Jeffrey Epstein’s Unreleased Pedophilic FBI Files Driving Donald Trump and Republican Junta Absolutely Insane

(Photo: Copyright John Bazemore / 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.)

The New York Times just published another lengthy piece about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s 15-year-long friendship that centered around one commonality: their insatiable fetish for nubile young girls.

What Does First Lady Melania and Daughter Ivanka Think of the Paterfamilias?

Source:

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

Like MacBeth driven to lunacy by the ghost of Banquo, so to is Dummkopf Trumpf being driven to lunacy by the ghost of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and his sordid, lengthy FBI dossier which the junta is loath to publicly release.

Trumpf Junta Tactics: “Circle the Wagons” and Distract the Hoi Polloi

Servient of America’s oligarchs House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he does not plan to allow votes on any measures related to the Jeffrey Epstein case in the House’s final week in Washington before a weekslong recess, despite intense pressure from some of his own GOP members to go on the record on the issue.

The MAGA Republicans are ‘circling the wagons’ around their beleaguered cult leader, Dummkopf Trumpf, even though other Republicans want to see congressional action on the scandalous Epstein files.

Link: Johnson shuts door on House vote before September on releasing Epstein files | CNN Politics

Moreover, the Trumpf junta has gutted the office in the State Department that combats international human trafficking.

Link: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/epstein-trump-human-trafficking-state-department-tip-office-rcna219689

Distract! Deflect! Deny! Defend! Delay!

To distract the media and the hoi polloi, the Trumpf junta began a smear campaign against former President Barack Obama, which you read about on Coriolanus. As if trying to distract a child or a cat, the junta pulled out more ‘shiny new objects’ as red meat for their base and another issue for progressives to deal with.

Trumpf Urges Sports Teams to Restore Their Previous Racist Names

Dotard Trumpf posted on Truth Social:

“The Washington “Whatever’s” should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!”

The President threatened to sanction the NFL Washington Commanders team if the owner did not comply.

Source: Trump urges Cleveland Guardians and Washington Commanders to restore old names

More Utter Dysfunction from the Trumpf Junta

“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.” (2018 Trumpf tweet)

Trumpf administration plans to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas. As part of the Dotard’s end to foreign aid, destruction of the long-acting contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000.

“It is unacceptable that the State Department would move forward with the destruction of more than $9m in taxpayer-funded family planning commodities purchased to support women in crisis settings, including war zones and refugee camps,” said US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). Shaheen and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) have introduced legislation to stop the destruction.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/trump-administration-destroy-contraceptives-usaid-africa

Trumpf Replaces US Naval Academy Superintendent with USMC General

USSECDEF Pete Hegseth walks alongside US Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Yvette Davids during his visit to the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 1 April 2025. I don’t think she is smiling today. (Photo: DoD / USN Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

The Trumpf junta has chosen a Marine general to replace the first woman to lead the US Naval Academy, trading out one history-making officer for another, well short of the typical three-year tenure for the position.

Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte, who currently oversees the Marine Corps‘ personnel directorate, has been nominated to replace Vice Adm. Yvette Davids as superintendent of the academy.

Davids was the first woman to head the service’s storied academy. Meanwhile, Borgschulte will be the first Marine to head the academic institution in its 180-year history.

Davids’ tenure at the academy was shorter than usual and, in that time, the institution had become a focus for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his campaign against topics and materials that the Trumpf junta considers “woke.”

Links:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4249504/secretary-of-defense-general-and-flag-officer-announcements-for-july-18-2025/

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/18/naval-academy-superintendent-first-woman-post-replaced-early-marine-general.html

EPA Eliminating Its Scientific Research Arm

President Nixon signing the Clean Water Act, 1972

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so. The Trumpf junta is forging ahead with efforts to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies after the Supreme Court allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Government scientists have been particular targets of the administration’s large-scale layoffs.

The decision to dismantle the EPA’s Office of Research and Development had been widely expected since March. But until Friday, the Trumpf junta maintained that no final decisions had been made.

This was a perfect time to make this announcement and is consistent with the junta’s plans to enshittify the US and stupidify Americans. These scientists and researchers will be welcome in Canada, the UK, and the EU.

FEMA Head of Search and Rescue Operations Resigns in Disgust

Ken Pagurek talks to CNN after searching the rubble of a collapsed condo in Surfside, FL, in 2021 (Image:  
CNN)

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Ken Pagurek’s departure comes less than three weeks after a delayed FEMA response to catastrophic flooding in central Texas caused by bureaucratic hurdles put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the disaster response agency.

Pagurek told colleagues at FEMA that the delay was the tipping point that led to his voluntary departure after months of frustration with the Trumpf junta’s efforts to dismantle the agency. It took more than 72 hours after the flooding for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network.

After spending more than a decade with FEMA’s urban search and rescue system, including about a year as its chief, Pagurek said in his resignation letter that he was returning to the Philadelphia Fire Department and did not mention the Texas flooding.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/politics/fema-search-and-rescue-chief-resigns

Trumpf Junta Fires Another Unqualified DOD Staffer

Another goniff hired and fired by the Trumpf junta.

A senior Pentagon staffer and adviser to Pete Hegseth has been ousted, marking at least the sixth person under the Defense Secretary to quit within his first six months in office.

Justin Fulcher, who recently made headlines after accusing a colleague of calling the Pentagon police on him, will no longer serve as a senior adviser to Hegseth.

Fulcher previously ran a telehealth startup called RingMD that went bankrupt. He seemingly overstated his credentials before he was hired to work at DOGE, including claiming a doctorate in international relations and affairs from Johns Hopkins University.

Links:

Justin Fulcher, who alleged colleague called the cops on him, fired by Pete Hegseth | The Independent

Another top Hegseth adviser leaves the Pentagon

Trumpf Junta Defies World Health Organization (WHO)

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a Joint Statement of formal rejection by the US of the 2024 International Heath Regulations (IHR) Amendments by the WHO.

The amended IHR would give the WHO the ability to order global lockdowns, travel restrictions, or any other measures it sees fit to respond to nebulous “potential public health risks.” These regulations are set to become binding if not rejected by 19 Jul 2025, regardless of the US withdrawal from the WHO.

“The proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations open the door to the kind of narrative management, propaganda, and censorship that we saw during the COVID pandemic,” Secretary Kennedy said. “The US can cooperate with other nations without jeopardizing our civil liberties, without undermining our Constitution, and without ceding away America’s treasured sovereignty.”

Secretary Kennedy also released a video explaining the action to the American people.

Link: HHS & State Department: The United States Rejects Amendments to International Health Regulations | HHS.gov

The Making America Great Again (MAGA) Base That Supports Dummkopf Trumpf

Trumpf’s approval rating, according to the latest from The Economist (22 July 2025):

Unsure: 4%

Favorable: 41%

Unfavorable: 55%

No matter what distractions and dysfunctional decisions the junta makes, the Jeffrey Epstein FBI files will continue to drive Dotard Trumpf nuts. Journalists that ask him about the files will be banned from the White House and Trumpf will ask conservative media allies to discuss issues other than this sordid affair. The junta will create more international distractions and diversions, possibly getting more innocent people killed in the Middle East or Africa. Meanwhile, Putin’s protege in the White House is allowing Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin to continue their vicious murderous campaign against Palestinians and Ukrainians.

China’s Political Warfare in Canada

The Government of Canada informs:

Canada has long been a target of China’s United Front influence campaign. Important ethnic Chinese organizations have been effectively taken over by Beijing, as have most Chinese language media. Chinese embassies and consulates monitor the Chinese ethnic community and coordinate United Front activities.

Link: https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/publications/hybrid-methods-in-the-grey-zone/beijings-political-warfare-canada-tracking-footprints-united-front-work-department.html

Conservative MP for Wellington-Halton Hills Michael Chong prepares to appear as a witness at the standing committee on procedure and House affairs on foreign election interference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on 16 May. (Photo: Spencer Colby / The Canadian Press)

The USCC informs:

“China uses “United Front” work to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP’s United Front Work Department (UFWD)—the agency responsible for coordinating these kinds of influence operations—mostly focuses on the management of potential opposition groups inside China, but it also has an important foreign influence mission. To carry out its influence activities abroad, the UFWD directs “overseas Chinese work,” which seeks to co-opt ethnic Chinese individuals and communities living outside China, while a number of other key affiliated organizations guided by China’s broader United Front strategy conduct influence operations targeting foreign actors and states. Some of these entities have clear connections to the CCP’s United Front strategy, while others’ linkage is less explicit.”

Dr. Lining “Larry” He (48) resigned from disgraced Andrew Cuomo’s NYC mayoralty campaign. He denied any ties to the Chinese Communist Party. “I’ve never been an asset beholden to the Chinese government,” He said.  (Photo: Kings County Democratic County Committee / ‘X’)

Link: Andrew Cuomo campaign aide worked for companies tied to CCP

Globally, Beijing has established Confucian Institutes to spread CCP influence, as well as covert police stations in North America to monitor dissent amongst the Chinese community, including French-speaking Quebec.

Link: Canadian police investigate Chinese ‘police stations’ in Quebec

CCP Mouchards (AKA Police Spies or ‘Wu Maos’)

Low-level CCP or UFWD operatives on the internet (AKA trolls) or those eavesdropping on conversations in bars, restaurants, classrooms, social settings, parks, or schools are ‘Wu Maos,” which translates roughly as ‘50 cents party workers.’ These Wu Maos defend CCP positions over Tibet, Taiwan, or the Uighurs, and report back to their handlers who the enemies of the CCP are. Coriolanus has witnessed Wu Maos in action on several occasions in North America.  

Sources:

Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions – Final Report Vol. 1 (January 2025)

China’s Overseas United Front Work: Background and Implications for the United States | U.S.- CHINA | ECONOMIC and SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION

RCMP opens investigation into claims China intimidated MP Chong | CBC News

CONFIRMED: China Interfered in Canadian Elections – Encounter TodayCanadian police investigate Chinese ‘police stations’ in Quebec

Russia: Putin Launches Spy App to Keep Russians in ‘Digital Gulag’

Russian police push protesters back during a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin in Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, 5 May 2018. (Photo: AP / Pavel Golovkin)

WhatsApp is to be banned and replaced with Max, which incorporates permanent snooping technology and will be installed on all digital devices sold in Russia.

The app, which was test-launched in March, was developed on Vladimir Putin’s orders and provides online messaging, video calls, mobile payments, social networking and access to government services. It was developed by the Kremlin-controlled company VK. Under a new law, it will be installed on every digital device that is sold in Russia from 1 Sep.

Critics have described it as a “spy program” that installs snooping software on a user’s smartphone that remains in place even after the app is removed. It is being seen as Russia’s equivalent to China’s WeChat app, which Beijing uses for online surveillance and censorship.

“[Max] is interested in where the user was, who they called or wrote to, including through other messengers, what crypto wallets and bank accounts they have, as well as what purchases they made, what cafés they visited and what they surfed for on the internet,” wrote Red Binder, a Russian Telegram channel that focuses on online issues.

Data that is collected by Max will be easily accessible to the FSB security services and Kremlin agents might even be able to monitor online conversations in real time,

Andrey Okun, a Russian opposition journalist, called Max a key component in the Kremlin’s plans to construct a “digital gulag”, a reference to Soviet labor camps. “This will be a sterile space in which the authorities have complete control over the leisure time, motives and thoughts of citizens.”

When Putin came to power 25 years ago, about 1% of Russians were online and the Kremlin paid little attention to the internet. Even in 2010 Putin was largely dismissive of its potential, describing it as “50 per cent porn material” and claiming never to have been online.

By 2011, when the first large anti-Putin protests broke out in Moscow, one in two people had access to the internet and foreign websites such as YouTube and Facebook became the opposition movement’s most potent weapons. Putin realized that, if left untamed, the internet could destroy him. “[The internet] is a CIA project,” he claimed in 2014, without providing evidence.

The surprising revelation in this development is that KGB veteran Vladimir Putin didn’t think of this earlier. Either way, this gives Putin another tool to crack down on dissent. The Max app will probably be available in neighboring Belarus, to fellow despot Oleksandr Lukashenko’s delight.

Source:

Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in ‘digital gulag’

Archived link:

Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in ‘digital gulag’

Russophile American Father of Three Sent to Russia’s Frontline Against Ukraine

Derek Huffman (46), his wife DeAnna and three daughters.

A Texan father who uprooted his family to Russia in a bid to escape ‘woke America’ has reportedly been sent to the front lines of the brutal war in Ukraine to fight for Putin.

Derek Huffman (46) moved with his wife DeAnna, their three daughters and the family husky to the small town of Istra, near Moscow, earlier this year after claiming the US had become overrun by ‘woke ideology’.

The family took advantage of a Kremlin-backed visa programme aimed at attracting Westerners who reject liberal ideals – something Mr Huffman called ‘a fresh start in a country that respects family values.’

But the American expat’s dream of a quieter life in Russia has taken a dramatic turn.

Initially promised a non-combat role in the Russian military – first as a welder, then a war correspondent – Mr. Huffman now finds himself alarmingly close to the battlefield, according to his wife.

DeAnna Huffman said her husband felt he was being ‘thrown to the wolves’ given that he had only received a limited amount of training, and that it was in Russian. She added that her husband, who only had minimal instruction before being deployed, is ‘leaning on faith’ to survive, as the family awaits news in fear.

The last message they received from him came on Father’s Day in June. In a video clip, Mr Huffman appears in full camouflage, speaking directly to his children.  

Derek Huffman wanted to FAFO now in his military uniform.

Russian forces lose approximately 1,000 soldiers a day in human wave or ‘meat attacks’ against staunch Ukrainian defenders protecting their homeland. Followers of the Watch will recall that another ‘useful idiot,’ the son of a CIA officer, was killed fighting against Ukraine. In the English vernacular ‘FAFO’ means ‘Fuck Around, Find Out.’ Imbecile Derek Huffman and his family are now in the ‘FO’ portion of this equation.

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for war crimes remains active for Russia President Vladimir Putin. An indictment is merely an allegation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Sources:

Father-of-three who fled to Russia to escape ‘woke’ America ‘is sent to the front line to fight for Putin’ | Daily Mail Online

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

134 Passengers Aboard Royal Caribbean International Ship Stricken with Illness

Royal Caribbean International’s ship Navigator of the Seas.

The CDC informs that 134 passengers on board the Royal Caribbean International Navigator of the Seas suffered from gastrointestinal illness:

Cruise line: Royal Caribbean International

Cruise ship: Navigator of the Seas

Voyage dates: 4 July 2025–11 July 2025

Voyage number: 23491

Date outbreak reported to VSP: 11 July 2025

Number of passengers who reported being ill during the voyage out of total number of passengers onboard: 134 of 3,914 (3.4%)

Number of crew who reported being ill during the voyage out of total number of crew onboard: 7 of 1,266 (0.6%)

Predominant symptoms: Diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramps

Causative agent: Unknown

Trumpf Junta Cut CDC Budget for Cruise Ship Health Inspections

Thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf, all full-time employees at the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program have been laid off. A group of about 12 US Public Health Service (USPHS) officers will remain. According to one AI estimate, on any given day in 2025 approximately 360,000 to 430,000 passengers are likely on US cruises, based on estimated US passenger volume, ship capacities, and operational patterns.

Links:

Trump administration lays off cruise ship inspectors despite recent outbreaks – pennlive.com

About Vessel Sanitation Program | Vessel Sanitation Program | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/vessel-sanitation/cruise-ship-outbreaks/navigator-of-the-seas-july-2025.html

Afghans Who Loyally Served With US Military in Peril

Interpreter Abdul Qader Zaman with US Army MSG Terry Best.

DHS has ended Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for Afghans. Since last summer, more than 76,000 Afghans have arrived in the US. Many of those fled the country on flights in the chaotic weeks before the US fully withdrew from Afghanistan in late August. They include former interpreters, NGO workers, and soldiers who worked with American and NATO forces during the 20-year war. If Afghans here under TPS status do not self-deport, ICE will detain them and then send them back to the waiting hands of the Taliban.

Link: DHS Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan | Homeland Security

An Afghan interpreter went to a routine green card appointment has already fallen victim to ICE. Identified only as ‘Zia S’, the 35-year-old husband and father of five who entered the US in October 2024 with a visa issued by US authorities was arrested and taken away in a van after a routine biometrics appointment for his green card in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/afghanistan-war-translator-ice-connecticut

Another Afghan Interpreter’s Odyssey

As Kabul fell to the Taliban last August, Abdul Qader Zaman (pictured above) and his family were among the tens of thousands desperately trying to flee the country. With the help of volunteers and veterans from his time as an interpreter for US soldiers, Zaman and his family eventually escaped. For PBS, Hari Sreenivasan reports from Erie, PA, where the Zamans are now beginning life again.

Link: After escaping Kabul, an Afghan interpreter reunites with an American vet | PBS News Weekend

Cruelty Awaits Afghans Who Collaborated with ISAF

An Afghan judge whips a woman in front of a crowd in Ghor Province in 2015. (Photo: Reuters)

An Afghan interpreter named Mohammed Rafi Hottak who is safe for now in the UK says his own life remains in danger after recruiting hundreds of interpreters for the British military in Afghanistan.

He relates the following testimony in a court alleging that interpreters who worked in Iraq are better treated by the UK than those who worked in Afghanistan.

Hottak Mr Hottak describes in a statement to the court how one particular video “broke my heart.”

He says two of the six young men seen having their heads sawn off with a handheld knife were friends and old room-mates specially targeted after they chose to work as interpreters with US forces.

Mr Hottak and another ex-interpreter, referred to as ‘Al,’ are accusing the UK Government of unlawfully failing to offer adequate assistance to former Afghan interpreters who worked for them.

Lord Justice Burnett and Mr Justice Irwin, sitting in London, were told by their barrister Ben Jaffey that each had given “loyal, important, and dangerous service” for the UK armed forces.

As a result both they and their families had suffered serious injuries in Taliban attacks.

But they and other interpreters like them were being discriminated against and given less favorable treatment and assistance than Iraqi interpreters whose lives became endangered working for the British in the Iraq war.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Ministry of Defense are fighting the claim.

Mr Hottak said while he was working in Kabul in 2007 the UK forces received the body of a dead interpreter.

“Luckily he had not been beheaded. He had just been shot sixty times and whipped with a chain.”

Prisoners of the Taliban awaiting a grim public punishment. (Image: AMU TV)

Statistics from the Taliban’s Supreme Court and statements from officials across Afghanistan indicate that the group publicly flogged 583 people and executed six individuals during 2024.

UN experts, including Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett, called on the Taliban to immediately halt all “inhumane punishments” in Afghanistan, including public executions and corporal punishment, after four executions were carried out in a single day last week.

Links:

Taliban Publicly Flogged Nearly 590 Individuals in 2024 | Afghanistan International

UN experts urge Taliban to immediately halt executions and corporal punishments | Amu TV

This is what the Trumpf junta is cruelly doing to Afghans who risked their lives for the US.

Who will trust the word of America ever again?

US: Southwestern Drought Will Last Through 2100

The drought in the Southwestern US is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean.

The Southwestern US is experiencing a megadrought resulting in the aridification of the landscape, a decades-long drying of the region brought on by climate change and the overconsumption of the region’s water. That’s led to major rivers and their basins, such as the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers, seeing reduced flows and a decline of the water stored in underground aquifers, which is forcing states and communities to reckon with a sharply reduced water supply. Farmers have cut back on the amount of water they use. Cities are searching for new water supplies. And states, tribes, and federal agencies are engaging in tense negotiations over how to manage declining resources like the Colorado River going forward.

Dummkopf Trumpf Wasted California’s Precious Water Earlier This Year

2015 photo of Dotard Trumpf courtesy of CNN.

One of the first blunders Trumpf made as soon as he assumed office was releasing 2.2 billion gallons of precious water from two of California’s reservoirs to fight the Los Angeles wildfires, against the wishes of Governor Gavin Newsom and the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs

“Hey, Mexico! There’s a Hole on Your Side of the Boat!”

Source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Then the Trumpf junta selfishly denied a special request from Mexico for the delivery of Colorado River water to the city of Tijuana — marking the first such denial in 81 years. Justifying the decision, the US State Department blamed Mexico for failing to abide by the terms of a historic water partnership accord signed between the two nations in 1944.

Link: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5211310-trump-administration-denies-water-request-colorado-river-mexico/

Mexico has been undergoing a severe drought for several years now and shouldn’t be blamed for having less water to go around. Mexican rescue workers came to the help of the 4 July flood victims in Texas before US FEMA teams arrived to help.

More than two dozen Mexicans came to Central Texas to help with recovery efforts after the 4 July flood. Firefighters with the Mountain Home Fire Department worked with them for six days, searching for missing people in the Guadalupe River. (Photo: Greta Díaz González Vázquez / KUT News)

Unstoppable Desertification

As you read previously on Coriolanus, the world’s oceans are dying. Global climate change is slowing destroying the earth and causing mass migration from arid areas to moister regions. Unless mankind takes drastic steps now to lower greenhouse gas emissions, plant more trees, use natural sources of power like wind, solar, and tidal, and guard our precious water, the earth will continue getting warmer and drier, leading to increased desertification of the planet, more powerful storms, and toxic ocean waters.

Links:

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/2c39108f-9ab7-11e8-a408-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

Followers of the Watch That Are Aficionados of Grappling

On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ranks of Turkiye’s most time-honored sporting event: the annual Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Championship.

Held every summer in the northwestern city of Edirne (once the capital of the Ottoman Empire), the event is said to date back to the 14th century as a way of keeping the Ottoman Empire’s fighting men fit and ready for battle.

The sport, which is on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list, sees wrestlers cover themselves in olive oil and try to press their opponent’s back to the ground to win the bout.

Alongside the men contesting, youngsters also don the iconic “kispet” leather trousers to embark on a slippery test of strength, skill and stamina under the scorching sun.

A young wrestler is doused in oil during the 664th annual Historic Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling championship, in Edirne, northwestern Turkey, Sunday, 6 July 2025. (Photo: Khalil Hamra / AP)

The boys are ranked in divisions based on age, height and build, with the youngest generally placed in the “minik,” or tiny, category. Under strict safety regulations, their matches are shorter and closely supervised.

Most young wrestlers train year-round at local clubs, often in towns where oil wrestling is passed down through generations.

While the youngest competitors aren’t wrestling for titles like “baspehlivan,” the grand champion of the men’s matches, their participation is no less significant as it is key to the continuity of a sport that holds deep cultural importance across Turkey.

This year’s contest — the 664th in its history — saw 36-year-old Orhan Okulu win his third men’s title.

“My goal was the golden belt in Kirkpinar and thanks to my God, I succeeded,” Okulu said of the coveted prize.

Link: https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/photos-show-turkey-s-youngest-oil-wrestlers-20760276.php

The Greatest Wrestler of All Time

The undefeated Gama is often considered the greatest wrestler who ever lived.

Born in Amritsar of undivided India in 1878, Gama is often considered the greatest wrestler who ever lived and the man who inspired Bruce Lee.

Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt (22 May 1878 – 23 May 1960), commonly known by the title Rustam-e-Hind and by the ring name The Great Gama, was a pehlwani wrestler and strongman in British India and later, Pakistan. In the early 20th century, he was an undefeated wrestling champion of British India for 52 years.

Read about his matches with Europe’s champions here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gama

Bruce Lee adopted the Great Gama’s training techniques, amongst other skills.

Link: https://www.olympics.com/en/news/who-is-the-great-gama-pehlwan-india-wrestler

Sleepy Kittens

Followers of the Watch, Coriolanus returns to the stage next week. Until then, please look after yourselves and enjoy this wonderful First Violinist:

Poor Countries Hiring Lobbyists to Bribe Donald Trump

Global Witness informs:

“Some of the world’s poorest countries have started paying millions to lobbyists linked to Donald Trump to try to offset US cuts to foreign aid. Somalia, Haiti, and Yemen are among 11 countries to sign significant lobbying deals with figures tied directly to the US president after he slashed US foreign humanitarian assistance.

Many states have already begun bartering crucial natural resources – including minerals – in exchange for humanitarian or military support. USAID officially closed its doors last week after Trump’s dismantling of the agency, a move experts warn could cause more than 14 million avoidable deaths over five years.

Deal making in Washington could become “more desperate and less favorable to low-income countries”, which had become increasingly vulnerable to brutal exploitation of their natural resources.

Contracts worth $17m were signed between Trump-linked lobbying firms and some of the world’s least-developed countries, which were among the highest recipients of USAID. The DRC is primed to sign a mineral deal with the US for support against Rwanda-backed rebels, providing American companies access to lithium, cobalt and coltan.

The DRC – a former top-10 USAID recipient – signed contracts worth $1.2m with the lobbyists Ballard Partners. The firm, owned by Brian Ballard, lobbied for Trump well before the 2016 US election and was a leading donor to the US president’s political campaign.

Somalia and Yemen signed contracts with BGR Government Affairs – $550,000 and $372,000 respectively. A former BGR partner, Sean Duffy, is now Trump’s transport secretary, one of myriad links between the US president and the lobbying firm.”

Donald Trumpf’s cronies are obscenely profiting from delivering humanitarian assistance to impoverished countries. Trumpf is also cruelly wasting precious American resources that can be immediately used to save lives in the Third World.

“From the American People”

The Trumpf junta ordered 500 metric tons of emergency food aid enough to feed 1.5 million malnourished children for a week to be incinerated rather than be distributed as part of its ongoing purge of USAID. The high-energy biscuits, intended for children under five living in war and disaster zones, are currently being stored in a warehouse in Dubai and were meant to be shipped out this year, but will instead go to waste due to cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effectively halting nearly all forms of foreign aid. Current and former aid workers, speaking anonymously for fear of retaliation, said that the sheer scale of waste is unprecedented.

US warehouses around the world currently house 60,000 tons of food, including peas and cereal originally bound for famine-stricken Sudan. The amount of food set to be incinerated  would be enough to feed every single child currently starving in Gaza.

As you could see in the image above, each USAID parcel of food has written on it “From the American People.’ President John F. Kennedy would be heartbroken today.

More Venality from the Petty Tyrant

FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Dotard Trumpf carry the Club World Cup trophy after Sunday’s finals between Chelsea FC and Paris Saint-Germain. (Photo: Jean Catuffe via Getty Images)

After Dotard Trumpf disrupted the air travel of thousands and thousands of passengers at Newark Int’l Airport just to make an appearance at the FIFA football finals, he revealed in an interview that he kept the original trophy for himself. So when English Premier League team Chelsea beat France’s Paris Saint-Germain to win the competition between soccer’s top club teams, they apparently ended up being given a replica of the original trophy, which reportedly cost $230,000. Dotard Trumpf was repeatedly booed at the stadium.

In true mafia style, Russian despot Vladimir Putin did something similar to oligarch Robert Kraft, owner of the NFL New England Patriots. When Kraft met Putin Russia year ago, he showed the tyrant his Superbowl ring and here’s how Kraft described the incident:

“I took out the ring and showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, ‘I can kill someone with this ring,'” Kraft said in 2013. “I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out.”

Sources:

https://globalwitness.org/en/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-to-incinerate-500-tons-of-emergency-food-for-children/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-fifa-soccer-club-world-cup-trophy_n_68755c06e4b0b1c6f12569ae?utm_campaign=bluesky_feed

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-how-vladimir-putin-stole-a-super-bowl-ring-from-the-patriots-robert-kraft/

Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Supporting Anti-Hamas Criminal Gangs in Gaza

Despite reports and statements about the gang’s connection to Israel, Yasser Abu Shabaab claims that “our connection is with the Palestinian Authority” (X)

Palestinian resistance factions have jointly condemned the leader of an Israel-backed armed gang in Gaza, accusing him of collaboration with the enemy. Yasser Abu Shabab (35) has been described as a “traitor for hire.” This criminal gang operates under the protection and supervision of the IDF and these brigands have been looting humanitarian food convoys. The IDF recently intervened on behalf the Abu Shabab Militia with a drone strike. Hamas has eliminated at least 50 members of this Israeli-armed gang of cutthroat quislings.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu:

“On the advice of security officials, we activated clans in Gaza that oppose Hamas,” Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu recently admitted. “What’s wrong with this? This is only good and saves the lives of IDF soldiers.”

Israel Creating Haiti in the Gaza Strip

Armed and masked Palestinians secure trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, on Salah al-Din Road east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, 19 Jan 2025. (Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash90)

By empowering criminal gangs and weaponizing aid provision, Netanyahu seeks to fracture the Strip into rival fiefdoms — allowing only chaos to reign — like Haiti. Some of these anti-Hamas cells have been linked to ISIS.

Historic Israeli Support for Hamas

The late resistance leader Ismael Haniyeh and Israeli ‘Crime Minister’ Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The Israeli support for Hamas refers to direct involvement by Israeli authorities from different periods in the rise and empowerment of Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The PLO and Chairman Yasir Arafat long suspected that the notorious terrorist Abu Nidal was a Mossad asset hired by them to conduct spectacular global terrorist attacks to discredit the legitimate Palestinian liberation movement. Abu Nidal died under mysterious circumstances in 2002.

Israel Learned from Apartheid-Era Suid-Afrika

Zulus and Xhosas fought a low-grade civil war for years in apartheid-era Suid-Afrika. (Photo: Public domain)

Israel is using a similar “divide and conquer” tactic used by the former apartheid government of Suid-Afrika. The National Party covertly armed and directed the predominantly Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party to attack the predominantly Xhosa African National Congress (ANC) led by Nelson Mandela, taking advantage of their historic tribal rivalry. The low-grade civil war between the two tribes kept the anti-apartheid bloc fractured for years.

IDF Continues Murdering Palestinians

Palestinian mother Samah Al-Nouri, whose daughter Sama was killed in an Israeli strike near a medical center in Deir Al-Balah, comforts her son. (photo: Ramadan Abed / Reuters)

The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 58,479, the majority of whom were women and children. At least 139,355 others have also been wounded or maimed. Since Israel broke its ceasefire agreement after the GOP budget was passed in March 2025 thanks to US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), at least 7,656 civilians have been killed and 27,314 others have been injured. During the past 24 hours alone, 93 bodies, including three that were recovered from under rubble, and 278 injured individuals were brought to hospitals in Gaza.

The IDF and their proxies will have easily killed 60,000 Palestinians by the end of this summer. Since 7 Oct 2023, the American taxpayer has sent a record $17.9 billion of military aid to Israel. Unqualified support for Israel already cost the Democratic Party critical 6,265,888 votes they once had in 2020, losing them the White House in 2024. Dummkopf Trumpf squeaked by with a slight plurality of the popular vote (49.8%). This is just like the Democratic Party supporting the brutal regime in Saigon during the costly and wasteful Vietnam War, costing Hubert Humphrey the White House in 1968.

Antiwar progressives will not vote for AIPAC-backed Democratic Party candidates in future elections nor will they vote for a Republican; they will stay home on Election Day. The number of these antiwar Samaritans will grow and their consciences will be clear.

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for crimes against humanity remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Sources:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-factions-threaten-traitor-abu-shabab-over-collaboration-israel

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-social-collapse-criminal-gangs/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

www.independent.co.uk

en.wikipedia.org

https://ourconstitution.wethepeoplesa.org/south-african-constitution/negotiating-our-freedom/a-low-grade-civil-war-between-the-ifp-and-the-anc/


apnews.com

www.aljazeera.com

Ukraine Intelligence Update

The valiant President Volodomir Zelensky addressing intelligence personnel. (Photo: Office of the Presidency)

First Chinese Spies Caught in Ukraine

The father’s image has been pixilated. (Photo: SBU)

Ukraine’s counterintelligence service (SBU) arrested a Chinese father and son on suspicion of spying on its Neptune anti-ship missile program, a key part of Kiev’s growing domestic arms industry that is critical to its defense against Russia. Although Beijing tries to project an image of neutrality, they are helping the Kremlin’s war effort. SBU agents arrested a 24-year-old former student in Kiev after they provided him with “technical documentation” related to Neptune production. CI agents later detained his father, who had aimed to smuggle out the documents to the Chinese MSS. The father had been living in China but visited Ukraine to “personally coordinate” his son’s work.

The son’s image has been pixilated. (Photo: SBU)

Since Russia’s brutal full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainian forces have captured Chinese nationals fighting for Russia on the battlefield, but these two men were the first arrested in Ukraine on espionage charges.

Chinese intelligence (the MSS) uses the ‘thousand grains of sand’ approach to gather information, taking advantage of the large number of personnel available to them. Beijing has a special interest in maritime weaponry/technology because their ultimate plan to absorb Taiwan will require a powerful naval and amphibious strike force. Ukraine’s intelligence services are experienced, making espionage operations difficult for adversaries, as these two spies discovered. The SBU also receive intelligence from allies over the world. 

Russian Assassination Team Neutralized

The late SBU Colonel Voronych exiting his apartment building moments before he was assassinated. (Screenshot: SBU)

Two Russian FSB assassins were liquidated by Ukrainian special services agents. On 10 July this FSB combat cell murdered SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych outside his apartment in Kiev. An intense manhunt led SBU agents to the lair of the FSB assassins and in the ensuing firefight the pair were rendered ineffective. SBU Colonel Voronych had taken part in a number of special operations, including the killing of Russian militant Arsen Pavlov, alias ‘Motorola,’ and led a unit that advanced into Russia’s Kursk Oblast in 2024.

An intense espionage war between Russia and Ukraine is taking place alongside the brutal daily combat at the front. Both sides want to eliminate effective operatives behind enemy lines. In some case, these missions are acts of retribution or justice and they spread anxiety amongst the intelligence community. Any conclusive peace talks between Kiev and Moscow would include an understanding that this practice be eliminated or reduced. The ancient ‘eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’ policy would go into effect should there ever be a peace treaty and subsequent assassination.

Over 12 million rounds of 152 mm artillery shells are estimated to have been sent to Russia by North Korea for use in Ukraine, South Korean military intelligence reported. North Korea could have provided around 28,000 containers containing weapons and artillery shells to date.

The report comes a day after the North Korean supremo Kim Jong Un pledged to “unconditionally” support Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine in a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on 12 July. President Dummkopf Trumpf in another bit of kabuki theater announced that he’s giving Vladimir Putin an additional 50 days to come to the table, meaning the Kremlin has 50 days to bring Ukraine to its knees, which is unlikely.

Appalling Russian Losses

The Russians have suffered approximately 1,037,460 casualties, with an additional 1,170 over the past 24 hours. The Kremlin also lost 421 aircraft, 340 helicopters, 11,028 tanks, and 22,977 armored personnel vehicles.

Many Russian families are using cardboard coffins because they are less costly than traditional wooden caskets. (Photo: Courtesy of the New York Times)

The architects and enablers of this war, Vladimir Putin, Sergey Lavrov, Kim Jong-un, Xi Jinping, and Dummkopf Trumpf do not care how many Russian or Ukrainian casualties they create. Putin’s goal is to absorb Ukraine into a Pan-Slavic federation, much like the glory days of the USSR, and headed by the Kremlin. China wants to continue making money and learning from the war. A future European war involving NATO and the EU versus Russia gives Beijing an opportunity to invade Taiwan. Kim Jong-un continues receiving Russian money and technical aid for his WMD program. Dotard Trumpf, a Kremlin asset, is stalling and delaying for Vladimir Putin.

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for war crimes remains active for Vladimir Putin. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Sources:

https://kyivindependent.com/north-korea-supplied-russia-with-12-million-rounds-of-152mm-shells-south-korean-intel-estimates/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/10/ukraine-arrests-chinese-father-and-son-suspicion-of-spying-neptune-missile-russia

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/07/13/7521508/

Inhumane ICE Raids Leaving Cats and Dogs Homeless and Detainees Starving

Santa Clara County plans modern no-kill animal shelter from http://www.mercurynews.com

“Pets are the collateral damage to the current political climate,” reported the Michelson Found Animals Foundation. In one example, ICE agents arrested a man who had his three-year-old pit bull, Chuco, with him. A friend managed to grab Chuco from the scene and bring him back to the garage where he lives. The dog’s owner was deported to Mexico the next day.

The SPAY(CE) Project, which spays and neuters dogs in underserved areas, put out a call on Instagram to help Chuco and an animal rescue group agreed to take him, but then went quiet. Meanwhile, the garage owner took Chuco to an undisclosed shelter.

After repeated attempts, a nonprofit organizaton gave up on finding the dog or a home for him, since “no one has space for an adult male Pittie these days.” So “the poor dog is left to die in the shelter.”

Since ICE raids, primarily targeting Latino communities, began roiling LA in early June, animal rescues and care providers across the county are hearing desperate pleas for help.

At least 15 dogs were surrendered at LA County animal shelters due to deportations between 10 June and 4 July.

Pets belonging to people who are deported or flee are being left in empty apartments, dumped into the laps of unprepared friends and dropped off at overcrowded shelters.

“Unless people do take the initiative [and get the pets out], those animals will starve to death in those backyards or those homes,” said Cats at the Studios, a rescue that serves LA.

Yet with many animal refuges operating at capacity, it can be difficult to find temporary homes where pets are not at risk of euthanasia.

Fearing arrest if they go outside, some people are also forgoing healthcare for their pets, with clinics reporting a surge in no-shows and missed appointments in communities affected by the raids.

ICE has now surpassed the FBI in terms of police powers, detaining people without warrant or probable cause, other than being suspected of being a migrant. ICE has become the closest thing to a secret police the US ever had and legislators are seeking to pass laws banning ICE personnel from using masks.

During a speech to rabid rightwing supporters, the braggadocio Director of ICE Tom Homan unprofessionally and crassly challenges a heckler to fisticuffs:

Inhumane Conditions in ICE Gulags

Detainees held in Donald Trumpf’s new jungle gulag in Florida are finding worms in their food. Toilets don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere. Prisoners began arriving at this torture chamber on 2 July. Inside the compound’s large white tents, rows of bunk beds are surrounded by chain-link cages. Detainees go days without showering or getting prescription medicine, and they are only able to speak by phone to lawyers and loved ones. At times the air conditioners abruptly shut off in the sweltering heat. Insider accounts paint a picture of the place as unsanitary and lacking in adequate medical care, pushing some into a state of extreme distress.

“The conditions in which we are living are inhuman,” a Venezuelan detainee said by phone from the facility. “My main concern is the psychological pressure they are putting on people to sign their self-deportation.”

The ACLU describes the facility as state-sponsored cruelty and an attack on indigenous people’s sovereignty. In a strongly worded statement posted to the Archdiocese of Miami’s website, Archbishop Thomas Wenski condemned the conditions at the remote detention site in the Everglades: “It is unbecoming of public officials and corrosive of the common good to speak of the deterrence value of alligators and pythons’ at the Collier-Dade facility.” Democratic lawmakers filed a lawsuit to gain access to this torture chamber. Conservation groups warned government agencies in a legal filing that they’re breaking the law by failing to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve from the increasingly destructive effects of this horrible Bastille in the swamp.

Immigrants being held in ICE torture chambers in at least seven states are complaining of hunger, food shortages and spoiled comestibles. Detainees have gotten sick; others say they have lost weight. In one facility, an incident involving detainees reportedly broke out in part because of food.

Immigration Judges Being Fired Despite Huge Backlog of Cases

The Trumpf junta will be firing fifteen more immigration judges on 22 July amid efforts to speed up deportations of vulnerable migrants without legal status. An email was sent to judges in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, New York, and California. Like the 50 other judges fired within the last six months, the judges who received the most recent notices were not given a reason for the terminations.

Congress had allocated $3 billion to the Department of Justice in part to hire more immigration judges to alleviate a backlog of nearly four million cases. Hiring and training new judges can take more than a year. “It’s outrageous and against the public interest that at a time when the Congress has authorized 800 immigration judges, we are firing large numbers of immigration judges without cause,” said Matt Biggs, president of the IFPTE union. “This is hypocritical ” you can’t enforce immigration laws when you fire the enforcers.”

Dummkopf Trumpf is a 21st-century Andrew Jackson and Jefferson Davis all rolled up into one abomination creature. The Trumpf junta will continue enriching contractor cronies like Palantir and firms that construct the ramshackle ICE concentration camps like ‘Gator Gitmo’, all while brutally bleaching America of non-whites.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467343/immigration-judges-doj-trump-enforcement

Miami Archbishop

Worms and Sewage

Environmental Damage

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigrants-overcapacity-ice-detention-say-hungry-raise-food-quality-co-rcna214193

India: Puppy Named Rocky Saves Villagers from Landslide

Brutal Police State in America Worsens Under Racist Trump Junta

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

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.”

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

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 Mayor Ras Baraka.

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.

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.

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

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

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.”

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.

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.

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

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.” 

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

Violent White Americans Rampage Unchecked

White NYS Town Official Shoots Door Dash Deliveryman

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.”

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

“This is America”

Followers of the Watch: The vignettes below will inform you of the real state and nature of America.

Two Mass Shooting Survivors Speak

Ms Stephanie Horowitz survived two mass shootings, the 2018 massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by Nikolas Cruz and the recent Florida State University attack when Phoenix Ikner killed two students and wounded six.  

Jackie Matthews

Jackie Matthews survived the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 26 people in Newtown, CT, and she survived the 13 Feb 2023 attack at Michigan State University which killed three students.

“I am 21 years old, and this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through. The fact that this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through is incomprehensible.”

In a now-deleted clip, Ms. Mathews detailed how she suffered a post-traumatic stress disorder fracture in her back because of what happened in 2012, something that still affects her to this day.

Only America can claim the ignimonious achievement of people surviving multiple mass shootings.

Mass Shooter Kills 22 Reportedly for Dotard Trumpf

Mass murderer Patrick Crusius was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 22 people at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas. His defense attorney Joe Spencer testified:

“While Patrick claimed in his manifesto that his views predated the then-president (Donald Trumpf) and that political figures were not to blame, he also explicitly stated the attack was a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas, echoing the language used by political figures. Indeed, Patrick believed he was acting at the direction of the president at the time, seeing it as his duty to stop the invasion because that’s what he believed [Trumpf] was telling him.”

Florida Killer Phoenix Ikner Trumpf Supporter

Nikolas Cruz, the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School murderer is a Trumpf supporter as well. He wore his bright red MAGA hat to a funeral.

Nikolas Cruz mugshot.

Nikolas Cruz in his Trumpf MAGA hat practicing how to shoot and kill. (Montage: Public domain)

Lunatic Sets Fire to Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion

Cody Balmer (38) is charged with attempted murder, aggravated arson, burglary, terrorism, and related offenses for allegedly setting fire to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-PA) governor’s mansion on 13 Apr 2025. (Photo: Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office)

Cody Balmer allegedly set fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s mansion out of hatred for him. The damage was extensive and luckily no one was injured in the inferno. How this maniac was able to penetrate the defenses of the governor’s mansion is unclear. In 2024 Gov. Shapiro was on Kamala Harris’ short-list for VPOTUS candidate and he may run himself in 2028.

Inside the governor’s mansion after the fire. (Photo: Pennsylvania State Police)

Police State Under Trumpf Worsens

German teens Charlotte Pohl and Maria Lepere (Photo Credits: X/ @MarioNawfal)

Two teenage girls from Germany were detained, arrested, and deported at an airport in Hawaii after immigration officials said it was suspicious they had not booked a hotel room. But despite having ESTA travel authorization, immigration officials accused them of attempting to enter the US. to work illegally, and they were placed in handcuffs and taken to a nearby detention center they later learned was a deportation facility. Upon arrival, they were subjected to full-body scans, strip searches, and forced to wear green prison jumpsuits. They were then placed in a holding facility with serious criminals, including an alleged murderer who had been locked up for 18 years, and were forced to spend the night in a freezing cold double cell.

Migrant Children in Immigration Court Without Lawyers

(Imagery: ABC News)

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

The Trumpf junta has been firing immigration judges and legal resources are limited to represent immigrants in court, let alone helpless children.

‘The cruelty is apparent

Canadian Border Agents Fail Family of Four Fleeing America

A family of four from El Salvador crossed the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls to Canada fleeing the ICE raids and sudden deportations sweeping the US. But the CBSA focused on small discrepancies in their paperwork and rejected them, even though they qualified for entry under exception and have a brother who is a Canadian citizen. When the four were disappointingly driven back to the US border, CBP detained them. They have been in custody two weeks now.

Aracely sits with her two daughters, aged four and 14. The three were detained with Aracely’s common-law husband in a holding cell for two weeks at the US port of entry in Niagara Falls, NY, after Canadian border guards turned them away. CBC News is not showing the family’s faces or revealing their full names for safety reasons. (Image: Ousama Farag / CBC)

Canada turns away most asylum seekers who attempt to enter from the US at land border crossings, but there are exceptions to this rule, which this family met. I hope those CBSA officers are happy with themselves knowing that these four vulnerable people, including two girls (4 and 14), will eventually be deported to rightwing-led, impoverished, and gang-infested El Salvador.

(Photo: Al Drago, NYT)

In 2022, 48,000 Americans were killed by gun violence. 2025 or 2026 could be the year the US reaches 50,000 deaths in one year. Now the state is inflicting violence on its people with mass deportations and flagrant violations of due process. Trumpf is inspiring political violence across the US, from mass shootings to arson to vandalizing Felon Musk’s hideous Tesla vehicles. There is a reason why America ranked 24th on the World Happiness Report (below Israel and Mexico) and Dotard Trumpf was recently ranked the worst president of all time. Followers of the Watch, you will see more violence, police brutality, and economic chaos over the next four years as Trumpf shrinks the social safety net, hate radio continues spewing xenophobic lies, and mental illness continues unchecked in the US.

Sources:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/19/world-happiness-report-2025/82551709007/

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/photos-arson-fire-damages-pennsylvania-governors-residence/4159709/

https://www.unilad.com/news/sandy-hook-michigan-shooting-survivor-604402-20230215

https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/vacation-gone-wrong-2-german-teens-strip-searched-jailed-and-deported-from-us-after-cbp-finds-incomplete-hawaii-travel-plans-suspicious-6797703.html

India: 26 Killed in Terror Attack During VPOTUS JD Vance Trip

At least 26 people have been killed and 36 wounded in Indian-controlled Kashmir in the north after gunmen opened fire at a beauty spot near the resort town of Pahalgam, nicknamed ‘Mini Switzerland.’ Authorities blamed it on the resistance fighting Indian rule which deploys 500,000 soldiers in Kashmir. The attack seemed to have been timed to coincide with JD Vance’s four-day tour of India and PM Nahendra Modi’s visit to Saudi Arabia. Delhi has swiftly taken a series of retaliatory steps: closing the main border crossing, suspending a critical water-sharing treaty, and expelling diplomats.

The massive Indian security force presence in Jammu and Kashmir (500,000 personnel) use shotgun pellets to purposely blind Muslim protestors like Manzoor Ah-Dar below:

Manzoor Ah-Dar poses for a portrait in Rahmoo, Kashmir. Manzoor was injured in both eyes by metal pellets when Indian forces raided the village. (Bernat Armangue/AP)

PM Narendra Modi can blame Pakistan for supporting their fellow Muslims oppressed in Jammu and Kashmir, but poverty and Hindu-supremacist Delhi’s repression of the ‘Other’ is the root cause of unhappiness and strife in India.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwynx7kgyqvo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9vyzzyjzlo

 https://www.independent.co.uk

Trumpf Strips Visa for Colombia President Gustavo Petro

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, claimed that the US has withdrawn his visa and that he can no longer enter the country. (Credit: Presidency of Colombia / Flickr)

Dotard Trumpf petulantly stripped Colombia President Gustavo Petro’s visa, preventing him from attending imminent meetings of the IMF and IBRD in the US. The major international snub comes after Trumpf threatened ‘decisive retaliatory measures’ over Colombia’s Jan 2025 refusal to let two US military flights full of deportees land. In a cabinet meeting, President Petro let slip that his nickname for Dotard Trumpf is ‘Donald Duck’ and he took this idiotic snub with aplomb.

Colombia’s Former Colonial Masters Shoot and Burn Trumpf in Effigy

(Public domain photo)

An effigy of Dotard Trumpf was marched through the streets before being shot and burned as part of Easter Sunday celebrations in Spain. Every Easter, locals in the town of Coripe, Seville, string up a Judas’ figure representing a public figure whose actions are deemed to be morally reprehensible’. Video shows the Trumpf doll, sporting a dark navy suit, red tie, and unmistakable shock of blonde hair, leading a town parade at gunpoint before being hung from a tree in the town square and shot at with rifles from close range. The burning of Judas’ effigies is a common ritual amongst Christian communities as part of traditional Easter celebrations.

Coriolanus regrets missing this worthy auto-da-fe.

Sources:

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-effigy-shot-burned-123840954.html

https://colombiaone.com/2025/04/22/colombia-petro-us-visa-trump-donald-duck/

Karma for Puppy-Killing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, infamously known for admitting in her autobiography that she killed her 14-month-old rambunctious puppy, fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night. Noem, who was asked about the theft at the White House Easter Egg Roll, acknowledged the incident and said the matter has not been resolved. The Secret Service, which provides security for Noem, reviewed security camera footage at the restaurant and saw an unknown white male wearing a medical mask steal her bag and leave the restaurant, a law enforcement source said. The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash.

Shooting a defenseless, harmless puppy is not only a disqualification from becoming Secretary of Homeland Security, but a disqualification from the human race. The US Senate confirmed her appointment as Secretary with a 59-34 vote. Astonishing.

Coriolanus was intensely curious regarding the contents of Secretary Noem’s stolen handbag. Why she was dining with her passport (official or diplomatic) and blank checks in Washington DC is mystery to your author. One question arose is what medications Secretary Noem is taking and for what condition. Her predilection to animal cruelty and mass deportations of vulnerable people provide a clue.

Having her makeup kit makes sense to maintain Noem’s disguise as a human being.

As Governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem was banned from indigenous lands by the local tribes. At the border in Derby Line, Vermont, Noem taunted Canadians with shouts of “51st state!” and she shamelessly flaunted herself and her jewelry in front of male convicts in a notorious El Salvador prison for a tawdry photo opportunity.

Secretary Noem in a pathetic photo-op in El Salvador on 26 Mar 2025 (Photo: Reuters)

The irony is rich. For a few hours on Sunday, the manifestly under-qualified Secretary Kristi Noem was “undocumented” like the people she has been persecuting. And this architect of fear for millions of vulnerable people was in a frenzied panic in a tony Washington DC bistro like her victims.

Karma, where would we be without you?

Sources:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics

https://apnews.com/article/south-dakota-indian-reservation-bans-governor-noem-b55339eb624a119bc571c8b4dab848f4

Trumpf Junta Targets Anti-Christian Bias While Israel Persecutes Christians

In a statement marking Easter before the death of Pope Francis I, Marco Rubio called for “all nations to respect the right of Christians to declare Christ is King. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the king of kings and lord of all nations,” Rubio posted on ‘X’. Rubio’s implication is that Christian freedom of worship is under threat.

The Trumpf junta has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government. Marco Rubio, the most under-qualified person to ever lead the State Department, also asked staffers via official cable to report any perceived discriminatory actions taken against Christians or employees advocating on their behalf between Jan 2021 and Jan 2025.

Moreover, US Attorney-General Pam Bondi announced she is establishing a task force to combat anti-Christian bias in the US.

The Stench of Republican Hypocrisy is Stifling

White supremacist MAGA acolyte Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) from Georgia posted this vile message after Pope Francis I died.

US Attorney-General Pam Bondi did not condemn this anti-Christian message from MTG and worse, SECSTATE Marco Rubio conveniently ignores the fact that for decades Palestinian Christians have been attacked by both Israeli civilians and the IDF.

Theodosios (Atallah Hanna), the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, delivers a speech during a demonstration in Beit Jala in the West Bank 17 May \2021 to express solidarity with Gaza and Sheikh Jarah. (Photo: Hazem Bader / AFP via Getty Images)

You can watch the videos here:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/20/palestinians-in-gaza-west-bank-mark-sorrowful-easter-amid-israeli-attacks

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-04-15/ty-article/israeli-police-violently-detain-several-holy-fire-worshipers/00000187-8563-dc6c-a5ff-ef7373080000

To Trumpf’s vicious sycophantic lapdogs in the junta, they are each awarded this:

Other Oddities From Israel

IDF destroying Indonesian hospital in Gaza (Image: Planet Labs)

ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: public domain)

The availability of high resolution satellite imagery of the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) will irritate Benjamin Netanyahu no end and make concealing their war crimes more difficult.

Swimmer Killed After Rare Shark Attack

A swimmer was killed following an extremely rare shark attack off the coast of Israel about 25 miles north of Tel Aviv. Sharks are known to gather there where warm water is discharged by a local power plant, and especially at this time of year, but they are usually harmless. There have been no recorded fatal shark attacks in waters off Israel since the country was founded in 1948. Below Israelis admire a shark in the same area in 2021.

(Photo: AFP)

Pre-attack video of the shark captured here:

If the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip can’t enjoy the Mediterranean Sea, this seems fitting that Likudniks shouldn’t enjoy their much cleaner beaches to the north.

Sources:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-health-officials-hold-urgent-meeting-as-1st-monkeypox-case-confirmed-in-israel/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rubio-state-department-anti-christian-bias-biden/

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/hkbugnh1xg

https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-dies-after-contracting-brain-eating-amoeba-in-israels-2nd-ever-recorded-case/

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/247686/gazas-only-catholic-priest-calls-israel-gaza-violence-extremely-serious

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c793rygrpjqo

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/22/marjorie-taylor-greenes-viral-controversial-post-after-pope-francis-death-marjorie-taylor-greene/83207982007/

19 Richest American Households Made One Trillion Dollars Last Year

“The wealthiest have gotten richer, and control a record share of America’s wealth. New data suggest $1 trillion of wealth was created for the 19 richest American households alone in 2024. That is more than the value of Switzerland’s entire economy.”

GOP Tax Cuts Will Cull Thousands of Poor Americans

To pay for the oligarch’s unneeded tax cuts, congressional Republicans in both chambers passed a resolution to cut at least $880 billion from the budget through 2034. Because Medicaid accounts for approximately 93% of non-Medicare funding, the program is expected to absorb the overwhelming share of these reductions. The cuts to Medicaid would result in widespread coverage losses, which could lead to 15,400 deaths due to work reporting requirements or roughly 34,200 deaths from reduced federal funding each year. 

The oligarchs have been greedily amassing their pelf for centuries. Just imagine how much more fabulously wealthy the billionaires will be next year after Trumpf’s horrendous tax cuts take effect. And how many poor Americans will have died because of inadequate medical funding. The GOP and American billionaires are aiding and abetting what Friedrich Engels described as “social murder.”

Sources:

https://www.wsj.com/economy/1-trillion-richest-families-wealth-increase-bc13874a?mod=hp_lead_pos7

Rescue Pit Bull Finds Best Friend in Donkey

Secretary Noem, are you watching this?

Followers of the Watch, Coriolanus is doing his utmost to keep up with the sinister machinations of the Trumpf junta, including their blatant stock manipulations with tariff threats and massive cryptocurrency grifting, all while keeping an eye on global intelligence and national security issues.

Donald Trumpf’s Junta Mirrors Thirds Reich

The Trumpf police state is settling in well in the US, stamping out dissent, deporting undesirables in defiance of the judiciary branch, and firing disloyal employees. The Trumpf junta is using distractions while Felon Musk’s notorious DOGE and the oligarchs pilfer America’s wealth without oversight. Moreover, Trumpf’s erratic and Narcissus-like behavior is leading to unintended consequences on the social fabric of the US, as well as the global economy.

The White House budget office has taken down its website where approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws are statutorily required to be posted for public viewing, a move likely to face major blowback from members of Congress and government watchdogs.

This blatant move is to conceal the incredible amounts of money the Trumpf regime is both wasting and transferring to their own coffers, as you will read below.

IRS To Share Tax Information with ICE

Acting commissioner of the IRS Melanie Krause announced plans to resign after a controversial agreement was reached between the DHS and the IRS to allow ICE access to taxpayer data. Krause, who has been serving as the acting IRS head, learned of the agreement only after it was publicly released by the Treasury Department, prompting her decision to step down. The deal allows ICE to request taxpayer information to aid in deporting illegal immigrants who have failed to comply with court orders to leave the US. This arrangement has sparked concerns over privacy violations and the potential misuse of sensitive taxpayer data.

America’s electronic gulag just became larger. The US is heading towards a future where any federal law-enforcement officer in the US conducting a “Terry stop” or border inspection will see whether the person has debts, unpaid civil fines, delinquent taxes, or outstanding school/auto/home loans.

DOGE Using AI to Spy on Federal Employees: “They are Omnipresent”

US federal government employees have either been told outright by their superiors that they are spied on or they have been notified of new monitoring software being installed on computers.

Col. Susannah Meyers, 821st Space Base Group commander (L) greets JD and Usha Vance (Photo: Jaime Sanchez / Space Force)

After VPOTUS JD Vance’s disastrous trip to Greenland, Colonel Meyers, pictured above, was relieved from her command at Pituffik Space Base for sending out this internal email to her personnel which supposedly “undermined JD Vance”:

“I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the US administration discussed by Vice-President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base.”

All DOD systems are monitored for counterintelligence issues, not political dialogue. Either the DOGE AI systems picked up on her innocuous language or somebody in her command informed on her to the Trumpf junta. Either way, this Colonel’s aspirations of making General have been thoroughly destroyed.

DOGE Physically Ejects Senior Executive from Office

Two days after the Social Security Administration (SSA) purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, DOGE security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive Greg Pearre in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters and physically dragged him from his office. Mr. Pearre opposed the scheme cooked up by Felon Musk’s DOGE squad that falsely lists thousands of migrants as dead in a Social Security database known as the “death master file.”

The move essentially cancels an immigrant’s Social Security number and is equivalent to a financial death, as financial institutions rely on updated Social Security data to verify identities and deaths and may cut off access for these individuals. There is no information as to whether Mr. Pearre was hurt fighting back against these fascists.

How Trumpf Gets Away with Murder, Waste, and Larceny

Dotard Trumpf became the first sitting president to attend a Superbowl and a UFC fighting match, like Caligula or Nero attending gladiatorial spectacles of imperial Rome. Sports are the bread and circuses of America, distracting the hoi polloi from the myriad of problems they face, such as unemployment, falling retirement plans, rising food prices, spreading disease, and unstoppable firearm violence. Trumpf’s attendance at these spectacles connect him with the masses, as many Republicans are rabid fans of mixed martial arts. While the public’s attention is affixed with these distractions, the Trumpf junta can waste hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars murdering the starving Shia Houthis in Yemen with expensive munitions on behalf of ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. Trumpf’s tariff threats remain unexposed for what they really are: stock manipulation and insider trading. Lastly, the massive entourage of aides and bodyguards that accompany Trumpf to these national security special events (NSSE) stay and eat at Trumpf properties, a direct transfer of American taxpayer money to the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF).

Cult of Personality Thickens Around Narcissist Trumpf

Trumpf is now mandating junta members wear golden lapel pins as a sign of fealty. Does the Trumpf pin above look familiar?

Trumpf was livid with the official Colorado State portrait of him and blamed both Democratic Governor Jared Polis and artist Sarah Boardman, slandering them with derogatory remarks.

But as you could see, Ms. Boardman caught the president perfectly:

At the White House, the egomaniacal Dotard Trumpf moved Barack Obama’s portrait to display a painting of his own assassination attempt.

The ethno-supremacist Fourth Reich in America is taking shape thanks to white racist Republicans who voted for egomaniac Trumpf in 2024, a terrible Harris-Walz presidential campaign that didn’t distance itself from genocidal Israel, AIPAC, and Felon Musk. His social media machinations and millions of dollars certainly swayed voters. Over the next four years Americans will watch their civil liberties and national security erode along with their life savings and social safety nets, while the oligarchs enjoy their unneeded trillion dollar tax breaks.

Citations:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/10/elon-musk-doge-spying

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/creq99l218do

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-portrait-colorado-jared-polis-sarah-broadman-b2720447.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/ar-AA1CNGYF

https://www.ibtimes.com/irs-head-resigns-following-controversial-ice-data-sharing-agreement-3769666

Trumpf Mental Faculties in Question

Dotard-in-Chief Mistakenly Calls Fired Lt-Gen. H.R. McMaster

Last month, retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster received an unexpected call on his personal cell. It was from the White House and he was instructed by the voice on the other end to stand by for the president. Trumpf fired McMaster after 13 months as his national security adviser during his first reign of terror.

Just a day earlier on 2 Mar, Trumpf had lobbed his latest insult at McMaster, blasting him on social media as a “weak and totally ineffective loser.”  McMaster had also just appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” where he voiced skepticism about Trumpf’s relationship with ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin.  

“Henry…” is how Trumpf opened the call before launching into the conversation.

But Lt. Gen. McMaster goes by H.R., short for Herbert Raymond. Not Henry. 

“Mr. President, this is H.R. McMaster,” he said into the phone.

“Why the f*** would I talk to H.R. McMaster?” Trumpf asked dismissively and launched into a scathing critique of his former aide. The dotard intended to call South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, not his former national security adviser. 

Trumpf Unable to Recall Details of Cognitive Test

Dotard Trumpf unable to hold hands with ICC-indicted criminal Rodrigo Duterte in Vietnam, 2017.

The 47th POTUS was unable to recall the details of the cognitive test he took as part of his physical last Friday, “but he assured reporters that he got all the answers right.” Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One about his annual physical, Trumpf was asked about the cognitive assessment included in his annual doctor’s visit.

While he seemed unable “or unwilling” to recall specific details, he told the press, “It’s a pretty well known test. Whatever it is. I got every one right.” He added that he took the test because he “wanted to be a little different than [President Joe] Biden,” who faced significant scrutiny during his term for showing signs of cognitive decline. Of his health overall, Trump said, “I felt I was in very good shape. Good heart. A good soul. Very good soul.”

According to the results, Trumpf is on two medications for cholesterol control (Rosuvastatin and Ezetimibe), taking Aspirin for cardiac prevention and he also uses Mometasone cream as needed for a skin condition. As for his weight, the 6-foot-3 politician weighs 224 lbs. During his last physical as president in 2020, he weighed 244 lbs.

Trumpf Had Prior Reputation for Poor Intellect

Dotard Trumpf boasted that University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution, was “one of the hardest schools to get into in the country.” James A. Nolan, the admissions officer who interviewed young Donald, (a friend of Trumpf’s father Fred) said that UPenn was taking 40% percent of all applicants (and this is during the Vietnam War). Nolan described Donald as “definitely not a super genius.” Mr. Nolan added: “I wish I hadn’t interviewed him. In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t done that.”

In 2024, Republicans and many Democrats targeted President Joe Biden because of his age, questioning his cognitive skills, which ushered in youthful, energetic VPOTUS Kamala Harris as the presidential candidate. But the 2024 Democratic ticket lost approximately six million voters between 2020 and 2024. Why? Because many Americans are sick of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Candidate Harris made some obligatory remarks about the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza, but did not say she would place an arms embargo on the Pariah State or stop the annual flow of billions of dollars to wealthy Israel which has been killing Palestinians for decades. Joe Biden’s or Dotard Trumpf’s age had little to do with the catastrophe the Democrats brought upon themselves and the American people.

Citations:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-tells-benjamin-netanyahu-004800092.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-cant-recall-the-details-of-his-favorite-cognitive-test/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/h-r-mcmaster-trump-accidental-call/

Did One of Trump’s College Professors Call Him ‘the Dumbest Goddamn Student I Ever Had’? – Truth or Fiction?

Israel PM Condemns Canada Liberal PM Mark Carney

Liberal Leader Mark Carney holds a rally in Calgary, on 8 April. (Photo: Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press)

ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu condemned PM Mark Carney after a voter at a rally shouted: “There is a genocide happening in Palestine!” to which PM Carney replied: “I’m aware, which is why we have an arms embargo.” Netanyahu called on Mr. Carney to retract what he called an irresponsible statement.’ “Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney,” Netanyahu posted on Felon Musk’s ‘X.’ “Instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and only Jewish state.” People have disrupted every one of Mr. Carney’s public events last week as he has been campaigning for the 28 April federal election. Israel has killed more than 50,800 Palestinians, wounded or maimed over 100,000, and reduced much of Gaza to ruins. And Netanyahu is the one who calls the Palestinian resistance ‘barbarians.’ Hmph.

PM Mark Carney had better learn the bitter lessons of the 2024 Democratic Party. Mr. Carney should immediately recognize the State of Palestine and restore diplomatic relations with Iran, which was recklessly severed by Conservative PM Stephen Harper years ago. That idiotic move was made to appease the Republican George W. Bush administration which cost Canadian intelligence a set of eyes and ears in the Islamic Republic, as well as Ottawa’s ability to influence the Iranian regime. The time to break the Trumpf-Putin-Netanyahu-Musk Axis of Evil is now.

Citations:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-rebukes-mark-carney-over-gaza-comment/

Leaked Audio Reveals AIPAC Has “Stranglehold” on Trumpf Junta’s National Security Team

The Grayzone obtained leaked audio from AIPAC’s 2025 Congressional Summit in which the organization’s Executive Director Elliot Brandt boasted that his group had groomed several top Trumpf national security officials, and is able to “access” their conversations to ensure they continue adhering to Israel’s agenda. Followers of the Watch, you have to hear this to believe it.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) must be the first politician Democrats vote out in a primary. He capitulated on the GOP budget which unleashed fresh hell on the Palestinians and the Shia Houthis in Yemen. Note that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and NYC Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) do not receive a penny from AIPAC. You may use the links below to see which American politicians support ethnic cleansing in Israel or the NRA, which helps kill thousands of Americans by promoting unfettered access to firearms.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ( D-NY), prepares to speak at the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington, 25 Mar 2019. (Photo: Jose Luis Magana / AP)

Citations:

https://www.trackaipac.com/

https://www.opensecrets.org/

Felon Musk Covering Up Russian War Crimes

At least 34 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people were going to church for Palm Sunday, in the worst attack on civilians this year. (Photo: Volodymyr Hordiienko / AP)

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi accused ‘X’ of covering up Russian war crimes by blocking information about Ukrainian children killed in the invasion. Tykhyi shared a post from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on 11 Apr, revealing that Russian forces had killed 616 Ukrainian children and injured 1,869 since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The post was flagged as “graphic content” by social network X, which then restricted access to the image: pbs.twimg.com

In 2024, the Worst Person in the World cut off Nelson Mandela’s grandson’s ‘X’ account when he visited the Gaza Strip, helping to cover up Netanyahu’s war crimes against the Palestinian people.

Citations:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/13/russian-missile-strike-kills-injured-ukraine-sumy

https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-s-foreign-ministry-spokesman-accuses-x-of-covering-russian-war-crimes-50505758.html

China Responds to JD Vance’s Idiotic Comments

JD Vance’s comments referring to Chinese nationals as “peasants” ignited a firestorm of criticism in China. The remark was denounced by the Chinese Foreign Ministry as “ignorant and impolite.” Chinese social media erupted with outrage, with users demanding an apology and some calling for Vance to be banned from entering China. Chinese social media users also highlighted the irony of Vance’s comments, given his working-class background detailed in his memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” 

Usha Vance’s family hail from the upper caste in India, stratospherically above the millions of peasants, masses, and Dalits in the sub-continent.

For a man who claims to hold all the cards, Trumpf certainly seems to fold a lot. The ending from the classic 1965 film “The Cincinnati Kid” which is 60 years old, starred the handsome Steve McQueen, and the attractive Ann-Margret and Tuesday Weld, is instructive.

“Gets down to what it’s all about, doesn’t it? Making the wrong move at the right time.”

With Trumpf, it’s making all the wrong moves all the time.

Citations:

https://www.firstpost.com/web-show/firstpostamerica/beijing-slams-jd-vance-over-chinese-peasants-remark-calls-him-ignorant-firstpost-america-vd1035414/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-begging-china-deal-over-163200207.html

Teenage Cult Member Kills Parents, Plots to Kill Trumpf

Nikita Casap (17) mugshot. Look at the void in his eyes and pock-marked skin.

Nikita Casap (17) from Wisconsin allegedly killed his parents as part of a plot to assassinate Donald Trumpf and overthrow the US government. The murder of his parents appeared to be an effort to attain the “financial means and autonomy” to carry out his plan to incite chaos and ‘save the white race’ from ‘Jewish-controlled’ politicians. Casap faces several felony charges, including two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of hiding a corpse, and conspiracy to assassinate the president and use a WMD. In an average year, 708 people die and 1,686 are wounded by guns in Wisconsin. 

A criminal complaint is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Citations:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/nikita-casap-murder-wisconsin-trump-cult-b2732216.html

 wcca.wicourts.gov 

What Does a Cat Do When It Finds Sleeping Dogs?

Israeli Death Forces Murder American Teenager in West Bank, Wound Two Others; Admits Killing 15 Medics

One ethnic cleanser helping another ethnic cleanser into his seat.

Israeli soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian-American teenager and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank. Two other Palestinian-American boys, ages 14 and 15, were injured in the incident. The IDF said its soldiers opened fire during a ‘counterterrorism operation’ in Turmusaya when they saw three “terrorists who hurled rocks toward the highway, thus endangering civilians driving.” This week ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu met with Dotard Trumpf and presumably AIPAC mega-donors. There was no indication of an apology from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu or an inquiry from President Dotard Trumpf.

Palestinians carry the body of a Palestinian-American boy who was killed by Israeli forces in the village of Turmusaya, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on 6 April 2025.  (Photo: Mohamad Torokman / Reuters)

IDF Murders 15 Palestinian Medics

Relatives mourn during the funeral procession for members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society and other emergency services who were killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 31 March 2025. (Photo: AFP / Eyad Baba)

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “outraged” at the deaths of their medics killed on duty in Rafah in southern Gaza. The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on 23 March. Troops then bulldozed over the bodies along with their mangled vehicles, burying them in a mass grave. Their bodies were finally retrieved one week later after the IDF granted access. At least one of the Palestinians had their legs bound, another was decapitated, and a third was topless.

Attacking medical personnel and desecrating the bodies of the enemy are war crimes under the Geneva Convention.

ICC-indicted War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu resumed the genocide in Gaza on 18 March after US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) capitulated on the appalling GOP budget, ensuring US economic and military aid to Israel remained uninterrupted. The IDF has killed over 900 people, including children, with US-provided weapons and funds since re-starting the Nakba on 18 March.

Warning: Some Followers of the Watch may find this murder scene disturbing.

The Israeli military backtracked on its account of the killing of 15 Palestinian medics by its forces after the phone video you saw above contradicted their lies that the vehicles did not have emergency signals on when troops opened fire on them in the Gaza Strip. The military initially said it opened fire because the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” on nearby troops without headlights or emergency signals. An Israeli military official, speaking condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said that account was “mistaken.”

How many other times has the world heard these excuses from the IDF? The State of Israel should just announce they want to be an ethnically pure state and be done with it. Savlanut, young lady, the IDF is killing the Palestinians as fast it can.

ICC-indicted war criminal Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu once again visited Dotard Trumpf at the White House this week. What could they possibly discussing again? War against Iran, of course.

The US and Iran are once again on a collision course over the Iranian nuclear program.

In a letter dated early March, Trumpf urged Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to negotiate a new deal. The new deal would replace the defunct nuclear agreement negotiated in 2015 between the US, Iran and five other global powers.

Trumpf withdrew from that agreement, called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), during his first term. Trumpf gave Tehran a two-month deadline to reach a new nuclear deal. If they don’t, the US will bomb the country. Since the Republican budget passed, the US military has been bombing the Shia Houthis in Yemen who are proxies of Iran. Netanyahu resume his Nakba against the Palestinians, and US B-2 bombers have amassed on the island of Diego Garcia in a show of force. In response, Tehran has agreed only to indirect negotiations. It has ruled out any direct talks while under a US policy of “maximum pressure”.

Open source satellite imagery shows the build up of the US strategic bomber taskforce on Diego Garcia, possibly one-third of the B2 fleet. (Photo: X)

Trumpf claimed that the Houthis in Yemen have been “decimated by the relentless strikes” he ordered on 15 Mar. But Pentagon officials are privately offering a more restrained assessment. In recent closed briefings, they acknowledged limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, mostly underground stockpiles of missiles, drones, and launchers. In just three weeks, the strikes have cost $200 million in munitions, not including the high operational and personnel expenses of deploying two aircraft carriers, B-2 bombers, fighter jets, and advanced air defenses to the region. So many precision munitions — especially advanced long-range ones — are being used that some Pentagon planners are increasingly concerned about the strain on Navy stockpiles. The depletion is raising alarms about the US military’s readiness in the event of a major conflict, such as a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

The total cost of the campaign could exceed $1 billion by next week, and the Pentagon may soon need to request supplemental funding from Congress.

The Hill Times newspaper in Canada refers to Netanyahu as “Israel’s curse” (5 Sep 2024).

Sources:

Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/middleeast/palestinian-american-teen-killed-israel-intl-hnk/index.html

Gaza medics killed by Israel found handcuffed and shot in mass grave | Middle East Eye

Ukraine Update

Russia Continues to Press Gang Civilians for Ukraine Meatgrinder

A police raid in Russia ended with immigrants being rounded up and taken to a military recruitment office. The raid — one of several across Russia in recent weeks ” was the latest evidence of how authorities are seeking new soldiers for Ukraine, where Russia’s all-out invasion is now its fourth year. This coincided with the annual springtime draft of conscripts, who are by law barred from combat duties or foreign deployment. Taken together, the moves show how Russia’s military is seeking to increase the overall size of its armed forces while at the same time making sure it has the manpower to continue grinding down Ukrainian troops. The young Russian soldier above saying goodbye to his wife in Sep 2022 may have already been killed or maimed on behalf of ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin.

US Neo-Nazis Call for Targeted Attacks Against Ukraine

White supremacist Rinaldo Nazarro (AKA “”Norman Spear,” “Roman Wolf”) in undated photos. (Public domain imagery)

The US neo-Nazi terrorist group called “The Base,” led by Rinaldo Nazarro (AKA “”Norman Spear,” “Roman Wolf”), is calling for targeted assassinations and sabotage attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine in an effort to destabilize Kiev. Nizarro has been leading “The Base” out of Saint Petersburg, Russia (which means “Al Qaida” in Arabic). No longer the focus of intense FBI counter-terrorism investigations after the Trumpf junta assumed power, Rinaldo Nazzaro is trying to flex the muscles of his terrorist group. An American defector, this NJ native claims to have worked with US Special Forces during the GWOT.

No doubt that white supremacist oligarch Felon Musk and the Kremlin are pulling the strings. The worst man in the world is backing the rightwing in Germany and called for the release of violent Islamophobe gang leader Tommy Robinson in the UK. Robinson has visited Russia on several occasions.

DHS Mistakenly Informs Ukrainian Refugees to Leave US

The Trumpf junta said it accidentally told some Ukrainian refugees they needed to leave the US immediately because their legal status was being revoked. The following message was sent by mistake: “DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole,” the 3 April notice said, referring to the temporary legal status that the Biden administration granted to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians. “Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate 7 days from the date of this notice. Again, DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States ” the federal government will find you,” the notice warned. “Please depart the United States immediately.” Roughly 240,000 Ukrainians are safe in the US under a policy known as Uniting for Ukraine (U4U). DHS retracted the email without apology or explanation.

Russians Celebrated Ukrainian Drone Strikes on Moscow

Phone conversations intercepted by Ukrainian military intelligence reveal that many Russians welcomed the news of drone attacks on Moscow. Russian comments follow: “So we can be f**king bombed, but Moscow Oblast is not? Let the bastards shut up and stay put!” “They live their lives without fear, without knowing anything. Let them be at least a little bit afraid,” the person she was speaking to responded. “They should have targeted Moscow right away to make them take action,” she said, adding: “Otherwise, poor people are suffering, and Moscow is dancing and singing.” “Well, (there were) 50 drones, as I read today. Let them bomb the Kremlin,” one of the men said. “To hell with them. Let them (bomb),” the other replied.

The Russian masses see the oligarchs on TV shows enjoying themselves, keeping their children safe from Ukrainian attack or serving in the Russian Army. They are sick of Vladimir Putin’s inhuman invasion of Ukraine which has cost them hundreds of thousands casualties and a greatly diminished quality of life. During the Second World War, public dissent against the Emperor or the State was ruthlessly quashed by the Kempai Tai (Thought Police) in Imperial Japan. The result was slanderous graffiti throughout the washrooms of Japan’s factories, fisheries, offices, and farms, safely denouncing the unpopular war which brought them tragedy and devastation.

Modern day version of the ridicule secretly heaped on the elites in the washrooms of Japan during the Second World War.

Ukrainian Forces Capture Two Chinese Nationals Fighting for Russia

PLA soldier in newest camouflage uniform and equipment.

Ukrainian forces have captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting for the Russian army in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Intelligence suggests the number of Chinese soldiers in Russia’s army is much higher. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Chinese troops fighting on Ukrainian territory “puts into question China’s declared stance for peace” and added that their envoy in Kiev was summoned for an explanation.

This is the first official allegation from Ukraine that China is supplying Russia with manpower. There has been no immediate response to the claims from Moscow or Beijing. In a statement on social media platform X, President Zelensky said the soldiers were captured in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region with identification documents, including bank cards which had “personal data” on them. Ukraine’s forces fought six Chinese soldiers and took two of them prisoner, he said.

Beijing’s PLA has global peacekeeping and border skirmish experience fighting Indian forces in the Himalayas, but the last major war fought by China was against Vietnam in 1979. Like North Korea, China may be testing the mettle of their untried soldiers in real combat in the event the PLA invade Taiwan. China is a massive police surveillance state and can not deny knowledge of their presence in Russia. The white racist soldiers in the Russian Army didn’t give a damn about the North Korean soldiers and the same would have applied to these Asian troops.

Sources:

https://www.dw.com/en/is-elon-musk-aiding-a-british-right-wing-extremist/a-71440001

 www.counterextremism.com

https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1400/2

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/the-base-neo-nazi-russia-ukraine

https://www.rferl.org/a/33372664.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vg1x7g32o

https://kyivindependent.com/some-russians-celebrated-ukrainian-drone-strikes-on-moscow-intercepted-calls-suggest/

UK: Russian Spy Sensors Found Hidden in Waters

One of Britain’s four Vanguard nuclear submarines, HMS Vigilant, at a naval base in Scotland. (Credit: James Glossop / AFP)

The British military discovered the sensors after a number of them washed ashore. Moscow is trying to collect intelligence on the UK’s four Vanguard submarines, which carry nuclear missiles. At least one of the submarines is at sea as part of Britain’s continuous at-sea deterrent. The Kremlin has a fleet of specialist submarines which are reported to be better equipped than Britain and NATO in terms of both seabed warfare and espionage. Russia has been stepping up surveillance and sabotage of underwater internet connections, energy pipelines, and military cables, which are key to the West. In 15 months, there have been at least 11 internet cables that have suffered damage in the Baltic Sea, partly because anchors have been dragged across the seabed by ships.

Despite the appalling losses to the Russian army, ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin has maintained the budget and manpower of his naval forces, particularly for sabotage and espionage missions.

Sources:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/06/russian-spy-sensors-hidden-uk-waters/

Trumpf Junta Continues Stalinist Purges of US Military

America’s disgrace in the East Room of the White House (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times)

Gen. Timothy Haugh, former director of the NSA at a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill 26 Mar. (Photo: Demetrius Freeman / The Washington Post)

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the US military representative to the NATO Military Committee, has been fired. No reason was given for her removal. Chatfield served as the US representative to the NATO Military Committee, the alliance’s group of top uniformed officials. The committee provides advice to NATO’s top military leaders and helps guide long-term strategy. Several other top military officers have been removed from their posts during Trumpf’s Stalinist purges: USAF Air Force Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, the former CJCS;; USN Adm. Lisa Franchetti, CNO; and the commandant of the USCG Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan. Look how happy Admiral Chatfield looks in her official photo below.

USN Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield has a PhD in Education (Official photo).

 

Followers of the Watch, make no mistake. The Trumpf junta is filling the ranks with pro-Kremlin, pro-Likud white male officers loyal to the regime regardless of competency or experience, like Josef Stalin did in the USSR in the 1930s.

Sources:

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-07/nato-vice-admiral-fired-17401394.html

America’s Brutal Police State

Photo courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial and Museum.

The Islamophobic Police State

Defense attorney Amir Makled. (Photo: Hall Makled Law Firm)

Dearborn Michigan attorney Amir Makled, who is representing a pro-Palestinian demonstrator arrested at the University of Michigan in 2024, was detained at Detroit Metro Airport by federal agents who questioned him about his clients and tried to get him to surrender his cellphone. Mr. Makled stood his ground and didn’t give up his phone.

“I’m an American citizen. I’m not worried about being deported,” Makled said he recalled thinking to himself in the airport interrogation room. “So, I tell them, ‘I know you can take my phone. I’m not going to give you my phone, however … 90% of my work is on my phone. You’re not getting unfettered access to (it).’ “

What followed was a 90-minute, back-and-forth verbal tussle between Makled and two federal agents, who ultimately released him without taking his phone, but looked at his contacts list instead.

In 2024, the Honorable Nina R. Morrison, a federal judge in New York ruled that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can’t search travelers’ phones without a warrant. The ruling theoretically applies to land borders, seaports, and airports — but in practice, it only applies to New York’s Eastern District. EDNY includes John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the sixth-busiest airport in the country. Nationwide, CBP has conducted more than 230,000 searches of electronic devices between the 2018 and 2023 fiscal years at land borders, seaports, and airports.

The Honorable Judge Nina R. Morrison, a heroine for America’s brutal times.

Under the Trumpf regime, this will only worsen. The junta is suppressing any pro-Palestinian support in the US on behalf of Likudnik war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. Palestinian-Americans make up 1% of the entire Arab-American population; Lebanese-Americans are the largest group, making up 25% of Arab-Americans.

The Xenophobic Police State

Rebecca Burke near her parents’ home in south Wales. (Photo: Francesca Jones / The Guardian)

Rebecca Burke, a UK citizen, was shackled and transported to an ICE detention center where she was locked up for 19 days, even though she had the money to pay for a flight home and was desperate to leave the US. Now back home in the UK, Ms. Burke tells others thinking of going to Trumpf’s America: Don’t do it.

Indian Students Targeted for Deportation

VPOTUS JD Vance and his Indian-born wife Usha.

Indian students facing minor criminal offences, including traffic violations in the US, are now being targeted by the country’s authorities. The US has revoked visas of international students including dozens of Indian students who received related mails from their designated school officials. The students were informed that their F-1 student visas were no longer valid and were asked to leave the country at once. The e-mails cited past criminal offences by the students like shifting lanes while driving, drunk driving, shoplifting, etc. as reasons for their deportation. In the past few weeks, hundreds of international students in the US received e-mails informing them about their visa being revoked and asking them to self-deport.

Here’s what the letter said:

“The termination of your Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), which is a legal document which stores data of an immigrant and proves their legal status, record means that you no longer have valid F-1 non-immigrant status. This means you are no longer lawfully allowed to stay in the US. Restated, your Form I-20 is no longer valid. Your Employment Authorization Document (EAD) is no longer valid, and you no longer have authorization to work. “If your visa has been revoked, this means that the F-1 visa in your passport is no longer valid. If you are in the US, you may need to make plans for immediate departure.”

Though each offence can lead to deportation according to the Department of Homeland Security, US immigration attorneys opined that in the past such offences seldom led to deportation. This will have exponential effects for US colleges and universities which make millions of dollars in tuition from international students. You wonder what Usha Vance, the Second Lady of the United States, or India PM Nahendra Modi think about this?

Photo capturing the American police state by Bill Hudson (NYT / AP).

Sources:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/29/24209130/customs-border-protection-unlock-phone-warrant-new-york-jfk

https://www.deccanherald.com/world/drunk-driving-shoplifting-speeding-indian-students-in-us-told-to-self-deport-over-minor-offences-3483448

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre

CIA Reviewing Lethal Options Against Mexican Drug Cartels

CIA is reviewing its authorities to use lethal force against drug cartels in Mexico after the Trumpf junta made the cartels a major priority for the intelligence agency. Trump designated a number of cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO). The review does not indicate the Dotard has ordered CIA to take direct action against the cartels, but CIA is already flying surveillance drones over Mexico like the MQ-9 Reaper drone below: 

An MQ-9 Reaper drone at an undisclosed location border. The Houthis in Yemen have shot down at least three of these expensive aircraft.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order 12333: “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum recently met in Mexico City. (Social media)

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum posted on social media that she and other Mexican officials including Foreign Affairs Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente had “a fruitful meeting” with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem “for the benefit of Mexico and the United States.”

“Our countries maintain a good relationship within the framework of respect for our sovereignties,” she wrote.

President Claudia Sheinbaum already broke Mexico’s constitution by extraditing several cartel members to the US in an effort to placate the Trumpf junta. CIA covert action in Mexico will undermine her country’s sovereignty and possibly destabilize her country. In 2023 Mexico suffered 22,355 gun deaths, mostly from cartel violence. American demand for illegal drugs provides the cartels a lucrative business. In turn, the cartel operators purchase smuggled weapons from American gunrunners and the cycle remains unbroken.

Sources:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/07/politics/cia-reviewing-lethal-force-drug-cartels/index.html

EUROPOL Smashes Child Sexploitation Ring

Kidflix, one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world, has been shut down in an international operation against child sexual exploitation. Over 35 countries worldwide participated in the operation. 1,393 suspects were identified, 79 suspects were arrested, over 3,000 electronic devices were seized, and 39 children were protected.  A total of 1.8 million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March 2025. Authorities seized the server which contained around 72,000 videos.

Source:

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-crackdown-kidflix-major-child-sexual-exploitation-platform-almost-two-million-users

Bio-Tech Firm Claims They Cloned Extinct Ice Age ‘Dire Wolves’ Thru DNA Manipulation

  • Colossal Biosciences says it created three wolf pups with the genes of ancient, extinct dire wolves.
  • The startup’s scientists call this “de-extinction,” but other experts say these aren’t dire wolves.
  • What is certain is that these three wolf pups are the first of their kind.

The beginnings of a real-life “Jurassic Park” are playing out in a high-security, undisclosed location where three unusually large, fluffy, white wolf pups are growing up.

The gene-editing startup Colossal Biosciences, which recently raised $400 million for its de-extinction and conservation missions, announced the pups’ existence on Monday, saying they are the first living dire wolves since the species went extinct some 12,500 years ago.

Brothers Romulus and Remus were born in Oct 2024, followed by female pup Khaleesi in January — all delivered by Caesarean section from their hound-dog surrogate moms to avoid complications from their large size.

Romulus and Remus were born in October. Colossal Biosciences

Wolf pups Romulus and Remus.

If true, the late pioneering novelist Michael Crichton would have been pleased with this news. Coriolanus has read several of his books, some of which became mega blockbuster movies.

Source:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/07/science/dire-wolf-de-extinction-cloning-colossal/index.html

IDF Air Force Commander Not Alerted During 7 Oct 2023 Hamas Attack

IDF Major General Tomer Bar woke up 7 Oct 2023 with the national alarm like other Israelis.

FTA:

“A thorough 750-page investigation by the Israeli Air Force details the events during the first hours of the 7 Oct war, highlighting significant failures in safeguarding the country’s airspace and protecting communities near Gaza.

IDF Air Force commander Major General Tomer Bar woke up that Saturday at 06:30 AM when the alarms sounded. By 07:10 AM, he declared war from the Air Force bunker and, according to the investigation’s findings, scrambled the entire force. The first flight log shows that the Air Force went into offensive action at 07:15, 45 minutes after the massacre in the Gaza envelope began when the first aircraft attacked Netiv Ha’Asarah.

Air Force Commander Major General Tomer Bar is part of the General Staff that failed in its response, and during the investigation, he took full responsibility, admitting in his own words, “We failed.”

IDF airstrike in the Gaza Strip, 9 Oct 2023. By midnight of the first day, approximately 1,000 attacks had been conducted, with 12,000 shells fired from helicopter gunships. (Photo: Atia Mohammed / Flash90)

“A civilian commission investigating the events surrounding 7 Oct 2023 has released a scathing report accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government of failing to protect Israeli citizens.

The commission, chaired by retired judge Varda Alsheikh, found that both the government and security agencies failed to heed warnings and prepare adequately, concluding the disaster “was not an act of fate but could have been dramatically minimized.”

Members of the civilian commission of inquiry into the 7 Oct massacre present their findings (Photo: Yariv Katz)

After 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 captives taken for a prisoner swap on 7 Oct 2023, Netanyahu’s Nakba killed 46,707 Palestinians (including 18,000 children) and injured 110,265. Thousands of Arabs were killed and maimed in Lebanon as well. Both Gaza and Lebanon saw record levels of devastation, causing hundreds of thousands of refugees. Unqualified US support for Netanyahu’s reprisals against the Arabs during the 2024 election year cost Kamala Harris the White House on 5 Nov as antiwar voters stayed home in disgust. Netanyahu has since been indicted for war crimes by the ICC and he is on trial for corruption in Tel Aviv along with his wife Sara. Netanyahu is doing everything he can to prevent a 9/11-style commission into his handling of this savage war of ethnic cleansing. And is there anyone on the planet that thinks Joe Biden or Kamala Harris are friends with Bibi?

Sources:

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/idf/air-force-investigation-reveals-critical-failures-in-first-hours-of-october-7-massacre/2025/02/18/

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1t86nxxkl

US Senator Bernie Sanders Excoriates Trumpf, Musk, and Oligarchs in Congress

In a speech reminiscent of William Jennings Bryant’s powerful 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech, Senator Sanders launched a tirade for the ages.

Senate Democrats Are Fighting Back Against Musk and DOGE Through GAO

Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) (Getty Images)

On 12 Feb, the GAO confirmed by written letter that it will pursue the request for an investigation made by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ron Wyden into how and why DOGE accessed the US Treasury’s payment system.

“GAO’s mission is to support Congress in carrying out its constitutional duties and GAO is a legislative branch agency. As the investigative arm of Congress, GAO examines how federal dollars are spent and how federal programs, policies, and operations work.”

GAO operates with a $637m budget, employing approximately 3,000 full-time staff. Independent of the Executive Branch, DOGE can not interfere with them.

In addition, the Democratic Senators established this website:


https://www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers

This was posted on social media and identifies some of the DOGE perpetrators pilfering through US government systems on behalf of Teflon Musk, the Worst Person in the World. So far, sleuths have uncovered 17 of these miscreants.

Sources:

https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/gao_acceptance_letter.pdf

https://www.gao.gov/

https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/#Jennifer-Balajadia

https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-wyden-secure-independent-treasury-and-congressional-watchdog-investigations-into-doges-unprecedented-access-to-the-federal-governments-payment-systems

https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/response_from_treasury_ig.pdf

America’s Godzilla Unleashes Deadly Hatred Throughout the US

Nationwide Support for Migrant Bounty Hunters Growing

Missouri State Senator David Gregory (R-St. Louis)

Proposed legislation to reward bounty hunters with $1,000 per deportation is getting traction nationwide, Missouri state senator David Gregory (R-St. Louis) told Newsweek. “I’m finding a tremendous amount of support. It’s actually gaining support across the country.” Nota Bene: In Missouri, 48.8% of adults have guns at home. Firearm licenses in 2021: 113,351. In 2023, an estimated 1,300 people died from gun-related injuries in Missouri. Expect more if this idiotic legislation passes.

11-Year-Old Texas Girl Commits Suicide Because of Immigration Status

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza (11)

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza was bullied and taunted at school over her family’s immigration status. “They were going to call immigration so they could take her parents away and she would be left alone,” her mother said. The child ended up killing herself. Mrs. Carranza did not address the immigration status of the family.

ICE Lawyer Runs Racist Website

The Texas Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden (on the left below), based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Can you tell the two monsters apart?

Books Mentioning Civil Rights Removed From Shelves at Fort Campbell, KY School

Fort Campbell, KY is the home of the famous 101st Airborne Division, the “Screaming Eagles.” Clarksville Now is reporting that an elementary school at Fort Campbell is removing books from its library in response to a Trumpf executive order. Clarksville Now reported it received a copy a letter sent to school administrators from the DoD Education Activity that lays out several directives to comply with the US President’s order which includes banning the promotion of “monthly cultural observations.” The eagle should be screaming.

On 25 Sep 1957, paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division (the ‘Screaming Eagles’) escorted nine students of color into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock AK.

Note the bayonets on the rifles. President Eisenhower must get credit for this important move against segregation, even though he initiated Operation Wetback in 1954.

Americans should expect vigilante groups cropping up throughout the country hunting for migrants, more ICE raids (even though detention facilities are limited), and more grandstanding from the Dotard-in-Chief.

At least two people were killed when two small planes collided in Arizona. Coriolanus is having difficulty keeping up with these incidents and people have begun calling Trumpf “President Planecrash.” Meanwhile, with Ukraine fighting for its survival, “President Planecrash” spent another leisurely day golfing. Since being in office 31 days, he has been on the links nine times, or 29% of his presidency.

Sources:

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/us/jocelynn-rojo-carranza-gainesville-texas-death/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/support-migrant-bounty-hunters-growing-state-senator-2032569

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce98zeex9ymo

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

NASA: ‘City Killer’ Asteroid has 3% Chance of Hitting Earth

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is traveling at 40,000 MPH. (Imagery: NASA)

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1% chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA, making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting. But, despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation.

2024 YR4 was first detected on 27 Dec 2024 by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.

Astronomers estimate its size to be between 130 and 300 feet (40–90 meters) wide, based on its brightness. Analysis of its light signatures suggests it has a fairly typical composition, rather than being a rare metal-rich asteroid.

NASA’s latest calculations estimate the impact probability at 3.1%, with a potential Earth impact date of 22 Dec 2032.

That translates to odds of one in 32 — roughly the same as correctly guessing the outcome of five consecutive coin tosses. The last time an asteroid of greater than 30 meters in size posed such a significant risk was Apophis in 2004, when it briefly had a 2.7 percent chance of striking Earth in 2029 — a possibility later ruled out by additional observations.

NASA successfully deflected Didymos with a DART.

Sources:

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/2024-yr4/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250218-city-killer-asteroid-now-has-3-1-chance-of-hitting-earth-nasa

US Navy SEAL Candidates Sickened by Training in Sewage-Laced Ocean Water

US Navy SEAL candidates participate in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training at Coronado, CA, 23 Jan 2018. (Petty Officer 1st Class Abe McNatt / US Navy photo)

Navy SEAL candidates in California are often training in water filled with bacteria that cause illnesses, a Department of Defense watchdog report found, and the service’s special warfare command does not have a formal policy for monitoring water quality and relocating training.

The DoD inspector general’s findings said candidates at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado would often train in the water even when local San Diego beaches nearby were closed to the public due to high levels of “fecal indicator bacteria.”

Between January 2019 and May 2023 alone, the Naval Special Warfare Center reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea among SEALs and candidates.

A notable 39% of those cases, or 457 people, were diagnosed with those illnesses within a week of being in ocean water that surpassed the state’s limits for contamination.
Water contamination has been a long-standing issue in Coronado due in part to pollution from the Tijuana River Valley in Mexico, which flows to area beaches and causes significant closures to the shoreline.

USN SEALs are considered amongst the toughest commandos on the planet because of their intense training and strict standards. President Obama deployed SEAL Team Six to covertly capture Al-Qaida mastermind Osama Bin Laden in May 2011.

In nearly three decades of military service, Coriolanus has never heard of a USSECDEF being booed by Americans like Pete Hegseth was pilloried in Germany last week, nor has your author heard of USN SEAL candidates being sickened by bacteria-infected ocean water. Coriolanus worked with a former USN SEAL years ago and he never related a story like this. And he had great stories. The environment is continuously deteriorating with pollution with no end in sight. The USN should consider moving training farther north, away from the offending Tijuana River.

Footnote:

To the north, San Francisco allegedly dumps dumps millions of gallons of sewage into the Pacific Ocean during big storms. Environmentalists and surfers are trying to put a stop that.

Sources:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/13/navy-seal-candidates-sickened-training-sewage-laced-ocean-water-pentagon-watchdog-finds.html

https://www.kqed.org/science/1996145/sf-dumps-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-during-big-storms-surfers-say-that-needs-to-stop

Conservation Efforts Have Doubled India’s Tiger Population

The Royal Bengal Tiger as been classified as an endangered animal by the IUCN.

Approximately three-quarters of the world’s tigers now live in India, despite rapidly growing urbanization and human populations. From 2010 to 2022, tigers in India more than doubled from an estimated 1,706 to nearly 3,700.

The improved situation for tiger populations is due to conservation and environmental protection methods safeguarding them from habitat loss and poaching. The researchers believe it offers key lessons for other big cat conservation programs around the world.

“Creating human-free protected areas allowed tigers to establish breeding populations from which they dispersed to occupy multi-use forests,” said lead author Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala, a conservationist at the Wildlife Institute of India.

From 2010-2022, India’s tiger habitat grew by 30% — about 1,131 square miles annually. Tigers are now spread across 53,359 square miles , an area about the size of England.

Bengal tiger cubs.

Coriolanus had an enjoyable experience like this in Asia decades ago.

Sources:

https://www.dw.com/en/conservation-efforts-double-indias-tiger-population/a-71577773

https://www.sscadda.com/national-animal-of-india/

Housecat Spots Two Stray Kittens in Backyard…

Israel Conducted the Worst Bombardment of the 21st Century

Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza in front of the morgue in Deir al Balah on 31 Oct 2024. (Photo: Fatima Shbair / AP)

In intensity and concentration of violence in the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip, the Nakba may have been the most destructive aerial and artillery bombardment of the 21st century. This takes into account the nearly three-year Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The level of physical destruction has been compared to the firebombing of Hamburg in the Second World War.

Rubble after the Allied bombing of Hamburg in July 1943.

Rubble after Israeli bombing of Gaza. (Photo: Ashraf Amra / Anadolu / Getty Images)

The Palestinian death toll, which the official Hamas-run health ministry puts at 46,600, is more than ten times its count in all previous Gaza conflicts since 2008 combined. 110,265 Palestinians have been injured. The IDF maintains 17,000 of the dead were militants. So, who were the 29,600 non-combatant casualties?

Just over half of the dead are women, children, or the elderly. Israel says the figures are suspect because of Hamas’s control of the ministry in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has not released figures for its losses.

UN experts estimate that at least 19,000 children have been orphaned in Gaza, but the true figure is probably higher. Those other wars did not involve this much bombing and this much displacement in such a small and crowded place, with a population that includes such a high proportion of children, said Jonathan Crickx, a spokesman for UNICEF.

In any war, the dead are often the lucky ones: the numbers of the maimed and crippled often dwarfs those of the dead.

According to Save the Children, on average the Israeli bombardment in Gaza maimed 15 children a day (475 per month), leaving them with lifelong disabilities.

UNICEF reports there are over 1,000 child amputees in Gaza like this girl pictured above.

Another nightmare for Muslims in the Middle East is coming…

Islamophobe Sebastian Gorka. Said his PhD adviser: ‘I would not call him an expert in terrorism.’ (Undated screengrab)

Soon the notorious virulent rightwing anti-Iranian Sebastian Gorka will be assuming a prominent national security role in the upcoming Trumpf administration. Americans will begin to hear anti-Iranian rhetoric from Fox News and other right-wing media outlets. With a Republican soon to be in the White House and a Likudnik in charge of Israel, the potential for conflict with Iran will greatly increase. Locations of American servicemembers stationed in the Middle East can be seen in the map below.

President Biden ended the “forever wars” because Americans were getting tired of this:

Remains of a fallen US Soldier coming home. (Photo: US Army)

Sources:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/worst-bombardment-21st-century-reshaped-081258905.html

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-centre/press-releases/explosive-weapons-left-15-children-a-day-in-gaza-with-potentiall

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2024/04/six-months-into-the-war-on-gaza-over-10000-women-have-been-killed

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/nov/16/sebastian-gorka/fact-check-former-white-house-aide-says-iran-every/

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/18/politics/gorka-credentials/index.html

https://www.unicef.org/sop/stories/facing-life-gaza-strip-new-disability

Letter from President Joe Biden to the American People

Four years ago, we stood in a winter of peril and a winter of possibilities. We were in the grip of the worst pandemic in a century, the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War. But we came together as Americans, and we braved through it. We emerged stronger, more prosperous, and more secure.

Today, we have the strongest economy in the world and have created a record 16.6 million new jobs. Wages are up. Inflation continues to come down. The racial wealth gap is the lowest it’s been in 20 years. We’re rebuilding our entire nation—urban, suburban, rural, and Tribal communities. Manufacturing is coming back to America. We’re leading the world again in science and innovation, including the semiconductor industry. And we finally beat Big Pharma to lower the cost of prescription drugs for seniors. More people have health insurance today in America than ever before. I signed one of the most significant laws helping millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic materials and their families, as well as the most significant climate law ever and the first major gun safety law in nearly 30 years. Today, the violent crime rate is at a 50-year low.

I ran for president because I believed that the soul of America was at stake. The very nature of who we are was at stake. And, that’s still the case. America is an idea stronger than any army and larger than any ocean. It’s the most powerful idea in the history of the world. That idea is that we are all created equal, endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We’ve never fully lived up to this sacred idea, but we’ve never walked away from it either. And I do not believe the American people will walk away from it now.

Vice President Harris and I asked our staff to prepare a detailed summary of the progress we’ve made together throughout the last four years. Below, I’m sharing our record with you. I hope you’ll do your part to build on the progress we’ve made.

It has been the privilege of my life to serve this nation for over 50 years. Nowhere else on Earth could a kid with a stutter from modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Claymont, Delaware, one day sit behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office as President of the United States. I have given my heart and my soul to our nation. And I have been blessed a million times in return with the love and support of the American people.

History is in your hands. The power is in your hands. The idea of America lies in your hands. We just have to keep the faith and remember who we are. We are the United States of America, and there is simply nothing beyond our capacity when we do it together.

Thank you.

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Sources:


https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/15/the-biden-harris-administration-record/

The above link will take you to FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administration Record, as well as the transcript of his televised Oval Office farewell to the American people.

The 2024 Democratic Party suffered the same stinging loss like in 1968. Antiwar Democrats opposed to supporting the brutal South Vietnamese regime and the wasteful war were shut out of the DNC convention in Chicago. Rather than vote for Republican Richard Nixon or Segregationist George Wallace, the pacifists abstained. In parallel fashion, antiwar Democrats opposed to US support of the brutal Jerusalem regime were shut out of the DNC convention in Chicago. Rather than vote for Republican Donald Trump or Green Party Jill Stein, the pacifists abstained. This accounted for the depressed turnout for Democrats in both 1968 and 2024, despite their domestic policy achievements. Both incumbent Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Joe Biden watched their VPOTUS crash and burn by not heeding to the antiwar bloc of their party, letting the Vietnam War and Gaza Nakba tarnish their images.

Why Do Ukrainians Oppose Lowering The Conscription Age?

Soldiers carry a coffin of Ukrainian soldier Andriy Kuzmenko, who was killed in the Russia-Ukraine war, during a farewell ceremony at the St. Michael’s Monastery in Kyiv on 10 Jan. (Photo: AP)

The US, Kyiv’s main military backer, has called on Ukraine to lower the conscription age from 25 to 18 as the country struggles to fend off advancing Russian forces amid a shortage of new recruits. In April, Ukraine reduced the mobilization age from 27 to 25. But in Nov 2024, the Biden administration pushed Ukraine to lower the draft age again to 18. On 12 Jan, President-elect Donald Trump’s designated national-security adviser Mike Waltz repeated the message.

That has led some Ukrainian families to send their sons overseas to avoid conscription.

Svitlana Pokalchuk has sent her two teenage sons abroad for their safety. (Photo: RFE/RL)

The Issue:

The 18-25 age group is the weakest of Ukraine’s working age demographics. A dramatic fall in the birth rate in the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, continued into the 2000s amid ongoing economic hardship.

“Our lowest birth rate in history was in 2001,” says Oleksandr Hladun, deputy director at the Ukrainian Academy of Science’s Demography Institute. “This contingent is currently the smallest. And this means that in 25-30 years even fewer children will be born.”

Economic problems and the war took another toll on the Ukrainian population as thousands emigrated. Today 25% of Ukrainian high school students wish to continue their studies abroad.

This is why Ukraine is facing manpower shortages and its people are reluctant to lower the draft age. The leadership of much larger Russia doesn’t care about how many of their young men die as you have previously read on Coriolanus.

Ukrainian police conducted hundreds of raids nationwide to shut down routes used by military-aged men to flee the country to avoid military service. (Photo: dpsu.gov.ua)

As the US Navy once used press gangs to obtain sailors, Kyiv has been employing the same tactic searching for and detaining draft evaders of military age.

ICC-indicted war criminal Vladimir Putin depicted by a street artist in Sweden.

Sources:

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-conscription/33275293.html

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/30122

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/45211

WHO: Suspected Outbreak of Marburg Disease Kills Eight in Tanzania

(Image: CDC)

WHO received reliable reports from in-country sources regarding suspected cases of MVD in the Kagera region of the United Republic of Tanzania. Six people were reported to have been affected, five of whom had died. The cases presented with similar symptoms of headache, high fever, back pain, diarrhoea, haematemesis (vomiting with blood), malaise (body weakness) and, at a later stage of disease, external hemorrhage (bleeding from orifices).

Nine suspected cases were reported including eight deaths (case fatality ratio (CFR) of 89%) across two districts – Biharamulo and Muleba– in the NW corner of Tanzania.

The regional risk is considered HIGH due to Kagera region’s strategic location as a transit hub, with significant cross-border movement of the population to Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Republic of Rwanda has confirmed more than 60 cases of Marburg virus disease primarily associated with hospitals in Kigali, including some deaths. This is the country’s first Marburg outbreak.

Like Ebola, the Marburg virus originates in fruit bats and spreads between people through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals or with surfaces, such as contaminated bed sheets.

The global risk is currently assessed as LOW.

The suspected culprit, the Egyptian rousette fruit bat. (Photo: Kim Taylor)

Sources:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2025-DON552

https://www.cdc.gov/marburg/situation-summary/index.html

Lunatic From India Sentenced for Attempted Attack on White House With Truck

(Photo: Rockwood School District)

Sai Varshith Kandula (20) of St. Louis, MO was sentenced in US District Court to 96 months in federal prison for an attempted attack on the White House with a rented truck on 22 May 2023 in an attack that aimed to overthrow the democratically elected government of the United States in order to replace it with a dictatorship fueled by Nazi ideology.

Kandula pleaded guilty on 13 May 2024, to a charge of willful injury or depredation of property of the US before US District Court Judge Dabney L. Friedrich. Kandula is an Indian national who was born in Chandanagar, India. At the time of the incident, he was a lawful permanent resident of the US with a green card. In addition to the prison term, Judge Friedrich ordered Kandula to serve three years of supervised release.

Kandula admitted to investigators that he would have arranged for the killing of the US President and others if necessary to achieve his objective. His actions were calculated to influence or affect the conduct of government by intimidation or coercion. The maniac was armed with a Nazi Swastika banner and no firearm. Kandula’s idiotic attack caused $4,322 in damage to the National Park Service.

Kandula clearly needs mental hygiene assistance which hopefully the BOP can provide. After his eight-year sentence ends, he will be deported forthwith back to India.

Source:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/attempted-attack-white-house-rented-box-truck-results-8-year-sentence-missouri-man

Bootleg Alcohol in Istanbul Kills 23 People in 48 Hours

The Arnavutköy district has become one of Istanbul’s most famous nightlife locations.

Twenty-three people in Istanbul have died in 48 hours after drinking tainted alcohol.

At least 43 others were hospitalized — 32 of them in intensive care — Turkish officials said. Since the start of the new year, they said a total of 34 people have died from the effects of bootleg alcohol. Alcohol tainted with methanol is suspected to be the cause.

Methanol is a substance that’s often added to alcohol to increase its potency. It’s often used in illegally produced products instead of ethanol because it’s cheaper, according to a study which looked at illegally produced alcohol in southern Turkiye, and it can cause blindness, liver damage and death.

Turkiye suffered previous incidents of methanol poisoning. Tainted alcohol sickened 110 victims in 2024, killing 48 of them, after the government raised taxes on alcohol.

This may affect tourism to Turkiye. At its height in 2019, Turkiye attracted approximately 51 million foreign tourists which contributed towards its GDP. In 2023, tourism revenue reached $54.3 billion USD. Last year, several tourists from Australia, the UK, and the US died from methanol poisoning in Laos.

Sources:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/istanbul-tainted-alcohol-people-dead/

https://travelwiththegreens.com/what-percentage-of-turkey-s-gdp-is-contributed-by-tourism.html

Besides You, Loyal Followers of the Watch, Who Else is Skipping Donald Trump’s Coronation?

Napoleon crowns himself then Josephine while an angry pontiff watches on. Pope Francis won’t be attending the inauguration. Artist: Jacques-Louis David

The Leader of the Pack, former First Lady Michelle Obama.

House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith.

NYS Attorney General Letitia James.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.

Former Director CIA, General Michael Hayden.

The leader of the second largest economy and probably third most powerful militar in the world, Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to News18, Vice President Han Zheng or Foreign Minister Wang Yi might represent China on 20 Jan.

Mexico’s newly-elected President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Pope Francis selected ardent anti-Trump Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy (70) to be the Archbishop for the Washington DC diocese. (AP Photo 27 Aug 2022 / Andrew Medichini, File)

The “Maybes”

Matt Gaetz doppelganger Jair Bolsonaro, depending on whether the Brazilian Supreme Court releases his seized passport.

ICC-indicted war criminal Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Is there anybody on the planet that does NOT think Benjamin Netanyahu and his unrelenting US-funded Nakba didn’t cost the Democrats the White House in November 2024?

Trump churlishly demanded that US flags fly full mast for his coronation, disrespecting the late President Jimmy Carter for whom President Biden ordered a month of official mourning. But in essence, these are the flags that Trump really represents:

President Trump’s Official Portrait Resembles Georgia Arrest Mugshot

The photo on the right is Donald Trump’s mugshot, taken when he was arrested on 24 Aug 2023 in Fulton County, GA after being indicted on racketeering charges. The photo on the left is the official portrait which will hang in every federal facility in the US and abroad on 20 Jan 2025. This is simply breathtaking that this convicted felon would replicate that image.

This portrait of President-elect Trump and VP-elect JD Vance soon circulated on social media:

Coriolanus prefers this to be the official portrait of President-elect Trump, which was taken at Mar-A-Lago, Florida:

German Shepherd Meets Kitten for First Time

Israeli Attacks Costs Lebanon $5 Billion in Losses; 100,000 Homes Damaged

A ten-year-old boy stands inside his house damaged in an IDF strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon, 29 Nov 2024. Thousands of Lebanese returned to their homes only to find rubble with winter approaching. (Photo: Reuters)

The World Bank reported that Lebanon suffered more than $5 billion in economic losses and damaged nearly 100,000 housing units. Nearly 1.2 million people have been displaced.

The World Bank report provided estimates for damage between 8 Oct 2023 and 27 Oct 2024, saying “the conflict has caused $5.1 billion in economic losses” and that it “damaged an estimated 99,209 housing units” — mainly in Lebanon’s war-torn south.

3,580 Lebanese were killed and over 15,000 wounded. And those seeking medical care faced challenges. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 226 Lebanese medical personnel were killed since 7 Oct 2023 and several clinics destroyed. Beirut long accused the IDF of targeting physicians and medical infrastructure.

But the ceasefire does not appear to be holding.

(Map courtesy of the jewishvirtuallibrary.org)

Israel carried out several attacks in southern Lebanon. Artillery bombardment struck the villages of Markaba, Talusa, and Khiyam while four IDF tanks moved into the western part of Khiyam, and an IDF tank fired at a house in Nabatiyeh province. The IDF stated they would “actively enforce violations of the ceasefire agreement” after detecting an alleged movement of a Hezbollah rocket launcher.

IDF Merkava Mk 4M battle tank.

Sources:

War costs Lebanon $5 billion in losses, damages 100,000 homes — Naharnet

226 health workers killed in Lebanon since Oct. 7: WHO

2 children and a woman crushed to death outside Gaza bakery amid food shortage

Two Palestinian Children and Woman Crushed to Death Outside Gaza Bakery Amid Food Shortage

Palestinians gather to receive bread from a bakery in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, 29 Nov 2024. Food insecurity is affecting nine out of ten Gazans and winter is fast approaching. (Photo: Reuters)

Two children and a woman were crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip amid a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory.

The bodies of two girls aged 13 and 17 and the 50-year-old woman were taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, where a doctor confirmed that they died from suffocation due to crowding at the al-Banna bakery. Video from The Associated Press showed their bodies placed next to each other on the floor inside the hospital’s morgue.

The flow of food allowed into Gaza by Israel has fallen to nearly its lowest level of almost 14-month-old war for the past two months, according to Israeli official figures. UN and aid officials say hunger and desperation are growing among Gaza’s population, almost all of which relies on humanitarian aid to survive.

Osama Abu Laban, the father of one of the girls, wailed over the loss of her life outside the hospital.

“My wife fell when she heard that she [our daughter} was suffocating. She did not yet know that she was dead,” he told the AP.

Some bakeries in Gaza were closed for several days last week due to a shortage of flour. AP footage taken last week after they reopened showed large crowds of people cramming together, screaming and pushing, at one bakery in Deir al-Balah.

Palestinians across the Gaza Strip are heavily relying on bakeries and charitable kitchens, with many able to only secure one meal a day for their families.

More than 44,000 people have been killed and more than 104,000 wounded, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Israel has destroyed large parts of Gaza and displaced nearly all of its 2.3 million people. Just in the past 24 hours, the IDF killed 100 Palestinians, including 75 killed in air strikes on two homes in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.

In the West Bank, the IDF killed nine Palestinians, including one child, over the last week, seven of them during a 48-hour period in Jenin. In retaliation, a Palestinian man martyred himself in a counterattack against Israelis on a bus which Hamas took credit for.

IDF personnel surround a bullet-riddled bus close to the settlement of Ariel, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: AFP)

Samer Hussein (46), who spent several years in Israeli jails on suspicion of anti-Israeli activities, was killed by IDF troops shortly after opening fire toward the bus near the Israeli settlement of Ariel. Four soldiers were slightly wounded and three people were critically injured.

The IDF has killed 796 Palestinians since 7 Oct 2023, mostly in military raids on Palestinian cities and towns. Attacks by fanatical settlers on Palestinians and their property also have increased. Rabid settlers attempted to attack IDF MG Avi Bluth last week, but were fended off by the general’s PSD. So naturally counterattacks by armed Palestinians against Israelis in the West Bank would increase, like the incident above.

The terrors and hardships that Benjamin Netanyahu is inflicting on Palestinians is quite similar to what Russian President Vladimir Putin is inflicting on the Ukrainians this winter. Netanyahu’s “Nakba” = Putin’s “Special Military Operation.”

The major difference between these twin terror campaigns orchestrated by the two PIFWCs is that the US is massively funding Israel to conduct the ethnic cleansing, while massively funding Ukraine to prevent its ethnic cleansing.

Remarkably, upon hearing that the International Criminal Court at the Hague issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, President Biden said it was “outrageous.” He did not say the same when such a warrant was issued for Vladimir Putin. And French President Emmanuel Macron stated France would not honor the arrest warrant should Netanyahu despoil Paris with his odious presence.

Sources:

2 children and a woman crushed to death outside Gaza bakery amid food shortage

(5) Updates LIVE: Israeli attacks kill nearly 100 in Gaza as hunger grips enclave

More Than One Million Ukrainians Left Without Electricity After Latest Russian Attack on Energy Infrastructure

Russia unleashed a “massive” attack on Ukraine’s infrastructure on 28 Nov, leaving more than one million people without power in freezing temperatures across the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of a “despicable escalation,” as the Interior Ministry recorded damage to infrastructure in nine regions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the latest attack was Moscow’s “response” to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with US medium-range ATACMS missiles.

Speaking during a trip to Kazakhstan, Putin warned that Russia’s future targets could include “decision-making centers” in Kiev.

Putin said Russia launched more than 90 missiles and 100 drones in the “comprehensive strike” on 28 Nov and that 17 targets had been hit — the type of detail that the president rarely gives.

Ukraine’s air force shot down 79 missiles and 35 drones, while 62 drones were “lost,” meaning they had likely been disrupted by electronic warfare.

All missiles or drones aimed at Kiev were downed.

A power plant in Ukraine severely damaged by a Russian airstrike. (Photo: AP)

The attack forced national power-grid operator Ukrenerho to urgently introduce emergency power cuts in Kiev, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donetsk.

Kiev had also reportedly disconnected several nuclear power units from the network during the attack. Ukraine gets more than half of its electricity from nuclear plants.

The inhumane attack comes as the temperatures across Ukraine dropped to around zero degrees Celsius.

Ukrainian civilians trying to stay warm (undated image).

Earlier this month, a senior UN official, Rosemary DiCarlo, warned that Moscow’s targeting of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure may make this winter the “harshest since the start of the war” nearly three years ago.

During America’s tortured involvement in Vietnam one-half century ago, a familiar meme evolved: “We have to burn down the village in order to save it.” If PIFWC Vladimir Putin had designs on re-absorbing Ukraine and her people into his Pan-Slavic Union, a neo-USSR like in his glory days, he has a strange way of showing his love for the people he wants to one day rule. He is burning down the village in order to save it.

Putin’s “Special Military Operation” = Netanyahu’s “Nakba”

The mutual animus between Ukrainians and Russians have been thoroughly baked into the DNA cake, much like the Israelis and the Palestinians. While the US sanctioned one aggressor baking this horrible cake of hatred (Russia), Washington did not sanction the other (Israel), which cost the Democrats the White House in 2024, just like in 1968. Remarkably, many American Democrats argue that US funding of Israel and the horrendous Nakba had nothing to do with Kamala Harris’ disastrous loss to a criminally convicted and twice impeached GOP candidate. Many are still wondering why millions of Democrats stayed home on Election Day.

Source:

More Than One Million Ukrainians Left Without Electricity After Latest Russian Attack

Putin’s Meat-Grinder War Chewing Up Russian Soldiers on Industrial Scale

Russia lost 2,030 soldiers in the past 24 hours, reports Ukraine’s military.  500 North Korean soldiers were reportedly KIA since their deployment to fight Ukraine.

Russia’s staggering death toll marks the Russian tyrants most damaging period of his over 1,000-day-old conflict so far.

The previous highest was 1,950 on 12 Nov. Putin’s meat grinder approach is still miserably failing with over 738,000 Russian casualties.

But despite the harrowing figures continuing to soar Russia has found success on the battlefield. UK Defence Secretary John Healey has warned the 600-mile frontline is now at the most unstable it has been since February 2022.

While Putin is losing soldiers at an abominable rate, the Russian economy is losing as well. The ruble tumbled to its lowest level in over two years, as a mix of low oil prices, new sanctions against Russian businesses and burgeoning government spending on its war effort put strains on the Russian economy.

The central bank reacted by suspending currency purchases for the rest of this year. That will restrict the supply of rubles and should support the exchange rate accordingly.

In response to the Ukrainian Storm Shadow attack last week, Putin authorized the use of a hypersonic missile called the “Oreshnik.”  This has been described as far superior to any other weapon in Russia’s arsenal. Putin claimed the Oreshnik can turn almost anything it hits into dust.

The Kremlin wisely notified Washington before launching the Oreshnik to prevent a nuclear misunderstanding.

Sources:

Putin’s deadliest day with 2,000 soldiers lost as troops wade through fallen comrades on fastest advance since invasion | The US Sun

Ruble tumbles as Russia’s war economy comes under increasing strain – POLITICO

Hepatitis A Infection Reported at Buffalo Wild Wings in Monterey Park, CA

Los Angeles County public health officials are investigating the possible spread of Hepatitis A after an employee at a well-known restaurant and bar in Monterey Park became sick with the virus. The infection was reported at Buffalo Wild Wings in the 4000 block of Market Place.

(Map courtesy of Mapcarta)

While there are no additional cases reported this week, officials urged anyone who ate or consumed drinks at the restaurant between 13 and 22 Nov to receive hepatitis A vaccine or monitor for the symptoms, which include fever, weakness, fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, and jaundice.

People who have not received the vaccine or never had hepatitis A infection may be more vulnerable. The public health department is also working with the restaurant to make sure all employees are vaccinated.

Computer illustration showing the liver and a close-up view of hepatitis A viruses. (Image courtesy of NBC News)

Hepatitis A can in some cases cause death as it spreads when a person unknowingly consumes contaminated food or drinks. There is no specific antiviral treatment for hepatitis A

Source:

Hepatitis A reported at Buffalo Wild Wings in Monterey Park – NBC Los Angeles

Director of British Intelligence: “The World is at its Most Dangerous Point in 40 Years.”

Sir Richard Moore, head of MI6, issues a warning to Ukraine’s allies in Paris after Donald Trump’s election. (Photo: AP)

The world is at its most dangerous point for 40 years, the head of MI6 has warned, accusing Russia of waging a “staggeringly reckless campaign” of sabotage in Europe to undermine support for Ukraine.

“In 37 years in the intelligence profession I’ve never seen the world in a more dangerous state. And the impact on Europe, our shared European home, could hardly be more serious,” Sir Richard said, adding that if “Putin is allowed to succeed in reducing Ukraine to a vassal state he will not stop there.”

Sir Richard said MI6 “cherishes our heritage of covert action, which we keep alive today” – with British spies working to stop the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He warned that a victory for Mr Putin in Ukraine would jeapordize both European and transatlantic security, in what appeared a message to president-elect Donald Trump, with the incoming US leader having repeatedly complained about the amount of money and military aid Washington is sending to help Kiev.

“We have recently uncovered a staggeringly reckless campaign of Russian sabotage in Europe, even as Putin and his acolytes resort to nuclear sabre-rattling to sow fear about the consequences of aiding Ukraine,” he said. “The cost of supporting Ukraine is well known but the cost of not doing so would be infinitely higher. If Putin succeeds China would weigh the implications, North Korea would be emboldened and Iran would become still more dangerous,” Sir Richard concluded.

Whenever the D/MI6 or D/CIA speak, we should pay attention. Coriolanus has previously written about Russian sabotage efforts against NATO, as well as the Kremlin’s insidious covert support for far-right wing parties in Europe. In 2016 retired MI6 operative Christopher Steele accumulated a dossier against Donald Trump which suggested that Vladimir Putin held compromising materials (‘kompramat’) on the President-Elect. Mr. Steele obtained “raw intelligence” from his Russian contacts which needed to be finely sifted. Raw data, rumors, hints, can lead to revelations, but they must not be taken as 100% accurate at face value. While the allegations have never been proven, nothing in the report was ever disproven.  

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: “With Trump, all roads lead to Putin. I don’t know what the Russians have on the president, politically, personally, or financially.”

President Trump with Russian FM Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergei Sislyak in the White House, May 2017. No doubt we will see something similar in 2025. (Photo: Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Getty Images)

In 2025, NATO and the Western intelligence services will be ready to deal with a Moscow-friendly intelligence apparatus. The US will receive less critical information from its allies over concern the data will be leaked to Russia or Israel. Friendly intelligence services will increase their budgets and manpower to make up for less US support. Canada recently led a NATO exercise in the Balkans (as reported here on Coriolanus).

Source:

World at most dangerous point in 40 years, MI6 chief warns | The Independent

Trump Hosts Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov And Ambassador Kislyak At White House : The Two-Way : NPR

RFK Jr. Visited Samoa in 2019 and Spread Anti-VAX Disinformation Causing 83 Deaths and 1,867 Hospitalizations from Measles

Samoa’s then prime minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi (R), and RFK Jr (C) at 57th anniversary of independence celebrations in Mulinu’u, Samoa, on 1 June 2019. (Photo: Misiona Simo / AP)

From The Guardian:

“In the small island country of Samoa, lives have been forever altered by an outbreak of measles in 2019 that caused at least 83 deaths and 1,867 hospitalizations, mostly of babies and young children. Thousands more fell sick. The preventable illness was able to spread through the small, closely knit population of about 200,000 due to record low vaccination rates – stemming from a medical vaccination error, the Samoan government’s public health mismanagement, and fueled by anti-vaccination sentiment from Robert F Kennedy Jr.”

In developing countries, the suffering from measles is always worse. Many rural Samoans had no transport, feared going to hospital, or tried traditional healers first. By the time people did bring their babies in, they were extremely sick. More than 100 Australian medical personnel deployed to Samoa in the thick of the epidemic.

Siiae Olilefauaitu sits outside her house with her surviving children. She won’t move from her hovel because her dead unvaccinated daughter is buried on her property. (Nov 2024 Photo: Michelle Duff / The Guardian)

Reports that some Republican US Senators won’t confirm this idiot to head HHS is encouraging, nor will they allow a recess appointment allowing him to slip through. Does the President-elect have a “Death Wish” for the American people with his quack choices to lead the US government health agencies? We know Donald Trump accepts the abominable amount of gun deaths in the US as something “we must get over.”  How the GOP elite and wealthy benefit from wholesale needless American deaths is something Coriolanus has been investigating for some time.

Source:


https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/26/rfk-jr-samoa-visit-measles-outbreak-vaccines

Indian Airlines Suffer Through 1,000 Bomb Scare Hoaxes

India’s airlines and airports reportedly received nearly 1,000 fake bomb threats as of early November, disrupting flight schedules and wreaking havoc on services.

Murlidhar Mohol, the country’s deputy civil aviation minister, told parliament that 999 bogus threats had been received as of 14 Nov, with more than half of them coming in the last two weeks of October.

That was nearly ten times the number of threats made in 2023 and a sharp increase from years past. Authorities recorded 120 bomb hoaxes at airports between 2014 and 2017 with about half directed at Delhi and Mumbai.

There was “no actual threat detected at any of the airports/aircraft in India,” Mohol said.

Officials have made 12 arrests in connection to the threats.

The country’s civil aviation ministry said it was making “every possible effort” to protect flight operations, adding that airports have a Bomb Threat Assessment Committee that monitors threats and decides the appropriate course of action.

Threats can lead to the deployment of bomb disposal squads, sniffer dogs, ambulances, police, and doctors.

They also often require passengers to deboard the plane, along with baggage, who then have to go through security again.

Engineer and security teams must also search and clear the plane before it can take off.

(Photo: AFP)

In 1984, Air India 182 exploded over the Atlantic Ocean and the culprits were Sikh extremists, so this is quite a sensitive matter that the Indian authorities are taking seriously. That attack killed all 329 people on board, including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens, and 22 Indian citizens.[4] The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the deadliest terrorist attack in Canadian history, the deadliest aviation incident in the history of Air India and was the world’s deadliest act of aviation terrorism until the 11 Sep 2001 against the US.

The idiots making these bomb threats are diverting police resources from genuine threats, as well as wasting time and fuel. India is already choking with smog and people are living under a dangerously poor Air Quality Index (AQI). The flight delays and scheduling problems cause secondary effects with other airports and carriers. Passenger jets have allocated times for arrivals and departure at airports because of the limited amount of airspace, tarmacs, and number of available gates. Delayed aircraft may spend time circling an airport if it misses its allotted landing time, burning unneccessary fuel.   

Sources:

Indian Airlines Suffer Through 1,000 Hoax Bomb Scares | IBTimes

Air India Flight 182 – Wikipedia

Beautiful Orphaned Bird Emulates Human with Voice and Affection

Canada: Indian Home Minister Amit Shah Behind Anti-Sikh Campaign

(Undated photo of Amit Shah: PTI)

Canadian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison told Parliament that Indian Home Minister Amit Shah ordered a campaign of violence, intimidation and intelligence-gathering targeting Sikh separatists inside Canada. Morrison did not elaborate on how Canada knew of Shah’s alleged involvement.

PM Justin Trudeau said a year ago that Canada had credible evidence agents of the Indian government were involved in the murder of Canadian Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June 2023. Canadian authorities have repeatedly said they have shared evidence of that with Indian authorities.

Indian government officials have repeatedly denied Canada has provided evidence and have called the allegations absurd. India’s embassy in Ottawa didn’t immediately respond to messages for a request for comment on the allegation against Shah.

On 14 Oct, Canada expelled the Indian high commissioner and five other diplomats, alleging they were persons of interest in multiple cases of coercion, intimidation and violence aimed at quieting a campaign for an independent Sikh state known as Khalistan.

Canada is not the only country that has accused Indian officials of plotting an assassination on foreign soil. The FBI announced criminal charges in mid-October against an Indian government employee in connection with an alleged foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader living in NYC.

Vikash Yadav, who authorities say directed the NYC plot from India, faces murder-for-hire charges in a planned killing that prosecutors have previously said was meant to precede a string of other politically motivated murders in the US and Canada.

Nathalie Drouin, Trudeau’s national security adviser, said Canada has evidence the Indian government first gathered information on Indian nationals and Canadian citizens in Canada through diplomatic channels and proxies.

She said the information was then passed to the government in New Delhi, which allegedly works with a criminal network affiliated with Lawrence Bishnoi.

Bishnoi is currently in prison in India, but Drouin said his vast criminal network has been linked to homicides, assassination plots, coercion and other violent crimes in Canada.

Before the RCMP went public with allegations that Indian diplomats were persons of interest in criminal investigations, Drouin said there was an effort to work with the Indian government to ensure accountability, but it became evident the Indian government would not cooperate with Canada

The RCMP took the extraordinary step of talking publicly about ongoing investigations because of threats to public safety. The Indian government denies the allegations and has expelled six Canadian diplomats in return.

Hardeep Nijjar Singh (45) was fatally shot in his pickup truck after he left the Sikh temple he led in Surrey, BC. An Indian-born citizen of Canada, he owned a plumbing business and was a leader in what remains of a once-strong movement to create an independent Sikh homeland. Four Indian nationals living in Canada were charged with Niijar’s murder and are awaiting trial.

Where Khalistan would be were it a country. Approximately 21,000,000 Sikhs live in India, the majority in Punjab State (16,000,000); 16,000 Sikhs reside in Pakistan; nearly 772,000 Sikhs call Canada their home.

There are probably less than 100 Sikhs remaining in Afghanistan. (Photo: Andrew Scheer)

The idea of creating an independent Sikh homeland (Khalistan) has existed for decades. When India became independent, Hindus had a homeland (India) and Muslims carved out a homeland (West and East Pakistan), but Sikhs were left out.  The chances of achieving an independent Sikh state are as remote as an independent Kurdistan emerging in the Middle East. But brutal Indian repression of Sikhs will fill the ranks of their many pro-secession organizations.

India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1983.

At the height of Sikh extremism in the 1980s, on 31 Oct 1984 (today), Indira Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by her two personal security guards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, both Sikhs, in retaliation for Operation Blue Star. And in June 1985, Canada suffered its worst terrorist incident when Sikh terrorists bombed Air India Flight 182 killing 268 Canadians, 27 Brits, and 22 Indians.

As previously posted here on Coriolanus, we see the murderous regime of Indian PM Nahendra Modi at work. He is following the playbook of any rightwing despot, like Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, North Korean supremo Kim Jong-Un, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping: eliminate enemies of the state. But as GOP Presidential candidate NYS Governor Thomas E. Dewey said in 1948: “You can’t shoot an idea with a gun.”

Baltej Singh Dhillon made history as the first turbaned Sikh officer in the RCMP. (Undated photo).

Sources:

Canada alleges Indian Home Minister Amit Shah ordered campaign targeting Sikh separatists – ABC News (go.com)

Statement by the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs on the RCMP’s findings regarding criminal activity in Canada with connections to agents of the Government of India – Canada.ca

China Declares Success: Youngest Astronauts Reach Space

Taikonauts (L-R) Wang Haoze, Song Lingdong and Cai Xuzhe before the launch (Photo: EFE)

A Chinese spacecraft with a three-person crew, including the country’s first female space engineer, has docked after a journey of more than six hours.

The crew will use the homegrown space station as a base for six months to conduct experiments and carry out spacewalks as Beijing gathers experience and intelligence for its eventual mission to put someone on the Moon by 2030.

Beijing declared the launch of Shenzhou-19 a “complete success” – it is one of 100 launches China has planned in a record year of space exploration as it tries to outdo its rival, the US.

The BBC was given rare access to the Jiuquan Satellite launch center in Gansu and we were just over a kilometer away when the spacecraft blasted off.

Flames shot out of the rocket launcher as it took to the skies, lighting up the Gobi Desert with a deafening roar.

Hundreds of people lined the streets, waving and cheering the names of the taikonauts, China’s word for astronauts, as they were sent off.

At the Tiangong space station, the Shenzhou-19 crew met with three other astronauts who are manning the Shenzhou-18 and will return to Earth on 4 Nov.

Just two years ago, President Xi Jinping declared that “to explore the vast cosmos, develop the space industry and build China into a space power is our eternal dream.”

But some in Washington see the country’s ambition and fast-paced progress as a real threat.

Earlier this year, NASA chief Bill Nelson said the US and China were “in effect, in a race” to return to the Moon, where he fears Beijing wants to stake territorial claims.

D/NASA told Congress that he believed Beijing’s civilian space program is camouflaging a military program.

This Chinese space plane can reportedly travel at hypersonic speed.

While the US wasted trillions of dollars and American military lives in the beginning of the 21st century waging two wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, China quietly and steadily used their immense resources wisely to begin their conquest of space. Meanwhile, NASA has contracted out a large portion of its space program to zillionarie megalomaniac Elon Musk, a man in secret contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin. To read more of this South African’s nefarious activities, please see previous posts from Coriolanus.

Source:

China declares success as its youngest astronauts reach space (bbc.com)

Over Hatred, Three Youngsters Flush Their Lives Away; Two in US, One in UK

As China is sending their youth into the cosmos, the US and UK sent three youngsters into the dumpster.

First, the UK.

Axel Muganwa Rudakubana (18) and his three child victims.

A teenager accused of killing three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class for young children in the United Kingdom has been charged with possessing an al Qaeda training manual and ricin poison.

Axel Muganwa Rudakubana (18) already faces three murder charges, ten counts of attempted murder and one count of knife possession. The new charges were filed under the UK’s Terrorism Act.

The poison and PDF study, “Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The al Qaeda Training Manual,” were found during a search of Rudakubana’s home. 

Tests later confirmed the substance found was ricin. The risk of exposure to the public was low said the UK Health Security Agency and there was no evidence that any victims, first responders, or members of the public were exposed to ricin.

Rudakubana allegedly committed the 29 July stabbing spree that killed three girls — Alice Dasilva Aguiar (9), Elsie Dot Stancombe (7), and Bebe King (6) – and injured several others, in Southport, a town north of Liverpool. Merseyside Police did not declare the events a terror incident because no motive has been determined, authorities said during a news conference in Liverpool. 

(Map: Courtesy of getthedata.com)

His victims: (L-R) Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar were killed during a Taylor Swift-themed dance event. The teen suspect faces numerous charges related to the slaying.  (Photos: Merseyside Police)

Rudakubana‘s attacks sparked widespread protests and riots across the country amid inaccurate reports the suspect was an asylum seeker. A police van burns as an unruly crowd clashed with police 30 Jul 2024, in Southport, northwest England, near where three girls were stabbed to death in a dance class. (Richard McCarthy/PA via AP)

Rudakubana was born in England to Rwandan parents. Despite being a minor at the time of the stabbings, a judge lifted restrictions that prevented the reporting of his name. 

Rudakubana, obviously in need of intensive psychiatric care, killed three innocent children who had just barely begun their lives. Too bad UK authorities weren’t able to intervene before his stabbing spree and indoctrination into al-Qaida. Now he has caused irreparable harm to three families forced to bury their daughters. His actions also led to riots, arson, and looting against innocent immigrants in the UK.    

Now, the US.

Neptune Beach Florida Police arrested braces-wearing Caleb James Williams (18) who was wielding a machete with an 18-inch blade outside a polling station in Florida as part of a mob of teenagers accused of intimidating Democratic supporters. The US election is mere days away.

Williams was arrested on charges of aggravated assault for allegedly brandishing his weapon at two unidentified women, ages 71 and 54, and improper exhibition of a weapon.

We cannot see acme-prone 18-year-old Caleb James Williams braces as he is not smiling in his mugshot. (Neptune Beach Florida Police Dept)

While his high school classmates are enjoying Florida State University, Caleb will be enjoying Florida State Penitentiary in a few months.

In NYC, a 23-year-old woman was indicted on hate crime and assault charges for pepper spraying a 45-year-old Uber driver in an anti-Muslim attack in NYC. As the Uber driver approached a red light, he began praying in Arabic. Jennifer Guilbeault lunged forward toward the driver’s seat, holding a can of pepper spray. The idiot sprayed Shohel Mahmoud in the face, causing burning, redness and pain.

Jennifer Guilbeault pepper spraying Shohel Mahmoud (Image: Social media)

Thousands of young people drown every year trying get to the US, Australia, Canada, or the EU for a chance at a better life; some just want to live one more day. Those young migrants would have loved to have just one-tenth of the breaks privileged Caleb and Jennifer had growing up in the US.

In 2023, at least 8,565 people died on migration routes worldwide according to the IOM. Undated photo of unfortunate refugees courtesy of the Vatican News Service.

The charges against Caleb James Williams and Jennifer Guilbeault are merely allegations and both defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

All three of these youngsters (between 18 and 23) have flushed away their lives over hatred, stupidity, and/or mental illness. Muganwa Rudakubana will most likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. But Caleb James Williams and Jennifer Guilbeault will one day be released from prison, assuming the two will be convicted and imprisoned for their felonies. But police records, like the internet, are forever, GOP VPOTUS candidate JD Vance is finding out now. Who would ever hire, date, matriculate into higher education, or marry Jennifer and Caleb?  

Sources:

UK teen charged in stabbing found with al Qaeda material, poison, police say | Fox News

Teen Accused in U.K. Taylor Swift Dance Class Stabbing Charged With Terror Offenses – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Florida Teen Wielded Machete Outside Polling Station (politicalwire.com)

https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-announces-hate-crimes-indictment-of-woman-for-pepper-spraying-uber-driver-on-the-upper-east-side/

America’s Defense Contractors Failing Basic Cybersecurity Which China is Exploiting

A new report from Merrill Research states that only four percent of defense contractors are fully prepared to meet the DoD minimum cybersecurity requirements known as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). These requirements represent basic cyber hygiene, not cutting-edge tools — yet the vast majority of contractors fail to meet even these minimum standards.

The US faces an unprecedented and persistent cyber threat, particularly from China. Recently, hackers linked to Beijing breached several US internet service providers in an attack dubbed Salt Typhoon. This latest intrusion is part of a broader wave of sophisticated cyber campaigns orchestrated by China, including Volt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon, which have penetrated critical sectors ranging from energy to telecommunications.

D/FBI Christopher Wray bluntly stated, “China’s hacking program is larger than that of every other major nation, combined.”

The gap between what Americans believe about the security of our defense contractors and the grim reality exposed by the Merrill report should alarm everyone.

The CMMC is the digital equivalent of locking your doors at night. Multi-factor authentication and patch management are fundamental requirements, yet the Merrill report shows that only 21% of defense contractors use multi-factor authentication, which most civilians need to log into their social media accounts, and a dismal 15% have implemented patch management, which ensures that software vulnerabilities are regularly updated.

The disconnect between belief and reality is stark. While 75% of contractors believe they are compliant, their reported cybersecurity readiness tells a different story. The average Supplier Performance Risk System score across surveyed contractors is a staggering -12, far below the required 110 to meet CMMC standards. This isn’t just a compliance failure; it’s a national security crisis.

If these contractors — many of them responsible for safeguarding classified data and developing our military’s most advanced technology — are this unprepared, what does that say about the rest of the US critical infrastructure? 

The defense industrial base is one of 16 critical infrastructure sectors in the US, alongside other essential industries like energy, healthcare, and financial services. These sectors are integral to the functioning of our nation.

The Salt Typhoon, Volt Typhoon, and Flax Typhoon attacks highlight just how deeply Chinese cyber operatives are infiltrating that critical infrastructure. According to the USIC, China’s ultimate goal is to disrupt America’s ability to respond to military crises, particularly in the event of a conflict over Taiwan. Chinese hackers could paralyze our power grids, disrupt water systems, or compromise defense communications.

Contractors that remain non-compliant could be shut out from future DoD contracts and subject to False Claims Act penalties if they had previously attested to being compliant. Now that the DOD has aligned contractor profit incentives with national security interests, there may be fewer breaches like Salt Typhoon. 

The Chinese government has demonstrated its intent and capability to exploit any weaknesses in America’s critical infrastructure and contractors must recognize that cybersecurity is more than just a regulatory box to check.

As we read above, China is making tremendous strides into space thanks to Research and Development (R & D), but also thanks to espionage, hacking, and intellectual property theft.

Sources:

info.cybersheath.com/eBook-Third-Annual-Merrill-Research-Report-op-ed?utm_source=media_outlet_NextGov_FCW&utm_medium=article_op-ed&utm_campaign=merrill_research_report

America’s defense contractors are failing basic cybersecurity and China is exploiting it – Nextgov/FCW

Spain Battles Deadliest Flooding Disaster in Decades as Death Toll Rises

Spain deployed more than 1,000 troops to help with rescue efforts but many crews remain cut-off from towns by flooded roads and downed communication and power lines.

Spain is enduring its worst flooding disaster in decades with at least 95 people dead and dozens more missing after huge rains swept the eastern province of Valenica and beyond.

Torrential rain triggered flash floods which swept away bridges and buildings and forced people to climb onto roofs or cling to trees to survive.

President Pedro Sánchez has declared three days of national mourning as the wild conditions continue, restricting some rescue efforts.

The death toll is feared to climb as “many people are still missing.”

The churning floodwaters swept away hundreds of cars in Valencia. Guillermo Serrano Pérez (21) said the water had rushed down a highway “like a tsunami” forcing him and his parents to abandon their car and climb onto a bridge to survive. (Photo: AP)

In his national address, President Sanchez urged citizens to remain vigilant and pledged a full recovery, telling victims: “The whole of Spain weeps with you… we won’t abandon you”.

His government is yet to make an explicit link between the “unprecedented” extreme weather and climate change but scientists tell the BBC it is clear that global temperature rise made the downpours worse.

One of the first-hit towns near Valencia, Chiva, reported one year’s worth of rainfall in just a period of eight hours according to national weather agency Aemet.

As Spanish army and emergency crews rushed to carry out rescues on Wednesday morning- including winching people to safety from balconies and car rooftops- survivors in Valencia recounted the horror of the floods on Tuesday night.

Sudden surges turned streets and roads into rivers- catching many motorists unaware.

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Scores dead after torrential rain in Spain’s Valencia region (bbc.com)

Oregon: First Case of Avian Flu Found in Pig

A severe form of bird flu has been detected for the first time in a pig on a small unidentified farm in Crook County in central Oregon.

The same strain – highly pathogenic avian influenza – has turned up in backyard and commercial flocks across the US. Hundreds of cows have also been infected, along with some people who worked around the infected animals.

Two of the latest cases of human infection were announced last week in Washington state. The CDC confirmed that two people working in a commercial egg farm in Franklin County in south-central Washington were infected.

But this is the first time the virus has crossed over to pigs. The National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed the presence of the strain in one of five pigs on the farm. Results on the other four pigs are pending. The testing can take a little while because the CDC analyzes the DNA of the virus.

The farm also has backyard birds that became infected. State and national officials humanely euthanized all 70 of the birds and the five pigs to prevent further spread of the disease. None of the meat entered the food supply chain – it is not a commercial farm – and it was not intended for retail.

The discovery of the virus in pigs potentially could be a concern in Iowa, the top pork-producing state in the country. But Chris Rademache, a clinical professor in the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, was not worried by the Oregon case.

“This is a very unique case,” Rademache said.

Rademache said the situation in Oregon involved a backyard pig, not intended for consumption, which was in close contact with poultry and domestic waterfowl, which is “a very different situation” than a hog farming operation.

He said pork producers are aware of the need to separate poultry and hogs, and they “do a good job” of that. Additionally, Rademache said the state has a “robust” monitoring and testing program to catch any sort of outbreak.

“Pork continues to be safe to eat,” Rademache said.

Oregonians raise about 3,000 pigs every year and at least one just became infected with bird flu. (Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Agriculture)

The property was quarantined and state officials are conducting surveillance at the site. The agriculture department also has provided the owners with protective gear to avoid further infection, and officials are educating and monitoring the exposed individuals.

State officials didn’t say how many people might have been exposed. Many people develop mild respiratory symptoms, including a runny nose, sore throat and cough. People can also get conjunctivitis – or “pink eye.” Some people who’ve been infected have become severely ill and have required hospitalization.

The current strain of the virus that’s circulating in the US and worldwide is endemic in wild birds, causing outbreaks in poultry, wild mammals, including seals and sea lions, along with domestic animals and dairy cows. Avian flu has been confirmed in dairy cattle in 14 states, including California and Idaho. Oregon has not had any cases in dairy cattle. The number of cases of human infections is relatively low.

Food safety officials recommend properly cooking meat and eggs to kill the virus along with other harmful bugs like E. coli, which can be deadly. The CDC also recommends pasteurizing milk and dairy products to kill pathogens. Check the USDA website for food safety tips.

State officials expect the measures taken at the farm will end the outbreak, but they advised others to take precautions to prevent their animals from becoming infected.

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First case of bird flu in pig discovered on small Oregon farm (yahoo.com)

Kazakh Experts Sound Alarm Over Mysterious Mass Deaths of Caspian Seals

The Caspian Sea, bordered by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan, is rich in oil and gas reserves.

The unexplained deaths of scores of Caspian seals in Kazakhstan’s Manghystau region is raising alarm bells among local authorities and scientists.

As of 29 Oct 289 seal carcasses had been found along the coastline over the previous five days, prompting urgent monitoring efforts by the Interregional Fishery Inspection of the Ural-Caspian Basin and experts from the Institute of Hydrobiology and Ecology.

Seal researcher Asel Baimuqanova said some of the dead seals showed signs of trauma. Although the exact cause of death remains unclear, Baimuqanova noted that several seals were pregnant, adding urgency to the investigation.

(Undated photo: RFE/RL)

Caspian seals are the only marine mammals in the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water. Once numbering over a million in the early 20th century, their population has now dwindled to an estimated 70,000 due to overhunting and pollution.

Since late September, dedicated scientific teams have conducted daily inspections along the Tupqaraghan Peninsula’s western coast to investigate the unexplained surge in mortality rates.

The discovery of the dead seals follows a similar event in April, when 27 seal carcasses were found in the area, which was attributed to storm-related beaching. Authorities suspect those seals may have died at sea before washing ashore.

Pollution from hydrocarbon extraction and declining water levels have been threatening both local species and the sea’s ecological future, according to experts.

Animal die-offs sometimes remain a mystery to researchers, whether it’s a flock of birds found dead or whales beaching themselves. Pesticides and poisons have been attributed to some bird die-offs and sonar interference may contribute to whale beachings. Necropsies will reveal whether poisons, pollution, or pathogens killed these poor creatures.

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Kazakh Experts Sound Alarm Over Mysterious Mass Deaths Of Caspian Seals (rferl.org)

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