Israel: Soldiers Ordered to Shoot at Unarmed Palestinians at Gaza Food Sites

A major Haaretz investigation confirms Israeli soldiers in Gaza were ordered to shoot at unarmed Palestinians gathering near food distribution sites — even when they posed no threat. Soldiers described the areas as a “killing field,” noting: “There’s no enemy, no weapons. IDF officers say the killings aren’t isolated mistakes but part of a pattern dubbed “Operation Salted Fish” — the Israeli version of Red Light, Green Light. “We shoot, they run, we shoot again,” one soldier said. “This is our communication.”  At least 549 Palestinians have been killed and over 4,000 wounded near these aid centers since 27 May. Many were waiting for UN food trucks.  Testimonies reveal Israeli commanders instructed troops to open fire on civilians approaching aid sites before they opened or after they closed — using machine guns, mortars, and grenades. Soldiers described systematic live fire, including from tanks.

Another Palestinian parent mourning just another death. (Photo: WAFA News)

The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of 57,012 Palestinians, with nearly 134,592 wounded, injured, or maimed since 7 Oct 2023,

Among the casualties are 6,454 deaths and 22,551 injuries reported since 18 March, when US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) capitulated on the Republican budget, releasing billions of dollars of American taxpayer funds to Israel which then resumed its military campaign after a short-lived ceasefire.

In the past 24 hours alone, 142 Palestinians were killed—including three whose bodies were retrieved from the rubble—and 487 others were injured, as the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) intensified its attacks across the besieged enclave.

Meanwhile, the G7 and NATO Summits recently concluded. None of the G-7 nations have recognized the State of Palestine and some leaders in Germany want to let ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu visit without arresting him.

If any of the G-7 or NATO allies are ever invaded by China, Russia, or other superpower, I hope their people will fight back just as hard as the Palestinians. The Ukrainians are fighting back hard against the Russians, but unlike the Palestinians, receive weapons and financial assistance from the West.

The IDF has created an army of amputees and orphans in Gaza.

The hardworking American taxpayer is tired of funding Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The Democratic Party already lost 6,265,888 votes on 5 Nov 2024 and will lose more supporters in future national elections as they have become a platform for the Likud Party in the US. In razor-thin elections, every vote counts and the consciences of these antiwar Samaritans and progressives will be clear.

Sources:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-gaza-aid-killings

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-frank-walter-steinmeier-avoid-testing-international-law-benjamin-netanyahu-gaza/

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

Why Many Democrats and Donald Trump Are Attacking NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani

President Trump threatened NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani with arrest, should he be elected and follow through with a campaign promise to “stop masked ICE agents from deporting our neighbors.” Trump said the DOJ would react swiftly to any such obstruction to ICE’s operations. “Well then, we’ll have to arrest him. Look, we don’t need a communist in this country, but if we have one, I’m going to be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation,” Trump warned. The comments are Trump’s latest attack on Mamdani, who he called a “total nut job.” “A lot of people are saying he’s here illegally,” Trump smearing him without evidence. Trump threatened to withhold federal funding from New York if, should Mamdani be elected mayor, he didn’t “behave himself.” “If he does get in, I’m going to be president, and he’s going to have to do the right thing, or they’re not getting any money. He’s got to do the right thing or they’re not getting any money.”

The Desperate and Feckless Democrats

In 2024, disgraced ex-New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo had joined the odious Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal defense team at the International Criminal Court (ICC) where the Israeli PM has been indicted for crimes against humanity. AIPAC supported Andrew Cuomo for Mayor of NYC, a man who had resigned the governorship of New York State in utter ignominy over sexual misconduct and misrepresentations during the COVID-19 pandemic, and who had his Emmy Award revoked, because of name recognition. His father was a popular governor of the Empire State. But Andrew Cuomo lost the Democratic Party primary, clearing the way for Zohran Mamdani to face corruption-prone incumbent Eric Adams and GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa, a former McDonald’s night manager who formed the Guardian Angels vigilante group last century to patrol NYC’s subway system. After Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary, several business executives reportedly began meeting with Eric Adams as they considered backing him in the general election to be held on 4 Nov 2025.

Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for NYC Mayor.

New York State Democrats, an extension of the Likud Party in the US, are also reeling from revelations of Chinese government influence in their operations. An aide to Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo has resigned over high-level ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).  On 14 June 2025, Dr. Lining “Larry” stepped down as Andrew Cuomo’s Asian outreach director after investigations revealed his extensive business ties to Chinese state-owned enterprises with embedded CCP cells and his associations with Beijing-linked political operatives in New York.

Dr. Lining “Larry” denied any ties to the Chinese Communist Party. “I’ve never been an asset beholden to the Chinese government.” (Photo: Kings County Democratic County Committee)

  • As director of asset management of the state-owned Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment, He pushed both California and Australia for deeper economic ties with China.
  • He served from 2013 through 2015 as the former board chairman of Guangxi Beitou Petrochemical Company, a joint venture with state-owned Chinese oil giant Sinopec, according to a bio on the website of a commodity trading firm where He was a managing partner. The company’s current corporate organization chart shows it has an official Chinese Communist Party cell embedded in its leadership.
  • A regulatory consulting firm called Penshare-Banyu Technology, based in Chongqing, listed He as a partner. After The Post reached out to He, Penshare-Banyu deleted his picture and profile from its webpage, though it remains visible on Google.
  • He owns import business InterStellar Enterprise, which ships plastic bottles into the US from a manufacturer based in Shenzhen. His wife, Jing Lei, formed a new company weeks after the couple moved to Brooklyn that import manifests show brought in roughly 8.5 tons of plastic bottles from China in May alone.

Link: https://www.global-influence-ops.com/aide-resigns-ccp-ties-ny-candidate-cuomo/

Zohran Mamdani Terrifies AIPAC and the Status Quo in NYC

AIPAC Democrats and the Republicans are terrified of Zohran Mamdani for manifest reasons. His socialist platform to help poor New Yorkers, one of the most expensive places in the world to live in, will be used as a cudgel against him, but this is a chimera. Wall Street executives, bankers, and the oligarchs can easily pay for the modest tax increases he would enact. Zohran Mamdani has been endorsed by anti-oligarch US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Link: https://www.zohranfornyc.com/

The Real Reasons Why AIPAC Democrats Won’t Endorse Him

The ‘Bully Pulpit’ can be used daily to identify international injustices and economic inequality.

As Mayor of the Big Apple Zohran Mamdani can have a press conference every day from City Hall where the word ‘Hamas’ isn’t used, but the word ‘Palestinian’ is used. That disrupts the AIPAC Islamophobic messaging which has invalidated Palestinians as a people in the West for decades. Mamdani can declare Gaza City a ‘Sister City’ to NYC. The NYC Mayor has a liaison team for the UN. Under Mamdani, the Israeli UN delegation would no longer receive the carte blanche treatment they have enjoyed for decades. If elected Mayor, Mamdani will have a say in the CUNY system, one of the largest public universities in the US. Pro-Palestinian academics can be appointed under his term. AIPAC groups recently demanded the resignation of CUNY Chancellor Felix Matos Rodriguez for calling out the Israeli genocide of Palestinians as “hate speech.”

Link: https://nypost.com/2023/06/06/jewish-group-demands-cuny-chancellor-felix-matos-rodriguez-resign-over-law-school-hate-speech/

Lucrative Contracts and Wasteful Programs

If elected Mayor, Zohran Mamdani selects the NYPD Commissioner. For decades the NYC taxpayer has been funding the NYPD to host liaison teams in over a dozen countries (and in the US) as part of its plan to combat ‘global jihad.” These US Embassies already have DOS RSOs, CIA and DIA officers, as well as DEA SAs and FBI Legal Attaches (SAs).

These NYPD detectives enjoy wonderful tours in these cities, but bring nothing to the table other than bonhomie and NYPD chackas, according to State Dept and USIC personnel.

This wasteful program would most likely be scrapped under Mamdani to save NYC taxpayers millions of dollars, but would anger the NYPD detectives looking forward to a pleasant tour in Tel Aviv, Canberra, or Madrid. (Full disclosure: Years ago Coriolanus knew a few NYPD Intelligence Division detectives– they were congenial family guys with funny stories.)

The NYPD recently signed a contract with an Israeli security firm. That contract, and other NYC contracts with Israeli firms, will most likely be scrutinized and scrapped.

Link: https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/nypd-hires-help-to-look-for-explosive-tradecraft-on-web/

Fruit of Islam acolytes do not drink, smoke, and practice karate.

Link: https://archive.ph/Ii9cs

NYC Marshals are appointed by the Mayor for five year terms. By law, no more than 83 City Marshals shall be appointed by a mayor. Marshals primarily enforce orders from Civil Court cases, including collecting on judgments, towing, seizing utility meters, and carrying out evictions. In 2023, Marshals collectively performed approximately 13,520 evictions. Marshals are regulated by DOI but, unlike the City Sheriff, they are not City employees. Marshals collect fees, which are set by statute, from the private litigants whose judgments they enforce, and they also retain five percent of any money they collect on judgments. Marshals must pay an annual assessment to the City consisting of $1,500 plus 4.5% of their gross income.

For decades and decades, political insiders have received these few lucrative positions which gives City Marshals peace officer status and a percentage of judgments they collect. When you look at the list of City Marshals, present or past, you will not see a Muslim or Arab name. Coriolanus has never seen such a name over the past several decades. Under Zohran Mamdani, this will most likely change.

Link: https://www.nyc.gov/site/doi/offices/marshals-list.page

Just a Few of Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Party Enemies

Zohran Mamdani has rightfully gotten under the skin of Dummkopf Trumpf, AIPAC, and the sentinels of the status quo which led to the calamity Americans are in today. Watch and listen for comments from media Judas Goats Joe Rogan (AKA ‘Joe Rogaine’) or Bill Maher who will either mock or criticize Mamdani ad hominem or smear him as a “global jihadist.” Very few AIPAC-funded Democrats will defend Zohran Mamdani, but one or two may circle the wagons around him. Dishonorable Andrew Cuomo can act the part of spoiler to help prevent a Muslim from becoming NYC Mayor in November. Followers of the Watch can easily identify an AIPAC recipient by the manner in which they will smear Zohran Mamdani or not endorse him. Then you can corroborate your assessment at these links:

https://www.boughtbyzionism.org/

https://www.trackaipac.com/

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?ind=Q05

Mr. Mamdani, who receives regular death threats from Islamophobes, now has 24/7 NYPD protection, like you see below:

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio insisted that the political environment has become so “violent” that he needs to be protected by publicly funded NYPD detectives even when outside the five boroughs. (Photo: Erik Thomas)

Mexico: Drug Cartel Hacked FBI Agent Smartphone 

Mexican drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera aka “el Chapo Guzman” is escorted by Mexican marines as he is presented to the press in 2014 in Mexico City.  In 2018, “El Chapo” was sentenced to life plus 30 years.

A hacker working on behalf of the Sinaloa drug cartel infiltrated cameras and phones to track an FBI official in Mexico investigating the drug lord El Chapo, then used data from that surveillance to kill and intimidate potential sources and witnesses the agent was meeting with. The hacker had observed people going in and out of the US Embassy in Mexico City and identified “people of interest” for the cartel, including the FBI Assistant Legal Attache (ALAT), and then was able to use the ALAT’s mobile phone number to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data, associated with the ALAT’s phone.

According to the case agent, the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses.

This is extraordinarily poor tradecraft on the part of the FBI agent in Mexico City, but can happen to the best of investigators. Coriolanus knew an FBI Special Agent and a US Postal Inspector who were both hacked years ago by different nefarious actors.  Until the insatiable American demand for drugs dries up, as well as the illegal supply of weapons to Mexico via the “Iron River,” the drug cartels will continue their lucrative and violent operations. As you read here, experienced Colombian military veterans have been recruited by the drug cartels, posing a serious threat to Mexican security services.   

Links:

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/joaquin-el-chapo-guzman-sinaloa-cartel-leader-sentenced-life-prison-plus-30-years

International Arms Dealer Guilty of Exporting Weapons to Russia

Sergei Zharnovnikov (46) of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit export violations. The defendant exported firearms and ammunition worth $1,582,836.52 from the US to Russia without the required licenses from the Department of Commerce. The defendant, together with others, entered into the conspiracy since at least March 2020, before Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022.  When sentenced, Zharnovnikov faces up to 20 years in prison.

Link:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/international-arms-dealer-pleads-guilty-conspiring-export-firearms-russia

Mystery Object Recorded in Sky Over Massachusetts

Colleen McCormack  of Pembroke, MA, was relaxing in her outdoor hot tub when she captured on video a mystery object floating in the sky.

Colleen McCormack said she was in the hot tub outside her Pembroke home about 9PM Wednesday when she spotted the object.

“I was chilling in my hot tub, I look up in the sky to see something tiny, floating. I’m like, ‘What is that?'” she told WHDH-TV.

McCormack got her phone out and recorded video of the unusual scene.

“It looked like it was on fire or something and it was just coming down really fast,” McCormack told WFXT-TV. “I have no idea what it could have been.”

The FAA said there were no reports of debris in the area. Officials declined to comment on the video.

“My heart was pounding because I just looked up,” McCormack said. “I’m like oh god what is about to happen right now?”

The witness said she expected to her a loud sound when the object hit the earth, but there was no noise after it disappeared from view.

“It was really quiet. You couldn’t like really hear anything. That’s why I was just like more confused. When stuff flies over all the time, you hear it,” she said.

The DoD and the FAA monitor unidentified aerial phenomenon and the National Archives recently released their records of UFO sightings.

Australia has reportedly been experiencing a plague of unidentified flying object sightings. Coriolanus cannot confirm the provenance of this video:

Links:

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2025/06/27/mystery-object-Pembroke-Massachusetts/4441751046912/

archives.gov

https://www.aaro.mil/

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2475-1.html

US Marshals Rescue 60 Exploited Children in Florida

Billboards like this have been appearing in Florida for some time.

US Marshals in Florida, in conjunction with a vast array of partners, led a missing child operation that resulted in the recovery or safe location of 60 critically missing children from across Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties.

Operation DRAGON EYE, the product of a multidisciplinary task force of federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as social service entities, the medical community, and non-governmental organizations planning and executing a two-week initiative geared to recover or safely locate the most critically missing youth, has been deemed the most successful missing child operation in USMS history. The USMS defines “critically missing” children as those at risk of crimes of violence or those with other elevated risk factors such as substance abuse, sexual exploitation, crime exposure, or domestic violence.

This operation had three primary objectives: recover critically missing youth, provide them with essential services including appropriate placement, and to deter bad actors exploiting missing child vulnerabilities.

Recovered children were provided with medical resources, nourishment, social services, and child advocates. Operation DRAGON EYE child welfare and social service partners said they are proud of this operation’s achievements.

INTERPOL recently led a worldwide operation against miscreants that distributed child sexploitation material and last May the FBI arrested several child abuse suspects in Florida.

Links: 

INTERPOL.int

https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/press-release/us-marshals-led-missing-child-operation-middle-florida-results-recovery-of-60

Ex-US Army NCO Pleads Guilty for Selling Secrets to China

Joseph Daniel Schmidt (Photo: US Army)

Former US Army NCO Joseph Daniel Schmidt (31) pleaded guilty to attempt to deliver national defense information and retention of national defense information. He faces up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced by USDJ John C. Coughenour on 9 Sep 2025. Schmidt was an active-duty soldier from Jan 2015 to Jan 2020. In his primary assignment in the 109th MI BN, Schmidt had access to SECRET and TOP SECRET information. After his separation from the military, Schmidt reached out to the Chinese Consulate in Turkiye and later, the Chinese security services via email offering national defense information (NDI).

In March 2020, Schmidt traveled to Hong Kong and continued his efforts to provide Chinese intelligence with classified information he obtained from his military service. He created multiple lengthy documents describing various “high level secrets” he was offering to the Chinese government. He retained a device that allows for access to secure military computer networks and offered the device to Chinese authorities to assist them in efforts to gain access to such networks.

Schmidt remained in China, primarily Hong Kong, until Oct 2023, when he flew to San Francisco and was then arrested by the FBI at the airport.

The Chinese MSS use the “thousand grains of sand” approach to collecting intelligence. The volume of small bits or large chunks of NDI the MSS receives results in a rich mosaic of information for analysts in Beijing. The MSS creates dossiers linking images, personnel, email addresses, phone numbers, weapons systems, schedules, test launches, etc. The amount of compensation Schmidt received is not reported, but whatever it is, this young man threw away his life with his awful decision and amateurish tradecraft. US Army Counterintelligence has a rich tradition dating back to the First World War. During the Second World War, CIC was invaluable in capturing Third Reich rocket scientists and art looted by stolen by the Nazis.  Their only black eye was joining the FBI’s COINTELPRO which monitored Vietnam antiwar protestors and draft evaders, which was exposed by a US Army Counterintelligence Agent who testified to the US Congress.

Link:

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

Measles Spreading in Mexico Because of RFK Jr.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr secretly vaccinated his own children, according to hos first cousin, Caroline (the daughter of JFK).

Mexico has reported a surge in measles cases in the border state of Chihuahua following an outbreak of the highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease in unvaccinated communities in Texas. Dr. Paul Offit, a Philadelphia pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, says RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine misinformation is to blame.

The measles outbreak, Mexico’s largest in decades, has spread beyond the Mennonite settlements, impacting neighboring Indigenous populations and raising concerns about international transmission, particularly given Chihuahua’s location on the US border. While officials acknowledge the progress made through collaboration with Mennonite leaders and report tens of thousands of new vaccinations, the infection rate continues to rise. There may be as many as 2,000 cases of measles in northern Mexico.

Not only is RFK Jr’s homicidal antivax misinformation campaign killing Americans, but its also harming religious or uneducated simpletons in Mexico. Worse, this mountebank and hypocrite made a tidy fortune for himself as an antivax campaigner.

Links:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/30/headlines/mexico_reports_surge_in_measles_cases_as_texas_outbreak_spills_across_border

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2025-DON565

France: Lunatics Attacked 145 People With Syringes at Music Festival

French police arrested 12 suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during the country’s annual street music festival. Millions of people took to the streets across France on the evening of 21 Jun for the Fete de la Musique, with the authorities reporting “unprecedented crowds” in Paris.

Before the party, posts on social media had called for women to be targeted during the festivities. 145 victims across the country had reported being stabbed with needles, 13 in Paris. Some victims felt unwell after the stabbings.

Officials did not say if these were cases of so-called needle spiking with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, used by attackers to render victims confused or unconscious and vulnerable to sexual assault. Some victims were taken to hospital for toxicological tests.

Pricking innocent people with syringes is unspeakably horrible. Those needles could be rusty or contaminated with bacteria, in addition to rape drugs or any other toxins. This appears to be a misogynist and/or xenophobic attack against women and minorities.  If a Russian connection is detected, this would be part of the Kremlin’s “hybrid warfare” campaign to cause havoc in the West by sowing unrest and depleting its resources with inexpensive terrorist or sabotage attacks. Tourism generates revenue for Europe, even though some locals in Spain and Italy have begun protesting tourists because of the erosion of their quality-of-life. Attacks like this will discourage travel to France. Sidenote: The heat wave in Paris forced the temporary closure of the Eiffel Tower this week and Bastille Day (14 July) is fast approaching.

Links:

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/police-arrest-12-as-wave-of-syringe-attacks-mar-france-street-music-festival

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2024/04/26/russias-hybrid-war-against-the-west/

California: Mother Bear and Cub Raid Refrigerator in Upscale Tahoe Keys

Desertions Spark Panic, and Pardons, in Ukraine’s Army

Oleksandr left his unit without permission after six months of hard fighting, but later returned to the army (Photo: AFP)

Oleksandr LNU (photo in link) deserted from the front line in eastern Ukraine after watching his fellow servicemen being pulverized by Russian bombardments for six months. Then, those remaining were ordered to counterattack.

It was the final straw for Oleksandr (45) who had been holding the line in the embattled Lugansk region in the early months of the war. Even his commanding officer was reluctant to send his men back toward what looked like certain death. So when Oleksandr saw an opening to save his life, he did.

“We wanted to live. We had no combat experience. We were just ordinary working people from villages,” the soft-spoken serviceman.

Family, friends, and army comrades gather to mourn Ukrainian army paramedic Nazarii Lavrovskyi (31) at his funeral at Lisove cemetery in Kiev, 24 April 2024 (Photo: Francisco Seco / AP)

Oleksandr’s is just one of many cases plaguing the Ukrainian military, which has already suffered at least 43,000 losses in nearly three years of fighting, President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed this month. The government is also struggling to recruit new troops.

Figures published by the Ukrainian general prosecutor’s office show that more than 90,000 cases have been opened into instances of soldiers going absent without leave or deserting since Russia invaded in 2022, with a sharp increase over the past year.

Members of Ukraine’s ‘Da Vinci’ Assault Battalion without masks or blurred faces. Kiev now offers amnesty for first-time deserters if they return to their units. (Photo: AFP)

Shell shock and PTSD have devastating effects on soldiers, on top of them dealing with plain innate fear and miserable living conditions in the front lines. This is not a new phenomenon. Drone operators or logistical personnel in the rear are most likely not deserting, but frontline soldiers are. During the Second World War, 50,000 American soldiers of the “Greatest Generation” deserted in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) from 1942 to 1945; there were no desertions reported in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO).

Kiev offering amnesty or pardons is a positive step in improving morale, as well as maintaining their exhausted manpower levels. The Ukrainian Army may also consider extended Rest and Recreation (R & R) leaves, like US servicemen enjoyed in Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Hawaii, Taiwan, and Singapore, during the long and tortured Vietnam War.

Sources:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/21/why-is-ukraines-army-facing-a-desertion-crisis

https://www.ibtimes.com/desertions-spark-panic-pardons-ukraines-army-3757026

https://www.npr.org/2013/06/17/189275754/wwii-deserters-stories-of-men-who-left-the-front-lines

Russian Arrested For Running Gay Travel Agency Found Dead in Cell

The late Andrei Kotov in court (Photo: SOTA)

Authorities claim Kotov organized a New Year holiday trip to Egypt and a Volga River cruise centered around LGBTI+ themes.

Denying the charges, Kotov defended himself in court, stating that the tours were purely of a tourist nature and did not involve any ideological propaganda.

“The LGBTQ+ community in Russia has been under legal and public pressure for over a decade but especially since the Kremlin sent troops to Ukraine in 2022. Russian leader Vladimir Putin has argued that the war is a proxy battle with the West, which he says aims to destroy Russia and its “traditional family values” by pushing for LGBTQ+ rights.”

Helmeted riot police detain clearly dangerous looking LGBTQ+ rights activists during a St Petersburg march. (Photo: Getty Images)

One of Russia’s most famous sons, the man who composed “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker,” was LGBTQ+.

You wonder what music Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to?

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.”

― Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Sources:

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-lgbt-gay-travel-arrest-death/33257088.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russian-man-arrested-for-allegedly-running-gay-travel-agency-dies-in-custody

What Will the Incoming Trump Regime Prosecute and What Will the FBI Investigate?

The President-elect already announced he will vindictively go after his enemies once he assumes power.

The Trump/Putin/Musk cabal, with advice from the rightwing Federalist Society (AKA the) “Feudalist Society”) will appoint Assistant US Attorneys (AUSAs), as well as the US District Marshals which are basically well-paying sinecures, in the below 94 federal districts.

Under the new regime, will these AUSAs defend anti-trust measures against oligarchs or prosecute violators of the Clean Water Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act?

The President-elect intends to nominate the reactionary and unpopular Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI.

If confirmed by the US Senate, this unqualified and incompetent Trump loyalist will be D/FBI. (Undated photo)

While the FBI will continue to investigate nefarious Iranian and Chinese operations in the US, as well as ISIS plots, will the FBI continue to investigate Russian espionage or white supremacist organizations?

Notorious convicted Russian spy Maria Butina infliltrated the GOP and the NRA.

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Cases in Florida Prompt Warnings for Disney World Guests

(Image credit: Inside The Magic)

In 2024, Florida reported 83 confirmed cases of Vibrio vulnificus, almost doubling the 46 cases seen in 2023. 17 deaths have been attributed to the bacterium this year compared to 11 in 2023.

The recent spike in cases is linked to two powerful hurricanes—Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton—which battered Florida with heavy rainfall and flooding. These conditions create ideal environments for Vibrio vulnificus to thrive in warm, brackish, and saltwater areas.

The Florida Department of Health has identified counties with elevated cases, including Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lee, Pasco, Pinellas, and Sarasota. Fortunately, Disney World is located in Orange and Osceola Counties, where Vibrio vulnificus cases remain rare.

According to the CDC, this bacteria can enter a human through an open wound or by consuming seafood contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus.

Necrotizing fasciitis can result in life-long complications from loss of limbs or severe scarring due to surgically removing infected tissue. Even with treatment, up to 1 in 5 people died from the infection.

Global warming has been linked to the increase in flesh-eating bacteria in several states.

In 2016, Aimee Copeland went ziplining in Georgia and fell into shallow dirty water. She became infected with Vibrio vulnificus and lost all of her limbs.

Aimee Copeland was 24 at the time and pursuing an MA degree in psychology. (Photo: John Loomis)

Florida suffers red tide and blue-green algae blooms, which hurt people, animals, pets, and marine life. Emergency declarations have shut down beaches and fishing along large parts of both coasts. Nitrogen and phosphorus entered the watershed harming agriculture. There is a fresh water shortage in southern Florida because the salinity of Florida Bay has changed.

Remarkably, Floridians have no right to bodies of water ‘free of pollution.’ For the second time this year, a Florida appellate court has ruled against environmentalists fighting to enact a widely supported local clean water measure.

Sources:

https://insidethemagic.net/2024/12/disney-world-flesh-eating-bacteria-emd1/

https://www.cdc.gov/group-a-strep/about/necrotizing-fasciitis.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/02/02/flesh-eating-infections-rising-on-the-east-coast-scientists-warn—global-warming-is-making-it-worse/

https://people.com/human-interest/aimee-copeland-flesh-eating-bacteria-survivor/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/floridians-no-bodies-water-free-204050826.html

Retired US Army General: Elon Musk is National Security Risk

US Army Lieutenant-General Russel Honore in Cameron Prairie, LA on 25 Sep 2005. (Photo: Carlos Barria / Reuters)

Retired US Army Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré branded Elon Musk a “national security risk,” citing Musk’s history of appeasing and praising the Chinese Communist Party and his multiple business deals with them, particularly in the space race.

In a scathing op-ed published in The New York Times (NYT), Honoré noted that Musk and his company SpaceX already face federal reviews for failing to provide details of meetings with foreign leaders, but said that such infractions were “just the beginning of my worries.”

Musk has previously borrowed at least $1.4 billion from banks controlled by the Chinese government to help build a “gigafactory” in Shanghai for Tesla. The factory was responsible for more than half of Tesla’s global deliveries in the third quarter of 2024.

“China does not tend to give things away,” Honoré wrote. “The country’s laws stipulate that the Communist Party can demand intelligence from any company doing business in China, in exchange for participating in the country’s markets. “This means Mr. Musk’s business dealings in China could require him to hand over sensitive classified information, learned either through his business interests or his proximity to President-elect Donald Trump.”

The NYT reports that the egomaniacal oligarch is being investigated by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General, the USAF, and the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. Musk had not disclosed frequent meetings with foreign leaders, most notably Russian president Vladimir Putin. Musk has been violating the rules set out by his “top secret” security clearance for years and Israeli officials have expressed concerns that he could leak sensitive state secrets.

Elon Musk’s murky background of how he obtained his fabulous wealth and the circumstances surrounding his immigration to the US remain unclear. There have been calls to investigate and deport the racist Elon Musk back to South Africa for obtaining his US citizenship under false pretenses. Linked at bottom are the specific USCIS regulations on US naturalization which Musk may have violated.

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

Sources:

Opinion | Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk – The New York Times

Retired Army general declares Musk a ‘national security risk’ in brutal NYT op-ed | The Independent

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-investigated-violating-terms-top-secret-clearance

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2

American Police Brutality: NYS Prison Guards Beat Inmate to Death

Warning: Some Followers of the Watch may find the following images graphic and disturbing. This is one of the most cruelest stories that ever beset the author’s eyes.

NYS prison inmate Robert L. Brooks bleeding and disoriented. (Photo: AFP)

This brutal racist attack on inmate Robert L. Brooks (43) happened at Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate NY on 9 Dec in an examination room. Brooks was serving a twelve-year sentence for assault. Other officers stood by and watched as the handcuffed and helpless Brooks was abused and beaten by several correctional officers while blood poured from his face during the 30-minute episode.

After the beat down, Brooks was taken to Wynn Hospital in Utica and declared dead from “asphyxia due to compression of the neck,” in the early morning of 10 Dec.

One guard is holding Brooks in a chokehold as officers try to move him. (Photo: AFP)

One prison guard kicks and stomps on Brooks’ chest. (Image: Office of the New York State Attorney General)

NYS Governor Kathy Hochul began the process of firing the guards and had already suspended 13 without pay. One guard has already resigned.

Marcy Correctional Facility received a scathing evaluation by an oversight agency following a two-day monitoring visit from 11-12 Oct 2022.

Key Highlights: Observations of a Retaliatory Environment, Racial Disparities in Disciplinary Process Affecting Access to Food for Incarcerated Individuals

Marcy Operating Outside HALT Guidelines by Incarcerating Individuals with Mental Health Conditions in SHU Units

The Empire State incarcerates approximately 32,600 convicts which provide white, rural non-college graduates with pensioned careers and peace officer status. There are over 15,000 sworn members in the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NYSDOCCS). This nationwide pattern of hiring rural whites to guard minority convicts is called the “prison-industrial complex.”

Note the correlation between the prisons above and this 2020 election map below:

The competent NYS Attorney-General Letitia James will most likely be leading the prosecution.

Compare America with Scandinavia.

Norwegian prison guard playing volleyball with inmates. (Photo: NY Times)

Sources:

https://nypost.com/2024/12/27/us-news/ny-prison-guards-beat-handcuffed-inmate-robert-brooks-video/

https://www.correctionalassociation.org/press-releases-archive/2023-marcy-pvb-release

https://doccs.ny.gov/

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2024/12/body-cam-shows-ny-prison-guards-pummeled-handcuffed-inmate-during-fatal-assault-investigator-says.html

France: In 2023, 62% of Criminal Convictions Were for Sexual Offenses

This woman is protesting domestic violence, an issue that continues to plague France. A 2018 report said one out of ten women were raped at least once in their lifetimes. (Photo: The Globe Post and AFP)

Rape was the most frequently convicted crime in French courts in 2023, with 1,800 cases resulting in convictions.

Sexual crimes accounted for 62% of the 2,900 criminal convictions handed down by French courts in 2023.

Aggravating circumstances were considered in more than 70% of these cases, and 10% involved perpetrators who were the victim’s spouse or partner.

In total, nearly 550,000 people were convicted of all crimes in 2023, while some 900,000 offences were recorded in criminal records.

However, serious crimes such as murder, rape, armed robbery and violent crimes, accounted for only 0.3% of these infractions.

The average length of French prison sentences in 2023 was 9.7 months.

This outrageous case in 2024 blackened both of France’s eyes.

The hideous Dominique Pelicot, who drugged and raped his wife Gisele Pelicot, appears during his trial with 50 co-accused at the courthouse in Avignon, France, 17 Sep 2024, in this courtroom sketch. (ZZIIGG / Reuters)

Below are what French prisons look like. All photos courtesy of acidcow.com:

Endnote: France, an EU and NATO member which hosts INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, is unhappily and ironically a top ten member of the Global Organized Crime Index.

Sources:

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20241228-rape-tops-criminal-convictions-in-france-justice-report-shows

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/09/19/french-mass-rape-trial-something-was-wrong-suspect-tells-court_6726653_7.html

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