[GatewayPundit] The Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women in northern Virginia just wanted to reorder branded thermal cups from Yeti for their organization, something they have done in the past.
But, according to an exclusive by Fox Business, the result was anything but ordinary.
Although the young women’s nonprofit leadership organization ordered branded cups last May without issue, and with the exact same logo, Yeti has allegedly refused to fill the order.
Per Fox Business:
In emails obtained by FOX Business, YETI responded to inquiries from the Clare Boothe Luce Center regarding their canceled March 20, 2025, order citing item no. 15 or “Custom Products” in their terms and conditions.
According to the brand, “YETI values respect, tolerance and open dialogue, and we serve a diverse and varied customer base. YETI has the sole discretion to reject any order that we deem inappropriate for production… Starting with our first customized Ramblers in 2015, we’ve used our best efforts to avoid creating custom products with political affiliations or associations. Because the process we use to identify political affiliations and associations involves human judgment, we may inadvertently accept an order and mark a YETI product with a candidate’s name or campaign slogan simply because we weren’t familiar with it when the order was placed.”
Begg claimed in an interview with FOX Business that the YETI brand accepted their order worth $1,608.00 this week before canceling it abruptly. According to Begg, the Center was originally confused about what changed between their May 2024 order and their attempted March 2025 order, which resulted in cancellation.
The Clare Boothe Luce Center shared how the cancellation unfolded via X.
They have the right to limit their appeal, and we have the right to take our money where it will be properly appreciated. And to widely share information about companies that do and do not appreciate our money. Add Yeti to the boycott side of the ledger, and spread the world. And if you spend elsewhere, consider dropping Yeti a note to let them know that they lost another sale.
[FoxNews] Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk and seven members of the team shed light on the department's cost-cutting mission in an exclusive sit-down interview with "Special Report" Thursday.
"We want to reduce spending by eliminating waste and fraud and reduce the spending by 15%, which seems really quite achievable," Musk told "Special Report" executive editor Bret Baier.
"The government is not efficient, and there's a lot of waste and fraud. So we feel confident that a 15% reduction can be done without affecting any of the critical government services."
Musk, along with DOGE members Steve Davis, Joe Gebbia, Aram Moghaddassi, Brad Smith, Anthony Armstrong, Tom Krause and Tyler Hassen, added a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the department’s work from the Internal Revenue Source to the Interior Department to Social Security.
"This is a revolution. And I think it might be the biggest revolution in government since the original revolution. But at the end of the day, America's going to be in much better shape," he said.
"It's going to be a fantastic future."
As of March 27, DOGE claims on its site it has saved Americans $130 billion, or $807.45 per taxpayer.
President Donald Trump tasked the organization with optimizing the federal government, streamlining operations and slashing spending and gave the agency 18 months to do it.
The department has canceled numerous diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives at federal agencies, consulting contracts, leases for underused federal buildings and duplicate agencies and programs.
During the "Special Report" exclusive, Musk and the seven DOGE members illustrated key efforts of the department to achieve Trump's goal. Davis brought up federal credit cards, which he labeled a "mundane" but "illustrative" example of DOGE's work.
"There are in the federal government around 4.6 million credit cards for around 2.3 to 2.4 million employees. This doesn't make sense. So one of the things all of the teams have worked on is we've worked for the agencies and said, 'Do you need all of these credit cards? Are they being used? Can you tell us physically where they are?'" Davis explained.
"Clearly there should not be more credit cards than there are people," Musk responded.
The eight-man group also discussed DOGE's work relating to the federal workforce, financial management, government infrastructure, computer systems, Social Security and more.
[Breitbart] South Africa’s highest court, the Constitutional Court, has refused to allow an appeal of a lower court’s decision that the phrase “Kill the Boer,” referring to Afrikaners and farmers, was not hate speech or incitement under the law.
The decision Thursday ended a years-long battle waged by AfriForum, which represents a broad array of Afrikaner organizations, against a song used by Julius Malema and his party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
Malema has argued that the song is not meant to be taken literally — at least, not yet — as it was a song used by the liberation movements during the decades of the struggle against apartheid, which included armed conflict.
However, in the context of shocking farm murders, the song is seen by many people — especially Afrikaners and farmers — as a form of incitement to genocide.
South Africans, particularly the government, pride themselves on their 1996 Constitution and their judiciary — but as AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel said, “We are seeing an increasing radical implementation of the Constitution.”
Kriel and AfriForum recently visited the United States to raise awareness of the plight of Afrikaners. After President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending aid to South Africa and offering asylum to Afrikaners, critics claimed that there was no threat whatsoever.
Wednesday’s “Kill the Boer” ruling might seem to suggest otherwise.
Malema performed the “Kill the Boer, the farmer” song, mimicking a machine gun, on Human Rights Day, March 21.
Ironically, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, a lawyer representing Malema, also appeared at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) last year to argue that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reference to the Bible to inspire soldiers was incitement to genocide after the October 7, 2023, terror attack.
[youtube : Falun Gong] Lei's Real Talk: The Vanishing Billion: Exposing China’s Population Myth
What is China’s real population today? While I’ve previously estimated it to be no more than 900 million—and later 800 million—the truth is far more shocking. Drawing from viewer insights and new analysis, I now believe China’s actual population may be as low as 300–400 million. This isn't a sensational claim, but a sober examination of two critical factors: the Chinese Communist Party’s decades-long manipulation of demographic data to project a false image of a massive consumer market, and the catastrophic, underreported death toll from COVID-19. Join me as I break down how we got here.
An interesting argument, which would mean China’s real window to take over the world is much smaller than we thought, and may already be closed. What a relief that would be!
#4
OK, we can agree it is safe to say ANY numbers the CCP uses are always suspect.
But, did the CCP's 70+'s 1 Child policy bite them in the butt. Which resulted strangely in 8 of 10 LIVE births suddenly became MALE.
Did Covid-19+ actually trim as high as 1 in 5, as many sources claimed? Given, we all saw the smuggled out videos and pics of the stacks of dead bodies at crematories awaiting disposal? Plus the WEEKS OF LOCK-DOWN?
Remember the RB comments on the absurd CCP's C-19+ provided figures?
Because the using Worldometers.com COVID-19 data?
CCP ranked 92nd in the world for C-19 cases, and officially reported only C-19 Infected @ 503,302 & C-19 Deaths @ 5,272
#5
"Premier Xi! Our economy is tanking, unemployment at a 20 year high and there's not enough young people to enter the workforce and pay taxes! What do we do?"
"Distract the population and start a war. That will keep the proletariat off our backs."
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Did the Chinese government outsource their census work to the US Department of Labor statistical bureau?
Keeping mostly war-fighting age Western males on the couch getting ever more physically unfit while Chinese hackers rampage through their computers, doing all the usual nefarious things?
[BBC] Chinese technology giant Tencent has made a €1.2bn ($1.25bn; £1bn) investment in a spin-off from Ubisoft, the maker of the Assassin's Creed video games.
Shenzhen-based Tencent will own about a quarter of the new business, with Ubisoft holding the rest of the new subsidiary, which is valued at around €4bn.
The unit will run some of the French firm's biggest franchises, including Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six.
Tencent, which is one of the world's biggest video games developers, is also known for its internet-based services, including the hugely popular messaging app WeChat.
"Today Ubisoft is opening a new chapter in its history," Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft's co-founder and chief executive said in a statement.
Tencent, which is China's most valuable company, is now Ubisoft's second biggest shareholder with a stake of just under 10%.
"We are excited to extend our longstanding partnership with Ubisoft through this investment," Martin Lau, President of Tencent, said.
Ubisoft said it will now focus on its other marquee titles, including Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and The Division.
Ubisoft's stock market value has fallen sharply in recent years after delays to the launches of new games and falling sales.
That's despite its shares getting a boost earlier this month as investors welcomed the launch of the latest instalment of the Assassin's Creed franchise.
The much-anticipated Assassin's Creed Shadows had been delayed several times.
It followed the disappointing performance of another of the firm's major titles, Star Wars Outlaws, and concerns from some onlookers about how Ubisoft is being run.
#2
Mr. Tenscent, why would you possibly want to prop up Ubisoft?!
Well, grasshopper, can you think of better competition for our projects?
Oh? Oooooohhhh.
*the moment when you realize that a parody of Assassin's Creed: Shadows, Yasuke Simulator, who is The Black African Samurai character set Feudal Japan, is better received than the original material.
Incompetence by the permanent staff or Deep State malice?
[IsraelTimes] Der Spiegel digs up phone numbers, email addresses and more belonging to national security adviser Michael Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and intel chief Tulsi Gabbard
The private contact information of three senior Trump administration officials has been found available online by a German newspaper, adding to concerns about the security of sensitive information after plans for a strike in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... were shared over a commercial message app and inadvertently shared with a journalist.
In a Wednesday report, Der Spiegel said it was able to retrieve cell phone numbers, email addresses, and some passwords of US national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, all of whom have come under fire for their roles in the Yemen leak.
The information was found using commercial data-search services and information from hackers posted online. Sales, marketing and recruitment companies use such services to obtain data.
Der Spiegel assessed that most of the accounts and numbers were likely still being used by the officials, at least until recently.
The paper did not publish any of the information but gave detailed descriptions of why they appeared to be authentic, including profile photos. It also did not try to use any of the passwords.
Among the passwords were those for email accounts and other services such as Instagram, LinkedIn profiles, cloud-storage service Dropbox, and apps that can track a user’s location.
Hegseth’s cell phone number and email address were "particularly easy" to find, with the email address showing up in over 20 data leaks, in some cases along with the password.
The number was associated with a WhatsApp account that had apparently been recently deleted, the report said.
The same provider was able to come up with Waltz’s phone number which was reportedly available on a people search engine that acts like an online phone directory. Der Spiegel also found several passwords to Waltz’s email address.
Gabbard had apparently blocked her contact details on commercial search engines, the report said, but the information was found in data leaks dumped by hackers.
The Gabbard and Waltz numbers were tied to accounts on the messaging services WhatsApp and Signal, which Der Spiegel said made them possible targets for spyware.
The US Department of Defense did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the NSC said Waltz’s passwords and accounts had been changed before he joined Congress in 2019.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Gabbard’s information was leaked nearly 10 years ago and she has not used those accounts for several years and has frequently changed her passwords.
Waltz and Hegseth are both at the center of a swirling scandal that has engulfed Washington this week surrounding a discussion held over encrypted commercial messaging service Signal about plans to attack Yemen’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels. The use of the chat, which may have broken secrecy laws and other protocols, came to light after Waltz accidentally added Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the group, which also included Gabbard, Vice President J.D. Vance and other brass hats.
The conversations discussed schedules, weapons, and aircraft that were used on March 15 as the US launched a military campaign against the Iran-backed group.
The chat about attacks on Iran-backed Houthi rebels involved some of the administration’s most bigwigs, including Hegseth, Waltz, and Gabbard.
Hegseth and Gabbard have claimed that no classified or sensitive materials were discussed, while US President Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... has called the incident a "glitch."
US officials are generally instructed to discuss sensitive matters in a specially protected space called a SCIF, due to spying concerns. While Signal contains encryption, it is open to all, including hackers, unlike most US government systems.
The Houthi rebels, who have controlled much of Yemen for more than a decade, are part of the "axis of resistance" of pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... groups staunchly opposed to Israel and the United States.
An interesting tweet linked by PJ Media’s Matt Margolis, pointing to the possibility of Deep State malice:
🚨GIVE ME A F****** BREAK The NPR CEO in front of Congress yesterday, is on the board of directors at Signal??? pic.twitter.com/HAFrOvXuyk
According to Wikipedia, “From 2022 to 2023, Maher was a member of the U.S. State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, an expert panel established in 2011 by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to advise U.S. officials.”
A point MrlMargolis neglected to mention from that Wikipedia article: “As of 2023, she chairs the board of directors of the Signal Foundation.“
The conflicts of interest here are staggering. We have someone who runs a supposedly "neutral" public broadcasting network while simultaneously serving on the board of a secure communications platform used for sensitive government operations.
Timing is everything, and it's worth noting that this security breach controversy exploded right around the same time Maher was making waves with her controversial congressional testimony about media bias. Coincidence? Maybe. But in Washington, coincidences are about as rare as honest Democrats.
Social media users are already connecting these dots, asking why mainstream media isn't giving this story the attention it deserves. Could it be because it exposes the uncomfortably close relationship between left-wing media executives, technology platforms, and government operations?
While I'm not ready to declare that there is any direct connection between Maher serving on the board of directors and the current Signal breach — I still believe a rogue staffer is the most likely culprit — at the very least these connections raise serious questions about how and why the Biden administration approved the app over other options.
The deeper this story goes, the more it looks less like a simple security breach and more like a symptom of a much larger problem: the incestuous relationship between Big Tech, liberal media, and government operations. It's time for Congress to start asking some tough questions.
[GatewayPundit] National Security Advisor Mike Waltz left his Venmo account wide open to the public until Wednesday afternoon, exposing hundreds of personal and professional contacts to potential exploitation.
A so-called “analysis” by the leftist tech outlet WIRED revealed that the account, listed under “Michael Waltz” with a profile photo of the man himself, connected to names tied to the Trump administration’s inner circle—names like Susie Wiles, White House chief of staff, and Walker Barrett, a National Security Council staffer.
The account exposed a 328-person network, including military officials, political strategists, prominent journalists, and even other members of the Trump administration’s inner circle.
After WIRED began digging, both Waltz and Trump campaign powerhouse Susie Wiles quickly made their Venmo accounts private.
According to the news outlet:
A WIRED review of public data exposed on Venmo accounts associated with senior administration officials suggests that the Signal group chat was not an isolated mistake, but part of a broader pattern of what national security experts describe as reckless behavior by some of the most powerful people in the US government.
The Venmo account under Waltz’s name includes a 328-person friend list. Among them are accounts sharing the names of people closely associated with Waltz, such as Barrett, formerly Waltz’s deputy chief of staff when Waltz was a member of the House of Representatives, and Micah Thomas Ketchel, former chief of staff to Waltz and currently a senior adviser to Waltz and President Donald Trump.
Other accounts carry the names of a wide range of media figures, from on-air personalities like Bret Baier and Brian Kilmeade of Fox News and Brianna Keilar and Kristen Holmes of CNN to a cable news producer, a prominent national security reporter, local news anchors, documentarians, and noted conspiracy theorist Ivan Raiklin, who calls himself the “the secretary of retribution” and once created a deep state target list. (Fox News declined to comment; CNN did not respond to a request for comment.)
Many of the accounts appear to belong to local and national politicians and political operatives ranging from US representative Dan Crenshaw of Texas to a former mayor of Deltona, Florida, as well as venture capitalists, defense industry entrepreneurs, and executives like Christian Brose, the president of defense tech giant Anduril. (Crenshaw’s office and Anduril did not respond to requests for comment.)
One of the most notable appears to belong to Wiles, one of Trump’s most trusted political advisers. That account’s 182-person friend list includes accounts sharing the names of influential figures like Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, and Hope Hicks, Trump’s former White House communications director.
While none of the Venmo transactions for the account listed for Waltz, Wiles, or Barrett were publicly visible, it appears that none of them had opted out of sharing their contact list, allowing their friend lists to remain visible to the public. After WIRED reached out to the White House for comment, both Waltz and Wiles appeared to change their Venmo privacy settings to hide their friend lists.
And if privacy was such a concern, where were the safeguards from the government itself? Shouldn’t a sitting national security adviser have received explicit instructions from federal cybersecurity experts on how to lock down their digital footprint?
When Joe Biden was found on Venmo in 2021, the media downplayed it. When Mike Waltz is found, it’s suddenly a five-alarm fire. Why the double standard?
#4
Nobody gives up power without a fight. I just remember all the cases in history where the ruling class delivered the country to foreign foe - rather than let go of power.
The FBI needs to look into this with more than just the MSM politically promoted idea it was a careless screw-up.
Remainder, publishing National State Secrets (eg. War Plans) is violation of Nation Security Act. Any unauthorized person accidentally coming in possession of such NS data, by law, is obligated to notify the Federal Gov and NOT spread it around. So ANY US Media Outlet spreading such NS data around, should be charged and could have it FCC license pulled.
PLUS, the public should always remember that, that media source went out of its way and was willing to screw over our country, and our troops to play political games with the lives of those in the Air or on the Ground.
NEXT Trumps people, need to make sure that the FBI agents looking into it, are NOT the same agents used by the Biden Puppet Regime, to falsely setup Trump and his people and supporters.
#6
So let's see here.
2023 - report stating Signal was mostly safe but don't use for really secret stuff like calling Brandon's private phone
2024, December, 2024 - Signal recommended for government devices
Board Member, Chair of the Board, of Signal about to lose other interest (NPR) to DOGE.
A 2 week op trying to pin something just like this on Elon and it not sticking.
Venmo list of contacts is what one would expect from a cabinet official. A nobody editor for known hack platform The Atlantic, not so much. I notice that it was not noted the editor is also on the Venmo list, curious, that would be worth noting.
Gabbord actually hacked and leaked.
I think I agree with the statement from yesterday that the buck does not stop at 'some staffer'.
#7
And then this:
According to NBC News, a DHS worker included a Washington-based reporter in an email chain detailing an upcoming ICE raids back in January.
The email did not include classified material, however, the information was still considered sensitive because it detailed time, location and target of raids.
#9
Since passwords are usually stored as hash values I wonder how they got these passwords in the first place.
Were the passwords weak and easily guessed or did some party access their assets and files?
In any case the attack surface of modern computer systems is HUGE. A secrecy protection system is only as strong as its weakest link.
For example what use is 256-bit encryption if your cellphones graphics subsystem contains subtle modifications in software and/or hardware that will leak information about the displayed content to interested parties?
How much would it cost to get a designer at a chip foundry to introduce such a subtle flaw that would be exploitable only by those with intricate knowledge but would otherwise be undetectable?
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[Regnum] It is necessary to prepare the population for a potential war with Russia. This was stated by Chief of the Polish General Staff Wieslaw Kukula in an interview with the European version of the Politico publication.
According to him, it is first necessary to improve the availability and quality of training of Polish reservists.
"There are currently a large number of reservists in the army, but their average age is already around 45 years. If the conflict and pressure on Poland continues for a long period, well-trained reservists will be needed to be able to operate side by side with professional soldiers and territorial defense forces," he noted.
The Chief of the General Staff specified that by the end of 2026, it is planned to train about 100 thousand people. At the same time, Kukula noted that it will be even more important to prepare the civilian population for a potential war, even if not everyone undergoes military training.
"Polish authorities are planning to launch short-term military training programs for civilians with no work experience. These crash courses, which will last only a few days, will introduce participants to the basics of civil defense, first aid, and some military skills," the article also states.
Always a good thing, even without a war on the horizon. It used to be standard in the Eastern European countries between the wars — my father partook as a Latvian schoolboy in all that back in the 1930s, and was his class champion in summer biathlon.
The publication added that for those who have previously undergone military training, Warsaw offers targeted advanced training courses aimed at developing special skills, including firearms handling, combat medicine and land navigation.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in early March, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Europe should enter the arms race allegedly started by Russia and win it. He also called for an immediate start to the militarization of Europe.
At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin in June 2024 called the statements that Russia was allegedly planning an attack on Europe absurd. Anti-Russian hysteria in the West is being fanned to justify increased military spending and the unleashing of an arms race, he stressed.
All that will come in very handy when they have to beat back the expanding Moslem horde, should Western Europe not get their colonists under control.
[ZeroHedge] US Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill on March 26 to prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
Didn’t President Trump want to issue one of those?
The “Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act,” would prohibit the Fed from offering certain products or services directly to American individuals, a key component of any CBDC.
The Texas Republican’s bill can be considered a companion bill to Minnesota Republican Representative Tom Emmer’s anti-CBDC legislation, which was reintroduced on March 6. A companion bill is a piece of legislation that is similarly or identically worded to another bill, and introduced in the other chamber of Congress.
Both bills state that the prohibition should not include any dollar-denominated currency that is open, permissionless, and private and “preserves the privacy protections of United States coins and physical currency.”
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[Regnum] UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay condemned the murder of Russian war correspondents. This is stated in a published statement by the organization.
We are talking about a journalist from Izvestia, a cameraman and a driver from the Zvezda TV channel.
War correspondent is an inherently dangerous profession, going out, as they do, where the bullets and bombs are flying. This is separate, of course, from those Hamasniks who double dip as correspondents while pursuing their main career as jihadis.
"I condemn the killing of Aleksandr Fedorchak, Andrei Panov and Aleksandr Sirkeli and call for a thorough and transparent investigation. I reiterate my call for respect for international humanitarian law, including UN Security Council Resolution 2222 on the protection of journalists, media workers and associated personnel in conflict situations," Audrey Azoulay said.
The journalists died on March 24 in the Luhansk People's Republic.
In other words, in a war zone. One is sorry for their deaths, of course, but they did choose to be there.
As reported by Regnum news agency, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova stated that the attacks and murders of Russian war correspondents are part of Kiev's systematic and planned activities to cleanse the information space. Journalists have become a target, Kiev has declared a hunt for them, the diplomat added.
On March 24, it became known that Izvestia journalist Alexander Fedorchak, Zvezda TV cameraman Andrei Panov, and film crew driver Alexander Sirkeli were killed in the LPR.
On March 26, Channel One correspondent Anna Prokofieva died in the Belgorod region.
#1
One or Two are coincidences. Three or more are trends. War Zones are indeed dangerous. Especially when you are targeted. The deaths of lowing hanging fruit journalists is the only good news Kiev had this week.
[Breitbart] Philippine officials on Thursday announced six Chinese nationals and one Filipino have been arrested for spying on American and Filipino vessels at the Subic Bay naval base.
The Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) launched an investigation after receiving a tip from military intelligence about “foreign nationals suspected of carrying out covert intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations” near Grande Island.
Grande Island is a picturesque tourist resort in the Subic Bay Freeport Zone, a special economic zone created around the famous bay to encourage commerce and tourism. Until World War II, the island housed a fortress that protected the strategically vital harbor facilities of Subic Bay. Its location at the entrance to the bay makes it a good location from which to run a covert surveillance operation.
Subic Bay was the location of an important U.S. Navy base until 1992. The Navy’s lease on the property expired in that year and was not renewed, but American ships still operate out of the bay alongside the Philippine Navy.
Ironically, when the Philippine Navy chose to construct a new home port facility in Subic Bay, it was obliged to lease the property from an American hedge fund that had purchased it several years ago. The Philippine Coast Guard and Air Force also have bases in Subic Bay.
The NBI conducted a surveillance operation against the six Chinese suspects identified by military intelligence and concluded they were engaged in “suspicious activities, involving a collection of sensitive data.” The seventh suspect, a Filipino national, was allegedly working as a security guard for the Chinese.
According to the NBI, the suspects attempted to flee when confronted by law enforcement, and were taken into custody after a spirited chase. Their Filipino bodyguard was carrying an unregistered firearm when he was arrested.
“Counter-intelligence efforts disclosed that these individuals were occupying the island under the guise of recreational fishers, frequently lingering at the wharves until the wee hours,” said NBI director Jaime Santiago.
“However, multiple witnesses reported that the group was utilizing drones in the guise of transporting fishing bait – conducting surveillance on naval assets, including those from local forces and allied nations, passing through Grande Island,” he said.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing the Chinese suspects operating a drone, supposedly as part of a “fishing game,” but in truth the drone was flying over Philippine and U.S. naval assets to take photos and gather other information about them. NBI said the ersatz fishermen were able to spy on a large number of naval vessels entering and leaving Subic Bay for patrols and exercises.
The NBI said the Chinese group was able to infiltrate Subic Bay International Airport while it was receiving American military equipment intended for use in joint exercises.
The NBI arrested another group of six Chinese nationals in January on somewhat similar charges. The earlier group was accused of conducting surveillance activities in Manila, and on the island of Palawan, which hosts a Philippine Navy base.
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority is reportedly considering canceling contracts with Chinese investment groups, which have investments on Grande Island and other areas around Subic Bay, due to rising tensions with China. The Philippine military has long been worried about security risks from Chinese holdings near sensitive naval facilities.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
