(0747) Morning all … looks sunny out there. (0821)
5. IYE
a. Just a coinky-dink.
b. Hmm.🤔
“ Analysis: How Madrid’s appeasement of the Axis of Resistance transformed a European ally into Washington’s greatest strategic liability”
“ Analysis: Morocco’s border posture with Spain came under scrutiny after a mass migrant surge into Ceuta, underscoring Rabat’s leverage over Europe’s southern frontier amid regional rivalries and shifting North African diplomacy”
🤷♂️ Somebody punishing Spain? Them playing dirty?
4. Steve at 1455
- US Embassies Urge US Citizens to Leave Middle East Amid Potential for “Unforeseen Escalation” as Trump Weighs Massive Attack Targeting Iranian Energy Sites
- Time to Hire Americans: Mass Layoffs Begin as Temporary Protected Status Ends for 350,000 Haitians
- Musk Refused To Meet Zelensky, Who Asked Trump for Help Getting Starlink Tech To Guide Deep Strikes Inside Russian Territory
- Drought at Danube River Forces Hungary and Romania to Cut Nuclear Power Output
- Christian Veterans Use Military Filmmaking Skills to Shine a Light on War and Suffering in Burma
- Poland Criticizes European Narrative On Russia (JH: Meaning EU of course, different other beast)
- Tomato Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits: What Research Shows
- “Palestine” is a tool to further Islamic plans
- Before Mamdani… There was John Reed
- Much more.
3. Martin sums it up
2. DAD at 1455
a) France deploys rapid border force and tightens checks at Spanish bordder over Ceuta crossings. The force was created in 2023 under then prime minister Élisabeth Borne and first deployed in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the Italian border.
b) It has been over a month since the Brussels, Belgium-based conservative think tank MCC Brussels had its registration in the EU Transparency Register suspended. Now, the organisation has published a video … titled The EU Tried to Shut Us Out | MCC Brussels vs EU Bureaucracy. explaining the details of the unfortunate situation.
c) Germany. Despite topping national polls with more than a quarter of the vote, the AfD has received just 4.7% of invitations to Germany’s flagship ARD and ZDF TV talk shows this year—a gap that raises fresh questions about whether public broadcasters are meeting their legal duty of political balance.
d) France took a radical stance no other European nation dared: confronting “Islamist separatism.” Driven by terror attacks, the nation transformed its legal framework, targeting organisations, schools, and even dress codes. But with a powerful new administrative machine now in place, is France truly fighting political Islam, or has it blurred the lines between faith and ideology, with unintended and dangerous consequences for its own citizens and identity?