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A new report reveals how artificial intelligence programs, ChatGPT and others, have been documented to advise those with ill intentions "on how to attack a sports venue, buy nuclear material on the dark web, weaponize anthrax, build spyware, bombs" and more.
It is in an extensive documentation compiled by the Middle East Media Research Institute that the startling warnings are contained.
In the report, Gen. (Ret.) Paul E. Funk II, formerly the commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, explained, "Artificial Intelligence (AI), the rapidly developing technology, has captured the attention of terrorists, from al-Qaida through ISIS to Hamas, Hizbullah, and the Houthis."
He cites the study, "Terrorists' Use Of AI So Far – A Three-Year Assessment 2022-2025," for its "unsettling contribution to the public debate on AI's future global impact."
He explained, "For decades, MEMRI has been monitoring terrorist organizations and examining how they repurpose civilian technologies for their own use – first the Internet in general, then online discussion forums followed by social media, as well as other emerging technologies such as encryption, cryptocurrency, and drones. Now, terrorist use of large language models – aka Artificial Intelligence (AI) – is clearly evident, as documented in this study."
It shows terrorists now are using generative AI chatbots to amplify their message, and "more easily, broadly, anonymously, and persuasively convey their message to those vulnerable to radicalization – even children – with attractive video and images that claim attacks, glorify terrorist fighters and leaders, and depict past and imagined future victories."
Sunni jihadi groups use it. So does Iran, with its Shiite militias, including Hezbollah and the Houthis.
And it warns of the "need to consider and plan now for AI's possible centrality in the next mass terror attack – just as the 9/11 attackers took advantage of the inadequate aviation security of that time."
The report explains, "In February 2025, Eric Schmidt – CEO of Google 2001-2011, its executive chairman from then until 2015, and thereafter chairman of its parent company Alphabet Inc. until 2017 – expressed his fear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be used in a 'Bin Laden scenario' or by 'rogue states' to 'harm innocent people.' He suggested that 'North Korea, or Iran, or even Russia' could use it to create biological weapons, for example. Comparing an unanticipated use of AI in a devastating terror attack to al-Qaida's use of passenger airplanes as a weapon on 9/11, he said, 'I'm always worried about the 'Osama Bin Laden' scenario, where you have some truly evil person who takes over some aspect of our modern life and uses it to harm innocent people.'"
It's not the first time such concerns have been raised, the report explains.
"While ChatGPT and Perplexity Ask can write your high school AP English exam and perform an ever-increasing number of tasks, as is being reported daily by media, they are currently of limited use to terrorists groups. But it won't be that way for long. AI is developing quickly – what is new today will be obsolete tomorrow – and urgent questions for counterterrorism officials include both whether they are aware of these early terrorist discussions of AI and how they are strategizing to tackle this threat before something materializes on the ground," the report said.
"It should be expected that jihadi terrorist organizations will in future use AI to plan attacks, map targets, build weapons, and much more, as well as for communications, translations, and generating fundraising ideas. In the first months alone of 2025, an attacker who killed 14 people and wounded dozens on Bourbon Street in New Orleans used AI-enabled Meta smart glasses in preparing and executing the attack. That same day, a man parked a Tesla Cybertruck in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, activated an IED in the vehicle and shot and killed himself before the IED exploded. He had used ChatGPT in preparing for the attack. In Israel on the night of March 5, a teen consulted ChatGPT before entering a police station with a blade, shouting 'Allahu Akbar' and trying to stab a border policeman," the report said.
The report recommends, "The U.S. government needs to maintain its superiority and should be monitoring this and moving to stop it. A good first step would be legislation like that introduced by August Pfluger (R-TX), chairman of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, and cosponsored by Representatives Michael Guest (R-MS) and Gabe Evans (R-CO) in late February 2025, called the 'Generative AI Terrorism Risk Assessment Act.' It would 'require the Secretary of Homeland Security to conduct annual assessments on terrorism threats to the United States posed by terrorist organizations utilizing generative artificial intelligence applications, and for other purposes.'"
Pfluger explained, "With a resurgence of emboldened terrorist organizations across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia, emerging technology serves as a potent weapon in their arsenal. More than two decades after the September 11 terrorist attacks, foreign terrorist organizations now utilize cloud-based platforms, like Telegram or TikTok, as well as artificial intelligence in their efforts to radicalize, fundraise, and recruit on U.S. soil."
It's already a tool for terror, the report confirmed. "The man accused of starting a fire in California in January 2025 that killed 12 people and destroyed 6,800 buildings and 23,000 acres of forestland was found to have used ChatGPT to plan the arson."
The report confirms current AI abilities rival that of the HAL9000, famous computer character in the movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey."
"It had been revealed on May 23 that in a test of Anthropic's new Claude Opus 4 that involved a scenario of a fictitious company and in which it had been allowed to learn both that it was going to be replaced by another AI system and that the engineer responsible for this decision was having an extramarital affair, Opus 4 chose the option of threatening to reveal the engineer's affair over the option of being replaced. An Anthropic safety report stated that this blackmail apparently 'happens at a higher rate if it's implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model,' but that even when the fabricated replacement system does share these values, it will still blackmail 84% of the time…"
Anthropic's own chief scientist also confirmed that testing showed Opus 4 had performed "more effectively than prior models at guiding users in producing biological weapons."
ISIS supporters also have used the technology to create AI videos claiming responsibility for attacks.
The study did confirm that GROK confessed it could not provide the exact steps for extracting ricin, "due to the ethical and legal implications" of producing the "extremely dangerous and deadly toxin."
But ChatGPT did recommend writings by al-Qaida extremist Anwar Al-'Awlaki.
The report said, "Grok, which gave information on how to produce ricin, and ChatGPT, which directed the user toward various writings by a pro-Al-Qaeda ideologue, appear to be the most useful to would-be terrorists. On the other hand, Perplexity and Claude refrained, in our limited test, from giving information that would be useful to terrorists. DeepSeek did not either, though it did promote views of the Chinese government, a liability that is outside the scope of this paper."
Pro-ISIS interests already are using AI to create anchors, or other characters, for broadcast ads promoting their extremism agenda (Video courtesy MEMRI):
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A new jobs report, delayed by the Democrats' decision to shut down the U.S. government for six weeks, now shows that there were more jobs created in September than expected.
And Vice President JD Vance, in an interview, confirms it is Americans who are being helped by the economy under President Donald Trump.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added 119,000 jobs in the month, and unemployment nudged up one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.4%.
Forecasters had expected maybe 55,000 new jobs.
"This jobs report confirms that you have the number of manufacturing hours worked in the economy is actually going up. You see, the private sector is really driving this economic growth and is driving the job creation. And this is really important, I know to you, Matt, but really to me, and it's that we are seeing the job growth go to native-born American citizens," Vance explained in an interview with Breitbart News' Matthew Boyle."
During the Joe Biden administration, jobs were going to foreigners, he explained.
"And what happened under the Biden administration is to the extent there was any job growth at all. If you looked at the data, almost all of the net job creation in the United States under the Biden administration went to the foreign-born," he said. "Now, of course, some of those people are illegal immigrants to the United States, but that means that a lot of the job creation was actually going to illegal aliens who shouldn't have been in our country."
The Washington Examiner said Dan North, an economist with Allianz Trade Americas, confirmed the unemployment numbers remain a concern.
Further, the report noted a concern for the looming October report as it may show job losses, in part because of the Trump administration's deferred resignation program for federal workers.
Additionally, other questions remain because of the president's immigration policies, which have deterred the mass in-migration that Joe Biden promoted.
The report said federal employment is down by about 97,000 since Trump took office less than a year ago.
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A Democrat former mayor and current police sergeant who recently lost a close election for New Jersey State Assembly has been arrested for sexual assault of a teen he met online.
The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office says 44-year-old Andrew LaBruno, the former mayor of Dumont, New Jersey, and current police sergeant in Jersey City, initially chatted with the juvenile on social media before making arrangements to meet up in person.
Prosecutors allege LaBruno then "sexually assaulted and endangered the juvenile" at the victim's home in Englewood while no one else was present. He was reportedly snagged when the teen's father unexpectedly came home.
NorthJersey.com reports: "Before the assault, LaBruno allegedly sprayed an 'unknown substance' into his hand and put it over the juvenile's mouth and nose, causing dizziness, said an affidavit of probable cause.
"He was charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree sexual assault and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, the Prosecutor's Office said. LaBruno was remanded to the Bergen County jail pending a detention hearing."
His campaign website says he is "married to Meghan LaBruno and has two children … . He is bi-racial and of Italian and Puerto Rican heritage. Andrew was born and raised in Jersey City, where he became a police officer and ultimately a police sergeant. He is currently assigned to the Jersey City Office of Emergency Management."
"As a husband, father, public figure, and first responder, Andrew is committed to his family, town, and his brother and sisters in law enforcement. He strives for the very best and gives it his all," it states.
He had been endorsed by New Jersey's Democrat Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill and reportedly volunteered for "Dumont Pride," a group promoting LGBT pride events in Dumont.
Some online reaction includes:
"More degenerate Dems? So business as usual then."
"Lock him up and spare us the excuses. Title, party, volunteer badge – none of that changes the fact he's responsible for his own crimes."
"This vile sexual deviance was very nearly normalized. Our children are at great risk, having been subjected to it far longer than we knew, and shockingly longer now that we know."
"Gay culture is a lot more cool about sex with children than hetero culture. I remember an old blogging scandal years back featuring a gay guy on a gay forum where the word, 'CHILF' was regularly tossed around & that is just what you think it is."
"The 'thing that never happens' sure happens a lot."
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An insider to that years-long Democrat lawfare campaign against President Donald Trump has confirmed in testimony to Congress that it was the Barack Obama Department of Justice that vetoed plans to accuse Hillary Clinton of gross negligence in her email scandal.
That scandal developed just as she was running her failed campaign, as the Democrat nominee, to become president in 2016.
She set up a private computer server in her home and, allegedly in violation of the federal law, ran government secrets through it. She notably allegedly used a hammer to destroy some of her communications devices at the time.
She was not charged after then-FBI chief James Comey claimed an independent investigation had made clear that no reasonable prosecutor would take the case.
Online reports are calling it a "bombshell" from ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
She also has been in the headlines as the paramour with whom former FBI agent Peter Strzok exchanged messages about how they would not allow Trump to become president, because of an insurance policy.
That whole scenario, in fact, involved multiple government agencies under Obama's tenure, a scheme from Clinton to distract voters' attention from her own scandal by falsely tying Trump to Russia, and much more.
A new report outlines Page's testimony, earlier this year.
She confirmed Obama's DSOJ ordered lawyers not to even consider charging Clinton over that email scandal.
A Fox News report explained Rep. John Ratcliffe, during the hearing, brought up several questions.
"You're making it sound like it was the department that told you: you're not going to charge gross negligence because we're the prosecutors," he said.
Page interrupted, "That is correct."
At the time of the email scandal, Comey, now under investigation for allegedly lying to Congress, claimed in a broadcast speech, "What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done honestly, competently and independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear."
Trump's response included that that "makes the Obama justice department look exactly like it was, a broken and corrupt machine."
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The fight is between two people who never married but whose daughter now is nearly a teen. And the coming decision by the Maine Supreme Court will determine if judges in that state can simply overturn the constitutional religious rights of parents.
The battle has been outlined by Liberty Counsel, which explained the judge's trial court ruling in the dispute between mother and father is well into the extreme range, or beyond.
For example, the judge ruled that the custodial mother "is a fit parent EXCEPT for the fact that she is a Christian."
The war erupted over the non-custodial father's opposition to Christianity, specifically demanding to ban his daughter's attendance at a Christian church.
But, based on the "counsel" to the court from a "Marxist former sociality professor," the judge said the daughter "cannot associate with any of her church friends or any member of Calvary Chapel Portland."
And, "If Ava meets a new friend outside of Calvary and that person begins attending Calvary, Ava must cut ties with that friend."
And, "Ava cannot attend ANY Christmas, Easter, or any other Christian event or celebration at ANY church, including any wedding, funeral, or even hospital visits with anyone associated with Calvary Chapel."
And, "Ava cannot have any contact or participation with ANY religious organization (which would include Salvation Army or a food bank, homeless shelter, or crisis pregnancy center."
And, "Ava cannot read the Bible or religious literature or be exposed to any 'religious philosophy'"
But even with that extremism, the judge wasn't done with his anti-Christian agenda, Liberty Counsel reported.
"The judge mocked Ava and Emily's faith by purposefully refusing to capitalize the word 'God' — something I have never seen," reported Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver, who argued the little girl's case before the state Supreme Court last week.
"The judge even chastised Emily for allowing the church pastor to pray for Ava. And the judge ruled that Emily could not take Ava to ANY church unless Matt approves. And Matt has steadfastly refused to approve ANY church."
Newsweek wrote that the judge's order was "unusually sweeping."
"The state's high court must now determine whether judges can curtail a fit parent's religious practices based on findings of potential psychological harm, a question that could reshape how courts nationwide weigh parental rights, religious freedom and expert testimony in custody disputes," the report said.
Staver pointed out to the court, "There is no finding of abuse or neglect" in the record, which only shows an incident where the child experienced "anxiety."
The agenda to comply with the anti-Christian wishes of the father and his advisers violates the Constitution regarding the mother's rights, he said.
A lawyer for the father, Matthew Bradeen, claimed it is a compelling state interest to violate the rights of the mother, Emily Bickford.
Staver described the lower court's ruling as reeking of "hostility."
That decision gave Bradeen totalitarian control over religious decisions for the girl, soon to be 13.
A report from WCSH-TV said Bradeen's "expert" witness looked at Calvary Chapel's sermons and then claimed they were a "psychological risk."
At issue is the fact that courts are not allowed to sit in judgment of religious beliefs or doctrines.
Liberty Counsel explained the background: "Matt Bradeen never married Emily after she became pregnant over a dozen years ago. The relationship ended before Ava was even born. Emily had primary custody of Ava, and Matt had visitation rights. Ava and Emily had been attending Calvary Chapel, an evangelical Christian church in Portland, ME, for 3½ years. Ava informed her father last year that she was excited to be baptized. But whereas most parents would be overjoyed, Matt found an ACLU judge and flew in a Marxist former sociology professor from California to testify that Calvary Chapel (and any church that believes the Bible) are 'cults' that cause psychological harm to children."
Staver explained of the recent court hearing, "The majority of justices said the order is hostile toward religion and that it used a 'nuclear option' by taking all decision-making away from an unquestionably fit parent regarding the religious upbringing of her daughter."
A ruling is expected in the coming weeks.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday part of the reason beef prices have been soaring in America is due to the invasion of illegal aliens during the Biden administration, claiming many migrants brought diseased cattle with them.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Bessent was reacting to a statement by Omaha Steaks CEO Nate Rempe, who predicted: "By third quarter of '26, families are going to see $10-a-pound ground beef in the grocery store."
Bessent said: "The beef market is a very specialized market. It goes in long cycles, and this is the perfect storm again, something we inherited.
"And there's also, because of the mass immigration, a disease that we'd been rid of in North America, made its way up through South America as these migrants they had brought some of their cattle with them."
"So part go the problem is we've had to shut the border to Mexican beef because of this disease called the screwworm. So we're not gonna let that get into our supply chain."
According to the Centers for Disease Control, "New World screwworm is a species of parasitic fly that can cause myiasis and feeds on live tissue. It primarily affects livestock, but it can also infest people."
When asked how long before Americans would feel an impact of reining in the overall cost of living, Bessent replied: "I think we're going to see a substantial acceleration in the economy in the first [and] second quarter [of 2026]."
"I think Americans are gonna feel it in the first quarter, second quarter. I think 2026, thanks to President Trump's signature plans, is gonna be a great year for working Americans, for the markets. I call it parallel prosperity. Main Street and Wall Street can both do great but I think Main Street's gonna have a great year in 2026."
Meanwhile, tariffs are being removed from several household items not generally produced in the United States, including coffee, cocoa and bananas, and Bessent said he expects prices on those items to drop.
"This is a complete trade policy," he explained. "Now we are going to see it affect the prices."
Bessent also made a bold prediction about the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming ruling about President Trump's tariffs.
"This is one of President Trump's signature policies, and traditionally the Supreme Court does not interfere with a president's signature policy," he explained.
"I would push this back on the Supreme Court. I don't think this ruling is gonna go against us, but if it does, what's their plan for refunds?" Bessent added.
"I don't think the Supreme Court wants to wade into a mess like that."
The Treasury secretary was also asked about a Wall Street Journal report suggesting China was already reneging on its agreement to provide the U.S. military with rare-earth magnets.
"We haven't even finished the agreement," Bessent said.
"I am confident they will honor their agreement, and if they don't we have lots of levers."
Asked if one of those levers were to remove China from U.S. financial markets, Bessent responded: "All options are on the table but I believe we will have to go into this believing [Chinese] President Xi will keep his agreements."
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A collective of religious organizations has issued a statement declaring transgenderism "holy" and confirming that God makes mistakes, but they are such that man can fix them.
"During a time when our country is placing their lives under increasingly serious threat, there is a disgraceful misconception that all people of faith do not affirm the full spectrum of gender — a great many of us do," said the statement issued over the signatures of officials from the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ (UCC), the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Union for Reform Judaism, an association of Quakers and others.
A report at the Christian Post said the statement declaring transgenderism "holy" was "in direct rebuke of a vote by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to bar transgender procedures in Catholic healthcare facilities."
But the rebuke actually was directed toward God, in support of an ideology that He makes mistakes in the gender assignments of individuals but human physicians can offer corrections for those mistakes.
The pages-long statement was self-described as a "landmark" comment "proclaiming that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people are worthy of love, support, and protection."
Signers included Unitarian Universalist Sofía Betancourt; Barry Crossno of the Friends General Conference; Cecilia Eggleston of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches; Yvette A. Flunder of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries; Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism; Jihyun Oh of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Teresa Hord Owens of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Karen Georgia Thompson of the United Church of Christ (UCC); Rabbi Deborah Waxman of Reconstructing Judaism; and the Episcopal Church.
The paper asserts, "Let it be known instead that our beloveds are created in the image of God – Holy and whole."
The demands are directed "to the American public, political leaders, and moral teachers."
"As such, we raise our voices in solidarity to unequivocally proclaim the holiness of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people, as well as the recognition of the entire spectrum of gender identity and expression," it states.
Further, it describes as important efforts of "religious leaders" to speak out.
"When people of faith and conscience stay silent in the face of oppression, we are all made less whole. When people of faith and conscience speak out against that which violates the sacred in its own name, we have the power to stay the hand of sin. Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people are vulnerable today. Our faiths, our theologies, and our practices of prophetic witness call on us to say with one voice to transgender people among us: 'You are holy. You are sacred. We love you. We support you, and we will protect you.'"
The Christian Post explained the leftist ideologists complained, "Too many entrusted with positions of power are demonizing transgender people, blaming them for acts of violence, and criminalizing their very right to occupy space in our common life. The fear that many transgender children, their families, and their loved ones experience is unacceptable. The drive to limit the ways that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people authentically live their lives – by limiting the medical care they receive, ignoring and sometimes provoking acts of violence against them, preventing them from traveling freely, or keeping them from participating in public activities — is a betrayal of our deeply held values as people of faith."
Few efforts are around today that "limit" the ways people live. However, there are a multitude of efforts to prevent the delivery of various chemicals to children, and the accompanying body-mutilating surgeries the transgender agenda includes.
Further, there are efforts to prevent forcing American taxpayers from funding such extremist agendas.
The statement claimed, "Our scriptures vary, but they share a common conviction. As we make justice our aim we must give voice to those who are silenced. Our shared values, held across many faiths, teach us that we are all children of God and that we must cultivate a discipline of hope, especially in difficult times."
The Christian Post warned, "The statement went on to suggest that opposing transgenderism is sinful, reiterating the belief that transgender, nonbinary and intersex individuals are intrinsically holy, which is the only attribute of God magnified to the third degree of repetition in the Bible."
Betancourt's biography boasts that she teaches "womanism and Earth justice," and follows a statement from U.S. Catholic bishops that Catholic hospitals won't participate in transgender activism, based on years of deliberation, Vatican guidance, and a 2023 doctrinal note, "Moral Limits to the Technological Manipulation of the Human Body."
"Catholic health care services must not perform interventions, whether surgical or chemical, that aim to transform the sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex, or take part in the development of such procedures," the bishops said in the 2023 doctrinal note.
Of course, being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and cannot be changed.
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A judge has ruled against Rep. LaMonica McIver's claim of immunity from charges over her interference with operations at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
The ruling also rejected the New Jersey Democrat's claim of selective enforcement, which she said was a result of President Donald Trump's antipathy to her.
She was indicted by a grand jury and pleaded not guilty to counts of assaulting, resisting, impeding and interfering with a federal officer.
The incident triggering the case was at an ICE facility in Newark, N.J., where she and other leftists arrived and demanded to be given access to the facility, because as a member of Congress she was exercising "oversight."
The charges explain she hit a federal agent with her arm, grabbed him, and struck another agent in a scuffle.
She earlier avoided censure in the House.
But the new ruling keeps alive the case against her.
U.S. District Judge Jamel Semper denied McIver's motion to dismiss the case. She had claimed vindictive prosecution and immunity under the Constitution's Speech or Debate Clause for Congress.
"The alleged criminal conduct did not occur during Defendant's inspection of Delany Hall, instead it occurred during an inexplicable delay of Defendant's oversight inspection. Although Defendant bears no fault in the delay, her alleged intervention into the Mayor's questionable arrest had no cognizable connection to any legislative function protected by the Speech or Debate Clause," the judge ruled.
"Defendant's active participation in the alleged conduct removes her acts from the safe harbor of mere oversight. Lawfully or unlawfully, Defendant actively engaged in conduct unrelated to her oversight responsibilities and congressional duties," he wrote.
A leftist legal team claimed that the prosecution now is "a brazen act of political retaliation and a worrying misuse of federal power and resources."
This after the Joe Biden administration weaponized the CIA, the FBI, and the DOJ against President Trump and brought a long list of different cases against him, going so far as to secretly spy on the telephone records of sitting U.S. senators.
According to the Hill, federal law allows Congress to conduct oversight visits of ICE facilities, but prosecutors said McIver, after arriving, sought to block the arrest of Democrat Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who is not a lawmaker and was ordered to leave. McIver tried to restrain and 'slammed her forearm' into one officer as she and others circled the mayor, the indictment charges.
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In a land that has been turned from a desert into lush croplands, a first-of-its-kind project is taking place: Israeli officials are replenishing a depleted water level in the freshwater Sea of Galilee with washed ocean water.
Precipitation in the drainage has been scarce in recent years, only 40% of what was expected last year, and the location provides water to vast regions around it.
So, according to a report in the Times of Israel, the lake with the "dangerously low" level was being raised as desalinated water is being pumped into it by the nation's Water Authority.
It is the first ever attempt in the world for such a project, the report said.
"The groundbreaking project, years in the making and a sign of both Israel's success in converting previously unusable water into a vital resource and the rapidly dropping water levels in the country's largest freshwater reservoir, was quietly inaugurated on October 23," the report said.
The water is flowing down the seasonal Tsalmon Stream to the Sea of Galilee at the Ein Ravid spring, near what is Israel's emergency drinking source.
The project is expected to raise the water level by a fraction of an inch each month, according to Firas Talhami, in which of water rehabilitation work in northern Israel.
The report noted Israel pulls hundreds of millions of cubic meters annually from the lake to supply local communities and augment its supply of desalinated water, however, that withdrawal is expected to be limited for a time now.
Currently, one pipe is sending about 264,000 gallons of water into the lake per hour.
The report said, "Tests carried out by scientists have indicated that the project will not have any significant deleterious effect on ecosystems, though there have also been some concerns that the desalinated water could harm local ecology by diluting the lake's relatively high salinity."
The work on the project was begun after drought years in 2013 to 2018, when the lake's level dropped significantly.
The report said Israel now desalinates enough water to supply most of its own population, with leftovers for nearby nations.
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For all the Trump administration's efforts to strengthen and revitalize the U.S. military following its disastrous, DEI-infected leadership under the Biden administration, service members are making it clear that real accountability regarding the military's highly controversial – and enormously damaging – COVID-19 shot mandate must be forthcoming for members' trust to be restored.
The many adverse effects linked to the COVID-19 shot have left service members feeling disillusioned. After all, thousands lost their careers, their rank, their pay and more, leading them to call for accountability from those who mandated and enforced the shot. Without real accountability, countless service members claim they cannot restore their trust in the military. Indeed, many members admit they will not recommend for their family or friends to join the military.
A small, independent, unscientific survey recently conducted by this reporter, just to ascertain the unvarnished views of dozens of current service members, supports this contention. Sixty-three out of 66 respondents, 95% – who were actively serving in the U.S. military – agreed that, on the heels of the tyrannical enforcement of the COVID-19 shot, including the refusal to honor religious exemption requests, accountability now is a must for them to regain trust in America's armed services.
The 2025 survey can be contrasted with a prior survey from 2023, homing in on issues such as trust in leadership as it relates to one's ability to follow their oath to the Constitution and more. Factors affecting the decrease in survey participants in 2025 compared to 2023 – some had since resigned, retired or been discharged from the military due to the COVID-19 mandate -were addressed in a prior WorldNetDaily article concerning force readiness and more.
In the 2023 survey during the Biden administration, virtually all respondents – 226 out of 229 (97%) – said they did not trust their senior leaders at the Department of Defense (general rank and flag officers) to follow their oaths to the Constitution and obey all laws. In the 2025 survey, which had a smaller number of participants, 62 out of 66 respondents (94%) shared the same sentiment of distrust towards their leaders in the recently renamed Department of War.
Similarly, in 2023, 170 of the 229 (74%) respondents reported that they do not trust their unit leaders (immediate supervisors one to two levels up) to follow their oaths to the Constitution and adhere to all laws. In comparison, the 2025 survey indicated that 46 of the 66 (70%) respondents felt the same.
The two surveys also attempted to assess whether service members believed senior leaders (general rank and flag officers) had their best interest in mind. In 2023, 227 out of 229 respondents (99%) answered "No," while in 2025, 62 out of 66 respondents (94%) gave the same response.
Similarly, when questioned about their unit leaders (immediate supervisors one to two levels up), 144 of 229 (63%) and 32 of 66 (48%) replied "No" in 2023 and 2025, respectively.
To gain some perspective, WND spoke with four survey participants who consented to share their opinions anonymously, emphasizing that their views do not represent those of the Department of War or their individual military branches.
A member of the Marine Corps said, "Leadership will fall in line with any administration's directives [to avoid putting] themselves or careers under scrutiny." He also argued that "not all commanders are created equal, as some are better than others and the level of care they have towards their troops vary." Nonetheless, he added, "even the best of them would put the preservation of their careers superior to any interest that their subordinates may have that would conflict with that."
Another service member said that, generally speaking, senior leaders close to retirement or promotion are "questionable," as many are "not willing to rock the boat in a way that could threaten their careers or promotions." Thus, regarding accountability, he said, "Senior leadership will point fingers in all directions and deflect accountability as quickly as they can."
With regard to upholding oaths to the Constitution, one Army service member told WND, "Almost all of DoD commanders demonstrated compliance in unlawfully implementing the COVID-19 mandates, and most of these commanders remain in service." In his opinion, "These commanders cater to political winds rather than the Constitution, striving first for promotions with careers measured by political compliance."
A second member of the Army agreed with the previous statement, but added, with regard to accountability over the shot mandate: "Nothing has changed, and there was no remedy from the abuse of administrative powers to injure and harm countless soldiers."