Leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel arrested in Texas
Max Matza & Will Grant, Mexico correspondent BBC News - July 26, 2024
One of the world's most powerful drug lords, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, has been arrested by US federal agents in El Paso, Texas.
Zambada, 76, founded the criminal organisation with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who is currently jailed in the US.
Arrested with Zambada on Thursday was Guzman's son, Joaquin Guzman Lopez, said the US justice department.
In February, Zambada was charged by US prosecutors with a conspiracy to make and distribute fentanyl, a drug more powerful than heroin that has been blamed for the US opioid crisis.
Venezuela
Overwhelming evidence Venezuela opposition won election - Blinken
The US secretary of state has said there was "overwhelming evidence" Venezuela's opposition won the recent presidential election.
In a statement Antony Blinken said it was clear Edmundo González, had won the most votes - despite incumbent president Nicolás Maduro declaring a disputed victory.
"Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela's 28 July presidential election," Mr Blinken said.
His intervention comes as the presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia all called on Venezuela to release the full details of last Sunday's election.
Last Sunday, the electoral council, which is government-controlled, announced President Maduro had won the election for a third term.
But this was immediately disputed by the opposition who said, with access to the majority of receipts from electronic voting machines around the country, it was false.
The opposition has said its own vote tally shows it won the election by a wide margin. Opinion polls ahead of the election had suggested a clear victory for the challenger.
President Maduro has previously accused foreign governments of interfering in the election.
He has strongly denied electoral fraud and has said the opposition has instigated a coup by disputing the result.
The announcement of President Maduro’s victory set off deadly protests in Caracas.
It has also attracted global criticism, with many governments around the world demanding the Venezuelan government release proof of the result.
The result has been recognised by Venezuelan allies China, Russia and Iran.
But, the US, European Union and other G7 countries have called on President Maduro’s government to release detailed voting data.
Posting on social media, Mr Blinken said: "Electoral data overwhelmingly demonstrate the will of the Venezuelan people: democratic opposition candidate Edmundo González won the most votes in Sunday’s election.
"Venezuelans have voted, and their votes must count."
The intervention by Mr Blinken is significant. After the last election in 2018 was widely dismissed as neither free nor fair, countries including the US decided to recognise the then-opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president and imposed sanctions on Venezuela.
Mr Blinken said it was "time for the Venezuelan parties to begin discussions on a respectful, peaceful transition in accordance with Venezuelan electoral law and the wishes of the Venezuelan people".
Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino shared Mr Blinken's view, writing in a post on X, formerly Twitter: "We can all confirm, without a doubt, that the legitimate winner and President-elect is Edmundo González."
Opposition leader María Corina Machado, who says she is in hiding, has called for mass demonstrations on Saturday.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Ms Machado said Mr Maduro did not win the election.
She claimed her party's candidate, Mr Gonzalez, won by a landslide and Ms Machado said she could prove this because she had receipts from more than 80% of polling stations.
Ms Machado appealed for help, saying it was now up to the international community to decide whether to tolerate what she called an illegitimate government.
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BORDER TRUTH Venezuelan Gangs J.J. Carrell Aug 19, 2024
San Carlos de Borromeo Fortress-Isla Margarita, Venezuela
By the end of Biden’s term in office, his DHS will have arrested and released or allowed into American via the CBP One App and released over 1,000,000 illegal alien Venezuelans.
It has been reported beyond argument that Venezuela has emptied her insane asylums and prisons and directed those individuals to America. What has happened to Venezuela’s murder rate? Well, Venezuela now claims the lowest murder rate in the last 22 years! I wonder what the number of murders of American citizens are at the hands of illegal alien Venezuelans. I would need a lot more space on Substack to detail those endless murders.
Natural news by Eathan Huff - July 26, 2024
DEEP STATE COVER-UP: All U.S. intelligence chiefs, refuse to testify in Trump assassination inquiry
Nobody in charge of America's top three-letter law enforcement agencies is willing to testify about what really happened at Donald Trump's campaign rally in Butler, Penn., on July 13 when the former president took a bullet to the ear, it is being reported.
Not only is Kim Cheatle, the former head of Secret Service – Cheatle just resigned after her agency failed to protect Trump and his supporters – refusing to cooperate with the congressional investigation, but the same is also true of Christopher Wray, director of the FBI and Alejandro Mayorkas, who heads the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Various witnesses who were at the rally are said to be cooperating with the House Homeland Security Committee probe, but not Cheatle, Wray or Mayorkas whose loyalties appear to be elsewhere other than the American people they swore to serve – watch the video below:
Badlands Media
Escalation, Litigation & Sovereign Signals
BURNING BRIGHT - AUGUST 1, 2024
The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
That’s where we come in.
In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand pick news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community with some Badlands flavoring to help wash it down.
Now, onto the news from Wednesday, July 31 …
August 2, 2024 Badlands Media - Burning Bright
Fake Electionception, Sovereign Alliance Digs & Chick Fights
The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
That’s where we come in.
In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand pick news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community with some Badlands flavoring to help wash it down.
Now, onto the news from Thursday, August 1 …
The Princess and the frog
The Clown Candidate Crosses the Rubicon
Burning Bright - September 11, 2024
That’s right, folks. Whatever Actuals are in effect on the Game Theory Game Board have been put in place specifically FOR the Narrative War we’re seeing play out, and yes, that we’re actively participating in as the War of Stories rages on.
After all, the Narrative War—the Info War itself—is a feature of the Great Awakening, and not a bug. It IS the battlefield, as far as we’re concerned, rather than being a distraction layered atop it.
As for the latest chapter of that war?
It’s been dominated by the initial gravity preceding and following the first debate between Trump and (checks notes for latest Establishment Mask) cackling, sneering, oh-so-girlboss! Kamala Harris.
August 9, 2024 - Badlands Media - Burning Bright
Kamala Takes the Cheese as Things Get Weird Out East
The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
That’s where we come in.
In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand pick news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community with some Badlands flavoring to help wash it down.
Now, onto the news from Thursday, August 8 …
Biden Allowing Iranian Military Activity In Gulf of Mexico
Story by Troy Smith
Fair Energy Foundation President Dave Wallace broke news tonight on a political podcast hosted by Slingshot News founder Troy Smith that the Nation of Iran is actively moving naval vessels into the Gulf of Mexico.
The process of Iran moving their naval vessels to the Gulf of Mexico first began in February of 2023. Wallace reported that Iran has been able to move these vessels into the Gulf of Mexico using their ally China’s control of the Panama canal..
“The Belt and Road Initiative creates for China the ability to shut down, because of their control, either at canals or at straits, every major checkpoint or critical juncture in U.S. trade routes worldwide. They could shut down the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. This also includes essential port facilities adjacent to these straits,” Wallace told Slingshot News.
Wallace emphasized China’s role in bringing Iranian naval vessels into the Gulf of Mexico, citing Iran’s crucial energy relationship with China. Iran has quietly become the top oil exporter to China in recent months following the Biden Administration and United Nation’s joint decision to lift crushing sanctions on the Iranian regime.
“China has used corruption and coercion of the Panamanian government to do its bidding,” Wallace said.
In August of 2023, the U.S. government acknowledged Iran’s newly found access to the Panama canal in a statement covered by the Tehran Times. The 86th flotilla, as it was dubbed by the Iranian government, was a group of naval vessels tasked with circumnavigating the world, and were outfitted with anti-ship cruise missiles, torpedoes, and naval cannons.
The flotilla was marketed as a show of “Islamic Republic’s maritime strength.”
Despite U.S. attempts to prevent the flotilla from successfully circumnavigating the globe, the 86th flotilla returned back to mainland Iran in May of 2023.
“Once it was stated that the Iranians were ‘in range’ to enter the Gulf of Mexico, all the news went dark. It was only another week before they would be entering the Panama canal, and there was a news blackout,” Wallace told Slingshot News.
Wallace also told Slingshot News that the threat of Iranian Naval vessels in the Gulf of Mexico is an issue that the Biden Administration has worked to keep quiet in the mainstream media, which has large failed to cover the emergence of Iranian vessels in such close proximity to the U.S. mainland.
Wallace stated,
“While there is clear evidence of malfeasance by the Biden Administration on the Border, this threat that has slipped under the radar could be equally or even more deleterious to National security, and further reflects the inept and feeble Biden Administration”
Yet, Wallace told Slingshot News that he believes this is all orchestrated by the Biden Administration and “by those influencers that are destroying the United States from within, the State Department, where we have persons with the highest security clearance that are actively securing the interests of Iran over the United States.”
The Iranian vessels that reportedly entered the Gulf of Mexico accessed the Panama Canal through the Panama City entrance, exiting the U.S. built structure in Colón.
Additionally, Wallace tells Slingshot News that he believes the Iranian regime has already developed nuclear weapons that would be capable of being placed on missiles in order to strike the heart of the United States from the Gulf.
“The heart of the United States, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Detroit, and even Washington D.C. are endangered by Iran’s presence in the Gulf of Mexico. Today, when Iran threatens the United States not to dare attack Iran directly for its infractions against U.S. naval vessells as well as our marine assets in the Persian gulf, the red sea, and the Indian ocean, we are now hamstrung by this great concern of Iranian retaliation directly against the United States homeland,” Wallace said.
The missiles Iran has access to could reportedly strike up to 1,200 miles away from the Southern Coast of the United States, meaning a potential Iranian strike could reach all the way to Minneapolis from just off the coast of Louisiana.
“In this fight, for the United States visa-vi Iran, the globe has become a very small place. Everybody sees the globe shrinking under the Biden Administration,” Wallace stated.
For the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States is being legitimately threatened by a foreign adversary that is actively ordering their Navy into waters just several miles away from the shores of the United States.
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The Deep State Is Past Its Shelf Life
Tuzara Post Newsletter
By J.B. Shurk
September 10, 2024
At the Economic Club of New York, President Trump announced:
President Trump Announces Plan for Gov’t Efficiency Commission to Conduct Full Financial Audit of Federal Gov't
by Tyler Durden-Zero Hedge 10/1/2024
It Begins: US Port Strikes Erupt, First Shutdown In 50 Years Sparks Fears Of Supply Chain Crisis
Here's a closer look at Harold J. Daggett, who leads the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA).
According to Politico, Daggett, the ILA's president, earned $728,000 from the union last year and another $173,000 as president emeritus of a local union branch.
The New York Times said the union boss previously owned a 76-foot yacht, the Obsession, and runs around town in a Bentley.
Watch the video below, in which Daggett said: "I will cripple you, and you have no idea what that means. Nobody does."