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#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
Hundreds 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"
Ok 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
If 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
Lawyers 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
chinese name? drug trafficking / money laundering indictment from the #FBI?
ctrl-F "#Tether" (5 matches found):
> "After the meeting, UC-2 used Tether to pay ZHANG for one kilogram of #cocaine"
https://www.universalhub.com/files/li-affidavit.pdf
it's always Tether (and therefore it's always Trump's Commerce Secretary #HowardLutnick). #WarOnDrugs not corrupt enough for you already? You're in luck, it's going to be a wild 4 years.
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
"Now, Latin American drug lords are using the same currents and trade winds that islanders have relied on for centuries to connect and expand their colossal, criminal empires."
Sean Williams and Kevin Knodell for New Lines Magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/02/19/tracking-the-pacific-drug-highway/
@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.
profit per employee comparison of:
- #Tether
- #Nvidia
- #GoldmanSachs
- #Meta
- #Apple
shows very clearly how profitable it can be to run a noncompliant bank / money laundry for terrorists, drug lords, and rogue nuclear states that derives 100% of its income from the government teat (especially when you put the owners of that noncompliant bank / money laundry in the White House and let them write their own financial regulations).
"The Criminals' Go-To Cryptocurrency Has a New Friend in the White House"
Missed this great #FT reporting last month:
> "The eye-popping constellation of gangsters and sanctions evaders using #Tether includes cocaine cartels, North Korean hackers, Iranian and Russian spies, and #fentanyl smugglers."
Tether is the most profitable company in the history of the world on a per employee basis and it's not even close. Crime pays, obviously (or at least collecting interest from the US government while you look the other way about terrorists and rogue nuclear states commiting crimes pays).
* FT: https://www.ft.com/content/b3c5b67d-1df8-4417-8dd5-2c86d76d6392?commentID=555beffd-ebc8-4211-8351-f68efe0f315f
* My piece on #HowardLutnick: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
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
"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/