i don't believe much of what i'm told by most sources about anything 'our' government does, says or promises;

 

Lots going on tonight. The biggest news is that the US has once again violated the MoU by attacking Iran. To understand the extent of this violation it is essential to recall what is stated in paragraph 5 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran:

Upon the signing of this MoU, the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge, for 60 days only, from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, and considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles, and demining by the Islamic Republic of Iran will be instated within 30 days. The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialog with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf littoral states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.

No where in the document does it stipulate that Iran cannot enforce its Persian Gulf Strait Authority protocols. The Iranian Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) is an Iranian government body (linked to the IRGC) established to manage and regulate maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Main requirements of the protocols include:..........more..........

 the trump boys are thinning gun regulations; 

 

The Trump administration is triggering hysteria in legacy media ranks over its agenda to relax gun rules.

They’re rolling back a “tsunami” of gun regulations, Axios announced over the weekend, adding that “the effect critics fear is more guns moving with less federal scrutiny.”

The New York Times told readers on Sunday, “Trump Administration Rolls Back Dozens of Gun Regulations.” The Times leads with this opening:

The Trump administration is scrapping more than three dozen firearms regulations, abandoning a crackdown on illegal sales, restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness and loosening oversight of private weapons transactions

These rollbacks would reportedly “let Americans ship handguns in the mail, gut Biden-era background check rules and make it harder to yank a gun dealer’s license.”

Rule Changes

Some of these regulatory changes or proposals have been in motion for some time during Trump’s second term. Back in April, the ATF announced changes that would “reduce burdens on law-abiding gun owners and businesses.” An ATF spokesperson said the point was to shift focus to “willful violators and criminal actors, not inadvertent compliance issues by responsible owners and licensees.” The changes included streamlining rules and regulations on forms to make it easier on gun dealers and owners. It also included a ban reversal on “non-lethal training ammunition and dual-use barrels.” You can read more about the changes here..........more...........

 this in no way serves and protects;

 

 A police officer speeds 70 MPH down a two-lane highway running over a bridge in the Florida Keys. He passes a dump truck in a no-passing zone, then immediately does it again, crossing over a double-yellow line to pass another truck. He passes a third vehicle, nearly causing a head-on collision with a white pickup truck that veers away from him in the oncoming traffic. The cop keeps driving, and sees the SUV he’s been in pursuit of. He flicks his sirens and lights on and pulls it over.

The cop, Lamar Roman, wasn’t trying to pull over a suspected criminal. He was tracking and chasing a woman that he met and harassed on the set of the AppleTV+ show Bad Monkey, which he had worked a security detail shift on a few weeks prior to pulling her over. After meeting the woman, catcalling her and harassing her for her full name and Instagram details, the cop illegally looked up her vehicle information on DAVID, a Florida Department of Motor Vehicles database for law enforcement. He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.

Roman told investigators that he saw the woman as a “shiny thing” and knew that using surveillance tools to track her was illegal, according to police records. He told investigators that “I knew that when I put [her into DAVID], I’m like ‘fuck’ and that’s why I stopped right after and nothing else.” But that wasn’t the end of it; he investigated the woman then used a powerful license plate tracking database to find her location and chase her down. In doing so, he also “almost cause[d] a head on collision while passing as a white truck traveling northbound had to veer off the roadway to avoid a collision.”.......more...........

 the amazing president bigly created a board of peace. what an amazing imagination. his concentration camps will be much more amazing than his german ancestors could have created;

 

 Surviving Palestinians will be herded into fenced “humanitarian shelters” policed by foreign forces under a plan led by US president Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ in the coming weeks, according to an Israeli newspaper.

This will allow the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to occupy more of Gaza, “deepen[ing] its grip on areas beyond the yellow line”, Israel Hayom reported on Tuesday.

The plan has been widely condemned on social media, with historian Assal Rad posting on X: “They’re building concentration camps.”

Under the pilot programme, unarmed civilians would be channelled to a first zone in Tel al-Sultan, near Rafah, an area that has been systematically razed by the Israeli military.

Palestinians in the camps will be under the control of “multinational forces” – known as the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) – from the Board of Peace as a condition of receiving food and aid.

Board of Peace officials have pledged that no concrete will be brought in for the reconstruction of Gaza in those areas, according to Israel Hayom.

One base for the foreign forces has already been built, and the Board of Peace has “begun identifying sites” for the establishment of large logistics warehouses for regulating the camps..........more........

 be careful. these guys scared a negro and did nothing to earn it beyond being present;

 

 Over the Fourth of July weekend, Washington DC found itself beset by the “Patriot Front”, about 400 guys in matching outfits, with white balaclavas covering their faces and waving flags about.

The (relatively small) gathering walked about a bit, did some marching, waved some flags…and scared the press to death!They’re not real, of course.

The running joke has already become they are barely-disguised federal agents indulging in some rather lame propaganda, even as some members of rightwing defend both their realness and their aims.

Apparently they do community projects and stuff.

Regardless, they are not real. Even if they’re not literally all FBI agents – which we can’t actually rule out – they are a psy-op to some extent or another.

Just look at them. And you can just look at them, do you know why? Because they’re all over the press and social media.

This picture in particular has “gone viral”...........more........

 the ukie war is more war than we've seen in some time;

 

 The NATO summit taking place in Turkey this week was already looking fraught with simmering tensions between Trump and Europe. Now the jamboree in Ankara and the facade of unity are shattered by the dramatic liberation of Konstantinovka by Russian forces.

The Russian military’s victory over the key Ukrainian stronghold paves the way for the complete takeover of the Donbass region. The NATO-backed Kiev regime had dug its best defences at Konstantinovka, some 150 kilometers of elaborate trenches and minefields. Russian forces finally vanquished those defences with an estimated loss of 14,000 Ukrainian troops. This was not just Ukrainian defenses. It was NATO’s, the bloc having weaponized the regime since the coup in 2014 and lending its best technical advisers and engineers on the ground.

Thus, in one fell swoop, the narrative of the Kiev regime and its NATO sponsors has been demolished. In recent months, the Ukrainian puppet president, Vladimir Zelensky, has been busily claiming that his forces were making gains on the battlefield and that Russia was supposedly on the back foot. The European elites and the Western media amplified that narrative. At the G7 summit in France last month, U.S. President Donald Trump had also bought into the fiction that Ukraine was “making progress on the battlefield and there is now a new momentum.”.........more..........

 people here aren't paying much attention to what's happening there; 

 

Christians are facing a growing wave of hostility in Israel and the West Bank — the very lands they revere as the birthplace of their faith. The incidents include assaults, spitting, vandalism, settler violence, and attacks on Christian property.

On Sunday, The Washington Post published a report titled, “As Christians are attacked in Israel, government shows little concern.” It documents the latest incidents and suggests the attackers have grown more brazen under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

The data from religious watchdogs confirm the troubling pattern.

The developments land in a politically sensitive moment. For decades, United States leaders have described America and Israel as partners bound by shared biblical inheritance and common “Judeo-Christian” moral values. Washington has backed that language with enormous support. Israel has received more than $300 billion in inflation-adjusted U.S. aid since its founding, and the current aid framework provides $3.8 billion per year through 2028.

For many reasons, however, public support for that “alliance” is rapidly souring. With outlets such as the Post now reporting on the sharply rising anti-Christian hostility in Israel, what remains of that support may erode even faster.

Patriots, as always, must stay vigilant — not only about the facts themselves, but about where the backlash comes from, who amplifies it, and who tries to control it.

From Mount Zion to Taybeh

The Post opens on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion, near King David’s tomb, the traditional site of the Last Supper and Dormition Abbey...........more.........