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Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence claimed on Wednesday that its operatives prevented “mercenaries for the American-Zionist enemy” from invading the southern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, thwarting a plot to “destabilize the province and strike at economic infrastructure in the south.” The invasion was apparently rather small, as the Ministry of Intelligence claimed only four people were arrested, and two more killed, in the course of dismantling two cells of a “Takfiri terrorist group.” “Takfiri” essentially means “fake Muslim” or “apostate.” The term is often used by Muslim powers to denigrate their political adversaries. Ebrahim Azizi, chair of the Iranian parliament’s…

Comedienne and actor Margaret Cho attacked policies aimed at curbing transgender ideology, even going as far to say we are in a “trans genocide.” Cho shared her thoughts on the issue during an appearance on the Who’s With Me? podcast. “It’s really scary and the way our government treats trans lives. You know, insane bathroom laws and identity laws, or taking people’s driver’s licenses,” she said. “It seems endless whether it’s re-legalizing conversion therapy. Supreme Court on down. You have all of these things that, you know, we’re in the middle of a trans genocide, and we have to do…

The government is seeking broad new powers for the BfV to conduct active operations on home soil A sweeping overhaul of Germany’s intelligence services proposed by the government could infringe on police powers in violation of constitutional safeguards, opposition politicians have warned.On Wednesday, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt presented a 730-page package comprising three draft laws that would significantly expand the powers of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies respectively.While there is broad political agreement that Germany’s security apparatus requires modernization, critics say the proposed…

Police Chief Issa Shahin Dearborn, Michigan police are in full panic mode. Police Chief Issa Shahin released a desperate video message urging residents to stay away from Tuesday’s Aug. 18 city council meeting because “anti-Islam protesters,” including activists planning a “Christian Crusader March” to “Stop Islamification,” are expected to show up and exercise their First Amendment rights. “Please stay home,” Shahin said. Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin says individuals and organizations from outside the community may travel to the city for an anti-Islam demonstration. Police will deploy an “enhanced presence” and have prepared what the department describes as a comprehensive…

Roger Waters spent decades warning that the machine grinds on, that walls get built between people who have far more in common than they’ve been told, and that comfortable numbness is exactly what those in power count on. Now the Pink Floyd co-founder is aiming that same warning at the war in Ukraine, arguing that Western governments and arms manufacturers are steering the world toward catastrophe while the people paying the actual price, on both sides of the front line, are treated as an acceptable cost of doing business. Speaking Monday on Rick Sanchez’s The Sanchez Effect, Waters called European…

Japan recorded a 1.01 trillion yen ($6.2 billion) trade deficit during the first half of 2026, according to preliminary government data. This does not mean that Japan will collapse tomorrow, but it is another crack in the foundation of a debt structure that can no longer withstand rising interest rates, a collapsing currency, and imported inflation. Japan’s exports increased 13.7% during the first six months of the year to 60.66 trillion yen. Imports rose 10.7% to around 61.9 trillion yen. Yet Japan still imported more than it exported despite a yen so weak that Japanese products should be extremely competitive abroad.…

Six years after President Donald Trump launched the Abraham Accords, Jared Kushner marked the anniversary Thursday by declaring that the Middle East is once again at an “inflection point” and arguing that the region has an opportunity to build on the historic normalization agreements and “do it again.” “Six years ago, President Trump launched the Abraham Accords and opened a new chapter of peace, partnership, and prosperity in the Middle East,” Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and a key architect of the agreements, wrote on X. “Many said it was impossible,” he continued. “But with courageous leadership, persistence, and a small group…

Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar is lobbying the Pope to back her cheap-labor “Dignidad” bill that would create a two-tier society of citizens and low-wage migrant workers. Using Spanish, she touted the public meeting on her X account and provided a translation of her Spanish-language description of the conversation: Today, from the Vatican, I had the immense honor of conversing with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV about one of the great challenges of our country: immigration. And I placed in his hands the DIGNITY Act. More than four out of every ten Catholics in the United States are immigrants or…

Critics of the WNBA calling out its transgender policies – or lack therefore – were slammed Wednesday for their hurtful “bad faith” in criticizing men claiming to be women so they can play in the league. A league spokesperson said in a statement everything is fine at the WNBA and there is nothing for anyone to worry about, going public with a call for calm hours after an anti-hate task force met virtually and canvassed a variety of topics including social media vitriol and transgender athletes. Discussions, meetings, “hard conversations” and committees are working at the WNBA to determine what a woman is…

An elderly Tucson woman draws a handgun and confronts a suspected shoplifter fleeing a Ross store with multiple bags (Screenshot: C.R. via KOLD News 13) An absolutely “BASED elderly woman” in Tucson, Arizona, has gone viral after she allegedly pulled a handgun and chased a brazen shoplifter out of a Ross store as the alarm blared and the thief fled with multiple bags of stolen merchandise. Video circulating on social media shows the suspected thief casually walking away from the Eastside Tucson Ross with bags in hand while the store alarm screams. A bystander, identified across social media as an…