From cocain traffickers on the Colombia/Venezuela border to gangs in Haiti to the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico to JNIM in the Sahel to Triad slave compounds in Myanmar, Starlink enables criminal, insurgent, and terrorist groups all over the world
Interesting bit of trivia: Abigael González Valencia, one of the most prominent members of a crime family at the heart of the actual CJNG, had a real Canadian passport under an alias and used it to enter Montreal in 2014.
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Deputy SECDEF Steve Feinberg (the founder of Cerberus Capital) is a much more competent and insidious threat than Pete Hegseth and it's about fucking time that he got the slightest bit of scrutiny in the media
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Pardoning a former Honduran president convicted of exporting 400+ tons of cocaine to the U.S. and exfiltrating MS-13 leader witnesses to El Salvador to defuse a criminal case against an ideological ally aren't the actions of someone concerned with counternarcotics
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suspected breach of FBI network used to house "wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants." 👀👀👀
They're already in it, the drug trade could not exist at the scale it does in Ecuador without corrupt military and police
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Holtec International is a partner of SNC-Lavalin. They also administer the decommissioned Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, formerly operated by Boston Edison, who employed corrupt former FBI SA John Connolly at the time of his arrest for aiding mobster Whitey Bulger.
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There's as much or more corruption in the Ecuadorian military as there is in Mexico. This doesn't do anything to address that and could even consolidate a dominant criminal-political-security configuration that outlives both the Noboa and Trump administrations.
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Delcy Rodríguez is cartoonishly corrupt but using the threat of prosecution to blackmail her into doing what the administration wants is as lawless and thuggish as anything the Chavista regime ever did
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In Mexico, the deployment of military force to counter drug traffickers led to the proliferation of armed criminal groups and a sharp increase in murders, disappearances, and human rights violations without actually diminishing drug trafficking or crime.
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It's cool and not concerning at all that the U.S. Secret Service and CBP picked a company owned by a mysterious Eurosceptic with obscure origins trading timber products and aluminum in the 90s feeding frenzies in Russia and Eastern Europe to operate their secure satellite communications network
He's leading the party to ruin and there's about a 100% chance they'll lose the House and a decent chance they'll lose the Senate which would be an existential threat to his presidency. Very likely that he'll meddle in the midterms.
Throwback from 2017, when Peter Thiel-backed Rivada Networks, whose subsidiary Rivada Port Graham Solutions operates the TACCOM network used by the U.S. Secret Service and CBP, sued the Mexican government after losing a bid for a $7B wireless contract to a competitor.
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Getting dragged by the balls by Israel into a war they've wanted for decades is always how it was going to end
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Looking extremely likely that the administration will attempt to interfere in the midterms
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A test of competence is whether the Democrats have the balls to go hard on the exfiltration of MS-13 leader witnesses to Nayib Bukele's custody and the dismissal of criminal charges against Changpeng Zhao, Juan Orlando Hernández, Henry Cuellar, and Eric Adams.
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Really good article. The CJNG is particularly media saavy and puts more effort into brand equity and propaganda than any criminal organization in Mexico.
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it wouldn't even be hard to find him if he was actually in the woods rolling 60 deep with a praetorian guard and uparmored trucks and weapons instead of living a life that blended in with everybody else
Kash Patel is doing that bit from the Will Smith movie where he's homeless and dresses in a suit until he gets a job. His girlfriend's unimportant ass is the topic of a story in the New York Times so I'd say it's working.
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I don't believe El Mencho spent his life hiding in the forest if he was even still alive after 2018 and the split with Rosalinda González Valencia. If he truly was alive until last week, I suspect he lived similarly to El Mayo with the government turning a blind eye.
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Same, some lowlife talked my wife's grandmother into transferring half of her life's savings to them and the bank only caught it when she was attempting to transfer the other half. It wasn't even a lot of money in the grand scheme of things but it was everything she had.
Scammers that use social engineering to steal an eldery person's life's savings are as despicable as child molesters and rapists in my opinion. There are no punishments harsh enough for that specific kind of fraud.
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If their alkaloid yields are even close to competitive with Erythroxylum coca, they've got a hundred-billion dollar product that could be grown basically anywhere
Leaders of the mafia in Rosarito allied with the Mayos faction of the Sinaloa cartel, involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, and racketeering
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Questionable judgement running publicity straight from Kash Patel to justify firing people for doing their jobs
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He spent several months in custody before he was released and dropped off on the street earlier this month, where he died of exposure in the bitter cold.
A blind refugee from Myanmar using a curtain rod as a walking stick got lost and ended up on a neighbor's porch. He was tazed for failing to comply with commands in english to drop the curtain rod and charged with assault, possession of a weapon, and trespassing.
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AI-generated videos of planes on fire; false reports that Americans were being targeted, that the airport was under attack, that an American agent strangled Mencho to death; a viral post falsely accusing a streamer of collecting reward money for helping locate El Mencho
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