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Gangs have Haiti's capital nearing collapse - UN

Haiti fire
© Guerinault Louis/Anadolu/Getty ImagesPeople evacuate the premises as the fire during a tanker carrying diesel exploded, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 04, 2024
Armed groups control 90% of Port-au-Prince and over a million people are displaced, an official has warned.

Heavily armed gangs now control most Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and the city is on the brink of total collapse, a senior UN official has warned.

Violence is escalating across the Caribbean nation while the international response remains slow and fragmented, Ghada Fathi Waly, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, told the UN Security Council on Wednesday. According to UN statistics, at least 5,600 people were killed in gang-related incidents in 2024 alone.

Haiti has been without a president since the assassination of Jovenel Moise in July 2021, leaving a power vacuum that has allowed armed gangs to expand their influence unchecked. In the absence of a functioning central government and with weakened state institutions, the armed groups have grown in strength, seizing territory and increasingly operating as the de facto authorities across the country, particularly in the capital.

Comment: It appears the United Nations is more talk than action or support.


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Cage Match

". . . [W}e are closing in on more disclosures and fixing past wrongs to personnel. We're making sure this is done correctly. But it's absolutely getting done." Dan Bongino, Deputy Director, FBI

Elon Musk
© kunstler.comElon, as he is currently imagining himself.
Who knows what to believe these days? Well, what would you expect after years, even decades, of anti-reality operations by everyone from the CIA to The New York Times to Harvard U? Is it any wonder that reality-optionality is making the people both apathetic and insane?

We are told now by the FBI that there is no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein ran a blackmail operation against the politicos of Western Civ, or that a "client list" existed, or that JE was murdered in his jail cell. It well might be true that there is no evidence, strictly speaking.

Messrs. Patel and Bongino, coming into office rather late in the Epstein game, were apparently left with a big bag of nuthin. What else can they truthfully report? So, they had to put it out there, knowing a whole lot of people would be miffed. "We've got nuthin, sorry." Were they chagrined to do that? Evidently so. Of course, this Epstein business has been going on for years and years and it is certainly possible that the most damning evidence has been destroyed by interested parties.

Personally, I find it implausible that absolutely nothing ever leaked, no video of, say, Tony Blair or Bill Clinton violating a child, if it ever happened. Everything else in our world leaks, eventually. And there were supposedly how many cameras around the Epstein properties, and how many thousands of hours of video recordings? There is more video of Bigfoot than of compromised Epstein bigshots. Just sayin'.

Arrow Down

In bid to curb outflow of wealthy citizens, Green-New-Deal Europe levying exit taxes

As political, social and economic conditions rapidly deteriorate across misgoverned Europe - stemming mainly from climate hysteria policies and open borders - the wealthy are packing up and taking their lives and capital elsewhere.
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High energy prices, climate hysteria, dwindling freedoms, rigid regulations, high crime rates and social decay are eroding the globalist-green utopia.

Hat-tip: Blackout News

Increasingly, European nations are implementing so-called exit taxes to curb the outflow of wealthy citizens to tax havens and to secure their domestic tax bases. Countries like Germany, Norway, and Belgium are spearheading new regulations designed to tax capital gains before individuals emigrate.

This reminds of when Communist East Germany built a wall to keep its citizens from moving out to free market, democratic West Germany in 1961. Today that wall is being replaced by exit taxes.

Bullseye

'Billboard Chris' wins free speech battle in Australia: 'Truth and common sense have prevailed'

Billboard Chris anti transgender gender ideology
© ADF InternationalBillboard Chris
A tribunal in Melbourne, Australia, has ruled in favor of Canadian activist Chris "Billboard Chris" Elston, overturning a government order to remove one of his social media posts expressing his views on gender identity, under that country's Online Safety Act. The decision marks a major legal victory for the social media platform X, which had also challenged the takedown order.

Elston's post, published in February 2024, criticized the appointment of trans-identified activist Teddy Cook to an expert position at the World Health Organization and referred to Cook using biologically based pronouns.

The post was deemed "cyber abuse" by Australia's eSafety Commissioner, who then issued a removal order to X, according to the legal advocacy group ADF International, which, in conjunction with the Human Rights Law Alliance in Australia, coordinated the legal challenge.

Comment: Some of Billboard Chris' activities around the world. He is a hero.








Bullseye

Bukele mocks Abrego Garcia's torture claims with prison highlight reel

Kilmar Abrego Garcia deported el salvador
© Fox News; @nayibbukelefox News; @nayibbukeleEl Salvador President Nayib Bukele has released a video highlight reel showing Kilmar Abrego Garcia apparently thriving during his imprisonment, in an attempt to refute the migrant’s claims that he was tortured while in custody.
Video shows Abrego Garcia enjoying soccer, gardening and fishing while imprisoned

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has released a video highlight reel showing Kilmar Abrego Garcia apparently thriving during his imprisonment, in an attempt to refute the migrant's claims that he was tortured while in custody.

Abrego Garcia, who a judge ruled was erroneously deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador and then returned after a court order, is seen in the video gardening, playing soccer, fishing and enjoying other leisurely activities while imprisoned in his home country.

The video appears at odds with Abrego Garcia's claims in legal filings that he was severely beaten, deprived of sleep and psychologically tortured while detained.

Comment: Democrat poster boy and "Maryland Man" Kilmar Abrego Garcia:



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One final point. Let's be real about this: Abrego-Garcia and his family were likely LYING about the threats to his safety. He only came up with this story about his mom's pupusa business AFTER HE HAD BEEN DENIED BAIL.

This guy crossed the border illegally in 2012 by his own admission. He never gained legal status. He was finally detained in 2019, and found removable. He came up with a sob story to delay his deportation. Even if he were telling the truth, he should have had his withholding of removal removed as early as 2022, once Bukele had crushed the Eighteenth Street Gang. He has no right to be in this country, he crossed our border illegally, and he has been residing in this country illegally for almost twelve years. Totally independently of whether or not he is a member of MS-13 (which he likely is), he needed to go home!



Explosion

Fireworks warehouse explosion in Northern California injures 2, 7 unaccounted for

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© KGO via the Associated PressSmoke and flames rise at a fireworks warehouse near Esparto, Calif., on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
Flames erupted ahead of Fourth of July celebrations, shaking local rural community

Sudden flames ignited a warehouse storing fireworks in rural Northern California, causing an explosion with an impromptu pyrotechnic display ahead of the Fourth of July.

The incident happened on Tuesday afternoon, around 5:50 p.m. in the rural town of Esparto, Yolo County, per CBS.

Local NBC affiliate KCRA 3 News captured live one of the big explosions. The warehouse can be seen on fire with black fumes moments before the firework display.

Comment: Local station KCRA updates:
While searching for seven people who disappeared after massive explosions at a fireworks warehouse in the Esparto area, the Yolo County Sheriff's Office confirmed on Friday that it had found human remains at the site.

This comes after crews began entering the property Thursday afternoon to search for the people. LiveCopter 3 was overhead during their search. What appeared to be human remains were seen on stretchers.

Details were not released as to how many people crews believe they have recovered.

Crews are expected to continue their recovery mission throughout the weekend, the sheriff's office said. The personnel at the site include investigators, fire crews and members of the Yolo County Coroner's Office.

The sheriff's office said it has no positive identifications at this time for the remains, and the coroner's office is in contact with the families of the missing people.

The facility at County roads 23 and 86A caught fire around 5:50 p.m. Tuesday. As LiveCopter 3 was headed to the fire, its cameras could already see a massive plume of black smoke from miles away.
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© Google MapsA devastating explosion occurred at a fireworks warehouse located outside Esparto, CA on July 1, 2025



Star of David

What's on your phone? Time to boycott the best-selling apps made by Israeli spies

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A new frontier for the BDS movement

The developers behind hundreds of Android and iPhone apps with billions of downloads are former Israeli spies whose apps are generating significant revenues for Israel's genocidal war economy.

The apps I've identified range from innocuous image and video editing apps to casual games, and most users won't be aware they're installing Israeli products on their phones. Many of these app developers operate under the radar, their ownership structures are opaque and the identity of their owners isn't commonly known.

The identification of these apps should add another frontier to the boycott, divest, sanctions movement, as it provides a straightforward way for ordinary people to avoid Israeli products that contribute to apartheid, genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Hardhat

Domestic labor renaissance: Native-born workers surge to record high, foreign employment drops under Trump

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There were plenty of good details to report in today's jobs report: the unexpected surge in monthly jobs (which came almost above the top of the forecast range), the drop in unemployment, the moderation in hourly earnings, the continued loss of federal workers, the jump in full-time jobs and the drop in part-time jobs.

There were also several not so good aspects: first and foremost, the narrow breadth in hiring, with most job growth in June the result of Education and Health services (+51K), and Government (+73), which are government, or government-linked, sectors.

Comment: Apparently some good news, but those that benefit from indentured labor (also known as H-1B visas) are still trying to keep their profits up:






Gavel

Colorado Christian camp scores legal victory against state's radical transgender rules

Christian youth camp IdRaHaJe
© Camp IdRaHaJeChristian youth camp IdRaHaJe in Colorado
Camp IdRaHaJe can continue its work in alignment with its Christian stance on biological sex, but Colorado is still pushing trans ideology.

Colorado officials have reached a settlement in a federal lawsuit with a Christian summer camp, allowing the camp to continue operating according to its religious beliefs on biological sex.

The Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) announced a new regulation early this year requiring resident camps to provide access to restrooms, showers, dressing areas, and sleeping facilities that align with campers' gender identities rather than their biological sex. The CDEC said the regulation was based on rules from the Colorado Civil Rights Commission implementing the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act.

Target

Best of the Web: UK MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group

Palestine support crowd
© UnknownCrowd support for Palestine
Minister argues move will not impinge on people's right to protest but critics call it 'grave abuse of state power'.

MPs have voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation despite concerns that the move could risk criminalising legitimate protest.

The draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 and proscribe the group, laid by the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, passed the Commons on Wednesday by 385 votes to 26. The order also bans two neo-Nazi groups, the Maniacs Murder Cult (MMC) and the Russia Imperial Movement (RIM).

Outlining the government's case to MPs, the Home Office minister Dan Jarvis said:
"By implementing this measure, we will remove Palestine Action's veil of legitimacy, tackle its financial support and degrade its efforts to recruit and radicalise people into committing terrorist activity in its name.

"But we must be under no illusion. Palestine Action is not a legitimate protest group. People engaged in lawful protests don't need weapons. People engaged in lawful protests do not throw smoke bombs and fire pyrotechnics around innocent members of the public. And people engaged in lawful protests do not cause millions of pounds of damage to national security infrastructure, including submarines and defensive equipment for Nato.

"Proscribing Palestine Action will not impinge on people's right to protest. Those who wish to protest or express support for Palestine have always been able to and can continue to do so."
But Jarvis faced a backlash from some MPs who described the move as a "draconian overreach" and likened the group to the Suffragettes. It will become a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison for anyone to become a member of and support the direct action of Palestine Action.

Comment: Anti-terrorism laws and possible Tehran funding fuel this controversy, though neither may be applicable:
Home Office to bar group under anti-terrorism laws, with officials said to be investigating possible Tehran funding.

A Palestine Action spokesperson's response:
"This is a baseless investigation and ridiculous investigation. We are funded by ordinary people who support us.

"They are doing it because they don't believe that banning an organisation causing damage to weapons factories and companies who enable the production of weapons sits well with a lot of the public, and therefore they're trying to create a smear campaign in order to justify the proscription.

"You would think that politicians would want to vote based on hard facts."
The anonymous Home Office briefing about Iran came two days after the advocacy group We Believe in Israel tweeted:
"Behind Palestine Action's theatre of resistance stands a darker puppeteer: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ... Palestine Action is the mask. The IRGC is the face."
The only evidence it provided was saying that the IRGC's vocabulary "echoes in Palestine Action's slogans".

The ban would place the group alongside the likes of al-Qaida, Islamic State and National Action, and make it a criminal offence to be a member of the group or show support for it.
Lines are blurred when legalities come a distant second to fear, power and agenda.