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Nanawagan ang Moro-Christian Peoples Alliance (MCPA) para sa independyenteng imbestigasyon sa walang pakundangang pagpatay ng Armed Forces of the Phlippines sa 10 Moro na inaakusan nitong mga myembro ng Dawlah Islamiya–Maute Group sa Barangay Banga, Pantar, Marantao, Lanao del Sur. Ayon sa kwento ng pulis, inihahain diumano nila, kasama ang militar, ang warrant of arrest laban kina Amerol Mangonraka at Benjie Amor Macabato noong Abril 17, nang magkaroon ng “mahabang putukan.” Pagkatapos diumano ng putukan, tumambad ang patay na katawan ng dalawa, kasama ang kanilang mga asawa, at anim pang inakusahan ng militar na mga “mandirigma.” Nakilala ang mga napatay na sina Nahara Khairiya S. Hamim, Jamail Ibrahim, Fahmi Aminodin, Sohaile Borud Bato, at Mohaimen Aragon. Isa sa kanila ay estudyante ng Mindanao State University sa Marawi City.

Pero ayon sa kwento ng mga residente, walang naganap na matagal na putukan sa lugar, at sa sinasabing oras ng mga pulis at sundalo. Ayon sa mga nakakakilala sa mga biktima, ilan sa mga pinatay ay dati nang sumuko sa gubyerno. May ebidensya ring pinatay sila habang nakahiga at natutulog.

Ayon kay Amirah Lidasan, pangkahalatang kalihim ng MCPA, nangangailagan ng malalim na imbestigasyon ang mga pagkakaiba ng ulat ng mga pulis at ng mga residente dahil usapin ito ng paglabag sa mga karapatan ng mga sibilyan.

“Dokumentado ang mga paglabag sa karapatang-tao at kawalang pakundangan ng mga institusyong ito (AFP at PNP),” ayon kay Lidasan. Marami rin ang naiulat na mga kaso ng “tanim bala” at “tanim baril” para palabasing armado ang mga sibilyang pinapatay nila, aniya.

Iniulat ng MCPA ang paglaganap ng takot dahil sa insidente. Maraming kabataang kalalakihan ang umalis na sa kani-kanilang mga bahay sa takot na mabansagang bahagi ng “grupong Maute” o “Dawlah Islamiya.”

Pinansin ni Lidasan na ang pinatinding presensya ng pulis at militar sa Lanao del Sur ay kasabay ng paghahanda para sa Balikatan 2026, na isang bahagi ay ginanap sa kalapit na syudad ng Cagayan de Oro.

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Are they gonna send more assassins after Trump ? Asking for a friend. Im not a centrist but I cant deny they have a certain charm. Like those old Troll dolls. Remember Troll dolls ?

Kinundena ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PKP) at ng Liga ng Agham para sa Bayan (LAB), rebolusyonaryong organisasyon ng mga syentista at inhinyero, ang pagpasok ng tutang rehimeng Marcos sa Pax Silica at ang kaugnay nitong pagbubukas ng “economic security zone” para sa ekslusibong gamit ng mga Amerikano.

“Titiyakin ng Pax Silica ang pagmonopolyo ng mga korporasyong Amerikano sa likas na yaman…at murang lakas paggawa ng ating bansa,” ayon sa LAB. Batid nitong ang mga pabrika na diumano’y itatayo nito sa ngalan ng kasunduan ay dagdag lamang sa dumaraming pasilidad at pabrikang pagmamay-ari ng US na ang layunin ay magprodyus ng bala, armas at ibang gamit pandigma.

“Ang deklaradong layunin ng proyekto ay para matiyak ang suplay ng US ng mga kritikal na mineral at iba pang rekurso sa pamamagitan ng paglayo ng pagproseso nito sa China,,” ayon naman kay Marco Valbuena, punong upisyal sa impormasyon ng Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas. “Ang di deklaradong layunin…ay ang magkaroon ng eksklusibong kontrol sa Pilipinas.”

Idinugtong ng PKP ang Pax Silica sa balak itayo ng US na 1,600-ektaryang “economic security zone” sa Clark Airbase sa Pampanga. Anito, ang economic zone na ito ay magiging teritoryo ng US sa Luzon sa loob ng halos isang siglo. Ito ay dahil iginawad dito ng rehimeng Marcos ng “diplomatic immunity,” katulad ng iginagawad sa mga embahada ng mga dayuhang bansa sa Pilipinas. Ibig sabihin, hindi batas ng Pilipinas ang mamamayani dito kundi batas ng US. Tulad ng mga base militar nito, ligtas sa pananagutan at kaparusahan ang mga tauhan nito sa batas ng bansa, sakali mang may magawa silang krimen.

Ipinagmamayabang ang proyekto bllang “industrial hub” pero wala itong kinalaman sa pagpapaunlad sa lokal na ekonomya.

“Lalo lamang nitong itatali ang bansa bilang tagasuplay ng hilaw na materyales at murang lakas-paggawa,” ayon kay Valbuena. Gayundin, muli lamang din nitong ibubukas ang Pampanga sa mapanirang presensya ng mga sundalo at tauhang Amerikano, na sa isang panahon ay naging rason ng laganap na prostitusyon, iligal na droga at iba pang anti-sosyal na aktibidad sa lugar.

“Mula sa ammunition factory sa Subic, hanggang sa oil depot sa Davao, kasama ng mga kumpanyang may kaugnayan sa militar ng US tulad ng Moog Controls Corporation sa Benguet, Collins Aerospace sa Batangas, at Valar Atomics sa Metro Manila, lumalaki ang presensya ng imperyalismong US sa Pilipinas habang niyuyurakan nito ang ating pambansang ekonomya at soberanya,” ayon sa LAB.

Nanawagan kapwa ang PKP at LAB sa mamamayang Pilipino na puspusang labanan ang Pax Silica at itakwil ang balak na itayong economic security zone para rito.

“Ang laban sa kunwa’y economic security zone ng US ay di maihihiwalay sa laban sa interbensyong militar ng US,” ayon kay Valbuena. “Dapat palakasin ng mamamayang Pilipino ang kanilang laban sa tumitinding presensyang militar ng US at palakasin ang kanilang pagggiit para lansagin ang lahat ng mga base at pasilidad militar ng US, at palayasin ang lahat ng mga Amerikanong tropa at nakalagak nilang mga armas sa bansa.”

“Dapat itakwil ang imperyalistang maniobra ng US ng mga propesyunal at estudyante ng STEM,” panawagan naman ng LAB.

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Cole Tomas Allen

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Cole Allen was never flagged by the FBI’s sprawling domestic counterterrorism apparatus, sources including a senior FBI official tell me. The 31-year-old alleged gunman who attempted to penetrate the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday was, by all appearances, a normal guy — until he wasn’t.

Allen himself was reportedly stunned by what he called the “insane” lack of security at the Washington Hilton — a venue that has hosted the dinner for decades (and was the site of the attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life in 1981). Video shows that after the guests were seated, the Secret Service agents and DC Metropolitan Police security people were just shooting the shit as Allen ran by.

Now, rumors are already swirling that Allen is some anti-Christian zealot aided by a network of left-wing compatriots. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the FBI is looking into whether Allen was operating alone. But who was he, exactly? And what does he represent?

The answer, drawn from a copy of his resume I obtained and interviews with people who knew him, is unsettling in its ordinariness.

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Allen graduated from Caltech in 2017— the Pasadena STEM powerhouse behind 24 Nobel laureates and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. With a Mechanical Engineering degree, he went to work for IJK Controls LLC, a small Southern California engineering firm, where he worked on the kind of precision hardware that keeps cameras and sensors stable on moving platforms — the technology used in drones, satellites, and military targeting systems — as well as software for beaming data between devices using laser beams instead of radio waves.

Before Caltech, he'd interned at a biomedical startup, designing 3D-printed casings for medical devices and building the specialized clamps and fixtures used to attach electrodes during manufacturing.

He also made video games — not modded existing ones, but built them from the ground up. His most notable project, Bohrdom, was entirely his own: the underlying physics system that governed how objects moved and collided, 750 original graphics, and a score he composed himself.

Former classmates say this feat wasn’t uncommon at tech-savvy Caltech, where seniors often build elaborate puzzle-games for underclassmen — a tradition called “Ditch Day Stack.” Allen, by all accounts, threw himself into that endeavor.

“He seemed proud of it,” one former classmate told me.

The Allen his classmates describe was studious, devout, and polite.

“He was pretty prominent at the Caltech Christian Fellowship,” one acquaintance and former classmate told me. “Pretty Christian and mellow.”

“If I didn’t see his face eating carpet, I would’ve never believed it,” he added, referring to the photo of Allen on the ground after police officers finally subdued him.

That detail — his faith — flies in the face of how President Trump has characterized the attack.

“When you read his manifesto, he hates Christians,” Trump told Fox News. “He hates Christians, a hatred.”

A blizzard of unnamed “administration officials” echoed this Trump claim in major media outlets.

But that’s not what the manifesto says. And if anything, it appears that Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus Christ (you know, the AI-generated image of a robed Trump healing the sick) might have provoked Allen. Also, an alleged copy of his manifesto reported by the New York Post shows Allen invoking Christian theology to defend the shooting, working through Gospel passages one by one like someone who had spent real time with the Bible.

In a section of the manifesto titled “Rebuttals to objections,” the first rebuttal addresses the Gospel injunction to turn the other cheek — a teaching from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:38-39, where Jesus instructs his followers not to retaliate against personal wrongs done to them. Allen reframes it as inapplicable when others are the ones suffering:

Objection 1: As a Christian, you should turn the other cheek.

Rebuttal: Turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. I’m not the person raped in a detention camp. I’m not the fisherman executed without trial. I’m not a schoolkid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

Turning the other cheek when *someone else* is oppressed is not Christian behavior; it is complicity in the oppressor’s crimes.

Then he addresses “Render unto Caesar” — a phrase from the synoptic Gospels (Matthew 22:21, Mark 12:17, Luke 20:25) in which Jesus, when asked whether Jews should pay taxes to Rome, replies that one should give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s. The passage has been cited for centuries to argue for deference to political authority. Allen disputes that framing on constitutional grounds:

Objection 5: Yield unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Rebuttal: The United States of America are ruled by the law, not by any one or several people. In so far as representatives and judges do not follow the law, no one is required to yield them anything so unlawfully ordered.

A third reference to religion appears in a brief thank you to his church:

“Thank you to my family, both personal and church, for your love over these 31 years.”

Allen’s reported Bluesky social media account also contains repeated reference to Christianity, including one from earlier this month in which he identifies “as a Protestant,” and repeated comparisons of Trump to the Antichrist.

On April 13, in response to the Trump-as-Jesus image, Allen replied quoting a verse from Revelations about the antichrist that now reads like a foreshadowing:

“There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”

Perhaps the sharpest irony comes from a story former classmates shared with me.

Allen was once president of Caltech's Nerf club — a role he apparently took seriously enough to butt heads with the club's own culture. He pushed back against what he saw as the militarization of the toy guns — members modifying them to be more powerful and painting them to look more like real weapons — worked closely with campus security, and by former classmates' accounts, de-escalated conflicts with a deftness that genuinely impressed people.

In other words, the same person who once fought to keep Nerf guns from looking too much like real weapons allegedly drove cross-country with a sawed-off shotgun and handguns (per NBC), intending to kill the President.

“This is a shock,” someone else who knew him said. “He seems extremely smart from the small conversations I’ve had with him.”

So what happened?

From Luigi Mangione to Cole Allen, these shooters aren’t the antisocial loners of media imagination. They’re smart, well-liked, often idealistic. They have no prior criminal record. They take pains to avoid bystander casualties, as Allen reportedly did. But they share one conviction: that the political system has failed completely, and someone has to act.

“I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack,” Allen’s manifesto reads.

Trump’s comments on Allen’s hatred of Christianity, however inaccurate, echoes the language of his national security directive NSPM-7, which labels “anti-Christianity” as an indicator of domestic terrorism. That view will triumph, regardless of the facts, and the FBI and the intelligence agencies will be tasked to find out more about the supposed anti-Christian threat. The law enforcement agencies will request more money for security screening and for surveillance and they will get it.

The only question is if anyone will ask why increasingly normal people feel the political system is so unresponsive to their concerns that they resort to violence.

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Israeli attacks in Gaza killed at least 19 Palestinians and wounded 43 over the past three days, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire. Israeli attacks have also significantly increased in Gaza since the US and Israel halted attacks on Iran under a very fragile ceasefire. […]

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When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement. For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew…

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The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Saturday that his organization has submitted evidence of U.S.-Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court and other global bodies, seeking accountability for massive attacks on civilian infrastructure and other violations. “The ICC prosecutor announced that the documents provided by the IRCS are accepted as official evidence…

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Finished another batch of cartoons and was curious if there's some I really need to get around to.

You can recommend pretty much anything besides anime. I have a separate list for that. If there's something in "Plan to watch" you think is a must see, say so and I'll move it way up the list.

The shows that are ongoing are how I currently feel about them. Simpsons and South Park are how I feel about them based on their first 8 seasons since I'm still watching through them.

The State Department said in a statement last week that the US is in conflict with Iran “at the request” of Israel, an acknowledgment of Israel’s role in steering the US into the war, which the US has dubbed “Operation Epic Fury.” The statement was issued by the State Department’s legal adviser, Reed D. Rubinstein, […]

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"We’re getting closer to the premiere of The Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails To Save Universe. The Original comedy debuts this July, streaming on HBO Max, it was revealed Sunday during the show’s panel at CCXP Mexico City. We also learned that the original theme music for the series will be created by Emmy, Grammy winner and Oscar-nominee Danny Elfman. Several first-look photos also were unveiled. You can see above and below.

The spinoff revolves around comic book store owner Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman) who is sked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon. Stuart is aided in this quest by his girlfriend Denise, geologist friend Bert, and quantum physicist/all-around pain in the ass Barry Kripke. Along the way, they meet alternate-universe versions of characters we’ve come to know and love from The Big Bang Theory. As the title implies, things don’t go well."

"Cast also includes Lauren Lapkus as Stuart’s girlfriend Denise, Brian Posehn as Bert and John Ross Bowie as Barry. "

US President Donald Trump on Friday quietly fired every member of the independent board that governs the National Science Foundation, a move seen as an escalation of the administration's destructive war on science.

Members of the National Science Board (NSB) were notified in a brief email "on behalf of President Donald J. Trump" that their "position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately." One fired board member, chemist Willie May, told The New York Times that he was "disappointed" but not "entirely surprised," adding, "I have watched the systematic dismantling of the scientific advisory infrastructure of this government with growing alarm, and the National Science Board is simply the latest casualty."

The NSB sets the policies of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), approves major funding decisions for NSF, and advises Congress and the president on "policy matters related to science and engineering."

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, said in a statement Saturday that "this is the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation."

“The NSB is apolitical," said Lofgren. "It advises the president on the future of NSF. It unfortunately is no surprise a president who has attacked NSF from day one would seek to destroy the board that helps guide the foundation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries? A real bozo the clown move."

Alondra Nelson, an academic who resigned from the NSB last May over concerns of political interference, wrote on social media that "history will not look kindly on this administration for many reasons, but the systematic silencing of independent expertise is particularly troubling."

Since the start of his second term, Trump and his deputies have assailed science across the federal government, including by eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific research arm and firing experts en masse.

In the coming fiscal year, Trump has proposed cutting NSF's budget by nearly 55%. Additionally, the president's budget would "eliminate funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research," Scientific American reported. The White House plan, if approved by Congress, would also slash NASA's budget by nearly 25%.

"This is how the US loses its scientific leadership—with a reckless budget line," Leigh Stearns, a glaciologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told Scientific American.

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A morte do ministro da Defesa, Sadio Camara, num ataque da Al-Qaeda e rebeldes tuaregues, desfere um golpe sem precedentes na junta militar do Mali e na sua estratégia de segurança com a Rússia.

Al-Qaeda e tuaregues unem-se em ofensiva no Mali e matam ministro da Defesa
É a primeira grande baixa do ataque, perpetrado no sábado, por grupos afiliados à Al-Qaeda e por forças tuaregues em várias cidades do Mali: Sadio Camara, ministro da Defesa, morreu depois de a sua casa, em Kati, ter sido um dos alvos da ofensiva rebelde.

During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Christian village of Debel has spent an undue amount of time in the spotlight. In the lead-up to the ceasefire, an image emerged of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus in the village with a sledgehammer, sparking international outcry and leading to Israel jailing a pair […]

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Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The Venezuelan government, through Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, expressed Saturday night her rejection of the incident during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was an alleged assassination attempt against US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump.

The statement followed a security breach that forced the emergency evacuation of the presidential couple during the annual press gala in Washington. Analysts noted that Rodríguez’s statement was among the first issued by Latin American leaders regarding the event.

Rodríguez extended her goodwill to the president, his wife, and the event attendees, emphasizing that violence is never an option for those defending the banners of peace.

Hypocrisy and the 2026 kidnapping of President Maduro
The statement highlighted a stark paradox in international relations. During the drone assassination attempt against President Nicolás Maduro in August 2018, the White House and mainstream corporate media cast doubt on the evident signs of political violence, and no official condemnation was issued by the US government.

Acting President Rodríguez’s statement reiterated Venezuela’s commitment to peaceful resolutions, despite the fact that US imperialism was responsible for the kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, last January. That criminal operation resulted in the deaths of more than 100 human beings.

Chavista analysts in Venezuela and international supporters criticized on social media the speed of Rodríguez’s statement. They noted that it failed to mention the multiple instances of political violence orchestrated by Washington against President Maduro and the millions of Venezuelans suffering under a decade-long battery of illegal US sanctions.

Details of the Washington incident
The security incident occurred Saturday night in the ballroom of the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. Secret Service agents, alerted by gunshots, immediately evacuated Vice President JD Vance and later the controversial US ruler from the stage.

Reports from the scene confirmed a heavy deployment of armed tactical teams who took control of the premises. The Secret Service confirmed that the alleged shooter is alive and in custody. US authorities later identified the suspect as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, a resident of Torrance, California, with an outstanding academia and technology background.

In 2017, Allen graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he gained recognition for inventing an emergency brake prototype for wheelchairs.

Terrorist attack in Cauca, ColombiaAlso on Saturday, Venezuela announced on social media its strongest condemnation of an atrocious terrorist attack in the “El Túnel” sector of the Cajibio municipality, in the department of Cauca, Colombia.

In an official statement released by Foreign Minister Yván Gil, the attack was labeled a terrorist act that violated the population’s right to life, peace, and stability. A bomb exploded on the Pan-American Highway, the primary route in southwestern Colombia, damaging numerous vehicles.

Venezuela and Colombia Reach Broad Agreements Following Presidential Meeting in Caracas

According to figures released by Colombian media, the explosion killed 15 people. Among the 37 injured were five minors, who were prioritized for emergency medical care. President Petro condemned the attack and ordered the activation of international mechanisms against the responsible “narco-terrorist group,” moving to denounce its leaders before the International Criminal Court.

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