news

she was forced to have sex with three powerful politicians . Although, for legal reasons, the book does not identify them by name, social media users have been able to identify them as:

1. Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel, who, whileremoved her, "savagely" beat her and choked her until she passed out.

2. New Mexico governor, Bill Richardson.

3. George Mitchell, former Maine senator.

All three have previously been named by Giuffre, who was found dead in her Australian home in April.

Speaking on Monday, Maduro underscored the deep historical ties between the two nations, recalling their shared origins under independence leader Simón Bolívar. “Colombia knows we are one, like Siamese brothers, and whatever happens to Colombia happens to Venezuela, and whatever happens to Venezuela happens to Colombia, as a Colombian military officer wrote to me a few weeks ago,” he said.

Emphasis mine. We should have low expectations for Colombia's military leadership, but perhaps some segments are ready to actually defend their country instead of bend over for the US.

Invoking Bolívar’s vision of regional unity, Maduro added: “In our hearts, we are the Great Colombia founded on the Orinoco by our Liberator, Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios y Blanco.”

More Gran Colombia talk. The big question right now is if US aggression forces enough cooperation among Colombia and Venezuela that deeper political unity - maybe not true GC, but something in that direction.

“The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America expresses its strongest condemnation of the recent verbal attacks and threats made by President Donald Trump against the sovereignty of the Republic of Colombia and its president, Gustavo Petro.

ALBA expresses its unwavering solidarity with the people and government of Colombia, reaffirming its respect for their sovereignty, democracy, and right to freely decide their future. It also calls on the international community to reject all forms of interference, pressure, or threats of the use of force and to defend international law and peace in our America.

In the face of these attacks, the peoples of our America reaffirm their unity, dignity, and commitment to social justice, self-determination, and regional integration, and warn that they will not accept external impositions that seek to subjugate their countries.”

Trump’s announcement has prompted Latin American leaders to a collective defense of national sovereignty. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) released a communique on Thursday, calling the CIA operations “a direct violation of the principle of sovereignty, as well as a threat to International Law and the Charter of the United Nations.”

“There will be no room for war or interventionism in Our America,” it noted, adding that the region will always be “a land of peace, dignity, and resistance.”

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Friday expressed the country’s solidarity with Venezuela on X. “In moments when the empire and its misguided leader approve covert CIA operations against Venezuela, we express our solidarity with that brother people and, especially, with its President Nicolas Maduro,” he said.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday that “no president from another country has the right to decide Venezuela’s fate.”

On the same day, the Workers’ Party in Brazil condemned the U.S. move as “an affront to sovereignty and a violation of international law,” noting that the CIA “has a long history of illegal and destabilizing operations in South America, marked by coups, repression and bloody dictatorships.”

Similarly, Bolivian President Luis Arce called the CIA operations “a clear act of intimidation,” warning that “a military escalation could endanger peace and stability across Latin America and the Caribbean.”

[F]ormer Bolivian President Evo Morales posted a message of solidarity with Petro on his X social media account.

“We send our full solidarity to our brother President Gustavo Petro in the face of the attacks and threats from the president of the United States, Donald Trump. Gustavo Petro is one of the dignified voices seeking peace. The threats against our sister nation Colombia are threats against the entire Patria Grande,” Morales said.

Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa also wrote on X to express his solidarity with the Colombian leader. “The fact that the most powerful man on the planet is an irresponsible clown should concern all humanity. Strength to President Petro! Strength to Colombia! Strength to Latin America!” he emphasized.

For its part, the civil organization CELAC Social Colombia issued a statement expressing its “firm support” for the president of the Republic of Colombia and pro tempore president of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Gustavo Petro.

The organization “categorically rejected” Trump’s recent statements, saying he “has no moral authority to question Colombia, just as his Secretary of State, Mr. Marco Rubio, does not.” The group described the remarks as “a direct offense against Colombia’s sovereignty and a grave violation of international law and the principle of peoples’ self-determination.”

“Everyone says we’re going to turn Brazil into Venezuela, but Brazil will never be Venezuela, and Venezuela will never be Brazil. Each country will be itself,” he said during the 16th Congress of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCdoB), held in Brasilia.

“What we defend is that the Venezuelan people own their destiny, and no president from another country has the right to meddle in deciding what Venezuela or Cuba should be,” he said, making an implicit reference to U.S. President Donald Trump.

Title 10 U.S. Code Section 7377, written into the National Defense Authorization Act of 2025, will give the Army’s civilian CI agents authorities that now correspond with civilian law enforcement agencies to conduct law enforcement activities outside of military installations, Lt. Gen. Anthony Hale, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army for Intelligence (DA G-2), told reporters. The Department of Defense’s implementing guidance for these authorities must be approved by the Attorney General. “I expect that authority to come from the Attorney General by the end of the year, in the calendar year,” Hale said.

Army CI agents are tasked with ferreting out espionage by foreign adversaries, and regularly work with federal and local law enforcement agencies nationwide to combat threats to national security. Their jurisdiction is limited to counterintelligence and national security investigations, including countering international terrorism. In addition to allowing special agents within Army Counterintelligence to pursue leads off bases, the new authorities will also facilitate their ability to support other law enforcement agencies. “The authorities provided to Army Counterintelligence Special Agents allow them to support other law enforcement agencies for the investigation of federal offenses, as determined by Department of [Defense] regulations and agreements with other law enforcement agencies,” an ACIC spokesperson told Military Times. “The issue of whether or not ACIC special agents will be deputized is decided on the basis of the mission and authority of the agency they may be supporting,” the spokesperson added.

Limited Jurisdiction

Army CI agents were formerly unable to conduct searches, execute warrants or make arrests outside of military installations owing to legal challenges due to the Army’s limited jurisdiction within the United States and the nature of their investigations. This has raised hurdles for CI in terms of being able to stop potential foreign spies from doing damage, according to Hale. “Most of the personnel that are under investigation live off of the installation,” Hale explained. Having to rely on external law enforcement agencies to invest them with the necessary authorities created a backlog of cases and hampered CI agents from pursuing leads into potential acts of espionage, Hale said. “A lot of the cases that we have right now may not gain the interest of a law enforcement agency because we haven’t found the critical information that we need to make this a larger case,” Hale noted. He added that the new authorities will allow CI agents to seize devices and run forensics to further their investigations. “Even with the newly enhanced authorities, ACIC will continue to coordinate with the FBI and other law enforcement entities as applicable for counterintelligence investigations,” an ACIC spokesperson told Military Times. “In fact, approximately 65% of ACIC investigations are conducted jointly with the FBI because of the concurrent jurisdiction of both agencies.”

Southern Border Support

Hale told Military Times that transnational criminal organizations represent a threat to be aware of, particularly with the large numbers of soldiers currently at the southern border. “If you are impacting their livelihood, then you are a threat to them [the transnational criminal organization],” said Hale. “So if you are causing them to make less money, if you are causing them to not be able to push humans across the border, if you’re causing them to not receive weapons from a criminal organization, or whatever the merchandise or goods that they’re moving, then I would submit to you that you have a threat [from the TCO].” Additionally, Hale announced that Army CI agents are currently working along the southern border in support of Task Force Southern Border and U.S. NORTHCOM. He also disclosed that NORTHCOM has requested Army counterintelligence support.

International Threats

“The adversary’s collecting on us every day no matter where we are,” Hale said. “You name an adversary, they’re out there collaborating. Our job, from the Army’s perspective, from the Army Counterintelligence Command’s perspective, is to engage with and thwart the adversary every day, to be out there on the front lines.” Over 3,000 Army CI agents work round-the-clock to safeguard national security interests from threats and are in a constant battle against clever adversaries, he stated. “It can be a scary story when you talk about counterintelligence and what the adversary’s capabilities are but I can submit to you, being the operational commander of this organization right here, that I’d put this team up against any of our adversaries and we’d be able to get after them.”

Kim Aaes, ecclesiastical spokesperson for the ruling Social Democratic Party, claimed to broadcaster DR that the Lutheran state church forms “a core pillar of Danish democracy.” Aaes warned that once baptisms fall below the halfway mark, the church’s foundations as a so-called “people’s church” begin to crumble. He called for more direct political involvement in religious affairs and urged the church to study the tactics of smaller fundamentalist protestant sects supposedly more adept at proselytizing youth.

Carl Andersen of the far-right libertarian Liberal Alliance accused church authorities of complacency, claiming that for years they had “taken their members for granted.” Søren Espersen of the fascist Denmark Democrats went further, demanding that Inner Mission, a conservative sect within the state church, target Muslims for conversion to inflate baptism numbers.

Inner Mission was quick to defend its record. Chairman Hans-Ole Bækgaard insisted the group’s missionary work among Muslims was already bearing fruit, claiming “hundreds, if not thousands” of conversions through divine intervention. He declined to offer verifiable figures, citing limited resources and the need to protect converts’ safety.

Bishop Peter Birch of the Diocese of Elsinore rejected the accusation of institutional laziness, maintaining that the church is experimenting with new forms of outreach. Among its more unorthodox efforts are so-called “drop-in baptisms,” walk-in ceremonies offered to adults who were never baptized as children. “We must show that baptism remains relevant and meaningful,” Birch said.

The calls for political interference to bring up dwindling baptism rates reflect a broader attempt from the Danish ruling elite to politicise religion. For years, the far right has weaponised Christian identity politics as an exclusionary measure against the Nordic hermit kingdom's Muslim minority. Last year the Social Democrats launched a campaign of what they term "spiritual rearmament", an ideological push intended to serve as an auxiliary to the regime's aggressive military buildup plan by providing the ideological superstructure to maintain public support for runaway defense spending and militarisation of society amid an unmitigated cost-of-living crisis.

Under the banner of “spiritual rearmament,” senior regime officials have called for greater intertwining of religion, nationalism, and education. Matthias Tesfaye, then head of the Social Democrat-controlled Ministry of Education, has called in teachers to spread nationalist pro-regime propaganda in classrooms as "an inner line of defense," while Morten Dahlin, head of the Liberal Party-controlled Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs, encouraged Danish soldiers abroad to see themselves as “fighting for Christianity.” The Social Democrats even appointed an official “democracy spokesperson,” Ida Auken, who proposed assigning a priest to the national parliament.

In addition to these statements, a cottage industry has sprung up of regime ideologues giving the campaign a pseudo-intellectual gloss, such as professor of philosophy Bent Meier Sørensen of the Copenhagen Business School who argued on state television that maintaining "the Christian cult" is essential to preserving morality, social welfare, and what he called “Christian civilization.”

Yet despite the proclamations from above, the “spiritual rearmament” appears to have struck few chords among ordinary Danes. In a society where religion is largely viewed as a private matter and public display of strong religious sentiment is frowned upon, attempts to enlist Christian revival in the service is the regime have been met with indifference, bemusement, and occasional ridicule.

The gap between official rhetoric and public sentiment continues to widen. Whether the regime's efforts can meaningfully reverse generations of secular drift, or whether politicizing Christianity will only hasten its decline, remains an open question.

Sources:

• Under halvdelen af nyfødte står til at blive døbt næste år: 'Vi skal blande os politisk', DR (state media), October 21st 2025
• Indre Mission undsiger kirkeordfører: hundredvis af muslimer er omvendt, Radio 4 (state media), October 21st 2025

Lars Findsen is seeking compensation from the state. His lawsuit focuses on a confidential 2022 meeting where the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) briefed top politicians on intimate details of his private life.

At the time of the briefing, Findsen was detained and accused of leaking state secrets to the press regarding Denmark's complicity in American eavesdropping against communication cables. All charges against him were eventually dropped, and he was awarded compensation for unjustified detention and surveillance.

Now, he is back in court, arguing that the state crossed a new line by sharing salacious personal details with politicians.

Taking the stand as the day's key witness, Morten Messerschmidt, leader of the fascist Danish People’s Party, recounted the 2022 briefing with palpable unease. He testified that PET chief Finn Borch Andersen presented a "vulnerability report" on Findsen containing graphic and detailed depictions of the spy chief's sex life.

"What I remember very clearly was a description... that Lars Findsen had a sex life based on stealing relatively expensive bicycles," Messerschmidt told the court, describing how the alleged scheme involved stealing bikes from train stations and delivering them to a summer house where his girlfriend would reward him with BDSM sex. Messerschmidt said he left the briefing "relatively shocked" by the nature of the allegations.

Findsen categorically denied the allegations outside the courtroom. "That is a conspiracy dreamt up in the heads of PET," he told reporters, noting that the bicycle-sex narrative did not appear in the official written report.

That vulnerability report, most of which were read behind closed doors to protect Findsen's family, was ostensibly compiled to assess his blackmail risk. It contended that by keeping aspects of his sex life secret, posting pictures to dating sites, and conducting intimate conversations on his work phone, Findsen made himself a potential target for foreign intelligence agencies.

In his testimony, Findsen offered a different rationale for using his work phone for sexting with his girlfriend, stating that he also used it as his private phone and stating that he did so specifically to reduce the risk of blackmail by keeping the conversations on a secure, official device rather than other platforms.

The report also contained the claim that someone in Findsen's network sold marijuana and that Findsen had used his work phone to discuss marijuana. Findsen denies having used drugs in his adult life and denies any connections to drug trade.

The state, represented in court by its legal counsel, argues that sharing this information with political leaders was relevant and necessary to keep them informed during the ongoing criminal case against Findsen at the time.

Findsen's lawyer, Lars Kjeldsen, sharply disagreed. "The case is not about what the authorities knew and what information they had collected about Lars Findsen," Kjeldsen stated. "The case is about what information was passed on to politicians." He characterized the vulnerability report as an attempt at "character assassination."

A verdict is expected at a later date.

Source: Vilde beskyldninger: Stjal cykler for sex, Ekstrabladet (corporate media). October 21st 2025