Mass ultra-Orthodox protests block roads, halt traffic over arrest of draft dodgers

Public transport heavily impacted as protesters climb onto railway tracks in central Israel, block Jerusalem light rail; protester hit by motorcyclist, seriously injured on Route 4

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox men took to the streets across Israel on Monday, blocking roads in cities from the north of the country to the south and bringing traffic to a standstill to protest the recent arrest of Haredi yeshiva students who evaded conscription to the military.

The demonstrations descended into violence at several locations after the Israel Police declared the protests to be illegal and deployed officers to break them up. One officer was lightly injured during those efforts. In Jerusalem, a uniformed soldier had to be rescued by police officers after he got off a bus and found himself surrounded by Haredi rioters.

Separately, a protester was hit by a motorcyclist and seriously injured at the scene of the demonstration along the Route 4 highway. The Magen David Adom emergency services said the protester was evacuated to Sheba Medical Center in serious condition, conscious and suffering from head and limb injuries.

The extremist Jerusalem Faction movement announced the protests on Monday morning, saying they would organize against the “continued criminal detention” of yeshiva students, who they said were being arrested simply for “the ‘crime’ of Torah study.”

The group, numbering some 60,000 members, regularly holds rowdy demonstrations against the military enlistment of yeshiva students and operates a “national alert system” to mobilize wildcat street action when someone spots a draft dodger being arrested.

The largest demonstrations were held around the Ganot Interchange on the major Route 4 highway, and at the entrance to Jerusalem. Additional demonstrations were staged in Bnei Brak, at the entrance to Safed in northern Israel and in Netivot, in the south.

Familiar chants of “We will die and not enlist!” could be heard in footage from the various demonstrations.

Several other hotspots flared in Jerusalem throughout the evening, including outside the home of the Israel Police Traffic Department chief, Haim Shmueli, in Pisgat Ze’ev.

A separate group broke into the police station in the city’s Har Hotzvim neighborhood, footage showed.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2061464110848442695

https://www.timesofisrael.com/mass-ultra-orthodox-protests-block-roads-halt-traffic-over-arrest-of-draft-dodgers/

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‘Full-on vassal’: Netanyahu under fire after Trump halts Beirut strike

Lapid says Israelis learned of the halt from Trump, not their government, while Bennett, Liberman and Ben-Gvir accuse Netanyahu of losing control and failing to act against Hezbollah

Israeli opposition leaders criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that Hezbollah had agreed to stop all shooting and that no troops would be sent to Beirut, hours after Israel threatened to strike the Lebanese capital’s Dahieh district.

Israelis again received news of a halt in fighting not from their own government but from the U.S. president, about seven hours after Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered a strike in Dahieh, which ultimately did not take place, at least for now.

“A full-on vassal,” Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said.

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett, head of the new Yahad party, linked the handling of Lebanon to chaos during ultra-Orthodox protests that blocked roads for hours and to the overnight break-in at a police station in Beit Shemesh.

“Jerusalem. Beit Shemesh. Lebanon. Gaza. The location changes, the story is the same,” Bennett said. “A government that has lost control over Israeli sovereignty. Chaos everywhere. We will restore security to Israel’s citizens.”

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman said it was unacceptable that northern Israel had been under heavy fire for days while Netanyahu waited for Trump’s approval to strike Dahieh.

“We are not a banana republic,” Lieberman said. “Dahieh must be flattened now, and we must not stop until the last building there is brought down.”

Criticism also came from within the coalition. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir wrote to Netanyahu: “You said a strong prime minister says ‘yes’ to the U.S. president when possible and ‘no’ when necessary. This is the time to tell our friend, President Trump, ‘no.’”

He said Israel must “strike Hezbollah, free the hands of our fighters and restore security to the north.”

In his Truth Social post, Trump wrote that he had a “very productive call” with Netanyahu, adding that “there will be no troops going to Beirut” and that any troops already on their way “have already been turned back.”

He also said that, through “highly placed representatives,” he had held “a very good call with Hezbollah” and that the group had agreed “that all shooting will stop.”

“Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel,” Trump wrote.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjwdhdolzg

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No he was killed in an ambulance travelling to a hospital that was 45 minutes from his location.

Instead of heading to the nearest hospital just 5-10 mins away

BP Sells 5% Stake In Australia's Newest $35 Billion LNG Project

BP will sell 5% in the $35-billion Browse LNG project in Australia, which Australian energy giant Woodside is looking to progress, the UK-based supermajor told Reuters on Monday.

BP is selling the 5% stake, out of its total of its 44% interest, to South Korea's GS Energy.

“The dilution reflects BP’s disciplined approach to portfolio management by bringing in a committed partner,” BP said in a statement emailed to Reuters.

The Browse LNG project in Australia, proposed by Woodside Energy, entails the Browse to North West Shelf (NWS) Project to deliver natural gas from the Calliance, Torosa, and Brecknock fields to the existing Karratha Gas Plant.

The Browse project proposes to connect the natural gas fields via a 900-kilometre pipeline, connected to two floating production storage and offloading facilities, while a CCS solution has been incorporated into the offshore design.

Production capacity at Browse is planned to be 11.4 million tonnes per annum (LNG, LPG, and domestic gas) and a peak condensate production rate of 50,000 barrels per day.

The project is currently in the concept definition phase, and key activities continue in support of progress towards front-end engineering and design entry, Woodside said last month.

Woodside is the operator of the project with a 30.6% stake in the Browse Joint Venture. Before the BP-GS Energy deal, the British major held 44.33%. The sell-down will reduce BP’s interest in the joint venture to 39%.

Japan Australia LNG (MIMI Browse) Pty Ltd and PetroChina International Investment (Australia) Pty Ltd were the other shareholders in the joint venture before GS Energy joins the project with the 5% stake acquired from BP.

The Browse LNG project may have good chances to pass all pre-development and pre-construction stages in the coming years as Australian and Asian energy demand is rising, while the Middle Eastern crisis has created new energy security concerns among buyers.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bp-sells-5-stake-australias-newest-35-billion-lng-project

Mystery Deepens: Remains Of Missing Los Alamos Nuclear Lab Employee Discovered In Forest

The body of Melissa Casias has been found in a remote area of New Mexico’s Carson National Forest, almost 11 months after the Los Alamos National Laboratory employee walked out of her home and vanished.

This discovery marks another chapter in the disturbing wave of deaths and disappearances involving individuals tied to highly sensitive government programs. It arrives after President Trump ordered full UFO disclosure and two sets of classified files have now been released to the public.

Casias, 54, worked as an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the historic site of the Manhattan Project and a hub for ongoing nuclear weapons research. She was last seen alive on June 26, 2025, in Ranchos de Taos.

New Mexico State Police confirmed the identification of her remains after a hiker found them in the McGaffey Ridge area. A handgun was recovered alongside the body. The cause and time of death remain undetermined pending further investigation by the Office of the Medical Investigator.

The circumstances of her disappearance raised immediate red flags. Casias left behind her phones and identification after performing a factory reset on both devices, wiping all records of contacts and activity.

Surveillance captured her walking alone eastward on State Road 518 around 2:20 p.m. that day. Her husband, also a LANL employee, and daughter reported unusual behavior that morning involving a claimed forgotten security badge.

Family members and private investigators have maintained that Casias lost her security clearance due to financial troubles and that the disappearance stemmed from personal stress rather than foul play.

New Mexico State Police have indicated it appears she may have left voluntarily. Yet the discovery of her remains in a heavily trafficked forest restoration zone—where crews began active work in December 2025—has only intensified public scrutiny.

https://twitter.com/i/status/2061282336390414473

https://modernity.news/2026/06/01/mystery-deepens-remains-of-missing-los-alamos-nuclear-lab-employee-discovered-in-forest/

"Our ambition has never been for conquest, but for safety."

Israeli President Isaac Herzog cites Jewish "safety" to justify Israel's many wars with its neighbors (which just so happened to lead to significant territorial expansion).

https://x.com/i/status/2061613576037560364

Kiev suffers partial blackouts amid reported missile strikes

There were multiple explosions and fires across the Ukrainian capital, according to Mayor Vitaly Klitschko

The Ukrainian capital and several other cities across the country have come under a combined drone and missile strike early on Tuesday morning, according to local officials and media reports. The Russian Ministry of Defense has yet to comment.

The first wave of blasts in Kiev was heard around 1:30am local time, followed by more explosions around 2:15am and 4am. Videos shared on social media show multiple explosions in the Ukrainian capital.

In one clip, a powerful blast was followed by the lights going out, plunging much of Kiev into darkness.

Mayor Vitaly Klitschko confirmed partial blackouts in several districts, urging residents to seek shelter as the capital’s air defenses engaged incoming targets.

Other footage captured the sounds of repeated secondary explosions. The exact locations and types of facilities hit are difficult to verify, as Ukrainian authorities tightly restrict information about strike sites and penalize those who share footage of impacts, except when civilian infrastructure is affected.

There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but Klitschko said at least 14 people were injured after falling debris from intercepted missiles and drones triggered fires in residential areas and private yards.

Multiple explosions were also reported in Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye, as well as in Sumy and Kharkov regions.

The Russian Defense Ministry has not yet issued a statement on the latest reported attack.

Moscow previously pledged to conduct “systematic and consistent strikes” on Kiev’s military installations, drone manufacturing sites, command posts, and “decision-making centers” in retaliation for the deadly “terrorist attack” in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) on May 22.

The attack on the Starobelsk college dormitory, conducted in several waves late at night while students were sleeping inside, killed 21 people, mainly teenage girls.

With the Starobelsk massacre, “the Kiev leadership has decided to open a new chapter in its crime spree, to add a new dimension to the conflict as a whole,” President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, adding that the perpetrators will suffer a “well-deserved and inevitable punishment.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/640839-kiev-missile-drone-strikes/

Liberal Party appoints Rupert Murdoch’s $500,000 man, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, as President

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is paid $500,000 per year as a Director of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation, has been elected national President of the Liberal Party.

At a time when the Liberal Party badly needs to be reaching out to younger generations, they have gone for someone who doesn’t relate well to many, if any, generations given he lost his seat to independent Zali Steggall in 2019.

For a former Prime Minister, 2013 to 2015, to lose to an independent says he is badly out of touch with voters and is the last person who should have a leadership role in a political party fighting for its future.

What makes Tony Abbott’s Presidency of the Liberal Party even worse is that he will be seen as nothing more than a puppet for Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch, who are despised nationally, especially among younger voters.

Now days the billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch don’t even try to hide the fact that politicians are bought and paid for, they just put them directly on their payroll.

Tony Abbott as Liberal Party President would make it a certainty that there will be a split and fragmentation of the Liberal Party in the near future and my guess is it will happen before the 2028 federal election.

But to be fair, whether Tony Abbott was Liberal Party President or not, the Liberal Party fragmenting was always likely, it is just that under Abbott’s leadership it became a certainty.

Kevin Rudd and the Murdochs

As regular readers know, I have been writing regularly about former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his connection to Jeffery Epstein, and Rudd sent frivolous and vexatious defamation legal threats to Google and YouTube last year and early this year to have my articles blocked in Australia.

But Rudd stopped doing that about the same time he stopped being Australia’s Ambassador to the US in March 2026, and my last 4 or so videos on Epstein, which also feature Rudd, haven’t been blocked.

But then all of a sudden, Rudd has had a video blocked by YouTube that I published about Rudd and Murdoch as per below.

I received an email from YouTube, with the below message, on Friday (29/5/26) letting me know they had blocked my video, for Australian viewers, titled “Hypocrisy Exposed – Kevin Rudd joins Rupert Murdoch’s payroll” that I published on the 18th of May, 2026.

https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2026/05/31/liberal-party-appoints-rupert-murdochs-500000-man-former-prime-minister-tony-abbott-as-president/

No More Talks - New Iran Lego Video

https://www.bitchute.com/video/7CSheWBRPqX3

😂😂😂🤣 WHAT ARE THEY CHOSEN FOR?

https://www.bitchute.com/video/wlHsJekusP3P

Kelly demands apology from Nine News over their complicity in the scamdemic

NINE News and their presenter Alison Langdon owe Australia a grovelling, public apology, says Craig Kelly, former federal Liberal MP and NSW Libertarian candidate.

Kelly has launched a scathing attack on Nine and Langdon, who during an interview with Kelly at the peak of the Covid hysteria, told him “all our hopes are riding on a vaccine – you need to be quiet”.

Now Nine News is covering the various cases in the Federal Government’s Covid 19 Vaccination Claims Scheme, set up to compensate people who suffered various debilitating side effects after receiving Covid 19 shots.

But it took one applicant interviewed by Nine a year and 1000 pages to file his claim with supporting evidence. The same applicant received compensation of $6.5 million, due to his inability to work again. He was then hit with a tax bill from the ATO of $2.4 million.

But Kelly is not impressed by Nine’s sudden outpouring of crocodile tears for the plight of those fighting to get compensation for vaccine injuries.

“They pocketed blood money to flood the airwaves with shameless propaganda, relentlessly pushing an unsafe, defective, and experimental medical treatment onto trusting Australians,” says Kelly.

“Worse, they actively censored debate, platformed smears, and viciously vilified anyone trying to present facts and data exposing the COVID “magic potion” as the dangerous fraud it was.

“Now they are running tragic stories about those catastrophically injured — the very victims they helped create by shilling these shots for years while silencing critics.

“The rank hypocrisy is utterly disgusting. Countless people who followed Nine’s and Alison Langdon’s reckless advice have had their lives ruined. Many are dead.

“If Langdon had even a skerrick of journalistic integrity she would immediately apologise for her treacherous role in misleading and harming millions of Australians.

“Before crying for more taxpayer money for the injured, Nine and Langdon should be forced to surrender every filthy cent they earned from their COVID vaccine propaganda and pay it into a victim compensation fund.”

Kelly says Langdon should hand back her Logie — “or better yet, auction it off and donate every last dollar to the people whose lives were destroyed by swallowing the toxic lies she pushed so aggressively.

“The mainstream media didn’t just fail Australia — they betrayed the nation. They helped inflict this harm, covered it up, and now pretend to care. It’s time they apologised and handed back every cent by pocketed.”

https://cairnsnews.org/2026/06/02/kelly-demands-apology-from-nine-news-over-their-complicity-in-the-scamdemic/

UK Gone Mad Over Israel

This just says so much about the true nature of the artificially manufactured panic around “antisemitism” in the West.

The U.K. is getting crazier and crazier in its defense of Israel. Now they’re canceling the visas of mainstream normie political pundits for criticizing the state of Israel, and investigating people for antisemitic hate crimes when they denounce Zionists who aren’t even Jewish.

American progressive commentator Cenk Uygur and his nephew Hasan Piker have both been denied visas by the British government, saying they were blocked from entering the country because of their criticism of Israel.

“I’ve been banned from the U.K.,” Uygur said in a tweet. “I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!”

“the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel,” said Piker in a repost of his uncle’s statement. “the west is betraying ‘liberal values’ for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.”

This is a significant escalation from London, because neither Uygur nor Piker could reasonably be described as politically extremist in any way. They’re essentially just Bernie Sanders progressives who sit well within the mainstream U.S. political Overton window; I personally don’t follow either of them because they are both far too aligned with the Democratic Party for my liking.

This move is yet another win for the U.K.’s extremely powerful Israel lobby. Two weeks ago The Jewish Chronicle ran a story titled “Social media influencer Hasan Piker must be banned from Britain, say Jewish leaders,” subtitled “Online agitator who said Zionists were like ‘Nazis’ and refused to condemn Hamas poses a threat to British Jews.”

So the pressure campaign appears to have paid off.

This comes as the Metropolitan Police launch an investigation into an incident in which actress Helen Mirren was called an “evil Zionist bitch” by a man on the street last year, saying in a statement that “We are aware of a video circulating online, showing a man and a woman being subjected to antisemitic verbal abuse in Tower Hill.”

To be clear, Helen Mirren is not Jewish, so she can’t have been a victim of “antisemitic verbal abuse”. She is however an avowed supporter of the state of Israel, which makes her a Zionist.

In a 2023 interview with Israeli media, Mirren stirred up controversy with her remarks on her 1967 visit to the Zionist ethnostate, saying, “I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/06/01/caitlin-johnstone-uk-gone-mad-over-israel/