Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stressed again he will not use force on drug cartels
The announcement was made Monday as the leftist leader addressed videos that showed the heavy weaponry at the hands of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
The cartel has marked several Mexican security figures on a death list, including Mexico City's police chief who survived an assassination attempt in June
Government data released Monday showed there were 17,439 homicides in the first six months of 2020, an increase of 1.7 percent from the same period in 2019
Murders of women went up 9.2 percent from 2019 to 489
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Mexico is a narcostate with all the sham political props on display for the hostage citizens and foreign journalists. Ask anyone doing business in Mexico what the “bite” or “ silver or lead” means and you will get it.
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So call the niqab a full body face mask and it's a wash...
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Banning something and "free society"...hmmmmmm.
It's the stupid egesta here in US where driver's license photos don't require removal. Then again, who cares? People can vote sans ID around these parts anyway.
[Al Ahram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... 's ruling party on Tuesday presented a bill to parliament which would give the government greater control of social media but critics are concerned over the proposal's impact on freedom of speech.
Human rights groups and the opposition already point to the erosion of freedom of expression in Turkey, with thousands of people subject to criminal proceedings for "insulting" President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... on social media.
They argue that increased control of social media could also limit Ottoman Turkish access to independent or critical information in a country where the news media is in the hands of government-friendly businessmen or controlled by the state.
Under the new regulations, if passed,, social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter would have to ensure they have local representatives in Turkey or face having their internet traffic restricted by up to 90 percent, according to the text seen by AFP.
Social media companies must also remove content within 24 hours of court requests, and risk heavy financial penalties if they do not comply with the orders.
The law would affect social networks with more than a million unique visits every day, and proposes servers with Ottoman Turkish users' data must be stored in Turkey.
The bill aims to "put an end to insults and harassment" online, Ozlem Zengin of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said during a presser on Tuesday.
It was submitted by the AKP and its nationalist partner, the MHP, which have a majority in the parliament.
Erdogan vowed to tighten government control over social media earlier this month after he said "dark-hearted" users insulted Finance Minister Berat Albayrak The Imperial Son-in-Law (Bow the Knee!)... and his wife Esra, who is the president's daughter, following the birth of their fourth child.
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[Al Ahram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... will maintain its military presence in northern Syria "until the people are free," President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... claimed Tuesday, blasting the "so-called" parliamentary vote in the war-torn country.
Turkey has launched three military incursions into northern Syria since 2016 to battle the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group and Kurdish militia deemed by Ankara as "terrorists".
"We will continue to stay in this country until our thousand-year neighbour and brother, the Syrian people, reach freedom, peace and security," Erdogan claimed in a televised speech in the capital Ankara.
Since the 2011 uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , Turkey has militarily backed rebel groups seeking his ouster and facilitated access and movement of pro-Ankara militias into the Syrian soil.
Erdogan also slammed Sunday's "so-called" legislative polls in Syria.
"In these days, they are holding elections in Syria, so-called elections," he said.
"Can there be such elections? Where are the countries that claim to be democratically advanced?"
The election in Syria comes at a critical phase for the Damascus government, which has restored much of the territory lost at the beginning of the country's war.
The millions of Syrians who fled the conflict were not eligible to vote.
Erdogan also said Turkey "closely followed" the situation in another conflict-struck country Libya where Ankara backs the Government of National Accord (GNA) against rival Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... .
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[JPost] - The Palestinian Authority is on the verge of "total collapse" due to the twin combination of COVID-19 and Israel’s pending annexation plans, UN Special Coordinator to the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov warned on Tuesday. EUrope awaits
[AnNahar] With monikers as divergent as the "Professor" and the "Destroyer", the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group's new head has a reputation for brutality, but otherwise remains largely an enigma.
Amir Mohammed Said Abd al-Rahman al-Mawla replaced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after his death in a raid by U.S. special forces last October.
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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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
