The world condemned Israeli military strikes on twenty targets hitting Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran, Iran, which killed at least soldiers. The Iranian army said the attacks resulted in “limited damage.”
Amongst the countries rebuking the pariah state: Qatar, Turkiye, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, UAE, Oman, Tunisia, and Malaysia. This international roll call of repudiation is incomplete. The US, Germany, France, Egypt, Russia, and UK generically condemned all violence in the Middle East without specifically criticizing the Likud Regime in Jerusalem.
A cloud of smoke erupts following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on 19 Oct 2024. (Photo: AFP)
Meanwhile, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s rampage closer to home continued. In Lebanon, 41 people were killed and 133 wounded in Israeli attacks across the country and another medical center near Tyre was struck. A paramedic was killed and 12 wounded. Beirut says the IDF intentionally targets healthcare facilities and personnel. Since mid-Sep 2024, 164 paramedics have been killed and 275 injured. At least 55 hospitals have been attacked and approximately 58 healthcare facilities have been shuttered. Under the Geneva Convention, attacking medical personnel or hospitals is a war crime.
Gaza medical personnel report that at least 22 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks, 18 of them in northern Gaza. The UN fears “atrocity crimes” are being carried out in northern Gaza as Israel’s siege and “non-stop” bombing of the territory enters a fourth week.
In support of their Shia allies in Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah fired rocket salvoes on five residential areas in northern Israel, including the outskirts of Krayot near Haifa. There were no reports of Israeli casualties or damage.
The Presidential elections are days away and many Americans are unhappy with US support for the Pariah State. American taxpayers, who don’t have universal health coverage like Israelis, have sent Jerusalem $317.9 billion dollars in military and economic aid since 1951. They now watch the Likud Party and the IDF de-populate the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in what US Senator Bernie Sanders describes as “ethnic cleansing.”
(Undated image courtesy of Forward Magazine).
The Persians, which gave the world chess according to many historians, as well as the word “zigzag,” have been clever to avoid falling into Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s trap of causing American casualties in the Middle East. In mafia terms, Netanyahu has made it “personal” with Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah (LH), and Palestinians. Similarly, when then-President Donald Trump ordered the assassination of revered Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, the Republican commander-in-chief crossed a line and made it “personal” with Iran. Coriolanus would find it hard to believe if Iran or LH targeted a US Democratic leader with kinetic action. Iran worked with Senator John Kerry on the JCPOA nuclear agreement, which Trump recklessly withdrew the US from. Cyber-penetrations or hacking against any US candidate is to be expected. But right-wing fanatics like Donald Trump, imbecilic John Bolton, and the odious Benjamin Netanyahu probably have lifetime lethal fatwas issued against them, much like traitors and defectors from Russia. President Vladimir Putin and his network of active and retired KGB agents assassinate these traitors years after their defection. The allegations of Russian bounties on US personnel in Afghanistan and the health attacks on CIA, DIA, and State Dept officers via the “Havana syndrome” were taken personally by the USIC as these nefarious actions also “crossed a line.”
Sources:
(3) Updates Live: Israel attacks Iran, two killed; Hezbollah targets Israeli bases (aljazeera.com)
How much aid does the US give to Israel? (usafacts.org)
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) at a Glance | Arms Control Association
The FBI Needs Our Help
With the US Presidential election less than two weeks away, the FBI is requesting the help of the American public in identifying fugitive militants who attacked the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021. Specifically, Coriolanus has learned the suspects pictured here may be of particular interest to the FBI. If you recognize any of these miscreants, whether from seeing them at a restaurant or bar, on an airline flight, on vacation somewhere, in an office building, elevator, a shooting range, in the supermarket, school campus, PTA meeting, in a shopping center, at a gas station, in a public park, in a subway car, anywhere, please contact the FBI at http://tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-225-5324. Even providing the FBI a state or general location would be a tremendous lead for them.
The FBI is seeking to identify this person below involved at the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021. If this person looks familiar contact FBI at http://tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-225-5324.
(Reference # 70 AFO)
In the 45 months since 6 Jan 2021, more than 1,532 suspects have been charged in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to attacking the US Capitol, including more than 571 seditionists charged with feloniously assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
The FBI is also providing a reward for anyone with information regarding this suspect who placed a pipe bomb near the US Capitol on 5 Jan 2021.
Sources:
Elon Musk, US Defense Contractor, in Secret Communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of US space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022. The discussions, confirmed by several current and former US, European, and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business, and geopolitical tensions.
At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
Musk initially supported Ukraine’s military with Starlink but later restricted its use, aligning with Russia’s interests. Russian officials have pressured Musk on several fronts, including potential threats to his businesses, while Kremlin disinformation campaigns use Musk’s social platform X to influence US politics. Musk’s deep connections to US military projects, including SpaceX’s $1.8 billion classified contracts, raise national security alarms over his close ties to Putin. Elon Musk is now a key backer of Trump’s 2024 campaign and could hold a major role in a future Trump administration. His social platform ‘X’ is a virulent transmitter of neo-Nazi hate messages, fake news, and white supremacist ideologies, as this author wrote several months ago (please see link below).
Elon Musk has donated millions to GOP Political Action Committees (PACs).
One person aware of the conversations said the US government faces a dilemma because it is so dependent on the billionaire’s technologies. SpaceX launches vital national security satellites into orbit and is the company NASA relies on to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Like fellow white supremacist oligarch Donald Trump who is in secret communication with the Kremlin, we learn so is megalomaniac Elon Musk. Musk was also a guest of Israeli PM Benajamin Netanyahu during his address to the US Congress earlier this year. Any US defense contractor in secret communication with a foreign power would be investigated by our hard-working colleagues at the FBI. Yet somehow Elon Musk, gets a free pass.
Elon Musk, a South African, can potentially be denaturalized of his US citizenship under Chapter Two of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) for fraud and misrepresentation. When applying for his American citizenship, Elon Musk misrepresented himself to immigration authorities, not disclosing his right-wing affiliations. Musk, who saw the narrow economic benefits for white people in apartheid-era South Africa, has a similar vision for the US.
US counterintelligence agents are busy enough with Russia, China, and Israel (whom CIA considers the top CI threat to them in the Middle East). Now US CI agents must monitor Elon Musk and his enormous technological empire within the US.
Sources:
Exclusive | Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin, a WSJ Investigation – WSJ
Nazism, Bigotry, Disinformation Thriving Under Elon Musk’s X Platform (dailykos.com)
Chapter 2 – Overview of Fraud and Willful Misrepresentation | USCIS
Elon Musk spoke with Vladimir Putin directly, Pentagon official says | The Independent
Is Israel the CIA’s top counterintelligence threat in the Near East? | The Times of Israel
Vietnam: Food-borne Illnesses Sicken Scores Again
Vietnam has a population of 105,758,975 people; GDP per capita $13,700 (2023 est.) (Map and data: CIA)
46 workers at Shinsung Vina Company suffered from abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever. Suspecting food poisoning, authorities took samples from the patients. 25/25 samples (100%) were positive for Escherichia coli (E.coli); 1/25 samples were positive for Staphylococcus aureus (Staphylococcus aureus). The authorities could not identify what caused the food poisoning because the menu had many dishes. Most of the patients have since been discharged from the hospital.
On 20 Oct, the company held a party for more than 1,100 workers, the menu included steamed black tiger shrimp with coconut water, lemon calves, fried squid with butter, grilled chicken with honey, grilled lentils with vegetables. A few hours later, people began getting sick; a total of 91 people were hospitalized.
E.coli bacteria often appears in fresh produce, beef, fresh milk, juices, cheeses, raw fruits and vegetables… Symptoms of E. coli are usually nausea and vomiting, diarrhea with water or blood depending on the type of E. coli. Patients can start presenting symptoms three to four days after ingesting foods containing bacteria.
E. coli bacteria infect people of all ages, but young children and the elderly are prone to severe complications such as urea hemolysis syndrome. This damages red blood cells and can lead to kidney failure.
Image simulating E.coli bacterial cells. Photo: Napolilaw
On 24 Oct, 15 students of in Nguyen Ngoc Binh, Dai Loc district, suffered from abdominal pain, vomiting, and fatigue after eating yogurt.
The children were taken to the Northern Mountainous General Hospital of Quang Nam for emergency treatment. (Photo: Son Thuy)
Some of the patients have been discharged from the hospital. Two students remain hospitalized with intestinal inflammation. The exact cause of the illness has not been determined, but yogurt and other food samples were ordered collected for testing.
On 11 Oct, five students in Ho Chi Minh City suffered from acute gastroenteritis with abdominal pain after eating lunch at school.
Previously, 40 students Lao Cai College had digestive disorders, vomiting, headache, and was admitted to the emergency hospital after dinner at the school canteen. Their dinner menu is not clear. Test results later showed that the patients were infected with Salmonella bacteria in salted cucumbers, leaf rolls, fried chicken, and water spinach soup.
As previously posted here on Coriolanus, Vietnam has a problem with food safety which the World Health Organization (WHO) attempted to address years ago, apparently not successfully.
Sources:
15 students suspected of poisoning after eating yogurt – VnExpress Health Newspaper
Food Safety in Viet Nam (who.int)
Gunmen Kill Ten Police in Attack in Southern Iran
(Undated photo of Iranian policemen courtesy of Meghdad Madadi / Tansim News Agency)
An attack on a police patrol in southeastern Iran has left ten officers dead, the Interior Ministry reported. The attack occurred in Gohar Kuh, in Sistan-Baluchistan Province, some 1,200 kms southeast of the capital, Tehran. No group has claimed responsibility so far. The Tasnim news agency, which is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), reported an attack on “two police patrols returning to their police station.” Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni has ordered an investigation into the incident, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. Sistan-Baluchistan has been rocked by a spate of deadly attacks targeting security forces in recent months. Those previous attacks have been claimed by Jaish al-Adl, a Baluch separatist militant group that is believed to be operating out of neighboring Pakistan.
Iran has a population of 88,386,937 people made up of Persians, Azeris, Kurds, Lurs, Balochs, Arabs, Turkmen, and Turkic tribes. GDP per capita: est. $16,200. (Map: researchgate.net; Data: CIA)
As posted here on Coriolanus, this area of Iran is a hotspot of ethnic animosity. This murderous ambush coincides with Israel’s arrack on Iran. This is most likely unrelated and there is no open-source reporting linking Israel with anti-Iranian Balochs. Notable, Israel does support a different anti-Iranian terrorist proxy called the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) which Jerusalem has employed to assassinate Iranian scientists.
Sources:
Gunmen Kill 10 Police In Attack In Southern Iran (rferl.org)
Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran’s nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran – Wikipedia
Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists – Wikipedia
Trifecta of Pre-US Election Lunacy
This is raw naked mental illness. (Photo of Rain Monroe from social media).
Now Rain Monroe is crowd-sourcing to raise $5,000 to remove this tattooed blight from her forehead.
The 21-year-old “content creator” from London says the “hate” is getting to her – and she needs thousands of dollars to remove it.
Rain Monroe with her sign raising money for the tattoo removal. (Picture: Jam Press)
In another sign of the apocalypse, 20 million viewers watched Joe Rogan interview Donald Trump on youtube.com. Trump and Rogan received more attention than the historically well-watched World Series Game One between the Yankees and the Dodgers, which brought in 15.2 million viewers. Game One was the most-watched World Series opener since 2017.
(Montage courtesy of heavy.com)
Blatherskite Donald Trump, whose mental and cognitive faculties have been observed to be in steep decline, discussed assassinations, UFOs, and conspiracy theories with this multi-million dollar paid podcaster who denies being racist. For those who may not know, Joe Rogan is the man who horrifically said on his national podcast that “walking into a movie theater in a predominantly Black neighborhood was like entering the Planet of the Apes.” Viral clips of Rogan historically using the “N” word also pollute the internet.
Years ago, Joe Rogan was the host of a TV show called Fear Factor where contestants had to pass three trials of fire to win a cash prize. Joe Rogan sadistically enjoyed watching contestants being forced to do disgusting things like putting insects in their mouths or lying in a bathtub full of snakes. (File photo)
The last incredible third of pre-election lunacy involves the pre-eminent Washington Post newspaper. Their editorial page has decided not to make a presidential endorsement for the first time in 36 years. The reason cited was to create “independent space” where the newspaper does not tell people for whom to vote. This is quite a breath-taking decision. By not endorsing VPOTUS Kamala Harris, they are giving twice-impeached Donald Trump, convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in NYS, civilly liable for sexually abusing and libeling E. Jean Carroll, a man in secret communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a free pass and thereby endorsing Project 2025.
Hollywood film director Rob Reiner posted:
“The Washington Post editorial board is a disgrace. For the newspaper that exposed the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal to not take a position and endorse a candidate in the most consequential Presidential election in 165 years is reprehensible.”
More than 700 current and former national security officials support VPOTUS Kamala Harris, but not the editorial staff of the Washington Post.
Whose side is the Washington Post on?
Former Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said the decision to not endorse Kamala Harris Is “disappointing.” Here they are circa 1973 investigating the Watergate Hotel break-in that would topple the presidency of Republican Richard M. Nixon.
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman portray Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men (1976) made famous for the line “follow the money.” The film was based on their 1974 book and selected for preservation in the US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Trevor Noah Slams Joe Rogan’s ‘Planet of the Apes’ Non-Apology – PRIMETIMER
Trump’s Rogan episode hits 20M views in 20 hours on YouTube (nypost.com)
Bring on the bugs, because ‘Fear Factor’ is back – Daily News
Jury finds Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in civil case | CNN Politics
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein on Post Decision to Not Endorse President (hollywoodreporter.com)
Two US Truckers Adopt Cat (or Cat Adopts Two Truckers)
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