Weekly News-June-21-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – 2025 NDAA Authorizes Mandatory Military Draft of Men and Women Across America
By Mike Adams | Natural News
The FY 2025 National Defense Authorization Act initiates mandatory selective service registration for American women, putting in place the mechanism for a mandatory military draft of those women. This is mentioned alongside other highlights in the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services executive summary document posted by the US Senate at this link.
This news comes on the heels of the US House Armed Services Committee just approving an amendment to the NDAA that automatically registers all American males (within the draft age window) for the Selective Service System. This means all American males of draft age can be involuntarily drafter into war. This House vote was approved on May 22nd of this year, as seen in this US HASC video. The automatic draft registration was pushed as a way to “cut government red tape” and skip any requirement for men to “proactively register.” Read Full Article >
#2 – Putin & Kim Sign Pact Vowing Mutual Defense If Attacked
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is calling it a “breakthrough document” while Kim Jong Un is hailing the “strongest ever treaty” which will hasten the start of a “new multipolar world” — but the BBC is calling it an “ominously ambiguous commitment” between “pariahs in arms”.
The two leaders on Wednesday signed a new strategic partnership which is centered on a commitment of mutual aid if either country faces “aggression”; however, details were not immediately clear and it could stop short of being a full war treaty. Putin’s first trip to North Korea in 24 years has been expectedly chummy as he and Kim thumb their noses at the West and US-led sanctions. Read full article >
#3 – Cheap and Lethal: The Pentagon’s Plan for the Next Drone War
By Nick Nurse | The Intercept
Worried about a potential war with China, the Pentagon is turning to a new class of weapons to fight the numerically superior People’s Liberation Army: drones, lots and lots of drones.
In August 2023, the Defense Department unveiled Replicator, its initiative to field thousands of “all-domain, attritable autonomous (ADA2) systems”: Pentagon-speak for low-cost (and potentially AI-driven) machines — in the form of self-piloting ships, large robot aircraft, and swarms of smaller kamikaze drones — that they can use and lose en masse to overwhelm Chinese forces. Read full article >
#4 – Cultural Shift? US and Canada Now Show Decreased Support for the LGBT Agenda
By Jonathon Van Maren | LifeSite News
On June 12, we reported on recent data that showed an 8 percent drop in support for same-sex “marriage” in the United States – down to 51 percent, the lowest level since the U.S. Supreme Court unilaterally redefined marriage for all 50 states in the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision. Part of that shift is a backlash to the LGBT movement’s overreach in the past several years, as well as a growing awareness of the movement’s radical aims.
Interestingly, the United States does not seem to be an isolated example. In Canada, too, support for a range of LGBT agenda items has also been dropping, according to a recent Ipsos poll. Read full article >
#5 – Israel Says It’s On “Brink” Of Wider War With Hezbollah
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
There’s been obvious escalation for several weeks at the Israel-Lebanon border, as we’ve been documenting. But on Sunday Israel’s military issued one of the most dire alarms yet, saying it is on the brink of a full-scale war with Hezbollah.
“Hezbollah’s increasing aggression is bringing us to the brink of what could be a wider escalation,” the Israeli military’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, warned. “We are committed to the diplomatic process, however Hezbollah’s aggression is bringing us closer to a critical point in the decision-making regarding our military activities in Lebanon.” Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – Fmr U.
By Chris Menahan | Information Liberation
David M Friedman, former Trump-appointed US Ambassador to Israel, threw a fit Monday on X demanding Americans be imprisoned en masse for “antisemitism.” Friedman said that President Biden or “whoever tells [him] what to do” needs to “get tough on Jew-hatred” and suggested they launch a “federal” effort to “arrest and prosecute” anti-Semites for “hate crimes.” Not doing so will lead to the end of the American Empire, Friedman argued. Read full article >
#2 – Louisiana Becomes First State to Require the Ten Commandments be Displayed in ALL Public Classrooms
By | Gateway Pundit
Louisiana became the first state to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom. But the battle has only begun.
As the Associated Press reported, H.B. 71, which was signed into law by GOP Governor Jeff Landry, mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be shown all public classrooms. This includes K-12 education and state-funded universities like LSU.
The displays will be paired with a four-paragraph “context statement” describing how the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries” according to CBS News. Read full article >
#3 – Free Speech at Risk: UN Pushes for Global “Hate Speech” Eradication
By | Reclaim The Net
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In a statement issued on the occasion of the “International Day for Countering Hate Speech,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the global eradication of so-called “hate speech,” which he described as inherently toxic and entirely intolerable.
The issue of censoring “hate speech” stirs significant controversy, primarily due to the nebulous and subjective nature of its definition. At the heart of the debate is a profound concern: whoever defines what constitutes hate speech essentially holds the power to determine the limits of free expression. Read full article >
#4 – Huge Percentage of EV Owners Want to Go Back to Normal Cars, Study Finds
By Nick Pope | The Daily Caller
Nearly half of American electric vehicle (EV) owners want to buy an internal combustion engine model the next time they buy a car, according to a new study from McKinsey and Company, a leading consulting firm.
Approximately 46% of Americans who own an EV want to go back to a standard vehicle for their next purchase, citing issues like inadequate charging infrastructure and affordability, according to McKinsey’s study, which was obtained and reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Read full article >
#5 – Widow Flees After Mob Beats Her and Brutally Murders Christian Husband, Vows to Keep Serving Jesus
By Billy Hallowell | Faithwire
A woman in India who saw her husband murdered right in front of her is living in fear as she speaks out about the ghastly situation she was forced to watch.
“I saw them kill my husband right before my eyes,” Jime Kawasi told Morning Star News. “I was assaulted, but somehow I managed to escape.”
She continued, “I still fear that my husband’s killers will find me and kill me.” Read full article >
