U.S. Seeks to Counter Iran: Orders Additional Warships, Marines Deployed to Middle East: The U.S. signaled it is bolstering its military presence in the Middle East on Thursday by ordering additional warships and marines to the area to counter Iran’s growing threats to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The USS Bataan and the USS Carter Hall, along with their personnel and equipment, will be deployed to U.S. Central Command’s Area of Responsibility. Once on station they will join the USS Thomas Hudner and F-35 and F-16 fighter jets that were deployed earlier this week, UPI reports. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the immediate deployment. “Through these actions, the United States is demonstrating commitment to ensuring freedom of navigation and deterring Iranian destabilization activities in the region,” the Pentagon said in a statement. The boost in assets follows recent destabilizing activities committed by Iran in the Gulf that have required intervention by the U.S. and ally militaries, the UPI report details. According to U.S. Central Command, in the last two years, Iran has either attacked, seized or attempted to seize nearly 20 internationally flagged merchant vessels within its area of operations. About a fifth of the world’s crude oil and oil products passes through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow choke point between Iran and Oman. Now gangs are having shootouts on the freeways and families are afraid to use these roads after children have been shot in cars. ‘Completely Irrational:’ Analysts Say Elon Musk Risks Killing Billions in Brand Value by Turning Twitter into ‘X’: Analysts believe that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is risking killing billions of dollars in brand value by turning Twitter into “X,” given that Twitter is one of the rare brands that has become so popular it turned into a verb as it is intertwined with everyday conversation. One marketing expert calls the rebrand “completely irrational from a business and brand point of view.” On Saturday, Musk announced that Twitter and the famous bird logo would soon be scrapped, along with all associated words, including “tweet,” which has become so popular over the years that it turned into its own verb — a rare feat that only a few internet brands in the world have accomplished. . . . Twitter’s name changed to “X” —a move that analysts and brand agencies believe could wipe out somewhere between $4 billion and $20 billion in value, according to a report by TIME. Death of Family: Half of Children Not Living With Both Parents by 14: A study from the Marriage Foundation suggested that nearly half of children in Britain are no longer living with both of their biological parents by the time they reach 14 years of age. Drawing on a dataset of 4,476 first-born children in the UK conducted by the Millennium Cohort Study and weighing the sample to represent the national population, the Marriage Foundation revealed on Monday that 46 percent of children in the country are not living with both their natural parents by the age of 14. The Marriage Foundation found that the majority of such cases (70 percent) were a result of breakups from non-married couples, while 30 percent were from families of married couples. For children whose biological parents were still together by the age of 14, 84 percent had married parents, compared to just 16 percent who were unmarried. Mr. Benson said per The Times: “Marriage provides relationship clarity, and encourages good things like sacrifice and forgiveness. “This is why couples who have tied the knot tend to be more stable and more likely to weather the challenges that life throws at them… why marriage accounts for lower levels of family breakdown than other less stable forms of relationship. The founder of the think tank, Sir Paul Coleridge said: “Every experienced parent knows that if adolescents are to successfully navigate the scary teenage years they need a secure and stable family environment. The Marriage Foundation report called on the government to do more to support marriage. This may be a big ask, however, given that the supposedly Conservative government has in its decade-plus in power demonstrated open hostility towards the traditional family. For example, stay-at-home mothers were enraged in 2020 when then-Home Secretary Priti Patel demanded that the government do more to incentivize the 8.5 million “economically inactive” people — nearly two million of whom were women who decided to stay home to raise their children — into employment. WOW – Story Changes: Barack and Michelle Obama WERE on Martha’s Vineyard When Their Private Chef Mysteriously Drowned: Some would call this an interesting coincidence while others may suspect something more. It turns out that Barack and Michelle Obama were on Martha’s Vineyard at the same time their personal chef drowned under mysterious circumstances. Obama’s office previously claimed that the former president and his wife were not present at the residence when Tafari drowned. Now they are altering the story to say they were indeed on the property. The Gateway Pundit reported Monday night that the body of a 45-year-old paddle boarder was found in a pond on Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard mansion. The person was later identified as Obama’s personal chef Tafari Campbell, who is from Dumfries, Virginia. A 911 call came from Obama’s residence late Sunday night. It is not known at this time who dialed the police. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/wow-barack-michelle-obama-were-marthas-vineyard-when/ Per NYPost Tafari Campbell’s drowning parallels tragic death of Clinton’s Chef :wacko: Campbell’s death comes just 8 years after Walter Scheib, who served as the White House Executive Chef from 1994-2005, was found partially submerged in a ravine in the New Mexico mountains on June 21, 2015. Scheib died of drowning, an autopsy later revealed. To the comments section: :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn :popcorn Campbell was found with the help of sniffer dogs? Didn’t know dogs could smell something submerged in water. They already had a witness that saw him struggling to swim and disappeared under water. There is video of him swimming in a pool and seemed like a proficient enough swimmer to make swim a 100 feet to shore. And Scheib (Clinton’s chef) was found in a rugged terrain and he drowned? So where did he drown in a river, even though doesn’t look like there any water near where he was found. Paddle boards are BIG. 4- 6 people could cling to one, no problem. Especially in calm water, as opposed to surf. This guy had some kind of malfunction or was poisoned. Once may be a coincidence … twice? Anyone see Hillary or Bill? Apparently Tafari took several swimming lesson and became a good swimmer. If so, why did he drown in 8 ft of water with a flotation device (paddle board) nearby. The “pond was a ways from the mansion” how was he found, was someone with him? The Obama’s were first “not in residence” then “on the island”. Will the police and reporters be as thorough asking the residents of the mansion about what happened as they were with Hunter or Teddy? Chefs hear things and see things … sometimes say the wrong things at the wrong times … “The unnamed witness was paddling a board on Edgartown Great Pond with Campbell.” When a 911 call came in from the Obama’s house on Turkeyland Cove Road in Martha’s Vineyard, a large joint-agency search was started. At the time, neither the former president nor the First Lady were at the house.” So were BO and Big Mike next door, watching with binoculars? - Fair Use - Schwab is trying to bribe the European people to take the chip … (just a snap shot) - Fair Use - Joe Biden’s Dog ‘Commander’ Has Bitten Secret Service Agents 10 Times in Four Months: On Nov. 3, 2022, a Secret Service official emailed colleagues that Commander had bitten a uniformed officer twice — on the upper right arm and thigh. Staff from the White House medical unit treated the officer and decided to have the individual taken to a hospital. Commander is the second dog of Biden’s to behave aggressively, including biting Secret Service personnel and White House staff. They eventually sent the dog, a German shepherd named Major, to live with friends in Delaware after those incidents. The White House and the Secret Service appeared to play down the situation on Tuesday, but the latest incidents raise questions about why the Bidens brought another German shepherd to the executive mansion and why the attacks continued. This marks the second reported incident of a Biden family dog attacking Secret Service agents. In 2021, reports surfaced that the president’s then-dog Major (also a German Shepherd) had been involved in two major biting incidents. One year later, several Secret Service agents claimed that the White House lied about the incidents to minimize the impact. Released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by Judicial Watch, the documents revealed that the Secret Service attempted to downplay events and even reprimanded one of the agents for detailing the attack, fearing it would upset the Biden family. According to the unsealed documents, the bite occurred after the dog bit agents over eight consecutive days and the injuries were “severe” rather than minor. David Cho, President Biden’s then-chief protective agent, wrote in an email later that day: “Major bit one of the agents this morning. The agent is ok, but does have bruising and a puncture.” The agent was reportedly bitten by Major a second time. Photos of the injuries were redacted in the report except for one that showed the agent’s torn wool overcoat. Update on Obama’s Chef that “drown” per a watcher “Someone called 9/11 from the Obummer estate. What's weird is who goes paddleboarding at 8 p.m. at night on a Sunday.... when its getting dark? He also drowned (supposedly) in 8 feet of water and someone else was present... Maybe they will release the information later. It took a long time to get information about that crazy guy who attacked Paul Pelosi so it could take a while...” - Fair Use - From Amir Tsarfati's e-mail newsletter: North Korea Supplying Arms to Russia Consequences Spread after Sweden Allows a Protest Burn of a Quran
For months, North Korea has been accused of supplying artillery shells and other weapons to the Russian war effort. Both parties deny the allegation, despite the growing proof. Now, in an act sure to keep the rumor mill humming, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has taken a trip to Pyongyang for a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the ceasefire in the Korean War. This visit, during which he was joined by a Chinese Communist Party Politburo member, was the first official visit by foreign dignitaries to the hermit kingdom since the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Swedish police allowed an Iraqi national to burn a Quran in Stockholm last month. The militant response to this act has been growing ever since. Last Thursday, protesters burned a portion of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad. Later that day, the Iraqi government severed relations with Sweden and expelled the Swedish ambassador. In Beirut, Shiite demonstrations spread through the streets at the instigation of Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah. In Qatar, Swedish products were removed from supermarket shelves. But rather than quelling the burnings of the Muslim holy book, the incidents of book-burning have increased with copies being set on fire in front of the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in Denmark.
