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A “mysterious vomiting disorder tied to long-term marijuana use” has just been formally recognized by global health officials. That disorder is cannabis (cannabinoid) hyperemesis syndrome (CHS)—a condition that can push otherwise healthy people into repeated emergency room visits, severe dehydration, and even kidney failure. With a new World Health Organization (WHO) diagnostic code and alarming new data showing skyrocketing emergency-room cases, CHS has moved from medical curiosity to urgent public-health warning.
What Exactly Is Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome?
The resignation of Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff and widely seen as his “right-hand man,” after a raid by Ukraine’s anti-corruption police is more than a personnel change. It is the latest shockwave in a $100 million kickback scheme centered on Energoatom, Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company, uncovered by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) in “Operation Midas.” Reuters Al Jazeera
Investigators allege that private companies were forced to pay 10–15% kickbacks to politically connected “overseers” simply to keep contracts and get paid, with illicit funds laundered through a web of shell firms and intermediaries tied to figures close to the presidential circle. Al Jazeera Carnegie Endowment
Eight suspects have already been charged, including a businessman described as the mastermind, while Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers have resigned amid public outrage. The Washington Post Al Jazeera
Yermak insists he is innocent and has not been formally charged, but the optics are devastating: the president’s closest aide has stepped down in the middle of war because anti-corruption officers showed up at his door. Reuters
In announcing the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Burma (Myanmar), DHS Secretary Kristi Noem claimed that “the situation in Burma has improved enough that it is safe for Burmese citizens to return home” and went so far as to describe the junta’s upcoming elections as “free and fair,” praising the role of the Burma (Myanmar) military and China in brokering “successful ceasefire agreements.”
These assertions are flatly contradicted by the best available evidence from the United Nations, human rights organizations, religious freedom monitors, and even U.S.-linked policy institutions. Far from improving, Burma is in a deepening civil war, humanitarian collapse, and religious persecution crisis—and the elections being prepared by the junta are widely described as a sham.
The U.S. government has decided to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from Burma (Myanmar).
This change will start on January 26, 2026.
Here is what this means in very simple words.
What Is TPS?
TPS is a temporary program that lets people from certain countries:
stay in the United States for a short time,
get permission to work,
and stay safe if their home country is too dangerous.
TPS does not give a green card.
Who Will Be Affected?
Only people from Burma who are living in the U.S. with TPS will be affected.
If you only have TPS, this change is about you.
What do all of you think — Gen Z is disengaged?
Let me tell you something.
Do you know that Gen Z reports the highest levels of loneliness, disconnection, and lack of purpose of any generation ever recorded?
Yet if I walk into a room and see every young adult on their phone, nobody says a word — because we’ve normalized disengagement.
Do you know that the leading cause of Gen Z burnout is not laziness, and it’s not screen time?
It’s the absence of meaningful connection, mentorship, and belonging.
A young person can be surrounded by thousands of digital “friends”…
and still feel completely alone.
In the wake of yet another manipulated electoral process, the military rulers of Burma (Myanmar) are advancing what amounts to a sham election—a cynical ploy to cloak authoritarian rule in the veneer of democracy. This article unpacks how the generals orchestrated this charade, exposing the web of fraud, coercion and violence underpinning a vote that is anything but free and fair.
1. The context: Coup, emergency rule and the erosion of democracy
On 1 February 2021, the military via the Tatmadaw ousted the democratically elected government after the National League for Democracy (NLD) won a mandate in the 2020 election. Wikipedia The generals then repeatedly extended the state of emergency—using it to suspend civil liberties, defend their hold on power, and delay a genuine electoral return. Wikipedia The Guardian
Bold truth: The so-called return to elections is not a restoration of democracy but a manufactured legitimacy project.
Burma (Myanmar) has crossed a threshold. What began as a domestic political crisis after the 2021 coup has evolved into something far more dangerous: a failed state whose criminal networks now directly target and harm Americans at scale. Recent U.S. congressional testimony stated it with unusual clarity: Burma is rapidly becoming the world’s center of organized crime, with more than half its population in poverty, 3.6 million internally displaced, and millions more fleeing across borders.
But the core message of the hearing was even more urgent:
junta-affiliated scamming networks inside Burma are stealing billions of dollars a year from Americans, money that flows directly into the pockets of military leaders and transnational crime syndicates.
This is no longer a distant humanitarian tragedy. It is a direct, measurable threat to American households, American retirees, American small businesses, and American financial security.
A multi-year investigation into the Southeast Asian cyber-slavery city that now stands at the center of the world’s most horrifying human-trafficking operation
For years, human-rights workers, escaped trafficking victims, and investigative journalists have warned that KK Park, the infamous cyber-scam megacity on the Myanmar–Thailand border, was far more sinister than a forced-fraud factory. Their testimonies were disturbing, fragmented, and dismissed as “rumors.”
But in 2025, everything changed.
A massive raid by the Myanmar military, followed by a chaotic collapse of the compound’s internal security, triggered a mass escape of nearly 700 victims into Thailand. Among them were survivors who had seen the darkest truth inside KK Park with their own eyes:
KK Park operated a medical complex where trafficked victims were surgically stripped of their organs and left to die.
America stands at a defining moment. Two paths lie ahead.
One restores strength — a united, disciplined, America First republic standing tall against tyranny.
The other leads to decay — a Venezuelan-style collapse, where inequality, populism, and propaganda tear apart the foundations of freedom.
And just as these choices sharpen at home, the world tightens its hold: the United States readies strikes in Venezuela and prepares an intervention in Nigeria. These actions may either affirm America’s resolve — or expose its internal fractures.
From Europe’s unraveling to the U.S. front line—how Qatar, China, Iran, and their allies are using influence, money, and media to fracture democracy
Introduction: The Warning from Across the Atlantic
Europe’s moral crisis did not begin overnight. For years, Jewish communities and democratic institutions warned of foreign ideological infiltration, antisemitism, and cultural decay creeping into universities, political systems, and civil society. Those warnings were dismissed—until it was too late.
Now, that same contagion is spreading to the United States, where foreign governments, extremist ideologies, and compromised media figures are manipulating public discourse to undermine the nation’s democratic foundations. The objective is not simply to alter U.S. foreign policy—it is to weaken America’s unity, moral confidence, and global leadership.
As Europe’s crisis shows, when democratic societies abandon vigilance, corruption enters not through invasion but through invitation.
A deeper look at Europe’s institutional crisis, antisemitism, and the ideological currents reshaping the West
In recent months, the alarm raised by Jewish communities and observers has grown louder: antisemitism is escalating within Europe’s universities, political institutions, and cultural fabric. A key warning echoes: “It will not end with the Jews.” The forces now in motion threaten not only Jewish lives and identity but the stability of democracy and the rule of law across Europe and North America.
This article expands on that troubling testimony. It examines three interlinked phenomena: the resurgence of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in Europe; the rising antisemitism on campuses and in society; and how institutional responses are faltering. The stakes are high. Democratic societies must confront the challenge before it grows deeper, broader, and harder to reverse.
What you’re about to read may sound like the plot of a political thriller—but it’s real, and it’s happening right in our own backyard. There are two deeply intertwined reasons why the U.S. is confronting Donald Trump’s administration is zeroing in on Venezuela: drugs and oil—but not just that. This is about global rivals setting up shop next door. It’s about trafficking routes, proxy armies, and the erosion of U.S. security from the south.
Let’s break it down. Reason One: Drugs—Lethal drugs
First, Venezuela is not only a transit country—it has become a conduit for deadly narcotics. Cocaine and increasingly fentanyl-laced product are entering the U.S., and there are credible reports that those shipments involve networks tied to the Venezuelan regime and its allies.
Across the last century, one catastrophic truth repeats itself with terrifying clarity:
Communist and Marxist revolutions rise on the backs of university students — then destroy those same students once power is secured.
This is not allegory. This is not political spin. This is historical record, written in blood.
From Mao’s China to Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Castro’s Cuba, the Vietnamese communist consolidation, and Iran’s post-revolution purge of leftist students, the pattern is identical:
1. Mobilize idealistic youth to destabilize society.
2. Weaponize students to overthrow the old order.
3. Once power is secured, purge, imprison, “re-educate,” or kill the very young supporters who made the revolution possible.
Below is a stark, detailed account of how this pattern unfolded — and why modern rhetoric echoing early revolutionary indoctrination must be recognized for what it is.
A Historic Shift
In a move that signals unprecedented seriousness in combating global cyber-fraud and digital enslavement, China has sentenced 11 Burma (Myanmar) based scam syndicate leaders to death, dismantling a billion-dollar criminal empire built on human trafficking, forced digital labor, torture, and murder.
This case does not simply represent crime prosecution — it marks a geopolitical escalation and a moral stand against cyber-slavery networks that have ravaged lives across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the West.
The Crimes
Chinese courts determined that the syndicate — operating from the Kokang region — was responsible for:
US $1.4 billion in fraud
Human trafficking and enslavement
Abuse and torture of captives
Killing at least 14 people who tried to escape
This criminal complex forced trafficked victims to run "pig-butchering" scams worldwide under threat of shock torture, beatings, starvation, and execution.
How Generational Behavior Drives Modern Illness More Than Genetics
For decades, the public has been taught that many diseases “run in families.” While genetics do play a role, emerging evidence shows a more powerful force often at work: behavioral heredity. We inherit much more than DNA — we also inherit our family's diet, stress response, physical activity patterns, coping behaviors, and emotional environment.
In many cases, what appears to be genetic illness may actually be generational habit-driven illness.
Genes load the gun. Lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Behavior-Driven Diseases That Often Masquerade as Genetic
Federal, State, and Local Police officers and Sheriff’s across the United States — are facing a growing, deadly crisis. Law-enforcement suicides are rising, yet public conversation remains muted. Officers are dying quietly, far from the spotlight, even as they serve on the front lines of some of the nation’s most polarized political and social battles.
This article brings together key data, the California context, individual officer cases, the toll of anti-police sentiment and political hostility, and what must change to save lives.
The Scale of the Crisis
Law-enforcement officers die by suicide more frequently than by homicide or in the line of duty.
For the world watching Ukraine and Taiwan, it may appear that China and Russia have formed an unbreakable anti-Western alliance. Beijing refused to condemn Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, while Russia has turned eastward for survival as sanctions crushed its economy. China now buys 60% of its energy from Russia, providing Moscow the cash needed to wage war after European energy imports fell by nearly 80%.
On the surface, this looks like a marriage of power.
But this is not a friendship — it is a geopolitical trap.
The truth is clear: China and Russia are historical rivals, and their current partnership is a temporary alliance born out of necessity — not genuine trust.
“When the torch of justice is left unlit, terror spreads in its shadow.”
1. Sudan — War Without Mercy, Genocide in Waiting
In the heart of Darfur and across Sudan, the brutal conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has evolved into what rights-groups and governments now classify as genocide and mass killing on an industrial scale.
The United States officially declared that the RSF and allied militias committed genocide in Darfur on 7 January 2025.
The RSF has carried out numerous village raids, executions, ethnic-based targeting of civilians—especially in West Darfur, North Kordofan and the city of El Fasher.
In El Fasher, reports show at least 1,500 people killed in three days during the RSF takeover; the Sudan Doctors Network called it a “true genocide.”
Ethnic cleansing of the Masalit people and other non-Arab communities has been documented by Human Rights Watch.
One report describes the crisis as the world’s largest displacement disaster, with famine zones and more than 10 million people displaced.
When a nation is attacked from the outside, military conscription is controversial but comprehensible.
When a regime forces its own people to fight, kill, and terrorize their fellow citizens — the same communities the regime is already brutalizing — that is not defense; it is state-engineered betrayal.
This is the strategy of the Burmese military junta.
Legal Cover for Forced Complicity
Article 21A of Burma’s People’s Military Service Law (2010) — enforced beginning February 10, 2024 — permits the junta to mobilize civilians when a “state of emergency” is declared. The junta itself created that state of emergency through an illegal coup.
South Korea — once considered a beacon of religious freedom in Asia — is now dragging pastors into prison cells, raiding churches, and waging what observers call an ideological purge disguised as prosecution.
This is not “policy disagreement.” This is state power hammering the church.
Pastors in Prison Without Conviction
Multiple reports confirm that Christian leaders — including elderly clergy — are being detained for weeks in cramped detention cells without trial or conviction, in blatant violation of due process.
One 82-year-old Christian leader has been confined in a 70-square-foot cell for more than a month while still legally presumed innocent.
“Christian leaders detained without conviction in South Korea” — Washington Times, Oct. 22, 2025
Another detained leader — Rev. Son Hyun-bo, a former South Korean Special Forces soldier turned pastor — was imprisoned after publicly criticizing the government, an unmistakable act of political retaliation.
Drug cartels are no longer only sending crews across oceans in low-profile vessels. They are moving into unmanned, satellite-linked, and AI-assisted maritime logistics — a leap that threatens to outpace current interdiction doctrine and surveillance laws worldwide.
I. A Technological Breakout
In July 2025, the Colombian Navy seized the world’s first documented uncrewed “narco-sub” fitted with Starlink satellite internet, allowing remote control over long range with no crew onboard. Officials estimated it was capable of carrying up to 1.5 metric tons of cocaine and traveling hundreds of miles semi-submerged.
This was not merely another drug boat — it was a proof-of-concept that cartels are industrializing autonomy.
A prior case in November 2024 near India’s Andaman & Nicobar waters revealed a similar pattern: traffickers steering remotely via Starlink, transporting illicit cargo without a human pilot.
In a world marked by rapid shifts and deepening crises, PowerMentor Global Watch provides a weekly glimpse into pressing developments across Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. From armed conflicts and humanitarian emergencies to natural disasters and political turmoil, this brief delivers clear, reliable insights to help you stay informed, advocate strategically, and respond with purpose.
In a world grappling with growing instability, this week’s briefing highlights evolving threats and humanitarian concerns—from strategic military escalations and terrorism to economic sabotage and severe infrastructure disruption.
In a candid audio conversation recorded in southeast Minneapolis near the University of Minnesota, one witness (here referred to as Speaker 1) offered a sweeping account of how public-benefit fraud, large cash outflows, refugee trauma and institutional distrust are colliding in one of America’s emerging immigrant hubs. The witness claims:
“The largest single funder of Al-Shabaab… are the Minnesota taxpayers.”
Whether this precise claim is verifiable is beyond the scope of this piece, but the statement demands attention because of the gravity of what it says: that U.S. government funds, filtered through fraud and migration-related financial flows, are reaching extremist actors abroad. The witness continues:
“Hundreds of millions of dollars in Feeding Our Future, hundreds of millions of dollars in daycare fraud… millions of dollars per month in cash are sent out to Minneapolis airport. Legally, I’ve got a hundred thousand dollars in cash, I’m putting on this plane and going with me.”
This piece explores that testimony in three parts: (A) the mechanics of alleged fraud and flight capital in Minnesota, (B) the mechanics of remittance pathways and terrorism-finance vulnerability, and (C) the human and community context within which such flows are alleged to occur. It concludes with reflections on oversight failures and what might be done.
A Promise Betrayed
When the United Nations (U.N.) was founded in 1945, it stood as humanity’s greatest hope — a moral compass meant to safeguard peace, protect human rights, and prevent the horrors of war from ever repeating. The world entrusted it with the responsibility to act with courage, integrity, and unity.
Yet after nearly eight decades, that noble vision has collapsed under the weight of corruption, hypocrisy, and political paralysis. The U.N. has drifted from being the protector of the oppressed to the bureaucratic enabler of tyrants.
From genocide and sexual exploitation to aid corruption and selective justice, its failures have not only destroyed trust but cost millions of lives.
Meanwhile, strong leadership — exemplified by results-driven diplomacy under President Trump — has achieved more through decisive action than the U.N. has accomplished through decades of debate and empty resolutions.
1. Structural Paralysis: The Fatal Flaw at the Core
The rot begins with the U.N. Security Council veto, a mechanism that paralyzes global action. The five permanent members — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China — each hold absolute power to block resolutions.
Despite high-profile crackdowns early in 2025, Myanmar’s network of scam compounds — often dubbed “fraud factories” or “scam cities” — is not only still operating, but expanding. Empowered by satellite internet, local armed groups, and complicity within fractured governance zones, these criminal hubs pose intensifying transnational threats.
Rise, Fall, and Rebirth: The Crackdown That Didn’t Stick
In February 2025, Thai and Myanmar authorities, pressured by public and diplomatic outcry, launched a crackdown against these online fraud hubs. Efforts included cutting off power, fuel, and internet access to border towns like Myawaddy and Tachilek, and repatriating thousands of foreign nationals held in the compounds.
Yet, the gains appear fleeting. Within months, new construction emerged, security fortifications were rebuilt, and operations resumed — often under more resilient architectures. Satellite imagery and drone footage reveal rapid expansion in facilities and infrastructure across the border region.
Where once these compounds relied on terrestrial ISPs and local power lines (sometimes via Thai cross-border links), many now deploy Starlink satellite internet — enabling connectivity even when traditional services are cut. Investigations show roofs festooned with Starlink dishes; in the case of KK Park, dozens of dishes have been counted on a single building.
For the first time in living memory, the guns have gone quiet in Gaza. Hostages held for over two years have just walked free. And for perhaps the first time in millennia, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have signed what may resemble more than a mere ceasefire.
Before proceeding, one must grasp how significant—and how difficult—this moment is. This is not like any conflict in recent history.
1. A Conflict Rooted in Deep Time, Not Just the 20th Century
The conflict did not begin in 1948, or with the British Mandate, or even upon Israel’s founding. Its deepest roots are in the ancient contest for the land of Canaan, where Israel and the Philistines battled over Gaza.
Gaza is recorded in the Bible as one of the five cities of the Philistines.
Samson—a legendary Israelite judge—was betrayed, captured, blinded, and paraded through Gaza. In one of his final acts, he destroyed the temple of the Philistines, falling as many lives fell with him.
Gaza has witnessed successive conquerors: Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, the British, and more. Yet the rivalry between “the children of Israel” and “those who dwell by the sea” has endured across ages.
The Karen people, known also as Kayin or Kawthoolese, stand among the most ancient and resilient peoples of Southeast Asia. Their story stretches across millennia — a tapestry woven from linguistic heritage, DNA evidence, and sacred oral traditions that recall migrations from the lands of flowing sands in the north to the lush highlands of Burma and Thailand. The Karen narrative carries echoes of divine promise, sacred memory, and ancestral endurance.
This article honors that journey — grounding it in scientific understanding while celebrating oral truths passed down through centuries.
1. The Ancient Landscape: The First Footprints of the Karen
Long before recorded history, Southeast Asia was a crossroads of migration and cultural exchange. Ancient DNA studies show that for more than 5,000 years
The human brain is constantly evolving—reshaping itself in response to experiences, environment, and internal change. During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers began observing a new form of neurological adaptation. Studies show that the combined effects of infection, isolation, stress, and disrupted routines have altered both brain structure and function. This phenomenon, often described as “pandemic brain,” reflects not only temporary brain fog but potentially lasting biological and cognitive shifts.
Structural Changes in the Brain
Scientific investigations using MRI imaging and longitudinal studies have revealed measurable changes in the brain among those who contracted COVID-19 and even some who did not.
In the shadows of Africa’s eastern coast, a brutal campaign of terror is intensifying. Over 30 Christians have recently been beheaded, homes and churches torched, and countless civilians forced to flee their ancestral lands. This is not a localized conflict — it is a war on humanity, carried out under the banner of an ISIS-affiliated group in Mozambique’s once-peaceful hinterlands.
The New Wave of Violence: Beheadings, Shootings, and Arson
In late September 2025, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) published a chilling 20-image set showing militants executing civilians by beheading and close-range gunfire, while others were shown burning homes and churches. MEMRI+1
Among the attacks the group claimed:
Two Christians beheaded in Chiure-Velho, Chiure District
A Christian shot dead in Nacocha village, and two churches burned
Raids on Nacussa, Nakioto, Minhanha villages, involving burning dozens of homes and churches
In Macomia town, four Christians were killed; in nearby districts, more beheadings were reported
If someone wanted to break a country from the inside, they wouldn’t start with tanks.
They’d start with:
Victimhood narratives
Outrage on a loop
Demonized enemies
And finally, permission for violence
You’re watching this play out right now in the United States:
from attacks on ICE facilities and bullets literally marked “ANTI-ICE,”
to the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
to National Guard soldiers shot in Washington, DC,
and a background of ongoing violence in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles. Facebook
Behind the chaos is a playbook—a fusion of:
Neuro-Cognitive Intelligence (NCI) and its PCP model (Perception → Context → Permission)
The classic four-step path of psychopathic narcissists to dictatorship
And a weaponized media environment that rewards rage and division