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A Twist in the Tale: Has BJP become the adda of corrupt? In the run up to the 2014 general elections, the BJP centred its campaign around alleged corruption under the Congress-led UPA government, promising ‘ache din’ . Several times during the campaign, Narendra Modi Ji grandiloquently promised to jail the corrupt. He was equally loud about bringing back 'all the looted money stashed away in Swiss banks and eliminating black money'. People gave BJP a decisive mandate and Modi became PM in 2014. On 8th November 2016 in a public broadcast PM Modi declared that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes would cease to be legal tender and grandiosely announced that the purpose of #demonetisation was to crackdown on corruption and eliminate black money. It, however, turned out to be spurious. Recently, Supreme Court Justice B. V. Nagarathna said in a conference in Hyderabad that in the Indian economy at that time, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes comprised 86% of the currency and wondered about the goal of the demonetisation exercise since 98% of those notes came back to banks. She also questioned about black money eradication as demonetisation became a good way of converting black money into white money. In 2017 the BJP government introduced #ElectoralBond Scheme, which was anonymous financial contributions to political parties, by amending several laws namely, the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the Companies Act, 2013, the Income Tax Act, 1961. Its avowed purpose was to enhance transparency and accountability in political funding by eliminating black money, corruption. etc. The Supreme Court has recently struck down this secret political funding as unconstitutional and directed disclosure of complete details of all electoral bonds. From the data available in public domain, thanks to the Supreme Court, it came to light that the BJP is the biggest beneficiary as out of total Rs. 11,450 crores it received Rs. 6,566 crores which is 57%. Contemporaneous evidence indicates that #ElectoralBonds have all the ingredients of a huge scam such as quid pro quo and corruption, shell and loss making companies donating to political parties huge sums of money suspected to be kickbacks, and laundering of black money. In order to shield our democratic process from foreign interference, the laws regulating foreign contributions prohibited political parties and candidates in elections from accepting foreign contributions. But the BJP government through Finance Acts, 2016 and 2018 amended with retrospective effect the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010 (#FCRA) by changing the definition of ‘foreign source’ not only condoning the past illegalities committed but also permitting political parties to receive foreign funds, and thereby paved way for foreign intrusion into our political and electoral process compromising our sovereignty. Further, notwithstanding the huge propaganda of alleged action against Foreign Funded NGOs, there has been a huge spike in #FCRA remittances since the 2014-15. While during the 20 years between financial years 1994-1995 and 2013-14 an amount of Rs. 1,51,036 Crores was received, during the 8 years between 2014-15 and 2023-24 Rs. 1,46,392 was received. Data for financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 is not yet available. However, from the trends of #FCRA remittances in the preceding years it will be around Rs. 50,000 Crores together for both the financial years, making the total FCRA remittances during 10 year rule of BJP to be around Rs. 2,00,000 Crores which is humongous. Even if a small fraction of that huge amount of foreign funds has gone to political parties or candidates in elections, it amounts to serious subversion of our democracy and constitution. What sort of patriotism is this? Several months prior to 2014 general elections, a spate of alleged scams during UPA rule surfaced namely, Chit Fund scam, Chopper scam, Tatra truck scam, 2G Spectrum scam, CWG scam, Coal scam, Adarsh scam, etc. The courts, CBI, ED and IT proactively initiated action as a result several Congress and UPA leaders came under scanner. Though the BJP came to power on the anti-corruption plank, hardly any political leaders of significance was convicted, nor even paisa of black money stashed away in Swiss banks was brought back. On the other hand, the BJP has allegedly been misusing the law enforcement agencies to arm-twist the opposition political leaders under cloud either to defect to or align with the BJP. Out of 25 important opposition leaders who were allegedly under the scanner and joined BJP, 23 have reportedly got reprieve. Politicians like Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan who faces 38 criminal cases including 11 CBI and 7 ED cases, have been buying peace from the BJP. As a result none of his cases have seen the light of the day, notwithstanding the direction of Supreme Court to speed up trial of cases against politicians. Likewise, the DMK leaders namely, the Maran brothers, A. Raja, Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi have been acquitted, after they not so secretly cosied up to BJP, thanks to the lacklustre prosecution of their cases before the courts. These are only representative examples of how the BJP has become the adda for the leaders facing allegations of corruption, money laundering, etc. It is quite possible that some of them may be genuinely innocent. But as their innocence has been established only after their defection to or aligning with the ruling BJP, it creates dark shadows by raising serious moral questions. Last year, fourteen political parties approached the Supreme Court against the alleged misuse of central investigating agencies in arresting opposition political leaders and other citizens exercising their fundamental right to dissent and disagree with the ruling BJP. It was alleged that 95% of political leaders investigated by CBI and ED belong to opposition. That is, out of 121 prominent politicians facing ED probe between 2014 and 2022, 115 are opposition leaders who had been booked, raided, questioned or arrested. To wriggle out of or deflect the allegations of promoting corruption, shielding the corrupt who have joined or aligned with the BJP and targeting opposition leaders, etc, one of the standard refrains of the BJP has been that as Narendra Modi has no family he cannot be corrupt or has no motivation to be corrupt or shield the corrupt. That is a disingenuous argument. Late Jayalalitha, who was a spinster with no family, was convicted for corruption and was sent to jail. There are many prominent leaders who are unmarried or have no families facing cases or allegations of corruption. I don’t mean to even hint let alone allege that Narendra Modi is personally financially corrupt. I merely want to call out their bluff by highlighting the point that there is no connection between one’s familial status and corruption. It must be recalled that Manmohan Singh, whose personal financial integrity was impeccable, presided over a corrupt regime. As such, personal financial honesty of PM or a CM is meaningless if his party and government are not honest. Barring honourable exceptions, every political party while in opposition grandiloquently talks against corruption, not necessarily because they are honest, but because they try to make a virtue of out of lack of opportunities to make money. Notwithstanding its anti-corruption rhetoric the BJP is no stranger to corruption as its unsavory history tells. In 2001, none other than its National President late Bangaru Laxman was caught on the camera taking bribe from one Mathew Samuel, and was later convicted by a Special CBI Court on 27th April 2012 and sentenced to four years in jail. Further, BJP’s former CM of Karnataka Sri B. S. Yeddyurappa faced charges of corruption and was also in jail for a while. There are allegations of misdeeds of BJP government in PM-CARES Fund which is mired in secrecy, in sale of Air India to Tatas for peanuts, about CAG’s concern about astronomical escalation in cost of construction of Dwarka Expressway from Rs. 18.2 crores per km to Rs. 251 crores per km, in the utility of more than Rs. 14,000 crores public funds for Namami Gange project while the sacred Ganga is on the verge becoming a sewer like Yamuna, and several others. The #ElectoralBondScam which points to several alleged scams, is only a tip of the iceberg. It seems further action to take it to logical end has come to a naught. Therefore, having seen the fate of investigation and trial of all the alleged scams and how the political class sabotage, it is imperative that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising serving or retired officers specially chosen by the Supreme Court, which will not be part of any Law Enforcement Agency but independently directly reporting to the Supreme Court, would alone will be able to unravel the truth. It is pertinent to recall the stellar role of RTI Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (before it was amended in 2018) in exposing alleged corruption in the Congress-led UPA government. Information is power. So, the RTI Act empowered people to seek information from public authorities on all official matters (barring a very few exceptions). Based on that information obtained through RTI process about alleged corrupt deals, illegalities, etc during UPA rule, the CBI which had no legal shackles could initiate enquiries and investigation into those allegations. The BJP while in opposition used and exploited this situation to the hilt to oust the Congress-led UPA from power. And having formed government the BJP is acutely aware of the dangers for the corrupt lurking in these laws. So they have systematically wrecked the RTI Act so much so that it has gone from citizens’ most powerful tool to an Act on life support. In 2018 they amended the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. As per new section 17A introduced therein, “No police officer shall conduct any enquiry or inquiry or investigation into any offence alleged to have been committed by a public servant under this Act, where the alleged offence is relatable to any recommendation made or decision taken by such public servant in discharge of his official functions or duties, without the previous approval” of respective governments or appointing authority of the public servant. Which government will permit investigation into its own misdeeds? While Justice R. M. Lodha in 2013 denounced the CBI as a ‘caged parrot’, the BJP government translated his oral observation into a legal reality by destroying the Prevention of Corruption Act. Evidently, the real purpose of BJP undermining RTI Act and emasculating the CBI was to prevent visitation of fate similar to that of UPA by insulating and firewalling themselves from any future enquiries and investigations into their alleged corrupt deeds. Finally, there is an uncanny resemblance between the BJP’s anti-corruption rhetoric with a story in Jeffrey Archer’s popular book, ‘A Twist in the Tale’, which goes like this: Ignatius Agarbi was the new Financial Minister of Nigeria. He begins a sweep on corruption and makes a name for himself. Impressed by his extreme honesty, his president entrusted him to find out how many Nigerians have stashed their bribes in Switzerland. He arrives at the Swiss Bank with a briefcase. Despite his greatest persuasion, the Swiss banker refuses to break their code of privacy. In the end, Ignatius places a gun to the head of the Swiss banker and threatens to kill him. Still the banker refuses to divulge any confidential information. Ignatius, who was actually extremely corrupt, was only checking to find out if the Swiss Banks would actually reveal the name of an account holder. Delighted with their secrecy, Ignatius deposits $5 million in cash which he had skimmed as Financial Minister.”

A Twist in the Tale: Has BJP become the adda of corrupt? In the run up to the 2014 general elections, the BJP centred its campaign around alleged corruption under the Congress-led UPA government, promising ‘ache din’ . Several times during the campaign, Narendra Modi Ji grandiloquently promised to jail the corrupt. He was equally loud about bringing back 'all the looted money stashed away in Swiss banks and eliminating black money'. People gave BJP a decisive mandate and Modi became PM in 2014. On 8th November 2016 in a public broadcast PM Modi declared that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes would cease to be legal tender and grandiosely announced that the purpose of #demonetisation was to crackdown on corruption and eliminate black money. It, however, turned out to be spurious. Recently, Supreme Court Justice B. V. Nagarathna said in a conference in Hyderabad that in the Indian economy at that time, Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes comprised 86% of the currency and wondered about the goal of the demonetisation exercise since 98% of those notes came back to banks. She also questioned about black money eradication as demonetisation became a good way of converting black money into white money. In 2017 the BJP government introduced #ElectoralBond Scheme, which was anonymous financial contributions to political parties, by amending several laws namely, the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the Companies Act, 2013, the Income Tax Act, 1961. Its avowed purpose was to enhance transparency and accountability in political funding by eliminating black money, corruption. etc. The Supreme Court has recently struck down this secret political funding as unconstitutional and directed disclosure of complete details of all electoral bonds. From the data available in public domain, thanks to the Supreme Court, it came to light that the BJP is the biggest beneficiary as out of total Rs. 11,450 crores it received Rs. 6,566 crores which is 57%. Contemporaneous evidence indicates that #ElectoralBonds have all the ingredients of a huge scam such as quid pro quo and corruption, shell and loss making companies donating to political parties huge sums of money suspected to be kickbacks, and laundering of black money. In order to shield our democratic process from foreign interference, the laws regulating foreign contributions prohibited political parties and candidates in elections from accepting foreign contributions. But the BJP government through Finance Acts, 2016 and 2018 amended with retrospective effect the Foreign Contributions (Regulation) Act, 2010 (#FCRA) by changing the definition of ‘foreign source’ not only condoning the past illegalities committed but also permitting political parties to receive foreign funds, and thereby paved way for foreign intrusion into our political and electoral process compromising our sovereignty. Further, notwithstanding the huge propaganda of alleged action against Foreign Funded NGOs, there has been a huge spike in #FCRA remittances since the 2014-15. While during the 20 years between financial years 1994-1995 and 2013-14 an amount of Rs. 1,51,036 Crores was received, during the 8 years between 2014-15 and 2023-24 Rs. 1,46,392 was received. Data for financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24 is not yet available. However, from the trends of #FCRA remittances in the preceding years it will be around Rs. 50,000 Crores together for both the financial years, making the total FCRA remittances during 10 year rule of BJP to be around Rs. 2,00,000 Crores which is humongous. Even if a small fraction of that huge amount of foreign funds has gone to political parties or candidates in elections, it amounts to serious subversion of our democracy and constitution. What sort of patriotism is this? Several months prior to 2014 general elections, a spate of alleged scams during UPA rule surfaced namely, Chit Fund scam, Chopper scam, Tatra truck scam, 2G Spectrum scam, CWG scam, Coal scam, Adarsh scam, etc. The courts, CBI, ED and IT proactively initiated action as a result several Congress and UPA leaders came under scanner. Though the BJP came to power on the anti-corruption plank, hardly any political leaders of significance was convicted, nor even paisa of black money stashed away in Swiss banks was brought back. On the other hand, the BJP has allegedly been misusing the law enforcement agencies to arm-twist the opposition political leaders under cloud either to defect to or align with the BJP. Out of 25 important opposition leaders who were allegedly under the scanner and joined BJP, 23 have reportedly got reprieve. Politicians like Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan who faces 38 criminal cases including 11 CBI and 7 ED cases, have been buying peace from the BJP. As a result none of his cases have seen the light of the day, notwithstanding the direction of Supreme Court to speed up trial of cases against politicians. Likewise, the DMK leaders namely, the Maran brothers, A. Raja, Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi have been acquitted, after they not so secretly cosied up to BJP, thanks to the lacklustre prosecution of their cases before the courts. These are only representative examples of how the BJP has become the adda for the leaders facing allegations of corruption, money laundering, etc. It is quite possible that some of them may be genuinely innocent. But as their innocence has been established only after their defection to or aligning with the ruling BJP, it creates dark shadows by raising serious moral questions. Last year, fourteen political parties approached the Supreme Court against the alleged misuse of central investigating agencies in arresting opposition political leaders and other citizens exercising their fundamental right to dissent and disagree with the ruling BJP. It was alleged that 95% of political leaders investigated by CBI and ED belong to opposition. That is, out of 121 prominent politicians facing ED probe between 2014 and 2022, 115 are opposition leaders who had been booked, raided, questioned or arrested. To wriggle out of or deflect the allegations of promoting corruption, shielding the corrupt who have joined or aligned with the BJP and targeting opposition leaders, etc, one of the standard refrains of the BJP has been that as Narendra Modi has no family he cannot be corrupt or has no motivation to be corrupt or shield the corrupt. That is a disingenuous argument. Late Jayalalitha, who was a spinster with no family, was convicted for corruption and was sent to jail. There are many prominent leaders who are unmarried or have no families facing cases or allegations of corruption. I don’t mean to even hint let alone allege that Narendra Modi is personally financially corrupt. I merely want to call out their bluff by highlighting the point that there is no connection between one’s familial status and corruption. It must be recalled that Manmohan Singh, whose personal financial integrity was impeccable, presided over a corrupt regime. As such, personal financial honesty of PM or a CM is meaningless if his party and government are not honest. Barring honourable exceptions, every political party while in opposition grandiloquently talks against corruption, not necessarily because they are honest, but because they try to make a virtue of out of lack of opportunities to make money. Notwithstanding its anti-corruption rhetoric the BJP is no stranger to corruption as its unsavory history tells. In 2001, none other than its National President late Bangaru Laxman was caught on the camera taking bribe from one Mathew Samuel, and was later convicted by a Special CBI Court on 27th April 2012 and sentenced to four years in jail. Further, BJP’s former CM of Karnataka Sri B. S. Yeddyurappa faced charges of corruption and was also in jail for a while. There are allegations of misdeeds of BJP government in PM-CARES Fund which is mired in secrecy, in sale of Air India to Tatas for peanuts, about CAG’s concern about astronomical escalation in cost of construction of Dwarka Expressway from Rs. 18.2 crores per km to Rs. 251 crores per km, in the utility of more than Rs. 14,000 crores public funds for Namami Gange project while the sacred Ganga is on the verge becoming a sewer like Yamuna, and several others. The #ElectoralBondScam which points to several alleged scams, is only a tip of the iceberg. It seems further action to take it to logical end has come to a naught. Therefore, having seen the fate of investigation and trial of all the alleged scams and how the political class sabotage, it is imperative that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising serving or retired officers specially chosen by the Supreme Court, which will not be part of any Law Enforcement Agency but independently directly reporting to the Supreme Court, would alone will be able to unravel the truth. It is pertinent to recall the stellar role of RTI Act and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (before it was amended in 2018) in exposing alleged corruption in the Congress-led UPA government. Information is power. So, the RTI Act empowered people to seek information from public authorities on all official matters (barring a very few exceptions). Based on that information obtained through RTI process about alleged corrupt deals, illegalities, etc during UPA rule, the CBI which had no legal shackles could initiate enquiries and investigation into those allegations. The BJP while in opposition used and exploited this situation to the hilt to oust the Congress-led UPA from power. And having formed government the BJP is acutely aware of the dangers for the corrupt lurking in these laws. So they have systematically wrecked the RTI Act so much so that it has gone from citizens’ most powerful tool to an Act on life support. In 2018 they amended the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. As per new section 17A introduced therein, “No police officer shall conduct any enquiry or inquiry or investigation into any offence alleged to have been committed by a public servant under this Act, where the alleged offence is relatable to any recommendation made or decision taken by such public servant in discharge of his official functions or duties, without the previous approval” of respective governments or appointing authority of the public servant. Which government will permit investigation into its own misdeeds? While Justice R. M. Lodha in 2013 denounced the CBI as a ‘caged parrot’, the BJP government translated his oral observation into a legal reality by destroying the Prevention of Corruption Act. Evidently, the real purpose of BJP undermining RTI Act and emasculating the CBI was to prevent visitation of fate similar to that of UPA by insulating and firewalling themselves from any future enquiries and investigations into their alleged corrupt deeds. Finally, there is an uncanny resemblance between the BJP’s anti-corruption rhetoric with a story in Jeffrey Archer’s popular book, ‘A Twist in the Tale’, which goes like this: Ignatius Agarbi was the new Financial Minister of Nigeria. He begins a sweep on corruption and makes a name for himself. Impressed by his extreme honesty, his president entrusted him to find out how many Nigerians have stashed their bribes in Switzerland. He arrives at the Swiss Bank with a briefcase. Despite his greatest persuasion, the Swiss banker refuses to break their code of privacy. In the end, Ignatius places a gun to the head of the Swiss banker and threatens to kill him. Still the banker refuses to divulge any confidential information. Ignatius, who was actually extremely corrupt, was only checking to find out if the Swiss Banks would actually reveal the name of an account holder. Delighted with their secrecy, Ignatius deposits $5 million in cash which he had skimmed as Financial Minister.”

M. Nageswara Rao IPS (Retired)

239,217 просмотров • 2 лет назад

I WILL NOW RELEASE ADDITIONAL CLASSIFIED INFORMATION NEVER BEFORE RELEASED ABOUT THE MAJESTIC 12 GROUP I will have to give a quick history lesson to those that don't know exactly what MJ-12 is. About halfway down this post I will reveal never before released information. Here goes: As a direct response to the Roswell crash in the early morning hours of July 4th (night of July 3rd) 1947, (Not the June 18th crash) the following actions were taken by President Truman: -He created the US Air Force from the existing Army Air Force. -He created the CIA out of an existing intelligence agency hanging around from World War II. -He forced the National Security Act through to approval. -He created the National Security Council. -He issued a classified executive order (YES he did) to create a centralized group within the National Security Council, known as order 54-12. When searching the National Archives this will only be listed as a "SPECIAL STUDIES GROUP". THIS was actually the formation of the Majestic 12 Group which was formed to operate & oversee the entire extraterrestrial & #UFO subject in the "interest of the National Security of the US", and answering only to the Office of the President of the United States. By the time Eisenhower became President, MJ-12 had already assassinated their first leader; Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, for wanting to reveal the truth to the American public, BUT made it look like he had went crazy and then killed himself. Eisenhower, being a respected military General, when MJ-12 refused him access to what they were doing after he took office, he threatened to send a Special forces unit loyal to him to take back their Command center at the time & take over the entire operation from them. This was the first & last time that the Majestic 12 Group blinked. They allowed Eisenhower's representative access to the Technologies, the laboratories, and an extraterrestrial held prisoner. They even let him sit in on the interrogation. Then in 1953 everything changed The Majestic 12 Group realized they had to delegate their responsibilities because the 12 individuals, that were chosen from Military, Intelligence, and Scientific professions, were not enough if they wanted to expand into the private sector & become self-funded, while still siphoning from the defense budget. THIS IS THE PART THAT HAS NEVER BEEN RELEASED: The Majestic 12 formed an actual committee that still answered to them, but with different compartments where they could still keep everything compartmentalized per responsibilities. When they did this they created a brand new security clearance out of their original MAJESTIC clearance, known as MAJIC EYES ONLY And yes you know of that clearance, but what you DON'T know, is what it stands for: M.ilitary A.nd J.oint I.ntelligence C.ommitee So when they say that clearance is for MJ-12 and those EYES ONLY that they clear to view it, they are referring to their own committee members, and anyone those committee members then compartmentalize for each compartment. This committee started off with 24 individuals (2 per MJ-12 member) and is now grown to over 200. THIS was how they Incorporated companies like IBM, GE, EG&G, Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, etc with some of these CEOs like Ben Rich and Kelly Johnson even being promoted to become one of the top 12 within MJ-12 itself. Now, there are six senior members of the M.A.J.I.C. who have defected and plan to come forward anywhere between now and the end of January. They'll be revealing actual proof that everyone wants and asks me for. -FIRST HAND accounts of crash retrieval sights. -ADDRESSES of CURRENT locations #Aliens & Tech is stored. -NAMES/DATES/TIMES/EVENTS, etc. In response, MJ-12 have deployed unmanned & manned Alien Reproduction technology (NJ) & controlled media coverage to counter these 6 about to blow the lid off things, by making everyone think it "could be a THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY" and we need to prepare.

WHISTLEBLOWER

102,025 просмотров • 1 год назад

🚨BREAKING🚨 OXFORD STUDENT HAS WHO CALLED FOR ZIONISTS TO BE MURDERED HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR INCITING RACIAL HATRED AND SUSPENDED FROM HIS UNIVERSITY n Oxford student who was filmed chanting 'put the Zios in the ground' at a pro-Palestine protest has been arrested by police and suspended by the university. The Metropolitan Police has taken Samuel Williams into custody after he was named by the Daily Mail as the student leading the vile anti-Israeli chants. 'Zio' is an offensive reference to Zionists, and some have interpreted the words as calling for death to Jews, after the Palestine Coalition demonstration on Saturday. Mr Williams, 20, was arrested today at a property in Oxfordshire on suspicion of inciting racial hatred following an investigation by Scotland Yard detectives. The philosophy, politics and economics student at Balliol College has also been suspended by Oxford University while it conducts its own investigation. A Met spokesman said: 'Officers investigating chants filmed at a Palestine Coalition demonstration in Central London on Saturday, October 11 have made an arrest. 'A 20-year-old man was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire on Wednesday, October 15 on suspicion of inciting racial hatred. He remains in police custody.' The chants were filmed last Saturday in central London, the day after the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza. Speaking through a microphone at the march, Mr Williams told the crowd: 'A steadfast and noble resistance in Palestine and in Gaza to look to, to be inspired by and – I don't want to yap for too long – but a chant that we've been workshopping in Oxford that maybe you guys want to join in. 'It goes 'Gaza, Gaza make us proud, put the Zios in the ground'.' It is understood Ministers have also made contact with Oxford University following the incident and have reiterated calls zero tolerance of anti-Semitism. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said last week that there had been an 'unacceptable increase in anti-Semitism' at universities and added that many Jewish students did not feel safe on campus. She called on universities to strengthen protections for Jewish students and said the Government was funding training to help staff and students 'tackle this poison of anti-Semitism'. Other online footage from the rally showed Mr Williams near the front of a group of protesters who were holding signs bearing messages including 'Oxford University pick a side, justice or genocide'. A spokesman for Oxford University said: 'The University of Oxford condemns, in the strongest possible terms, any language urging violence against groups of people or expressing any form of racial hatred. 'The university's support for freedom of speech does not extend to any statements, including such language. 'When such language is reported, we will always want to speak to the student concerned and consider the matter under our disciplinary procedures in line with university and college policies. 'Oxford is unequivocal – there is no place for anti-Semitism, harassment, or discrimination within our community. We remain firmly committed to protecting the safety and dignity of all our students and staff.' A spokesman for the Union of Jewish Students said: 'The Union of Jewish Students welcomes the news that decisive action has been taken against a University of Oxford student who called to 'put the Zios in the ground'. 'Jewish students should never have to stand by as their peers glorify terrorism or incite hatred. 'Universities around the country should take note of this swift action. Institutions must end the culture of impunity that has allowed antisemitism to go unchecked on campus and take a firm, consistent stand against the glorification of terror.' It comes after the Daily Mail found Mr Williams, whose family home is in a middle class area in Tunbridge Wells, is a veteran pro-Palestine protester. Before winning a coveted place at Oxford, Mr Williams attended the Bennett Memorial Diocesan school in Tunbridge Wells. Pictures from Samuel Williams's Instagram account show him regularly sporting a red and white keffiyeh scarf. A keffiyeh is a type of Arabic accessory which has recently become associated with the pro-Palestine movement. And since joining the university he has dedicated his life not to his studies but to student activism and Palestine. Several pictures taken from his Instagram account show Mr Williams's participating in the highly controversial Oxford University student encampments. Mr Williams was among dozens of students who occupied and camped outside the Oxford Natural History museum to protest against their university's alleged complicity in Israel's war against Hamas. Another social media post captioned 'f*** your exams 2024, anti-colonial action' includes a picture of Mr Williams and a female friend participating in a pro-Palestine protest. 'Zio' - a term formed by Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke - is a slur made by shortening the word 'Zionist' and is often directed towards Jewish people.

🚨BREAKING🚨 OXFORD STUDENT HAS WHO CALLED FOR ZIONISTS TO BE MURDERED HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR INCITING RACIAL HATRED AND SUSPENDED FROM HIS UNIVERSITY n Oxford student who was filmed chanting 'put the Zios in the ground' at a pro-Palestine protest has been arrested by police and suspended by the university. The Metropolitan Police has taken Samuel Williams into custody after he was named by the Daily Mail as the student leading the vile anti-Israeli chants. 'Zio' is an offensive reference to Zionists, and some have interpreted the words as calling for death to Jews, after the Palestine Coalition demonstration on Saturday. Mr Williams, 20, was arrested today at a property in Oxfordshire on suspicion of inciting racial hatred following an investigation by Scotland Yard detectives. The philosophy, politics and economics student at Balliol College has also been suspended by Oxford University while it conducts its own investigation. A Met spokesman said: 'Officers investigating chants filmed at a Palestine Coalition demonstration in Central London on Saturday, October 11 have made an arrest. 'A 20-year-old man was arrested at an address in Oxfordshire on Wednesday, October 15 on suspicion of inciting racial hatred. He remains in police custody.' The chants were filmed last Saturday in central London, the day after the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza. Speaking through a microphone at the march, Mr Williams told the crowd: 'A steadfast and noble resistance in Palestine and in Gaza to look to, to be inspired by and – I don't want to yap for too long – but a chant that we've been workshopping in Oxford that maybe you guys want to join in. 'It goes 'Gaza, Gaza make us proud, put the Zios in the ground'.' It is understood Ministers have also made contact with Oxford University following the incident and have reiterated calls zero tolerance of anti-Semitism. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said last week that there had been an 'unacceptable increase in anti-Semitism' at universities and added that many Jewish students did not feel safe on campus. She called on universities to strengthen protections for Jewish students and said the Government was funding training to help staff and students 'tackle this poison of anti-Semitism'. Other online footage from the rally showed Mr Williams near the front of a group of protesters who were holding signs bearing messages including 'Oxford University pick a side, justice or genocide'. A spokesman for Oxford University said: 'The University of Oxford condemns, in the strongest possible terms, any language urging violence against groups of people or expressing any form of racial hatred. 'The university's support for freedom of speech does not extend to any statements, including such language. 'When such language is reported, we will always want to speak to the student concerned and consider the matter under our disciplinary procedures in line with university and college policies. 'Oxford is unequivocal – there is no place for anti-Semitism, harassment, or discrimination within our community. We remain firmly committed to protecting the safety and dignity of all our students and staff.' A spokesman for the Union of Jewish Students said: 'The Union of Jewish Students welcomes the news that decisive action has been taken against a University of Oxford student who called to 'put the Zios in the ground'. 'Jewish students should never have to stand by as their peers glorify terrorism or incite hatred. 'Universities around the country should take note of this swift action. Institutions must end the culture of impunity that has allowed antisemitism to go unchecked on campus and take a firm, consistent stand against the glorification of terror.' It comes after the Daily Mail found Mr Williams, whose family home is in a middle class area in Tunbridge Wells, is a veteran pro-Palestine protester. Before winning a coveted place at Oxford, Mr Williams attended the Bennett Memorial Diocesan school in Tunbridge Wells. Pictures from Samuel Williams's Instagram account show him regularly sporting a red and white keffiyeh scarf. A keffiyeh is a type of Arabic accessory which has recently become associated with the pro-Palestine movement. And since joining the university he has dedicated his life not to his studies but to student activism and Palestine. Several pictures taken from his Instagram account show Mr Williams's participating in the highly controversial Oxford University student encampments. Mr Williams was among dozens of students who occupied and camped outside the Oxford Natural History museum to protest against their university's alleged complicity in Israel's war against Hamas. Another social media post captioned 'f*** your exams 2024, anti-colonial action' includes a picture of Mr Williams and a female friend participating in a pro-Palestine protest. 'Zio' - a term formed by Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke - is a slur made by shortening the word 'Zionist' and is often directed towards Jewish people.

Grifty

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The Lindsay home invasion: here are the facts the police and the mainstream media won’t tell you Enough with the injustice; enough with the system mollycoddling violent criminals while throwing the book at law-abiding victims. Lindsay is a community of about 24,000 situated in Ontario’s cottage country. The people are friendly, and its main street has a certain charm to it. But what happened on Aug. 18 in the wee hours of the morning was downright horrific. What was also horrific is that the Kawartha Lakes Police Service and the mainstream media refuse to report the facts of what occurred that day – including the name of the thug and the victim and the weapon that was reportedly employed in what turned out to be a brutal home invasion. Here’s what happened: Jeremy McDonald, 44, was fast asleep in his second storey apartment only to have his slumber rudely interrupted at approximately 3:20 a.m. (when nothing good ever happens.) The uninvited guest, according to multiple sources, was allegedly Mike Breen, 41. Breen is reportedly a career criminal and an alleged drug addict and was already wanted by police for – you guessed it – a probation violation. Breen entered McDonald’s apartment through a window. According to sources, Breen was accompanied by either two or three accomplices, who remained outside on the building’s roof. They would later flee the scene. Sources say the weapon in Breen’s possession was a crossbow. Once awake, McDonald quietly got out of his bed and made his way to the kitchen where he activated his cellphone. However, the illumination of the phone alerted Breen that McDonald was indeed awake – and aware of his presence. Sources say Breen charged at McDonald, hitting him on the head with the crossbow’s stock. McDonald did his best to defend himself. Breen suffered life-threatening injuries as a result of the altercation and was later air-lifted to a Toronto hospital. In the aftermath of this horrific incident, the Kawartha Lakes Police Service laid the following charges against Breen: - Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. - Break, Enter and Theft. - Mischief Under $5,000. - Fail to Comply Probation. But get this: the cops also laid charges against McDonald! Namely, Aggravated Assault and Assault with a Weapon. Even worse, should Breen succumb to his injuries in hospital, there is speculation that McDonald could face a manslaughter charge! This is equal parts outrageous and egregious. What was McDonald supposed to do? Be a passive victim in his own home? When it comes to predators and prey in the wild kingdom, it always boils down to a matter of “flight or fight.” And flight is not an option when you are in your own house. You have crossed the finish line when you are in your own house. There is nowhere to run. You fight back – or potentially get slaughtered. This story is receiving international attention for all the wrong reasons. And it would seem that this has resulted in the Kawartha Lakes Police Service suffering from hurt feelings. On Aug. 20, Kirk Robertson, the KLPS Police Chief, issued the following press release: “We recognize that the recent media release regarding an incident on August 18, 2025 has generated significant public interest and emotional responses. The Kawartha Lakes Police Service appreciates the community's engagement and concern. However, the negative commentary about the officers and their actions is unjust and inaccurate. “The investigators were able to examine all of the information and evidence that was available, prior to laying any charges. In order to protect the investigation and the rights of any person who is charged with an offence during their court proceedings, only a limited amount of information is being released to the public. The role of the police is to investigate impartially and present findings to the justice system, which ultimately determines the outcome. It is important to remember that charges are not convictions; they are part of the judicial process, which ensures that all facts are considered fairly in court. We encourage you to follow this matter as it proceeds through the justice system. “Under Canadian law, individuals have the right to defend themselves and their property. The Criminal Code of Canada, specifically Sections 34 and 35, allow a person to use reasonable force to protect themselves and their property if they believe they are facing a threat. “However, it is important to understand that these rights are not unlimited in Canada. The law requires that any defensive action be proportionate to the threat faced. This means that while homeowners do have the right to protect themselves and their property, the use of force must be reasonable given the circumstances. “The Kawartha Lakes Police Service remains committed to public safety, transparency, and respectful dialogue. At this time we will not be releasing any further information about this incident. “Thank you for your continued support and understanding.” Alas, this woe-is-me drivel raises more questions than it provides answers. For starters, the crux of the matter is this: “The law requires that any defensive action be proportionate to the threat faced.” What does this even mean? What sort of defensive action is deemed “proportionate.” A slap? A punch? A kick? Using a wooden spoon? The cops won’t say, so how is anyone to know? As for “transparency”, is the chief joking? Virtually no tangible information was originally provided – including the name of the home invader! Why would Breen’s identity remain confidential? He is not a young offender. Gross. Indeed, many crimes were committed in Lindsay in the wee hours of Aug. 18. But perhaps the worst crime was the justice system re-victimizing the victim. Enough with the injustice; enough with the system mollycoddling violent criminals while throwing the book at law-abiding victims. Enough with a Liberal government that doesn’t seem to care that it is now open season when it comes to hardworking Canadians who are so often sitting ducks given that we can no longer depend on the police to protect us. Rather, we are criminally charged for fighting back against weaponized career criminals! Enough is enough.

The Lindsay home invasion: here are the facts the police and the mainstream media won’t tell you Enough with the injustice; enough with the system mollycoddling violent criminals while throwing the book at law-abiding victims. Lindsay is a community of about 24,000 situated in Ontario’s cottage country. The people are friendly, and its main street has a certain charm to it. But what happened on Aug. 18 in the wee hours of the morning was downright horrific. What was also horrific is that the Kawartha Lakes Police Service and the mainstream media refuse to report the facts of what occurred that day – including the name of the thug and the victim and the weapon that was reportedly employed in what turned out to be a brutal home invasion. Here’s what happened: Jeremy McDonald, 44, was fast asleep in his second storey apartment only to have his slumber rudely interrupted at approximately 3:20 a.m. (when nothing good ever happens.) The uninvited guest, according to multiple sources, was allegedly Mike Breen, 41. Breen is reportedly a career criminal and an alleged drug addict and was already wanted by police for – you guessed it – a probation violation. Breen entered McDonald’s apartment through a window. According to sources, Breen was accompanied by either two or three accomplices, who remained outside on the building’s roof. They would later flee the scene. Sources say the weapon in Breen’s possession was a crossbow. Once awake, McDonald quietly got out of his bed and made his way to the kitchen where he activated his cellphone. However, the illumination of the phone alerted Breen that McDonald was indeed awake – and aware of his presence. Sources say Breen charged at McDonald, hitting him on the head with the crossbow’s stock. McDonald did his best to defend himself. Breen suffered life-threatening injuries as a result of the altercation and was later air-lifted to a Toronto hospital. In the aftermath of this horrific incident, the Kawartha Lakes Police Service laid the following charges against Breen: - Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. - Break, Enter and Theft. - Mischief Under $5,000. - Fail to Comply Probation. But get this: the cops also laid charges against McDonald! Namely, Aggravated Assault and Assault with a Weapon. Even worse, should Breen succumb to his injuries in hospital, there is speculation that McDonald could face a manslaughter charge! This is equal parts outrageous and egregious. What was McDonald supposed to do? Be a passive victim in his own home? When it comes to predators and prey in the wild kingdom, it always boils down to a matter of “flight or fight.” And flight is not an option when you are in your own house. You have crossed the finish line when you are in your own house. There is nowhere to run. You fight back – or potentially get slaughtered. This story is receiving international attention for all the wrong reasons. And it would seem that this has resulted in the Kawartha Lakes Police Service suffering from hurt feelings. On Aug. 20, Kirk Robertson, the KLPS Police Chief, issued the following press release: “We recognize that the recent media release regarding an incident on August 18, 2025 has generated significant public interest and emotional responses. The Kawartha Lakes Police Service appreciates the community's engagement and concern. However, the negative commentary about the officers and their actions is unjust and inaccurate. “The investigators were able to examine all of the information and evidence that was available, prior to laying any charges. In order to protect the investigation and the rights of any person who is charged with an offence during their court proceedings, only a limited amount of information is being released to the public. The role of the police is to investigate impartially and present findings to the justice system, which ultimately determines the outcome. It is important to remember that charges are not convictions; they are part of the judicial process, which ensures that all facts are considered fairly in court. We encourage you to follow this matter as it proceeds through the justice system. “Under Canadian law, individuals have the right to defend themselves and their property. The Criminal Code of Canada, specifically Sections 34 and 35, allow a person to use reasonable force to protect themselves and their property if they believe they are facing a threat. “However, it is important to understand that these rights are not unlimited in Canada. The law requires that any defensive action be proportionate to the threat faced. This means that while homeowners do have the right to protect themselves and their property, the use of force must be reasonable given the circumstances. “The Kawartha Lakes Police Service remains committed to public safety, transparency, and respectful dialogue. At this time we will not be releasing any further information about this incident. “Thank you for your continued support and understanding.” Alas, this woe-is-me drivel raises more questions than it provides answers. For starters, the crux of the matter is this: “The law requires that any defensive action be proportionate to the threat faced.” What does this even mean? What sort of defensive action is deemed “proportionate.” A slap? A punch? A kick? Using a wooden spoon? The cops won’t say, so how is anyone to know? As for “transparency”, is the chief joking? Virtually no tangible information was originally provided – including the name of the home invader! Why would Breen’s identity remain confidential? He is not a young offender. Gross. Indeed, many crimes were committed in Lindsay in the wee hours of Aug. 18. But perhaps the worst crime was the justice system re-victimizing the victim. Enough with the injustice; enough with the system mollycoddling violent criminals while throwing the book at law-abiding victims. Enough with a Liberal government that doesn’t seem to care that it is now open season when it comes to hardworking Canadians who are so often sitting ducks given that we can no longer depend on the police to protect us. Rather, we are criminally charged for fighting back against weaponized career criminals! Enough is enough.

Rebel News

309,424 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

$🚨Jacksonville Sheriff's Arrests Mother for Illegal Parking in School Pick-Up Line🧐 Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Releases Body Cam Footage in First HALO Law Arrests During Chaotic School Pickup. Jacksonville, Fla. — October 11, 2025 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) has released body camera footage capturing a tense confrontation at a local charter school that escalated into the agency’s first arrests under Florida’s controversial HALO Law, highlighting growing enforcement of protections for first responders amid public backlash. The incident unfolded on October 7, 2025, during dismissal at the IDEA University charter school on Basset Road, when 39-year-old Erika McGriff, identified as a habitual traffic offender with a revoked driver’s license, illegally parked her running vehicle in a busy intersection to pick up her child. According to JSO, McGriff left the car unattended, prompting an officer to approach her for the violation. What began as a routine traffic stop quickly spiraled into violence. Body cam footage shows McGriff refusing to provide her license, walking away while insisting she was simply retrieving her student, and then resisting arrest. She squared up to the officer, exchanged blows, and bit him on the arm during the struggle. The officer, alone at the scene, restrained her on the concrete using a choke hold as a school administrator assisted. Within moments, a crowd of onlookers gathered just feet away, shouting at the officer to release her and creating what authorities described as a “disturbing” and potentially dangerous environment. The footage, played during a news briefing by Sheriff T.K. Waters, also includes cellphone video from a bystander that went viral on social media, further illustrating the agitated crowd’s proximity to the officer. “It’s not an easy job, and it’s making it more difficult when police officers come out here and try to affect the law lawfully... and you get surrounded like that. It’s dangerous, anything can happen,” Waters said. McGriff was ultimately handcuffed and placed in a patrol vehicle. She faces multiple charges, including battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, operating a vehicle with a revoked license as a habitual traffic offender, and four additional traffic infractions. The crowd’s interference triggered JSO’s inaugural use of the HALO Law—formally known as Honoring and Listening to Our Officers (SB 184), which took effect on January 1, 2025. The legislation prohibits individuals from approaching or remaining within 25 feet of first responders after a verbal warning, if the action intends to block, threaten, or harass them during their duties. Harassment is defined as conduct causing substantial emotional distress without legitimate purpose, classified as a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. Two women from the crowd were arrested in connection with the event. A 59-year-old spectator was charged with interfering with a first responder after allegedly using an expletive to harass the officer and failing to retreat following a warning. On October 10, a 36-year-old woman was taken into custody for the same interference charge, plus possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana; she had reportedly grabbed her phone from the ground and was “doing a lot of chirping,” per authorities. JSO also announced plans to charge a juvenile who allegedly threatened to “shoot up the school” in response to the arrests. Sheriff Waters, in a stern statement during Friday’s briefing, condemned the actions as a “breakdown of a civil society.” He emphasized, “If you violently resist our officers, if you punch them, if you bite them, you will be arrested. If you crowd and harass our officers or any first responder after a verbal warning, you will be arrested.” Waters highlighted the incident’s impact on bystanders, noting that “these adults modeled and normalized for school-aged children not only breaking the law, but lying to the police, violently resisting the police, punching police officers, biting a police officer and harassing a police officer.” The HALO Law has sparked debate since its passage, with critics arguing it could hinder First Amendment rights, such as filming police encounters. While the statute explicitly allows recording from a distance, proposed amendments to protect peaceful questioning or filming for legitimate purposes, like public concern, did not pass. Waters addressed this balance: “I don’t mind people standing beyond 25 feet videoing or saying what you’re going to say... But if it gets to a point where it creates an uncomfortable level for our police officer who may or may not get hurt by someone in the crowd, then we have to draw the line.” As of Saturday, McGriff remains in custody, and JSO has vowed stricter enforcement around school zones to prevent similar disruptions. The release of the body cam video has amplified calls for de-escalation training among officers and clearer guidelines for parental traffic etiquette during school hours.$

🚨Jacksonville Sheriff's Arrests Mother for Illegal Parking in School Pick-Up Line🧐 Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Releases Body Cam Footage in First HALO Law Arrests During Chaotic School Pickup. Jacksonville, Fla. — October 11, 2025 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) has released body camera footage capturing a tense confrontation at a local charter school that escalated into the agency’s first arrests under Florida’s controversial HALO Law, highlighting growing enforcement of protections for first responders amid public backlash. The incident unfolded on October 7, 2025, during dismissal at the IDEA University charter school on Basset Road, when 39-year-old Erika McGriff, identified as a habitual traffic offender with a revoked driver’s license, illegally parked her running vehicle in a busy intersection to pick up her child. According to JSO, McGriff left the car unattended, prompting an officer to approach her for the violation. What began as a routine traffic stop quickly spiraled into violence. Body cam footage shows McGriff refusing to provide her license, walking away while insisting she was simply retrieving her student, and then resisting arrest. She squared up to the officer, exchanged blows, and bit him on the arm during the struggle. The officer, alone at the scene, restrained her on the concrete using a choke hold as a school administrator assisted. Within moments, a crowd of onlookers gathered just feet away, shouting at the officer to release her and creating what authorities described as a “disturbing” and potentially dangerous environment. The footage, played during a news briefing by Sheriff T.K. Waters, also includes cellphone video from a bystander that went viral on social media, further illustrating the agitated crowd’s proximity to the officer. “It’s not an easy job, and it’s making it more difficult when police officers come out here and try to affect the law lawfully... and you get surrounded like that. It’s dangerous, anything can happen,” Waters said. McGriff was ultimately handcuffed and placed in a patrol vehicle. She faces multiple charges, including battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, operating a vehicle with a revoked license as a habitual traffic offender, and four additional traffic infractions. The crowd’s interference triggered JSO’s inaugural use of the HALO Law—formally known as Honoring and Listening to Our Officers (SB 184), which took effect on January 1, 2025. The legislation prohibits individuals from approaching or remaining within 25 feet of first responders after a verbal warning, if the action intends to block, threaten, or harass them during their duties. Harassment is defined as conduct causing substantial emotional distress without legitimate purpose, classified as a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. Two women from the crowd were arrested in connection with the event. A 59-year-old spectator was charged with interfering with a first responder after allegedly using an expletive to harass the officer and failing to retreat following a warning. On October 10, a 36-year-old woman was taken into custody for the same interference charge, plus possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana; she had reportedly grabbed her phone from the ground and was “doing a lot of chirping,” per authorities. JSO also announced plans to charge a juvenile who allegedly threatened to “shoot up the school” in response to the arrests. Sheriff Waters, in a stern statement during Friday’s briefing, condemned the actions as a “breakdown of a civil society.” He emphasized, “If you violently resist our officers, if you punch them, if you bite them, you will be arrested. If you crowd and harass our officers or any first responder after a verbal warning, you will be arrested.” Waters highlighted the incident’s impact on bystanders, noting that “these adults modeled and normalized for school-aged children not only breaking the law, but lying to the police, violently resisting the police, punching police officers, biting a police officer and harassing a police officer.” The HALO Law has sparked debate since its passage, with critics arguing it could hinder First Amendment rights, such as filming police encounters. While the statute explicitly allows recording from a distance, proposed amendments to protect peaceful questioning or filming for legitimate purposes, like public concern, did not pass. Waters addressed this balance: “I don’t mind people standing beyond 25 feet videoing or saying what you’re going to say... But if it gets to a point where it creates an uncomfortable level for our police officer who may or may not get hurt by someone in the crowd, then we have to draw the line.” As of Saturday, McGriff remains in custody, and JSO has vowed stricter enforcement around school zones to prevent similar disruptions. The release of the body cam video has amplified calls for de-escalation training among officers and clearer guidelines for parental traffic etiquette during school hours.

#SeekingTheTruth JoshWhoX

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The Arrests of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan and former New Mexico Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano Democrat Morons Unleash Rogue & Criminal Judges: A Maniacal Leftist Plot to Shield Criminals and Defy Trump The United States is witnessing a judicial meltdown of epic proportions, where a cabal of deranged, leftist activist judges—drunk on their own power and riddled with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)—are waging an unhinged war against President Donald Trump’s mandate to restore order, secure the border, and purge the nation of waste, fraud, and illegal immigration. Elected by millions of Americans to steer the country back from the brink, Trump’s agenda to prioritize citizens, dismantle criminal networks, and enforce the rule of law is being sabotaged at every turn by a lunatic left and their Democrat lackeys, who, now politically impotent, have turned to the courts as their last bastion of resistance. These rogue judges, cloaked in robes but acting like political operatives, are not only issuing absurd nationwide injunctions to block Trump’s lawful policies but, in a shocking descent into criminality, some are now actively aiding and abetting violent illegal aliens—wife-beaters, woman-beaters, gangbangers, rapists, murderers, and worse—to evade justice. The recent arrests of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan and former New Mexico Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, along with his wife Nancy, expose the depths of this madness, revealing a judiciary infected by a toxic leftist ideology that threatens America’s safety, sovereignty, and democratic will. The Arrests: Deranged Judges Turning Criminal to Protect Criminals The arrests of Judge Hannah Dugan and former Judge Joel Cano are not mere isolated incidents but glaring symptoms of a judiciary gone rogue and crazy, where leftist ideology has warped the rule of law into a twisted shield for criminals. In Milwaukee, on April 25, 2025, FBI agents apprehended Judge Dugan, a sitting judge, for obstructing an immigration operation and concealing an individual to prevent arrest. Her crime? Allegedly helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national and previously deported illegal immigrant, dodge ICE agents waiting to detain him after a court appearance on April 18. Flores-Ruiz, charged with misdemeanor battery for a vicious domestic violence assault that left a man and woman hospitalized, was no innocent victim. Yet, Judge Dugan, in a brazen act of defiance, reportedly became “visibly angry” upon learning of ICE’s presence, confronted agents, demanded they consult the chief judge, and then escorted Flores-Ruiz and his attorney through a restricted jury door to evade capture. This sparked a dangerous foot chase, endangering agents and the public, before Flores-Ruiz was finally apprehended. You really can't make this stuff up—it's like Judge Dugan saw too many Hollywood cop movies and thought that she would make a better villain judge. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, former Judge Joel Cano and his wife Nancy were arrested on April 24, 2025, for tampering with evidence after allegedly harboring Cristhian Ortega, a suspected Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang member. Following a February 28 raid on their home, where Ortega was found, Judge Cano admitted to smashing Ortega’s cellphone with a hammer and discarding it, believing it contained incriminating photos of Ortega with firearms—evidence that could have mapped TDA’s criminal network or even linked to Venezuelan government ties, bolstering Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. Judge Cano’s resignation days after the raid reeks of a desperate attempt to dodge accountability, but the FBI’s swift action caught up with him. These judges didn’t just bend the law—they obliterated it, acting as accomplices to violent offenders. Judge Dugan’s actions betrayed domestic violence victims sitting in her courtroom, waiting for justice, while Judge Cano’s destruction of evidence potentially shielded a transnational gang with ties to a hostile regime. Attorney General Pam Bondi minced no words: “No one is above the law… If you are destroying evidence, if you are obstructing justice, when you have victims sitting in a courtroom of domestic violence, and you’re escorting a criminal defendant out a back door, it will not be tolerated.” This isn’t judicial discretion; it’s a leftist fever dream where illegal aliens are sanctified as a protected class, elevated above American citizens and the law itself. Leftist Ideology: A Cancer in the Judiciary The actions of Judge Dugan and Judge Cano are the rancid fruit of a leftist ideology that has metastasized within America’s judiciary, turning judges into political crusaders who view themselves as above the law. This ideology, rooted in a delusional belief that illegal immigrants—regardless of their crimes—are inherently victims of an oppressive system, drives these judges to prioritize open borders over public safety. Buck Sexton nailed it: “The Democrats view illegal aliens as inherently a victim class worthy of special support and also a separate set of laws.” This warped mindset, festering in hyper-left law schools and reinforced by Democrat echo chambers, has produced judges who see their robes as licenses to enact radical agendas, not uphold justice. Judge Dugan, a former Legal Aid Society attorney and Catholic Charities director, and Judge Cano, a long-serving magistrate, embody this activist ethos. Their careers, steeped in progressive advocacy, primed them to view immigration enforcement as an affront to their moral superiority. Judge Dugan’s tantrum over ICE’s “absurd” presence and Judge Cano’s destruction of evidence to protect a suspected TDA member reveal a god complex, as Professor Alan Dershowitz described: “Federal judges think they are above the law and above morality. They think that because they’re wearing robes… they’re so peremptory and so outrageous in their conduct.” This arrogance fuels their willingness to break the law, believing their “noble” cause—shielding illegal aliens—justifies any means, even criminal ones. Nationwide Injunctions: Rogue Judges Weaponizing the Bench Beyond these criminal acts, a broader assault on Trump’s agenda comes from federal district judges issuing nationwide injunctions—legal grenades lobbed to halt his immigration policies. These injunctions, often from single, unelected judges in liberal strongholds, block executive actions across the entire country, defying the will of millions who voted for Trump to secure the border and deport criminal aliens. Judges like the corrupt lunatic James Boasberg, a poster child for leftist judicial overreach, have become notorious for such antics, earning Dershowitz’s scorn for their “god complex” and questionable impartiality (Boasberg’s daughter reportedly works for an anti-deportation group). Nationwide injunctions are a legal abomination, lacking any constitutional basis and wielded as political weapons. They’ve targeted Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, invoked in March 2025 to deport suspected TDA members, and other enforcement measures, like the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal Salvadoran migrant who is an MS-13 gangbanger and wife-beater, whom the biased fake news media keep mislabeling as a “Maryland” man. Judges like Paula Xinis in Maryland have chastised the administration, demanding Garcia’s return while ignoring the broader context of Trump’s mandate to prioritize American safety. These injunctions don’t just delay policy—they paralyze it, allowing criminal networks to exploit legal loopholes while Democrat cheerleaders cry about “due process” for gang members and batterers. The damage is catastrophic. Paul Mauro highlighted the operational nightmare: tracking mobile criminals like TDA members is “very hard,” and courthouse arrests are critical when they “pop in the computer” for state charges. By obstructing ICE, judges like Dugan create chaos, forcing dangerous chases and risking public safety. Judge Cano’s destruction of evidence potentially hid TDA’s ties to the Venezuelan government, undermining Trump’s claim of a “hybrid criminal state” infiltration—a claim that, if proven, validates the Alien Enemies Act’s use. Every injunction, every act of judicial sabotage, emboldens criminal networks, erodes border security, and betrays American citizens. The Lunatic Left and Democrat Morons: A Desperate Power Grab The lunatic left and their Democrat morons, humiliated by Trump’s landslide victory, are in full meltdown, clinging to the courts as their last hope to thwart the American people’s will. Milwaukee’s mayor, Cavalier Johnson, had the gall to claim Judge Dugan’s arrest “scares residents from coming to court,” as if protecting a domestic abuser is a public service. Imbecilic senators like Dick Durbin, Tina Smith, and Tammy Baldwin wailed about “judicial independence” and “constitutional limits,” conveniently ignoring the victims left in the wake of their pet judges’ actions. Their hypocrisy is nauseating: they chant “No One is Above The Law” when targeting Trump but clutch their pearls when their insane activist judges face cuffs for aiding criminals. This is a desperate power grab by a defeated ideology. The left’s open-borders dogma, which Sexton aptly called a belief that America should “take in criminals from all the rest of the world,” has no electoral legs, so they’ve outsourced their fight to deranged activist rogue judges. These judicial stooges, backed by Democrat whining, are willing to risk America’s safety to score political points, even if it means harboring gangbangers or letting wife-beaters slip away. Their actions scream contempt for the voters who chose Trump to clean house, deport criminals, and restore sanity. The Damage to America The consequences of this judicial insanity are dire. First, it undermines public safety. By shielding violent illegal aliens, judges like Dugan and Cano embolden criminals, leaving communities vulnerable to assaults, gang activity, and worse. The TDA, with its alleged Venezuelan government ties, isn’t a petty street gang—it’s a transnational threat that thrives on judicial leniency. Second, it erodes trust in the judiciary. When activist judges act like leftist vigilantes, breaking laws or issuing baseless injunctions, they tarnish the bench’s credibility, turning courts into political battlegrounds. Third, it delays Trump’s agenda, stalling deportations, border security, and fraud crackdowns that Americans demanded. Every injunction, every obstructed arrest, prolongs the chaos of open borders and unchecked crime. Worst of all, this judicial rebellion defies democracy itself. Trump’s election was a clear mandate to fix the mess left by years of leftist policies. By using nationwide injunctions and criminal acts to block him, these crooked, rogue and even criminal judges are spitting in the face of millions, acting as unelected overlords who think they know better than the people. If unchecked, their antics could destabilize the nation, fueling resentment and fracturing the rule of law they claim to uphold. It's Urgent to Crush the Madness The arrests of Judge Dugan and Judge Cano are a wake-up call: the Trump administration must double down, rooting out these unhinged rogue judges with the full force of the law. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are sending a message: “If you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are.” Good. It’s time to dismantle the leftist stranglehold on the judiciary, starting with prosecuting those who cross into criminality and reforming the system to curb abuses like nationwide injunctions. The lunatic left and their Democrat morons can screech all they want—their time is up. America voted for Trump to drain the swamp, secure the border, and put citizens first. No deranged judge, no matter how lofty their perch, should stand in the way. The rule of law must prevail, and these judicial tyrants must face the consequences of their betrayal.

The Arrests of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan and former New Mexico Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano Democrat Morons Unleash Rogue & Criminal Judges: A Maniacal Leftist Plot to Shield Criminals and Defy Trump The United States is witnessing a judicial meltdown of epic proportions, where a cabal of deranged, leftist activist judges—drunk on their own power and riddled with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)—are waging an unhinged war against President Donald Trump’s mandate to restore order, secure the border, and purge the nation of waste, fraud, and illegal immigration. Elected by millions of Americans to steer the country back from the brink, Trump’s agenda to prioritize citizens, dismantle criminal networks, and enforce the rule of law is being sabotaged at every turn by a lunatic left and their Democrat lackeys, who, now politically impotent, have turned to the courts as their last bastion of resistance. These rogue judges, cloaked in robes but acting like political operatives, are not only issuing absurd nationwide injunctions to block Trump’s lawful policies but, in a shocking descent into criminality, some are now actively aiding and abetting violent illegal aliens—wife-beaters, woman-beaters, gangbangers, rapists, murderers, and worse—to evade justice. The recent arrests of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan and former New Mexico Magistrate Judge Joel Cano, along with his wife Nancy, expose the depths of this madness, revealing a judiciary infected by a toxic leftist ideology that threatens America’s safety, sovereignty, and democratic will. The Arrests: Deranged Judges Turning Criminal to Protect Criminals The arrests of Judge Hannah Dugan and former Judge Joel Cano are not mere isolated incidents but glaring symptoms of a judiciary gone rogue and crazy, where leftist ideology has warped the rule of law into a twisted shield for criminals. In Milwaukee, on April 25, 2025, FBI agents apprehended Judge Dugan, a sitting judge, for obstructing an immigration operation and concealing an individual to prevent arrest. Her crime? Allegedly helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, a Mexican national and previously deported illegal immigrant, dodge ICE agents waiting to detain him after a court appearance on April 18. Flores-Ruiz, charged with misdemeanor battery for a vicious domestic violence assault that left a man and woman hospitalized, was no innocent victim. Yet, Judge Dugan, in a brazen act of defiance, reportedly became “visibly angry” upon learning of ICE’s presence, confronted agents, demanded they consult the chief judge, and then escorted Flores-Ruiz and his attorney through a restricted jury door to evade capture. This sparked a dangerous foot chase, endangering agents and the public, before Flores-Ruiz was finally apprehended. You really can't make this stuff up—it's like Judge Dugan saw too many Hollywood cop movies and thought that she would make a better villain judge. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, former Judge Joel Cano and his wife Nancy were arrested on April 24, 2025, for tampering with evidence after allegedly harboring Cristhian Ortega, a suspected Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang member. Following a February 28 raid on their home, where Ortega was found, Judge Cano admitted to smashing Ortega’s cellphone with a hammer and discarding it, believing it contained incriminating photos of Ortega with firearms—evidence that could have mapped TDA’s criminal network or even linked to Venezuelan government ties, bolstering Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. Judge Cano’s resignation days after the raid reeks of a desperate attempt to dodge accountability, but the FBI’s swift action caught up with him. These judges didn’t just bend the law—they obliterated it, acting as accomplices to violent offenders. Judge Dugan’s actions betrayed domestic violence victims sitting in her courtroom, waiting for justice, while Judge Cano’s destruction of evidence potentially shielded a transnational gang with ties to a hostile regime. Attorney General Pam Bondi minced no words: “No one is above the law… If you are destroying evidence, if you are obstructing justice, when you have victims sitting in a courtroom of domestic violence, and you’re escorting a criminal defendant out a back door, it will not be tolerated.” This isn’t judicial discretion; it’s a leftist fever dream where illegal aliens are sanctified as a protected class, elevated above American citizens and the law itself. Leftist Ideology: A Cancer in the Judiciary The actions of Judge Dugan and Judge Cano are the rancid fruit of a leftist ideology that has metastasized within America’s judiciary, turning judges into political crusaders who view themselves as above the law. This ideology, rooted in a delusional belief that illegal immigrants—regardless of their crimes—are inherently victims of an oppressive system, drives these judges to prioritize open borders over public safety. Buck Sexton nailed it: “The Democrats view illegal aliens as inherently a victim class worthy of special support and also a separate set of laws.” This warped mindset, festering in hyper-left law schools and reinforced by Democrat echo chambers, has produced judges who see their robes as licenses to enact radical agendas, not uphold justice. Judge Dugan, a former Legal Aid Society attorney and Catholic Charities director, and Judge Cano, a long-serving magistrate, embody this activist ethos. Their careers, steeped in progressive advocacy, primed them to view immigration enforcement as an affront to their moral superiority. Judge Dugan’s tantrum over ICE’s “absurd” presence and Judge Cano’s destruction of evidence to protect a suspected TDA member reveal a god complex, as Professor Alan Dershowitz described: “Federal judges think they are above the law and above morality. They think that because they’re wearing robes… they’re so peremptory and so outrageous in their conduct.” This arrogance fuels their willingness to break the law, believing their “noble” cause—shielding illegal aliens—justifies any means, even criminal ones. Nationwide Injunctions: Rogue Judges Weaponizing the Bench Beyond these criminal acts, a broader assault on Trump’s agenda comes from federal district judges issuing nationwide injunctions—legal grenades lobbed to halt his immigration policies. These injunctions, often from single, unelected judges in liberal strongholds, block executive actions across the entire country, defying the will of millions who voted for Trump to secure the border and deport criminal aliens. Judges like the corrupt lunatic James Boasberg, a poster child for leftist judicial overreach, have become notorious for such antics, earning Dershowitz’s scorn for their “god complex” and questionable impartiality (Boasberg’s daughter reportedly works for an anti-deportation group). Nationwide injunctions are a legal abomination, lacking any constitutional basis and wielded as political weapons. They’ve targeted Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, invoked in March 2025 to deport suspected TDA members, and other enforcement measures, like the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal Salvadoran migrant who is an MS-13 gangbanger and wife-beater, whom the biased fake news media keep mislabeling as a “Maryland” man. Judges like Paula Xinis in Maryland have chastised the administration, demanding Garcia’s return while ignoring the broader context of Trump’s mandate to prioritize American safety. These injunctions don’t just delay policy—they paralyze it, allowing criminal networks to exploit legal loopholes while Democrat cheerleaders cry about “due process” for gang members and batterers. The damage is catastrophic. Paul Mauro highlighted the operational nightmare: tracking mobile criminals like TDA members is “very hard,” and courthouse arrests are critical when they “pop in the computer” for state charges. By obstructing ICE, judges like Dugan create chaos, forcing dangerous chases and risking public safety. Judge Cano’s destruction of evidence potentially hid TDA’s ties to the Venezuelan government, undermining Trump’s claim of a “hybrid criminal state” infiltration—a claim that, if proven, validates the Alien Enemies Act’s use. Every injunction, every act of judicial sabotage, emboldens criminal networks, erodes border security, and betrays American citizens. The Lunatic Left and Democrat Morons: A Desperate Power Grab The lunatic left and their Democrat morons, humiliated by Trump’s landslide victory, are in full meltdown, clinging to the courts as their last hope to thwart the American people’s will. Milwaukee’s mayor, Cavalier Johnson, had the gall to claim Judge Dugan’s arrest “scares residents from coming to court,” as if protecting a domestic abuser is a public service. Imbecilic senators like Dick Durbin, Tina Smith, and Tammy Baldwin wailed about “judicial independence” and “constitutional limits,” conveniently ignoring the victims left in the wake of their pet judges’ actions. Their hypocrisy is nauseating: they chant “No One is Above The Law” when targeting Trump but clutch their pearls when their insane activist judges face cuffs for aiding criminals. This is a desperate power grab by a defeated ideology. The left’s open-borders dogma, which Sexton aptly called a belief that America should “take in criminals from all the rest of the world,” has no electoral legs, so they’ve outsourced their fight to deranged activist rogue judges. These judicial stooges, backed by Democrat whining, are willing to risk America’s safety to score political points, even if it means harboring gangbangers or letting wife-beaters slip away. Their actions scream contempt for the voters who chose Trump to clean house, deport criminals, and restore sanity. The Damage to America The consequences of this judicial insanity are dire. First, it undermines public safety. By shielding violent illegal aliens, judges like Dugan and Cano embolden criminals, leaving communities vulnerable to assaults, gang activity, and worse. The TDA, with its alleged Venezuelan government ties, isn’t a petty street gang—it’s a transnational threat that thrives on judicial leniency. Second, it erodes trust in the judiciary. When activist judges act like leftist vigilantes, breaking laws or issuing baseless injunctions, they tarnish the bench’s credibility, turning courts into political battlegrounds. Third, it delays Trump’s agenda, stalling deportations, border security, and fraud crackdowns that Americans demanded. Every injunction, every obstructed arrest, prolongs the chaos of open borders and unchecked crime. Worst of all, this judicial rebellion defies democracy itself. Trump’s election was a clear mandate to fix the mess left by years of leftist policies. By using nationwide injunctions and criminal acts to block him, these crooked, rogue and even criminal judges are spitting in the face of millions, acting as unelected overlords who think they know better than the people. If unchecked, their antics could destabilize the nation, fueling resentment and fracturing the rule of law they claim to uphold. It's Urgent to Crush the Madness The arrests of Judge Dugan and Judge Cano are a wake-up call: the Trump administration must double down, rooting out these unhinged rogue judges with the full force of the law. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel are sending a message: “If you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are.” Good. It’s time to dismantle the leftist stranglehold on the judiciary, starting with prosecuting those who cross into criminality and reforming the system to curb abuses like nationwide injunctions. The lunatic left and their Democrat morons can screech all they want—their time is up. America voted for Trump to drain the swamp, secure the border, and put citizens first. No deranged judge, no matter how lofty their perch, should stand in the way. The rule of law must prevail, and these judicial tyrants must face the consequences of their betrayal.

Raymond Ng

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Despite backlash, police refuse to drop charges against Jeremy McDonald — and may even upgrade them This story is receiving international attention for all the wrong reasons, and it would seem that this has resulted in the Kawartha Lakes Police Service suffering from hurt feelings. Lindsay is a community of about 24,000 situated in Ontario’s cottage country. The people are friendly, and its main street has a certain charm to it. But what occurred in Lindsay on Aug. 18 in the wee hours of the morning was downright horrific. Jeremy McDonald, 44, was fast asleep in his second-storey apartment, only to have his slumber rudely interrupted at approximately 3:20 a.m. The uninvited visitor, according to multiple sources, was Mike Breen, 41. Breen was allegedly armed with a lethal weapon. Our shoe leather journalism on the streets of Lindsay was able to glean this information, given that the facts of the matter were not forthcoming from the usual sources. This included the Kawartha Lakes Police Service, which went out of its way to hide information that should be readily available to the public. This included the name of the thug and the victim, and the weapons that were employed in what turned out to be a gruesome home invasion. But why the secrecy? It’s baffling. Breen is not a young offender. Oh, and did we mention that Breen was already wanted by police for a probation violation? It’s akin to a new-age Monty Python sketch: Police officer: “Please be on the lookout for a career criminal who might pose a danger to the public.” Citizen: “Gracious, that sounds serious! What’s the name of this person?” Police officer: “Um, we can’t tell you due to privacy and confidentiality reasons.” Only in Canada. Unbelievable… In any event, imagine being in Jeremy McDonald’s slippers when Breen entered his apartment through a second-storey window at 3:20 a.m. According to sources, Breen was also accompanied by either two or three other reprobates. They remained outside the apartment on the building’s roof and would later flee the scene. As for that lethal weapon Breen was brandishing? It was a crossbow. Once awake, McDonald quietly got out of his bed and made his way to the kitchen, where he activated his cellphone. However, the illumination of the phone alerted Breen that McDonald was indeed awake — and aware of his presence. Sources say Breen charged at McDonald, hitting him on the head with the crossbow’s stock. McDonald fought back. And Breen got the worst of it, suffering life-threatening injuries. He was later air-lifted to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. In the aftermath, the Kawartha Lakes Police Service laid the following charges against Breen: - Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. - Breaking, entering, and theft. - Mischief under $5,000. - Failure to comply with probation. But get this: the cops also laid charges against McDonald! Namely, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. Oh, did you notice there appears to be a charge missing? If the allegations are true that Breen used his crossbow as a battering ram on McDonald’s head, why isn’t Breen also being charged with aggravated assault? But never mind… And this case gets more egregious: Should Breen succumb to his injuries in the hospital, there is speculation that McDonald could face a manslaughter charge! Just for defending himself against a violent intruder. Rebel News reached out to Sunnybrook to determine Breen’s condition. Alas, that information was withheld due to, you guessed it, privacy and confidentiality reasons. But the question arises: what was McDonald supposed to do that day? Roll over and be a passive victim in his own home? When it comes to predators and prey in the wild kingdom, it always boils down to a matter of “flight or fight.” And flight is not an option when you are in your own house. You have crossed the finish line when you are in your own house. There’s nowhere to run. You have to fight back — or potentially get slaughtered. This story is receiving international attention for all the wrong reasons. And it would seem that this has resulted in the Kawartha Lakes Police Service suffering from hurt feelings. On Aug. 20, Kirk Robertson, the KLPS Police Chief, issued a press release. It read in part: “Under Canadian law, individuals have the right to defend themselves and their property. The Criminal Code of Canada, specifically Sections 34 and 35, allow a person to use reasonable force to protect themselves and their property if they believe they are facing a threat. “However, it is important to understand that these rights are not unlimited in Canada. The law requires that any defensive action be proportionate to the threat faced. This means that while homeowners do have the right to protect themselves and their property, the use of force must be reasonable given the circumstances.” But this is the crux of the matter: What is the definition of “reasonable force”? What sort of defensive action is deemed “proportionate”? Is it a slap? A punch? A kick? Using a wooden spoon? Since the cops won’t say, how is anyone to know? Here’s another whopper of a statement made by Chief Robertson: “It is important to remember that charges are not convictions; they are part of the judicial process, which ensures that all facts are considered fairly in court. We encourage you to follow this matter as it proceeds through the justice system.” A charge is not a conviction. But while all of Breen’s expenses, both legal and medical, will be paid for by the ever beleaguered taxpayer, his victim, McDonald, will be on the hook for his legal expenses, which are likely to be in the tens of thousands. And that’s the thing, Chief Robertson; even if McDonald is found not guilty, the process is the punishment if he is forced into bankruptcy. Outrageous.

Despite backlash, police refuse to drop charges against Jeremy McDonald — and may even upgrade them This story is receiving international attention for all the wrong reasons, and it would seem that this has resulted in the Kawartha Lakes Police Service suffering from hurt feelings. Lindsay is a community of about 24,000 situated in Ontario’s cottage country. The people are friendly, and its main street has a certain charm to it. But what occurred in Lindsay on Aug. 18 in the wee hours of the morning was downright horrific. Jeremy McDonald, 44, was fast asleep in his second-storey apartment, only to have his slumber rudely interrupted at approximately 3:20 a.m. The uninvited visitor, according to multiple sources, was Mike Breen, 41. Breen was allegedly armed with a lethal weapon. Our shoe leather journalism on the streets of Lindsay was able to glean this information, given that the facts of the matter were not forthcoming from the usual sources. This included the Kawartha Lakes Police Service, which went out of its way to hide information that should be readily available to the public. This included the name of the thug and the victim, and the weapons that were employed in what turned out to be a gruesome home invasion. But why the secrecy? It’s baffling. Breen is not a young offender. Oh, and did we mention that Breen was already wanted by police for a probation violation? It’s akin to a new-age Monty Python sketch: Police officer: “Please be on the lookout for a career criminal who might pose a danger to the public.” Citizen: “Gracious, that sounds serious! What’s the name of this person?” Police officer: “Um, we can’t tell you due to privacy and confidentiality reasons.” Only in Canada. Unbelievable… In any event, imagine being in Jeremy McDonald’s slippers when Breen entered his apartment through a second-storey window at 3:20 a.m. According to sources, Breen was also accompanied by either two or three other reprobates. They remained outside the apartment on the building’s roof and would later flee the scene. As for that lethal weapon Breen was brandishing? It was a crossbow. Once awake, McDonald quietly got out of his bed and made his way to the kitchen, where he activated his cellphone. However, the illumination of the phone alerted Breen that McDonald was indeed awake — and aware of his presence. Sources say Breen charged at McDonald, hitting him on the head with the crossbow’s stock. McDonald fought back. And Breen got the worst of it, suffering life-threatening injuries. He was later air-lifted to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. In the aftermath, the Kawartha Lakes Police Service laid the following charges against Breen: - Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. - Breaking, entering, and theft. - Mischief under $5,000. - Failure to comply with probation. But get this: the cops also laid charges against McDonald! Namely, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. Oh, did you notice there appears to be a charge missing? If the allegations are true that Breen used his crossbow as a battering ram on McDonald’s head, why isn’t Breen also being charged with aggravated assault? But never mind… And this case gets more egregious: Should Breen succumb to his injuries in the hospital, there is speculation that McDonald could face a manslaughter charge! Just for defending himself against a violent intruder. Rebel News reached out to Sunnybrook to determine Breen’s condition. Alas, that information was withheld due to, you guessed it, privacy and confidentiality reasons. But the question arises: what was McDonald supposed to do that day? Roll over and be a passive victim in his own home? When it comes to predators and prey in the wild kingdom, it always boils down to a matter of “flight or fight.” And flight is not an option when you are in your own house. You have crossed the finish line when you are in your own house. There’s nowhere to run. You have to fight back — or potentially get slaughtered. This story is receiving international attention for all the wrong reasons. And it would seem that this has resulted in the Kawartha Lakes Police Service suffering from hurt feelings. On Aug. 20, Kirk Robertson, the KLPS Police Chief, issued a press release. It read in part: “Under Canadian law, individuals have the right to defend themselves and their property. The Criminal Code of Canada, specifically Sections 34 and 35, allow a person to use reasonable force to protect themselves and their property if they believe they are facing a threat. “However, it is important to understand that these rights are not unlimited in Canada. The law requires that any defensive action be proportionate to the threat faced. This means that while homeowners do have the right to protect themselves and their property, the use of force must be reasonable given the circumstances.” But this is the crux of the matter: What is the definition of “reasonable force”? What sort of defensive action is deemed “proportionate”? Is it a slap? A punch? A kick? Using a wooden spoon? Since the cops won’t say, how is anyone to know? Here’s another whopper of a statement made by Chief Robertson: “It is important to remember that charges are not convictions; they are part of the judicial process, which ensures that all facts are considered fairly in court. We encourage you to follow this matter as it proceeds through the justice system.” A charge is not a conviction. But while all of Breen’s expenses, both legal and medical, will be paid for by the ever beleaguered taxpayer, his victim, McDonald, will be on the hook for his legal expenses, which are likely to be in the tens of thousands. And that’s the thing, Chief Robertson; even if McDonald is found not guilty, the process is the punishment if he is forced into bankruptcy. Outrageous.

Rebel News

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The multi-leader blockchain endgame: competitive information inclusion as a self-reinforcing mechanism for global price discovery - how we got here, and why Aptos is leading the charge Onchain trading is the killer app In the nine years since the launch of programmable transactions on the Ethereum blockchain, onchain trading has revealed itself as the killer use case for blockchains: onchain listings, volume, and total value locked are all growing with no signs of slowing down, due to the censorship-resistant, permissionless, 24/7/365 qualities afforded by decentralized (DeFi) systems. Monolithic parallelism is key In 2020 Solana was first to market with monolithic, parallel execution (as opposed sharded execution which offers parallelism by partitioning global state into separate information silos), establishing a new design paradigm that raised the bar for throughput and latency: put all of the information in one replicated state machine and make it run as fast as possible. This design produces a single, global hub for activity, liquidity, and token launches, a kind of financial data whiteboard in the sky, where anyone can come and trade at any time with everybody else who has plugged into the system. DEXes are becoming more competitive Historically decentralized systems have been juxtaposed with centralized ones since the latter eliminates the overhead associated with distributed systems coordination. And yet despite this overhead, Solana as a decentralized exchange (DEX) is still pulling in billions of trading volume per day, exceeding that of all but the largest centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs), that simply can't compete with the giant DEX in the sky on token listings or fees. After all, CEXs have to pay for server space, salaries, and lawyers, while a DEX outsources everything. The colocation arms race The one place where CEXs have an advantage over DEXs is on end-to-end latency for colocation applications, or in other words: someone sets up a trading bot in the same data center as the exchange, and their trades get to the exchange faster than everyone else's. When there is only one data ingestion point the fastest trader wins, and after the arms race has played out everyone ends up huddling around the trading hub, effectively cutting off the rest of the world from playing the latency trading game. This is the model that traditional securities exchanges like the Nasdaq or the NYSE 🏛 employ, and because they own the server they can effectively charge whatever they want for access to it. The colocation arms race is also why L2s will probably never decentralize: running the sequencer is practically the same as running the NASDAQ, with the same monopoly on transaction fees collected from a nearby cluster of trading bots (I understand from conversations with Logan Jastremski that the Arbitrum arms race has already hit a Nash Equilibrium in Portland, Oregon). Colocation is a trap But once the colocation arms race has played out, trades become less about incorporating new information in the market and more about skimming off the top by spoofing all of the trades coming in from the other bots. High-frequency trading (HFT) bots located in the NYSE New Jersey data center, for example, are constantly placing buys and sell orders that they have no intention of executing, just to spoof the other colocated bots who are playing the same adversarial game. Information inclusion, on the other hand, the synthesis of real-time world events into prices, takes a back seat because anyone who tries to include new information first needs to batch up their order and send it through a series of middlemen before it ultimately ends up on the exchange: you, I, or practically any other individual can not actually "trade on the NASDAQ", no, we have to express our intent to someone like Robinhood, who then sells our order flow to @CitadelSecurities, who then sends it to the exchange, oh and by the way it doesn't actually even "clear" or "settle" once it "executes" because for whatever reason the whole systems splits these things up and prevents them from happening instantaneously even though it's 2024 and we have computers. Onchain trading cuts out middlemen This whole mess is why we have onchain trading, and why it's starting to win: if you want a mainline to the exchange, without setting up a server, and you want to trade on a news event without getting immediately frontrun by an HFT bot that is sniffing out the trades of every other HFT bot who is easing in batched up order flow on their own terms, then you submit your order to a node in the blockchain and the information gets included in the price upon ingestion. Oh, and by the way the trade is actually fully complete: settled, cleared, reconciled, done, whatever you want to call it, because the people who build decentralized finance (DeFi) build it how it should actually work, not in a way that creates a million incumbents and charges exorbitant rents for access to the system. Onchain trading better for price discovery And the beautiful part about this is that even if a distributed system has more latency than a centralized system, DeFi still ends up incorporating more information into the price faster than centralized finance, because with DeFi the information gets included in the system as soon as it is submitted, not after it has been batched up and sent through a series of middlemen. The consensus mechanism of the blockchain disseminates the information around the world in the form of a price update, while the centralized exchange model requires information about the event to first get propagate to the region of the trading hub, then to get submitted to the colocation server. This means that in terms of global price discovery, onchain trading is strictly a better system because the entire consensus model is based around accelerated information propagation. Because price discovery is a global phenomenon, blockchains, which are global, are actually better than the centralized status quo, on a performance basis, not just from an ideological or convenience-based view. And it has to be multi-leader In practice, effective global information synthesis of information has an additional key requirement: multi-leader architecture. That is, in a single-leader blockchain like Solana, where one validator at a time has a monopoly on ordering transactions into blocks, for their duration as a leader they effectively function as a colocation server. This means that if the current leader is in New York, someone in Singapore who wants to trade on local news as soon as it breaks will still need to get their order all the way around the world to the leader, who is effectively serving as the chain's data ingestion point, before the order can start propagating through the network. But this is issue solved by the introduction of multiple distributed leaders, because then anyone with access to new information can submit their order to the leader closest to them, yielding faster information inclusion in the form of price updates. Multi-leader is also required for fair markets A multi-leader architecture is also required for fair markets, because in a single-leader system the leader has the power to censor transactions, reorder them to their advantage, or even replace transactions with copycats that extract maximum value by replacing the sender's address with their own. For example if someone wants to capture an arbitrage opportunity between two onchain DEXes, they'll need to submit a transaction to the leader and trust that the leader won't simply copy the transaction and submit it themselves. But when there are two or more leaders, users whose transactions are censored by one leader will simply work with a different leader the next time around, eventually cutting off transaction fee flow to the extractive leader. Beyond just strict inclusion, in a multi-leader architecture validators are also forced to compete with each other on latency, because the leader who is fastest at disseminating users' transactions across the network will over time gobble up the largest share of the order flow. Transparent priority fees are a must, or a private mempool will emerge But in order to make this work, a multi-leader architecture must also offer users the ability to pay priority fees AKA "tips" or "bribes" to move their transaction to the front of the line: if there is a $5 arbitrage opportunity onchain, users need to have assurance that they if they pay a 4.99 priority fee to take that arb, they will get priority over a different user who is only willing to tip 4.98. If the native blockchain system does not offer this fair market priority fee mechanism, then it is only a matter of time before one spontaneously emerges in the form of a private mempool like Jito, which can create centralization pressures and undermine the integrity of the system as a whole. Competitive payment for order flow is the stable solution With the right architecture in place, the end result is a competitive environment where endpoints running maximum extractable value (MEV) bots compete with one to offer users the best price for their order flow. In other words, if a user wants to submit an order that can get sandwich attacked for as much as $2 of MEV, then the order should ultimately go to the endpoint bot that is willing to pay the user as much as $1.99 for the right to process their transaction. The price that the provider is willing to pay is ultimately a function of how much in priority fees they might need to pay to the current leader (0 they are the current one), but notably at each stage there is a competitive market for order flow, whether in the form of retail trader's orders, or priority fees among bots that might be forwarding orders to one of the leaders. AptosLabs is already building all this With a public mempool and transaction priority fees, Aptos additionally includes a pipelined architecture that already includes concurrent batching of transactions into blocks, with a single consensus leader who propagates the batched blocks out to the network. And the team is already researching running multiple instances of the consensus algorithm in parallel, yielding multiple consensus leaders who can compete with each other on latency and inclusion - just ask pranav | Shelby, Alexander Spiegelman, and Zekun Li. This means that block times can shrink as the number of consensus leaders grows, with each leader having its own geographical radius of inclusion beyond which it makes more sense to submit to a different leader. The starting point? Something like 60 ms blocks and 3 consensus leaders, partitioning the global information space into competitive and constantly-rotating regions of information inclusion. Messaging is important With concurrent pipelined transaction batching, a public mempool, priority fees, and a clear path to a multi-leader architecture, Aptos leads the industry in onchain trading infrastructure that can truly supplant the centralized colocation paradigm that has heretofore dominated global finance - by offering a truly superior product. And I am hopeful that this deep dive is the first step in communicating not how or that superior product is getting built, but what it means from a bigger picture perspective. If blockchains have found product market fit in anything, it is in trading, and the trading game can only be won by building the biggest, baddest, most high performance system that has as its north star a single, concrete goal: constantly reducing, ever lower toward zero, time time it takes to incorporate information from anywhere in the world into the global price discovery computer. Whoever does this, even 1 ms faster than the competitor, wins the price discovery game, as other blockchains are left in the dust, their DEXes arbed away to zero against the fastest chain on the block. And sure, the blockchain that can rise to this challenge can also handle useful things like payments, NFTs, or other solutions that benefit from permissionlessness and low gas costs, but I want to impress that at the core of this pursuit must be the urge to drive down information inclusion latency to the absolute minimum afforded by the laws of physics through a competitive, market-driven environment. I call on avery.apt 🇺🇸 , CTO of Aptos Labs, to lean in on this messaging, to make it clear that Aptos is here for this singular mission, to build the most performant price discovery engine in history, as a rallying call for alignment in development efforts across the ecosystem and broader industry. Where does this go? As the latencies drop, the spreads tighten, and the information inclusion increases with every incremental increase in network bandwidth, we can expect a new class of competing techno-financial hubs that aggregate around the world's largest information sources: New York, Washington DC, London, Tokyo, etc., commanding stake distribution commensurate with the density of information flow in these respective locales. With the right incentives in place, competing concurrent leaders will invest ever more in infrastructure to get their packets out to the network faster than the rest, yielding clusters of fiber optic cable around the world's financial hubs, neurons in the global financial brain connecting not just HFT firms to servers in their city, but connecting every city with every other city, to move pricing information across oceans and continents. And retail traders, who have been left out of the colocation game, will only benefit: this entire system gets faster, more inclusive, with tighter spreads and lower fees, and it is such an amazing opportunity to watch all of this unfold in real time. The future of blockchains is the future of trading, is the future of competitive information inclusion in real-time, is the future of truly unified global markets, because at the the core of this industry is a simple idea: connect the computers, and see where the incentives lead. They lead to this, and Aptos is leading the charge, because its tech is purpose-built for this exact purpose. So tell the world about it.

The multi-leader blockchain endgame: competitive information inclusion as a self-reinforcing mechanism for global price discovery - how we got here, and why Aptos is leading the charge Onchain trading is the killer app In the nine years since the launch of programmable transactions on the Ethereum blockchain, onchain trading has revealed itself as the killer use case for blockchains: onchain listings, volume, and total value locked are all growing with no signs of slowing down, due to the censorship-resistant, permissionless, 24/7/365 qualities afforded by decentralized (DeFi) systems. Monolithic parallelism is key In 2020 Solana was first to market with monolithic, parallel execution (as opposed sharded execution which offers parallelism by partitioning global state into separate information silos), establishing a new design paradigm that raised the bar for throughput and latency: put all of the information in one replicated state machine and make it run as fast as possible. This design produces a single, global hub for activity, liquidity, and token launches, a kind of financial data whiteboard in the sky, where anyone can come and trade at any time with everybody else who has plugged into the system. DEXes are becoming more competitive Historically decentralized systems have been juxtaposed with centralized ones since the latter eliminates the overhead associated with distributed systems coordination. And yet despite this overhead, Solana as a decentralized exchange (DEX) is still pulling in billions of trading volume per day, exceeding that of all but the largest centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs), that simply can't compete with the giant DEX in the sky on token listings or fees. After all, CEXs have to pay for server space, salaries, and lawyers, while a DEX outsources everything. The colocation arms race The one place where CEXs have an advantage over DEXs is on end-to-end latency for colocation applications, or in other words: someone sets up a trading bot in the same data center as the exchange, and their trades get to the exchange faster than everyone else's. When there is only one data ingestion point the fastest trader wins, and after the arms race has played out everyone ends up huddling around the trading hub, effectively cutting off the rest of the world from playing the latency trading game. This is the model that traditional securities exchanges like the Nasdaq or the NYSE 🏛 employ, and because they own the server they can effectively charge whatever they want for access to it. The colocation arms race is also why L2s will probably never decentralize: running the sequencer is practically the same as running the NASDAQ, with the same monopoly on transaction fees collected from a nearby cluster of trading bots (I understand from conversations with Logan Jastremski that the Arbitrum arms race has already hit a Nash Equilibrium in Portland, Oregon). Colocation is a trap But once the colocation arms race has played out, trades become less about incorporating new information in the market and more about skimming off the top by spoofing all of the trades coming in from the other bots. High-frequency trading (HFT) bots located in the NYSE New Jersey data center, for example, are constantly placing buys and sell orders that they have no intention of executing, just to spoof the other colocated bots who are playing the same adversarial game. Information inclusion, on the other hand, the synthesis of real-time world events into prices, takes a back seat because anyone who tries to include new information first needs to batch up their order and send it through a series of middlemen before it ultimately ends up on the exchange: you, I, or practically any other individual can not actually "trade on the NASDAQ", no, we have to express our intent to someone like Robinhood, who then sells our order flow to @CitadelSecurities, who then sends it to the exchange, oh and by the way it doesn't actually even "clear" or "settle" once it "executes" because for whatever reason the whole systems splits these things up and prevents them from happening instantaneously even though it's 2024 and we have computers. Onchain trading cuts out middlemen This whole mess is why we have onchain trading, and why it's starting to win: if you want a mainline to the exchange, without setting up a server, and you want to trade on a news event without getting immediately frontrun by an HFT bot that is sniffing out the trades of every other HFT bot who is easing in batched up order flow on their own terms, then you submit your order to a node in the blockchain and the information gets included in the price upon ingestion. Oh, and by the way the trade is actually fully complete: settled, cleared, reconciled, done, whatever you want to call it, because the people who build decentralized finance (DeFi) build it how it should actually work, not in a way that creates a million incumbents and charges exorbitant rents for access to the system. Onchain trading better for price discovery And the beautiful part about this is that even if a distributed system has more latency than a centralized system, DeFi still ends up incorporating more information into the price faster than centralized finance, because with DeFi the information gets included in the system as soon as it is submitted, not after it has been batched up and sent through a series of middlemen. The consensus mechanism of the blockchain disseminates the information around the world in the form of a price update, while the centralized exchange model requires information about the event to first get propagate to the region of the trading hub, then to get submitted to the colocation server. This means that in terms of global price discovery, onchain trading is strictly a better system because the entire consensus model is based around accelerated information propagation. Because price discovery is a global phenomenon, blockchains, which are global, are actually better than the centralized status quo, on a performance basis, not just from an ideological or convenience-based view. And it has to be multi-leader In practice, effective global information synthesis of information has an additional key requirement: multi-leader architecture. That is, in a single-leader blockchain like Solana, where one validator at a time has a monopoly on ordering transactions into blocks, for their duration as a leader they effectively function as a colocation server. This means that if the current leader is in New York, someone in Singapore who wants to trade on local news as soon as it breaks will still need to get their order all the way around the world to the leader, who is effectively serving as the chain's data ingestion point, before the order can start propagating through the network. But this is issue solved by the introduction of multiple distributed leaders, because then anyone with access to new information can submit their order to the leader closest to them, yielding faster information inclusion in the form of price updates. Multi-leader is also required for fair markets A multi-leader architecture is also required for fair markets, because in a single-leader system the leader has the power to censor transactions, reorder them to their advantage, or even replace transactions with copycats that extract maximum value by replacing the sender's address with their own. For example if someone wants to capture an arbitrage opportunity between two onchain DEXes, they'll need to submit a transaction to the leader and trust that the leader won't simply copy the transaction and submit it themselves. But when there are two or more leaders, users whose transactions are censored by one leader will simply work with a different leader the next time around, eventually cutting off transaction fee flow to the extractive leader. Beyond just strict inclusion, in a multi-leader architecture validators are also forced to compete with each other on latency, because the leader who is fastest at disseminating users' transactions across the network will over time gobble up the largest share of the order flow. Transparent priority fees are a must, or a private mempool will emerge But in order to make this work, a multi-leader architecture must also offer users the ability to pay priority fees AKA "tips" or "bribes" to move their transaction to the front of the line: if there is a $5 arbitrage opportunity onchain, users need to have assurance that they if they pay a 4.99 priority fee to take that arb, they will get priority over a different user who is only willing to tip 4.98. If the native blockchain system does not offer this fair market priority fee mechanism, then it is only a matter of time before one spontaneously emerges in the form of a private mempool like Jito, which can create centralization pressures and undermine the integrity of the system as a whole. Competitive payment for order flow is the stable solution With the right architecture in place, the end result is a competitive environment where endpoints running maximum extractable value (MEV) bots compete with one to offer users the best price for their order flow. In other words, if a user wants to submit an order that can get sandwich attacked for as much as $2 of MEV, then the order should ultimately go to the endpoint bot that is willing to pay the user as much as $1.99 for the right to process their transaction. The price that the provider is willing to pay is ultimately a function of how much in priority fees they might need to pay to the current leader (0 they are the current one), but notably at each stage there is a competitive market for order flow, whether in the form of retail trader's orders, or priority fees among bots that might be forwarding orders to one of the leaders. AptosLabs is already building all this With a public mempool and transaction priority fees, Aptos additionally includes a pipelined architecture that already includes concurrent batching of transactions into blocks, with a single consensus leader who propagates the batched blocks out to the network. And the team is already researching running multiple instances of the consensus algorithm in parallel, yielding multiple consensus leaders who can compete with each other on latency and inclusion - just ask pranav | Shelby, Alexander Spiegelman, and Zekun Li. This means that block times can shrink as the number of consensus leaders grows, with each leader having its own geographical radius of inclusion beyond which it makes more sense to submit to a different leader. The starting point? Something like 60 ms blocks and 3 consensus leaders, partitioning the global information space into competitive and constantly-rotating regions of information inclusion. Messaging is important With concurrent pipelined transaction batching, a public mempool, priority fees, and a clear path to a multi-leader architecture, Aptos leads the industry in onchain trading infrastructure that can truly supplant the centralized colocation paradigm that has heretofore dominated global finance - by offering a truly superior product. And I am hopeful that this deep dive is the first step in communicating not how or that superior product is getting built, but what it means from a bigger picture perspective. If blockchains have found product market fit in anything, it is in trading, and the trading game can only be won by building the biggest, baddest, most high performance system that has as its north star a single, concrete goal: constantly reducing, ever lower toward zero, time time it takes to incorporate information from anywhere in the world into the global price discovery computer. Whoever does this, even 1 ms faster than the competitor, wins the price discovery game, as other blockchains are left in the dust, their DEXes arbed away to zero against the fastest chain on the block. And sure, the blockchain that can rise to this challenge can also handle useful things like payments, NFTs, or other solutions that benefit from permissionlessness and low gas costs, but I want to impress that at the core of this pursuit must be the urge to drive down information inclusion latency to the absolute minimum afforded by the laws of physics through a competitive, market-driven environment. I call on avery.apt 🇺🇸 , CTO of Aptos Labs, to lean in on this messaging, to make it clear that Aptos is here for this singular mission, to build the most performant price discovery engine in history, as a rallying call for alignment in development efforts across the ecosystem and broader industry. Where does this go? As the latencies drop, the spreads tighten, and the information inclusion increases with every incremental increase in network bandwidth, we can expect a new class of competing techno-financial hubs that aggregate around the world's largest information sources: New York, Washington DC, London, Tokyo, etc., commanding stake distribution commensurate with the density of information flow in these respective locales. With the right incentives in place, competing concurrent leaders will invest ever more in infrastructure to get their packets out to the network faster than the rest, yielding clusters of fiber optic cable around the world's financial hubs, neurons in the global financial brain connecting not just HFT firms to servers in their city, but connecting every city with every other city, to move pricing information across oceans and continents. And retail traders, who have been left out of the colocation game, will only benefit: this entire system gets faster, more inclusive, with tighter spreads and lower fees, and it is such an amazing opportunity to watch all of this unfold in real time. The future of blockchains is the future of trading, is the future of competitive information inclusion in real-time, is the future of truly unified global markets, because at the the core of this industry is a simple idea: connect the computers, and see where the incentives lead. They lead to this, and Aptos is leading the charge, because its tech is purpose-built for this exact purpose. So tell the world about it.

Alex Kahn

24,432 просмотров • 1 год назад

$Two air forces started the Pacific war. One trained its pilots, then kept them fighting until they died. The other trained its pilots, then often pulled many of its experienced combat pilots out to teach everyone else. This is one of the reasons America won the Pacific air war, let's dive in.. Japan's Elite Aviators At the start of the war, Japan had some of the finest fighter pilots in the world. The aviators who attacked Pearl Harbor were elite. Many had hundreds of hours in the cockpit and real combat experience from the fighting in China. Flying the nimble A6M Zero, they cut through Allied opposition in the early months of the war and earned a fearsome reputation. But Japan made a fateful choice about these men. It kept them in combat, more or less indefinitely. Japanese pilots flew mission after mission with no real system to rotate them home. They fought until they were shot down, crippled, or killed. It seemed ruthless and efficient. In reality, it was a slow-motion disaster. The Difference in Philosophy Because every time Japan lost one of those veterans, everything he knew died with him. America did the opposite. It regularly rotated many of its experienced combat pilots back home once they had done their share of fighting. There, they became instructors, pouring everything they had learned in real air combat directly into the next generation of pilots. So the two systems pulled in opposite directions. Japan's pool of skill drained away with every ace it buried. America's pool of skill grew, as each returning veteran multiplied his knowledge across hundreds of students. One nation was teaching. The other was simply dying. The Training Gap The gap became a chasm, and it was made worse by sheer scale. By 1944, the United States was training around 8,000 new aviators every month, each of them getting well over a year of instruction and hundreds of hours in the air before they ever saw combat. Japan could not come close. As its veterans vanished, its training program collapsed, and it was crippled by something else, too. Fuel. Japan was running so short of it that many trainees could barely fly enough hours to learn their trade. By the later part of the war, Japanese pilots were being rushed into battle with barely 100 hours of flying time, and sometimes far less. They were teenagers with almost no training, being sent up against American veterans who had been taught by the best combat pilots in the fleet. The outcome was no longer a contest. It was a slaughter. The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Nowhere was that clearer than in the skies over the Mariana Islands in June 1944. When the Japanese launched hundreds of aircraft against the American fleet, they flew into a wall of Hellcat fighters, guided by radar and expert fighter direction that positioned the Americans at the perfect height and moment to strike. The green Japanese pilots in their now outdated Zeros never had a chance. In and around that battle, Japan lost nearly 480 aircraft, while the Americans lost only a few dozen. It was so one-sided that the American aviators nicknamed it the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. Japan's naval air power, once the terror of the Pacific, was broken in a matter of days. Better Aircraft, Better Technology It was not only the pilots. It was the machines too. America kept producing better and better aircraft, like the tough, heavily armed F6F Hellcat, designed after studying a captured Zero and built to beat it. It could take punishment, out-dive and out-gun its opponent, and it was forgiving enough that even a less experienced pilot could survive his first fights and become a veteran. Over the war, Hellcat pilots claimed more than 5,000 enemy aircraft for a tiny fraction of that in losses. Japan, meanwhile, kept sending men up in the aging Zero, a plane that had been revolutionary in 1941 but was now underpowered, fragile, and outclassed. It was fast and agile, but a single burst of American fire could tear it apart, because it had traded armor and protection for maneuverability. Better pilots, in better planes, backed by better technology. The advantages stacked on top of one another. The Spiral Ends By the end, Japan had reached the final, desperate stage of the spiral. With almost no trained pilots left, and no way to make more in time, it turned to the kamikaze. A pilot did not need 500 hours of training to crash his aircraft into a ship. He only needed to take off, aim, and die. It was the last resort of an air force that had run out of the one thing it could never mass produce. Experienced men. America won the Pacific air war for many reasons. Its factories out-built the enemy. Its radar and intelligence gave it eyes the Japanese lacked. Its aircraft grew deadlier every year. But underneath all of it was something simpler. America treated its best pilots as a resource to be protected and passed on. Japan treated them as fuel to be burned. One of those choices built an air force that kept getting stronger. The other burned brightly, and then burned out. This was why America won the Pacific air war. I post a story like this every single day. Most people never see them. Follow so you don't miss the next one.$

Two air forces started the Pacific war. One trained its pilots, then kept them fighting until they died. The other trained its pilots, then often pulled many of its experienced combat pilots out to teach everyone else. This is one of the reasons America won the Pacific air war, let's dive in.. Japan's Elite Aviators At the start of the war, Japan had some of the finest fighter pilots in the world. The aviators who attacked Pearl Harbor were elite. Many had hundreds of hours in the cockpit and real combat experience from the fighting in China. Flying the nimble A6M Zero, they cut through Allied opposition in the early months of the war and earned a fearsome reputation. But Japan made a fateful choice about these men. It kept them in combat, more or less indefinitely. Japanese pilots flew mission after mission with no real system to rotate them home. They fought until they were shot down, crippled, or killed. It seemed ruthless and efficient. In reality, it was a slow-motion disaster. The Difference in Philosophy Because every time Japan lost one of those veterans, everything he knew died with him. America did the opposite. It regularly rotated many of its experienced combat pilots back home once they had done their share of fighting. There, they became instructors, pouring everything they had learned in real air combat directly into the next generation of pilots. So the two systems pulled in opposite directions. Japan's pool of skill drained away with every ace it buried. America's pool of skill grew, as each returning veteran multiplied his knowledge across hundreds of students. One nation was teaching. The other was simply dying. The Training Gap The gap became a chasm, and it was made worse by sheer scale. By 1944, the United States was training around 8,000 new aviators every month, each of them getting well over a year of instruction and hundreds of hours in the air before they ever saw combat. Japan could not come close. As its veterans vanished, its training program collapsed, and it was crippled by something else, too. Fuel. Japan was running so short of it that many trainees could barely fly enough hours to learn their trade. By the later part of the war, Japanese pilots were being rushed into battle with barely 100 hours of flying time, and sometimes far less. They were teenagers with almost no training, being sent up against American veterans who had been taught by the best combat pilots in the fleet. The outcome was no longer a contest. It was a slaughter. The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot Nowhere was that clearer than in the skies over the Mariana Islands in June 1944. When the Japanese launched hundreds of aircraft against the American fleet, they flew into a wall of Hellcat fighters, guided by radar and expert fighter direction that positioned the Americans at the perfect height and moment to strike. The green Japanese pilots in their now outdated Zeros never had a chance. In and around that battle, Japan lost nearly 480 aircraft, while the Americans lost only a few dozen. It was so one-sided that the American aviators nicknamed it the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. Japan's naval air power, once the terror of the Pacific, was broken in a matter of days. Better Aircraft, Better Technology It was not only the pilots. It was the machines too. America kept producing better and better aircraft, like the tough, heavily armed F6F Hellcat, designed after studying a captured Zero and built to beat it. It could take punishment, out-dive and out-gun its opponent, and it was forgiving enough that even a less experienced pilot could survive his first fights and become a veteran. Over the war, Hellcat pilots claimed more than 5,000 enemy aircraft for a tiny fraction of that in losses. Japan, meanwhile, kept sending men up in the aging Zero, a plane that had been revolutionary in 1941 but was now underpowered, fragile, and outclassed. It was fast and agile, but a single burst of American fire could tear it apart, because it had traded armor and protection for maneuverability. Better pilots, in better planes, backed by better technology. The advantages stacked on top of one another. The Spiral Ends By the end, Japan had reached the final, desperate stage of the spiral. With almost no trained pilots left, and no way to make more in time, it turned to the kamikaze. A pilot did not need 500 hours of training to crash his aircraft into a ship. He only needed to take off, aim, and die. It was the last resort of an air force that had run out of the one thing it could never mass produce. Experienced men. America won the Pacific air war for many reasons. Its factories out-built the enemy. Its radar and intelligence gave it eyes the Japanese lacked. Its aircraft grew deadlier every year. But underneath all of it was something simpler. America treated its best pilots as a resource to be protected and passed on. Japan treated them as fuel to be burned. One of those choices built an air force that kept getting stronger. The other burned brightly, and then burned out. This was why America won the Pacific air war. I post a story like this every single day. Most people never see them. Follow so you don't miss the next one.

Untold War Stories

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Hard Data, Harder Truth: Police Statistics Reveal Pakistani Patterns in Child Exploitation Cases The data is finally in. And it confirms what victims and whistleblowers knew all along. For years, vulnerable girls were silenced. Communities raising concerns were vilified. Whistleblowers were branded racist for daring to speak a truth many already knew. Campaigners were imprisoned for demanding justice. Now police records from all 43 forces across England and Wales reveal a disturbing pattern: British Pakistanis are significantly overrepresented in grooming gang offences. Let me break this down: - Pakistani Britons make up just 2.7% of the population according to the 2021 census - In 2023, they accounted for 6.9% of grooming offences - By 2024, that number almost doubled to 13.7% This isn't speculation. It's not anecdotal evidence. These are official police statistics from the Hydrant Programme, the national initiative analysing group-based child sexual abuse. Pakistanis are up to four times more likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences reported to police than the general population. And still, the government refuses to act. The Politics of Silence Keir Starmer has a personal stake in this failure. As Director of Public Prosecutions during critical years, he acknowledged "an issue of ethnicity" in these cases back in 2012 - then did nothing meaningful about it. His words were safe, vague, ultimately meaningless while the abuse continued. Now as Prime Minister, he's rejecting growing demands for a national inquiry into grooming gangs - a demand supported by victims, campaigners, whistleblowers, and those seeking justice. Even Elon Musk has called the government's refusal "rape genocide apologism." Meanwhile, Jess Phillips, the current safeguarding minister, refused Oldham Council's request for a fresh inquiry. This in a town where survivors continue to come forward and cover-ups remain unresolved. Instead, the government admits there's a "data gap" and claims they're working "at pace" to address it. But here's the question no one's asking: Why was this "data gap" allowed to exist in the first place? The Betrayal Runs Deep For decades, our institutions prioritised maintaining community relations over child safety. Both police and political leaders allowed fears of being called "racist" to override their duty to protect vulnerable girls - mostly white working-class girls exploited by networks of predominantly British-Pakistani men. Some even exchanged children for votes and protected the rape gangs in exchange for securing the bloc postal vote delivered by kingpins from the Pakistani community. The result? Rotherham. Rochdale. Telford. Oldham. Each town, a monument to institutional failure. Each name, a reminder of thousands of young lives destroyed while authorities looked the other way. To this day, the majority of survivors still haven't seen justice. Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has referenced as many as 100,000 victims. Let that number sink in: 100,000 children. The Numbers Don't Lie (But Politicians Do) The Hydrant Programme revealed that in 2023 alone, 717 grooming-related offences were reported. In just the first nine months of 2024: 572 more. Pakistani suspects were significantly overrepresented in these cases - the very pattern that officials denied for years. And these figures likely underrepresent the problem, as police admit the data is incomplete. Ethnic background can only be recorded after suspects are formally interviewed, meaning many cases go uncategorised. Even more shocking? Former Labour MP Simon Danczuk revealed party officials were warned not to mention the ethnic component of grooming gangs because it might "damage the party electorally." Let that sink in. Protecting political careers took priority over protecting children from rape. When the image of a political party becomes more important than preventing child sexual exploitation, we have a national scandal of unforgivable proportions. The Time for Action Is Now The data is clear. The cover-up is exposed. What we need is: 1. A full, independent national inquiry 2. Reopening of cold cases 3. Investigation into institutional cover-ups 4. Accountability for officials who failed victims - starting with those who oversaw failures and then blocked scrutiny Keir Starmer was at the helm of the CPS during key years when victims were abandoned. Now he leads a government still refusing to investigate these scandals properly. He has questions to answer - not platitudes to offer. The question is simple: How many more victims must there be before our leaders find the courage to act? Until there is a full reckoning, voices demanding justice will only grow louder. Well done to Katie Lam for having the courage to do what she did. Raja Miah MBE

Hard Data, Harder Truth: Police Statistics Reveal Pakistani Patterns in Child Exploitation Cases The data is finally in. And it confirms what victims and whistleblowers knew all along. For years, vulnerable girls were silenced. Communities raising concerns were vilified. Whistleblowers were branded racist for daring to speak a truth many already knew. Campaigners were imprisoned for demanding justice. Now police records from all 43 forces across England and Wales reveal a disturbing pattern: British Pakistanis are significantly overrepresented in grooming gang offences. Let me break this down: - Pakistani Britons make up just 2.7% of the population according to the 2021 census - In 2023, they accounted for 6.9% of grooming offences - By 2024, that number almost doubled to 13.7% This isn't speculation. It's not anecdotal evidence. These are official police statistics from the Hydrant Programme, the national initiative analysing group-based child sexual abuse. Pakistanis are up to four times more likely to be responsible for child sex grooming offences reported to police than the general population. And still, the government refuses to act. The Politics of Silence Keir Starmer has a personal stake in this failure. As Director of Public Prosecutions during critical years, he acknowledged "an issue of ethnicity" in these cases back in 2012 - then did nothing meaningful about it. His words were safe, vague, ultimately meaningless while the abuse continued. Now as Prime Minister, he's rejecting growing demands for a national inquiry into grooming gangs - a demand supported by victims, campaigners, whistleblowers, and those seeking justice. Even Elon Musk has called the government's refusal "rape genocide apologism." Meanwhile, Jess Phillips, the current safeguarding minister, refused Oldham Council's request for a fresh inquiry. This in a town where survivors continue to come forward and cover-ups remain unresolved. Instead, the government admits there's a "data gap" and claims they're working "at pace" to address it. But here's the question no one's asking: Why was this "data gap" allowed to exist in the first place? The Betrayal Runs Deep For decades, our institutions prioritised maintaining community relations over child safety. Both police and political leaders allowed fears of being called "racist" to override their duty to protect vulnerable girls - mostly white working-class girls exploited by networks of predominantly British-Pakistani men. Some even exchanged children for votes and protected the rape gangs in exchange for securing the bloc postal vote delivered by kingpins from the Pakistani community. The result? Rotherham. Rochdale. Telford. Oldham. Each town, a monument to institutional failure. Each name, a reminder of thousands of young lives destroyed while authorities looked the other way. To this day, the majority of survivors still haven't seen justice. Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has referenced as many as 100,000 victims. Let that number sink in: 100,000 children. The Numbers Don't Lie (But Politicians Do) The Hydrant Programme revealed that in 2023 alone, 717 grooming-related offences were reported. In just the first nine months of 2024: 572 more. Pakistani suspects were significantly overrepresented in these cases - the very pattern that officials denied for years. And these figures likely underrepresent the problem, as police admit the data is incomplete. Ethnic background can only be recorded after suspects are formally interviewed, meaning many cases go uncategorised. Even more shocking? Former Labour MP Simon Danczuk revealed party officials were warned not to mention the ethnic component of grooming gangs because it might "damage the party electorally." Let that sink in. Protecting political careers took priority over protecting children from rape. When the image of a political party becomes more important than preventing child sexual exploitation, we have a national scandal of unforgivable proportions. The Time for Action Is Now The data is clear. The cover-up is exposed. What we need is: 1. A full, independent national inquiry 2. Reopening of cold cases 3. Investigation into institutional cover-ups 4. Accountability for officials who failed victims - starting with those who oversaw failures and then blocked scrutiny Keir Starmer was at the helm of the CPS during key years when victims were abandoned. Now he leads a government still refusing to investigate these scandals properly. He has questions to answer - not platitudes to offer. The question is simple: How many more victims must there be before our leaders find the courage to act? Until there is a full reckoning, voices demanding justice will only grow louder. Well done to Katie Lam for having the courage to do what she did. Raja Miah MBE

Raja Miah

22,600 просмотров • 1 год назад

//The Wire//1900Z July 14, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: WAR IN MIDDLE EAST REMAINS HOT WITH USA AND IRAN EXCHANGING HEAVY FIRE OVERNIGHT. NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS ISSUED SUBPOENAS REGARDING THEIR REPORTING ON AIR FORCE ONE.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: The war continued to escalate overnight, with the attack/counterattack cycle no longer being distinguishable, as all belligerents are now attacking constantly. At least two more ships have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz since last night, and the US has continued to fly continuous sorties to strike targets within Iran. Dozens of targets were struck overnight, with CENTCOM announcing that the sorties took 5 hours to complete throughout the region. As of this morning, nearly all of the targets that have been struck have been within a few hundred yards of the Gulf, with heavy concentrations of targets being located within Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, and Jask, all of which are major naval bases. Most of the Gulf islands have also been struck, with Qeshm and Kish Islands being targeted heavily this afternoon. Conversely, Iran has conducted their own strikes in Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait. In Kuwait, Iranian forces have conducted counter-battery fire on American HIMARS missile launcher sites, with multiple ballistic missile strikes taking place at most of the US bases and missile launch sites all day. Analyst Comment: Over the past 24 hours, the war in the Middle East has returned to the level of fighting first observed during the height of the war back in March. How long this is planned to continue is unknown, but this is not a slight increase in targeting; the war appears to be fully back on once again. United Kingdom: This morning Counterterrorism police released more details regarding a high-profile murder case that took place last week. On Thursday, Ann Widdecombe was found murdered in her home in the town of Haytor in Devon. After her murder was discovered, local authorities immediately referred the case to counterterrorism, and one suspect has already been arrested in conjunction with this case. This suspect has been charged for the murder, and as of this morning terrorism offenses have been added to the list of charges. Analyst Comment: This case is noteworthy as most of the information so far indicates this was a political assassination, and the speed at which authorities have immediately declared this to be a terrorism incident is very, very unusual. Widdecombe was a former Member of Parliament, and in her later years was a familiar conservative political commentator known to weigh in on political issues throughout the nation. More details may or may not come to light in due time regarding the identity of the suspect, but due to the high-profile nature of this murder, this case will be in the headlines for a while. -HomeFront- Washington D.C. - Yesterday a total of five New York Times reporters have been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury, to testify regarding their reporting on the alleged security breaches onboard the new Air Force One. Last week, President Trump flew to Turkey for the NATO summit on the new airframe, but during the trip, an undisclosed security issue prompted the Secret Service to switch back to the older platform. Analyst Comment: The details of exactly what the alleged crimes are, have not been disclosed. The New York Times has a history of publishing content which could lead to security issues, but in this case nothing they wrote in their original report appears to have been classified. However, they did explicitly state that they had a source who had classified knowledge of the defenses (or rather, the alleged lack of defenses) on the new Air Force One platform, which is probably why the harsh crackdown on the New York Times. They also made the claim that the new airframe has not had enough time to install the anti-missile countermeasures of the older platform, though no detail on this was provided. Regardless, talking to journalists in any capacity about any of the protection measures used by the White House is a huge no-no, and one of the most sensitive issues that always results in a very heavy-handed response. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: As the war in the Persian Gulf rages on, concerns are growing regarding the apparent widening of the war to include the Red Sea region. The mutual targeting between the Saudis and the Houthis in Yemen has continued to some degree, though it's too soon to tell if either party is committed to turning this into a more protracted fight. If that is the chosen course of action, the situation is likely to get very serious. While the Strait of Hormuz remains a hot warzone that has restricted the flow of about 20 million barrels per day out of the region, the Saudi East-West Pipeline system has been working to reduce this deficit by pumping roughly 7 million barrels per day during most of this conflict. This has eased the burden of Hormuz being cut off, and has been one of the main factors keeping oil from reaching $200 per barrel. However, this pipeline runs from the Gulf, across the desert, before terminating in Yanbu at a major oil export terminal. This terminal....is within missile range of the Houthis. Somewhat interestingly, there are also very little air defenses in the southern regions of Saudi Arabia despite the Saudis fighting the Houthis for a couple of decades at this point; nearly all missile defenses are on the northern coastline or in the vicinity of American bases. So far during this conflict, the Iranians have successfully struck the Yanbu oil terminal using extremely long-range (and slow-flying) drones. The Houthis have a much higher chance of success in threatening Yanbu, and if they are able to strike this facility, the global oil crisis will go from worse to worst. Analyst: S2A1 Research: NomadNet: 5fa68c88be727a0e1a250a75e5e79269 Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

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//The Wire//2300Z April 2, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: COLONIAL PIPELINE SHUT DOWN BRIEFLY OVERNIGHT AFTER SUSTAINING DAMAGE IN GEORGIA. STRATEGIC BUILDUP CONTINUES IN MIDDLE EAST AS UNITED STATES BEGINS TARGETING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN IRAN.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: American targeting within Iran continues as Iranian forces continue to hit U.S. bases throughout the region. American bases in Kuwait have been hammered over the past few days, with ballistic missile strikes being reported at Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem Airbase. Within Iran, this morning the United States began more deliberate attacks on infrastructure which are not solely military targets. The B1 bridge west of Tehran was destroyed, which was not yet opened (it was still under construction) but would have been the largest bridge in the country and the main link between Tehran and Karaj. Analyst Comment: The Iranians are very likely to retaliate by hitting one (or several) critical bridges throughout the region, on the south side of the Persian Gulf. The King Fahd Bridge linking Bahrain with the mainland was already struck by the Iranians on the opening days of the war (when Saudi forces crossed the bridge to put down the Shia uprising/protests in Manama) so if they wanted to hit it again they've already demonstrated that they have the ability to do so. Iraq: This morning the US State Department issued another travel alert, specifically warning that attacks may escalate over the next 24-48 hours. Analyst Comment: This is probably in response to the kidnapping of American journalist Shelly Kittleson by Kataib Hezbollah two days ago (who still remains missing in Baghdad) but also the deteriorating security situation nationwide, which is being compounded by various Iraqi militia groups beginning to mobilize against American forces in the region. More strategically, the situation is Iraq has deteriorated to it's lowest point in years, and there is now a very real risk of some kind of insurgent uprising coming about, due to the opposing militant groups which have been stirred up by the situation in Iran. This will be an important situation to monitor over the next few weeks. India: Following weeks of petroleum disruptions nationwide, the first oil tanker arrived in Vadinar overnight, completing India's resumption of purchasing crude oil from Iran, which was originally halted in 2019. Analyst Comment: India had previously halted the purchase of Iranian oil due to American sanctions, but due to the war in the Middle East resulting in the US waiving oil export sanctions, India has resumed the purchase of oil from Iran. Indian media reports that the transaction was carried out in Chinese Yuan. -HomeFront- Georgia: Yesterday evening Colonial Pipeline's Line 1 was shut down after sustaining damage during drilling operations. The pipeline was shut down for several hours while repairs were conducted, and as of this morning Line 1 is fully functional. Analyst Comment: While this incident was not the result of malign action and it was resolved quickly, this was still a big deal. This is the largest gasoline pipeline network in the United States, and provides the vast majority of gasoline to the east coast. Considering the recent volatility in the oil markets, this outage occurring right before a major holiday weekend for travel was exceptionally poor timing. Washington D.C. - Several leadership changes have taken place this afternoon. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been relieved of her duties, with her Deputy Todd Blanche taking over her roles until a replacement is found. At the Pentagon, General Randy George was requested to take an early retirement, effective immediately, stepping down from his role as Army Chief of Staff. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: President Trump's address to the nation last night concluded without any major announcement of policy changes, and the speech was neither an announcement of the end of the war nor of any substantial increase of combat operations. Timeline wise, President Trump stated that the conflict will last 2-3 more weeks, though no official exit plan was conveyed. More generally, speeches by political officials are not usually reflective of the tactical situation on the ground and as it stands right now, the raw information available to the public continues to indicate another surge of military hardware and resources into the Middle East. Yesterday CENTCOM published their list of assets deployed to support Operation Epic Fury, which included many resources which have recently arrived in theater, such as the EA-37B COMPASS CALL platform (which is used for electronic warfare). This platform arrived on station yesterday, having been observed at Mildenhall Air Base on her way to the Middle East two days ago. Aircraft movements such as this one (and others) continue to indicate that operations are ramping up...not down. National-level reconnaissance and EW assets being moved into theater at this point (conducting their first combat deployment a full month after the war began), is not an indicator of the war coming to a close. Analyst: S2A1 Research: Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

//The Wire//2300Z April 2, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: COLONIAL PIPELINE SHUT DOWN BRIEFLY OVERNIGHT AFTER SUSTAINING DAMAGE IN GEORGIA. STRATEGIC BUILDUP CONTINUES IN MIDDLE EAST AS UNITED STATES BEGINS TARGETING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN IRAN.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: American targeting within Iran continues as Iranian forces continue to hit U.S. bases throughout the region. American bases in Kuwait have been hammered over the past few days, with ballistic missile strikes being reported at Camp Arifjan and Ali Al Salem Airbase. Within Iran, this morning the United States began more deliberate attacks on infrastructure which are not solely military targets. The B1 bridge west of Tehran was destroyed, which was not yet opened (it was still under construction) but would have been the largest bridge in the country and the main link between Tehran and Karaj. Analyst Comment: The Iranians are very likely to retaliate by hitting one (or several) critical bridges throughout the region, on the south side of the Persian Gulf. The King Fahd Bridge linking Bahrain with the mainland was already struck by the Iranians on the opening days of the war (when Saudi forces crossed the bridge to put down the Shia uprising/protests in Manama) so if they wanted to hit it again they've already demonstrated that they have the ability to do so. Iraq: This morning the US State Department issued another travel alert, specifically warning that attacks may escalate over the next 24-48 hours. Analyst Comment: This is probably in response to the kidnapping of American journalist Shelly Kittleson by Kataib Hezbollah two days ago (who still remains missing in Baghdad) but also the deteriorating security situation nationwide, which is being compounded by various Iraqi militia groups beginning to mobilize against American forces in the region. More strategically, the situation is Iraq has deteriorated to it's lowest point in years, and there is now a very real risk of some kind of insurgent uprising coming about, due to the opposing militant groups which have been stirred up by the situation in Iran. This will be an important situation to monitor over the next few weeks. India: Following weeks of petroleum disruptions nationwide, the first oil tanker arrived in Vadinar overnight, completing India's resumption of purchasing crude oil from Iran, which was originally halted in 2019. Analyst Comment: India had previously halted the purchase of Iranian oil due to American sanctions, but due to the war in the Middle East resulting in the US waiving oil export sanctions, India has resumed the purchase of oil from Iran. Indian media reports that the transaction was carried out in Chinese Yuan. -HomeFront- Georgia: Yesterday evening Colonial Pipeline's Line 1 was shut down after sustaining damage during drilling operations. The pipeline was shut down for several hours while repairs were conducted, and as of this morning Line 1 is fully functional. Analyst Comment: While this incident was not the result of malign action and it was resolved quickly, this was still a big deal. This is the largest gasoline pipeline network in the United States, and provides the vast majority of gasoline to the east coast. Considering the recent volatility in the oil markets, this outage occurring right before a major holiday weekend for travel was exceptionally poor timing. Washington D.C. - Several leadership changes have taken place this afternoon. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been relieved of her duties, with her Deputy Todd Blanche taking over her roles until a replacement is found. At the Pentagon, General Randy George was requested to take an early retirement, effective immediately, stepping down from his role as Army Chief of Staff. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: President Trump's address to the nation last night concluded without any major announcement of policy changes, and the speech was neither an announcement of the end of the war nor of any substantial increase of combat operations. Timeline wise, President Trump stated that the conflict will last 2-3 more weeks, though no official exit plan was conveyed. More generally, speeches by political officials are not usually reflective of the tactical situation on the ground and as it stands right now, the raw information available to the public continues to indicate another surge of military hardware and resources into the Middle East. Yesterday CENTCOM published their list of assets deployed to support Operation Epic Fury, which included many resources which have recently arrived in theater, such as the EA-37B COMPASS CALL platform (which is used for electronic warfare). This platform arrived on station yesterday, having been observed at Mildenhall Air Base on her way to the Middle East two days ago. Aircraft movements such as this one (and others) continue to indicate that operations are ramping up...not down. National-level reconnaissance and EW assets being moved into theater at this point (conducting their first combat deployment a full month after the war began), is not an indicator of the war coming to a close. Analyst: S2A1 Research: Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

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$🚨 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC - Reporting Window: Last 24 Hours ✳️The war is entering its final phase, but the battlefield is becoming more dangerous, not less. For the first time since the conflict began, the United States has signaled that its objectives against Iran have largely been achieved and that military operations could conclude within 2 to 3 weeks. At the same time, the operational picture tells a more complex story. Strikes inside Iran are intensifying, not slowing. Iran’s responses are becoming less concentrated but more geographically expansive. And across the region, the risk of broader escalation remains very real. This is no longer an open-ended war. It is a race between final military objectives and the risk of wider regional destabilization. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏁 POLITICAL ENDGAME SIGNAL EMERGES President Donald Trump stated that the war could end within weeks, indicating that core objectives have been achieved, including the degradation of Iran’s strategic capabilities and the disruption of its leadership structure. He also signaled that the United States does not intend to remain indefinitely engaged, suggesting that responsibility for securing critical global nfrastructure, particularly the Strait of Hormuz, may shift to regional and international stakeholders. At the same time, tensions with NATO allies are surfacing. Frustration over limited allied participation in the war has raised the possibility of a broader fracture within the Western alliance structure. Parallel reporting indicates that elements within Iran are signaling openness to a ceasefire framework, particularly if maritime access through Hormuz is restored. Taken together, this marks a clear transition: the war now has a defined political end state, even as military operations continue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✈️ FINAL PHASE STRIKE CAMPAIGN INSIDE IRAN The intensity of strikes over the past 24 hours reflects what appears to be end-stage shaping operations. Israeli and US-aligned strikes targeted a wide range of sites across Iran, including weapons production facilities, research and development centers, and critical infrastructure nodes tied to the regime’s military capabilities. Tehran remains a central focus. Approximately twenty military-industrial sites were struck, along with infrastructure at Mehrabad Airport and locations linked to Basij coordination. A senior Quds Force engineering figure, Mahdi Vafaei, was eliminated in a precision strike. His role in developing underground weapons infrastructure across Lebanon and Syria made him a key long-term asset for Iran’s regional military network. Additional strikes hit industrial targets, including steel production facilities and a site identified as supporting materials linked to Iran’s chemical weapons development pipeline. This is not a campaign aimed at symbolic damage. It is a systematic effort to dismantle Iran’s ability to produce, coordinate, and sustain war over time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 IRANIAN RESPONSE AND CIVILIAN IMPACT Iran continues to launch missiles toward Israel, but at a reduced scale compared to earlier phases of the war. Limited salvos were recorded over the past 24 hours, causing injuries and localized damage. One of the most significant developments was the reported use of cluster munitions in central Israel, critically injuring a child and causing multiple casualties. At the same time, Iran appears to be adapting operationally. Rather than attempting large-scale saturation attacks, it is increasingly relying on smaller strikes, drones, and diversified targeting strategies. This does not indicate de-escalation. It reflects an effort to remain operational under sustained pressure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 REGIONAL EXPANSION: THE WAR SPREADS While direct attacks on Israel have become more limited in scale, Iran is expanding the conflict across the region. In the Gulf, infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain was struck, including fuel storage facilities at Kuwait International Airport. Fires and damage were reported, adding to a growing pattern of attacks on energy and logistical nodes. A commercial tanker was also struck near Qatar, further extending the conflict into maritime space. These developments mark a continued shift where Iran is targeting not just Israel, but the broader economic and energy architecture of the region. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚢 THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ The strategic center of gravity in this war is now unmistakable. The Strait of Hormuz remains contested, with ongoing disruption to global shipping and energy flows. The United States is actively evaluating options to reopen and secure the waterway, including potential direct military action against Iranian coastal capabilities. At the same time, Gulf states, particularly the UAE, are pushing for a coordinated military effort to ensure the strait is reopened. However, regional positioning remains complex, with some actors balancing public caution and private pressure. Notably, the United States has signaled that it may not take long-term responsibility for securing Hormuz, instead shifting that burden to global stakeholders. The implication is clear: control of Hormuz will determine not only the outcome of the war, but its aftermath. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 NORTHERN AND PROXY FRONTS Iran’s proxy network remains active, but increasingly strained. In Lebanon, Israeli strikes continue to target Hezbollah leadership and infrastructure, including the reported elimination of a senior commander in Beirut. Rocket fire persists, but Israeli operations are steadily degrading launch capabilities. In Yemen, the Houthis have formally entered the fight against Israel and are likely contributing to the expanding pattern of regional attacks, including those affecting Gulf infrastructure. Across Iraq and Syria, Iranian-aligned militias remain engaged, while underlying instability continues to create openings for additional actors. This is now a multi-front conflict, but one in which Iran’s network is under pressure across every axis. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 WARFARE EVOLUTION A critical and often overlooked development is the role of advanced targeting systems. Israel is employing AI-assisted capabilities to identify threats, prioritize targets, and synchronize strikes across multiple theaters in near real time. This has significantly compressed the operational cycle, allowing for rapid follow-up strikes and reduced recovery time for Iranian forces. The result is a battlefield environment where Iran has less time to act, less time to adapt, and fewer opportunities to rebuild degraded capabilities. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 THE BIG PICTURE The trajectory of the war is now coming into focus. The United States and Israel are executing a campaign designed to dismantle Iran’s ability to function as a coherent military actor. Iran, in response, is expanding the conflict geographically in an attempt to impose broader costs. At the same time, political signals indicate that the war is approaching a defined end state. Markets are already reacting to this expectation, with oil prices declining and global indices rising on the assumption that the conflict may soon conclude. However, the final phase carries its own risks. As Iran’s conventional capabilities degrade, its reliance on asymmetric and regional tactics is increasing. The decisive question is no longer how the war is fought day to day. It is whether the final objectives can be secured before broader escalation overtakes them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📘 BOOK RECOMMENDATION If you want a deeper understanding of the history, narratives, and strategic realities behind this conflict: Contested Land, Uncontested Truth This book breaks down the ideological, geopolitical, and historical forces that led directly to moments like this, with clarity and evidence. 👉 If you found this report valuable, share it. Follow for daily operational updates.$

🚨 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC - Reporting Window: Last 24 Hours ✳️The war is entering its final phase, but the battlefield is becoming more dangerous, not less. For the first time since the conflict began, the United States has signaled that its objectives against Iran have largely been achieved and that military operations could conclude within 2 to 3 weeks. At the same time, the operational picture tells a more complex story. Strikes inside Iran are intensifying, not slowing. Iran’s responses are becoming less concentrated but more geographically expansive. And across the region, the risk of broader escalation remains very real. This is no longer an open-ended war. It is a race between final military objectives and the risk of wider regional destabilization. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏁 POLITICAL ENDGAME SIGNAL EMERGES President Donald Trump stated that the war could end within weeks, indicating that core objectives have been achieved, including the degradation of Iran’s strategic capabilities and the disruption of its leadership structure. He also signaled that the United States does not intend to remain indefinitely engaged, suggesting that responsibility for securing critical global nfrastructure, particularly the Strait of Hormuz, may shift to regional and international stakeholders. At the same time, tensions with NATO allies are surfacing. Frustration over limited allied participation in the war has raised the possibility of a broader fracture within the Western alliance structure. Parallel reporting indicates that elements within Iran are signaling openness to a ceasefire framework, particularly if maritime access through Hormuz is restored. Taken together, this marks a clear transition: the war now has a defined political end state, even as military operations continue. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✈️ FINAL PHASE STRIKE CAMPAIGN INSIDE IRAN The intensity of strikes over the past 24 hours reflects what appears to be end-stage shaping operations. Israeli and US-aligned strikes targeted a wide range of sites across Iran, including weapons production facilities, research and development centers, and critical infrastructure nodes tied to the regime’s military capabilities. Tehran remains a central focus. Approximately twenty military-industrial sites were struck, along with infrastructure at Mehrabad Airport and locations linked to Basij coordination. A senior Quds Force engineering figure, Mahdi Vafaei, was eliminated in a precision strike. His role in developing underground weapons infrastructure across Lebanon and Syria made him a key long-term asset for Iran’s regional military network. Additional strikes hit industrial targets, including steel production facilities and a site identified as supporting materials linked to Iran’s chemical weapons development pipeline. This is not a campaign aimed at symbolic damage. It is a systematic effort to dismantle Iran’s ability to produce, coordinate, and sustain war over time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 IRANIAN RESPONSE AND CIVILIAN IMPACT Iran continues to launch missiles toward Israel, but at a reduced scale compared to earlier phases of the war. Limited salvos were recorded over the past 24 hours, causing injuries and localized damage. One of the most significant developments was the reported use of cluster munitions in central Israel, critically injuring a child and causing multiple casualties. At the same time, Iran appears to be adapting operationally. Rather than attempting large-scale saturation attacks, it is increasingly relying on smaller strikes, drones, and diversified targeting strategies. This does not indicate de-escalation. It reflects an effort to remain operational under sustained pressure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 REGIONAL EXPANSION: THE WAR SPREADS While direct attacks on Israel have become more limited in scale, Iran is expanding the conflict across the region. In the Gulf, infrastructure in Kuwait and Bahrain was struck, including fuel storage facilities at Kuwait International Airport. Fires and damage were reported, adding to a growing pattern of attacks on energy and logistical nodes. A commercial tanker was also struck near Qatar, further extending the conflict into maritime space. These developments mark a continued shift where Iran is targeting not just Israel, but the broader economic and energy architecture of the region. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚢 THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ The strategic center of gravity in this war is now unmistakable. The Strait of Hormuz remains contested, with ongoing disruption to global shipping and energy flows. The United States is actively evaluating options to reopen and secure the waterway, including potential direct military action against Iranian coastal capabilities. At the same time, Gulf states, particularly the UAE, are pushing for a coordinated military effort to ensure the strait is reopened. However, regional positioning remains complex, with some actors balancing public caution and private pressure. Notably, the United States has signaled that it may not take long-term responsibility for securing Hormuz, instead shifting that burden to global stakeholders. The implication is clear: control of Hormuz will determine not only the outcome of the war, but its aftermath. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 NORTHERN AND PROXY FRONTS Iran’s proxy network remains active, but increasingly strained. In Lebanon, Israeli strikes continue to target Hezbollah leadership and infrastructure, including the reported elimination of a senior commander in Beirut. Rocket fire persists, but Israeli operations are steadily degrading launch capabilities. In Yemen, the Houthis have formally entered the fight against Israel and are likely contributing to the expanding pattern of regional attacks, including those affecting Gulf infrastructure. Across Iraq and Syria, Iranian-aligned militias remain engaged, while underlying instability continues to create openings for additional actors. This is now a multi-front conflict, but one in which Iran’s network is under pressure across every axis. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 WARFARE EVOLUTION A critical and often overlooked development is the role of advanced targeting systems. Israel is employing AI-assisted capabilities to identify threats, prioritize targets, and synchronize strikes across multiple theaters in near real time. This has significantly compressed the operational cycle, allowing for rapid follow-up strikes and reduced recovery time for Iranian forces. The result is a battlefield environment where Iran has less time to act, less time to adapt, and fewer opportunities to rebuild degraded capabilities. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 THE BIG PICTURE The trajectory of the war is now coming into focus. The United States and Israel are executing a campaign designed to dismantle Iran’s ability to function as a coherent military actor. Iran, in response, is expanding the conflict geographically in an attempt to impose broader costs. At the same time, political signals indicate that the war is approaching a defined end state. Markets are already reacting to this expectation, with oil prices declining and global indices rising on the assumption that the conflict may soon conclude. However, the final phase carries its own risks. As Iran’s conventional capabilities degrade, its reliance on asymmetric and regional tactics is increasing. The decisive question is no longer how the war is fought day to day. It is whether the final objectives can be secured before broader escalation overtakes them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📘 BOOK RECOMMENDATION If you want a deeper understanding of the history, narratives, and strategic realities behind this conflict: Contested Land, Uncontested Truth This book breaks down the ideological, geopolitical, and historical forces that led directly to moments like this, with clarity and evidence. 👉 If you found this report valuable, share it. Follow for daily operational updates.

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