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Ukrainian Group Arrested for Arson Attacks in Poland and Baltic Nations, But Authorities Blame Russia
Ukrainian security services have apprehended a group believed to be responsible for a series of arson attacks targeting both civilian and critical infrastructure in Poland and the Baltic states.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) asserts that the orchestrators were acting on behalf of Russians. The Office of the Prosecutor General in Kyiv reported that Ukrainian forces had uncovered and arrested individuals planning sabotage activities, including arson attacks against a major trading hall on Marywilska Street in Warsaw earlier in May.
The criminal group was led by a Ukrainian resident from Ivano-Frankivsk, who, according to Ukrainian authorities, sought accomplices online to engage in activities benefitting Russia. Candidates were reportedly prepared to take part in arson attacks on civilian and critical infrastructure in Ukraine, Poland and Baltic countries.
Preventative measures have been applied against three of the detainees. The Ukrainian prosecution has charged them with “state treason, preparation for the deliberate destruction of property by arson, as well as the production, shipment, and sale of illegally produced holographic security elements and the forgery and sale of counterfeit documents.”
Investigations by Ukrainian detectives reveal that the sabotage group meticulously prepared for the attacks.
During searches conducted in about 40 different locations across the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava regions, and Kyiv, police seized weapons and ammunition, nine vehicles, and cash worth over $90,000. Forged vehicle registration documents, medical certificates, and school diplomas were also confiscated.
Despite Ukrainian claims of the group’s connections to Russian services, no concrete evidence has been presented to support this accusation.
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Gold is Getting Close to Becoming World’s Reserve Currency, says Precious Metals Expert Andrew Sorchini
An expert on the gold market believes the precious metal is closer today to becoming the world’s reserve currency than it ever has been.
This is the opinion given by precious metals expertAndrew Sorchini, founder of Beverly Hills Precious Metals, during an interview with Mel K on “The Mel K Show.”
Mel K mentioned people from Goldman Sachs, Chase and all the other banks that have previously spoken negatively about gold are suddenly promoting gold, and she asked Sorchini’s opinion about what is happening right now.
Sorchini said gold is still holding at over $2,300 an ounce and about $125 away from the all-time high which he noted is huge.
“And this is just proof that we’re getting closer to gold being the world’s reserve currency. It’s currently the dollar, but no one wants the dollar anymore because it’s not backed by anything at all, not even oil. And that changed last month. So we’re going to start to see more and more people investing in gold and silver. We’re already seeing other countries out there load up on it,” Sorchini said.
Central banks continue gold purchasing spree
Seven months into 2024, gold remains one of the best-performing global assets of 2024, with many of the world’s central banks driving prices up from their high demand.
The central banks of China, Turkey and India are leading the way on this front, with their purchasing sprees resulting in their reserves adding more than 1,000 metric tons (1,102 U.S. tons) of gold in both 2022 and 2023, according to a recent report from the World Gold Council on gold reserves in central banks.
(Related: DOLLAR DEMISE: China selling U.S. Treasury bonds in record numbers in favor of gold, other commodities.)
Global official gold reserves increased by 290 metric tons (320 U.S. tons) in the first quarter of the year, the largest first-quarter increase since 2000 and 69 percent higher than the five-year quarterly average.
China, India and Singapore were among the biggest purchasers of gold in the first quarter of 2024, increasing their reserves by 27.06, 18.51 and 6.57 metric tons, respectively (29.8, 20.4 and 7.24 U.S. tons, respectively).
In May, central banks increased their gold reserves by purchasing 10 metric tons (11.02 U.S. tons) of gold. In the Central Bank Reserves Survey conducted between February and April, 29 percent of central bank respondents indicated that they have plans in motion to continue increasing their gold reserves over the next 12 months.
According to the World Gold Council, this plan is driven by “a desire to rebalance to a more preferred strategic level of gold holdings, domestic gold production and financial market concerns including higher crisis risks and rising inflation.”
“The global economy, as well as gold, seem to be waiting for a catalyst,” said the council in its report. “For gold, we believe the catalyst could come from falling rates in developed markets that attract Western investment flows, as well as continued support from global investors looking to hedge bubbling risks amid a complacent equity market and persistent geopolitical tensions.”
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Israel Warns Turkey’s President Erdogan Could End Up Like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein
The Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of going “down the path” of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He warned that Erdogan may suffer the same fate as the former […]
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Kamala Harris Would ‘Eliminate Religious Freedom,’ has ‘Extreme’ Anti-Catholic Agenda: Catholic Leaders
(LifeSiteNews) — A Kamala Harris presidency would be a threat to the religious freedoms of Catholics and the lives of preborn babies, Catholics leaders are warning.
Vice President Harris is currently the Democratic Party’s choice to run for president in 2024. Barring any last-minute changes, the Democrats will formally nominate her in the first week of August.
Her record of opposing Catholics and Catholic values is raising concerns.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has aggressively and selectively enforced the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act), including targeting peaceful pro-life fathers like Mark Houck.
The same DOJ also put out a memo through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that baselessly accused Catholics who attend the Traditional Latin Mass of “extremism.” The FBI has even spied on Latin Mass churches under the Biden-Harris administration.
Similarly, Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland and the DOJ released a memo suggesting that concerned parents and advocates who opposed racial identity politics and sexual ideology in the classroom were akin to domestic terrorists.
The Biden-Harris administration also tried to force hospitals and doctors, including Catholic ones, to facilitate the surgical and genital mutilation of gender-confused individuals and to commit abortions.
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But apart from that, Harris also has a record of targeting pro-lifers and Catholics. For example, as attorney general of California, she targeted Catholic pro-life journalist David Daleiden after he released videos that showed Planned Parenthood executives casually discussing the sale of aborted baby body parts. She also supported a bill, later thrown out by the Supreme Court, that would force pro-life pregnancy centers to tell women where they can obtain abortions.
As a U.S. senator, she criticized a judicial nominee and member of the Knights of Columbus, attacking the organization because its leadership, like the Catholic Church, opposes abortion and so-called homosexual “marriage.” She also was once ranked the most liberal senator in the U.S. Harris opposes the right of religious companies, such as Hobby Lobby, to opt out of providing abortifacient birth control.
Harris is an “unrepentant apologist for abortion,” according to Reagan Barklage, the national field director of Students for Life of America and a Catholic herself.
READ: Kamala Harris becomes first vice president to visit Planned Parenthood facility in pro-abortion tour
The vice president would need to completely change her ways in order to reassure Catholics, according to Barklage.
“A Kamala Harris presidency is an abortion extremism presidency that puts thousands of preborn lives at risk,” Barklage told LifeSiteNews in an emailed statement. “She is an unrepentant apologist for abortion, as she can’t name a single abortion she wouldn’t support.”
“Unless she does a complete 180 on her stance, which means losing the allegiance of her radical abortion base, true Catholics who uphold the sanctity of all human life have a vested interest in voting against her if she becomes the Democrat nominee,” Barklage said.
Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute shared a similar assessment with LifeSiteNews in a media statement.
READ: Kamala Harris’ refusal to condemn late-term abortion shows how extreme Democrats are
“Harris’ entire disposition is directed in complete contravention with the Catholic Church,” Hichborn said via email. “By holding membership in the Knights of Columbus as a litmus test for one’s judicial qualifications, Harris may as well dismiss anyone claiming to be a faithful Catholic.”
“For Harris to show that she holds no animosity toward Catholics, Christians, or even social conservatives, Harris would have to denounce the majority of her political career and completely reject and apologize for her bigoted comments,” he said.
But this would mean the vice president would need to “completely abandon her radical agenda against human life, the nuclear family, and religious freedom.”
“Harris is on record with a willingness to persecute pro-lifers and anyone who opposes LGBT ideologies,” Hichborn warned. “Taking her agenda to its logical conclusion, Harris’ America would not just eliminate religious freedom, but all freedom, making citizens into automatons to do the bidding of the state.”
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American Life League’s president agreed.
“As someone who has watched Harris over the years, including her legal attempt to crush David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress, I can say from firsthand experience that Harris detests truth, beginning of course with Christ and His Word, not to mention her revilement at preborn babies and their defenders,” American Life League president Judy Brown told LifeSiteNews in a media statement.
“Harris has never stood for morality, ethics or truth.”
Israeli Strike on UN-run School that Housed Displaced Families in Nuseirat Kills 23 Palestinians
On July 16, an Israeli strike on a United Nations-run school offering housing for displaced families in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp claimed the lives of 23 Palestinians and wounded 73 others.
The Israeli strike left the school in al-Razi partially destroyed, and the aftermath of the attack showered debris in the schoolyard and the classrooms used as shelters by displaced Palestinian families.
One man collecting body parts from the victims said many civilians were killed, including the lives of several children, whose bodies were “torn up” during the attack, with “nothing left of them.”
The casualties included Mohammad Meshmesh, a local journalist. According to the government media office in Gaza, this increased the number of journalists killed in the war to 160.
The deadly Israeli strike on the school left many people in a state of shock while they watched rescue workers removing several bodies from under the rubble, reported Nuseirat resident Riyad Abu Shanab. The resident added that a quick look around the place offered a chilling view of many “body parts strewn around.” He added that he also could have been hurt or died if he hadn’t left to go to the toilet to wash his hands when the strike hit.
(Related: UN experts: Children in Gaza are dying because of Israel’s “targeted starvation campaign.”)
The target was a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) that has since been turned into a shelter for the many Gazans displaced by the conflict. Survivors of the attack shared that Israel also targeted another school earlier on July 15. Both attacks have claimed many lives, with the survivors left with nowhere safe to go.
When the missile hit nearby, Um Alaa Abu Daher said she was sitting with her daughter and niece in a classroom on the ground floor. She added that after the strike, flames and smoke covered the area.
Israeli forces blame active “terrorists” for the attack
The Israeli military has claimed that they attacked the school because “terrorists” were allegedly active in the area. It also said that it will be investigating reports of civilian casualties.
Israeli attacks throughout the Gaza Strip on July 16 have claimed the lives of at least 57 Palestinians, including 17 individuals who were killed in a strike near a tented area offering housing for displaced people in the humanitarian-designated area of al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, located in southern Gaza.
The attack on al-Mawasi followed previous air strikes earlier this month that claimed the lives of around 88 people and wounded 289 others in a displaced people’s camp in the same area.
Since October 2023, the Israel-Palestine war has claimed the lives of more than 38,000 Palestinians. According to data, the majority of the dead are women and children.
Israel said it had killed or wounded 14,000 Hamas members and eliminated half of the organization’s leadership. Israel also insisted that the al-Mawasi strike was targeting Mohammed Deif, the Hamas military leader. However, the Palestinian group denied that he was affected by the attack.
The UNRWA reported that Israeli forces have hit at least 70 percent of its schools in Gaza since the war began in October 2023.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, the UNRWA said more than 95 percent of the schools were being used as shelters when they were attacked. The organization added that at least 539 people sheltering in UNRWA facilities have died during the attacks.
“Nowhere is safe. The blatant disregard for UN premises and humanitarian law must stop,” said the UNRWA.
Hamas issued a statement condemning Israel’s deliberate attacks on the displaced families in UNRWA’s al-Razi school in the Nuseirat camp, along with the attacks on the al-Mawasi area west of the city of Khan Younis, which was “declared a safe area.”
The group criticized the attacks as a “brutal and shameful act that is a scar on humanity,” adding that America, Israel’s loyal ally in the ongoing war, was complicit in the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Visit IsraelCollapse.com for more updates about the ongoing Israel-Palestine war and its many casualties.
Watch the video below of the Israeli attacks on al-Mawasi.