Cocaine seizures in Europe exceeded those in North America for the first time in 2019 and have only grown since, with a record 303 tons confiscated in 2021
Here, MailOnline delves into how Europe became the world's cocaine capital
[Powerline Blog] Sen. Dianne Feinstein has departed this life at the age of 90. The California Democrat can be remembered in several ways, especially as the American politician most faithful to the People’s Republic of China.
In April of 2020, Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit charging that Chinese Communist officials are "responsible for the enormous death, suffering, and economic losses they inflicted on the world, including Missourians." For Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Missouri lawsuit was the problem.
"We launch a series of unknown events that could be very, very dangerous," said Feinstein in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. "I think this is a huge mistake." The California Democrat had only praise for the Chinese government.
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Her and several others political careers still in office, should be used as examples of the desperate need for DC Term Limits.
Why not annual Public physical, mental, financial audits and random drug testing to ensure our electors can actually and coherently perform their elected duties.
Remember ... It's Biden's shaky finger on the Football Button.
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Her six amazing mansions in DC, S.F, Malibu, Aspen, Hawaii, Tahoe and the Gulfstream Jet she used to commute ware simply stunning. Her own net work in realestate exceeded 100 million, and her deceased husband's separate trust holding approach a billion. How exactly did a lifelong public servant amass that much wealth in her own right?
[Military] Having read Franklin Foer's account in the October issue of The Atlantic describing the disastrous evacuation of Afghanistan, I was struck by what it did not contain. Nowhere in the months leading up to the withdrawal did a senior military leader question the choice of Kabul's Karzai International Airport over the more defensible Bagram military air base.
The military chain of command knew an evacuation was imminent for months, and the Kabul airport was even more vulnerable to attack than the disastrous French position at Dien Bien Phu during the first Vietnam war. Despite that, not a single general officer, beginning with the secretary of defense -- a retired general -- raised an objection to the State Department's choice of the Kabul Airport. One of two things happened here: Either they lacked the moral courage to speak up, or they did not know. In either case, I am convinced that the deplorable state of our military professional education system lies at the root of the problem.
A misguided attempt to reform professional military education (JPME) in the 1980s led by the late Ike Skelton and other military reformers in Congress mandated that masters-level degrees be granted at all command and staff colleges, as well as a required study in "jointness." This forced all the military midlevel colleges to make room in their courses of study to accommodate the requirements of civilian academia to grant an advanced degree. What got lost in the mix was the serious study of the military profession that was formerly required.
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It is noted, "...A misguided attempt to reform professional military education (JPME) in the 1980s..." About that time Democrats in Congress who had paid no attention to military academy nominations changed. They began to appoint sons of leftists and the academies over the years, in effect, became politicized. And the matamorphosis can be seen today, forty years later. l
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The military chain of command knew an evacuation was imminent for months
Actually, years. Trump gave them what is tantamount to a 'warning order' to make plans. That plans were not on hand when Biden took office should have resulted in a deep purge. However the misguided Mileys thought they had their man in hand by participating in the ouster of Trump and could continue their game.
the State Department's choice of the Kabul Airport
Until the enemy is defeated, the State Department should be along on the ride with no such authority in country. That was a problem before and now repeated.
The problem is the division between leadership and management. Running a modern military 'system' does require management but it is not a substitute for combat leadership.
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For the last forty years the left has been upset that military types have been capable of independent non ideological thought. So they started changing it at the base, and it's percolated up.
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"Military education" or lack thereof did not have anything to do with the Afghan debacle. The debacle was purely political result and the responsibility for this disaster is all on the Jake Sullivan and Lloyd Austin. This duo thoroughly paralyzed the commander on the ground.
Regarding the article: Our Army "Generals" (4 stars) are selected by all the other 4 stars... Almost all of them are from north of the Mason Dixon line. I had a senior PSM from the SASC tell me that a this is by design...a design emanating from the time of the Civil War and intended to continue into the future. Southerners are allowed to be ground troops and maybe even make it to the two star level, but after that, political screening of our leaders is applied by the like minded senior leader class. The result is an amateur political class of senior leaders. Its not the JPME, that is a smoke screen... a diversion.
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Technically, the GO board, composed of other general officers, provide nominations. The final decision to submit those to Congress for approval rests solely with the occupant of the White House.
[WND] Call it poetic justice -- sooner or later you have to answer for your actions. What happens in this life may be a clue for what's coming next.
When General Mark Milley, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump and Biden, retired on Friday, he went out "not with a bang but a whimper," a testament to the poetic genius of T.S. Eliot.
Mark Milley is one of Eliot's hollow men who have spent their professional lives in Washington, D.C., ruining America. He is one of the men who "whisper together/Are quiet and meaningless/As wind in dry grass/Or rats' feet over broken glass".
Citizen Free Press posted a telling clip that captured the essence of Milley's hollow career on X, formerly Twitter, with the comment, "Fitting end to his career."
[Gateway] Tucker Carlson predicted Thursday that the general election will not be between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, and he’s probably right.
Biden is "senile," Carlson said during a speech at an Intercollegiate Studies Institute event in Wilmington, Delaware. He added that he’s not trying to be mean, but that it’s "just true."
Carlson pointed out that Biden is presently losing in the polls to Trump, despite Democratic prosecutors indicting Trump four times on 91 felony counts.
"They’ve done everything they can by legal means — which are in fact extra-legal means if we’re being totally honest, completely Third World stuff — to take the opponent out of the race, and they’re still losing," he said.
"This is not going to be a race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump," Carlson proclaimed.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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