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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Inside sinister true story of the 'Octopus Murders' and the gruesome death of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro who 'killed himself' in a bathtub while trying to expose terrifying CIA conspiracy
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An upcoming documentary series is set to unravel the gruesome true story of an investigative journalist found dead in a bathtub after pursuing a conspiracy group.

Danny Casolaro's lifeless body was discovered by a housekeeper at a motel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in August 1991.

The 44-year-old had died from a loss of blood after suffering multiple slash wounds to his wrists inflicted by 'a very sharp bladed object' - and local authorities quickly ruled it a suicide.

But his family and friends have long insisted that he had been murdered for investigating a conspiracy group he had called The Octopus.

Here, FEMAIL has laid bare the sordid details of the case as Netflix gets set to release a four-part series titled American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders.

The chilling case began when Danny started investigating a dispute between the Department of Justice and a technology company called INSLAW.

The clash appeared to be over intellectual property rights but it soon seemed that it had a much more sinister underbelly.

Following months of research, Danny is said to have stumbled into a web of 'stolen government spy software, a string of unsolved murders, and some of the biggest political scandals of the 20th century,' according to Netflix.

The writer believed he had uncovered a hidden organization, which he branded as The Octopus, made up of eight ex-government officials.

Excerpts purporting to be from Danny's research, shared in the new trailer for the docuseries, asserted: 'These eight men, they're no longer government officials but their tentacles can reach into any part of government in almost any country.'

The journalist thought that the conspiracy had all started with Promis - a computer program which sources in the series claimed 'allegedly allowed the CIA to spy on the intelligence agencies that bought it.'

And it seems the program was engulfed in shocking speculation including that 'everyone who worked on it are dead.'

There were a string of suspicious deaths seemingly linked including three men who were fatally shot and another who had a 'wire running from around his neck to his ankles.'

Danny became 'obsessed' with bringing the entirety of the story to light - but never got the chance to finish his investigation.

In the summer of 1991, he headed out to the motel expecting to interview a key source for the story but would never make it back.

His death was ruled a suicide but many believed that his wounds were far from self inflicted - a sentiment echoed by those who feature in Netflix's upcoming series.

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2024 10:14 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wiki on PROMIS: A book written in 1997 by Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister claimed that the National Security Agency had been "seeding computers abroad with PROMIS-embedded SMART (Systems Management Automated Reasoning Tools) chips, code-named Petrie, capable of covertly downloading data and transmitting it, using electrical wiring as an antenna, to U.S. intelligence satellites" as part of an espionage operation.
A 1999 book by the British journalist Gordon Thomas, titled Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, repeated the claims of Ari Ben-Menashe that Israeli intelligence created and marketed a Trojan horse version of PROMIS in order to spy on intelligence agencies in other countries.
In 2001, the Washington Times and Fox News each quoted federal law enforcement officials familiar with debriefing former FBI Agent Robert Hanssen as claiming that the convicted spy had stolen copies of a PROMIS-derivative for his Soviet KGB handlers. Later reports and studies of Hanssen's activities have not repeated these claims.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 02/12/2024 19:38 Comments || Top||


Globalists aiming to 'peacefully' depopulate six billion people with mass euthanasia
[Natural News] The powers that be are anxious to finally achieve their long-envisioned new world order, which for them means a whole lot fewer people roaming the planet.

Over the years, the true plot was buried in all sorts of deceptive narratives ranging from "climate change" and holes in the ozone layer to simple messaging that people are having "too many" babies for the planet to handle. In all of the narratives, the true underlying goal was always the same: mass depopulation.

One of the latest more-explicit calls for genocide came from Dennis Meadows of the globalist-led Club of Rome, who stated in no uncertain terms what the globalist plan for the world entails:

"We want to have freedom and we want to have high standards, so we're going to have a billion people. We're now at seven, so we have to get back down. I hope that this can be slow — relatively slow — and can be done in a way that is relatively equal."

In other words, "we," meaning the top 0.1 percent of the world's upper crust,
...some of them, anyway. I can’t imagine that most people, even among the 99.9th percentile, want to somehow kill off six billion people. Who would be left to clean the bathrooms and mow the lawns, not to mention work in companies and buy their products?
want to live in a world without all of the rest of us "useless eaters." Such a world would have very "high standards," as opposed to today's low standards with so many extra people, so something has to change, in Meadows' view.
No, such a world would have a great many things not done that we are accustomed to having. Drastic depopulation would be a very bad thing — does no one read science fiction anymore?
Not only did Meadows not beat around the bush concerning his intentions with the above statement, he also threw out some precise numerals illustrating just how many people have to go in order for he and the rest of the globalists to achieve their long-awaited paradise on earth.

"He wants the global population to go from 7 billion to 1 billion!" writes Daniel Bobinski on his "Keep the Republic" Substack. "He wants 6 billion people to disappear — equally. He also said he wants it to happen 'peacefully,' as in, 'without violence' ... Now, how might that happen?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 01:49 || Comments || Link || [31 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Musk understands that in the long run, we got to get off this rock and into the universe or perish. These clowns only think about the next 100 years in their medieval geocentric view of the earth.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2024 7:20 Comments || Top||

#2  As long as the globalists are first in line...
Posted by: badanov || 02/12/2024 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  The COVID beta testing only enjoyed partial success.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 7:50 Comments || Top||


#5  It has to be peaceful. Otherwise the masses would rise up. How then? Vaccines, food supply, sterilization. What else?
Posted by: Angstrom || 02/12/2024 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ What else? Don't ask a question if you're not prepped to accept the answer. BTW, that "what else" is currently ongoing. I mean, it's not like the gummint can come in to your home and take your children to be sexually mutilated, right? That would be cray.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/12/2024 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  If they are trying to euthanize us, why are they giving us all these helpful vaccines?
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/12/2024 15:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Reminds me of all the 'binary exposures' talk.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/12/2024 23:19 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Vladimir Putin broke the conspiracy of silence against Russia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Elena Karaeva

[RIA] Howls, or rather hysterical screams in the swamps, and at very high decibels, were heard exactly at the moment when the interview that Vladimir Putin gave to the American Carlson ended. At first, the “Ubezhant” crowd began to beat up in a formal fit, then, when the chorus of Russophobic propaganda completed its aria, the voices of the soloists began to sound.

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Posted by: badanov || 02/12/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Putin has quite a unique take on what happened in 1938/1939. A worrying one.
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/12/2024 5:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Stalin killed all old bolsheviks - makes me feel a bit better whenever I hear some leftard mouthing off.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 02/12/2024 6:19 Comments || Top||

#3  When he implied that Poland was responsible for starting WW2, I almost choked.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, dividing Poland up between Germany and Russia, had already been signed when Germany pulled their red-flag stunt and invaded.

And Carlson didn't bat an eye.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/12/2024 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Carlson might have followed up with Katyn Forest question or two. The misremembering of people and events continues.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Mongolia weighs in...
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/12/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||

#6  The interviewer's task is to keep the subject talking, in the hope that they will say something stupid.
It appears to have worked in several spots.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/12/2024 17:10 Comments || Top||


Economy
Cattle crisis as production plummets to decades-low level, rancher warns: 'Biden policies hurting America's cattlemen,' consumers going to pay the price
[Blaze] As production of cattle has plummeted to its lowest levels in decades, a rancher is warning that Americans are "going to pay the price" for the beef supply hitting a crisis point.

"This is a bad situation for America's cattle farmers and America because we're producing 1 billion pounds less beef than we were in this country, just a year ago," John Boyd, Jr. — president of the National Black Farmers Association — said during a Thursday interview on "Fox & Friends First."

Boyd has been farming and producing beef for 41 years, and he stressed, "I'm telling you, this is a time when we should be investing in America's cattle, and we're not doing it."

"We're not investing in America's beef and cattle farmers, and Biden policies are hurting America's cattlemen, such as myself," he continued. "They should be invested in America's cattle farmers and making sure that we have the tools needed to stay on the farm."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 08:18 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fellow down the street (two miles away, dirt/gravel 1 lane road) is cutting his smaller pastures near the highway into real estate.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2024 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  'By Design' is not a crisis.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/12/2024 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  "Meat is bad for you" (commoner scum)?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/12/2024 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  We're already paying the price.
Posted by: Chris || 02/12/2024 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Wally World here in the Carson Valley, a beef production agriculture valley, is repeatedly out of ground beef. Its just plain nuts and frankly, infuriating that a fundamental mainstay of American diet is curtailed by moronic children in Washington.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/12/2024 14:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Ground beef has been on sale at my local Kroger twice in the last month, but only in the 5 lb. chubs.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/12/2024 14:46 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Warning Sounded: ‘Biden has Opened the Floodgates of Hell'
[Gateway] ’Blood now soaks the soil of 3 continents. Aggressors are now on killing sprees’

Back before World War II there were multiple small, regional conflicts that had developed.

Eventually they merged.

And that is exactly what is developing now, according to an expert on international events, and Joe Biden is allowing it.

"Biden has opened the floodgates of Hell. Although nothing is inevitable, we are fast approaching the point where, as a practical matter, he will not be able to stop China and Russia, directly and through proxies, from merging existing conflicts and turning them into the next global war," charged Gordon Chang, an expert on China, in a column at The Gatestone Institute.

He pointed out that, "Biden’s foreign policy has collapsed. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan effectively admitted that to CNN’s Dana Bash on February 4."

Bash said, "You have said now a couple times on this show and you have said this many times before that the administration is trying to prevent this from spreading into a regional conflict."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 02:27 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden, Smiden. America can not be the world's policeman. Trying to has contributed to the bankruptcy of the country, politically and financially. Chaos is the nature of the beast. You can try to channel it, but human nature rejects stasis. You can build your island among the chaos, but you can not stop it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2024 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  And the price of ice cream is rising.

Biden's Super Bowl 'Shrinkflation' video stuns social media: 'Is this a joke?'


Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2024 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  I prefer "Israel is a light into the Nations". Or, if you'd rather: "how to achieve meaninful communication with Muslims".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/12/2024 11:12 Comments || Top||

#4  ..pick that up from Charles Martel?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2024 11:35 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Don't forget Vlad Tepes "Ok, you can keep your hats."
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/12/2024 11:38 Comments || Top||

#6  ^
That was funny Grom!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/12/2024 13:47 Comments || Top||

#7  "Israel is a light into the Nations"

By 'light', do you mean an intense burst of gamma rays?
Posted by: SteveS || 02/12/2024 14:04 Comments || Top||

#8  ^An example on how to deal with muslims
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 02/12/2024 14:18 Comments || Top||

#9  If weakness is provocative, Joe is a walking provocation.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/12/2024 15:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Are we at the "wars and rumors of wars" stage yet?
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/12/2024 16:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
John Kaas - President Non Compos Mentis
[John Kaas] Do you really think the bizarre angry-old-man cane waving performance of President Non Compos Mentis demonstrates his fitness for office?

Because after that politically disastrous news conference in the White House is where we are now.

Biden is no longer mentally fit to be commander-in-chief. He’s an empty husk. I told you he was a meat puppet years ago. Last week, on national television, he proved it.

The world is on the edge of war. China is pushing us in the Pacific, Iran pushes us across the Middle East. Russia is taking Ukraine, despite our war party’s best effort to bring us to the edge of world war. And the president is not in possession of his right mind. He’s slow and senile and the world can see it.

He is President Non Compos Mentis. That is lawyer talk, Latin for "of unsound mind."

How did this come about? Biden’s Justice Department the other day ruled that the president was not mentally fit to stand trial on the issue of whether he’d illegally and for years taken top secret documents and stored them in broken boxes in his messy garage. He did willfully take the documents. He did in fact put them in broken boxes in his junky garage.

But the special prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to press charges. Why? Biden is unfit to stand trial.

He’s not fit to stand trial, but he’s fit to be president?

Robert Hur, the special prosecutor noted in his report that during interviews, Biden repeatedly could not remember the years he was vice president under former President Barack Obama, that Biden could not remember the year his son Beau died. The report was released during a week in which the president said he talked to world leaders who were already dead. And then in his angry news conference he mixed up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt.

It was IS a disaster of biblical proportions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 08:57 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:




Chris Christie Warns Second Trump Term Would Be 'National Security Risk'
“Pay attention to MEEEEEEE!!!!”
[Red State] Chris Christie continues to step up his attacks against his former political ally Donald Trump.

The former New Jersey governor, who suspended his own 2024 presidential campaign in January, appeared on NBC's 'Meet The Press' on Sunday to discuss Trump's latest comments about Vladimir Putin.

Speaking at a rally this week, Trump said he would allow Russia to attack an allied country if they had refused to pay their fair share of military spending:

One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said you didn’t pay, you’re delinquent? He said yes. Say that happened, no, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You have to pay. You have to pay your bills.

Asked by host Kristen Welker what he thought of these comments, Christie described the comments as "absolutely inappropriate" for a man seeking the Oval Office:

This is why I’ve been saying for a long time that he’s unfit to be president of the United States. It’s one thing, and think it’s right for a president to say to a NATO member, hey, you have to pay the dues you need to pay. I think the American people would expect that of a president, but the problem with Donald Trump is he can’t just stop there. He’s got to say I would encourage Russia to do whatever the hell they wanted to you. That is absolutely inappropriate for a president of the United States or a candidate for president of the United States to be saying, but it is consistent with his love for dictators.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 02:17 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What Chris Christie actually meant was ....

A Trump 2nd Term would result in many Socialist-Democrats facing State and Federal Felony charges to include Mass Murder.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/12/2024 6:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Think of the acres of skin grafts a burn hospital could harvest...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/12/2024 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Given we have no border, we're already in condition red for national security. A day late and a doughnut short.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2024 7:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Christie need to take his insulin shot, he is getting delirious again.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/12/2024 9:49 Comments || Top||

#5  I see Chris Christie has learned about projection from the Democrats. Guys like him are the national security risk.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/12/2024 11:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Krispy Kreme Chris will say anything at this point to be noticed by anyone in the media except Ozempic!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/12/2024 13:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Noted National Security expert, Chris Christie can shut his pie hole.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/12/2024 15:58 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 please don't dis the world's best doughnut.
:-)
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/12/2024 18:53 Comments || Top||

#9  AlGore and Christie should be locked in the same cell and fed beans until someone explodes.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/12/2024 19:23 Comments || Top||


Washington Post Blames Grocery Stores For High Prices To Cover For Biden In Election Year
[Federalist] The Washington Post wants voters to believe that grocery stores, not President Joe Biden’s inflationary policies, are to blame for Americans’ continued concern about rising food prices.

For three years, the propaganda press joined the Biden administration in lying about the nation’s sticker shock. They claimed inflation, which hasn’t dropped below zero percent since Biden took office, is "cooling," "falling," and lightening voters’ financial loads.

It wasn’t until 2024, when President Joe Biden’s years-long poor performance started hurting his standing in national presidential polls, that corporate media started reporting on how perpetually high prices affect families at the grocery store.

"Inflation has fallen. Why are groceries still so expensive?" Washington Post authors Jeff Stein and Abha Bhattarai wondered in a headline on Friday.

The Washington Post considers "labor shortages" and "ongoing supply chain disruptions" due to prolonged government-mandated lockdowns, "droughts," "avian flu," and even Americans’ "demand for food" as culprits for expensive shopping trips.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 01:59 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Lets see....

Increasing the Min wage 200%+,

New EPA meddling with Fertilizer, water, Energy, and fuel use restrictions, that results higher costs.

Manufactures changing ingredients and reducing sizes all to charge more (Shrinkflation).

The Biden/Obama Coup socialist style handling of the US and World economy. Where even Dollar Stores increased prices 25% due to the DC Swamp tickle poor management.

Or, the fact the Biden/Obama/DC Swamp has taken a $27.62T (12-31-20) National debt and made it $34.25T (2-12-24) making the US$ near worthless to Global Markets all in just 3 years, 20 days

So why suddenly is ONLY the END seller to blame?



Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/12/2024 6:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Commies got to commie. If the business can't make a profit it goes out of business. Nice to have a billionaires pocket to pick to keep that little rag running there.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2024 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Grocery stores operate on a very low markup for the vast majority of the items they sell, somewhere around 2%-3%.

This is just the WP echoing the twaddle Biden was told to say a week or two ago.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/12/2024 7:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, blaming someone else. Not entirely different from the recent Carlson-Putin interview where Putin opined that the Poles actually started WWII.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Churchill didn't call Poland the hiena of Europe for nothing.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 02/12/2024 8:46 Comments || Top||


#7  Based on the condition of our education system, I can see where the WaPo editorial staff might think that Biden was an economic genius and not bother to check his theory.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/12/2024 15:56 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Scientists say the Gulf stream could collapse by 2025
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2024 09:54 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I could shit a bowling ball but I'm not going to expect that to happen.
Posted by: Chris || 02/12/2024 11:42 Comments || Top||

#2  We 'could' also be hit by a asteroid in 2025. Media got to scare the Karens to keep in business.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2024 13:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I could ...

Don't eat Scotch Eggs.

"A Scotch egg is a boiled egg that has been wrapped in sausage, breaded, and deep-fried or baked. Despite its name, this likely has English (not Scottish) origins. Scotch eggs are commonly found at picnics in the U.K. and packaged Scotch eggs are widely available in British supermarkets, corner shops, and gas stations."

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2024 14:16 Comments || Top||

#4  what does g-d say?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/12/2024 14:58 Comments || Top||

#5  This is all they got? With Al Gore gone, its gonna be a bit boring...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/12/2024 15:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Pretty much anything could happen. This one is based on a computer model, and the exact probability is not defined in the Daily Mail article.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/12/2024 16:01 Comments || Top||

#7  'Could' and 'by' being used in their most elastic forms.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/12/2024 16:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Let's remember this in 18 months.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2024 21:22 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Amen. Past few years, been asking anyone who mentions this kind of crap, "Oh, yeah? Wanna bet?" But they never do... dammit.
Posted by: Omuter Guelph7959 || 02/12/2024 23:59 Comments || Top||


How the word 'helicopter' was born
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Vladimir Sosnitsky

[RedStar] 95 years ago, a rotary-wing aircraft was designed for the first time in our country.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 02/12/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems that the helicopter was first invented andflown in France in 1007 by Paul Cornu.

The word "helicopter" also originated in France.

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 02/12/2024 9:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Russia is a birthland of elephants.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/12/2024 11:40 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Alan Dershowitz: Are We At War With Iran?
[Daily Caller] Every discussion about the current Middle East conflict begins with the mandatory mantra, "We don’t want war with Iran." Why not? That question is rarely asked.

Iran has declared war on the United States — militarily, legally, diplomatically, morally and politically. They have engaged in repeated casus belli (legal causes for war) since the mullahs took Americans hostage in 1979.

Since that time, they have used their surrogates to attack American targets. We are entitled to respond militarily, as we are doing. (RELATED: Why On Earth Did Biden Give Iranian Proxies So Much Time To Prepare For Our Retaliatory Strikes?)

But we are also entitled to go much further and treat them as aggressors who have effectively declared war on us. We are entitled to destroy their capacity to continue to wage war against us and our allies.

The policy question in not whether we have a right to wage war against Iran. It is whether it is in our interest to do so.

It would be best if we could achieve all or most of the ends we legitimately seek without employing the costly and dangerous means of all-out war. That is what the Biden administration is seeking to do by attacking some of Iran’s proxies without hitting military targets within Iran itself. But can that limited strategy work?

Iran’s strategy has long been to use primarily Arab soldiers to do its dirty work, without endangering its own non-Arab soldiers and civilians — a sort of ethno-religious colonialism. That is why critics quip that Iran is willing to fight till the last Arab!

The Biden strategy plays into their hands. We are targeting Syrian, Iraqi and Yemeni Arabs in an effort to deter the non-Arab mullahs of Iran.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2024 08:04 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  iran declared war on the US when it attacked and occupied our embassy in tehran in 1979. can you read?
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/12/2024 8:29 Comments || Top||



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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.
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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2024-02-12
  
Sun 2024-02-11
  Israel carries out fresh air raids in Rafah, Khan Younis
Sun 2024-02-11
  IDF, Shin Bet say earlier strike in Rafah killed senior Hamas official, two operatives
Sat 2024-02-10
  Hezbollah fires large rocket salvo at Israeli-occupied Golan
Fri 2024-02-09
  Israel bombs southern Gaza as alarm grows over looming ground invasion of Rafah
Thu 2024-02-08
  U.S. airstrike killed senior Kataib al-Hezbollah leader
Wed 2024-02-07
  Israeli military claims it killed dozens of fighters in Gaza, captured scores
Tue 2024-02-06
  'Nothing left' in north Gaza: UNRWA
Mon 2024-02-05
  Scores killed in overnight strikes as Hamas weighs Gaza truce proposal
Sun 2024-02-04
  Hamas raises head above parapets, moves to reassert power in Gaza City areas from which Israeli forces withdrew
Sat 2024-02-03
  Israel turns focus of Gaza attack to Rafah as Hamas weighs ceasefire proposal; conflict now longest since 1948 War of Independence
Fri 2024-02-02
  Fearing Israeli assassinations, Iran pulls IRGC commanders from Syria - sources
Thu 2024-02-01
  Kata'ib Hezbollah announces suspension of offensive operations in agreement with Iraqi government
Wed 2024-01-31
  It's that time of the year. We must ask for your help...
Tue 2024-01-30
  Israeli forces claim killing dozens of Gaza gunmen near hospital
Mon 2024-01-29
  IRGC seizes foreign tanker carrying 2 million liters of fuel


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