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04 Jun 2025 20:29

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Fiber optic wires for guided drones.

🔗 War Path

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04 Jun 2025 18:34

🇨🇳 Devoured: How sand mining devastated China's largest freshwater lake [2021]

Over two decades, dredging ships have sucked massive amounts of sand from the bed and shores of Poyang Lake in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, drastically altering the ability of its ecosystem to function.

Decades of mass urbanisation in China have fuelled demand for sand to make glass, concrete and other materials used in construction. The most desirable sand for industry comes from rivers and lakes rather than deserts and oceans. Much of the sand used to build the country's megacities has come from Poyang, China's largest freshwater lake.

Low water levels mean farmers have less water for irrigation, while also shrinking habitats for birds and fish.

President Xi Jinping once described Poyang Lake as a vital "kidney" filtering the country's water supply. Today, it looks very different from two decades ago.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/reuters-graphic-devoured-how-sand-mining-devastated-chinas-largest-freshwater-2021-07-19/

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04 Jun 2025 17:59

🇺🇸🇨🇳 The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan today announced federal charges against Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, a couple from China who are accused of smuggling a fungus described as a “dangerous biological pathogen” into the United States.

Mr. Liu has been charged with conspiracy, smuggling goods, false statements, and visa fraud after it is alleged he smuggled a fungus called Fusarium Graminearum through Detroit Metropolitan Airport, so that he and his girlfriend, Ms. Jian could further study it in a laboratory at the University of Michigan.

Fusarium Graminearum, described in scientific journals as a “potential agroterrorism weapon”, can cause a disease in wheat, barley, maize and rice that can wipe out crops and lead to vomiting and liver damage if consumed, with it responsible for “billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.”

The complaint further alleges that Mr. Liu and Ms. Jian received funding from the Chinese government for their research into the fungus while in China, with Ms. Jian herself said to be a loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party.

🔗 OSINTdefender

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04 Jun 2025 15:55

🇵🇰 Pakistan went full renewables slowly, then suddenly, importing more solar capacity in 1-year than what the UK added in the past 5 years combined. Now the continuing steep fall in battery prices is proving a game-changer for its businesses and citizens

Renewables + storage aren’t just affordable, they’re life-changing and transformative

https://on.ft.com/43CNk88

🔗 Assaad Razzouk

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04 Jun 2025 14:29

🇺🇸🇨🇳 America Let Its Military-Industrial Might Wither. China’s Is Booming.

The U.S. won World War II in part by producing more of everything—from bullets to food—than its enemies. One California shipyard in 1942 assembled a supply ship in less than five days. America is no longer capable of that kind of manufacturing feat.

Today, the country that can make the most of almost everything is China. Its products run the gamut from basic chemicals to advanced machinery. With tensions rising between the U.S. and China, the two countries’ industrial capacity is coming into focus as a key battleground in any conflict.

https://www.wsj.com/world/america-let-its-military-industrial-might-wither-chinas-is-booming-7325f34b

https://archive.is/UfmXo

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04 Jun 2025 12:53

🇬🇧 At current rates of migration, the White British will be a minority by 2063, and by 2100 two thirds of the population will be migrants or the children of migrants.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/03/white-british-minority-in-40-years-report-claims/

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04 Jun 2025 10:45

🇺🇸 Elon Musk called Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” disgusting, slamming it as an “abomination” of outrageous, pork-filled spending.

“Shame on those who voted for it.”

🔗 AF Post

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04 Jun 2025 09:49

🇰🇭🇹🇭 Cambodia has launched a bold three-pronged strategy—military buildup, symbolic leadership, and limited diplomacy—along the Thai border, exploiting Thailand’s fragmented security response. With tanks, missiles, and political gestures, Cambodia is asserting territorial claims while Thailand faces internal disarray. Experts warn that inaction could embolden further aggression and undermine regional stability.

🔗 Bangkok Post

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04 Jun 2025 08:06

🇺🇸🇮🇳 There are 16 Counties in NC where the most common last name for voters registered as American Indians is Patel

🔗 North Carolina Mapper

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04 Jun 2025 04:02

⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺 Politico reports that U.S. senators are considering a comprehensive bipartisan sanctions bill targeting Russia and its largest energy customers, notably China and India.

The proposed legislation, known as the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025, includes a 500% tariff on imports from nations purchasing Russian oil, natural gas, or uranium. With backing from 81 senators across party lines, the bill aims to intensify pressure on Russia's wartime economy.

Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal are leading the initiative, citing recent Ukrainian drone strikes deep inside Russia as evidence of Ukraine’s strategic capability and determination. The bill's progression, however, hinges on President Donald Trump's support, whose stance remains uncertain.

@wfwitness

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04 Jun 2025 02:19

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the pro-Israel lobby Anti-Defamation League (ADL), calls for strict censorship on social media platforms like X, Instagram, and TikTok. He says it's time for the companies to 'knock the anti-Zionists off the platform once and for all.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

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03 Jun 2025 23:34

🇲🇽 Captain BJ Dart on X: Michoacán is transforming into a minefield patrolled by drones in the sky.

Most nations are not equipped to deal with this.

Mexican authorities are reporting finding on average about 5 times more explosive devices than in 2022.

The cartels are also running recruitment operations for explosives experts and engineers.

That includes ex-combatants from conflicts in the ME and Ukraine.

There are few signs of this deescalating anytime soon.

Mexico has always had geographical issues that made power projection from Mexico City difficult: mines, drones, and surveillance technology make this even harder in the 21st century.

🔗 Captain BJ Dart

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03 Jun 2025 21:28

🇵🇱📊 18-29 year old voters in Poland

2020:
🟧Rafał Trzaskowski: 63.7%
🟦Andrzej Duda: 36.3%

2025:
🟦Karol Nawrocki: 51.9%
🟧Rafał Trzaskowski: 48.1%

🟦31.2% swing towards the right. There is a global trend of younger voters towards Right-Wing Populist parties

🔗 LakePoliticsYT

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03 Jun 2025 20:34

🇧🇮🇸🇴 Yesterday afternoon, the Burundian contingent and Somali troops made a hasty withdrawal from their positions in Xawaadleey, retreating toward Garsaale and Qalimow. Following their departure, Al-Shabaab seized control of the settlement.

🔗 AAGA_CAWLLAN

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03 Jun 2025 19:04

🇺🇸💍 Marriage & political beliefs are correlated w/ mental health:

E.g. The % saying their mental health was "excellent"/"very good" in 2022:
▪️71% for married conservative men
▪️51% for unmarried conservative women
▪️43% for married liberal women
▪️30% for unmarried liberal women

🔗 data_depot

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04 Jun 2025 19:31

🇺🇸🌮 Trump’s approval rating among Latinos has fallen to 38%.

🔗 AF Post

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04 Jun 2025 18:16

🇨🇳🌎 Will Tanner on X: The reason that Africa's megafauna, namely elephants and rhinos, is being driven to near extinction is that the East Asians are prolific poachers who have no care for or thought of the natural environment or animals in it

Similarly, vast Chinese fishing fleets are sweeping over the ocean like a fleet-sized vacuum cleaner, leaving it utterly denuded of life

The most just causus bellum currently in existence is how they're doing their best to leave the world devoid of wildlife, and should be destroyed before they can do so

🔗 Will Tanner

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04 Jun 2025 16:41

🇮🇱🇺🇸 IDF veteran pitches White House on AI program that "scans the open web for radicalization," following the "Israeli model" of counterterrorism.

Here's what Aaron Cohen, an IDF special operations veteran, said live on Fox News:

"I have just built the first AI powered threat detection system for law enforcement that scans the open web for radicalization and tactical planning. If somebody in the Trump administration is listening, partner with me and let's scale this and get local law enforcement the tools they need."

"My technology will prevent these threats from popping off ... The Israeli model means Palantir quality engineering; and I've got it. The White House needs to give me a buzz. Let's get this thing scaled nationally. It's called 'Gideon.'"

🔗 Ken Klippenstein

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04 Jun 2025 15:30

⚡️🇵🇸❌🇸🇾 - Following an unusual rocket attack from southern Syria towards Israel, Israel's Defense Minister Yizrael Katz has threatened Syria with an imminent "full response", and holds Ahmad al-Sharaa "AlJolani" directly responsible for the rocket fire.

📝 He stated:

The full response will come soon. Israel will not allow a return to the reality of October 7.

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04 Jun 2025 13:33

🟧 Derek VanBuskirk, reporter at the Daily Caller, on X: Joost Strydom, CEO of the Orania Movement, gave me a tour of Orania—a town built by and for Afrikaners, a minority ethnic group in South Africa. Here’s what I learned:

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/DerekVBK/status/1929950417086996939

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04 Jun 2025 12:10

🇺🇸 bumbadum on X: Dallas has literally grown in rings like a tree because of suburban development to avoid blacks and browns. Every year the white population went down and another ring was added as suburbs were built.

🔗 bumbadum

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04 Jun 2025 10:32

🇸🇩❌🇸🇩🇦🇪 — Sudanese Government rejects negotiations in secret with the UAE, according to "al-Karama" newspaper, known for it's close ties with the government.

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04 Jun 2025 08:48

🏀🏈 Why is the U. of Iowa suddenly producing white athletes who stand out at black specialties, such as Caitlin Clark, NFL starting cornerbacks Riley Moss and Cooper DeJean, and, now, 9.94 100m dash sprinter Kalen Walker?

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/u-of-iowas-white-athletes-roll-on

🔗 Steve Sailer

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04 Jun 2025 07:11

🇺🇸🇸🇾 Exclusive sources told Al Arabiya that the US has given the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) a final deadline to integrate into the Syrian army, with the deadline set for the end of August.

🔗 Levant24

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04 Jun 2025 02:31

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- India rubs the US the wrong way by buying weapons from Russia and supporting de-dollarization through BRICS,"

—US Commerce Secretary Lutnick

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04 Jun 2025 01:47

🇺🇸 🛰 🤝 🇨🇩 — Starlink comes online in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

@CIG_Telegram

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03 Jun 2025 22:42

🇺🇸🇸🇾 NEW: Nearly a quarter of U.S. troops have withdrawn from Syria.

About 500 U.S. troops have withdrawn from Syria in recent weeks, two U.S. officials tell Fox News. Three U.S. bases have been either turned over to the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) or closed down. This includes Mission Support Site Green Village which has been shut down, and Mission Support Site Euphrates which has been handed over to the SDF. U.S. troops have also vacated from a third much smaller outpost.

Back in April the Pentagon announced it would consolidate the 2,000 U.S. forces in Syria to under 1,000.

In a statement Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell referrenced the fight against ISIS. "Recognizing the success the United States has had against ISIS, including its 2019 territorial defeat under President Trump, today the Secretary of Defense directed the consolidation of U.S. forces in Syria under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve to select locations in Syria," Parnell said in the April statement.

More than 2,500 ISIS fighters remain in Syria and Iraq. Tens of thousands of refugees with ties to ISIS remain at al-Hol and al-Roj displaces persons camps in northeast Syria. About 9,000 ISIS detainees remaining SDF guarded prisons in Syria.

🔗 Jennifer Griffin

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03 Jun 2025 20:49

🇯🇵🏳️‍🌈 Arin Yumi on X: No Japanese political party has made a Pride Month tweet this year. As far as I know the CDP used to do it along with changing their profile picture to a rainbow logo, but they stopped in 2023

🔗 Arin Yumi

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03 Jun 2025 19:46

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Contradicting earlier reports, Trump has declared that his nuclear proposal to Iran forbids the country from enriching any uranium at all.

Iran would have to shutter its civilian nuclear program in order to make a deal, which it has already ruled out.

A deal seems unlikely at this point.

🔗 AF Post

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03 Jun 2025 18:58

🇺🇸 Geiger Capital on X: ~50% of liberal women under 30 say they have a mental health condition. (Pew)

📝 Joseph Wang: What if our political polarization is simply that we misconstrue the antics of the mentally ill as political positions?

🔗 Joseph Wang