A solid reminder of how close wars and chaos are from our borders..and inside our borders via drug movement. The Haiti hit was about drugs not politics. nytimes.com/2021/12/12/wor…
Our government focuses on the border. Because that is a very old concept. Some clueless guy even wanted to build a wall. Oh look...boats. airplanes..bribery...dea.gov/sites/default/…
Borders are where the government gets to stop people and look at stuff. Most seized drugs are found at legal border crossing. That mean's it's a business....man. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Cargo ships carry drugs without even knowing it. (wink wink) but offshore rendezvous are common. Underwater cutting torches are helpful. Cocaine Cowboys TV series covers this industrial smuggling method. insightcrime.org/news/brazilian…
Pretty maps showing drug movement tend to disconnect external routes from internal routes. Bottom line Fedex and Amazon should be jealous of the drug distribution system. businessinsider.com/16-maps-of-dru…
Mexico has 5 cities w/highest homicide rates in the world: Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Uruapan, Irapuato and Ciudad Obregon. Tijuana registered a homicide rate of 134 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019, 20 times higher than the global average." visionofhumanity.org/mexico-peace-i…
I spent time in the drug labs of Colombia, the nasty parts of TJ and lots of time with smugglers, vigilantes and border patrols. I watch the value of drugs increase the closer it comes closer to this country have to admit that America has a drug problem. fox5sandiego.com/news/border-re…
And that's the funny thing about a wall. The drug users would all be inside that wall. So it's just a matter of logistical supply chain modification and new marketing techniques to get them their drugs. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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We live in media silos. Choosing what we ingest, who we share it with and monitoring our comments. It is worth taking the time to bathe yourself in the narrative, verbiage, troll age and dog whistling of what was once the Alt Right but now FuckYouTainment. thebulwark.com/i-spent-insurr…
You hear an angry white man, I hear an influencer stirring people up to perform illegal and violent acts,normalizing the role of government as the enemy to the slope pated. Just like my time watching jihadis watch their favorite mullahs on their cel phones.thehill.com/blogs/congress…
America has been down this road before. We spend millions trying to prevent people from being radicalized. We have all the history, metrics and unfortunate results of online radicalization. dhs.gov/sites/default/…
"a partnership between Ukraine’s intel service and Lancaster 6 to build a “state-of-the-art training center” and a “specialized services enterprise”providing “strategic planning, logistics, risk management, security forces training and consulting” time.com/6076035/erik-p…
"The fighter said he was planning to join up with fellow mercenaries. The Kremlin says it has nothing to do with private Russian military contractors whose operatives it describes as volunteers with no connection to the state."reuters.com/world/europe/r…
Russians make great infantry level weapons. High tech not so much. I always remember the contrast between the Soyuz and Apollo. One was a used apartment building boiler the other elegant high tech. realcleardefense.com/articles/2020/…
Russia's edge used to be fast replication of reliable platforms and rapid troop movements. It has devolved into "hybrid warfare" and spoiler tactics. Oh look "super weapons" chathamhouse.org/2021/09/advanc…
Back it the day I was called by ABC and asked to urgently rescue Ted Koppel from Cambodia. I did it quietly and smoothly but it opened my eyes to the reporting Thayer had done and how ABC exploited it. khmerpostusa.com/nate-thayer-br…
The actual work product of the extreme right can't actually be shown or played on MSM. It is up to self funded journos to show the ugly guts. Here is the 2016 election. web.archive.org/web/2017030217…
The Arab Spring like the Color Revolution began to despose autocracy, Eleven years the gains made by the Arab Spring are dead. Terrified family dictatorships spent billions to protect their control.