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UK Intelligence Services Expose and Sanction Russian Spy Ring

From left to right, top row: Nikolay Korchagin; Aleksey Lukashev; Aleksandr Osadchuk; and Artem Malyshev. Bottom row: Vladislav Borokov; Yevgeniy Serebriakov; Anatoliy Kovalev; and Ivan Yermakov.

A string of Russian spies and their units have been exposed by Britain’s security services over their years-long campaign of cyber hacking, arson, and sabotage.

Spies who targeted the daughter of the former double agent Sergei Skripal, five years before both were nearly killed in the Salisbury novichok incident, are among 18 Russian military intelligence officers who have been sanctioned.

Others have been unmasked for a “sustained campaign of malicious cyber activity”, covert bombings and arson attacks in Britain and Europe, in an effort to destabilise the West and try to derail support for Ukraine.

David Lammy, the foreign secretary, said: “GRU spies are running a campaign to destabilise Europe, undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and threaten the safety of British citizens.” He added that Russia had also targeted media outlets, telecommunications providers, energy infrastructure and political and democratic institutions.

This month three men were convicted over an arson attack on a Ukrainian-linked business in London, which police said was carried out at the behest of the Wagner mercenary group.

Other sanctioned individuals include Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk, a GRU colonel accused by the FBI of masterminding cyber-operations, including targeting the 2016 US presidential election.

Aleksey Lukashev (L) and Ivan Yermakov (R).

Russia will continue its vigorous espionage and sabotage campaign against the West in an effort to derail support for Ukraine during its desperate struggle to defeat them. While the Trumpf junta has naturally de-prioritized counterintelligence operations against the Kremlin, Canada, NATO, and EU intelligence agencies have increased their efforts. The UK is lucky to have an incredibly talented and experienced new Director-General of MI6, Blaise Florence Metreweli CMG and MI5 Director-General Sir Kenneth Douglas McCallum KCB, unlike the US national security team purposefully saddled by inexperienced nincompoops and sycophants Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe,
Kashyap Pramod Patel, and Pete Hegseth.  

Director-General of MI6, Blaise Florence Metreweli CMG

Sir Kenneth Douglas McCallum KCB 

Sources:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/uk-sanctions-russian-spies-over-malicious-activity-nsv65xgwh

Archived link: UK sanctions Russian spies over ‘malicious activity’

Colombia: Russian Spy Arrested

Colombian police arrest Jesús Ramos Santos, a 21-year-old suspected of espionage and planning a terrorist attack in Lithuania on behalf of Russia. (Source: X)

Colombian authorities have detained 21-year-old Jesús Ramos Santos, wanted by Lithuania on charges of espionage and alleged involvement in a terrorist plot linked to Russia’s war against Ukraine. He was arrested in the city of Barranquilla, the Colombian National Police confirmed.

Lithuanian prosecutors allege that Ramos Santos was spying on UAB TVC Solutions, a Lithuanian company involved in supplying drones to Ukraine as part of its defense against Russia’s full-scale invasion. He is also suspected of planning a terrorist act in the city of Šiauliai, where a key NATO air base is located.

The arrest operation took place on 6 July:

“This individual created a group whose aim was to carry out terrorist acts in Europe through arson and was engaged in espionage targeting a company supplying drones to Ukraine,” said Colombia’s National Police Director, Carlos Fernando Triana Beltrán.

He confirmed that Ramos Santos is subject to extradition.

Although initially reported as a Colombian citizen, investigative outlet Agentstvo revealed that Ramos Santos grew up in St. Petersburg and holds Russian citizenship. His mother confirmed that he had traveled to Lithuania in September 2024—the timeframe during which Lithuanian authorities believe he conducted espionage activities on behalf of Russian interests.

As noted previously on Coriolanus, Colombia’s security services are manned by a body of experienced professionals, having dealt with the FARC, ELN, and drug cartels. Colombian military veterans have joined Ukraine’s Foreign Legion, and sadly some of them have joined Mexico’s drug cartels. Russia’s espionage network is deeply entwined in Mexico and South America. Brazil was used as a ‘passport factory’ by Russian intelligence and their operatives have enjoyed a wide degree of latitude in Mexico which does not prioritize them as an espionage threat the way the US used to and the way Canada still does.

Sources:

👀 Kremlin espionage reaches Latin America: 21-year-old Russian hacker arrested in Colombia over drone sabotage plot | Newsinterpretation

Russia used Brazil as base to create ‘spy factory’ that was used in missions to United States, Europe and Middle East

Back to the Cold War: Russia uses Mexico as a hub for spying on the U.S.

Spain Awards Wiretap Contract to Chinese Company Huawei

In 2021 the Canadian RCMP arrested Huawei Executive Meng Wanzhou on charges of fraud and circumnavigating sanctions on Iran. (Photo: CBS News)

The Spanish government is using Huawei to manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in the country used by both law enforcement and intelligence services, despite concerns about how the Chinese government could compel Huawei to assist Beijing with its own intelligence activities.

The Ministry of the Interior officially awarded Huawei a €12.3 million ($14.3 million) contract following a standard public procurement process, as first reported by Spanish digital newspaper The Objective. Huawei had already been contracted to provide technical support to SITEL (Sistema Integrado de Interceptación Legal de las Telecomunicaciones), Spain’s integrated system for intercepting telecommunications.

While the contract for storing wiretaps requires Huawei to comply with cybersecurity guidelines set by the Spain’s National Cryptologic Center. There is “growing unrest” in the National Police and Guardia Civil over the Chinese company’s involvement with sensitive systems.

Concerns about Huawei have seen the company restricted from 5G networks across the EU, as well as varying levels of bans in networks of NATO allies such as the US and UK.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been among the EU’s most supportive leaders regarding Huawei, and has pushed back against the bloc’s efforts to restrict it from 5G networks. Huawei has opened research facilities in Madrid and is a major employer as a technology contractor for a number of public administrations.

Natasha Buckley, a researcher at RUSI and lecturer in cybersecurity at Cranfield University, stated that Spain’s approach to the company stood in stark contrast to that of other NATO allies and many EU member states.

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) and a number of non-US affiliates have been placed on the Entity List,  in order to further address the continuing threat to US national security and foreign policy interests posed by Huawei and its non-US affiliates.

This is a remarkably poor decision by the Spanish government. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) uses the ‘thousand grains of sand’ approach to collecting tiny bits of intelligence to construct a rich mosaic for decision-makers in Beijing. China has successfully welded their tremendous industrial capacity with their national security strategy.   There is a wide body of evidence incriminating Huawei as an extension of Chinese intelligence. Using hidden cookies and backdoor codes, the MSS can penetrate Western cyber-infrastructure to collect information as well as be able to shut down civilian or military electronic devices linked in by the “IOT” (AKA the “Internet of Things”).  

China has built a capable large army of cyber operators.

Links:

Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps | The Record from Recorded Future News

Security, complexity and Huawei; protecting the UK’s… – NCSC.GOV.UK

U.S. Restrictions on Huawei Technologies: National Security, Foreign Policy, and Economic Interests | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

Federal Register :: Addition of Huawei Non-U.S. Affiliates to the Entity List, the Removal of Temporary General License, and Amendments to General Prohibition Three (Foreign-Produced Direct Product Rule)

Office of Public Affairs | Chinese Telecommunications Conglomerate Huawei and Subsidiaries Charged in Racketeering Conspiracy and Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets | United States Department of Justice

The United States Further Restricts Huawei Access to U.S. Technology – United States Department of State

Extradition case of Meng Wanzhou – Wikipedia

huawei-zte investigative report (final).pdf

Donald Trumpf’s Sep 2025 UK Visit Timed So He Can’t Address Parliament

The blimp was an eye-catching part of the protests against Trumpf’s state visit in 2019. (Getty Images)

In mid-September, US President Donald Trumpf will be visiting the UK and meeting with British officials. But one thing he won’t be doing on his trip is addressing Parliament.

“The date of the US president’s trip is being deliberately timed for mid-September when there is a parliamentary recess, handing the UK an excuse for not offering the speech. Mr. Trumpf is also expected not to visit Buckingham Palace or enjoy a ceremonial carriage ride down the Mall in London — features of many past state visits from world leaders.”

Earlier this year, Trumpf met with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his visit to the US. The Labor government under Starmer have concerns that Labor MPs could protest a joint address to Parliament, possibly by staying away en masse, causing potential embarrassment to Mr. Trumpf.

“It means the US president will not achieve something enjoyed by his predecessors Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama,” the Telegraph reporters note. “The lack of an address to Parliament risks a backlash from Mr. Trumpf, who British officials privately acknowledge is sensitive to perceived slights.”

French President Emmanuel Macron, they observe, addressed the UK Parliament when he was in London in early July.

“British officials involved in the state visit planning are keenly aware of the US president’s desire to beat his presidential predecessors in the scale and opulence of the events,” according to Riley-Smith and Furness. “There are discussions about how to outdo his first state visit in 2019.”

The reporters add, “Mr. Trumpf will become the first elected leader in modern times to enjoy two UK state visits — a fact he has been sharing privately with friends.”

Samaritans Visited Trumpf’s Scotland Golf Resort Earlier This Year

Drone footage shows Trump’s Turnberry resort clubhouse splattered with red paint. Two volunteers were reportedly charged for voicing their disapproval against Dummkopf Trumpf’s. (Images: Hassan Ghani via Reuters)

“There, there Mr. President. You’ll get to address Parliament another time.”

Source:

‘Potential embarrassment’: Trump’s UK visit ‘deliberately timed’ to not offer him a speech – Alternet.org

56 Years Ago Today on 20 July 1969: “One Small Step for [a Man], One Giant Leap for Mankind.”

US Astronaut Neil Armstrong about to step on the Moon. (Photo: NASA)

The US flag is wired to give the appearance of fluttering on the airless Moon (Photo: NASA)

Left to right: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin

Some Historical Background You May Be Unaware Of

P-51C Mustang fighter flown by the Tuskegee Airmen. (Photo: USAF)

President John F. Kennedy, a World War Two veteran, wanted to link America’s space race with the growing civil rights movement. To that end, President Kennedy instructed NASA to recruit and train qualified pilots from the minority community to become astronauts. African-American pilots had served with great distinction in the Second World War. During the Second World War, the Tuskegee Airmen purposefully painted the tails of their fighter aircraft red to show the Nazis who they were and they were unafraid. African-American pilots also served their country valiantly during the Korean War, like this aviator below.

Jesse L. Brown the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War, and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross.

This Man Should Have Been America’s First Black Astronaut

USAF Captain Ed Dwight, Jr. (Photo: USAF)

In 1961, at the direction of President John F. Kennedy, USAF Captain Ed Dwight, Junior became the first African-American to enter the USAF training program from which NASA selected astronauts. Although he completed training at the Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1963 and advanced to the second round of the program, he was controversially not selected for the Astronaut Corps.

Look at the camaraderie evident between these astronaut trainees. (Photo: USAF)

The man responsible for Captain Dwight’s disqualification was none other than USAF Chuck Yeager, the man who first broke the sound barrier on 14 Oct 1947. A racist from West Virginia, General Yeager covertly countermanded JFK’s desire to see black astronauts in the space program, particularly Captain Ed Dwight.

“Yeager instructed staff and participants at the school that “Washington is trying to cram the nigger down our throats. [President] Kennedy is using this to make ‘racial equality,’ so do not speak to him, do not socialize with him, do not drink with him, do not invite him over to your house, and in six months he’ll be gone.” In his autobiography, Dwight details how Yeager’s leadership led to discriminatory treatment throughout his training at Edwards Air Force Base.”

Link: Chuck Yeager – Wikipedia

You will never read or watch Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff the same way ever again.

Despite racist Chuck Yeager, USAF Captain Ed Dwight made it into space at age 90 on a Blue Origin private space launch last year.

Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, is shown exiting Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft on 19 May 2024. Dwight was among six passengers that launched atop the company’s suborbital rocket. (Photo: Blue Origin / Felix Kunze)

Just One More Thing…

American aerospace engineer John Houbolt as he stands at a chalkboard in July 1962 showing his lunar orbit rendezvous plan for landing astronauts on the moon. (Photo: NASA / LARC /Bob Nye /PhotoQuest /Getty Images

In April 1961, President John F. Kennedy had energized America’s space program by pledging to send “a man to the moon and [return] him safely to the Earth” before the end of the 1960s and he wanted to merge that with the civil rights movement as you just read. Safely returning an astronaut from the moon was the more difficult part of the equation as there are no rockets or launchpads on the moon.

The Pilgrim Project

The One-Way Space Man crew capsule. (Image credit: Bell Aerosystems)

To ensure the US would send a man to the Moon before the USSR, NASA established the Pilgrim Program. This was a one-way mission for one or two astronauts selected for this perilous journey. NASA was to pre-launch containers filled with oxygen tanks, water, food, and supplies ahead of the astronauts for them to survive on the Moon until NASA would be able to recover them at a future date. In this way, America would beat Russia to the Moon.

Source: https://www.wired.com/2012/04/one-way-space-man-1962/

Archived link: https://archive.ph/KalEw

Countdown is a 1968 American science fiction movie directed by Robert Altman and based on the 1964 novel The Pilgrim Project by Hank Searls.

Tiny Kitten Wanders Up to Woman On Her Way To Work In Mexico

Brutal Police State in America Worsens Under Racist Trump Junta

Horrific Back-to-Back Videos of Police Brutality

In the first video, ICE arrests a teenage female in Massachusetts and the neighbors protest; one of the cops holds a girl’s face to the ground. Warning: Some Followers of the Watch will find these videos disturbing:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/massachusetts-police-hold-girls-face-ground-ice-arrests-mother-video-s-rcna205798/

In the second video NYPD beat up pro-Gaza volunteers in Brooklyn. You can clearly see an NYPD cop slugging a volunteer in the face while he is helpless on the ground.

Being Palestinian is Becoming Illegal in America

Note the language in this Justice Department Press Release:

“Palestinian Nationals Charged With Unlawful Possession Of Firearms And Ammunition”

“Mohammed Aburidi (24, Palestinian) and Tareq Aburidi (19, Palestinian) with possessing firearms and ammunition as aliens admitted to the US on nonimmigrant visas. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed one or more violations of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.” 

The press release reads “Palestinian Nationals…” and not “Two Florida Men…” Imagine if Justice Department statements read “Two Black Men….” There is no reason for this brazen language in the document other than to imply that the two defendants have an inherent ‘mens rea’ simply for being Palestinian.

Press release: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/palestinian-nationals-charged-unlawful-possession-firearms-and-ammunition

Trumpf Junta Calls for 20,000 Deportation Officers

Excerpted from the Presidential Proclamation Establishing Project Homecoming, dated 9 May 2025:

“The Secretary of Homeland Security shall supplement existing enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting with State and local law enforcement officers, former Federal officers, officers and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other individuals to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the Department of Homeland Security by no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have failed to depart voluntarily.”

“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will pay illegal aliens a stipend of $1,000 to self-deport back to their home country through the CBP Home App, paid after their return home has been confirmed. DHS will also provide travel assistance to self-deportees. This program will decrease the costs of a deportation by approximately 70%. Currently the average cost to arrest, detain, and remove an illegal alien is $17,121.”

Source: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/05/dhs-announces-historic-travel-assistance-and-stipend-voluntary-self-deportation

This insurrectionist above proudly carried the symbol of white supremacy, the Confederate flag, into the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021. He and the other rabble that attacked Congress that day were all later pardoned by President Dotard Trumpf and treated as “patriots.”

You can only imagine how many Proud Boys, Oaf Keepers, or January 6 maniacs will try to become armed deputized ICE officers to deport migrants, aliens, refugees, asylum seekers, or other vulnerable foreigners, as Trumpf’s proclamation allows “other individuals” to become contracted DHS officers (in addition to retired, federal, state, or local police personnel).

Is this Latina voter above one of the tens of thousands of people who now regret voting for Dotard Trumpf?

America’s Local Police Forces Already Assisting ICE

More than 100 people have been taken into custody by ICE in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, leaving many in Nashville’s immigrant community uncertain and worried.

“None of us have ever seen anything like this,” said Lisa Sherman Luna, executive director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.

The Highway Patrol made 588 stops in the joint operation with ICE, which took custody of 103 under investigation for immigration violations. The operation with ICE is a reminder of how local and state law enforcement jurisdictions are critical to the Trumpf junta’s plans for mass deportations. Last week, Florida officials touted a joint operation with ICE that resulted in 1,120 immigration arrests.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-arrests-nashville-ice-tennessee-0fe523bc9d0ed143e105da0e96ad0c6c

Surveillance State Widens: CBP To Photograph All Vehicles Driving to Mexico and Canada

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to collect photographs of everyone leaving the US for Mexico or Canada by car. The photographs will then be matched to the images in the passengers’ passports, visas, or travel documents.

The agency is “still working on how to handle outbound vehicle lanes.”

The new face-scanning initiative may be intended to track self-deportation by undocumented persons, something the Trumpf junta is promoting. Photos will be used to verify later crossings into the US.

Source: https://www.pcmag.com/news/driving-to-mexico-or-canada-us-will-snap-pics-of-everyone-in-your-car

Newark, NJ Mayor Arrested at ICE Detention Facility

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka.

The Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey, who is running to be the state’s governor, was arrested after refusing to leave a federal immigration detention center. Moreover, while nearby Newark Int’l Airport falls apart, the Trumpf junta is making its stand at the same Newark ICE concentration camp by threatening to arrest other lawmakers involved in the oversight visit.

Dr. Martin Luther King was arrested approximately 30 times before a white supremacist assassinated him on 4 Apr 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/nyregion/newark-ice-protest-lawmakers-ras-baraka.html

Archived link: https://archive.ph/NUsIJ

“Make America White Again”

Dotard Trumpf is attempting to reverse the demographic trend that will make white Americans a minority in the country. To that end he has been conducting mass deportations, removing books from federal or military libraries that promote diversity, and firing competent people of color in government. To that end, his latest victim of thousands is Carla Hayden, the longtime head of the Library of Congress, in a move that Democratic lawmakers panned as “callous” and “ignorant.”

Carla Hayden had one year left in her ten-year appointment, but Trumpf cruelly took that away from her.

First Afrikaner Refugees Coming to US Next Week

Afrikaners outside one of the US missions in South Africa.

To further his goal of making America white again, Trumpf is bringing the first group of white South Africans it has classified as refugees to the US early next week. Trumpf cruelly halted virtually all other refugee admissions shortly after he took office in January, but the junta hastily put together a program to admit Afrikaners, who he claims have been the victims of racial persecution in their home country. The junta plans to send government officials to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia for a gala event to celebrate the arrival of white people to America.

Followers of the Watch will recall that the US Embassy in South Africa received a list of 67,042 Afrikaners interested in refugee status in the US under Trumpf’s plan to relocate them in the US. 2.7 million Afrikaners live in South Africa, which has a total population of 62 million. 67,042 out of 2,700,000 is a minority of 4%. These Afrikaners are racist dead-enders and the majority of the Boers are staying in South Africa, per two of their associations. South Africa has the second highest rate of gun ownership in Africa, so these Afrikaners will fit in perfectly with red State America.

Sources:

za.usembassy.gov

Trumpf Junta Good at Fascism, Terrible at Everything Else

Trumpf Fires FEMA Chief as Hurricane Season Nears

With three weeks before hurricane season begins, Trump fired the acting head of FEMA, Cameron Hamilton. His sin was contradicting Trump when he said: “I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate FEMA.” Hamilton was deployed four times overseas as a USN SEAL before he worked for the State Department and DHS. Trump’s budget proposes a $644 million cut to FEMA. Trump was sharply critical of FEMA’s response to Hurricane Helene, a devastating storm that killed 250 people and inflicted $78.7 billion in damage from Florida to North Carolina.

One of the biggest factors for tropical development in 2025 is the abundance of warm water available to fuel storms. Water temperatures across the ocean, as well as in the Gulf and Caribbean, are already well above historical averages, and they will continue to run warm throughout most of the year, as you could see from the satellite imagery above. This will prime storms for explosive development.

Firing the head of FEMA and slashing its budget will hurt hurricane and flood-prone areas, affecting Red States more than the Blue States. As you could see below, historic amounts of rainfall in April has caused flooding in the Tennessee, Ohio, and middle Mississippi valleys. Runoff from that rain is just now surging through the lowest portion of the Mississippi River and will lead to moderate to high flood levels in some areas, including Baton Rouge, LA.

Trumpf already turned down the Arkansas governor’s plea for assistance after tornados devastated the home state of former POTUS Bill Clinton. Republicans in these Red States who voted for Trumpf shot themselves in their own foot.

Sources:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/08/donald-trumps-administration-fires-fema-administrator-cam-hamilton/83517764007/

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/25/weather-tennessee-ohio-mississippi-valleys-flood-risk-april-2025/6401745616716/

Trumpf Has Skipped All But Twelve Daily Intelligence Briefings

Dotard Trumpf has been in office for 110 days and played golf 24 times, yet only sat for twelve presentations of the selective and highly informative President’s Daily Brief (PDB).

USIC analysts and investigators work hard on the night shift prepping intel briefings for POTUS, VPOTUS, CJCS, D/NSA, D/FBI, D/DIA, etc that are rich with satellite imagery, information from deep human sources, informants, wiretaps, collateral intelligence from allies, and signals interceptions. Your humble author worked on such analytical or investigatory products for the CJCS and SECDEF, once in a while earning the vaunted ‘SECDEF’ stamp, meaning the product was personally endorsed by the Secretary of Defense.

So Why Does Trumpf Want Boxes and Boxes of Classified Documents?

After losing the 2020 election, Dotard Trumpf hoarded thousands of boxes of classified White House documents and stored them improperly at his palatial estate in Mar-a-Lago, FL, which lead to a special counsel investigation. Because of corrupt Republican judges like Aileen Cannon, Special Counsel Jack Smith was unable to convict Trumpf of this breach. The classified documents were returned to the White House or to secure archives during the Biden Administration.

Boxes are loaded onto Air Force One before Dotard Trumpf’s departure at Joint Base Andrews, MD, on Friday, 28 Feb 2025. (Photo:
Luis M. Alvarez / AP)

After Dotard Trumpf re-won the White House on 5 Nov 2024, he ordered his staff to re-take those boxes of classified documents (and possibly other items) back to his Mar-a-Lago compound, which does not have enough GSA-approved safes for all of those secret documents– re-perpetrating his Original Sin.

So, if Trumpf doesn’t enjoy receiving these invaluable PDBs, why is he illegally storing them and other secrets unsafely in Florida, and where does he get his information from?

Trumpf’s Main Source of Information is TV

Answer: Dotard Trumpf has an addictive personality which might explain this odd behavior. He broke his addiction to aspartame (Diet Coke) during his first Reign of Terror and he still has a fondness for junk food, but he watches “tons of TV” according to sources around him. So adding to his sins of cheating on his wife and at golf, manipulating stock prices and cryptocurrency, we can add two more peccadillos: Hoarding and an unbreakable addiction to TV. The Dotard hopelessly watches hours of TV every day. And because of a lifetime of watching TV, this buffoon held a decades-long grudge against PBS which he wants to now de-fund, makes idiotic decisions like re-opening Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco, or selects sycophants for his pathetic junta like over-the-hill TV personality mouth-for-hire Jeanine Pirro. All of these preceding ideas came from TV shows that Dotard Trumpf watched.

FBI Director Kashyap Patel Completely In Over His Head

The most under-qualified man to ever lead the FBI attends intelligence briefings twice per week, similar to Dotard Trumpf blithely ignoring national security issues. Moreover Congress recently exposed Kashyap Patel’s incompetence, lack of professionalism, and petulance. Below Kashyap Patel attends a budget meeting without a budget:

‘You Have No Timeline?!’ Senator Gobsmacked by FBI Director Kash Patel Showing Up at Budget Hearing Without a Budget

— Mediaite (@mediaitenews.bsky.social) 2025-05-08T14:56:36Z

Below, watch Kashyap Patel melt down after US Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (D-PA, 4th CD) accused him of committing perjury during his Senate confirmation hearing earlier this year. When Patel became obnoxious and belligerent, Congresswoman Dean ends by saying “sadly, this is an unserious moment for the FBI.”

Kashyap Patel, the first non-white man to ever direct the FBI shows the world that he is a crass, incompetent lickspittle. Meanwhile, his FBI will be targeting NYS Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud. General James is a woman from a modest background who began her career as a Legal Aid defense lawyer and she defeated Dotard Trumpf in a multi-million dollar civil lawsuit.

Source: https://stefanik.house.gov/2025/5/stefanik-commends-fbi-and-u-s-attorney-investigation-into-letitia-james-for-alleged-mortgage-fraud

What would this man think of Kashyap Patel?

Sources:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/09/trump-intelligence-briefing-frequency-00338946

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/kash-patels-new-way-leading-fbi-fewer-morning-intel-briefings-sports-e-rcna202865

https://www.mic.com/impact/jan-6-video-trump-tv

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

Incompetent Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard

Hare Krishna offshoot cult member DNI Tulsi Gabbard issued a collection emphasis message to intelligence agency heads to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American resource extraction on the island. Astonishingly, the most under-qualified person to ever lead the ODNI used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts over a period of several years. 

Directing intelligence collection on Greenland is a monumental waste of time and resources for the USIC, but reflects Trumpf’s idiotic ambitions to absorb the landmass one day. Tulsi Gabbard’s simpleton password use means that her personal communications may have been compromised by nefarious actors or volunteers from Anonymous. She has already fired 100 or so USIC analysts for alleged inappropriate use of secure chat rooms when a reprimand would have sufficed. This rank amateur and member of the ‘Science of Identity Foundation’ (SIF), a notoriously homophobic and Islamophobic cult, has absolutely no business whatsoever leading the USIC.

Archived links: WSJ.com, wired.com, https://www.culteducation.com/group/1298-science-of-identity/36770-tulsi-gabbard-s-ties-to-secretive-cult-may-explain-her-perplexing-political-journey.html

India’s Influence in White House Could Begin to Parallel AIPAC’s

JD Vance and his Hindu wife and father-in-law in India.

As Followers of the Watch know, the Islamophobic America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AKA AIPAC) has tremendous influence governing the foreign policy of the US. But India too now has occult power within the halls of American power. Dotard Trumpf and his junta met Indian PM Narendra Modi before they met Canadian PM Mark Carney or other EU/NATO PMs. Incompetent Kashyap Patel says the FBI will continue offering full support to PM Narendra Modi. VPOTUS JD Vance and Usha enjoyed a recent junket to India at US taxpayer expense while the Trumpf junta fired more civil servants, adding to America’s unemployment. This is critical to know as India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, are in an undeclared war and the US will not be viewed as a neutral party by Islamabad.

Led by the ultra-nationalist pro-Hindu BJP Party, India’s brutal occupation of Kashmir and Jammu led to the recent grievance guerilla attack which was timed to coincide with JD Vance’s vacation to India. Indian security services use shotgun pellets to blind protestors. Moreover, India’s immutable and merciless caste system alienates non-Punjab Balochs, discriminates against Muslims, and fuels the Naxalite insurgency led by ‘Untouchables’ (AKA Dalits). These Maoist guerillas operate in large swaths of India as you could see below.

Don’t Believe Coriolanus About India’s Influence in the White House?

VPOTUS JD Vance and family enjoying an American taxpayer-funded vacation to India.

Hindu cult member DNI Tulsi Gabbard with Hindu nationalist India PM Narendra Modi.

Two Islamophobes meet in the White House.

The world’s worst person laughs with rightwing Hindu nationalist PM Narendra Modi.

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was born in 1968 in Calcutta, India, to a Bengali Hindu family.

D/FBI Kashyap Pramod “Kash” Patel is a member of the Patidar community in Gujarat, India.

Followers of the Watch are aware from previous posts that PM Narendra Modi has signed death warrants for Sikh separatists in Canada and the US. One Sikh activist was killed in Canada, while another one in NYC was saved.

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/india-pakistan-tensions-kash-patel-says-fbi-will-continue-offering-full-support-to-pm-modi-govt-top-updates/ar-AA1DGBwC

“Make America Healthy Again”

Measles Epidemic Reaches 1,000 for First Time in 30 Years

The CDC informs: “As of 8 May 2025, a total of 1,001 confirmed measles cases were reported by 31 jurisdictions: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, NYC, NYS, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.”

Source: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya sent shockwaves through the autism community by announcing the creation of a “disease registry” to track autistic people. Nazi Germany used such a list to identify possibly hundreds of autistic children to be killed in experimental “euthanasia” clinics. Until the 1970s, numerous US states used registries to identify disabled people to be subjected to forced sterilization and institutionalization. A number of states still maintain lists of autists. “The history there is deeply, deeply disturbed,” says Larkin Taylor-Parker, legal director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. “It doesn’t usually end well for us. It has ended in murder, industrial-scale incarceration and murder.” 

The Third Reich killed at least 5,000 special needs children years before exterminating Jews in the Holocaust.

Source: https://www.nih.gov/

Violent White Americans Rampage Unchecked

White NYS Town Official Shoots Door Dash Deliveryman

John J. Reilly III mugshot.

In Chester, NY, John J. Reilly III (48) shot a Door Dash delivery driver (age 24) who knocked on his door after getting lost. Reilly told the victim to get off his property, before firing multiple shots at the victim as he attempted to leave in his vehicle, striking the victim once in the back, causing serious physical injuries. Reilly is the Town of Chester Highway Superintendent and a federally licensed firearms dealer (FFL). John J. Reilly is charged with three felonies: Assault in the First Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Firearm.

The Economics of John J. Reilly III’s Folly

The median value of a home in Chester, NY is $399,000, the median household income is $147,000, and the average annual salary for a Highway Superintendent in New York State is $129,718. In essence, John J. Reilly III was living, pardon the pun, the Life of Riley in his 64% white majority hamlet of 12,588 people while enjoying his well-paying sinecure. But that wasn’t enough for John J. Reilly III, so he also sold firearms using his FFL. But Mr. Reilly is being investigated by the ATF after he shot the poor guy in the back with an illegal weapon.

BLUF: This imbecile had it real good until he tripped over his own hatred and racism. Now the ATF is dismantling John J. Reilly III’s firearm trafficking business, he will lose his $129,718 per annum sinecure, and he will be facing state and federal charges. This dope threw away his life away “protecting his property.”

In an average year, 870 people die and 2,607 are wounded by guns in New York. Throughout the US, every eleven minutes someone is murdered with a firearm. This deliveryman is lucky to be alive after being shot in the back by this lunatic.

Sources:

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/chestertownorangecountynewyork/PST045223

https://troopers.ny.gov/news/new-york-state-police-arrest-chester-man-following-doordash-shooting-incident

White Tesla Driver Arrested Again for Road Rage and Assault

Tesla driver Nathaniel Radimak (38), who was charged with attacking motorists’ vehicles with a pipe in the Los Angeles area, has been arrested again for allegedly assaulting two women during a road rage incident in Honolulu. The recent arrest comes less than a year after this lunatic was released from prison for the California road attacks. A woman, 18, was parking her vehicle downtown when she saw a gray Tesla speeding past. The woman and Radimak “exchanged words” before he got out of the Tesla and assaulted the woman and her mother. Radimak then fled in his gray 2022 Tesla with Oregon license plates and was located in Waikiki. Charges are pending. 

Nathaniel Radimak was originally sentenced to a five-year prison term, but was released on parole after serving less than one year, as confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). The CDCR states his early release was “after serving his full sentence as defined by law.”

Nathaniel Radimak has the independent means to own a Tesla and vacation in Hawaii. Somehow this dangerous runamok was released on parole within one year of his five-year sentence. Any of Nathaniel Radimak’s victims are lucky not to have been killed. This time the lunatic is going to prison for a longer time and the Court will no doubt order psychiatric care for Radimak. California may request his extradition from Hawaii for violating the terms of his parole.

All indictments are merely accusations. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/tesla-road-rage-honolulu-los-angeles-arrest-91b436b256fc8eb6897041b41c54a8a8

Harper Magazine’s Weekly Review 6 May 2025

US Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that border agents stopped more than 22 million fentanyl-laced pills from crossing into the US, effectively saving 258 million lives or around three quarters of the population; and the Trumpf junta’s preliminary budget proposed to cut a program that would expand access to the overdose antidote naloxone. Mike Waltz was fired as the national security advisor and replaced by Marco Rubio, who is now the interim national security advisor, the secretary of state, the acting administrator of USAID, and the acting archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration. “Too much,” said a Virginia senator of Rubio’s roles. It was reported that the US economy contracted by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025, which marks the country’s first economic downturn in three years. “The bad parts,” said Dotard Trumpf, “are the Biden economy.” General Motors announced that it was due to lose between $4 billion and $5 billion in annual revenue; American Airlines announced a $473 million net loss for the first quarter of 2025; the US Navy lost a Super Hornet fighter jet, which costs more than $60 million, after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S Truman into the Red Sea; and millions of dimes rolled onto a highway in Wise County, Texas, after the truck transporting them tipped over. Junta supremo Trumpf said that he does not “rule out” using military force to take control of Greenland; the Department of Justice sued Hawaii and Michigan over their plans to sue fossil fuel companies for their contributions to the climate crisis; the White House issued an executive order demanding that the board of directors for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, three of whose members the president sought to fire in a separate executive order, “cease federal funding for NPR and PBS”; a report on press freedom ranked the US 57th on its freedom index, on par with Gambia and Uruguay; and Sovereignty edged out Journalism to win the Kentucky Derby.

Some twenty armed federal agents busted into an Oklahoma City home and seized the laptops, phones, and life savings of the family living there, even though their names did not match those of the suspects listed on the officers’ search warrant; and ICE agents raided the house of an Irvine, California, couple whose son has been accused of doxxing agents, but had moved to New York months ago. A group of Jewish men in New York chased, kicked, and threw a traffic cone at a woman they mistakenly assumed was a protester agitating against the arrival of Israel’s national security minister. A man was arrested in an Israeli airport for his connection to a 2022 cryptocurrency hack that nearly destroyed a California blockchain company; kidnappers in Paris chopped off the finger of a Frenchman and demanded that his son, a cryptocurrency millionaire, pay ransom four months after a co-founder of a crypto firm was abducted and had his own finger cut off in central France; and it was reported that a Japanese woman cut off her boyfriend’s ring finger with an axe after having allegedly snipped off his nipple with a pair of scissors three weeks prior. “I heard,” said the boyfriend, “that nipples regenerate.”

A California railroad executive was found guilty of embezzling funds to build a secret apartment in the Burlingame train station, and a London man traveling by train to court to face thirty-six counts of train fare evasion was stopped by transit authorities for traveling without a ticket. A British man received an eight-month suspended sentence for setting fire to his own house twice in one night; a man who had been rescued from Mount Fuji after suffering from altitude sickness was rescued a second time after returning to the mountain in search of his phone; and a man who allegedly killed another man on a basketball court in Louisiana returned to the scene of the crime wearing nothing but a towel. A man in Pennsylvania broke into a Mormon church while in the nude, and a naked man was arrested trying to break into a home in Flagler County, Florida. “Attempting to break into a home without your britches,” said the sheriff, “is not an encounter you want to have with law enforcement.” It was reported that the president of the Art Institute of Chicago stripped on a flight to Europe, a strip club in Detroit was shuttered after a cellphone video of twenty kids partying inside was discovered by one of their mothers, Google announced plans to introduce an AI chatbot for children, and the US president posted an AI-generated blasphemous photo of himself as the pope. “I’m fine,” said US VPOTUS JD Vance, “with people telling jokes.” —Megan Evershed

Our deepest appreciation to Megan Evershed and the esteemed staff at the venerable Harper’s Magazine for this invaluable weekly synopsis chronicling the insanity, inanity, and inhumanity besetting the world.

Chimpanzee Asks For Help Drinking Water, Then Washes Man’s Hands

“Beware the Ides of March!” Rank Betrayal Permeates Trumpf Junta

Julius Caesar betrayed and assassinated by his closest friends and allies. He did not heed the warning: “Beware, the Ides of March.” Painting by Vincenzo Camuccini.

Today is the “Ides of March” and fitting to describe the rank betrayal perpetrated by Donald Trumpf on America’s international allies and Republican supporters. Coriolanus is doing his best to keep up with the carnage caused by America’s Godzilla.

Kursk Falls to Russian Forces After Trumpf Withdraws US Intelligence Support

The cutting of US intelligence to Ukrainian soldiers forced a partial retreat and regrouping in Kursk. This was the only Russian territory occupied by Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces during the three-year war which Moscow began. Scenes of Kiev’s troops mangled, burned, and on the run filtering back to the capital have reinforced distrust of America and Russia. As you read previously here on Coriolanus, American volunteers fighting in Ukraine feel “betrayed by their country.” This villainy was followed up with more atrocities.

Russian Forces Execute Five Ukrainian POWs

Ukrainian war crimes investigator at earlier scene of Russian butchery.

After re-taking a significant portion of Kursk thanks to Trumpf, Russian forces allegedly executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs). A video circulating on social media purportedly shows unarmed Ukrainian soldiers killed after being captured by Russian troops. “We once again see a cynical disregard for international humanitarian law on the part of the Russian army,” a Ukrainian spokesman said, adding that he had sent letters to the UN and the ICRC to document the suspected war crime. The news comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first visit to Kursk Oblast on 12 Mar since Ukraine launched its cross-border incursion into the region in August 2024. Russian forces and Wagnerites have been committing war crimes against Ukrainians since Feb 2022.

Trumpf Blocks War Crimes Investigations

War crimes investigators and forensics specialists gathering the corpses of Ukrainian victims.

Trumpf’s State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian children to European law enforcement agencies.

And child abduction from Ukraine is exactly what led to Vladimir Putin’s indictment by the ICC:

“Today, 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova.

Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952, President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute). The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least from 24 February 2022.”

An ICC international arrest warrant remains active for Vladimir Putin. Trumpf sanctioned the ICC to remove arrest warrants from war criminals Vladimir Putin and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Canadian Afghan War Veterans: “Angry and Betrayed”

Pte. Danny Drapeau, of Alpha Company 1st Battalion Royal 22e Regiment, waits to lower the Canadian flag for the last time at FOB Zangabad on Sunday, 19 Jun 2011. (Photo: Murray Brewster / The Canadian Press)

The notion that Canadians fought and died in Afghanistan to help defend the US — because of the terrorist attacks on 11 Sep 2001 — runs deep among Canadian veterans of that war and their families. Canadian and American troops fought together and bled together in the scorched hinterlands of Afghanistan. Now many Canadians who fought in Afghanistan say Trumpf’s behavior leaves them feeling angry and betrayed, irked by his threats to annex Canada through economic force, the trade war, and a plan to make life harder for Canadians visiting the US.

The Trumpf junta plans on requiring Canadian citizens planning to stay in the country for more than 30 days to register their information with the US government and submit to fingerprinting. Effective 11 Apr, affected people would have to create an account with USCIS and schedule an appointment for fingerprinting as part of a background check. 

A meme circulating online — a photo of troops in front of the maple leaf rock monument at Ma’sum Ghar, the Canadian forward operating base in western Kandahar — was recently captioned: “We went because you were attacked. We didn’t ask for your thanks. Neither did 158 of us who died for you.”

But it was the bullying of the Ukrainian president in the Oval Office and Vice-President JD Vance’s insistence that Volodymyr Zelensky show gratitude that set off many veterans.

While real estate scion Donald Trumpf avoided military conscription during the Vietnam War with a podiatrist’s letter claiming that his “bone spurs” made him illegible for the draft, 40,000 Canadians enlisted in the US military to fight against North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. At least 134 were killed.

The Canadian Vietnam War Memorial in Ontario, Canada.

Canadians and Americans have a shared history of spilling blood for each other, something the grossly imbecilic Trumpf has ignored.

Trumpf Budget Betrays Farmers, Veterans, Poorer Republican Voters

The Republican budget was designed to give unnecessary tax breaks to obscenely wealthy oligarchs by cutting America’s social safety nets like Medicaid and Medicare, as well programs to assist under-privileged people regardless of their political affiliation. From funding cuts to tariffs, American farmers have found themselves struggling to find markets for their products and facing the risk of steep losses for the year ahead. Farmers will lose millions in local food purchases after sweeping federal cuts at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) led to the closure of two programs funding fresh food for schools and food banks.

The USDA announced nearly $1 billion in cuts last week, shuttering the Local Food for Schools program and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement.

“We’re just in such a state of shock,” a farmer said. “We just don’t really even know how to respond to all this. We thought that this was sacred and really untouchable. So it’s just quite a shock and very devastating. Everyone thinks all farmers voted for this, but we did not vote for this.”

Thanks to the Trumpf junta, farm bankruptcies and farmer suicides are on the rise. “We have seen a definite increase in the suicide rate and depression in farmers in the US, especially in the Upper Midwest,” reported a soybean farmer from Minnesota.

The Trumpf budget will terminate a one billion dollar program aimed at preserving affordable housing, a decision that could disrupt efforts to maintain tens of thousands of units for low-income Americans. The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program would have upgraded at least 25,000 housing units nationwide. 24.5 million (or 7.4%) of Americans have experienced homelessness in their lifetime, regardless of their political affiliation.

Astonishingly, sycophantic and under-qualified FBI Director Kash Patel is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration, as if America’s premier internal security had nothing better to do with its time and resources.

The late former President Jimmy Carter constructing a house for an under-privileged person with Habitat for Humanity.

Thanks to Trumpf and Felon Musk, the worst person in the world, the US will see a return of Hoovervilles within a few years straight out of the Great Depression:

Thousands of Veterans Protest Trumpf Nationwide

On Friday 14 March, thousands of veterans across the US protested the Trumpf cabal and his proposed cuts to Social Security, federal job losses for veterans, the pardon of 6 Jan terrorists, and reductions in veterans’ health care services. 14 March (3/14) was chosen as the protest date because of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which states that anyone who engaged in insurrection is barred from holding office. Trumpf violated that oath when he incited the attack against Capitol Hill on 6 Jan 2021.

All of these draconian measures taken by the Trumpf junta are designed to inflict cruelty on the masses, regardless of their political affiliation or previous military service to the country. If Trumpf supporters feel betrayed by their avatar, so be it. On 5 Nov 2024, these Americans voted Trumpf and the oligarchs into the White House simply because they wanted a white man to be President, against their own economic interests. Simply put, the ruling Republicans are vampires, nothing more, nothing less, taking advantage of their cultist followers.

Besides Enriching the Oligarchs, What is America’s Godzilla Really Up To?

Donald Trumpf is simply following the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin to reap discord between the US and Canada, NATO, and the EU. And they are succeeding. But why? Will the US military really invade Greenland, Canada, or Panama? Probably not. But what would stop the Kremlin from seizing the Arctic? In 2001, Russia claimed the Arctic shelf (and therefore the vast oil and minerals deposits underneath). Global warming is making access to minerals in the Arctic and Greenland easier. Canada and the US agreed to jointly defend North America (NORAD) and expects US support if the Russian military makes incursions into the Arctic Circle (NATO). The Kremlin has 13 military bases pointed at the North Pole.

Russian submersible planting flag under the ice at the North Pole (2001 photo: BBC).

By antagonizing and alienating Canada and vice versa, Americans will be less inclined to help their northern neighbor, the way the average Republican today doesn’t care if Ukraine is under attack by Russia.

American voters and allies were warned of the “Ides of March” before the election. Now Trumpf’s ignominious betrayals rival or surpass that of Brutus and Cassius against Julius Caesar or Judas Iscariot in Golgotha.

Sources:

https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations

https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-says-ukrainian-troops-regrouped-in-kursk-oblast-denies-encirclement/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/08/30/amid-trump-tariffs-farm-bankruptcies-and-suicides-rise/

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/03/trump-now-demanding-canadians-be

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/veterans-afghan-war-us-1.7481929

https://newrepublic.com/article/192790/trump-kidnapped-ukrainian-kids-nixed-contract

https://ukraine.un.org/en/264368-un-says-russia-continues-torture-execute-ukrainian-pows

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-troops-executed-five-ukrainian-pows-in-kursk-oblast-ombudsman-says/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kursk-russia-ukraine-war-putin-ceasefire-b2713769.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/farmers-face-steep-losses-middle-trumps-trade-war-funding-cuts-rcna195967

Mark Carney: Canada’s New Prime Minister

Mark Carney won nearly 86% of the Liberal Party vote. (NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Rather than give you a biography of Mark Carney which Followers of the Watch can easily look up, here are some quick facts about the new Prime Minister. Mr. Carney (59) has not previously been elected to public office and doesn’t have a seat in Parliament. While that’s not unprecedented, this means that he can’t participate in debates or votes — and it suggests that he may call an election sooner rather than later.

Mr. Carney led the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and then served as United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance. A father of four, the Prime Minister is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford and holds three citizenships: Canadian, British, and Irish. While some Canadian politicians hold multiple passports, Mr. Carney believes the prime minister should not, so he began the process of surrendering his European citizenships. Mr. Carney, a centrist, has been sharply critical of Donald Trumpf and will stand up to him, but he will also listen to his concerns, imagined or real.

The new Prime Minister holds a PhD degree and will surround himself with a stellar new cabinet. He will need little advice. Nevertheless, Coriolanus has 27 years experience in military intelligence and has been to war, an experience Mr. Carney has not underwent. So your author humbly offers some suggestions for Mr. Carney once “he gets his sea legs.”

First, recognize the State of Palestine. The State of Palestine is recognized by 146 countries around the world with Norway, Spain and Ireland joining the list. In 2024, the US Democratic Party did not heed the words of the tremendous antiwar movement and the voices of Arab-Americans, costing them the election which led America to Trumpf 2.0.

Second, change the laws about tax-deductible charities. Through these schemes, Canadians send millions of dollars to Israel which has been ethnically cleansing itself of Palestinians for decades. In 1991 the Ottawa Citizen estimated that Canadians sent more than $100 million a year to Israel and possibly as much as $200 million. Assuming $100 million has been sent to Israel yearly since 1967 (when the tax deduction was codified) and with approximately 30% of the $5.4 billion total subsidized by the taxpayer, that’s around $1.7 billion in Canadian public support. Israel is a wealthy country with a GDP per capita of $52,642; Canada is $53,431.

Canada is ranked 28 out of 145 countries in terms of military power by the Global Firepower Index (GFI), but mighty Israel is ranked 15. So, why are Canadians allowed to subsidize a wealthy, powerful country with universal health care and nuclear weapons, as a tax deduction?

Third, re-establish diplomatic relations with Iran. In 2012, then conservative PM Stephen Harper recklessly severed relations with Tehran, costing Canada a valuable set of eyes and ears within the country and the Middle East. Note that Ottawa never severed ties with Havana or participated in the useless embargo of Cuba, going against US policy for decades. What would be the difference here?

Fourth, consider establishing a special immigration program for talented ex-federal employees ruthlessly fired from America’s FBI, CIA, CDC, DOS, NIH, NOAA, NTSB, FAA, USDA, or NSA through the notorious DOGE. Ottawa would immediately benefit from their education, experience, and training, particularly since America is now an unreliable ally and Pariah State.

Fifth, Canada’s intelligence agencies, CSIS and RCMP, must establish point-to-point relations with different foreign organizations outside NATO (if they haven’t already). Some excellent candidates for Canada would be Finland, Jordan, Denmark, Japan, South Korea, Poland, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, and Taiwan, to name but a few. Canada could gather its own intelligence without fear of compromise by the Russophiles in the USIC. A few techniques will help Ottawa maintain secure communications with its non-US partners. One, Canada can establish separate secure computer servers to prevent US penetration. Two, Canada can employ more diplomatic couriers to move information securely, albeit more slowly, through Air Canada flights. To save money, selected Air Canada pilots may be accredited as Diplomatic Couriers under the Vienna Convention, the most secure method of transmitting intelligence. Once the pilot lands his plane at say Amman or Helsinki, he would be met by a Canadian diplomat at the airport gate to receive the diplomatic pouch. When the plane departs for Toronto or Montreal, they do the same in reverse.

Sixth, the Prime Minister must stand up to Donald Trumpf, Felon Musk, as well as war criminals Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, two experts at ethnic cleansing in the name of “patriotism.”

These two ICC-indicted war criminals are not conversing in Yiddish. (25 Jun 2012 Jerusalem photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem / Pool / Flash90)

And good bye and good luck to the physically fit and charming Mr. Justin Trudeau, who was splendid as the Prime Minister of Canada for many years.

Sources:

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en

https://www.wfdd.org/story/5-things-know-about-mark-carney-canadas-next-prime-minister

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ottawa-shutters-embassy-in-iran-expels-all-iranian-diplomats-in-canada

The many ways Canada supports Israeli apartheid – rabble.ca

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=IL&most_recent_value_desc=true

https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=canada

America Becoming “Disease Haven”

America’s anti-vaxxer Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

After finally recovering from the COVID epidemic, the US is facing other health perils and the Trumpf administration will be responsible for it.

Deadly Super Fungus Spreading in US Hospitals

A drug-resistant fungus, Candida Auris, is spreading rapidly in US hospitals, posing a severe threat to patients who need invasive medical equipment. Georgia has seen over 1,300 cases as of the end of Feb 2025. Candida Auris, or C. Auris, is particularly dangerous in health care settings, where it spreads easily through invasive medical equipment such as breathing tubes, feeding tubes, syringes, or catheters. The fungus is resistant to many household cleaners and traditional hospital disinfectants, like ammonia-based cleaning solutions. C. Auris is not a threat to the general public.

Preventable Measles Spreading

Avian Flu Spreading

Craig Spencer, an Ebola virus survivor and Emmy-award winner, is a public health professor and emergency medicine physician at Brown University. He warns that the Trumpf junta is poised to leave the US a haven for disease. Spencer argues that Trump and his ally Elon Musk have “actively dismantled the infrastructure the country relies on to detect and confront deadly pathogens,” and adds that “we are sure to regret it.”

Spencer points to several key decisions made by Trumpf that are particularly alarming: The dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, the withdrawal of the US from the World Health Organization, and the decision to clamp down on public communications from the CDC.

Trumpf is America’s Godzilla and doesn’t care about the masses until he needs their votes.

Sources:

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-disease/

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519

Tanker Collision in North Sea

The UK Coast Guard reports:

“Both vessels remain presently stable with salvors boarding both the STENA IMMACULATE and the SOLONG today to continue carrying out comprehensive damage assessments.

“The locations of the vessels are unchanged – the STENA IMMACULATE remains at anchor. The SOLONG continues to be held in a safe location connected to a tug.

“There are now only small periodic pockets of fire on the SOLONG which are not causing undue concern. Specialist tugs with firefighting capability remain at both vessels’ locations.

“Regular aerial surveillance flights continue to monitor the vessels and confirm that there continues to be no cause for concern from pollution from either the STENA IMMACULATE or from the SOLONG.

“The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is also assisting in the response, and continues to advise that any public health risk on shore is deemed to be very low. The UKHSA will keep risk assessments under continual review as further information becomes available.”

STENA IMMACULATE pictured on 12 Mar 2025 (Photo: Maritime and Coastguard Agency)

SOLONG pictured on 11 March 2025 (Photo: Maritime and Coastguard Agency)

“The collision in the North Sea “has a high risk of being an environmental disaster in really important protected areas,” Naomi Tilley, Oil and Gas Campaign Lead at Oceana UK, an environmental group focused on oceans.

The UK Coastguard said an exclusion zone of about half of a mile had been established around both vessels.

“At this stage, it’s too early to assess the extent of any environmental damage,” Greenpeace UK said. explaining that the severity of any impact would depend on a number of factors, including “the amount and type of oil carried by the tanker, the fuel carried by both ships, and how much of that, if any, has entered the water.”

Incredible that in the 21st century, with technology, radar, radios, and GPS, that such a calamity could occur. This is just what the world could use, more environmental damage.

Sources:

https://hmcoastguard.uk/news/updates-vessels-incident-coast-east-yorkshire

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-sea-tanker-collision-environmental-impact/?intcid=CNR-02-0623

Trumpf Pardon Doesn’t Cover 6 Jan Terrorist for FBI Murder Plot

Edward Kelley on 6 Jan 2021. (Photo: Public domain)

Donald Trumpf’s sweeping pardons of insurrectionists who attacked the US Capitol on 6 Jan 2021 do not extend to the separate crime of Edward Kelley (35) of Maryville, TN, who plotted to murder FBI agents that investigated him. UDSJ Thomas Varlan ruled that the miscreant’s actions after his initial arrest were “separated from the defendant’s conduct in the DC Case by years and miles.”

A cooperating defendant, who previously pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy, testified that he and Kelley planned attacks on the Knoxville FBI Field Office using car bombs and incendiary devices appended to drones. He also testified that the conspirators strategized about assassinating FBI employees in their homes and in public places such as movie theaters.

Edward Kelley, who was convicted on 6 Jan charges after the government presented extensive evidence showing he was the fourth rioter to breach the Capitol after he assaulted law enforcement, was pardoned by Trumpf along with more than 1,500 other convicted insurrectionists. But Kelley had separately been charged with plotting to murder law enforcement officers involved in the investigation in a separate case. A federal jury in Tennessee convicted Kelley on those charges in November, and he is set to be sentenced 7 May. 

Edward Kelley mugshot.

This is at least one piece of good news out of the sordid mess that Trumpf created in the US. The FBI agents could rest a bit easier knowing that this lunatic will be imprisoned for a life, unless Trumpf decides to pardon him a second time.

Sources:

Click to access gov.uscourts.tned.107880.102.0.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/federal-jury-convicts-man-conspiring-murder-fbi-employees

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-jan-6-pardon-doesnt-cover-rioters-plot-kill-fbi-agents-judge-ru-rcna195673

Bear Feels Grass for First Time in 20 Years

America’s Spartacus and Brutus

Abolitionist and American martyr John Brown. To his right, former US Senator, US Secretary of War, then Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis.

After Abolitionist John Brown’s heroic seizure of the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, VA on 3 Jul 1859 to amass weapons for his emancipation campaign, disappointingly no slaves joined his Spartacus-like tiny army of 21 volunteers (including his own sons).

John Brown’s tiny force was defeated by Colonel Robert E Lee leading a company of US Marines. One of his sons was killed.

This was an era when Abolitionists were reviled and demonized as Southerners were terrified of a slave revolt like the one which occurred in Haiti decades ago. Using the Slave Patrols, the antebellum South was a police state.   

Wounded and captured, John Brown was quickly tried for his heresies in arguably a “kangaroo court.” But prosecutors were unsure how to charge John Brown and the grand jury indicted him on “treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia” and inciting people “to rebellion and insurrection,” which includes “riot, robbery, murder, and arson.”  

Virginia Governor Henry Wise, while abhorring his views, pronounced John Brown “the gamest man I ever saw.”

Hiram Griswold, defense counsel for John Brown, argued that “no man is guilty of treason unless he be a citizen of the state against which the treason so alleged has been committed”–and that Brown, a citizen of New York, could not therefore commit treason against Virginia. As for the charge of inciting a slave revolt, his lawyer insisted “there is a manifest distinction” between trying to free slaves, which Brown admittedly did, and inciting them “to rebellion and insurrection,” which includes “riot, robbery, murder, and arson.” Brown’s goal was to liberate slaves, not kill slaveowners or inflict mayhem.

Defense counsel conceded that citizens were shot during the Harper’s Ferry incident. But to call these shootings “murders” as the state sought to do, was to confuse common criminal conduct with the unfortunate but sometime necessary consequences of a military battle. The deaths, Griswold contended, were not “murders” within the meaning of Virginia law, but rather battlefield casualties.

The gallant courtroom defense of John Brown failed and he was found guilty after 45 minutes of jury deliberation.

John Brown was publicly executed on 2 Dec 1859, five months from his raid on Harper’s Ferry.

Execution of John Brown. Shakespearean actor John Wilkes Booth was a spectator. (Source: David Hunter Strother)

Fast Forward Six Years to the “Battle of Philippi” Ending the American Civil War

Confederate Army commander Robert E. Lee (or Cassius) surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on 9 Apr 1865. President Jefferson Davis attempted to head west to continue the war with die-hard guerilla forces unwilling to concede, but the turncoat and his small party were captured by Union forces one month later.

In between the Confederate Army surrender and the capture of America’s Brutus, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Jefferson Davis was imprisoned in Fort Monroe, VA, and confined to a casemate, forced to wear fetters on his ankles, required to have guards constantly in his room, forbidden contact with his family, and given only a Bible and his prayerbook to read. Public outcry against these harsh conditions led to an easing of his discomforts.

Sketch of Jefferson Davis in Fort Monroe casemate by Alfred Waud (1865).

In late summer 1865, Attorney General James Speed determined that it was best to try Davis for treason in a civil criminal trial. In June 1866, the House of Representatives passed a resolution by a vote of 105 to 19 to put Davis on trial for treason. Union prosecutors worried a jury might sympathize with Davis and acquit him in an act of jury nullification that would be interpreted as validating the constitutionality of secession. Ultimately, after two years of imprisonment, Jefferson Davis was released unscathed in Richmond on 13 May 1867. His bail of $100,000 (~$1.79 million in 2023) was posted by the oligarchs of his day: Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Gerrit Smith.

The Different Treatment Between the American Spartacus and Brutus

John Brown introduced the terrifying concept of racial equality to Southern slave-owners that threatened their prosperity, the status quo, and the myth of white supremacy. Bewildered prosecutors against America’s Spartacus cobbled together their charges against him and railroaded John Brown to his execution, all within five months. The incredibly dangerous meme of racial equality had to be quickly and decisively crushed.

But for America’s Brutus whose secession attempt cost hundreds of thousands of American lives and millions of dollars in damage, post-Civil War prosecutors were unable to convict Jefferson Davis of one, single charge. After two years Jefferson Davis was released unscathed from prison on 13 May 1867. The all-important meme of white supremacy was not quickly and decisively crushed.

While the “Battle of Philippi” defeated Brutus and Cassius and dissolved the geographic Mason-Dixon Line, the meta-physical apartheid of America and the meme of white supremacy remains to this day. Witness the several failed Congressional and criminal attempts to convict Donald Trumpf, the ultimate avatar of whiteism, just like Jefferson Davis, whose princely bond of $100,000 was paid by oligarchs 160 years ago. There should be no mystery that Trumpf wants to rename US military bases with the names of defeated Confederate generals.

Endnotes:

Only two Confederates would hang for war crimes after the US Civil War: Henry Wirz and Samuel “Champ” Ferguson. White supremacist Jefferson Davis would move to Canada and return to the US, outliving President Abraham Lincoln by 24 years and John Brown by 30 years. He died in Mississippi at the ripe old age of 81 on 6 Dec 1889. The Lost Cause of the Confederacy movement considered him to be a hero. In the late 19th and the 20th centuries, his legacy as Confederate leader was celebrated in the South. Some historians claim that John Wilkes Booth may be considered a Brutus or a Judas Iscariot for stalking and eventually assassinating President Abraham Lincoln.

Ralph Waldo Emerson would call John Brown’s 1859 courtroom oration, along with the Gettysburg Address, one of the two greatest American speeches:

“The New Testament teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them….I have endeavored to act on that instruction. I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered, as I have done…in behalf of His despised poor, is no wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood farther with the blood of my children and the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I say let it be done.”

Sources:

The Trial of John Brown: An Account

https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/murder-most-foul-how-shakespeare-connects-abraham-lincoln-and-john-wilkes-booth/

Jefferson Davis – Wikipedia

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Brown-American-abolitionist

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/only-two-confederates-were-executed-for-war-crimes-during-the-civil-war/

John Brown (abolitionist) – Wikipedia

Chrystia Freeland to Run for Leader of Canada’s Liberal Party

Chrystia Freeland (Photo: Reuters)

Former Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland intends to run to lead the country’s governing Liberal Party saying “I’m running to fight for Canada.”

Freeland recently fell out with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the direction of the country’s financial policies. Her resignation from her post in December was a blow to Trudeau’s already-shaky hold on the Canadian government, helping to usher in his own resignation after nine years as prime minister.

Freeland had long been one of Trudeau’s closest allies in his Liberal Party. She held the key role of Canada’s finance minister starting in 2020 – the first woman to hold the position – and helped to lead the country through the pandemic and its aftermath. The two disagreed on how to address US President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs, among other financial policies as Canada faced a C$60b deficit ($42bn; £33bn).

Following his win in November, Trump, who takes office on Monday, suggested that he would impose potential 25% tariffs on Canadian goods. In a public resignation letter, Freeland criticized Trudeau’s leadership, denounced his use of “costly political gimmicks” and said Canada must push “back against ‘America First’ economic nationalism”.

Ms. Freeland is of Ukrainian descent and a Rhodes Scholar. She has a strong reputation for competence and has experience dealing with Donald Trumpf. Canada must hold general elections in October 2025, but could come as soon as spring.

The threat of a Trumpf presidency caused Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to launch the Council on Canada-US Relations, comprised of leaders in business, innovation, and policy, in order to use their sectoral expertise in dealing with the US. Canadians along the political spectrum are uniting against Trumpf’s blasphemies.

Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford wears a “Canada is not for sale” hat on his way into Wednesday’s First Minister’s meeting in Ottawa.  (Photo by Bryan Passifiume / Toronto Sun / Postmedia Network)

America’s neighbor to the south is also ridiculing Donald Trumpf as well.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm277d030evo

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2025/01/16/prime-ministers-council-canada-us

US: State of Georgia Confirms Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza; All Poultry Activities Suspended

From the Georgia Department of Agriculture:

The Georgia Department of Agriculture and the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed a positive case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in a commercial poultry operation located in Elbert County, GA. This is the first confirmed HPAI case in a commercial poultry operation in Georgia, and the fifth detection in the state of Georgia. As a result of this detection, effective immediately, all in-state poultry exhibitions, shows, swaps, meets, and sales are suspended until further notice.

All commercial poultry operations within a ten kilometer (6.2 mile) radius have been placed under quarantine and will undergo surveillance testing for a period of at least two weeks.

Avian flu will have a serious impact on the poultry industry with ramifications across a broad spectrum of the US. For example, pets can be affected by avian flu tainted food. While dogs are less vulnerable to avian flu, cats are not.

This beautiful cat died in Dec 2024 after eating from a contaminated batch of Northwest Naturals pet food. (Photo:
Jamila Acfalle)

One of the last official acts of the Biden Administration was to fund Moderna to discover a vaccine for the Avian flu. This will be President Trumpf’s first major health crisis.

President Trumpf’s medical care plan for all Americans.

Source:

https://agr.georgia.gov/pr/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-confirmed-commercial-poultry-flock-georgia-all-poultry

INTERPOL, Germany, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Unite to Tackle Environmental Crime

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable forms of criminal operations worldwide, with estimates putting it as the third most profitable criminal activity behind drug trafficking and counterfeit crimes.

From INTERPOL:

The Federal Environment Ministry of Germany, INTERPOL and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are joining forces to combat the devastating impact of environmental crime.

With a EUR Five million investment from the German government’s International Climate Initiative (IKI), the three-year project aims to identify and prevent transnational crimes impacting the climate, biodiversity and the environment across five key areas: fisheries crime, forestry crime, illegal mining, pollution crime, and wildlife crime.

Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke:

“Transboundary organized environmental crime exacerbates the triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution. So it is important to me to ensure that protecting the environment goes hand in hand with combating environmental crime.

“Criminal organizations are causing massive damage to the natural foundations of our lives. For example, they kill and trade in critically endangered species, clear forests that provide key carbon reservoirs and habitats, and poison landscapes with illegally dumped waste, making them uninhabitable. By cooperating with INTERPOL and WWF, we will join forces and make a valuable contribution in the fight against transboundary environmental crime.”

INTERPOL Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza:

“Environmental crimes threaten our planet, our daily lives and the future of generations to come. From illegal logging to hazardous waste dumping, there are no borders to environmental crimes, which are uniquely destructive, with long term consequences that extend far beyond the immediate damage. This joint project with Germany and WWF will help provide real support in developing capabilities, intelligence and ultimately, operational outcomes.”

EUR five million is a drop in the bucket when dealing with international organized crime, but the investment is taken in good spirit. One of the issues INTERPOL can address is the “Sand mafia,” one of the largest crime syndicates in the world who are accused of plundering the earth. Stealing sand from beaches or from off-shore with dredgers, these criminals increase beach erosion worldwide. The stolen sand is used for lucrative building construction.

Sources:

https://www.interpol.int/News-and-Events/News/2025/Tackling-Environmental-Crime-Germany-INTERPOL-and-WWF-unite-efforts

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sand-mafias-are-plundering-the-earth/

US/Canada: Rate of Dementia Cases Increasing Every Year

More than 25 different diseases and conditions can cause dementia; Alzheimer’s disease being the most common cause.

From Nature:

The number of US adults who will develop dementia each year was projected to increase from approximately 514,000 in 2020 to approximately one million in 2060. The relative growth in new dementia cases was especially pronounced for Black adults.

US Analysis:

“Using data from a community-based, prospective cohort study (n=15,043; 26.9% Black race, 55.1% women and 30.8% with at least one apolipoprotein E4 (APOE ?4) allele), we estimated the lifetime risk of dementia (from age 55 years to 95 years), with mortality treated as a competing event. We applied lifetime risk estimates to US Census projections to evaluate the annual number of incident dementia cases from 2020 to 2060. The lifetime risk of dementia after age 55 years was 42% (95% confidence interval: 41–43). Rates were substantially higher in women, Black adults and APOE 4 carriers, with lifetime risks ranging from approximately 45% to 60% in these populations. The number of US adults who will develop dementia each year was projected to increase from approximately 514,000 in 2020 to approximately one million in 2060. The relative growth in new dementia cases was especially pronounced for Black adults. These results highlight the urgent need for policies that enhance healthy aging, with a focus on health equity.”

Canada Analysis:

As of 1 Jan 2025, an estimated 771,939 people are living with dementia.
Every day, more than 414 people develop dementia, which is more than 17 every hour.

By 2030, researchers project that nearly one million people will be living with dementia. And they forecast that more than 1.7 million people in Canada will have dementia by 2050.

Genetics, alcohol/drug use, the environment, poverty, and malnutrition are probably all contributing factors. Canada, with a growing elderly population, will probably weather this future storm better than the US with her superior social safety nets. For Americans, these numbers may grow because of the incoming Trumpf Administration which will extract more wealth out of the system, cutting back on Medicare, food assistance, and medical research.

Sources:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03340-9

https://alzheimer.ca/en/about-dementia/what-dementia/dementia-numbers-canada

64 Years Ago, Americans Celebrated President John F. Kennedy with Stellar Pre-Inaugural Gala in Washington, DC

Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack was a political tour-de-force which helped JFK win the White House in 1960. They organized a pre-inaugural gala/fundraiser on 19 Jan 1961. Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford convinced several Broadway producers to shut down for one night so actors such as Anthony Quinn, Ethel Merman, and Laurence Olivier could attend.

The National Guard Armory in DC hosted two inaugural events: the Pre-Inaugural Gala (19 Jan 1961) and the Post-Inaugural Ball (20 Jan 1961).

President-elect John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrive at the pre-inaugural ball.

Frank Sinatra escorts Jacqueline Kennedy up the stairs during the pre-inaugural gala at the National Guard Armory in Washington, DC on 19 Jan 1961 (Photo: GAB Archive / Redferns)

The Chairman of the Board lighting up the incoming Commander-in-Chief.

Gene Kelly performing at the JFK gala, 19 Jan 1961.

Fellow Rat Packer Peter Lawford was the tightest with Frank Sinatra at that moment in history.

Regrettably, Rat Packer Sammy Davis Jr was excluded from the 19 Jan gala because of his recent mixed-race marriage to May Britt and Southern Democrats needed to be appeased. Crushed, Sammy Davis Jr would switch his support to the GOP and in 1972 he became the first man of color to stay overnight at the White House (in the Lincoln Bedroom).

Tickets sold for $100 each and 72 ringside boxes for small groups were sold at $10,000 apiece.

‘Twas the beginning of a short-lived Camelot.

This comic book was distributed to people overseas through US Embassies to introduce them to America’s new First Family.

JFK donated his entire congressional and presidential salaries to charity.

Sources:

https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/the-lost-inaugural-gala-for-jfk-never-before-seen-performances/

https://pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/1961-inaugural-gala/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jfk-presidential-salary/

Abandoned Golden Retriever Puppy Cried So Kitten Came Over to Comfort It

Vietnam 63 Years Ago Today: First US Soldier Killed in Ground Combat

James T. “Tom” Davis was sent to the Republic of Vietnam in May 1961 with the US Army Security Agency (ASA) to pinpoint enemy radio transmitters. (Images: Davis family via Mark Raab)

In a tortured experience known as the Vietnam War which would eventually cost American families 58,220 of their brave sons and daughters, the very first US Army Soldier to die in ground combat was Specialist James T. “Tom” Davis 63 years ago today, on 22 Dec 1961.

James T. “Tom” Davis was a Tennessee native like Medal of Honor awardee Alvin Cullum York (immortalized by Gary cooper in the 1941 film Sergeant York),

James Davis enlisted in the US Army after high school, becoming a signals intercept specialist with the Army Security Agency (ASA).

The ASA was formed in 1945 to intercept and monitor enemy and friendly radio communications (AKA SIGINT). The ASA operated covertly in Vietnam as “radio research units.” Coriolanus is proud to write that one of his military instructors in university served with the ASA during the Vietnam War.

Excerpts from Mark Raab’s excellent article:

“The 3rd Radio Research Unit arrived at Tan Son Nhut on 13 May 1961 and was the first entire US Army unit to deploy to Vietnam. The men who got off the plane wore civilian clothes, a reflection of their secretive assignment. Previously, members of the military arrived as individuals and were placed in units after they were in-country. US personnel in Vietnam in May 1961 were assigned to Military Assistance Advisory Group-Vietnam, formed in November 1955. The US had approximately 3,000 military personnel in Vietnam at the time.”

“Tracking a Viet Cong radio signal west of Saigon on 22 Dec 1961, Specialist Davis and a contingent of ten South Vietnamese soldiers headed to meet the enemy. But their vehicle struck a powerful mine, killing nine ARVN soldiers. Specialist Davis pulled his surviving ARVN driver out of the disabled truck and fired upon the attacking Viet Cong guerillas with his carbine. Some 50 feet away from the vehicle, Davis was hit by enemy fire and fell.”

“The Viet Cong, no longer receiving any return fire, rushed to the wounded Davis. They shot the Soldier in the head and rifled through his pockets searching for anything valuable. The guerillas didn’t recover his watch which Davis kept in his breast pocket away from his electronic devices.” But Specialist Davis’ efforts weren’t in vain.

“Using fresh intelligence from the 3rd Radio Research Unit, US and ARVN personnel headed west to attack the Viet Cong at the Thieng Quang pineapple plantation in Operation Chopper on 24 Dec 1961, the first helicopter assault of the Vietnam War and the birth of the Air Cavalry.”

Specialist James “Tom” Davis was buried in his hometown at Livingston’s Good Hope Cemetery on 3 Jan 1962. On 10 Jan, less than three weeks after his death, the ASA officially named the 3rd Radio Research Unit’s Tan Son Nhut compound “Davis Station.”

Historical Footnotes:

Major Dale Buis (L) and Sergeant Chester Ovnand (R) courtesy of The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

In 1959, the first American soldiers to die in Vietnam were Major Dale Buis and Sergeant Chester Ovnand when their compound was attacked by Viet Cong guerillas.

The first American personnel to die in Vietnam were two CIA pilots supporting the French military during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954: James McGovern and Wallace Buford.

 

(Undated photo of CIA pilot James Bernard McGovern Jr)

Endnotes:

During the Cold War, Airman John Cash was a SIGINT specialist. As a crack Morse code interceptor, he deciphered Soviet signals for USAF intelligence.

While monitoring the Soviet Morse Code chatter on 5 Mar 1953, Airman Cash became the very first American to hear of the death of the Soviet supreme leader, Joseph Stalin. The “Man in Black” then relayed the important information to his superiors, a secret Johnny Cash wouldn’t reveal for many years and the rest is history.

Sources:

https://www.historynet.com/first-us-soldier-killed-vietnam/

Johnny Cash, the Man in Black, Was a Morse code Intercept Operator during the Cold War

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alvin-Cullum-York

Kiev In Flames After Massive Russian Attack:

“A Tale of Two Cities”

Ukrainian rescuers extinguishing a fire at the site of a 20 Dec Russian missile attack in Kiev. (Photo: Roman Pilipey /AFP via Getty Images)

This undated but highly appropriate photo below was taken in the closed Russian city of Yekaterinburg:

ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin continued his Nakba against Ukrainians with a massive drone attack against Kiev as winter begins to set in. This is the man that President-elect Donald Trump admires. Casualty counts are still being tabulated.

Ukrainians take shelter in a metro station during the 20 Dec attack on Kiev.

This poor child was heard calling “Mama!” as a woman led her briskly to safety, away from the burning car behind them, following Russian air strikes on Kiev on 20 Dec.

St. Nicholas Church was among the buildings damaged in Kiev.

More than 600 residential buildings in the capital were left without heating as a result of the attacks.

A Ukrainian woman appears shocked, cradling her terrified dog, in the wake of the attack.

A Tale of Two Cities

Just as ICC indicted war criminal Russian President Vladimir Putin is cruelly immiserating the people of Ukraine this winter, so too is similarly indicted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu cruelly immiserating the people of Gaza. Ukrainian lives matter, and so do Palestinian lives.

Do either of these ten-year-old girls below look like terrorists?

The visibly emotional Nadine (10) questioned why she and the people around her were being pitilessly attacked by the IDF. (Photo: Social media)

After losing her eye in an IDF attack, Areej Asaliya (10) said “My life will never be the same again.” But what future would poor Areej have had anyway in the impoverished devastated ghetto of Gaza? (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

One of the major differences between Putin’s Nakba against the Ukrainians and Netanyahu’s pogrom against the Palestinians: Funding.

The hard-working American taxpayer is rightfully funding the defense of one people from suffering while wrongfully funding the suffering of another. Since Feb 2022, the US has allocated $113.4 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine. Meanwhile, the US committed over $3.3 billion in foreign assistance to Israel in 2022, the most recent year for which data exists. About $8.8 million of that went toward the country’s economy, while 99.7% of the aid went to the IDF. From 1951 to 2022, US aid to Israel totaled $317.9 billion.

Sources:

https://www.rferl.org/a/air-raid-warning-attacks-kyiv-ukraine/33248178.html

https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-strikes-kyiv-ukraine-/33246699.html

https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/gaza-israel-hamas-militant-group-10-year-old-breaks-down-viral-video-7318773/

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-money-has-the-us-given-ukraine-since-russias-invasion/

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-military-aid-does-the-us-give-to-israel/

https://archive.is/Vr1wz

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/20/russia-ukraine-ballistic-missiles-drones-cyberattack-putin/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-winter-cold-power-1.6661362

Will US Make an Example of Luigi Mangione?

Luigi Mangione escorted by an army of police officers as if he was a nefarious and dangerous super combination of Hannibal Lecter and Osama Bin Laden.

After the murder of Mammonish UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, a wealthy man who proudly put profits over people, NYPD detectives began the nationwide manhunt for his alleged killer.  After being identified by a fast-food worker in Altoona, PA, Luigi Mangione was arrested and readied for extradition to NYC where he would be prosecuted by Manhattan County District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

On 17 Dec, a Manhattan County Grand Jury indicted Luigi Mangione (full indictment linked below):

Mangione Charged with one count of Murder in the First Degree and two counts of Murder in the Second Degree

But two days later on 19 Dec, the federal government (through the SDNY AUSA) charged Luigi Mangione with a litany of charges that includes death (by lethal injection).

From the official AUSA statement:

“As alleged, Luigi Mangione traveled to New York to stalk and shoot Thompson in broad daylight in front of a Manhattan hotel, all in a grossly misguided attempt to broadcast Mangione’s views across the country.“

Why would the federal government pursue charges when a Manhattan County Grand Jury already indicted Luigi Mangione?

Luigi Mangione’s defense counsel questioned conflicting federal charges she described as “highly unusual.”

“Is there one case? Two cases? Two investigations? Is it a joint investigation?” Karen Friedman Agnifilo asked US Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker. 

“There are a lot of factors here that I think are very confusing, highly unusual,” she added.

Perhaps because the Empire State does not have capital punishment and the federal government may want to make an example of Luigi Mangione.

When you re-read the AUSA statement, the US Attorney admits the USG wants to quash the “grossly misguided” message, as well as the messenger.

Put another way, the American elites simply won’t tolerate attacks on capitalism or the murder of one of their own. Some people have to be made examples of. Uncle Sam has a history of making examples. First, in 1953 two alleged “atom spies” were executed:

In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the only American civilians executed for espionage during the Cold War, a case prosecuted by the notorious Roy Cohn.

The funeral services were held in Brooklyn on 21 Jun 1953. The Rosenbergs were buried at Wellwood Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Pinelawn, NY. The Times reported that 500 people attended and some 10,000 stood outside.

Based on subsequent Russian decryptions, Ethel Rosenberg knew about Julius’ espionage work “but that due to ill health she did not engage in the work herself” and an innocent woman was executed.  

Another example was the infamous federal execution of Timothy McVeigh on 11 Jun 2011. Instead of being imprisoned in a Supermax BOP facility for life with other convicted terrorists and murderers, American society demanded vengeance for the 168 people killed (including 19 children) and 684 injured in the 19 Apr 1995 terrorist attack in Oklahoma City, OK.

Execution chamber, USIP Terre Haute, IN.

Since 1976, sixteen people have been executed under federal jurisdiction by the US government. All were executed by lethal injection at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, IN. According to the US BOP, there are 4,982 prisoners incarcerated for Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses. Not all federally convicted murderers in prison are executed.

And what is this misguided message the US government wants to extinguish? The dangerous and inconvenient truth that unregulated capitalism, particularly in the health insurance industry, doesn’t work for the poor and suffering masses and that seeking private retribution for these injustices simply won’t be tolerated.

Today, the elites seem to be demanding vengeance– not justice– for killing one of their own or else the Manhattan DA would be trying this open and shut murder case. But since Mangione won’t face the death penalty in a NYS court, the US government intervened, giving itself the option of extracting its pound of flesh from Luigi Mangione. Having said that, Coriolanus strongly suspects that should Luigi Mangione be federally convicted, he will face life behind bars in a remote prison in Colorado.

But America’s wealthy elites and CEOs ought to pay attention to the suffering of the masses which will only increase under the imminent Trump-Musk-Putin regime and Project 2025. Nationwide, health industry executives and politicians have been scrambling to secure their homes with infrared robotic cameras, bulletproof glass, and secret doors to safe rooms. A robust phalanx of sinister-looking bodyguards and a medic have been observed accompanying super-oligarch Elon Musk.

A common and daily scene during the French Revolution.

Sources:

https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-murder-indictment-of-luigi-mangione/

https://manhattanda.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mangione-Indictment-FINAL-as-filed.pdf

Luigi Mangione’s attorney takes issue with federal, state charges

https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/luigi-mangione-charged-stalking-and-murder-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-and-use

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-12/signed_complaint_mangione.pdf

https://manhattanda.org/

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg – Wikipedia

 Terrified CEOs resort to extreme secret security tactics after Brian Thompson assassination amid copycat fears | Daily Mail Online

US: Avian Flu Advisory

California Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a State of Emergency to streamline and expedite the state’s response to Avian influenza A (H5N1), commonly known as “Bird Flu.” Tests have confirmed H5 avian flu in two cats that died after drinking recalled raw milk and LA county health authorities are investigating three other possible cases in cats that weren’t exposed to raw milk.

The virus has spread in 16 states among dairy cattle, following its first confirmed detection in Texas and Kansas in March 2024.

In Louisiana, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a non-commercial backyard flock (non-poultry) in Bossier Parish.  This is the first case of HPAI in domestic birds in Louisiana during this outbreak, which began in February 2022.

The Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has detected highly pathogenic avian influenza in an Ottawa County flock, following an investigation from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD)

According to an announcement from the department Monday, this is the first detection of the disease in a Michigan poultry flock since the state worked to manage the largest outbreak of the disease in May 2024 and the second in an Ottawa County commercial facility since the disease was first detected in the state in 2022. 

According to the CDC, the public health risk associated with these avian influenza detections in birds remains low.  As a reminder, the proper handling and cooking of all poultry and eggs to an internal temperature of 165 ˚F is recommended as a general food safety precaution.

The avian flu will probably be the Trump administration’s first health challenge. The incoming president gained experience during the COVID pandemic and Americans will see how Trump and his cabinet handle this growing emergency which potentially threatens the economy, people, and cats.   

Sources:

USDA Confirms Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Backyard Non-Poultry Flock in Louisiana | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

CORRECT-ATTESTED.pdf

Governor Newsom takes proactive action to strengthen robust state response to Bird Flu | Governor of California

Highly pathogenic avian influenza detected in Ottawa County, MDARD warns.  • Michigan AdvanceLos Angeles County confirms avian flu in cat deaths as more cases suspected | CIDRAP

Germany: Demented Saudi Refugee Rams Car into Crowd Killing Several and Injuring Hundreds

A nine-year-old child and four adults have been killed after a car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.

More than 200 people were injured – at least 41 critically – in the attack on Friday evening.

A black BMW SUV ploughed 400 meters through the crowded market in an attack that lasted about three minutes. The suspect has been named in local media as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old Saudi citizen who arrived in Germany in 2006 and had worked as a doctor.

Taleb al-Abdulmohsen (Social media)

Prosecutor Horst Walter Nopens said that the investigation was ongoing but suggested the background to the crime “could have been disgruntlement with the way Saudi Arabian refugees are treated in Germany”.

The suspected attacker has no known links to Islamist extremism and he appears to be a “lone actor.” His social media and posts appear to suggest he had been critical of Islam.

A source close to the Saudi government told the BBC it sent four official notifications known as “Notes Verbal” to German authorities, warning them about what they said were “the very extreme views” held by al-Abdulmohsen.

The source, who asked not to be named, said these notifications were ignored.

However, another experienced counter-terrorism expert said the Saudis may be mounting a disinformation campaign to discredit someone who tried to help young Saudi women seek asylum in Germany.

Al-Abdulmohsen is thought to have driven into the market through an entry point which was reserved for emergency vehicles.

The suspect is a psychiatrist who lived in Bernburg, around 40km (25 miles) south of Magdeburg. Originally from Saudi Arabia, al-Abdulmohsen arrived in Germany in 2006 and in 2016 was recognised as a refugee. He ran a website that aimed to help other former Muslims flee persecution in their Gulf homelands.

Friday’s incident is not the first time people at a Christmas market have been attacked in Germany.

In 2016, Anis Amri, a Tunisian man who failed to gain asylum in Germany and had links to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, drove a truck into crowds gathered at a church market in Berlin, killing 12 and injuring 49 others.

Two years later, a gunman opened fire on a Christmas market in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, killing five and injuring another 11 people. The gunman was shot dead by police two days later.

Only last month, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser talked about the need for “greater vigilance” at the highly popular markets but said there were no “concrete” indications of danger.

She also reportedly pointed to tougher laws on weapons in public spaces following a knife attack in Solingen, west Germany, in August in which three people died.

The RW AfD will gain in the snap elections and auslanders (even innocent ones) will be deported from Germany in 2025.

Elon Musk recently tweeted:

“Only the AfD can save Germany.”

AfD Neo-Nazis spent Election Day at Mar a Lago. The tall man on the left is a reputed porn star. (Image: Social media)

All of this terrorism, discord, and xenophobia in the West makes Vladimir Putin’s day. Elon Musk must be ecstatic that his tweet reached an international audience before news of this callous and brutal attack at Christmas revelers in Germany reached most Americans in the US.

Sources:

German Christmas market attack: Nine-year-old among five killed

December 21, 2024 – Coverage of the Germany Christmas market attack | CNN

China: Seven Alleged Spies Arrested in Guam During US Missile Testing

Seven Chinese citizens have been arrested for allegedly attempting to illegally enter Guam, a US territory, while the military was conducting a key missile defense test.

The incident, which occurred on 10-11 Dec 2024, has raised concerns about potential espionage as four of those detained were found “in the vicinity of a military installation,” Guam’s Customs and Quarantine Agency said. The arrests came as the US Missile Defense Agency conducted an interception test involving advanced radar systems at Andersen Air Force Base on 10 Dec 2024.

“Conducting espionage against US military facilities, especially those with missile launch capabilities, could provide the PRC with potentially valuable intelligence,” US think tank Institute for the Study of War said.

The USN destroyer John Paul Jones launches an SM-6 during a live-fire test of the ship’s Aegis weapons system. The Missile Defense Agency’s first flight tests involving its defense of Guam architecture will include the Aegis series. (Photo: US Navy)

The arrested individuals reportedly arrived on the island by boat from Saipan. Guamanian authorities have launched an investigation into the incident, but there has been no immediate response from China’s foreign ministry to the arrests or the allegations.

Chinese intelligence uses the million grains of sand approach to collect information and China’s satellites and radar can efficiently gather telemetric data, so these seven alleged spies were sent to Guam to pick up any scrap of ancillary information about the missile launch, the vessel, photos of crew members, telephone numbers, or any grain of sand that will help create a mosaic of intelligence in Beijing.

Sources:

Seven Chinese nationals tried to illegally enter Guam as US tested missile, authorities say | The Independent

First flight test for Guam missile defense planned for end of 2024

Future White House Press Conferences Under Donald J. Trump

Below are the questions the White House Press Corps should be asking President Trump next year:

“Thank you, Sir, for answering my question about deportations. One follow-up, please. Does President Musk agree with you?”


“Sir! Sir!” How long did it take President Putin to select your Cabinet appointments?”


“Sir! Will President Musk be given Air Force Two?”


“Thank you, Sir! Does President Putin email or call you with his instructions?”


“Mr. President, did you run this idea past Elon Musk? And he OK-ed it?”


“Sir, how long does it President Putin to make decisions impacting US national security? And has his English improved when he gives you directions?”

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