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https://www.europesays.com/1962942/ Trump Administration Says Narco-Trafficking is #1 Threat #cartels #Crime #drugs #IllicitTrafficking #México #narcotics #narcotrafficking #TheWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration
#Words & #Facts have lost all meaning
Via Marisa Kabas
#Trump plans to issue an #ExecutiveOrder designating #fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by Kabas. Source at #State speculates purpose is to designate #cartels as #terrorist orgs/justify #military ops in #Mexico / #Canada.
#law #geopolitics #USpol #ForeignPolicy #WMD #war #idiocracy #kakistocracy #insanity
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-fentanyl-weapon-of-mass-destruction-executive-order-draft-scoop
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The…
The Handbasket
@Vittoria@mastodon.socialHundreds of Shoes, Personal Items and a List of Victims Found In Cartel Crematorium in Mexico
Among some of the most disturbing items found during the search was a letter written by one of the victims that read: "My love, if I do not return, I want you to remember how much I love you"
Among some of the most disturbing items found during…
Latin TimesOk y’all, we’ve talked about stock market manipulation and we’ve talked about crypto fraud and the First Crime Family, but have we talked about Howard Lutnick and how money managed by the chair of Trump's transition team keeps showing up in the hands of drug cartels, terrorists, and fraudsters?
The Cryptocalypse Chronicles has a multi post series, of which part two is a "follow the money" deep dive into how Howard Lutnick manages roughly $100 billion for #Tether, and does business with gangs and sanctioned individuals and nations like Hamas, North Korea and Iran, and funds #pigButchering scams and illegal weapons and drug trades.
#USpol #USpolitics #Trump #cantorfitzgerald #HowardLutnick #USDT #Terrorism #fraud #scams #Theft #cartels #DonaldTrump #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
Howard Lutnick manages a huge pile of money for Tether,…
The Cryptocalypse ChroniclesIf Mexico is responsible, as the White House argues, for drugs and migrants crossing the border into the United States, do U.S. arms manufacturers bear responsibility for the guns going the other way? Mexico is telling the Supreme Court yes. #mexico #cartels #guns #SCOTUS
Posted into The American Story @the-american-story-csmonitor
Do U.S. arms manufacturers bear responsibility for…
The Christian Science MonitorLawyers for #Mexico argue that US #GunManufacturers & gun dealers are complicit in what they call an “#IronRiver” of #firearms pouring into the country & arming #cartels. They point to strict controls on gun purchases in Mexico, where civilians are not allowed to purchase the types of rapid-fire, powerful military-style weapons favored by the cartels, as evidence that as many as half a million firearms are smuggled from the #UnitedStates into Mexico each year.
#Trump has cited #DrugTrafficking from #Mexico as one of the factors driving the… #tariffs. His admin has taken a number of steps to push back on the #cartels, including designating 7 of the #criminal groups as foreign #terrorist organizations. That move could result in penalties, including #criminal charges, for companies found to be entangled w/the cartels, but it has also raised concerns from the Mexican govt of a potential violation of Mexico’s #sovereignty.
#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #Tariffs #Cartels
From the Wall Street Journal: Hegseth Warned of Military Action if Mexico Fails to Meet Trump’s Border Demands NOTE: Article is behind a firewall. Hoping someone volunteers a gift link?
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-mexico-drug-cartel-tariff-hegseth-military-action-5f507ab0
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is proposing constitutional reforms to tackle gun smuggling by foreign citizens. Read more from @Axios@flipboard.com
https://flip.it/vILetP
#Mexico #Sheinbaum #CentralAmerica #Guns #Cartels
@MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social@knittingknots2
#LowIQ Trumpsters can't understand why #Mexico won't "cooperate" with #GeneralDumbass and just declare the #cartels "terrorist organizations". "Is she *protecting* the cartels?"
No. It's b/c Pres. #Sheinbaum KNOWS that if she declares the cartels to be "terrorists", that will give #OrangeHitler the right to send *the U.S. Military* into Mexico to go after them.
She's onto him.
She needs to demand better US enforcement on money laundering. Ask why Trump doesn’t want bank regulation.
Long thread/12
@pluralistic maybe worth noting that #Herbalife is also a huge money laundering vector for the #cartels... This is what #BillAckman missed with his famous short.
think about it: it's a cash business. you, a cartel member, have $10,000 you just got selling #fentanyal that you need to launder. you can order $3,000 of Herbalife shakes, dump them in the garbage, and claim you sold them for cash to your friends and family for $10,000.
voila: $7,000 in clean money.
(I suspect it's the same for Amway and others; just don't know as much about it.)
The US post- #competition " #freemarket ":
"As #cartels and #monopolies took over our economy, most government regulators were neutered and captured."
"This is what changed: the collapse of market, government, and labor constraints, and IP law's criminalization of disenshittifying, interoperable add-ons."
-- @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis
Oh, I missed that Mexican cartels are now officially terrorist organizations on par with Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
How long until the first US drug dealer gets charged with material support for terrorism?
Non-white drug dealer, that is.
"An executive order designating cartels as terrorist organizations will expand prosecutors' jurisdictions, affect relations with Mexico, and risk blowback for which the US is unprepared."
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-executive-order-mexico-drug-cartels-terrorist-organizations/
@kkarhan@infosec.space@cafkafk All I know is that #UHFSATCOM has been plagued with #PirateRadio transmissions abusing the 243 MHz area band #satellites as global repeater.
Ranging from #Truckers in #Brazil to #Cartels to #RadioStations to people abusing it as a #Telephony relay in lieu of #SPSC on C-Band...
That's like 20+ year old #OSINT by now: Basically everyone with a #SDR like a #HackRF can send on those and for recieval some simple #UHF antenna and a DIY dish made out of chicken fence aimed at the GSO-bound satellites is all it takes...
OFC the #DoD will not like illegal transmissions but as per very nature it's trivial to recieve said messages for everyone who isn't lazy...
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #399: Narco Subs.
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#submarines #drugs #cartels #watercraft #homemade #smuggling #crime #coastguard #diy #strangebuttrue #wtf #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
@bibliolater@qoto.org
Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957
"I show how governments of all ideological stripes—from liberal Britain to New Deal America, social-democratic Belgium, Third Republic France, Peronist Argentina, fascist Italy and Japan, and Nazi Germany—all began mandating cartelization in hopes that business cooperation on prices and production could cure the Great Depression’s dislocations."
Hewitt, L. (2024) ‘Monopoly Menace: The Rise and Fall of Cartel Capitalism in Western Europe, 1918–1957’, Enterprise & Society, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2024.38.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Business #Cartels #Capitalism #Monopoly #WorldWarII #WorldWar2 #WW2 #GreatDepression #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons