[Breitbart] Mexican authorities report a shift in the production and distribution of fentanyl as the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel is moving its operations closer to Texas.
The most recent development comes as Mexico’s federal government began seizing multi-ton shipments of fentanyl precursors in the state of Nuevo Leon. The seizures come as the faction of the Sinaloa Cartel has been moving its laboratories away from Sinaloa into the Monterrey metropolitan area.
In recent days, Mexico’s Navy and the Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks (COFEPRIS) reported the seizure of more than 120 tons of various chemical precursors from Sinaloa Cartel companies. The seizures occurred in a series of enforcement actions in the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Nuevo Leon. Officials valued the seized chemicals at 87 million pesos in its current form (approximately 5.5 million USD), Mexico’s El Universal reported.
Breitbart Texas first reported on the arrival of the Sinaloa Cartel to Nuevo Leon in 2021. Since then, the criminal organization quietly continued to spread its influence deeper into the region. The main faction of the cartel operating in Monterrey is the Chapitos faction, which law enforcement sources revealed has been working to set up laboratories in the region.
The Monterrey metropolitan area is one of Mexico’s busiest industrial hubs. It is home to hundreds of industrial parks and manufacturing areas that can easily hide the illegal large-scale production facilities needed to manufacture illicit drugs.
Additionally, Monterrey is just a short drive south of the Texas border, with several key cities and ports of entry available for crossing the drugs, such as Piedras Negras, Coahuila; along with Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
Earlier this year, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel linked to Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada began helping the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel along with gunmen from Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and other smaller groups. As Breitbart Texas reported, the Metros faction has been waging a fierce turf war with the Escorpiones faction of the Gulf Cartel for over a year. While government officials tried to downplay the issue, the Metros faction and CJNG have been mentioned in various banners and messages left as part of the ongoing turf war.
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Soft War through overt and covert tactics while assets and stooges kept us focused on Russia.
Textbook to be written in the future on how the West was toppled once it abandoned its core beliefs and embraced demographic invasion, cultural tolerance and corruption is norms.
[Breitbart] Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande some six miles south of Eagle Pass, construction is reaching a fever pitch on one of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s latest border projects. Breitbart Texas captured the progress being made on “Forward Operating Base Eagle,” a military base camp designed to provide housing to 1,800 Texas Army National Guard soldiers deployed to the area as part of Operation Lone Star.
The video shows trucks carrying construction materials arriving at the 80-acre parcel of land acquired by the State. The video captures the groundwork on utilities and foundation preparations for the sprawling project that sits on the edge of the Rio Grande just yards from Mexico.
Abbott announced the project to house Texas National Guard soldiers who are responding to President Joe Biden’s border crisis in February. The Texas governor explained the need for the project saying:
Texas is expanding our border security capabilities by building a new Texas Military Department base camp to increase and improve border security operations in this area. This will increase the ability for a larger number of Texas Military Department soldiers in Eagle Pass to operate more effectively and efficiently.
The new operations base promises dramatic improvements to soldiers’ accommodations, including their own individual rooms, a 700-seat dining facility, a recreational center, laundry facilities, and WiFi access. According to the Texas Military Department, the camp will also provide chaplaincy programs and medical and psychological health facilities.
According to state officials, the Texas National Guard soldiers are currently staying at multiple locations across the region in cramped quarters, apart from fellow soldiers, and sometimes traveling long distances to reach their assigned posts. When completed, the facility will be able to accommodate a surge force of 500 additional soldiers, bringing the total capacity to 2,200 troops.
According to Texas Military Department contracting documents, the state will pay Team Housing Solutions Incorporated, a company in New Braunfels, Texas, $131 million in operating costs through September 2024.
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Texas Military is a very closed entity when it comes to disclosing events to the general public. A car rammed through the front doors of the main building of a Texas Military base once. It never made the news.
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The base taco truck
Flew into an airbase in England late one night/morning, unscheduled, lights out.
Taxied to a secondary, dropped the ramp, red lights only in the bay.
Boom, up roars the taco truck with air police in full pursuit.
Next day, tented up in a rough field next to the runway,
here comes the grounds maintenance to cut the knee high grass
and weed-eaters to trim the chain link concertina.
If it's something they wanna see, they will find a way.
[AFRICANEWS] Militants, alongside relatives of victims of the infamous abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls that sparked global outrage in 2014, gathered in Lagos on Sunday, April 14, to renew calls for the release of the remaining girls in captivity.
The Sunday meeting was organized to mark the 10th anniversary of the abduction that affected 276 schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.
"What I would ask the government is to find a way to work towards bringing back our sisters because I know it is only the government that can help us bring back these girls," said Grace Dauda, a rescued Chibok schoolgirl.
Another rescued schoolgirl, Rebecca Malu, added, "They should stay safe. They should stay strong, one day, they will be released like us."
While some girls managed to escape on their own, others have been freed over the years through intense campaigns by civil society organizations and government negotiations. But this human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activist, Ayo Obe, is calling for more action from the authorities.
"We know that we started with missing persons numbering two hundred and fifty-six; it is already an improvement that we are down to 91. But of course, 91 is 91 lives unaccounted for. We appreciate the fact that so many of them escaped during the abduction itself. We appreciate the fact that the government has brought back so many more of them, but we say that we don"t stop here. We need the momentum that has happened since the mass return during the Buhari administration in 2016-2017 to be maintained. We expected that the remaining girls would have been brought back," she said.
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[KavkazUzel] The appellate instance did not satisfy the appeal of the colony administration against the decision of the Grozny court, which recognized violations of the rights of a native of Chechnya, Arbi Dandaev, who was convicted in the case of the attack of Basayev’s
... Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, also known by his kunya "Abu Idris" and Emir Abdullah Shamil Abu-Idris (1965-2006). Chechen warlord in the post-Soviet Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, which after his death became the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate. In 2015 most of the hard boys changed their allegiance to the local Islamic State affiliate, Vilayat Kavkaz, whereupon a majority chose to escape the Russians hunting them by making hijra to the caliphate in Syria. Some of his projects were the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis...
militants on Dagestan.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the Supreme Court of Dagestan in March 2009 sentenced Chechen resident Arbi Dandaev to life imprisonment, recognizing that during the militant attack on Dagestan in 1999, Dandaev personally participated in the execution of six servicemen. The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the verdict as legal, and in August 2009 it entered into legal force.
On August 7, 1999, more than a thousand armed fighters led by Shamil Basayev and Jordanian Amir Khattab (also referred to as Emir Khattab) entered Dagestan from Chechnya. Fighting continued in the republic for more than a month; only on September 15, 1999, Defense Minister Igor Sergeev announced that the territory of Dagestan was completely liberated from the participants in the attack, according to the “Caucasian Knot” certificate “ Invasion of militants in Dagestan (1999) .”
The Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the decision of the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny dated June 28, 2022, which partially satisfied Arbi Dandaev’s claim against the colony in the Khabarovsk Territory. Dandaev demanded that the actions of the administration be declared illegal and that compensation be awarded to him for violating the conditions of detention; the district court’s decision was appealed by the colony’s management, as stated in the appeal ruling posted on the website of the Supreme Court of the Republic.
In his lawsuit, Arbi Dandaev stated that “the defendant violated the conditions of detention for a long time.” In particular, according to the document, the Constitution and the Chechen-Russian dictionary were confiscated from the convict, the electricity was turned off during the fasting month of Ramadan, his opportunities for watching films and videos and television programs were limited, and he was kept “in a metal cage during court hearings in a video conference room.” connections."
Arbi Dandaev demanded compensation of 500 thousand rubles. The court ordered the administration of colony No. 6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Khabarovsk Territory to return to Dandaev the brochure “The Constitution of the Russian Federation” and the Chechen-Russian dictionary, declared the power outage during the month of Ramadan illegal and ordered the colony to pay Dandaev ten thousand rubles. The district court did not satisfy the remaining requirements, as indicated in the publication of the Supreme Court.
"In the appeal, the representative of PKU IK-6 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Khabarovsk Territory O.V. Shadrina asks the court to cancel the decision as illegal and unfounded, and to make a new decision in the case to refuse to satisfy the claims. In the court of appeal, A.Kh. Dandaev ., participating in the court hearing through the use of video conferencing systems, objected to the arguments of the complaint and asked the court’s decision to be left unchanged,” the document says.
Contrary to the arguments of the appeal, the district court, when determining the amount of compensation for violation of the conditions of detention of the convicted person, “took into account the nature and duration of the violations, the circumstances under which these violations were committed, the amount of compensation corresponds to the principle of reasonableness and fairness,” the Supreme Court indicated.
“The decision of the Visaitovsky District Court of the city of Grozny dated June 28, 2022 is left unchanged and the appeal is not satisfied,” the judge ruled.
Let us remind you that Arbi Dandaev has previously initiated litigation. So, in 2020, he demanded 300 thousand rubles as compensation for moral damages for prolonged detention in solitary confinement in a pre-trial detention center in Makhachkala in 2008-2009. The court refused to satisfy the claim, and Dandaev in a new claim changed the defendant from the Makhachkala pre-trial detention center to the department of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Dagestan. In May 2022, the Kirov District Court of Makhachkala again rejected his claim.
In addition, Dandaev challenged the decision of the Grozny district court, which refused to recognize as illegal the decision of the leadership of the colony in the Sverdlovsk region to place Dandaev on preventive registration as prone to escape. In August 2022, the Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the decision of the district court.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a massive $17 billion contract to develop the next generation of interceptors that would guard the United States against ICBM attack. pic.twitter.com/G0uDeaG9Tf
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Defending against an ICBM attack is all well and good but is anyone in the US defense industry working on stopping drone swarms? Based on current events, I kinda sorta think that might be important for the next war.
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I had not considered how many ways the Olympic Torch marathon could be used as political theater by these mutts. Given that it is unlikely they are expecting the massive inconvenience blocking bridges and buildings to be persuasive, the rationale for these publicity events must have a different audience in mind.
It seems their target audience is primarily the Umma worldwide and how they view disruption of life in the Western World as displays of power. Iranian/Proxie Agent Provocateurs have found legions of useful idiots in the radicalized, shallow, angry ranks of progressive children for whom any cause that lets them feel the endorphin rush of collective "protesting" and "activism" overrides momentarily the dismal realities of aimless lives doomed to their parents basement.
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#1 Will we have Chicago '68 replay? Pass the popcorn.
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...I'm hoping so - but we have to look at the possibility that the MSM will simply turn off the cameras and do their best to pretend it's not happening.
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Given the obviously NATIONWIDE, well coordinated protests.
Has the organizing parties/group/funder(s) been ID'd and placed on the Domestic Terrorist Watch List?
Or does that only happen when Pro-US Conservative groups protest unconstitutional and/or illegal DC Swamp activities?
BTW: Maybe checking the Immigration status of these Dead-to-America chanting flag burners might result in some needed Deportations. At the least, keep them off the Federal dole and Fed employment roles.
The leftist pro bono lawyer of Antifa member Jeremy J. White told jurors his client went to the riot to be a “medic” to keep people “safe.” Why did he need to wear armor, riot gear, a mask and have weapons? The So Cal Antifa criminal trial remains ongoing: https://t.co/nLhpkc3Dmwpic.twitter.com/SnXxApC1m6
[Breitbart] Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) is calling out House Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who urged the Biden administration to “reconsider” the authorization of an arms package transfer to Israel that reportedly includes F-35 fighter jets, after F-35s reportedly helped deter Iran and its proxies’ aerial attacks on Israel Sunday.
Mast’s criticism of 40 House Democrats’ April 5 letter came in a statement to the Daily Caller, as the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reported an approximately 99 percent intercept rate on the attacks.
“Just last week, Pelosi and the Squad demanded Joe Biden stop transferring ‘offensive weapons’ to Israel,” Mast told the outlet. “This was akin to them calling for the U.S. to abandon Israel in the middle of a war.”
“Can you imagine how much more devastating Iran’s attack would have been if Israel didn’t have American-made fighter jets to shoot down some of these missiles?” Mast added.
Per CNN, F-35s and F-15s were used in defending Israel against the attacks on Sunday, where UAVs, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles were launched at Israel.
“Photos released by the Israeli Air Force early Sunday showed F-35 and F-15 fighter jets returning to their bases in Israel after what were called successful ‘interceptions’ and ‘aerial defense missions,’ CNN reported.
In the April 5 letter to Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Pelosi and 39 other Democrats implored them to reconsider an authorized arms package after seven World Central Kitchen aid workers were, as Israel has said, “unintentionally” killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
“In light of this incident, we strongly urge you to reconsider your recent decision to authorize the transfer of a new arms package to Israel, and to withhold this and any future offensive arms transfers until a full investigation into the airstrike is completed,” the Democrats wrote.
“Given the horrifying facts on the ground, we are also greatly concerned by your recent decision to authorize an arms transfer to Israel, which reportedly includes 1,800 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs, 500 MK-82 500-pound bombs, and 25 F-35A fighter jets,” the letter added.
The arms in this package, which the Washington Post reported was approved in March, would not arrive in Israel for months, per the Caller.
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Pelosi wants to see the tax dollars that we send to Iran not be negated by the tax dollars that we send to Israel.
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"The Congressional EMP Commission’s 2017 report titled “Nuclear EMP Attack Scenarios and Combined-Arms Cyber Warfare” provides ample evidence from Iranian strategic writings that the regime in Tehran actively considers EMP as a decisive method of defeating the United States."
Important content [in .pdf] at the link.
Use prophylactic measures.
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425 km is not a geosynch orbit, so 'positioning' does not apply. If it's a typical recon satellite it's likely in sun synchronous orbit, so it'll get the same sun angle each time its orbit passes over the same strip of land.
#7
Given the periodicy of the orbit, it will still be positioned for EMP effect repeatedly at certain times each overflight of CONUS. Not ideal for EMP threat but possible none the less as a sneak attack option.
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The low-rent version of an EMP attack would be a missile with an EMP warhead launched from container ship of the eastern US. I hear the port of Baltimore is nice this time of year. Or was.
[AFRICANEWS] A report unveiled Monday (Apr. 15) by the World Bank reveals that one-half of the world’s 75 most vulnerable countries are facing a widening income gap with the wealthiest economies for the first time in this century. That couldn"t possibly be because the world"s least developed countries are dictatorships, military or otherwise, kleptocracies, or otherwise what"s known as a "shithole."
The world"s most vulnerable economies are eligible for low-interest loans and grants from the World Bank’s International Development Association are known as IDA countries.
Over half of all them —39 in all—are in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Over 2020-24, average per capita incomes in half of IDA countries have been growing more slowly than those of wealthy economies.
Despite some progress over the first two decades of this century, significant development gaps persisted. The shock of the pandemic and subsequent overlapping crises has exacerbated the challenges facing IDA nations.
Among them, 31 have per capita incomes of less than $1,315 a year.
The report titled The Great Reversal: Prospects, Risks, and Policies in International Development Association Countries, offers a comprehensive look at the opportunities and risks confronting these 75 countries.
It notes that IDA countries have several important demographic and resource advantages that could—if leveraged effectively—help close development gaps.
IDA nations are home to a quarter of humanity—1.9 billion people.
One out of three IDA countries is poorer, on average, than it was on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic
The core days of the 2024 World Bank Spring Meetings will be from April 17-19, with ancillary meetings taking place Monday, April 15 through Saturday April 20.
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[GEO.TV] British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that he spoke to his fellow G7 leaders, adding that they were united in their condemnation of Iran’s attack on Israel.
Addressing the parliament, he said: "We are urgently working with our allies to see what steps we can take together in a coordinated fashion to deter and condemn what Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries" embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime"s influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is doing."
He said that the coordination of any measures, including sanctions, among allies would ensure they have maximum impact on Iran and those sanctioned.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has commented on the Iranian retaliatory missile and drone strikes against the occupied territories.
“We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) consider the military operation carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the occupying Zionist entity as a natural right and a deserved response to the crime of targeting the Iranian consulate in Damascus and the assassination of a number of Revolutionary Guard leaders there,” Hamas said in a statement this morning.
“We affirm the natural right of countries and peoples of the region to defend themselves in the face of Zionist aggression,” the statement read.
Hamas called upon Arab and Islamic nations, the free people of the world, and the resistance forces in the region to continue their support for the Al-Aqsa Flood, and the right of Palestinian people to freedom, independence, and the establishment of their Palestinian state with its capital as Al-Quds.
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[GEO.TV] Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismiss Defence Minister Yoav Gallant as Tel Avi’s forces began dismantling the Gal Yosef outpost in the West Bank.
"Defence Minister Gallant’s decision to evacuate and destroy buildings on the Gal Yosef farm, where 14-year old Benjamin Achimeir was murdered, even during the week of shiva [mourning], represents terrible obtuseness, moral confusion, security folly and a violation of the dignity of the dead," Ben-Gvir said.
"Instead of establishing and approving more farms and expanding Jewish settlements, we surrender to the enemy," he said, adding, "The time has come for the prime minister to consider replacing Minister Gallant."
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The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo… pic.twitter.com/RSbs1x9ouY
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It's not "genocide" when 1.3% of the population: terrorists or people who been standing too close to terrorists in a decisive moment.
It's not "ethnic cleasing" when they all remain in Gaza - getting fat on free food - putting an occaasional "starving children skit" on for passing journalists.
It is however "occupation" - an occupation of Jewish land by Allanbeasts.
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I have long been for lining up a bunch of bulldozers along the border of Gaza and pushing it into the sea.
These people want to genocide Israel just for existing. Don't have a lot of sympathy for them.
If the Jews wanted to kill the Palestinians for existing, they would have done so by now and I would decry them for it. The fact they still exist means the Jews really don't care so whatever retribution they bring on their heads is warranted.
Seems there is a lesson the Dems would learn about their greatest foreign policy coup, a real coup, BTW. But they won't.
[Regnum] More than ten major international airlines experienced disruptions as a result of Iran's attack on Israel. Reuters reported this on April 15. How terrible!
International airlines faced flight disruptions on Monday after Iranian missile and drone strikes on Israel further reduced capacity for planes flying between Europe and Asia.
It is noted that as a result of the Iranian attack, airlines such as Lufthansa, United Airlines and Air India had to cancel or reschedule flights.
According to the founder of the consulting company OPSGROUP, Mark Zee, the escalation of the Middle East conflict has resulted in the largest disruption of aviation flights since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001. Due to an Iranian attack on Israeli territory, the aircraft were forced to skirt Iranian airspace a
As Regnum reported, on the night of April 14, Iran carried out a massive attack on Israeli territory using several hundred missiles and drones in response to an Israeli military attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. The attack by the Iranian army lasted at least five hours. Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi called it the legitimate right of the Iranian side to self-defense.
The Iranian state television channel Press TV reported on April 15 that all hypersonic missiles used in the attack on Israel successfully overcame Israeli air defenses and hit their intended targets. Before this, the TV channel clarified that Iran used at least seven hypersonic missiles during attacks on Israel.
After the Iranian attack, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed concern about the escalation of the situation in the Middle East, calling for restraint on all parties to the conflict. The Foreign Ministry recalled that the Russian side strongly condemned the attack on the Iranian consulate, but this was not done by the UN Security Council due to the position of Western countries.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] Mexican authorities report a shift in the production and distribution of fentanyl as the 
[AFRICANEWS] Militants, alongside relatives of victims of the infamous abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls that sparked global outrage in 2014, gathered in Lagos on Sunday, April 14, to renew calls for the release of the remaining girls in captivity.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
