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A decades-old bomb exploded beneath a home, killing at least five people. The explosive detonated in Biak Numfor Regency in Indonesia's Papua Province on Sunday, May 31, leaving at least five people dead and five others hospitalized with injuries, The Jakarta Globe and Antara reported, citing local authorities. Three more people are missing, according to the Indonesian news outlets. The Jakarta Globe reported that the explosion occurred below a stilt house located near the shoreline on Biak town's Walter Mongonsidi Street. Authorities believe the bomb was left in the area during World War II. “The explosion is suspected to have...

June 1-2, 1941, pro-Nazi Iraqis killed, raped and maimed hundreds of Jews.. 'FARHUD', should heighten vigilance against totalitarian evil everywhere and debunk today’s con claiming anti-Zionism is anything other than a modern update of antisemitism... seven years before Israel’s establishment and before there were any Arab refugees. .. bloodbath triggered an exodus of Iraqi Jews amid the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim lands—refugee problem politically correct society ignores. ... ‘mass rape and killing.’ ” Hooligans inflamed by demagogues murdered at least 128 Jews, injured 600 others and raped dozens, possibly hundreds. “Baghdad became a fast-moving hell,” .....

Israel Gershoni's Colonial Propaganda Masquerading as "Evidence."More on the push by Achcar (who, outrageously, compared genocidal Palestinian Oct 7 onslaught to the 1943 Warsaw Uprising) and Gershoni attempts to downplay widespread Nazi sympathies in Arab Palestine.Gershoni’s use of Arabic newspapers from the Second World War period as reliable evidence is methodologically worthless. These newspapers, during the WWII, did not operate under conditions of press freedom, but under a strict British wartime censorship regime that monitored, edited, suppressed, and directed political reporting in Mandatory Palestine. As British records show, and as laid out by Mustafa Kabha and David Sharfman, the wartime...

Very interesting video about the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier that sank in 1942 at the Battle of Midway.

At 0.016 seconds after the atomic detonation, the fireball was already hundreds of meters wide. The tiny squares to the left and right in this image are billboards 200 meters from the center of the explosion. Los Alamos National Laboratory.Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a gloomy stretch of desert in the Jornada del Muerto...

Modern Arab Palestinian leadership: Palestinian Authority, Nazism and Nazi CollaboratorsIntroduction Controversies surrounding antisemitism, Holocaust distortion, and praise for Nazi collaborators have repeatedly emerged in connection with the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Fatah movement, and senior Palestinian political figures. Critics — including Yad Vashem, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and watchdog organizations such as Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) — have documented repeated examples of Holocaust revisionism, praise for Nazi collaborators, and public glorification of figures associated with Nazi Germany. Historical Background: Haj Amin al-Husseini and Nazi Germany A central figure in many controversies is Haj Amin...

An incredible outpouring of love and respect as hundreds of strangers filled St. Joseph the Worker Church in Hanson to bid farewell to World War II U.S. Navy veteran John Bernard Arnold III. A veteran group put out the call for the public to attend the funeral to help honor Arnold, an East Bridgewater man who had no known family. "When the veterans service officer from Hanson put out the call that he had outlived everyone, he didn't even imagine this level of support. It's just fantastic," said Dr. Andrea Gayle-Bennett, the deputy secretary for the Executive Office of Veteran...

Self-Inflicted Nakba vs the Jewish nakba of Arab racism. **The "Self-Inflicted" Perspective** This displacement was voluntary. Often cited by some historians, the 1948 Palestinian exodus was a direct result of the Arab world's strategic choices. **Main points:** - **Rejection of the Partition Plan:** In 1947, the United Nations proposed splitting Mandatory Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. The Arab leadership rejected the plan, preferring instead to go to war to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state. -**Arab pro-Nazism** The direct result of Arab "Palestinian" leadership. Even after Mufti al-Husseini and his entourage was exiled, his leadership attempted a...

(Links * | * | *)The Jewish Voice Pictorial. vols. 7-10. (1944-7). United States: Cleveland, Ohio, p.8 The Arabs of the Middle East. (End of 1945). THE Arabs of the Near East have quite unexpectedly been brought into the foreground by the end of the Second World War in Europe. In contract with the attitude of America, England and others towards the Jews, who threw themselves, body and soul, into the struggle against Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy and contributed so very much towards winning the war in the Near East, is the suddenly manifested great friendship for the Arabs...

The incredible story of Yang Kyoungjong is all the more phenomenal because, while there's very little proof that he ever existed, our need to believe that he did has been so urgent that facts seem to matter very little. But that hasn't stopped at least three reputable historians from telling Yang Kyoungjong's story with confidence, and the premise of his life even became the basis for My Way, a multimillion-dollar South Korean action movie, albeit one embroidered with its own fictions. Yang Kyoungjong's story begins just after D-Day when, in an interview made for historian Stephen Ambrose years later, an...

I am pleased to announce that there will be a THREE DAY CEASEFIRE (May 9th, 10th, and 11th) in the War between Russia and Ukraine. The Celebration in Russia is for Victory Day but, likewise, in Ukraine, because they were also a big part and factor of World War II. This Ceasefire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity, and also a prison swap of 1,000 prisoners from each Country. This request was made directly by me, and I very much appreciate its agreement by President Vladimir Putin and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Hopefully, it is the beginning of the...

A former U.S. military vessel built during World War II is now anchored in Costa Rica’s South Pacific, where it has taken on a very different mission: helping protect marine life from illegal fishing.The MODOC, a 1944 vessel originally built for the United States Navy at Levingston Shipyard in Orange, Texas, is now used as a floating operations center by Earthrace Conservation. The organization purchased the former Navy and U.S. Coast Guard ship in 2019 and converted it into a conservation vessel for patrols, surveillance and support work in protected areas. Today, the ship remains based in the waters of...

According to a report in The Slovak Spectator, the site of an ammunition depot dating to World War II has been identified outside of the city of Bratislava in the Little Carpathian Mountains. "Based on the composition of the finds, the terrain, and their distribution, we were able to determine that this was an ammunition depot used by German forces defending Bratislava at the end of the war," said archaeologist Matúš Sládok of the Regional Monuments Board Trnava. The depot, built in 1944 by forced laborers, was part of a defensive system that began in Slovenia and ran through northern...

Hedy Lamarr lived a remarkable life as an actress of Hollywood’s Golden Age after leaving Europe shortly before the start of World War II. Fleeing a restrictive marriage in Austria in 1937, Lamarr arrived in Hollywood and skyrocketed to fame, starring in films like Algiers (1938), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), and Samson and Delilah (1949). However, only late in her life was she recognized for a lesser-known aspect of her work: inventing. During World War II, she invented a “Secret Communication System,” together with avant-garde composer George Antheil. The system used the concept of frequency hopping to guide torpedoes in a...

Carlson's Amalek misinterpretation: What "bloodline" do Nazi Germany, fanatical genocidal: Islamic Republic regime, its proxies or radical Arab "Palestinian" groups have in common? Amalek Tucker lies Tucker’s Amalek Smear Crumbles: Netanyahu Slams Iran's Regime as Amalek — Not the Arab “Palestinians” Carlson Obsesses Over. Bloodline Lie Busted: Carlson Claims Genocide-lie, Netanyahu Applies Amalek to Non-Arab Iran.

It often seems that modern day American leaders and many of the American people are eager to intervene in conflicts…Over 75 years ago, the exact opposite could be said. With Europe locked in battle, President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported the idea of America going to war, giving Great Britain the backing it needed, but FDR faced his own struggles. The United States didn’t want to intervene. During an emergency cabinet meeting called by Roosevelt immediately after the war erupted in Europe, it was agreed that the United States would remain an outside influence unless directly threatened or attacked… The United...

PA turns Hitler’s ally into a Palestinian icon. The PA is sending a clear message: Its ongoing practice of rewarding and glorifying Palestinian terrorist mass murderers is neither new nor superficial. Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1941 Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1941). Many countries and leaders who aligned with Adolf Hitler or maintained Nazi ties during World War II have since expressed shame and apologized. Others have tried to deny or obscure those connections. But none openly celebrates its links to Hitler or...

Please Find a Film (that A.I. Can't Locate): In World War II, two soldiers form a strong bond, one, an orphan, who never had a home and has no one who cares for him or any place to go once the war is over; the other who has a strong home and community life but who dies before returning home causing a strong loss-reaction among his family. The orphan shows up at the deceased soldier's home and is welcomed to a home for the first time in his life. Washouts: Not "The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)". Not "The...

A Clay County man's DNA was a match with a sailor named John Judson Campbell, a U.S. Navy sailor from World War II he had no idea existed until now. DNA matches newly identified WWII POW's remains to surprised Florida family | 3:34 First Coast News | 462K subscribers | 39,006 views | March 26, 2026

3,000 Jewish children vanished from the face of Nazi-occupied Europe. They weren't deported. They weren't found in concentration camps. They simply evaporated. And the most unlikely place on earth became the perfect hiding spot: a small Protestant village in the heart of occupied France, where pastors and farmers transformed their homes, barns, and schools into underground sanctuaries. But here's the detail that will make you question everything you know about World War II. These children weren't hidden in secret basements or distant forests. They walked the streets. They attended classes. They played in public squares. And the Nazis, with all...