A buffalo that goes by the name Donald Trump is getting the presidential treatment as a Bangladeshi minister felt led to spare him from being sacrificed at a Muslim festival. Reportedly, with some government intervention, Trump’s look-alike was relocated to his new home at a national zoo in Dhaka.
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Lead:Â The World Watches Israel Destroy Gaza
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t hiding his intentions for Gaza, and why would he when those with the power to stop him continue looking the other way.
What are his intentions? He recently said, “At this point, we are fully in control of 60 percent of the territory of the Gaza Strip … and my directive is to get to … 70 percent.” Then, after someone in the room called for Israel to take “100 percent” of Gaza, Netanyahu responded, “First 70 percent. We’ll start with that.”
Think about what that statement actually means. This isn’t being framed as a temporary military operation but more like a gradual takeover of an entire territory, killing its residents in the process, while the world sits back and lets it happen.
And what’s left of Gaza at this point? About 81 percent of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been damaged, 22 hospitals have been targeted, and entire neighborhoods have been flattened into dust. Families are living in dirty, overcrowded tents pitched among the piles of rubble that used to be their homes.
Current conditions in Gaza are nightmarish, with children sleeping beside rats and being bitten in the middle of the night while food, medicine, and clean water continue to disappear. Things have become even more desperate as the World Central Kitchen, the territory’s main hot meal provider, was forced to reduce daily food distribution by half.
On Wednesday, an Israeli air raid struck a residential building in northern Gaza, killing at least 10 civilians, among them four children, and injuring more than 20 others. This comes as no surprise, with local authorities saying Israel has violated the terms of the ceasefire more than 3,000 times since October.
On the same day, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced plans to drive Palestinians out of Gaza under the framework of a “voluntary migration.” Translation: we’ll be bombing and starving the Palestinians out.
Israel began this assault on Gaza in October 2023, and since then, more than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed while over 172,000 others have been injured.
Think about those numbers for a minute.
This is a horrific ethnic cleansing happening in plain sight, yet world leaders who preach about human rights are doing nothing to stop it. Instead, Israel’s war crimes against Gaza have been funded from the start and continue to be funded.
Foreign Influence Exception
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For years, Americans have been told that foreign governments meddling in U.S. politics is one of the greatest threats to democracy. So what happens when a foreign government openly spends millions of dollars trying to shape American public opinion?
According to newly disclosed foreign lobbying records, Israel funneled more than $15 million through a company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale as part of a major influence operation aimed at Americans.
Parscale’s firm was hired to help push pro-Israel messaging through conservative media channels and digital campaigns. The filings show that millions of dollars were then distributed to political consultants, media strategists, advertising firms, and technology companies connected to some of Parscale’s closest Republican allies.
Why was Parscale so heavily involved in promoting Israel’s interests? According to public filings, he was working as a registered foreign agent on behalf of the Israeli government.
One company was said to have received nearly $5 million for media placement, polling, and consulting, while another received roughly $6 million to power AI-driven text-messaging campaigns targeting Americans. These chatbot systems were designed to hold personalized conversations, steer users toward pro-Israel content, and collect data from those interactions.
A foreign government isn’t just buying advertisements. It’s funding sophisticated AI campaigns and political messaging operations designed to shape how Americans think.
Israel’s reach extends far beyond digital campaigns, though. We recently saw another example in the race that unseated former Congressman Thomas Massie, whose opponent received millions of dollars in support from pro-Israel PACs.
It makes you wonder why Americans are constantly warned about foreign influence campaigns unless, of course, the foreign government doing the influencing happens to be Israel.
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What’s Trending
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The White House is trending after launching a new website called Aliens.gov. No, it’s not a long-awaited portal filled with declassified UFO files. Instead, it’s a site created to mock the idea that the U.S. is keeping secrets involving alien encounters, using a play on the word “alien” to highlight immigrants living in the country without legal authorization.
Dolly Parton is trending after announcing plans to open a trucker-friendly travel plaza called “Dolly’s Tennessean Travel Stop.”
Dennis Quaid is trending after it was revealed that he filed to end his $13,750 monthly child support payment after his twins graduated from high school.
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