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The customers of the CCP are the Cartels, not those being killed. CCP will continue to kill us as it parallels the desires of the globalists.
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I know its a much larger topic, but society as a whole has a serious problem with addiction. The longer I watch events the more convinced I am that the powers that be have no real interest in tackling addiction because of the role it plays in keeping the masses from breaking free of the matrix.
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These new super-killer drugs mean that once all the volunteers go down, they'll have to put it in the food and water to get the rest of us...
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Getting even for flooding Chyna with opium back in the day, tho that was mostly Great Britain. Even if they aren't the most innovative culture, they can sure take an idea and run with it.
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Wikipedia: Since the early 2000s, xylazine has become popular as a drug in the United States and Puerto Rico.[24] Xylazine's street name in Puerto Rico is anestesia de caballo, which translates to "horse anesthetic".
Maybe overdoses could be corrected with Ivermectin, Dr. Fauci?
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07/21/2023 14:53 Comments ||
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When I was an RA in college back in 1972 the big thing was PCP, another animal drug that was passed off as THC. Things certainly come around the circle.
#10
looks like another problem to solve by making Kamala the Czar of it
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You can’t make Kamala the Drug Czar; she would definitely get the wrong idea.
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07/21/2023 18:49 Comments ||
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Kamala PSA Ad: "KNOW what you're putting in your mouth!"
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07/21/2023 18:58 Comments ||
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“If someone asks you for blow, tell them you need more information.”
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07/21/2023 19:06 Comments ||
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The "war on drugs" is all blather. It's like listening to both Trey Gowdy and Jim Jordan, because, as we know, the American people just loooove talk. Lots of talk. But action? I'm not so sure Americans have enough energy due to a lack of caloric intake.
[GEO.TV] Afghanistan’s Interim Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi has assured Pakistain that the Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... government will not allow anyone to use their homeland against another country.
Taqqiya. Or not, given they all, except ISIS-K have pledged loyalty to the Taliban, and so are no longer outsiders.
The assurance was made by the Taliban government’s top diplomat in a meeting with Pakistain's Special Representative for Afghanistan Asif Durrani in Kabul, a statement issued by the Afghan foreign ministry said.
The bilateral huddle was held on Wednesday and the Pak side is yet to issue an official statement on the meeting.
In the meeting, Muttaqi congratulated Durrani for assuming office and hoped that with his appointment the "political and economic relations between the two countries will develop further". He added that "with ensured security in Afghanistan, a good opportunity has come up to strengthen the economy of the two countries, commence major projects, and increase trade".
"Afghans will never harm anyone; we will allow none to use our soil against another country; and our efforts will always be directed at working for regional security and stability," the Afghan foreign ministry quoted Muttaqi.
On the other hand, the Afghan foreign ministry said that the Pak envoy congratulated the Afghan Taliban "for the overall stability and security following a four-decade war and problems".
"My efforts will be aimed at enhancing relations between the two countries; our countries have progress in the field of business that is appreciable; regional security is to everyone's benefit; and we will cooperate in the security sector," Durrani was quoted as saying.
The envoy also assured Muttaqi that Pakistain is "ready to develop bilateral political, economic, and other mechanisms".
"We will pay serious attention to completing the remaining work of Torkham-Jalalabad road; and that visa facility will be provided for Afghans, particularly for medical patients," Durrani added.
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Does that include the opium?
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Predicting the future is not difficult at all. Return to Afghanistan in five hundred years and nothing will have changed.
[AFRICANEWS] King Mohammed VI invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Morocco after the Jewish state recognized Morocco's illusory sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, a "far-sighted" decision, according to a message of thanks published on Wednesday.
"You are welcome to visit Morocco, on dates at our best mutual convenience, to be defined through diplomatic channels," wrote the Cherifian sovereign in his message.
This meeting "will open up new possibilities for bilateral relations between Morocco and Israel," he said.
According to a statement from Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzahi Hanegbi and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita "decided this evening to jointly set a date in the near future" for the visit.
The question of Western Sahara is "the national cause of the kingdom and the priority of its foreign policy", underlines Mohammed VI in his message, welcoming an "important decision (which is) both fair and far-sighted".
"It is part of the irreversible international dynamic which sees many countries (...) favoring a definitive political solution to this anachronistic regional dispute, on the basis of the Moroccan autonomy initiative for the Sahara region and in the framework of the illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom", he continues.
Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, is considered a "non-self-governing territory" by the UN in the absence of a definitive settlement. For nearly 50 years, an armed conflict has opposed Morocco to the separatists of the Polisario Front, supported by neighboring Algeria.
Rabat advocates an autonomy plan under its exclusive illusory sovereignty, while the Polisario calls for a self-determination referendum under the aegis of the UN, planned when a ceasefire was signed in 1991 but never materialized.
Morocco exerts intense pressure on its international partners — particularly La Belle France, through a relentless media campaign — to recognize the "Moroccanness" of the territory.
Morocco and Israel normalized diplomatic relations in December 2020 as part of the Abraham Accords, a process between Israel and several Arab countries, backed by Washington.
[AFRICANEWS] Former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , Joseph Kabila, has rejected accusations from Uganda that he gave sanctuary to rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces.
Last week, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni ...President-for-Life of Uganda. He assumed office in 1985. His primary virtue is being prefereable to both his predecessors, Idi Amin and Milton Obote... said that Kabila allowed the Islamist rebel group to expand and exploit mineral resources during the Congolese leader's time in office.
Kabila led the DRC from 2001 to 2019 when current president Félix Tshisekedi took over.
In response to the accusations, Kabila's spokesperson said in a statement his government recognised the ADF as a terrorist organization and kept the international community, including the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , informed "on the abuses perpetrated by the ADF and the need to intervene".
The spokesperson added that "These international organizations rejected this qualification of the Congolese government of the word 'terrorist'. It is past time that the facts have proven that Joseph Kabila was right and that it was necessary to intervene urgently."
The ADF was founded in 1996 and was originally a Ugandan rebel group, carrying out attacks in the Rwenzori region in western Uganda.
The rebels were eventually driven out and fled over the border into the jungles of eastern DRC.
The ADF, which has pledged allegiance to 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.... , continue to carry out attacks in Congo against both civilian and military targets and also occasionally carry out killings in Uganda.
Last month, fighters crossed the border into Uganda where they attacked a secondary school, massacring 42 people, most of whom were students.
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[KavkazUzel] The Southern District Military Court extended the term of detention for three months for Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev
...for some reason Kavkaz Uzel also likes to spell his name Abdulmumin Hajiyev. Along with the head of the Ansar Foundation charity, Abubakar Rizvanov, and Kemal Tambiev, he was accused of financing terrorism. Investigators believe that they collected 68 million rubles and 200 thousand dollars for ISIS in Syria under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims...
and other defendants in the case of financing terrorism - Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 22 the state prosecutor demanded that each of the defendants be sentenced to 19 years in prison. The prosecutor ignored the arguments of the experts and the testimonies of witnesses, Hajiyev stated after the meeting. Speaking in court on July 6, he stated that the accusation was unsubstantiated. Abubakar Rizvanov, speaking in the debate at the meeting on July 13, called the accusation unfounded.
Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, as well as the head of the Ansar charity fund Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, have been taken into custody since June 2019 on charges of financing terrorism. Investigators believe they collected 68 million rubles and $200,000 for the terrorists under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims.
The investigation connects the defendants with the Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation, Israil Akhmednabiev, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky. The defendants plead not guilty. The details of the case are collected in the material of the "Caucasian Knot" "Golunov number two": the main thing about the case of Abdulmumin Hajiyev."
The Southern District Military Court extended the term of detention for three months for Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev and other defendants in the case of financing terrorism - Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, the Chernovik Telegram channel reported today.
The prosecutor's office insisted on extending the arrest, since, according to the public prosecutor, once released, the defendants will continue to engage in criminal activities or may hide. The defense asked to use a preventive measure not related to deprivation of liberty - a written undertaking not to leave the place or house arrest, pointing out that at the debate stage it makes no sense to hide from the court, and the prosecution should provide new arguments to justify the preventive measure, RusNews reported today.
As follows from the video published in the Telegram channel of the publication, the defendants also supported the petitions of the defense. "If the grounds for our detention are not disputed, this is because they did not exist at all initially, then what is not there cannot be disputed. And we have never engaged in criminal activity about the fact that we can continue criminal activity in the wild," Abdulmumin Hajiyev said. Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov also agreed with the demands of the defense, but the court extended the arrest of all three defendants.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that colleagues of the arrested editor of "Chernovik" Abdulmumin Gadzhiev consider his criminal case to be political persecution and regularly hold single-person pickets in his support in the center of Makhachkala - next to the complex of buildings of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB department for Dagestan.
On July 17, such actions were carried out by Novoye Delo journalist Idris Yusupov and deputy chief editor of Chernovik Magomed Magomedov. They noted that the speeches of the defendants in the debate provoked an increase in interest in the case of the Dagestan journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, which was shown by the reaction to the pickets. The court verdict in Hajiyev's case will demonstrate whether justice is possible in such cases, or will untie the hands of those who falsify cases, Hajiyev's colleagues stressed.
Journalists believe that Gadzhiev suffers because the newspaper voiced "uncomfortable questions" to the authorities and security forces, the "Caucasian Knot" report "Draft" says: threats, criminal cases, murder of the editor-in-chief
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[Regnum] The protesters in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm did not burn the Koran, as previously planned, but one of the protesters trampled it, reports AFP.
It is noted that 37-year-old Salvan Momika
...who apparently is some sort of Iraqi Christian, not a former Moslem...
trampled and kicked the Koran, but left the action without setting fire to the book, as he did at a similar protest near the main mosque in Stockholm less than a month ago.
The Swedish police allowed a protest action with the burning of the Koran at the main mosque in Stockholm on the first day of Eid al-Adha (June 28).
Then in Stockholm, an immigrant from Iraq burned the Koran at the main mosque of the city. The authorities allowed the rally, although the city police refused to carry it out. But the organizers appealed to the court, which recognized the decision of law enforcement officers as erroneous.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called disrespect for the Koran a crime. During a visit to the Juma mosque in Derbent, he stressed that the Koran is a shrine for Muslims and for many other people, but in some countries religious feelings are not respected.
#1
Who gives a shit? If it was Bible the article would have never been written.
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Apparently, peak insanity for Muslims can be triggered by book abuse.
"BAGHDAD/STOCKHOLM, July 20 (Reuters) - Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador on Thursday in protest at a planned burning of the Koran in Stockholm that had prompted hundreds of protesters to storm and set alight the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.
An Iraqi government statement said Baghdad had also recalled its charge d'affaires in Sweden..."
[Iraq News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s central bank hiked its main interest rate for the second month in a row on Thursday but analysts said the unwinding of 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... ’s unconventional policy was too timid to tame inflation.
After years of cuts that aimed to boost growth but fuelled inflation and caused the lira to tumble, the bank doubled its rate last month from 8.5 percent to 15 percent.
The latest hike was smaller, at 2.5 percentage points, taking the rate to 17.5 percent.
The central bank said in a statement that it "decided to continue the monetary tightening process in order to establish the disinflation course as soon as possible, to anchor inflation expectations, and to control the deterioration in pricing behaviour."
The rate increases have been undertaken since Erdogan named investor-friendly faces to head the central bank and the finance ministry following his re-election in tight May polls.
The bank said after the first rate hike in June that the move was only the start of a process aimed at bringing Turkey’s annual inflation rate of nearly 40 percent to single figures "as soon as possible".
The inflation rate reached 85 percent late last year and the central bank burned through most of its reserves trying to prop up the lira — down 90 percent against the dollar over 10 years — from even bigger falls.
But the two hikes have disappointed analysts. who had forecast a five-point hike for Thursday.
"Turkey’s central bank today once again underwhelmed expectations and the slow and steady tightening is pushing the limits on what policymakers can get away with," said Liam Peach, senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics.
"There are now clearer risks that the policy shift falls short and that the lira comes under much larger downward pressure," he added.
The lira fell 0.5 percent on Thursday to nearly 27 liras to the dollar.
TERRIBLE DECISION
The central bank is now headed by Hafize Gaye Erkan, the first woman to hold the job.
Her resume includes diplomas from Princeton and Harvard, a top job at Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs and the role of co-CEO of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based First Republic Bank.
Erdogan also named former Merrill Lynch economist Mehmet Simsek as finance minister.
Both have promoted conventional policies that include interest rate hikes to combat inflation — the opposite of the approach long backed by Erdogan, who has a history of dumping ministers.
BlueBay Asset Management economist Timothy Ash called Thursday’s move by the central bank a "terrible decision" that was "again under-delivering".
He said a 17.5 percent interest rate is not enough to bring down inflation of around 40 percent.
"It will again play to the script of those saying that Simsek and Erkan don’t really have a mandate to deliver real policy tightening," said Ash.
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[GEO.TV] In a major development, an accountability court in Lahore on Thursday accepted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz's plea for acquittal in a Rs7 billion money laundering case.
The court acquitted the prime minister along with all the co-accused, including Hamza, Nusrat Shehbaz (wife), Javeria Ali (PM's daughter), Muhammad Usman, Masroor Anwar, Shoaib Qamar, Qasim Qayyum, Rashid Karamat, Ali Ahmed and Nisar Ahmed, except for one.
The court, however, issued a perpetual arrest warrant for PM Shehbaz's daughter Rabia Imran, who had been declared absconder in the case.
The accused had filed petitions seeking acquittal, basing their argument on NAB's inability to present any evidence against them.
The NAB Sherlocks also confirmed that no evidence was found.
While announcing the verdict reserved earlier this month, the court said that it had no other choice except to acquit the accused, as NAB has said that it did not have anything against them.
The anti-graft watchdog had filed the reference for the inquiry underway since 2018, in August 2020, when PM Shehbaz served as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly.
He was arrested by NAB after the Lahore High Court rejected his bail in the case on September 29.
An accountability court indicted the prime minister, Hamza, and others accused after over a month on November 11, 2020.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the prime minister was released on bail in April 2021.
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[Iraq News] The Iraqi Presidency announced that it would summon the US ambassador in Baghdad to discuss the recent statements of the spokesperson of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, against the Iraqi government over the cancellation of a presidential decree pertaining to the head of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, according to a statement cited by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
The Iraqi Presidency issued a statement expressing disappointment about Miller’s accusations against the Iraqi government and the presidency, stressing that the presidential decree that was cancelled contradicts the Iraqi constitution.
The spokesperson of the Iraqi Presidency announced that the Iraqi government has worked seriously with the United States since the adoption of the constitution in 2005 to build an effective legal system that guarantees the rights of all citizens.
"The role of the president in Iraq is to protect the constitution and laws, and he is not entitled to take measures that contradict the Iraqi constitution," the Iraqi Presidency’s spokesperson stated.
The cancellation of the presidential decree pertaining to the head of the Christian Church in Iraq, Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, does not affect his position or religious status.
Judicial and constitutional authorities have confirmed since 2018 that the President of the Republic has no authority regarding the issuance of presidential decrees for any heads of religious sects, including the Christian, Yazidi, Islamic, and other sects in Iraq.
According to the Iraqi constitution, the president in Iraq may not appoint or dismiss the head of a sect chosen by his followers, and the president cannot favor any group over another.
Hundreds of Iraqis demonstrated last Friday outside the US embassy in the capital, Baghdad, demanding an end to the interference of Washington’s ambassador in the affairs of their country.
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Let the bowing commence! Hope you're acupuncture guy's good, mate; that lower back pain's a bitch.
[Iraq News] Iran, largely shunned by western tourists, is making a push to attract visitors from wealthy Gulf Arab states and other nearby countries to boost its sanctions-hit economy.
The Islamic republic is also drawing more visitors from Russia and China to its ancient sites that date back to the Persian empire and the fabled Silk Road, industry figures say. "We're looking to increase the hostage tourist industry"
Iran’s Beijing-brokered diplomatic thaw this year with Saudi Arabia paved the way for direct flights, and Tehran is also seeking closer ties with other countries from Egypt to Morocco.
The slow but steady change is noticable at major tourist sights where more visitors can now be heard speaking not English, French or German, but Arabic, Chinese and Russian.
“In the past, we were receiving many tourists from Europe but now those numbers have seen a sharp decline,” said one Tehran travel agency owner, 46-year-old Hamid Shateri.
Europeans are “afraid of visiting Iran”, he said, after years of tensions over the country’s contested nuclear programme and after Western government warnings against travelling there.
“These days, mostly Chinese and Russian people visit Iran’s historical sites and spectacular scenery and Arab tourists, especially from Iraq, come to attend religious ceremonies.”
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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.
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
...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 
...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...
[GEO.TV] In a major development, an accountability court in Lahore on Thursday accepted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz's plea for acquittal in a Rs7 billion money laundering case.
[Iraq News] The Iraqi Presidency announced that it would summon the US ambassador in Baghdad to discuss the recent statements of the spokesperson of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, against the Iraqi government over the cancellation of a presidential decree pertaining to the head of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, according to a statement cited by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
[Iraq News] Iran, largely shunned by western tourists, is making a push to attract visitors from wealthy Gulf Arab states and other nearby countries to boost its sanctions-hit economy. 
