[Michael Senger] The world has been counting on the intelligence community to call out anything untoward about the response to COVID. Of course, that won’t happen, because they’re the ones who planned it.
From an early date, commentators have noted that the response to COVID had all the look and feel of a coup attempt. The masks, the slogans, the symbols, the lies, the sudden inversion of long-cherished norms and values, the mindless acceptance of information from nefarious sources like the World Health Organization and China. Something was seriously off, and it all seemed so obvious.
Thus, one overarching question always lingered over the response to COVID. How were officials able to implement such destructive, totalitarian policies across the western world without intelligence authorities stepping in to stop them?
A detached review of the evidence leads to a chilling answer—though in hindsight, perhaps the only one that was ever really possible. Quite simply, the reason the western intelligence community never stepped in to stop this illiberalism is that virtually all the most illiberal aspects of the response to COVID lead directly back to the western intelligence community itself.
REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE
The western intelligence community was behind the birth of "social distancing" as public health policy via Richard Hatchett and Carter Mecher—operatives with deep ties to the highest levels of the intelligence and biosecurity communities—through their work on biodefense policy during the Bush administration. In what may be the mother of all COVID coverups, Hatchett and Mecher’s story that "social distancing" was based on a 14-year-old’s science project, as told through the New York Times and celebrity author Michael Lewis, appears to be nothing but an elaborate cover story for the fact that the concept was lifted directly from China’s longstanding policy of "lockdown" during SARS in 2003.
The intelligence community either planned or was in attendance at nearly all the pandemic simulations that began being held on a semi-annual basis beginning with Dark Winter in 2001. Current Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines was personally present and sat directly beside China’s CDC Director at the Event 201 simulation of a coronavirus pandemic which took place just weeks before COVID was revealed.
Michael Callahan, the federal government’s chief virus intelligence expert, told National Geographic that he began tracking the novel coronavirus in November 2019, and he was the US government’s only confirmed contact in Wuhan during the initial lockdown in January 2020. Upon returning from Wuhan, Callahan’s testimony was key to throwing the federal government into a state of emergency and the widespread adoption of mechanical ventilators which proved to be deadly. The federal government’s first impressions of COVID thus came from the western intelligence community via Callahan....
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We have been given no correct information about COVID since the beginning. That would be historically consistent with the entirety of Joe Biden’s political career, but he wasn’t in charge from the beginning. Some would argue that he has never been in charge. Only our intelligence community could gas light us to that extent. It is a shame that they are revealed to be our enemy.
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/\ Only our intelligence community could gas light us to that extent. It is a shame that they are revealed to be our enemy.
There are four political parties in the Russian State Duma. They are not actually 'in charge' of anything either.
[Armstrong Econ.] The Democrats sent a letter demanding Alito recuse himself on any such question regarding the power of the Supreme Court. Once again, just as FDR tried to stack the court to turn the United States into his vision of a Marxist Utopia following Stalin after he recognized the Communists as a legitimate government, they are at it again. They are out to utterly destroy the freedom of the United States and are attempting to regulate the Supreme Court to only rule in their favor. This is all part of 2032 where our nation is so divided, it will no longer be able to stand as one nation.
The Democrats are beside themselves after Justice Alito told the Wall Street Journal that Congress lacks the authority to regulate the Court. He expressly stated:
"Congress did not create the Supreme Court," Alito said. "I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it.
No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period."... The article is relatively long with some images, but those with a legal background might find it interesting.
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The grains of sand are piling in the bottom of the egg timer on this national tyranny.
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My recollection from Civics class 50-some years ago aligns with Alito - three branches of government, none subject to the others, only to the Constitution.
[8am] Recently, several officials from the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... , including Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi, who serves as the Taliban Foreign Minister, have held meetings with "British religious scholars". As per the spokespersons of the Taliban group, Muttaqi discussed the positive changes that have occurred under the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan and urged the scholars to present an accurate portrayal of the country to the rest of the world. In Taliban terminology, the term "Learned Elders of Islam" refers to individuals who possess religious education and are involved in religious duties such as leading prayers, issuing fatwas, and preaching. Previously, numerous mullahs from Pakistain and Arab countries have visited Afghanistan and engaged in discussions with Taliban officials.
The term "British religious scholars" is the first notable aspect of this news. The question arises as to who these scholars are and why they hurried to meet the Taliban. It is evident that these individuals are not those who have received specialized education in Islam from British universities. Instead, most of them are mullahs who hold British passports, and many of them were brought to Britannia to lead prayers or deliver Friday sermons for Indian and Pak Moslems. They were granted citizenship at a young age. If some of them have grown up in Britannia, they have been raised in environments similar to their countries of origin. Unlike certain other Western nations, Britannia has allowed Moslems from the Indian subcontinent some freedom of action and has provided them with the opportunity to apply their experiences from their home countries in Britannia. Certain areas of London, for example, bear resemblance to Pakistain, India, and Bangladesh rather than Western countries. According to a reliable source, many of these mullahs who traveled from Britannia to meet Taliban officials have Pak ancestry.
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[8am] Recently, a video has been circulating on social media depicting the Taliban ...Arabic for students... coercing Ismaili Moslems to declare their allegiance to Sunni Islam by saying Shahada. This implies that these individuals were not considered true Moslems until now and must reaffirm their faith to be accepted back into the Islamic community. This incident has caused concern among many observers and has further heightened the anxieties of the Afghan people. The freedom to choose one’s religion and express one’s opinions is a fundamental right of every human being, and it is crucial for the governing body to remain impartial in this matter. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the Taliban do not believe in religious neutrality and actively seek to eradicate diversity and pluralism in Afghanistan. Their exclusionary mindset encompasses various aspects such as religion, ethnicity, language, and political orientation. The incident in Badakhshan exemplifies that anyone who does not adhere to the Taliban’s beliefs is deemed outside the realm of Islam and must undergo a ritual of professing a new Shahada and renewing their faith, even if they have been integral members of the Moslem community for centuries.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Top Republican Mike Gallagher is slamming the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for promoting 'hostile activity' within the U.S. after a bombshell bust of a Chinese-connected lab in California.
Local and federal officials raided a facility in Reedley, California, which turned out to be an illegal Chinese-run virus laboratory that was genetically engineering mice and experimenting with HIV, herpes and malaria.
Photos obtained by DailyMail.com via court documents show thousands of dead mice stuffed in storage bins haphazardly shoved on shelves and freezers filled to the brim with bottles of blood and plasma of origins unknown.
Gallagher, who is the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, told DailyMail.com that the discovery of lab is 'incredibly troubling,' and said his committee has already reached out to various federal agencies to get additional information.
Gallagher said although it's at a very 'early stage' and they are still seeking answers about what happened, it 'could be another example of CCP united front work where they set up all these organizations in order to cover hostile activity that's happening on American soil.'
'And if indeed this turned out to have been sort of a bioweapons lab it's just another example that the CCP threat is not a distance over there, threats are right here at home.'
[ZERO] Since assuming office in 2021, President Biden has prioritized the development of wind and solar projects, but there’s been a clear and consistent hypocrisy from administration officials. To build these energy projects, we need raw materials such as copper, cobalt, and lithium — all rare earth minerals which require more mining — something the Biden Administration is refusing to champion. This was on clear display in our home state of Minnesota, where earlier this year, the Biden Interior Department banned copper-nickel mining in part of the Duluth Complex in the Superior National Forest. The Duluth Complex in northern Minnesota is home to the largest copper-nickel find in the world. The area contains 95% of America’s nickel reserves, almost 90% of our cobalt reserves, and some 33% of our copper reserves.
Yet, with the expansion of clean energy and other mineral needs, demand for raw materials such as copper is only expected to increase in the coming years. In fact, the World Bank estimates that by 2050, our global mining needs will grow by approximately 500%. That is a massive increase, of course, and will require political willpower to mine. If we’re going to expand mining, for the wellbeing of people and our planet, we should do it here in the U.S.
Currently, many of these raw materials are sourced from countries like China and the DR Congo. In fact, China controls 80% of the world’s rare-earth element supply, a stunning monopoly. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used this monopoly to assert its influence in foreign nations, such as the DRC. These countries, though, have disturbing and abysmal labor and environmental standards. In the DRC, for example, there have been instances of child slave labor in mines, a grievous violation of basic human rights. The exploitation and mistreatment of children through forced labor is an abhorrent practice that should never be tolerated.
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The US has so much potential. Shame it is simply not going to be allowed - cuts into the take by certain individuals.
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Biden prefers to let the Chinese use slaves in Africa to do the mining where they are none too particular about protecting slaves or the environment. That way the Chinese get the profits and Joe gets the bribes.
[Breitbart] America can be energy independent again with the right leadership and policies in place, Harold Hamm, founder and chairman of Continental Resources and the author of Game Changer Our Fifty-Year Mission to Secure America’s Energy Independence, told Breitbart News Saturday during a comprehensive discussion on U.S. energy policy in America.
Hamm, the 13th child of a sharecropper in Oklahoma, shared his story on his rise to success in America — furthering the goal of American energy independence and ultimately becoming one of the richest men in the world, embodying the American dream.
He has advised presidents and helped lead the U.S. energy policy toward independence during the Trump administration, which the U.S. achieved for the first time in decades before President Joe Biden unraveled that feat.
America’s energy independence, he explained, means "peace" in the world. He used the Russian aggression against Ukraine as an example, explaining that America stepped up, and with LNG natural gas exports to Europe which "made all the difference in the world."
"This important book, it talks about energy policy, the good and the bad energy policy of all these administrations," he said of his book, adding that America needs to stop "fumbling the ball" and returning to an "era of scarcity every time we turn around."
[Last Refuge] Bill Barr enjoys talking about the weaponized DOJ as if the DOJ was not weaponized. Bill Barr is a very dangerous figure in the government weaponization process, and he had a lot of people fooled for a long time. Fortunately, he didn’t fool me and many of you remember exactly why.
Additionally, during my 2020 trip to DC, it was specific suspicions about Bill Barr that necessitated going directly into the system. Through research and eventually a stroke of luck, I was able to trace the people Attorney General Barr assigned to review the Trump-Russia collusion nonsense. I found the people working for Durham and questioned the lead investigator. Again, I immediately told everyone there was nothing being done to confront the corrupt entities who fabricated the nonsense.
After those events I also outlined the institutional silo corruption, a process Benny Johnson recently described as "the ghost in the machine". While Johnson has the big picture accurate, these entities are not some unnamed random institutional bureaucrats. They are people, they know exactly what they are doing, and they understand exactly how to control the mechanics. These "ghosts" are the people AG Bill Barr was/is protecting. WATCH:
[Great America News] ANALYSIS — From the beginning, conspiracies surrounded the Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021. Stunned conservatives couldn’t believe Republicans caused that mayhem. Some called it a deliberate false flag operation by the feds to entrap innocent Trump supporters and launch a massive witch hunt.
Both last two things did occur.
Meanwhile, the Democrats and media called the afternoon event an attempted coup and later more steadily ’the insurrection.’
It was neither. But it also wasn’t a well-orchestrated false flag operation. The truth is just as bad but less planned.
I was at the Capitol on Jan 6 as a security contractor for a foreign TV news crew, and I condemned the violence the next day. I wrote that the, at times, violent riot wasn’t a coup, or an insurrection but the violence was criminal behavior, and should be punished.
I also noted that the rioters all appeared to be passionate Trump supporters, and not likely a false flag operation by the feds, or ANTIFA infiltrators.
Since then, I have defended many of the peaceful protesters unfairly caught up in the FBI dragnet and harshly charged for minor nonviolent crimes.
I have also written about the large number of undercover police and federal agents and their informants since identified at the Capitol that day. And I have noted how the Democrats in charge of the House and Senate that day refused National Guard support, as did the Democrat mayor of DC.
At least until it was too late.
Now, former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund has added his insight into the events. And he claims that it seems as if they wanted something to happen.
Sund resigned from his post shortly after the riots. He had been chief of the Capitol Police since 2019 and had served as a police officer for more than 30 years in total.
Newsmax reported on his untelevised interview with Tucker Carlson taped before Carlson was fired from Fox News:
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"What follows below is a brilliant analysis of the federal government motive to create a J6 crisis that permitted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to trigger an emergency session and avoid the 2020 election certification challenges.
Those congressional floor challenges, known and anticipated well in advance of the morning of January 6, 2021, would have formed a legal and constitutional basis for ‘standing’ in judicial challenges that would have eventually reached the Supreme Court. The certification during “emergency session” eliminated the problem for Washington DC."
[American Thinker] Coincidentally, I’m sure, in the lead-up to his being taken off the air at Fox News, Tucker Carlson and his team were investigating events on January 6—the same events that are serving as the basis for Jack Smith’s creative indictment against Donald Trump. One of the things that Fox News prevented from airing was an interview with former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund, during which he told Tucker that the FBI had "a lot of operatives" in the crowd. There was more, and it all feeds into the reasonable belief that January 6 was a set-up.
January 6 has been enormously useful to the Democrats:
It allowed them to certify the electoral college votes without any objections. These objections (which Democrats have vigorously made over the years) are a prerequisite to challenging the count.
It allowed them to round up almost 1,000 Trump supporters and destroy their lives, a useful lesson to anyone else who might think about opposing the Biden regime...er, administration.
It allowed them to pretend that the lack of crowds in D.C. for Biden’s inauguration was due to security requirements rather than to the reality, which is that no one would have shown up anyway.
And, of course, most usefully at all, it’s just allowed them to indict Biden’s chief rival, President Donald Trump, in the lead-up to the 2024 election. The charge, while failing to use the word "insurrection," essentially alleges that Trump defrauded America by ignoring those of his advisors who believed in the 2020 election (many of whom have been outed as fervent Trump haters) and, instead, looking to evidence of election of fraud and believing that election.
Knowing how useful January 6 was for Democrats—and considering that the "insurrection" narrative kicked in within fewer than 24 hours —it’s worth considering a very loose rundown of the timeline.
Trump announced a rally in D.C. on the day that the Senate was set to certify the election.
Trump asks for extra security in D.C. for that day, a request that is refused.
Trump tells those at the rally who "will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voice heard."
The crowd at the Capitol did not become agitated until the police, without any warning to the crowd to disperse, suddenly fired flash bangs into the crowd.
People in whom the FBI had no interest were filmed removing barriers and urging people into the Capitol. (See here and here.) Significantly, those who weren’t on the front lines would have had no idea that they weren’t being invited into the Capitol, especially because the Capitol police were welcoming them in (which should negate any charges that they were illegally trespassing).
Trump immediately issued tweets telling the crowd to remain peaceful and disperse. (See here and here.) Soon after, Twitter shut down his account, making his tweet inaccessible for posterity to revisit.
Trump tried to get to the Capitol to calm the crowd but was prevented from doing so.
Capitol police apparently beat one Trump supporter to death and shot to death an unarmed woman. Otherwise, no one suffered any serious injuries at the hands of the crowd—although Democrats lied relentlessly about Officer Sicknick, who emerged unscathed on January 6, only to die later from a stroke.
In event after event, it’s the system, not Trump, that’s inexorably pulling the crowd into the Capitol. And in event after event, it was Trump who tried to put the brakes on things, only to be blocked.
The previously hidden revelations from former Capitol Hill Police Chief Steven Sund are entirely consistent with the above facts:
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Half of the conspirators putting together the setup of Trump were in his administration.
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The J6 civil disobedience and political protest being hyper-exaggerated into an "insurrection"(albeit the only one in history where only the government had arms), and the show-trials and deceptive claims of illegal intent to question the election were the essential predicate behind the Smith Indictment. The trial and the almost certain conviction of President Trump for no actual crimes will create the justification for barring him from the ballot in 2024. As incredible as it may sound, the 14th Amendment, Section 3 language will be used to cast a "convicted" Trump as an insurrectionist, hence ineligible for the ballot.
Undoubtedly, the entire sham will be overturned in due course, after every procedural delay in the DoJ playbook, by the US Supreme Court. But the timing will be such, that it will not have been vacated in time for the elections. The process is the blocking strategy, not the eventual outcome. Like Ted Stevens in Alaska, Trump will be eventually vindicated, but denied a return to the Presidency.
XIV, Sec 3: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. "
[Dawn] What PM Shehbaz Sharif blurted out recently isn’t quite a national secret. Though none in high office can admit it publicly, in a moment of despair he admitted that wherever he visits, disdain is written on the faces of hosts. Respecting those who keep asking for loans and rollovers is hard. This, said he, is no way to live and so, "today we have to decide whether to live uprightly or by begging".
Begging is a foul word. But a second whammy followed: "India has progressed ahead but we have been left behind due to our own faults."
This understated the truth: Pakistain is seen everywhere as problematic even as major world powers cosy up to India; foreign companies are fleeing skill-empty Pakistain but high-tech semiconductor manufacturers woo India; and Pakistain’s space programme has faded away even as Chandrayaan and Mangalyaan elevated India to the world’s top four space-faring nations.
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I don't know. Maybe it's acting like crazy f**cking idiots all the time that puts people off.
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What did people, or countries, for that matter, do before welfare?
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As the Prince observed in 'The Leopard', 'All this marrying of first cousins is not good for our young people. In another generation they will be swinging from the chandeliers by their tails.'
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There’s more than one way to understand the portmanteau that is Pakistan, DooDahMan. The following answer from some guy on Quora summarizes the history nicely:
Where did the name Pakistan originate from?
From the Round Table Conferences that were organised in the 1930s to decide the fate of India, to be precise, the name Pakistan originated from the third Conference.
The second Conference had seen much infighting among leaders of Indian national Congress (INC), while the government in the UK changed for Labour to Conservatives. Neither INC nor the Labour took part in the third Conference, and the the Conference was participated by only 46 representatives.
Near the conclusion of the Conference Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a young Muslim nationalist presented a radical pamphlet demanding a separate Muslim state. He struck the idea while he was strolling by the Thames (according to his friend Abdul Kareem Jabbar) or riding on top a London Bus (according to his secretary Ms Frost).
The pamphlet demanded a separate homeland for “thirty million Muslims of PAKSTAN, who live in the five Northern Units of India”. He defined PAKSTAN as “Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province, as it was known as), Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan” in the very first paragraph of the pamphlet.
It was drafted by him alone. But, Ali needed other people to sign the pamphlet to make it representatives. It took him about a month to get three young Muslim intellectuals to sign the document. But, as soon as it was presented at the Conference, the Muslim League took it up as their demand.
The League has already passed the Lahore Resolution, which proposed a Two Nation theory demanding a separate Muslim constitution. But, they did not have a name for it. So they adopted the name, adding an “I” in the middle to make it easier to pronounce.
In the new spelling, PAKISTAN, it also meant a land (stan) of the pure (pak).
P.S. Choudhry Rahmat Ali also proposed Banglastan for Bengali Muslims and Osmanistan as independent Nizamat of Hyderabad. The former became part of Pakistan, while the latter became part of India.
BLUF:
[MAIL] 'The mental and physical pain of those years scar hard and deep but the men that I shared my life with were such a special breed and many life long friends.'
Such is the scale of premature death from those eras that 17 of the 36 wrestlers who performed in WrestleMania VI (1990) have since passed.
The EMU study in 2014 also linked analgesic abuse - using drugs repeatedly to alleviate pain - and anabolic steroid abuse to cardiovascular disease. All three of which have been prominent in the wrestling industry for decades - particularly in the 1980s and 90s.
'You self-medicate,' former WWE wrestler Marc Mero told the Washington Post in 2007 following the death of Chris Benoit. 'You suck it up and perform. If it leads to an addiction, that's part of [the job]. Because, if you can't [perform], there are a hundred guys willing to take your place.'
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) July 31, 2023
Observers and followers of American moves in eastern Syria can understand the recent American escalation in Syria and all their places of deployment in the Middle East without the need of any statements by any American Generals to say, with a stern warning, that the American response against any Iranian harassment will be supported by the Global Coalition and the American forces, and that it will be five times of previous responses. It is an obvious letter about the number of American reinforcements, seriousness of trainings, and impact of maneuvers that have been recently conducted with its local allies that aim at planning new goals that the US prepare to put them into practice.
Therefore, the criticisms directed to the American strategy in Syria describing it as "lost" and "unclear" have decreased, so there are new American strategic features that may the US Central Command in the Middle East was forced to outline them after a series of military-field threats in many areas of Syria. Those threats are conducted by Iranian militias with an announced Russian support. The attack launched by Iranian drones on the US military base of Kharab al-Jer in al-Ya’rubiyah countryside, northeast of Hasakah, had a negative impact, and it coincided with Russian moves on the Syrian territories in cooperation with Iran
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[ForeignPolicy] The once-powerful organization’s disappearance from headlines and the broader foreign-policy conversation is remarkable.
On July 31, 2022, a U.S. dronezap killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... at a Taliban
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"...more agressive FBI efforts..." Oh yeah, like the period between the attacks on American embassies in Africa and 9/11. Essay written by Daniel Byman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. And notable FBI bum-kisser.
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They were nearly out of funds when UBL got whacked.
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/\ UBL was likely months behind on the rent of his Abbottabad gov't Safe House. The US government made good on the lease and evicted the penniless occupants.
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.
[Michael Senger] The world has been counting on the intelligence community to call out anything untoward about the response to COVID. Of course, that won’t happen, because they’re the ones who planned it.
[Armstrong Econ.] The Democrats sent a letter demanding 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Arabic for 
[Breitbart] America can be energy independent again with the right leadership and policies in place, Harold Hamm, founder and chairman of Continental Resources and the author of Game Changer Our Fifty-Year Mission to Secure America’s Energy Independence, told Breitbart News Saturday during a comprehensive discussion on U.S. energy policy in America.
[Dawn] What PM Shehbaz Sharif blurted out recently isn’t quite a national secret. Though none in high office can admit it publicly, in a moment of despair he admitted that wherever he visits, disdain is written on the faces of hosts. Respecting those who keep asking for loans and rollovers is hard. This, said he, is no way to live and so, "today we have to decide whether to live uprightly or by begging".
[ForeignPolicy] The once-powerful organization’s disappearance from headlines and the broader foreign-policy conversation is remarkable.
