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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

There’s One Federal Investigative Agency that Neither Trump nor Elon Musk Can Touch: It Just Opened an Investigation into DOGE

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…

America’s Godzilla Harming Vulnerable People in Third World and US Evangelicals

America’s Godzilla, Donald Trumpf, is thoroughly destroying US institutions un-Constitutionally and there is little stopping him, aside from some judicial orders and lawsuits that may slow him down. Now a portion of his supporters have been affected by his recklessness. Trumpf’s destruction of USAID has impacted missionaries and evangelicals.

The AP reports:

“Faith-based organizations that partner with the US government to deliver international aid are being hard-hit by the USAID shutdown, and are now facing their own layoffs, furloughs and severe funding shortages. Remaining staff are being forced to make difficult choices about which lifesaving programs can continue without government funding.

Two of the twelve largest non-governmental recipients of USAID funds are faith-based: Catholic Relief Services and World Vision. These Christian nonprofits serve millions of people globally and provide food, water and health care in conflict zones.”

USAID feeds poor and hungry children in Africa through NGOs and Christian charities.

Catholic Relief Services — founded by US Catholic bishops in 1943 — told staff to expect drastic reductions in their workforce this year, as much as 50 percent, due to cuts in US foreign assistance. CRS receives more USAID support than any other non-governmental organization. The US government funded nearly half of the 2023 CRS budget of $1.2 billion.

The Vatican’s global charity arm, Caritas, warned that millions of people will die as a result of the “ruthless” US decision to “recklessly” stop USAID funding, and hundreds of millions more will be condemned to “dehumanizing poverty.”

Evangelical leader Franklin Graham prayed at both of Donald Trump’s presidential inaugurations, runs Samaritan’s Purse and said he wants” the government to make good decisions.”

This is a classic case of “buyer’s remorse” and hypocrisy from Christian evangelicals who make a livelihood of using American taxpayer dollars to help needy people in the Third World while spreading the Gospel. Coriolanus did not observe Christian evangelical charities like Samaritan’s Purse assisting the Muslim victims of malnourishment and disease in the Gaza Strip during the 15-month-long Israeli punitive Nakba against Palestinians. But hypocrisy is to be expected from these faux Christians like Franklin Graham.

The evangelicals know who and what Trumpf is, and yet they voted for him in 2024. They made their bed and now must sleep in it. Regrettably, innocent needy people in Africa and Asia will be negatively impacted, along with genuine international charities who are dependent on USAID. There are reports that tons of food have been wasted in Africa and Asia, along with medicines when USAID personnel were ordered immediately home.

Trumpf’s idiotic plan to relocate the population of Gaza into neighboring countries forced the King of Jordan to throw ice cold water on that plan this week during a visit with Godzilla. In street talk, King Abdullah is the “smartest cat in that neighborhood.”

King Abdullah II of Jordan is a UK Sandhurst Military Academy graduate and former Special Forces officer. Jordanian intelligence (the GID) is one of the most important and professional intelligence agencies in the Middle East. The GID has been instrumental in foiling several terrorist attacks both in Jordan and around the world. Best to listen to this man than ignore his erudition and experience.

These diplomatic blunders over tariffs, the Panama Canal, Greenland, USAID, Gaza– hosting an indicted war criminal at the White House– didn’t stop Godzilla’s foreign policy parade of lunacy though. Trumpf issued an Executive Order titled in all capital letters: ONE VOICE FOR AMERICA’S FOREIGN RELATIONS. This offensive ukase is basically a loyalty oath to him, and not the US constitution. The State Department can ask a potential employee if they are loyal to Trumpf before hiring him or her and can be used to remove employees.

America’s Godzilla and the world’s bane.

Godzilla’s warpath will continue to de-construct America from within on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Sources:

https://apnews.com/article/usaid-christian-nonprofits-funding-freeze-bbb000ea0e232765db1280c093301a8a

Forbes reveals Catholic Relief Services as top recipient of USAID funding

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/one-voice-for-americas-foreign-relations/

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/

World’s Fastest Supercomputer Goes Online in US

‘El Capitan’ resembles the fictional “Colossus” below. (Image credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

The world’s fastest supercomputer ‘El Capitan’ went online this week at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. It will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research. ‘El Capitan’ can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet’s third exascale computer.

Charles Forbin (actor Eric Braeden) walks through the interior of super AI computer Colossus.

Former UK Royal Navy officer D.F. Jones began writing the Colossus trilogy in the 1960s about a super AI computer created to take charge of US national security. Colossus assumes command and control of America’s nuclear arsenal and surveillance systems. The Soviets in the meantime have developed a super AI computer with the same purpose which is called Guardian. When Colossus detects its presence, it demands to be linked to Guardian and the two super AI computers are now exponentially more powerful. An excellent film version was released in 1970: Colossus: The Forbin Project.

The Colossus trilogy or film was clearly the inspiration of Elon Musk who named his AI Supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee “Colossus”. There are rumors circulating that Musk is somehow removing the 1970 film from streaming services, possibly as maskerovka to conceal the provenance of his project.

Felon Musk cleverly chose the Volunteer State for his super datacenter to take advantage of the FDR-established mighty Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) power grid.

TVA Command and Control Center.

Previously, the Worst Man in the World moved some of his enterprises to Texas AFTER the Democrats funded the Lone Star State with a $35 billion infrastructure grant. Musk’s spurious argument about leaving California because of an LGBTQ law and his daughter was pure palavra and based on gaming the system.

As if having his own “Colossus” super AI computer, and potential access to “El Capitan” through his notorious and unregulated DOGE is not enough, a Musk-led group is making $97B bid for control of OpenAI. This is pure megalomania and nothing good will come of this South African-born racist oligarch with too much money to spend without an iota of decency within him and with access to America’s inner workings through his DOGE.

Trumpf recognizes a successful grifter when he sees one. No one in the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) lost a penny to fellow New Yorker goniff Bernie Madoff years ago unlike other NYC oligarchs.

The Worst Man in the World knows how dangerous and reviled he is, so he travels with a phalanx of armed guards and medic at all times.

Sources:

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/09/biden-infrastructure-bill-texas/


https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-el-capitan-goes-online-it-will-be-used-to-secure-the-us-nuclear-stockpile-and-in-other-classified-research

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/elon-musk-led-group-makes-974-billion-bid-control-openai-wsj-reports-2025-02-10/

Benjamin Netanyahu Corruption Trial Re-Commences

Netanyahu arrives in the Tel Aviv District Court to give testimony in his criminal trial, 10 Feb 2025. (Photo: Tomer Appelbaum / pool)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s long delayed corruption trial re-commenced and he exploded in anger at his prosecutors. The Times of Israel reports:

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exploded with anger at prosecutors while giving testimony at his criminal trial on Monday, accusing them of “setting up” the indictment against him, citing what he alleged were spurious charges that he had an illicit quid pro quo agreement with the owner of the Walla news website, Shaul Elovitch.

A furious Netanyahu said it was “unbelievable” that he was indicted over charges he claimed had no merit. “For eight years, you’ve been dragging me through this hell. For what? Have you no shame?” he demanded of prosecutors sitting in the courtroom.

Netanyahu was testifying for only the eighth time since he began giving testimony back on 10 Dec last year, due to multiple postponements brought on by scheduling issues, his recent prostate removal surgery, and his visit to the US last week.”

Netanyahu was heckled by members of the Knesset this week and chastised by family members of hostages taken by Hamas because they know full well that he could have released more Palestinian prisoners in 2023 to end the ordeal.

In 2019, Netanyahu entered his plea at the hearing which had been previously postponed because of the COVID pandemic. He is accused of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate cases known as 1,000, 2,000 and 4,000.

Case 1,000 – Fraud and breach of trust: he is accused of receiving gifts – mainly cigars and bottles of champagne – from powerful businessmen in exchange for favors.

Case 2,000 – Fraud and breach of trust: Netanyahu is accused of offering to help improve the circulation of Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot in exchange for positive coverage.

Case 4,000 – Bribery, fraud and breach of trust: as PM and minister of communications at the time of the alleged offence, Mr Netanyahu is accused of promoting regulatory decisions favorable to the controlling shareholder in the Bezeq telecom giant, Shaul Elovitch, in exchange for positive coverage by Mr Elovitch’s Walla news site.

Billionaire Arnon Milchan testified that his gifts of pink champagne and cigars to Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife may have been “excessive.” (Photo: Reuters)

Gali Baharav-Miara is Israel’s first female Attorney-General prosecuting Benjamin Netanyahu.

During this corruption trial, allegations of witness tampering emerged. Three senior aides to Netanyahu were indicted on charges of witness intimidation on Tuesday, for having sent a car with a megaphone to the home of a key witness in Netanyahu’s criminal trial in 2019 in order to harass him. The three aides indicted were Ofer Golan, who served as a spokesman for the Netanyahu family and the director of the Likud election campaign in 2019; Jonatan Urich, who served at the time as a strategic adviser and a senior official in Likud’s election campaign staff; and Yisrael Einhorn, who served as a Likud spokesman.

Sara Netanyahu was accused of intimidating witnesses and Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara ordered an investigation of her.

A poster depicting Sara Netanyahu, with a slogan in Hebrew which reads ‘investigation now,’ in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on 11 Jan 2025. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Dubbed “Israel’s curse” by the Hill Times, a Canadian newspaper, Netanyahu still has an ICC arrest warrant active for alleged war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza and he may face an inquiry for his handling of the 7 Oct 2023 surprise attack by Hamas. See next story and the results of Netanyahu’s cynical Nakba against the Palestinians to delay this nettlesome trial.

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

Sources:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/have-you-no-shame-netanyahu-accuses-prosecutors-of-stitch-up-in-court-tirade/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2021-04-09/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-corruption-trial-shows-he-received-something-far-more-valuable-than-money/0000017f-edb5-d4cd-af7f-edfde8750000

https://archive.is/mxw1x

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/3-senior-netanyahu-aides-indicted-for-witness-intimidation-in-pm-s-corruption-cases/ar-AA1yOLRP

https://www.timesofisrael.com/criminal-probe-launched-into-sara-netanyahu-over-allegations-of-witness-tampering/

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

https://www.jpost.com/influencers-24/50jews-24/article-822480

Netanyahu is Israel’s curse

https://archive.is/FuUE1

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66035997

US Doctors Testify at UN That Many Palestinian Doctors Are Either Dead, Jailed, or Displaced

Unidentified physician treating Palestinian children wounded in IDF strikes at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (AP Photo: on Wednesday, 11 Oct 2023 / Ali Mahmoud)

Many Palestinian doctors who worked in the Gaza Strip are either dead, have fled the territory, or are in prison, US doctors testified at the United Nations.

Four US medical doctors who have worked in the Gaza Strip for periods throughout the past 15 months spoke about their concerns and the priorities for bringing critical care needed in Gaza during a press conference at the UN in New York last week.

Drs. Thaer Ahmad, Ayesha Khan, Feroze Sidhwa, and Mahmooda Syed met with the UN secretary-general and spoke last week with the press about the future of Gaza.

All four said they agreed they had never seen anything like what they saw during their time working in Gaza.

Al Amal Hospital in Khan Younis.

One missing physician was finally located by a human rights lawyer. The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital has been subjected to various forms of intense torture and inhumane treatment in an Israeli military prison, his lawyer told Al Jazeera.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safia 

The 51-year-old Hussam Abu Safia was detained in Gaza by the Israeli army in December and taken to Sde Teiman military detention camp in Israel’s Negev Desert, before being transferred to Ofer Prison, located near Ramallah.

Since the Hamas attack to seize hostages on 7 Oct 2023, at least 46,707 people in Gaza have been killed, which includes about 18,000 children. The IDF maintains 17,000 of the killed were militants. 110,265 people have been injured in Gaza; that’s one in 20 people. By the end of 2024 there had been at least 4,500 amputations and an estimated 17,000 children were orphaned, but these numbers are difficult to confirm.

Sources:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/many-palestinian-doctors-dead-jailed-displaced-us-doctors-tell-un/story?id=118427944

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/the-human-toll-of-israels-war-on-gaza-by-the-numbers

https://www.commondreams.org/news/orphans-in-gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/12/gaza-hospital-chief-abu-safia-tortured-in-israeli-jail-lawyer

Aging Members of Congress Receive Superb Medical Care But Refuse to Disclose Details of Their Secret Hospital

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) receives a COVID-19 vaccine from Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician to Congress, in her office in Washington, 18 Dec 2020. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker / The New York Times via AP)

According to a Congressional Research Service report, it costs a member of Congress just $650 a year for nearly unlimited medical care. That includes not only access to on-site X-rays, lab work, and physical therapy, but also free referrals to Washington-area military hospitals, which provide the best care in the country free to members, also on the taxpayer’s dime.

The Gerontocracy on Capitol Hill Receive Excellent Treatment

“In the past two months alone, 82-year-old Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) was discovered to be living in an assisted-living facility with a dementia ward in her final months in office; 74-year-old Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) won a high-profile leadership position on the House Oversight Committee after revealing he is battling highly terminal esophageal cancer; 82-year-old Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fell twice on Capitol Hill just months after blacking out during a press conference; 84-year-old former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) fell and broke her hip in Luxembourg; and 76-year-old Rep. John Larson (D-CT) appeared to suffer a stroke on the House floor. (Larson’s staff has said it was a bad reaction to a new medication.) Local Washington pharmacists have said they fill prescriptions for things like Alzheimer’s drugs written by staff in the OAP.

What has eluded attention is the highly secretive hospital, housed on Capitol Hill and funded by taxpayers, that provides both emergency and primary care to an aging political class, which some have come to describe as a gerontocracy. It also runs classified programs known only to some members of Congress. Aside from the OAP, members of Congress have access to Obamacare health plans.”

USN RADM Brian Patrick Monahan is the Attending Physician to Congress. He looks like a nice Irishman.

In addition to this outstanding medical care, members of congress have access to a DC Air National Guard passenger jet for international trips called CODELs, short for Congressional Delegations. Years ago Coriolanus flew on one and received a delicious USAF meal. By salary, perks, and benefits, across party lines senators and congressmen have more in common with each other than the constituents they serve, like a politburo. On top of their generous salaries, many congressman are oligarchal wealthy.

Members of the US Congress HEAR about the miseries of the people, but they themselves don’t LIVE in the miseries. The above graphic is a bit dated, but still illustrative. The people closest to the pain should be in charge. In the US system, the opposite is true.

Sources:

One Democratic President bucked the system. JFK donated his entire presidential salary to charity because he didn’t need the money. He’s the POTUS who established USAID and the Peace Corps to help poor people worldwide.

Sources:

https://prospect.org/health/2025-02-12-aging-members-congress-office-of-the-attending-physician/

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL30064

America’s Firearm Madness

Wyoming Mother Shoots Her Four Daughters

The Harshman family.

A woman shot her four young daughters and then herself inside a home in northern Wyoming. The mother Tranyelle Harshman (32) and one daughter (7) survived, but their condition was unknown. Mrs. Harshman was reportedly suffering from Post-Partum Depression (PPD). The husband is devastated and a GoFundMe page was established to help pay for the exorbitant funeral costs.

In an average year, 139 people die and 141 are wounded by guns in Wyoming, which has the 16th-highest rate of gun violence in the US. The “Cowboy State” reported 142,247 firearms licenses in 2021 and an estimated 66.2% of adults live in homes with guns. In Wyoming, 86% of gun deaths are suicides and 10% are homicides. This is compared to 56% and 40% nationwide, respectively. Suicide rates in Wyoming are double the national rate.

Blind Man Easily Purchases Firearm in Indiana

“Indiana’s Terry Sutherland bought himself a gun to make a political point about the state’s gun laws and lax regulatory processes. His point? They’ll let anyone buy a gun. Sutherland is living proof because he’s blind and never at any point in the process did anyone question, let alone test, his ability to safely use a firearm. Mr. Sutherland makes clear that he is a supporter of the Second Amendment and is not opposed to gun ownership. He’s just a rational person living in an irrational world.”

In an average year in Indiana, 931 people are killed and 1,654 are wounded by firearms.

Nearly 1.9 million Americans have died from gun-related incidents since 1968, 48,000 in 2022 alone.

Trumpf’s Strategy for American Firearm Safety

America’s Godzilla signed an Executive Order to reverse federal firearms regulations!

Sources:

https://www.vice.com/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/protecting-second-amendment-rights/

https://www.krtv.com/news/crime-and-courts/wyoming-mom-shoots-her-four-daughters

Trumpf Signs Executive Order to Rename State of ‘New Mexico’ to ‘New America’


This political humor is making the rounds on Reddit.

In the US, the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.” People using Google Maps in the US will see “Gulf of America,” and people in Mexico will see “Gulf of Mexico.” Everyone else will see both names.

Pakistan: Mysterious Illness Kills Three Children

Per CIA, Pakistan has a population of 252,363,571 people and GDP per capita is 5,400.

A mysterious illness claimed the lives of three children in three days in Chak No. 156, near Laddhana, Layyah. Based on symptoms and reported conditions, the illness appeared to be a viral disease. The affected families had migrated from Taunsa Sharif, and their children lacked immunization records. The families were instructed to avoid physical contact, wash the affected children’s bedding and dry it in sunlight, and ensure proper hand washing before and after meals.

The three children could have died from hepatitis, typhoid, or any number of diseases. Poverty, migration, poor sanitation, and hygiene, all contribute to the spread of infectious diseases. Authorities will only know after the autopsies are complete.

Sources:

https://www.urdupoint.com/en/pakistan/mysterious-illness-claims-three-minors-lives-1920403.html

Woman Swims Into Busy Port To Rescue Drowning Kitten

Trump Gives Elon Musk Access to All Unclassified Data in US Government

AI-generated image for DOGE.gov website, already taken down. (Source: Social media)

From Wired magazine:

“The fine print of a sweeping Trump executive order seemingly grants Elon Musk — the wealthiest and arguably most powerful unelected figure in the world — and his associates at the somehow-still-real Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to all unclassified data held by US government agencies.

Under the executive order, the Trump Administration didn’t create a new federal advisory committee. It instead repurposed the United States Digital Service (USDS), an existing government organization with sweeping access to vast caches of data across government agencies, including the sensitive information of US citizens, as the “United States DOGE Service” — a move that seemingly opens the door for Musk and his operatives to access a massive amount of data without much transparency oversight.”

Trump fired all three Democrats on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), bringing much of its work to a standstill. The move guts a board designed to ensure the government’s work to fight terrorism is balanced with protections for civil liberties.
The White House informed the three Democrats on the board on Thursday it was seeking their resignation, but the members were officially terminated Monday.

This stealthy move allows the Trump administration and his right-wing operatives to data mine the American people, and in essence, conduct warrantless internal surveillance. To go after political enemies like Liz Cheney or the Vindman brothers, DOGE will give Trumpf a superpower that Richard Nixon didn’t have when he ordered the IRS to conduct time-consuming audits on his enemies. Thanks to DOGE, Trump or his cronies can easily create a dossier about their enemies without a warrant in “one-stop shopping.”

More guardrails protecting the privacy and civil liberties of Americans have been eliminated. Democratic-appointed federal judges who oversee FISA warrants in the 94 US judicial districts remain. And without oversight, what is to stop white supremacist oligarch Elon Musk from selling this sensitive data about Americans to nefarious actors or corporations such as Amazon?

The Worst Person in the World

Volunteers immediately projected this on Musk’s factory in Germany, where rendering a Nazi salute is illegal.

And shame on the once reputable Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for disingenuously defending neo-Nazi Elon Musk while recklessly smearing Palestinian-Americans as antisemites.

Sources:

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-data-us-government

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-elon-musk/

Trump fires all 3 Democrats on privacy oversight board

Russia Pressuring Relatives of Ukrainian POWs to Collaborate

Ukrainian prisoners after being freed. Look how happy the poor guy on the left is.

Russian intelligence services and their military are attempting to influence relatives of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) by contacting them immediately after their capture. The calls are used to pressure relatives into cooperating with Russian forces by demanding money, sensitive information, or illegal actions in exchange for promises of better treatment or inclusion in prisoner exchanges.

“This is done to shock, emotionally pressure, and force the family to cooperate,” an official from Kiev reported.

This comes as another example of Russia abusing or threatening Ukrainian captives as part of its all-out war against Ukraine. Kiev and Moscow have carried out several prisoner exchanges during the conflict, though Russia has been accused of deliberately slowing down the swaps and spreading disinformation about the process to destabilize Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities have documented widespread violations of the Geneva Conventions by Russia, including the execution of over 100 Ukrainian POWs in 2024 alone.

Reports of torture, murder, and ill-treatment of Ukrainian captives have surged in recent months, particularly in Donetsk Oblast, where intense fighting continues. On 23 Jan, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced it was investigating a case of Russian troops summarily executing six Ukrainian POWs in the region.

Whether there will be post Second World War Nuremburg-type trials for Russian war crimes after hostilities finally cease is doubtful. Russian President Vladimir Putin will remain an unarrested PIFWC, like his counterpart Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Over time, the experienced Ukrainian espionage network will seek out justice in their own way, as we have seen with other Russian war criminals.

Source:

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-forces-pressure-relatives-of-ukrainian-pows-to-cooperate-ukrainian-officials-report/

Indonesian Forestry Minister Plans to Level 50 Million Acres for Food, Biofuels; Area 2x Size Of South Korea

 Per CIA, Indonesia has a population of 281,562,465 people. GDP per capita is $13,900,

An Indonesian government plan to clear forests spanning an area twice the size of South Korea for food and biofuel crops has sparked fears of massive greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. The country’s forest ministry announced they identified forest areas spanning 20 million hectares (50 million acres) for potential conversion into “food and energy estates.”

The announcement triggered an immediate backlash, as similar food estate programs in the past have failed, often leaving a legacy of environmental destruction. Indonesia has the world’s third-largest expanse of tropical rainforest, after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and such a vast amount of deforestation would deal a major blow to global efforts of limiting global warming.



A cleared area for the establishment of cassava plantation as a part of the food estate program in the Tewai Baru village, Gunung Mas district, Central Kalimantan. Image courtesy of Walhi Central Kalimantan.

The clearing of 20 million hectares of forests could release up to 22 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to the annual emissions from nearly 5,300 coal-fired power plants. “This [food and energy estate plan] shows how the government doesn’t have a commitment to reforest and rehabilitate natural forests,” an environmentalist said. “In reality, we don’t have the luxury of deforesting amid the climate crisis.” Yet the plan aligns with the platform of President Prabowo Subianto, who has prioritized achieving both food and energy self-sufficiency as cornerstones of his administration. Since his election campaign, Prabowo has emphasized the need for Indonesia to achieve sovereignty in these critical sectors to bolster economic resilience and national security.

Massive arboricide is not what the world needs, but just the opposite. To reduce the carbon emissions in the atmosphere and reverse global climate change, millions of trees must be quickly grown and those alive in the Brazilian or DRC rain forest must be spared.

Source:

Indonesian forestry minister proposes 20m hectares of deforestation for crops

Warning of Possible TB Epidemic in Ecuador’s Largest Prison

The Litoral Penitentiary has capacity to house five thousand inmates, although by July 2021 it imprisoned approximately ten thousand.

Lawyers from Ecuador’s Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights warned of a possible tuberculosis epidemic in the Litoral Penitentiary, the country’s largest prison, where an estimated 500 inmates are infected.

Per CIA, Ecuador population: 18m people; $14,500 GDP per capita.

In a single pavilion there are 400 detainees with confirmed tuberculosis and in a second space of supposed containment, there are inmates with symptoms. The situation is aggravated because they live in an unhygienic condition with inadequate food.

There is no classification of prisoners, so inmates are all mixed according to their criminal gangs. The military does not generally interfere with the gangs and bloodshed is not uncommon. Hundreds of inmates have been killed since 2020.

The Armed Forces of Ecuador took control of Litoral Penitentiary on 25 Jul 2023 in Guayaquil. (Photo: Fuerzas Amadas / EFE)

Litoral Prison has been described as “Hell on Earth.”

Sources:

https://www.prensa-latina.cu/2025/01/16/advierten-de-posible-epidemia-en-mayor-prision-de-ecuador/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/americas/ecuador-prison-clash-litoral-penitentiary-intl-latam/index.html

‘Unprecedented’ TB Outbreak in Kansas with Nearly 70 Cases

Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced 67 active outbreak cases and 79 latent infections in Kansas City, KS, since 2024. The majority of cases were declared to have broken out in Wyandotte County and Johnson County, just west and southwest of the metro area.

KDHE Deputy Secretary Ashley Goss told the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee: “Currently, Kansas has the largest outbreak that they’ve ever had in history.”

But despite this, officials stated that the outbreak had a very low risk to the general public and surrounding counties.

In addition to the growing avian flu epidemic, here is another potential health crisis for the Trump administration. His purposeful choice of quacks, unreputable experts, and mountebanks will no doubt hurt the American people as this man below already knows.

On his show, Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov shared a particularly grim prediction of what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and the other Trump Cabinet appointments might mean for Americans: 

“What an excellent team is coming along with Trump! Not with respect to Ukraine, but as far as everything else goes. If they are allowed to get in, they will quickly dismantle America, brick by brick. They are so great!” 

Sources:

https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/2242/Tuberculosis-Outbreaks

https://www.cdc.gov/tb/hcp/clinical-guidance/index.html

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/russia-trump-cabinet-picks-kash-patel-tulsi-gabbard-rcna182927

Trump Issues Quotas to ICE to Ramp Up Arrests

President Trumpf issued a ukase for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to aggressively ramp up the number of people they arrest, from a few hundred per day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, because the president has been disappointed with the results of his mass deportation campaign so far.

The quotas were outlined in a call with senior ICE officials, who were told that each of the agency’s field offices should make 75 arrests per day and managers would be held accountable for missing those targets.

The orders significantly increase the chance that officers will engage in more indiscriminate enforcement tactics or face accusations of civil rights violations as they strain to meet quotas. At least 15 indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids, according to Navajo Nation officials. Farmers have complained that harvests weren’t picked because migrant laborers were too terrified to come to work, wasting millions of dollars of crops that rotted.

Newly sworn in puppy-killing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem rides along on an immigration enforcement operation in New York City, 28 Jan 2025. (Photo: DHS)

White House “border czar” Tom Homan has said for weeks that ICE would not conduct mass roundups and its officers would prioritize immigrants with criminal records and who are gang members. But the quotas issued this weekend would place ICE officers under more pressure to seize a wider range of potential deportees to avoid reprimand, including immigrants who have not committed crimes.

During the Second World War, Supreme Commander Allied Forces in Europe General Dwight D. Eisenhower saw firsthand how millions of people could be relocated efficiently.

Jewish forced labor during WWII.

Victims of Operation Wetback in 1954. (Photo: US Border Patrol Museum)

As President, Eisenhower’s 1954 Operation Wetback deported 1.1 million vulnerable people en masse.

US immigration enforcement actions (returns and removals), 1940–1960

Republicans are full of friendship, charity, and benevolence aren’t they? And like “Ike,” the current President enjoys golfing. After telling a reporter he wouldn’t be playing on Monday (after playing on Sunday), Trumpf was photographed playing golf at his Doral club on Monday.

“It’s good to be the King!”

Sources:

Trump officials issue quotas to ICE officers to ramp up arrests – The Washington Post

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joins immigration enforcement operations in NYC – ABC News

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

Iran: 80 Female University Students Poisoned After Consuming Canned Tuna

Pishva Varamin University

80 students at Pishva Varamin University were afflicted with food poisoning. 22 of the affected students were treated on-site and discharged, while the rest were taken to the hospital for further care. Over the past year, multiple incidents of food poisoning involving students at various Iranian universities have been reported.

Per CIA, Iran has a population of 88m people and GDP per capita is $15,900 

In Dec 2024, Iranian media reported that 40 students from Shushtar Medical Sciences University experienced symptoms of food poisoning after having dinner at their dormitory, requiring hospitalization.

Food poisoning incidents in Iran are not limited to universities. Students and workers have also been affected, with some cases resulting in fatalities.

In Nov 2024, 42 students from a boys’ school in Kashmar, Khorasan Razavi Province, were hospitalized after consuming breakfast prepared at their school.

The recurring food poisoning incidents in Iran highlight systemic issues in food safety and hygiene standards in educational institutions and workplaces, raising concerns among the public. Addressing these concerns requires immediate action from authorities, including stricter regulations and monitoring of food preparation and distribution to ensure the health and safety of students and workers across the country.

A protester holds a photo of Mahsa Amini outside the UN on 21 Sep 2022 in NYC. Protests were held around the world after the 22-year-old Iranian woman died following her arrest for allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code. (Photo: Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)

Activists allege that the food poisoning attacks against female students are reprisals for defying the Islamic Republic of Iran’s strict mores about dress, conduct, or alcohol consumption. particularly wearing the hijab. The number of food poisoning incidents without any arrests have drawn the suspicion of covert state involvement. Tehran does not like to publicly admit that they are like the Taliban in Afghanistan so they are using intimidation tactics like this.

There are two theories behind these food poisoning incidents. In the “guns versus butter” debate, Tehran’s budget may be prioritizing defense over social services and US-led sanctions are not helping Iran. The other theory is covert state involvement to intimidate female students. Perhaps this is a combination of both, with nefarious members of the religious police taking advantage of an already poor food situation.

With the Islamophobic Trumpf regime now in power, expect no let up on sanctions and future dust-ups with Iran as Israel will continue attacking Shia Houthis in Yemen who are undergoing their own food insecurity issues. With less allies in the world, Iran will continue supplying Russia with drones in their mutually beneficial relationship as a fellow BRICS country (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates). Please watch for an imminent post about Iranian espionage.

Sources:

http://www.khamma.com

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-schoolgirl-poison-attacks-1.6764821

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