Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News,
A 26-year-old Ghanaian migrant stalked and attacked women across Oklahoma City over a two-week span in August, getting arrested three times for sexual battery before firefighters witnessed him trying to rape a fourth woman on a public trail and held him for police.
Jeff Kufi (Kofi) Asare was booked on a first-degree rape charge with a $75,000 bond. The Oklahoma County District Attorney's office is pushing to raise that bond because of the rapid series of alleged assaults.
Court records show at least 19 criminal felony and misdemeanor charges filed against him since August 2023, with more than 20 arrests stretching back to 2022 for larceny, trespass, obstruction, injuring an officer, and breaking and entering.
?DEAR GOD!!!
A migrant from Ghana HUNTED women on the streets of Oklahoma City.
He attacked one. They let him go.
He attacked another. They let him go AGAIN.
Then he tried to R*PE a third woman in BROAD DAYLIGHT, and FIREFIGHTERS tackled him off of her.
He's been arrested... pic.twitter.com/R4Y6Wmmr8M
Why is this guy still in the country?
Jeff Kofi Asare was arrested THREE times in just the past two weeks for allegedly r*ping women in Oklahoma. Nearly 2 dozen arrests since 2022.
WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS pic.twitter.com/PVSIEcB0Ai
On August 1 near Northwest 23rd Street and Classen Boulevard, police responded to a possible rape. Asare allegedly pushed a woman against a bus stop window and put his hands down her pants.
The same day a second woman reported he came up behind her on Classen Boulevard, pulled her pants down, and fled when she pushed him away. He was arrested for sexual battery and indecent exposure.
Five days later near Scissortail Park, Asare allegedly walked up behind another woman, grabbed her buttocks multiple times, and began digging in his pants. When she told him to leave he walked away. Police later spotted and arrested him again for sexual battery.
On August 12 on the Lake Hefner Trail, Asare allegedly approached a woman from behind, pulled her down, and attempted to rape her. Local firefighters saw the attack, intervened, and called police. He was arrested on the first-degree rape charge.
Kufi Asare is a migrant in Oklahoma. Here is his criminal record so far:
8/12/26: Rape (1st degree)
8/6/26: Sexual battery in a park
8/1/26: Sexual battery in a park
3/5/26: Breaking and entering
10/3/25: Breaking and entering
2/23/25: Trespass + obstruction
8/27/23: Retail... pic.twitter.com/uOfUK3hNuo
Judges just kept releasing him.
Asare had previously been released through the TEEM pretrial program by Oklahoma County District Court Judge Cindy Truong after earlier cases. Court records indicate he received an official immigration warning in April after pleading no contest to breaking and entering.
Social media reports have described him as a migrant who is not a U.S. citizen, though ICE has not yet confirmed his immigration status.
Open borders and soft-on-crime judges create the conditions for so many cases like this. When officials treat deportation as optional and pretrial release as the default for serial offenders, the result is predictable. American women end up hunted on sidewalks, in parks, and on trails in the middle of the day.
Policies that enforce immigration law and keep dangerous scumbags locked up, or better still removed, are the only real answer. Judges who keep releasing repeat predators must face accountability. The public should not have to rely on firefighters to prevent rapes.
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Tyler Durden Tue, 08/18/2026 - 16:20Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
Splitting the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine into separate shots could take up to a decade, according to one of the two companies that produce the vaccine for the U.S. market.
A tray of MMR vaccine vials at a clinic in Lubbock, Texas, on March 1, 2025. Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images"Even under current expedited review pathways, it could take years - potentially as many as 10 - to meet the safety and efficacy requirements to obtain FDA approval and then begin manufacturing and commercialization" of single-disease shots, Merck said in a statement.
Merck, which did not respond to a request for more details, had told Politifact in 2025 - after President Donald Trump floated splitting the MMR vaccine - that it could take more than 10 years to separate the components into three separate vaccines.
Trump said in an Aug. 10 order that he was issuing "gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations," which "recognize that the combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine should be administered in three separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available." The order directed agencies to take steps to advance the recommendations.
Before signing the order, Trump said, "You have the MMR, we want it in three separate vaccinations given at separate times. Together there could be a possibility they are quite lethal and separately, it looks like they are not at all lethal but just very effective." The White House did not respond to a request for citations by the time of publication.
Dr. Robert Malone, a former member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel, said in an Aug. 10 post on X that splitting combination vaccines into separate shots could reduce adverse events without sacrificing protection.
The CDC's website says, "No published scientific evidence shows any benefit in separating the combination MMR vaccine into three individual shots." A January update to the childhood vaccine schedule retained recommendations for MMR vaccination, advising that children receive one dose around the age of 1 and a second dose from 4 to 6 years of age.
The MMR vaccine has been available since the 1970s. Merck and GlaxoSmithKline produce it for the United States.
Standalone vaccines were discontinued in the United States in 2008. Merck said in a 2009 letter to health care providers that it was moving forward with the MMR and not the monovalent vaccines because the combination shot "eliminates the need for 3 separate injections and reduces the chance of delays in helping protect against any of these potentially serious diseases." The standalone vaccines are still available in certain other countries.
Side effects of the MMR vaccine include febrile seizure and severe allergic reactions, according to regulatory labels.
A healthcare professional prepares a measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine at the Andrews County Health Department in Andrews, Texas, on April 8, 2025. Annie Rice/AP PhotoGlaxoSmithKline told news outlets in a statement after Trump signed the order that its vaccines "are clinically proven to provide vital protection against infectious disease, and support public health goals by reducing missed doses, improving immunization coverage, and minimizing the burden on families and healthcare systems."
Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said although it's possible to separate the MMR vaccine into its constituent components, each component would have to be manufactured and tested.
"They wouldn't be able to do that probably for another 10 years, and there's no indication that they have any interest in doing that," he said.
A White House official told reporters on a call about the order that the administration would work with the private sector to make the option of separate vaccines available to parents, relying on market-based solutions.
"Right now we have a lot of Americans and a lot of American parents who want to see additional options," the official said.
The Food and Drug Administration did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.
A person walks past a sign at a health center where the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is administered in Lubbock, Texas, on Feb. 27, 2025. Ronald Schemidt/AFP via Getty ImagesEstablishing and obtaining regulatory approval for the manufacturing processes for the separate shots could be time-consuming and costly, Jesse Goodman, former chief scientist at the FDA, said.
"They'd be making three times as many vials or vaccines and filling three times as many," Goodman said. "It's not like they have facilities sitting around idle - so they might need to either change current facilities or even create additional capacity for them."
Reuters contributed to this report.
Tyler Durden Tue, 08/18/2026 - 15:45Already US officials have signaled they may just abandon hard-hit bases in the Middle East altogether, in the wake of Iran's retaliation as a result of Operation Epic Fury, and a conflict that's dragged on for nearly six months.
On Tuesday The Washington Post reviews the damage control underway, as the Pentagon 'evaluates' its future military footprint. All of this is framed as if Washington has a choice and full control over the matter, when it seems that all along the Trump administration was woefully underestimating what an Iranian response would look like.
"The Pentagon is evaluating its military footprint in the Middle East in an early sign of the Iran war’s potential to transform the U.S. presence in the region, according to eight people, including officials and others familiar with the matter," Washington Post writes.
Air Force file image"One of the key areas the Defense Department is assessing is whether to pull back troops from the Persian Gulf, where America’s large overseas military bases have been battered by months of Iranian strikes, two people familiar with the ongoing analysis said," it adds, further calling this a "once-in-a-generation" chance for the Pentagon to alter its presence in the region.
The whole thing is being reported as if the 'smart people' are in the room and in control, and also as if the US hegemon in the region didn't already take a massive reputational hit following 'forever wars' and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over 20 years after the initial invasions, the Taliban remains in firm control of Kabul and Afghanistan, and Shiite pro-Iranian politicians run Baghdad.
And now a half-year into a war where the response should have been entirely anticipated (having been predicted by years and decades of Persian Gulf war-gaming and intelligence papers), this is where things stand:
“The war really did highlight the vulnerability ... of U.S. forces in the region,” said Michael Ratney, a former diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the deputy chief of mission in Qatar.
Moving troops and equipment further west to Jordan, Israel or the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia could help alleviate some of the pressure, he argued, while noting the added distance wasn’t a “perfect solution to this problem.”
Iran has already demonstrated it can strike faraway targets in Jordan and Israel. Last month an Iranian attack on Jordan killed four U.S. service members.
Anyone with eyes to see knows that this is already happening. For months at this point, dozens of US refueling aircraft have clogged up Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport, for just one example.
For smarter and more legitimate analysis, one can turn to Amerikanets, which one month ago was chronicling Tehran's successful campaign of 'debasification':
The broad picture of the Iranian air war in this phase has been a steady wave of concentrated missile and drone strikes sweeping its way across the region. In contrast to the previous hot phase of the war, in which Iran targeted bases across the entire theater simultaneously, this wave started with the targets close to Iranian shores, and has progressed steadily to the Israeli border. After destroying much of the radar network protecting regional US Axis bases in the previous hot phase of the war, Iranian planners have prioritized targeting fuel storage, drone hangers, refueling tankers, and barracks.
The American response has been to pull assets back ever further from Iran, to bases in Israel and Jordan. We’ll call this process debasification. Iran’s debasification strategy takes advantage of the inherent asymmetry between the vastly different force structure and capabilities of Iranian rocket forces and US Axis air forces.
A concluding section predicted the dilemma laid out in WaPo concerning a grand Pentagon evaluation of its force posture in the Middle East:
By all available evidence, the Iranian debasification campaign appears to be working. The US force in the region is likely incapable of generating the same combat power in its air operations against Iran as it could when the war started, and things are trending ever further in a negative direction. Even worse, there’s no clear solution on the horizon. The most obvious lever for American planners to pull is to accept more casualties and losses of personnel and airframes, but this is an unprecedented step the modern incarnation of the US military has never faced.
"The Iranian debasification campaign appears to be working.
The US force in the region is likely incapable of generating the same combat power in its air operations against Iran as it could when the war started, and things are trending ever further in a negative direction.…
What's worse is that the Iranians know all of this full well - and probably earlier than the Western public - and they smell blood in the water. Hence, this week they've been strongly signaling a new 'offensive' military posture, and have vowed to hit harder in whatever next waves of conflict come.
So will the US rebuild bases battered by Iranian strikes? Well, Tehran is now saying that in essence it won't let that happen. The WaPo article operates under the illusory assumption that US planners have some big array of options set before them, when increasingly American forces are in obvious retreat and no one can do anything about it. Also, what happened to Pete Hegseth's rah rah Epic Fury press briefings on all the 'winning' and chest-thumping? It's been a while.
Tyler Durden Tue, 08/18/2026 - 15:25