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IDF claims it mistakenly identified Gaza aid workers as threat – after video of deadly attack emerges

The IDF says it mistakenly identified a convoy of aid workers as a threat – following the emergence of a video which proved their ambulances were clearly marked when Israeli troops opened fire on them.

The bodies of 15 aid workers – including eight medics working for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) – were found in a “mass grave” after the incident, according to the head of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Jonathan Whittall.

The Israeli military originally claimed an investigation found the vehicles did not have any headlights or emergency signals and were therefore targeted as they looked “suspicious”.

But video footage obtained by the PRCS, and verified by Sky News, showed the ambulances and a fire vehicle clearly marked with flashing red lights.

In a briefing from the IDF, it said the ambulances arrived in the Tel Sultan neighbourhood in Rafah shortly after a Hamas police vehicle drove through.

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If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military

Former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently admitted that he is responsible for confirming 235 “progressive” judges who are “ruling against Trump time after time.” Activist judges are Schumer’s Plan B.

Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution empowers Congress to make policy for the military. But as things stand now, unelected, unaccountable federal judges are overruling President Donald Trump’s executive orders and arrogating to themselves the power to run the armed forces.

Unless the 119th Congress intervenes, President Joe Biden’s radical policies regarding trans-identifying people in the military will continue indefinitely.

Self-Appointed “Supreme Judicial Commanders” Take Charge

President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 Executive Order 14183, titled “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,” is one of several calling for an undistracted focus on military warrior ethos, not “political agendas or other ideologies harmful to unit cohesion.”

Executive Order 14168 (Jan. 20) defined biological reality — differentiating “sex” from subjective “gender identity” and proclaiming the existence of two immutable sexes, male and female. This EO also prohibited male access to women’s sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities and discontinued the use of inaccurate invented pronouns and bureaucratic markers that reflect subjective gender identity instead of biological sex.

The reality-based principles stated above, when applied to DOD policies regarding persons having a history of gender dysphoria or identifying as transgender, logically justified the revocation of Biden’s directives accommodating persons with gender dysphoria or identifying as transgender in the military.

Trump’s EOs and directives restored gender dysphoria to the DOD list of physical and psychological conditions that affect eligibility to serve and ended Biden-era mandates and subsidies for irreversible treatments and surgeries for “transitioning” purposes that attempt to change sex.

Trump’s executive orders also mandated respectful treatment and generous benefits for persons separating from the military due to gender dysphoria and protected vulnerable children from chemical and surgical mutilation based on “junk science” recommended by discredited “experts” like the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).

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New report shows “massive” EU funding for trans NGOs

A new report has revealed that over €220 million in EU funds have been used to advance “a radical gender identity agenda” over the last decade, including support in the EU for adopting a strategy calling for gender  self-ID for children.

The investigation by MCC Brussels, a Hungarian backed think tank, says that research funding is being ‘weaponised’, and that EU-funded research “is being used as an advocacy tool to justify policy changes rather than for neutral academic inquiry” – pointing to €2.4 million in funding for research “Challenging the gender binary”, and a €3 million “MEN4DEM” study which critics say “treats traditional masculinity as a threat to democracy”.

The report, “Mission Creeps: How EU Funding and Activist NGOs Captured the Gender Agenda,” was authored by sociologist Ashley Frawley, and MCC Brussels say it is the first comprehensive investigation into how a small but powerful network of NGOs has shaped EU gender policy under the radar of public scrutiny – and that the funding has been used to promote “controversial policies” that “undermine women’s rights, child safeguarding, and national sovereignty – all without meaningful democratic debate”.

The analysis found that at least €40 million had gone to projects involving the “most radical” transgender advocacy groups – categorised as meeting one or more of the following characteristics: “take for granted and/or promote notions of gender radically divorced from sex, endorse concepts like non-binary gender identity, support the demotion of the significance of sex in national accounting and statistics.”

Spokeswoman for the Irish campaign group, The Countess, Laoise De Brún, said “all roads lead back to Europe when it comes to the capture of our institutions and government departments.”

“Gender Self-ID and Hate Speech laws, anti-Conversion Therapy are all manufactured not to solve actual societal problems but to force our society in a certain direction. They do not do what they say on the tin,” she said.

“For two long, our craven politicians have behaved like foie gras geese, feet nailed to the floor ingesting an endless diet of increasingly unhinged EU legislation that bears no connection to what the people of Ireland need or want.”

“NGOs have the same stranglehold of Ministers in Ireland as they do at a European level and they are all pushing the same drug. A heady new facet of human rights or a new frontier of progressivism which politician drink up eager to burnish their credentials and march in step with the liberal ruling elite. In reality all of these laws are an attack on the family, on childhood, on women’s rights, on free speech and on state sovereignty. We need a DOGE of these NGOs and how they operate in the EU and at home. Before it’s too late.”

Frank Furedi, Executive Director of MCC Brussels, commenting on the new report, said, “What we’re seeing from our research is the corruption of political processes. There’s a two-way-process where civil society is systematically bought off to provide the EU with legitimacy, whilst the EU becomes increasingly radicalised by ideologues claiming to represent civil society. This is an increasingly secretive political process where power is rendered invisible to ordinary people.”

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Fresh Evidence Emerges That Global Vegetation Growth Reaches New Highs Due to Increased CO2 Fertilisation

Global vegetation reached a new greening peak in 2020, continuing a long-term trend since 2000 according to new dramatic findings published by a team of scientists based in the United States. The work helps confirm other recent scientific work that points to massive global plant growth directly related to recent increases in natural and human-caused carbon dioxide. Plants have evolved to grow in an atmosphere much richer in CO2 than current near-denuded levels, and the recent growth and its myriad benefits for humankind should not be surprising. Needless to say, the news is absent from mainstream headlines since the ‘pollutant’ is temporarily being blamed for climate collapse in the interest of boosting the collectivist Net Zero fantasy.

The latest work on the ‘gas of life’ notes that the greening is linked to continuous growth in boreal and temperate vegetation. The scientists also suggest that the increase has been complemented by a tropical vegetation boost due to higher rainfall. Higher growth in northern regions would also have been helped by slightly warmer temperatures which have marginally increased growing seasons. The climate might be collapsing for ill-informed readers of the Guardian and listeners of the BBC, but nature continues to find ways to thrive. The scientists note that there is a “robust resilience and adaptation” of global vegetation in the face of a changing environment. Using a number of remote sensing devises, the year 2020 is pinpointed as an “historic landmark” since it registered as the greenest year in modern satellite records from 2001 to 2020.

This is not the first time that an acceleration in global greening over the last two decades has been observed. Last year a group of Chinese scientists found that about 55% of global land mass had shown an “accelerated rate” of vegetation growth. The Chinese team that included the Eco-Climatologist Professor Tiexi Chen stated that “global greening is an indisputable fact”. Climate change drought is a favourite fear mongering scare with activists but it was found that any water scarcity trend only slowed global greening, “but was far from triggering browning”.

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In policy shift, State Department ends some bounties on Taliban’s Haqqani network leaders

The State Department is defending its decision to end its bounties against Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani and other Haqqani Network commanders amidst indications that the United States may be adjusting its stance toward the terrorist group ruling Afghanistan.

The State Department’s Reward for Justice website had previously said that the U.S. “is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information” on Sirajuddin, a top leader in the Taliban government and a close ally of al-Qaeda. The bounty on Sirajuddin, now the head of the Taliban’s interior ministry, was first announced in 2009, and it was still in force until sometime in March.

But the bounty was dropped shortly after the Taliban agreed to free George Glezmann — an American citizen held hostage since 2022. No mention of any linkage to U.S. military or foreign policy was made.

Taliban’s “blitzkreig” follows U.S. retreat

The Taliban conducted a lightning-fast takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 and swept into the Afghan capital of Kabul on August 15. The chaotic and deadly non-combatant evacuation operation by the U.S. was conducted through Hamid Karzai International Airport while the U.S. military relied upon a hostile Taliban — including the Haqqani Network — to provide security outside the airport. According to one tally conducted by the Associated Press, the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and al-Qaeda fighters are responsible for the deaths of most of the more than 2,400 U.S. troops and the more than 1,100 NATO and other U.S. allied troops who were killed during the war.

“It is the policy of the United States to consistently review and refine Rewards for Justice reward offers,” a spokesperson for the State Department told Just the News. “While there is no current reward offer for information on these individuals, the three persons named remain designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), and the Haqqani Network remains designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and a SDGT.”

Late last month, the State Department also removed its $5 million bounty on Sirajuddin’s younger brother, Abdul Aziz Haqqani, and removed its $5 million bounty on Sirajuddin’s brother-in-law, Yahya Haqqani. The U.S. government is still offering a $5 million bounty for Sirajuddin’s uncle Khalil Haqqani.

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BOOM: Julie Kelly Catches Radical Pro-Illegal Alien Obama Judge in a Big Setup Against Trump After Uncovering a Bombshell Revelation in Court Transcript

On Saturday, conservative journalist and warrior for justice Julie Kelly uncovered a bombshell in the transcript from Thursday’s hearing in a radical District judge’s courtroom regarding whether the Trump Administration has the authority under the Alien Enemies Act to deport violent illegal aliens.

As Jim Hoft previously reported, Judge James Boasberg, who is running a coup-d-etat of the executive branch, is considering holding Trump officials in contempt for not turning planes around mid-flight and returning over one hundred killers, gangsters, r*pists, and other criminal illegals back to the US.

Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee, implemented a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal aliens last month, calling it, “incredibly troublesome and problematic.” He then extended his block last week, arguing the plaintiffs suing the Trump administration need more time to file motions and prepare arguments.

Kelly predicted back in March that Boasberg was attempting to set a contempt trap for Trump officials. Now, she has proof that Boasberg slyly positioned himself to get assigned to this immigration case so he could implement his sinister scheme.

“I have just received the (purchased) transcript from Thursday’s hearing before Judge Boasberg,” Kelly wrote on X. “Lots of good stuff, especially as I develop a fuller timeline of what went down behind the scenes on March 15.”

Then Kelly pointed out something incredibly damning.

“This really caught my eye,” she noted. “Remember the whole “THESE CASES ARE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED” bit by Boasberg and others?”

“No one really believes this…right?” Kelly added. “Also, during the start of the 5 p.m. Zoom hearing on March 15, Boasberg apologized for his casual dress, saying he had gone “away” for the weekend and did not bring a tie or his robe.”

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HORROR: Deranged anti-Musk leftist hurls two-pound rock through a Tesla windshield, seriously injuring innocent pregnant woman

The radical left’s hatred for Elon Musk has become so deranged they are now allegedly making pregnant women pay the price.

As Global News Canada reported, an anti-Musk protester in Vancouver on March 30 threw a two-pound rock that smashed through the windshield of a Tesla and struck a pregnant woman in the passenger seat. The incident occurred while Tesla was traveling north on Nanaimo Street.

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Germany tells teachers to get children ready for WAR: Schools urged to give ‘greater focus’ to civil protection after EU told citizens to prep 72-hour survival kits amid growing WW3 threat

Germany‘s Interior Ministry has called for civil defence training in schools and is urging citizens to stockpile food, water and essentials in response to the deteriorating security situation in Europe and a growing WW3 threat.

The unprecedented move, confirmed in a statement to Handelsblatt newspaper, would see German schoolchildren taught how to respond in volatile war-like scenarios.

A ministry spokesman said civil protection ‘should be given greater focus, including in schools’, given the alarming recent geopolitical developments and expert testimonies that Russia could be ready to strike NATO territory within a few years.

Defence spokesperson Roderich Kiesewetter for the conservative CDU party said it was ‘absolutely necessary’ for schoolchildren to train for emergencies, calling them ‘especially vulnerable and particularly affected in an emergency’.

He is calling for mandatory basic training in disaster response, modelled on systems in Finland, which has been preparing citizens for the possibility of a war with Vladimir Putin‘s Russia for years.

Berlin says it even stands ready to provide all schools and teachers with national crisis materials via the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) – and this is although technically education matters are something decided independently by each federal state.

The ministry also approved a new EU Commission initiative on wartime readiness, and recommended that all German citizens even prepare emergency supplies to last at least 72 hours as per recommendations from the European Union.

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Almost 1,000 feds take more money from taxpayers than the president

Last year, 939 of the employees who outearned the president were medical officers at the Veterans Health Administration, which provides care for 9.1 million veterans across 1,380 facilities. Four of the employees are listed as dentists.

Micah Nix, an emergency room doctor with the Indian Health Service, outearned the president, as did one unnamed employee at the Bureau of Prisons.

There were also 15 doctors at the National Institutes of Health earning more than $400,000, including the four highest paid employees in the entire federal workforce. Gary Gibbons, director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, took home $519,246, breaking his own record for the highest federal salary in U.S. history.

Dr. Anthony Fauci once held the record with a $480,654 salary in 2022. Gibbons surpassed that with a $492,643 salary in 2023 and has now become the only federal employee to earn more than $500,000.

The 956 employees are spread across 48 different states. California is home to 162 of them. Florida is in second place with 59, and North Carolina has 50. Five of the top six highest paid federal employees work in Maryland.

The count of 956 employees does not include an additional 36 that earned exactly $400,000 — the same as the president.

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UK PM Starmer To Make Stunning Admission: ‘Globalization Is Over’

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will soon declare something ZeroHedge readers have known for quite some time – the economic system championed by the international elite is dead and gone.

Starmer’s office told the Sunday Times that, “The world has changed, globalization is over and we are now in a new era.”

“We’ve got to demonstrate that our approach, a more active Labour government, a more reformist government, can provide the answers for people in every part of this country,” his office added, emphasizing a pivot toward proactive governance.

Starmer’s admission, albeit late, follows President Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement, which slapped a 10% fee on all goods from the United Kingdom.

In a high-profile speech this week, Starmer will sharply criticize Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on the UK, while belatedly conceding the shortcomings of free trade and unfettered mass migration.

Starmer’s upcoming remarks come alongside persistent efforts by UK officials to finalize a trade agreement with the United States. Downing Street has confirmed that negotiations are in an “advanced stage,” with officials indicating, per The Guardian, that the core framework of a deal is largely settled.

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