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

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

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

The Allan Memorial Institute (Photo: Flickr)

Dr Cameron’s notes on a patient.

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

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

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

Sources:

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

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

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

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

USIC Dysfunction Festers Under Trumpf Junta

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

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

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

FBI Under More Duress

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russian Hackers Penetrate US Criminal Justice System Computers

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

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

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

Sources:

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

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

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

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

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

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

US Army Soldier Charged With Selling Military Secrets to Russia

Taylor Adam Lee (Photo: US Army)

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

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

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

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

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

Sources:

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

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

Russian Intelligence Agents Arrest Fugitive Oligarch in Dubai

Superrich Vyacheslav Solovyov in an undated photo.

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

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

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

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

Source:

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

Mexico Extradites 26 Cartel Members to US

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

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

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

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

Sources:

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

Terrorist Designations of International Cartels – United States Department of State

Donald Trump orders Pentagon to target drug cartels: Reports

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

London Chess Prodigy, Ten Years Old, Becomes Master Player

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

From the BBC:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sources:

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

Distributional Effects of P.L. 119-21

Sudan: Cholera Outbreak Kills 40 People in One Week

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

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

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

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

Sources:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

IDF Brazenly and Openly Killing Journalists

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

Jodie Ginsberg from The Guardian reports:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Source:

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

Horrors Continue for Palestinians

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

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

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

Resistance to Israeli Atrocities and AIPAC Complicity Growing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Democratic Party Must Rid Itself of AIPAC to Win Elections Again

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

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

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

The Day After the Election (6 Nov 2024)

“But Joe, I followed the AIPAC script!”

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

One AI calculation:

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

Sources:

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

https://archive.ph/AiLJO

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

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

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

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

Shy Rescue Cat Loves Only One Person

Jeffrey Epstein’s Unreleased Pedophilic FBI Files Driving Donald Trump and Republican Junta Absolutely Insane

(Photo: Copyright John Bazemore / 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.)

The New York Times just published another lengthy piece about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s 15-year-long friendship that centered around one commonality: their insatiable fetish for nubile young girls.

What Does First Lady Melania and Daughter Ivanka Think of the Paterfamilias?

Source:

Archived link: https://archive.ph/iCegJ

Like MacBeth driven to lunacy by the ghost of Banquo, so to is Dummkopf Trumpf being driven to lunacy by the ghost of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein and his sordid, lengthy FBI dossier which the junta is loath to publicly release.

Trumpf Junta Tactics: “Circle the Wagons” and Distract the Hoi Polloi

Servient of America’s oligarchs House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he does not plan to allow votes on any measures related to the Jeffrey Epstein case in the House’s final week in Washington before a weekslong recess, despite intense pressure from some of his own GOP members to go on the record on the issue.

The MAGA Republicans are ‘circling the wagons’ around their beleaguered cult leader, Dummkopf Trumpf, even though other Republicans want to see congressional action on the scandalous Epstein files.

Link: Johnson shuts door on House vote before September on releasing Epstein files | CNN Politics

Moreover, the Trumpf junta has gutted the office in the State Department that combats international human trafficking.

Link: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/epstein-trump-human-trafficking-state-department-tip-office-rcna219689

Distract! Deflect! Deny! Defend! Delay!

To distract the media and the hoi polloi, the Trumpf junta began a smear campaign against former President Barack Obama, which you read about on Coriolanus. As if trying to distract a child or a cat, the junta pulled out more ‘shiny new objects’ as red meat for their base and another issue for progressives to deal with.

Trumpf Urges Sports Teams to Restore Their Previous Racist Names

Dotard Trumpf posted on Truth Social:

“The Washington “Whatever’s” should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this. Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them. Times are different now than they were three or four years ago. We are a Country of passion and common sense. OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!”

The President threatened to sanction the NFL Washington Commanders team if the owner did not comply.

Source: Trump urges Cleveland Guardians and Washington Commanders to restore old names

More Utter Dysfunction from the Trumpf Junta

“Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.” (2018 Trumpf tweet)

Trumpf administration plans to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas. As part of the Dotard’s end to foreign aid, destruction of the long-acting contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000.

“It is unacceptable that the State Department would move forward with the destruction of more than $9m in taxpayer-funded family planning commodities purchased to support women in crisis settings, including war zones and refugee camps,” said US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). Shaheen and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) have introduced legislation to stop the destruction.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/trump-administration-destroy-contraceptives-usaid-africa

Trumpf Replaces US Naval Academy Superintendent with USMC General

USSECDEF Pete Hegseth walks alongside US Naval Academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Yvette Davids during his visit to the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 1 April 2025. I don’t think she is smiling today. (Photo: DoD / USN Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza)

The Trumpf junta has chosen a Marine general to replace the first woman to lead the US Naval Academy, trading out one history-making officer for another, well short of the typical three-year tenure for the position.

Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte, who currently oversees the Marine Corps‘ personnel directorate, has been nominated to replace Vice Adm. Yvette Davids as superintendent of the academy.

Davids was the first woman to head the service’s storied academy. Meanwhile, Borgschulte will be the first Marine to head the academic institution in its 180-year history.

Davids’ tenure at the academy was shorter than usual and, in that time, the institution had become a focus for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his campaign against topics and materials that the Trumpf junta considers “woke.”

Links:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4249504/secretary-of-defense-general-and-flag-officer-announcements-for-july-18-2025/

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/18/naval-academy-superintendent-first-woman-post-replaced-early-marine-general.html

EPA Eliminating Its Scientific Research Arm

President Nixon signing the Clean Water Act, 1972

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so. The Trumpf junta is forging ahead with efforts to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies after the Supreme Court allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Government scientists have been particular targets of the administration’s large-scale layoffs.

The decision to dismantle the EPA’s Office of Research and Development had been widely expected since March. But until Friday, the Trumpf junta maintained that no final decisions had been made.

This was a perfect time to make this announcement and is consistent with the junta’s plans to enshittify the US and stupidify Americans. These scientists and researchers will be welcome in Canada, the UK, and the EU.

FEMA Head of Search and Rescue Operations Resigns in Disgust

Ken Pagurek talks to CNN after searching the rubble of a collapsed condo in Surfside, FL, in 2021 (Image:  
CNN)

The head of FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue branch, which runs a network of teams stationed across the country that can swiftly respond to natural disasters, resigned on Monday.

Ken Pagurek’s departure comes less than three weeks after a delayed FEMA response to catastrophic flooding in central Texas caused by bureaucratic hurdles put in place by the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the disaster response agency.

Pagurek told colleagues at FEMA that the delay was the tipping point that led to his voluntary departure after months of frustration with the Trumpf junta’s efforts to dismantle the agency. It took more than 72 hours after the flooding for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network.

After spending more than a decade with FEMA’s urban search and rescue system, including about a year as its chief, Pagurek said in his resignation letter that he was returning to the Philadelphia Fire Department and did not mention the Texas flooding.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/politics/fema-search-and-rescue-chief-resigns

Trumpf Junta Fires Another Unqualified DOD Staffer

Another goniff hired and fired by the Trumpf junta.

A senior Pentagon staffer and adviser to Pete Hegseth has been ousted, marking at least the sixth person under the Defense Secretary to quit within his first six months in office.

Justin Fulcher, who recently made headlines after accusing a colleague of calling the Pentagon police on him, will no longer serve as a senior adviser to Hegseth.

Fulcher previously ran a telehealth startup called RingMD that went bankrupt. He seemingly overstated his credentials before he was hired to work at DOGE, including claiming a doctorate in international relations and affairs from Johns Hopkins University.

Links:

Justin Fulcher, who alleged colleague called the cops on him, fired by Pete Hegseth | The Independent

Another top Hegseth adviser leaves the Pentagon

Trumpf Junta Defies World Health Organization (WHO)

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a Joint Statement of formal rejection by the US of the 2024 International Heath Regulations (IHR) Amendments by the WHO.

The amended IHR would give the WHO the ability to order global lockdowns, travel restrictions, or any other measures it sees fit to respond to nebulous “potential public health risks.” These regulations are set to become binding if not rejected by 19 Jul 2025, regardless of the US withdrawal from the WHO.

“The proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations open the door to the kind of narrative management, propaganda, and censorship that we saw during the COVID pandemic,” Secretary Kennedy said. “The US can cooperate with other nations without jeopardizing our civil liberties, without undermining our Constitution, and without ceding away America’s treasured sovereignty.”

Secretary Kennedy also released a video explaining the action to the American people.

Link: HHS & State Department: The United States Rejects Amendments to International Health Regulations | HHS.gov

The Making America Great Again (MAGA) Base That Supports Dummkopf Trumpf

Trumpf’s approval rating, according to the latest from The Economist (22 July 2025):

Unsure: 4%

Favorable: 41%

Unfavorable: 55%

No matter what distractions and dysfunctional decisions the junta makes, the Jeffrey Epstein FBI files will continue to drive Dotard Trumpf nuts. Journalists that ask him about the files will be banned from the White House and Trumpf will ask conservative media allies to discuss issues other than this sordid affair. The junta will create more international distractions and diversions, possibly getting more innocent people killed in the Middle East or Africa. Meanwhile, Putin’s protege in the White House is allowing Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin to continue their vicious murderous campaign against Palestinians and Ukrainians.

China’s Political Warfare in Canada

The Government of Canada informs:

Canada has long been a target of China’s United Front influence campaign. Important ethnic Chinese organizations have been effectively taken over by Beijing, as have most Chinese language media. Chinese embassies and consulates monitor the Chinese ethnic community and coordinate United Front activities.

Link: https://www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service/corporate/publications/hybrid-methods-in-the-grey-zone/beijings-political-warfare-canada-tracking-footprints-united-front-work-department.html

Conservative MP for Wellington-Halton Hills Michael Chong prepares to appear as a witness at the standing committee on procedure and House affairs on foreign election interference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on 16 May. (Photo: Spencer Colby / The Canadian Press)

The USCC informs:

“China uses “United Front” work to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP’s United Front Work Department (UFWD)—the agency responsible for coordinating these kinds of influence operations—mostly focuses on the management of potential opposition groups inside China, but it also has an important foreign influence mission. To carry out its influence activities abroad, the UFWD directs “overseas Chinese work,” which seeks to co-opt ethnic Chinese individuals and communities living outside China, while a number of other key affiliated organizations guided by China’s broader United Front strategy conduct influence operations targeting foreign actors and states. Some of these entities have clear connections to the CCP’s United Front strategy, while others’ linkage is less explicit.”

Dr. Lining “Larry” He (48) resigned from disgraced Andrew Cuomo’s NYC mayoralty campaign. He denied any ties to the Chinese Communist Party. “I’ve never been an asset beholden to the Chinese government,” He said.  (Photo: Kings County Democratic County Committee / ‘X’)

Link: Andrew Cuomo campaign aide worked for companies tied to CCP

Globally, Beijing has established Confucian Institutes to spread CCP influence, as well as covert police stations in North America to monitor dissent amongst the Chinese community, including French-speaking Quebec.

Link: Canadian police investigate Chinese ‘police stations’ in Quebec

CCP Mouchards (AKA Police Spies or ‘Wu Maos’)

Low-level CCP or UFWD operatives on the internet (AKA trolls) or those eavesdropping on conversations in bars, restaurants, classrooms, social settings, parks, or schools are ‘Wu Maos,” which translates roughly as ‘50 cents party workers.’ These Wu Maos defend CCP positions over Tibet, Taiwan, or the Uighurs, and report back to their handlers who the enemies of the CCP are. Coriolanus has witnessed Wu Maos in action on several occasions in North America.  

Sources:

Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions – Final Report Vol. 1 (January 2025)

China’s Overseas United Front Work: Background and Implications for the United States | U.S.- CHINA | ECONOMIC and SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION

RCMP opens investigation into claims China intimidated MP Chong | CBC News

CONFIRMED: China Interfered in Canadian Elections – Encounter TodayCanadian police investigate Chinese ‘police stations’ in Quebec

Russia: Putin Launches Spy App to Keep Russians in ‘Digital Gulag’

Russian police push protesters back during a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin in Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, 5 May 2018. (Photo: AP / Pavel Golovkin)

WhatsApp is to be banned and replaced with Max, which incorporates permanent snooping technology and will be installed on all digital devices sold in Russia.

The app, which was test-launched in March, was developed on Vladimir Putin’s orders and provides online messaging, video calls, mobile payments, social networking and access to government services. It was developed by the Kremlin-controlled company VK. Under a new law, it will be installed on every digital device that is sold in Russia from 1 Sep.

Critics have described it as a “spy program” that installs snooping software on a user’s smartphone that remains in place even after the app is removed. It is being seen as Russia’s equivalent to China’s WeChat app, which Beijing uses for online surveillance and censorship.

“[Max] is interested in where the user was, who they called or wrote to, including through other messengers, what crypto wallets and bank accounts they have, as well as what purchases they made, what cafés they visited and what they surfed for on the internet,” wrote Red Binder, a Russian Telegram channel that focuses on online issues.

Data that is collected by Max will be easily accessible to the FSB security services and Kremlin agents might even be able to monitor online conversations in real time,

Andrey Okun, a Russian opposition journalist, called Max a key component in the Kremlin’s plans to construct a “digital gulag”, a reference to Soviet labor camps. “This will be a sterile space in which the authorities have complete control over the leisure time, motives and thoughts of citizens.”

When Putin came to power 25 years ago, about 1% of Russians were online and the Kremlin paid little attention to the internet. Even in 2010 Putin was largely dismissive of its potential, describing it as “50 per cent porn material” and claiming never to have been online.

By 2011, when the first large anti-Putin protests broke out in Moscow, one in two people had access to the internet and foreign websites such as YouTube and Facebook became the opposition movement’s most potent weapons. Putin realized that, if left untamed, the internet could destroy him. “[The internet] is a CIA project,” he claimed in 2014, without providing evidence.

The surprising revelation in this development is that KGB veteran Vladimir Putin didn’t think of this earlier. Either way, this gives Putin another tool to crack down on dissent. The Max app will probably be available in neighboring Belarus, to fellow despot Oleksandr Lukashenko’s delight.

Source:

Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in ‘digital gulag’

Archived link:

Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in ‘digital gulag’

Russophile American Father of Three Sent to Russia’s Frontline Against Ukraine

Derek Huffman (46), his wife DeAnna and three daughters.

A Texan father who uprooted his family to Russia in a bid to escape ‘woke America’ has reportedly been sent to the front lines of the brutal war in Ukraine to fight for Putin.

Derek Huffman (46) moved with his wife DeAnna, their three daughters and the family husky to the small town of Istra, near Moscow, earlier this year after claiming the US had become overrun by ‘woke ideology’.

The family took advantage of a Kremlin-backed visa programme aimed at attracting Westerners who reject liberal ideals – something Mr Huffman called ‘a fresh start in a country that respects family values.’

But the American expat’s dream of a quieter life in Russia has taken a dramatic turn.

Initially promised a non-combat role in the Russian military – first as a welder, then a war correspondent – Mr. Huffman now finds himself alarmingly close to the battlefield, according to his wife.

DeAnna Huffman said her husband felt he was being ‘thrown to the wolves’ given that he had only received a limited amount of training, and that it was in Russian. She added that her husband, who only had minimal instruction before being deployed, is ‘leaning on faith’ to survive, as the family awaits news in fear.

The last message they received from him came on Father’s Day in June. In a video clip, Mr Huffman appears in full camouflage, speaking directly to his children.  

Derek Huffman wanted to FAFO now in his military uniform.

Russian forces lose approximately 1,000 soldiers a day in human wave or ‘meat attacks’ against staunch Ukrainian defenders protecting their homeland. Followers of the Watch will recall that another ‘useful idiot,’ the son of a CIA officer, was killed fighting against Ukraine. In the English vernacular ‘FAFO’ means ‘Fuck Around, Find Out.’ Imbecile Derek Huffman and his family are now in the ‘FO’ portion of this equation.

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for war crimes remains active for Russia President Vladimir Putin. An indictment is merely an allegation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Sources:

Father-of-three who fled to Russia to escape ‘woke’ America ‘is sent to the front line to fight for Putin’ | Daily Mail Online

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and

134 Passengers Aboard Royal Caribbean International Ship Stricken with Illness

Royal Caribbean International’s ship Navigator of the Seas.

The CDC informs that 134 passengers on board the Royal Caribbean International Navigator of the Seas suffered from gastrointestinal illness:

Cruise line: Royal Caribbean International

Cruise ship: Navigator of the Seas

Voyage dates: 4 July 2025–11 July 2025

Voyage number: 23491

Date outbreak reported to VSP: 11 July 2025

Number of passengers who reported being ill during the voyage out of total number of passengers onboard: 134 of 3,914 (3.4%)

Number of crew who reported being ill during the voyage out of total number of crew onboard: 7 of 1,266 (0.6%)

Predominant symptoms: Diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramps

Causative agent: Unknown

Trumpf Junta Cut CDC Budget for Cruise Ship Health Inspections

Thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf, all full-time employees at the CDC Vessel Sanitation Program have been laid off. A group of about 12 US Public Health Service (USPHS) officers will remain. According to one AI estimate, on any given day in 2025 approximately 360,000 to 430,000 passengers are likely on US cruises, based on estimated US passenger volume, ship capacities, and operational patterns.

Links:

Trump administration lays off cruise ship inspectors despite recent outbreaks – pennlive.com

About Vessel Sanitation Program | Vessel Sanitation Program | CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/vessel-sanitation/cruise-ship-outbreaks/navigator-of-the-seas-july-2025.html

Afghans Who Loyally Served With US Military in Peril

Interpreter Abdul Qader Zaman with US Army MSG Terry Best.

DHS has ended Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for Afghans. Since last summer, more than 76,000 Afghans have arrived in the US. Many of those fled the country on flights in the chaotic weeks before the US fully withdrew from Afghanistan in late August. They include former interpreters, NGO workers, and soldiers who worked with American and NATO forces during the 20-year war. If Afghans here under TPS status do not self-deport, ICE will detain them and then send them back to the waiting hands of the Taliban.

Link: DHS Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan | Homeland Security

An Afghan interpreter went to a routine green card appointment has already fallen victim to ICE. Identified only as ‘Zia S’, the 35-year-old husband and father of five who entered the US in October 2024 with a visa issued by US authorities was arrested and taken away in a van after a routine biometrics appointment for his green card in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/afghanistan-war-translator-ice-connecticut

Another Afghan Interpreter’s Odyssey

As Kabul fell to the Taliban last August, Abdul Qader Zaman (pictured above) and his family were among the tens of thousands desperately trying to flee the country. With the help of volunteers and veterans from his time as an interpreter for US soldiers, Zaman and his family eventually escaped. For PBS, Hari Sreenivasan reports from Erie, PA, where the Zamans are now beginning life again.

Link: After escaping Kabul, an Afghan interpreter reunites with an American vet | PBS News Weekend

Cruelty Awaits Afghans Who Collaborated with ISAF

An Afghan judge whips a woman in front of a crowd in Ghor Province in 2015. (Photo: Reuters)

An Afghan interpreter named Mohammed Rafi Hottak who is safe for now in the UK says his own life remains in danger after recruiting hundreds of interpreters for the British military in Afghanistan.

He relates the following testimony in a court alleging that interpreters who worked in Iraq are better treated by the UK than those who worked in Afghanistan.

Hottak Mr Hottak describes in a statement to the court how one particular video “broke my heart.”

He says two of the six young men seen having their heads sawn off with a handheld knife were friends and old room-mates specially targeted after they chose to work as interpreters with US forces.

Mr Hottak and another ex-interpreter, referred to as ‘Al,’ are accusing the UK Government of unlawfully failing to offer adequate assistance to former Afghan interpreters who worked for them.

Lord Justice Burnett and Mr Justice Irwin, sitting in London, were told by their barrister Ben Jaffey that each had given “loyal, important, and dangerous service” for the UK armed forces.

As a result both they and their families had suffered serious injuries in Taliban attacks.

But they and other interpreters like them were being discriminated against and given less favorable treatment and assistance than Iraqi interpreters whose lives became endangered working for the British in the Iraq war.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and Ministry of Defense are fighting the claim.

Mr Hottak said while he was working in Kabul in 2007 the UK forces received the body of a dead interpreter.

“Luckily he had not been beheaded. He had just been shot sixty times and whipped with a chain.”

Prisoners of the Taliban awaiting a grim public punishment. (Image: AMU TV)

Statistics from the Taliban’s Supreme Court and statements from officials across Afghanistan indicate that the group publicly flogged 583 people and executed six individuals during 2024.

UN experts, including Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett, called on the Taliban to immediately halt all “inhumane punishments” in Afghanistan, including public executions and corporal punishment, after four executions were carried out in a single day last week.

Links:

Taliban Publicly Flogged Nearly 590 Individuals in 2024 | Afghanistan International

UN experts urge Taliban to immediately halt executions and corporal punishments | Amu TV

This is what the Trumpf junta is cruelly doing to Afghans who risked their lives for the US.

Who will trust the word of America ever again?

US: Southwestern Drought Will Last Through 2100

The drought in the Southwestern US is likely to last for the rest of the 21st century and potentially beyond as global warming shifts the distribution of heat in the Pacific Ocean.

The Southwestern US is experiencing a megadrought resulting in the aridification of the landscape, a decades-long drying of the region brought on by climate change and the overconsumption of the region’s water. That’s led to major rivers and their basins, such as the Colorado and Rio Grande rivers, seeing reduced flows and a decline of the water stored in underground aquifers, which is forcing states and communities to reckon with a sharply reduced water supply. Farmers have cut back on the amount of water they use. Cities are searching for new water supplies. And states, tribes, and federal agencies are engaging in tense negotiations over how to manage declining resources like the Colorado River going forward.

Dummkopf Trumpf Wasted California’s Precious Water Earlier This Year

2015 photo of Dotard Trumpf courtesy of CNN.

One of the first blunders Trumpf made as soon as he assumed office was releasing 2.2 billion gallons of precious water from two of California’s reservoirs to fight the Los Angeles wildfires, against the wishes of Governor Gavin Newsom and the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs

“Hey, Mexico! There’s a Hole on Your Side of the Boat!”

Source: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

Then the Trumpf junta selfishly denied a special request from Mexico for the delivery of Colorado River water to the city of Tijuana — marking the first such denial in 81 years. Justifying the decision, the US State Department blamed Mexico for failing to abide by the terms of a historic water partnership accord signed between the two nations in 1944.

Link: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5211310-trump-administration-denies-water-request-colorado-river-mexico/

Mexico has been undergoing a severe drought for several years now and shouldn’t be blamed for having less water to go around. Mexican rescue workers came to the help of the 4 July flood victims in Texas before US FEMA teams arrived to help.

More than two dozen Mexicans came to Central Texas to help with recovery efforts after the 4 July flood. Firefighters with the Mountain Home Fire Department worked with them for six days, searching for missing people in the Guadalupe River. (Photo: Greta Díaz González Vázquez / KUT News)

Unstoppable Desertification

As you read previously on Coriolanus, the world’s oceans are dying. Global climate change is slowing destroying the earth and causing mass migration from arid areas to moister regions. Unless mankind takes drastic steps now to lower greenhouse gas emissions, plant more trees, use natural sources of power like wind, solar, and tidal, and guard our precious water, the earth will continue getting warmer and drier, leading to increased desertification of the planet, more powerful storms, and toxic ocean waters.

Links:

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/2c39108f-9ab7-11e8-a408-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

Followers of the Watch That Are Aficionados of Grappling

On a grass field slick with olive oil and steeped in tradition, hundreds of boys as young as 11 joined the ranks of Turkiye’s most time-honored sporting event: the annual Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Championship.

Held every summer in the northwestern city of Edirne (once the capital of the Ottoman Empire), the event is said to date back to the 14th century as a way of keeping the Ottoman Empire’s fighting men fit and ready for battle.

The sport, which is on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list, sees wrestlers cover themselves in olive oil and try to press their opponent’s back to the ground to win the bout.

Alongside the men contesting, youngsters also don the iconic “kispet” leather trousers to embark on a slippery test of strength, skill and stamina under the scorching sun.

A young wrestler is doused in oil during the 664th annual Historic Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling championship, in Edirne, northwestern Turkey, Sunday, 6 July 2025. (Photo: Khalil Hamra / AP)

The boys are ranked in divisions based on age, height and build, with the youngest generally placed in the “minik,” or tiny, category. Under strict safety regulations, their matches are shorter and closely supervised.

Most young wrestlers train year-round at local clubs, often in towns where oil wrestling is passed down through generations.

While the youngest competitors aren’t wrestling for titles like “baspehlivan,” the grand champion of the men’s matches, their participation is no less significant as it is key to the continuity of a sport that holds deep cultural importance across Turkey.

This year’s contest — the 664th in its history — saw 36-year-old Orhan Okulu win his third men’s title.

“My goal was the golden belt in Kirkpinar and thanks to my God, I succeeded,” Okulu said of the coveted prize.

Link: https://www.timesunion.com/sports/article/photos-show-turkey-s-youngest-oil-wrestlers-20760276.php

The Greatest Wrestler of All Time

The undefeated Gama is often considered the greatest wrestler who ever lived.

Born in Amritsar of undivided India in 1878, Gama is often considered the greatest wrestler who ever lived and the man who inspired Bruce Lee.

Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt (22 May 1878 – 23 May 1960), commonly known by the title Rustam-e-Hind and by the ring name The Great Gama, was a pehlwani wrestler and strongman in British India and later, Pakistan. In the early 20th century, he was an undefeated wrestling champion of British India for 52 years.

Read about his matches with Europe’s champions here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gama

Bruce Lee adopted the Great Gama’s training techniques, amongst other skills.

Link: https://www.olympics.com/en/news/who-is-the-great-gama-pehlwan-india-wrestler

Sleepy Kittens

Followers of the Watch, Coriolanus returns to the stage next week. Until then, please look after yourselves and enjoy this wonderful First Violinist:

CIA Historian: ‘Donald Trump Has Put US National Security in the Hands of Crackpots and Fools’

Underqualified sycophant D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Patel, Hare Krishna off-shoot cult member DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and lickspittle D/CIA John Ratcliffe testifying before Congress. (Photo: Getty Images)

Some quotes from eminent CIA historian Tim Weiner about the Trumpf junta:

After watching the US stand with Russia, Iran and North Korea, as it did in February 2025 when it voted against a UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine, CIA historian Tim Weiner said:  “You come to the realization, if you hadn’t already: ‘My God, the president of the United States has gone over to the other side. He has joined the authoritarian axis.’”

Following two impeachments (and two acquittals), an insurrection and another election, Trump is back in the White House and bent on revenge. “Donald Trump hates the CIA,” Weiner said, noting that Trumpf considers the agency the beating heart of a “deep state” that he believes is working to undermine him. Consequently, the president has appointed “a coterie of dangerously incompetent and servile acolytes to the highest positions of national security”. Weiner describes the new CIA director, John Ratcliffe – a former personal injury attorney, MAGA congressman and, briefly, DNI in Trump’s first term – as “a spineless person who will do whatever Trump tells him to do.”

“For decades, the CIA has tried to hire people who don’t look like they just got off the bus from Kansas on the very sound principle that if you want to spy in a nation like Somalia or Pakistan or China, it might be wise to have a workforce that is not made up exclusively of white guys, and who speak languages other than English,” Weiner said. “Diversity was one of the CIA’s few superpowers, and the mindless abolition of the effort to diversify the CIA’s officers and analysts was one of the most stupid self-inflicted wounds that D/CIA John Ratcliffe could have delivered.”

The appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as DNI, who oversees the CIA and 17 other intelligence agencies, only compounds problems, Weiner said. Gabbard has never worked in the intelligence community and has been accused of parroting Russian propaganda. “What ally would share secrets with a dangerously deluded person like that?”

The amateurish ‘Signalgate’ affair cost National Security Advisor Mike Waltz his position at the White House.  His reward is being named US Ambassador to the UN, pending US Senate confirmation.

22-year-old Thomas Fugate is the DHS official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism. His previous experience was landscaping before graduating college.

CIA historian Tim Weiner. (Photo: Jessica D. B. Doyle)

Followers of the Watch are keenly aware of the Stalinist purges the Trumpf junta has been conducting to rid itself of undesirables. Tom Nichols at the Atlantic reinforces this point. He writes that DNI Tulsi Gabbard and D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Patel in true McCarthy-like fashion are “hunting down politically unreliable members of America’s intelligence and law-enforcement communities, rather than catching enemy spies, terrorists, or bank robbers.’

FBI employees have been polygraphed on whether they have cast aspersions on Director Kashyap Pramod Patel.

Links:

CIA historian Tim Weiner: ‘Trump has put national security in the hands of crackpots and fools’ | Politics books | The Guardian

The Federal Bureau of Paranoia – The Atlantic

USAG Pam Bondi Requests Data on Migrants Being Held in California’s County Jails

“The Department of Justice issued requests to sheriffs in multiple major California counties—including Los Angeles and San Francisco Counties—for lists of all inmates in their jails who are not citizens of the US, their crimes of arrest or conviction, and their scheduled release dates.

In recent years, the US suffered an invasion of illegal aliens at an unprecedented scale.  Far too many of those illegal aliens have gone on to commit crimes on American soil, including rapes, murders, and other violent crimes.  Today’s data requests are designed to assist federal immigration authorities in prioritizing the removal of illegal aliens who committed crimes after illegally entering the US.  Although every illegal alien by definition violates federal law, those who go on to commit crimes after doing so show that they pose a heightened risk to our Nation’s safety and security.

“Removing criminal illegal aliens is this Administration’s highest priority. I look forward to cooperating with California’s county sheriffs to accomplish our shared duty of keeping Californians and all Americans safe and secure.

The Department of Justice hopes that California sheriffs will voluntarily produce the requested information.  But if necessary, the Department will pursue all available means of obtaining the data, including through subpoenas or other compulsory process.”

Est. California population in 2023: 38,940,231 

58 California Counties and 62 Jails Incarcerate Vulnerable Migrants

The immortal Jackie Gleason.

County Sheriffs are elected in the state of California which is home to San Bernardino County, the largest county in the contiguous US, as well as Los Angeles County, the most populous county in America (population est. 9,757,179).

Detainees in California jails are either serving less than one-year terms for minor offenses or are defendants awaiting trial, unable to post bail or were not granted pre-trial release by the presiding judge. The county jail population for California was 62,581 in 2022 and 56,800 in 2024.

A 2023 report from the Prison Policy Initiative indicates that Black and Hispanic people are overrepresented in California’s incarcerated population (including both prisons and jails) compared to their share of the state’s population. For example, Black individuals, who make up about 6% of California’s adult population, accounted for 28% of the prison population in 2023, and Hispanic individuals, about 38% of the adult population, comprised 46% of prisoners.

Oath Keeper and Riverside County Sheriff Republican Chad Bianco

Prominent amongst these sheriffs in California is Chad Bianco who was elected by the people of Riverside County. A well-known Republican, Bianco announced his 2026 candidacy for governor and openly aligns himself with Donald Trump. Bianco confirmed that while he was a lieutenant in 2014, he was a dues-paying member of the Oath Keepers, a white racist anti-government extremist group. No doubt Sheriff Bianco will immediately comply with this fascist request from USAG Pam Bondi.

Link: https://www.foxla.com/news/chad-bianco-oath-keepers-riverside-county-sheriff

ICE agents will be awaiting these jailed migrants the moment they are released from a county jail.

California: World Class Economy

California remains the 5th largest economy in the world since 2017. California is the 5th largest economy in the world for the seventh consecutive year, with a nominal GDP of nearly $3.9 trillion in 2023 and a growth rate of 6.1% since the year prior, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). On a per capita basis, California is the second largest economy in the world.

Link: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/16/california-remains-the-worlds-5th-largest-economy/

California is a Powerful Blue State Led By Competent Democrat

Democrat Gavin Newsom was re-elected Governor of California on 8 Nov 2022. (Photo: Getty Images)

58.47% of eligible voters chose Kamala Harris on 5 Nov 2024; 38.33% opted for Dummkopf Trumpf, giving Democrats 54 Electoral College votes.

Dummkopf Trumpf and his junta declared war against Blue State California because a telegenic and competent Democrat is a potential Presidential candidate in 2028, Governor Gavin Newsom. Trumpf releasing California’s reservoir waters earlier this year and sending in the military to intimidate Californians are all attempts at undermining Gavin Newsom, as well as rounding up migrants as part of their overall national campaign to bleach the US of non-whites.

In a show of force, soldiers and heavily-armed federal agents ride on an armored vehicle at MacArthur Park Monday, 7 July 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo / Damian Dovarganes)

Sycophant USAG Pam Bondi has already poorly mishandled the Jeffrey Epstein files disclosure, but has competently profited from Trumpf’s tariff policies via insider trading.

Link: https://lailluminator.com/2025/05/18/bondi-trump/

These two have a joint history of corruption. In 2016, journalists uncovered The Trumpf Foundation illegally donated $25,000 to a political group supporting then-Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Her office was deciding whether to take legal action related to the fraudulent Trumpf University. After the contribution was banked, Florida AG Pam Bondi declined to prosecute Trumpf University.

Link: The Trump Foundation-Pam Bondi scandal – CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Justice Department Diktat:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justice-requests-data-criminal-illegal-aliens-california-jails

US DOD to Deploy Counter-Drone Capabilities at US-Mexico Border After Drug Cartels Surveil US Forces

Soldier employing an anti-drone projector at McGregor Range Complex, NM, 28 June 2019. (Photo: Mylinda DuRousseau / US Army)

The Pentagon is preparing to deploy counter-drone capabilities around the US-Mexico border as part of its ongoing support of the Trumpf junta’s immigration enforcement and security mandates.

Mexican drug cartels have reportedly been using drones to conduct surveillance of US military and law-enforcement personnel at the US-Mexico border.

The rapid emergence, proliferation and application of drones are fundamentally shifting the way that militarized groups and other adversarial organizations conduct warfare.

The DOD is still trying to effectively respond to several recent high-profile drone incidents that impacted military officials and American civilians domestically and abroad, including in New Jersey and at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia.

Followers of the Watch are aware that the US has been deploying drones along the US-Mexican border, and most likely they are flying over Mexican airspace. The drug cartels also have drones and they have been utilizing armed drones against each other. USNORTHCOM has deployed thousands of US Army Soldiers to the US-Mexican border that are vulnerable to these cartel drones.

The Jalisco Drug Cartel drops hand grenades onto a rival drug cartel’s camp in the town of Tepalcatepec, Mexico. (Photo: Twitter)

Recall from a previous post on Coriolanus that the Mexico drug cartels have recently began recruiting experienced and dangerous Colombian military veterans. Moreover, the cartels have been able to either bribe US border agents or hack the phones of careless USIC personnel operating in Mexico, making targeting of their enemies easier.

No one should under-estimate the caliber of Colombian military veterans who have gained experience, tenacity, and competency after decades of fighting a counter-insurgency against the FARC and ELN.

The real solution to this problem is for Americans to quit their incessant appetite for drugs and for obscenely making money gun-running weapons to the Mexican cartels. Without the American demand for drugs, business would dry up for the cartels. Without firearms and ammunition, the cartels would be vulnerable to Mexican security forces.

Links:

DOD to deploy counter-drone capabilities at US-Mexico border as cartels surveil troops | DefenseScoop

https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/Press-Releases/Article/4133410/new-authorities-allow-service-members-to-patrol-along-southern-border/

https://nypost.com/2022/01/12/mexicos-deadliest-cartel-is-dropping-bombs-from-a-drone-onto-rival-camps-in-new-turf-war/

Italian Mafia Leader Caught in Colombia

Giuseppe Palermo (AKA ‘Peppe”) in Bogota, Colombia. (Photo: Colombian National Police)

Colombian authorities captured an alleged leader of the Italian ’Ndrangheta mafia in Latin America who is accused of overseeing cocaine shipments and managing illegal trafficking routes to Europe. Police identified the suspect as Giuseppe Palermo, also known as “Peppe,” an Italian who was wanted under an INTERPOL Red Notice, which called for his arrest in 196 countries.

Palermo was apprehended on the street in Colombia’s capital Bogota during a coordinated operation between Colombian, Italian, and British authorities, as well as Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency.

Palermo is believed to be part of “one of the most tightly knit cells” of the ’Ndrangheta mafia, said Carlos Fernando Triana, head of the Colombian police, in a message posted on X.

The ’Ndrangheta, one of Italy’s most powerful and secretive criminal organizations, has extended its influence abroad and is widely accused of importing cocaine into Europe. The suspect “not only led the purchase of large shipments of cocaine in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, but also controlled the maritime and land routes used to transport the drugs to European markets,” Triana added.

The ’Ndrangheta originated in the Calabria region of Italy, and is supposedly led from Palermo, the “Toe of Italy.” Their cross strait rival to the west is the Sicilian mafia.

Illegal cocaine production reached 3,708 tons in 2023, an increase of nearly 34% from the previous year, driven mainly by the expansion of coca leaf cultivation in Colombia, according to the UN. The ’Ndrangheta is reportedly also involved in a wide array of other illegal activities, including arms trafficking, money laundering, racketeering, extortion, and loan sharking.

This is a small victory for fighting drug-trafficking, but Giuseppe Palermo will be quickly replaced within the organization. They are believed to exert influence over local and national politics in Italy and is understood to have infiltrated various sectors of the legal economy both within Italy and internationally. Estimates in 2013 suggested the organization’s revenue reached €53 billion.

There is No Escape from the ’Ndrangheta

In 2009 Lea Garofalo tried to escape the ’Ndrangheta family she was born in to but was assassinated for this infamia. (Photo: Harper Collins Canada)

Sources:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/colombian-authorities-arrest-alleged-leader-italian-mafia-latin-123692646

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/’Ndrangheta

Lea Garofalo was killed by her Mafia family. Now she’s the face of anti-mob protests | CBC Radio

Harper’s Magazine Weekly Review

Summarized succinctly for us by Clarissa Fragoso Pinheiro. Our eternal gratitude to her.

In Texas, the search for at least 166 missing people after the July 4th Guadalupe River flooding was paused as heavy rains and flash floods forced further evacuations. The US Homeland Security secretary defended the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to the Texas floods, despite reports that two thirds of its disaster hotline calls went unanswered due to a staff shortage. “Our entire office is just … gone,” said a senior civil service officer after the US State Department laid off more than 1,300 employees, many of them were notified by email. A preliminary report on the Air India crash that killed 260 people last month found that the plane’s fuel switches were cut off shortly after takeoff, possibly by one of the pilots. In posts to Truth Social, the US president announced 30% tariffs on goods from Mexico and the European Union, 35% tariffs on those from Canada, and 50% tariffs on all Brazilian imports, the latter partly in retaliation for the country’s treatment of its former far-right president, who is on trial for attempting a coup d’état, a proceeding that the US president called a “Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!” The US president criticized Brazil’s recent Supreme Court rulings that would require social media companies to actively monitor and remove harmful content from their platforms; and on X, the Sesame Street character Elmo, whose account was hacked, and xAI’s chatbot Grok posted anti-Semitic messages. “Too eager to please,” said Elon Musk of the chatbot’s praise for Adolf Hitler. The US Federal Communications Commission approved two deals with T-Mobile after the communications company agreed to abandon its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; it was reported that some Harvard University graduate schools closed their diversity, equity, and inclusion offices; and in Alaska, a creek’s name was changed from Nazi Creek to Kaxchim Chi’anaa, or “gizzard creek.”

In ICE detention centers, accounts from detainees described food shortages and spoiled food; US immigration officials may soon be able to deport migrants to countries other than their countries of origin with as little as six hours’ notice; and a 57-year-old farmworker died after falling 30 feet from a greenhouse roof during an ICE raid at a licensed cannabis facility in California, where about 200 immigrants and four US citizens were arrested. The Trump Administration filed a suit against the state of California over the high price of eggs, citing animal welfare laws, and dropped charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of destroying COVID-19 vaccines, selling fake vaccination cards, and administering saline shots to children at their parents’ request. MAGA influencers criticized the Trump Administration for its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and a former MAGA influencer and the current deputy FBI director said he is considering resigning after clashes with the US attorney general over the Epstein case. A former New York governor who resigned from his post in disgrace announced his independent candidacy for mayor of NYC, and the US president nominated a self-described “alpha male” and “manosphere” content creator to be the US ambassador to Malaysia. A team of researchers found that among primates, females are almost as likely as “alpha males” to dominate the opposite sex.

A 54-pound Martian rock will be auctioned in New York, the original Hermès Birkin bag sold for more than $10 million in Paris, and a wedge of blue cheese sold for $42,232 in Spain. Flamingos invaded Italian rice fields, threatening risotto production; and Canadian researchers found the nation’s oldest known puffin. A man was charged with smuggling 14 toucans inside his dashboard across the US–Mexico border, a mother was arrested and charged after her son died due to being left for several hours in a hot car while she was getting lip filler, and it was reported that extreme heat caused cars to catch fire in Death Valley National Park. In Queens, New York, “parking wars” erupted as a woman was slashed in the face over a parking spot outside a hookah lounge, and two women attacked one of their neighbors for attempting to park in front of their house; and in Brooklyn, a parking spot sold for nearly $250,000. “End your parking woes forever!” claimed the listing for the spot. In the Bronx, the New York Police Department requested that an illegal swimming pool be dismantled after children were seen jumping from scaffolding into its waters; and in Arizona, a man was fined for offering free cold water in his driveway. Wisconsin police found drugs in a bag labeled “Definitely Not a Bag Full of Drugs,” researchers found that magic mushrooms might slow aging, and an Australian woman was found guilty of murder by mushroom after serving a poisonous beef Wellington to her guests. “It is of course upsetting to learn that one of my recipes … is entangled in a tragic situation,” said the chef who posted the recipe to her blog. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police proposed collaborating with a local farmers market to make “Jack-Knife Jelly, Pothole Preserves, and the ever-popular … Traffic Jam!” after thousands of blueberries spilled onto a British Columbia highway. Both blueberries and mushrooms were placed under a severe recall notice by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Link: https://harpers.org/

Published in a separate magazine, this political cartoon below summed up the Texas flood disaster and the Republican mindset of cutting government programs perfectly. Texas Republicans had the opportunity to accept federal money to install an emergency siren in Kerr County, Ground Zero of this preventable loss of life. Link: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2025/07/11/kerr-county-considered-adding-warning-sirens-years-before-flood-why-didnt-it-happen/

Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis defended this message.

For Followers of the Watch That Are Chess, Boxing, or Dance Aficionados

Massive Archive of Critical Chess Positions from Historic and Modern Games

Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky Game VI, World Chess Championship, Reykjavík, Iceland 1972

Link: 30,000 Chess Puzzles

Two Legendary Pugilists Sparring

Pandas Just Want to Have Fun

Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein FBI Files “Ticking Time Bomb” for President Donald J. Trump

Ghislaine Maxwell (63), the British socialite serving a 20-year sentence for child sex-trafficking, is prepared to testify before the US Congress about the so-called “Epstein Files,” including an alleged list of clients and associates of the late financier and sexual deviant Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein died in 2019 under mysterious circumstances while in federal custody awaiting trial. This sex trafficker is the only person convicted in this imbroglio, despite the fact that sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein allegedly controlled a web of underage girls for decades. Epstein’s victims alleged they were groomed by Ghislaine Maxwell and then passed around as sex toys to his oligarch friends and billionaire business associates who regularly visited his homes and private island in the US Virgin Islands, Little Saint James. Jeffrey Epstein’s jet was dubbed the “Lolita Express.” Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60856925

Both of Jeffrey Epstein’s private islands, Little and Great Saint James, were listed for sale at $125m. The proceeds were intended to pay Epstein’s many victims. (Photo: Reuters)

“All aboard the ‘Lolita Express.’ Please do not disrobe until we have reached cruising altitude. Thank you.”

The ex-president used Jeffrey Epstein’s former jet for campaign appearances after his own jet developed engine problems. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/13/trump-jeffrey-epstein-plane

Predictably, pushback against having Ghislaine Maxwell testify before Congress was hard from Republican lawmakers. President Donald Trumpf becomes irate when asked about Jeffrey Epstein and he desperately implored his key communicators to stop discussing the Epstein files in the media and the internet.

The Rare Instance Where The Cover-Up is Not Worse Than the Crime

Then-real estate oligarch Donald J. Trump with sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. She located and groomed vulnerable underaged girls for powerful male clients. (Undated photo circa 1980s to early 1990)

Oligarch Donald Trumpf and Jeffrey Epstein admiring somebody at a 1992 party. (Image: Public domain)

Inheritor of a real estate empire Donald Trump, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and an underage girl at a party. (Public domain photo circa 1990s).

Donald Trump stated that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases in the 1990s was his “personal Vietnam.”  

Link: Donald Trump Calls Avoiding STDs His ‘Personal Vietnam’

Sexual deviants Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell meeting President Bill Clinton in what appears to be a formal setting. (Public domain photo circa 1990s).

Retired POTUS Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein. (Public domain photo circa 2000s).

Retired POTUS Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein. Look at the wry expression on Epstein’s face. (Public domain photo circa 2000s).

Oligarchs enjoying themselves while poor people starve.

Canada PM Mark Carney (second from left) was photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell (second from right), along with his wife Diana Carney (right) at a British music festival in the summer of 2013. Canada PM Mark Carney denied knowing Jeffrey Epstein and stated he was ‘tangentially acquainted'” with Ghislaine Maxwell (Photo: News Licensing / MEGA)

Donald Trump will be meeting Prince Andrew’s brother, King Charles III, in the UK this coming September.

UK Prince Andrew with Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Guiffre. (Public domain photo circa 1990s).

The Justice Department stated that no-one else is likely to be prosecuted in relation to the Epstein case, including Britain’s Prince Andrew who was accused by Virginia Giuffre, of allegedly sleeping with her when she was 17 and underage. Prince Andrew has consistently and vehemently denied all charges against him and settled a civil lawsuit with Ms Giuffre with no admission of wrongdoing. Ms Giuffre (41) committed suicide earlier this year.

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql67qk0dd3o

How Did We Get Here?

Jeffrey Epstein’s Second Arrest

On 6 July 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on sex trafficking charges. He was jailed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in NYC. A dozen FBI agents forced open the door to his Manhattan townhouse, the Herbert N. Straus House, with search warrants. The search of his townhouse turned up evidence of sex trafficking and also found “hundreds” and perhaps thousands” of sexually suggestive photographs of fully “or partially nude females”.

Some of the photos were confirmed as those of underage females. In a locked safe, compact discs were found with handwritten labels including the descriptions: “Young [Name] + [Name]”, “Misc nudes 1”, and “Girl pics nude”.

Epstein requested to be released on bond, offering to post $100 million with the condition that he would also submit to house arrest in his NYC mansion. US District Judge Richard M. Berman denied the request on 18 July, saying that Epstein posed a danger to the public and a serious flight risk to avoid prosecution.

On 29 Aug 2019, nineteen days after Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, the case against Epstein was closed by Judge Berman. Prosecutors stated they would continue an investigation for potential co-conspirators.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted in 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted on 29 December 2021.

For her role in the massive pedophilia criminal enterprise, Ghislaine Maxwell (USMS #02879-509) was sentenced to 20 years confinement in Tallahassee FCI with a release date of 17 July 2037.

Ghislaine Maxwell (USMS #02879-509) federal mugshot in 2022.

After Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal was denied by the Supreme Court, she signaled that she is willing to testify before the US Congress.

Links:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse

Public Demands to Release the FBI Epstein Files

Senator Blackburn requested something similar from the IRS regarding Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s business dealings: 

www.blackburn.senate.gov

When the Epstein files were not released, the Trumpf junta released two distractions from the CIA and the National Archives. You read about the USSR UFO encounter here on Coriolanus, a ‘nothing burger’ story and then a few weeks ago more JFK assassination files were released. When these distractions died out, in fits and starts and using dissembling language, US Attorney-General Pam Bondi affirmed that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide and she released a video recording of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell in MCC in this unsigned letter from the Justice Department and FBI:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline

In the letter, USAG Bondi assures the public that there is “no incriminating client list.”

Well of course there would not be a made-to-order incriminating client list in the files; such a list would have to be compiled by the FBI linking the names and images of suspects with victims, phone records, flight logs, witnesses, wiretaps, telephone pen registers, and financial records. Names would be triaged as suspects or innocent people caught up in this dragnet.

Moreover, technical analysts pointed out that that there are nearly three minutes missing from the surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell.

Link: The FBI’s Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out | WIRED

Moreover, a mafioso who was incarcerated in that very same cell claimed that ‘there’s just no way Epstein was able to kill himself; it would be almost impossible.’

Link: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/man-who-served-time-in-same-cell-as-epstein-says-theres-just-no-way-he-was-able-to-kill-himself-it-would-be-almost-impossible/

Note: Coriolanus has been to both Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan and the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, albeit the client visiting rooms. Your author can attest that federal incarceration facilities are secure with surveillance cameras monitoring all the nooks and crannies of the prisons.

Charges were dropped against the two Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officers, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, who were on duty the night of 10 Aug 2019 when Jeffrey Epstein allegedly killed himself from his cell. Noel and Thomas were accused of falling asleep and surfing the internet that night rather than checking on Epstein every 30 minutes. Both admitted to having “willfully and knowingly” falsified records to make it seem they were monitoring Epstein properly.

Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/case-dropped-jail-guards-duty-night-epstein-died-rcna10557

The DOJ OIG concluded the BOP personnel were negligent in their duties that night. Link:

Official NYC Medical Examiner Findings in Question

Dr. Michael Baden, who was in the room for Epstein’s autopsy and has been called as an expert witness in high-profile cases, said that injuries found on Epstein’s body, including fractures to his larynx and hyoid bone, were “extremely unusual in suicidal hangings” and more consistent with “homicidal strangulation.” Baden’s comments suggest Epstein’s family might contest the autopsy results in future legal proceedings. Dr. Baden also noted that the NYC Medical Examiner who conducted the autopsy on the dead sex offender’s body did not personally sign off on the ultimate finding that Epstein killed himself.

Links:

Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy: A closer look — “60 Minutes” – CBS News

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/forensic-pathologist-person-who-performed-epstein-autopsy-in-my-presence-didnt-sign-off-on-suicide-finding/

The Role of the Intelligence Agencies in this Cauldron of Vile

The FBI has an extensive dossier on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as Donald Trump following the several Russiagate investigations. Special Counsels Robert Mueller and Jack Smith and their investigative teams have a mountain of derogatory information about Donald Trump housed in their craniums, and Trump’s name certainly appears in the Jeffrey Epstein files. But what about the other intelligence agencies or law-enforcement bodies worldwide?

Allegations and rumors have circulated for decades that Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, the late disgraced oligarch Robert Maxwell, was a Mossad asset. He reportedly gathered derogatory information on people to be used as leverage against them, blackmailing them to assist the Mossad. Moreover, British intelligence officers suspected that Robert Maxwell was a Soviet agent, according to Foreign Office papers which have been released.

After the former Mirror newspapers chief and ex-Labor MP died mysteriously at sea on 5 Nov 1991, there was widespread speculation that he might have been a double or even a triple agent, but the FBI apparently found nothing in a decade of monitoring him, despite his known links with MI6, the KGB, and the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.

Robert Maxwell’s file, titled “Captain Ian Maxwell”, at the National Archives in Kew, London, has been found to contain reports submitted to the Information Research Department (IRD), a covert unit of the Foreign Office, describing him as “a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia.”

If true, this is how Ghislaine Maxwell learned her tradecraft with Jeffrey Epstein and would explain their fabulous fortunes. The two amassed a library of video tapes of hundreds of wealthy males in lurid sex acts with underaged girls.

Links:

Did Jeffrey Epstein really work for the Mossad? Piers Morgan digs into t – JFeed

FO suspected Maxwell was a Russian agent, papers reveal

There is no doubt that the FBI, the Kremlin, and the Mossad all have damaging information on Donald Trump. Ironically, for years Trump’s foes kept looking and digging for a Russia connection, which there is, but completely overlooked the possibility of an Israeli hold on Trump via the Mossad, thanks to Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. That might explain a lot of Trump’s deferential behavior towards Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, including sanctioning the ICC because this august body indicted these two alleged war criminals.

Will this project finally take shape for Donald Trump?

Whither Ghislaine Maxwell?

Ghislaine Maxwell pacing the yards of FCI Tallahassee in Feb 2024. No doubt she misses champagne and caviar. (Photo: Splash News)

Ghislaine Maxwell is finding that grey prison gym attire is not as flattering as her Christian Dior cocktail dresses. (Photo: Splash News)

Ex-socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, the only person convicted in this global muti-decade sex trafficking enterprise, is scheduled for release on 17 July 2037 at the age of 76. Perhaps Ms. Maxwell is seeking a pardon from President Trump in exchange for perjuring herself in front of Congress, thereby exonerating him.

USAG Pam Bondi is certainly protecting Donald Trump as well as hundreds of wealthy people– the so-called ‘Deep State’– by not cleanly releasing the Epstein files. This has angered the conspiracy-minded Republican base who wanted to see hated Bill Clinton and other liberals get exposed. For their own sake, the Deep State superrich would like to see the Ghislaine Maxwell problem ‘go away’ PDQ.

Ms. Maxwell most likely took the precaution of creating a ‘dead man’s switch,’ meaning her attorneys or few friends will release damaging information to the media or the FBI to avoid a suicide like Jeffrey Epstein or an untimely “accident.”

Endnote: President Trump will be meeting King Charles in the UK this coming September. Coriolanus wonders what the two immensely wealthy men won’t be discussing.

The Irony of the US Police: Nearly 50% of Murderers Get Away With it

In the US, people are getting away with murder. The clearance rate, the share of cases that result in an arrest or are otherwise solved, was 58% in 2023, the latest year for which FBI data is available. And that figure is inflated because it includes murders from previous years that police solved in 2023.

In other words, a murderer’s chance of getting caught within a year essentially comes down to a coin flip. For other crimes, clearance rates are even lower. Only 8% of car thefts result in an arrest.

Compared with its peers, America overall does an unusually poor job of solving killings. The murder clearance rates of other rich nations, including Australia, Britain and Germany, hover in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. Several issues, including a lack of resources, the sheer volume of cases and a distrust of the police, have converged to make the jobs of American detectives much more difficult. “It’s a serious problem,” said Philip Cook, a criminal justice researcher at Duke University. The lack of legal accountability emboldens criminals, leading to more crime and violence resulting in “a vicious cycle.”

Every eleven minutes someone in the US is murdered with a firearm. In 2022, the CDC reported that 48,000 people in the US were killed with a firearm, a wartime casualty figure without a foreign invader.

The Irony of the Police State

One blogger wrote the ICE annual budget is approximately $28 billion. Many countries have smaller budgets. ICE’s budget is now bigger than these American states:

Delaware: $6.07 billion

Idaho: $5.26 billion

Maine: $7.84 billion (annualized for a two-year budget cycle)

Montana: $4.68 billion (annualized for a two-year budget cycle)

New Hampshire: $5.20 billion

Rhode Island: $7.29 billion

South Dakota: $4.06 billion

Vermont: $5.23 billion

Wyoming: $4.45 billion (annualized for a two-year budget cycle)

American police are the direct descendants of the Slave Patrol, more akin to political control and law-enforcement rather than genuine sleuthing or crime solving. Add the tsunami of firearms flooding the country, economic inequalities, a suspicious population wary of cooperating with the police, and Americans suffer a high rate of unsolved homicides. There are just not enough seasoned investigators to catch the perpetrators.

Source:

US Health and Safety Update

The US is the only industrialized Western country in the world that does not offer universal healthcare coverage for its residents, unlike Germany, Israel, the UK, Canada, Australia, or France. The term ‘medical bankruptcy’ is unknown in those countries. And Donald Trump is making it harder for Americans to say healthy.

Trump Program Cuts Worsening Life for Americans

PBS reports:

“Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee.

State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work such as inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for new and harmful germs, responding to outbreaks before they get too big — and a host of other tasks to protect both individuals and communities — are being hollowed out.

The Trump junta is cutting health spending on an unprecedented scale, including pulling $11 billion of direct federal support because the pandemic is over and eliminating 20,000 jobs at national health agencies that in part assist and support local public health work. It’s proposing billions more be slashed.”

To pay for unneeded tax cuts for the oligarchs, the 2025 Republican budget guts the few social safety nets many Americans depend on, like Medicaid or SNAP. These draconian cuts will be felt by the masses after the 2026 midterm elections, giving the GOP a chance at the polls in Nov 2026.

In 2025, the Trumpf junta has gutted weather surveillance and medical research, and placed quacks, mountebanks, and charlatans in charge of America’s food safety and health organizations, like antivax advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. Mehmet Oz to administer the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Oz owns $33 million in heath insurance companies doing business with the agency he is running.

Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/13/dr-oz-companies-tied-medicare/76917868007/

RFK Jr had his own children secretly vaccinated according to his first cousin, Caroline, the daughter of JFK.

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Kills Four in Florida

This twelve-year-old girl contracted necrotizing fasciitis while on vacation in 2019.

Four people are dead, and more than half a dozen are sick, after contracting a rare “flesh-eating bacteria” in Florida this year, state health officials confirmed.

The Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, found in saltwater, brackish water and inside raw or undercooked seafood, led to deaths in Bay, Broward, Hillsborough, and St. Johns counties, according to the Florida Department of Health (FDOH).

So far in 2025, 11 people contracted Vibrio vulnificus across Florida, with four dying and seven becoming ill, the FDOH reported. The FDOH did not specify the source of the new cases or say where the ill contracted the bacteria.

Vibrio vulnificus is a naturally occurring bacterium that lives in warm, brackish seawater. It’s created when fresh water from a river or lake meets seawater, and people contract Vibrio vulnificus by swallowing water with it or getting it in a wound.

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis prioritizes state funds on law-enforcement and election security, not the environment, like keeping Florida’s waters clean. The Trump budget cuts do not help Floridians either.

Link:

Rare ‘flesh-eating bacteria’ kills 4 in Florida this year

Pneumonic Plague Kills Arizona Victim

Pneumonic plague attacks the lungs, quickly killing victims,

A Northern Arizona patient died after becoming infected with a severe form of plague. The Arizona Department of Health Services has conducted rapid diagnostic testing and issued a “presumptive diagnosis of Yersinia pestis the bacteria that causes the plague” NAH said in a statement.

Plague is the same illness that killed millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages. Today, it is rare but can crop up mostly in rural parts of the western US and certain parts of Africa and Asia, according to the US CDC. The Arizona resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection.

Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that causes a potentially life-threatening disease called plague. Plague is spread among wild rodents and other animals. Doctors can cure human patients of the disease with antibiotics, but it must be treated promptly. Humans usually contract plague from being bitten by an infected flea or by touching an infected animal.

Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/07/11/arizona-pneumonic-plague-death-what-to-know/84597349007/

Measles and COVID Spreading in America

As you read previously on Coriolanus, measles is spreading in Mexico because indigenous and religious communities near the Texas border believe in Robert F. Kennedy’s antivax rhetoric. The Trumpf junta announced that annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved. As of 8 July 2025, the CDC estimates that COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 25 states, declining or likely declining in 0 states, and not changing in 21 states.

Links:

https://www.cdc.gov/cfa-modeling-and-forecasting/rt-estimates/index.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/trump-administrations-deep-cuts-to-public-health-leave-system-reeling

Following a powerful 7.2 earthquake off the coast of Alaska, the National Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami warning. Luckily there were no casualties. The NWS, NOAA, and USGS are the agencies that the Trumpf junta are gutting of funds, resources, and personnel.

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) fighting for poor people in America.

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who does not take a penny from AIPAC and supports Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of NYC, stated that Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ (BBB) which is cutting medical and nutritional aid to poor people, will kill 50,000 vulnerable Americans per year.

Link: https://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/news-sanders-releases-new-report-detailing-devastating-impact-of-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-on-health-care-in-america

Couple Adopts Two Orphaned Kittens

Canada: RCMP Neutralizes Terrorist Threat in Quebec

This cell was recruiting members via Instagram.

The Canadian RCMP arrested and charged four people, including active military members, who were “planning to create an anti-government militia” and to “forcibly take possession of land” in the province of Quebec. This marks the largest weapons cache ever seized as part of a terrorism investigation in Canada. The four lunatics are Marc-Aurle Chabot (24), Simon Angers-Audet (24), Raphal Lagac (25), and Matthew Forbes (33). Three of them are accused of planning to create an anti-government militia. This cell conducted military-style training: shooting, ambush, survival, and land navigation exercises. The three also conducted a “scouting operation” of an undisclosed target. Matthew Forbes was charged with possession of firearms, prohibited devices, and explosives. The four maniacs have not yet entered pleas.

Canada is Not Immune from Terrorism

Canada is not immune from ideological violence or terrorism. From the 1963 to 1970, Quebec separatists launched a terrorism campaign seeking independence from Anglo-dominant Canada. The Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) was involved in over 160 violent incidents, killing eight people and injuring hundreds. In 1985, Sikh separatists detonated a bomb on Air India Flight 182 departing Toronto killing 329 passengers. In 2014 after Conservative PM Stephen Harper joined the US in supporting attacks against ISIS targets in the Middle East, a lone actor counterattacked the Canadian Parliament, killing one and wounding three. Security forces rendered the perpetrator ineffective.

Note that three of the suspects in this instant offense have French names, one has an Anglo name. When it comes to ideological or racist extremism, the Anglo-French divide in Canada seems to blur.

An arrest is merely an allegation. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of a law.

Source:

https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2025/07/ideologically-motivated-violent-extremism-four-individuals-charged

The Film ICC-Indicted War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu Doesn’t Want You to See

Over the past 48 hours, the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) slaughtered 300 Palestinians in 26 separate massacres. Since 7 Oct 2023, Israel has waged a military onslaught, AKA ‘Nakba,’ on the Gaza Strip, killing 57,680 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounding or maiming 137,409 others. Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip. There are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world.

American Complicity

Ordnance experts identified the fragments as parts of an MK-82 general purpose bomb. (Photo: Enas Tantesh / The Guardian)

The IDF used a 500lb (230kg) bomb, a powerful and indiscriminate US-made weapon that generates a massive blast wave and scatters shrapnel over a wide area, when it attacked a target in a crowded beachfront cafe in Gaza. Between 24 and 36 Palestinians were killed in the attack on the cafe and dozens more were injured. The dead included a well-known film-maker and an artist. Experts in international law said the use of such a munition despite the known presence of many unprotected civilians, including children, women and elderly people, was almost certainly unlawful and may constitute a war crime. Fragments of the weapon from the ruins of al-Baqa cafe have been identified by ordnance experts as parts of an MK-82 general purpose 230kg bomb, a powerful US-made bomb.

An IDF spokesperson said the attack on the cafe was under review and that “prior to the strike, steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians using aerial surveillance.”

The Censored Film

The IDF has been specifically targeting medical personnel in the Gaza Strip. Below, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Abdullah Hammad is the 609th medical worker killed in the Gaza Genocide

The late Abdullah Hammad, murdered by the IDF. (Undated photo)

This documentary you are about to watch is what Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu, the Likud junta, and AIPAC doesn’t want you to see: the specific targeting of Palestinian medical personnel, another war crime committed by the IDF. When there are no medical personnel to treat the wounded, those casualties die. This tactic is called ‘NHI’ (‘No Humans Involved’). This film was made by the award-winning British filmmaker Mehdi Hasan and is quite graphic. Followers of the Watch are hereby advised. Please click to the zeteo.com site: https://zeteo.com/p/watch-now-gaza-doctors-under-attack

Ludicrous Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for Donald Trump

Official White House photo of two criminals: one convicted, the other twice-indicted.

Followers of the Watch: Coriolanus does not like wasting your time or your brain cells writing about Dummkopf Trumpf, but at times your author is forced to. The odious Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited the White House for the third time this year. Unwanted on 99% of the planet, this pariah is only welcome in AIPAC-influenced America. This time the ‘Crime Minister’ of Israel ridiculously nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize to gratify the madman occupying the White House. A pundit wrote this is akin to nominating the late notorious O.J. Simpson for ‘Husband of the Year.’ In turn, Dotard Trumpf sanctioned more international civil servants of the UN and ICC for their legitimate pursuit of arch-war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.

Shia Houthis Counterattack on Behalf of Sunni Palestinians

The Houthis released footage showing the Eternity C sinking after it was hit by rocket-propelled grenades.

Make no mistake, below is what’s happening in the Gaza Strip today and some IDF soldiers have had enough of this malice, cruelty, and barbarity.

Unidentified prisoner, most likely a Jew, in his last moment of life during the Second World War. (Photo: Public domain)

An international arrest warrant for war crimes remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu. This defendant is also on trial in Israel for gross corruption and potential obstruction of justice. An indictment is merely an allegation. Mr. Netanyahu is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Sources:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/un-says-85-of-gaza-strip-under-israeli-military-orders-militarized-zones/3620073

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/7/3/israel-kills-more-than-300-palestinians-in-48-hours-as-ceasefire-in-balance

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/mar/27/gaza-palestine-children-injuries

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3071vp2d8yo

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/francesca-albanese-sanctions-trump_n_686e8d35e4b07e11dd9a37f1

US Terrorism: Rightwing White Militia Sabotaging ‘Weather Weapons’

Authorities are looking for this white maniac who sabotaged a weather facility.

Michael Meyer (AKA Lewis Arthur), the founder of the anti-government extremist group Veterans on Patrol, posted a warning on his Telegram channel. “Due to the recent weather weapon deployed against Texas, which resulted in a high number of child murders, efforts to eliminate this military treason are being escalated.”

Hours later, a maniac broke into an enclosure containing the NextGen Live Radar system operated by News 9 in Oklahoma City, damaging its power supply and briefly knocking it offline. The man also damaged CCTV cameras monitoring the site, but footage shared by News 9 shows the cameras captured a clear image of his face before they were destroyed.

No arrests have been made but that authorities are aware of the extremist Veterans on Patrol group.  The attack was part of their Operation Lone Wolf and there are dozens of useful white idiots willing to carry out similar attacks of wanton sabotage against weather surveillance facilities and systems.

Veterans on Patrol vigilantes. (Photo: WaPo)

Veterans on Patrol is a white xenophobic militia that began in Pima, Arizona, to bully, intimidate, and capture vulnerable immigrants crossing the border into the US. Supposedly they have 70,000 members or followers on social media. After the preventable deaths from the cataclysmic floods that killed over 100 children in Texas, conspiracy theories about “weather control weapons” have flooded the internet. One proponent of this lunacy is House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, who wants to enact legislation banning ‘weather manipulation,’ making it a felony:

Americans should expect more such attacks from these lunatics, as well as more weather-related casualties and damage because the Trumpf junta slashed the workforce and budgets of the NWS and NOAA.

Sources:

https://www.wired.com/story/texas-floods-conspiracy-theories-geoengineering-weather-weapon/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/texas-floods-conspiracy-theories

Russia Using Unwitting Suicide Bombers Against Ukraine

Two detained suspects. These saboteurs were knowing participants in an IED operation. (Photo: Ukrainian SBU)

A growing number of young Ukrainians have been unknowingly recruited by Russian forces as unwilling suicide bombers as the Ukraine-Russia War drags on in its third year. Russian spies have been recruiting Ukrainians, mainly teenagers, to bomb police stations, post offices, or military targets under the guise of odd jobs postings on Telegram as part of an ongoing shadow war.  

For example, 19-year-old Oleh was offered $1,000 to video himself vandalizing a police station in western Ukraine with provided materials. He collected a rucksack from a given exchange point with what he thought was a canister of spray paint. When he opened the bag, he found a crude bomb with a cell phone attached to it as a crude remote detonation system.

Oleh’s experience is part of a trend that has seriously injured or killed over a dozen people. Ukraine’s SBU security agency said that this sabotage campaign began in the Spring of 2024. The attacks appear to target areas in western Ukraine, far beyond the frontlines in the east of the country. 

In the earlier part of the campaign, teens were lured by “curators” who used a mix of blackmail and enticement to carry out arson attacks on Ukrainian civil and military infrastructure. This effectively allowed the Kremlin to target deep into western Ukraine without being physically present. 

Using unwitting dupes for kamikaze or sabotage attacks is not a new tactic. Other terrorist groups such as the PKK or ISIS have tricked underlings to deliver a package unknowing that it contained a remote controlled explosive device. The Ukrainian counterintelligence service is top-notch and constantly improving, as you have previously read here on Coriolanus.

Source:

https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukraine-war/article-860415

DNI Tulsi Gabbard Purging USIC Employees Disloyal to Trumpf and MAGA Agenda

The vastly underwhelming vapid lapdog DNI Tulsi Gabbard. (Undated photo from the public domain).

Per the ODNI: “Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard established a new task force charged with restoring transparency and accountability to the USIC. The Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG) is executing President Trump’s EOs aimed at rebuilding trust in the USIC, starting with investigating weaponization, rooting out deep-seeded politicization, exposing unauthorized disclosures of classified intelligence, and declassifying information that serves a public interest. Per POTUS’s directive, DNI Gabbard has taken steps to restore trust in the USIC by revoking security clearances for individuals who no longer have an active role in national security, including former President Joe Biden, Liz Cheney, and Hillary Clinton. Further, the DNI has already held employees who participated in sexually-explicit NSA chatrooms accountable, and has begun pursuing unauthorized leaks of classified information within the USIC. DNI Gabbard will also be reviewing documents for potential declassification including: COVID-19 origins, Crossfire Hurricane, Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI), and the Biden Administration’s alleged domestic surveillance and censorship actions against Americans.”

Tulsi Gabbard is the most under-qualified individual to ever lead an intelligence organization of any nation on the planet. The member of a homophobic, Islamophobic Hare Krishna off-shoot sect, lickspittle Gabbard was appointed by Dummkopf Trumpf for her good looks and loyalty. The ‘DIG’ is all designed to root out Democrats, liberals, progressives, and non-Zionists (AKA ‘undesirables’) from the USIC. Snagged in the dragnet will be Russia and Middle East experts vital to penetrate hostile intelligence services (HOIS) or terrorist groups. Stalin’s purges of the 1930s eliminated competent, experienced national security personnel which cost the Russian people dearly in the Winter War against Finland and later when the USSR was caught off guard by Hitler’s surprise attack (Operation Barbarossa). Coriolanus is glad to have retired years ago because your humble narrator would have been on the top of Gabbard and Trumpf’s hideous ‘Enemies List.’

Sidenote on Tulsi Gabbard Colleague USSECSTATE/National Security Advisor Marco Rubio

USSECSTATE Marco Rubio is basically a lickspittle and an empty suit without vision, character, moral compass, or sense of decency. (Undated photo from the public domain).

Sidenote: Hackers have been successfully impersonating the voice and emails of Marco Rubio, the most underqualified individual to ever lead the US Department of State. Rubio recently dismantled the JFK-created USAID which analysts contend will kill millions of people in the developing world over the next several years. Someone using artificial intelligence (AI) to impersonate Rubio contacted at least five people, including three foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress, “with the goal of gaining access to information or accounts,” a US diplomatic cable said. The unknown actor posing as Rubio created an account in mid-June on the messaging platform Signal, using the display name “marco.rubio@state.gov.”

To Followers of the Watch, none of this should come as a surprise. The members of the Trumpf junta have demonstrated their incompetence, terrible Operational Security (OPSEC), and poor judgment since they took power on 20 Jan 2025. The damage the junta is wreaking on US national security, government operations, and the economy will take decades to mend. In the meantime, the Kremlin, Beijing, Jerusalem, and Pyongyang benefit from America’s follies.

Sources:

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2025/4063-pr-05-25

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/marco-rubio-artificial-intelligence-impersonation

UK: Pink Floyd Legend Roger Waters Risks Imprisonment for People of Palestine

Roger Waters has voiced his support for Palestine Action, risking prosecution and a potential 14-year prison term, since the organization is now proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000. As of 5 July, membership of Palestine Action, or expressing public support for the group, is a criminal offence in Britain. On 5 July, police in London arrested 29 people in Parliament Square for holding placards stating, “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.” In a video post on 5 July, former Pink Floyd legend Waters says, “For the record, I support Palestine Action,” calling them “a great organization” and stating the “non-violent” group are “absolutely not terrorists in any way.” Waters then displays a piece of cardboard: ‘ROGER WATERS SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION’ and “Parliament has been corrupted by agents of a genocidal foreign power! STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. IT’S NOW!!!” The cardboard is dated “5th July 2025.”

The UN had specifically urged the UK not to misuse terrorism laws against the group Palestine Action. But as Roger Waters points out, the UK Parliament seems to have been corrupted by their version of AIPAC. Recall that after nearly three decades, Pink Floyd had re-united to play a special concert to support the people of Ukraine after Russia’s brutal invasion. Now, in Spartacus-like fashion, Roger Waters is boldly standing up for the people of Palestine after Israel’s brutal invasion of Gaza. Roger Waters is also defying his own government, risking his very liberty. Pro-Israeli supporters have ridiculously tried to smear and slander the rock legend as a “Jew hater” and antisemite; all of those attempts and ad hominem attacks failed miserably.

Amongst the 29 Samaritans arrested is the Reverend Sue Parfitt, an 83-year-old retired Anglican priest for displaying a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” Your humble author wonders when the Bobbies will come for Roger Waters (first they’ll have him sign some autographs for them). The Reverend Parfitt is what a “dangerous Jew-hater” or terrorism supporter looks like. Hmph.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qs35t2xFqdU

Sources:

https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/i-am-spartacus-pink-floyd-roger-waters-risks-jail

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/un-experts-urge-united-kingdom-not-misuse-terrorism-laws-against-protest

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/7/headlines/

Russian Orthodox Church (ROCOR) Publicly Exposed as Arm of Russian Intelligence

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), under the leadership of the Moscow Patriarchate, has evolved into a central instrument of Russian state influence, operating well beyond its religious mandate to advance Kremlin interests abroad. Across Europe and the US, the ROC is recognized for its role in disseminating pro-Kremlin narratives, conducting espionage, and recruiting intelligence assets. No longer limited to pastoral duties or cultural preservation, the Church now operates as a transnational ideological actor whose activities align closely with Russian foreign policy goals. Their global network has a headquarters in NYC and they have been expanding across parts of the US mainly as a result of people converting from other faiths. Young American males have been joining Russian churches promising ‘absurd levels of manliness.’ In the links at bottom, you can see the large number of ROCOR parishes spreading in the US.

The late Pope Francis had advised Patriarch Kirill not to be ‘Putin’s altar boy.’

UFC Fighting and Machismo Are Part of the Russian PSYOP Scheme for Young Americans

Before the Trumpf junta took power, the USIC was monitoring the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) for the very reasons cited in this OSINT analysis and why Ukraine has been purging itself of nefandous clergymen. Vladimir Putin has already aligned the Republican Party and is now targeting macho young men as part of his influence campaign over the US, aided and abetted by Dotard Trumpf. This is in tandem with the promotion of uber-macho UFC activity by the Trumpf junta. These gladiatorial spectacles are designed to distract Americans from real issues affecting them like the ancient Roman ‘Bread and circuses’ while at the same time promoting anti-LGBTQ themes and pro-macho ideologies, like in Russia and Chechnya.

D/FBI Kashyap Pramod “Kash” Patel wants FBI SAs to undergo routine UFC training, but FBI Defensive Tactics (DT) is an excellent system. Your humble author completed an FBI DT Course last century and can attest to that. This will waste precious investigative time for FBI Special Agents who already undergo monthly and annual refresher hand-to-hand combat training and firearms qualifications.

Nota Bene: On 12 June 2025 USSECSTATE Marco Rubio issued a congratulatory note on Russia National Day.

An international arrest warrant for war crimes remains active for Vladimir Putin. An indictment is merely an allegation. Mr. Putin is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Sources:

https://www.global-influence-ops.com/gior-analysis-the-russian-orthodox-church-putin-weaponizes-religion/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30q5l8d4lro

https://mospatusa.com/parishdirectory

https://www.state.gov/releases/2025/06/russia-national-day/

Death Sentence: DHS to Deport Hondurans and Nicaraguans

Yes, the entire world believes you. Uh-huh.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Nicaragua and Honduras. The termination will be effective 60 days after the publication of the Federal Register notice. Nicaraguan and Honduran nationals departing the US are encouraged to use the US Customs and Border Protection CBP Home app to report their departure from the US and take advantage of a safe, secure way to self-deport which includes a complimentary plane ticket, a $1,000 exit bonus, and potential future opportunities for legal immigration.

The cruelty of the Trumpf junta and their desire to bleach the country of non-whites has no limit.

Some migrants have been deported to countries which have no connection to them, like several detainees were cruelly sent to South Sudan recently. The corrupted Republican Party-majority Supreme Court has allowed this to happen.

www.fosterglobal.com

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/dhs-terminates-tps-nicaragua-it-was-never-meant-last-25-years

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/07/improved-conditions-dhs-ends-tps-honduras

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/nicaraguas-grim-reality-investigation-un-experts-reveals-crimes-against

https://www.nrc.no/perspectives/2024/what-is-happening-in-honduras/

US/Canada: Costco Initiates Massive Product Recall for Safety and Health Issues

Costco is recalling nearly a dozen products and urging shoppers to immediately stop using some items purchased either through Costco Next or directly in stores. The recall includes several electronics with potential safety hazards. Anker Power Bank and PowerCore models have been flagged due to issues with their lithium batteries. The Danby 8-K U-shaped window air conditioner should be immediately stopped use because of water collection problems that can lead to mold growth. These units were sold under various brands including Midea, Comfort Aire, Danby, and Frigidaire. Other recalled items include car tires, dumbbells, Topo Chico mineral water, and Fresh and Ready Foods prepared sandwiches and salads. The mineral water may be contaminated with pseudomonas and the prepared meals may be tainted with listeria. The SharkNinja pressure cooker lid comes off and can burn consumers.

Source:

https://www.costco.com/recalls.html

UK: Ozzy Osbourne Sings Final Concert with Black Sabbath in Birmingham

Ozzy Osbourne at the Back to the Beginning concert in Birmingham, UK, on 5 July 2025. (Photo: Ross Halfin)

Ozzy Osbourne (76) sang his final concert with his legendary heavy-metal band, Black Sabbath, in Birmingham, England on Saturday.  The ten-hour farewell show at Villa Park, titled Back to the Beginning, featured appearances by Mastodon, Metallica, Rival Sons, Anthrax, Guns n’Roses, and Jack Black, leading up to Osbourne’s headlining set.

“You have no idea how I feel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart,” Osbourne told the crowd of 40,000 fans.

Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones, Steven Tyler from Aerosmith and Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine also took the stage during the show.

This marked the first time in 20 years that Osbourne performed with his original Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward.

Formed in 1968, the rock group has sold more than 100 million albums. The musicians were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Osbourne is retiring from performing live because he is suffering from Parkinson’s disease.

The next song by Ozzy Osbourne as a solo artist is a hard-driving entreaty for world peace during the Cold War and healing psychological wounds from fear, conflict, anxiety, and PTSD.

“The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.”

The Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene I

JAMA: Parkinson Disease and Proximity to Golf Courses

Researchers asked whether living within proximity to a golf course affect the risk of Parkinson disease (PD). A case-control study found the greatest risk of PD within one to three miles of a golf course, and that this risk generally decreased with distance. Effect sizes were largest in water service areas with a golf course in vulnerable groundwater regions. These findings suggest that pesticides applied to golf courses may play a role in the incidence PD for nearby residents.

Pesticide risk assessment has traditionally been studied in agricultural systems, though few studies have attempted to quantify pesticide risk on golf courses. About 150 agricultural pesticides that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers “hazardous” were used in the US in 2017, according to a review of US Geological Survey data.

From the NIH: Pesticides are known neurotoxins. Evidence suggests that lifelong cumulative exposure to pesticides may generate lasting toxic effects on the central nervous system and may also contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A number of reports indicate a potential association between long-term/low-dose pesticide exposure and AD, but the results are inconsistent.

This may help explain some things about Donald Trumpf’s (79) rapidly declining cognitive skills. In addition to a lifetime of golfing, Trumpf spent 22.15% of his presidency on the links while the world economy crashed, children drowned in the Texas floods, and innocent people were killed in the Middle East.

Sources:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2833716

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5007474/

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

Cats Love to See What’s Going On

“This is America”

Followers of the Watch: The vignettes below will inform you of the real state and nature of America.

Two Mass Shooting Survivors Speak

Ms Stephanie Horowitz survived two mass shootings, the 2018 massacre of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by Nikolas Cruz and the recent Florida State University attack when Phoenix Ikner killed two students and wounded six.  

Jackie Matthews

Jackie Matthews survived the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 26 people in Newtown, CT, and she survived the 13 Feb 2023 attack at Michigan State University which killed three students.

“I am 21 years old, and this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through. The fact that this is the second mass shooting that I have now lived through is incomprehensible.”

In a now-deleted clip, Ms. Mathews detailed how she suffered a post-traumatic stress disorder fracture in her back because of what happened in 2012, something that still affects her to this day.

Only America can claim the ignimonious achievement of people surviving multiple mass shootings.

Mass Shooter Kills 22 Reportedly for Dotard Trumpf

Mass murderer Patrick Crusius was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 22 people at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas. His defense attorney Joe Spencer testified:

“While Patrick claimed in his manifesto that his views predated the then-president (Donald Trumpf) and that political figures were not to blame, he also explicitly stated the attack was a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas, echoing the language used by political figures. Indeed, Patrick believed he was acting at the direction of the president at the time, seeing it as his duty to stop the invasion because that’s what he believed [Trumpf] was telling him.”

Florida Killer Phoenix Ikner Trumpf Supporter

Nikolas Cruz, the 2018 Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School murderer is a Trumpf supporter as well. He wore his bright red MAGA hat to a funeral.

Nikolas Cruz mugshot.

Nikolas Cruz in his Trumpf MAGA hat practicing how to shoot and kill. (Montage: Public domain)

Lunatic Sets Fire to Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion

Cody Balmer (38) is charged with attempted murder, aggravated arson, burglary, terrorism, and related offenses for allegedly setting fire to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-PA) governor’s mansion on 13 Apr 2025. (Photo: Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office)

Cody Balmer allegedly set fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s mansion out of hatred for him. The damage was extensive and luckily no one was injured in the inferno. How this maniac was able to penetrate the defenses of the governor’s mansion is unclear. In 2024 Gov. Shapiro was on Kamala Harris’ short-list for VPOTUS candidate and he may run himself in 2028.

Inside the governor’s mansion after the fire. (Photo: Pennsylvania State Police)

Police State Under Trumpf Worsens

German teens Charlotte Pohl and Maria Lepere (Photo Credits: X/ @MarioNawfal)

Two teenage girls from Germany were detained, arrested, and deported at an airport in Hawaii after immigration officials said it was suspicious they had not booked a hotel room. But despite having ESTA travel authorization, immigration officials accused them of attempting to enter the US. to work illegally, and they were placed in handcuffs and taken to a nearby detention center they later learned was a deportation facility. Upon arrival, they were subjected to full-body scans, strip searches, and forced to wear green prison jumpsuits. They were then placed in a holding facility with serious criminals, including an alleged murderer who had been locked up for 18 years, and were forced to spend the night in a freezing cold double cell.

Migrant Children in Immigration Court Without Lawyers

(Imagery: ABC News)

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

The Trumpf junta has been firing immigration judges and legal resources are limited to represent immigrants in court, let alone helpless children.

‘The cruelty is apparent

Canadian Border Agents Fail Family of Four Fleeing America

A family of four from El Salvador crossed the Rainbow Bridge at Niagara Falls to Canada fleeing the ICE raids and sudden deportations sweeping the US. But the CBSA focused on small discrepancies in their paperwork and rejected them, even though they qualified for entry under exception and have a brother who is a Canadian citizen. When the four were disappointingly driven back to the US border, CBP detained them. They have been in custody two weeks now.

Aracely sits with her two daughters, aged four and 14. The three were detained with Aracely’s common-law husband in a holding cell for two weeks at the US port of entry in Niagara Falls, NY, after Canadian border guards turned them away. CBC News is not showing the family’s faces or revealing their full names for safety reasons. (Image: Ousama Farag / CBC)

Canada turns away most asylum seekers who attempt to enter from the US at land border crossings, but there are exceptions to this rule, which this family met. I hope those CBSA officers are happy with themselves knowing that these four vulnerable people, including two girls (4 and 14), will eventually be deported to rightwing-led, impoverished, and gang-infested El Salvador.

(Photo: Al Drago, NYT)

In 2022, 48,000 Americans were killed by gun violence. 2025 or 2026 could be the year the US reaches 50,000 deaths in one year. Now the state is inflicting violence on its people with mass deportations and flagrant violations of due process. Trumpf is inspiring political violence across the US, from mass shootings to arson to vandalizing Felon Musk’s hideous Tesla vehicles. There is a reason why America ranked 24th on the World Happiness Report (below Israel and Mexico) and Dotard Trumpf was recently ranked the worst president of all time. Followers of the Watch, you will see more violence, police brutality, and economic chaos over the next four years as Trumpf shrinks the social safety net, hate radio continues spewing xenophobic lies, and mental illness continues unchecked in the US.

Sources:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/19/world-happiness-report-2025/82551709007/

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/photos-arson-fire-damages-pennsylvania-governors-residence/4159709/

https://www.unilad.com/news/sandy-hook-michigan-shooting-survivor-604402-20230215

https://www.latestly.com/socially/world/vacation-gone-wrong-2-german-teens-strip-searched-jailed-and-deported-from-us-after-cbp-finds-incomplete-hawaii-travel-plans-suspicious-6797703.html

India: 26 Killed in Terror Attack During VPOTUS JD Vance Trip

At least 26 people have been killed and 36 wounded in Indian-controlled Kashmir in the north after gunmen opened fire at a beauty spot near the resort town of Pahalgam, nicknamed ‘Mini Switzerland.’ Authorities blamed it on the resistance fighting Indian rule which deploys 500,000 soldiers in Kashmir. The attack seemed to have been timed to coincide with JD Vance’s four-day tour of India and PM Nahendra Modi’s visit to Saudi Arabia. Delhi has swiftly taken a series of retaliatory steps: closing the main border crossing, suspending a critical water-sharing treaty, and expelling diplomats.

The massive Indian security force presence in Jammu and Kashmir (500,000 personnel) use shotgun pellets to purposely blind Muslim protestors like Manzoor Ah-Dar below:

Manzoor Ah-Dar poses for a portrait in Rahmoo, Kashmir. Manzoor was injured in both eyes by metal pellets when Indian forces raided the village. (Bernat Armangue/AP)

PM Narendra Modi can blame Pakistan for supporting their fellow Muslims oppressed in Jammu and Kashmir, but poverty and Hindu-supremacist Delhi’s repression of the ‘Other’ is the root cause of unhappiness and strife in India.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwynx7kgyqvo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9vyzzyjzlo

 https://www.independent.co.uk

Trumpf Strips Visa for Colombia President Gustavo Petro

The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, claimed that the US has withdrawn his visa and that he can no longer enter the country. (Credit: Presidency of Colombia / Flickr)

Dotard Trumpf petulantly stripped Colombia President Gustavo Petro’s visa, preventing him from attending imminent meetings of the IMF and IBRD in the US. The major international snub comes after Trumpf threatened ‘decisive retaliatory measures’ over Colombia’s Jan 2025 refusal to let two US military flights full of deportees land. In a cabinet meeting, President Petro let slip that his nickname for Dotard Trumpf is ‘Donald Duck’ and he took this idiotic snub with aplomb.

Colombia’s Former Colonial Masters Shoot and Burn Trumpf in Effigy

(Public domain photo)

An effigy of Dotard Trumpf was marched through the streets before being shot and burned as part of Easter Sunday celebrations in Spain. Every Easter, locals in the town of Coripe, Seville, string up a Judas’ figure representing a public figure whose actions are deemed to be morally reprehensible’. Video shows the Trumpf doll, sporting a dark navy suit, red tie, and unmistakable shock of blonde hair, leading a town parade at gunpoint before being hung from a tree in the town square and shot at with rifles from close range. The burning of Judas’ effigies is a common ritual amongst Christian communities as part of traditional Easter celebrations.

Coriolanus regrets missing this worthy auto-da-fe.

Sources:

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-effigy-shot-burned-123840954.html

https://colombiaone.com/2025/04/22/colombia-petro-us-visa-trump-donald-duck/

Karma for Puppy-Killing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, infamously known for admitting in her autobiography that she killed her 14-month-old rambunctious puppy, fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night. Noem, who was asked about the theft at the White House Easter Egg Roll, acknowledged the incident and said the matter has not been resolved. The Secret Service, which provides security for Noem, reviewed security camera footage at the restaurant and saw an unknown white male wearing a medical mask steal her bag and leave the restaurant, a law enforcement source said. The thief got away with Noem’s driver’s license, medication, apartment keys, passport, DHS access badge, makeup bag, blank checks, and about $3,000 in cash.

Shooting a defenseless, harmless puppy is not only a disqualification from becoming Secretary of Homeland Security, but a disqualification from the human race. The US Senate confirmed her appointment as Secretary with a 59-34 vote. Astonishing.

Coriolanus was intensely curious regarding the contents of Secretary Noem’s stolen handbag. Why she was dining with her passport (official or diplomatic) and blank checks in Washington DC is mystery to your author. One question arose is what medications Secretary Noem is taking and for what condition. Her predilection to animal cruelty and mass deportations of vulnerable people provide a clue.

Having her makeup kit makes sense to maintain Noem’s disguise as a human being.

As Governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem was banned from indigenous lands by the local tribes. At the border in Derby Line, Vermont, Noem taunted Canadians with shouts of “51st state!” and she shamelessly flaunted herself and her jewelry in front of male convicts in a notorious El Salvador prison for a tawdry photo opportunity.

Secretary Noem in a pathetic photo-op in El Salvador on 26 Mar 2025 (Photo: Reuters)

The irony is rich. For a few hours on Sunday, the manifestly under-qualified Secretary Kristi Noem was “undocumented” like the people she has been persecuting. And this architect of fear for millions of vulnerable people was in a frenzied panic in a tony Washington DC bistro like her victims.

Karma, where would we be without you?

Sources:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics

https://apnews.com/article/south-dakota-indian-reservation-bans-governor-noem-b55339eb624a119bc571c8b4dab848f4

Trumpf Junta Targets Anti-Christian Bias While Israel Persecutes Christians

In a statement marking Easter before the death of Pope Francis I, Marco Rubio called for “all nations to respect the right of Christians to declare Christ is King. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the king of kings and lord of all nations,” Rubio posted on ‘X’. Rubio’s implication is that Christian freedom of worship is under threat.

The Trumpf junta has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government. Marco Rubio, the most under-qualified person to ever lead the State Department, also asked staffers via official cable to report any perceived discriminatory actions taken against Christians or employees advocating on their behalf between Jan 2021 and Jan 2025.

Moreover, US Attorney-General Pam Bondi announced she is establishing a task force to combat anti-Christian bias in the US.

The Stench of Republican Hypocrisy is Stifling

White supremacist MAGA acolyte Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (MTG) from Georgia posted this vile message after Pope Francis I died.

US Attorney-General Pam Bondi did not condemn this anti-Christian message from MTG and worse, SECSTATE Marco Rubio conveniently ignores the fact that for decades Palestinian Christians have been attacked by both Israeli civilians and the IDF.

Theodosios (Atallah Hanna), the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, delivers a speech during a demonstration in Beit Jala in the West Bank 17 May \2021 to express solidarity with Gaza and Sheikh Jarah. (Photo: Hazem Bader / AFP via Getty Images)

You can watch the videos here:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/20/palestinians-in-gaza-west-bank-mark-sorrowful-easter-amid-israeli-attacks

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-04-15/ty-article/israeli-police-violently-detain-several-holy-fire-worshipers/00000187-8563-dc6c-a5ff-ef7373080000

To Trumpf’s vicious sycophantic lapdogs in the junta, they are each awarded this:

Other Oddities From Israel

IDF destroying Indonesian hospital in Gaza (Image: Planet Labs)

ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: public domain)

The availability of high resolution satellite imagery of the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) will irritate Benjamin Netanyahu no end and make concealing their war crimes more difficult.

Swimmer Killed After Rare Shark Attack

A swimmer was killed following an extremely rare shark attack off the coast of Israel about 25 miles north of Tel Aviv. Sharks are known to gather there where warm water is discharged by a local power plant, and especially at this time of year, but they are usually harmless. There have been no recorded fatal shark attacks in waters off Israel since the country was founded in 1948. Below Israelis admire a shark in the same area in 2021.

(Photo: AFP)

Pre-attack video of the shark captured here:

If the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip can’t enjoy the Mediterranean Sea, this seems fitting that Likudniks shouldn’t enjoy their much cleaner beaches to the north.

Sources:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-health-officials-hold-urgent-meeting-as-1st-monkeypox-case-confirmed-in-israel/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rubio-state-department-anti-christian-bias-biden/

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/hkbugnh1xg

https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-dies-after-contracting-brain-eating-amoeba-in-israels-2nd-ever-recorded-case/

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/247686/gazas-only-catholic-priest-calls-israel-gaza-violence-extremely-serious

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c793rygrpjqo

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/22/marjorie-taylor-greenes-viral-controversial-post-after-pope-francis-death-marjorie-taylor-greene/83207982007/

19 Richest American Households Made One Trillion Dollars Last Year

“The wealthiest have gotten richer, and control a record share of America’s wealth. New data suggest $1 trillion of wealth was created for the 19 richest American households alone in 2024. That is more than the value of Switzerland’s entire economy.”

GOP Tax Cuts Will Cull Thousands of Poor Americans

To pay for the oligarch’s unneeded tax cuts, congressional Republicans in both chambers passed a resolution to cut at least $880 billion from the budget through 2034. Because Medicaid accounts for approximately 93% of non-Medicare funding, the program is expected to absorb the overwhelming share of these reductions. The cuts to Medicaid would result in widespread coverage losses, which could lead to 15,400 deaths due to work reporting requirements or roughly 34,200 deaths from reduced federal funding each year. 

The oligarchs have been greedily amassing their pelf for centuries. Just imagine how much more fabulously wealthy the billionaires will be next year after Trumpf’s horrendous tax cuts take effect. And how many poor Americans will have died because of inadequate medical funding. The GOP and American billionaires are aiding and abetting what Friedrich Engels described as “social murder.”

Sources:

https://www.wsj.com/economy/1-trillion-richest-families-wealth-increase-bc13874a?mod=hp_lead_pos7

Rescue Pit Bull Finds Best Friend in Donkey

Secretary Noem, are you watching this?

Followers of the Watch, Coriolanus is doing his utmost to keep up with the sinister machinations of the Trumpf junta, including their blatant stock manipulations with tariff threats and massive cryptocurrency grifting, all while keeping an eye on global intelligence and national security issues.

The Nightmare That Is Now America

Followers of the Watch, there is much to cover and time is a precious resource. BLUF: The US police state under Donald Trumpf is a nightmare and national security is in utter disarray thanks to rank amateurs, buffoons, an alcoholic, and pro-Kremlin acolytes.

Vladimir Putin giving his protege instructions in this 2018 photo from the NY Times.

CIA Update

Senior CIA officer Ralph Goff (undated photo).

CIA has withdrawn Ralph Goff, an agency veteran and vocal supporter of Ukraine, from consideration to serve as its chief of clandestine operations. Goff had been appointed and given a start date for later this month before he was pulled from consideration. The CIA’s DDO is responsible for overseeing the agency’s covert activity and the gathering of HUMINT, one of the most challenging and vital aspects of the agency’s work. The role is commonly seen as one of the most powerful jobs in the agency. No immediate explanation was given as to why Goff had been withdrawn from consideration for this important position. Goff’s career at CIA spanned 35 years, and included significant stretches in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Europe. CIA declined to comment on this story.

MI6, CSIS, ASIO, and other NATO intelligence agencies have paid strict to this significant victory for Vladimir Putin.

Felon Musk Visits CIA HQ, Nose Pins Handed Out

The worst person in the world recently visited CIA HQ for talks on government efficiency. This is the first time Musk has visited the CIA since the establishment of DOGE.

Unlike other government departments, DOGE isn’t going to get unlimited access to CIA databases or internal systems because most of it is top secret, a source familiar with the issue said. CIA has an internal DOGE team that was formed after Trump’s executive order. The team that includes CIA career officials has been working for several weeks.

CIA officials didn’t give Musk an intelligence briefing, but discussed with him “how the CIA is unique” in comparison to other government agencies. Musk visited NSA HQ a few weeks ago, and they too must have placed clothespins over their noses.

Does anyone on the planet think that UK PM Keir Starmer, Canada PM Mark Carney, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, or Chinese Premiere Xi Jinping would allow Felon Musk into their main intelligence agency headquarters?

OPSEC (Operational Security) Non-Existent with US National Security Adviser

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz (undated photo from the public domain)

National security adviser Mike Waltz’s team regularly set up chats on Signal to coordinate official work on issues including Ukraine, China, Gaza, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, according to four people who have been personally added to Signal chats.

Two of the people said they were in or have direct knowledge of at least 20 such chats. All four said they saw instances of sensitive information being discussed.

It’s a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trumpf administration’s national security team relies on Signal, a publicly available messaging app, to conduct its work. D/CIA Ratcliffe and D/DNI Tulsi Gabbard were already grilled by the US Senate over the previous court-martial offense of using a commercial phone app while discussing national security information about bombing the Houthis. The Israeli Mossad were livid because the group chat on Signal discussed one of their HUMINT sources in Yemen.

Now we learn that Mike Waltz and other senior officials also use their personal Gmail accounts for government business. The administration’s handling of sensitive information is already under severe scrutiny, and Gmail is even less secure than Signal.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is a successor to the man below, which is absolutely breath-taking.

USSECDEF Pete Hellsbreath Plagiarizes Heritage Foundation

The hits just keep coming with this All-Star line-up selected by Dotard Trumpf. USSECDEF Pete Hellsbreath issued a secret memo outlining US military priorities which comes straight from the conservative Heritage Foundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank in 2024. The memo outlines Trumpf’s vision to prepare for and win a potential war against Beijing and defend the US from threats in the “near abroad,” which may include Greenland and/or the Panama Canal. Iran is mentioned several times as a powerful adversary.

Besides spilling classified information on Signal to an uncleared journalist which the US military pilots said potentially endangered their mission bombing starving Houthis on Israel’s behalf, Hellsbreath committed other blasphemies. He brought his wife into official meetings and like a good nepotist, gave his brother a cushy job in the Pentagon. Lacking any imagination, Hellsbreath, who was removing all traces of minorities and females from DOD websites, stole the blueprints for America’s national security from a conservative think-tank itching to get America involved in another war, most likely against Iran.

Notorious Islamophobe Sebastian Gorka is a senior advisor to Trumpf and wants to destroy Iran.

A US-led war against Iran has been a dream of Israel, AIPAC, and Islamophobic Republicans for decades because Tehran stands up for the Palestinians. ICC-indicted war criminal Putin will warn his protege in the White House that attacking Iran is not in the Kremlin’s interest. Russia has invested heavily in Iran which provides them drones and other materiel. ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will just have to settle for American taxpayer-funded, US military strikes on the starving Shia Houthis for the time being.

Loyalty Tests Purge National Security Staff

Rightwing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer (11 Sep 2024 photo: Matt Rourke / AP)

Dotard Trumpf fired six national security council staffers after a fraught meeting in the Oval Office where the far-right psychopathic Laura Loomer presented opposition research against a number of staffers that she said showed they were disloyal to the US president.

The firings encompassed four staffers who were fired overnight, right after the meeting, and two who were removed over the weekend. This created the extraordinary situation where Loomer appeared to have more influence than national security adviser Mike Waltz over the NSC and undercutting Waltz in having his own aides axed.

The fired officials included Brian Walsh, the senior director for intelligence who previously worked for now USSECSTATE Marco Rubio on the Senate intelligence committee; Thomas Boodry, the senior director for legislative affairs who previously served as Waltz’s legislative director in Congress; and Maggie Dougherty, the senior director for international organizations.

This is the Islamophobic Laura Loomer that began the rumors of Haitians eating cats that Dotard Trumpf listens to:

American Police State Out of Control

On 2 April 2025, the New York Times finally wrote that the police state finally arrived in America. What took them so long?

FBI Raid Home of Computer Scientist Who is Now Incommunicado

Xiaofeng Wang (Undated photo from public domain)

Xiaofeng Wang, a prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity, has gone incommunicado. His professor profile, email account, and phone number were removed by his employer, Indiana University, after his home was raided by the FBI. No one knows why.

“The FBI conducted court authorized law enforcement activity at homes in Bloomington and Carmel Friday. We have no further comment at this time.”

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA – 28 Mar: The FBI works at the scene of a resident in the 3000 block of South Xavier Court. (Photo by Jeremy Hogan / The Bloomingtonian)

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA – 28 Mar: The FBI works at the scene of a resident in the 3000 block of South Xavier Court. (Photo by Jeremy Hogan / The Bloomingtonian)

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Maryland Man Wrongfully Deported to Notorious El Salvador Prison

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a loving father, husband, son, brother, union construction co-worker, and CASA member. (Photo: gofundme page)

The Trumpf junta has been using the archaic Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to circumnavigate the immigration review and judicial process enshrined in the US Constitution. This “shoot first, ask questions later” approach will lead to terrible mistakes, like this appalling episode.

The Trumpf administration admitted in a court filing that an “administrative error” and an “oversight” resulted in a Salvadoran man’s deportation and imprisonment in a supermax prison in El Salvador, despite a legal order prohibiting his removal there.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was removed from the US on 15 Mar as part of a series of deportation flights that sent hundreds of alleged gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, even though an immigration judge had granted him a legal protection from deportation.

There is no information as to how the Trumpf junta will return Mr. Garcia to the US and what his physical condition is after being in a notorious mega-prison crammed with hardened criminals and real gang-members for two weeks.

Judge Holds ICE Agent in Contempt of Court

Boston Municipal Court Judge Mark Summerville. (Photo: Pat Greenhouse via AP / Boston Globe)

Boston Municipal Judge Mark Summerville is holding ICE agent Brian Sullivan in contempt after he detained a suspect while the man was on trial. The agent detained Wilson Martell-Lebron last week as he was leaving court. Judge Summerville issued a ruling against Sullivan, arguing that he had deprived Martell-Lebron of his rights to due process and a fair trial by taking him into custody.

“It’s a case of violating a defendant’s right to present at trial and confront witnesses against him,” Judge Mark Summerville said from the bench. “It couldn’t be more serious.”

Summerville dismissed the charge against Martell-Lebron of making false statements on his driver’s license application — namely that he wasn’t Martell-Lebron. After that, Summerville filed the contempt charge against Sullivan, which could lead Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden to review the case and determine if any charges should be filed.

Wilson Martell-Lebron (Family photo / Erkan & Sullivan PC via AP)

American Policing at Local Levels Needs Complete Overhaul

As if living under the Trumpf junta wasn’t terrible enough, the legacy of hiring underqualified or racist police officers at the local level in America continues, as you have read here on Coriolanus. Here are more examples of serious dysfunction.

NJ State Trooper Arrested for Alleged Dog Killing, Vandalism, Assault

A New Jersey state trooper faces multiple charges after allegedly shooting and killing his dog, fleeing his home, vandalizing a stop sign, and assaulting a local police officer.

Authorities arrested Alexander Lark in Wayne Township. He is charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. He also faces a municipal violation for discharging a firearm. Animal cruelty charges are pending. An affidavit of probable cause states that Lark appeared to be under the influence of an unidentified substance.

Four Texas Deputies Commit Suicide in Six Weeks

From left to right: Long Nguyen, Christina Kohler, Maria Vasquez, William Bozeman (Harris County Sheriff’s Office)

The Harris County sheriff’s office in Texas is mourning the loss of four current and former deputies who died by suicide in just six weeks. There is insufficient information to correlate anything connecting the four at this time and Coriolanus will not speculate as to what drove these deputies to kill themselves, but clearly something is amiss in Harris County and in American policing in general.

Harris County, Texas.

American policing requires a complete overhaul, but this will never happen. The US has thousands of counties and local municipalities within 50 states, each with their own standards, budgets, and hiring practices. So, Americans have to suffer not only with professional jackbooted police officers at the federal level, but with a melange of unfit police officers at the local levels.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/mike-waltz-signal-gmail-security

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/laura-loomer-trump-meeting

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administrative-error-deporting-man-el-salvador-prison/

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/hakeem-jeffries-mike-waltz-gmail-signal-hegseth

https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-aid-for-kilmar-abregogarcias-government-abduction

https://apnews.com/article/boston-immigration-ice-municipal-court-due-process-f2d13626ffba28025a3e0314fa6ca908

https://wcyb.com/news/nation-world/texas-harris-county-sheriffs-office-mourns-4-deputies-lost-to-suicide-in-6-weeks-william-bozeman-christina-kohler-maria-vasquez-long-nguyen-mental-health-behavioral-health-division-support-crisis-lifeline

USAG Pam Bondi Seeks Death Penalty for Luigi Mangione

US Attorney General Pamela Bondi released the following statement:

“Luigi Mangione’s murder of Brian Thompson — an innocent man and father of two young children — was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America. After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump’s agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.”

Make America safe for the oligarchs again is what Lady Dracula means.

Blonde-haired sycophant to Trumpf USAG Pam Bondi refused to investigate Trumpf University when she was Florida’s Attorney-General and is now using federal resources to investigate Tesla vandals.

The late oligarch Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthCare (UHC) amassed himself a tidy fortune by denying healthcare to premium-paying patients using cost-benefit analysis of who gets to live and who gets to die. The strategy used was “Delay, Deny, and Defend” to fight payouts to people who paid thousands of dollars in premiums to the AARP Medicare Advantage program he operated, one of the worst health insurers in the world. UHC’s aggressive and appealing marketing campaigns bring them thousands of unknowing elderly customers every year who go on to receive the worst medical outcomes. Coriolanus knew a suffering victim of Brian Thompson– a man who put profits over people– and so the oligarch paid the ultimate price for his greed.

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

Sources:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-directs-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-luigi-mangione

https://www.luigimangioneinfo.com/

Australia Shuts Down Six Confucius Institutes

Six Australian universities have quietly closed Chinese government-linked Confucius Institutes (CI) on their campuses, leaving seven open nationwide. Canberra has ramped up scrutiny on the education centers over concerns that Beijing is using them to spread propaganda and spy on Chinese international students. Beijing says its Confucius Institutes, which offer Chinese language and cultural classes overseas, are a “bridge reinforcing friendship” with the world. Western intelligence agencies have been concerned about Beijing’s global reach through these education centers. Some universities in America and Europe also closed some of their branches.

AI estimates there are approximately 30 Confucius Institutes operating in the US, down from a peak of around 1,201. In Canada, there are 13 Confucius Institutes operating. Beijing also operates secret police stations to spy on Chinese citizens in the US.

Sources:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx1dyxyg10o.amp

https://www.oni.gov.au/news/asio-annual-threat-assessment-2025

Toxic Algae Off Southern California Kills Hundreds of Sea Lions, Dolphins, Birds

A sea lion with domoic acid poisoning experiences involuntary muscle spasms as toxic algae off the coast of Southern California kills or sickens hundreds of marine mammals. (Photo: Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute)

An early toxic algae bloom off the coast of Southern California is killing or sickening hundreds of sea lions, dolphins and seabirds, while forcing rescuers to make tough choices about “which animals to save.”

Studies reveal global algae blooms are growing, and warming waters may be to blame. Swirling blooms of turquoise phytoplankton along coasts may be happening more often and getting bigger, according to new research published in Nature, raising concerns about the impacts of climate change on the world’s oceans. 

Phytoplankton are microscopic algae, and a “bloom” is a sudden explosion of them, sometimes covering hundreds of square kilometers of ocean. The study found that over that period, the global median frequency of algal blooms increased by 59%, and the total area affected by the blooms expanded by nearly four million square kms — close to half the size of Canada.

This spectacular view of intensifying phytoplankton blooms was captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite and then shaded by researchers to illustrate the data captured. (Illustration: Lian Feng)

Some oceanographers claim that we may be the last generation to enjoy genuine seafood because of the algae, pollution, chemicals, and plastics that have poisoned the world’s oceans.

Sources:

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/31/southern-california-toxic-algae-killing-sea-lions-dolphins/1081743463448/

23andMe DNA Data Up for Grabs After Going Bankrupt

Customers of 23andMe are rightly concerned about what could happen to their DNA profiles now that the ancestry-research company has filed for bankruptcy. “It looks like it’s up for grabs,” he said of the genetic information. “And there doesn’t really seem to be any parameters regarding its use.”

After a customer provides a saliva sample, DNA-testing companies like 23andMe provide a profile of a person’s genetic heritage. Police used forensic genetic genealogy to solve crimes. 23andMe had a data breach in 2023 and paid out $30 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. Under bankruptcy, the company’s DNA database of more than 15 million customers could potentially be sold as an asset.

As you are aware, oligarch Larry Ellison wants to put all America’s data, including DNA, in one large Oracle system for AI to study (17 Feb 2025).

Sources:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/

23andMe bankruptcy leaves customer DNA ‘up for grabs’: Attorney | NewsNation

Two Mass Murderers Believe They Were Fulfilling Trumpf’s Wishes

Mass murderer Patrick Crusius.

MAGA terrorist and white supremacist Patrick Crusius believed he was acting at the direction of President Donald Trumpf when he murdered 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart on 3 Aug 2019, his defense lawyer told El Paso Matters. Crusius was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences in July 2023. Crusius admitted that he killed and wounded people at the Walmart because of the actual and perceived national origin of the people he expected to be at the Walmart. He further admitted that he intended to kill everyone he shot.

Crusius wrote a manifesto titled “An Inconvenient Truth” and uploaded it to the internet minutes before he commenced his attack. In it, he characterized himself as a white nationalist, motivated to kill Hispanics because they were immigrating to the US. The maniac admitted to selecting El Paso, a border city, as his target to dissuade Mexican and other Hispanic immigrants from coming to the US.

“He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him, which is just not rational,” defense attorney Joe Spencer said in his first extended interview about the mass shooting that Crusius said was meant to stop “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”

“He thought, if he doesn’t do it, then nobody’s going to do it. He’s got to start,” Spencer said.

The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment from El Paso Matters. On 5 Aug 2019, two days after the El Paso shooting, Trumpf condemned the attack and the motives behind it: “The shooter in El Paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist hate. In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America.” [Hah!]

Trumpf visited El Paso on 7 Aug, ignoring pleas from much of El Paso’s elected leadership that he stay away because they felt his rhetoric may have played a role in the shooting. Trumpf’s vile hate-mongering may be responsible for another heinous mass murder, the slaughter at the Miami high school in 2018.

Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz. He offered to donate his brain to science.

Parkland Miami mass murderer Nikolas Cruz has mastered the talking points of Donald Trumpf. Before Cruz used an AR-15 assault rifle to kill 17 people, including 13 students, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, he idolized Trumpf. One of his most prized possessions was a MAGA hat; the rage-filled, paranoid teen posed with it on his head for Instagram and wore it while he practiced shooting a pellet gun in his backyard. Cruz even put the red hat on his mother’s urn during her funeral.

In a in a batch of released prison letters, Cruz expounds on politics and the letters show the unhinged killer remains deeply drawn to Trumpf’s divisive and negative political messaging, which takes aim at immigrants, liberals, and the media. Cruz seems to have taken especially seriously Trump’s unfounded allegations that illegal immigrants threaten American society and are more prone than others to crime. He is sentenced to life imprisonment without the chance of parole for one of the worst high school shootings in the US.

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”

Sources:

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/texas-man-sentenced-90-consecutive-life-sentences-2019-mass-shooting-walmart-el-paso-texas

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/from-parkland-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz-writes-of-support-for-donald-trump-ron-desantis-and-gun-rights-11143077

Signs That Your Dog Was Raised By a Cat

Europe Step Ups for Ukraine

Activists display a 500-square-metre banner in support of Ukraine in Brussels, 6 Mar 2025. (Photo: EPA-EFE / OLIVIER MATTHYS)

Dedicated Followers of the Watch, Coriolanus is doing his utmost best to keep up with the madness of King Trumpf and the repercussions of his destructive policies on behalf of Vladimir Putin. Not to be neglected is Felon Musk, the worst person in the world, who will receive a dedicated post about his nefarious activities in the near future.    

Vladimir Putin with his protege in Helsinki, Finland on 16 Jul 2018. (AP Photo / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trumpf’s Underhandedness

Two of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s political rivals have confirmed that they have been in contact with members of US President Donald Trumpf’s entourage. Secret discussions have been held about holding snap presidential elections in Ukraine that could potentially unseat President Volodomir Zelensky before a final peace deal is signed.

Yulya Tymoshenko and Petro Poroshenko are currently much less popular in Ukraine than Zelensky. Just 10% of Ukrainian voters said they would support Poroshenko in a presidential election, while only 6% said they would vote for Tymoshenko. The former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, who is currently serving as the Ukrainian ambassador to London, has been Zelensky’s main political rival for some time now, with 21% of Ukrainians surveyed saying they supported him.

Trumpf has also indicated a desire to revoke the temporary legal status for around 240,000 Ukrainians in the US who fled Putin’s brutal Feb 2022 invasion. His cruelty knows no bounds.

The US has halted intelligence sharing with Kiev, threatening Ukraine’s ability to strike Russian targets amid the full-scale war, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said during a TV interview. “Trumpf had a real question about whether President (Volodymyr) Zelensky was committed to the peace process, and he said let’s pause,” Ratcliffe said. The move follows Washington’s decision to freeze all military aid supplies to Ukraine following a public spat between Zelensky and Donald Trumpf. The decision was likely intended to put pressure on Zelensky in peace talks.

American volunteer soldiers fighting in Ukraine say that they feel “betrayed” by their own country after the US halted military aid and stopped sharing intelligence with Kiev.

Alexis Antilla is an American volunteer fighting in Ukraine. (Photo: CBS, circa 2022)

“(US President Donald Trumpf) betrayed every one of us,” a US Army veteran, who goes by the callsign ‘Goldfish’ said.

And on the frontlines, a Ukrainian sniper named “Lektor” achieved a remarkable feat.

Ukrainian Army sniper “Lektor” in an undated photo.

A soldier of the Main Intelligence Directorate named “Lektor” in a duel with a Russian sniper killed him at a record 2,069 meters. That’s an incredible two kilometers.

According to Lektor, the chances of hitting the target from such a distance were low.

“This distance is the limit for the caliber of weapons with which I worked. Plus, it was a moving target. There is very little chance of hitting a moving target, given that the bullet flies at that distance of 4 seconds, the target moves, there is one wind near me, and a completely different one near the target, which affects the trajectory of the bullet. But that’s how it turned out. Everything is right, it turns out, he did it,” the sniper notes.

At the same time, Lektor added that after this shot, he could not leave his position for a long time, as the enemy was trying hard to detect it.

France Responds

Paris has signaled they will provide intelligence to Ukraine following this unsurprising stab in the back from Putin’s protege. Paris has approximately 100 military and commercial satellites in orbit.

Artist’s rendition of a Comsat NG satellite. (Image: Thales Alenia Space)

More ominously, France will consider extending the protection of its nuclear arsenal to its allies said French President Emmanuel Macron, while warning that Europe needs to be ready for the US to not “remain by our side” in the Ukraine-Russia war.

“I’ve decided to open the strategic debate on the protection by our deterrence of our allies on the European continent,” he said in a live broadcast on his official social media channels. Macron stressed the need for Europe to continue assisting Ukraine and strengthen its own defense. “Our nuclear deterrence protects us, it is complete, sovereign, French from end to end,” Macron said of France’s nuclear arsenal. “This protects us much more than many of our neighbors.”

The Suffren can sail autonomously for 70 days at a depth of 350m. (Photo: AFP)

France is ranked 7 out of 145 countries in terms of military strength by the Global Firepower Index (GFI). They possess an arsenal of 290 nuclear warheads with the range to strike Moscow. Roughly 80% of the warheads are for delivery by three ballistic missiles submarines. Decades ago, France established its own nuclear arsenal so as not to depend on the US and it seems they were right. In a nuclear exchange with Russia, Paris would be atomized within minutes. This is the conundrum of “Mutually Assured Destruction” (MAD). Look where Trumpf and Putin have taken the world.

The EU Responds with ReArm Europe

Excerpt from EU President Ursula von der Leyen statement:

“We are living in the most momentous and dangerous of times. I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face. We are in an era of rearmament. And Europe is ready to massively boost its defense spending. Both, to respond to the short-term urgency to act and to support Ukraine but also to address the long-term need to take on much more responsibility for our own European security. ReArm Europe could mobilize close to EUR 800 billion Euros for a safe and resilient Europe. We will continue working closely with our partners in NATO.” Signed, EU President Ursula von der Leyen.

Europe and NATO are working around the US, as Washington under Trumpf is now viewed as a hostile power under occupation by the Kremlin. The UK, Turkiye, and Canada expressed willingness to deploy peacekeepers to Ukraine within a “coalition of the willing.” Europe will adjust to the new security and intelligence paradigm, although this will be difficult for some of the member states as they relied on the US “Rock of Gibraltar” for nearly 80 years.

Sources:

Trump team meets with Zelensky’s political rivals in apparent bid to remove him from power — Novaya Gazeta Europe

Ukraine war latest: US halts intelligence sharing with Ukraine, CIA director confirms

Press statement by the President on the defense package

Macron says France to consider protecting European allies with its nuclear arsenal | CNN

www.globalfirepower.com

‘He betrayed every one of us’ – US soldiers in Ukraine speak out after Trump’s military aid halt

www.bbc.com

Canada ‘ready and able’ to join Ukraine peacekeeping force, defense minister says | CBC News

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/politics/government/trump-planning-to-revoke-legal-status-of-240-000-ukrainian-refugees-key-developments/ar-AA1AmTXY

Canada Punches Back Against Trumpf

Ontario Premier Doug Ford along with PM Justin Trudeau have been leading the national charge against Trumpf.

Canada, a G-7 nation that enjoys $53,431.20 per capita GDP, is not taking Trumpf lightly. Ontario Premier Doug Ford slapped a 25% surcharge on US-bound electricity, which will affect New York, Michigan, and Minnesota. Ontario cancelled its $100-million contract with Felon Musk’s Starlink as well. The contract, signed in 2024, was intended to provide Starlink satellite internet to 15,000 remote homes and businesses in northern Ontario.

A $100 million contract for 15,000 remote homes? What in blazes did Felon Musk almost get away with in Ontario?

Premier Doug Ford also removed all US alcohol and liquor from its official stores run by the LCBO. The LCBO is the largest single purchaser of alcoholic beverages on the planet, serving a population of nearly 16 million people.

The province of Manitoba proudly followed suit. These moves will result in a loss of $1 billion to American companies. Please click link:

CEO Brown Forman, the manufacturer of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey in Tennessee, said that Canadian provinces removing American liquor from its shelves is “worse than a tariff.” In 2024, the “Volunteer State” solidly voted for Donald Trumpf as you could see below.

In 1998, Frank Sinatra was famously buried with a pack of Camel cigarettes, a Zippo lighter, and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey. A mourner quipped, “Here, Frank, you may need this.”

To the west, British Columbia is hitting back at economic threats from the US by introducing tools to impose fees on US truck traffic travelling through the province on the way to Alaska.

Premier David Eby said the tolls may or may not be used, but warned that Canada needs to have tools available to fight the tariffs coming from America’s Godzilla.

British Columbia Premier David Eby

Eby made the announcement on the lawn of the Legislative Assembly building in Victoria, which had been draped with a large Canadian flag, while members of his party chanted “Canada” in the background.

Of course there are other countermeasures Canada and her provinces are individually and jointly pursuing against Trumpf but time constraints preclude listing them all. Coriolanus has a suggestion for Canadian sports franchises that value their patriotism over profits.

If the Toronto Blue Jays baseball franchise boycotted the 2025 Major League Baseball (MLB) season which opens soon, this would likely result in a multimillion-dollar loss for the US economy according to AI calculations.

Total Estimated Cost to the US Economy

Direct Game Revenue Loss: $152 million (tickets, concessions, etc.)

Local Economic Impact: $228 million to $380 million (multiplier applied)

Broadcast/Sponsorship Loss: $30 million to $50 million (US share)

Tax Revenue Loss: ~$30 million

Total Loss Range for US: $410 million to $612 million

Similarly, if the Toronto Raptors boycotted the 2025 NBA season, AI calculations estimate that the US economy might see a loss of $300-$500 million.

In a trillion dollar economy these amounts may seem small, but they will have some economic impact. More importantly, the psychological impact will be much more effective. Plus, MLB and the owners will have to scramble and find 162 replacement games (out of a total 2,430 games), which will upset their schedules. Since most owners are wealthy oligarchs overcharging fans for beer, hot dogs, and hamburgers at the stadiums, why not give them the headache?

Sources:

Ontario Removes All American Alcohol From Store Shelves | Crooks and Liars

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ontario-starlink-1.7475817

Ontario slapping 25% surcharge on U.S.-bound electricity Monday, Ford says | CBC News

B.C. planning legislation that could toll trucks travelling to Alaska, Eby says | CBC News

US National Security Weakens as FBI and CIA Culled Again by Trumpf

FBI Senior SA James Dennehy (Photo: Sarah Yenesel / EPA, via Shutterstock)

The top agent at the FBI’s New York field office has been forced out of his job, following clashes with Justice Department officials over Trump administration directives.

The veteran agent, James E. Dennehy, was told to retire from his role leading the FBI’s largest field office, delivering another blow to the senior ranks of the bureau. Mr. Dennehy, who had been running the office since Sep 2024, had angered Trumpf administration officials by supporting bureau leaders who resisted turning over the names of those who investigated the 6 Jan 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Mr. Dennehy had also angered Attorney General Pam Bondi by what she claimed was the New York office’s failure to turn over all the investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged with sex trafficking who killed himself in prison. Ms. Bondi provided no evidence to back up her assertion.

Mr. Dennehy’s departure comes after weeks of turmoil at the FBI that saw nearly a dozen executives at headquarters removed unexpectedly, leaving a leadership vacuum and confusion on the seventh floor of the Hoover Building in Washington, DC.

Mr. Dennehy, who served for seven years as a USMC officer before joining the bureau in 2002, spent most of his career investigating or supervising counterintelligence cases, which, in essence, involved chasing (Russian or Chinese) spies rather than building criminal cases.

Underqualified sycophant John Ratcliffe is the ninth director of CIA. (Photo: CIA)

The government cuts ordered by the Trump administration have hit CIA. Some officers hired in the last two years have been summoned to a location away from the agency’s headquarters in Langley, VA, and asked to surrender their credentials to security personnel.

Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the reports that newly hired agents were being fired were troubling and would “undercut our national security.”

In fact, some young agency officers working inside Langley have been hesitant to answer their phones, worried that it will be a call from security asking them to report to an off-site location. The firings have devastated morale and cut productivity.

CIA officers are formally on probation for four years. But the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has been focused on paring back more recent hires.

The first two years of CIA officers’ careers are a time of intense training, and the government spends large amounts of money to teach them spy tradecraft, languages, and other skills.

More experienced officers who transfer to CIA from other intelligence agencies also face a lengthy probationary period. Senator Warner stated that if the layoffs affect those officers, it would effectively waste years of training investment.

These culls are designed to rid the US Intelligence Community (IC) of non-conformists, those who are not loyal to Trumpf or minority employees, using the guise of cost-cutting. As a former member of the USIC, Coriolanus worked with several CIA officers, some would go on to become friends. Your author is appalled that the US government has become a cat’s paw to the Kremlin, thanks to Donald Trumpf, and the damage he is causing to the US is irreparable. These are important lessons for Ottawa, London, Paris, Brussels, Kiev, and Tokyo, Seoul: Remain vigilant to foreign interference and espionage lest you follow America’s hideous path.

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North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Illegally Export Sensitive Technology to China

David C. Bohmerwald, the owner of a Raleigh-based electronics resale business called Components Cooper, Inc., pled guilty to attempting to export accelerometer technology with military applications to China without a license, in violation of the Export Control Reform Act (“ECRA”), and faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced. 

Ultra Low Noise Miniature Triaxial Accelerometers

Bohmerwald (63) purchased 100 accelerometers from a US-based electronics company and then attempted to export the devices to a company in China. These accelerometers have a wide array of applications ranging from research and development of products to defense uses. When used for military applications, accelerometers are crucial to structural testing, monitoring, flight control, and navigation systems. The technology can help missiles fly more accurately and measure the precise effect munitions have on structures. A license is required to export the accelerometers to China.

The US based electronics company notified law enforcement due to Bohmerwald’s suspicious and unusual purchase request. Among other things, when Bohmerwald purchased the accelerometers, he claimed that they were for an end user in Missouri. In fact, when federal agents contacted the Missouri company, they denied having an order pending with Bohmerwald and his business, Components Cooper.

After Bohmerwald received the accelerometers, he dropped two parcels at a local FedEx shipping store. One of the packages was addressed to a business in China. An agent with the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, detained the package and found it contained 100 accelerometers. The agent confirmed that there were no relevant licenses on file to support the export of the items. In addition, Bohmerwald falsely listed the value of the package at $100, when the true value was nearly $20,000. When interviewed by agents, Bohmerwald admitted to acquiring the technology on behalf of a Chinese-based company, knowing that the technology was export-controlled, and knowing export of the items required a license.

As long as Beijing has the manpower, funds, and resources, Chinese espionage will continue unabated as stealing technology can be cheaper than research and development (R & D). Moreover, as long as there are traitors in the West who are willing to sell out their country for money, as you have read about here on Coriolanus, the USIC (and allies) will have their hands full for some time.

Source:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/raleigh-man-pleads-guilty-attempting-illegally-export-sensitive-technology-china

Israel Shin Bet: Netanyahu’s Policies Paved the Way for 7 Oct 2023 Attacks

ICC-indicted Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to fire the director of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar. (Photo: Maya Alleruzzo / AP)

Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, has said Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies were among the underlying causes of the 7 Oct 2023 attack in which Hamas and other militants killed about 1,200 Israelis and seized 251 captives. In its report on the 7 Oct 2023 attack, Shin Bet acknowledged its own responsibility, admitting it was aware of warning signs that Hamas was planning an operation, but the agency did not grasp the scale, timing, and location of the planned attack. Netanyahu’s acquiescence in the flow of funds from Qatar to Gaza was designed to divide Palestinians by boosting Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian state.

The gunmen attacked to seize Israeli hostages because thousands of Palestinians were being held in security detention for years without trial or hearing. Amnesty International reported many Palestinians were tortured in those military prisons. With no way to get these captives freed, Hamas took hostages for a prisoner swap. Two trades took place in Nov 2023 before Bibi unleashed the full-scaled Nakba during the entire year of 2024, which led to his indictment as an alleged war criminal by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague. In 2024, the “Crime Minister” continued the Nakba every single day to ethnically cleanse Gaza, delay his corruption trial, and weaken the Democrats in the 2024 election. He partially succeeded.

Hundreds of Palestinian detainees in Israeli military detention have been subjected to mistreatment and torture.

Palestinian children in IDF detention. (Undated photo)

Is it any wonder that armed gunmen from Gaza went on a rampage to abduct Israelis in order to conduct a prisoner trade?

Israel Security Agency director Ronen Bar speaks at the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism at Reichman University in Herzliya, 11 Sep 2022. He poses a threat to Netanyahu far greater than the Iranians or Palestinians. (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni / Flash 90)

Spokesperson Eli Feldstein is seen at an event with PM Benjamin Netanyahu during the Nakba against the Palestinians in Gaza. He is under investigation by the Israel Attorney-General’s office for the alleged theft and leaking of classified IDF documents to contacts in Qatar. (Photo: IDF)

Coriolanus visited pre- and post-apartheid South Africa and can testify that Netanyahu followed a similar strategy the Afrikaaners used to divide their opposition. The Afrikaaners secretly funded the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party who were opposed to the African National Congress as they were predominantly from the Xhosa tribe. Using tribal warfare, Pretoria kept the two massive groups at each other’s throats for years, much like the disunified Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza. Over time, the white minority government realized their hold on power was untenable, so they released Nelson Mandela and transitioned away from apartheid with a minimum amount of bloodshed.

Dubbed the “Crime Minister” by his political opposition and “Israel’s curse” by a Canadian newspaper, Netanyahu has an outstanding international arrest warrant out for him issued by the ICC. His wife Sara and he are embroiled in a corruption trial and “Bibi” faces a serious inquiry into his handling of the 7 Oct 2023 surprise attack by Palestinian resistance fighters.

All indictments are merely allegations. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Sources:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-5-months-before-oct-7-shin-bet-head-told-netanyahu-war-in-gaza-inevitable/

Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests   – Amnesty International

AG orders criminal probe into Netanyahu’s aides’ ties to Qatar | The Times of Israel

Investigators Assess if Netanyahu’s Aides Forged Oct. 7 Phone Records – DNyuz

US Stops Sharing Air Quality Data From Embassies Worldwide

The US government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists and experts who say the effort was vital to monitor global air quality and improve public health. The State Department said its air quality monitoring program would no longer transmit air pollution data from embassies and consulates to the EPA’s AirNow app and other platforms, which allowed locals in various countries, along with scientists around the globe, to see and analyze air quality in cities around the world.

The US embassy’s hourly smog updates have irked Beijing officials—and spurred mitigation measures. (Photo: Kevin Frayer / Stringer / Getty Images)

Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/world/us-air-quality-pollution-intl-hnk/index.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/rooftop-sensors-us-embassies-are-warning-world-about-crazy-bad-air-pollution

Unvaccinated Americans Dying or Sickening from Preventable Illnesses

The New Mexico Department of Health said that the state had its first measles death. The victim tested positive for the measles virus after death and the official cause of his demise is under investigation. The adult, who was unvaccinated, didn’t seek medical care before dying.

Measles is spreading rapidly in West Texas, with 159 cases reported so far. Most of the cases are in Gaines County. In neighboring Lea County, New Mexico, ten cases have been identified. A school-age child in Texas last week was the first person to have died in the outbreak and the first to have died from measles in the US in a decade. Most of the people who have gotten the measles in Texas haven’t been vaccinated, including the child who died. Mexican authorities warned their citizens to avoid Texas.

The Minnesota Department of Health reported a case of tetanus in an unvaccinated child under ten years of age in 2024. The child experienced pain and stiffness in the neck, and he could not breathe on their own. They were intubated and admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The child had no visible wounds, and parents were not aware of any recently healed wounds. Tetanus is a rare, but a very serious vaccine-preventable disease that causes significant illness and can be fatal. Also called lockjaw, it is a disease caused by bacteria that affects the body’s muscles and nerves. Tetanus cannot be spread from person to person and vaccination is the best way to prevent it. Luckily, the child survived.

The CDC reported that there are at least 32,000 cases of pertussis (“whooping cough”) in the US. This is another disease that is preventable with vaccination.   Antibiotics can treat the bacterial infection, but only if it’s caught within the first few weeks, before the arrival of the exhausting, painful cough. Then, the only treatment is comfort care with plenty of rest and fluids while the infection runs its course.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr made a small fortune as an anti-vaxxer before joining the Trumpf regime. He vowed to “Make America Healthy Again.” (Photo: Rebecca Noble / Getty Images)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a recent editorial that “vaccines not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity.” But Kennedy, a longtime notorious anti-vaccine activist, stopped short of calling for parents to vaccinate their children. “The decision to vaccinate is a personal one,” he wrote.

RFK Jr. has claimed that cod liver oil, budesonide, and clarithromycin have shown “very, very good results” as remedies for measles. Infectious disease experts, however, say these treatments don’t have much medically sound backup and are not intended as measles remedies. The only proven way to prevent measles is through the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Two doses are 97% effective.

Each of these unnecessary deaths and illnesses are the result of anti-vaxxer propaganda. If these idiots wish to die or allow their families to die because of this gross misbelief, so be it. But they are also harming innocent people. When COVID-19 was raging, false prophets touted the effectiveness of ivermectin (a horse de-wormer) as an alternative to vaccination. The number of preventable COVID deaths under Trumpf was incalculable. Now the effectiveness of cod liver oil as a treatment for measles is spreading. Avian flu is spreading globally and Trumpf cut resources at CDC and NIH, as well as withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). We can only guess how many needless deaths all of this chaos will cause.

Sources:

Second measles death reported in ongoing outbreak

Minnesota officials report tetanus case in unvaccinated child in 2024

RFK Jr. Claims Cod Liver Oil, Steroids, Antibiotics Can Treat Measles—Here’s What Doctors Say

Whooping cough cases in the US are the highest they’ve been in a decade | CNN

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Trumpf Continues Purging Pentagon of Competent Leadership to Putin’s Delight

President Donald Trumpf continued purging the Defense Department of experienced, capable leaders through his inept and alcoholic SECDEF “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth. The latest victim is a 40-year veteran of the US Navy and someone easily qualified to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Staff CJCS). Admiral Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the US Sixth Fleet. She was the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations.

Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the US Chief of Naval Operations, during a media conference in Perth, Australia, in July 2024. (Photo: Richard Wainwright/EPA, via Shutterstock)

The announcement came in a statement emailed to reporters Friday night, shortly after President Trumpf said he was firing Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

“Whiskey Pete” Hegseth said in his statement that he would also replace Gen. James C. Slife, the Air Force’s vice chief of staff, as well as the top uniformed lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. was the 21st Joints Chiefs of Staff Chairman. (Photo: United States Air Force)

Trumpf and Hegseth are firing competent commanders because they are minorities and competent and will weaken US national security. The purge of civilian and military inspectors-general, as well the military’s top lawyers, signals a dark future era of unaccountability within the DOD which already has trouble with contractor corruption, bribery, cost overruns, etc. Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, and Sailors fighting discrimination will not find sympathetic voices with the Trumpf-Hegseth appointed Inspector-Generals or Judge Advocate Generals (JAGs).

‘The US Is Doing Russia’s Work’ Say Ecstatic Propagandists

Putin’s media mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over Trumpf’s recent moves, including abandoning Ukrainian President Volodomir Zelensky.

Coriolanus completed several tours with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and will be perfectly blunt. “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth is an alcoholic, misogynist US Army National Guard officer who never made it past the rank of Major. He is neither competent nor experienced enough to qualify as an aide-de-camp to Admiral Franchetti or General Brown, let alone lead the world’s most powerful military. This dipsomaniac and Trumpf sycophant didn’t have the courage to fire General Brown or Admiral Franchetti in person.

A national disgrace leads the US Department of Defense.

Below are screen captures of “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth hurling an axe at a target during his Fox TV show. The axe would strike and injure a US Army NCO playing in the military band behind the barrier.

“Whiskey Pete” Hegseth was later sued over this idiotic incident.

The US proposed its own UN resolution marking the third anniversary of Russia’s war in Ukraine after refusing to back one drafted by Kiev and backed by Europe. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described it as “a simple, historic resolution … that we urge all member states to support in order to chart a path to peace.”

The draft US resolution does not condemn Russia as the aggressor in the conflict, nor does it make any acknowledgement of Ukraine’s territorial integrity. “This resolution is consistent with President Trumpf’s view that the UN must return to its founding purpose, as enshrined in the UN Charter, to maintain international peace and security, including through the peaceful settlement of disputes,” Rubio’s statement said.

No wonder Russian President Vladimir Putin is thrilled with his intelligence asset, America’s Godzilla, who is destroying US institutions through DOGE, appointing incompetent cabinet secretaries, while firing thousands of capable civil servants in health, aviation safety, forestry management, agricultural surveillance, environmental protection, and nuclear weapons security.

How much destruction will America’s Godzilla wreak in four years on behalf of Vladimir Putin?

Sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/politics/ukraine-war-us-proposes-un-resolution/index.html

Update: Ukraine-Russia

Front Page of the Rightwing New York Post ( 21 Feb 2025)

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he was willing to step down if it meant peace in Ukraine. His remark came days after President Trumpf questioned his legitimacy and called him a “dictator without elections,” echoing a Kremlin talking point.

“If it brings peace to Ukraine, and if you need me to step down — I am ready,” Mr. Zelensky said during a news conference on Sunday, on the eve of the third anniversary of the war. “Second, I can exchange this for NATO.”

This is a highly unlikely scenario given Trumpf’s opposition to allowing Ukraine into the military alliance. EU leaders are meeting for an extraordinary summit on 6 Mar to discuss additional support for Ukraine, European security guarantees and how to pay for European defense needs.

Cuban Mercenaries Fighting for Kremlin

(Image: RFE/RL.org)

Cuban mercenaries have been fighting for Russia, like Frank Dario Jarrosay Manfuga (36) above who joined Russia’s army in Jan 2024 and was captured in Mar 2024.

A former geography teacher he later became a professional musician to increase his income.
“I never intended to kill anyone. I never wanted to participate in a war. I have a family,” said Manfuga, who claimed he was tricked into boarding a Russia-bound plane with the promise of a job in construction. He has no desire to return to Russia or Cuba and Manfuga’s claim that he was duped could not be verified.

An estimated 5,000 Cuban soldiers are fighting for Russia,” Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat, co-founder of the Cuban Democratic Directorate, a US-based NGO advocating for democratic change in communist Cuba reported. “This network could not function without the Cuban regime’s approval.” Unlike North Koreans, Cuban fighters in Russia have left a significant social media footprint, with many openly embracing the Kremlin’s militarism and ideology.

Putin Promotes War Criminal

Unindicted war criminal Major-General Sergei Atroshchenko.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has promoted Sergei Atroshchenko, who ordered the bombing of a drama theater in Mariupol on 16 Mar 2022, to the rank of Major-General.

The AP reports as many 600 Ukrainians were killed in a deliberate strike against defenseless civilians. (Photo: CNN)

After occupying Mariupol, Russian forces began demolishing the drama theater building to destroy evidence of the war crime.

Ukrainian Security Services Prevent Assassination

The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police detained a saboteur who prepared a terrorist attack in the center of Odessa on 20 Feb.

The saboteur set up an IED near the car of the special prosecutor. Law enforcement officers pursued and detained the perpetrator, an 18-year-old resident of Odessa. He was recruited by Russian intelligence through a Telegram channel in search for “easy” money. On the instructions of the Russian special services, the saboteur personally constructed an improvised explosive device (IED) with a capacity of 300g in TNT equivalent.

To increase the lethality, the suspect stuffed the explosives with metal nuts and planted it under the military prosecutor’s car. Opposite the “target”, the attacker installed a hidden mobile phone with a remote access function for the FSB. Later, the Russian special service remotely activated the explosives, injuring a passer-by.

During exploitation of the crime scene, a mobile phone with evidence of his communication with his Russian handlers was seized from the detainee.

President Zelensky is capable, competent, and clever, a genuine national leader who cares about the future of his people. Ukrainian secret services continue to thwart Russian assassination attempts within their homeland. This suspect, like other young miscreants, prepared the IED for money, not out of love for Mother Russia or hatred of Ukraine. No doubt that Major-General Sergei Atroshchenko is on the Special Prosecutor’s list or in the cross-hairs of the Ukrainian espionage network for either justice or vengeance. Ukrainian military intelligence has previously liquidated HVT war criminals within Russia. The case of the Cuban mercenaries underscores their need for money and loyalty to Russia, as well as demonstrating that Moscow still needs manpower. Lastly, the question of American mercenaries fighting for Russia emerges as some are fugitives from US justice. How will they be treated by the US government at the end of hostilities?

Two criminals in love. Benjamin Netanyahu would complete the menage-a-trois.

Sources:

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-cuban-recruits-fighters-ukraine-mercenaries/33315782.html

https://english.nv.ua/nation/putin-promotes-atroshchenko-to-military-general-after-mariupol-theater-bombing-50492041.html

https://ssu.gov.ua/novyny/sbu-ta-natspolitsiia-po-hariachykh-slidakh-zatrymaly-ahenta-fsb-yakyi-na-zamovlennia-rf-pidirvav-avto-viiskovoho-prokurora-v-odesi


https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-leaders-meet-extraordinary-summit-ukraine-eu-defence-march-6-2025-02-23/

US Bloodbath: No End in Sight to America’s Undeclared War on Itself

General Garibaldi’s red shirts prevailed over the Army of the Two Sicilies in the Battle of Volturno (Oct 1860. (Courtesy of Peter Dennis)

In the past 48 hours several shootings terrorized and killed American citizens, including police officers, throughout different parts of the US.

Louisville, Kentucky

Police work the scene of a shooting outside a driver’s licensing office in Louisville, Kentucky, 21 Feb 2025. (Source: WHAS TV)

Three people were shot and killed in a parking lot outside a driver’s licensing office in Louisville, Kentucky. A male victim died at the scene while two female victims died at a hospital. No suspect is in custody and the shooter fled the scene. Authorities didn’t discuss any potential connection between the victims.

“There does not seem to be a public threat,” police said at a news conference, even though the murderer was on the loose.

In an average year, 827 people die and 1,857 are wounded by guns in Kentucky. The Bluegrass State has the 11th-highest rate of gun violence in the US. Gun deaths and injuries cost Kentucky $9.6 billion each year, of which $183.4 million is paid by taxpayers. In Kentucky, 54.6% of adults have firearms at home. Licenses in 2021: 108,833

York, Pennsylvania

Patrolman Andrew Duarte had served with the West York Borough Police Department for over two years and previously served with the Denver Police Department for five years. This was a good-looking young man who seemed quite happy. (Photo: public domain)

Officer Andrew Duarte died while responding to a 10:43AM call about an active threat at UPMC Hospital in York, Pennsylvania.

No patients were injured during the shooting, and the five-story, 104-bed hospital has been secured, according to a statement by Pennsylvania State Police. It’s unclear if there were any other injuries.

“At this time, the shooter is deceased and there is no danger to the public. The hospital is secured,” police said.

In an average year, 1,759 people die and 4,020 are wounded by guns in Pennsylvania. The Keystone State has the 20th highest rate of gun violence in the US. Pennsylvania firearm licenses in 2021: 348,167. An estimated 40.7% of adults in Pennsylvania have guns in their homes.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

VBPO Cameron Girvin. He seemed like a happy person. No photo available of VBPO Christopher Reese.

Police Officers Christopher “Chris” Reese and Cameron Girvin were shot while conducting a traffic stop at Sylvan Court at approximately 2330 Friday evening.

“While on patrol Officer Reese and Officer Girvin observed a car with an expired plate and executed a traffic stop. During the traffic stop the officers asked the subject to exit the vehicle and the subject refused; when finally exiting the vehicle the subject “tussled” with the officers and immediately produced a pistol, shooting both Officer Reese and Officer Girvin. While the officers were incapacitated and on the ground, the subject shot each officer a second time and then fled the scene. The subject was found in a shed near the initial scene with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

First responders attempted life-saving procedures and both officers were transported to local hospitals but would succumb to their wounds.”

Nota Bene: Coriolanus does not like the use of the word “tussled” as any local or federal judge would immediately question the definition of the word and what exactly transpired between the police officers and the suspect (who was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound).

In an average year, 1,065 people die and 1,911 are wounded by guns in Virginia. Around 44.6% of adults in Virginia have guns at home. Federal firearm licenses: 423,707.

Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico

Security Forces members assigned to the 377th Security Forces Squadron responded to an incident at approximately 2AM Saturday, 22 Feb resulting in a shooting incident. One Airman received a nonfatal gunshot wound to the hand and was transported to UNM Medical Center for treatment. He has since been released with no life-threatening injuries.

The other Airman was found dead at the scene. The cause of death and the incident remains under investigation by local authorities. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations was leading the probe along with the FBI and Albuquerque PD. Authorities said there is currently no threat to the public, even though the suspect remains at large.

In an average year, 433 people die and 618 are wounded by guns in New Mexico. The “Land of Enchantment State” has the 12th-highest rate of gun violence in the US. In New Mexico, 46.2% of adults have at least one gun at home. Firearms licenses in 2021: 122,968

Indiana

Trinity Shockley (18) Credit: Morgan County Sheriff’s Office

Last week, an 18-year-old from Mooresville, Indiana, was arrested for allegedly planning a mass school shooting at Mooresville High School. The Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department received information around 7PM 11 Feb from the FBI about someone who was potentially planning a school shooting on 14 Feb 2025.

During the department’s investigation, officers identified the person of interest as Trinity Shockley, of Mooresville. Court documents say Trinity is transgender, going by the name Jamie. Someone called the FBI and reported that Trinity was planning a shooting and that she had access to an AR-15 and ordered a bulletproof vest.

This is a catastrophe averted. The student reportedly had expressed admiration for other mass shooters, including Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others at Parkland High School, Florida on 14 Feb 2018.

In an average year, 1,111 people die and 1,556 are wounded by guns in Indiana. Indiana has the 30th-highest rate of gun violence in the US. Indiana firearm licenses in 2021: 157,546. In Indiana, 44.8% of adults have at least one firearm at home.

NRA-rated A+ Republican US Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the 2015 CPAC convention. (Photo: Adweek)

In 2022, the CDC reported the US suffered 48,000 gun-related homicides. These are wartime casualty numbers. Every day 327 people are shot in the US. Of those, on average, 117 will die. By contrast in 2023 the entire country of Canada with approximately 41.6m people suffered 289 homicides by firearms. That averages to less than one firearm-related murder per day.

The US government may wish to consider deploying US Army medics or US Navy Corpsmen like the soldiers below throughout the country to triage and treat her daily casualties, like a warzone.

(Photo: US Army)

Unless America does something drastic and soon, her undeclared war with herself will reach 50,000 annual gun deaths possibly in 2025 or 2026. But remarkably, America’s Godzilla is doing the exact opposite. Trumpf recently signed an Executive Order reversing federal firearm regulations, making purchasing guns easier.

Sources:

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/indiana/18-year-old-charged-allegedly-planning-mass-shooting-mooresville-high-school-trinity-shockley/531-3ab9d4e1-1d0c-4948-a6e3-289847054be5

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/41/

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


https://www.kirtland.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4074588/one-airman-dead-and-another-hospitalized-outside-kirtland-release-2/

https://www.odmp.org/

South Carolina Convict to be Killed in First Firing Squad Execution in 15 Years

Brad Sigmon. (Photo: Courtesy of Brad Sigmon legal team)

“A South Carolina man on death row has chosen to be killed by firing squad, and if his execution goes forward next month, it would be the first time in 15 years that capital punishment in the US is carried out by gunfire. Brad Sigmon (67) is scheduled to be shot to death on 7 Mar, part of a spate of rapid killings the state has pursued in the last six months as it revives executions after a 13-year pause.

South Carolina now directs those on death row to choose how they will be killed — electric chair, lethal injection or shooting. If they decline to make a selection, the state electrocutes them. Attorneys for men on South Carolina’s death row have previously objected to firing squads, raising concerns about the pain caused by shootings and arguing the method constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. But Sigmon selected a firing squad in part because of concerns about the state’s lethal injection methods, his attorneys said.”

Utah and Idaho are also considering the use of firing squads (I wrote an OP about this several weeks ago). One rifleman is anonymously given a powerful blank cartridge so he can think that he wasn’t the one who killed the prisoner. (Photo: NY Post / Shutterstock)

Source:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/brad-sigmon-death-penalty-firing-squad

Australia Warns Airlines to Beware of Chinese Navy Live-Fire Exercise

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning and auxiliary ships. (Photo: navalnews.com)

Australia warned international airlines flying between Australian airports and New Zealand to beware of Chinese warships conducting a live-fire exercise in the Tasman Sea.

Regulator Airservices Australia had warned commercial pilots of a potential hazard in airspace between the countries as three Chinese warships conduct exercises off the Australian east coast.

Several international flights had diverted as a result.

“It would be normal practice where a task group is engaging in exercises for there to be advice given to vessels and aircraft in the area and Airservices Australia is doing what it should do, which is to give that advice,” Australian FM Penny Wong said.

Australia was discussing with China about the notification and transparency around its naval exercises, “particularly live-fire exercises,” Wong said.

Australian military ships and planes have been monitoring the Chinese warships for days as they pass in international waters off the Australian east coast.

The Royal Australian Navy Fleet consists of 27 commissioned ships and 11 non-commissioned ships manned by 16,000 officers and seamen; 4,600 in the reserves. The Chinese navy has 384,000 active personnel manning 788 ships and 600 aircraft.

Civil aviation has paid the price of flying near active military warzones Russia shot down a Malaysian Airlines several years ago, as well as an Azerbaijani Airways flight recently. This warning and quarantine zone is an obvious safety measure from Canberra. Conducting live fire drills in this vicinity is clearly a provocation from Beijing. Since Australia and New Zealand are allies of the US, perhaps China is testing the reaction from Trumpf.

Sources:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/australia-warns-airlines-beware-chinese-navy-live-fire-119033470

https://www.airservicesaustralia.com/

Inside Britain’s Fascist Fight Clubs: Secret Footage Shows Far-Right Group Preparing for ‘Race War’

“A white supremacist group masquerading as a fitness club has been secretly working to build a far-right militia, holding training sessions in plain sight.

An undercover investigation by ITV News has revealed how ‘Active Club England’ is following a blueprint established by neo-Nazi networks in the US and Europe, using extreme fitness and fraternity as a front to recruit and radicalize members for a so-called “race war”.

ITV News has uncovered how a recruitment drive in the wake of the 2024 summer riots attracted dozens of new members. By capitalizing on social unrest, the group expanded to more than 100 members, with one branch drawing enough new followers to begin fortnightly training sessions at a park in Vauxhall, south London, just steps from MI6 headquarters.”

Last year Scotland Yard’s counter-terror chief reported a “startling” rise in the number of children in London becoming lured into terrorist activity with arrests now running at double the 20-year average.

Fight club members regularly took part in boxing training sessions in London and had to meet strict fitness standards. (Credit: ITV News)

Jay Barlow was sentenced in Sep 2024 for the possession of a knife and a racist offence against a police officer. (Credit: Metropolitan Police)

Rundo was arrested in a Romanian gym in 2023. (Credit: X/@Shtuni)

From 30 Jul to 5 Aug 2024, [a] far-right, anti-immigration protests and riots occurred in England and Northern Ireland.

There are hundreds of these right wing maniacs ready to commit violence against immigrants, people of color, Muslims, and Jews in the UK, and many have already sone so. Worse, these neo-Nazis are preparing for an ominous “race war.” One thug laments on the difficulties of obtaining firearms in the UK, unlike the ease found in other countries. Britain’s MI5 and Scotland Yard have their hands full dealing with these dangerous lunatics. The Kremlin has been linked to supporting rightwing, white supremacist groups throughout Europe and no doubt Elon Musk’s social platforms are facilitating their hate messages.

Watch the video here: https://www.itv.com/news/2025-02-11/undercover-footage-shows-far-right-group-preparing-for-race-war

Source:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/terrorism-arrests-children-london-far-right-islam-metropolitan-police-b1129874.html

Is This A Woman or a Man?

Ms. Hunter Schafer (Getty Images)

“Hunter Schafer, a transgender woman and star of hit HBO teen drama Euphoria, has said a new US passport lists her as male, despite selecting female when she filled out the paperwork. Ms. Schafer said she changed her gender markers for her driver’s license and passports when she was a teenager, but that her birth certificate was never amended. The US State Department, which issues passports, says on its website that it will “only issue passports with an M or F sex marker that match the customer’s biological sex at birth.”

America’s Godzilla reversed the US State Dept policy which previously allowed a citizen to mark “X” under gender for their passport.

Thailand has long recognized a third gender called Kathoeys or “Ladyboys.”

So are DHS airport inspectors or border patrol agents at the Ports of Entry (POE) going to conduct strip searches or genetic tests on Ms. Schafer or kathoeys from Thailand?

Whatever happened to the time-honored American tradition of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?”

Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4klq45ngvo

Cat in Shelter Was Sad So He Was Sent to Nursing Home

IDF Air Force Commander Not Alerted During 7 Oct 2023 Hamas Attack

IDF Major General Tomer Bar woke up 7 Oct 2023 with the national alarm like other Israelis.

FTA:

“A thorough 750-page investigation by the Israeli Air Force details the events during the first hours of the 7 Oct war, highlighting significant failures in safeguarding the country’s airspace and protecting communities near Gaza.

IDF Air Force commander Major General Tomer Bar woke up that Saturday at 06:30 AM when the alarms sounded. By 07:10 AM, he declared war from the Air Force bunker and, according to the investigation’s findings, scrambled the entire force. The first flight log shows that the Air Force went into offensive action at 07:15, 45 minutes after the massacre in the Gaza envelope began when the first aircraft attacked Netiv Ha’Asarah.

Air Force Commander Major General Tomer Bar is part of the General Staff that failed in its response, and during the investigation, he took full responsibility, admitting in his own words, “We failed.”

IDF airstrike in the Gaza Strip, 9 Oct 2023. By midnight of the first day, approximately 1,000 attacks had been conducted, with 12,000 shells fired from helicopter gunships. (Photo: Atia Mohammed / Flash90)

“A civilian commission investigating the events surrounding 7 Oct 2023 has released a scathing report accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government of failing to protect Israeli citizens.

The commission, chaired by retired judge Varda Alsheikh, found that both the government and security agencies failed to heed warnings and prepare adequately, concluding the disaster “was not an act of fate but could have been dramatically minimized.”

Members of the civilian commission of inquiry into the 7 Oct massacre present their findings (Photo: Yariv Katz)

After 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 captives taken for a prisoner swap on 7 Oct 2023, Netanyahu’s Nakba killed 46,707 Palestinians (including 18,000 children) and injured 110,265. Thousands of Arabs were killed and maimed in Lebanon as well. Both Gaza and Lebanon saw record levels of devastation, causing hundreds of thousands of refugees. Unqualified US support for Netanyahu’s reprisals against the Arabs during the 2024 election year cost Kamala Harris the White House on 5 Nov as antiwar voters stayed home in disgust. Netanyahu has since been indicted for war crimes by the ICC and he is on trial for corruption in Tel Aviv along with his wife Sara. Netanyahu is doing everything he can to prevent a 9/11-style commission into his handling of this savage war of ethnic cleansing. And is there anyone on the planet that thinks Joe Biden or Kamala Harris are friends with Bibi?

Sources:

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/idf/air-force-investigation-reveals-critical-failures-in-first-hours-of-october-7-massacre/2025/02/18/

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1t86nxxkl

US Senator Bernie Sanders Excoriates Trumpf, Musk, and Oligarchs in Congress

In a speech reminiscent of William Jennings Bryant’s powerful 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech, Senator Sanders launched a tirade for the ages.

Senate Democrats Are Fighting Back Against Musk and DOGE Through GAO

Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) (Getty Images)

On 12 Feb, the GAO confirmed by written letter that it will pursue the request for an investigation made by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Senator Ron Wyden into how and why DOGE accessed the US Treasury’s payment system.

“GAO’s mission is to support Congress in carrying out its constitutional duties and GAO is a legislative branch agency. As the investigative arm of Congress, GAO examines how federal dollars are spent and how federal programs, policies, and operations work.”

GAO operates with a $637m budget, employing approximately 3,000 full-time staff. Independent of the Executive Branch, DOGE can not interfere with them.

In addition, the Democratic Senators established this website:


https://www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers

This was posted on social media and identifies some of the DOGE perpetrators pilfering through US government systems on behalf of Teflon Musk, the Worst Person in the World. So far, sleuths have uncovered 17 of these miscreants.

Sources:

https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/gao_acceptance_letter.pdf

https://www.gao.gov/

https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/#Jennifer-Balajadia

https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/warren-wyden-secure-independent-treasury-and-congressional-watchdog-investigations-into-doges-unprecedented-access-to-the-federal-governments-payment-systems

https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/response_from_treasury_ig.pdf

America’s Godzilla Unleashes Deadly Hatred Throughout the US

Nationwide Support for Migrant Bounty Hunters Growing

Missouri State Senator David Gregory (R-St. Louis)

Proposed legislation to reward bounty hunters with $1,000 per deportation is getting traction nationwide, Missouri state senator David Gregory (R-St. Louis) told Newsweek. “I’m finding a tremendous amount of support. It’s actually gaining support across the country.” Nota Bene: In Missouri, 48.8% of adults have guns at home. Firearm licenses in 2021: 113,351. In 2023, an estimated 1,300 people died from gun-related injuries in Missouri. Expect more if this idiotic legislation passes.

11-Year-Old Texas Girl Commits Suicide Because of Immigration Status

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza (11)

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza was bullied and taunted at school over her family’s immigration status. “They were going to call immigration so they could take her parents away and she would be left alone,” her mother said. The child ended up killing herself. Mrs. Carranza did not address the immigration status of the family.

ICE Lawyer Runs Racist Website

The Texas Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden (on the left below), based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Can you tell the two monsters apart?

Books Mentioning Civil Rights Removed From Shelves at Fort Campbell, KY School

Fort Campbell, KY is the home of the famous 101st Airborne Division, the “Screaming Eagles.” Clarksville Now is reporting that an elementary school at Fort Campbell is removing books from its library in response to a Trumpf executive order. Clarksville Now reported it received a copy a letter sent to school administrators from the DoD Education Activity that lays out several directives to comply with the US President’s order which includes banning the promotion of “monthly cultural observations.” The eagle should be screaming.

On 25 Sep 1957, paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division (the ‘Screaming Eagles’) escorted nine students of color into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock AK.

Note the bayonets on the rifles. President Eisenhower must get credit for this important move against segregation, even though he initiated Operation Wetback in 1954.

Americans should expect vigilante groups cropping up throughout the country hunting for migrants, more ICE raids (even though detention facilities are limited), and more grandstanding from the Dotard-in-Chief.

At least two people were killed when two small planes collided in Arizona. Coriolanus is having difficulty keeping up with these incidents and people have begun calling Trumpf “President Planecrash.” Meanwhile, with Ukraine fighting for its survival, “President Planecrash” spent another leisurely day golfing. Since being in office 31 days, he has been on the links nine times, or 29% of his presidency.

Sources:

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/us/jocelynn-rojo-carranza-gainesville-texas-death/index.html

https://www.newsweek.com/support-migrant-bounty-hunters-growing-state-senator-2032569

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce98zeex9ymo

https://trumpgolftrack.com/

NASA: ‘City Killer’ Asteroid has 3% Chance of Hitting Earth

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is traveling at 40,000 MPH. (Imagery: NASA)

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1% chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA, making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting. But, despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation.

2024 YR4 was first detected on 27 Dec 2024 by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.

Astronomers estimate its size to be between 130 and 300 feet (40–90 meters) wide, based on its brightness. Analysis of its light signatures suggests it has a fairly typical composition, rather than being a rare metal-rich asteroid.

NASA’s latest calculations estimate the impact probability at 3.1%, with a potential Earth impact date of 22 Dec 2032.

That translates to odds of one in 32 — roughly the same as correctly guessing the outcome of five consecutive coin tosses. The last time an asteroid of greater than 30 meters in size posed such a significant risk was Apophis in 2004, when it briefly had a 2.7 percent chance of striking Earth in 2029 — a possibility later ruled out by additional observations.

NASA successfully deflected Didymos with a DART.

Sources:

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/2024-yr4/

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250218-city-killer-asteroid-now-has-3-1-chance-of-hitting-earth-nasa

US Navy SEAL Candidates Sickened by Training in Sewage-Laced Ocean Water

US Navy SEAL candidates participate in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training at Coronado, CA, 23 Jan 2018. (Petty Officer 1st Class Abe McNatt / US Navy photo)

Navy SEAL candidates in California are often training in water filled with bacteria that cause illnesses, a Department of Defense watchdog report found, and the service’s special warfare command does not have a formal policy for monitoring water quality and relocating training.

The DoD inspector general’s findings said candidates at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado would often train in the water even when local San Diego beaches nearby were closed to the public due to high levels of “fecal indicator bacteria.”

Between January 2019 and May 2023 alone, the Naval Special Warfare Center reported 1,168 cases of acute gastrointestinal illnesses with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea among SEALs and candidates.

A notable 39% of those cases, or 457 people, were diagnosed with those illnesses within a week of being in ocean water that surpassed the state’s limits for contamination.
Water contamination has been a long-standing issue in Coronado due in part to pollution from the Tijuana River Valley in Mexico, which flows to area beaches and causes significant closures to the shoreline.

USN SEALs are considered amongst the toughest commandos on the planet because of their intense training and strict standards. President Obama deployed SEAL Team Six to covertly capture Al-Qaida mastermind Osama Bin Laden in May 2011.

In nearly three decades of military service, Coriolanus has never heard of a USSECDEF being booed by Americans like Pete Hegseth was pilloried in Germany last week, nor has your author heard of USN SEAL candidates being sickened by bacteria-infected ocean water. Coriolanus worked with a former USN SEAL years ago and he never related a story like this. And he had great stories. The environment is continuously deteriorating with pollution with no end in sight. The USN should consider moving training farther north, away from the offending Tijuana River.

Footnote:

To the north, San Francisco allegedly dumps dumps millions of gallons of sewage into the Pacific Ocean during big storms. Environmentalists and surfers are trying to put a stop that.

Sources:

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/13/navy-seal-candidates-sickened-training-sewage-laced-ocean-water-pentagon-watchdog-finds.html

https://www.kqed.org/science/1996145/sf-dumps-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-during-big-storms-surfers-say-that-needs-to-stop

Conservation Efforts Have Doubled India’s Tiger Population

The Royal Bengal Tiger as been classified as an endangered animal by the IUCN.

Approximately three-quarters of the world’s tigers now live in India, despite rapidly growing urbanization and human populations. From 2010 to 2022, tigers in India more than doubled from an estimated 1,706 to nearly 3,700.

The improved situation for tiger populations is due to conservation and environmental protection methods safeguarding them from habitat loss and poaching. The researchers believe it offers key lessons for other big cat conservation programs around the world.

“Creating human-free protected areas allowed tigers to establish breeding populations from which they dispersed to occupy multi-use forests,” said lead author Yadvendradev Vikramsinh Jhala, a conservationist at the Wildlife Institute of India.

From 2010-2022, India’s tiger habitat grew by 30% — about 1,131 square miles annually. Tigers are now spread across 53,359 square miles , an area about the size of England.

Bengal tiger cubs.

Coriolanus had an enjoyable experience like this in Asia decades ago.

Sources:

https://www.dw.com/en/conservation-efforts-double-indias-tiger-population/a-71577773

https://www.sscadda.com/national-animal-of-india/

Housecat Spots Two Stray Kittens in Backyard…