School’s back, baby!
That’s right pirates! As you have probably already known, school’s back and it’s been a surprising start for everyone! The AC dilemma: According to the faculty, the problem should be fixed in a few days. For now we will have to deal with portable AC units (which one is currently blowing nice, cool air right into my face).
In other great news, Labor Day weekend is here!
Veterans commentate on trump teams altercation at Arlington National Cemetery
Some veterans reacted with alarm to reports of an altercation between a member of Donald Trump’s entourage and a top official at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, with a retired Army general calling the incident “abhorrent.” A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members would be authorized to take photographs or film in the area known as Section 60. “Donald Trump has no right to use our most hallowed ground for his political aims,” Fred Wellman, a 22-year Army combat veteran, said Wednesday.
“For a lot of us, and I’m not the only one, people are aptly furious.” In a statement, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, strongly rejected the idea of a physical altercation, saying “We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.
“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony,” Cheung said in the statement. no further information about the incident is being released at this time.
Interpol, the world’s police, in technological arms race with Nigerian mafia
Police units around the world have joined forces in a series of covert operations targeting one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks – Black Axe. Operation Jackal III saw officers in body armor carry out raids in 21 countries between April and July 2024. The mission, coordinated by global policing agency Interpol, led to the arrest of 300 people with links to Black Axe and other affiliated groups. Interpol called the operation a “major blow” to the Nigerian crime network, but warned that its international reach and technological sophistication means it remains a global threat. Multiple so-called “Jackal” police operations have taken place since 2022. Dozens of Black Axe and other gang members have been arrested and their electronic devices seized during these transnational raids. This work has enabled Interpol to create a vast intelligence database, which is now shared with officers throughout its 196 member countries. Interpol has deployed its own new technology in an attempt to tackle these innovations, launching the Global Rapid Intervention of Payments system (I-GRIP). The mechanism, which enables the authorities in member countries to freeze bank accounts around the world with unprecedented speed, was used to halt a $40m scam targeting a Singaporean business last month. A major effort is under way to gather and share intelligence on Black Axe and other West African syndicates by police around the world.
