Fellow Travelers: Your humble author is trying to keep up with the madness out of the White House, but this is becoming a daunting task.
President Donald Trumpf released an AI-generated video depicting a surreal vision for Gaza, reimagining the war-torn territory as a glitzy, Dubai-style resort, complete with towering skyscrapers — and a golden statue of himself. Felon Musk appears to be enjoying morsels and Trumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu are seen sun-bathing together.
Only a maniac could create such a film when the ashes in Gaza are still smoldering and an accurate death toll of Palestinians butchered by the IDF has not been finalized. Recall that Trumpf’s son-in-law, real estate developer Jared Kushner (a man who never worked a day in his life whose father is an ex-convicted) expressed an interest in modernizing the Gaza Strip (once the pesky Palestinians have been removed).
The lunacy continues. This month America’s Godzilla signed an executive order establishing a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) for the US, aiming to create one of the world’s largest such funds. Given the nation’s $36 trillion debt, the administration is exploring funding options, including the potential sale of federal public lands. Interior Secretary (and billionaire) Doug Burgum estimated these federal lands and natural resources could be worth up to $200 trillion. This approach has raised concerns about the preservation of public lands and their traditional uses, such as recreation and conservation.
Yosemite National Park, California.
Why should America’s working class enjoy inexpensive national parks when the oligarchs could extract the wealth from the land or charge people to enjoy nature while the wealthy fly off to their private resorts? And why conserve trees and fresh water when the world’s climate is doing just fine?
Trumpf’s Economic Plans Will Destroy the American People
America’s Godzilla has a budget plan that will rip health care away from millions while handing out $4.5 trillion in tax breaks, the overwhelming majority of which go to billionaires and wealthy corporations. Trumpf’s personnel and budget offices issued a memo to the leaders of all executive branch agencies directing them to submit “reorganization plans” within two weeks and prepare for large-scale firings.
Food line during America’s Great Depression.
When Dotard Trumpf fires all those people, in anti-Keynesian form he will reduce demand for consumer items, house and auto loans, and higher education. America’s Godzilla is ensuring that the oligarch class have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with unneeded tax cuts, while the masses will have to look for jobs, shop for food at Dollaramas, sleep in cars or homeless shelters, find care for their elderly parents, or borrow money to pay medical bills.
Only somebody pathologically unempathetic or insane could think pauperizing millions of Americans is a formula for economic growth and success. Trumpf is only concerned about the welfare of these people below.
In keeping with Trumpf’s desire to accommodate the oligarchs, Godzilla is planning to introduce a new visa to attract them to America — something he is calling a “gold card.”
For $5 million, oligarchs will be able to apply to become lawful permanent residents. Trumpf said the program would be rolled out in two weeks, would bring in “very high-level people,” and said the proceeds from the program could help pay down the deficit.
With the US government no longer investigating or sanctioning Russian oligarchs, what an ingenious method of getting them American citizenship.
Refugees most likely from Honduras escaping violence and poverty, making their way north, (Photo: ANC News).
Every year thousands of poor refugees try to make their way to America for a better life, some dying, some losing their entire savings, only to have Trumpf turn them back. The US was built on the blood and bones of immigrants for centuries. Worse, many immigrants have fought and died for the US military as pathway to citizenship.
An Iraq War veteran thrice-over who has lived in the US for nearly 30 years has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Arizona, sparking outrage among local leaders. Marlon Parris, a legal resident, was arrested on 22 Jan while on his way to an ATM, despite having a “Letter of No Interest” from ICE.
Marlon Parris, originally from Trinidad and Tobago, entered the US in the late 1990s. Only a few years after entering the US, Parris joined the US Army, becoming one of the first deployed to Iraq after 9/11. Legal aid may save him yet from deportation.
America’s Godzilla wants to see a “whitification” of the US with his deportation plans while bringing in wealthy foreign oligarchs. Trumpf’s complete lack of empathy for non-whites, the down-trodden, handicapped people, or the poor, Palestinians, America’s natural resources, reflect an absolute void in humanity. An amoral creature occupies the White House that 49.8% of the American people voted in. In true fascist format, Trumpf will not allow liberal or “hostile’ journalists into the White House. When the economy falls into recession, unemployment soars, food and fuel prices soar, and more die from spreading diseases and gun violence, who will affected Republican voters blame?
Vladimir Putin is pleased with the way his protege is dismantling America from within.
Sources:
https://www.newsweek.com/us-veteran-deportation-ice-immigration-arizona-2030449
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5308649/trump-green-card-gold-card-immigration
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/trump-doge-rif-government-worker-layoffs
US National Security in Dire Jeopardy
Russian Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) enjoying a laugh at America’s expense.
Several staffing moves of the Trumpf administration has been intentionally done to weaken US national security.
First, the ODNI.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has moved to fire more than 100 intelligence officers over explicit chats they allegedly sent around in an internal agency messaging board. Gabbard spearheaded a directive to oust the individuals who partook in the explicit conversations using the National Security Agency’s (NSA) “Intelink” platform.
“There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in … what is really just an egregious violation of trust,” Gabbard said.
NSA said in a Tuesday statement that the agency is aware of the posts that “appear to show inappropriate discussions” by personnel in the intelligence community (IC), and an internal probe is underway.
As Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard overseas the entire USIC. But the ODNI was created to prevent another 9/11 attack on the US. In 2000, CIA was aware of an Al-Qaida plot to attack the US and FBI agents were monitoring Al-Qaida suspects taking flying lessons in Florida. But both agencies didn’t share their sensitive information with each other and hence the creation of the ODNI.
Gabbard is using this “Intelink” scandal has an excuse to purge the USIC of LGBTQ personnel. Her mission as DNI is to oversee the smooth facilitation of intelligence between the agencies, not impede it or demoralize it. USIC personnel must undergo periodic counterintelligence investigations and polygraphs to ensure their employment fitness and loyalty to the US government. Coriolanus has worked with several LGBTQ personnel in the USIC and they were just as loyal and patriotic as anyone else. Intelink, which Coriolanus has used, is basically an internal “Google” platform for the USIC that is constantly monitored. If system abuse occurred on Intelink, there is no reason to fire experienced these analysts, code breakers, linguists, or investigators which cost the American taxpayer money to recruit, vet, and train.
This is just an excuse to rid the USIC regime of non-white, non-heterosexual personnel.
Tulsi Gabbard belongs to a secretive Hindu cult in Hawaii that preaches anti-homosexual ideology and Islamophobia.
Second, the FBI.
Besides the stunning confirmation of immensely under-qualified Kash Patel as Director, which is a ten-year appointment, the Deputy Director is former USSS agent and tattooed rightwing podcaster Dan Bongino.
Dan Bongino in Stuart, Florida, on 18 Mar 2021. (Photo: The Washington Post / Getty Images)
Described as an “unqualified henchman,” Bongino has spent years publicly criticizing the agency he will now help run, pushing conspiracy theories about corrupt FBI leadership and agents who were out to get President Donald Trumpf.
His appointment as deputy marks the first time in the FBI’s 117-year history that the second-in-command post has not been held by one of its senior agents.
It further increased fears – already high following Patel’s confirmation as director – that the administration would attempt to use the bureau to pursue its political enemies.
“Donald Trumpf just named far-right MAGA podcaster Dan Bongino, a notorious conspiracy theorist who promoted the lie that the 2020 election was ‘stolen,’ to serve as Deputy Director of the FBI. God help us all,” posted the X account Republicans Against Trumpf.
Third, the man on top.
President Trumpf finally met with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, leader of America’s greatest ally, but he didn’t know what AUKUS meant. The journalist asked because China is conducting naval wargames in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. Click here and watch:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1895189082529243418
Fourth, the man behind Trumpf.
Addressing FSB officers (Russian intelligence), President Vladimir Putin declares “victory.” Click here and read the translation if you don’t understand Russian:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1895123888943546538
What would this man below say about the state of US national security today?
https://globalextremism.org/post/tulsi-gabbard/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/24/dan-bongino-fbi-deputy-director
Mystery Illness Kills 50 in Democratic Republic of Congo
DRC has a population of 115,403,027 people and GDP per capita is $1,500. (Source: CIA)
An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks.
The interval between the onset of symptoms – which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding – and death has been 48 hours in most cases.
These “hemorrhagic fever” symptoms are commonly linked to known deadly viruses, such as Ebola, dengue, Marburg and yellow fever, but researchers have ruled these out based on tests of more than a dozen samples collected so far.
The latest disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo began on 21 Jan with 419 cases recorded and 53 deaths. The outbreak began in the village of Boloko after three children ate a bat and died within 48 hours.
There have long been concerns about diseases jumping from animals to humans in places where wild animals are popularly eaten. The number of such outbreaks in Africa has surged by more than 60% in the last decade, the WHO said in 2022.
After the second outbreak of the mystery disease began in the village of Bomate on 9 Feb, samples from 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, for testing, the WHO said. All samples were negative for common hemorrhagic fever diseases, although some tested positive for malaria. Last year, another mystery flu-like illness that killed dozens of people in another part of Congo was determined likely to be malaria.
Scientists have found one-fifth of the Ebolavirus genome in a greater long-fingered bat captured near an abandoned Liberian mineshaft. (Photo: © Ivkuzmin/Dreamstime.com)
Bats are basically virus reservoirs, immune to the pathogens they unintentionally carry. In DRC, poverty, food insecurity, and mass internal refugees are contributing to the spread of these zoonotic diseases.
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/health/congo-mystery-illness/index.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7228346/#jzo12769-sec-0002
Belgium: China Hacked Intelligence Service
The Belgian federal prosecutor started a probe into alleged Chinese hacking of Belgium’s intelligence service VSSE in Nov 2023. The prosecutor added that it had received an accusation filed by VSSE in relation to the case.
Hackers allegedly linked to Chinese espionage had exploited a breach in an American cyber company and gained access to 10% of the Belgian intelligence service’s emails. While classified data remained safe, the personal information of nearly half of the Belgian service’s members may have been compromised.
Francisca Bostyn, Administrator General of Belgium State Security. (Photo: Public domain)
Belgian counterintelligence services have their hands full as Brussels is a hotspot for espionage with so many international organizations based there, including NATO and the EU. Besides dealing with organized crime, Russian spies, and the potential of jihadist terrorism as a former colonial power, the VSSE must contend with Chinese espionage and an untrustworthy ally in the US. That an American cyber company was involved in the breach is not a surprise as these contractors have been previously cited in the US for poor security protocols in their systems.
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Afghanistan: Taliban Using Modern Surveillance Systems
Thousands of cameras are now being used to monitor the movements of Kabul residents. (Photo: BBC)
The BBC reports:
“In a crowded control center, surrounded by dozens of TV screens, the Taliban’s police force proudly shows off its newly-acquired network of 90,000 CCTV cameras – used to watch over the day-to-day lives of millions of people.
“We monitor the entire city of Kabul from here,” says Khalid Zadran, a spokesperson for the Taliban police chief, pointing to one of the screens.
The authorities say such surveillance will help fight crime, but critics fear it will be used to clamp down on dissent and to monitor the strict morality code enforced by the Islamist Taliban government under their interpretation of Sharia law.
The BBC are the first international journalists allowed to see the system in action.
Inside the control room, police officers sit in rows watching the live streams from thousands of cameras, keeping tabs on the lives of the six million people who live in Kabul.
From car license plates to facial expressions, everything is monitored.”
Taliban spokesperson Khalid Zadran says the surveillance system is being used to reduce crime. (Photo: BBC)
The Taliban apparently monitor their own personnel with these cameras. Human rights groups are concerned that this unwarranted surveillance will be used to suppress dissent, especially against women who are forced to wear face coverings when in public and are prevented from employment or higher education. No doubt the cameras are from China who has established ties with Kabul and opened a rail link into the landlocked country.
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjev9kzxeqqo
Ukraine-Russia Update
Spy Convicted for Treason
The Security Service of Ukraine reported the conviction of an unnamed 33-year-old resident of the city of Novohrodivka, Donetsk region, who worked for the Russian FSB and passed on intelligence on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Detained last year, the court sentenced her to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The investigation established that the FSB agent passed to the enemy the geolocations of fortified areas, checkpoints and artillery positions of Ukrainian troops in the hottest direction of the front — Pokrovske.
To collect information, the traitor traveled hundreds of kilometers in fixed-route taxis to the areas of Kurakhove, Myrnohrad, Novohrodivka, Selydove and Mykhailivka, where she covertly recorded the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and transmitted their coordinates to her Russian handler via messenger.
Russian Antiwar Critic Arrested
Ekaterina Barabash, Russian film critic, who was put under house arrest in Moscow for ‘fake news’ about war in Ukraine. (Facebook)
Independent Russian film critic Ekaterina Barabash was placed under house arrest by a Moscow court for posting “fake news” on her Facebook account about the war in Ukraine, her son Yurii Barabash reported on Facebook on 26 Feb.
Detained by the Russian Investigative Committee on 23 Feb, Barabash will remain under house arrest until April 25. The Russian Investigative Committee, which is supposed to probe serious federal crimes, claimed in a Telegram post on 26 Feb that Barabash “admitted her guilt in full” during an interrogation.
Crackdowns on freedom of expression in Russia have only intensified since the start of Moscow’s full-scale war against Ukraine.
Born in Kharkiv, Barabash is the daughter of a famous Ukrainian literary scholar. For speaking out in support of Ukraine fighting against a war of total annihilation, the 63-year-old could face a financial fine of up to five million rubles ($57,500) or up to ten years in prison.
Over 10,000 Ukrainian Youth Apply for Military Contracts
Young soldiers of the “Da Vinci Wolves” battalion who recently joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine undergo training before being sent to the front in Ukraine on 8 Apr 2024. (Photo: Kostiantyn Liberov / Libkos / Getty Images)
Ukraine’s military has received over 10,000 applications from volunteer recruits aged 18 to 24 following the introduction of lucrative “special contracts.”
The contracts, aimed at recruiting additional military personnel who are not subject to mobilization, provide a number of benefits, including a Hr 1 million ($24,000) annual salary, 0% interest mortgage rates, and free higher education.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry also said those who complete one year of service would be allowed to travel abroad. Currently, with a few exemptions, all men aged 18-60 are prohibited from travelling overseas while martial law is in place.
US lawmakers and NATO allies have continuously urged Ukraine to lower its draft age from 25 to 18 to address manpower shortages. Currently, Ukrainian men aged 25 to 60 are subject to conscription. But you previously read here on Coriolanus, Ukrainians are loathe to send young men under 25 to war as this is their weakest demographic cadre after the fall of the USSR and subsequent mass exoduses.
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Mexico Extradites 29 Drug Traffickers to US
Drug traffickers Miguel Ángel Treviño and Rafael Caro Quintero in a photo composition. (Photo: Miguel Dimayuga / AP / Proceso)
Mexico has extradited 29 drug traffickers who were being held in different prisons across the country to the US on Thursday, according to the Mexican attorney general’s office. Among the 29 are the former leaders of the Los Zetas cartel, Miguel Ángel and Omar Treviño Morales, known as Z-40 and Z-42. As well as Rafael Caro Quintero, former head of the Guadalajara Cartel, and José Ángel Canobbio, alias El Güerito, a lieutenant of Los Chapitos, one of the factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Mexican Drug Cartels Areas of Operation
The extraditions come in the midst of negotiations between Mexico and the US, due to Washington’s intention to apply a 25% tariff on Mexican exports. Since he took office on 20 January, US President Donald Trumpf– America’s Godzilla — has threatened several times to apply the levy on the entry of Mexican products into the country, a threat based on drug trafficking north of the border, mainly in the form of fentanyl, and the migratory flow that reaches the southern US states. America’s Godzilla reiterated that the tariffs will be applied as of 4 Mar, after a one-month moratorium.
Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum (Photo: Office of the President)
The newly-elected and popular President Sheinbaum is on a tight-rope, balancing dealing with America’s Godzilla to the north who is threatening her country with punitive economic sanctions, while upholding Mexico’s cherished sovereignty, uplifting her people out of poverty, and not offending the dangerous drug cartels. The tragedy of her position is that the fault lies with the US, not Mexico. America’s insatiable demand for drugs, particularly fentanyl, is fueling organized crime on both sides of the border. Moreover, the flow of illegal weapons into Mexico from the US is fueling an abominable homicide rate in her country. The Mexican people call it the “Iron River.” There is only one firearm store in the entirety of Mexico, located on a military base outside the capital, yet globally, Mexico is one of six countries with the highest level of firearm mortality. These weapons originate in the US and Mexico has threatened lawsuits against US firearm manufacturers. As you read here on Coriolanus, 2,600 Americans have been arrested in Mexico over the last six years for various offenses involving smuggling and organized crime.
Footnote: The previous President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador travelled without a professional bodyguard detail for the entire length of his five-year tenure without a single incident. Below he was photographed with his commercial plane stuck on a tarmac. Whether President Sheinbaum will employ a bodyguard detail from the Mexican Army after the extraditions of these cartel members is not clear.
President López Obrador said it would be embarrassing to board “a luxurious presidential plane in a country where there is so much poverty.” (Photo: Reuters, 21 Sep 2018).
Sources:
Stop US Arms to Mexico – www.stopusarmstomexico.org
Golden Retriever Puppy Steals Ducklings
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