Trump INSTANTLY FOLDS in Case against Murdoch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do67G0XSQm8

Trump has “TACO’d” again and has drop his demand that Rupert Murdoch be deposed “immediately” because he’s “old and sick” in his defamation case against the Wall Street Journal in Miami Federal Court. Michael Popok explains that what likely happened is that Murdoch’s lawyers told Trump’s lawyers that if he doesn’t drop the demand, they will move for sanctions AND immediately take Trump’s deposition the next day.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_mX-A6Pf00

Ukraine does not have enough strength to retake its former territories in the near term without devastating losses and must therefore prioritize its own survival as a state, Czech President Petr Pavel has said.

Pavel, a former NATO Military Committee chair and longtime supporter of Ukraine – who believes the country should join the US-led bloc notwithstanding its “temporary” borders – made the remarks in a BBC interview on Monday.

Despite its Western backing, Kiev is “not in a position to liberate occupied territories in a short time frame without a significant cost to lives,”the president said.

There are a fair number of curious idiosyncrasies within the systems of royalty and aristocracy, but perhaps one of the most popular queries relates to the well-known phrase ‘a person of blue-blood’. 

But what does this curious phrase actually mean? 

What Does Blue Blood Mean?
by Chancellor von Moritz

In modern parlance, to say a person has ‘blue blood’ is to suggest that they come from a refined heritage such as royalty or the aristocracy. 

In recent years, cultural productions have often been criticised for ideological reasons in opposition to "wokeism," whether national or international. A form of "wokeism" paranoia has mingled with another, much more concrete sentiment: a strange nostalgia.

La production industrielle des biens culturels
par Arcture

Moscow believes that conditions for maintaining the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the US have “disappeared” and “no longer considers itself bound” by it, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The INF Treaty, which banned ground-launched missiles with ranges of 500–5,500km, collapsed in 2019 when Washington withdrew, citing Russian violations. Moscow has denied the claims, accusing the US itself of developing banned missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the collapse of the INF will significantly erode the global security framework.

The Kremlin has urged caution in making public statements involving nuclear weapons, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he has ordered the redeployment of two American nuclear submarines.

Last week, Trump said the vessels had been moved to “the appropriate regions” as a precautionary measure. The announcement came via his Truth Social platform.

Commenting on the decision, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov downplayed the significance of the move, stating that “in this case, it is obvious that American submarines are already on combat patrol. This is a constant process.”

Peskov added that Moscow would prefer not to engage in such discourse or “get involved in such a controversy in any way.”

On Sunday [22 June], the rabbi of the Western Wall joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer a special prayer for President Trump as a token of appreciation for his steadfast support of the State of Israel during this time, and for his contribution to regional security.

Netanyahu Thanks God, Prays for Trump at Western Wall
By Hana Levi Julian - 27 Sivan 5785 – June 22, 2025

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Those five passages give us a powerful framework to pray for these three key leaders of the nation of Israel.

First, let’s pray for unity among the brethren based on Psalm 133:1-3:

Ron Paul is turning 90 this month. One of the most influential political figures of his time, Paul has meant many things to many people.

Here’s at least a part of what he’s meant to me.

When I was 20 years old, I supported Pat Buchanan for president.

Ron Paul Was My Pat Buchanan
From ‘go, Pat, go’ to ‘Ron Paul Revolution’—and beyond.

BY Jack Hunter

US Vice President J.D. Vance has revealed he has been “obsessed” with UFOs and hopes to thoroughly investigate the phenomenon in the nearest future.

Vance made the admission during an episode of the Ruthless Podcast which aired on Friday, where he proclaimed his fascination with the mysterious flying objects.

US vice president ‘obsessed’ with UFOs
J.D. Vance has pledged to “get to the bottom of the whole UFO thing” that plagued the US late last year

“Like, I’m obsessed with the whole UFO thing. ‘What’s actually going on?’ ‘What were those videos all about?’ ‘What’s actually happening?’” he said. “I haven’t gotten to the bottom of it yet, but we’re only six months in; we’ve been very busy.”

At least 90,000 pro-Palestine protesters walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge and into history through the pelting rain, as a larger crowd than expected used the landmark as a symbol, bringing the city to a standstill and leading police to sound the alarm of a potential crowd crush.

In the face of the sheer size of the protest against the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza, which organisers say drew between 200,000 and 300,000 people, police were forced to ditch plans for the march to end at North Sydney and redirected the crowd.

In understanding history, more is required than just a litany of facts. An explanatory framework is needed—a theory or argument concerning the significance and interrelationships between those facts, or a “model” as Robert Higgs put it:

In black history, as in any history, the facts do not speak for themselves. They require selection, classification, and interpretation, and for these purposes the investigator must employ a model. That any attempt at causal analysis must make use of a model, either explicitly or implicitly, is generally admitted. That explicit models are preferable to implicit ones is a long-standing precept of economists and a principle increasingly affirmed by historians.

Mises Wire
The Complexity of Historical Narratives

It’s been a big week for “the data.” At Wednesday’s FOMC press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced that the Fed was holding its policy interest rate steady at the current 4.5 percent. Powell noted that there was no need to cut the rate because the job market is “solid.” Powell engaged in the usual song and dance of declaring that the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy is data-driven or “data-dependent” and assured the attending members of the press that FOMC policy is carefully implemented in accordance with federal employment data (among other data points). 

Mises Wire
The Fed Says It Is “Data-Driven.” But the Data Isn’t Any Good.

The United Nations produces over 1,000 reports a year, but most are barely read, according to the organization’s own study into how to make its work more “impactful and coherent.” The revelation comes as the UN marks its 80th anniversary amid a deepening identity crisis.

In March, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the UN80 Taskforce – a reform initiative aimed at reviewing how the Secretariat implements thousands of mandates and at reducing administrative overload.

People in Japan experienced their hottest July on record this year, with no respite in sight for some.

Officials warn that the northern and western regions of the country will continue to see "severe heat" in August.

Japan's average monthly temperature in July was 2.89 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average for the same month, the nation's meteorological agency said on Friday.

On July 30, Japan experienced its highest ever recorded temperature — 41.2 Celsius (106.2 Fahrenheit) in the western region of Hyogo.

This is the third record-breaking July Japan has seen. The average monthly temperature reached new heights in 2023, 2024, and now in 2025.

Four weeks after Israel signed the US-brokered Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrain on 15 September 2020, Tel Aviv’s Higher Planning Council approved 4,948 new settler units in the occupied West Bank. No public fanfare. 

No tanks rolled in – just signatures authorizing another layer of occupation. The first wave of expansion advanced quietly, legitimized by the language of “peace.”

This sequencing deliberately reflects the core logic of Zionist expansion: Normalize when the region submits, colonize when the world blinks.