[Quartz] Mozambique only has one reliable road running from the north to the south of the country, and yet that road has become the backbone of the lucrative heroin trade.
Heroin is likely Mozambique’s largest export since the end of the war, according to a new report that details this underground industry. Officially, its two largest exports in 2016 were raw aluminum and coal, worth $378 million and $678 million respectively. Electricity exports also made $378 million in 2016. Exporting heroin brings in about $20 million per ton, with estimates ranging from 10 to 40 tons of the drug moving through Mozambique each year, according to a new report.
In the more than two decades since the end of Mozambique’s civil war the heroin trade has developed into a tightly regulated network operated by connected families and allegedly sanctioned by the political elite, according to "The Heroin Coast: A political economy along the eastern African seaboard," a report by the Geneva-based Global Initiative Against Transnational Crime published this week.
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I wasn't sure whether to post this under "seedy politicians", "lurid crime tales" or "non-WOT." Are you ready for the "downer of the day"? What are the odds this loon will run again? The oddsmakers don't even have on the list of possible candidates.
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She must of gotten a well fitting back brace and feels energized. Let her run and lose the majority vote this time as well as the electoral college.
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Dawn Noon, Chappaqua. Cue the artillery.
Bill smells like a frickin' distillery
And blinks over glasses
As, dodging her passes,
He soaks up this morning's Old Hillary.
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I can only think of a single example in living memory of a politician losing the general election and winning their primary and getting as second shot at the general election and that was Richard Nixon.
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IMHO, he would chew her up again even worse since more has been revealed about her hijinx (= criminality) in the 2016 election. And he's improved the economy, made incredible foreign policy strides and is riding pretty high in opinion polls.
[Townhall] Liberals are petrified that President Donald J. Trump’s Supreme Court pick to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy could wind up being the deciding vote needed to overturn Roe v. Wade and send the issue of abortion back to the states. One Massachusetts state senator recently introduced what she calls the ’NASTY Women Act' in an attempt to ensure that abortion remains legal and previously unenforced state laws do not block access for women seeking abortions.
In January, Interim State Senate President Harriette Chandler (D-Worcester) introduced the Negating Archaic Statutes Targeting Young Women bill ‐aka ’NASTY Women’ ‐ to prevent Massachusetts laws such as an outright ban on abortion from being reinforced should the Supreme Court ruling Roe be overturned. The law would negate any previous Massachusetts law overturned by Roe v. Wade and subsequent High Court rulings.
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Given the lock that Dems have on both houses of the state legislature and the supine nature of our 'Republican' governor, Charlie Baker (A.K.A. 'Tall Deval'), this one's got a great chance of being enacted.
#4
Nice to see the dems deciding that states are the right place to decide this.
Also ending federal funding for something that's personal. Up to the states to decide whether to blow taxpayer's money on subsidizing feckless behavior.
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Whoa! She doesn't realize that if RvW is reversed then the states institute their own laws. Typical 'Dim' thinks that all comes down from the feds. No, no, sweetheart!
[DAWN] I NEVER thought a day would come when I would feel sorry for Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... Here is a man whose political career was launched with the blessings and support of Zia ul Haq ...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988... in the early 1980s when the dictator plucked the young businessman out of obscurity to make him Punjab’s finance minister. Soon he was elevated to the province’s chief ministership. He leveraged both jobs into boosting his family’s business interests.
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[IsraelTimes] Israel and the US are actively trying to force Tehran out, and even its allies Russia and the Assad regime don't seem eager for the Islamic Theocratic Republic to stay
The civil war in Syria is far from over. Syria’s citizens, certainly in Daraa in the south and Idlib in the north, could be in for long months of hardship before it’s done. And news of more battles, from Daraa to the Jordanian frontier, come on a regular basis now, as the Syrian army continues its advance southwards.
According to the Syrian army’s top spokesperson, its troops seized nine objectives along the Jordanian border this week in areas that had been under the control of rebels for the past few years.
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But the path ahead for Iran is looking considerably murkier.
[Breitbart] "Entrusting children to so-called homosexual couples constitutes in the last analysis a moral abuse of children, the smallest and most defenseless," said Bishop Athanasius Schneider in an interview with Italian media last week.
Mincing no words, the bishop said gay adoption "will go down in history as one of the greatest degradations of civilization. Those who daily combat this gross injustice are the true friends of children and the heroes of our age."
An auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, Schneider told the Italian daily Il Giornale that the "Catholic Church, just like every human person with good sense and sound reason, has always rejected homosexual activity."
Handing children over to homosexual couples "is a violation of the fundamental right of every child to grow up and be raised by a dad and a mom," he said.
The bishop’s words come in the wake of an ongoing battle in the United States over the unwillingness of adoption and foster care agencies run by the Catholic Church to place children in homes with gay couples.
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.
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
[IsraelTimes] Israel and the US are actively trying to force Tehran out, and even its allies Russia and the Assad regime don't seem eager for the 
