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Spain deploys military after thousands breach Morocco’s border– www.boston.com
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Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory, with at least nine dying in the attempt.

The announcement came after local authorities in Ceuta had asked the central government in Madrid for reinforcements to manage a border crisis that boiled over Thursday with large crowds of people breaching the border fence.

Spain’s government said it would send the Armed Forces to help the Civil Guard “maintain security in the city of Ceuta.” It also announced that Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez would join Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska in a visit to Ceuta on Friday.

“The situation is absolute chaos,” Rachid Sbihi, head of the association that represents Spain’s Civil Guard officers who police the border in Ceuta, told The Associated Press. “It’s not possible to give precise numbers, but there are thousands of migrants crossing,” he said, adding that the border had “totally collapsed.”

Achraf Maimouni, a member of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights in northern Morocco, described the situation as “exceptional.”

“The Tarajal border was opened under unusual circumstances this morning and people crossed,” he said.

Burnham to Host Zelenskyy in Signal of Continued UK Support– financialpost.com
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In his first week in office, Burnham has focused on domestic issues, announcing a raft of cost-of-living measures, from capping bus fares to helping households with energy bills. His relationship with Zelenskyy will be a test of how decisively he is prepared to step onto the international stage.

Berlin Pride suspect shot dead by police after man ‘rams van into crowd with 1 killed and 16 injured’– www.mirror.co.uk
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German police have shot dead the man suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival, killing a woman and injuring at least 29 people.

Alleged terrorist Abdul Ballout, 21, rushed at police with a weapon before being shot by cops, officials said. The suspect was tracked down to an allotment garden in Spandau, West Berlin.

Authorities had previously issued a wanted notice and warned people against approaching Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, saying he may be armed and dangerous.

Polizei Berlin said last night: “At around 6pm, the suspect in yesterday’s attack in the Grosser Tiergarten was located in an allotment garden in Spandau.

“He is said to have rushed toward our emergency forces with a stabbing weapon, after which police firearms were used.

Trump revives old tropes as he pushes warnings of ‘communist menace’ | Donald Trump– www.theguardian.com
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Perhaps above all else, Donald Trump is a child of the cold war.

Three months before the US president was born, Winston Churchill delivered a historic speech in Fulton, Missouri, that ushered in a generations-long existential struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism.

Lamenting the spread of Soviet communism across eastern Europe following the allied victory in the second world war, Churchill – by then no longer British prime minister – warned his audience on 5 March 1946 that “an iron curtain has descended across the continent”.

It was the prelude to a nuclear-armed standoff between Washington and Moscow that triggered a hysteria-driven “red scare” in the US – leading to the execution of convicted spies and exemplified by witch-hunts instigated by the Republican senator Joe McCarthy, who claimed he had obtained lists of communist agents working in the state department and other key areas of American life.

The hunt for communists would have been a ubiquitous theme of Trump’s early childhood.

DNC chair threw phone in frustration as strains for Democrats show ahead of midterms, report says– www.independent.co.uk
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Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund has become a roadblock for his attorney general nominee– www.washingtontimes.com
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President Trump’s “anti-weaponization” fund has become the chief stumbling block to Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general, with key Republicans saying they cannot let him be approved until the $1.776 billion idea is fully eradicated.

Mr. Blanche has told lawmakers that the fund is dead and he will not release any of the money.

Still, senators said the language of the deal, which Mr. Blanche signed off on as acting attorney general, could leave wiggle room for Mr. Trump to ask a court to enforce it.

One of those Republicans, Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, said he would hold up any action until either Mr. Blanche renegotiates the settlement to make clear that the fund is expunged or Congress passes legislation to firmly nullify the fund.

“We need to have a fork stuck in the 1776 fund,” Mr. Tillis told reporters. “I want a renegotiated agreement that ends this forever. That is final.”

The senator said the Justice Department is negotiating on the matter.

Another heavyweight CCP member found himself purged from power by Chairman Xi. Former Politburo member Ma Xingrui was the latest high-profile leader removed under Xi’s anti-corruption operation. The move shows Xi has still not consolidated power after the attempted coup from within last year.

China expels Ma Xingrui in fresh politburo purge as Xi Jinping tightens grip amid mounting internal challenges – organiser.org
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The expulsion of former Politburo member Ma Xingrui from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has become the latest chapter in President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign, but the significan…

Suspected Epstein Pimp Found Dead in Paris Home as Authorities Close In– slaynews.com
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A French modeling scout accused of helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and abuse young women and children has been found dead at his home outside Paris, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Daniel Siad, 69, was under investigation in France over allegations that he assisted Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

Siad had not yet been questioned by investigators and denied the accusations against him.

“An investigation to determine the cause of death was opened on Monday evening following the discovery,” the Nanterre prosecutor’s office said.

Authorities said an autopsy would be conducted after Siad was found dead at his home in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine.

Canada cancels joint bridge-opening celebration with US amid trade tensions | US news– www.theguardian.com
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A planned joint US-Canada ceremony on Friday celebrating the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, is no longer expected to take place after Donald Trump announced a 50% tariff on most Canadian goods.

In announcing the tariffs, the president accused Canada of unfairly discriminating against US automobiles, alcohol and dairy products, escalating tensions with one of the United States’ closest allies.

“In light of trade action threatened by the United States earlier this week, it would be inappropriate to proceed with a celebratory event between the two countries,” said Jenna Ghassabeh, a spokesperson for Canada’s infrastructure minister, Gregor Robertson, in an emailed statement.

Trump Accounts draw 6.5 million sign-ups, but families are waiting on the promised $1,000 funding– fortune.com
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President Donald Trump says Trump Accounts could hoist children out of poverty and give more Americans the chance to benefit from investments in the stock market. But some parents say they’re still waiting for the money to arrive.

Trump on Wednesday plans to speak at a Georgia high school to promote the investment accounts, which offer $1,000 in seed money to every child born during his second term. The accounts went live July 4, two days before Trump rang the opening bells for both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ from the Oval Office.

The tax-advantaged accounts, created last year through Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill, can be opened for any child under the age of 18. The Treasury Department boasts 6.5 million sign-ups for Trump Accounts, with 1.5 million of those eligible for the $1,000 seed funding for babies born from 2025 through 2028.

Boosters of the program say it’s a chance to give more Americans a stake in the stock market. They hope it will stem the rising popularity of democratic socialists, who seek to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy to ease the cost of things like food and healthcare for low-income and middle-class Americans.

U.S. pledges $5 billion to boost AI in government-backed scientific research– www.scientificamerican.com
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Overall federal funding for scientific research is set to decline in 2027, the most senior White House science figure said on Wednesday. The government, however, pledged to spend $5 billion on promoting artificial intelligence in science.

Michael Kratsios, the White House’s science and technology adviser, told the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology that the money will be drawn from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA, as well as other federal agencies.

The goal is to produce “the premier AI for science ecosystem in the world,” he said. The funding will be earmarked for “research awards, funding opportunities, specialized scientific datasets and research facilities,” the White House said in a statement.

Newsom pushes California to crack down on sex trafficking — fast– www.latimes.com
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California has spent millions of dollars to combat sex trafficking, and yet it can still be found in every city and town, hiding in plain sight.

Whether it’s online, on places such as Figueroa Street in L.A. or Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, or even in the hotel rooms where our World Cup guests stayed, there are thousands of women and girls being sexually exploited in California right now, despite all that money and all the resources it has purchased.

“The reality is that few threats to a woman’s safety are as brutal or as overlooked as sex trafficking,” First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom said Monday, sitting with her husband, the governor, in a tiny second-floor dance studio built for survivors of trafficking.

Siebel Newsom was there to watch Newsom sign an executive order that was driven by her work as an advocate for survivors of trafficking. On its surface, the order may not sound like much and isn’t likely to make the news. It calls for most of the major state agencies to come up with a plan within 60 days to work together to curb trafficking and help survivors.

New York Politician Slams the DSA As a White Supremacist Movement– townhall.com
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If you’re paying attention, you’ll notice that a vast majority of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members are lily-white and insanely rich. With that privilege, they’ve decided their moral and political obligation is to destroy the economic structure and nation that made them spoiled brats

This includes a majority-white crowd chanting ‘You’re next’ to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The optics of that are bad enough, but the DSA doesn’t seem to care. The destruction of the Democratic Party, and America, is the point.

But one New York politician is calling a spade a spade and he just blasted the DSA as a bunch of white supremacists. That’s Queens Borough President Donovan Richards

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A prominent black Big Apple politician compared Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America to white supremacists as a bitter rift between Democrats spilled onto social media.

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards breathed new life into a longstanding complaint among minority lawmakers that the largely lily-white DSA ignores race in its crusade to grow its ranks and dismantle capitalism.

Japan raises safety concern over Chinese destroyer’s live-fire drills– abcnews.com
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TOKYO — Japan expressed concern after a Chinese navy destroyer conducted live-fire drills off a remote Japanese island in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday during its joint exercise with Russia, officials said Tuesday.

The Chinese Luyang III-class guided-missile destroyer conducted a live-fire exercise off Japan’s southernmost island of Okinotori, hours after the Japanese navy spotted it operating alongside two other Chinese warships and a Russian frigate, the Japanese Joint Staff said.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told reporters Tuesday that his government conveyed concerns that the live-fire drills posed a potential safety threat to nearby vessels. He noted that ships near the area received a notice from the Chinese warships just before the drills started.

“We will continue to watch China-Russia operations around Japan with concern, while doing utmost for the warning and surveillance of the Japanese airspace and territorial waters,” Kihara said.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, in a speech Monday in Britain, said the action underscored “the deepening military cooperation between China and Russia,” as he also noted China’s ballistic missile launch from a submarine earlier this month, and at least 10 joint flights conducted by Chinese and Russian bombers around Japan.

Canada has made the largest military procurement deal in its history, purchasing 12 submarines from Germany in a bid to build their own submarine fleet. The contract is worth “multiple billions” and follows Canada’s increase on defense spending under PM Mark Carney. He hopes to move it from 2% GDP today to 5% GDP by 2035.

Carney said of the deal, “In a more dangerous and divided world, Canada must be prepared to defend our interests, protect our citizens, build our economy, and secure our future. To that end, we are making the largest defence procurement in our nation’s history with speed, ambition, and discipline.”

Canada orders 12 submarines from Germany in largest defence deal of its kind – BBC

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Canada has chosen a German defence company to build its navy’s new submarine fleet, in the largest military procurement deal in Canadian history.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday that the government had chosen the company TKMS as the preferred supplier for the multi-billion dollar, 12-vessel contract.

The announcement comes just before Carney leaves for a Nato summit in Turkey, where members are expect to face pressure to show they are boosting defence investment. Since taking office, Carney has bumped Canada’s defence spending to 2% of GDP, and has committed to reaching 5% by 2035.

According to the government, only one in four of Canada’s submarines is currently seaworthy.

The country – which has the longest coastline in the world – is growing increasingly concerned about climate change warming Arctic waters and opening up new fronts for adversaries to attack.

In what appears to be a move to save an illegal alien from deportation, Tim Walz has pardoned an illegal alien convicted of raping a child. He was joined on a three-member pane by Democrats Keith Ellison and Natalie Hudson. Ellison is Minnesota’s Attorney General. Hudson is the state’s Chief Justice.

DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis responded to the decision, claiming “Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl.”

Tampon Tim Walz pardons a child rapist– www.americanthinker.com
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How insane are Democrats trying to keep illegal alien criminals in America? Are there any lengths to which they will not go? Have they yet hit rock bottom?  Certainly not in Tampon Tim Walz’s Minnesota:

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Vang is obviously Walz’s kind of illegal alien, even more so than the rest. Note in the history of the case, Vang said Laotian men routinely “marry” girls as young as 12.  They just repeatedly rape girls as young as 10 to what?  Prepare them for marriage at 12?

The DHS is not amused:

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Though Walz bears ultimate responsibility, two others were also responsible for this unpardonable pardon:

 

The pardon came from a three-person panel that included Walz, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), and Minnesota Chief Justice Natalie Hudson. You can’t even pretend that Trump’s immigration policies weren’t a factor because, as the Daily Mail reported, “Ellison also cited President Donald Trump’s expansive use of executive pardon power in his statement defending his pardon of the pedophile.”

 

But why would these leftist idiots want to pardon a man who, over four years, repeatedly raped a 10-year-old girl? He’s also a cheapskate who tried to pay her $10 to shut her up. Apart from a complete lack of morality and betrayal of their duty to keep Minnesotans safe, it’s Trump Derangement Syndrome:

 

DHS spokeswoman Lauren Bis laid out exactly what happened here. “Tou Lue Vang lost his legal status following his conviction for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl,” she said, adding that the pardon wipes his conviction from the record entirely. A DHS spokesperson called Walz “disgusting” for granting the pardon. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin went further, calling the move “horrific” in a statement on X.

 

“This evil alien from Laos repeatedly sexually assaulted a 10-year-old child,” Mullin said. “These are the illegal alien criminals sanctuary politicians like Tim Walz are protecting over American citizens.”

 

As one would expect, the Minnesota Star Tribune, public-spirited as ever, is solidly behind Walz and his fellow rapist pardoners:

 

Victim’s forgiveness was key in pardon of Tou Lue Vang, Hmong man facing deportation

 

Amazingly, until one realizes this is Minnesota, Vang wasn’t in the Pen. He was serving a 30-year probation. Here’s where it gets even more disgusting, if that were possible:

 

On June 10, the Board of Pardons — consisting of Walz, Ellison and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson — voted to purge Vang’s felony sexual assault conviction. The deciding factor was a letter from Vang’s victim saying she forgave him and supported his pardon.

 

The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, which prosecuted Vang, opposed his pardon. Tami McConkey, director of the office’s Victim, Witness and Postconviction Justice Division, wrote that Vang received a lighter sentence of 30 years probation for the offense because the victim “was experiencing pressure from her family to not cooperate.”

 

But of course! One wonders how much pressure the victim was receiving from Minnesota authorities to provide cover for their flaunting of President Trump and federal immigration law? If you’ve a strong stomach, read Vang’s pardon letter:

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“Congratulations! You repeatedly raped a little girl, didn’t spend a day in the pen, and now it’s going to be much more difficult to kick you out of the country. Of course, Minnesota really isn’t part of America, so we’ll use every resource of the People’s Republic of Minnesota to fight your deportation

Among the sacraments of the left is the idea that Americans have no moral standing to criticize the cultures of other lands. Who are we to suggest our culture, which doesn’t countenance raping little girls, is superior? Who are we to demand the peoples of cultures at least equally moral, or more so, adopt our cultural practices and obey our colonialist, white supremacist laws?

One wonders how many other little girls Vang might have practiced his superior culture with during those 30 years? One also wonders just how attentive Vang’s probation officers were over that period. I’m sure they were thrilled to learn Vang would be their career.  Even if they tried to do their duty, would their superiors have allowed it? Vang, after all, is a member of a protected, oppressed, victim class, and even more so when immigration law was suddenly enforced.

Ultimately, it shouldn’t matter whether a rape victim, some 30 years later, forgives her rapist. Forgiveness is an admirable quality and arguably good for the soul, but it should have no place in the criminal justice system, which gets every iota of its power on loan from Americans, and whose duty is to protect Americans from child rapists. Americans are kind of funny in expecting that kind of thing.

Yet another predictable example of anti-American hatred from one of America’s most anti-American governors.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.