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Britain
Starmer has given in, there will now be a national inquiry into the Pakistani-Muslim rape gang
[X] Presumably responding to this story from yesterday, among many, many others over the years. Let’s see if anyone of importance is brought up on charges — police, teachers, social workers, politicians —the probably thousands of Moslems involved, mostly from the Indian subcontinent, not to mention the thousands of mostly native British girls and some boys whose anguish the authorities dismissed, even to the point of threatening the children and their parents with prosecution for racism when they had the temerity to report what was happening.




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Posted by: Fred || 06/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [147 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  This is going to turbocharge England's white supremacist movement.
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 06/15/2025 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Finally.
Posted by: Joluger+Omeremble1257 || 06/15/2025 2:50 Comments || Top||

#3  most likely the result will be "boys will be boys, nothinf to see here, move along..." and nothing will happen.

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 06/15/2025 5:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Antisemitic white supremacists are ten thousand times the threat any Muslim is.
Think carefully before backing any of their causes.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 06/15/2025 6:03 Comments || Top||

#5  ^. Just
So
Stupid.
Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 || 06/15/2025 6:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Lose the labels, crush the criminals.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/15/2025 8:04 Comments || Top||

#7  This issue is that leaders in the Pakistani population have organized voting blocks to keep folks like Starmer elected. This has to be a whitewash similar to the FBI investigation of the J6 pipe bomber. The inquiry office will be staffed with people goofing off or purposefully finding nothing.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/15/2025 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  we know there were govt employees who ignored the situation

a good chance there will also be some govt employees who participated in the sexual abuse
Posted by: Lord Garth || 06/15/2025 10:42 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Starlink now LIVE in Iran
IRANIAN FAQ: HOW TO CONNECT TO STARLINK FROM IRAN RIGHT NOW FROM YOUR PHONE WITHOUT A DISH

⚠️ Send Free Text Messages Using Only a Phone — No Internet, No Dish, No Wi-Fi Required

📰 Starlink, the satellite internet system built by Elon Musk, is now active over Iran as of June 14, 2025.

This means people inside the country can send and receive text messages directly through satellites — even if local internet or mobile networks are shut down.

You do not need a dish
You do not need Wi-Fi
You do not need a router
You do not need Starlink’s physical kit

✅ What You DO Need
•An unlocked phone (not locked to one phone company)
•A modern LTE smartphone (📱 iPhone 14 or newer, recent Samsung Galaxy, Pixel, etc.)
•An active SIM card from a mobile carrier.

📡 How It Works
Starlink satellites now use something called Direct-to-Cell, which turns each satellite into a mobile tower in space.

When your phone loses connection to ground towers, it can automatically link to a satellite overhead.

You will not see a special symbol. It looks like a normal LTE signal with low strength.

📨 What You Can Do Right Now
•Send and receive SMS text messages
•Works even if Iranian mobile service is blocked
•Works without internet or any other connection

🚫 What You Can’t Do Yet
•No voice calls
•No mobile internet
•No messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc.)

🕒 Full service — including voice and mobile data — is planned for later in 2025, but basic text messaging is available now if you meet the phone, SIM, and clear sky requirements.

👉👉 Elon Musk confirmed that Starlink’s beams are currently active over Iran, so this method is working in real time.

This may be one of the only ways to stay connected during network blackouts.

You can't stream Netflix.
But you can stay in touch.
Thanks to @elonmusk

And you thought Elon had drifted away from the inner circle.
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Posted by: 3dc || 06/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  STARLINK DIRECT TO CELL

Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities enable ubiquitous access to texting, calling, and browsing wherever you may be on land, lakes, or coastal waters. Direct to Cell will also connect IoT devices with common LTE standards.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/15/2025 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Understand vaguely that it has some applications for drone coordination as well . . .
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 06/15/2025 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  An interesting development. It means the Mullahs are now no longer in control of the country's communication systems.

Also, if one were a smart rock waiting patiently by the side of the road, it is no longer necessary to wait for the daily satellite fly-by to announce that you just heard a convoy of heavy trucks pass by.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/15/2025 13:18 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Or a spy SQUIRREL!!11!!
Posted by: Frank G || 06/15/2025 13:20 Comments || Top||

#5  More than direct kinetic support, this may well be a huge component of regime change.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/15/2025 15:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank you Elon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/15/2025 16:31 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Mossad is barely visible. Iran got carried away with fake spies and missed the blow
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukano

[REGNUM] Iran and Israel continue to trade blows. After yesterday's massive attack on Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure, Tehran responded in kind, striking Israeli army command posts (including the Hakirya command complex) and the General Staff. It attacked the nuclear center in Dimona in retaliation for the strike on the enrichment plant in Natanz.

However, another, no less interesting battle was left out of the spotlight. An espionage operation was launched on Iranian territory, which largely predetermined the success of the first stages of the Israeli operation.

FALSE TRAIL
A few weeks ago, an unremarkable piece of news, at first glance, swept through Iranian resources.

Computer specialist Armin Rad (also known by his pseudonym Ayoub Taytiz) was arrested by Iranian counterintelligence on charges of forgery and deception of intelligence services.

Rad, who has worked closely with the Iranian cyber police and the IRGC in recent years and was considered one of the court hackers, came up with a very unusual way to make money.

He created social media accounts that allegedly belonged to émigré opposition forces and groups – the “Organization of the Mujahideen of the Iranian People” and the “Shah’s Assembly of Iran” (“Tondar”) – pumped information out of them and announced successful “hacking” of opponents.

The data pumped out by Rad was sent to counterintelligence and used, among other things, in planning operational activities. Moreover, in his reports he did not skimp on details and particulars: he wrote down conditional addresses and passwords, “revealed” schemes of operations allegedly directed against the Iranian authorities.

Moreover, the absence of arrests “in the wake” of Rad’s revelations was explained simply: the accounts he hacked allegedly belonged exclusively to foreign underground figures, and the agents in Iran used other means of communication.

The “ghost network” was exposed by accident, after Rad “began making frequent revelations” that were not confirmed upon subsequent investigation.

The real damage from disinformation to the Iranian authorities has yet to be calculated. So far, Radu is not charged with the most serious articles of the national criminal code (such as extortion and hooliganism), but the charges may be more serious.

Counterintelligence was deeply hurt by the fact that it had spent so much time hunting for an agent network that never really existed.

Especially in conditions when they had very real opponents operating right next to them (as it turned out a little later), and Rad, willy-nilly, played along with them.

SECRET IMPORT OF WEAPONS
Several months before Operation Lion Force, Israel had deployed several Mossad intelligence teams and army commandos into Iranian territory. Tel Aviv had set them an ambitious task: to “open the skies” for strike aircraft.

In the first phase of the operation, agents smuggled large quantities of specialized weapons designed to disable air and missile defense systems into Iran and dispersed them throughout the country.

Jamming devices were deployed near the positions of Iranian anti-aircraft systems, and launch systems for kamikaze UAVs were installed on vans and SUVs.

To carry out covert operations in some areas of the country, local residents, mainly representatives of ethnic and religious minorities, were additionally recruited.

The result of the sabotage even exceeded the expectations of the Israeli command. The abandoned agents not only managed to remain in the shadows until the start of the operation, but also reached objects whose defenses seemed impossible to overcome.

Thus, the Israelis were able to attack the Aspehbad base, located near the Iranian capital - the very one that housed the advanced ballistic missiles that Iran had only recently put into service.

According to some reports, the same group was involved in “illuminating” the facility where a meeting of high-ranking IRGC officers was held on June 13.

The subsequent strike killed IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh, UAV Forces Commander Taher Pour, and Air Defense Commander Daoud Shaykian.

This allowed for some time not only to blind, but also to effectively decapitate Iran's air defense, opening the way for the next waves of Israeli fighters.

HUNTING FOR SABOTEURS
However, the saboteurs apparently failed to exploit their success. Tehran quickly jammed mobile communications and the Internet, making it difficult to control the drones that the saboteurs launched.

Despite the damage suffered during the initial stage of the operation, Iran's air defense allegedly managed to shoot down several Israeli aircraft and take the pilot prisoner. Subsequent Israeli air raids into Iranian airspace took place under conditions of dense barrage fire.

Later, Iranian security forces reported intercepting several suspicious vehicles in different parts of the country. For example, a van with a UAV was stopped near Zanjan, and in Kermanshah, a car registered to a local resident was stopped, in which launch containers were installed.

It is also reported that some of the saboteurs and their accomplices have been captured.
Prove it.
And the arrests continue. Searches and inspections have begun in police departments in border areas, in auto repair shops and at customs - everywhere where Israel could hypothetically have introduced its agents.

Overall, the Iranian secret services were able to contain the attack, albeit not without accompanying losses. Now they are making their move. And the scale is expected to be at least no less than the Israeli operation.


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Posted by: badanov || 06/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [76 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  How Israeli Commandos Hit Deep in Iran. Well researched and seemingly very accurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_cwjNF-sfc
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/15/2025 16:42 Comments || Top||


US redeploys air defense forces from Ukraine to strengthen bases in the Middle East
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The United States has withdrawn some of its air defense systems from Ukrainian territory in order to use them to strengthen the protection of American bases in the Middle East. This was stated by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"I've been at congressional hearings all week. And they asked me, 'Have you really moved counter-drone systems from Ukraine to the Middle East?' I said, 'Yes, we have,'" he said on Fox News.

The head of the Pentagon added that the American side will use all available means to protect US citizens in the Middle East and around the world.

Hegseth also noted that recent developments in defense have created a “different landscape.” He said “small systems” can pose a significant threat, which is why Washington must demonstrate maximum readiness to defend its bases and people, he concluded.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, on June 13, the Associated Press reported that the United States had begun moving its military forces to the Middle East following Iran's retaliatory strike against Israel. To this end, the U.S. Navy sent the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner to the Eastern Mediterranean and instructed the crew of another ship to begin moving forward and be on standby.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the start of a military operation against Iran on the night of June 13. Israeli military commanders said the strikes were aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program. The Israeli Air Force attacks in Tehran killed at least 78 people and wounded at least 329 others.


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Posted by: badanov || 06/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [92 views] Top|| File under:


#2  US helps Israel shoot down barrage of Iranian missiles
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/15/2025 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  It sucks to be Zelensky.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/15/2025 10:01 Comments || Top||


Israel-Iran war
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Iran was able to respond more or less to Israel's attack yesterday during the night, after it restored the chain of command and air defense. The 4-wave missile strikes were large-scale and quite effective, including spectacular hits on targets in the center of Tel Aviv, including the Israeli Defense Ministry.

But this is only the beginning. Israel began new strikes overnight, which are still ongoing. Attempts are underway to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities, air defense facilities, and other military targets. The Fordow facility has not been seriously damaged at the moment. The Natanz facility has received superficial damage, but the underground complex itself has survived, although it is stated that it needs to be decontaminated due to a radiation leak.

The United States has stated that it will not interfere or help Israel, pretending to have removed itself from what is happening. Although, of course, the United States has directly helped Israel, refueling its planes, providing intelligence data, and helping to shoot down Iranian missiles. A retaliatory attack from Iran can be expected in the evening. Massive missile launches are expected from the "missile cities" that have suffered virtually no serious damage (except for the ground portion of the facility in Kermanshah). The IRGC has promised thousands of missiles in the coming days.

The parties are not yet striking at the energy sector. Iran has threatened to attack Israeli energy facilities in the event of an attack on the refinery. The specter of a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is also haunting Europe.

The war has led to a significant increase in the prices of oil, gold and silver. Over the past 24 hours, Russia has received billions of dollars out of thin air due to the rise in oil prices and the revaluation of its gold and foreign exchange reserves, a significant portion of which is gold. Diplomatically, the Russian Federation is calling for an end to hostilities and negotiations.

However, Iran, through its Foreign Ministry, has stated that it has already withdrawn from negotiations on the nuclear deal with the United States and does not intend to hold back with regard to Israel.

In general, based on this story (if anyone hasn't figured it out yet), one can conclude that "Trump's peacekeeping efforts" are worthless and will lead to nothing significant - neither in the Middle East nor in Ukraine. Therefore, there is no point in hoping for deals with Trump - it is necessary to strengthen the army and the military-industrial complex and achieve the goals of the Middle East by military means. So that later they don't say again, "Oh, we wanted peace, and the Americans deceived us again," as the Iranians are doing now. Peace is not given. Peace is taken.

Broadcast of military actions in Ukraine and the beginning of a big war between Israel and Iran, as usual, in Telegram (if you are interested, subscribe)


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Posted by: badanov || 06/15/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [51 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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