Followers of the Watch: Keeping up with the madness, chaos, and abject dysfunction of the Trumpf junta is challenging. You will read that Dummkopf Trumpf is in the process of consolidating power for the Republicans and the oligarchs, while wasting millions of dollars of money and trying to cover up his connection to the lurid late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Trumpf Vetting Top Military General Appointments in Loyalty Test
President Donald Trumpf is now meeting with four-star general nominees personally, a notable departure from past practices that raises ethical concerns about the further mingling of political roles within the military’s highest ranks.
Expanding Trumpf’s role in vetting future four-star generals comes amid a trend by this junta of tapping the military for the president’s domestic agenda, including the creation of new militarized zones along the southern US border, deployments to tamp down public protests over immigration raids, and the use of troops to bolster immigration enforcement and deportations.
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Leaked DHS Memo Reveals US Military to Bolster ICE on American Streets
This leaked internal memo circulated inside DHS suggests that Dotard Trumpf’s use of the military for domestic law enforcement on immigration could soon get worse. The memo lays out the need to persuade top DOD officials to get much more serious about using the military to combat illegal immigration—and not just at the border. It suggests that DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that LA-style operations may be needed “for years to come.” And it likens the threat posed by transnational gangs and cartels to having “Al Qaeda or ISIS cells and fighters operating freely inside America,” hinting at a ramped-up militarized posture inside the interior.
Trumpf’s resurrection of the infamous 1919-20 Palmer Raids, combined with DOD support, normalizes a militarized American society. Trumpf has amassed a $200 million war chest of political funds, even though he is Constitutionally forbidden to run for POTUS a third term. So, what is the money for? Perpetuation of GOP power over America with willing generals, a Republican Congress, and a subservient Supreme Court to supporting fascist-oligarch rule. Some Republican governors are gerrymandering their congressional districts to ensure white GOP candidates will have easy wins in the 2026 mid-term elections.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/198689/department-homeland-security-memo
Trump, Term-Limited, Amasses $200 Million War Chest for Political Ambitions – The New York Times
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-redraw-congressional-midterms-texas-california-2103010
President Trumpf Announces US Nuclear Submarines Moved Closer to Russia
Dummkopf Trumpf said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in “the appropriate regions” in response to remarks from former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries.
Trumpf’s move is a rhetorical escalation with Moscow but not necessarily a military one, given that the US already has nuclear-powered submarines that are deployed and capable of striking Russia.
Medvedev said Trumpf should remember that Moscow possessed Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort, after Trump had told Medvedev to “watch his words.”
Kabuki Theater
The location of USN nuclear-armed submarines (Ohio-class) is supposed to be ‘restricted information,’ like the maximum speed of USN aircraft carriers. Russia not knowing the location of constantly moving US nuclear subs makes them a threat and part of America’s defensive triad. When the USAF moves strategic aircraft, civilians near the bases see them, or they are spotted in commercially available satellite imagery, so that may be discussed in a narrow, limited manner. (e.g. “No comment”). Trumpf or Pete Hellsbreath shouldn’t be discussing any issues of US nuclear submarines with an adversary or in public. Announcing the submarine movement towards Russia is simply poor kabuki theater between the Trumpf junta and the Kremlin, as Trumpf is buying time for the Kremlin to continue its war against Ukraine while demonstrating to the American people that he is really trying to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin. Similarly, the Trumpf junta has bought time and financially supported Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-nuclear-submarines-russia-positions-1.7599792
Trumpf Junta Investigating Former Special Counsel Jack Smith
Jack Smith is now under formal investigation by the Office of Special Counsel, marking the first official inquiry into his conduct.
Smith had been tapped by the Justice Department to lead two high-profile criminal cases involving President Dummkopf Trumpf—one focused on classified documents and another on Trumpf’s role in the events of 6 Jan 2021, and whether they constituted an effort to overturn the election. Both cases ultimately ended in dismissal.
The Hatch Act Unit—which is responsible for ensuring that federal employees do not engage in political activity in violation of the law—is now examining Smith’s conduct.
The probe was initiated after Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to the Office of Special Counsel earlier in the week, accusing Smith of using his authority to deliberately sabotage Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
Smith, who had been appointed to his position by Attorney General Merrick Garland during the Biden administration, stepped down in January after Trumpf returned to the White House.
Republican critics of Smith have long lied that the charges brought against Trumpf were less about the law and more about politics, aimed at damaging his chances in the upcoming election.
This is pure partisan revenge against an honorable attorney who successfully prosecuted war criminals at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague. Jack Smith was stymied all the way by arcane Justice Department policies about prosecuting former presidents and impartial Republican judges like Aileen Cannon who kept sabotaging and delaying his cases until the November 2024 elections which Trumpf narrowly won.
SC Jack Smith sabotaged by the very system he spent years protecting
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Trumpf Revives Presidential Fitness Tests for Children, Then Names Registered Sex Offender to the Council
In the middle of his vexing Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal, Dotard Trumpf re-established the Presidential Fitness Tests for students. Trumpf said he aims to address Americans’ declining health and physical fitness, including “crisis levels” of obesity, chronic disease, inactivity, and poor nutrition. He chose HHS Secretary anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to lead the program, as astonishing as that is, Trumpf then chose retired NFL legend Lawrence Taylor (66), a registered sex offender, to sit on the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
Retired NFL legendary linebacker Lawrence Taylor won two Superbowls, but led a deeply-troubled off-field life. (Photo: Elsa Getty Images)
Then the White House announced that Dummkopf Trumpf (79) won his sixth club championship by an incredible ten strokes, three under par.
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NFL legend Lawrence Taylor arrested and charged with failing to report move as sex offender again
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-revive-presidential-fitness-test-rcna222264
Trump Claims Sixth Club Championship Win of 2025
Trumpf Junta Wasting Millions of Dollars of Food Aid for Poor People
A well-nourished man steals maize from a starving child at an MSF food distribution site in Sudan.
More than 60,000 metric tons of food have languished in warehouses in the US and around the world. 15,000 pounds of food have languished for months and expired in a Georgia warehouse before they could be sent overseas to famine-stricken areas like Sudan. Mana Nutrition’s warehouse holds plenty more of the peanut paste, a crucial element in treating malnutrition. A $50 million supply has been stacked for months in their facility as the Trumpf junta upended foreign aid and the food was never shipped. The food could still help 60 million people, Mana estimates. “This is a giant glut,” David Todd Harmon said. “All contracted. All bought and paid for. It’s just not been picked up.” Mana’s decision to jettison part of its food cache was the third instance in recent weeks in which important nutrition and family planning assistance slated for overseas was marked for destruction.
This is beyond Fraud, Waste, and Abuse of American taxpayer money, but contemptible racist cruelty at the hands of the worst USSECSTATE in American history, Marco Rubio, an empty suit void of vision, integrity, and empathy, and his master, eugenicist Dummkopf Trumpf. The Republican Party touts itself as “Christian,” but there is nothing “Christian” about letting poor people starve and wasting money already allocated by Congress to combat global famine. Meanwhile, the junta is wasting $200 million on renovating the ballroom of the White House into a gaudy eyesore. $200 million could feed approximately 800,000 poor Americans for one month; approximately 66,666 could be fed for one year with the same amount.
Lastly, as you previously read here on Coriolanus, junta members and lobbyists are profiting mightily from this misery as the leaders of poor countries are now paying bribes to get US foreign assistance from Dotard Trumpf.
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As world’s hunger worsens, vast supplies of U.S. aid remain stranded – The Washington Post
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As world’s hunger worsens, vast supplies of U.S. aid remain stranded – The Washington Post
The White House Announces White House Ballroom Construction to Begin – The White House
Elon Musk’s DOGE Wasted $21.7 Billion of American Taxpayer Money
US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) released a Minority staff report unveiling that Elon Musk’s brainchild, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has generated at least $21.7 billion in waste across the federal government between 20 Jan 2025 and 18 July 2025. The report, “The $21.7 Billion Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by DOGE,” follows a months-long investigation into Elon Musk and DOGE and is the most comprehensive effort to date to quantify taxpayer dollars squandered by DOGE despite its ostensible goal of eliminating government waste.
“This report is a searing indictment of DOGE’s false claims. At the very same time that the Trump Administration is cutting health care, nutrition assistance, and emergency services in the name of ‘efficiency’ and ‘savings,’ they have enabled DOGE’s reckless waste of at least $21.7 billion dollars,” said Blumenthal. “As my PSI investigation has shown, DOGE was clearly never about efficiency or saving the American taxpayer money. I urge Inspectors General to take up our investigation’s findings and initiate a comprehensive review of DOGE’s careless actions.”
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[2025-07-31] The $21.7 Billion Blunder: New PSI Report Reveals…
2025-07-31-Minority-Staff-Report-The-21.7-Billion-Blunder.pdf
White House Press Spokesperson Says Trumpf Deserves Nobel Peace Prize
Laughably, WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested that Dummkopf Trumpf deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize: “President Trump has brokered, on average, one peace deal or ceasefire per month. It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Noble Peace Prize.” Her full idiotic statement is below. Note that college educated Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt misspelled “Nobel.”
“On the peace front, President Trump helped deliver an immediate and unconditional ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia. The two countries were engaged in a deadly conflict that had displaced more than 300,000 people until President Trump stepped in to put an end to it. The president spoke directly on the phone with the acting prime minister of Thailand and the prime minister of Cambodia to inform both leaders that unless they brought their conflict to an end, there would be no trade discussions or agreements with the United States.
“Almost immediately afterward, a peace was brokered that will save thousands of lives and allow for trade negotiations with these countries to resume and they have. The president has now ended conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia.
“This means President Trump has brokered, on average, about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office. It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Noble [sic] Peace Prize.”
The winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on 10 October 2025 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, and will be awarded on 10 December 2025. Only an insane person would think Dotard Trumpf would even be considered for this prestigious award.
This preposterous and imbecilic proposal was followed by Trumpf (79) making suggestive comments about Karoline Leavitt’s (27) appearance: “She’s become a star. It’s that face. It’s that brain. It’s those lips, the way they move. They move like she’s a machine gun,” Trump said. “She’s a great person, actually. But she’s – I don’t think anybody has ever had a better press secretary than Karoline. She’s been amazing.”
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Ghislaine Maxwell Update
The abhorrent Ghislaine Maxwell in court. (Image: Reuters: Jane Rosenberg)
Notorious sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell offered to testify before Congress, but with major conditions, including immunity. Then House Oversight Chair James Comer announced scheduled congressional deposition is indefinitely postponed. In a letter to Maxwell, Comer said he would agree to delay the meeting after her lawyers earlier this week requested a postponement in the planned 11 Aug testimony citing a pending Supreme Court petition regarding her case. Maxwell’s attorneys also made a number of requests in order to facilitate her cooperation with the Oversight panel’s questioning ” some of which Comer rejected outright.
Comer agreed to delay the interview until after the Supreme Court rules on her appeal, which claims that her 2021 sex trafficking conviction was barred by Epstein’s earlier plea deal. That’s not likely to happen before the court begins its annual term in October.
Ms. Maxwell is allegedly seeking a presidential pardon from Dotard Trumpf. The notorious sex trafficker was then quietly moved from her prison at FCI Tallahassee, FL, to a ‘softer’ prison in Texas that has an ‘honor system.’ That means that somebody waived Maxwell’s sex offender status.
The Deputy Attorney-General handling the matter is also Trumpf’s personal attorney, raising all sorts of conflict of interest problems.
Congress Subpoenas Justice Dept for Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein Files
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. It’s part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to Dotard Trumpf and other former top officials.
The Republican-controlled committee also issued subpoenas for depositions with former President Bill Clinton, former USSECSTATE Hillary Clinton and eight former top law enforcement officials. The committee’s actions showed how even with lawmakers away from Washington on a monthlong break, interest in the Epstein files is still running high.
Link: https://archive.ph/oMGic
Anti-Trumpists in the US Senate Can Do More
US Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) presides over a hearing of the Permanent Select Committee on Investigations on 15 Nov 2022. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)
US Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) can hold public hearings about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. His committee won’t have subpoena powers to compel testimony since Democrats are in the minority; however, Senator Blumenthal can invite witnesses to testify before Congress, as you see above. Such witnesses would include the AUSA, FBI agents, and NYPD officers that investigated Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, as well as their victims. All of them would have to voluntarily appear at the hearings.
And Coriolanus is not alone in suspecting that notorious sex predators Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were Mossad assets collecting derogatory information on behalf of Israel. Obviously Israel and AIPAC does not want any alleged connection between them exposed. When Ghislaine Maxwell is finally released from federal custody in approximately 20 years, Coriolanus would not be surprised if this UK citizen found refuge in Israel.
Link: Was Jeffrey Epstein, Superconnector of the Rich and Powerful, a Spy? – Business Insider
Many, many powerful people want to see the Ghislaine Maxwell problem go away permanently.
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Donald Trump Among Public Figures Redacted by FBI in Jeffrey Epstein Files: Report – Newsweek
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-someone-waived-ghislaine
Trumpf Cuts Funding of Public TV and Radio Out of Revenge
Since the 1980s, Sesame Street has featured a few greedy, grouchy characters who have had names like Ronald Grump and Donald Grump (Image: The Washington Post)
Dummkopf Trumpf childishly cut public television and radio funding after decades of mockery on Sesame Street. WQXR-FM is just one of the victims of Trumpf’s churlish decision. Enjoy the 24/7 commercial-free classical music here while the station still has operating funds: https://www.wqxr.org/
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But it Can and is Happening in America Right Now
90 years ago novelist Sinclair Lewis wrote It Can’t Happen Here about a dangerous demagogue who becomes a fascist POTUS. The novel was soon produced into a play and decades later in 1968 ABC aired a made-for-TV film roughly based on Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel. You will recognize some of the actors, as well as the writer, of this nearly forgotten movie, Shadow on the Land:
US Nuclear Power Plant Horror Stories
Locations of radioactive sites in the US. 80 atomic power plants mottle America.
South Carolina: Radioactive Wasps Found at Nuclear Waste Site
The Northern Paper Wasp (Photo: https://birdwatchinghq.com/)
The US Department of Energy discovered a radioactive wasp nest near the Savannah River Site (SRS) nuclear waste facility in South Carolina. The nest was found to have ten times more radiation than permitted levels. The wasp nest was found near tanks that are being used to store millions of gallons of liquid nuclear waste. The nest was sprayed with insect killer, removed and disposed of as radiological waste. Wasps generally fly only a few hundred feet from their nest and the nest was found in the middle of the 310-square-mile SRS meaning there is little chance they flew outside of the facility. Investigators say that the radiation was not related to any nuclear waste leak and that there was no impact on the environment or the public.
The population within a 50-mile radius of the Site center in Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell counties in South Carolina and in Richmond, Burke, and Screven counties in Georgia, is 803,370. The largest population concentration is in the Augusta, Georgia, metropolitan area.
The SRS opened in the 1950s, when it was creating plutonium to be used in the core of nuclear bombs. The site continues to operate today, but with a focus on nuclear material for power plants. There are approximately 80 commercial nuclear power plants across 34 states, and each of these produces nuclear by-products (spent nuclear fuel), which is often stored on-site in pools or dry casks.
The site is administered by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) which the Trumpf junta and DOGE recklessly targeted for budget and personnel cuts.
But If no leaks of spent fuel were reported, how did the wasps become radioactive?
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In 1954, a science fiction film portrayed ants mutated by atomic radiation from US weapons testing in the Mojave Desert. Them! remains a classic film to this day.
Florida: Nuclear Plant Workers Afraid to Report Safety Concerns
Dummkopf Trumpf’s Mar-A-Lago resort is approximately 30 miles away from the Port St Lucie nuclear facility,
A culture of fear has persisted at a Florida nuclear power plant owned and operated by the state’s largest utility, Florida Power & Light (FPL). Workers were hesitant to report safety concerns to upper management lest they face retaliation. Inspectors came to this conclusion after interviewing more than 75 employees at the St. Lucie plant, located on a barrier island an hour north of West Palm Beach. A federal database showed workers’ anonymous complaints of wrongdoing at the plant skyrocketed last year. On-site workers filed far more reports here than at any other of the nation’s 54 nuclear power plants. The findings come as the utility asks regulators for permission to hike Floridians’ electric rates by billions of dollars over the next four years. FPL’s proposed increase represents the largest rate hike request in US history. FPL CEO Armando Pimentel Jr’s total 2024 compensation was $11.4 million.
Nuclear power plants need large amounts of water for cooling and hence their locations near rivers or oceans, but ocean water temperatures have been rising for decades. Moreover, the power, intensity, and frequency of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean have also been increasing. With all of these safety and environmental challenges, the Port St Lucie nuclear plant could be a potential Floridian Chernobyl.
Hurricane Milton was the most powerful storm to hit Tampa Bay in 100 years.
Sidenote: Florida, led by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, a double-Ivy League graduate, is one of the most dysfunctional, poorly regulated states in the US. The Florida Department of Health issued a health warning about the consumption of raw milk after 21 cases of Campylobacter and E. coli infections emerged in the central and northeast portion of the state. Seven people have been hospitalized. Moreover, DeSantis’ lax gun policies contribute to a horrific number of annual gun deaths. On average, 3,038 Floridians die and 6,358 are wounded by guns in Florida, which has the 23rd-highest rate of gun violence in the US. This law-and-order Republican governor also supports a racist pro-police climate in the Sunshine State. Witness how police officers abuse this defenseless black college student: https://apnews.com/article/william-mcneil-police-beating-video-jacksonville-driver-4243a4a87a89ae2ef99259144067c2e5
This type of police abuse is not an isolated event but part of a pernicious pattern that has persisted in Florida for decades.
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Florida nuclear plant workers were too afraid to report safety concerns, records show
Amid climate concerns, nuclear plants feel the heat of… | Canary Media
Canada: Drug Cartel Banking Activity
‘The Trumpf junta’s focus on illegal drugs has put Mexican cartel activity in Canada under the microscope. This analysis finds that cartel activity in Canada is increasingly a problem and has worsened over the last two decades. Based on a case study analysis of drug seizures in Canada, both large and small, it is clear that the main products being moved by these organizations are fentanyl, street drugs (cocaine and meth), and illegal tobacco. A conservative estimate on the size of the illicit market for those products is $2.672 billion CAD per year. Not only is the market significant for these products, but the distribution of these products is shifting to online marketplaces/retailers, facilitated by major financial institutions (banks, credit card companies, Interac), and delivered directly to the doors of buyers by Canada Post. With Canada listing Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations, the potential consequences for these institutions are significant.’
To counter these nefarious groups, the Government of Canada recently proscribed seven international criminal organizations as terrorist groups: Cártel del Golfo, Cártel de Sinaloa, La Familia Michoacana, Cárteles Unidos, La Mara Salvatrucha, Tren de Aragua, and Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación. This means any property of that group in Canada can be frozen and gives Canadian law enforcement more tools to prosecute terrorist offenses, including those related to financing, travel, and recruitment. This listing enhances domestic law enforcement capabilities, while respecting other countries’ sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Canada’s competent law-enforcement agencies include uniformed RCMP officers, investigators, accounting forensics experts, and linguists, all at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is highly ranked as an employer by college graduates and attracts talented individuals.
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Cartel Activity in Canada – Consumer Choice Center
Unknown Hackers Breach Website Used by USIC
Unidentified hackers recently compromised a major intelligence website used by the CIA and other agencies to submit details of sensitive contracts, according to the National Reconnaissance Office, the spy satellite service that runs the site.
The breach targeted proprietary intellectual property and personal information submitted on the Acquisition Research Center website in support of several innovative CIA spying programs.
In addition to the intelligence website hack, Microsoft revealed that Chinese state hackers compromised the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a central nuclear weapons agency.
The extent of the breach is not fully known, but people familiar with the activity said hackers likely obtained information on key technologies for CIA operations.
Other potential areas of compromise could include the US Space Force, its efforts to build surveillance satellites and space weapons, and the Golden Dome missile defense program.
Data from one highly sensitive program, Digital Hammer, was compromised.
Digital Hammer compiles cutting-edge technologies for human intelligence gathering, surveillance and counterintelligence operations. The program focuses on the threat of Chinese intelligence and information operations.
Portions of many Digital Hammer programs are unclassified. However, others submitted to the National Reconnaissance Office acquisition center are classified and involve capabilities essential to covert operations and strategic intelligence collection.
Digital Hammer is a closely guarded program working to develop open-source intelligence platforms, analytics, and items such as miniaturized sensors and hidden surveillance tools.
Other programs seek to develop acoustic and communications systems, artificial-intelligence-powered data collection, analysis and behavior prediction tools.
Countersurveillance and signature reduction technologies also are part of the program. Lori Ann Duvall-Jones, CIA deputy director of the Office of Acquisition Management, said in a 2023 speech that Digital Hammer is a contracting vehicle that allows vendors to present offerings “within a CIA space.”
There is no further information on the damage this breach caused in US intelligence operations and the suspects range from Russia, China, Israel, North Korea, India, Iran, or their proxies. Unfortunately the USIC is now led by a gaggle of incompetent lickspittles whose priorities are finding and firing undesirable employees (minorities, non-MAGA loyalists) and not on countering genuine threats to the Nation. America’s adversaries could not be luckier than today thanks to the Trumpfian Stalinist purges of competent, experienced intelligence employees.
Dipsomaniac USSECDEF Pete Hegseth, the most underqualified person to ever lead America’s nuclear-armed defense establishment, has his own share of OPSEC blunders.
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Major intelligence website hacked in search for CIA spying secrets – Washington Times
Latin American Drug Cartels Snuck Operatives into Ukraine for Drone Training
Ukrainian servicemember operating a drone (Photo: Anadolu News Agency)
Ukrainian counterintelligence services are investigating the infiltration of Latin American drug cartel members into the country’s International Legion, with operatives seeking advanced drone training to later deploy against rivals and security forces in their home countries.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) launched a joint investigation with military intelligence after Mexico’s National Intelligence Center warned in early summer that Mexican volunteers had joined Ukraine’s foreign fighter units specifically to acquire first-person view (FPV) drone capabilities. The probe has since expanded to include Colombian nationals, raising concerns about Ukraine’s inadvertent role as a training ground for transnational criminal organizations.
The investigation centers on several Spanish-speaking units within the International Legion, particularly the tactical group “Ethos,” operating in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. Ukrainian investigators reportedly suspect that some Mexican and Colombian volunteers intentionally sought placement in drone operator units to later use this training in the service of foreign criminal organizations.
One noteworthy case is that of a Mexican national operating under the alias “Águila-7,” who registered in March 2024 using fraudulent Salvadoran documentation. Posing as a humanitarian volunteer, he completed comprehensive drone training in Lviv while demonstrating exceptional technical expertise that eventually had instructors suspicious.
His extensive technical knowledge, including familiarity with electronic warfare countermeasures and thermal detection avoidance, reportedly stood out. Background investigations later revealed probable connections to Mexico’s elite GAFE special forces, some of whose former personnel have historically transitioned to cartel employment, notably through the ultra-violent Zetas organization.
The infiltration demonstrates remarkable operational sophistication for a nonstate group, with suspects employing false identities, forged documentation and front companies to facilitate their passage into Ukrainian territory and military structures. Intelligence analysts have identified a network of private security firms across Latin America that appear to have coordinated these placements.
Additional cases have emerged involving former FARC guerrillas who infiltrated the system using Panamanian and Venezuelan identity documents. At least three former FARC fighters passed through the International Legion using forged documents, with their relocation reportedly organized by cartel-linked entities.
The revelations highlight Ukraine’s unintended emergence as a premier training ground for modern asymmetric warfare techniques amid its conflict with Russia. Ukrainian authorities have developed comprehensive curricula covering drone manufacturing, tactical deployment, electronic warfare resistance and real-time battlefield coordination. Coincidentally, these capabilities also represent exactly the type of force multiplication that criminal organizations seek.
Mexican cartels are already conducting drone attacks against rivals and security forces domestically, making the acquisition of Ukrainian battlefield-tested tactics particularly concerning for regional security.
An unnamed SBU official said: “We welcomed volunteers in good faith. But we must now recognize that Ukraine has become a platform for the global dissemination of FPV tactics. Some come here to learn how to kill with a $400 drone, then sell this knowledge elsewhere to the highest bidder.”
This is Not a New Phenomenon
White supremacist militia members, well-trained by the US military.
Infiltrating military organizations in order to receive lethal training for nefarious purposes is not a new phenomenon. In the US, white supremacists began joining the US Army and USMC years ago after the draft ended in order to learn combat skills to later form militias. Some have conducted domestic terrorist attacks in America. Street gangs from the minorities also joined the US military, using their skills for criminal enterprises once they separate from the service. This case in Ukraine is unique in that criminal organizations invested time and personnel to send their operatives to a faraway warzone where they may get discovered or possibly killed in combat. Ukrainian SBU is competent and experienced and will soon locate these drug cartels operatives and prosecute or extradite them to their home countries.
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Drug cartel operatives snuck into Ukraine for drone training: report
‘Laughing Gas’ Abuse Fatally Climbing Among US Youth
JAMA reports:
“Teenagers and children across America are increasingly inhaling nitrous oxide, better known as “laughing gas” or “whippets” to get high. Inhaling nitrous oxide comes with serious health risks: Blood clots, frostbite, asphyxiation, heart palpitations, hallucinations and even paralysis, brain damage, or death. Sold in canisters, easy access appears to be growing throughout the US. There are no age restrictions on buying nitrous oxide which is available online and in gas stations across the country. US deaths linked to misuse of the common, legal inhalant climbed nearly sevenfold — 578% — between 2010 and 2023. In 2023, 156 Americans, many of them children, died from huffing nitrous oxide. Eighth-graders make up a large proportion of users.“
Nitrous oxide is often inhaled with a balloon. (Photo: Matt Cardy / Getty Images News)
Many nitrous oxide products come in flavors that are especially enticing to children or teenagers, like berry or cotton candy and often come with flavored nozzles. The research focused on 14 years of US CDC data on nitrous oxide-related deaths. Fatalities were rare and relatively stable until about 2010, when there were 23 deaths nationwide. But after that point, death rates began to climb. The US FDA issued a warning earlier this year, listing 15 nitrous oxide products with names like Baking Bad, Cloud 9ine, Cosmic Gas, and Whip-It! Canada has seen incidents of nitrous oxide abuse rise and similarly issued a warning this year.
The corporations or business enterprises that manufacture and market nitrous oxide products know exactly what they are doing: practicing a form of vulture capitalism. These entities make profits from selling legal, dangerous chemicals to vulnerable youth simply for the sake of profit regardless of the health consequences. Americans are already paying for costly health insurance and exorbitant medical expenses and the Trumpf cuts to the social safety nets will further exacerbate the problems of the poor. The parents of young victims of nitrous oxide abuse will receive expensive medical bills and must hope their health insurance will cover them (if the victims survive).
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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2836925?resultClick=3
Tiny Kitten Challenges Giant Husky
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