During a press briefing on Sunday morning from the Pentagon, U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth disclosed that the United States utilized decoy tactics as a key component of the successful ‘Operation Midnight Hammer.’

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called the bombing of Iran’s nuclear plants dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, “American deterrence.” Details of the attack were given after a brief speech by Sec. Hegseth. Several B-2s went west as a deception effort. The main strike package of seven B-2s, with two crew members, proceeded east quietly for 18 […] The post Operation Midnight Hammer: Largest B-2 Operational Strike in US History, Stunning Details appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

In response to Kristen Welker’s question on Meet the Press, Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that the U.S. is not at war with Iran. We are at war with Iran’s nuclear program. “We’re not at war with Iran,” Vance said. “We’re at war with Iran’s nuclear program.” He told Welker that all munitions […] The post JD Vance Responds to the Strike on Iran: “We Are Not At War” appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

In response to President Trump’s bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, two enormous signs were displayed along Tel Aviv’s main highway, in a city where Iranian ballistic missiles have rained down for a week. “Thank you, Mr. President,” the signs stated. Tel Aviv's main highway today ? ???? pic.twitter.com/cg394XxCkS — Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) June 22, 2025 Trump, by most accounts, has been the most supportive president Israel has ever known; his record of support for Israel is unmatched by any other president, and has included moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty of the Golan Heights, and brokering the historic Abraham Accords. In return, the citizens of Israel have been open about their love for Trump; one week before the November 2024 election, Israel’s Channel 12 took a poll asking Israelis who they favored in the 2024 election. Trump received a whopping 66% of the vote with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris receiving a paltry 17%. ???? New Poll by Channel 12: 66% of Israelis favor Trump to win17% favor Harris. The majority of Israelis support Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/LRRU48K0Z6 — Vivid.?? (@VividProwess) October 28, 2024 Two months before the 2024 election, Trump stated, “We’re gathered tonight to talk about the sacred bond between the United States and Israel, and it’s a bond that’s in serious trouble. In less than three weeks, we will mark the one-year anniversary of the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. On October 7, Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than 1,200 Israelis, including men, women, children, and even little, beautiful babies. They tortured, wounded, kidnapped, and horribly maimed thousands more. Unthinkable.” “This evening, we repeat the vow that we have kept in our hearts since the terrible day in October: Never again,” he declared. “This should never have ever happened. … Weak leadership in the United States allowed this to happen, and it should never have happened.” “If we continue down our current path, with four more years of Kamala, Israel will be faced not just with an attack, but with total annihilation,” he asserted. “You don’t have a protector. You have a big protector in me; you don’t have a protector on the other side. And I’ve said long and loud, anybody, and especially over the last few years, anybody who’s Jewish and loves being Jewish and loves Israel is a fool if they vote for a Democrat.” Israel will face “unceasing, bloody war to obliterate the Jewish state and drive Jews out of the Holy Land. That’s what they want to do. They want to drive Jews out of the Holy Land,” he said. “Let me spell out bluntly the danger of four more years of weakness in this White House,” he warned. “If Kamala is re-elected, Iran will quickly obtain nuclear weapons. … Iran will, right now, quickly obtain nuclear weapons capable of killing millions and millions of people, Jewish people, non-Jewish people. There’s no discrimination with nuclear weapons. … the regime will be free to unleash its militant terror brigades to turn the Jewish homeland into hell on earth. They’ve already started with October 7. Rockets will rain down from above until the Iron Dome has been exhausted. … Terrorist death squads will conduct constant raids into Israeli territory from all sides, going door-to-door and torturing, raping, kidnapping, and massacring innocent civilians.”

INXS was born in Sydney in August 1977 as The Farriss Brothers: brothers Andrew, Tim, and Jon Farriss joined forces with Garry Gary Beers, Michael Hutchence, and Kirk Pengilly. They debuted at Whale Beach, establishing a close-knit group fueled by school friendships and shared musical ambition. Their renaming to INXS (a play on “in excess” and inspired by IXL jam and the English band XTC) marked the start of a transformative era in Australian rock. Their self-titled debut album arrived in October 1980, produced in the relentless hours between midnight and dawn. It broke into Australia’s Top 40 via “Just The post Complete List Of INXS Songs From A to Z appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Would you let absolutely anyone in your house, with no conditions? Of course not. If even an invited guest got rowdy, trashed your kitchen, took over your bathroom, insulted your religion, or invited their friends to set up tents on your lawn, you’d send them packing.  By the same token, no nation should be forced to admit people who hate that country and its values. Visas are a privilege, not a right.  Furthermore, foreigners visiting, studying, or working here have fewer rights and more limited “due process” than citizens—as they should. The rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship should be held to a much higher standard, not watered down and “given” to those with lesser immigration status or skin in the game.  I was a U.S. Foreign Service officer from 1999-2022, and my first tour was to our embassy in New Delhi, India. We officers on the “visa line” did around 150 interviews a day to determine whether Indian applicants were qualified to come to the U.S. We used a two-page paper form that had little information, which we checked against a criminal and terrorist records database that was not as comprehensive as today’s. If the communications systems went down, we had to rely on CDs that were weeks old to check the names. All the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were in the United States on nonimmigrant visas; mostly tourist/visitor visas, although there was at least one holding a student visa. The world became a lot riskier, and the U.S. needed to adapt the way we admitted foreigners.  The massive 9/11 Commission Report detailed inefficiencies and loopholes in the way U.S. intelligence and national security agencies worked with the Department of State to check the names, dates of birth, and other personal information of applicants before issuing them visas.  In response, the State Department added forms and took more information from each applicant, so we knew as much as possible about who wanted to come to our country and why. State also improved the way that information was shared and vetted by the rest of the U.S. government so that everything we collectively knew about any John Q. Foreigner was considered before we let him into the country.  The change in process slowed things at first, but then we adapted and increased efficiency. The entire application process is now done online, where entered data is combined with a photo and fingerprints for each person.  Today, everyone is online, particularly younger people. Every student applicant has a smartphone and most likely multiple social media accounts. What we post online reflects who we are. Anonymity is an illusion—one should not post things one is ashamed of or wants to hide.  As any consular officer will tell you, some people lie in visa interviews. We have something they want: a visa to get into the United States. They might not lie to their mother or priest, but lying to a foreign official is a far lesser sin.  Given that reality, and the wealth of information available online that truly reflects a person, consular officers would ideally be vetting all applicants’ social media already. Until now, the constraints of staffing—having an individual human access and look through each applicant’s many accounts and possibly thousands of posts—made that prohibitive except in cases deemed worthy of increased scrutiny. Consular units in U.S. embassies have fraud prevention units, but they are not staffed to handle every single case. Nor can every case be elevated for scrutiny by other U.S. agencies.  The growing capacity of Artificial Intelligence will make social media screening, and broader vetting, possible for more applicants.  It makes sense to start with students, as they are in our country much longer than someone visiting Disneyland or attending a business meeting. Most students come to do a four-year bachelor’s degree at least, and many remain to get jobs and become legal residents and, perhaps later, citizens.  If done right, social media vetting will not slow down the visa process. It won’t keep out most applicants who plan to come here for a specific, valid purpose, tell us the truth, and stick to their word.  But people who post incendiary, criminal, violent, anti-American, antisemitic, or anti-capitalist content won’t make good visitors, students or future Americans. When I see some of the posts by people here on student visas, or trying to become Americans, I wish a few of them had never received visas.  Like Momodou Taal, who seemed to spend most of his time at Cornell University protesting, occupying buildings without permission, and going “hard for Gaza.” At a protest in 2024, he said “we don’t take our cue from some bulls— student assembly at Cornell. … We take our cue from the armed resistance in Palestine.” Cornell refused to suspend him because they didn’t want him deported.   Given that our colleges are willing to champion those who hate the West, capitalism, and our allies, defending the national interest is up to those who issue visas. It’s quite possible that a review of Taal’s social media before they issued his visa would have revealed ineligibilities and saved us having to find a job for one more “Africana studies” Ph.D.  Then there’s Kishan Kumar Singh, Mahammadilham Vahora and Hajiali Vahora, and Vedantkumar Bhupenbhai Patel, all of whom were here on visas ostensibly to study when they were arrested in separate cases across the country for allegedly trying to scam elderly Americans out of their money. What might their social media have shown?   Looking at Chinese students more carefully, in particular, might stop a future Shenghua Wen—the Chinese student who overstayed his 2012 student visa, dropped out of school, and apparently went into business shipping arms to North Korea. Chinese students being caught smuggling in suspicious items and engaged in research that could benefit China and undermine the U.S. are happening with alarming frequency.  The U.S. has over a million foreign students here already and issues almost half a million more such visas every year. Weeding out a few who are more intent on rioting, protesting, or doing nefarious research than getting a degree will encourage the rest to respect our country and our rules.  Originally published by Fox News The post Foreign Students Who Hate America Don’t Deserve Visas—and We Have Tools to Stop Them appeared first on The Daily Signal.

'We Came, We Saw, He Died': Dems' Breathtaking Hypocrisy On War Powers

A Cygnus cargo spacecraft approaches the International Space Station on Aug. 4, 2023. The Euphrates River in Iraq is visible in the background.Researchers have found that the Euphrates River, which flows through Turkey, Syria and Iraq before emptying into the Persian Gulf as the Bible predicted, is drying up very quickly. The researchers say there are very real factors behind its disappearance. The Euphrates River is the largest system in Western Asia, with a basin that extends into Iran. It also flows alongside the Tigris River, and the lands around the two rivers were historically part of the Fertile Crescent, providing ideal conditions for the development of sedentary agriculture, which eventually led to the emergence of some of the world’s first urban civilizations. Curiously, the Bible warns of the drying up of the Euphrates River. In the Book of Revelation, the climactic finale of the New Testament, the Euphrates becomes the scene of an apocalypse: “The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings of the East.” Once a fertile land, the Tigris-Euphrates river system is drying up at an astonishing rate. In fact, experts at Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources have said the rivers could dry up completely by 2040 due to declining water levels and droughts caused by climate change. Observations show that in just a few decades, flows in the Tigris-Euphrates river system have fallen to almost half of the average annual flow in drought years. Satellite images also show that the Tigris and Euphrates river basins lost 144 cubic kilometers of fresh water between 2003 and 2013. As a result, water levels in the water system have become some of the lowest on record. One of the main reasons for the drying up of the river system is considered to be the climate crisis that the world is facing. Unfortunately, the Middle East is considered to be one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change, which scientists believe will only make the situation worse. Bad news for the environment does not bode well for people. Some 60 million people depend on water from the Euphrates-Tigris river system to sustain their lives, mostly in Turkey and Iraq. Since the 2000s, international cooperation on managing the Tigris-Euphrates basin has reportedly stalled, fueling both local rivalries and geopolitical tensions between the river system’s monitors. Moreover, experts fear that this century could see a series of “water wars” in which nations fight over access to water resources. Along with the risk of conflict and violence, disease is another major concern: scientists fear outbreaks of cholera, chickenpox, measles and typhoid. The post Biblical Warning Comes True: West Asia’s River Runs Dry appeared first on Anomalien.com.

Question: How large does a protest have to be for the liberal media to consider it a “groundswell”? Answer: If it’s a leftist protest, you can have less than ten. Consider the case of Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida A&M University. On Wednesday’s CBS Evening News Plus, anchor John Dickerson pushed this story: JOHN DICKERSON: Tonight, Florida A&M, the state's only public historically black college, is involved in a dispute over diversity, equity and inclusion policies and the selection of its next president. Students and alumni say the governor's involvement reflects a broader effort to reduce state support for diversity programs. He turned to reporter Manuel Bojorquez for the DEI tussle in Tallahassee: MANUEL BOJORQUEZ: The meeting was contentious….But the board of governors approved the controversial nominee, Marva Johnson, to be president of Florida A&M University….But there's been a groundswell of students and alumni of the historically black college opposed to her selection. The problem? CBS only showed about seven protesters! WCTV, the CBS affiliate in Tallahassee, began its story: “At least 10 Florida A&M University students gathered on campus at Eternal Flame Wednesday morning to rally against Marva Johnson, who was elected as the university’s next president last month.” Were three of them having a cigarette break? One of the protesters shown on CBS pulled out the usual attack: Marva Johnson ain’t really black. “Yes, she may look like us. Yes, she may try to talk like us, but she is not for us and she does not represent us.” The other rule of liberal-media coverage of protests is to pretend the leftists aren’t ideological. There's no reference to anyone who's liberal, leftist, radical, progressive, woke, or even Democrat. The protesters are simply "students and alumni," "some," and "critics," as in "Critics argue Johnson lacks the experience." The WCTV article touted a sign held by one protester about freedom, but failed to mention it quoted Assata Shakur. Who's that? She used to be known as Joanne Chesimard, found guilty of killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973 as part of the radical "Black Liberation Army." She escaped prison and ended up in Cuba. The story was balanced a bit by a DeSantis soundbite and Marva Johnson's pledges to serve all. The CBS reporter blamed DeSantis for blocking "African-American" AP courses in high schools:  BOJORQUEZ: Some see the nomination as another move by the governor to restrict diversity and inclusion programs in Florida schools. In 2023, DeSantis signed a bill that banned funding for DEI programs at universities and blocked advanced placement African-American courses at high schools. GOV. RON DeSANTIS: DEI is better viewed as standing for discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination, and that has no place in our public institutions. BOJORQUEZ: Jakisha Kidd is an alumna who pledges to continue holding Johnson accountable. JAKISHA KIDD: The issue is that the philosophically we are in a time where we are one of many institutions that are part of this higher education takeover in the state of Florida. This was a two-minute story, so CBS wasn't going to explain how the African-American Studies class was obviously woke, with sections titled “Intersectionality and Activism,” “Black Queer Studies,” “‘Postracial’ Racism and Colorblindness,” “Incarceration and Abolition,” “Movements for Black Lives” and “The Reparations Movement.”