News Summary-Intelligence Report 4/26/2024 Newdump Friday*Philly Bank Fails*Canadian Province Makes Public Drug Use A Crime Again*Chinese Foreign Minister Warns US Not To "Cross Red Lines"
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Nextrush Free ^
| 4/26/2024 | Nextrush/Self
Hamas saying it received Israel's reply to its proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza... A bank in Philadelphia has failed... At least 70 dead in flooding in Kenya... Widespread air raid alerts across Ukraine...Intelligence sources speak of large scale Russian missile attacks in Central and Western Ukraine... Tornadoes impacting the Omaha area
this afternoon and evening... An attack on a merchant vessel off the coast of Yemen...Two of the missiles causing damage... The Western Canadian province of British Columbia recriminalizing drug use in public areas... The Russian military in Syria saying that aerospace forces attacked two jihadist bases... A Romanian...
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Senior EU official: 'Iran doesn't have peaceful intentions with its nuclear program'
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Arutz Sheva ^
| 4/11/21
“I don’t believe that the Iranians only have peaceful intentions with their nuclear program,” said David Lega, a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament. Lega was responding to recent protestations of the Iranian regime that it has only “civilian purposes” in mind with its progress toward nuclear
capability. Speaking exclusively to Israel Hayom from his residence in Sweden, Lega said that, “We haven’t yet come to a decision regarding Iran; we are monitoring the situation closely, using great caution. I don’t want to speak on behalf of the Committee as we haven’t debated this issue...
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[Cath Cauc] Should we pray for ‘our Holy Father’s intentions’ even if a pope has bad intentions?
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LifeSite News ^
| October 3, 2019 | Peter Kwasniewski
[Catholic Caucus} Should we pray for ‘our Holy Father’s intentions’ even if a pope has bad intentions? October
3, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — I was in a car driving with a friend, and he said to me: “You know, it’s really hard in this pontificate to know what to do in front of the children. I mean, you can’t just pretend that everything is fine with Pope Francis. Kids are smart, and they hear stuff. They ask questions. They know something weird is going on. One day when I led the rosary, I said we would pray ‘for the pope’s...
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News Summary-Intelligence Report Friday 8/18/2023 Newsdump Friday Biden Crackdown On Firearms Stores, New COVID Variant Talked Up, Thousands Evacuate Over Canadian Wildfires, US Intelligence Estimates Ukrainian Failure In "Offensive"
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Nextrush Free ^
| 8/18/2023 | Nextrush/Self
Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting the military headquarters for operations... Explosions reported in cities in western Ukraine tonight... Stiff sentences of prison and probation given to misdemeanor defendants in January 6th cases have been put into doubt... There are more firearms dealers than ever being shut down by the Biden Administration... In
Saudi Arabia visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman... The Economic Community of West African Nations (ECOWAS) says it will "restore constitutional order" in Niger "as soon as possible"...Also there is word that ECOWAS countries Burkina Faso and Mali have made military preparations...
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Iran warns it may review its ‘nuclear doctrine,’ threatens to hit Israeli nuclear sites
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Times of Israel ^
| April 18, 2024 | Times of Israel Staff
Iran could review its “nuclear doctrine” following Israeli threats to strike the country, a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander said on Thursday, as the world braces for an Israeli response to Tehran’s unprecedented April 13 drone and missile attack on it. Tehran
has always insisted its nuclear program was strictly for peaceful purposes, a claim Israel and much of the Western world doubt.
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US warns Russia not to touch American nuclear technology at Ukrainian nuclear plant (Zaporizhzhia)
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CNN ^
| 4-18-23 | Natasha Bertrand and Tim Lister
The US has sensitive nuclear technology at a nuclear power plant inside Ukraine and is warning Russia not to touch it, according to a letter the US Department of Energy sent to Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy firm Rosatom last month. In
the letter, which was reviewed by CNN and is dated March 17, 2023, the director of the Energy Department’s Office of Nonproliferation Policy, Andrea Ferkile, tells Rosatom’s director general that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Enerhodar “contains US-origin nuclear technical data that is export-controlled by the United States Government.” Goods, software and technology are subject to US export...
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Ukraine's energy secretary warns nuclear plant offline: 'World is once again on the brink of nuclear disaster'
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Fox news ^
| 09/05/2022 | Danielle Wallace
Ukraine’s Minister of Energy warned Monday that the "world is once again on the brink of nuclear disaster" after heavy shelling brought down Europe’s largest nuclear plant’s last transmission line. In
a written message shared on Facebook on Monday, Ukrainian Energy Secretary German Galushchenko said that the majority of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mission has left the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as the station "is depleted again." "The last line connecting it with the energy system of Ukraine — LEP 330 kW ZATES — Ferosplavna - separated due to the fire that occurred as a result of shelling,"...
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9/11 Remembrance: Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden Warns About America’s Greatest Threat Now
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Fox News ^
| 09.11.2021 | Caitlin McFall
As American reaches 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, the former Navy SEAL credited with killing the man behind the horror, Usama bin Laden, warned against the greatest threat now facing the U.S. Robert O’Neill, former member of the elite SEAL Team Six, said in an interview with Fox News that despite
growing concerns around a resurgence of radical Islamic terrorism, the U.S. has bigger vulnerabilities closer to home. "My biggest concern is the division in this country," O’Neill said. "Most people are good to each other. But the anger and the division gets the ratings, and that’s what people...
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Putin's nuclear threats are pushing people like Trump and Elon Musk to press for a Ukraine peace deal. A nuclear expert warns that's 'dangerous.'
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Business Insider ^
An understandable desire to avoid a nuclear war could actually make the world more dangerous if it means rushing to implement a "peace" in Ukraine that serves Russian interests, an expert told Insider. Such a move, which some influential figures have called for, risks setting a precedent that atomic blackmail is the
way to win wars and take territory troops can't otherwise hold, a model that could be copycatted by even the weakest nuclear-armed states, and may only succeed at delaying another war. Pavel Podvig, an expert on Russia's nuclear doctrine and capabilities at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research,...
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Canadian Intelligence Finds Evidence of Chinese Interference in Elections
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Red State ^
| 02/17/2023 | Kira Davis
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is alleging Canadian elections have been targeted for influence by Chinese operatives since at least 2019.The CSIS alerted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other cabinet members to the issue in January. Global News in Canada reports CSIS offered briefings and memos that lay out Beijing’s attempts
to influence and “subvert” Canadian elections.Delivered to the prime minister and several cabinet members in a series of briefings and memos first presented in January, the allegations included other detailed examples of Beijing’s efforts to further its influence and, in turn, subvert Canada’s democratic process, sources said.Based on...
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President Trump on Saturday confirmed the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden
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The Hill ^
| Sept 14, 2019
President Trump on Saturday confirmed the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden who had emerged as a high-profile member of al Qaeda. Trump said in a statement released by the White House that bin Laden was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, though
he did not provide an exact date for the death. “The loss of Hamza bin Ladin not only deprives al-Qa’ida of important leadership skills and the symbolic connection to his father, but undermines important operational activities of the group. Hamza bin Ladin was responsible for planning and dealing...
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Bin Laden crash pilot 'suffering from mental overload' (3 Members of Bin Laden Family Dead boo-hoo))
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BBC ^
| 12-8-2016 | John Dowry
A pilot may have been suffering from "mental overload" when he crash-landed, killing three members of Osama Bin Laden's family, an inquiry has found. The
jet overshot the runway at Blackbushe Airport in July 2015 and crashed into a car auction site. The Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB) said emergency warnings prior to landing may have "saturated the pilot's mental capacity". The pilot and three passengers survived the crash but died in a severe fire. Bin Laden's half-sister, Sana Mohammed Bin Laden, her mother, Raja Bashir Hashim, and his brother-in-law, Zuhair Hashim, were killed, along with pilot Mazen Al-Aqeel Da'jah...
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UPDATE: More Details Surface Surrounding Arrest of Senior Canadian Intelligence Official…
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CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^
| 9/17/2019 | SUNDANCE
Mercedes Stephenson from Global News has done some excellent follow-up coverage on the arrest of RCMP Intelligence Director Cameron Ortis. Mr. Ortis is facing seven serious charges of intelligence violations including obtaining information to pass to a “foreign entity.” The
intelligence compromise is the biggest scandal in “a generation”. New evidence shows the arrest was a result of a 2018 international intelligence operation that targeted the encrypted communications service known as “Phantom Secure”. A man named Victor Ramos was the CEO of Phantom Secure, an enterprise that provided encrypted communication devices to criminal agents involved in drug smuggling, money laundering...
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Food complaints no secret at CSIS headquarters [Canadian Security Intelligence Service]
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Toronto Star ^
| April 2, 2015 | Laurent Corbeil
For Canada’s spies, the most harrowing challenge apparently begins at lunchtime. The
catered food at CSIS headquarters is so off-putting that one employee threatened to “raise the issue with Amnesty International,” emails obtained by the Star show. A dozen pages of complaints on the quality of the food served at CSIS headquarters over a five-year period offer a rare look inside the workings of Canada’s spy agency. The documents describe a string of mistakes that employees say tarnished the agency’s reputation and left foreign dignitaries unimpressed with CSIS’s hospitality. At the time, the catering services were prone to blunders, especially...
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Calgary Muslim men say CSIS (Canadian Security and Intelligence Service) wrongfully targeted them
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CBC News Website ^
| Nov 22, 2017 | Nazim Baksh, Devin Heroux
Two Muslim men from Calgary say they were willing to assist Canada's security agents with terror-related inquiries until CSIS started hounding them and shared their personal information with foreign states. Speaking
exclusively to CBC News, Yacine Meziane and Abderrahmane Ghanem say CSIS and the RCMP wrongfully lumped them in with a cluster of Calgary jihadis who left to fight with ISIS in Iraq and Syria. They say were subjected to surveillance that quickly turned into harassment and eventually escalated into a full-scale disruption of their lives at home and abroad. "My life was ripped apart," Meziane said. Neither CSIS nor...
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News Summary Intelligence Report Wednesday 4/7/2021 Canadian Church Closed With Fences
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Nextrush Free ^
| 4/7/2021 | Nextrush/Self
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police raiding the Grace Life Church just outside Edmonton Alberta today and installing fencing around it. In
fact two layers of fencing with tarp covering it around the church and additional fencing in the parking lot and the driveway. Private security guards placed on 24-hour duty at the church. The actions under a health order from the Alberta Health Service. The move against a church whose pastor was jailed for continuing to hold services in spite of coronavirus restrictions. The church has continued to hold services in spite of the coronavirus lockdown. Authorities now occupying the...
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Senior Canadian intelligence official found guilty of passing secrets to figures tied to Iran
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Just the news ^
| 11/28/2023 | The Foreign Desk Staff
A jury in Canada found Cameron Jay Ortis, a former intelligence official of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), guilty of breaching Canada’s secrets laws and passing information to international criminals and money launderers connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The trial came following Ortis’s arrest in 2019, which, according to
Canadian officials, sent a “shockwave through the Canadian security and intelligence community.” The jury found Ortis guilty of three counts of violating the Security of Information Act and one count of trying to do so. Prosecutors stated that not only did Ortis pass information, but he had classified...
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US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns
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The Guardian via MSN ^
| Jan. 2, 2022 | Richard Luscombe
The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the “collapse of American democracy”. “We
mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine,” Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail. “In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace.”...
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EXCLUSIVE - 'You don't defeat a crazy man with nuclear weapons, with weakness': Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden slams US response to Putin, the Pentagon for pushing their climate change plans and says Russia and China are 'laughing at us'
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Daily Mail ^
| 12 March 2022 | WILLS ROBINSON
Rob O'Neill was the Navy SEAL who shot the 9/11 mastermind in 2011 in Pakistan. He has left the service after 16 years and 400 combat missions for his country . Decorated
veteran says Russians are dying for a 'leader who's lost his marbles' . He also criticized the U.S. and their 'nonsense' ploys and showing 'weakness'. The example he uses is the canceled nuclear missile test last weekend. Also said the Pentagon is 'wasting resources' by 'trying to turn warships green'. ... the decorated veteran criticized the Biden administration for cancelling a nuclear missile test last weekend while Russian...
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US has new intelligence on Russian nuclear capabilities in space
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CNN via Yahoo ^
| February 14th, 2024 | Katie Bo Lillis, Alex Marquardt, Jim Sciutto, Oren Liebermann, Natasha Bertrand, Melanie Zanona and
The US has new intelligence on Russian military capabilities related to its efforts to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in space, according to multiple sources familiar with the intelligence.The intelligence was briefed to Congress and key US allies, and some lawmakers say it is serious enough that it should be declassified and
made public. While the intelligence is concerning, multiple senior members of Congress briefed on the information on Wednesday emphasized that it does not pose an immediate threat to the US or its interests. The system remains under development and is not yet in orbit, according to three US...
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