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Bill Barr Lays Out War on Terror Playbook for Decimating Mexican Drug Cartels

Former attorney general Bill Barr believes the United States should use the lessons it learned from the War on Terror in the fight against Mexican drug cartels.

“There were 80,000 ISIS [militants] controlling a large territory in the Middle East, and we had a couple thousand special forces as well as local supporting groups such as the Kurds,” Barr told National Review in an interview. “Over time, we were able to destroy them. Now, a lot of that included bombing targets, and I’m not suggesting we do that here, but the ability to use special operations and precision operations against what are paramilitary forces will allow us to reduce them in pretty short order.”

At least the next forever war will be closer to home.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA

America is losing its African war on Islamic terror

No one knew they were waging one

After 9/11, the US built a network of military outposts across the northern tier of Africa to fight a shadow war against Islamist groups. Niger became central to the effort. From Base Airienne 201, known to locals as “Base Americaine,” US drones were sent across the region to track down Islamist terrorists. The coup against President Bazoum marks another disruption in this long-running, mostly secret, war on terror. American troops in Niger are currently confined to their bases. The future of America’s two-decade counterterrorism campaign there is in doubt.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Africa, Islam, Islam and violence, USA

How I Exposed the Biggest Pharma Scandal of Our Lifetime

Sackler Family – Mass Murderers of an estimated 500,000 victims

When I walked into the diner my source was already there, sitting in a booth. It was late summer of 2001 and, earlier that year, I had started writing articles for The New York Times about the growing abuse of a then little-known painkiller, OxyContin. Its maker, Purdue Pharma, was promoting the powerful narcotic to doctors as a “wonder” drug that was far safer from abuse and addiction than other pain pills.

I did watch the Netflix movie, it’s good.

In a just world the death chamber would be made ready but the money this family made on the graves of hundreds of thousands of victims bought their immunity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

850 people are still missing after Maui wildfires: Hawaii county mayor

Maui Mayor Richard Bissen said Monday 850 people are still missing as search and rescue efforts continue after devastating wildfires tore through the island earlier this month.

Bissen said there are currently 850 names on the list of missing persons, a decrease from over the more than 2,000 names that were initially reported missing. In a video update Monday morning, Bissen said over 1,285 people have been safely located.

“It is my sad duty to report that 114 individuals have been confirmed deceased,” Bissen said in a video update Monday morning. “Twenty-seven individuals have been identified and 11 families have been notified.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, WTF?

The death of the great American city

The flight of office workers to the hinterlands will have profound effects on society.

The King of Wall Street has spoken, but the peasants are not listening. Ever since the end of the lockdowns, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, like many of his elite counterparts in cities from New York to Seattle, has been calling for the workers to return to their cubicles and daily commutes. The business elites have been cheered on by big-city corporate media, like The Economist. Even the White House, despite its green posturing, is pushing to get most Americans back on the road, often for long, mind-numbing, energy-consuming commutes.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Young people are too fat and woke to fight

The U.S. military has a problem. Nearly every branch is falling short of its recruitment goals. Some are starting to admit it’s more than a problem. It’s a full-blown crisis.

Last year, the U.S. Army fell 15,000 short of its onboarding target of 60,000. By May, the secretary of the Army was already telling Congress they were going to fall short again in 2023. Only the Space Force, which draws from a smaller and more selective applicant pool, is keeping pace with its hoped for recruitment numbers.

This has obvious national security implications. The fear is that standards will eventually be lowered intolerably to boost these numbers, or the American armed forces will simply be forced to go without.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

US ‘Rent-a-Womb’ Industry Thrives Due to Demand From Parents in China: Researcher

The “rent-a-womb” industry pipelines children born of surrogates in the United States to parents in China, a researcher said. Babies born this way automatically gain U.S. birthright citizenship.

Chinese “rent-a-womb” industry, has been burgeoning in the United States for about a decade, particularly in California, where laws regulating commercial surrogacy and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) are permissive, said Emma Waters, a research associate for the Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation.

Surrogacy, a practice where a woman carries a pregnancy and gives birth to a baby for another person or couple, is completely banned in China

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", USA, WTF?

Biden Administration Funding Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program, Incentivizing Terror

The Biden Administration has destabilized the Middle East, launched a potential international nuclear arms race, incentivized global terrorism, increased American taxpayers’ funding both sides of the Ukraine war, crushed even further a people fighting for their freedom and appeased yet another rogue regime — after Afghanistan, China and Venezuela – this time one that the US State Department itself has called the “top state sponsor of terrorism,” Iran, all in one week.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

Terry Glavin: Mélanie Joly pushes conspiracy theories about Pierre Poilievre

While our American neighbours are transfixed with the high-drama prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the White House next year, up here in Canada our government is considering “scenarios.” And one aspect of these scenarios, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, is the “radicalization” of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.

During an interview with a Montreal radio station Wednesday, Joly hinted at a “game plan” in the event that the Nov. 5, 2024 presidential election produces ominous results, about which Joly spoke ominously. One scenario might be a “difficult situation.” Whatever happens, there will be mayors involved, and premiers. People like that.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

A horrific story from Mexico tells you what Biden is bringing to America

Since the day he came into office, Biden has opened America’s southern border, an illegal act that should see him not only impeached but indicted and imprisoned. But that’s not the world in which we live. We live in a world in which millions of illegal aliens stream into America, a substantial number of whom are Mexican cartel foot soldiers. That’s why you should know about the horrible deaths that five childhood friends suffered at the hands of the cartel in Jalisco, Mexico.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State, USA, WTF?

DOJ seeking 33 years in prison for ex-Proud Boys leader Tarrio in Jan. 6 case

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is seeking 33 years in prison for former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy earlier this year in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.

He and four other Proud Boys in May were convicted of entering a seditious conspiracy against the U.S. government to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, USA, WTF?