**** More Spying from the "Department of Horrible Surveillance" (DHS) ****

"DHS is seeking to develop a new mobile surveillance platform that fuses AI, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless networking into a single system. The technology would mount on 4x4 vehicles capable of reaching remote areas and transforming into rolling, autonomous observation towers, extending the reach of border surveillance far beyond its current fixed sites.

The data collected by the units will be classified as Controlled Unclassified Information (or CUI), a designation introduced in the last decade to replace other labels such as "For Official Use Only," referring to information that falls below the threshold for national security classification, but whose dissemination must be tightly controlled.

DHS has contracted with an Israeli firm for spyware that can remotely hack into mobile phones."

MAGA:

Similarly, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins stated she will prosecute ICE thugs.

Look at what infests drudge.com and pollutes these threads:

This is effective "law-enforcement?"

Why didn't these ICE geniuses follow the suspected vehicle to a more secure area to apprehend them rather than a busy highway intersection?

Because most ICE personnel are not investigators, but simply masked enforcers.

A bounty hunter I knew last century told me he caught most bail jumpers and fugitives completely by surprise in bathrooms and laundromats, away from busy places and nobody got hurt.

After George "W" Bush 'won' in 2000, the late author-intellectual Gore Vidal sniffed about the Republican win: "Hmph. Expect a war or two."

Criminy was he ever spot on.

A high-ranking Trumpf appointee to the USN was recently fired, which probably has something to do with this. These jingoistic pronouncements and EOs from Trumpf are all about awarding lucrative contracts to insiders, like the US Army drone deal Don Jr is making a mint from. Felon Musk is pissed that he and his cronies don't have a monopoly on all the contracts, hence his acrimony towards several members of the junta.

ICE is about as "law-enforcement" as this organization was:

#33: And you wonder how family vaccination policies may change in the DOD.

The Trumpf junta is channeling a 19th-century white supremacist movement to dominate nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Championed by "Copperheads" and Confederate Army officers, The Knights of the Golden Circle sought to expand slavery into Mexico and Cuba before their organization finally went defunct. In 1898, the US would go to war with Spain and obtain Puerto Rico and the Philippines anyway, as well as a naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. USMC General Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket" after enforcing US corporate interests in the Caribbean.

Last century the "white man's burden" was the rationale for imperial expansion; the Trumpf junta is using drug trafficking as it's casus belli. But the reality is that American drug demand is fueling the illegal trafficking from South America and resource-rich Venezuela is the smallest producer of drugs reaching the US.

I still think that Trumpf, Vlad, and Xi have already divvied up the world.

AKA Tacitly acknowledged spheres of influence:

Hi Corky: Thank goodness for PBS that broadcast Monty Python last century. Thanks for the bit of cheer in this bad news.

Colombia President Francisco Petro and his government is doing its best to combat the powerful cocaine cartels while dealing with dangerous grievance guerillas conducting attacks against his government.

Earlier this year, President Petro remarked: "I can't go to the US anymore because I believe they took away my visa. I didn't really need a visa, but anyway, I've already seen Donald Duck [Dummkopf Trumpf] several times, so I'll go see other things."

Great, just great. As if the Gulf of Mexico doesn't have enough of a Dead Zone or flesh-eating bacteria and the waters off San Diego are polluted so much that USN Seal candidates have gotten sick.

I guess Republicans don't enjoy seafood or the beaches.

What private donor will pay for Trumpf's war on Venezuela?

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-24 06:19 PM | Reply | Flag: Apropos

Anyone of the US, or remotely possible foreign, oligarchs. Richard Branson was agitating against Nicolas Maduro years ago.

Hi Corky: Banging your head against a wall would be more productive than arguing with paid overseas trolls, MAGATs, polemicists, cultists, or just plain numbskulls.

#2: Lickspittle Rubio Marco is both Himmler and Ribbentrop.

And the vast majority of Americans simply don't understand how incredibly vapid, but harmful Marco Rubio is. Remember, as a US Senator he sabotaged Obamacare with all sorts of debilitating riders in the ACA bill. See reference above.

He's a dangerous Empty Suit.

*** Financial Chicanery to Pay Our Soldiers ***

The Trumpf junta plans to launder a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of Dummkopf Trumpf toward paying military service members during the Republican Party's government shutdown, the Defense Department confirmed.

"The donation was made on the condition that it be used to offset the cost of Service members' salaries and benefits," bleated chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, adding that the money was accepted under the department's "general gift acceptance authority."

The move marks a striking departure from government procedure for funding the military, which traditionally relies on public funds appropriated by Congress.

"Let them eat cats!" - Don Marie Antionette
#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-24 02:22 PM | Reply | Flag: Leave My Cat Alone!

Charred and mangled corpses are washing ashore on Trinidad and Tobago.

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