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China's Ministry of State Security on Tuesday revealed that a foreign organization sent operatives into remote southwestern regions in China disguised as mountaineers and charity workers, where they posed as providing medical aid to gain villagers' trust and recruit guides to illegal investigate into local politics, economy, geographic resources, and social governance.

Gee, I wonder what country this foreign organization belongs to.

Lord Mandelson goes on to write that Epstein was known for "taking you by surprise... in one of his glorious homes he likes to share with his friends (yum yum)", alongside a single malt whiskey label and a picture of a tropical island.

On the next page, accompanied by a picture of the two chatting casually on a patio, he writes: "But whenever he is in the world, he remains my best pal!"

An official spokesperson for Lord Mandelson told the BBC that he "has long been clear that he very much regrets ever having been introduced to Epstein".

After yesterday's display, the protestors, more numerous than yesterday, have become radicalized to the point of raiding the houses of the ministers associated with the three big parties and set fire to them. Some of the buildings that have been torched:

• The parliament building
• Fomer PM Deuba's residence, the school associated with his wife, a hotel owned by his son, his party's (Congress) headquarters
• Former PM Dahal's residence and his party's (CPN MC) headquarters.
• PM Oli's three houses
• President Paudel's residence
• Home Minister Lekhak's residence
• Vice president of CPN UML's residence
• Finance Minister's residence
• Multiple minor party buildings and police stations across the country

The U.S. will become the first country not to be present at its own review since 2008.

On Friday, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) confirmed that the United States will not participate in the Universal Periodic Review of human rights it was scheduled to undergo in November.

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Blitz

Today, the Department of Homeland Security announced Operation Midway Blitz in honor of Katie Abraham who was killed in a drunk driving hit-and-run car wreck caused by criminal illegal alien Julio Cucul-Bol in Illinois. This ICE operation will target the criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago and Illinois because they knew Governor Pritzker and his sanctuary policies would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets.

Huh, I wonder who's responsible.

Link to a video from the flotilla

Officially confirmed here

Atlanta immigration attorney Charles Kuck, who represents four of the detained South Korean nationals, told The Associated Press on Monday that many were doing work that is authorized under the B-1 business visitor visa program. They had planned to be in the U.S. for just a couple of weeks and “never longer than 75 days,” he said.

“The vast majority of the individuals that were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that were South Korean were either there as engineers or were involved in after-sales service and installation,” Kuck said.

But immigration lawyer Kuck said no company in the U.S. makes the machines that are used in the Georgia battery plant, so they had to come from abroad to install or repair equipment on-site — work that would take about three to five years to train someone in the U.S. to do, he said.

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Venezuela is set to boost its military deployments in coastal and border states amid heightened tensions with the US. The move comes after Washington dispatched several warships to the Southern Caribbean last month in what it describes as an operation against drug cartels.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez announced on Sunday that President Nicolas Maduro had ordered the deployment of “all available” troops and equipment to the states of Zulia, Falcon, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, and Delta Amacuro. He added that Caracas will increase troop deployments from around 10,000 to 25,000, noting that the area constitutes a “drug trafficking route.”

“No one is going to step on this land and do what we’re supposed to do,” Padrino said in a video uploaded to social media.

Last month, Venezuela also mobilized 15,000 troops to its border with Colombia.

The provisions would immediately strip Medicaid and Medicare coverage for gender-affirming care if passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law. But their impact could stretch far beyond that narrow reading. President Trump, who has repeatedly shown a willingness to expand executive authority, could wield the language as yet another weapon in his ongoing campaign of federal funding threats. Armed with this budgetary provision, his administration could pressure hospitals and clinics—just as it has already done with youth gender care providers—by threatening to pull federal dollars unless they comply with sweeping anti-trans policies.

Importantly, the funding ban would cover all forms of gender-affirming care, including “social” or “psychological” interventions. That language sweeps far beyond medical treatment and could place adult psychological support, therapy, and counseling directly in the crosshairs, along with any federally funded effort deemed “social” in nature. In practice, “social” care often refers to basic steps like updating names in official systems, changing gender markers, or affirming identity in institutional settings. Under this provision, the Trump administration could interpret even those routine measures as violations, weaponizing the ban to choke off critical funding for any entity deemed out of compliance.

These are not the only provisions in the appropriations bill targeting transgender people. Another section stipulates that any educational institution receiving federal funding could lose that funding if it allows transgender female students to participate in “athletic programs or activities designated for women or girls.” Such language would function as a de facto national transgender sports ban, forcing schools and universities into compliance. Even more troubling, the vague use of the word “activity” could give the administration sweeping latitude to strong-arm schools into broader restrictions—potentially extending to bathrooms, dorms, and virtually any gendered program or event, even if it may not be fully supported by some readings of the text.

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The Israeli military has said in a statement that four soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack on the outskirts of Gaza City on Monday morning.

The Israeli army said that in its statement on Monday that the four soldiers were from the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd Battalion.

Additionally, a soldier of the Nahal Infantry Brigade’s 50th Battalion was moderately wounded in the incident, the army added, according to Times of Israel.

Barriers were erected around it and they have now covered it up.

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