US-Russia Alaska Summit Perfect Kabuki Theater

The recent Alaska Summit between the oligarchic leaders of the US and Russia went perfectly well for Vladimir Putin and terrible for Donald Trump (AKA Dummkopf Trumpf). This summit lasted three hours and no peace deal was made. This meeting was just an excuse to let the former KGB officer finally give his instructions directly to Trumpf in person. For Vladimir Putin, he flagrantly flaunted the ICC international arrest warrant against him by traveling to the US and his team presented their demands from the Trumpf junta to lift economic sanctions against Russia. Putin came home victorious from this tete-a-tete.

The entire year of Trumpf sending special envoys to Moscow was all kabuki theater to buy time for Russia in its brutal campaign against Ukraine. And for Trumpf, the summit was a disaster because it exposed other issues that Followers of the Watch were already aware of, namely that Trumpf is a Kremlin asset.

Dummkopf Trumpf Too Unhealthy and Feeble for US Presidency

The US President (79) was unable to walk a straight line along the red carpet, while his counterpart strode confidently towards his asset. When they shook hands, Trumpf immediately placed his hand below Putin’s, a clear sign of submission to a superior.

Dotard Trumpf Without Makeup and Hairpiece

Dummkopf Trumpf is terrified that he may suffer from dementia that afflicted his father before he died.

Trumpf’s inability to walk a straight line may be a sign of ataxia and his forward-leaning posture and body tics are serious signs of poor health. The geriatric oligarch is also suffering from chronic venous insufficiency which causes his ankles to swell up.

Yet somehow, this decrepit dotard amazingly won his sixth senior golf championship of the season a few weeks ago,

Sources:

https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/why-one-expert-says-trumps-forward-leaning-posture-and-body-tics-are-cause-for-serious-concern

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/4-things-to-know-about-trumps-diagnosis-of-chronic-venous-insufficiency

https://golfweek.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/08/05/donald-trump-golf-tournament-championship/85516763007/

VPOTUS JD Vance and First Lady Usha Vance

What are these two thinking about?

Trumpf’s swollen ankles further immobilize the geriatric suffering from morbid obesity. In 2024 Republicans blasted “Sleepy Joe” Biden as too old to run for President.

Poor OPSEC Continues Under Amateur Trumpf Junta

Papers with US State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the 15 Aug meetings between Dummkopf Trumpf and ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.

Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by US staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of US government employees.

At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel’s public printers.

Jon Michaels, a professor of law at UCLA who lectures about national security, said that the documents found in the printer of the Alaskan hotel reveal a lapse in professional judgment in preparation for a high-stakes meeting.

“It strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration,” said Michaels. “You just don’t leave things in printers. It’s that simple.”

The printed papers are the latest example of a series of security breaches by officials of the Trump administration. Earlier this week, members of a law enforcement group chat that included members of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added a random person to a conversation about an ongoing search for a convicted attempted murderer. In March, US national security leaders accidentally included a journalist in a group chat about impending military strikes in Yemen.

Source:

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind

Israeli Chief of Cyber Security Arrested for Soliciting Sex with Child Released by Las Vegas Police

Alleged pedophile Tom Alexandrovich (Undated photo from social media)

A top cybersecurity official for the Israeli government was arrested in Nevada during an undercover operation targeting child sex predators. Tom Alexandrovich (38) was apprehended and faced felony charges of “Luring a Child with Computer for Sex Act.” Tom Alexandrovich is the Executive Director of the Israel Cyber Directorate, a government agency that operates under the office of PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Alexandrovich was in Las Vegas to attend this year’s “Black Hat Briefings,” an annual gathering of cybersecurity professionals. The pedophile posted a photo of himself at the conference on LinkedIn before the account was deleted. Netanyahu’s office issued a statement and denied that the employee in question was arrested at all: “A state employee who traveled to the US for professional matters was questioned by American authorities during his stay. The employee, who does not hold a diplomatic visa, was not arrested and returned to Israel as scheduled.”

Endnote: An Israeli news outlet exposed an IDF unit created to falsely link innocent journalists to resistance cells in Gaza, legitimizing their assassinations. Link: https://www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-journalists-hamas-hasbara/

Sources:

https://www.lvmpd.com/Home/Components/News/News/2182/263

https://www.mediaite.com/crime/israeli-official-arrested-in-nevada-child-sex-operation-is-released-and-back-in-israel/

US State Department Halts Humanitarian Visas for Palestinian Children from Gaza Crippled and Maimed by Israeli Forces

An injured Gazan teenager arrives at Washington Dulles International Airport on 9 Aug as part of a humanitarian evacuation by Heal Palestine (Photo: Mehmet Eser / Zuma Press / Shutterstock)

One day after notorious Islamophobe Laura Loomer posted videos on social media of children from Gaza arriving in the US for medical treatment and questioning how they got visas, the State Department said it was halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza pending a review. The vastly underqualified USSECSTATE Marco Rubio, a vapid empty suit, said the action came after “outreach from multiple congressional offices asking questions about it.” Loomer called the medical treatment of crippled and maimed children from Gaza a “national security threat.” She asked who signed off on the visas and demanded the person be fired. Loomer tagged Rubio, Dummkopf Trumpf, JD Vance, GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, and Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Sources:

Trump administration halts visas for people from Gaza

Palestinians in Gaza Strip Getting Sick Drinking Filthy Water

Link:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/15/heat-thirst-driving-families-gaza-drink-water-makes-sick/

Since 7 Oct 2023, the IDF’s Nakba has created an army of Palestinian orphans and amputees in the Gaza Strip. Islamophobe Laura Loomer’s visceral hatred of Palestinians and Muslims is unlimited. She is completely devoid of compassion and the perfect vanguard for AIPAC; a lying, smearing, and distorting vicious harridan who Karma will one day attend to, like ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

Endnote: The comically inept and amateurish Marco Rubio recently initiated a “Meritorious Service Increase” (MSI) program at the State Department offering monetary bonuses to diplomats who demonstrate fidelity to him. Link: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-rubio-offers-ass-kissing

“Hear ye! Hear ye! Know all men by these presents– Greeting! Forthwith Laura Loomer’s membership in the human race is hereby forever revoked. Bear ye well these facts in mind and through your efforts help spread the glad tidings!”

Watch the US Police State in Brutal Action; Foreigners Should Avoid America At All Costs

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announces that 1.6 million illegal immigrants left the US. Link: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/14/secretary-noem-announces-16-million-illegal-aliens-have-left-us

This comes from the heartless harridan who admitted to killing her own puppy for disobedience and living rent-free in the home of the US Coast Guard Commandant who was evicted with three hours notice. Meanwhile the Trumpf junta prepares to move homeless people out of Washington DC and “fight lawlessness” with armed Army National Guardsmen.

Links:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-administration-evicts-former-coast-guard-linda-fagan-3-hours-rcna190820

https://meidasnews.com/news/kristi-noem-living-rent-free-in-coast-guard-commandants-home

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-virginia-to-deploy-hundreds-of-national-guard-troops-to-d-c/

1) California man who was believed to have been running from a raid by ICE agents died after being hit by a car on a freeway. Police had been called after there were reports of activity by ICE agents at a Home Depot. During the raid, one man ran from the parking lot of the hardware store, a place where day laborers commonly gather looking for casual work, and onto a busy freeway during rush hour. The 40-year-old unidentified man was taken to a hospital where the man died from his injuries a few hours later. Link: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/man-dies-fleeing-ice-raid-in-california-officials/

2) A Nicaraguan man escaped an ICE team surrounding his car in California. Roberto Reyes ran back to his home and barricaded himself in with his family. Watch the Brownshirt kick at his door and then taunt the poor guy by jangling his house and truck keys in front of a Ring camera. Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/us/video/nicaraguan-migrant-ice-escape-home-barricade-vrtc

3) ICE thugs deploy taser against helpless deliveryman in Washington DC: Link: Tasered DC Victim.

4) ICE goons detains seven-year-old NYC girl and sends her and mother to Texas gulag; brother to NJ concentration camp. Link: Seven Year Old NYC Victim.

5) ICE Brownshirts open fire on family in truck in San Bernardino: Link: Attempted Murder in California.

Assistant US Attorney in Washington DC Arrested for Throwing Subway Sandwich at Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer

Sean Charles Dunn throwing his sandwich at a fascist police officer. (Photo: Social media)

On 10 Aug at 2306 hours on a Washington DC street in the NW, Department of Justice trial attorney Sean Charles Dunn allegedly pointed his finger at a CBP agent on duty and began shouting at him: “F*** you! You f***ing fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” The defendant then threw his Subway sandwich at the CBP agent which struck him on the chest. The trial attorney attempted to flee on foot but was apprehended. While being processed, Dunn confessed: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.” Dunn was charged with violation of 18 U.S.C. 111(a)(1) (Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and employees of the US) and was then immediately fired by USAG Pam Bondi.

There is no information about the injuries sustained by the tactically armored, heavily-armed CBP agent after the Subway sandwich hit his Kevlar chest protector. There is also no information as to what kind of sandwich the defendant was enjoying before hurling it at the praetorian. 18 U.S.C. 111(a)(1) was the same statute applied to many of the dangerous white supremacist seditionists who stormed the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021. 

Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71101293/1/1/united-states-v-dunn/

A criminal complaint is merely an accusation. Mr. Dunn is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. And in that court of law, Mr. Dunn will be immediately recognized by many of the court personnel, including the presiding judge.

“Your Honor, look at the dangerous weapon the defendant hurled at the CBP officer!”

This farcical prosecution in Washington DC is similar to this incident earlier this year.

Emily Gabriella Sommer (32) was arrested in connection with an 8 May incident during which she allegedly spit on former US Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. Sommer is charged with one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding a government official. On 8 May then-Interim US Attorney Martin was conducting an on-camera interview on the street in front of his office. During the interview Sommer approached Martin and stated words to the effect of, “Who in the f– are you?” Martin turned to face Sommer. Sommer then said, “Are you Ed Martin? You are. Ed Martin.” Sommer lunged at Martin and spit on his shoulder. Sommer then walked away and yelled, “You are a disgusting man. F— you, Ed Martin. My name is Emily Gabriella Sommer, and you are served.” US Marshals located Sommer and placed her under arrest on 22 May.

A complaint is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

USMS criminal complaint: Link One 

Edward R. Martin Jr is a supporter of the insurgents who attacked the Nation’s capitol on 6 Jan 2021 and is himself under investigation by the DC Bar: Link Two

The situation will only get worse in the US as the Trumpf junta removed the age requirements to join ICE, an organization that is now more powerful than the FBI because of its size and its power to detain individuals without an arrest warrant, something FBI agents cannot do. The US co-hosts the 2026 FIFA tournament with Canada and Mexico, as well as the 2028 Summer Olympiad in Los Angeles. Coriolanus would be thunderstruck if foreigners visited the US for these spectacles under the fascist Trump junta.

Link: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/08/06/secretary-noem-unveils-no-age-limit-patriotic-americans-join-ice-law-enforcement

Who Foisted America Onto The Wrong Side of History?

The 21st-century Axis of Evil

Russian Armored Vehicle Hoisted US Flag During Attack

Promising “absured levels of manliness,” the Russian Orthodox Church has been growing in the US. Father Moses McPherson’s congregation has tripled in size in 18 months, and he has a big following online. As you read previously here on Coriolanus, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR), is a nefarious intelligence extension of the Kremlin and an influence-peddling agency, spreading agitprop in the West. (Photo: BBC)

Links: BBC.com; .US ROCOR Parishes List; https://www.global-influence-ops.com/gior-analysis-the-russian-orthodox-church-putin-weaponizes-religion/

IDF Soldiers in Gaza Seen Wearing US Flags on Uniforms

AIPAC Democrats and the abominable ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin:

AIPAC Democrats and the equally abhorrent ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu:

The Big Loser in the US: The hardworking non-Islamophobic peace-loving American taxpayer.

Several Associates of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Died Under Mysterious Circumstances

Followers of the Watch, even a broke clock is correct twice a day. The National Enquirer, a conspiracy peddling tabloid that was both friend and foe of Dummkopf Trumpf, collated the names of nearly two dozen associates of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell who have died in the past six years. Take this with a grain of salt, but remember, where there is smoke, there is fire. The entire article is linked below.

FTA:

Jeffrey Epstein’s mysterious death occurred six years ago this month — but the National Enquirer has discovered 22 people in the sketchy billionaire’s orbit have also died under murky circumstances, fueling fears of a cover-up by powerful figures seeking to erase potential witnesses.

From the predator’s alleged victims to house managers, lawyers, accountants, investigative journalists, and pimps, the list of unexplained fatalities traces a dark money trail that leads straight to Epstein’s inner circle.

“There were a lot of people entrapped and entangled through Epstein’s web, and many of those people are gone now — dead,” private investigator Ed Opperman tells the Enquirer. “They are all connected through a money trail.”

The late oligarch Steven Hoffenberg. (Photo: Getty Images)

Financier Steven Hoffenberg allegedly confessed in a final account before his death to that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted pedophile’s now-imprisoned recruiting madam, were “taping” honey-trap videos of sleazy VIPs with underage girls for a cabal of deep-state blackmailing power brokers.

“This puts a lot of high-powered people in very dangerous situations,” says the gumshoe and podcaster, who was once approached to “dig up dirt” on an Epstein victim and Hoffenberg.

Hoffenberg, the former Towers Financial CEO and Epstein associate — who died in 2022 at 77 after serving 18 years for a $475 million Ponzi scheme — cooperated with the FBI and spoke out about his former protégé’s alleged connections to Israel’s national intelligence agency Mossad.”

The sex trafficking blackmailer is now in a less restrictive federal prison in Texas outside Austin that has a work-release program. The Mexican border is a few hour drive from this facility. Your humble author assesses one of two fates for the notorious Ghislaine Maxwell.

Or

Source:

https://nationalenquirer.com/more-than-two-dozen-people-linked-to-jeffrey-epstein-have-died-under-mysterious-circumstances/

Dangerous Pathogens, Parasites, and Poisons Assailing America

Global warming is fostering the spread of dangerous pathogens in North America. For now they won’t overtake these three leading causes of mortality in the US.

Missouri Man Afflicted with Rare Brain-Eating Amoeba

Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MSHSS) informs that a resident has been infected with Naegleria fowleri. Naegleria fowleri is a microscopic single-celled free-living ameba that can cause a rare life-threatening infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). The patient is in an ICU. The ameba is commonly found in warm freshwater such as lakes, rivers, and ponds; however, PAM is extremely rare. Since 1962, only 154 known cases have been identified in the US. The only other case identified among a Missouri resident occurred in 1987, and currently, no additional suspected cases of PAM are being investigated in Missouri. The source of the patient’s exposure is being investigated by public health officials. Local and out-of-state activity are being considered. Recreational water users should assume that Naegleria fowleri is present in warm freshwater across the US; however, infection remains rare.

Although a rare occurrence, people become infected by Naegleria fowleri when water containing the ameba enters the body through the nose from freshwater sources. The Naegleria fowleri ameba then travels up the nose to the brain where it destroys the brain tissue. This infection cannot be spread from one person to another, and it cannot be contracted by swallowing contaminated water. A 12-year-old boy in South Carolina died of PAM earlier this summer.

Earlier this year the Florida Department of Health (“D’Oh!) reported 17 cases (five deaths) of flesh-eating bacteria infections (which enters the body through open cuts or wounds, unlike the brain-eating ameba which enters through the mouth or nostrils).

To cool off during heat waves, people enjoy pools, lakes, beaches, and rivers, not knowing that there is an increase of bacteria or other pathogens thriving in the water. Good thing summer is coming to an end soon.

Links:

https://health.mo.gov/news/newsitem/uuid/ea19a071-5c03-495c-9b62-69db69078d4e/missouri-dhss-confirms-case-of-rare-brain-infection

https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/south-carolina/family-of-sc-teen-who-died-from-brain-eating-amoeba-at-lake-say-he-didnt-give-up/

https://www.floridahealth.gov/diseases-and-conditions/vibrio-infections/vibrio-vulnificus/index.html

Wyoming: Potential Rabies Exposure from Hundreds from Bats

A small colony of big-eared bats, one of the 18 species found in Wyoming. (Photo: National Park Service)

Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in 38 states and seven countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park over the past few months. None of the bats found in some of the eight linked cabins at Jackson Lake Lodge had tested positive for rabies. The other bats weren’t killed but were shooed out through cabin doors and windows.

Health officials deemed it better safe than sorry to alert everybody that they might have been exposed by being bitten or scratched. When people are sleeping, a bat bite or scratch can go unseen and unnoticed. Bats are an inadvertent but frequent vector of the rabies virus and other pathogens. Once symptoms occur, muscle aches, vomiting, or itching, rabies is almost always fatal in humans. The cash-strapped CDC is contacting the foreign visitors.

Last year a child in Ontario, Canada died from rabies after being exposed to a bat in their bedroom. The family woke up with a bat in their bedroom, but the parents did not see signs of a bite or scratches on their child and did not get a rabies vaccine. This death was the first domestically-acquired case of human rabies in Ontario since 1967.

Bats are misunderstood creatures that are vital to our eco-system and shouldn’t be harmed. One of their natural predators is the owl.

Links:

https://winnipegsun.com/pmn/hundreds-may-have-been-exposed-to-rabies-at-bat-infested-cabins-at-grand-teton-national-park

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgxjnldqvdo

https://www.fws.gov/story/bats-are-one-most-important-misunderstood-animals

California: Wild Pigs With ‘Neon Blue’ Insides Trigger Health Warnings

A wild pig with blue innards discovered in 2015. (GlendilTEK/imgur)

Wild pigs in the Monterey County area were exposed to pesticide bait containing the anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone, according to findings by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Wildlife Health Lab (WHL) and the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory in Davis.

Novelist John Steinbeck hailed from Monterey County, CA.

In March, a wildlife trapper reported multiple observations of blue muscle or fat found in wild pigs. The blue tissue can be a sign of rodenticide bait ingestion. CDFW’s WHL investigated, finding the anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone in the stomach and liver contents of one of the wild pigs that was recovered with blue tissues.

Wildlife can be inadvertently exposed to rodenticides either by eating rodenticide bait or by eating other animals that have ingested rodenticides. Rodenticide baits often contain dye to identify them as a poison. Blue-colored muscle or fat may be a sign that game meat has been contaminated by rodenticides, although this blue discoloration may not always be present. CDFW urges hunters to always use caution when harvesting game animals and be aware of potential risks.

Blue rodenticide bait. (Photo: CDFW)

Source:

https://wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/poison-detection-in-wild-pigs-brings-attention-to-pesticide-exposure-in-hunter-harvested-wildlife

Disfiguring Viruses Infecting Squirrels, Rabbits

Grey squirrel mottled with hairless tumors.

Grotesque squirrels covered in oozing sores have been spotted invading backyards in the US and Canada. Hairless tumors develop from their heads and eyes to their legs, feet, and genitals. First thought to be squirrel pox, the illness is more likely to be squirrel fibromatosis. Homeowners who put bird feeders in their yards may be unintentionally causing the virus to spread to more squirrels throughout North America.

Eastern Cottontail rabbit beginning to grow black tentacles out of its head. (Photo: Getty Images)

A bizarre virus is turning ordinary rabbits in the US into grotesque, horned creatures with black, tentacle-like growths sprouting from their faces. The mutated rabbits have been spotted multiple times in Fort Collins, CO and are infected by the cottontail papilloma virus (CRPV). Also known as Shope papilloma virus, this pathogen causes tumors to grow on or near the animal’s head. CRPV is spread by mosquitoes.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) has urged anyone who sees infected rabbits to stay away and not touch them. CPW does not believe the virus can leap to other species, such as humans or pets, but is still urging the public to avoid the rabbits and not attempt to help them.

Rabbit’s head fully covered with the black tentacles (Photo: Reddit)

These poor creatures represent the “canary in the coalmine” for the rest of us.

Sources:

Terrifying ‘zombie squirrels’ with oozing flesh pods on their bodies invade US backyards | Daily Mail Online

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/colorado-rabbits-develop-tentacle-growths-144616885.html

Las Vegas: Mosquito Infestation Causing Alarm

Mosquitoes typically prefer more tropical, humid conditions, but these biting machines have exploded in number throughout the Las Vegas Valley in recent years because of a host of changes. A mix of urban development, climate change, insecticide resistance and genetic adaptations are creating a more hospitable environment for the insects in southern Nevada.

Las Vegas is hardly alone in its battle against the pesky insects. Warmer temperatures and shifting weather patterns are expanding the geographic range in which mosquitoes live and breed. In many ways, what’s happening here is playing out across the desert Southwest and beyond.

The mosquitoes have brought with them not only the nuisance of bug bites, but also the major threat of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus to Las Vegas and the rest of Clark County.

The species that have taken hold in Clark County include Culex mosquitoes, which can carry West Nile virus, and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, the primary spreaders of dengue. What’s more, Messenger and her colleagues at UNLV have found that mosquitoes in Las Vegas are becoming resistant to insecticides, a major public health risk in a city built on tourism.

“It is a little bit of a ticking time bomb,” Messenger said.

She has for some time been concerned about how vulnerable Las Vegas is to mosquito-borne diseases. In particular, dengue has been surging in North America and South America, with more than 13 million cases recorded across the continents in 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“In Vegas, we have more than 48 million visitors coming through our doors every year from all over the planet,” Messenger said. “It just takes a couple of mosquito bites to start local transmission.”

Last year, there were 26 reported cases of West Nile virus in humans in Las Vegas, trailing the city’s largest outbreak of 43 cases in 2019. Yet, in 2024, scientists still found a record number of mosquitoes that tested positive for the virus in and around the city, which suggests the risk of exposure was concerning.

Mosquitos are mankind’s acme predator, killing between 725,000 and 1,000,000 people a year. Dragonflies and spiders are the natural enemies of the mosquito and should be left alone. Nevertheless, between Dummkopf Trumpf’s idiotic tariffs and obnoxious behavior, international tourism has been collapsing in Las Vegas. This mosquito plague could be just another nail in the coffin for Sin City.

Texas Prepares for Massive Invasion of Screwworm Fly

A helpless victim of the screwworm fly larvae.

ArsTechnica reports:

Texas is gearing up for war as a savage, flesh-eating fly appears poised for a US invasion and is expanding its range of victims.

On Friday, the Texas Department of Agriculture announced the debut of TDA Swormlure, a synthetic bait designed to attract the flies with a scent that mimics open flesh wounds, which are critical to the lifecycle of the fly, called the New World Screwworm. The parasite exploits any open wound or orifice on a wide range of warm-blooded animals to feed its ravenous spawn. Female flies lay hundreds of eggs in even the tiniest abrasion. From there, screw-shaped larvae—which give the flies their name—emerge to literally twist and bore into their victim, eating them alive and causing a putrid, life-threatening lesion.

Tip of a screwworm larvae (Photo: CSIRO)

The new lure for the flies is just one of several defense efforts in Texas, which stands to suffer heavy livestock losses from an invasion. Screwworms are a ferocious foe to many animals, but are particularly devastating to farm animals.

“When it comes to safeguarding Texas’ $15 billion cattle industry, we need to focus on action rather than words. That’s why I instructed my Biosecurity team to develop an effective screwworm lure,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said.

But cattle industry losses aren’t the only grave risk from the vicious parasites. In Colombia, endemic screwworms have apparently grown bolder in their taste for flesh. This week, biologists and researchers reported in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases that the worms caused life-threatening infections in two wild mountain tapirs, an endangered species that lives in a protected area of the Central Andes. While there had been anecdotal reports of screwworm infestations in mountain tapirs, they were not previously considered a threat to the herbivorous mammals. The authors noted that it’s unclear why the fly has suddenly emerged in mountain tapirs, which resemble wild pigs with trunks, but climate change and livestock movements could be causing the flies to expand their appetites.

Tuberculosis Spreading in Trumpf Junta’s ICE Gulags

Overcrowding at the US border patrol station in McAllen, TX, on 10 June. The team who visited the center in Clint found children did not have adequate access to drinking water or food. Photo: Handout / Getty Images

The World Health Organization says tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year, even though it’s both preventable and curable.

ICE detainees have tested positive for tuberculosis at the Anchorage Correctional Complex in Alaska and Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California. One immigrant died days after a diagnosis of the disease in the Eloy Detention Center in Arizona, an ICE death notice shows. Detainees may have been exposed at the Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, according to a lawsuit. And in Washington state, several possible cases of tuberculosis in the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma were reported this month to state authorities, and one man was hospitalized for it.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have previously downplayed the presence of tuberculosis, including responding to questions about the cases in Tacoma by saying, “This false claim needs to stop.”

The cruelty of the Trumpf junta and their kapos is simply bottomless. These ICE gulags are nothing but concentration camps for vulnerable migrants. No doubt UN, ICRC (Red Cross), or ICC investigators would gather evidence of crimes against humanity being perpetrated by America’s Sturmabteilung if they were permitted access to these crammed torture chambers. Other diseases will probably spread amongst the prisoners too. Their deaths will be attributed as “NIH”: No Humans Involved.

Source: https://prospect.org/health/2025-08-18-tuberculosis-spawning-in-crowded-dirty-ice-detention-centers/

Can Dotard Trumpf and His Amateur Junta of Mountebanks, Quacks, Frauds, and Sycophants Deal With All of These Pathogenic Problems Plaguing the US?

Copyright John Bazemore / Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.

Sources:

Las Vegas’ growing mosquito problem is ‘a ticking time bomb’

www.gavi.org

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

www.cnn.com

www.nature.com

www.worldmosquitoprogram.org

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/texas-prepares-for-war-as-invasion-of-flesh-eating-flies-appears-imminent/

World Ablaze: Infernos Raging in Canada, Europe

Map: FIRMS/USFS/NASA

Canada is going through its second-worst burn on record and the blazes are occurring not in the west, but in the bone-dry prairie provinces and the Atlantic region. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes due to the wildfires. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been the worst hit, covering more than 60% of the area burned in Canada. The fires have seized strained resources in Atlantic Canada, where officials in Newfoundland and Labrador are struggling to battle out-of-control blazes.

Firefighters in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Turkiye continue to battle wildfires that have raged on for weeks. Hot and dry conditions are expected to persist, challenging efforts to contain the blazes. Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Albania have requested help from the EU’s firefighting force to deal with forest fires. The force has already been activated as many times this year as the entirety of last year’s fire season. In April 2025, Israel suffered its largest wildfire ever.

Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The EU monitoring agency says that 2024 was the hottest year on record both globally and in Europe, which experienced its second-highest number of “heat stress” days. Sea temperatures are also rising globally, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea, debilitating marine life and impacting livelihoods. Moreover, warmer ocean waters increase the potency of hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons.

Global Climate Change Deniers Should be Penalized for Their Willful Ignorance

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Canada Ablaze 

European Inferno

Naughty Kitten Steals Patient Golden Retriever’s Toy

Trumpf Junta Update: Dystopia, Dysfunction, Fascism, Misery, Cover-Ups, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Followers of the Watch: Keeping up with the madness, chaos, and abject dysfunction of the Trumpf junta is challenging. You will read that Dummkopf Trumpf is in the process of consolidating power for the Republicans and the oligarchs, while wasting millions of dollars of money and trying to cover up his connection to the lurid late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Trumpf Vetting Top Military General Appointments in Loyalty Test

President Donald Trumpf is now meeting with four-star general nominees personally, a notable departure from past practices that raises ethical concerns about the further mingling of political roles within the military’s highest ranks.

Expanding Trumpf’s role in vetting future four-star generals comes amid a trend by this junta of tapping the military for the president’s domestic agenda, including the creation of new militarized zones along the southern US border, deployments to tamp down public protests over immigration raids, and the use of troops to bolster immigration enforcement and deportations.

Source:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/30/trump-vetting-top-general-nominees-it-could-be-seen-loyalty-test.html

Leaked DHS Memo Reveals US Military to Bolster ICE on American Streets

This leaked internal memo circulated inside DHS suggests that Dotard Trumpf’s use of the military for domestic law enforcement on immigration could soon get worse. The memo lays out the need to persuade top DOD officials to get much more serious about using the military to combat illegal immigration—and not just at the border. It suggests that DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that LA-style operations may be needed “for years to come.” And it likens the threat posed by transnational gangs and cartels to having “Al Qaeda or ISIS cells and fighters operating freely inside America,” hinting at a ramped-up militarized posture inside the interior.

Trumpf’s resurrection of the infamous 1919-20 Palmer Raids, combined with DOD support, normalizes a militarized American society. Trumpf has amassed a $200 million war chest of political funds, even though he is Constitutionally forbidden to run for POTUS a third term. So, what is the money for? Perpetuation of GOP power over America with willing generals, a Republican Congress, and a subservient Supreme Court to supporting fascist-oligarch rule. Some Republican governors are gerrymandering their congressional districts to ensure white GOP candidates will have easy wins in the 2026 mid-term elections.

Sources:

https://newrepublic.com/article/198689/department-homeland-security-memo

Trump, Term-Limited, Amasses $200 Million War Chest for Political Ambitions – The New York Times

https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-redraw-congressional-midterms-texas-california-2103010

President Trumpf Announces US Nuclear Submarines Moved Closer to Russia

Dummkopf Trumpf said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in “the appropriate regions” in response to remarks from former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries.

Trumpf’s move is a rhetorical escalation with Moscow but not necessarily a military one, given that the US already has nuclear-powered submarines that are deployed and capable of striking Russia.

Medvedev said Trumpf should remember that Moscow possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort, after Trump had told Medvedev to “watch his words.”

Kabuki Theater

The location of USN nuclear-armed submarines (Ohio-class) is supposed to be ‘restricted information,’ like the maximum speed of USN aircraft carriers. Russia not knowing the location of constantly moving US nuclear subs makes them a threat and part of America’s defensive triad. When the USAF moves strategic aircraft, civilians near the bases see them, or they are spotted in commercially available satellite imagery, so that may be discussed in a narrow, limited manner. (e.g. “No comment”). Trumpf or Pete Hellsbreath shouldn’t be discussing any issues of US nuclear submarines with an adversary or in public. Announcing the submarine movement towards Russia is simply poor kabuki theater between the Trumpf junta and the Kremlin, as Trumpf is buying time for the Kremlin to continue its war against Ukraine while demonstrating to the American people that he is really trying to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin. Similarly, the Trumpf junta has bought time and financially supported Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip.

Source:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-nuclear-submarines-russia-positions-1.7599792

Trumpf Junta Investigating Former Special Counsel Jack Smith

Jack Smith is now under formal investigation by the Office of Special Counsel, marking the first official inquiry into his conduct.

Smith had been tapped by the Justice Department to lead two high-profile criminal cases involving President Dummkopf Trumpf—one focused on classified documents and another on Trumpf’s role in the events of 6 Jan 2021, and whether they constituted an effort to overturn the election. Both cases ultimately ended in dismissal.

The Hatch Act Unit—which is responsible for ensuring that federal employees do not engage in political activity in violation of the law—is now examining Smith’s conduct.

The probe was initiated after Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to the Office of Special Counsel earlier in the week, accusing Smith of using his authority to deliberately sabotage Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.

Smith, who had been appointed to his position by Attorney General Merrick Garland during the Biden administration, stepped down in January after Trumpf returned to the White House.

Republican critics of Smith have long lied that the charges brought against Trumpf were less about the law and more about politics, aimed at damaging his chances in the upcoming election.

This is pure partisan revenge against an honorable attorney who successfully prosecuted war criminals at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague. Jack Smith was stymied all the way by arcane Justice Department policies about prosecuting former presidents and impartial Republican judges like Aileen Cannon who kept sabotaging and delaying his cases until the November 2024 elections which Trumpf narrowly won.

SC Jack Smith sabotaged by the very system he spent years protecting

Source:

Ex-Trump Prosecutor Jack Smith Under Investigation After Claims of Playing Politics: ‘No One Is Above The Law’ | Matzav.com

Trumpf Revives Presidential Fitness Tests for Children, Then Names Registered Sex Offender to the Council

In the middle of his vexing Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal, Dotard Trumpf re-established the Presidential Fitness Tests for students. Trumpf said he aims to address Americans’ declining health and physical fitness, including “crisis levels” of obesity, chronic disease, inactivity, and poor nutrition. He chose HHS Secretary anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to lead the program, as astonishing as that is, Trumpf then chose retired NFL legend Lawrence Taylor (66), a registered sex offender, to sit on the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.

Retired NFL legendary linebacker Lawrence Taylor won two Superbowls, but led a deeply-troubled off-field life. (Photo: Elsa Getty Images)

Then the White House announced that Dummkopf Trumpf (79) won his sixth club championship by an incredible ten strokes, three under par.

Sources:

NFL legend Lawrence Taylor arrested and charged with failing to report move as sex offender again

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-revive-presidential-fitness-test-rcna222264

https://giantswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/giants/2025/08/01/new-york-giants-lawrence-taylor-saquon-barkley-donald-trump-council-sports-fitness-nutrition/85477778007/

Trump Claims Sixth Club Championship Win of 2025

Trumpf Junta Wasting Millions of Dollars of Food Aid for Poor People

A well-nourished man steals maize from a starving child at an MSF food distribution site in Sudan.

More than 60,000 metric tons of food have languished in warehouses in the US and around the world. 15,000 pounds of food have languished for months and expired in a Georgia warehouse before they could be sent overseas to famine-stricken areas like Sudan. Mana Nutrition’s warehouse holds plenty more of the peanut paste, a crucial element in treating malnutrition. A $50 million supply has been stacked for months in their facility as the Trumpf junta upended foreign aid and the food was never shipped. The food could still help 60 million people, Mana estimates. “This is a giant glut,” David Todd Harmon said. “All contracted. All bought and paid for. It’s just not been picked up.” Mana’s decision to jettison part of its food cache was the third instance in recent weeks in which important nutrition and family planning assistance slated for overseas was marked for destruction.

This is beyond Fraud, Waste, and Abuse of American taxpayer money, but contemptible racist cruelty at the hands of the worst USSECSTATE in American history, Marco Rubio, an empty suit void of vision, integrity, and empathy, and his master, eugenicist Dummkopf Trumpf. The Republican Party touts itself as “Christian,” but there is nothing “Christian” about letting poor people starve and wasting money already allocated by Congress to combat global famine. Meanwhile, the junta is wasting $200 million on renovating the ballroom of the White House into a gaudy eyesore. $200 million could feed approximately 800,000 poor Americans for one month; approximately 66,666 could be fed for one year with the same amount.

Lastly, as you previously read here on Coriolanus, junta members and lobbyists are profiting mightily from this misery as the leaders of poor countries are now paying bribes to get US foreign assistance from Dotard Trumpf.

Sources:

As world’s hunger worsens, vast supplies of U.S. aid remain stranded – The Washington Post

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As world’s hunger worsens, vast supplies of U.S. aid remain stranded – The Washington Post

Global Witness

The White House Announces White House Ballroom Construction to Begin – The White House

Elon Musk’s DOGE Wasted $21.7 Billion of American Taxpayer Money

US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a Minority staff report unveiling that Elon Musk’s brainchild, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has generated at least $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government between 20 Jan 2025 and 18 July 2025. The report, “The $21.7 Billion Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by DOGE,” follows a months-long investigation into Elon Musk and DOGE and is the most comprehensive effort to date to quantify taxpayer dollars squandered by DOGE despite its ostensible goal of eliminating government waste.

“This report is a searing indictment of DOGE’s false claims. At the very same time that the Trump Administration is cutting health care, nutrition assistance, and emergency services in the name of ‘efficiency’ and ‘savings,’ they have enabled DOGE’s reckless waste of at least $21.7 billion dollars,” said Blumenthal. “As my PSI investigation has shown, DOGE was clearly never about efficiency or saving the American taxpayer money. I urge Inspectors General to take up our investigation’s findings and initiate a comprehensive review of DOGE’s careless actions.”

Sources:

[2025-07-31] The $21.7 Billion Blunder: New PSI Report Reveals…

2025-07-31-Minority-Staff-Report-The-21.7-Billion-Blunder.pdf

White House Press Spokesperson Says Trumpf Deserves Nobel Peace Prize

Laughably, WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested that Dummkopf Trumpf deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize: “President Trump has brokered, on average, one peace deal or ceasefire per month. It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Noble Peace Prize.” Her full idiotic statement is below. Note that college educated Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt misspelled “Nobel.”

“On the peace front, President Trump helped deliver an immediate and unconditional ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries were engaged in a deadly conflict that had displaced more than 300,000 people until President Trump stepped in to put an end to it. The president spoke directly on the phone with the acting prime minister of Thailand and the prime minister of Cambodia to inform both leaders that unless they brought their conflict to an end, there would be no trade discussions or agreements with the United States.

“Almost immediately afterward, a peace was brokered that will save thousands of lives and allow for trade negotiations with these countries to resume and they have. The president has now ended conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia.

“This means President Trump has brokered, on average, about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office. It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Noble [sic] Peace Prize.”

The winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on 10 October 2025 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, and will be awarded on 10 December 2025. Only an insane person would think Dotard Trumpf would even be considered for this prestigious award.

This preposterous and imbecilic proposal was followed by Trumpf (79) making suggestive comments about Karoline Leavitt’s (27) appearance: “She’s become a star. It’s that face. It’s that brain. It’s those lips, the way they move. They move like she’s a machine gun,” Trump said. “She’s a great person, actually. But she’s – I don’t think anybody has ever had a better press secretary than Karoline. She’s been amazing.”

Sources:

Ron Smith on X: “Karoline Leavitt: President Trump has brokered, on average, one peace deal or ceasefire per month. It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.🤔 These people are living in their own reality. https://t.co/x9hxCd4Mte” / X

Trump gushes over Karoline Leavitt: ‘It’s that face, it’s that brain, it’s those lips, the way they move!’ | The Independent

Ghislaine Maxwell Update

The abhorrent Ghislaine Maxwell in court. (Image: Reuters: Jane Rosenberg)

Notorious sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell offered to testify before Congress, but with major conditions, including immunity. Then House Oversight Chair James Comer announced scheduled congressional deposition is indefinitely postponed. In a letter to Maxwell, Comer said he would agree to delay the meeting after her lawyers earlier this week requested a postponement in the planned 11 Aug testimony citing a pending Supreme Court petition regarding her case. Maxwell’s attorneys also made a number of requests in order to facilitate her cooperation with the Oversight panel’s questioning ” some of which Comer rejected outright.

Comer agreed to delay the interview until after the Supreme Court rules on her appeal, which claims that her 2021 sex trafficking conviction was barred by Epstein’s earlier plea deal. That’s not likely to happen before the court begins its annual term in October.

Ms. Maxwell is allegedly seeking a presidential pardon from Dotard Trumpf. The notorious sex trafficker was then quietly moved from her prison at FCI Tallahassee, FL, to a ‘softer’ prison in Texas that has an ‘honor system.’ That means that somebody waived Maxwell’s sex offender status.

The Deputy Attorney-General handling the matter is also Trumpf’s personal attorney, raising all sorts of conflict of interest problems.

Congress Subpoenas Justice Dept for Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein Files

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. It’s part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to Dotard Trumpf and other former top officials.

The Republican-controlled committee also issued subpoenas for depositions with former President Bill Clinton, former USSECSTATE Hillary Clinton and eight former top law enforcement officials. The committee’s actions showed how even with lawmakers away from Washington on a monthlong break, interest in the Epstein files is still running high.

Link: https://archive.ph/oMGic

Anti-Trumpists in the US Senate Can Do More

US Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) presides over a hearing of the Permanent Select Committee on Investigations on 15 Nov 2022. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)

US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) can hold public hearings about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. His committee won’t have subpoena powers to compel testimony since Democrats are in the minority; however, Senator Blumenthal can invite witnesses to testify before Congress, as you see above. Such witnesses would include the AUSA, FBI agents, and NYPD officers that investigated Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, as well as their victims. All of them would have to voluntarily appear at the hearings.

And Coriolanus is not alone in suspecting that notorious sex predators Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were Mossad assets collecting derogatory information on behalf of Israel. Obviously Israel and AIPAC does not want any alleged connection between them exposed. When Ghislaine Maxwell is finally released from federal custody in approximately 20 years, Coriolanus would not be surprised if this UK citizen found refuge in Israel.

Link: Was Jeffrey Epstein, Superconnector of the Rich and Powerful, a Spy? – Business Insider

Many, many powerful people want to see the Ghislaine Maxwell problem go away permanently.

Sources:

Maxwell offers to testify before Congress but with major conditions, including immunity | CNN Politics

https://oversight.house.gov/release/chairman-comer-subpoenas-ghislaine-maxwell-for-deposition-at-federal-prison/

Donald Trump Among Public Figures Redacted by FBI in Jeffrey Epstein Files: Report – Newsweek

www.politico.com

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghislaine-maxwell-prison-trump-pardon-epstein-b2800443.html

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-someone-waived-ghislaine

Trumpf Cuts Funding of Public TV and Radio Out of Revenge

Since the 1980s, Sesame Street has featured a few greedy, grouchy characters who have had names like Ronald Grump and Donald Grump (Image: The Washington Post)

Dummkopf Trumpf childishly cut public television and radio funding after decades of mockery on Sesame Street. WQXR-FM is just one of the victims of Trumpf’s churlish decision. Enjoy the 24/7 commercial-free classical music here while the station still has operating funds: https://www.wqxr.org/

Source:

Donald Trump seeking to end public television funding after decades of mockery on Sesame Street | The Independent | The Independent

But it Can and is Happening in America Right Now

90 years ago novelist Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can’t Happen Here about a dangerous demagogue who becomes a fascist POTUS. The novel was soon produced into a play and decades later in 1968 ABC aired a made-for-TV film roughly based on Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel. You will recognize some of the actors, as well as the writer, of this nearly forgotten movie, Shadow on the Land:

US Nuclear Power Plant Horror Stories

Locations of radioactive sites in the US. 80 atomic power plants mottle America.

South Carolina: Radioactive Wasps Found at Nuclear Waste Site

The Northern Paper Wasp (Photo: https://birdwatchinghq.com/)

The US Department of Energy discovered a radioactive wasp nest near the Savannah River Site (SRS) nuclear waste facility in South Carolina. The nest was found to have ten times more radiation than permitted levels. The wasp nest was found near tanks that are being used to store millions of gallons of liquid nuclear waste. The nest was sprayed with insect killer, removed and disposed of as radiological waste. Wasps generally fly only a few hundred feet from their nest and the nest was found in the middle of the 310-square-mile SRS meaning there is little chance they flew outside of the facility. Investigators say that the radiation was not related to any nuclear waste leak and that there was no impact on the environment or the public.

The population within a 50-mile radius of the Site center in Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell counties in South Carolina and in Richmond, Burke, and Screven counties in Georgia, is 803,370. The largest population concentration is in the Augusta, Georgia, metropolitan area.

The SRS opened in the 1950s, when it was creating plutonium to be used in the core of nuclear bombs. The site continues to operate today, but with a focus on nuclear material for power plants. There are approximately 80 commercial nuclear power plants across 34 states, and each of these produces nuclear by-products (spent nuclear fuel), which is often stored on-site in pools or dry casks.

The site is administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) which the Trumpf junta and DOGE recklessly targeted for budget and personnel cuts.

But If no leaks of spent fuel were reported, how did the wasps become radioactive?

Sources:

EM-SR–SRMC-FTANK-2025-0003

In 1954, a science fiction film portrayed ants mutated by atomic radiation from US weapons testing in the Mojave Desert. Them! remains a classic film to this day.

Florida: Nuclear Plant Workers Afraid to Report Safety Concerns

Dummkopf Trumpf’s Mar-A-Lago resort is approximately 30 miles away from the Port St Lucie nuclear facility,

A culture of fear has persisted at a Florida nuclear power plant owned and operated by the state’s largest utility, Florida Power & Light (FPL). Workers were hesitant to report safety concerns to upper management lest they face retaliation. Inspectors came to this conclusion after interviewing more than 75 employees at the St. Lucie plant, located on a barrier island an hour north of West Palm Beach. A federal database showed workers’ anonymous complaints of wrongdoing at the plant skyrocketed last year. On-site workers filed far more reports here than at any other of the nation’s 54 nuclear power plants. The findings come as the utility asks regulators for permission to hike Floridians’ electric rates by billions of dollars over the next four years. FPL’s proposed increase represents the largest rate hike request in US history. FPL CEO Armando Pimentel Jr’s total 2024 compensation was $11.4 million.

Nuclear power plants need large amounts of water for cooling and hence their locations near rivers or oceans, but ocean water temperatures have been rising for decades. Moreover, the power, intensity, and frequency of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have also been increasing. With all of these safety and environmental challenges, the Port St Lucie nuclear plant could be a potential Floridian Chernobyl.

Hurricane Milton was the most powerful storm to hit Tampa Bay in 100 years.

Sources:

Florida nuclear plant workers were too afraid to report safety concerns, records show

Amid climate concerns, nuclear plants feel the heat of… | Canary Media

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/08/04/doh-21-infections-tied-to-consumption-of-raw-milk-in-northeast-and-central-florida/

Canada: Drug Cartel Banking Activity

‘The Trumpf junta’s focus on illegal drugs has put Mexican cartel activity in Canada under the microscope. This analysis finds that cartel activity in Canada is increasingly a problem and has worsened over the last two decades. Based on a case study analysis of drug seizures in Canada, both large and small, it is clear that the main products being moved by these organizations are fentanyl, street drugs (cocaine and meth), and illegal tobacco. A conservative estimate on the size of the illicit market for those products is $2.672 billion CAD per year. Not only is the market significant for these products, but the distribution of these products is shifting to online marketplaces/retailers, facilitated by major financial institutions (banks, credit card companies, Interac), and delivered directly to the doors of buyers by Canada Post. With Canada listing Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations, the potential consequences for these institutions are significant.’

To counter these nefarious groups, the Government of Canada recently proscribed seven international criminal organizations as terrorist groups: Cártel del Golfo, Cártel de Sinaloa, La Familia Michoacana, Cárteles Unidos, La Mara Salvatrucha, Tren de Aragua, and Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación. This means any property of that group in Canada can be frozen and gives Canadian law enforcement more tools to prosecute terrorist offenses, including those related to financing, travel, and recruitment. This listing enhances domestic law enforcement capabilities, while respecting other countries’ sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Canada’s competent law-enforcement agencies include uniformed RCMP officers, investigators, accounting forensics experts, and linguists, all at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is highly ranked as an employer by college graduates and attracts talented individuals.

Sources:

Cartel Activity in Canada – Consumer Choice Center

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/02/government-of-canada-lists-seven-transnational-criminal-organizations-as-terrorist-entities.html

Unknown Hackers Breach Website Used by USIC

Unidentified hackers recently compromised a major intelligence website used by the CIA and other agencies to submit details of sensitive contracts, according to the National Reconnaissance Office, the spy satellite service that runs the site.

The breach targeted proprietary intellectual property and personal information submitted on the Acquisition Research Center website in support of several innovative CIA spying programs.

In addition to the intelligence website hack, Microsoft revealed that Chinese state hackers compromised the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a central nuclear weapons agency.

The extent of the breach is not fully known, but people familiar with the activity said hackers likely obtained information on key technologies for CIA operations.

Other potential areas of compromise could include the US Space Force, its efforts to build surveillance satellites and space weapons, and the Golden Dome missile defense program.

Data from one highly sensitive program, Digital Hammer, was compromised.

Digital Hammer compiles cutting-edge technologies for human intelligence gathering, surveillance and counterintelligence operations. The program focuses on the threat of Chinese intelligence and information operations.

Portions of many Digital Hammer programs are unclassified. However, others submitted to the National Reconnaissance Office acquisition center are classified and involve capabilities essential to covert operations and strategic intelligence collection.

Digital Hammer is a closely guarded program working to develop open-source intelligence platforms, analytics, and items such as miniaturized sensors and hidden surveillance tools.

Other programs seek to develop acoustic and communications systems, artificial-intelligence-powered data collection, analysis and behavior prediction tools.

Countersurveillance and signature reduction technologies also are part of the program. Lori Ann Duvall-Jones, CIA deputy director of the Office of Acquisition Management, said in a 2023 speech that Digital Hammer is a contracting vehicle that allows vendors to present offerings “within a CIA space.”

There is no further information on the damage this breach caused in US intelligence operations and the suspects range from Russia, China, Israel, North Korea, India, Iran, or their proxies. Unfortunately the USIC is now led by a gaggle of incompetent lickspittles whose priorities are finding and firing undesirable employees (minorities, non-MAGA loyalists) and not on countering genuine threats to the Nation. America’s adversaries could not be luckier than today thanks to the Trumpfian Stalinist purges of competent, experienced intelligence employees.

Dipsomaniac USSECDEF Pete Hegseth, the most underqualified person to ever lead America’s nuclear-armed defense establishment, has his own share of OPSEC blunders.

Source:

Major intelligence website hacked in search for CIA spying secrets – Washington Times

Latin American Drug Cartels Snuck Operatives into Ukraine for Drone Training

Ukrainian servicemember operating a drone (Photo: Anadolu News Agency)

Ukrainian counterintelligence services are investigating the infiltration of Latin American drug cartel members into the country’s International Legion, with operatives seeking advanced drone training to later deploy against rivals and security forces in their home countries.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) launched a joint investigation with military intelligence after Mexico’s National Intelligence Center warned in early summer that Mexican volunteers had joined Ukraine’s foreign fighter units specifically to acquire first-person view (FPV) drone capabilities. The probe has since expanded to include Colombian nationals, raising concerns about Ukraine’s inadvertent role as a training ground for transnational criminal organizations.

The investigation centers on several Spanish-speaking units within the International Legion, particularly the tactical group “Ethos,” operating in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. Ukrainian investigators reportedly suspect that some Mexican and Colombian volunteers intentionally sought placement in drone operator units to later use this training in the service of foreign criminal organizations.

One noteworthy case is that of a Mexican national operating under the alias “Águila-7,” who registered in March 2024 using fraudulent Salvadoran documentation. Posing as a humanitarian volunteer, he completed comprehensive drone training in Lviv while demonstrating exceptional technical expertise that eventually had instructors suspicious.

His extensive technical knowledge, including familiarity with electronic warfare countermeasures and thermal detection avoidance, reportedly stood out. Background investigations later revealed probable connections to Mexico’s elite GAFE special forces, some of whose former personnel have historically transitioned to cartel employment, notably through the ultra-violent Zetas organization.

The infiltration demonstrates remarkable operational sophistication for a nonstate group, with suspects employing false identities, forged documentation and front companies to facilitate their passage into Ukrainian territory and military structures. Intelligence analysts have identified a network of private security firms across Latin America that appear to have coordinated these placements.

Additional cases have emerged involving former FARC guerrillas who infiltrated the system using Panamanian and Venezuelan identity documents. At least three former FARC fighters passed through the International Legion using forged documents, with their relocation reportedly organized by cartel-linked entities.

The revelations highlight Ukraine’s unintended emergence as a premier training ground for modern asymmetric warfare techniques amid its conflict with Russia. Ukrainian authorities have developed comprehensive curricula covering drone manufacturing, tactical deployment, electronic warfare resistance and real-time battlefield coordination. Coincidentally, these capabilities also represent exactly the type of force multiplication that criminal organizations seek.

Mexican cartels are already conducting drone attacks against rivals and security forces domestically, making the acquisition of Ukrainian battlefield-tested tactics particularly concerning for regional security.

An unnamed SBU official said: “We welcomed volunteers in good faith. But we must now recognize that Ukraine has become a platform for the global dissemination of FPV tactics. Some come here to learn how to kill with a $400 drone, then sell this knowledge elsewhere to the highest bidder.”

This is Not a New Phenomenon

White supremacist militia members, well-trained by the US military.

Infiltrating military organizations in order to receive lethal training for nefarious purposes is not a new phenomenon. In the US, white supremacists began joining the US Army and USMC years ago after the draft ended in order to learn combat skills to later form militias. Some have conducted domestic terrorist attacks in America. Street gangs from the minorities also joined the US military, using their skills for criminal enterprises once they separate from the service. This case in Ukraine is unique in that criminal organizations invested time and personnel to send their operatives to a faraway warzone where they may get discovered or possibly killed in combat. Ukrainian SBU is competent and experienced and will soon locate these drug cartels operatives and prosecute or extradite them to their home countries.

Source:

Drug cartel operatives snuck into Ukraine for drone training: report

‘Laughing Gas’ Abuse Fatally Climbing Among US Youth

JAMA reports:

“Teenagers and children across America are increasingly inhaling nitrous oxide, better known as “laughing gas” or “whippets” to get high. Inhaling nitrous oxide comes with serious health risks: Blood clots, frostbite, asphyxiation, heart palpitations, hallucinations and even paralysis, brain damage, or death. Sold in canisters, easy access appears to be growing throughout the US. There are no age restrictions on buying nitrous oxide which is available online and in gas stations across the country. US deaths linked to misuse of the common, legal inhalant climbed nearly sevenfold — 578% — between 2010 and 2023. In 2023, 156 Americans, many of them children, died from huffing nitrous oxide. Eighth-graders make up a large proportion of users.

Nitrous oxide is often inhaled with a balloon. (Photo: Matt Cardy / Getty Images News)

Many nitrous oxide products come in flavors that are especially enticing to children or teenagers, like berry or cotton candy and often come with flavored nozzles. The research focused on 14 years of US CDC data on nitrous oxide-related deaths. Fatalities were rare and relatively stable until about 2010, when there were 23 deaths nationwide. But after that point, death rates began to climb. The US FDA issued a warning earlier this year, listing 15 nitrous oxide products with names like Baking Bad, Cloud 9ine, Cosmic Gas, and Whip-It! Canada has seen incidents of nitrous oxide abuse rise and similarly issued a warning this year.

The corporations or business enterprises that manufacture and market nitrous oxide products know exactly what they are doing: practicing a form of vulture capitalism. These entities make profits from selling legal, dangerous chemicals to vulnerable youth simply for the sake of profit regardless of the health consequences. Americans are already paying for costly health insurance and exorbitant medical expenses and the Trumpf cuts to the social safety nets will further exacerbate the problems of the poor. The parents of young victims of nitrous oxide abuse will receive expensive medical bills and must hope their health insurance will cover them (if the victims survive).

Sources:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2836925?resultClick=3

FDA.gov

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Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein FBI Files “Ticking Time Bomb” for President Donald J. Trump

Ghislaine Maxwell (63), the British socialite serving a 20-year sentence for child sex-trafficking, is prepared to testify before the US Congress about the so-called “Epstein Files,” including an alleged list of clients and associates of the late financier and sexual deviant Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died in 2019 under mysterious circumstances while in federal custody awaiting trial. This sex trafficker is the only person convicted in this imbroglio, despite the fact that sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein allegedly controlled a web of underage girls for decades. Epstein’s victims alleged they were groomed by Ghislaine Maxwell and then passed around as sex toys to his oligarch friends and billionaire business associates who regularly visited his homes and private island in the US Virgin Islands, Little Saint James. Jeffrey Epstein’s jet was dubbed the “Lolita Express.” Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60856925

Both of Jeffrey Epstein’s private islands, Little and Great Saint James, were listed for sale at $125m. The proceeds were intended to pay Epstein’s many victims. (Photo: Reuters)

“All aboard the ‘Lolita Express.’ Please do not disrobe until we have reached cruising altitude. Thank you.”

The ex-president used Jeffrey Epstein’s former jet for campaign appearances after his own jet developed engine problems. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/13/trump-jeffrey-epstein-plane

Predictably, pushback against having Ghislaine Maxwell testify before Congress was hard from Republican lawmakers. President Donald Trumpf becomes irate when asked about Jeffrey Epstein and he desperately implored his key communicators to stop discussing the Epstein files in the media and the internet.

The Rare Instance Where The Cover-Up is Not Worse Than the Crime

Then-real estate oligarch Donald J. Trump with sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. She located and groomed vulnerable underaged girls for powerful male clients. (Undated photo circa 1980s to early 1990)

Oligarch Donald Trumpf and Jeffrey Epstein admiring somebody at a 1992 party. (Image: Public domain)

Inheritor of a real estate empire Donald Trump, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and an underage girl at a party. (Public domain photo circa 1990s).

Donald Trump stated that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases in the 1990s was his “personal Vietnam.”  

Link: Donald Trump Calls Avoiding STDs His ‘Personal Vietnam’

Sexual deviants Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell meeting President Bill Clinton in what appears to be a formal setting. (Public domain photo circa 1990s).

Retired POTUS Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein. (Public domain photo circa 2000s).

Retired POTUS Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein. Look at the wry expression on Epstein’s face. (Public domain photo circa 2000s).

Oligarchs enjoying themselves while poor people starve.

Canada PM Mark Carney (second from left) was photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell (second from right), along with his wife Diana Carney (right) at a British music festival in the summer of 2013. Canada PM Mark Carney denied knowing Jeffrey Epstein and stated he was ‘tangentially acquainted'” with Ghislaine Maxwell (Photo: News Licensing / MEGA)

Donald Trump will be meeting Prince Andrew’s brother, King Charles III, in the UK this coming September.

UK Prince Andrew with Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Guiffre. (Public domain photo circa 1990s).

The Justice Department stated that no-one else is likely to be prosecuted in relation to the Epstein case, including Britain’s Prince Andrew who was accused by Virginia Giuffre, of allegedly sleeping with her when she was 17 and underage. Prince Andrew has consistently and vehemently denied all charges against him and settled a civil lawsuit with Ms Giuffre with no admission of wrongdoing. Ms Giuffre (41) committed suicide earlier this year.

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql67qk0dd3o

How Did We Get Here?

Jeffrey Epstein’s Second Arrest

On 6 July 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on sex trafficking charges. He was jailed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in NYC. A dozen FBI agents forced open the door to his Manhattan townhouse, the Herbert N. Straus House, with search warrants. The search of his townhouse turned up evidence of sex trafficking and also found “hundreds” and perhaps thousands” of sexually suggestive photographs of fully “or partially nude females”.

Some of the photos were confirmed as those of underage females. In a locked safe, compact discs were found with handwritten labels including the descriptions: “Young [Name] + [Name]”, “Misc nudes 1”, and “Girl pics nude”.

Epstein requested to be released on bond, offering to post $100 million with the condition that he would also submit to house arrest in his NYC mansion. US District Judge Richard M. Berman denied the request on 18 July, saying that Epstein posed a danger to the public and a serious flight risk to avoid prosecution.

On 29 Aug 2019, nineteen days after Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, the case against Epstein was closed by Judge Berman. Prosecutors stated they would continue an investigation for potential co-conspirators.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted in 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on 29 December 2021.

For her role in the massive pedophilia criminal enterprise, Ghislaine Maxwell (USMS #02879-509) was sentenced to 20 years confinement in Tallahassee FCI with a release date of 17 July 2037.

Ghislaine Maxwell (USMS #02879-509) federal mugshot in 2022.

After Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal was denied by the Supreme Court, she signaled that she is willing to testify before the US Congress.

Links:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse

Public Demands to Release the FBI Epstein Files

Senator Blackburn requested something similar from the IRS regarding Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s business dealings: 

www.blackburn.senate.gov

When the Epstein files were not released, the Trumpf junta released two distractions from the CIA and the National Archives. You read about the USSR UFO encounter here on Coriolanus, a ‘nothing burger’ story and then a few weeks ago more JFK assassination files were released. When these distractions died out, in fits and starts and using dissembling language, US Attorney-General Pam Bondi affirmed that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide and she released a video recording of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell in MCC in this unsigned letter from the Justice Department and FBI:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline

In the letter, USAG Bondi assures the public that there is “no incriminating client list.”

Well of course there would not be a made-to-order incriminating client list in the files; such a list would have to be compiled by the FBI linking the names and images of suspects with victims, phone records, flight logs, witnesses, wiretaps, telephone pen registers, and financial records. Names would be triaged as suspects or innocent people caught up in this dragnet.

Moreover, technical analysts pointed out that that there are nearly three minutes missing from the surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell.

Link: The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out | WIRED

Moreover, a mafioso who was incarcerated in that very same cell claimed that ‘there’s just no way Epstein was able to kill himself; it would be almost impossible.’

Link: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/man-who-served-time-in-same-cell-as-epstein-says-theres-just-no-way-he-was-able-to-kill-himself-it-would-be-almost-impossible/

Note: Coriolanus has been to both Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan and the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, albeit the client visiting rooms. Your author can attest that federal incarceration facilities are secure with surveillance cameras monitoring all the nooks and crannies of the prisons.

Charges were dropped against the two Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, who were on duty the night of 10 Aug 2019 when Jeffrey Epstein allegedly killed himself from his cell. Noel and Thomas were accused of falling asleep and surfing the internet that night rather than checking on Epstein every 30 minutes. Both admitted to having “willfully and knowingly” falsified records to make it seem they were monitoring Epstein properly.

Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/case-dropped-jail-guards-duty-night-epstein-died-rcna10557

The DOJ OIG concluded the BOP personnel were negligent in their duties that night. Link:

Official NYC Medical Examiner Findings in Question

Dr. Michael Baden, who was in the room for Epstein’s autopsy and has been called as an expert witness in high-profile cases, said that injuries found on Epstein’s body, including fractures to his larynx and hyoid bone, were “extremely unusual in suicidal hangings” and more consistent with “homicidal strangulation.” Baden’s comments suggest Epstein’s family might contest the autopsy results in future legal proceedings. Dr. Baden also noted that the NYC Medical Examiner who conducted the autopsy on the dead sex offender’s body did not personally sign off on the ultimate finding that Epstein killed himself.

Links:

Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy: A closer look — “60 Minutes” – CBS News

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/forensic-pathologist-person-who-performed-epstein-autopsy-in-my-presence-didnt-sign-off-on-suicide-finding/

The Role of the Intelligence Agencies in this Cauldron of Vile

The FBI has an extensive dossier on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as Donald Trump following the several Russiagate investigations. Special Counsels Robert Mueller and Jack Smith and their investigative teams have a mountain of derogatory information about Donald Trump housed in their craniums, and Trump’s name certainly appears in the Jeffrey Epstein files. But what about the other intelligence agencies or law-enforcement bodies worldwide?

Allegations and rumors have circulated for decades that Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, the late disgraced oligarch Robert Maxwell, was a Mossad asset. He reportedly gathered derogatory information on people to be used as leverage against them, blackmailing them to assist the Mossad. Moreover, British intelligence officers suspected that Robert Maxwell was a Soviet agent, according to Foreign Office papers which have been released.

After the former Mirror newspapers chief and ex-Labor MP died mysteriously at sea on 5 Nov 1991, there was widespread speculation that he might have been a double or even a triple agent, but the FBI apparently found nothing in a decade of monitoring him, despite his known links with MI6, the KGB, and the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.

Robert Maxwell’s file, titled “Captain Ian Maxwell”, at the National Archives in Kew, London, has been found to contain reports submitted to the Information Research Department (IRD), a covert unit of the Foreign Office, describing him as “a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia.”

If true, this is how Ghislaine Maxwell learned her tradecraft with Jeffrey Epstein and would explain their fabulous fortunes. The two amassed a library of video tapes of hundreds of wealthy males in lurid sex acts with underaged girls.

Links:

Did Jeffrey Epstein really work for the Mossad? Piers Morgan digs into t – JFeed

FO suspected Maxwell was a Russian agent, papers reveal

There is no doubt that the FBI, the Kremlin, and the Mossad all have damaging information on Donald Trump. Ironically, for years Trump’s foes kept looking and digging for a Russia connection, which there is, but completely overlooked the possibility of an Israeli hold on Trump via the Mossad, thanks to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. That might explain a lot of Trump’s deferential behavior towards Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, including sanctioning the ICC because this august body indicted these two alleged war criminals.

Will this project finally take shape for Donald Trump?

Whither Ghislaine Maxwell?

Ghislaine Maxwell pacing the yards of FCI Tallahassee in Feb 2024. No doubt she misses champagne and caviar. (Photo: Splash News)

Ghislaine Maxwell is finding that grey prison gym attire is not as flattering as her Christian Dior cocktail dresses. (Photo: Splash News)

Ex-socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, the only person convicted in this global muti-decade sex trafficking enterprise, is scheduled for release on 17 July 2037 at the age of 76. Perhaps Ms. Maxwell is seeking a pardon from President Trump in exchange for perjuring herself in front of Congress, thereby exonerating him.

USAG Pam Bondi is certainly protecting Donald Trump as well as hundreds of wealthy people– the so-called ‘Deep State’– by not cleanly releasing the Epstein files. This has angered the conspiracy-minded Republican base who wanted to see hated Bill Clinton and other liberals get exposed. For their own sake, the Deep State superrich would like to see the Ghislaine Maxwell problem ‘go away’ PDQ.

Ms. Maxwell most likely took the precaution of creating a ‘dead man’s switch,’ meaning her attorneys or few friends will release damaging information to the media or the FBI to avoid a suicide like Jeffrey Epstein or an untimely “accident.”

Endnote: President Trump will be meeting King Charles in the UK this coming September. Coriolanus wonders what the two immensely wealthy men won’t be discussing.

The Irony of the US Police: Nearly 50% of Murderers Get Away With it

In the US, people are getting away with murder. The clearance rate, the share of cases that result in an arrest or are otherwise solved, was 58% in 2023, the latest year for which FBI data is available. And that figure is inflated because it includes murders from previous years that police solved in 2023.

In other words, a murderer’s chance of getting caught within a year essentially comes down to a coin flip. For other crimes, clearance rates are even lower. Only 8% of car thefts result in an arrest.

Compared with its peers, America overall does an unusually poor job of solving killings. The murder clearance rates of other rich nations, including Australia, Britain and Germany, hover in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. Several issues, including a lack of resources, the sheer volume of cases and a distrust of the police, have converged to make the jobs of American detectives much more difficult. “It’s a serious problem,” said Philip Cook, a criminal justice researcher at Duke University. The lack of legal accountability emboldens criminals, leading to more crime and violence resulting in “a vicious cycle.”

Every eleven minutes someone in the US is murdered with a firearm. In 2022, the CDC reported that 48,000 people in the US were killed with a firearm, a wartime casualty figure without a foreign invader.

The Irony of the Police State

One blogger wrote the ICE annual budget is approximately $28 billion. Many countries have smaller budgets. ICE’s budget is now bigger than these American states:

Delaware: $6.07 billion

Idaho: $5.26 billion

Maine: $7.84 billion (annualized for a two-year budget cycle)

Montana: $4.68 billion (annualized for a two-year budget cycle)

New Hampshire: $5.20 billion

Rhode Island: $7.29 billion

South Dakota: $4.06 billion

Vermont: $5.23 billion

Wyoming: $4.45 billion (annualized for a two-year budget cycle)

American police are the direct descendants of the Slave Patrol, more akin to political control and law-enforcement rather than genuine sleuthing or crime solving. Add the tsunami of firearms flooding the country, economic inequalities, a suspicious population wary of cooperating with the police, and Americans suffer a high rate of unsolved homicides. There are just not enough seasoned investigators to catch the perpetrators.

Source:

US Health and Safety Update

The US is the only industrialized Western country in the world that does not offer universal healthcare coverage for its residents, unlike Germany, Israel, the UK, Canada, Australia, or France. The term ‘medical bankruptcy’ is unknown in those countries. And Donald Trump is making it harder for Americans to say healthy.

Trump Program Cuts Worsening Life for Americans

PBS reports:

“Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee.

State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work such as inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for new and harmful germs, responding to outbreaks before they get too big — and a host of other tasks to protect both individuals and communities — are being hollowed out.

The Trump junta is cutting health spending on an unprecedented scale, including pulling $11 billion of direct federal support because the pandemic is over and eliminating 20,000 jobs at national health agencies that in part assist and support local public health work. It’s proposing billions more be slashed.”

To pay for unneeded tax cuts for the oligarchs, the 2025 Republican budget guts the few social safety nets many Americans depend on, like Medicaid or SNAP. These draconian cuts will be felt by the masses after the 2026 midterm elections, giving the GOP a chance at the polls in Nov 2026.

In 2025, the Trumpf junta has gutted weather surveillance and medical research, and placed quacks, mountebanks, and charlatans in charge of America’s food safety and health organizations, like antivax advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. Mehmet Oz to administer the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Oz owns $33 million in heath insurance companies doing business with the agency he is running.

Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/13/dr-oz-companies-tied-medicare/76917868007/

RFK Jr had his own children secretly vaccinated according to his first cousin, Caroline, the daughter of JFK.

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Kills Four in Florida

This twelve-year-old girl contracted necrotizing fasciitis while on vacation in 2019.

Four people are dead, and more than half a dozen are sick, after contracting a rare “flesh-eating bacteria” in Florida this year, state health officials confirmed.

The Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, found in saltwater, brackish water and inside raw or undercooked seafood, led to deaths in Bay, Broward, Hillsborough, and St. Johns counties, according to the Florida Department of Health (FDOH).

So far in 2025, 11 people contracted Vibrio vulnificus across Florida, with four dying and seven becoming ill, the FDOH reported. The FDOH did not specify the source of the new cases or say where the ill contracted the bacteria.

Vibrio vulnificus is a naturally occurring bacterium that lives in warm, brackish seawater. It’s created when fresh water from a river or lake meets seawater, and people contract Vibrio vulnificus by swallowing water with it or getting it in a wound.

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis prioritizes state funds on law-enforcement and election security, not the environment, like keeping Florida’s waters clean. The Trump budget cuts do not help Floridians either.

Link:

Rare ‘flesh-eating bacteria’ kills 4 in Florida this year

Pneumonic Plague Kills Arizona Victim

Pneumonic plague attacks the lungs, quickly killing victims,

A Northern Arizona patient died after becoming infected with a severe form of plague. The Arizona Department of Health Services has conducted rapid diagnostic testing and issued a “presumptive diagnosis of Yersinia pestis the bacteria that causes the plague” NAH said in a statement.

Plague is the same illness that killed millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages. Today, it is rare but can crop up mostly in rural parts of the western US and certain parts of Africa and Asia, according to the US CDC. The Arizona resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection.

Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that causes a potentially life-threatening disease called plague. Plague is spread among wild rodents and other animals. Doctors can cure human patients of the disease with antibiotics, but it must be treated promptly. Humans usually contract plague from being bitten by an infected flea or by touching an infected animal.

Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/07/11/arizona-pneumonic-plague-death-what-to-know/84597349007/

Measles and COVID Spreading in America

As you read previously on Coriolanus, measles is spreading in Mexico because indigenous and religious communities near the Texas border believe in Robert F. Kennedy’s antivax rhetoric. The Trumpf junta announced that annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved. As of 8 July 2025, the CDC estimates that COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 25 states, declining or likely declining in 0 states, and not changing in 21 states.

Links:

https://www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting/rt-estimates/index.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/trump-administrations-deep-cuts-to-public-health-leave-system-reeling

Following a powerful 7.2 earthquake off the coast of Alaska, the National Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning. Luckily there were no casualties. The NWS, NOAA, and USGS are the agencies that the Trumpf junta are gutting of funds, resources, and personnel.

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) fighting for poor people in America.

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who does not take a penny from AIPAC and supports Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of NYC, stated that Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ (BBB) which is cutting medical and nutritional aid to poor people, will kill 50,000 vulnerable Americans per year.

Link: https://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/news-sanders-releases-new-report-detailing-devastating-impact-of-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-on-health-care-in-america

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