according to people familiar with the situation.

The frantic effort is trying to solve a problem largely of the White House's own making: Trump allies spent months fanning conspiracies over Epstein's suicide death and whether the government was holding on to information that could expose prominent people who may have been in involved in his alleged crimes.

Last month, Attorney General Pam Bondi touted the release of Epstein files, which was met with derision from Trump's MAGA supporters who expected to learn new information and were underwhelmed by what they saw.

Comment: The goal has never been transparency. Cui Bono?

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Attention

Another Russian journalist killed in Ukrainian strike


RT
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:17 UTC
Anna Prokofieva
© Social networkAnna Prokofieva
Anna Prokofieva, war correspondent for Russia's Channel One, was killed on Wednesday while on assignment in Belgorod Region, which borders Ukraine. The broadcaster confirmed her death and said that cameraman Dmitry Volkov had also been injured during the incident.

Prokofieva was reportedly working in the village of Demidovka, an area near active fighting. According to early reports, the 35-year-old journalist was killed either by a drone strike or a fatal shrapnel wound, although accounts of the incident differ.

Earlier this week,three members of news crews were killed in Ukrainian attacks in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) and in Kursk Region.

Comment: Also see: Moscow condemns Ukraine's cold-blooded 'terror attacks' on journalists

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Hardhat

Record numbers of German industries flee soaring energy prices, costs and bureaucracy

Pierre L. Gosselin
No Tricks Zone
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:53 UTC
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Soaring energy prices... green energy regulations...35% of German companies say country is too hostile to business.

Blackout News here reports on how a growing number of German industrial companies are relocating their production abroad, driven by soaring energy costs, stifling bureaucracy, and an increasing tax

A recent survey by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) reveals that a staggering 35 percent of companies now cite cost reduction as the primary motivation for their foreign investments - the highest such figure since the 2008 financial crisis.

That's worrisome news for the country, which recently voted for a change in recent national elections. However, chancellor candidate and election winner Friedrich Merz has since broken his major campaign promises and instead will pledged to further accelerate the destructive green policies and to pile on debt like never before.

Comment: Germany's industrial powerhouse was built on cheap Russian gas. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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Adam Carolla calls it: 75 days after CA wildfires, FOUR building permits have been issued in Pacific Palisades

Mike LaChance
The Gateway Pundit
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:38 UTC
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Comedian Adam Carolla commented on the probable aftermath of the January 2025 wildfires in California.
Two months ago in January, comedian Adam Carolla predicted that the rebuilding process after the California wildfires would be a nightmare because of the progressive policies in the state. He said it would be near to impossible to get a building permit.

It has now been 75 days since the fires. How many building permits have been issued for Pacific Palisades? FOUR. Not 400, not 40. FOUR.

It looks like Adam Carolla pretty much called this one, doesn't it?
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Flashback What happened when I walked into the USAID office in Egypt

Larry Taunton
The Federalist
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:09 UTC
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© Larry TauntonThe author Larry Taunton being held up by security at Egypt's USAID office.
The destruction of this rogue agency cannot come soon enough.

For some years now, I have been tracking globalist initiatives at both ends: at the point where the ideological rounds are chambered and downrange where they affect the lives of millions as public policies. This has taken me from places like Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum meets annually, to cartel towns in Colombia where illegal aliens board Zodiacs bound for the Darién Gap and thousands of them simply disappear.

I've also been tracking how USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, via a series of NGOs, has been running what amounts to a massive human trafficking operation across South America, through Central America, and straight up through our borders. President Trump is working to hold accountable those responsible, but there is so much more to the global workings of this clandestine government agency.
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One-third of D.C. district judges were not born in the United States, had no prior judicial experience when appointed

Beth Brelje
The Federalist
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:51 UTC
U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
© Highsmith, Carol M.The historic E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse which houses the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Of all the judges in the U.S. all five foreign-born judges of the D.C. court managed to get their fingerprints on controversial Trump cases.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the source of many of the cases interfering with President Donald Trump's authority, has 15 judges, (Counting Chief Judge James Boasberg) and five of them were born outside the United States.

While country of origin doesn't come up in most jobs, it is worth asking if judges with ties to foreign nations and cultures are the right ones to make decisions affecting the U.S. military or immigration.

The concept of foreign-born judges is a newer phenomenon in this district. In addition to the 15 main judges, the D.C. District has 10 older, senior judges who still occasionally hear cases in the district. This group, nominated as far back as Ronald Reagan the 1980s, were all born in the U.S.
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Best of the Web: Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal attacked by Israeli settlers then arrested by IDF

Lorenzo Tondo
The Guardian
Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:47 UTC
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© Mike Coppola / Getty ImagesFrom left: Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with their Oscar awards for best documentary for the film No Other Land in the press room at the 97th Academy Awards
Director of No Other Land attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

A Palestinian director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been arrested by the Israeli army after masked settlers attacked his house.

According to five Jewish American activists who witnessed the attack, Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the the film that documented the destruction of villages in the West Bank, was surrounded and attacked by a group of about 15 armed settlers in Susya in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron.

"They started throwing stones towards Palestinians and destroyed a water tank near Hamdan's house," said Joseph, of the activists from the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, who asked not to use his full name for security reasons.

Comment: Ballal has since been released, no doubt due to public outcry.

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© Basel Adra/InstagramHamdan Ballal receiving treatment in a hospital in Hebron after being released.
How many thousands of Palestinians, including children languish in Israeli prisons because they are not prominent public figures?

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Taser

Concert hall terrorist attack masterminded by 'unfriendly country' - Moscow


RT
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:58 UTC
CCH memorial
© Alexey Maishev/SputnikPeople gather near a memorial by the Crocus City Hall for victims of a deadly terrorist attack on the concert venue.
The aim of the assault on Crocus City Hall was to destabilize Russia, the Investigative Committee has said.

The deadly terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow was masterminded by the intelligence services of an "unfriendly country," Russia's Investigative Committee has claimed on the anniversary of the massacre.
Four gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall ahead of a rock concert on March 22, 2024, shooting everyone in sight before setting the building on fire. A terrorist organization known as Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) claimed responsibility for the assault, which took 145 lives and left over 550 injured.
The suspected perpetrators - all citizens of the Central Asian country of Tajikistan - were detained shortly after the attack while fleeing in a car towards the Ukrainian border. More than a dozen of their accomplices have been arrested since then.

Comment: It would seem Russia is playing the long game in not revealing what it knows.
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South Africa's 'femicide' emergency deepens


RT
Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:50 UTC
Femicide
© cyano66/Getty ImagesFemicide
According to data cited by a University of Cape Town professor, three women have been killed by an intimate partner per day since 2009

Inadequate resources and the poor implementation of laws that are supposed to protect women are hampering the efforts against the scourge of femicide and intimate partner violence (IPV).

IPV has been thrust into focus again this week as the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced that the attempted murder case against Edwin Sodi has been struck from the Randburg Magistrate's Court's roll.

This also comes days after Cape Town convicted murderer, Wayne Lawrence, was sentenced to a cumulative 71 years behind bars for the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Angela, and the attempted murder of their daughter, who was shot in the foot during a domestic dispute. Lawrence was a licensed firearm holder who, at the time of the incident, owned two firearms.
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