Canada: Victims of Cold War CIA MK-Ultra Brainwashing Experiments Cleared to Sue

A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit brought forward by victims of brainwashing experiments conducted at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal — experiments infamous for their affiliation with the CIA-funded MK-Ultra program. The lawsuit names the Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University and the Government of Canada as defendants. It alleges that the government funded, and the Royal Victoria Hospital and McGill University enabled, “depatterning treatments” that violated the patients’ bodies and minds.

The patients who submitted the class-action request claimed that the Cold War-era experiments, conducted by Dr. Ewen Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute and known as the ‘Montreal Experiments,’ were carried out without their consent or even their knowledge. Judge Dominique Poulin authorized two patients, Julie Tanny and Lana Ponting, to represent all persons who underwent depatterning treatments at the Allan Memorial Institute between 1948 and 1964 and their successors, family members, and dependents

The Allan Memorial Institute (Photo: Flickr)

Dr Cameron’s notes on a patient.

Many indigenous people in Quebec, mainly Mohawks, were experimented on without their consent or knowledge and disappeared from public records. Searches of the excavated sites suggested that their bodies were summarily disposed of. Cadaver dogs have identified possible evidence of human remains on the grounds of Montreal’s old Royal Victoria Hospital, a sprawling network of now-vacant buildings, some dating back 140 years, on Mount Royal’s southern flank. No concrete evidence of this has yet been established but the ‘Mohawk Mothers’ advocacy group and other investigators are still searching. We wish them success in their hunt for the truth and justice,

During Ted Kaczynski’s sophomore year at Harvard University in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that would last three years. The experiment Ted Kaczynski participated in at Harvard involved psychological torment and humiliation. For 18 years (1978 to 1996), using homemade improvised explosive devices, Ted Kaczynski (AKA the “Unabomber” and Harvard Class of ’62) terrorized those he saw as agents of antihuman technology before his 1996 arrest at the hands of his brother who reported him to the FBI.

Linked here is the post-Richard Nixon June 1975 “Report to the President by the COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES”: 36326NCJRS.pdf

Sources:

Victims of CIA-linked Montreal brainwashing experiments cleared to sue in class action | CBC News

Death of Unabomber returns spotlight to Harvard mind-control study – The Washington Post

Harvard’s Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of ’62 | Psychology Today

Search dogs find signs of human remains on site of Montreal’s old Royal Victoria Hospital | CBC News

USIC Dysfunction Festers Under Trumpf Junta

The worst person to ever oversee an intelligence community, DNI Tulsi Gabbard.

CIA officials were concerned that the release of a House report on 2016 Russian election meddling could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources, but DNI Tulsi Gabbard authorized a lightly redacted version with President Dummkopf Trumpf’s blessing. Gabbard, D/CIA John Ratcliffe, USAG Pam Bondi have released a slew of intelligence and law enforcement reports that they claim prove that USIC findings that Moscow intervened in the 2016 presidential contest to help Trumpf was a “hoax” concocted by the Obama administration.

An ex-CIA analyst publicly challenged Trumpf’s attempt to discredit the Russian election interference probe. Link: Ex-CIA analyst challenges Trump’s attempt to discredit Russian election interference probe | PBS News

FBI Under More Duress

Brian Driscoll, former acting FBI director (left); Steve Jensen, former acting director of the Washington Field Office (right). (Photos: FBI)

Two senior FBI officials, including one who initially resisted the Trumpf junta’s  effort to gather the names of agents who worked on cases related to the US Capitol attack on 6 Jan 2021, are being fired. Brian Driscoll and Steve Jensen are the latest victim’s of the junta’s Stalinist purges. Trumpf is also firing other agents in the FBI who were perceived to be opposed to him in the past. Sycophantic D/FBI Kash Patel had already atomized the presence of agents in Washington by spreading them out across the US. The Trumpf junta has also ordered 120 FBI agents to work on night shifts in Washington DC in a so-called effort to combat street crime in the capital. To distract from the Jeffrey Epstein saga, Trumpf also mobilized the DC Army National Guard to assist the Metropolitan Police Department.

The worst gaggle of incompetent political hacks to ever lead the USIC are making a dog’s breakfast of trying to distract the American public from the never-ending Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell cover-up. Junta members will mindlessly sacrifice USIC secrets just to protect their cult leader, Dummkopf Trumpf, and they are happy to dismantle the FBI which was his greatest threat to power.

More Bad News for the USIC and the Anti-Trumpf Coalition

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller has lived in a memory-care facility “for the past few years.” Unclear is whether the House Oversight Committee intends to withdraw its subpoena of Mueller. The subpoena relates to Mueller’s involvement in a decades-old FBI investigation into convicted and deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian collusion in the 2016 Presidential election to help President Dummkopf Trumpf win. Mueller’s 2019 report arguably damaged Trump’s first term, although it ultimately failed to depose him or his first junta, but resulted in convictions of some GOP quislings.

In 2017 when Dummkopf Trumpf heard that Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel, he told then-USAG Jeff Sessions: “Oh my God! This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’m f***ed.” Trumpf knows that as a former D/FBI and AUSA, Robert Mueller learned many of Trumpf’s nefarious connections to Russian and Italian organized crime, as well as the Kremlin. Rumors also circulated that Trumpf and his colleague Felix Sater were both Confidential Informants for the FBI in the 1980s and 1990s; the two occasionally coughing up a crook or two to avoid federal prosecution. Dummkopf Trumpf will no doubt be greatly relieved the day the former US Marine who knows most of his secrets passes.

Nota Bene: D/FBI Robert Mueller expressly forbid his agents from torturing Muslim prisoners caught in Iraq or Afghanistan, unlike CIA who used the term ‘enhanced interrogation’ to get away with war crimes, such as waterboarding prisoners (shown above).

Russian Hackers Penetrate US Criminal Justice System Computers

Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including highly sensitive records with information that could reveal sources and people charged with national security crimes.

Unclear is what entity is responsible, whether an arm of Russian intelligence might be behind the intrusion or if other countries were also involved. Some of the searches included midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian and Eastern European surnames.

Russian, Chinese, Israeli, Iranian, or drug cartel hackers may be responsible for this incredible breach to obtain information on witnesses, informants, or evidence in federal criminal investigations. Federal judges and administrators have taken steps to mitigate the breach, but the extent of the damage is still being assessed. Key witnesses and informants have possibly become vulnerable to extortion, intimidation, or worse.

Sources:

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System – The New York Times

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/robert-mueller-subpoenaed-by-house-republicans-now-said-to-be-in-memory-care-facility/ar-AA1K25Fp

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/trump-mueller-report-presidency-1281244

Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia report – The Washington Post

FBI firing senior officials at odds with Trump administration | CNN Politics

FBI dispatching agents to D.C. streets as Trump weighs calling National Guard

US Army Soldier Charged With Selling Military Secrets to Russia

Taylor Adam Lee (Photo: US Army)

Taylor Adam Lee (22) of El Paso, TX was arrested on charges of attempted transmission of national defense information (NDI) to Russia regarding the operation of the M1A2 Abrams, the main US battle tank.

In June 2025, Lee allegedly transmitted export-controlled technical information on the M1A2 Abrams Tank online and offered assistance to the Russian Federation, stating, “the USA is not happy with me for trying to expose their weaknesses,” and added, “At this point I’d even volunteer to assist the Russian federation when I’m there in any way.” In July, Lee met with an undercover Counterintelligence Agent whom he thought was a Russian officer and passed along the NDI. The defendant was subsequently arrested.

Weighing 68 tons, the M1A2 Abrams is the most advanced tank in the world.

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

This was a remarkably stupid attempt at espionage from this disgruntled 22-year-old troop who threw his life away over sensitive technical information regarding the M1A2 Abrams Tank. The amount of money exchanged has not been revealed, but whatever it was, this was not worth his career and life in any way, shape, or form.

Sources:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/active-duty-soldier-arrested-and-charged-espionage-and-export-violations

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-jblm-soldier-pleads-guilty-attempting-share-military-secrets-china

Russian Intelligence Agents Arrest Fugitive Oligarch in Dubai

Superrich Vyacheslav Solovyov in an undated photo.

Russian intelligence agents arrested Vyacheslav Solovyov in a rare extradition operation in a Dubai shopping center on 5 Aug. He is the former chief executive of a state-run leasing company who fled Russia nearly a decade ago. Following his detention, Solovyov was taken to the Russian Embassy in Dubai and flown to Moscow the next day.

He now faces charges of espionage, which carry a prison term of 10 to 20 years, as well as fraud.

Russian security agencies had known Solovyov’s whereabouts for more than a year. But extradition from the UAE is unusual, as the Gulf nation typically refuses to hand over fugitives wanted in Russia. Months of negotiations took place in the lead-up to the arrest. General Filatov, who oversaw the Dubai operation, heads the SVR’s elite Zaslon unit, responsible for protecting top Russian officials during overseas visits and safeguarding key diplomatic missions.

Solovyov led VEB-Leasing, a subsidiary of state-owned development bank Vnesheconombank (now VEB.RF), from 2008 to 2016. He abruptly stopped coming to work in March 2016, later telling colleagues he had traveled to Switzerland to seek medical treatment. He never returned to Russia. An audit of his company revealed $176.4 million was missing. Investigators in 2018 accused Solovyov and several senior executives of fraud, alleging they had signed contracts with affiliated companies on non-market terms, doubling the price of transport equipment and siphoning funds to offshore accounts

Source:

Russian Intelligence Arrests Former VEB Executive in Dubai on Espionage, Fraud Charges – The Insider – The Moscow Times

Mexico Extradites 26 Cartel Members to US

The competent leader of one country and the imbecile in charge of another.

The US has taken into custody 26 fugitives from Mexico facing a range of federal and state criminal charges relating to drug-trafficking, hostage-taking, kidnapping, illegal use of firearms, human smuggling, money laundering, and murder. Among the fugitives are leaders and managers of dangerous drug cartels, designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), including the Sinaloa Cartel, Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), and Cártel del Noreste (formerly Los Zetas). These fugitives are collectively alleged to have imported into the US tonnage quantities of dangerous drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and heroin.

The cartel figures were put on planes after the Justice Department agreed not to seek the death penalty against any of the defendants or against any cartel leaders and members sent to the US in February. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

”Icy, cool” Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum is ‘masterfully’ appeasing the Trumpf junta to prevent US military intervention in her country and avoid damaging sanctions or tariffs, all while trying to uplift her people from poverty. She is violating the Mexican constitution by extraditing her citizens to the US, as well as risking her own life. President Sheinbaum and Dummkopf Trumpf have yet to meet, but they reportedly speak to each other by phone. Her government is trying to use the US court system to sue American gun manufacturers, the leading source of firearms in Mexico. American demand for drugs is something President Sheinbaum cannot influence.  

Sources:

Office of Public Affairs | 26 Fugitives Wanted for Violent and Serious Crimes Returned to the United States from Mexico Including Leaders of Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Alien Smuggling Organization | United States Department of Justice

Terrorist Designations of International Cartels – United States Department of State

Donald Trump orders Pentagon to target drug cartels: Reports

‘Icy cool’: How Claudia Sheinbaum is navigating Trump’s new world order – POLITICO

London Chess Prodigy, Ten Years Old, Becomes Master Player

Bodhana was selected for England Women’s chess team in 2024 (Photo: BBC)

From the BBC:

A ten-year-old chess prodigy from north-west London has become the youngest person to earn the woman international master title.

Bodhana Sivanandan, from Harrow, also became the youngest female player to beat a chess grandmaster at the 2025 British Chess Championship earlier this month.

In 2024 Bodhana was thought to have become the youngest person ever to represent England internationally in any sport when she was selected for England Women’s Team at the Chess Olympiad in Hungary.

Her father Siva previously told the BBC he had no idea where his daughter got her talent from as neither he or his wife, both engineering graduates, are any good at chess.

The International Chess Federation said on its social media account on X that Bodhana “pulled off the win against 60-year-old Grandmaster Peter Wells in the last round of the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool”.

The federation added: “Sivanandan’s victory at 10 years, five months and three days beats the 2019 record held by American Carissa Yip (10 years, 11 months and 20 days).”

Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain and the rank is held for life.

Bodhana’s new title – woman international master – is the second highest-ranking title given exclusively to women, second only to woman grandmaster.

Bodhana first took up chess during the Covid-19 pandemic. She says chess makes her feel “good” and helps her with “lots of other things like math, how to calculate.”

Source: London chess prodigy, 10, becomes Woman International Master

Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) Made $3.4 Billion From White House Connections

A lengthy investigation from The New Yorker estimates the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) will have enriched themselves by more than $3.4 billion by the end of his second term, much of it from deals, transactions, and investments that almost certainly wouldn’t have happened if the Dotard had never been POTUS.

The pelf comes from lucrative commercial projects in the Persian Gulf overseen by the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF), such as hotels and golf courses in Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the UAE; a luxury Boeing 747-8 gifted by the Qatari royal family; and a flood of Trumpf-branded merchandise and other kitsch marketed by the junta.

Trumpf’s foray into the world of cryptocurrency and NFTs has also been extremely lucrative for the TCF. Jared Kushner’s private equity firm, who scored a two billion dollar investment from a fund led by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is also said to have contributing at least $320 million to the family’s presidential profits.

Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the Republican Big Beautiful Bill (“BBB”) will make the poorest Americans even poorer, while enriching the highest earners the most.  The top 10% of earners in the US will see an average boost of $13,600 per year over the next decade, while the bottom 10% will see an average annual decrease of $1,200. The number of poor people becoming homeless or dying will increase thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf while his family and the oligarchs enjoy platinum health care, First Class air travel and vacations, and no school, home, or medical debts, like 99% of American families must endure.

Sources:

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? | The New Yorker

Distributional Effects of P.L. 119-21

Sudan: Cholera Outbreak Kills 40 People in One Week

Cholera infected patients receive treatment in the cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps of western Sudan, in Tawila city in Darfur. (Photo: 12 Aug 2025; AFP)

At least 40 people have died in Sudan’s Darfur region in the war-torn country’s worst outbreak of cholera in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported.

“On top of an all-out war, people in Sudan are now experiencing the worst cholera outbreak the country has seen in years,” the medical charity said in a statement. “In the Darfur region alone, MSF teams treated over 2,300 patients and recorded 40 deaths in the past week.”

Nearly 30 million Sudanese —over half of the entire country— are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, with famine declared in multiple areas. Dummkopf Trumpf’s devastating and inhuman elimination of USAID this year under the under-qualified and vapid USSECSTATE Marco Rubio– an ’empty suit’– is responsible for these deaths and misery. USAID was created by JFK to help poor people worldwide and promote goodwill, for exactly this type of catastrophe. Humanitarian aid cuts are rapidly accelerating the already unconscionable death toll. Tons of food and medicine destined for Sudan and other Third World countries have either spoiled in US warehouses or were destroyed, wasting millions of dollars of American taxpayer funds and supplies that could have helped victims of famine and disease.  

Sources:

At least 40 dead in Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak in years: MSF      

Death toll rising in Sudan after USAID cuts — Operation Broken Silence

Trump Admin to Incinerate 550 Tons of Emergency Food Meant for Children

Pop Icon Madonna Implores Pope Leo to Visit Gaza Strip to Stop Genocide in Gaza

The Israeli Death Forces (IDF) are killing 28 children a day in Gaza, the size of a classroom full of pupils say in the US, Canada, UK, Turkiye, Denmark, or Chile.

Pope Leo has been outspoken critic of the IDF onslaught on the Palestinian people. During a Mass for the Jubilee of Young People in Rome last week, Pope Leo expressed solidarity for the children who are suffering as a result of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

The late Pope Francis maintained daily contact with Gaza City’s Holy Family Church before his death, the parish priest of the region’s only Catholic church.  

Madonna rarely performed this song live during her illustrious career,  only during the Virgin Tour in 1985 and The Celebration Tour in 2023. Angel (released in 1985) is considered a hidden gem by some critics. 

AIPAC and Benjamin Netanyahu will disapprove of Madonna’s plea for the first ever American Pope to help the beleaguered Palestinians. Madonna will be accused of being a “Hamas lover” (whatever that means) and pilloried as an antisemite, like poor Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic NYC mayoral candidate.

IDF Brazenly and Openly Killing Journalists

To control the narrative, the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) have been openly and brazenly murdering journalists in the Gaza Strip, a war crime.

Jodie Ginsberg from The Guardian reports:

‘If Israel can wipe out an entire news crew without the international community so much as batting an eye, what will stop further attacks on reporters.’ (Photo: Mohammed Badra / EPA)

In the two decades preceding 7 Oct 2023, Israeli forces killed 20 journalists. No one has ever been held accountable for any of those deaths, including that of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, whose killing in 2022 sent shock waves through the region.

The IDF recently killed an entire news crew led by Anas al-Sharif. The IDF first began making threats against al-Sharif shortly after the start of the war. The journalist reported receiving multiple phone calls from IDF officers instructing him to cease coverage and leave northern Gaza, as well as voice notes on WhatsApp disclosing his location. In December 2023, an Israeli airstrike hit his family home, killing the journalist’s 90-year-old father.

A year later, the Israeli army alleged publicly that Anas al-Sharif was a terrorist – claims it repeated last month shortly after Anas al-Sharif exposed the rampant levels of starvation throughout Gaza as a result of Israel’s refusal to allow in sufficient food aid. An Israeli spokesperson accused al-Sharif of lying about the famine – despite corroboration of widespread starvation by independent and international groups.

To date, Israel has provided no independently verifiable evidence that any of the journalists whom it has admitted deliberately targeting were terrorists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) had seen this playbook from Israel before: a pattern in which journalists are accused by Israel of being terrorists with no credible evidence. Indeed, we were so concerned that al-Sharif was being targeted that we issued a public statement urging his protection.

Instead, al-Sharif was killed alongside his colleagues in an attack that Israel has openly admitted was aimed at killing the journalist. Al-Sharif is the 184th Palestinian journalist to have been killed by Israel since the start of the war and one of at least 26 journalists whom CPJ believes to have been deliberately targeted for their work as journalists.

More than 192 journalists and media workers have been killed since 7 Oct 2023. Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians is the deadliest conflict for journalists that we have ever documented.

If Israel can wipe out an entire news crew without the international community so much as batting an eye, what will stop further attacks on reporters?

Source:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/israel-killing-gaza-journalists-anas-al-sharif

Horrors Continue for Palestinians

According to the IPC, the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip. Murder and displacement have intensified, and access to food and other essential items and services has plummeted to unprecedented levels.

Source: IPC ALERT: Worst-case scenario of Famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip | IPC – Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

According to the New York Times, since 7 Oct 2023 the IDF has created a legion of child amputees and orphans in the Gaza Strip.  The IDF death toll of Palestinians is now 61,499, mostly women and children, and 153,575 maimed or wounded.

Resistance to Israeli Atrocities and AIPAC Complicity Growing

Israeli Samaritans outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem protesting the American taxpayer-funded Nakba against the Palestinians (Photo: Public domain, 29 July 2025).

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused AIPAC of “breaking US laws” after the lobbying group took members of Congress on a fully-paid trip to Israel. “I’m absolutely furious, and as a matter of fact, AIPAC needs to register as a foreign lobbyist because they’re breaking US laws by donating to members of Congress and by taking them on a fully-funded trip to Israel. Every single freshman member of Congress this year, they just took them over just recently and had them meet with the Prime Minister of Israel.”

The despicable US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), takes part in a vine-planting ceremony with the revolting Yair Chetboun, the Israeli colonial ‘mayor’ of the illegal settlement of Ariel, 4 Aug 2025. (Photo via Ariel Municipality)

“But let’s frame that correctly. They take them over to meet with the secular government of nuclear-armed Israel. Israel who is less than $400 billion in debt. Israel who has taxpayer-funded healthcare and college. Israel is not hurting and they’ve already proven that they are more than capable of not only defending themselves, but annihilating their enemies to the point of genocide, and that’s what’s happening in Gaza. The reason why AIPAC is attacking me is because I dared to tell the truth.”

Link: Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses AIPAC of ‘Breaking U.S. Laws’

Australia PM Anthony Albanese has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of being “in denial” over the consequences of the Nakba in Gaza. He announced his country would recognise a Palestinian state at the UNGA in September, following similar moves by the UK, France, and Canada.

Albanese said frustration with the Likud junta had played a role in the move, saying Australians “want to see the killing stop.”

The AIPAC analog in the land “down under,” the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, called Australian recognition of Palestine a “betrayal.”

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/12/anthony-albanese-says-benjamin-netanyahu-is-in-denial-about-crisis-in-gaza

Italian and Greek dock workers recently went on strike to prevent weapons from reaching Israel and Germany (the second largest arms provider to Israel after the US) is finally stopping lethal shipments that could be used against Palestinians in Gaza. Too bad the 2024 Democratic candidates didn’t stand up to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, an ICC-indicted war criminal, like we see from these examples today.

Link: Germany Suspends Arms Exports to Israel Over Gaza Plan – Newsweek

Democratic Party Must Rid Itself of AIPAC to Win Elections Again

After the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz ticket lost 6,265,888 voters on 5 Nov 2024 that supported Joe Biden/Kamala Harris on 3 Nov 2020, Democratic Party loyalist Dr. Robert Reich bloviated that his party lost to Republican Dummkopf Trumpf because of “poor messaging.” Dr. Reich’s entire five minute and 14 second analysis on YouTube didn’t mention once the unqualified US military and economic support for Israel whose IDF was ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip and whose zealous Settlers were land-grabbing Palestinian properties in the West Bank.

Why would such an intelligent and well-educated academic describe so many factors for the disastrous 2024 Harris/Walz loss except for that one critical piece of the puzzle? Followers of the Watch, you can hear his distracting and idiotic diatribe here (if you wish to hear AIPAC propaganda and waste your time):  

Really, Dr. Reich? How much can you possibly underestimate the intellect of American progressives, antiwar voters, and non-Islamophobes?

The Day After the Election (6 Nov 2024)

“But Joe, I followed the AIPAC script!”

“Maybe ‘Bibi’ will help us out, Kamala!”

One AI calculation:

“A YouGov poll backed by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) Policy Project and released showed that among the 19 million people who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 but did not vote in 2024, nearly one third named Israel’s US-backed war on Gaza as a top reason for staying home.”

Sources:

‘Damning’ New Poll Shows Price Kamala Harris Paid for Backing Israeli Genocide in Gaza | Common Dreams

https://archive.ph/AiLJO

Between 2020 and 2024, the Democratic Party lost 6,265,888 votes.

The handsome and intelligent Zohran Mamdani is leading in the polls against a coalition of Islamophobes and oligarchs in the race for NYC Mayor. This race is the first counterattack against the Trumpf junta, AIPAC, and the status quo.

Now AIPAC Democrats are targeting fellow Democrat Zohran Mamdani in the race for NYC Mayor for no logical reason other than he is a Muslim-American. If the Democratic Party wants to oust Dummkopf Trumpf and the Republicans from power in future elections, they must rid themselves of AIPAC and Islamophobes or else antiwar Samaritans and pro-Palestinian voters will simply stay home, like what happened in 1968 to VPOTUS Hubert Humphrey.

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

Shy Rescue Cat Loves Only One Person

Three Israeli Border Guards Killed at West Bank-Jordan Border Crossing

Israeli security forces secure the entrance of the Allenby Bridge, between the West Bank and Jordan, after a Jordanian truck driver killed three Israeli border agents. (Photo: Debbie Hill)

Three Israeli border guards were shot dead by a Jordanian truck driver at the Allenby Crossing on the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank, the Israeli Emergency Services said Sunday.

The IDF described the shooting as a terror attack and is investigating whether the truck was rigged with explosives. The truck driver was identified as Maher Dhiab Hussein al-Jazi (39). The gunman got out of the truck during an inspection at the terminal and opened fire at several of the workers.

Security guards returned fire at the terrorist, killing him. Two other crossings between Israel and Jordan — Rabin and Jordan River — were closed after the attack. Palestinians can only use the Allenby Bridge Crossing to enter Jordan from the West Bank, while Israelis generally use the Rabin and Jordan River crossings.

The three Israeli victims were settlers from Ma’ale Efraim, Na’ama, and Ariel. Two weeks ago, the IDF carried out raids, bulldozing highways, and launching airstrikes in multiple parts of the occupied West Bank.

Last week, the IDF shot and killed a 26-year-old Turkish-American female humanitarian who was protesting the dislocation of Palestinians from the West Bank.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in an undated photo via social media. She was shot in the head and the UN called for a complete investigation.

More than 670 West Bank Palestinians have been killed since the Gaza War began in Oct 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The IDF alleged most of the Palestinians were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or terrorists carrying out attacks.

Jordan, which signed a peace deal with Israel in 1994, has been highly critical of Israel’s military operations in the West Bank and Gaza. And the UK recently restricted some military aid to Israel so that the weapons may not be used to perpetrate war crimes against Palestinians. See previous posting.  

Meanwhile, Israelis held massive demonstrations nationwide demanding a deal to return the remaining Jewish hostages, as protesters flooded the streets 11 months after the start of the war in Gaza.

One of the largest demonstrations was in Tel Aviv, where videos showed what appeared to be many thousands of protesters choking Begin Road. Family members of some of the estimated 101 remaining hostages implored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to close a cease-fire deal to gain their release.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday demanding a cease-fire and calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Organizers claimed 400,000 demonstrators took part as the country marked 11 months since militants kidnapped hundreds of Israelis on 7 Oct 2023. Photo by Abir Sultan/EPA-EFE.

A recent editorial from Canada dubbed Israeli PM Bejamin Netanyahu “the curse of Israel.” Already indicted for war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague, a cessation of hostilities is not in Netanyahu’s best personal interest. He is playing for time with the Gaza War, using it to avoid his criminal bribery and corruption trials, as well as an inquiry into whether he could have prevented Hamas’ surprise attack last October. The longer everything is put off, the better it is for Netanyahu.

Sources:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2024/09/08/border-guards-killed-West-Bank-Jordan-crossing/6331725803551/

Netanyahu is Israel’s curse – The Hill Times

Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu – Wikipedia

Hundreds of thousands march across Israel to demand return of hostages – UPI.com

Filipino Pastor on FBI’s Most Wanted List Captured by 2,000 Police Officers

Influential pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the self-proclaimed “owner of the universe” and “appointed son of god” who was wanted in the US for child sex trafficking, was arrested in the Philippines on Sunday.

Over 2,000 police were deployed for more than two weeks to search a 74-acre compound in the southern city of Davao owned by his church – the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) – on suspicion that he was hiding there in a bunker.

Quiboloy’s followers had blocked the gate of the compound to prevent shield-carrying police from enforcing a court order to arrest him. Police also used helicopters to circle over a cathedral, a college, and a 75,000-seat stadium. The police reportedly recorded the warmth and heartbeat of a human body, deep in the earth, using thermal imaging and radar technology.

Apollo Quiboloy, a longtime friend of former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, was charged by the US Justice Department in 2021 with sex trafficking of girls and women between the ages of 12 and 25 to work as personal assistants, or “pastorals”, who were allegedly required to have sex with him.

He is also accused of bulk cash smuggling and a scheme that brought church members to the US using fraudulently obtained visas. They were then forced to solicit donations for a bogus charity, raising funds that were instead used to finance church operations and the lavish lifestyles of its leaders.

The evangelist preacher, who is followed by millions of people in the Philippines, has denied wrongdoing.

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

Sources:

Apollo Quiboloy: How Filipino Pastor On FBI’s Most Wanted List Was Arrested By 2,000 Cops (ndtv.com)

Wildfires Force Thousands to Evacuate as Heat Wave Scorches Western US

A wildfire east of Los Angeles exploded overnight — more than doubling in size — as strong winds and dry conditions keep it raging out of control. Evacuation orders are in place for some mountain communities and neighborhoods near Highland, California — east of San Bernardino.

Meanwhile, in Nevada, the Davis Fire has torched a reported dozen buildings south of Reno and knocked out power to thousands as crews struggle to establish any containment.

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Triple-digit heat will keep baking the Western US until Tuesday, offering fire-friendly conditions and straining crews working on the ground. In the cities, meanwhile, the heat could force power outages. Controlled outages may be implemented to help prevent broader outages or any new fires. However, no power also means no air conditioning as temperatures soar.

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Wildfires force thousands to evacuate as heat wave scorches Western US (scrippsnews.com)

Dozens of ‘High-Risk’ Viruses Discovered on Fur Farms in China

Two workers at the Jiaozuo leather factory in Henan province, China, in 2006. (Guang Niu / Getty Images)

An international team of scientists offers insights into where and how the next pandemic may be brewing. Researchers analyzed the organs of 461 animals from dozens of species raised on fur farms in China, one of Asia’s leading producers. All the animals had died for unknown reasons.

The results reveal the presence of more than 100 different viruses, many of them unknown. Among them are 39 that are defined as “high risk,” as they have the ability to jump between species and potentially to humans. The research describes several viruses from wild animals that have spread to domestic species, often raised in their thousands in overcrowded cages and without sanitary controls. Samples were collected between 2021 and 2024 in more than a dozen provinces, mainly the four major fur-producing provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning, in the northeast of the country. The results were published 4 Sep in the journal Nature.

British virologist Edward Holmes theorized that the COVID-19 pandemic virus originated in bats and reached humans through other animal carriers sold in Chinese markets. “Breeding animals for fur is an obvious way in which a pandemic coronavirus, or flu virus, could emerge in humans,” Holmes said. Another researcher emphasized: “Our study shows that viruses have jumped from wild species to farm animals. Because humans are in close contact with these animals, there is also a risk of contagion, and in fact we see that some human viruses have been transmitted to animals.” Researchers have so far detected no cases of human-to-human infection.

Raccoon dogs, members of the fox family, are nocturnal carnivores that are bred by the millions on Chinese fur farms for their pelts. Another coronavirus that emerged in China in 2002 and killed nearly 800 people — severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) — was also detected in a Guangdong animal market in raccoon dogs. The new work points to this mammal, along with mink, guinea pigs, rabbits, and arctic foxes, as the major carriers of viruses classified as “high-risk” to humans.

Among the pathogens isolated are viruses from many families, including coronaviruses and influenza viruses. The most “worrying” of these, according to Holmes, may be the HKU5 coronavirus, which originated from the common bat and was found in mink that died of pneumonia. This pathogen is related to MERS, which has been detected in 27 countries and has killed nearly 900 people since 2012. The jump from bats to mink is “alarming” and requires monitoring.

The research is published just as the world is witnessing the worst avian flu epidemic ever recorded. A new, highly pathogenic H5N1 virus emerged in wild birds in 2021. It has since spread to domestic species, forcing the culling of hundreds of millions of birds, and infected wild and domestic mammals, including dairy cows in the US and mink on fur farms in Spain. It has already spread to humans and reached Antarctica, the most isolated and pristine continent on the planet. If H5N1 gains the ability to transmit efficiently between people, a new pandemic would ensue.

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Dozens of ‘high-risk’ viruses discovered on fur farms in China | Science | EL PAÍS English (elpais.com)

Human Rights Group: Chechen Forces Coerce Gay Men into Military Service; Seven Sent to Frontlines in Ukraine

A serviceman listens to Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic, as he addresses troops in Grozny, the regional capital of Chechnya, on 29 March 2022. Source: AP Photo

Security forces in Chechnya are forcibly sending detained homosexual men to Ukraine by blackmailing them into “volunteering” for the frontlines, according to a report from the human rights group NC SOS («СК СОС»). The human rights activists have reported at least seven such cases, with one of the men sent to the front already having been killed.

SK SOS reports that these forced conscription methods began before 21 Sep 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of the army. In early Sep 2022, six men in Chechnya were detained on suspicion of being homosexual. They were threatened with fabricated criminal charges and warned they would be sent to pre-trial detention, where their orientation would be revealed to fellow inmates.

The detainees were given the choice of paying a ransom or volunteering for the war in Ukraine. Three of the men were forced to become “volunteers,” as the ransom amount — 1.5 million rubles (over $17,000) — was unaffordable for their families. One of these men was reportedly killed in action. In 2023, several members of the LGBTQ+ community were arrested. The women among them were released to their families later that evening, while four men were forcibly sent to Ukraine. Their fate remains unknown.

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Human rights group reports Chechen forces coercing detained gay men into military service, with at least seven sent to frontlines in Ukraine (theins.ru)

‘Very Dangerous’ British Prisoner Among Five to Escape High-Security Prison in Portugal

Top (L-R): Fernando Ferreira, Fabio Loureiro, Shergili Farjiani; Bottom: Mark Roscaleer, Rodolfo Lohrmann

Mark Cameron Roscaleer (39) had been serving a nine-year sentence for kidnapping and robbery at the Vale de Judeus Prison, 43 miles north of Lisbon. He and four others escaped the high-security prison Saturday morning.  According to the Portuguese prison service (DGRSP), the convicts received “external help” from accomplices who provided a ladder which “allowed the inmates to scale the wall.” With three accomplices outside the prison, the five prisoners fled the scene in a Mercedes and a Volvo.

Vale de Judeus Prison. The prison guards’ union has criticized a lack of staffing at the high-security prison, saying there were not enough guards to properly watch the perimeter wall

The four other escapees are:

Fernando Ferreira (61), Portuguese, serving 25 years for drug trafficking, theft, robbery, and kidnapping.

Fabio Loureiro (33), Portuguese, jailed for 25 years for extortion, theft, and money laundering.

Rodolf Lohrmann (59), Argentinian, sentenced to 18 years and 10 months for theft, robbery, and money laundering.

Shergili Farjiani (42), originally from Georgia, given a seven-year term for violent crimes theft and forgery.

Luis Neves, national director of the Judicial Police, said that with the exception of Shergili Farjiani, all the prisoners were “very dangerous” and their escape was “very well prepared”.

He also told a news conference on Sunday they have “already tried to escape from prison several times” and will do “anything to remain free”, direly warning:

“When I say everything, I mean everything, including the fact that human life may be at stake here.”

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‘Very dangerous’ British prisoner among five to escape from high-security prison in Portugal | World News | Sky News

Thieves Snatched Phone in London; One Month Later It Was in China

In April, a thief on the back of an electric bike snatched Akara Etteh’s phone in central London, making him another victim of an estimated 78,000 “snatch thefts” in England and Wales.  

Mr. Etteh put his iPhone 13 into “lost” mode so the thieves couldn’t access its contents. He then turned on the Find My iPhone feature using his laptop. This allowed Akara to track his phone’s rough location as shown in the illustration above.

Stolen phones often end up in Shenzhen – where if devices can’t be unlocked and used again, they are disassembled for parts. The city is home to 17.6 million people and is an enormous hi-tech hub, sometimes referred to as China’s “Silicon Valley.”

One phone snatch victim, James O’Sullivan (44), says he lost more than £25,000 when thieves used his stolen device’s Apple Pay service. Another victim, Katie Ashworth, said her phone was snatched in a park along with her watch, and a debit card in the phone case. The phone contained the last photos of her mother while she was healthy.

Devastated by the loss of the photos, Ms. Ashworth says there was a lack of action from the constabulary.

“The police never even followed it up with me, despite my bank transactions showing exactly where the thieves went. The police just told me to check Facebook Marketplace and local second-hand shops like Cex.”

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Thieves snatched his phone in London – he tracked it to China (bbc.com)

Baby Beavers Born in Urban London for First Time in Over 400 Years

The beavers constructed six dams and two lodges

At least two kits have appeared just eight months after the pioneering reintroduction of a beaver family to west London. The last time beavers had a presence in London was during the time of William Shakespeare.

The births of the kits mark the end of a more than 400-year absence of breeding beavers in urban London. At least two new kits born in the spring appear to be thriving, announced organizers of The Ealing Beaver Project.

In what is being called “a huge advancement in urban rewilding”, the successful reintroduction of beavers to London – and now the birth of the kits – is the fruit of a collaboration between multiple organisations and bodies.

The babies have been spotted venturing outside of their lodge in recent weeks at what is a publicly accessible site in Paradise Fields, a wetland in Greenford, west London. Beavers used to be permanent residents in the capital, before hunting, habitat destruction, and persecution led to the loss of the species throughout the UK. Their arrival shows that humans and wildlife can thrive side by side in urban environments, said Dr Sean McCormack, the license holder at the Ealing Beaver Project and chair of Ealing Wildlife Group.

“I had every confidence our beaver family would settle in at Paradise Fields, but to discover they’ve had new baby kits this spring is really the icing on the beaver cake,” he said. “These are not a wilderness species, they are an important animal we once lived alongside up and down the country and welcoming them back, even to our towns and cities, is the right thing to do. We may need to learn to live alongside them again, and sometimes manage their behaviour, but the ecosystem services they provide have been clearly demonstrated here already at the Ealing Beaver Project.”

Since their reintroduction, water quality has improved, flooding has reduced, and more insects and other wildlife have already been attracted to the site.

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Ealing: First baby beavers born in urban London for 400 years (bbc.com)