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Beyond China: How Other Countries Provide Precursor Chemicals to Mexico
China cracked down on precursor chemicals but regulations in other chemical-producing countries are less strict and have gaps in enforcement.
insightcrime.org
"Between 2016 and 2020, Punjab Chemicals conducted six other transactions with Pro Chemie New York, shipping a total of 154 tons of oxalic acid to the ports of Veracruz and Manzanillo, according to shipping data."
insightcrime.org/investigatio...
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Things Trump has done since taking office:
✅Administratively dissolved the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
✅Demanded a list of names of FBI agents that investigated Hamas
✅Pardoned a Chinese crypto billionaire laundering money for Hamas
✅Established a communication channel with Hamas
✅Administratively dissolved the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
✅Demanded a list of names of FBI agents that investigated Hamas
✅Pardoned a Chinese crypto billionaire laundering money for Hamas
✅Established a communication channel with Hamas
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Things Trump has done since taking office:
✅Administratively dissolved the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
✅Demanded a list of names of FBI agents that investigated Hamas
✅Pardoned a Chinese crypto billionaire laundering money for Hamas
✅Established a communication channel with Hamas
✅Administratively dissolved the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
✅Demanded a list of names of FBI agents that investigated Hamas
✅Pardoned a Chinese crypto billionaire laundering money for Hamas
✅Established a communication channel with Hamas
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Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
theintercept.com/2025/11/14/b...
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
theintercept.com/2025/11/14/b...
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
theintercept.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
theintercept.com/2025/11/14/b...
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
theintercept.com/2025/11/14/b...
71% of Americans do not support the execution of unarmed civilians suspected of transporting cocaine and cannabis
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
71% of Americans do not support the execution of unarmed civilians suspected of transporting cocaine and cannabis
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The Censored History of Able Archer 83:
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Censored History of Able Archer 83
Washington, D.C., November 14, 2025 - The State Department quietly deleted important archival records from an official history detailing how a 1983 NATO war game could have led to a catastrophic nucle...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Censored History of Able Archer 83:
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Has Kash Patel even taken a polygraph? Or any of the political appointees at the Justice Department for that matter? Has Susie Wiles, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Steve Feinberg, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, or Michael Ellis taken a polygraph since they started?
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Has Kash Patel even taken a polygraph? Or any of the political appointees at the Justice Department for that matter? Has Susie Wiles, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Steve Feinberg, Tulsi Gabbard, John Ratcliffe, or Michael Ellis taken a polygraph since they started?
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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New: FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
New: FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
$330M in F-16 and C-130 parts is not exactly an unequivocal signal of support. I wonder if this isn't an empty gesture to create the barest minimum appearance of support for Taiwan without actually offending China.
U.S. approves potential US$330 million arms sale to Taiwan
12:57
The United States government on Thursday announced a possible sale to Taiwan of fighter jet spare and repair parts, at an estimated cost of US$330 million.
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202511140007
#news #taiwan
12:57
The United States government on Thursday announced a possible sale to Taiwan of fighter jet spare and repair parts, at an estimated cost of US$330 million.
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202511140007
#news #taiwan
U.S. approves potential US$330 million arms sale to Taiwan - Focus Taiwan
The United States government on Thursday announced a possible sale to Taiwan of fighter jet spare and repair parts, at an estimated cost of US$330 million.
focustaiwan.tw
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
$330M in F-16 and C-130 parts is not exactly an unequivocal signal of support. I wonder if this isn't an empty gesture to create the barest minimum appearance of support for Taiwan without actually offending China.
Lucchese crime family associate accused of running multi-million dollar college sports gambling racket in New Jersey
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
New Jersey Accuses Mob-Led Ring of Running Illegal Sports Gambling
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lucchese crime family associate accused of running multi-million dollar college sports gambling racket in New Jersey
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
OFAC has officially lapsed into self-parody
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...
www.state.gov
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
OFAC has officially lapsed into self-parody
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
The Vitol-Los Zetas connection
empowerllc.net/en/2022/06/2...
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Vitol still has contracts with Pemex; its former CEO in Mexico is an associate of a deceased financial operator of Los Zetas - Empower
Translated from Spanish The multinational energy company Vitol maintained a contract with Pemex at least until February 2022, despite President López Obrador’s threat to review its business operations...
empowerllc.net
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Vitol-Los Zetas connection
empowerllc.net/en/2022/06/2...
empowerllc.net/en/2022/06/2...
If you haven't read Wikipedia about organized crime in the U.S., Canada and Mexico lately, you're missing out on the best Wikipedia has ever been. These are like dossiers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_...
Buffalo crime family - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you haven't read Wikipedia about organized crime in the U.S., Canada and Mexico lately, you're missing out on the best Wikipedia has ever been. These are like dossiers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_...
They're calling it the Apalachin meeting on the Potomac
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
FIFA will use Kennedy Center free of charge for World Cup event, contract says
The Kennedy Center booked the World Cup draw at President Donald Trump’s urging. It will occupy much of the campus and displace planned performances.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
They're calling it the Apalachin meeting on the Potomac
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
If I were the Democrats, I would simply make a bigger deal out of Trump pardoning a Chinese-Canadian crypto billionaire who laundered money for the Sinaloa cartel, Al Qaeda, Hamas, the North Korean regime, and child abusers before donating to the Trump family bribery fund.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, high-profile cryptocurrency figure
President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
If I were the Democrats, I would simply make a bigger deal out of Trump pardoning a Chinese-Canadian crypto billionaire who laundered money for the Sinaloa cartel, Al Qaeda, Hamas, the North Korean regime, and child abusers before donating to the Trump family bribery fund.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Probably not a decoy load. #analysis
Panama: Authorities seized 13.5 tons of cocaine from an ocean-going tugboat in Pacific waters. The vessel, which was heading from Colombia to Mexico, was intercepted near San José Island after attempting to evade Panama's National Aeronaval Service (Senan).
1/3
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November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Probably not a decoy load. #analysis
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Criminal Intelligence: How Organized Crime is Weaponizing AI. Join the upcoming OCCRP Briefing.
We bring together leading experts in digital forensics, financial crime, and governance to expose how AI is reshaping the criminal landscape.
Join today by making a donation: mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...
We bring together leading experts in digital forensics, financial crime, and governance to expose how AI is reshaping the criminal landscape.
Join today by making a donation: mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Criminal Intelligence: How Organized Crime is Weaponizing AI. Join the upcoming OCCRP Briefing.
We bring together leading experts in digital forensics, financial crime, and governance to expose how AI is reshaping the criminal landscape.
Join today by making a donation: mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...
We bring together leading experts in digital forensics, financial crime, and governance to expose how AI is reshaping the criminal landscape.
Join today by making a donation: mailchi.mp/occrp/your-d...
Not nearly as big of a story as the FBI Director secretly flying to China for a one-on-unknown-number-of-Chinese-government-officials meeting in my humble opinion.
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Not nearly as big of a story as the FBI Director secretly flying to China for a one-on-unknown-number-of-Chinese-government-officials meeting in my humble opinion.
Those data centers continue to pay for themselves, mostly in copper. If a lefty like Boric out-algorithmic populisms you, just crank up the dials for nativism and crime and give it a couple of years.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘We need an iron fist’: the Trump-inspired favourite to win Chile’s election
José Antonio Kast, 59, is appealing to voters with a hard-right pitch on crime and immigration
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Those data centers continue to pay for themselves, mostly in copper. If a lefty like Boric out-algorithmic populisms you, just crank up the dials for nativism and crime and give it a couple of years.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Venezuelans deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration endured systematic torture according to a report from Human Rights Watch.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds
Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prison
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Venezuelans deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration endured systematic torture according to a report from Human Rights Watch.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Only 13 casinos in only 8 states means this is half true at best. 100% of casinos in every Mexican state that has them are used to launder money. Why wouldn't they be? Anyone with cash can walk in and lose it, no questions asked, and it instantly becomes legit revenue.
apnews.com/article/mexi...
apnews.com/article/mexi...
Mexico suspends 13 casinos for alleged money laundering
Mexican authorities have suspended operations at 13 casinos allegedly used to launder millions of dollars overseas.
apnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Only 13 casinos in only 8 states means this is half true at best. 100% of casinos in every Mexican state that has them are used to launder money. Why wouldn't they be? Anyone with cash can walk in and lose it, no questions asked, and it instantly becomes legit revenue.
apnews.com/article/mexi...
apnews.com/article/mexi...
If AI can positively reinforce delusions or self-destructive ideation, and if some mass shootings are motivated by delusions (e.g. the 'Great Replacement') and others are suicides turned outward, then couldn't AI be used to mobilize a mass murder?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
If AI can positively reinforce delusions or self-destructive ideation, and if some mass shootings are motivated by delusions (e.g. the 'Great Replacement') and others are suicides turned outward, then couldn't AI be used to mobilize a mass murder?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
This plays right into the Trump administration's hands and will ultimately hurt Colombia more than it will influence the U.S. to change their approach.
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This plays right into the Trump administration's hands and will ultimately hurt Colombia more than it will influence the U.S. to change their approach.
British pause sharing intelligence with American counterparts on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK pauses intelligence-sharing with US on suspected drug vessels in Caribbean
Rare rupture between military allies comes as concerns grow over Trump administration’s lethal sinking of boats
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
British pause sharing intelligence with American counterparts on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mysterious nationwide blackout in the Dominican Republic, just another in a long list of mysterious blackouts that have plagued Latin America and the Caribbean since 2017
apnews.com/article/domi...
apnews.com/article/domi...
Full blackout hits the Dominican Republic as crews scramble to restore power
A rare blackout has hit the Dominican Republic, snarling traffic and paralyzing business in the country of nearly 11 million people.
apnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Mysterious nationwide blackout in the Dominican Republic, just another in a long list of mysterious blackouts that have plagued Latin America and the Caribbean since 2017
apnews.com/article/domi...
apnews.com/article/domi...
Surprise: it's actually money laundering!
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...
Is the Flurry of Circular AI Deals a Win-Win—or Sign of a Bubble?
How round-trip deals could echo history and hit a wall.
www.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Surprise: it's actually money laundering!
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...
Can't imagine why they'd feel the need to do that...
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Can't imagine why they'd feel the need to do that...