🇮🇱🇵🇸 The Israeli Ministerial Council officially approves 13 settlements in the West Bank, with Smotrich considering this a significant step toward annexing the West Bank and asserting sovereignty over it, affirming that "a revolution to normalize and establish settlement" is underway.

🔗 zorba222

🇺🇸🏛👨‍💻 The NYU website has been hacked.

This is its main page right now: A graph showing the discrepancies between the mean SAT scores of different racial groups, highlighted by the massive difference between Asians (1485) and blacks (1289) — a nearly 200-point difference.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250322133330/https://www.nyu.edu/

🔗 i/o

🚢🇺🇸 23MAR2025 Tracking Warships and Cutters in Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico related to USNORTHCOM, Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB)

Currently US Navy has provided 2 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers

🚢 USS Spruance (DDG 111)
🚢 USS Gravely (DDG 107)

Each which are accompanied by an embedded U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET). Coast Guard LEDETs detachments allow for US Navy ships to carry out a variety of maritime interdiction missions, including counter-piracy, military combat operations, alien migration interdiction, military force protection, counter terrorism, homeland security, and humanitarian response.

The US Coast Guard has 20 Cutters that can support JTF-SB.

The US Navy has an additional 5 Destroyers and 7 Littoral Combat Ships available at Naval Station Mayport that could support JTF-SB if called upon.

🔗 SchizoIntel

🇺🇸/🇨🇳 Missouri moving to seize China-owned farmland, assets to collect landmark $24 billion judgment

Fresh off winning a landmark lawsuit, Missouri is moving quickly to seize Chinese-owned farmland and other assets in a bid to collect its landmark $24 billion civil judgment against Beijing for harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Just the News.

“Missouri will start to identify and begin going to court to have court orders issued to seize those assets to make good on that judgment,” Bailey said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast this week.

https://justthenews.com/government/security/missouri-moving-seize-china-owned-farmland-assets-collect-landmark-24-billion

🔗 Tony Seruga

🇨🇳 China Discloses Powerful Deep-Sea Cable Cutter, SCMP Reports

China revealed for the first time that it has developed a compact deep-sea cable cutting device that is powerful enough to severe communication lines, the South China Morning Post reported.

The tool is able to operate at a depth of up to 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) and has been designed for use with the country’s advanced manned or unmanned submersible vehicles, the report said, citing a peer-reviewed paper published in the Chinese-language journal Mechanical Engineer on Feb. 24.

Developed by the China Ship Scientific Research Center and State Key Laboratory of Deep-Sea Manned Vehicles, the cutter revealed by China targets so-called “armored cables,” lines with steel, rubber and polymer sheaths that make up the overwhelming majority of global data transmissions, the SCMP added.

https://gcaptain.com/china-discloses-powerful-deep-sea-cable-cutter-scmp-reports/

🌏🚤 Notable developments in the Indo-Pacific last week:

- China conducted back-to-back joint combat patrols 24nm from Taiwan on the same day for the first time
- 59 PLA aircraft detected around Taiwan + 43 entered its ADIZ on Monday, largest single-day surge of 2025 + highest in 5 months
- Recent PLA military drills in the Taiwan Strait, Western Pacific, South China Sea, East China Sea, + Yellow/Bohai Sea
- New Shuiqiao landing barges carrying out docking trials with civil-military RO-RO ferries
- Elevated PLA drone activity, including WZ-10 + GJ-2

Taiwan recently wrapped up a week of “Rapid Response Exercises,” practicing tactical maneuvers, key asset protection, concealment, and cover operations to enhance readiness and response capabilities. MND said: “ROC Armed Forces closely monitor maritime and aerial activities, conducting joint operations to track and respond to PLA incursions.”

China’s foreign ministry stated: “China’s relevant military operation is necessary, lawful and legitimate in order to defend national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity. It’s a firm response to external forces who are hellbent on abetting and aiding ‘Taiwan independence,’ and a warning to ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces’ unconscionable acts... Those who attempt to use Taiwan to contain China will get burned for playing with fire.”

https://fxtwitter.com/ianellisjones/status/1903978064217772162

🇺🇸 Patel plans major cutback to ATF by moving as many as 1,000 agents to FBI

FBI Director Kash Patel, who also serves as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has outlined plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI, cutting ATF’s agents by more than a third, three people briefed on the plan told CNN.

The move represents a major cutback of the ATF, an agency that long has been in the crosshairs of gun rights groups that believe its work infringes on Second Amendment rights. The ATF has about 2,600 agents and more than 5,000 employees, a number that has remained largely unchanged for years.

The move is expected to begin with the reassignment of a couple hundred ATF agents to border-related criminal enforcement duty as FBI agents, one person briefed on the matter said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/atf-agents-fbi

🇮🇱 Report: Shin Bet covertly probed Kahanist infiltration into police under Ben Gvir

The Shin Bet has conducted a covert probe into the possible infiltration of extreme-right elements into the Israel Police following suspected political meddling in the force by the office of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who is in charge of the police, a report said Sunday.

The Shin Bet security agency initially seemed to confirm it was examining the concerns, but later issued a denial. Meanwhile, the far-right Ben Gvir called the development an “earthquake” that he said justified the government’s recent move to dismiss agency chief Ronen Bar.

Channel 12 news reported that the probe — for the suspected undermining of governance protocols in Israel — focused on alleged intervention by Ben Gvir’s office in police instructions regarding Jewish prayer at the flashpoint Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem on the Jewish mourning day of Tisha B’Av in August 2024.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-shin-bet-covertly-probed-kahanist-infiltration-into-police-under-ben-gvir/

🇮🇱👶Israel's wartime baby boom: Births on the rise as Gaza war continues

Many countries have experienced baby booms after wars. Israel may be among the first to experience a baby boom during an ongoing war.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-846682

🇺🇸🇬🇱 U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Greenland:

Denmark, which controls Greenland, is not doing its job, it’s not being a good ally.

If that means that we need to take more territorial interests in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do.

Because he doesn’t care about what the European scream at us.

🔗 Clash Report

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel approves plan to separate, legalise 13 settlement outposts in occupied West Bank

Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a plan to separate and legalise 13 settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said.

“We continue to lead a revolution of normalisation and regulation in the settlements. Instead of hiding and apologising – we raise the flag, build and settle.

This is another important step on the path to actual sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (West Bank),” Smotrich said on Sunda

https://trt.global/world/article/fc240215a4bb

🇺🇸 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick:

"What is so exciting is April 2 is just around the corner and that is American Liberation Day. That is the day when the rest of the world starts to treat America with respect."

🔗 Rapid Response 47

🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:

"We are re-privatizing the economy, we are bringing down government spending, we are bringing down excess employment in the government sector... We are going to re-leverage the banking system. We are going to have all the new manufacturing jobs... We are going to get the affordability crisis fixed."

🔗 Rapid Response 47

🇺🇸/🇺🇦 President Trump says a rare earths deal with Ukraine has been reached and will be signed shortly.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel to create authority to enable 'voluntary' departure of Gazans

Israel will establish a new administration to facilitate the "voluntary" departure of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Monday.

https://nordot.app/1276868195938500948