Thursday, June 19, 2025

Polaris of Enlightenment

Trump releases classified documents on the JFK and Martin Luther King assassinations

Published 24 January 2025
– By Editorial Staff
President Kennedy in the limousine in Dallas, Texas, on Main Street, minutes before the assassination.
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President-elect Donald Trump has signed an executive order to release classified documents relating to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and African-American activist Martin Luther King.

During a press conference in the Oval Office, Mr. Trump promised that “everything will be revealed”, adding that “a lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades“.

I have now determined that the continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest and the release of these records is long overdue“, Trump wrote in his presidential order.

And although no Act of Congress directs the release of information pertaining to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I have determined that the release of all records in the Federal Government’s possession pertaining to each of those assassinations is also in the public interest“, he continued.

Unclear if all censorship will lift

Under the new decree, the Director of National Intelligence and the Attorney General must present a plan for the release of the JFK documents within 15 days. For other documents, a 45-day deadline applies. Although the documents are now being released, they are still expected to contain some redacted information, according to analysts.

The assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and King have been the subject of widespread speculation and theories for more than half a century, with many of the hypotheses put forward involving US intelligence or security services.

JFK was assassinated in 1963 during a motorcade in Dallas. In 1968, his brother Robert was assassinated and in the same year Martin Luther King was shot dead in Memphis.

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Islam set to become world’s largest religion

Published yesterday 7:19
– By Editorial Staff
Today, there are approximately two billion Muslims, compared to 2.3 billion Christians.
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Islam grew about three times faster than Christianity between 2010 and 2020. This is according to new data from the Pew Research Center, which points to higher birth rates and lower rates of conversion as the main explanations.

The global Muslim population increased by almost 21 percent over the past decade. Christianity grew significantly slower, at around 6 percent over the same period. Islam thus grew twice as fast as the world’s population as a whole, which increased by 10 percent.

According to the study, Islam also gained more new followers than all non-Muslim religions combined during the period.

Among the reasons for this development, the higher fertility rate among Muslim women and the lower average age of the Muslim population are particularly mentioned. Between 2015 and 2020, a Muslim woman had an average of 2.9 children, compared with 2.2 children for women who did not belong to Islam.

The net effect of people joining or leaving Islam was small – both groups accounted for about 1 percent in the 2010s.

Distribution based on region. Photo: Pew Research Center

Expanding rapidly

Christianity remains the world’s largest religion, with 2.3 billion followers in 2020. Islam is the second largest, with 2 billion. But while the number of Christians increased, the religion’s share of the world’s population declined by almost 2 percent during the period.

According to the study, the growth of Christianity has been slowed by a large number of people leaving the religion to become non-religious. For every 100 adults who grew up as Christians, the religion lost an average of 11.6 people.

– Islam is set to grow to become the world’s largest religion in years ahead, unless trend lines shift, said Conrad Hackett, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center and one of the report’s authors, according to The Washington Post.

He describes the development as “striking” and notes that Muslims and Christians are now much closer in number because Islam is expanding faster than any other major religion.

The survey is based on thousands of census data and surveys in 201 countries. It covers seven groups: Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, other religions, and people with no specific religious affiliation.

Iran used “undetectable” missile in attack on Israeli intelligence facility

The escalation in the Middle East

Published 17 June 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Images of what is believed to be the missile strike on Mossad headquarters in the capital Tel Aviv.
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Iran’s Defense Ministry says it used a new, untraceable missile in the attack on the headquarters of the infamous Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in Tel Aviv and claims that the attack penetrated several layers of air defenses.

In today’s attack, we used missiles that could not be tracked or shot down, said Iranian Brigadier General Reza Talaei-Nik, according to the Iranian state news agency IRNA.

He described the operation as a surprise for the Israelis and warned that they would see more.

Earlier today, Iran said its missile strikes hit a military intelligence center and an operations planning center for Mossad located in the capital Tel Aviv. Images show a column of smoke at what is believed to be the site.

Talaei-Nik added that Israel is not prepared for a prolonged conflict.

– The Zionist regime cannot withstand a long war, he said, adding that Iran’s military has been equipped with advanced systems, some of which “have not even been put into use yet.”

At the same time, the Israeli military has introduced new strict censorship guidelines that severely restrict local media from reporting on missile and drone attacks on Israeli territory, which is believed to be a way of concealing Iran’s actual capacity to strike back and give the appearance of military superiority.

Russia: Kiev and London planning false flag attacks

The war in Ukraine

Published 17 June 2025
– By Editorial Staff
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Volodymyr Zelensky.
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The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) accuses Ukraine and the UK of jointly planning sabotage operations and false flag attacks with the aim of escalating the Ukraine conflict and making continued dialogue between Moscow and Washington impossible.

In a statement on Monday, the SVR claimed that Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and Military Intelligence (GUR) are increasingly coordinating their efforts with British intelligence, as a result of what the SVR describes as Kiev’s “mounting battlefield setbacks and deepening moral exhaustion”.

According to the SVR, these sabotage operations and false flag attacks follow a recurring pattern, with the UK responsible for planning and coordination while Ukrainian agents carry out the attacks. The agency pointed to the railway sabotage in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions, which Moscow describes as Ukrainian terrorist attacks, as well as drone attacks on Russian air bases on June 1, as examples of this tactic.

The intelligence service is now warning that the “Anglo-Ukrainian terrorist tandem” is preparing more false flag attacks. The aim is said to be to escalate the conflict, sabotage the dialogue between Moscow and Washington, and influence the US to continue its military support for Kiev.

Planted sea mines and torpedoes

One scenario described is an attack in which a Russian torpedo attack on a US Navy ship in the Baltic Sea is staged. According to the SVR, Ukraine has already delivered Soviet-made torpedoes to the UK. Some of these are intended to detonate at a safe distance, while one is to be left undetonated “as evidence of Moscow’s malicious activity”.

The SVR also points to a possible scenario in which British, Ukrainian, and Northern European actors plan to “accidentally” find Russian sea mines in the Baltic Sea in order to claim that Russia is trying to sabotage international shipping – another type of false flag attack.

“Kiev has become the perfect executor of vile provocations and terrorist acts for perfidious Albion (England)”, the SVR concluded.

The head of intelligence, Sergei Naryshkin, has previously warned of similar British attacks and says that Russian intelligence is well aware of London’s covert hostile activities against Russia.

Israel tightens media censorship after Iranian attacks

The escalation in the Middle East

Published 17 June 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Military censorship has tightened under Netanyahu's leadership.
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The Israeli military has introduced new strict censorship guidelines that severely restrict local media from reporting on missile and drone attacks on Israeli territory.

In a circular titled “Rising Lion – IDF Censor Guidelines for Media Coverage of Attack on the Israeli Home Front”, Israel’s chief censor, Brigadier General Kobi Mandelblit, orders editors to take “strict measures” when reporting on missile and drone attacks.

The document warns that details about attack positions, air defense operations, or damage assessments could “assist the enemy” and constitute “a tangible threat to state security”.

According to the directive, media outlets are now prohibited from:

• filming or broadcasting images from impact sites, particularly near military installations

• use drones or wide-angle cameras in impact areas

• reveal the exact addresses of affected areas near security installations

• broadcast images of defense missiles being launched or missiles being shot down.

The directive also prohibits the sharing of videos from social media without prior censorship, with warnings that some images may be “enemy-generated fake news”.

Risk of exposing weaknesses

The new censorship rules are being introduced after a wave of real-time reporting on Israeli attacks inside Iran. In recent days, Iranian and international channels – including Al Jazeera and several social media profiles – have broadcast live images of attacks on Israeli targets, particularly the missile attack on the port of Haifa.

There is now concern within the Israeli military that similar live broadcasts at home could reveal weaknesses in Israel’s defenses.

The tightened media controls follow Iran’s missile attack on Sunday against Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, a research center linked to advanced military technology, including artificial intelligence, drone warfare, and nuclear research. Iran considers the attack retaliation for Israeli strikes against its nuclear and military infrastructure.

Israel’s censorship measures have drawn criticism from several quarters, with analysts warning that the new rules could severely limit public access to information and make it more difficult to follow the conflict. This could make it much harder to assess the damage, defense measures, and the extent of the attacks.

At the same time, Israel’s military censorship has long been known to be very strict. Media outlets often have to have their material reviewed by the army’s censorship unit before it is allowed to be published, which has made it difficult to report on Israeli abuses in Gaza, among other things.

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