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The more I pressed the Finland government's Mari Rantanen (Minister of the Interior), Juha Tuovinen (National Police Chief), and Petteri Orpo's administration (prime minister) for an independent investigation into the police corruption and collusion I witnessed and experienced in HEL (Helsinki International Airport)...

The more I was tracked, followed and surveilled, from one country to the next, for months on end.

Leading up to May 8, 2026, when SUPO (CIA) Finland agents and Chinese operatives worked together to try to silence my life and my investigative journalism permanently.

Why?

To cover up the evil child trafficking ring operating at Helsinki Airport, mafioso'd and heavily protected by Finland's national government and police force at the highest levels. 

Listen to the seventh and final chapter of my new, true crime investigative journalism series: 

Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.

Listen to the full series: https://www.sashatobago.com/#listen

Read the full story and see the faces of the spies and killers involved:

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/kidnapped-children-at-helsinki-airport-trafficking-network-china-and-finland-are-desperate-to-hide 

IN DEPTH 

The Killers: Why Did Mari Rantanen and Her SUPO Finnish Spies Try to Kill Me in Thailand?

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/the-killers-why-did-mari-rantanen-and-her-supo-finnish-spies-try-to-kill-me-in-thailand

An Open Letter to the People of Finland: Your Interior Minister Just Tried to End an American Journalist's Life on May 8 in Thailand 

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/an-open-letter-to-the-people-and-officials-of-finland-may-17-2026

How Did Finland's CIA Use the Grab Rideshare App to Try to End My Life on May 8

https://www.sashatobago.com/listen/episode/7c7983c9/how-did-finlands-cia-use-the-grab-rideshare-app-to-try-to-end-my-life-on-may-8-dirty-rotten-finland-series

Are You a Jedi or Darth Vader? — Faith, Love, and the Force in Your Life (Part 1)

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/are-you-a-jedi-or-darth-vader-faith-love-the-force-in-your-life-part-1

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Listen to the sixth chapter of my new, 7-episode, true crime investigative journalism series: 

Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.

Listen to the full series: https://www.sashatobago.com/#listen

Read the full story and see the faces of the spies and killers involved:

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/kidnapped-children-at-helsinki-airport-trafficking-network-china-and-finland-are-desperate-to-hide 

IN DEPTH 

The Killers: Why Did Mari Rantanen and Her SUPO Finnish Spies Try to Kill Me in Thailand?

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/the-killers-why-did-mari-rantanen-and-her-supo-finnish-spies-try-to-kill-me-in-thailand

An Open Letter to the People of Finland: Your Interior Minister Just Tried to End an American Journalist's Life on May 8 in Thailand 

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/an-open-letter-to-the-people-and-officials-of-finland-may-17-2026

How Did Finland's CIA Use the Grab Rideshare App to Try to End My Life on May 8

https://www.sashatobago.com/listen/episode/7c7983c9/how-did-finlands-cia-use-the-grab-rideshare-app-to-try-to-end-my-life-on-may-8-dirty-rotten-finland-series

Are You a Jedi or Darth Vader? — Faith, Love, and the Force in Your Life (Part 1)

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/are-you-a-jedi-or-darth-vader-faith-love-the-force-in-your-life-part-1

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Listen to the fifth chapter of my new, 7-episode, true crime investigative journalism series: 

Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.

Listen to the full series: https://www.sashatobago.com/#listen

Read the full story and see the faces of the spies and killers involved:

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/kidnapped-children-at-helsinki-airport-trafficking-network-china-and-finland-are-desperate-to-hide 

IN DEPTH 

The Killers: Why Did Mari Rantanen and Her SUPO Finnish Spies Try to Kill Me in Thailand?

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/the-killers-why-did-mari-rantanen-and-her-supo-finnish-spies-try-to-kill-me-in-thailand

An Open Letter to the People of Finland: Your Interior Minister Just Tried to End an American Journalist's Life on May 8 in Thailand 

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/an-open-letter-to-the-people-and-officials-of-finland-may-17-2026

How Did Finland's CIA Use the Grab Rideshare App to Try to End My Life on May 8

https://www.sashatobago.com/listen/episode/7c7983c9/how-did-finlands-cia-use-the-grab-rideshare-app-to-try-to-end-my-life-on-may-8-dirty-rotten-finland-series

Are You a Jedi or Darth Vader? — Faith, Love, and the Force in Your Life (Part 1)

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/are-you-a-jedi-or-darth-vader-faith-love-the-force-in-your-life-part-1

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Per Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowances are made for "fair use" of content, imagery, multimedia and the like for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, et al.

Listen to the fourth chapter of my new, 7-episode, true crime investigative journalism series: 

Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.

Listen to the full series: https://www.sashatobago.com/#listen

Read the full story and see the faces of the spies and killers involved:

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/kidnapped-children-at-helsinki-airport-trafficking-network-china-and-finland-are-desperate-to-hide 

IN DEPTH 

The Killers: Why Did Mari Rantanen and Her SUPO Finnish Spies Try to Kill Me in Thailand?

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/the-killers-why-did-mari-rantanen-and-her-supo-finnish-spies-try-to-kill-me-in-thailand

An Open Letter to the People of Finland: Your Interior Minister Just Tried to End an American Journalist's Life on May 8 in Thailand 

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/an-open-letter-to-the-people-and-officials-of-finland-may-17-2026

How Did Finland's CIA Use the Grab Rideshare App to Try to End My Life on May 8

https://www.sashatobago.com/listen/episode/7c7983c9/how-did-finlands-cia-use-the-grab-rideshare-app-to-try-to-end-my-life-on-may-8-dirty-rotten-finland-series

Are You a Jedi or Darth Vader? — Faith, Love, and the Force in Your Life (Part 1)

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/are-you-a-jedi-or-darth-vader-faith-love-the-force-in-your-life-part-1

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Per Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowances are made for "fair use" of content, imagery, multimedia and the like for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, et al.

Tune in to the third chapter of my new, 7-episode, true crime investigative journalism series: 

Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.

Listen to the full series: https://www.sashatobago.com/#listen

Read the full story and see the faces of the spies and killers involved:

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/kidnapped-children-at-helsinki-airport-trafficking-network-china-and-finland-are-desperate-to-hide 

IN DEPTH 

The Killers: Why Did Mari Rantanen and Her SUPO Finnish Spies Try to Kill Me in Thailand?

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/the-killers-why-did-mari-rantanen-and-her-supo-finnish-spies-try-to-kill-me-in-thailand

An Open Letter to the People of Finland: Your Interior Minister Just Tried to End an American Journalist's Life on May 8 in Thailand 

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/an-open-letter-to-the-people-and-officials-of-finland-may-17-2026

How Did Finland's CIA Use the Grab Rideshare App to Try to End My Life on May 8

https://www.sashatobago.com/listen/episode/7c7983c9/how-did-finlands-cia-use-the-grab-rideshare-app-to-try-to-end-my-life-on-may-8-dirty-rotten-finland-series

Are You a Jedi or Darth Vader? — Faith, Love, and the Force in Your Life (Part 1)

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/are-you-a-jedi-or-darth-vader-faith-love-the-force-in-your-life-part-1

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Per Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowances are made for "fair use" of content, imagery, multimedia and the like for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, et al.

Listen to the second chapter of my new, 7-episode, true crime investigative journalism series: 

Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.

Listen to the full series: https://www.sashatobago.com/#listen

Read the full story and see the faces of the spies and killers involved:

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/kidnapped-children-at-helsinki-airport-trafficking-network-china-and-finland-are-desperate-to-hide 

IN DEPTH 

The Killers: Why Did Mari Rantanen and Her SUPO Finnish Spies Try to Kill Me in Thailand?

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/the-killers-why-did-mari-rantanen-and-her-supo-finnish-spies-try-to-kill-me-in-thailand

An Open Letter to the People of Finland: Your Interior Minister Just Tried to End an American Journalist's Life on May 8 in Thailand 

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/an-open-letter-to-the-people-and-officials-of-finland-may-17-2026

How Did Finland's CIA Use the Grab Rideshare App to Try to End My Life on May 8

https://www.sashatobago.com/listen/episode/7c7983c9/how-did-finlands-cia-use-the-grab-rideshare-app-to-try-to-end-my-life-on-may-8-dirty-rotten-finland-series

Are You a Jedi or Darth Vader? — Faith, Love, and the Force in Your Life (Part 1)

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/are-you-a-jedi-or-darth-vader-faith-love-the-force-in-your-life-part-1

Editorial Correction: The initial version of this story referenced a man named Mika who died in a traffic accident in 2022. That man had a wife named Mari Rantanen, who is not the Mari Rantanen in office as Finland's minster of the interior.

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Per Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowances are made for "fair use" of content, imagery, multimedia and the like for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, et al.

Why are China and Finland working together to try to permanently silence an American journalist?

Because they desperately want to bury the Truth about the child trafficking network moving through the Helsinki (HEL) Airport's rental car parking garage.

"Child abductions are a big problem in China," the BBC reports.

"Finland is mainly a country of transit and [a] destination for victims of sex trafficking and forced labor," writes Sari Latomaa in the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review.

What better place to traffic kidnapped children than via strategic blind spots in your tiny country's international airport?

Tune in to the first chapter of my new, 7-episode, true crime investigative journalism series: 

Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport — The Human Trafficking Network China and Finland are Desperate to Hide.

Listen to the full series: https://www.sashatobago.com/#listen

Read the full story and see the faces of the spies and killers involved:

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/kidnapped-children-at-helsinki-airport-trafficking-network-china-and-finland-are-desperate-to-hide 

IN DEPTH 

The Killers: Why Did Mari Rantanen and Her SUPO Finnish Spies Try to Kill Me in Thailand?

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/the-killers-why-did-mari-rantanen-and-her-supo-finnish-spies-try-to-kill-me-in-thailand

An Open Letter to the People of Finland: Your Interior Minister Just Tried to End an American Journalist's Life on May 8 in Thailand 

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/an-open-letter-to-the-people-and-officials-of-finland-may-17-2026

How Did Finland's CIA Use the Grab Rideshare App to Try to End My Life on May 8

https://www.sashatobago.com/listen/episode/7c7983c9/how-did-finlands-cia-use-the-grab-rideshare-app-to-try-to-end-my-life-on-may-8-dirty-rotten-finland-series

Are You a Jedi or Darth Vader? — Faith, Love, and the Force in Your Life (Part 1)

https://www.sashatobago.com/worldly/are-you-a-jedi-or-darth-vader-faith-love-the-force-in-your-life-part-1

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Per Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowances are made for "fair use" of content, imagery, multimedia and the like for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, et al.

In this episode, I'm going to talk about why the Divine (i.e., the True and Loving God) allowed Finland's recent attempt on my life to take place.

If you have read or listened to the first episode of my "Are You a Jedi or Darth Vader" podcast series, then you know that, at a certain point in the Finnish government’s evil plot to end my life, the Divine stepped in and said, "You can go no further."

But why did the Divine allow it to get that far?

Truth is, the Divine knew exactly what they were planning. The Divine knew exactly what they were up to. And the Divine allowed it to carry through to a certain point.

In this episode, I'm going to delve into one of the biggest existential questions we have as human beings: 

Why does the Divine allow bad things to happen to us — especially the Good, honest, innocent people in this world?

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On May 8, 2026, hitman working for Finland's SUPO (CIA) agency tried to end my life as an American journalist, on foreign, sovereign soil in Thailand, and make it look like a motorbike traffic accident.

Why? 

To try to cover up the child trafficking transit network operating in HEL (Helsinki International Airport) and in other airports and seaports in Finland. 

All under the mafioso protection of Mari Rantanen, Finland's Minister of the Interior, who oversees both SUPO and Finland's police force nationwide. 

Including the airport police officers protecting the thieves, criminals, and human traffickers operating freely in HEL Airport.

In this podcast episode, I discuss how shocking it is that the national government of Finland — a tiny Eastern European country of only 5 million people — had the audacity to try to assassinate an American journalist, on foreign soil in the sovereign nation of Thailand.

A classic example of punching WAY above your weight. FAR out of your league. 

All while egregiously insulting multiple governments, royals, nations, militaries, and ethnicities in the process. 

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Finland's Middle Finger to Thailand

What’s annoying to me — and should be annoying to the people of Thailand, and the government of Thailand, and the royalty of Thailand — is that a country of five million people — Finland is a small country, doesn’t have a lot of people — had the audacity to try to carry out an assassination on your soil.

They tried to kill an American journalist and make it look like an accident in your beautiful country. 

A small, tiny country of Finland basically just gave the middle finger to all of the Thai military, to all of the Thai royal family, to all of the Thai people.

I mean, I like Thailand. I like people in Thailand. I love Thai food. I love Thai iced tea. 

I’m not Thai, but I am insulted on behalf of Thailand that this small, tiny Eastern European country — because Finland doesn’t operate like a Nordic country. Finland is right next door to Russia. It used to be part of the USSR. It acts like an Eastern European country.

And as someone who’s been to Finland, it looks like an Eastern European country. It feels like an Eastern European country. It is an Eastern European country. 

So the fact that this tiny, Eastern European, neo-Nazi country had the audacity to try to carry out a hit in Thailand, the Land of Smiles, is an insult to every Thai person, to the Thai government, to the Thai military, and to the Thai royal family.

Finland's Middle Finger to America

And let’s not even get started on the fact that they tried to take out an American. The country I come from has 350 million people. 

Your country, Finland, isn’t even large enough to compete with some of our biggest cities. New York City has more people than your whole entire country does.

You had the audacity to try to kill an American journalist who hails from a country of 350 million people.

Finland's Middle Finger to Solanas

And then let’s go even further. 

I’m Solana. 

Solana is the Divine name for my people. My people being formerly known as Black American, African American, etc. 

So I’m Solana. The number of Solanas in this world dwarfs the number of people in Finland. There are approximately 60 million Solanas in this world. 

Out of Your League

You had the audacity to mess with a Solana. You had the audacity to mess with an American. And you had the audacity to mess with Thailand.

All of whom have populations that are massively bigger than yours. 

All of whom have GDPs that are massively bigger than yours.

The fact that this small, tiny, corrupt, neo-Nazi, human trafficking country had the audacity to mess with Thailand, to mess with America, and to mess with Solanas is jarring.

Divine Vengeance

And the biggest thing that you are messing with is the Divine. 

The Divine knew everything you were planning. The Divine saw everything you were doing.

The Divine is bringing to Light the evil chlid trafficking transit network you and your Chinese comrades have been operating in the dark and in the shadows.

Your days of harming, abusing, kidnapping and trafficking innocent children are no more. 

Now what you have sown, you shall reap. 

Divine judgment, vengeance and punishment are your portion.

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Per Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowances are made for "fair use" of content, imagery, multimedia and the like for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, et al.

In this episode, I break down how government operatives operating on behalf of Finland, China, et al., used the Grab rideshare app to try to end the life and investigative reporting an American journalist... by (attempting to) make it look like a traffic accident? 

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THE FULL STORY: WHY DO THEY DESPERATELY WANT TO SILENCE AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST PERMANENTLY?

Kidnapped Children at Helsinki Airport

The true crime story of an American travel journalist who stumbled upon a criminal hornet's nest so evil, government officials and hitmen are hellbent on silencing her life and her investigative reporting — permanently.

https://www.sashatobago.com/investigations/kidnapped-children-at-helsinki-airport

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Editorial Correction: The initial version of this story referenced a man named Mika who died in a traffic accident in 2022. That man had a wife named Mari Rantanen, who is not the Mari Rantanen in office as Finland's minster of the interior.

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