The Gateway Pundit reported that on Thursday morning, Hamas terrorists released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including two murdered babies.

The body of Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage taken at just nine months old, was paraded through the streets to celebratory music along with the bodies of his brother, Ariel, only four when he was kidnapped, and a body said to be of their mother, Shiri, 33.

The body of Oded Lifshitz, 84, was also released.

During the transfer of the bodies to the Red Cross for return to Israel, cheering Gazans lined the streets with celebratory music.

Now, disturbing new details are emerging about how the two babies were murdered by Hamas.

According to IDF medical examiners, Kfir and Ariel were brutally choked to death.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari shared in a televised statement, “We can confirm that baby Kfir Bibas, aged just 10 months old, and his older brother Ariel, aged four, were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza no later than November 2023.”

“These two innocent children were taken hostage alive, together along with their mother, Shiri, from their home on October 7, 2023.”

“Contrary to Hamas’s lies, Ariel and Kfir were not killed in an airstrike. Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered by terrorists in cold blood.”

“The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys — they killed them with their bare hands.”

Watch:

NOW – Israeli military says Hamas beat baby hostages to death with bare hands. pic.twitter.com/mFN611c1zc

— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 21, 2025

The Bibas brothers were choked to death in Gaza, according to the IDF medical examiners.

Their father, Yarden, wanted the world to know what the barbarians did to his children.

Let the world know.

— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) February 21, 2025

In an additional disturbing twist, the body thought to have been the boys’ mother, Shiri Bibas, that was returned alongside the children could not be identified by Israeli military, said forensic testing.

Instead, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleges Hamas had “put the body of a Gazan woman in a coffin.”

Ismail al-Thawabta, a spokesman for the terrorist organization, suggests Shiri’s remains had been mixed up with other bodies under rubble after an Israeli air strike.

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Oh Jasmine, Jasmine, Jasmine…
We have all worked with people of all shapes, stripes, and colors but Ms. Jasmine Crockett is one rare gem.

Why does this empty brain think Americans want to hear her rant about any issue of national consequence?

Democrat darling Rep. Jasmine Crockett argues that Americans don’t want to receive $5,000 checks from Trump’s DOGE Team after the investigative team discovered tens of billions of federal waste and fraud in only a few weeks.

Trump has been in office for exactly one month and already his administration is talking about sending a DOGE dividend to every US tax-payer.

This has Democrats outraged. First they were irate that Trump was going to look for waste and fraud in government. Now Democrats are infuriated that US taxpayers may get a DOGE dividend!

After all, only politicians are supposed to get the kickbacks!

Here is Jasmine Crocket spewing her typical nonsense and lies on ABC News.

ABC host: Now, President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from DOGE back to Americans as a dividend. Would you support that?

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Listen, he’s just telling a lie. He’s not the one that had anything to do with the $1,200 refunds that people had during the midst of COVID that was done by a Democratic House and Democratic Senate.

Right now, what they’re going to do is say, ‘Hey, we want to give you a refund, but Congress won’t let us because they already know that there’s just no money for that.’

The only The only reason that those refunds came before was because we were living in different times. This was a time in which hopefully we won’t ever go through again. We had a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.

The bad part is that I don’t know if it’s once-in-a-lifetime because we know that Ebola, unfortunately, was detected right here in New York here recently. If we continue down this road of getting rid of scientists or deciding that we don’t want to rely on experts as relates to what they’re telling us to do, or we don’t want to deal with vaccines and medicine in this country, then we may be facing not only our next pandemic, but our next two, three, or four pandemics because of their incompetence.

No, we are not in the business of giving out money.

Not one word of that was accurate or made any sense.

Keep talking, Jasmine!

NEW: Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she does *not* support the DOGE dividend, says she doesn’t know what an extra $5000 is going “to do for you.”

They’re falling right into the trap. Remarkable.pic.twitter.com/eTiuUGUuzj

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 20, 2025

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James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group has released a new investigative report on Los Angeles officials’ response to the wildfires last month, which raged across LA County. 

Over 12,000 homes were destroyed in the blazes, and at least 29 died.

Due to Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass’s failed leadership and radical leftist policies, which cut $17.6 million from the Fire Department’s budget a few months ago and reduced the city’s water supply available in fire hydrants, firetrucks were forced to use residential hoses to fill up their water tanks. The fire hydrants had run dry, exacerbating the crisis.

The Santa Ynez Reservoir, with a capacity of 117 million gallons, could have played a critical role in providing water pressure to firefighters battling the devastating fire that destroyed thousands of homes and buildings in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Malibu. However, it had been offline and empty for nearly a year, which incompetent Governor Gavin Newsom called “deeply troubling.”

Alexander Boz, an international relations official with the Los Angeles Mayor’s office, and LA Department of Water and Power project manager Angel Luna told an undercover journalist more about the state’s botched fire response.

Angel Luna acknowledged that the reservoir in Pacific Palisades was empty and taken out of service but claimed that the more than 100 million gallons wouldn’t have made an impact “because of the fact that you lost so many homes.” He further claimed that LA firefighters were “breaking our equipment” when the topic of empty fire hydrants was brought up.

Ignoring the incompetence that led to a lack of available water, Luna dismissed the notion that residents needed water, saying, “Yeah, but we like in a desert” and “It doesn’t rain here.”

However, National Guardsmen told an undercover reporter that they didn’t have water in the hydrants because “the governor decided not to do the reservoir and sh*t.”

Alexander Boz blamed the residents of Pacific Palisades for having yards that were “out of code.”

“This is like a long time waiting to happen,” he said. “It was just like a ticking time bomb.”

As the Gateway Pundit reported, the embattled LA Mayor Karen Bass, despite the known possibility of fires breaking out, was traveling to Africa when the fires started. When she finally made it back to LA, she was questioned by a reporter and stood there silently, unable or unwilling to explain herself.

Now, she’s investigating herself and why she was allowed to go to Africa while the city burned.

WAIT, WHAT? LA Mayor Karen Bass Investigating Why She Was Allowed to Travel to Africa While Her City Burned (VIDEO)

Boz said that Bass was working to establish a consulate in LA for Ghana and other African countries and agreed that "prioritizing minorities" is one of the Mayor's priorities.

He further revealed that the Mayor's office knew of the potential for a fire but claimed "there's nothing they could do" despite "red flag warnings" and "big indication of fires."

Pacific Palisades residents condemned the Mayor and Governor Gavin Newsom for their failures. One teen revealed that only three houses survived the fires and slammed the Mayor because "the reservoirs weren't filled up.

Steve Slepcevic, the co-founder and CEO of disaster management network Strategic Response Partners, reacted to the hidden camera footage of Alexander Boz and slammed the incompetence and missed "red flag warnings" that led to no water in the reservoir or hydrants.

When Boz was confronted by an OMG reporter, he threatened to call the police and claimed that he'd never met the Mayor!

Angel Luna when confronted via phone call, refused to answer questions, adding that he needs to speak to "legal representation."

WATCH:

SHOCKING HIDDEN CAMERA CONFESSION: LA Mayor Official Admits Office Knew Wildfires Were Coming, Claims There Was “Nothing They Could Do,” Blames Residents Who “Lost Everything”; LADWP Project Manager Confesses the Pacific Palisades Reservoir Was Empty for "A Year"

“Their yards… pic.twitter.com/r2wTYOwL5u

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 20, 2025

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Through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China sought to assert its global dominance. As technological advancements continue, China is expanding its quest for dominance into new domains such as outer space and the deep sea, where undersea warfare has become a critical arena for power projection.

The Indo-Pacific region, particularly the South China Sea (SCS), has become a focal point for geopolitical leverage. China has significantly expanded its underwater capabilities, using the SCS as a critical area of operations. As China’s presence extends across the broader Indo-Pacific, its growing influence raises concerns about its implications for global security and the strategic balance in the region.

Undersea warfare, which includes the use of submarines, torpedoes, mines, and underwater drones, is increasingly central to modern military strategy. These assets are used for surveillance, intelligence gathering, and neutralizing underwater infrastructure. Submarines, whether conventional (SSKs) or nuclear-powered (SSNs and SSBNs), play key roles, with SSNs and SSKs particularly valued for their stealth and operational flexibility. Torpedoes and mines complement these operations as cost-effective yet deadly weapons, while advanced detection technologies such as SOSUS and SONAR systems remain essential for anti-submarine warfare (ASW).

China’s ambitions in undersea warfare are reflected in its expanding fleet, which includes 59 submarines, advanced torpedoes, and surveillance technologies like quantum radar. These developments, along with large-scale military exercises in the SCS, underline China’s intent to assert dominance in the region’s undersea domain and challenge U.S. naval influence.

The importance of undersea assets is not confined to military applications alone. China’s strategy integrates undersea telecommunications, data centers, and resource extraction, forming part of its broader Digital Silk Road initiative. This expansion into the digital and maritime domains is designed to secure critical minerals and data dominance, aligning with China’s Five-Year Plans which emphasize ocean observation technologies, remote sensing, and global monitoring networks. The growing competition for these resources, especially in deep-sea mining, highlights the intersection of China’s maritime and digital strategies. As global demand for minerals essential to digital infrastructure increases, seabed mining becomes a key area of competition. China’s control over critical resources in international waters and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) further intensifies geopolitical tensions.

In parallel, China’s undersea warfare capabilities are bolstered by technological advancements in military-civil fusion and partnerships with Russia, particularly in submarine technology. Innovations like air-independent power and nuclear-powered platforms illustrate China’s growing prowess, though challenges remain in propulsion technologies, noise reduction, and ASW capabilities. The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) also emphasizes seabed warfare, particularly in safeguarding or potentially sabotaging undersea cables, which are vital to global communications and economic stability.

The integration of underwater digital infrastructure into China’s strategic goals raises significant environmental, security, and governance concerns. Projects such as the “underwater Great Wall” of sensors in the SCS—designed for oceanographic research, environmental monitoring, and tactical surveillance—reflect China’s growing emphasis on undersea digital infrastructure. While these sensors could help monitor climate change and improve environmental efficiency in data centers, they also deepen geopolitical rivalries, particularly in contested areas like the SCS. The governance of such technologies, especially in global commons, remains a complex issue, with the potential for disputes over data protection, infrastructure security, and the environmental impacts of such large-scale undersea projects.

The strategic militarization of the SCS, coupled with its economic and geopolitical value, highlights the region’s critical role in global security. Joint military maneuvers, such as the U.S.-Japan PASSEX in 2017 and the UK-France FONOP near the Spratly Islands in 2018, demonstrate the international community’s efforts to counter China’s growing dominance and preserve open sea lanes. The continuing contest over the SCS exemplifies the interplay of military, economic, and political forces shaping global geopolitics.

Despite China’s advancements, challenges remain. The PLAN faces inefficiencies in organization, personnel training limitations, and technological gaps compared to the U.S. Navy. Analysts emphasize the importance of undersea superiority for the U.S. and its allies, particularly within the context of great power competition with China. Strengthening alliances such as AUKUS and enhancing U.S. naval operations in the undersea domain are seen as crucial for maintaining regional stability and countering China’s growing capabilities.

As technological advancements drive rivalries into new domains, including outer space and the deep sea, undersea warfare has emerged as a vital arena for power projection. This form of warfare is increasingly focused on defending coastal waters, marine assets, and Sea Lanes of Communication (SLOCs) from threats posed by submarines and other undersea systems. The contest for control of undersea spaces will likely shape future geopolitical dynamics, particularly as China continues to expand its military and digital capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region.

China’s expanding undersea warfare capabilities and its strategic integration of digital infrastructure pose significant challenges to the global security environment. With a growing focus on seabed mining, undersea telecommunications, and military operations, China is not only reshaping the undersea battlespace but also redefining the strategic importance of maritime and digital domains. As competition intensifies, addressing the environmental, economic, and governance issues arising from this expansion will be critical to maintaining global stability. For the U.S. and its allies, countering China’s growing influence in the undersea domain will require innovation, stronger alliances, and a comprehensive strategy to secure vital sea lanes and maintain technological superiority.

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This was wild.

William Banks uploaded video of himself breaking out of a Connecticut prison and helping others inmates escape with him.

Banks had only four months left of an eight month sentence for taking down pro-Israel yard signs in his neighborhood.

But then he filmed himself escape prison!

William also published a video of himself before he went to prison.

He reasoned out in his head that taking down the lawn signs was the right thing to do because Israel was killing as many Palestinians as possible in Gaza after the October 7 slaughter in Israel.

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