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Leader of Online Group Where Pentagon Leaks Appeared
Is 21-Year-Old Air National Guardsman

The paper — which was the first to report the existence of the leaks — identified him as a member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who oversaw a private online group named “Thug Shaker Central.”

Two U.S. officials told the Times that they want to talk to him about the leak, although neither the paper nor officials called him a “suspect.”

One official told the paper that Teixeira might have information relevant to the investigation.

The leaks of hundreds of classified military documents appeared in the small group chat, according to members of the group that the outlet spoke to who referred to Teixeira as the “OG.” Earlier on Thursday, the Washington Post reported that the leaker was identified as “OG” by other members of the group.

The paper reported that while the group members did not identify the group’s leader by name, “a trail of digital evidence compiled by The Times leads to Airman Teixeira.”

The paper also reported it used details found on social media to link Teixeira to details seen in the leaked documents.

It reported that Teixeira is enlisted in the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard and was congratulated on the unit’s official Facebook page for being promoted to Airman First Class in July 2022.

The paper identified Teixeira’s mother, “Dawn,” and visited her home in Massachusetts. She told the Times her son was a member of the Air National Guard, had recently been working overnight shifts at a base on Cape Cod, and had recently changed his number.

 I don't buy this story. For some reason it was QUITE EASY to find the leaker, and he resulted to be a total moron that didn't cover his back at all. After Snowden had accused the US government of spying even on its own allies, nobody could take the inherent risks of leaking classified information so lightly.

Something doesn't add up here.

China Claims Alleged Pentagon Leaks Show
U.S. Is the ‘Biggest Global Cyber Thief’

China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin tipped his hand by complaining that the United States is outraged by China’s rampant technology theft and government-sponsored hacking and has convinced its allies that Chinese networking products cannot be trusted. He pointed to the purported Pentagon leak as further proof that “the U.S. is the origin of cyber warfare, the biggest spreader of advanced cyber weapons and the biggest global cyber thief.”

Teed up by a very helpfully phrased question from Chinese media at his press conference, Wang launched into a long diatribe about the Stuxnet virus, the WannaCry ransomware attack (which was based on code stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency), and Edward Snowden’s exposure of classified documents, along with some more fanciful rants about the U.S. supposedly manipulating cybersecurity standards to further its own nefarious hacking ends.

Wang said the alleged Pentagon leak, which included transcripts of conversations between foreign officials that were ostensibly monitored by U.S. intelligence, proved the U.S. only promotes “democratic values” as “a pretext and a tool” for “selfish gains.”

“It is in the international community’s common interest to end the U.S.’s lawlessness on cyber theft and reveal its hypocrisy on cyber security,” he pontificated.

China’s state-run Global Times supported Wang’s tirade on Wednesday by quoting “Chinese experts” who called the largely-unverified Pentagon leak “another PRISM incident,” a reference to the cyber-surveillance program Snowden betrayed.

Definitely,  China has no morals as to claim they're better than the US when Chinese operatives have been stealing technology from the US, Canada and Europe like crazy. They always deny that their laws force companies to submit all kinds of information to the Communist Party as per their request. Oh and they are trying to fool people into thinking they are not using TikTok to spy on Americans, Canadians, Australians and Europeans and still their personal data from their  phones.

Mayorkas Expands Migrant Pipeline Through Panama Jungle

President Joe Biden’s border chief is expanding his migrant transfer camps in Panama, even as he says he will clamp down on the global migrants who are using those camps to help reach the United States.

“I don’t see any indication whatsoever this [migrant traffic in Panama] is stopping,” journalist Michael Yon told Breitbart News shortly after he visited the migrant camps in Panama that are being expanded by homeland secretary Alejandro Mayorkas:

They’re clearly expanding — today, just hours ago, I was in a camp just 300 meters from where I’m sitting, and they’ve got new buildings there and nobody’s slept on the bunks yet. These buildings house about 60 bunk beds each — that’s about 120 [sleepers] per building …

Some of these bunk beds are brand new. They still have the plastic on them. I was in the building today looking at them. And they’re still increasing [capacity]. They’re clearing land right over here, right behind the hotel I’m staying at … to put more buildings. We were in both camps today. They’re both at least twice as big as they were last year.

Invasion camps in Darien, Panama—These new trailers hold about 120 per trailer. The camps are being expanded by US Democrats and others.

In 2022, Mayorkas provided taxpayer-funded aid, security, and buses to bring 250,000 migrants north after they crossed the Panama jungle on the border with South America. The migrants cross the deadly Darien Gap jungle trails after traveling from Colombia on boats protected by U.S.-funded Panamanian security forces.

“Right now, they are [moving north] about 1,200 [migrants per day] … or about 30 buses,” Yon added.

Data from the Panama government says almost 90,000 migrants crossed through the Darien Gap in the first 90 days of the year.

The daily traffic could deliver 430,000 migrants in 2023 into the homes and jobs that would otherwise go to ordinary Americans and their children.

Japan Tells Residents in North to Take Shelter
as North Korea Launches Ballistic Missile

Japan issued an emergency alert on Thursday to residents of its northernmost island, Hokkaido, urging them to “evacuate immediately” or take shelter from a potential bombing in their respective locations in response to a missile launch from North Korea.

The governments of Japan and South Korea later confirmed a missile launch out of communist North Korea and said evidence suggested that the missile in question was a new ballistic model.

According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the leaders of the nation’s military, the projectile in question was “an intermediate- or longer-range ballistic missile.” It flew out of the greater Pyongyang area in the early morning hours local time and flew about 620 miles out of North Korea into the East Sea/Sea of Japan. The South Korean news service Yonhap, citing an anonymous South Korean official, said the government believes the missile may be a new model.

Japanese authorities detected the missile immediately after its launch, the Defense Ministry clarified on Thursday, but the missile abruptly disappeared from the country’s radar, prompting the emergency alert in the event that it landed on Hokkaido. Locals were told to evacuate or take shelter for about 20 minutes before the government rescinded the alert.

Japanese Defense Minister Hamada Yasukazu later confirmed that the missile did not land in Japanese waters, Japan’s Kyodo News reported.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Matsuno Hirokazu denounced the missile launch as an “outrage” on Thursday and confirmed that Tokyo had lodged a formal complaint against North Korea with its envoy.

Brazil’s Lula Lands in China to Sign Trade Deals,
Insert Himself in Ukraine Conflict

Brazil’s radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday for a two-day visit to China that will conclude with a meeting with dictator Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday.

The Brazilian government seeks to “relaunch its relations to China,” which has been the South American country’s main trading partner since 2009. Lula’s trip to China was originally scheduled for late March, but was postponed after the Brazilian president was diagnosed with pneumonia.

According to reports from Chinese state media, Brazil may be preparing to join China’s predatory Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) debt trap program.

The Brazilian presidential office informed on Monday that Lula’s agenda in China will kick off in Shanghai on Thursday morning (local time) with his participation in the inauguration ceremony of former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff as the head of the BRICS trade bloc’s development bank, a competitor to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). BRICS is a coalition consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
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“In Shanghai, the first city of our visit to China, where I will participate in the inauguration of Dilma Rousseff as president of the BRICS Bank,” Lula posted on Twitter upon arriving in the city on Wednesday.

China’s state-run newspaper Global Times reported on Wednesday that Lula will also visit the newly opened research and development center of Brazilian paper and pulp company Suzano located in Shanghai.
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The use of the Chinese yuan to conduct trade between China and Brazil without the need to convert their respective local currencies to the U.S. dollar, initially agreed upon in March, will be another topic on Lula’s agenda. The Brazilian leftist president has been transparent in his goal to diminish the country’s dependence on the American currency. Chinese state media reported on Tuesday evening that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China conducted its first cross-border yuan settlement transaction in Brazil via its local branch company.

According to an anonymous source cited by Bloomberg, Lula is slated to visit Huawei’s innovation center during his stay in Shanghai. The Chinese company has been accused by the United States of allowing the Chinese Communist Party to engage in espionage via backdoor access allegedly built into their network devices.

China Masses Troops on Border as India Plans to Develop Contested Province

India Today reported on Tuesday a troubling surge of Chinese troops to the Doklam region, where a deadly hand-to-hand battle was fought between Indian and Chinese troops in 2017.

The Indian military is concerned that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has effectively built a small city for its armed forces in the Amo Chu river valley, setting up another attempt to seize the Doklam plateau.

Meanwhile, China is growing increasingly belligerent against Indian efforts to develop its Arunachal Pradesh border province, which China claims under the name “Zangnan” as a southern district of occupied Tibet.

The PLA has not given up on Doklam, despite reaching deconfliction agreements with India after several border brawls. Both sides have traditionally kept their border guards unarmed to avoid military escalation, so skirmishes are fought with bare hands and improvised weapons, with a considerable number of serious and fatal injuries.

India Today published photos that depicted a large, permanent PLA military camp in the Amo Chu valley, featuring dozens of sizable barracks buildings. Also troubling to India are recent statements by its regional security partner, Bhutan, that suggested the Chinese have reasonable claims to parts of the Doklam plateau, and the Bhutanese might be losing their enthusiasm for holding the PLA at bay.

Some Indian observers are reportedly worried that Bhutan might be “willing to hand over to China territories it has lost on its western frontier in an effort to retain areas in the north.”

China is also pressing India hard in Arunachal Pradesh, which was the scene of a border brawl in December. India reportedly outmaneuvered and defeated the PLA invasion force in Arunachal Pradesh with assistance from U.S. satellite intelligence.

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah visited Arunachal Pradesh on Monday to launch a $585 million “Vibrant Villages” development plan, which will focus on adding new homes and infrastructure to border towns. The plan is intended to make these towns more livable by providing better services, creating jobs, and connecting them to the Internet.
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“The Indian official’s visit to Zangnan violates China’s territorial sovereignty, and is not conducive to the peace and tranquility of the border situation,” said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Wenbin.