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Warning? Double-tap bombing rips through Damascus near French President Macron's hotel Major explosions ripped through an area in of the Syrian capital near the hotel where French President Emmanuel Macron had been staying, during an official visit of the French leader to Nusrah Front (Syrian AQ) founder and now self-appointed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Macron is said to be safe, after talks with Sharaa at the presidential palace, but at least 18 people were injured when explosive devices went off - an attack which was captured on video from various angles. It appeared a double-tap explosion, leading some pundits to speculate that it could have been a drone attack. It also happened near the Ministry of Tourism in central Damascus, home to some high-end hotels as well as government buildings. 🙌 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇲🇨Cleaning up: Ukrainian woman suspected of Monaco bombing found shot dead near Kyiv Anastasiia Berezovska was being sought by police over attack that seriously injured a Ukraine-born businessman A woman suspected of carrying out last week's bomb attack in Monaco that seriously injured a Ukraine-born business tycoon has been found shot dead near Kyiv, in the latest twist in a case that has shaken the wealthy Mediterranean principality. Ukrainian prosecutors said on Tuesday the woman had been found with a gunshot wound to the head and that two men had been arrested in connection with the case, including an officer with Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) and a former law enforcement officer. On Friday, Interpol issued a red notice for 39-year-old Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukrainian national who speaks German. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

☄️Bright green meteor fireball spotted during northern lights in Alberta on July 3 Photographer Chris Ratzlaff was looking up at the sky that night for the aurora borealis, or northern lights, which were so bright they were visible even at his home in Calgary. "I was recording it with my phone, just panning around the horizon... (and) I noticed this fireball streaking into my view of my camera," he recalled in an interview on Monday. "I just redirected from the aurora and started following the fireball as it went down." He called it a lucky break, albeit one that happens more frequently with the growing prevalence of modern cameras that can shoot video in low light. "A real-time live video of a fireball coming down? ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇷Bibi tries once again to convince Trump Iran has nukes Is Bibi about to cheat Trump for a second time? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Trump's flirtation with U.S. world domination through his short war with Iran has given him more problems than he could have ever imagined. And it's about to get worse. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

After the Islamabad Memorandum While the Arab states of the Persian Gulf concluded from the war against Iran that Israel was a predator and the United States was not the world's policeman, Americans still do not know what to make of Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition. "Revisionist Zionists" are attempting to introduce pro-Israel candidates into the Republican and Democratic parties, even as the majority of voters no longer wish to support this genocidal state. Moreover, they are attempting to turn the Arabs of the Gulf against Iran and to relaunch the Israeli operation in Lebanon. The Islamabad Memorandum [1] did not merely establish peace in the Persian Gulf. ❗️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇵🇸Hamas dissolves Gaza government as it presses for implementation of peace plan Hamas on Monday announced that it was dissolving its governing body in Gaza as it's pushing for the implementation of the US-backed Gaza peace plan amid Israel's constant violations of the ceasefire deal signed in October 2025. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

The dangerous logic of NATO 3.0 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is entering its third age. When it was founded three quarters of a century ago, it was meant to contain the spread of communism and confront the military might of the Soviet Union. In other words, to keep Western Europe capitalist and under US control. Despite the allegations of the Soviet propaganda at the time, NATO was a defensive rather than an aggressive alliance. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇨🇳🇺🇸US 'very much in space race' against China - NASA chief Beijing maintains that outer space is an area for cooperation, not contest. The US is "very much in a space race" against China as the two nations look to land humans on the Moon and establish permanent bases there in the coming years, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has said. The US remains the only country to have sent manned missions to the Moon, with American astronauts visiting the Earth's satellite six times as part of the Apollo program between 1969 and 1972. During an interview with 'Face the Nation' on CBS on Sunday, Isaacman stressed: "The Chinese "will land their taikonauts on the Moon - there's no question. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

One word spoils the NATO jamboree... Konstantinovka The NATO summit taking place in Turkey this week was already looking fraught with simmering tensions between Trump and Europe. Now the jamboree in Ankara and the facade of unity are shattered by the dramatic liberation of Konstantinovka by Russian forces. The Russian military's victory over the key Ukrainian stronghold paves the way for the complete takeover of the Donbass region. The NATO-backed Kiev regime had dug its best defences at Konstantinovka, some 150 kilometers of elaborate trenches and minefields. 📍 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Biden's Illegal Alien Invasion Sparked 30% Home Price Growth, 20% Rent Growth: Fed Paper A new Federal Reserve working paper adds hard data to a dire economic realities that tens of millions of hardworking Americans already face: being priced out of homeownership or trapped paying ungodly high rents. For years, the housing affordability crisis was blamed almost entirely on low interest rates, pandemic-era demand, institutional buyers, and a shortage of new construction. However, one major point was largely and conveniently ignored by mainstream media: the Biden-Harris regime's open border policies, which facilitated a massive illegal alien invasion. The paper, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, uses new government data to measure the labor and housing market effects of the illegal alien invasion from early 2021 through the first half of 2024. ‼️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Polish official put on Ukrainian 'kill list' amid Nazi collaborators row The presidential chief-of-staff says he opposes Kiev's "historical lies" amid an escalating row over Nazi collaborators. Ukraine's state-backed Mirotvorets database of alleged "enemies of the state" has blacklisted Polish presidential chief-of-staff Zbigniew Bogucki, calling him an "anti-Ukrainian propagandist." Bogucki responded by declaring himself an enemy of "Banderism" and Kiev's "historical lies." Tensions between Warsaw and Kiev deepened in May after Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky granted an elite commando unit an honorific referencing the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) - a WWII-era ultranationalist militia which cooperated with Nazi Germany and took part in ethnic cleansings targeting thousands of Poles, Jews, and Russians in what is now western Ukraine. 👉🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

The real point of the 'Patriot Front' psy-op Over the Fourth of July weekend, Washington DC found itself beset by the "Patriot Front", about 400 guys in matching outfits, with white balaclavas covering their faces and waving flags about. The (relatively small) gathering walked about a bit, did some marching, waved some flags...and scared the press to death! They're not real, of course. The running joke has already become they are barely-disguised federal agents indulging in some rather lame propaganda, even as some members of rightwing defend both their realness and their aims. Apparently they do community projects and stuff. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

No AOC, Bernie and Mamdani, the Framers would have hated the billionaire tax Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the bizarre claim of Gov. Gavin Newsom and others that the Framers would have supported wealth taxes, including the proposed Billionaire's Tax. It is a claim that seeks to mask the economically unwise with the historically unfounded. The Framers sought to protect property from legislative redistributive impulses. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia warns Ukraine increasing drone attacks will 'expand' Russia's projected buffer zone Russia has announced that one key measure that will be taken in response to Ukraine's ramped-up drone attacks on Russian territory, including last month's major strikes on the Moscow area, is the significant expansion of the border 'buffer zone' between the waring countries. "A security buffer zone on the Russian-Ukrainian border is conditioned by the aggressive nature of the Kiev regime and the Russian military is engaged in this process systematically reaching the appropriate progress," presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. In essence this is the Kremlin saying that Russian forces plan to permanently take over territory deeper into Ukraine. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Report says UK police must give up 'woke culture wars' and start fighting crime British officers are increasingly seen as "preferencing certain groups," according to a government-backed study British police chiefs need to stop taking sides in "woke... culture wars" and focus entirely on the "prevention and detection of crime," according to a government-backed report that recommends a "fundamental overhaul" of policing in the UK. Co-authored by former Labour Party Home Secretary Lord Blunkett and published on Monday, the report found that Britain's police departments are plagued by corrupt leadership, nepotism, abuse of power, and low morale among officers. The report also highlighted concerns that police leaders are "preferencing certain groups," with some "woke" chiefs "taking sides in the so-called 'culture wars.'" ➡️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Secret Service member was Googling rooftop location of Trump's would-be assassin when shots rang out in Butler, Pa.: DHS report A Secret Service counter drone operator futilely searched the internet for the location of the rooftop President Trump's would-be assassin was spotted on as shots rang out at the July 13, 2024, campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a Department of Homeland Security inspector general report released Thursday. The report concluded Secret Service "missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt" deranged gunman Thomas Crooks' attempted assassination of Trump, including shocking communications failures that resulted in the president's protective detail never being warned that an armed man had climbed onto the American Glass Research International (AGR) complex's roof just 155 yards from the stage. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Paul Pelosi faces charges in Napa County hit-and-run Paul Pelosi, the 86-year-old husband of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), faces misdemeanor charges for a hit-and-run after allegedly striking a parked car in Napa, California on Friday. According to a statement from the Napa County Sheriff's Office, the collision occurred around 2:30 p.m. on July 3, 2026, on the 6700 block of Yount Street in Yountville. A witness reported seeing a brown convertible traveling northbound on Yount Street strike a parked car that was legally positioned on the shoulder of the roadway. The parked vehicle sustained significant rear-end damage. 👍🏼 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

UK government's overreaching bid to rig YouTube algorithm to force-feed BBC propaganda Latest power grab aims to silence independent voices by artificially boosting state-backed media on the world's biggest video platform In a brazen move that reeks of authoritarian control, the UK government is pushing plans to seize influence over YouTube's recommendation system. Their goal is to prioritise content from the BBC, and other state backed propaganda machines, while burying independent journalists and creators who dare challenge the official narrative. This isn't subtle nudging — it's direct engineered suppression, which they're dressing up as "protecting democracy" from so-called disinformation. As public trust in legacy media plummets, the establishment's response is to rig the game rather than earn back credibility. ✍️ Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

Putin and Trump hold phone call - Kremlin The US and Russian leaders spoke for nearly 1.5 hours on the 250th anniversary of American independence, according to Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov. President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to discuss the Ukraine conflict, the situation around Iran, and the prospects for restoring bilateral ties, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said. The conversation took place on Saturday, as the United States marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. According to Ushakov, Putin personally congratulated Trump and the American people on the milestone, after sending a formal message to the White House a day earlier. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇸🇾Israel isn't leaving Lebanon and Syria may be next Israel's refusal to withdraw, Hezbollah's refusal to disarm, and new strikes near the Golan Heights point to a conflict that is expanding, not ending. Israel has no intention of leaving Lebanon. At least, it won't do so now and on terms that would suit Beirut (not to mention Hezbollah and Tehran). Moreover, in parallel with the Lebanese campaign, West Jerusalem is reactivating operations in Syria: Israeli forces launched an artillery strike on the village of Abidin in the western part of Syria's Daraa Governorate, and, according to regional sources, Israeli aircraft conducted flights over the rural areas of Daraa and Quneitra governorates near the Golan Heights. At first glance, it appears that yet another breakthrough has occurred on the Lebanese front. 👀 Read More @sotten | - X | Facebook | Donate