In this non-stop vortex of chaos caused by America’s Godzilla, here’s what we learned. USSECSTATE Marco Rubio, barely on the job a few days, flew down to Panama to demand they immediately take steps to end what President Trumpf sees as China’s influence and control over the Panama Canal. A Hong Kong-based company operates two ports near the canal’s entrances which Trumpf bloviated was a threat to the waterway and a violation of the US-Panama treaty. Rubio would claim they reached a deal that allowed US warships to transit the canal for free. Panama’s canal authority made it clear that it had not made any adjustments to tolls, directly contradicting Washington’s announcement that the policy change would save the U.S. “millions of dollars a year.” Since 1999, the US has paid a total of $25.4 million in transit fees—less than $1 million annually. While Panama’s President Raúl Mulino told Rubio that Panama’s sovereignty over the canal was non-negotiable, he also signaled a distancing from China by announcing that they will quit Beijing’s Belt and Road project. The canal, returned to Panama under a treaty signed in 1977, remains independently operated, despite conspiracy-laden rhetoric about China’s control over it. Panamanian President Mulino may take the matter of Trumpf’s bullying to the UN Security Council.
This episode was a “nothing burger” designed to give Trumpf an easy, public victory for his supporters, when in essence the American people got very little out it. Below, the Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum of US foreign policy.
America’s Godzilla issued an Executive Order (E.O.) condemning South Africa’s alleged discrimination against Afrikaaners and supposed land grabs. The E.O. authorized the US to facilitate the expedited re-settlement of these supposedly oppressed Afrikaaners to the US. This is the type of people Trumpf wants in America:
Pretoria responded:
“It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship.”
And so did two prominent Afrikaaner organizations:
“Our members work here, and want to stay here, and they are going to stay here,” said Dirk Hermann, chief executive of the Afrikaner trade union Solidarity, which says it represents around 2 million people. “We are committed to build a future here. We are not going anywhere.”
At the same press conference, Kallie Kriel, the CEO of the Afrikaner lobby group AfriForum, said: “We have to state categorically: We don’t want to move elsewhere.”
Trumpf announced plans to gut the Kennedy Center board and appoint himself chairman. Godzilla stripped Joe Biden’s Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), as well as the security clearances of non-federal government prosecutors such as Letitia James and Alvin Bragg. Trumpf will also be the first sitting POTUS to attend a Superbowl Game, where the “End Racism” signs and slogans have been removed. Elon Musk’s DOGE has been busy going through the records of millions of Americans. A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis report designated DOGE staff as an ‘Insider Threat’ and these have posters have been cropping up in Washington DC.
Trumpf’s administration rehired a flagrantly racist DOGE employee. These are the miscreants working on behalf of Elon Musk to pilfer America’s wealth:
But Godzilla wasn’t done. The Crime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, flew to Washington. Trumpf floated the idea for the US to “take over” the Gaza Strip during a press conference with the ICC-indicted war criminal calling for Gaza’s entire population to be relocated to other countries and for the land to be redeveloped.
As previously reported here on Coriolanus, this was the “Repub-Likud” plan all the time. Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property,” suggesting that Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the area. This is why no ceasefire was reached in 2024, despite the dozen trips that USSECSTATE Antony Blinken and D/CIA William Burns made to the Middle East. The incessant IDF bombing campaign against the Palestinians and Biden’s unqualified support for Israel kept antiwar voters home in Nov 2024. When Kamala Harris became the Democratic Presidential candidate, she immediately selected an outreach coordinator for Jewish-American voters, as if the Democratic Party needed such an envoy. She did not do the same for Arab-American voters. Kamala Harris’ inability to divorce her policy position from Biden cost her the Presidency; Trumpf and Bibi both knew it. The Democratic Party sacrificed the US for the sake of Israel. If you can stomach more of this, please see next story.
What’s next for America’s Godzilla? Despoiling the American Superbowl with his odious presence, slandering Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky, putting Elon Musk in charge of the FAA, confrontations with China and Iran, and scrubbing national health websites of information regarding avian flu.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to Trumpf: “You are the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House.”
Between these two Repub-Likuds are five indictments, two impeachments, and one conviction (but a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge.’) Both are trying to ethnically cleanse their countries,
The odious Benjamin Netanyahu said that in his second term, President Trumpf “picked up right where you left off” — bringing a hostage deal, revoking sanctions on settlers, pulling funding for UNRWA, and applying maximum pressure on Iran. “All this in just two weeks. Can you imagine where we’ll be in four years?” Meaning how many more Muslims and Arabs can we have kill while lining our pockets over the next four years?
You wonder what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democratic Party leadership are thinking right now?
The ICC-indicted war criminal gifted Godzilla with a “Golden Pager,” The gift was an allusion to a deadly Sep 2023 operation carried out by Israel in Lebanon, which targeted pagers used by members of Lebanese Hezbollah. On 17 Sep, thousands of explosions struck Hezbollah members, targeting their pagers and then walkie-talkies a day later. The blasts killed at least 37 people, including some children, and injured nearly 3,000, many of them civilian bystanders. The UN OHCHR regarded this massive sabotage as a war crime.
The Golden Pager gifted to Godzilla, a tribute to a war crime. In turn, Trumpf is sanctioning the ICC to get the arrest warrants off his partner-in-crime.
The Democratic Party was the best friend Israel ever had. And somehow 46% of NY Jews voted for Trumpf.
Ask Harry S Truman in 1948 who recognized Israel, Lyndon Baines Johnson who shielded Israel in 1967 after the USS Liberty incident, or the late Jimmy Carter who bent over backwards to secure peace for Israel. Adjusting for inflation, US aid to Israel from 1951 to 2022 totaled $317.9 billion, making it the largest recipient of American foreign aid since World War II. That’s billions of dollars that could have been used in the US for healthcare, education, affordable housing, meals-on-wheels, libraries, or parks. Americans go through medical bankruptcy, Israelis do not under their universal healthcare system.
Democratic President Harry S Truman (L) meets with Israeli PM David Ben-Gurion (R) and the Ambassador of Israel to the US, Abba Eban (standing) in a gift ceremony in the Oval Office on 8 May 1951. (Photo: Abbie Rowe/Harry S. Truman Library & Museum)
The USS Liberty after being repeatedly strafed by IDF jets on 8 Jun 1967 during the Six-Day War: 34 US KIA, 171 US WIA. The electronic spy ship may have intercepted IDF communications about potential war crimes in the Sinai. Abba Eban apologized for the attack and asked LBJ to not reveal anything as the incident might have become a propaganda boost for the USSR. Democrat LBJ obliged.
After signing the Camp David Accords in 1978. Begin and Sadat enjoyed playing chess with each other during the talks.
Now look where we are:
A Donald Trump yarmulke sold at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
Thanks for screwing the Democratic Party in 2024 by keeping the Gaza bombing going and not helping Joe Biden out with a ceasefire, Bibi! Former USSECSTATE Antony Blinken and former D/CIA William Burns know exactly what you did. If the ICC doesn’t convict you, Coriolanus hopes Israel’s dynamic first female Attorney-General skewers you during your corruption trial.
Israel Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara.
Sources:
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-military-aid-does-the-us-give-to-israel/
Ukraine Update
North Korean soldiers receive uniforms and equipment at Russian training base. (Photo: Ukrainian Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security and CNN)
(A) North Korean Cannon Fodder Reported Back in the Fight
North Korean soldiers were “brought in again” by Russia to the embattled Kursk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on 7 Feb.
Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi briefed Zelensky about new Russian attacks in Kursk Oblast, a day after Russian media claimed Ukraine had launched a new offensive in the Russian region.
“A significant number of occupiers have been eliminated, we are talking hundreds of Russian and North Korean servicemen,” the president said.
The New York Times reported on 30 Jan that North Korean troops had been pulled from the front, and a spokesperson confirmed that Ukraine’s special forces had not faced Pyongyang’s soldiers for three weeks.
Moreover, President Zelenskyy said that “Putin is not preparing for negotiations, not for peace, but for the continuation of the war, and not only against us, against Ukraine. They are now increasing their army by more than 100,000 more soldiers. All partners should know about this and should see it. We are ready to pass on the relevant information, and the relevant communication is already taking place through the intelligence line.”
(B) Impact of Drone Warfare on Russian Soldiers
Ukraine uses 10,000 surveillance and attack drones per month. (Photo: Elena Tita / Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Near the village of Terny in Donetsk region, as soon as he heard the sound of a drone, a Russian infantryman decided not to wait and killed himself with a grenade. The suicide was filmed by soldiers of the 98th battalion of the 60th separate mechanized Ingulets brigade.
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In this video, a Ukrainian drone tries to kill Russian soldier, then returns to save his life.
(C) Russia Spreading Agitprop About NATO and Zelensky
The popular and competent President Zelenskyy is a jagged pebble in Putin’s shoe. (Photo: CNN)
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is claiming NATO member states are plotting to oust Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from power by discrediting him, and then holding elections to switch up leadership in the war-torn country.
The SVR said NATO is guided by the uncertainty regarding the continuation of military aid to Kyiv from the new US administration led by President Donald Trump. NATO hopes to “freeze” the conflict, however Zelensky remains the main obstacle to the implementation of such a plan, it said. There is no indication that such a plot exists.
Russian soldiers continue getting slaughtered against Ukraine and their morale must be at an all time low thanks to drone warfare. Next week NATO will be convening the Ministers of Defense Summit where military assistance to Ukraine will be the main topic. The Kremlin is attempting to sow discord within NATO before the conference with the propaganda that President Zelensky is corrupt and an obstacle to peace. In Brussels expect sycophantic USSECDEF Pete Hegseth to parrot the same Kremlin lines by asking for elections in Ukraine.
Sources:
https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/03/1023196.html
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-nato-plot-get-rid-zelensky-war-2025292
Ukrainian MOD
https://t.me/V_Zelenskiy_official/13270
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_232865.htm?selectedLocale=en&mode=pressrelease
Turkiye: 33 Dead in Ankara from Bootleg Alcohol Poisoning, 20 in Critical Condition
The provincial governor’s office reported that 33 persons died in Ankara following bootleg alcohol use while another 20 are in intensive care.
In Turkiye, where bootleg alcohol is frequently contaminated with methanol, a poisonous chemical that can cause blindness, liver damage and death, such poisonings are rather prevalent and result from covert manufacturing.
Police confiscated 102 tons of contaminated alcohol and arrested 13 individuals on suspicions of selling it.
Though the governor omitted a chronology, his office’s X account on Tuesday cited “an increase in counterfeit alcohol deaths in recent days”. A spokeswoman for the governor’s office informed AFP the statistic was “from the beginning of the year”.
Previous consumption of bootlegged alcohol had left 26 people in intensive care and 38 people died in Istanbul in Jan 2025.
Since then, no official comment on whether the number of victims rose or on the state of those in intensive care has been made.
Inquired by AFP for a Friday update, a spokeswoman from the Istanbul governor’s office responded: “We are not going to make a statement on that.”
Turkiye is an ostensibly secular nation, although alcohol tariffs have surged under pious President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Purchased from a supermarket, a liter bottle of raki, Turkey’s aniseed-flavored national spirit, currently costs over 1,300 lira ($37.20) in a nation where the minimum salary just recently exceeded $600.
Critics claim high prices and low salaries are driving the manufacture of moonshine alcohol.
The first female recruit in the Turkish Police Organization may have been in 1845. Women in Turkiye have come a long way since then.
The founder of modern Turkiye, Kemal Pasha Ataturk, holding a glass of what looks like raki cut with water.
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What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
From Politico:
“While it is impossible to quantify a counterfactual, the cost of the anti-communist purges of the 1950s was clearly enormous and played out not just over the subsequent years but over decades. For instance, had expertise not been purged and dissent not been punished so severely across the government during the early 1950s, wiser heads might well have raised the right objections to America’s short-sighted anti-communism in East Asia, above all its rush to intervene in Vietnam. Does the Trump administration run the same risk of short-sightedness today?“
Notorious anti-communist hunter Sen. Joseph McCarthy led a devastating purge of intellectuals from the US government.
American soldiers coming home from Vietnam in 1965.
The thoroughly despicable, Iran-hating Islamophobe Sebastian Gorka is back in the White House. Said his PhD adviser: ‘I would not call him an expert in terrorism.’
Approximately 40,000 US servicemembers are in the Middle East.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) began the drumbeat against Iran barely a day after the Gaza ceasefire took hold. Is this what to expect from Islamophobic Donald Trumpf and Benjamin Netanyahu in the future?
Photo courtesy of the US Army.
Source:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/06/government-workers-purge-1950s-communism-00202336
Pam Bondi Weaponizes Justice Dept, Ends FBI Role to Combat Foreign Influence in US Politics
From Politico:
“Bondi directed the “weaponization” group to investigate former special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the two federal criminal cases against Trump: one over Trump’s role in the 6 Jan 2021 attack on the US Capitol and another on Trump’s mishandling of classified documents.
And she directed the group to examine “federal cooperation with the weaponization” by the offices of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James. Bragg’s office brought the criminal hush money case against Trump that ended in his conviction on 34 felony counts of business fraud. James brought a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump and his family business that resulted in a judge ordering Trump to pay a massive civil judgment.
Trump has repeatedly vowed revenge on Bragg and James, both Democrats, saying Bragg should be prosecuted and that James is “grossly incompetent.” Trump and his supporters have also questioned the role of one of the prosecutors in Bragg’s office, Matthew Colangelo, who previously worked at the Justice Department. Trump has pointed to Colangelo’s resume to claim that former President Joe Biden’s administration played a role in bringing the criminal case.
Bondi said the Justice Department would end a moratorium on federal executions that was put in place during the Biden administration. She pledged that department lawyers will “evaluate all potential avenues to strengthen the federal death penalty as a valid means of punishment for the heinous crimes it is intended to punish. She also ended the FBI’s role in investigating foreign influence in US politics.”
Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer arrested and deported thousands of aliens from 1919-20 during the “Red Scare.”
If Americans feel less secure today they have a right to. Between the internal threat posed by DOGE to American’s privacy, the purging of the FBI, and now this weaponization of the Justice Dept by Trumpf, America’s enemies will have a field day in the US. Expect fewer prosecutions of police brutality cases, as well as less investigations of white supremacist groups and Russian oligarchs. This agenda will suit Vladimir Putin just fine.
Who’s in charge here?
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Polar Bear Makes Friend with Penguin
Penguins have colonies in the Antarctic, South Africa, Argentina, or Chile, and polar bears are found north in the Arctic Circle. This video may have been taken in a zoo or animal sanctuary. Nevertheless, everybody needs somebody and these animals found companionship with each other, across species.
Coriolanus 