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Rob Read of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation said: 'When children are taught to watch instead of protect, the cycle of violence continues unchecked'
[Breitbart] Newly-declassified files reveal that Robert F. Kennedy Sr. served as a "voluntary informant" to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) before his 1968 assassination.
The CIA released an additional 1,450 pages of "historic material" related to the shooting of then-senator and presidential candidate RFK on Thursday, bringing the total number of declassified pages on the matter from the agency to nearly 5,000, according to a statement from Director John Ratcliffe.
Many of the new pages detailed a 1955 trip RFK took to the former Soviet Union along with Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, revealing to the public for the first time that he volunteered his on-the-ground experiences while visiting the U.S. adversary to the CIA.
"Mr. Kennedy served the Agency as a voluntary informant," receiving briefings prior to and following his trip to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia and other locations around the U.S.S.R., the files state.
According to Ratcliffe, that revelation shows the late senator’s "patriotic commitment to serving his country."
RFK said in one of his briefings to the CIA, "On 29 Aug 55, while in Novosibirsk, USSR, a friend and I visited a State machine factory. The factory has 3,500 employees, of whom one third are women. The wage scale is between 840 and 2,500 rubles."
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Very little new here. High ranking US persons traveling overseas are generally assumed to be potential US intelligence assets ('voluntary or paid informants') by the host country. As such, their activities and contacts are closely monitored. "Travel reporting" is not a new concept. It is a free ticket or conduit for disinformation production and 'intelligence gap' harvesting by the host country.
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[Regnum] The Kilauea volcano has begun erupting in the Hawaiian Islands. This was reported on June 12 by the US Geological Survey (USGS).
It is specified that the eruption began on June 11 at 11:57 (00:57 Moscow time on June 12), with the lava ejected from the volcano's northern vent reaching a height of about 100 m.
According to the USGS, this eruption is the 25th episode of activity at the volcano since December 23, 2024.
Kilauea Volcano is located on the island of Hawaii (Big Island) and is considered one of the most active volcanoes on our planet. Locals believe it is the home of Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 2, the eruption of Mount Etna began in Sicily, before which volcanic tremors were observed. The height of the ash emission reached almost 3 km.
In late May, seismologists became seriously concerned about the increased activity in the Campi Flegrei supervolcano area in Italy. It was noted that if the volcano awakened, the consequences could be catastrophic for the entire world.
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FRIDAY THE 13TH GEOMAGNETIC STORM: Arriving earlier than expected, a CIR (co-rotating interaction region) hit Earth's magnetic field on June 13th, sparking a G2-class geomanetic storm. There is a chance that this ongoing storm could intensify to category G3 (Strong). CIRs are like mini-CMEs. They contain shock waves and enhanced magnetic fields that do a good job sparking auroras.
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Maybe it was the angle of the satellite photos, but it looked to me that the ship suffered some significant structural damage along the hull length.
This might get interesting as any forward movement would result in tracking to port, if true.
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Tweak the hull and it may float, but it won't go where you want.
China has said it is ready to drop the tariffs it charges on imports from all 53 African countries with which it has diplomatic relations.
The move, announced at a China-Africa co-operation meeting, comes as the continent is facing the possibility of increased tariffs on its products entering the US.
China is Africa's largest trading partner – a position it has held for the last 15 years – with Africa exporting goods to the Asian nation worth around $170bn (£125bn) in 2023.
A joint ministerial statement criticised "certain countries' [efforts to] disrupt the existing international economic and trade order" through the unilateral imposition of tariffs.
It then called on the US to resolve trade disputes on the basis of "equality, respect and mutual benefit".
The zero-tariff move, when implemented, will be an extension of the deal made last year for China to drop tariffs on goods from 33 African nations classified as "least developed".
The expanded list will include some of China's largest trading partners on the continent, including South Africa and Nigeria. China has not said when the decision will come into effect.
Eswatini is the only African state excluded from the s zero-tariff announcement as it recognises Taiwan as an independent country, whereas China regards it as a breakaway province.
China currently imports a lot of raw materials from Africa, notably from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea.
In April, President Donald Trump caused consternation among US trading partners by announcing high tariffs on its imports form many countries, including a 50% rate for Lesotho, 30% for South Africa and 14% for Nigeria.
How jeans and diamonds pushed Lesotho to the top of Trump's tariffs list
The implementation has been paused until next month, though the temporary halt could be extended further for countries that are negotiating "in good faith", according to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
In 2024, the US imported $39.5bn-worth of goods from Africa. Some of that was brought in under the zero-tariff deal known as the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) which now looks under threat if the Trump administration goes ahead with the imposition of fresh charges.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A car parts supplier pointed its finger at the Trump administration's tariffs while filing for bankruptcy.
Marelli, a Japanese-based car parts manufacturer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, citing tariff-related pressures that added to its years-long financial troubles.
The parts maker, which supplies components for Nissan and Stellantis, is considered a bellwether for the global auto industry.
It employs 40,000 workers across plants in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Marelli said it had already been navigating a challenging landscape of supply-chain bottlenecks and labor shortages following the Covid-19 pandemic.
But in a court filing, CEO David Slump wrote that rising global tariffs became a tipping point this spring.
'Marelli was severely affected by tariffs due to its import/export-focused business and the imposition of tariffs specifically against automotive manufacturers and suppliers,' Slump wrote in the court filing.
The company's finances began to deteriorate in March, around the same time President Donald Trump imposed 25 percent levies on imported cars and vehicle parts.
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Marelli has been having operations and financial problems for years (let's just say that the way they ran their business wasn't as efficient as it could have been).
So now they've found a scapegoat.
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Companies that can't make a profit without slave labor shouldn't exist.
Propped up by media like DM trying to put a millstone on Trump's neck.
I've been documenting my scapegoat farms; most recent was purchasing a custom piece of equipment, rep was trying to sell something on lot, which is fine, but he said one custom build went quickly, but the other...it took a long time because of tariffs. My eyes rolled so hard I thought I was winning a game of Risk.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
