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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 16m

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People : give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...your neo-Nazis... And yes, I do think immigrants should integrate BTW www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 54m

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela - as much as I detest the Maduro regime this is NOT the way to go and brings back memories of US undermining of regimes it does not like www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 4h

How Israel’s famed intelligence agencies have always relied on help from their friends theconversation.com/how-israels-...

How Israel’s famed intelligence agencies have always relied on help from their friends

Israel’s spies have a well-deserved reputation for ingenuity and ruthlessness, Not so well known is that they often rely on other countries’ intelligence.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Mozambican authorities investigating video released by extremist groups showing alleged terrorists with radios and military uniforms invading a mosque in the town of Mocímboa da Praia clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambi...

Mozambique: Authorities investigating video of alleged terrorists in Mocímboa mosque

Mozambican authorities are investigating a video released by extremist groups showing alleged terrorists with radios and military uniforms invading a mosque in the town of Mocímboa da Praia on 7 Octob...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Hamas executes 'collaborators and lawbreakers' in graphic scenes in Gaza www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Graphic footage shows Hamas executing people in the streets of Gaza

Masked gunmen have carried out "extrajudicial executions" in the streets of Gaza City as an expert claims the terror group is trying to regain control of the destroyed enclave.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Adviser to US Defense and State departments known as a leading expert on Indian and South Asian affairs charged with violating the Espionage Act by retaining more than 1,000 pages of records with classified markings at his home www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Former national security council staffer charged under Espionage Act

According to an FBI affidavit, Ashley J. Tellis was spotted having dinner with Chinese officials in Northern Virginia on at least four occasions since 2022.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Israeli forces enter villages in Syrian countryside www.arabnews.com/node/2618959...

Israeli forces enter villages in Syrian countryside

DUBAI: Israeli forces crossed into two areas in the Quneitra countryside in Syria on Wednesday before withdrawing, according to Syria’s state news agency SANA. A SANA correspondent reported that an Is...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Two arrested in Netherlands for manufacturing weapons for sovereign movement nltimes.nl/2025/10/15/t...

Two arrested for manufacturing weapons for sovereign movement

The police arrested two more suspects in an investigation into a sovereign criminal network. “They are both suspected of manufacturing firearms,” the police said on Wednesday.Officers arrested a 34-ye...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Three civilians killed in suspected Al-Shabaab bombing in Beledweyne www.hiiraan.com/news4/2025/O...

Three civilians killed in suspected Al-Shabaab bombing in Beledweyne

Beledweyne (HOL) — A powerful explosion at a café in the central Somali city of Beledweyne killed at least three civilians and wounded four others on Wednesday, in what security officials believe was ...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Teens charged in attack on former DOGE staffer are sentenced to probation www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Teens charged in attack on former DOGE staffer are sentenced to probation

The attack captured President Donald Trump’s attention. Here’s what happened at the sentencing on Tuesday.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Dutch flag sparks debate as far right claim a national symbol www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/dutc...

Dutch flag sparks debate as far right claim a national symbol - DutchNews.nl

The Dutch flag, long seen as a unifying national symbol, has become the focus of growing tension after being adopted by the far right and other protesters campaigning against immigration. Dutch flags,...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Magistrates in Antwerp remand 3 suspects arrested last week in connection with a plot to carry out attacks on politicians: suspects are a 23-year-old man of Chechen descent and an 18-year-old man with Moroccan roots www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...

Antwerp terror plot suspects remanded in custody for a further month | VRT NWS: news

Magistrates in Antwerp have remanded two suspects that were arrested last week in connection with a plot to carry out attacks on politicians, including the Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever (Flemis...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Indian Home Ministry says number of "Left Wing Extremism-affected districts" reduced to three from six www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

Number of Left Wing Extremism-affected districts reduced to three from six: Home Ministry

Union Home Ministry reports significant reduction in Maoism-affected districts, with only three remaining most affected in Chhattisgarh.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Indian Maoist Rebel Leader and 60 Fighters Surrender thedefensepost.com/2025/10/15/i...

Indian Maoist Rebel Leader and 60 Fighters Surrender

Indian said that a senior Maoist rebel leader and around 60 fighters have surrendered, weeks after a halt to their decades-long insurgency.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Top Al Shabaab 'commander' killed by pro-gvt clan www.garoweonline.com/en/news/soma...

Who is “Qoyane,” the Al-Shabaab commander killed by pro-government Macawisley militia in Somalia?

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5h

Israeli arson, bulldozers and forced labour in West Bank:
Israeli army violence continues in the occupied West Bank where soldiers act with impunity, Palestinians are ordered to leave or labour without pay www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Israeli arson, bulldozers and forced labour in the West Bank’s Tulkarem

Israeli violence continues in occupied West Bank where soldiers act with impunity, Palestinians made to work for free.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

UK's MI5 warns lawmakers of spying threat from China, Russia and Iran www.euronews.com/2025/10/14/u...

UK's MI5 warns lawmakers of spying threat from China, Russia and Iran

The intelligence agency warned MPs and their staff to look out for spies trying to elicit information from them by blackmail or phishing attacks.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

UK military says Russia targets its satellites on a weekly basis. What can be done about it? theconversation.com/the-uk-milit...

The UK military says Russia targets its satellites on a weekly basis. What can be done about it?

Satellites can carry out jamming and intelligence gathering from other spacecraft.

theconversation.com

Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

Puntland Forces capture Turkish ISIS fighter in Bari region www.hiiraan.com/news4/2025/O...

Puntland Forces capture Turkish ISIS fighter in Bari region

Garowe (HOL) — Puntland Dervish forces on Monday captured a Turkish national identified as Feyzul Hashim Suleyman, a member of ISIS, during an operation in the Togga Balade area of the Bari region.

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

25 Years Since USS Cole Bombing in Yemen: Remembering a Defining Moment in Counterterrorism History www.yemenonline.info/Focus/10447

25 Years Since USS Cole Bombing in Yemen: Remembering a Defining Moment in Counterterrorism History - Yemen Online |

Aden -- On October 12, 2025, the United States marked the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer attacked by al-Qaeda operatives while refue

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch prosecutors say no evidence Wilders is facing new risks - reports Belgian jihadis had been targeting him www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/dutc...

Dutch prosecutors say no evidence Wilders is facing new risks - DutchNews.nl

Dutch police are not investigating any new threats against far-right leader Geert Wilders, and there are no indications that he is facing additional risks, the public prosecution department has told t...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

Belgian police officer suspected of spying for China and Russia www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1792...

Belgian police officer suspected of spying for China and Russia

The officer was reportedly arrested and charged with espionage offences.

www.brusselstimes.com

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

Petraeus says ISIS threat 'dramatically reduced' in Kurdistan and Iraq. He and I must be reading different news sources... www.rudaw.net/english/inte...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

Meeting "former" al-Qaeda member turned Syrian president ‘surreal’: Ex-CIA chief www.rudaw.net/english/inte...

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 1d

Nigerian Military Task Force Reacts To Alleged Mobilisation Of Fulani "Terrorists" To Plateau Communities saharareporters.com/2025/10/14/n...

Nigerian Military Task Force Reacts To Alleged Mobilisation Of Fulani Terrorists To Plateau Communities | Sahara Reporters

Nigerian Military Task Force Reacts To Alleged Mobilisation Of Fulani Terrorists To Plateau Communities

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