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Israel has launched direct strikes inside Iran against its nuclear program, military leaders, and nuclear scientists. These events were predicted in detail more than a year-and-a-half ago in the book TARGET TEHRAN by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Senior Military and Intelligence Analyst for The Jerusalem Post, and fellow journalist Ilan Evyatar.Bob and Evyatar anticipated and warned of this precise escalation: Mossad's covert operations on Iranian soil, the doctrine of preemptive self-defense, and the strategic urgency surrounding Iran's nuclear and regional ambitions. Over two pages in TARGET TEHRAN the authors described a massive air assault on Iran carried out in three waves by more than one hundred Israeli aircraft and a similar number of drones. They detailed the routes taken, the types of aircraft and weapons involved, and the targets-Iran's heavy water reactors, uranium conversion plants, research reactors and other facilities involved in Iran's nuclear weaponization experiments. They addressed the questions of casualties and revenge attacks as well. TARGET TEHRAN serves as a live roadmap to what is unfolding right now.Being on the ground in Israel, with access to high-level military and government sources and classified top secret briefings, Evyatar is qualified to discuss other potential targets that Israel might hit. He can also offer detailed, up-to-the-minute insight into the current context of the conflict between Israel and Iran, and what it bodes for the future.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Step into the future of policing where data is a mission-critical asset. Cindi Howson talks with Aimee Smith, Director of Data at the Metropolitan Police, about the Met's bold data transformation—from digitizing records dating back to 1829 to using AI and cloud tech for smarter, faster decisions. Hear how initiatives like the V100 program and real-time analytics help improve city safety. Key Moments: Genesis of the Met's Data Strategy (03:35) - The Met's data strategy's origin is traced to former Commissioner Cressida Dick's leadership, who envisioned leveraging data to transform policing, leading to a program building data capabilities and broadening analytics use beyond traditional intelligence and performance applications.  Mission with Data and AI (13:34): The Met's overarching mission to use data and AI for precise decision-making is articulated, acknowledging the complexity of policing's multiple goals: crime prevention, incident response, organized crime intervention, victim service, and custody safety.  Infrastructure Evolution (15:18): The transformation of the Met's data infrastructure over 5 years, from 8 separate operational systems to an integrated one with cloud technology adoption, is described, enhancing analytics and data science capabilities.  V100 Initiative (19:58): The V100 initiative, a data and analytics effort to reduce violence against women and girls by prioritizing individuals with a history of harm, is explained.  Concert Security Powered by Analytics (27:50): The use of ThoughtSpot by frontline officers is illustrated with a sergeant's innovative application for analyzing crime data around events like the Taylor Swift Eras tour to improve policing plans.  AI Agent Development (36:37): An innovative project to build an AI agent that assists frontline officers at crime scenes by providing real-time guidance is outlined, aiming to improve public protection and investigative outcomes.  Key Quotes:“So if an officer wants to start being able to do their own searches, creating their own sort of planners, thinking about doing their own trend analysis essentially, of crime data, which is great, isn't it? I mean, that's just exactly how you want ThoughtSpot to be used. Every officer has access to that.” - Aimee Smith"I like to think of it as a utility belt—you know how cops wear their utility belt? Well, hanging on there is this ThoughtSpot tool. A sergeant invented a way to use it for planning major events, concerts, to make sure our presence is right. And now that's replicable by other people who want to do the same thing." - Aimee Smith"One of the 5 principles of our business strategy for London to keep it safe is to be more precise in the use of data for decision making. So it's a high-level principle of our strategy. That makes data and analytics much harder, because there aren't enough data specialists and too many data parts to point at all those missions in one go.” - Aimee SmithMentionsMet Police's V100 InitiativeMet Police Develops an Open Data Strategy with the Open Data InstituteMet Police's Concert Preparation for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Cressida Dick Reflects on Public Trust in the Digital Age The Data Protection ActGuest Bio Aimee Smith's distinguished career in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) spans almost a quarter-century, truly a testament to her profound dedication to integrating robust data into the very core of police decision-making. She embarked on her journey in 2001 as an Intelligence Analyst, steadily rising through the ranks. By 2014, her leadership capabilities led her to head UK Policing's largest Confidential Intelligence Unit. A pivotal "light-bulb moment" crystallized for her the critical importance of effective data management in driving operational outcomes, inspiring her to passionately spearhead the comprehensive MPS data transformation program. In a landmark achievement, Aimee was appointed as the first Director of Data for the MPS, where in 2019, she successfully established the inaugural Data Office within law enforcement, fundamentally reshaping how the service leverages its information. Hear more from Cindi Howson here. Sponsored by ThoughtSpot.

In this extended Frontline conversation, intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance - who served in the US military and has worked in Ukraine - says Ukraine's attack on the Kerch Bridge in Crimea and its daring drone attack on Russian airfields shows Vladimir Putin can't win the war by simply grinding forward on the frontline.The World in 10 is the Times' daily podcast dedicated to global security. Expert analysis of war, diplomatic relations and cyber security from The Times' foreign correspondents and military specialists. Watch more: www.youtube.com/@ListenToTimesRadio Read more: www.thetimes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One manifesto pledge of the incoming Labour government was to provide over 3000 new nurseries in empty school classrooms in England. The first 300 of these will open by September and offer an average of 20 places each. Nuala McGovern speaks to Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education, about this announcement and also about the current state of provision and funding for children with special education needs.Darkly funny, unsettling, and razor-sharp, I Hope You're Happy by Marni Appleton is a haunting collection of short stories exploring modern womanhood through the lens of horror and satire. From viral photos to eerie performances in dead-end jobs, these stories capture the weirdness of millennial life... where power struggles, fleeting connections, and social media anxieties collide with the surreal. Marni joined Nuala to discuss the themes and her inspiration.A new exhibition called Curious Cures at Cambridge University Library explores medicine in the medieval era. Dozens of unique medical manuscripts, recipes, cures and guides to healthy living from the 14th and 15th centuries are on display. To discuss women's role in medieval medicine, Nuala was joined by the exhibition's curator and medieval manuscripts specialist, Dr James Freeman.The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes “prison isn't working” for women and wants to reduce the number of female prisoners. Nuala speaks to Scarlett Roberts, a former prisoner and is now a Churchill Fellow and to former prisoner Jules Rowan, who co-hosts the Life After Prison podcast. They are joined by former prisoner officer and former Head of Security and Operations at HMP Wormwood Scrubs Vanessa Frake-Harris, and by prison Intelligence Analyst, author of Five by Five, Claire Wilson and Lucy Russell, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at the charity Women in Prison. The Neonatal Care Act starts tomorrow. It allows employed parents to take up to 12 weeks of additional leave on top of their maternity or paternity leave if their newborn baby stays in hospital for more than seven days. We hear from Catriona Ogilvy, founder of premature baby charity The Smallest Things, who has been fighting for this law change for 10 years.Echo vom Eierstock is Switzerland's first feminist yodelling choir. Elena Kaiser is their founder and joined Nuala to discuss where her love of yodelling came from, and why she is challenging the make-up of traditional yodelling choirs and songs.Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Emma Pearce

The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes “prison isn't working” for women and wants to reduce the number of female prisoners. So what has gone wrong? Nuala McGovern speaks to Scarlett Roberts who is a former prisoner and is now a Churchill Fellow and to former prisoner Jules Rowan, now a personal trainer, who co-hosts the Life After Prison podcast. They are joined by former prisoner officer and former Head of Security and Operations at HMP Wormwood Scrubs Vanessa Frake-Harris, and by prison Intelligence Analyst and author of Five by Five, Claire Wilson. And Lucy Russell, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at the charity Women in Prison, describes the challenges faced by women in prison today.What can be done to improve the prison system for women? Nuala speaks to justice system reformer Lady Edwina Grosvenor about her pioneering project Hope Street in Southampton, which aims to keep women in criminal justice system out of jail and with their children and to Alex Davies Jones MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice about the Government's plans to tackle the issue of women's prisons.Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Laura Northedge

The first Ishara open  House Challenge .Book 3 in 18 parts, By FinalStand. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels.Odd Happenings{8:58 am, Wednesday, Sept. 3rd ~ 5 Days to go; the Final Salvo ~ at this time}I had deposited my Mother in the place I felt was safest for her   with OT (Oyuun T m rbaatar) at the Kazakhstan's UN mission. Her being my family was what mattered to them most. I picked her up on my way to work, which made my entrance into the lobby all that much more cataclysmic.I was traveling light with only Wiesława Živa providing me with security. Chaz, Pamela and Juanita were catching up with their sleep, with a promise of taking me out for a late lunch. That was really them telling me to not leave JIKIT until they came for me around 2:00 pm.So anyway, me, Mom and Wiesława walked into the ground floor of the Mil Ma Towers to find eleven people waiting on us. We were in downtown Manhattan in a part of town the NYPD paid particular attention to. What could go wrong, right? Two of the people were Amazons from Havenstone. With them were two fine young men from the US 'don't make me kill you' Department. By this time in my life I was sure they had one   which no one talked about.Five of my expectant visitors were of the same mold as those who protected Hana for me. Not the Ghost Tigers   that would have put me at ease. Sure, they were a gang of assassin and in this circumstance; I would have preferred them. As it was, ten sets of highly-trained Illuminati operative eyes kept me, my party and the four guardians of JIKIT in their overlapping fields of vision.The last two, were doing an impromptu family reunion. They were Aunts 'X' and 'Y', and neither of them smelled like fish, or crab."Aunt Deidre," I tossed out there. "What brings you here today?"It looked like clobbering time! No. Wait. Neither Mom, nor my aunts, were saying anything and they were normally so verbose."Sibeal.""Imogen.""Sibeal, you are looking surprisingly well for a dead woman," the other one said."Deidre, you are looking surprisingly alive for someone who deserves to be dead," Mom bantered back."How long have you known about this?" Imogen's eyes flickered my way."Not long, a while, more than a day, ah, take your pick," I mumbled. I decided to turn that frown aka 'my gut wrenching terror that my Mother was about to die' upside down aka ramped up my sexy, 'glad to see you in a totally incestuous way'."So, what brings you here today and why aren't you waiting upstairs with the rest of my band of cutthroats, malcontents and ne'er do-wells? Oh, and I'm happy to see both of you." Karma was about to bitch-slap the shit out of me and it was so well deserved."I'm pregnant," Imogen studied my reaction. Yeah, I had banged her after Deidre, but before Baibre because I am a fucking reprehensible human being and sometimes, I feel I am utterly irredeemable."Great news," I exhaled. I so wanted to ask 'so, who is the father?' except that was too cruel, even for an O'Shea.No one stopped me from stepping up and hugging her. Everyone in the lobby had heard her loud and clear. Anyone who knew me, or even about me, knew she wasn't passing on the information because Imogen liked sharing good news. I kept my hands on her hips while I leaned my torso back until we could make eye contact."Does Granddad know?" It occurred to me in that second that Pamela was going to kick herself for missing this and the opportunity to kick me as well."I told him over the phone. His reaction was neutral," she responded."Whoa, girl? Boy? How are you doing? When are we going to sit down and figure out a name? Is there anything I can do for you?""Come home with me," she suggested."No," Mom snapped. "Next time he steps into your custody, we all know you won't let him get away." She meant the plane trip to Ireland."No, Mom," I countered. "I'm a grown man now and I make my own decisions. That being said   no, I'm not going home with you.""Not only am I still in love with the concept of my personal freedom, I have important work to do. People are counting on me.""We are counting on you too," Deidre stated. "In fact, that is the other reason we came here. We need you.""Why do I feel that has to do with something besides sex?""Can we talk to you in private?" Imogen requested. There were a thousand and one reasons to say 'no'. Things like 'common sense', bad behavior   they had murdered my homicidal uncle   and the fact they were as morally twisted as their creator. Oh   and they were hot and I hadn't been laid in forever."Sure. Let's go upstairs. You can have your people sweep the room to ensure our privacy then the four of us can sit down and have a family chat," I offered."We don't want her in the room," Deidre indicated Mom."We are a package deal," I denied her. "Like her, or not, she is as much family to me as you both are."They consented far too fast. Either I was falling into their masterful trap, or something horrible had happened. Neither options was palatable to me. The bodyguards departed, Wiesława last of all."What's gone wrong?" Mom preempted me. Her sisters glared."Father's body is not his own," Imogen told us. I was trying to figure out the relevance of that when Mom gasped."Oh fuck," she said in a small voice. "No serum?" Oh yeah, the refinement of those addictive pheromones Grandpa Cáel had gifted me with. Whatever flesh-form he currently inhabited wasn't one containing his genetic make-up meaning,"Oh shit," I mumbled. "What can I do?""Yes," Deidre replied to Mom."Let them die," Mom insisted (to me). Less I forget, she was raised by Grandpa Cáel too. Her being a loving mother to me didn't translate over to her being a humanitarian of any kind."The Hell you say," I jumped up and stared down at Mom. "You hate them. I don't. Letting them die makes me worse than him." Grandpa."So you will help us?" Deidre moved to the edge of her seat."Okay. This is the point where I threaten you into making some concessions, we argue then you eventually cave in because no matter how terrible your futures look, you aren't willing to give up on living. None of that is going to happen. What do you need from me?""Come back with us to Ireland so we can finish our experiments," Imogen joined me in standing. Unwilling to give her sister any physical advantage, Mom stood as well."No. That isn't even a believable lie," I scolded her. "You don't need to blackmail me into helping you. I'll do it gladly. That doesn't mean I'll let you trick me into doing something stupid. I do 'stupid' all the time. I'm accustomed to it and I know it when its ugly head rises up before me. Try again.""We could pick a neutral location," Deidre suggested."How about Havenstone?" They didn't look like that plan was even worthy of their consideration. "Imogen, inside you is growing a possible heir to House Ishara. An attack on you would be an attack on Ishara. Barring you betraying the Amazons, you would be perfectly safe.""Wonderful," Mom's sarcasm dripped off every word. "I'm going to be a grandmother to my nephew while my son is bringing a child into the world that can double as his cousin.""That sound pretty horrible, Mom. It is the truth, but it still sounds pretty terrible."While those words tumbled out of my mouth, I did a little soul back-searching. How in the fuck was   outside of the actual fucking   was Imogen pregnant? My existence was a freaking fluke of nature. A few words were bandied about the room while I was lost in deductive reasoning and turning hunches into assumptions and turning those into reasonable mystic hypotheses.I created the Mojo-Little Engine that thought it could. Specifically, the legacy of Vranus. Legions of little Vranusian sperm had been jumping hurdle after hurdle to keep the faith alive   that Vranus would meet his Ancestors with his mission accomplished. I was already half way there.Still, the legacy of Vranus and the hopes of Dot Ishara hadn't stopped in their struggle just because I had been born. They were still trying to restore the mortal descendants of a Dead House. They were also still spiritually pushing me on to fulfill his last command   to save the Arinniti sons.I was halfway there by returning the offspring of Bolu, Vranus' fellow guardian, back to the fold. It remained for me to round up the purpose of the whole mission in the first place. My semen weren't taking a chance that I could get gakked before that was accomplished. Having knocked up an augur despite the toxic soup she called blood should have been a dire warning to me, I'm an idiot.When the curse of Sarrat Irkalli clashed with the actions of Dot Ishara, Ishara had won. Sarrat Irkalli sought to deny Alal any children of his own. Dot was insisting the male line of Vranus Ishara continue on. The end result was Alal received his long-denied grandson, who just happened to also want him dead because of a feud that stretched back over two millennia.As an added insult, his grandson then knocked up one of Alal's genetically manipulated daughters, again giving him something he couldn't accomplish on his own   heirs   grand-sons and  daughters, most who would also want to kill him, being Amazons and members of the 9 Clans after all. Why? Cause Goddesses are bitches, that's why.That got me to wondering when would be the next time I was going to meet Ishara. I hadn't suffered severe head trauma in while and she was overdue for some snuggle time, witty banter and a fortune cookie. I'd try to be careful. It wouldn't do any good, but I had to try."Why are you crying?" Mom touched my arm."No reason," I lied."Why don't we make plans for tonight?" Deidre insinuated herself next to me. "We'd like to meet Hana. From what I understand, Father likes her.""No can-do," I sniffled. "I've got an orgy with 159 women at 8 o'clock, except there won't be any sex, or fun of any kind. Basically, I have to convince a roomful of women to not beat me up and take my stuff.""You don't have to go," Imogen had finished boxing me in   I had a chair behind me and Momma-clones all around."For the same reason I'm going to take care of our child, Imogen, I have to go to this meeting. People are counting on me to do the right thing without telling me what the right thing to do is.""That's unfair," Deidre empathized by stroking my chest."Not so. This is just another day in the life of a new hire at Havenstone Commercial Investments. Every day is like this and in five more days, the real fun beings." That wasn't entirely accurate. I had one good, stress-free week. It was when Carrig put me in a coma. That week I had done pretty well for myself.{9:28 am, Wednesday, Sept. 3rd ~ 5 Days to go}I trundled my latest 'Assistant-in-Charge of keeping the hopes of future Isharans alive' (I didn't want to call Aunt Imogen, or any other woman, my 'Baby-Mamma'), along with Mom and Deidre, for a meet-and-greet with Buffy. I had spelled out in no uncertain terms that Buffy was the power behind the Ishara Throne and thus making 'her' believe they were playing on the up-and-up was their best hope for easing relations between the O'Shea and the Amazon Host.After they left me (with the assurance we'd be getting back together for lunch, with Hana), I made three calls. I needed to make a formal request to Katrina (any Illuminati member(s) entering any Amazon facility was her purview) and another to Elsa (as a sign of respect) that Aunt Imogen and two unarmed bodyguards, max, needed to see our medicos about a delicate issue.The third call was to Buffy to enlighten her as to both the arrival of another one of my aunts (so we needed to get along peacefully with her) and that Aunt Imogen was carrying yet another potential heir to House Ishara. I suggested it would be a symbolic gesture if a member of House Ishara could hang around for the visit, as it might impress upon Imogen our House had a vested interest in keeping her alive."Another one?" Buffy sizzled. "And this one is your aunt?""It is a date then," I stumped her."You are going to take your pregnant aunt out on a date?" Buffy's sizzle meter was rapidly climbing to Krakatoa proportions."Nope. I'm setting up a date for us. You, me and a quiet location at 12:01 am Tuesday morning, my First. Later in the morning, I'll be heading out to wherever they have stored Felix so we can work on some cooperative strategy.""And if I say 'no'?" She was terribly grumpy."Ugh, I guess I'll go bar-crawling with Odette and Timothy, Gay and Lesbian bars only. That way I know I'll behave.""And if they say 'no'?" she was slightly less hostile."I'll know you threatened their lives, and then you and I will finally find out who is better on the mats. Trust me, it will not be an experience you will enjoy.""I don't know. I think I'd like that.""No. You start threatening the other people I love and you will not be happy; I guarantee that, Buffy."She realized I was both serious and angry. She had stepped out of bounds, the 'bounds' I had set up two hours earlier during our elevator ride."Is the meeting still on for the night?" she evaded my disappointment."Yes. Will you be there?""Of course," she grumped."Buffy, don't bother showing up if you can't separate 'us' as friends, 'us' as Wakko Ishara and my First, and you as my apprentice."Making me miserable in the first relationship doesn't help the latter two one bit. I try not to be an irresponsible asshole as House Head. More than anyone else, you know what I will sacrifice to be Ishara and one with my Isharans. I'll also step out and be plain ole 'Cáel Nyilas' when events permit.""But I am sick and tired of people not taking my desire to be foolish and care-free seriously. Being a dogmatic ass-hat isn't in me, but if you can't work with that, from here on out we are Wakko Ishara and Buffy Ishara and nothing more. I will still trust you as an Isharan, but not as a friend. Your choice.""Don't be such an asshole!" she snapped."Screw you!" I fired back. "I made a fucking effort to plan out some personal time with you, disguised as a joke; you knew it and you still decided to be a ball-buster. Like I need another fucking ball-buster right now, with all the other shit on my plate. You know better!" I was screaming. The people in JIKIT were working overtime at not staring at me."I'm under a ton of stress here too," she snarled. "I have to deal with the Council, keep our House growing and fulfill my obligations with Executive Services.""Do you want to quit? No longer by my 'apprentice'? Go back to working for Katrina full time?""Really?" she whispered."Of course the fuck not!" I shouted. "I didn't pick you for the job because of your sterling personality, or your bedroom excellence. I picked you because I had, and still have, utter faith in your ability to do whatever is necessary to overcome the landfill-sized colossal ill-fortune the Ancestors have dumped in our lap.""I'm just asking you to stop being a whiny, over-sensitive cunt and remember: it was the psychotic bitch who I chose for the top spot," I rumbled."I'm going to kick your ass," she seethed."Nice to know. We on for Monday night?"Pause."Yes," and she hung up. Two seconds later my phone rang again. "Buffy?" I answered. "And don't be late!" she menaced, then hung up again."So," Addison turned my way, "are you praying for World Peace to break out, or Nuclear War?""Hardy-har-har," I griped."Now that your personal drama is temporarily derailed, we have something for you to look at," Mehmet motioned for my attention. "Ever heard of Kōfuku no Kagaku?" I shook my head. "It translates over as 'Happy Science' and it is a cult-like organization in Japan.""Cool beans. Why do I have a sinking impression it is not a front for the Ninja?""That is what we want you to find out," Addison took over. "Of critical importance is the news conference their leader, Ryuho Okawa, gave earlier this afternoon/morning (~ 3:17 pm Tokyo time = 2:17 am East Coast time ~), especially a very relevant part of his interesting public announcement."He claims to be the Earthly manifestation of the Supreme Being. That is old news. Today he claimed that Temujin of the Khanate was the reincarnation of the original Genghis Khan and, with him, Ryuho, as the unifier of theological forces and therefore serving as spiritual advisor to Temujin, they would usher in a new period of Peace throughout Asia.""I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop," I exhaled."He also claims that Japan is in the midst of an epic struggle, both spiritually and in the physical sense. The 'ancient guardians' of Japanese purity, the 6 Ninja Families, are at war with the depth of all Evil, the Chinese Seven Pillars of Heaven by name, who are determined to drag all of Asia away from the Light and into the Darkness of pain, degradation and slavery."In fact I quote: 'Alone among the nations of the Earth, only the Japanese cultural identity can stand firm against this global menace. Only the Japanese can keep the torch of true Enlightenment aloft. Only the Japanese can guide the development of the Khanate into the Supreme Empire it is meant to be'.""I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this guy is pseudo-religious, a Japanese ultra-nationalist as well as anti 'all things Sino'," came out of my mouth."Correct.""None of the Secret Societies would do something so public. Temujin's background is a mystery, but no one in the Khanate is calling him a reincarnated spirit, and they know the truth," I continued."This guy is pretty nutty," Mehmet confirmed. "He also claims to channel Buddha, Mohammed, Christ and Confucius. His followers worship him as the Earthly manifestation of the 'Supreme Being' named El Cantare, which is yet another name for any number of ancient supreme deities. And he claims to consult with the 'spirit guardians' of national leaders and aids in their mystic defense, with the aid of the Five Sacred Sisters' Spirits."Clearly this man was insane. Unfortunately, insane didn't make someone wrong,"Ah Hell," I muttered.Mehmet and Addison perked up; after all, figuring out the bizarre was my position on the team."He probably is insane, and I can't blame him," I sighed. "He isn't El Cantare; he is in touch with the Weave.""I have a feeling this is 'not good'," Addison murmured. "How bad is it?""The Five Sacred Spirit Sisters are most likely the five augurs who died in order to save Temujin, which, in turn, allies the 9 Clans with the E&S and Amazons to 'save' Japan, though it is not 'saved' yet.""Technically, the Weave IS the Supreme Being. It's largely indifferent, yet capable of doing both good and ill in response to outside (aka mortal) stimuli. If you can observe the Weave, you might be able to see the most likely path destiny is taking as well as the key players screwing with that destiny."That would include the Gong Tau sorcerers and the ninjas use of their own brand of magic; and God only knows what other mystic tricks the others have been attempting.""How do we get them to stop?" Captain Delilah Faircloth muttered."Not that easy Delilah. Everyone in this room has intersected because of a magic experiment that happened before any of us were born (Mom).""The fight at Summer Camp was flipped on its head because I saw the ghost the 7 Pillars sent to scout the area. My freeing of one of those trapped and tortured souls led to the calamity at the Barbeque Pit. I didn't use magic. I countered it. Still, my actions were interfering with the Weave."All four people the augurs, those Five Sisters, told me about had been dead at some point in time, some for thousands of years. Ajax didn't kill anyone using magic. Neither has Saku, yet both of them are products of disruptions in the Weave. 'Me' being alive and breathing is yet another disruption, since I shouldn't exist because of another mystic curse from five thousand years ago."Being alive and killing people means I've killed people who shouldn't be dead. Do we need to go into all the millions that have died in the Khanate war? Which was a combination of a resurrected Temujin and the 7 Pillars hunger for World Domination, if we do nothing, the rippled of those other disruption will still carry on."Except for me, no one on this taskforce has used an iota of magic, yet we are all dedicated to combatting mystical forces," I related to the group. I wondered where Rikki (Martin) and Beatrice (Ya Konan) had gotten off to. Lady Yum-Yum being absent only made my 'Scooby' senses tingle more."You use magic?" Agent-86 tilted his head in curiosity."I talk to a Goddess on a semi-regular business. I see ghosts. I've been the conveyer of messages from dead people and I've killed an un-killable man. Do we need to go back over my kidnapping by the 7 Pillars? The memories of my undead Grandfather floating around in my head?""I'm not calling thunderbolts out of the sky and shooting fireballs out my ass, but what I am doing is magical, nonetheless.""So, what do we recommend to our allies and benefactors (i.e., our sovereign governments)?" Mehmet inquired."Hmm, we tell our governments this crackpot is a Prophet of Doom who could be turned into an asset," I rubbed my brow with all four fingers and a thumb. Rikki, Beatrice and Lady Worthington-Burke quietly entered the room. They were all highly pleased in a 'I just won the lottery' kind of way. I was curious, but had to carry on with my train of thought."Quietly start seeking out other mystic societies, preferably low-key, quiet types who avoid the limelight, and start looking into other forms of magical insight and, quite frankly, protection. If the Weave has let this happen, we can expect worse. Lastly, I'll ask my 'Brother' to meet with this guy and get a feel for his personality.""That will only increase the believability of his ramblings," Addison protested."The boat called 'Denial' has already sailed. The World is in crisis. People are going to look for non-conventional answers. It is better to get ahead of this and bring Ryuho Okawa on board as a 'consultant'. Don't give him the whole picture by any means. The guy is definitely a loose cannon. Even worse, he is also a loose cannon the Weave has touched.""Besides, the Seven Pillars are going to figure this out pretty quick, their Weave sensitivity, ya know, and either kidnap him to be their own spiritual seismic sensor, or kill him for being both a loose cannon and yet another person screwing with their 'best laid plans'. Keeping him alive has the added benefit of making the Seven Pillars expend resources trying to get at him. Japan needs every bit diversion they can get."Let's not forget to tell our Secret Society allies of our plans, lest they kill him too. His babblings aren't going to make the 9 Clans or the E&S happy with him. They both have an established habit of making perceived enemies dead. Let's keep him alive and utilize this opportunity.""I like this plan," Addison nodded. Mehmet was clearly on board as well. Agent-86 clearly was playing the best on-line mystic MMORPG ever! (And with the added bonus that his team's action had real-world consequences.) The three 'ladies' new to the room received an abbreviated version of our discussion and my 'suggestions'. They weren't really suggestions. Barring a few insanely criminal endeavors, JIKIT treated me like a true asset."Something else big?" Addison looked to her British counterpart (Yum-Yum)."The Japanese Diet has voted for a public referendum on a Constitutional Amendment to repeal/revise Article 96 of the Japanese Constitution.""Oh fuck," was echoed, either verbally or subliminally, by everyone in the room except for me, Delilah and Agent-86.'Cáel' knew Jack and Shit about the Japanese Constitution. Hell, I barely knew about the US one and I was a native. However, Alal did know it, and knew both what Article 96 was and what its amendment really meant. Good-old 96 was the rolling dark cloud across the political Great Plains that heralded a swarm of tornados. Clouds were clouds and their arrival could mean anything.Article 96 dictated how the Japanese Constitution could be amended. The current process was a 2/3rd vote in both the House of Councilors (the 'Upper House', roughly equivalent to our Senate) and the House of Representatives (the 'Lower' House) followed by a public referendum. The proposed amendment to Article 96 would transform the process to a mere majority vote in both Houses.Imagine the shit-storm which would be unleashed if the US Congress tried to pull that shit. The biggest political issue was that the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held 294 of the 475 seats in the lower house (a clear majority) and 115 of the 242 in the Upper House (7 seats short of a majority). If the amendment passed next month (October 14th to be precise), the LDP could pretty much do as they pleased.And what was the first thing they were going to do? They were going to put to rest another part of the Constitution, namely the far more globally important Article 9. And what was that?Real World Stuff: WarningsArticle 9:(1)Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.(2)To accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.If Article 9 was repealed, the Japanese nation could exercise diplomacy by military means, aka declaring an offensive war against a foreign power. Currently Japan had a modest budget military budget of $48 Billion a year (Earth's 10th largest). It was modest when you considered it was a mere 1% of the Japanese GDP. Great Britain, France and South Korea's smaller economies all functioned nicely with double that percentage for their military budget.Regionally, every other nation was increasing their military expenditures, except Japan's protector, the US and (perhaps) North Korea, who's spending on anything was a closely guarded state secret. Right now, China and the Khanate's military expenditures were running roughly even at $180 billion each, but this was an arm's race the PRC would eventually win, they had too great an advantage in the size of their workforce and a far larger industrial base.The truth was, if the PRC couldn't win this race fast, she was facing a long, grinding war reminiscent of the Communists' Long Rise to Power that wrecked their country a century ago. The monetary dynamic was shifting badly against them because the Khanate wasn't alone.India, Taiwan and Vietnam were also ramping up their war spending to a combined tune of $34 billion and now allied with the Khanate, equating to an additional $90 billion the PRC had to overcome. South Korea was already adding $8 billion to their military and Russia was taxing the fuck out of Manchuria to both pay for their 'Peaceful Intervention' and to increase the 'Readiness' of their other forces.All of this military spending was bad for both the regional and global economies (unless you were Israel who was turning out hardware 24/7/365 for the Khanate and Indian war machines). So at this point, Japan doing 'nothing' was possibly more disastrous than doing 'something' else.They were already spending $50 fucking billion on glorified policemen while the future of East Asia was being decided without them. Doubling the military budget would place a huge burden on the largely pacifistic population. It would also put Japan in the position of deciding the Fate of Nations.With the repeal of Article 9, Japan could utilize 'proactive means' to keep the naval supply routes to China open, not even the Indian's had the naval presence to confront the Japanese. Such a policy was a nice, friendly gesture to the Asian Colossus, who wasn't likely to show a shred of appreciation for their efforts.No, China had spent the last 60 years stoking the hatred of the Land of the Rising Sun among their people. (Many Japanese forgot current Chinese hatred was based on the Japanese butchering their way across China for nearly a decade between 1937 to 1945).(The Cornerstone) There was a truism which had guided American, Chinese, Japanese and Russian political thought for 150 years: 'There could only be one supreme power in East Asia and the Eastern Pacific'. Japan had followed the logical expression of that paradigm by invading Taiwan (1895), Korea (1910), beating up on Imperial Russia (1904), taking Manchuria (1931) and going to war with China (1937) while that country was trapped in a bloody civil war.To stop the Empire of Japan's rise, the US had attempted to cripple the Japanese economy before the Empire could harvest their just-acquired Asian natural resources. In response, Japan had thrown its soldiers and sailors into a futile effort against the British Empire, the United States and China and lost.With Imperial Japan crushed and the Soviet Union preoccupied in Europe, China had risen. The irresistible force of China's rapidly increasing population, natural resources exploitation and extensive land mass took hold. Japan couldn't compete in a 'fair' fight. Since 1945, the Japanese government had lived with the fear of aggression from Russia and/or China aimed their way.The US felt the same way, or they had. The fear produced by the broad acceptance of 'Only-One-Shall-Rule-Asia' had led to the Korean War, the half-century cease-fire along the Demilitarized Zone in Korea and the Vietnamese Civil War. The Communists in China and Russia had feuded until the Soviet Union collapsed under its own economic inadequacies.A reborn Russia, even with the ultra-nationalist Putin at the helm, couldn't stop China's growing domination. Asia was China's for the taking, until the Khanate rose up like some desert mirage in the Western Steppe, one that turned into the Mother of All Storms. So now, miraculously, the dominion of Asia was up for grabs once more.Japan could not overcome China; that was a given. The Dragon had more people, more resources and an almost three-fold larger economy. Given a decade, the PRC would grind the Khanate down. Once more it was the tyranny of numbers. Even India, Taiwan and Vietnam could only slow down the inevitable.India's subpar economic output marginalized the power of their citizenry. Taiwan had the proportional economy, but not nearly enough people. Vietnam had neither and had always had a rough time defending themselves, much less been successful confronting powers beyond her homeland. Putin's Mother Russia had a host of other problems, internal and external, so she had already contributed as much as Putin dared.Until Thursday morning, Tokyo Time, the undeniable Destiny of Asia remained in the hands of those men in Beijing. The dominoes were falling in a way those rulers had not foreseen and now fumed over. But on Wednesday night, there was no industrial power (with the population to back it up) which could threaten the People's Republic of China.Europe and the US wouldn't intervene. Much like the leadership in Japan, the Communist Chinese Politburo believed Putin had wagered as much as dared. No other nation on Earth mattered. Japan? That was laughable. Their Constitution bound the hands off their military behind their backs with a pledge of eternal pacifism.The Chinese weren't blind to the 250,000 men and women of the Japanese Self Defense Force. Without the political will, those troops might have well have been in Brazil. A hostile Brazil was actually a greater worry because Brazil was the powerhouse of South America, a G-8 economy and hungered for a Permanent Seat on the UN Security Council. The PRC was dedicated to denying their desire as it would have diluted the PRC's burgeoning diplomatic power.Japan? Ha.Thursday morning, in what was essentially an undetected (by anyone except the Ninja and JIKIT) coup d' tat, pacifism was sacrificed on the Altar of Nationalism. Article 96's demise was pre-ordained. A poll taken on July 1st, 42% of Japanese felt positively about the repeal of Article 96 while 46% opposed it.The same agency took a new poll on August 28th. The economic-political situation of Japan was going through a titanic tidal shift. If Buddhism moved you toward devout pacifist, the Khanate had liberated Tibet and was clearly withdrawing as the UN troops' boots hit the ground.If you were a Nationalist of any kind, you were seeing a whole lot more people at your rallies, accessing your websites and signing up to join your formerly fringe parties. If you were a Socialist, you were scared. Why? The PRC was in the process of nationalizing all of Japan's (and South Korea's and Taiwan's) business interests in China, for the 'Duration of the Emergency', or so they said.That meant plenty of Japanese workers were losing their jobs and looking to blame someone. You couldn't blame the centrist LDP. The LDP had been working alongside the Japanese Communist Party for months. They had done nothing wrong and had worked tirelessly for a peaceful diplomatic solution. It was their 'comrades' in China, their Marxist confederates, who were costing the hard-working Japanese workers their jobs.If you were in the Establishment, all of the above worried the crap out of you. Japan's economy had been limping along at barely-positive growth for a decade. Your aging population needed more and more from their public services and, worst of all, you had nothing in your political and economic tool box to escape the obvious oncoming national catastrophe.The possibility of a Global Recession loomed on the horizon, if they were lucky. Highly respected economists in Japan and elsewhere were examining all the key indicators over the past three months and were suggesting hording as a viable policy for middle class households to consider. If you were in the Developing World, worse was heading your way.The word being bandied about on those esteemed academic internet websites wasn't 'recession', it was depression. Global prosperity thrived on nations investing in both their own economy and the economies of other nations. The governments representing a third of the World's population were not investing in their economies.Unless you were a war profiteer, you could expect fewer consumer goods on the shelves; and what was there would cost more. Your income wasn't going up; your expenses were. If you were an Atheistic homeowner in the Western World with a secured 3.25% fixed rate home loan, you took up religion. The prime interest rate would be racing for the 20% mark and that was only if your economy was stable.If you lived in a country in the Developing World, your trade goods didn't compete with those created in the G-20. Your competition was with other Developing World businesses and the prize was the pocketbooks of those consumers in the G-20, which was a shrinking purse.It wasn't like you were being paid all that much to begin with; and now those once poor-paying, but at least plentiful, jobs were drying up. You needed your government to help you out. It wasn't like those governments could raise money by taxing the unemployed and under-employed. They didn't have money. And the rich in most of those same nations had a long and successful legacy of avoiding paying.Those growing economies had a few tried and tested 'solutions' for getting their countries through these rough stretches.The IMF? 'We are out to make 'positive' capital investments and your economic outlook doesn't look promising. We suggest 'austerity'.'The BRICS? Since India and China were basically in an undeclared state of war: 'we won't be loaning anyone anything for a while.'The BIS? 'As soon as the People' Bank of China, the Reserve Bank of India, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Bank of Israel and the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey get back to us about their sudden, serious lack of transparency, we'll call you back.'World Bank? Holy Shit! 'The world's going down the toilet, we will do what we can.'F Y I, I (as in Cáel) had been wrong. The 6 Elders of the Ninja families didn't talk to Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzō Awbee. They talked with another, far more immediately important man. So sue me (Cáel) for not knowing the inner workings of various world governments, and creatively interpreting events surrounding all those people I (Cáel) didn't. I'm a freaking Liberal Arts major with a fertile imagination, not a superspy, or even a competent Intelligence Analyst!}The Japanese government had appealed to the U.S., U.N., P.R.C., A.S.E.A.N., India; and (through back channels aka JIKIT) the Khanate for an end to this madness; all with typical results:The U.S.A: We are working on it (without letting them know what precisely they were working on)Japan: Well, do something fast. Our Government Bonds are about to be more useful as wallpaper.The U.N.: We are working on it (with their long-established tradition of not doing anything until the crisis had passed)Japan: You are preparing to pass a Resolution to move this matter from the First Committee to the Fourth Committee, gee, thanks guys. Will they be meeting sometime before Christmas?The PRC: We are too busy right now, so shut up, keep the trade lanes open, and was that your submarine we detected sneaking into our territorial waters?Japan: What? What do you mean you are 'too busy?' You are one of our biggest trading partners, your economy is going down the toilet, and, No! That was not our submarine in your territorial waters. That accusation is absurd.(Note from Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzō Awbee, to Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano, head of the JMSDF {the de facto Japanese Navy}), The PRC has made this outrageous claim that one of our submarines has been sneaking around their territorial waters. There is no truth to that rumor, right?Kawano: Which time?Prime Minister: Oh My God! What have you people been doing and why is this the first time I'm hearing about it?Kawano: Sir, if you are just now getting around to asking us, you don't want to know.Prime Minister: What do you mean 'I don't want to know?' I'm the head of the damn government and, you are right. Fine. There is no way I'm going back to the Chinese Ambassador and apologizing for any this. Is there any way this can come back to screw us over?Kawano: With all these US and British submarines helping us out, not very likely, Prime Minister.Prime Minister: Oh, very good. You are correct, I don't want to know what you 'haven't' been doing. I am ordering you to destroy all transcripts and recordings of this conversation.Kawano: It has been my distinct honor not having this conversation with you, Prime Minister. Sayōnara.ASEAN, What do you expect us to do about this? Have you seen the unimpressive combined sizes of our members' air forces and navies? Did you see the smack-down the Khanate has inflicted on the PLAN's South China Sea Fleet?Besides, the PRC is claiming that the Khanate launched covert attacks against the Parcels and Spratly islands which originated from Indonesian and Filipino waters. We are investigating the issue. If you are asking us for help, you are truly screwed. Don't call us. We will call you.Japan, {muttering} Investigating the attacks that came from your territory, bullshit! You are covering your own asses, damn it!(Note from Prime Minister, Shinzō Awbee, to Shotaro Yachi, Japanese National Security Advisor), I've heard an ugly rumor that the Khanate has forces secreted in the Philippines and Indonesia. Do you happen to know anything about it?Yachi: Yes Sir. We had advance notice of the organization, composition and destination of those forces.Awbee (while muttering 'no one tells me anything anymore'): What the! Would you please tell me what is going on.Yachi: We have made critical steps toward future alliances which will guarantee Japanese security for decades to come.Awbee What does that mean, and since when have you been creating and implementing foreign policy? We have a Minister for that, in case you somehow over-looked him at the last cabinet meeting. Wait! Does he know about this too?Yachi: No Sir, Foreign Minister Kishida is currently unaware of the Kinkyū tokushu sakusen tasukufōsu (Emergency Special Operations Task Force). Admiral Katsutoshi knows the basics of our operational policy, since we need to borrow some of his assets from time to time. Director-General Kitada (of the Public Security Intelligence Agency) and key personnel from the Foreign Ministry's Intelligence & Analysis Service and Security Bureau make up the majority of the task force's operatives.Awbee: What have you been doing?Yachi: You don't want to know, Mr. Prime Minister. It would make things, awkward.Awbee: 'You don't want to know', of course, I don't. I'm only the elected head of this government. Why would I possibly want to know what acts of espionage and war my deputies are executing?Yachi: I am glad we are on the same page, Sir. Will there be anything else?Awbee: No, wait. Do you have any intelligence on what the Khanate is up to?Yachi: Yes Sir. Is there anything in particular you want to know?Analysis Services: Can you contact someone in their leadership willing to discuss regional affairs?Yachi: I can put you in touch with the Great Khan himself if necessary.AS: What!Yachi: Sir, I would hardly be acting in our nation's best interests if I couldn't divine the intentions of the key players on the stage. Shall I initiate the necessary communications to facilitate that level of clandestine diplomatic contact?AS: No. Yes. No, I need to think about this. Hmm, have you been conducting any domestic espionage missions?Yachi: You don't want me to answer that, Sir.Awbee: of course I don't, I'm only the damn Prime Minister. Shotaro, I'm still Prime Minister, aren't I?Yachi: Yes Sir. We have been working overtime to ensure that. We've foiled two enemy assassination attempts and one attempted kidnapping so far. We remain vigilant.AS: How come this is the first I'm hearing about it? Is the head of my security in on this conspiracy of yours too?Yachi: No Sir. These particular guardians wish to avoid notoriety at all costs.Awbee: Okay. Good to know. Ah, keep up the good work and destroy any trace of this conversation.Yachi: Way ahead of you, Sir. Have a good night.India, Yes, we are more than willing to work with you toward regional stability. Care to acknowledge the Khanate's legitimacy first? We'd really appreciate it. Sure, get back to us when you've done that. Until then, the South China Sea Awaits! Yes, we plan to keep what we've earned. Later now. We think there is going to be further instability in Southeast Asia.Japan, Ya think? It is your damn warships sailing around the freaking South China Sea enforcing your utterly un-secret alliance with the Khanate. Why are you doing this to us? What have we ever done to you?The Khanate, We are not out to damage your national interests. We apologize, but there is now way we will call off this war with the Communist Chinese. It is them, or us, to the death. We have already received and agreed to your request to allow all Japanese flagged ships safe transit through the South China Sea. We really wish to be your friends this time, to make up for those two invasion attempts seven hundred years ago.(Note from  Prime Minister to Self) Great. The only reasonable people who aren't out to kick me in the nuts are also the ones I can't acknowledge talking to. I've got to do something a

Thursday, March 20th, 2025Today, Judge Chutkan has blocked Trump and Musk from cancelling $20B in climate grants; Judge Ana Reyes has blocked the Trump administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military; Trump has fired the Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission; Judge Beryl Howell has denied the temporary restraining order for the US Institute of Peace; Republican members of the Senate and House armed services committee are pushing back on Trump's plan to abandon a NATO command that has been exclusively American since Eisenhower; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.Guest: Congresswoman Sara JacobsU.S. Congresswoman Sara Jacobs | CA 51st District@RepSaraJacobs • Blue Sky@repsarajacobs • Instagram@RepSaraJacobs • TwitterThank You, Fast Growing TreesGet 15% off your first purchase.  FastGrowingTrees.com/dailybeans.Thank You, IQBAR20% off all IQBAR products. Text dailybeans to 64000. Message and data rates may apply. See terms for details. Stories:Judge Reyes BLOCKS Trump's Ban on Transgender Service Members- Allison Gill | MullershewroteTrump Fires FTC's Democratic Commissioners | HuffPost Latest NewsTrump admin considers giving up NATO command that has been exclusively American since Eisenhower | NBC NewsJudge temporarily blocks EPA's effort to cancel $20 billion in climate grants | CBS NewsGood Trouble:WisDems is sponsoring phone banking to get out the word about the upcoming April state Supreme Court race. WisDems Virtual Phonebank!Volunteer Opportunities Near Me · WisDems on MobilizeShare your Good News or Good Trouble:https://www.dailybeanspod.com/good/From The Good NewsAmerican Climate Corps - WikipediaBeware the Ides of March: Ides of Trump Postcard Campaign – Dynamic SubspaceMomsRising.org | Sign Up for the Moms Next Door Pilot ProjectNO KINGS OC: Hands Off! Orange County Fights BackHRC Los Angeles Dinner - March 22Darrell Issa Empty Chair Town Hall Presented by Indivisible - March 23Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good news pics are at the bottom of the show notes of each Patreon episode! That's just one of the perks of subscribing! Federal workers - feel free to email me at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you're going to do, or just vent. I'm always here to listen.Share your Good News or Good Trouble:https://www.dailybeanspod.com/good/ Check out other MSW Media podcastshttps://mswmedia.com/shows/Subscribe for free to MuellerSheWrote on Substackhttps://muellershewrote.substack.comFollow AG and Dana on Social MediaDr. Allison Gill Substack|Muellershewrote, Twitter|@MuellerSheWrote, Threads|@muellershewrote, TikTok|@muellershewrote, IG|muellershewrote, BlueSky|@muellershewroteDana GoldbergTwitter|@DGComedy, IG|dgcomedy, facebook|dgcomedy, IG|dgcomedy, danagoldberg.com, BlueSky|@dgcomedyHave some good news; a confession; or a correction to share?Good News & Confessions - The Daily Beanshttps://www.dailybeanspod.com/confessional/ Listener Survey:http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=shortFollow the Podcast on Apple:The Daily Beans on Apple PodcastsWant to support the show and get it ad-free and early?Supercasthttps://dailybeans.supercast.com/Patreon https://patreon.com/thedailybeansOr subscribe on Apple Podcasts with our affiliate linkThe Daily Beans on Apple Podcasts

Sysdig's 2025 Cloud-Native and Security Usage Report is hot off the presses, and Corey has questions. On this episode, he's joined by Crystal Morin, a Cybersecurity Strategist at Sysdig, to break down the trends of the past year. They discuss Sysdig's approach to detecting and responding to security and the success the company has seen with the rollout of Sysdig Sage (an AI product that Corey thinks is actually useful). They also chat about what's driving a spike in machine identities, practical hygiene in cloud environments, and the crucial importance of automated responses to maintain robust security in the face of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.Show Highlights(0:00) Intro(0:39) Sysdig sponsor read(2:22) Explaining Sysdig's 5/5/5 Benchmark(4:06) What does Sysdig's work entail?(10:03) Cloud security trends that have changed over the last year(14:30) Sysdig sponsor read(15:16) How Sysdig is using AI in its security products(19:09) How many users are adopting AI tools like Sysdig Sage(25:51) The reality behind the recent spike of machine identities in security(29:24) Handling the scaling of machine identities(35:37) Where you can find Sysdig's 2025 Cloud-Native and Security Usage ReportAbout Crystal MorinCrystal Morin is a Cybersecurity Strategist with more than 10 years of experience in threat analysis and research. Crystal started her career as both a Cryptologic Language Analyst and Intelligence Analyst in the United States Air Force and as a contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, where she helped develop and evolve their cyber threat intelligence community and threat-hunting capabilities. In 2022, Crystal joined Sysdig as a Threat Research Engineer on the Sysdig Threat Research Team, where she worked to discover and analyze cyber threat actors taking advantage of the cloud. Today, Crystal bridges the gap between business and security through cloud-focused content for leaders and practitioners alike. Crystal's thought leadership has been foundational for pieces such as the “2024 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report” and “Cloud vs. On-Premises: Unraveling the Mystery of the Dwell Time Disparity,” among others.LinksSysdig's 2025 Cloud-Native and Security Usage Report: https://sysdig.com/2025-cloud-native-security-and-usage-report/Sysdig on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sysdig/Crystal's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystal-morin/SponsorSysdig: https://sysdig.com/

Dick Wilkinson is a retired Army veteran who currently lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served 20 years as a military intelligence analyst with a specialty in communications and space technology. Now, he is the chief technology officer, and co-founder of Proof Labs, a cyber security company focused on space technology. He lived in New Mexico when the cannabis industry converted from medical to adult use, and he co-founded a cannabis farm. He started a network of veterans that were entering the cannabis industry and helped them connect with business resources and a community of support to get their businesses up and running, and they are still running today. It's a good listen with Dick Wilkinson.  

Years of Service: 1987-2002In the world of law enforcement, there are many careers other than police officers, sheriff deputies, and Special Agents that play a crucial role during investigations leading to the arrest and prosecution of criminals. One of those careers is as an intelligence analyst, where information is gathered and put together in conjunction with on-ground street enforcement. These analysts are on the front lines and often participate in interviews of suspects as well as gathering evidence during search warrants.Chris' father was the first DEA Special Agent to be stationed in Mexico and Chris decided he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. Because of a medical issue, Chris was unable to pursue his goal of becoming a DEA Special Agent and instead became an Intelligence Analyst. During this interview, Chris talks about his career and some of the unconventional things he did as an Intelligence Analyst. Chris was stationed in some domestic offices but also was stationed in Buenos Aires, La Paz Bolivia, and was temporarily stationed in Latin America and was present for search warrants at Manuel Noriega's residence.Chris currently runs his own company called MIC Worldwide, focusing on counterfeit investigations and is the author of “Counterfeits, War Stories and Lessons Learned”. Chris is a business coach and his first non-fiction novel was just published called “The Hunter” based on real people in his life.

War with Mexico? That's the question we will ask our guest, supervisory Intelligence Analyst for the FBI, George Hill, this Wednesday night, January 29th, 2025, 6:00 pm Eastern time, on the I Detective Show. We look into the mass deportations and the effects of making the cartels a terrorist organization. So, join us on the I Detective Show every Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, brought to you by KGRAdb.com, for the best alternative talk radio on the planet.

Kirsten Ashbaugh is the Director of Sales at Wilkinson Wealth Management, and she joins the show today to share her career journey into financial planning. If you're interested in navigating a career change, using networking to land your first role, or building a successful path in financial planning, this episode is for you! Listen in as Kirsten shares how her career began at an intelligence agency before a career coach steered her toward financial planning, leading her to use informational interviews to solidify her interest and secure her first role. She also discusses the hardest part of her career transition, how she worked her way up in her firm to become a CFP, and what it was like to carve out her own career path. You can find show notes and more information by clicking here: https://bit.ly/4ikZzNi

“Lyme keeps you in a metabolic state of winter,” says Timothy Hammond of Lyme disease, which host Meredith Oke describes as the “apex predator of our time.” While working as an intelligence analyst for the military as well as major organizations and firms, Timothy developed a debilitating case of Lyme. After both pharmaceutical and naturopathic modalities failed to treat it and destroyed his microbiome, he set out to understand the environmental factors–namely light, water and magnetism—which are so crucial to our health and healing. On today's episode of the Quantum Biology Collective podcast, Timothy explains why the answer lay not at the biochemical level but at the biophysical level.   He shares his four pillars to achieving cellular coherence, why the oft-maligned reactive oxygen species are essential to our health, and how foreign EMFs have the same effects as Lyme. He also shares how we can guard ourselves against media manipulation and navigate the series of conflicting narratives all around us.   Learn how Timothy is helping others to optimize their quantum health with his company Regenerint and how to access complimentary materials.    Quotes “Any centralized system is ultimately vulnerable to corruption because of these single points of failure. In the quantum biology space, one of the beauties of it is that this is decentralized. You don't need to go through any centralized authority or intermediary to go out and reconnect with nature and experience the healing benefits of that.” (24:49 | Timothy Hammond) “I think the isolation from society is part of the worst aspect of any chronic illness.” (35:25 | Timothy Hammond) “It was the same error of thinking in that instead of throwing tons and tons of pharmaceutical medications at my body, they were throwing tons and tons of herbs and supplements…it's the same mentality of something from the outside having to be inserted in rather than examining what environmental conditions are needed to activate the body's innate healing capacity and innate healing intelligence.” (36:32 | Timothy Hammond) “These biochemical models, which involved the pharmaceutical approach, the allopathic approach, the naturopathic approach, were all working on the level of biochemistry…so this connection with nature led me to explore biophysics, which is a more fundamental layer upon which biochemistry is built…it doesn't matter how hard you're working on the biochemical piece. If your light, water, and magnetism environmental inputs are wrong, you're not going to have the success you're looking for.” (38:48 | Timothy Hammond)   Links Connect with Timothy Hammond: Website: regenerint.com Full bio: www.timothyghammond.com Socials: @regenerint on Instagram, X, and Facebook   Bon Charge Discount Code: at checkout enter: QBC to receive 15% off https://us.boncharge.com/collections/blue-light-blocking-glasses **If you're in the US and have a Health Savings Account (HSA or FSA) BonCharge products are an eligible expense** To receive a FREE infographic of the Ideal Circadian Day & join our email list: https://www.quantumbiologycollective.com/qbc-newsletter-aqb To find a practitioner who understands quantum biology: www.quantumbiologycollective.org To see details about the Applied Quantum Certification: www.appliedquantumbiology.com Follow on Instagram & Facebook: @quantumbiologycollecitve Twitter: @quantumhealthtv     Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

In this episode we interview Mr. Frank Figliuzzi, a Senior National Security and Intelligence Analyst at NBC News and former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI on his career and work. --- Biography: Frank Figliuzzi is a Senior National Security and Intelligence Analyst at NBC News and former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served 25 years. During his tenure, Frank directed espionage investigations and briefed the highest levels of government. He is the author of The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau's Code of Excellence and frequently shares insights on national security, integrity, and leadership. --- Note: The views of this podcast represent those of my guest(s) and I. -- Note: Purpose of these episodes- not at all, for advice or medical suggestions. These are aimed to provide support for peer pharmacists in training in educational and intellectually stimulating ways. Again, these are not at all for medical advice, or for medical suggestions. Please see your local state and board-certified physician, PA or NP, and pharmacist for medical advice and suggestions.

On The Good Trouble Show podcast, #TGTS, the Pentagon's UAP secrets are getting out as US Intelligence Analyst and former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) employee Sarah Gamm, who was part of the UAP Task Force, goes public with their experience working on the UAP topic and being a member of the Pentagon's UAP Taskforce.The UAP Task Force was the Pentagon's Congressionally mandated program to investigate UAPs / UFOs, which was run by UAP Task Force Director Jay Stratton, with other members such as David Grusch and Travis Taylor as part of the effort.With the United States Senate considering the inclusion of The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Act, otherwise known as The Schumer Amendment, sponsored by Senators Chuck Schumer, Mike Rounds, Kirsten Gillibrand, Martin Heinrich, and others, people are paying attention to allegations by whistleblowers David Grusch and Lue Elizondo as the nation grapples with how to deal with the reality of UAP.The Good Trouble Show: Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/thegoodtroubleshowPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheGoodTroubleShow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodTroubleShow Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/GoodTroubleShow Instagram: @goodtroubleshow TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@goodtroubleshow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Good-Trouble-Show-With-Matt-Ford-106009712211646Threads:  @TheGoodTroubleShowBlueSky: @TheGoodTroubleShowBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-good-trouble-show-with-matt-ford--5808897/support.

Send us a textWhat if you could pivot from a career in intelligence analysis to becoming a cybersecurity expert, all by leveraging self-taught skills and open-source intelligence? Join us as Scott Small reveals his inspiring journey, transitioning from dealing with physical security threats to mastering cybersecurity. He shares the invaluable role of supportive hiring managers and highlights how programming in Python opened doors in the private sector, showcasing the diverse paths available in this dynamic field.Creating your own opportunities is crucial in technical fields, and Scott emphasizes the power of initiative. From starting a blog to contributing to community repositories, he offers practical advice for building a robust portfolio. We also discuss the importance of networking, the impact of geopolitical events on cyber threats, and how storytelling bridges gaps within the security sector. Scott's insights provide a roadmap for aspiring professionals eager to break into cybersecurity.Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing cyber threat intelligence, but it comes with its own set of challenges. Scott and I delve into the complexities of AI-generated data, the necessity of rigorous validation, and the importance of frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. We explore enhancing detection capabilities and the role of consistent practice in writing and data visualization for professional growth. Whether you're a seasoned expert or just starting out, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help you navigate the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.Support the showFollow the Podcast on Social Media!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/secunfpodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecUnfPodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/SecurityUnfilteredPodcastYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@securityunfilteredpodcastTikTok: Not today China! Not today

In this episode, Rachael Finch shares her incredible journey of transitioning from a night shift quality assurance analyst at an alcohol manufacturing company to a fully remote business intelligence analyst at Optum Healthcare within just 95 days. Rachael, a biology major, leveraged the SPN Method from The Data Analytics Accelerator to break into the data industry. Tune in to hear her inspiring story and practical advice for those looking to make a similar career shift.06:25 Networking and the SPN Method13:40 Interview Process and Challenges19:34 Landing the Job and Celebrating Success23:32 Reflections and Future Plans29:12 Final Thoughts and Advice

Daniel Greenfield, Author of “ Domestic Enemies” Daniel Greenfield and I talked about the state of counterintelligence in this country and the problem that has increasingly arisen that people with longstanding ties to communist China are not being subjected to the kind of security protocols that have heretofore kept them from holding positions of power, especially concerning the national security of the United States. John Lott, Industry Analyst from the Coalition for a Prosperous America I spoke with John Lott about the attempted assassination of President Trump, the myriad, almost inexplicable examples of at best, incompetence that made possible the nearly successful assassination of the former president and the inadvisability of the insistent demand of Democrats that AR-15s and weapons like them be banned in the misplaced idea that that would prevent incidents like the one involving Donald Trump.  We also discussed the record Tamela Harris with respect to gun control and that of the administration in which she has served more generally and knew the dangers arising in that regard from the World Health Organization and the Surgeon General of the United States. Bill Marshall, Intelligence Analyst and Investigator I spoke with Bill Marshall of Judicial Watch about two very interesting topics. One, the extent to which we are being denied information that is vital to public confidence in our law enforcement agencies when it comes to the matter of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the second, an insight into Kamala Harris's record of putting illegal aliens, so -called rights, above the law of the land, and in fact encouraging more illegals to come here as a result.

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION After years of capture kill missions Kervin Aucoin now employs his military training to help people thrive. He says sharing his story keeps his PTSD at bay. 2 Lives “The second begins the moment we realize we have only one.” 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and website designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions. Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives Or give a donation at paypal.me/2LivesPodcast Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Or order merch here. Episode transcripts are posted on our  website. Find out more about Kervin Aucoin on our website.  

Join us for an inspiring episode of The Women in the Arena Podcast powered by Iron Butterfly Media as we delve into the extraordinary life and career of Phyllis Wilson. With 37 years of dedicated service in the United States Army, Phyllis J. Wilson has left an indelible mark on military intelligence and leadership.Phyllis Wilson's journey spans across the globe, from Europe to Asia, Africa to South America, and North America, where she served as a Military Intelligence (MI) Voice Intercept Operator and later as an Intelligence Analyst with Special Operations in Iraq. Her tenure as the most senior Warrant Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve highlights her exceptional leadership, managing over 200,000 personnel and an $8 billion budget. A lifelong learner, Phyllis holds multiple degrees, including two Master's and two Bachelor of Science degrees, and has pursued advanced studies at institutions like the Defense Language Institute and the George C. Marshall Center. Her accolades include induction into the Army Women's Foundation Hall of Fame and the U.S. Veterans Hall of Fame.Today, Phyllis Wilson continues to make an impact as President of the Military Women's Memorial, advocating for the recognition of women's contributions in the military since the American Revolution. She also serves on the Reserve Forces Policy Board and is a Senior Fellow at the Association of the United States Army. A proud mother of eight children, including four combat veterans, Phyllis Wilson embodies dedication, leadership, and service.Don't miss this episode as we explore Phyllis Wilson's remarkable journey through military service, leadership, and advocacy, showcasing her unwavering commitment to her country and her fellow service members.To learn more about the Military Women's Memorial, or to share a story of a woman service member, visit their website: https://womensmemorial.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A story of investigative research and what it revealed on COVID pandemic. RESOURCES SHARED BY RON REECE: Ron Reece is a former Intelligence Analyst who served with the Iraq Survey Group tasked with the mission of identifying the truth about Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction programs. He is the primary co-writer of PROTOCOL-Z, currently in pre-publication. The book explores the origins of the Zelenko Protocol and the role that Zinc deficiency plays in undermining our immune defense against RNA viruses, Cancer, and other afflictions. Mr. Reece also holds the title of Director of Technical Analysis, Special Projects, for the Near East Center for Strategic Engagement (NEC-SE), a non-profit think tank that seeks to advice political and military leadership on international issues of global importance. Who is Ralph Baric and why is his reputation critical? https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/ralph-s-baric-phd/ Co-founder of READDI a non-profit that focuses on "Broad Spectrum Small Molecule" (BSSM) Therapeutics: https://readdi.org/about-readdi/leadership/ Ralph Baric's 2010 initial paper on BSSM using ZINC and a natural extract, Pyrithione, as an RdRP inhibitor that formed the basis for the Zelenko Protocol: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2973827/ Who was Dr. Vladimir "Zev" Zelenko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zelenko NYT article on Zelenko after his passing.. Just a sample of how the media, despite the Zelenko Protocol being based on Baric's BSSM research, attempted to discredit his protocol: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/us/vladimir-zelenko-dead.html Dr. Zelenko's peer-reviewed retrospective study showing how he reduced hospitalization of High-Risk patients by 84% using outpatient administration of the Zelenko Protocol, again based on Ralph Baric's research. Although completed in May, 2020, no main medical journal wanted to publish it, delaying its official publication until December, 2020. His exactly protocol methodology is explained, as well as the dosage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7587171/ The video analysis of Ralph Baric's BSSM research from 2010, theorizing the use of HCQ as a Zinc Ionophore. It was this video that inspired Dr. Zelenko to create his protocol in mid-March, 2020. A must watch: https://youtu.be/U7F1cnWup9M?t=91 An interview arranged by Mr. Reece about a month after he informed Dr. Zelenko of Ralph Baric's connection to his protocol. Mr. Reece is mentioned by Dr. Zelenko at the 31:15 time mark. Zev doesn't hold back on his feelings about Dr. Baric and calls it as he sees it: https://rumble.com/vrvyh0-link-analysis-of-nih-research-and-dr.-zelenkos-covid-protocol.html Dr. Zeleko's autobiographical account of the struggles he faced during the SARS-2 pandemic and the attempts to thwart use of his protocol to save lives. (highly recommended) https://www.amazon.com/ZELENKO-Decapitate-Vladimir-Zelenko-MD/dp/1956257608 Men in Black Substack series "The Baric Files" where Mr. Reece delves into the history of Dr. Baric and the connection to the Zelenko Protocol: https://meninblack.substack.com/s/the-baric-files Ron's Twitter account. Please feel free to comment and/ask questions. I'll do my best to answer all requests: https://x.com/Mujhunter WATCH THE VIDEO: YouTube: https://youtu.be/397yRXXwq1k

A security intelligence analyst says the US has got what it needed from Julian Assange.   The Wikileaks founder has struck a deal with the US and will soon plead guilty to an espionage charge before being sentenced to time already served.   Paul Buchanan told Mike Hosking that Assange has spent the last 14 years in some sort of confinement.   He says the US has won its pound of flesh out of him, adding that he's a broken guy and this sounds like a fair way to end the entire thing.   Buchanan doubts Assange will get the pardon he is seeking.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Sandie Morgan is joined by Corinne St. Thomas Stowers as the two discuss the role that fusion centers play in protecting a community and its children from sexual exploitation and online human trafficking. Corinne St. Thomas Stowers Corinne St. Thomas Stowers is the Supervising Tactical Intelligence Analyst assigned to the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center. She is supporting the tactical analysis unit, primarily focused on the transnational organized crime and violent crime threats. Corinne has nearly 20 years of experience in law enforcement. She began with Westminster Police Department, the Orange County District Attorney's Office in the Human Exploitation and Trafficking Unit, and at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, working child sexual exploitation cases as a tactical cyber analyst. Corrine currently holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, and a master's in social work. She was recognized in 2022 by the National Fusion Center Association as Intelligence Analyst of the Year, as well as the Medal of Valor recipient from the Orange County Sheriff's Department for her role in Operation Red Zone, the largest Orange County Law Enforcement proactive human trafficking operation. Key Points Fusion Centers were established post 9/11 and function as sharing hubs between law enforcement and public and private sector partners. The information shared aids in disrupting threats of online exploitation and human trafficking across the nation. As parents and guardians, it is important to stay educated on the devices and applications that children are using and talk about technology every day. The parameters and boundaries of technology use in a home may change as a child ages and their maturity levels rise, however it is important to continually set parameters and boundaries to keep our children safe online. Parents or guardians may not learn about the dangers their child has faced online until they have already occurred. Because of this, it is necessary to be proactive and take note of changed behaviors their child is exhibiting and relay the information to law enforcement. To access resources and support, visit NCMEC, linked below. Resources Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center (OCIAC) National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) National Fusion Center Association (NFCA) NCMEC Cyber Tip Line Corinne St. Thomas Stowers Ensure Justice Plenary  Susan Kennedy Ensure Justice Plenary Transcript Sandra Morgan 0:14 Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast here at Vanguard University's Global Center for Women in Justice in Orange County, California. This is episode #323, with Corinne St. Thomas Stowers. She is currently the Supervising Tactical Intelligence Analyst assigned to the Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center. The initials for that are OCIAC, OCIAC. So when we say OCIAC in the rest of the podcast, we're talking about Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center, and she's supporting the tactical analysis unit, primarily focused on the transnational organized crime and violent crime threats. Corinne has nearly 20 years of experience in law enforcement. She began with Westminster Police Department, the Orange County District Attorney's Office in the Human Exploitation and Trafficking Unit, and at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, working child sexual exploitation cases as a tactical cyber analyst. Corrine currently holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, and a master's in social work. She was recognized in 2022 by the National Fusion Center Association as Intelligence Analyst of the Year, as well as the Medal of Valor recipient from the Orange County Sheriff's Department for her role in Operation Red Zone, the largest Orange County Law Enforcement proactive human trafficking operation. Corrine, welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking Podcast. Corinne St. Thomas Stowers 2:15

How to capture a free country in 3 steps: 1. Antagonize its free people by methodically depriving them of their rights, 2. Thwart their reproduction through artificial interventions, and 3. Overwrite their generations of epigenetic memory by cultivating a new slave class that has never known liberty. Everyone involved – strong and weak, citizen and refugee – must be prodded into bickering amongst each other endlessly, lest they discover they are all equal pawns in a globalist game being played with their lives. • SPONSORED BY TAX NETWORK USA – Do you owe back taxes? Tax Network USA has saved over $1 billion in back taxes for their clients, and they can help you secure the best deal possible. Call 1-800-245-6000 for a private, free consultation, or visit https://drdrew.com/tnusa Naomi Wolf, Ph.D. is a bestselling author, columnist, and professor. She is recognized as one of the world's most influential feminist writers. Wolf is a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate of Yale University, and received a doctorate from Oxford. She has written eight bestselling works of nonfiction, including The Beauty Myth, Give Me Liberty, and The End of America, and is co-founder and CEO of civic tech company https://DailyClout.io. Her latest book is “Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age.” Follow her at https://x.com/naomirwolf Brian O'Shea is an Intelligence Analyst and Private Investigator. After serving in the military for 11 years of active-duty service, Brian worked as a Senior Consultant and Subject Matter Expert for two of the US Government's top intelligence agencies. Find him online at https://x.com/BrianOSheaSPI 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 Find out more about the brands that make this show possible and get special discounts on Dr. Drew's favorite products at https://drdrew.com/sponsors  • CAPSADYN - Get pain relief with the power of capsaicin from chili peppers – without the burning! Capsadyn's proprietary formulation for joint & muscle pain contains no NSAIDs, opioids, anesthetics, or steroids. Try it for 15% off at https://capsadyn.com/drew • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at https://drdrew.com/paleovalley • TRU NIAGEN - For almost a decade, Dr. Drew has been taking a healthy-aging supplement called Tru Niagen, which uses a patented form of Nicotinamide Riboside to boost NAD levels. Use code DREW for 20% off at https://drdrew.com/truniagen • GENUCEL - Using a proprietary base formulated by a pharmacist, Genucel has created skincare that can dramatically improve the appearance of facial redness and under-eye puffiness. Get an extra discount with promo code DREW at https://genucel.com/drew • COZY EARTH - Susan and Drew love Cozy Earth's sheets & clothing made with super-soft viscose from bamboo! Use code DREW to save up to 30% at https://drdrew.com/cozy • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at https://twc.health/drew 「 MEDICAL NOTE 」 Portions of this program may examine countervailing views on important medical issues. Always consult your physician before making any decisions about your health. 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (https://kalebnation.com) and Susan Pinsky (https://twitter.com/firstladyoflove). This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this crucial episode of Scam Rangers, we explore the dark and disturbing world of Sextortion. This crime occurs when online predators trick individuals, often teens, into sharing nude images or videos and then use these compromising materials to extort money, more images, or other demands. These predators threaten to share the images with the victim's friends and family if they don't comply. Our guest, Paul Raffile, a Senior Intelligence Analyst with a career dedicated to investigating online crimes and financial scams, joins us to shed light on this pressing issue.Key Discussion Points:Paul explains how sextortion scams unfold, the social media platforms commonly used by predators, and the emotional impact on victims, particularly teens. He shares advice for social media companies on preventing these scams, drawing on strategies from financial institutions that detect account takeovers. We also explore how money is transferred to criminals and the risk signals financial institutions can monitor to spot suspicious activities.Resources:Follow Paul on LinkedIn: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/sextortion-yahoo-boys-snapchat-tiktok-teen-wizz-rcna134200NCRI Report: https://networkcontagion.us/reports/yahoo-boys/New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/nyregion/social-media-scam-sextortion.htmlArticle on WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/yahoo-boys-scammers-facebook-telegram-tiktok-youtube/Training materials on NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/sextortion-yahoo-boys-snapchat-tiktok-teen-wizz-rcna134200This podcast is hosted by Ayelet Biger-Levin who spent the last 15 years building technology to help financial institutions authenticate their customers and identify fraud. She believes that when it comes to scams, the story starts well before the transaction. She has created this podcast to talk about the human side of scams, and to learn from people who have decided to dedicate their lives to speaking up on behalf of scam victims and who take action to solve this problem.Be sure to follow her on LinkedIn and reach out to learn about her additional activities in this space. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayelet-biger-levin/ScamRanger: https://scamranger.ai/

This week, we hear the gripping story of Matt Strickland and his restaurant's journey over the past couple years. In 2021, when he refused to follow Virginia's COVID regulations, he was sued by the state's Democrat leadership. By the time the case made it to court, Virginia was controlled by a Republican governor and Attorney General, but the state continued to pursue the case. We talk about what he makes of our two dominant political parties walking in step with each other through the Covid era and beyond. Matt Strickland is an Army veteran who enlisted at the age of 17 as a Combat Medic. Matt was assigned to the 25th Infantry at Ft. Lewis where he arrived on September 10, 2001. He also served on Blackwater's Counter Assault Team and in total spent almost a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan. Later, as a civilian, Matt worked as an Intelligence Analyst for the military. In 2016, he embarked on his dream to be a small business owner opening his first food truck, named Gourmeltz. His business quickly thrived, and Matt opened the restaurant version of Gourmeltz in 2018. As his business was flourishing, Matt, like most small business owners in America, almost lost everything because of the Covid mandate lockdowns. Unlike most small business owners though, Matt fought back. After a lengthy court battle, Matt proved that those mandates were in fact unconstitutional, and he won his case against the state. Gourmeltz: https://www.gourmeltz.com Virginia Public Access Project: https://www.vpap.org Video of OSHA agent mandating plexiglass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H6ZDaI2cUE&list=PLT0ku7xZUiPfvx1kRGLlxKAK-we2BJ2KW&index=3 Video of OSHA agent talking about mask guidelines in Gourmeltz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaKbGxuj2kE&list=PLT0ku7xZUiPfvx1kRGLlxKAK-we2BJ2KW&index=1 Video Sheriff removing Gourmeltz alcohol, Dec. 2022:  https://x.com/citizenfreepres/status/1599860799979167745?s=46&t=MzlfM7IbDR-VjK8sDSm_ew Follow Matt:  https://x.com/MattForVA https://www.instagram.com/mattforva https://www.facebook.com/mattforva Watch and Listen to The Feds on any of these platforms:  https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom Support the Work and Become a Member of Feds For Freedom www.fedsforfreedom.org/join Follow Us on Social Media Instagram/X (Twitter)/Facebook:  @feds4freedomusa

Episode: 00213 Released on May 27, 2024 Description: In this week's episode, Emily Dorsher shares her analyst journey from the Pacific Northwest. Emily talks about her Master's degree and research position that influenced her analyst career at Everett PD. Emily's badge story is different from most; she developed an app that collects vital data on homeless encampments. Emily also talks about hiring from the perspective of sitting on hiring boards and recently going through the hiring process herself. Emily is currently the Crime & Intelligence Analyst for the Marysville Police Department in Washington state.   CHALLENGE: There are Easter eggs in one of the tables of the Excel chapter that Jason wrote for the IACA textbook. First-person to email us at leapodcasts@gmail.com about what the Easter eggs are will receive a $50 gift card from us. Happy hunting! ***Episode 2 of Cocktails & Crime Analysis - https://youtu.be/aKNOC_wj4nA *** Name Drops: Sue Rohr (00:17:03), Erica Bennett (00:19:33), Sean Bair (01:04:16)  Public Service Announcements: John Ng (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-john-ng-the-evidence-based-analyst/) Shawna Gibson (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-shawna-gibson-the-what-now-analyst/) Related Links: Power Apps/Automate video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@ShanesCows Power BI video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@HowtoPowerBI Other great coding video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@GuyInACube Excel Mapping Geography Over Time: https://andrewpwheeler.com/2017/11/10/creating-an-animated-heatmap-in-excel/ The Effect of Guardian Training for Law Enforcement Officers – Longitudinal Findings 2015 – 2020: https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/departments/criminal/crime-and-justice-research-center/collaborative-research/ Association(s) Mentioned: NORCAN Vendor(s) Mentioned: ERSI Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilymalterud/  Transcript:  Podcast Writer: Mindy Duong Podcast Researcher:  Theme Song: Written and Recorded by The Rough & Tumble. Find more of their music at www.theroughandtumble.com. Logo: Designed by Kyle McMullen. Please visit www.moderntype.com for any printable business forms and planners.  Podcast Email: leapodcasts@gmail.com   Podcast Webpage: www.leapodcasts.com   Podcast Twitter: @leapodcasts 00:00:17 – Introducing Emily 00:04:10 – Master's 00:11:02 – Research and Then Prague 00:18:20 – Everett PD 00:28:20 – Break: John Ng & Shawna Gibson  00:29:11 – ABS:  An App 00:53:09 – Hiring 01:12:57 – Personal Interests: Dungeons & Dragons 01:17:09 – Words to the World  

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Show Notes and Transcript Matt Strickland, a veteran from Virginia, returns to Hearts of Oak to share his journey of challenging COVID mandates for his restaurant despite facing legal battles and political persecution.  He discusses running for office against corrupt politicians and the challenges faced during the primary election, emphasizing the battle for freedom and justice in Virginia.  Matt highlights the need for more veterans to join the fight for national values and freedoms, advocating for grassroots movements and citizen involvement in pushing back against oppressive mandates and corrupt systems.  His determination serves as a call to action for others to stand up for their beliefs and fight for freedom and justice in their communities and beyond. At the age of 17, Matt Strickland joined the United States Army to escape the gang violence of the neighbourhoods where he was raised. Inspired by his grandfather, who served as an Infantryman under General Patton in World War II, Matt enlisted in the Army in 2001. After completing basic and advanced training, Matt received orders to his first duty station, 25th Infantry, at Ft. Lewis, WA. He reported to 25th Infantry on September 10th, 2001, not knowing the next day, life as we once knew it would change forever. Matt knew he had a full life ahead of him, but he was ready to give it up in defence of his country. Matt spent most of the next ten years in Iraq & Afghanistan defending his country. Matt's service to his country includes multiple deployments as a private military contractor as well, serving on Blackwater's Counter Assault Team until 2010 when he decided to accept a position as an Intelligence Analyst back in Virginia. In 2014, when ISIS began sweeping through Iraq, Matt could not sit back and watch, so he deployed once again to join the fight against The Islamic State. In 2016, after fighting ISIS for two years, Matt hung up his combat boots. The previous two years allowed Matt to reflect on the legacy outside of combat that he wanted to leave for his children. Cooking has always been one of Matt's hobbies and biggest passions, and owning a restaurant was always his ultimate goal. Matt opened his first food truck in 2016 which quickly became a success, and he and his wife, grew from one truck to three trucks in just over a year. Two years later he sold the food trucks and opened the doors to the restaurant version, and it continued to grow in success. Everything was great until 2020 when the government began using the Coronavirus as an excuse to control society. Matt continued to open without restrictions, regardless of the consequences, he and his wife opposed the unconstitutional mandates and the restaurant was filled with Patriots from open to close. Despite numerous threats and attempts to shut them down by the state and federal government, he remained open and stood with the people. The Attorney General of Virginia sued Matt in an attempt to shut their doors, but he won, restoring his hope for the country's future. Through his fight against the tyrannical government, Matt realised there was a void in Virginia politics and that catalyst sparked his interest in running for State Senate and with him being a fifth-generation Virginian, his state and his country mean everything to him. Connect with Matt... WEBSITE             mattforva.com X/TWITTER         twitter.com/mattforva FACEBOOK         facebook.com/mattforva YOUTUBE           youtube.com/channel/UCFArRLx6n7UTbOBN0EYjn7w Interview recorded 7.5.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER        twitter.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org/ PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com/ SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect/ SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop/ *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on X/Twitter twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin  Transcript (Hearts of Oak) I'm delighted to have Matt Strickland back with us again from Virginia. Matt, thank you so much for jumping on today. (Matt Strickland) Thank you for having me, Peter. It's always good to be with you, brother. Always great. And if anyone is in the Virginia area, if they're in Fredericksburg area, then there's no better establishment than going to Gourmeltz for atmosphere, for great food, great drinks, great prices. It's all good. Good so make sure and check it out all the links will be in the description, but Matt obviously people can follow you @Matt4VA on Twitter or X but maybe I can ask you first you're you're a little bit of your background I know we had John donkeys ago. It seems like a lifetime ago, whenever you're running for state legislature there for the the senate in Virginia and you had a whole backstory of how you oppose the the lockdown mandates in your restaurant there and maybe just give us a quick overview before we get on to the latest persecution that you're facing. Yeah well, I'm a veteran you know, I joined the military at 17 years old spent a lot of time overseas both Iraq and Afghanistan and 2016 I was done with the serving my government, you know, as I I realized how corrupt it was while I was working as an intelligence analyst. So, I wanted to jump into the private sector and I wanted to be a small business owner. So, I opened a food truck in 2016 and it took off, grew to two trucks, three trucks. And in 2018, I opened the first restaurant version of Gourmeltz here in Fredericksburg, Virginia. And that was going well until March of 2020 when COVID happened. And long story short about that, I realized very early on that those COVID mandates were more about control than health and safety. So, I felt it was my duty to fight back, you know, because I had been fighting dictatorships in other countries for years and I was not going to allow a dictatorship to rule in my country. So, I fought back. And because I said these COVID mandates make no sense and I'll take no part in removing my customers' constitutional rights from them. The health department in the state of Virginia, they took away my health department license, my license to serve food, and which in the state of Virginia, that automatically suspends your ABC license, which is your license to sell liquor. So, I lost both of those licenses the same day. And what I did from that point on is I said: "well, hey, listen, if the Constitution means nothing to you, then your licenses mean nothing to me." And I continue to operate and I continue to sell food. I continue to sell liquor without those licenses. And when my story became public, the community just came out in droves to support me, and it was very heartening. I mean, I had people flying from across the country just to come to my restaurant and shake my hand and thank me for what I was doing. And it was at that point that I knew I was doing the right thing. And I was standing up for those that didn't have a voice, you know, because small business owners, we did have a voice to stand up and fight back. And I was disheartened that more small business owners didn't do so. But I did. And because I did, so many people supported me. One of the things that happened is a lot of people in my community came to me and asked me to run for office, they said: "hey Matt, we need somebody that's willing to fight against the establishment the Uniparty, the globalist," whatever you want to call them and that is willing to fight against both parties because both parties are corrupt the republican establishment is just as corrupt as the democrats are and we need somebody to run for office that is going to fight against both of them. So at first I wasn't interested. I had never been interested in politics and or politicians. In fact, Peter, the first time I ever voted in my life was in 2020 for president Trump. And the reason why I never voted before that is because I got to meet a lot of these politicians when I, when I got out of the military, I worked for a company called Blackwater and I was on the counter-assault team with Blackwater. I was a medic. A medic on Blackwater's counter-assault team. One of our jobs as Blackwater downrange was to protect all of the politicians that came downrange from congressmen on up to the president when they would come visit in country. And the medic on the team always stays with the person that you're protecting, the principal, because in case something happens, they want the medic to be right there. So as the medic, I got to meet all of these guys and they were all fake. They were all full of shit. And in fact, they would all say the same thing before they leave. Hey guys, what do you need down here on the ground to successfully accomplish your mission? I'll make sure you have it once I get back to DC. And it got to a point where we'd have a list form. Hey, we need this to accomplish our mission. And same thing every time, no matter if it was a Democrat or Republican, we never hear from them once they got back to DC. So, I just left a bad taste in my mouth and I didn't trust any politicians. But, I'll tell you what changed for me in 2020, is while I started my food trucks and my restaurant, I was still working as an intelligence analyst for the military as a civilian, because when you first open a business, you're not making money. So, I had to do something to provide for my family. And as I was working as an intelligence analyst under the Trump administration, a couple of things happened that really made me come out and realize I need to support President Trump. And I'll tell you, the first thing was, if you remember, Iran shot down one of our drones back in 2019. And that's an act of war. And all of these neocons up in D.C., they have been fiending to go to war with Iran forever. And so this was their opportunity. And I got to see these things behind the scenes. And all of all of Trump's senior military advisers were asking him, you know, to to declare war on Iran. They say, hey, listen, this is our opportunity. This is what we've been wanting. Let's do it. Let's finally, you know, make make it happen. There was one day, I think it was the day after the incident happened, and I remember it vividly. I was at work working as an intel analyst and I got off at about five o'clock. And I remember seeing the op water that came through that day. And we had missiles trained on five different strategic military targets within Iran. And of course, there was going to be some collateral damage if we hit those targets. And I remember getting off that day at 5 p.m. thinking thousands of people are waking up this morning in Iran, not knowing this is the last time they're going to be waking up. Thousands of people are going to be killed in just a few hours, and I know this and they don't. It was an eerie feeling. So, I forgot what time, U.S. time it was supposed to happen, but I remember checking the news at that time and nothing. So I said, well, Michigan must have been delayed. And I checked a couple hours later, nothing. Kept checking, nothing. So, I got off of work the next morning, turned on the news, nothing. So, I got to work that day and Trump came on national television and he said: Last night, we had missiles trained on strategic targets within Iran, and all I had to do was give the go-ahead, and those targets would have been obliterated. But I didn't. And I didn't because I didn't feel that killing... I didn't feel that you shooting down an unmanned drone warranted me killing thousands of people. But make no mistake about it. If it happens again, I won't hesitate next time. And he caught my attention and he caught my attention, because it was about that time that I started to realize that these Iraq and Afghanistan wars were absolutely, totally corrupt. And we were there for this. We were there for money. And that was it. Of course, people had to die in those countries, but we could have accomplished those missions in just a couple of months, not 20 years. And I started to realize that about that time. And that's why when Trump said that, it caught my attention. I said, well, this guy isn't the neocon, the warmongers that were used to having in this seat. And I started paying attention to him and I started to support That day. And then what really got me and what really made me say to myself, this man has earned my vote. He's going to be the first person I ever vote for is, if you remember, just a couple of months after that, General Soleimani was killed. And the reason why General Soleimani, the Iranian general, was killed is because he was the mastermind behind a weapon called EFPs, explosively formed projectiles. And what EFPs are is they're an IED that form into a cone when they detonate, and they can penetrate just about any armour. And they killed hundreds of soldiers in Iraq. So, he was the mastermind behind that weapon and getting it into Iraq. So, that's the reason he was killed. And so we killed a top Iranian general. So Iran called us, called Trump and said, hey, listen, you just killed one of our top generals. I have to respond. If I don't respond, I'll have a coup in my country. And Trump's message to him was, yeah, Roger that. I know you have to respond. However, if... One U.S. soldier is hurt or killed, I will obliterate your country. And if you remember, in response to us killing General Soleimani, Iran lobbed 17 missiles into Al-Assad air base in Iraq, if you remember that. I think it was 17 that they sent over, only 13 hit inside of Al-Assad. But out of 13 rockets, guess how many U.S. soldiers were killed? Zero. And zero were injured. I know the media reported a hundred and something injuries, but those were, they were not injuries. There were concussions and those were subjective injuries. You know, people just said, oh, I've got a headache from the explosions, but that's a whole other story anyway. O of 14 rockets or 13 rockets landing in Al-Asad, there were no casualties. And it was at that time that I said, this man demands, he commands respect on the international national stage. And this is a guy that deserves to lead this country, and from that day forward, I 100% threw my support behind Donald Trump. And that's when I started to really pay attention to politics. And then so when everybody started asking me to run, at first I wasn't interested, didn't want to be a part of it. But what changed my mind is I started looking into who these people were locally that were representing us. And I started digging into to specifically the Republican politicians, because if you support Democrat politicians and if you consider yourself a Democrat and you vote that way, at this point, there's nothing I can say to you that's going to help you. But I was digging into these Republican politicians, because I suspected there was also some corruption coming from the people that I feel I align with. And there was a whole lot. And specifically from my Republican state senator. And there were a bunch of things I found out about this guy that were straight up lies. He lied to me, to my face. And I won't go into those details. But so anyway, I decided, OK, Roger that, I'll run. And I asked everybody: I said, hey, what seat do you need me to run for? You know, school board, president of the United States, where do you need me? And the ironic thing is the vast majority of people said, we want you to run for state Senate against this guy, the same guy that I uncovered all of these things about. So that's what I did. I jumped in and I ran against this state senator. And not even a week after it became known that I was going to jump in this race to run against him, a guy came into my restaurant who I had known because he had came in there previously. And he asked, can you sit down and talk to me? So I did. And he said: hey, I heard you're going to be running against this guy. Why are you doing so? And I said, well, because he's absolutely corrupt. And I showed him proof of the corruption. And he said, OK. At that point, he knew he wasn't going to convince me not to run against him. But he said: you know, if he can guarantee you a seat as a delegate instead of a state senator, would you not run against him? And when he figured out that I wasn't going to fall for it, it turned into threats. He said, well, listen, if you run against this guy, he's going to dig up every piece of dirt on you. I said, listen, man, I joined the Army at 17 years old. I've been overseas more than I've been in America since I've been an adult. And I've got a TSSCI clearance, man. So, there's nothing to dig up on me. Dig away. And he said, he'll have you followed. He'll have your family followed. And at that point, you know, I started to piss me off, you know, because I started to realize he's threatening me. I said listen you let him know that the first time anybody follows me or anybody in my family, it will be the last time they follow somebody, and you can let them know that, and you can let them know that all these things you're telling me is the reason why I'm coming for a seat, and I will win. And not more than a week after that redistricting happened here in Virginia and this state senator had a guy on the the committee that redrew the lines and, I know the guy very well and I was redrawn out of his district by less than a mile. If you look at my neighbourhood it was carved out of his district I mean I could throw a rock into his district. So absolutely corrupt, anyways so I'm in this new district which is an open seat, there's no state senator filling. So I ran in this district right here and I started heavily going after the Republican establishment while I was campaigning. I started calling out all of the corruption from the lowest level to the top level to the governor here in Virginia. And the reason I was doing that is because when Governor Glenn Youngkin here in Virginia and the Attorney General Jason Meares were campaigning for their seats, they came to my restaurant. And they came to my restaurant because they wanted to garner the support of the support that I had for fighting COVID mandates. They knew that the community supported me and trusted me. So, they wanted to garner that support. And, you know, being naïve, I hosted them at my restaurant. I supported them, and they told me the same thing. They said: hey, listen, if we win, not only are COVID mandates gone, but we're going to ensure that no other businesses are prosecuted for these COVID mandates. I mean, these guys, I got a voicemail from Glenn Young and praising me for fighting these COVID mandates that I still have on my phone today. Jason Meares made a video that's still on social media right now saying how unconstitutional it was, what was happening to me at my restaurant. So anyway, these guys win, and guess what happens? They continue to prosecute me for those COVID mandates. And Jason Meares, the guy that made a video saying how unconstitutional these things were, not even a year after that he made that video, was in court prosecuting me for those same COVID mandates. So, I started blasting these guys on social media. And as a Republican candidate, when you're coming after the Republican party, they're going to fight back hard. And that's what they did. And so I started uncovering and unravelling and screaming from a mountaintop, all of the corruption that was going on. And I'll give you one quick example. There was a guy that came to my restaurant who lives in my district and he was on dialysis on a daily basis at this point, right after Glenn Young had took over. So, this guy tells me that UVA called him and said, we've got kidneys for you. Come on down. We just need your COVID vaccine card. And he tells them, hey, listen, I didn't take the vaccine because my immune system is already compromised and I'm just not comfortable with the vaccine. Plus, I've already had COVID, so I'm good to go. I got the best vaccine there is. And UVA Medical Center told him, if you don't take this vaccine, you don't get these kidneys. So, they were going to let a man die for not taking a vaccine. It's just counterintuitive, isn't it? So, he reaches out to every elected official here in the state of Virginia, including Glenn Youngkin, and he shows me the emails where he's getting no response from them. So I told him, I said, hey, listen, I'm actually holding an event here at my restaurant for a congressional candidate. And supposedly Youngkin is showing up in support of her. I said, let's ask him to his face. Let's bring this to him to his face so he can't deny lie that he didn't see these emails. And so we did so. He met him in person at my restaurant, told him his story. And Glenn Youngkin's response was, had no idea, didn't get those emails, but I'll get right on it. Anyways, long story short, man, he ignored him once again, never reached back out to him. He allowed this man to be kicked off of UVA Medical Center's kidney transplant list, which is a state-funded hospital, to die because he wouldn't take the COVID-19 vaccine. I was wondering, it just blew my mind. I wondered why. So, I started looking into Glenn Youngkin and who actually funds his campaign and who actually funds his PAC, Spirit of Virginia. And hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars from Pfizer and other big pharmaceutical companies. So, it made sense. So, I started blasting that from a mountaintop. And as soon as I did so, Glenn Youngkin, his PAC, Spirit of Virginia, and the rest of the so-called, quote unquote, quote, conservative organizations, they spent over a million dollars to beat me in my primary. Republicans spent over a million dollars to beat a Republican candidate in a Republican primary. Totally unheard of, It's never happened in the state of Virginia before. But they did it for a reason, and they did it because they knew I was not going to be a shill for the establishment. And I was actually going to come represent the people. And that is not what they want in a political candidate. They want somebody that can be controlled. So once they realized that I couldn't, they made sure I didn't get across that finish line. They took that billion dollars and they put commercials on TV that said, I'm in support of transgender ideology in schools, and I want to over-sexualize children. And I'm actually a Democrat. And obviously, total BS, total lies. I'm the one that's at these school board meetings fighting against transgender ideology in schools. But what they know is that majority of voters are uninformed. They don't do their homework. If they see a commercial on Fox News that says things like that, they're going to believe it like it's gospel. And Glenn Youngkin put his face on every single one of my opponent's campaign signs. It was like I was running against Glenn Youngkin. He was sending mailers to my people in my district's house saying Glenn Youngkin needs your vote on June 20th, Glenn Youngkin needs your vote. I didn't know I was running against Glenn Youngkin. So anyway, I ended up, even though, and I only accepted campaign contributions from people, and I beat every candidate in the state of Virginia, delegate and state senate candidates, in the number of low-dollar donations, so donations from people. And I raised $180,000, but $180,000 versus over a million, you're going to lose every time, and that's just how it is. So I did, so I lost. And they kept coming at me from all different ways when I did lose. So, I told you that my health department license was suspended at my restaurant. My ABC license was suspended. Well, I went to court first for my health department license and I won. I was able to prove in court that those COVID mandates were indeed unconstitutional. So, then I went before the ABC board to get my liquor license back, because the only reason they took my liquor license was because the health department took my health department license and those two are connected. So, we went before the ABC board and we said, hey, listen, I won my health department license back in court, proved it was unconstitutional for them to take it from me. So in turn, now you have to give me my ABC license back. And they said, no, actually, we're not going to give it back to you because you continue to operate without it. And I said, yes, I did. But I only had to because you unconstitutionally took it from me. And they said, well, we don't care. We're means nothing to you. Your license means nothing to me. And I continue to operate without an ABC license. So, at this time I had a health department license. I can sell food, but still no ABC license. And Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, is my governor. Jason Meares, a Republican, is my attorney general. And so what happened is one day out of the blue, 25 Virginia state police raid my restaurant, And they take every drop of alcohol that was in my restaurant, take all of my kegs, all of my liquor bottles, tried to take my POS system so I couldn't even operate. I stopped them from doing that. And I live streamed that when it happened. And that live stream went absolutely viral. And people were asking me, hey, Matt, was this two years ago, you know, during the height of COVID? And I said, no, this was yesterday. And they said, how? Glenn Youngkin's your governor. How do you allow this to happen? And of course, I knew the answer was because I was exposing him. But I said, great question. Why don't you ask him? Because I can't get an answer from his office. So at that point, people from across the nation just started pounding his office with emails and phone calls and social media posts. And they were asking him, what's going on with this? Why are you allowing a man's livelihood to be stripped from him for not following COVID mandates that were already proven unconstitutional? So, long story short with that one is the only thing that these politicians respond to is political pressure. So, he finally responded and and I won. They had to give me my ABC license back and they brought all of my alcohol back and that fight was over with, but they still weren't finished with me. I want to take you up to where you are today, because that that fight has continued, think actually it's gone away you've won in court, you've got Glenn Youngkin, but he's lost that, But it seems though you're being hounded by officials for being pro-Trump, pro-America First against these anti-government imposed mandates. And I've seen your tweets about having to go and answer for your crime of loving freedom. Tell us about that, about that quasi-court that you have to go and answer for people promoting your campaign. What is that? Yeah, you're absolutely right about that, Peter. If you align with President Trump, if you align with the MAGA movement, with the America First movement, these establishment politicians, the globalists, whatever you want to call them, they will come down on you and use all of the resources you pay for against you. And that's what happens. And people think that this is only happening to Trump, but this is happening at the lowest levels. There's stories like mine across the nation that you'll never hear about because how will you? The media will give us no attention. So, I appreciate shows like yours that do, but they're politically persecuting us at all levels. It's not just happening to Trump. So, what happened with me and what my latest political persecution story is, is once I lost that primary, I had a lot of people who supported me in that primary race that came to me and they said: hey, Matt, we saw the corruption that happened to you in that race. And it awakened us to who these Republicans really are. And no longer will we just vote for somebody because they have an R behind their name. We want to write your name in on that ballot, because we can't in good conscience vote for somebody we know is corrupt and that's going to work against us. So I said, well, you have my blessing if that's what you're asking for, go ahead and vote, write my name in. And a couple of folks started a write-in campaign for me. Now, I knew there was going to be some kind of blowback and they were going to try to come after me in some way for that, because I knew it would gain some steam. So, I intentionally stayed away from the rioting campaign for those reasons. And there were no doors knocked. There was not one penny spent on the rioting campaign. There were no mailers sent. Nothing. It was just a word of mouth. People were telling people, hey, write in Matt Strickland's name for state Senate in the general election. Don't vote for the Republican candidate, and I received a lot of write-in votes. I received a ton of write-in votes without even actually running a campaign. So, that scared these politicians here in the state of Virginia. And actually, they just submitted legislation that says now in the state of Virginia, if you run as a primary candidate, the citizens, and you lose, the citizens are no longer allowed to write your name in in the general election. They're trying to make that a law here in Virginia. Isn't that crazy? So, this latest political persecution that I'm dealing with is, because citizens said that they can no longer support somebody just because they're a Republican and they saw the corruption that happened in my primary and they cannot in good conscience vote for the Republican candidate. In it, they came to me and said they wanted to run a writing campaign for me. And I gave them my blessing to do so. But, I intentionally stayed away from that writing campaign, because I knew the state of Virginia would somehow come after me for that. So I intentionally stayed away from that writing campaign. I didn't get involved in it whatsoever. And for that writing campaign, not one door was knocked, not one mailer was sent out, not one penny was spent on it. The only money that was spent on it was people spent their own money to buy their own signs to put in their yards that said, vote for, write in Matt Strickland for state Senate. That's it. So, this is basically a groundswell of public desire for you Matt Strickland to be elected to a position that what this is, this is not your campaign, this is the public saying we want this person and rising up and saying we want him putting up yard signs. So this is pure grassroots. Exactly. 100. And that's what people did. They bought their own signs, they put them in their yard that said right in Matt Strickland for state senate and there was a Groundswell of support and we got a ton of votes And is scared the establishment. So the establishment actually submitted legislation that says If you run as a candidate in a primary and you lose that primary, Then citizens are no longer allowed to write Your name in in the general election. They actually are trying to pass a law that says that right now. But because people bought signs with my name on it and put it in their yard, the state of Virginia, led by Glenn Youngkin. Tried to fine me $75,000 for those signs. $75,000. $75,000. And the reasoning they said was because, they said that those signs didn't have a disclaimer on it that said paid for by my campaign. Well, they shouldn't have had a disclaimer on it because one, my campaign was over, I lost. But two, they weren't paid for by my campaign. They were bought by individuals with their own money. And three, I had nothing to do with it. And so and they knew that. And so I had to go before this another administrative board, the Board of Elections here in the state of Virginia. And I explained to him, I laid out exactly what sections, what articles of the Constitution they were violating by trying to prosecute me and fine me for this. You must have pissed them off. Oh, I pissed them off. And actually, so there were like maybe like 15 other people there that were there for campaign violations. And each of them all begged for mercy. Each of them apologized. And they all got like $25 fines. And then I was up and I handed their ass to them. And I explained to him how they were violating the Constitution. And the representative from Jason Meares' attorney general's office that was there, one of the assistant attorney generals, he didn't even know if I was right or wrong in how I was saying they were violating my constitutional rights. They had to research it. So, what they did is, they kicked the can down the road and they continued my case until the next month. So, I had to come back before them the following month. And the following month, they reconvened and they dismissed those charges against me. And I won once again. I've been dragged in front of countless administrative bureaucratic boards into the court system here in Virginia. I can't even tell you how many times throughout this fight. And I've won every single time. The punishment is in the process, Peter. So they don't give a damn if I was found guilty or if the fines were handed down to me, or they don't care if I won or lost before these boards are in court. The punishment is in the process. The fact that I had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to clear my name, and I had to spend countless hours, days, weeks, months in courtrooms, in front of boards defending myself. That is the punishment. And that is exactly what they're doing to President Trump. It's happening to many other people across the nation. Especially when you have a political candidate, especially when you have a Republican candidate that's running, that is anti-establishment, that is willing to fight against these globalists that are actually running this country now. And it's actually the administrative bureaucratic system that runs this country. So, when you have a candidate that's willing to fight against that, then the establishment will put as much money as necessary in that race to beat you. And I mean they're doing it right now to a congressional candidate down in Florida, her name is Mara Macy. She's running down in Florida and I hope like hell that she wins, because we need at least one person that loves this country that is in DC, you know, that's really going to fight for for us and there's another candidate here in my congressional district his name's Cameron Hamilton and I truly believe that he'll go up to DC and he'll fight for us as well. So, when you find these candidates that are willing to fight the establishment and take all the arrows that will be slung at them for doing so, we got to get out and support these people, Peter. We have to. We have to get off the couch, man, because people are, they're just content with living in the comforts that we have in today's day and age. And that's the biggest problem with this country in particular, but throughout the world as well. I mean, you guys over there in the UK as well. The problem with the UK, the problem with the US is people are comfortable. They're not willing to give up a little bit of comfort in the near term, you know, for prosperity in the long term. And one of the I think one of the one of the most strategic things that the government has done is they have employed so many people and they have so many people dependent on them. The majority of people here in the U.S. are either they're dependent on the government in some way, whether they're dependent on them for government assistance or they work for the government, either directly or indirectly. The government was very strategic in that, because they know that those people will not dissent. Because they don't want to lose that pay check every two weeks and they don't want to lose those benefits. You'd be surprised how many times I've heard, man, I would love to fight back and do what you do, Matt. But, you know, I don't want to lose my job. I've heard that so many times. And it was very strategic. My hat's off to them. They, you know, they're very good at what they do. That's for sure. But Americans need to stop being scared, because if you continue to be scared and live for those creature comforts today, all you're doing is handing this fight off to your children tomorrow. And by the time your children are old enough to fight this fight, it's going to be too far down the road. We need to fight this fight right now, today, and give up whatever comforts we have to in the short term to do so. Matt, tell me, you're obviously very high profile. You've stood up for freedoms. After fighting abroad for freedoms. You've come back, you've realised you don't have the freedoms you thought you had and you've been vocal, you've stood for elected office, you've got involved in your community, you're fighting for your local business in your community. What about others who actually have been abroad with you? What about that, I guess, range of veterans who come back and find the country is not Is their appetite to push back? Are you unique? Are there others? I mean, give us an insight into that. I think a lot of people that I fought next to have the mentality now that the systems have just been too corrupted at every level and that it's not a winnable fight. So, I think a lot of their mentality now is I'm just going to make sure my household and my family is protected. And, you know, I'll be honest, I get it, but we can't take on that mentality. It is winnable. This fight here for America is absolutely winnable, because we are the majority, the vast majority. I mean, we're allowing a group of people that can't even fight their way out of a wet paper bag to rule over us in a tyrannical manner. That is not the American spirit. That is not what we do. But, I think that a lot of them are just waiting for the right signal, the right time to get them motivated once again to realize, 'oh, this is winnable,' and I do need to jump back in the fight in this way. I think they're just waiting for that. But not enough of them are fighting. I mean, there's more than me, obviously, you know, veteran-wise that are fighting against this, that have, you know, risked a lot of their livelihood and put it on the line, but not enough. Tell us, I guess, who's behind the witch hunt? I've kind of learned a little bit about Virginia politics, but is that the Uni-party, the rhinos in Virginia that are opposed to anyone who is pro-Trump? I mean just end on on that, because that doesn't just affect those who have served abroad affects every single person in the state and wider because this is not just a Virginia battle. I am sure that there are individuals who are just like yourself actually who are in other states and are fighting a similar battle with the Uni-party that seeks to actually restrict freedoms and seeks to oppose the MAGA agenda and how dare you have America first. So, what you're facing, I am guessing, is replicated across many states, across the U.S. It is, it absolutely is. And what people have to understand is that this fight to you and me, us realizing what's really going on, seems like it's overnight. But this is decades in the making for these people. They have taken over the government from the local level on up to the White House. So that's why here, even at the state level there's so many hard fights going on between the establishment and those that have the MAGA mentality and the MAGA spirit and the America First agenda at the forefront. And so, I mean, they have these institutions in place, these administrative bureaucracies that are very well funded and ironically funded by us. You know, they're using our own money to fight against us. And they make sure that these establishment politicians, even at the local levels, are protected and installed into these seats. And, I mean, for example, Glenn Youngkin. I mean, this guy, you know, his background is he was a CEO of the Carlyle Group, another private equity firm that is just as corrupt as Vanguard and BlackRock and all those other ones, one and the same. And that's where this guy came from out of nowhere. And he's proven to us that he's willing to accept publicly all of this corrupt money. And what has he done as the governor of Virginia? He's done nothing. He has the power right now today, just as every other Republican governor in the United States, to declare an invasion against illegal immigration and send all of his National Guard troops down to the border and close it without any federal permission or federal involvement. He can do that today. So, why won't he and every other Republican governor do so? Because they don't want to, because their donors and the people that control them don't want them to. And that's it. Of course, it's Biden and the Biden administration's fault that the border's wide open, but it's also these Republican governors' fault as well. They can stop it today, but they won't because the same people that installed them installed Biden and the rest of them. The Uni-party is absolutely real. And the reason why the fight is so strong against folks like me and you and the rest of the people in the MAGA movement and the rest of the people that support President Trump and support an America First agenda is because we're derailing their train that's on the track to global dominance. And they know that there is a very strong chance that we win this fight. And that's why they have to fight so hard, even on the local levels, but it's up to us. I mean, the only way we lose this fight as the MAGA movement and as the America First movement, and even you guys in the UK to take your country back, the only way we lose this fight, Peter, is if we allow them to win. They can't beat us. They cannot beat us. The only way they win is if we allow them to win. And I'm doing my part to make sure that they don't. And I just hope many, many more people step up like you are, you know, like Steve Bannon is and like so many other America First patriots are and fight with us. Matt, thank you for coming on. I know you've used your restaurant. I know you had Robert Malone there recently and you've used your restaurant as an area for like-minded people who love freedom to meet. And I think you talk about faith, family and flag. I think you could add freedom, firearms, fitness and food onto that and many other. But Matt, I really appreciate what you do. Obviously, I will not even touch on about your viral tweet about the immigration issue with Afghan immigration and what that means for actually culture and freedom and people accepting what it means to be American there. We're having the same issue here. But people can obviously follow you @Matt4VA and track that, follow that, and see your many posts. So, I do appreciate you coming along, Matt, Gourmeltz is the place to be for anyone in Fredericksburg, Virginia. And yeah, thanks for giving us your time today. Well, thank you, Peter. Just like these globalists have a movement for a one world dominance, you know, our brothers and sisters over there in the UK, we're actually in a global fight together as well for our sovereign nations. We want the same thing as well for our specific countries. We want our countries to, you know, to be preserved and our values, the values that these countries were built on to be preserved and brought back once again. So you guys over there across the pond, man, we're in the fight with you, brother. And I appreciate you.

Ritu Gill, Intelligence Analyst, joins Harry and Sean to discuss the practical use of OSINT to support law enforcement. Ritu discusses it's use in supporting risk assessments and classified or closed sources of intelligence. She also discusses the tools used to make the most of the open-source intelligence available to analysts.

Dive into the compelling journey of Tiffany Savage on this week's episode of The TechTual Talk as she transitions from an Army Intelligence Analyst to a revered figure in Corporate Ethical Hacking. Discover the challenges and triumphs of her path that's far from ordinary.In this enlightening interview, Henri, our seasoned host, engages Tiffany in a deep-dive conversation about her unique experiences in the military, her strategic moves within the corporate world, and her current pioneering role in cybersecurity. They explore how her military background shaped her problem-solving skills and strategic thinking, preparing her for the high-stakes world of ethical hacking in a corporate environment.Listeners gain insider insights on the importance of certifications like CISSP, Comptia Security+, and the real value they bring to cybersecurity roles. The dialogue delves into the necessary foundational knowledge and the reality of navigating job markets strengthened by authentic certifications.Tiffany shares her firsthand experiences with high-pressure roles at notable companies, including Amazon, and how these experiences helped pivot her focus towards security-focused roles that resonate more deeply with her expertise and passions.Moreover, Tiffany and Henri tackle broader societal issues, discussing the impacts of media and technology on young audiences, emphasizing the ethical considerations in cybersecurity. They highlight how critical thinking and customer-oriented strategies lead to sustained business success and stronger defense mechanisms in an era ripe with information security challenges.**What you'll learn:**- The transition nuances from military to corporate careers.- Essential cybersecurity certifications and their real-world impacts.- Strategic career planning and ethical decision-making in technology.- The societal implications of cybersecurity on younger audiencesSupport the Show.If you enjoyed the show don't forget to leave us a 5 star review, to help with the algorithm :) Email: henridavis@thetechtualtalk.com➡️ Need coaching help then go here (ask about our financing)⬇️https://techualconsulting.com/offerings➡️ Want to land your first IT Job? Then check out the IT course from Course careers use my link and code Techtual50 to get $50 off your course ⬇️https://account.coursecareers.com/ref/50932/➡️ Need help getting into Cybersecurity for a low price then check out Josh Madakor's Cybersecurity course at Leveld Careers and use my code TechTual10 to get 10%off your course. ⬇️https://www.leveldcareers.com/a/2147530874/RuqjrBGjIf you want a high paying role in the cloud then click here⬇️https://Levelupintech.com/techStop data brokers from exposing your information with Aura!Click the link below to try out Aura's FREE 14 day trial and see if your personal information has been compromised

  On today's Coffee with Rich, we will be joined by Sarah Adams and Dave Benton. Sarah Adams and Dave Benton worked together at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Their new book shares their personal, cold-case investigation into the attacks that occurred between September 11th and 12th, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. Sarah Adams was an Intelligence Analyst and Targeter with the CIA. She also served as the Senior Advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi. Currently, she leads Department of Defense (DoD) research and development efforts to discover, incubate, and deliver innovative data-driven, technology-enabled solutions to answer complex national security challenges. Dave Benton has over 25 years of experience serving in specialized teams and leadership roles in the military, law enforcement, protective security, and the U.S. Government's Intelligence Community. He was a member of the CIA's Global Response Staff (GRS) team that responded to the September 11th, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. His story was told in the book “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi,” authored by Mitchell Zuckoff.   Pick Up Sarah & Dave's Book: https://a.co/d/8jwaGsE   Coffee with Rich Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rhodieusmc/videos   American Warrior Show: https://americanwarriorshow.com/index.html   SWAG: https://shop.americanwarriorsociety.com/ American Warrior Society please visit: https://americanwarriorsociety.com/

Ed Hill, Jr., International Representative, Business Development for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 3rd District joined the America's Workforce Union Podcast and discussed the importance of the PLA announced between the North American Building Trades Union (NABTU) and Equinor for the Empire Wind project off the coast of New York. Author Jonathan Rigsby appeared on the America's Work Force Union Podcast and spoke about his upcoming book Drive, which he wrote to outline the issues he's faced as a part-time gig worker and what needs to be done to help drivers avoid being taken advantage of by ride-share companies.

Cyber threat intelligence analyst Selena Larson takes us on her career journey from being a journalist to making the switch to industrial security. As a child who wrote a book about a green goldfish who dealt with bullying, Selena always liked investigating and researching things. Specializing in cybersecurity journalism led to the realization of how closely aligned or similar skills are required from an investigative journalist and a cyber threat intelligence analyst. Our thanks to Selena for sharing her story with us. 

Cyber threat intelligence analyst Selena Larson takes us on her career journey from being a journalist to making the switch to industrial security. As a child who wrote a book about a green goldfish who dealt with bullying, Selena always liked investigating and researching things. Specializing in cybersecurity journalism led to the realization of how closely aligned or similar skills are required from an investigative journalist and a cyber threat intelligence analyst. Our thanks to Selena for sharing her story with us.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest this week is John McClure, Deputy Director of the Center for National Security Studies at Utah Valley University. John worked at the county, state, and federal levels as an Intelligence Analyst specializing in counterterrorism investigations in the State of Utah.    Listen as Deputy Director McClure discusses his education in Terrorism Studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and how that led to a career as an Intelligence Analyst. Deputy Director McClure further describes his experience working at Utah's Fusion Center, as well as his time with the Salt Lake FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).    How do state and local governments prepare for potential terrorist attacks? In what ways do federal, state, and local agencies collaborate on issues of national security? How do investigators and analysts use open-source intelligence to conduct national security investigations?    Learn all this, and more, in this episode of In the Interest of National Security. 

Ross Hill, Founder of Insight Forward, returns to the podcast to discuss one of the more prominent crises in our threat landscape today: the attacks in the Red Sea. This conversation dives deeper into his previous discussion with host Chuck Randolph on What Today's Permacrisis Means for Corporate Security Teams. The episode explores the implications of these attacks on business operations.Key takeaways from their discussion include:How the Houthi rebels' attack on cargo ships disrupts critical trade routes and raises concerns about regional stability and economic impact.The impact on economies and corporations in the regions where the attacks are taking place (and why multinational organizations are caught in the middle)Examples of second and third-order effects of the attacks on the economy and what companies should be looking for in the months ahead.Ross Hill founded Insight Forward to help companies understand how global dynamics directly affect their business. He applies his background leading intelligence analysis for prominent risk management organizations such as AT-RISK International and Pinkerton. He has acquired an in-depth knowledge of core processes, program design, and management, fulfilling senior management positions in global security and risk consultancies, and gaining exposure to renowned multinationals and driving their intelligence needs. He began his career as a Forensic DNA Analyst and Intelligence Analyst for the Metropolitan Police.Check out Insight Forward's latest report: Top 10 Geopolitical Risks for Businesses in 2024 and the latest geopolitical news by subscribing to Pestle & Mortar

Ryan Pace and I have a lot in common. We're both from Wallowa County, with multigenerational ties to this place. We both went off to college, then joined the Marines, serving tours in the Middle East. And we both fought our way back home. Ryan served as an Intelligence Officer in the Marines, then worked at the Pentagon as an Intelligence Analyst. He's been a real lifeline to me over the years and I value his advice and opinions. In this episode, we discuss our time in the Marines and our experiences with leadership, making difficult decisions, and serving others. Check out the new DECKED system and get free shipping 

NATO has become an active topic today on the global stage. It has been focused on peaceful solutions and democratic values since its beginning. According to NATO's website, “Security in our daily lives is key to our well-being. NATO's purpose is to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.” However, the topic of an alliance has received the attention of those who oppose the entity. But what exactly is NATO? What does it do? In this episode, Salomon Montaguth is joined by Gabriel Helupka, Intelligence Analyst at The Counterterrorism Group, to try to get a deeper understanding of today's topic.  

The Israel-Hamas war has continued to impact the stability of the region. This destructive war that has left thousands dead has become the arena where both sides have displayed their military capabilities, whether covertly or overtly. Both sides have made it their mission to meet their challenges with the strength of their forces whether through weapons or personnel. Today, we will discuss the weapons, strategies, and tactics used during the Israel-Hamas war and why it should matter to everyone. In this episode, Salomon Montaguth is joined by Arnold Koka, Intelligence Analyst at The Counterterrorism Group, to try to get a deeper understanding of today's topic.

On October 12, 2022, Juraj Krajcik killed two people and injured another outside an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava, Slovakia. At the time, Prime Minister Eduard Hegar called Krajcik a “radicalized teenager” after the attack. Shortly after the attack, Krajcik wrote “feeling no regrets, isn't that funny?” on X. He published his manifesto on X before the attack. On the anniversary of Krajcik's death, supporters on Terrorgram circulated a special issue describing him, his attack, and his manifesto, “A Call to Arms.” The issue is included in “Terrorgram's Hometown Newspaper” titled “Daily News,” in which Krajcik was hailed as the first Saint. In this episode, Salomon Montaguth is joined by Megan Khalife, Intelligence Analyst at The Counterterrorism Group, to get a deeper understanding of today's topic.

In episode two of our National Case Closed Project: Supporting Best Practices in Investigation season, Just Science sat down with Fabio Sanchez, Crime Gun Intelligence Sergeant at the City of Miami Police Department, Yaneisy Delgado, Intelligence Analyst at the Miami-Dade Police Department, and Kevin Armbruster, retired Lieutenant with the Milwaukee Police Department, to discuss how their agencies utilize ballistics evidence and cross-agency collaboration to improve gun violence investigations in the greater Miami area. When a fatal or non-fatal shooting occurs, investigators can submit ballistics evidence to the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network, or NIBIN, which will generate potential associations with other firearm cases in the area. Law enforcement agencies in Miami, Florida have developed best practices for utilizing NIBIN and other information-sharing techniques to drastically reduce gun violence rates in one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Listen along as Fabio, Yaneisy, and Kevin describe their agencies' methods for quickly and effectively entering data into NIBIN, using social media and other analyses to track patterns in case evidence, and the importance of information sharing and collaboration for preventing gun violence. This project is supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-21-GK-04008-JAGP awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Lone wolf attacks have sparked the interest of those in the security and threat industries for a few decades. The fear of an act from a violent individual has driven many analysts and researchers to suggest safety policies for the public. Governments and agencies have relied on these security reports to develop preventative strategies. While there have been ample examples of lone-wolf attacks, the topic deserves further public analysis. What are lone wolves, and what motivates them to act upon violence? In this episode, Salomon Montaguth is joined by Chloe Woodbine, Intelligence Analyst at The Counterterrorism Group, to get a deeper understanding of today's topic.

Is it a coincidence that violent mobs tend to rise up just in time for elections – or are they being “activated” for an organized purpose? Intelligence analyst Brian O'Shea says it's anything but spontaneous or organic. Also joining the show: Justin Goodman from the White Coat Waste Project, which uncovered horrifying details about the Biden administration's pick to lead the NIH. Brian O'Shea is an Intelligence Analyst, Private Investigator, and Chief Operating Officer at Centurion Intelligence Partners. After serving in the military for 11 years of active-duty service, Brian worked as a Senior Consultant and Subject Matter Expert for two of the US Government's top intelligence agencies. Find him online at https://centurionintelligence.com/ and https://twitter.com/BrianOSheaSPI   Justin Goodman is the Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy for the White Coat Waste Project, which is a taxpayer watchdog group representing more than 2 million liberty-lovers and animal-lovers who all agree: taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay over $20 billion every year for wasteful and cruel experiments on dogs, cats, monkeys and other animals. Learn more at https://www.whitecoatwaste.org/ 「 SPONSORED BY 」 Find out more about the companies that make this show possible and get special discounts on amazing products at https://drdrew.com/sponsors • GENUCEL - Using a proprietary base formulated by a pharmacist, Genucel has created skincare that can dramatically improve the appearance of facial redness and under-eye puffiness. Genucel uses clinical levels of botanical extracts in their cruelty-free, natural, made-in-the-USA line of products. Get an extra discount with promo code DREW at https://genucel.com/drew • COZY EARTH - Trying to think of the right present for someone special? Susan and Drew love Cozy Earth's sheets & clothing made with super-soft viscose from bamboo! Use code DREW to save up to 40% at https://drdrew.com/cozy • PRIMAL LIFE - Dr. Drew recommends Primal Life's 100% natural dental products to improve your mouth. Get a sparkling smile by using natural teeth whitener without harsh chemicals. For a limited time, get 60% off at https://drdrew.com/primal • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at https://twc.health/drew • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get a discount on your first order at https://drdrew.com/paleovalley 「 MEDICAL NOTE 」 The CDC states that COVID-19 vaccines are safe, effective, and reduce your risk of severe illness. You should always consult your personal physician before making any decisions about your health.  「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (https://kalebnation.com) and Susan Pinsky (https://twitter.com/firstladyoflove). This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. 「 ABOUT DR. DREW 」 Dr. Drew is a board-certified physician with over 35 years of national radio, NYT bestselling books, and countless TV shows bearing his name. He's known for Celebrity Rehab (VH1), Teen Mom OG (MTV), Dr. Drew After Dark (YMH), The Masked Singer (FOX), multiple hit podcasts, and the iconic Loveline radio show. Dr. Drew Pinsky received his undergraduate degree from Amherst College and his M.D. from the University of Southern California, School of Medicine. Read more at https://drdrew.com/about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With multiple crises happening around the globe, it's impossible for organizations to ignore the threat of geopolitics to their business. Security teams are forced to think beyond what's happening now and consider what's around the corner. Many understand the duty of care to keep employees safe; however not all realize that this extends to the geopolitical landscape. It is the duty of security leaders to help their organization make sense of what's happening and be a calm voice in the midst of permacrisis.Ross Hill, Founder of Insight Forward, is that calm voice for many as he helps businesses understand risk. He applies his background leading intelligence analysis for prominent risk management organizations such as AT-RISK International and Pinkerton, and has acquired an in-depth knowledge of core processes, programme design and management, fulfilling senior management positions in global security and risk consultancies, and gaining exposure to renowned multinationals and driving their intelligence needs. He began his career as a Forensic DNA Analyst and as an Intelligence Analyst for the Metropolitan Police.Check out Insight Forward's latest report: Top 10 Geopolitical Risks for Businesses in 2024 and the latest geopolitical news by subscribing to Pestle & Mortar.Key topics of Hill's discussion with hosts Chuck Randolph and Fred Burton include:Why global and national companies alike cannot escape the impact of geopolitics on their business, and why it's critical to look beyond the threats you face today.Why security leaders have a responsibility to help the people they protect make sense of the crises abroad and how misinformation (most notably with the Hamas War) has the ability to cause unwarranted concern and mistrust.The top three things corporate security teams can do right now in light of multiple crises happening around the globe.

Summary Jorhena Thomas (LinkedIn) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss her career as an analyst and passion for intelligence education. Jorhena spent 8 years in the FBI as an Intelligence Analyst.  What You'll Learn Intelligence What makes a great analyst Her thoughts on the “Intelligence Cycle” The Robert Levinson case  How the FBI adapted after 9/11 Reflections Teamwork and collaboration  The importance of education Episode Notes Andrew is joined by Jorhena Thomas: educator, mentor, and analysis extraordinaire. It was a pleasure to have Jorhena in the studio to discuss to her career, which began at the Federal Bureau of Investigation where she served as an intelligence analyst for 8 years. She moved on to work at the Washington D.C. Fusion Center, the District of Columbia Deputy Mayor's Office, and in private consulting. She currently lectures at both American University and Georgetown University, and serves as the Director of Mentorship and Professional Advancement at Girl Security. And…  Women make up 59% (more than half!) of the FBI's Intelligence Analysis workforce. This has come along way since the first female FBI special agents, Joanna Pierce Misko and Susan Roley Malone, were hired in 1972. However, the work is not done. SpyCast is proud to highlight Jorhena's work with Girl Security, supporting, mentoring, and training the next generations of women in intelligence.  Quotes of the Week “All my time with the FBI really gave me an appreciation for partnerships, and understanding everyone has a role to play. And if you respect what they do and they respect what you do, then you can really get some good work done. And I think sometimes people look down on others who don't do what they do. And my attitude is, if they did what you do, then you don't need to be here” – Jorhena Thomas Resources  SURFACE SKIM *SpyCasts* The Counterintelligence Chief with FBI Assistant Director Alan Kohler (2023) SPY CHIEFS: From Navy Analyst to State Dept. Intelligence Chief – Ellen McCarthy's Journey (Part 1 of 2) (2022)  SPY CHIEFS: From Navy Analyst to State Dept. Intelligence Chief – Ellen McCarthy's Journey (Part 2 of 2) (2022) My Global Career as a Female FBI Agent with Kathy Stearman (2021) Special Operations, FBI, NSC, et al – Serial Collaborator Karen Schaefer (2021) *Beginner Resources* What is Intelligence Analysis and Why is It So Important?, National American University (2020) [Short article] FBI Field Intelligence Groups and Fusion Centers, Department of Homeland Security (n.d.) [Fact sheet]  What is The Intelligence Cycle?, SOCRadar (2022) [Short article] DEEPER DIVE Books How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence, D. Omand (Penguin, 2020)  Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, R. J. Heuer (Echo Point, 2017)  Reducing Uncertainty: Intelligence Analysis & National Security, T. Fingar (SUP, 2011) The FBI: A History, R. Jefferys-Jones (Yale, 2007) Articles How to Think Like an Intelligence Analyst, Z. T. Brown, Medium (2021) 9/11 and the Reinvention of the Us Intelligence Community, E. Kamarck, The Brooking Institution (2021)  No body, no burial, no peace for Iran hostage Bob Levinson's family, J. G. Meek & C. Finnegan, ABC News (2021) Getting from Awareness to Action on Disinformation, J. Thomas, The Cipher Brief (2020) Tabletop Exercises to Combat Disinformation, J. Thomas, Medium (2020) How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11, C. Nobel, Harvard Business School (2016)  Video Adding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to National and Homeland Security, Education, Intelligence, and Fusion Centers (2023)  Women FBI Agents: In Their Own Words, FBI (2012) Primary Sources  FBI Washington Field Office Statement on the 16th Anniversary of the Abduction of Robert A. Levinson, FBI Washington (2023) The Internal Effects of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Reprioritization, Office of the Inspector General (2004) United States Patriot Act (2001)

In this episode of The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano talks with retired FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst and courageous whistleblower, George Hill. Together, they delve deep into the heart of America's institutions, unraveling the unsettling transformation of these entities into politically weaponized tools. They trace the origins of this troubling phenomenon back to the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, shedding light on the gradual morphing of policies and the alarming consequences that ensued. As they navigate the landscape of unchecked abuses of power, they highlight the glaring warning signs that went unheeded, allowing those in positions of authority to evade accountability. This discussion underscores a chilling reality: when the very bedrocks of our government, the most potent and influential institutions, succumb to political weaponization, the very fabric of our Republic faces an existential threat.   More Information If you enjoyed this episode and found it useful, please give The P.A.S. Report Podcast a 5-star rating and take 30 seconds to write a review. Make sure to hit the follow button so you never miss an episode. Please share this episode on social media and with your family and friends. Stock up on all your survival needs and visit 4Patriots. 4Patriots champions freedom and self-reliance. Use code PAS to get 10% off your order. Don't forget to visit https://pasreport.com.