Ukraine strikes market in Russian town with HIMARS – governor

Numerous civilian casualties were reported after at least two missiles struck a market in Kherson Region, regional head Vladimir Saldo has said

The Ukrainian military launched two HIMARS rockets directly at the stalls of a market in the town of Veliky Kopani in Russia’s Kherson Region on Sunday, according to regional governor Vladimir Saldo. The attack left several civilians dead and “a lot” wounded, Saldo said, citing preliminary data.

Dozens of civilians were at the market when at least two projectiles fired from a US-supplied M142 HIMARS multiple rocket launcher struck the location, according to a Telegram post by Saldo, which included images from the aftermath. The photos show one building badly damaged, with thick smoke billowing from it.

Footage circulating online shows a destroyed van ablaze outside of the market, with an injured – or possibly dead – person lying next to it.

A paramedic and driver with the local emergency medical services were also injured in the attack, the regional health minister, Elena Borchaninova, told TASS. At least seven civilians were injured in the attack with one subsequently succumbing to his injuries, the ministry’s press service told the news agency.

The exact number of casualties has not yet been officially established, as the wounded are still being transferred to hospitals. At least some of the victims were sent to the coastal city of Skadovsk, located some 20 km to the south of Veliky Kopani.

“The information is still preliminary. We are waiting for all the victims. They have been sent to the Skadovsk hospital. So far, only two have been brought in. Unfortunately, one of the two has died,” the Health Ministry told RIA Novosti.

Kiev has been receiving M142 HIMARS and its heavier tracked cousin, the M270 MLRS, since mid-2022 from the US and other Western backers. The systems, once touted as a key tool for striking high-value Russian assets, have routinely been used by Kiev for indiscriminate strikes on civilian targets deep beyond the frontline.

https://www.rt.com/russia/613945-kherson-himars-attack-ukrainian/

X Takes Down Network Of Chinese Accounts Amplifying NYT Attacks On Dissident Arts Group

Thousands of accounts with suspected links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been removed by social media platform X over the past month.

The accounts, which exhibited inauthentic activity, had been used to boost articles published by The New York Times that targeted a religious group persecuted in China.

One of the articles, a Chinese-language version of an attack piece on Shen Yun Performing Arts, was boosted so much it became the most shared New York Times article on X in more than a year, according to data from BuzzSumo, a social media analytics tool.

“It looks like a nation-state automated bot attack,” said Rex Lee, a cybersecurity expert at My Smart Privacy who has advised major corporations and government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency.

Most of the accounts were taken down by X after The Epoch Times sent the platform the results of an extensive investigation into the issue. The platform then launched its own investigation.

“We take reports like these very seriously, and continue to action millions of accounts per week for platform manipulation and spam violations,” Dave Heinzinger, X’s head of media strategy, told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.

The Target

The New York Times over the past eight months has published 10 articles attacking Shen Yun. Eight of them were also published in the outlet’s Chinese-language edition. The articles were all heavily promoted on X by accounts that don’t appear to be authentic users.

Shen Yun is a New York-based performing arts company that showcases traditional Chinese culture as it existed before communism. The company was founded by practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that includes meditative exercises and teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The CCP sees Shen Yun, and Falun Gong more widely, as a threat because both make a point of exposing the regime’s human rights abuses.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/x-takes-down-network-chinese-accounts-amplifying-nyt-attacks-dissident-arts-group

Shocking Images from Syria as Biden-Supported Islamists Massacre Over 1000 Alawites, Christians and Druze

The worst fears over the safety of Syria’s non-Islamist population have come horribly true as the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militia unleashed ethnic cleansing on non-Muslims, killing over 1000 since Friday. The failed Obama-Biden Regime had pushed for regime change and supported Islamist militias in Syria since 2011 and most recently dropped a $10 million bounty on the head of radical Islamist HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/shocking-images-syria-as-biden-supported-islamists-massacre/

Ex-Central Banker Mark Carney Tipped to Replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian PM

Canada’s Liberal Party looked set Sunday to choose a former central banker and political novice as its next leader, replacing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as it confronts threats from US President Donald Trump.

Mark Carney, who served as the governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, is widely expected to be named the new Liberal leader when results from a vote of around 400,000 party members are announced later Sunday.

The other main challenger is Trudeau’s former deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, who held several senior cabinet positions in the Liberal government that was first elected in 2015.

Whoever wins the vote will take over from Trudeau as prime minister, but will soon face a general election that polls currently show the rival Conservative Party as slight favorites to win.

Carney has racked up endorsements, including from much of Trudeau’s cabinet, and a Freeland win would be a shock for the Liberals as they head towards a general election.

Despite dramatically breaking with the prime minister in December, analysts say voters still tie Freeland to Trudeau’s unpopular record.

Carney and Freeland have both maintained that they are the best candidate to defend Canada against Trump’s attacks.

The US president has repeatedly spoken about annexing Canada and thrown bilateral trade, the lifeblood of the Canadian economy, into chaos with dizzying tariff actions that have veered in various directions since he took office.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/03/09/ex-central-banker-mark-carney-tipped-to-replace-justin-trudeau-as-canadian-pm/

Supreme Court Protects Rouge SWAT Leader Who Raided Wrong Home

SCOTUS inaction on botched SWAT raid coupled with Trump’s push for greater police immunity could usher in a new era of lawless policing and brutality.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hold a SWAT team leader accountable for raiding the wrong house, wrecking the wrong home, and terrorizing an innocent family.

The Rutherford Institute is warning that the Court’s decision not to hear the appeal in Jimerson v. Lewis, coupled with President Trump’s call for a new crime bill that would further insulate police from liability, accountability and charges of official misconduct, could usher in a new era of police brutality, lawlessness and the reckless deployment of lethal force on unarmed civilians. In the 30 years since the first Crime Bill fueled the militarization of police, SWAT teams continue to terrorize innocent homeowners and then receive qualified immunity from the courts.

“The Supreme Court continues to send the message that in the American police state, ‘we the people’ are at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the people they were appointed to ‘serve and protect,’” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. “Make no mistake that the real purpose of qualified immunity is to rig the system, ensuring that abusive agents of the government almost always win and the victims of government abuse almost always lose.”

In declining to hear an appeal in Jimerson v. Lewis, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed qualified immunity to stand for a SWAT team commander of the Waxahachie Police Department in Texas who, in the process of executing a search warrant on a suspected methamphetamine stash house, recklessly led his team to the wrong home, where Karen Jimerson and James Parks were having their three young children get ready for bed. The SWAT commander had failed to match the house’s street address number with a search warrant and ignored other obvious differences between the houses. For instance, unlike the photos of the target house, Jimerson’s home had no fence and had a wheelchair ramp. Despite these differences and being unable to see the house number, the commander led officers to Jimerson’s house where they deployed a flashbang, broke the front windows, and breached the door. The officers began a protective sweep and told two females to get on the ground before realizing it was the wrong house. An internal police department investigation determined that “reasonable and normal protocol was completely overlooked.”

The family filed a federal lawsuit, alleging a Fourth Amendment violation for the wrongful raid of their home. Although the district court would have let the case proceed, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that even though the commander’s efforts to identify the correct residence were “deficient,” the commander was entitled to qualified immunity from the lawsuit. The Rutherford Institute’s amicus brief, which called on the Supreme Court to hear the case, argued that police who clearly violate the Fourth Amendment by failing to follow the commands of a search warrant and instead invade an innocent third-party’s home should not be entitled to qualified immunity. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson disagreed with the majority’s refusal to hear the case.

Erin Glenn Busby, Lisa R. Eskow, and Michael F. Sturley with the University of Texas School of Law Supreme Court Clinic advanced the arguments in the Jimerson v. Lewis amicus brief.

The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization, defends individuals whose constitutional rights have been threatened or violated and educates the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting their freedoms.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/supreme-court-protects-rouge-swat-leader-who-raided-wrong-home

Israel says it is stopping power to the Gaza, in bid to ratchet up pressure on Hamas

Energy minister vows to use ‘all the tools available’ to free hostages, oust terror group, though Israel has only been supplying power for one desalination plant

Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Sunday instructed the Israel Electric Corporation to immediately cut off the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip, in an apparent bid to pile pressure on the enclave, where 24 hostages presumed to be alive, and the bodies of 35 more, are still held.

“We will employ all the tools available to us so that all the hostages will return, and we will ensure that Hamas won’t be in Gaza on the ‘day after,’” said Cohen in a short video statement.

Cohen’s office circulated a letter sent to the IEC ordering it to stop selling electricity to Gaza power stations.

However, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel that Cohen’s decision is less dramatic that he made it appear. Electricity from Israel to Gaza was cut off after October 7, but in November Israel announced it was renewing supply to a desalination plant near Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. Israel cut the power to that plant, said the official.

The plant serves more than 600,000 Gaza residents through tankers or the networks of Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis governorates in central and southern Gaza, respectively. It is one of three such seawater processing facilities in the Gaza Strip, which before the war met around 15 percent of the 2 million-plus residents’ need for water.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-stops-electricity-supply-to-gaza-in-bid-to-ratchet-up-pressure-on-hamas/

Ethnic cleansing

Smotrich: Government establishing ‘migration administration’ for Gaza exodus

Far-right minister says plan ‘taking shape,’ budgeting won’t be an issue; Washington, Jerusalem, seeking countries to take in those who leave

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Sunday that the government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, is working to establish a “migration administration” that will oversee the exodus of Palestinian residents from the Gaza Strip.

Addressing the Knesset Land of Israel Caucus, Smotrich said that the plan was “taking shape” but acknowledged it would be a massive logistical undertaking.

The far-right minister, who recently returned from Washington, where he held a series of meetings with US officials, said that Israel is working with the Trump administration to find countries that will take in the Gazans who leave and that budgeting for such a “complex” undertaking “will not be an obstacle.”

US President Donald Trump triggered global perplexity in early February by suggesting the US “take over” Gaza and turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” while forcing its Palestinian inhabitants to relocate to Egypt, Jordan or other countries.

The Palestinian Authority and Arab nations have rejected Trump’s plan outright. At the end of last week, two key Arab nations organizations instead endorsed an Egyptian counterproposal for rehabilitating Gaza that is based on leaving inhabitants in place, a stipulation that undermines Smotrich and his allies’ vision of largely clearing the enclave of Palestinians.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-government-establishing-migration-administration-for-gaza-exodus/

Two injured after former mayor's car exploded on Ayalon highway

The police suspect that the explosion was caused by an explosive device that was planted in the car that was in motion near the La Guardia interchange.

Former mayor of Bat Yam, Shlomi Lahiani, was one of the injured in the car explosion on the Ayalon highway on Sunday, Israeli media reported.

The police suspect that the explosion was caused by an explosive device that was planted in the car that was in motion near the La Guardia interchange.

Lahiani and one other injured person were treated at the scene for minor injuries and were transferred to the Wolfson Medical Center.

The head of the Ayalon District, Commander Daniel Hadad, conducted a situation assessment at the scene and assigned the investigation to the Ayalon District's Crime-Fighting Unit. The police also believe that the motive was likely criminal.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-845320

Nearly 600 illegal residents arrested since start of Ramadan, police say

Currently, only men age 55 and older, women age 50 and older, and children up to age 12 are allowed to visit the Temple Mount.

Israel Border Police have captured 590 illegal residents since Ramadan began last week, the police announced Sunday.

Currently, the police are conducting a nationwide operation to enforce laws against illegal residency, and an additional 78 suspects have been arrested for assisting with transportation, employment, or housing for illegal residents.

Over 200 of those arrested were caught in Jerusalem.

On February 27, the first day of Ramadan, a 36-year-old Jerusalem resident was caught transporting four illegal residents within the roof of his vehicle.

An indictment was filed against the man on Thursday, stating that each of the illegal residents was required to pay the suspect ₪600 for transportation.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-845316

Former Pfizer R&D chief Mikael Dolsten joins Immunai’s board of directors

Dolsten brings decades of pharmaceutical leadership to advance AI-driven drug discovery.

Immunai, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) biotech company specializing in immune system mapping, has appointed Mikael Dolsten, M.D., Ph.D., to its Board of Directors. Dolsten, who served as Pfizer’s chief scientific officer and president of research and development for 15 years, will support Immunai’s efforts to integrate AI into immunology and oncology research.

During his tenure at Pfizer, Dolsten oversaw research across all therapeutic areas, leading a team of thousands of scientists. His contributions resulted in more than 35 drug and vaccine approvals, including the first mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine. His work has also shaped treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, stroke prevention, and cancer.

“Pharma continues turning to AI to better understand diseases and speed up drug discovery and development,” said Noam Solomon, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Immunai.

“But moving from data to real treatments takes deep expertise. Mikael has spent decades leading drug development at the highest level, and his experience will help us apply AI in ways that drive real progress.”

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-845284

State Department To Use AI To Revoke Visas of Students Who ‘Appear Pro-Hamas’

The effort will comb through social media accounts using AI in a major crackdown on the speech of foreign students

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is launching an AI-driven effort to revoke the visas of foreigners in the US who “appear pro-Hamas” in a crackdown targeting pro-Palestine protests on college campuses, Axios reported on Thursday.

The report said the effort will involve AI-assisted reviews of social media accounts of tens of thousands of foreign students in the US on visas that will look for “evidence of alleged terrorist sympathies expressed after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.”

The language in the report suggests that any foreign students who attend pro-Palestine demonstrations or express sympathy for Palestinians online could be swept up in the crackdown since opponents of the Israeli siege on Gaza or US military support for Israel are often labeled “pro-Hamas.”

Civil liberty groups have strongly criticized President Trump’s promises to deport foreign students who attend pro-Palestine protests since the speech of foreigners inside the US is supposed to be protected under the First Amendment.

“If we open the door to expelling foreign students who peacefully express ideas out of step with the current administration about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we should expect it to swing wider to encompass other viewpoints too,” Sarah McLaughlin, senior scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), said in an op-ed for MSNBC in January.

“Today it may be alleged ‘Hamas sympathizers’ facing threats of deportation for their political expression. Who could it be in four years? In eight?” McLaughlin added.

Abed Ayoub, head of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, told Axios that Americans won’t like the State Department’s effort because they’ll view it as “capitulating free speech rights for a foreign nation.”

The new State Department project is part of a broader administration effort against protests that are critical of Israel, which includes threats from President Trump that universities that allow what he called “illegal protests” would lose federal funding. The Department of Justice also launched a new task force investigating alleged incidents of “antisemitism” on college campuses.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/06/state-department-to-use-ai-to-revoke-visas-of-students-who-appear-pro-hamas/

Pentagon Awards Contract for AI War-Planning Tool

The US Department of Defense has awarded a contract to Scale AI to integrate artificial intelligence “into military operational and theater-level planning.”

According to the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the AI system, dubbed Thunderforge, will “accelerate decision-making, allowing planners to more rapidly synthesize vast amounts of information, generate multiple courses of action, and conduct AI-powered wargaming to anticipate and respond to evolving threats.”

The AI will initially be deployed to the Indo-Pacific Command and European Command theaters. The DIU did not disclose how much Scale AI will be paid to develop Thunderforge, but added that the system would also make use of Anduril’s Lattice program and “state of the art LLMs [large language models] enabled by Microsoft.”

As the Pentagon continues to turn to the tech sector for weapons and other war-fighting programs, the industry has increasingly sought to work with the Defense Department.

William D. Hartung, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, explained last year how tech firms replicate the strategies of arms manufacturing giants, with many companies seeking Pentagon contracts placing retired high-ranking military personnel in top positions.

Anduril was founded by tech entrepreneur Palmer Luckey specifically to seek contracts from the Pentagon. Google recently reversed a pledge not to build AI for weapons or surveillance.

The DIU press release said the new AI marks a decisive shift in how the Pentagon plans to fight wars. “Thunderforge marks a decisive shift toward AI-powered, data-driven warfare, ensuring that US forces can anticipate and respond to threats with speed and precision. Following its initial deployment, Thunderforge will be scaled across combatant commands,” the agency explained.

According to the Washington Post, Dan Tadross, the head of federal delivery at Scale who previously served with the Marines and researched AI military applications for the Navy, claimed Thunderforge was needed because “planning and operational process for the U.S. military has not evolved since Napoleon.”

While the Pentagon views AI as an important tool for fighting future wars, its effectiveness is unclear. The Defense Department has deployed Project Maven to the Middle East and Ukraine to aid with targeting; however, humans still do a much better job than the AI.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/pentagon-award-contract-for-ai-war-planning-tool/

Government took ranchers’ land for conservation now bulldozing it for new housing

Pam Johnson’s family did everything by the book. They paid nearly $50,000 for a grazing permit that was supposed to last 99 years. They followed government orders, sold their cattle, and gave up their livelihood—all in the name of protecting the endangered desert tortoise. But now, bulldozers are tearing through that same land to make way for homes, hotels, and retail stores. The so-called “protected habitat” was apparently only off-limits to ranchers, not developers with deep pockets.

For years, government officials insisted that grazing cattle was too harmful for the fragile ecosystem. But somehow, a massive construction project—one that will double the population of Leeds, Utah—is perfectly acceptable. The logic behind this decision does not add up. If this land was truly so delicate, why is it now being flattened for high-density development? The timeline tells a different story. The housing project has been in the works for a decade, and zoning changes were conveniently approved in August 2024, long after the ranchers were forced out.

This is exactly why people lose faith in government decisions. The Johnson family was told their permit was invalid to protect an endangered species, yet the real reason seems clearer now. It was never about conservation. It was about control—about reserving land for those who could pay the right price.

Locals are rightfully outraged. They want to know why they were forced to sacrifice their way of life when the real plan all along was to develop the land. This is not environmentalism. This is exploitation. When the rules apply only to working families and not to well-connected developers, people notice. And they do not forget.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/government-took-ranchers-land-for-conservation-now-bulldozing-it-for-new-housing/

"This bill impacts my ability to be with kids" Yeah, that's the point

https://twitter.com/i/status/1898469521037443103

Moms Are Now Selling Their Babies to Predators.. On Facebook.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/EcdbCDkPYfMB

Americans Support For Israel Hits RECORD LOW! Heres Why!

https://youtu.be/IYMthIqK9E0

Intense Israeli Strikes Hit Southern Lebanon

Israel launched an intensive wave of strikes on southern Lebanon late on March 7, targeting what it claimed to be military sites of Hezbollah.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (ANA) said that more than 20 strikes targeted the Zaghrabin hill in Jabal al-Rayhan in the Jezzine region, the towns of Yatar and Ziqin, a valley in the town of Babliyeh, the town of Tabna, the Marais’ area located between the towns of Ansar and al-Zarariyeh, as well as the al-Hamdaniya area between the towns of Kafrwa and Azza.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the strikes hit sites used by Hezbollah to store weapons and rocket launchers, adding that the targets posed a threat to Israel.

“The weapons and the rocket launchers in the military sites posed a threat to the State of Israel and constituted a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the statement reads.

These were the most violent strikes to target Lebanon since the completion of the United States-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah on February 18. However, there were no reports of any casualties.

Earlier in the day, ANA reported that two civilians from the Hezbollah-linked Jihad al-Bina organization tasked with inspecting the damage caused by previous Israeli strikes on the southern town of Kfar Kila were killed, and a third person of Syrian nationality was critically injured as a result of Israeli forces opening fire on them opposite the town’s wall.

The U.S.-brokered ceasefire put an end to a heated conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that broke out more than a year earlier as a result of the war in the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah, which lost all of its commanders and took heavy losses during the conflict, has so far refrained from responding to the IDF repeated strikes on Lebanon.

While Israel took some losses during the fighting, which lasted for more than 14 months, there is no doubt that Hezbollah lost deterrence. Now, the IDF is exploiting this new reality to make sure that the group never rebuild its combat capabilities in any part of Lebanon. Hezbollah will likely be able to adapt to this new reality without making some serious changes in its political strategy and its internal structure.

https://southfront.press/intense-israeli-strikes-hit-southern-lebanon-videos/

Time to dismantle the Fed’s debt-based dollar scam

The Federal Reserve’s unchecked power to print money fuels inflation, transferring wealth from ordinary Americans to the elites who control the system.

Abanking cartel is haunting our society with its ability to create, destroy, and control money — the Federal Reserve. It must be abolished and replaced with a more rational and fair system.

Money is the lifeblood of modern civilization. It enables us to establish contracts, assess the worth of goods and services, and trade efficiently. But what exactly is money, and who creates the U.S. dollar?

Our monetary system is a mechanism for transferring wealth to urban elites who produce nothing.

The first step in understanding money is dispelling the notion that a valuable asset like gold backs it — because it doesn’t.

The dollar is valuable for two reasons. First, it is backed by the “full faith and credit of the U.S. government,” meaning its worth derives from its ability to tax people to pay its debts. Second, the federal government only accepts tax payments in U.S. dollars, creating an inherent demand for the currency.

Despite these factors, the federal government creates very little of our money. The U.S. Treasury prints paper bills and mints coins, but physical cash accounts for only about 10% of our total money supply.

The hidden mechanism of money creation

Most of our money comes from debt — and that’s a problem.

Modern money is almost entirely created through lending. Every non-cash dollar must eventually be repaid to a private bank with interest. In other words, most U.S. money is simply a collection of IOUs owed to private financial institutions.

Commercial banks operate under a system called “fractional reserve banking.” They are private businesses that only hold a small amount of cash reserves and issue loans often exceeding 900% of their small cash reserves. When a bank issues a loan and deposits it into a borrower’s account, new “money” is created out of thin air.

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/time-to-dismantle-the-feds-debt-based-dollar-scam?utm_source=theblaze-dailyAM

Elon Musk- "If I Fully Revealed the Graft, they would kill me."

https://youtube.com/shorts/SY70CU_-Xec?si=HqqbAIeN1EItsclO