Important Takeaways:
- The state-controlled Tehran Times reported on X Sunday that Iran’s missiles are “loaded onto launchers in all underground missile cities and are ready for launch.” The newspaper issued a stern warning, stating that any escalation would come “at a heavy cost for the US government and its allies.”
- The Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Force also issued a statement warning that any act of aggression against Iran will be met with a “severe response.”
- In an interview with NBC, Trump warned, “If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing — and it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.” He later told reporters that he “would prefer a deal to the other alternative,” without elaborating further.
- Meanwhile, The Telegraph reported that Iran could target a British-American naval base in the Indian Ocean if provoked, with a senior Iranian military official stating, “There will be no distinction in targeting British or American forces if Iran is attacked from any base in the region or within the range of Iranian missiles.” This follows the U.S. significantly increasing its military presence at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, the base in question.
- With Iran rejecting direct talks, diplomacy is at a standstill. Trump’s threats and the U.S. military buildup indicate rising tensions with no immediate resolution in sight.
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- “Communist China has now taken war to the heavens, to low earth orbit, and very likely, will take war to the moon, Mars, and beyond. The heavens are no longer safe for the democracies.” — Richard Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center, to Gatestone, March 2025.
- “Rising powers, notably China and Russia, saw how reliant we were on space—and how poorly defended our systems were. Our access to the strategic high ground is now more threatened than ever before.” — Brandon Weichert, author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, to Gatestone, March 2025
- China is making fast progress in building space weapons. “The Chinese ISR”—intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance—”capabilities are become very capable,” said Gen. Guetlein. “They have gone from what we used to call a ‘Kill Chain’ to a ‘Kill Mesh.'” A Kill Mesh combines ISR satellites with an array of weapons systems.
- The Chinese array appears impressive. As Fisher points out, the People’s Liberation Army has developed ground-based ASAT—anti-satellite—interceptors to destroy satellites in both low earth orbit and much higher medium earth orbits. At the same time, China, as Guetlein’s comments make clear, is working on “co-orbital” interceptors, satellites that can follow, approach, dock with, or use robotic arms to grapple other satellites into useless orbits.
- For the future, Fisher reports, China is developing large, unmanned space planes that can re-enter the atmosphere to maneuver toward a new orbit and then relaunch into space to deploy energy and missile weapons. The PLA also appears to be working on large combat platforms that can attack satellite targets in multiple orbits. Expect the Chinese military also to deploy clusters of combat satellites to attack the Lunar and Martian satellite networks of the future.
- “The recent demonstration of Chinese ‘dogfighting’ capabilities in space is an indicator that Beijing means to use force on earth. By targeting sensitive U.S. military satellites, the People’s Liberation Army can render us deaf, dumb, and blind, long before it strikes.” — Brandon Weichert, to Gatestone, March 2025.
- The Chinese are evidently planning to blind not only America’s military but also America’s civilian society, which is heavily dependent on space assets. Almost nothing modern in America will work when the Chinese are finished attacking in the heavens.
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Important Takeaways:
- The European Union (EU) has urged its citizens in all 27 member states to prepare three-day survival kits amid growing concerns about a World War-like situation.
- “In the EU we must think different because the threats are different, we must think bigger because the threats are bigger too,” Hadja Lahbib, the Commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management, told reporters.
- France, for example, recommends a 72-hour survival kit that includes food, water, medicines, a portable radio, a flashlight, replacement batteries, chargers, cash, copies of crucial documents, including medical prescriptions, spare keys, warm clothes, and basic tools such as utility knives.
- Brussels has also proposed suggestions in recent weeks to increase the stockpiling of crucial medicines and essential minerals.
- Norwegian officials are carrying out mass evacuation drills, while Sweden has handed out pamphlets titled “If Crisis or War Comes” to its people.
- Finland has alerted citizens to be prepared for “incidents and crises,” and Denmark has suggested essential supplies for three days of crisis.
- Commissioner Lahbib also pointed out the psychological effects of such preparation in an interview with AFP.
- Knowing what to do in danger and planning for different scenarios can keep people from panicking, especially in crises like the pandemic when toilet paper was cleared off shelves, she said.
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Important Takeaways:
- In a recent interview, Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), stated that reducing federal spending by $1 trillion is “quite achievable” without impacting core services. He emphasized that Social Security recipients would “receive more money” as a result of these efforts.
- Musk detailed that his team is cutting $4 billion daily, aiming to halve the annual federal deficit within 130 days. Strategies include reducing agency spending, downsizing staff in various departments, and targeting fraud, particularly within Social Security.
- Despite these measures, only a small fraction of the federal workforce has been terminated, indicating a focus on efficiency over mass layoffs.
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- A powerful earthquake rocked Thailand and neighboring Myanmar on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collapsed. Footage shared on social media from Myanmar’s second-largest city showed widespread destruction, raising fears that many were trapped under the rubble or killed.
- The magnitude 7.7 quake, with an epicenter near Mandalay in Myanmar, struck at midday and was followed by a strong magnitude 6.4 aftershock.
- The extent of the death, injury and destruction — especially in Myanmar, which is embroiled in a brutal civil war that has already caused a widespread humanitarian crisis — was not yet clear. Myanmar’s government said blood was in high demand in the hardest-hit areas, and videos from the country showed multiple collapsed houses and buckled and cracked roads.
- While the area where the quake struck is prone to temblors, they are usually not so big and it is rare for them to felt in the Thai capital.
- The Red Cross said downed power lines are adding to challenges for their teams trying to reach the Mandalay and Sagaing regions and southern Shan state.
- “Initial reports from the ground suggest the earthquake has caused significant damage,” the Red Cross said. “Information on humanitarian needs is still being gathered.”
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Important Takeaways:
- The IDF struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, the military said on Friday afternoon, after two rockets were fired at Israeli territory from Lebanon earlier in the day.
- The IDF said the building was used by Hezbollah to store drones and belonged to Hezbollah’s aerial unit 127.
- The IDF later announced it had additionally struck Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon throughout Friday, including rocket launcher sites and terrorists.
- This has been the first heavy bombardment on Lebanon since the ceasefire deal between the two countries was signed in November.
- “If there is no quiet in Kiryat Shmona and the Galilee communities, there will be no quiet in Beirut either,” Defense Minister Israel Katz warned.
- “We will not allow a return to the reality of October 7. We will ensure the security of the residents of the Galilee and respond forcefully to any threat,” he added.
- Former prime minister Naftali Bennett said Israel should strike Iran in response to the rocket fire. “When Hezbollah, Iran’s terror proxy, fires on Israel, Israel must respond in Tehran,” Bennett wrote in a X/Twitter post.
- “Only then will Iran understand: you simply don’t fire on the Jewish state.”
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Important Takeaways:
- One Democrat lawmaker has gone so far in supporting abortion, she’s reducing the decision to murder babies to a cost-benefit analysis.
- On Tuesday, Julie McCluskie, a Colorado Democrat and Speaker for the House in the Colorado legislature, spoke on a bill she is currently co-sponsoring to require “abortion care services” to be covered by Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus program participants.
- It would also require public employee insurance plans to cover abortions.
- During her time to speak on the bill, McCluskie focused on how much money the state could save if women chose to have abortions rather than giving birth.
- She reduced pregnancy and life to a price tag, concluding that those children should just die because it’s cheaper.
- “A birth is more expensive than an abortion, so the savings come in Medicaid births that will not occur,” she added.
- McCluskie was trying her hardest to put the situation in the most sanitized and digestible language possible.
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Important Takeaways:
- Devastating flooding hit the Rio Grande Valley on Thursday after repeated rounds of thunderstorms dumped as much as a foot of rain in less than 48 hours.
- McAllen, Texas, took the worst of it, picking up 7.93 inches, which is good enough for the city’s third-wettest day of all time, and more than a third of their average annual rain, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
- U.S. Border Patrol agents worked through the night in the Rio Grande Valley, rescuing residents affected by the storms’ impacts.
- “Prayers for all our residents who are affected by the storm and flooding,” U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector said.
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- A purported ‘vast underground city’ in Egypt is tens of thousands of years older than the Giza pyramids, scientists have shockingly claimed.
- If true, it would turn Egyptian – and human – history on its head, though independent experts have called it ‘outlandish’ and ‘crazy talk.’
- Last week, researchers in Italy presented bombshell research which claimed to have discovered multi-thousand-foot-tall wells and chambers underground beneath the Khafre Pyramid.
- The Giza pyramids are believed to have been built around 4,500 years ago and considered a remarkable feat given their immense scale and the precision of their construction, which remains a mystery for the time period.
- However, researchers behind the new study claim that the hidden structures, spanning 4,000 feet, are approximately 38,000 years old — which predates the oldest known man-made structure of its kind by tens of thousands of years.
- The team has based these claims on ancient Egyptian text that they interpreted as historical records of a pre-existing civilization that was destroyed during a cataclysmic event.
- Professor Lawrence Conyers, a radar expert at the University of Denver who focuses on archaeology and was not involved in the study, told DailyMail.com: ‘That is a really outlandish idea.’
- He added that at that time in human history people ‘were mostly living in caves’ 38,000 years ago. ‘People did not start living in what we now call cities until about 9,000 years ago,’ he said. ‘There were a few large villages before that but those only go back a few thousand years from that time.’
- Independent scientists said the techniques used are legitimate, but the results are unverifiable due to the way the data is presented.
- The radar expert also noted that it is not possible for the technology to penetrate that deeply into the ground, making the idea of an underground city ‘a huge exaggeration.’
- However, Professor Conyers suggested that it is conceivable small structures, such as shafts and chambers, may exist beneath the pyramids, having been there before the pyramids were built, because the site was ‘special to ancient people’
- He highlighted how ‘the Mayans and other peoples in ancient Mesoamerica often built pyramids on top of the entrances to caves or caverns that had ceremonial significance to them.’
- Niccole Ciccolo, the project’s spokesperson, said the team also used the Turn King List, or Royal Canon, which is an ancient Egyptian document that features the name of kings, including gods and demigods, who supposedly ruled Egypt before the first recorded dynasties.
- Ciccolo said these ancient texts ‘provide a whole series of references that a pre-existing civilization’ lived in the region before ‘a cataclysmic event.’
- The event is a theory that a massive asteroid hit the Earth, causing global climate change and extinction worldwide.
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Important Takeaways:
- Europe faced increased threats “including the possibility of armed aggression against member states”, the European Commission warned on Wednesday as it published a 30-step plan for its 27 capitals to increase their preparedness for crisis and mitigation measures.
- “New realities require a new level of preparedness in Europe,” said commission president Ursula von der Leyen. “Our citizens, our member states and our businesses need the right tools to act both to prevent crises and to react swiftly when a disaster hits.”
- It is partly designed as a wake-up call for some capitals that lack crisis-response capabilities.
- In addition to encouraging “the public to adopt practical measures, such as maintaining essential supplies for a minimum of 72 hours in emergencies”…
- It also calls for more “stockpiling of critical equipment and materials” and measures to ensure continuity of services such as healthcare, water supplies and telecommunications in the event of conflict or disaster.
- “We face an increasing number of external security challenges and a growing number of hybrid attacks,” said Kaja Kallas, the commission’s vice-president for foreign and security policy. “It is clear that Europe must be stronger on all fronts and at every level of society. It is always better to prevent crises than to deal with their consequences.”
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