Americans have been told to be ‘ready’ to flee ten Middle Eastern countries as the Iran war spirals, with President Trump warning: ‘We’ll be hitting them very hard.’
The US Embassy has urgently advised US citizens across the Middle East to ‘consider departing or be ready to depart if there is an escalation,’ just hours after Trump signaled fresh strikes on Iran could come as soon as this weekend.
The warning now covers 10 countries: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and, most recently, Egypt.
‘US Embassies across the Middle East have issued security alerts today advising travelers to exercise heightened vigilance and be prepared for flight cancellations and airspace closures,’ the initial alert said.
A western diamondback rattlesnake. Credit: Sean B. Carroll
University of Maryland researchers discovered a new approach to treating venomous snakebites—using the same toxin-blocking proteins that snakes evolved to protect themselves. The team found that specific combinations of blood proteins from western diamondback rattlesnakes provided unprecedented neutralizing power against the venom of multiple dangerous snake species.
“This is one of those great stories when nature has already solved a problem we’ve been grappling with for decades,” said Carroll, who also holds the Andrew and Mary Balo and Nicholas and Susan Simon Endowed Chair at UMD.
A neglected treatment gap
Snakebites remain one of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases. The World Health Organization estimates that venomous snakebites kill 80,000 to 140,000 people each year and leave hundreds of thousands more with permanent disabilities. Many victims live in rural regions where access to effective antivenoms is limited.
Many of the great tribes of the northern and central Plains practiced this form of aerial burial. The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota (Sioux), Crow, Cheyenne, Mandan, Assiniboine, Blackfeet, and Gros Ventre all used it at different times and in different places. When suitable trees were available, bodies were sometimes placed high in the branches instead. The same idea guided both methods.
The body was carefully wrapped in robes, blankets, or skins and laid on the platform, often with the person’s most important belongings: weapons, tools, a favorite pipe, food, tobacco. Sometimes the heads and tails of horses were fastened to the poles so the spirit would have mounts for the journey. Orientation mattered. Crow people commonly placed the feet toward the east. Mandan often directed them southeast, toward the old country around the Heart River.
The reasons were both practical and spiritual. In winter the ground could freeze solid for feet. Wolves and dogs would dig up shallow graves. A scaffold kept the body clean and intact while the spirit made its way. Relatives could still visit, speak to the dead, and leave offerings. Some groups later collected the cleaned bones for secondary burial in the earth, in rock crevices, or in special places near the village. The Mandan arranged the bleached skulls in careful circles on the prairie. Nineteenth-century travelers recorded these scenes in detail.
Karl Bodmer’s famous 1830s image of a Sioux chief’s funeral scaffold near Fort Pierre remains one of the clearest visual records. Later photographs from Crow and Dakota country show the same quiet platforms standing alone on open ground.
This was never a single uniform custom across all Native peoples. It belonged especially to the mobile horse cultures of the grasslands, where the horizon was wide and the relationship between the living, the dead, and the open sky was close. The scaffolds were temporary homes for the body while the spirit traveled on.
President Trump warned the storming of a small Spanish enclave by tens of thousands of migrants would look “small time” compared to what happens in the US if voters pick open-border Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.
Speaking at Camp David Friday, the president called the sudden mass migration into Ceuta a “catastrophe,” and said the harrowing footage showing the lawlessness breaking out at the Moroccan border “looks like an invasion.”
No sooner had the migrants breached the border than some started bathing in city fountains and using city streets as their own personal toilets.
Some 60,000 Moroccan immigrants, many of them military-aged men, barged their way into Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the north African coast.ZUMAPRESS.com
“And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected, except worse. Much bigger, much easier to get into, despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do,” Trump told reporters.
Plus they outbreed citizens and are paid to have children. This is asymmetric war being conducted by infiltrators and traitors. It is not something else. ABN
This is an interesting clip on its own but it is also worth viewing because it shows how this investigation has been conducted — through crowd-sourced tips. Crowd-sourcing is one way we the plebs can regain some control of our nations and lives. With the power of crowd-sourcing, corrupt law enforcement will find it much more difficult to gaslight the public or railroad innocent patsies. ABN
UPDATE: A second point worth making is many of the tips Owens is receiving are coming from Utah local and state law enforcement who are not corrupt and who disapprove of how the FBI has been handling this case. ABN
A Russian missile that landed in Poland on Thursday was capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the NATO member state has revealed.
Poland’s Deputy Minister of National Defence told local broadcaster TVN24 last night that the Kh-101 missile that ‘exploded’ and left a 33ft-wide crater near the border with Ukraine was ‘potentially very dangerous’.
NATO has since said it has been in contact with Polish authorities and warned that it would ‘take all necessary measures to defend NATO territory.’
Mark Rutte, Secretary-General of NATO, called the incident ‘yet another reckless act by Russia and a dangerous consequence of its war against Ukraine.’
Europe has already been goaded into two world wars by ‘bankers’. USA has been goaded into multiple smaller wars by ‘bankers’ and Zionists. If it happens again in Europe and the entire region is demolished, it will be because the West is already long lost to enemy infiltration and takeover. If Trump bows to the shotgun marriage between USA and Israeli militaries, the probability of a super destructive WW3, which may go nuclear, will be very high. ABN
Podcasting is a bigger business than ever, and now the best-paid podcasters in the industry have been revealed.
On Thursday, Forbes ranked the 20 highest-paid podcast stars of 2026 from the worlds of entertainment, sports, business and tech.
Many of the stars selected focus on blockbuster interviews, like Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper, while Charlamagne tha God takes a more traditional shock-jock radio approach with his main show The Breakfast Club.
Others, like the author and eponymous host of The Mel Robbins Podcast, have managed to succeed with a winning self-help formula.
Just do find with a $ sign, to get the goods quickly. This is alternative Big Media. I have only heard of a few of these podcasters. Many of them surely have been promoted as replacements for failing legacy Big Media. Propaganda, lies and lies by omission are always part of Big Money propaganda, including alternative outlets. Always look for it because it usually shows. ABN
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was heckled today as he arrived in Ceuta while the Spanish government is battling to beat back a wave of 49,000 migrants who swam from Morocco yesterday.
Sanchez’s government launched a programme in Spain earlier this year to provide legal status for some 500,000 undocumented migrants.
The security reinforcements to be dispatched in the following hours to Ceuta include eight divers, a boat and drones, the ministry said.
The chaos in Ceuta also spread to Spain’s second North African enclave of Melilla overnight.
Warning shots were reportedly fired from both sides of the border between Morocco and Melilla on Friday, as police tried to contain the crowds.
The African enclaves endured a night of chaos with cars torched and migrants forcing their way into buildings after the unprecedented influx on Thursday.
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