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United States Invasion Route Exposed - FIRST EVER DOCUMENTARY REVEALING THE ENTIRE ILLEGAL ALIEN ROUTE FROM QUITO, ECUADOR TO THE UNITED STATES Muckraker followed the entire mass migration trail from Quito, Ecuador to the United States border, a journey which included: Crossing the Darién Gap. Discovering secret Chinese hotels. Getting smuggled into Mexico by the Sinaloa Cartel. Embedding with a massive caravan. Riding the Mexican Train of Death. And finally, getting kidnapped by the Gulf Cartel. In this documentary, you will learn how the United Nations is executing an industrial scale weaponized migration program and you will see the entire...

Thousands of West African migrants are pouring into the US after social media helped spread the word about a lesser-known, low-stakes path through Nicaragua. Mauritanians are using WhatsApp, Instagram and other channels to guide fellow migrants along the route, which makes stops in Turkey, Colombia, El Salvador and Managua, Nicaragua, where they are whisked onto a bus by smugglers to cross the US-Mexican border, according to the Associated Press.

Former President Donald Trump sent a statement to his followers calling on President Joe Biden to 'resign in disgrace' on Sunday amid the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US troops. 'It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the Border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence, and our crippled economy,' Trump said in an email. He continued perpetuating his claim that Biden won the presidency via election fraud, concluding the email: 'It shouldn't be a big deal, because he...

Five summit finishes, the winding roads of Yorkshire, cobbles in northern France and just the one individual time trial - the 2014 Tour de France route couldn't be more different from this year's centenary Grande Boucle. Blazin' Saddles takes a closer look...~snip~ Seeing that the centenary Tour was very much a celebration of iconic Alpine climbs, next summer's route will only feature a brief foray into the Alps - but will include the classic ascent of the Col d'Izoard, overlooked in recent years. Instead - and following some champagne cork-popping in Reims and Epernay - the race will enjoy a...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FENTI, Afghanistan, Jan. 14, 2010 – As time for their pre-mission brief drew near, route-clearance crews here began to gather around Army 1st Lt. Chris Johnson, their platoon leader. Dawn had begun to break, and as the sun peeked over the horizon, the cloudless, star-choked, purple sky promised once again to transform itself into a sea of brilliant blue by mid-morning, coupled with pleasantly moderate temperatures – a staple of the region this time of year. At this early hour, however, a winter chill still hung in the air during this late-December morning, evidenced by the visible...

A Bethesda teenager pleaded guilty to a felony explosives charge Wednesday, admitting that he had chemicals, switches and igniters in his bedroom that readily could be made into a bomb. "We cannot know for certain what Collin McKenzie-Gude would have done if law enforcement had not acted," said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein. "What we know for certain is that he made and exploded pipe bombs and had the components to build new explosive devices." The plea was the latest step in a case that captured national attention last year after Montgomery County officials said a map of Camp David,...

A cat has become such a well-known user of a Devon bus service that its drivers know where to let him off. Casper has been queuing with other passengers to get the number three service from his home in Plymouth for months, bus company First said. It added that he often sat in the queue and then quietly padded on board and curled up on a seat for the ride. Casper's owner Susan Finden, 55, who picked him from a rescue home in 2002, said he had always been a free spirit. Mrs Finden said she named her pet after...

Five years ago, Lois O’Neill found herself at a dead end. Her life had come down to a divorce, an unrewarding office job and three children to put through college. So, she took a small inheritance and bought a bread delivery route in Bergen County, New Jersey, for $18,000. She began going to work at 1:00 A.M., seven days a week, wearing a sweat suit rather than the high heels to which she was accustomed. It paid off. By dint of hard work, she increased her number of stops to 45 from 20, thereby raising her annual income to $80,000...

CAMP LIBERTY — Every day, Soldiers of the 688th Mobilization Augmentation Company wake up to patrol and clear the streets of Baghdad. At times, the job seems full of endless missions, but the Iraqi Army is preparing to take on their own missions. Recently, the 688th MAC, a component of the 890th Engineering Battalion, 926th Engineer Brigade, Multi-National Division – Baghdad, was tasked to train 12 of the 6th Iraqi Army Division’s Soldiers in route clearance to missions. Staff Sgt. Tony Brown of Green Forrest, Ark., and Sgt. Jess Rollins of Springfield, Mo., volunteered for the opportunity to educate the...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER — It’s 4 a.m., and Soldiers of the 40th Engineers Battalion are just getting to bed after a route clearance mission in the Mada’in Qada. “Wow, only a 12-hour day,” said Pfc. Richard Goodman, a Company B, 40th Eng. Bn. combat engineer. “An early day and one more mission accomplished. We’ll be back at it again tomorrow.” However, time is no issue for these members of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division route clearance team. Since April, they have gone out on missions daily, clearing improvised explosives devices and unexploded ordnance from streets. “The...

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2008 – When Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers conduct missions outside their installation, they pay close attention, watching and searching for signs of improvised explosive devices. Army Spc. Adam Rife, a San Luis Obispo, Calif., native, leans on the back of his platoon’s Huskey vehicle outside the 68th Engineer Company headquarters at Camp Liberty, Iraq, April 9, 2008. Rife spent five months leading his platoon in the one-man vehicle during route-clearance patrols and helped search for improvised explosive devices on the streets of Baghdad. He serves with 3rd Platoon, 84th Engineer Company, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, Multinational...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2006 -- Four people wearing Revolutionary War-era clothing are making a 600-plus-mile hike for history that celebrates Franco-American cooperation and friendship. Revolutionary War re-enactors Michael S. Fitzgerald, Rose Morin, David T. Holloway, and David Fagerberg pose for a photograph near the intersection of Rhode Island and Eastern avenues in northeast Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. They are making a 600-plus-mile march that traces the historic Revolutionary War route taken by Continental Army Commander Gen. George Washington and French Lt. Gen. Jean-Baptiste, Count of Rochambeau. The two forces acted in concert and forced the surrender of British Lt....

SAN FRANCISCO A bridge is being built around a rock slide that closed a main route to Yosemite National Park and disrupted business and life in the area, state transportation officials announced Thursday. The company chosen for the project, Teichert Construction, has started moving equipment and bridge parts to Highway 140, which has been blocked since April 29 by 3 million cubic yards of rock and debris. Construction can't begin until the California Department of Transportation gets all the permits needed to move through the Merced River and build on federal forest service land, but officials hope the project will...

A vision system that helps soldiers plan a route through the chaos of the battlefield will undergo tests on both sides of the Atlantic. The system, called Primordial Soldier, will provide soldiers with a real-time picture of where troops are in relation to each other and a digital rendering of the route they should follow. It is about to undergo trials with US special forces and has been bought by the UK arm of MBDA Missiles. MBDA plans to carry out conceptual research on the system to learn how using such technology affects a soldier's decision-making capability in the field....

U.S. Army Spc. Michael Sheridan, assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, looks onto Route Redwing in Baghdad. He provides security for an observation point and troops on the ground. U.S. Army photo by Spc. James P. Hunter U.S. Troops Secure Baghdad’s Route Redwing U.S. soldiers are tasked to run security operations and route reconnaissance on Route Redwing, used by insurgents to bring supplies into Baghdad. By U.S. Army Spc. James P. HunterMultinational Corps–Iraq BAGHDAD, April 5, 2006 — To prevent improvised explosive devices from endangering the lives of coalition forces and Iraqis, U.S. soldiers assigned to elements of the...

COMPUTER criminals are coming up with ever stealthier ways to make money. Rather than attack PCs or email inboxes, their latest trick is to subvert the very infrastructure of the internet, the domain name system (DNS) that routes all net traffic. In doing so, they redirect internet users to bogus websites, where visitors could have their passwords and credit details stolen, be forced to download malicious software, or be directed to links to pay-per-click adverts. This kind of attack is called DNS cache poisoning or polluting. It was first done by pranksters in the early years of the internet, but...

A conservative group is threatening to sue the Secret Service for religious discrimination over security guidelines that would ban Christian crosses from President Bush's inaugural parade route.

SACRAMENTO (AP) - California High Speed Rail Authority officials unveiled a tentative map of routes for the proposed statewide bullet train on Wednesday - a plan that includes a 120-mile, nonstop stretch between Bakersfield and Fresno. That Central Valley section of the line, which was recommended by the authority's staff, bypasses Visalia despite the city's pleas for a stop. The 700-mile system, with 200 mph-plus trains, would cost about $35 billion and carry as many as 68 million passengers a year by 2020. Voters will decide a bond measure in 2006 to pay for part of the project. Construction on...

Rewriting history: A replica eighth century sailing ship suggests that the first seafarers to round the Cape of Good Hope came from the East - and not from Europe. Photo: Sean Woods, Popular Mechanics Sailing the Cinnamon Route March 04 2004 at 07:06AM By Sean Woods History books tell us that Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz was the first seafarer to round the Cape, in 1488. It remains a towering achievement during that golden era of discovery when adventurers from the Iberian Peninsula redrew the map of the known world. But yet... some things just don't fit into the picture. For...

Polar thaw opens Arctic sea route By Julius Strauss in Murmansk (Filed: 04/03/2004) A fabled Arctic sea route which claimed the lives of countless sailors during the Age of Exploration looks set to be transformed into a busy shipping lane connecting Europe and Asia. Shipping experts say that as the polar ice recedes the notorious North-East Passage, which winds its way along Russia's frigid and barren northern coastline past Siberia, could come to rival the Suez Canal as a global trade route. Scientists say the Arctic icecap has been rapidly thawing, arguably due to global warming, and is shrinking at...