1/18/2022, 8:25:52 PM · by Olog-hai
Deutsche Welle ^Â | 01.18.2022 | Alex Ngarambe (Kigali), Uta Steinwehr
Posted on 01/18/2022 3:29:23 AM PST by ransomnote
***26.95 Kilometers, Hmmm what is that in miles?
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About 16.75....
Hmmmm....
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Since I joined a membership naturopathic practice, I've been super happy. The ND actually calls me every month just to see how I'm doing.
Dr. Mark Macary is one of Youngkin’s health advisors.
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Dr. Oz is trying to get the Republican Senate nomination in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Republicans should reject him outright.
Behind Dr. Ozâs Curtain
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/behind-dr-ozs-curtain/
Excerpt:
After announcing his decision to run for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz has been publicly lambasted for peddling âmiracleâ weight-loss supplements and other medical misinformation. However, Pennsylvania voters should be far more concerned with the daytime television starâs connections to Turkeyâs Islamist government.
Ozâs links to Turkeyâs authoritarian Justice and Development Party (AKP) extend to foreign agents and proxies accused of operating a secret lobby in the U.S. and spying on American citizens. These associations raise urgent questions about the Senate candidateâs loyalty to an illiberal, often antagonistic foreign government that finds itself increasingly at odds with American interests.
....But does Oz continue to serve Turkeyâs national interests? Critics have called on him to renounce his Turkish citizenship â not because he is legally obligated to do so as a Senate candidate, but out of concern that his loyalties may be divided.
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He holds dual Turkish-US citizenship, has financial and political ties to Erdogen’s party, lives in New Jersey not Pennsylvania and is Muslim. There are better and more qualified Republican candidates for the PA. Senate nomination.
Not that I remember something that happened 40 years ago.....đ„±
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LOL... okay that’s funny! It’s funny what we remember.
Petey
hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a “memory like an elephant”, especially about bad things.
Very soon I hope we all start experiencing great happy things we can all remember. Like the return of the real President and justice.
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Oh definitely a coinky dink since Tonga volcano was deemed inactive a few weeks ago đ
Methotrexate nearly killed my mother in the 1980s. The arthritis has done major damage to her hands and feet, but she is now doing very well at 81 and improving with vitamins and the Protandim supplements that I put her on. Her doctor called off a heart valve replacement for the time being and I think I have the FreeQs here to thank for that... I added K2 to her regimen and the calcium buildup in the valve has stopped, so now we are trying to reverse that. She had already added a large dose of D3 daily, so when I learned that it could cause calcium to build up in soft tissues, we got her on the K2.
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The Plan to Tag Us for the New World Order Slave System
dailyexpose.uk ^Â | 1/18/2022 | Rhoda Wilson
Posted on 1/18/2022, 8:47:44 PM by ransomnote
Correction to last post: “highway” not high. Many could have been high though...
The Border Crisis Is Bad, But In Mexico A Larger Crisis Looms
Most Americans donât realize it but the Mexican state is in serious trouble, and we wonât be able to ignore it for much longer.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/18/the-border-crisis-is-bad-but-in-mexico-a-larger-crisis-looms/
Excerpt:
Video footage recently surfaced on Twitter showing C4 explosives being dropped by a drone near a town in MichoacĂĄn, Mexico, reportedly by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, following hours of clashes between armed groups.
In the video, a small explosion hits a woodland camp, a cluster of tents amid dense trees and dirt roads. Men scatter, running for cover. Another volley of explosives is released. When it hits, the camp erupts in flames. The drone lingers, its camera darting around, zooming in and out over the camp as it burns, like itâs looking for something. Seconds later, the drone is shot out of the sky.
Itâs the kind of video clip that surfaces on social media now and then, offering a glimpse of outlandish happenings in Mexico. Most Americans have no way of making sense of these videos, or imagining what they portend.
....In this particular case, narco-drones are being deployed in a turf war in and around the city of Tepalcatepec, which sits on the border of the states of MichoacĂĄn and Jalisco, about 350 miles west of Mexico City. Local news reports indicate the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, commonly known by its Mexican acronym, CJNG, has launched multiple drone strikes in the area in recent weeks, escalating months of intermittent gunfights and ambushes.
CJNG is one of the most powerful and ambitious cartels in Mexico, and it appears determined to take control of the state of MichoacĂĄn. Since 2019, the cartel has been battling a loose confederation of other armed groups collectively known as the United Cartels, as well as the Mexican National Guard.
Many of these other groups began as autodefensas, or self-defense militias, whose purpose was to resist the encroachment of cartels like CJNG. But many of them, including those in Tepalcatepec, eventually got involved in drug trafficking. They became little cartels.
Itâs Not Cartels vs. The Government
This is just one of many ongoing narco conflicts in Mexico. In America, awareness of it amounts to a disturbing 35-second clip on Twitter of a drone bombing a camp. But that one clip represents a depth of violence and corruption in the state of MichoacĂĄn thatâs endemic to nearly all of Mexico, from rural backwaters to the heart of Mexico City.
And itâs not as simple as cartels versus the government because the two groups often overlap. Last March, a former mayor of the town of Aguililla, about 50 miles south of Tepalcatepec, was arrested in Guatemala on a U.S. warrant for allegedly brokering a $4 million deal on behalf of the United Cartels. The plan was to ship a half-ton of methamphetamine to Florida, hidden in concrete tiles and house paint.
....Mexican President AndrĂ©s Manuel LĂłpez Obrador, who took office at the end of 2018, promised an end to the violent drug wars of earlier administrations. His policy toward the cartels, he said, would be, âabrazos, no balazosâ â hugs, not bullets.
It has not worked out very well. The homicide rate has been steadily rising in Mexico since 2014, but under LĂłpez Obrador it has spiked. The last two years have seen a record number of murders, and this year is already off to a bad start. On Jan. 6 in Zacatecas, an SUV with ten beaten, murdered corpses inside was dumped next to a Christmas tree outside the governorâs office. The mostly rural state of Zacatecas has Mexicoâs highest murder rate thanks to CJNG and the Sinaloa Cartel, which are battling for control of the area and its numerous fentanyl labs.
The Sinaloa Cartel is of course the other major criminal organization in Mexico, and, at least among ordinary Mexicans, has come to be loosely associated with LĂłpez Obrador himself. Why? For several reasons. There is the conspicuous fact that he has never breathed a word against the countryâs most powerful and notorious cartel, even as he inveighs against his political opponents in the most militant terms.
There is also, more concretely, the Battle of Culiacan. In October 2019, Mexican National Guard troops arrested Ovidio GuzmĂĄn LĂłpez, the 29-year-old son of former Sinaloa Cartel boss JoaquĂn âEl Chapoâ GuzmĂĄn. In response, teams of Sinaloa gunmen, outfitted with armored vehicles and heavy weaponry, besieged the city and trapped the guardsmen. The standoff ended on a direct order from LĂłpez Obrador himself, who told the troops to release their prisoner and stand down to avoid more bloodshed.
Five months later, LĂłpez Obrador traveled to Badiraguato, a mountainous marijuana- and poppy-growing region of Sinaloa long associated with Mexicoâs drug trade â and the birthplace of El Chapo. Defying his own pandemic protocols, the Mexican president was filmed shaking hands with El Chapoâs 92-year-old mother, MarĂa Consuelo Loera PĂ©rez, and embracing a GuzmĂĄn family representative.
And then there is the still-unreported story of local and legislative elections held last January. Just before the polls opened in Sinaloa, cartel gunmen rounded up every campaign volunteer and poll worker for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, as well as those of every other party except LĂłpez Obradorâs MORENA party. The cartel held them in secure locations until after the polls closed, then released them unharmed.
That is, the Sinaloa Cartel effectively shut down the entire get-out-the-vote effort of every party statewide, except MORENA. The result? MORENA won the election, wresting control of Sinaloa from the PRI. The story remains untold because no one in Sinaloa, out of hundreds of people across the state who were allegedly detained that day, will go on record.
Mexicoâs Institutions Are Collapsing
Under LĂłpez Obrador, at the same time the cartels seem to be operating with impunity, the militaryâs role in civil society has been expanding.
The National Guard was formed in 2019 shortly after LĂłpez Obrador took office, the idea being that it would replace the Federal Police as the chief law enforcement arm of the government. Although ostensibly under civilian control, the National Guard is led and trained by military officers, and its ranks consist largely of soldiers.
Yet since its inception, LĂłpez Obrador has mobilized the Guard for a vast array of civilian and domestic law enforcement purposes. That is, he has put what are traditionally civilian tasks under the remit of what is effectively a military force.
He has also not tried to hide this. A recent report from Human Rights Watch noted what any recent visitor to Mexico City would surely see: the National Guard is everywhere. It runs the Mexico City airport, itâs in charge of a large number of civilian construction and development projects, and it has become the enforcement arm of the National Institute of Immigration, or INM.
The INM is the federal agency charged with caring for migrants and managing their transit through Mexico to the United States. But in recent years it has become, together with the National Guard, an active participant in migrant trafficking, with all its attendant abuses and violence. Indeed, the industrialization of illegal immigration â imposing âtaxesâ on migrants has become a significant source of income for the cartels and gangs that control northern Mexico â made this development all but inevitable.
When LĂłpez Obrador agreed in May 2019, at the behest of the Trump administration, to stem the flow of illegal immigration from Central America, he charged the INM and the National Guard with this mission. By then, migrants were paying smugglers and cartels thousands of dollars per person to travel to the border and cross illegally into the United States. A black market was already well established. The INM and the National Guard, authorized to âenforceâ Mexican immigration laws, are now active players in that black market.
....Elsewhere in Mexico, the governmentâs tolerance for cartel violence is seemingly limitless. Even when cartels target local police officers â as CJNG has been doing in the state of Guanajuato since 2018, hunting down and killing hundreds of cops in their homes â the National Guard does nothing.
The Crisis In Mexico Will Not Stay There
The reason all this should matter to Americans is that U.S. policymakers, in both parties, are captive to the increasingly dangerous delusion that Mexico is a competent and trusted partner, and that our two countries can and should work together to solve problems like organized crime, drug trafficking, and illegal immigration. The animating idea, decades old now and woefully out of date, is that Mexico is a peer nation, acting in good faith, and that we all want the same things.
This gauzy conception of Mexico is how the Biden administration was able to come up with a framework for a U.S.-Mexico security relationship thatâs utterly divorced from reality. A joint statement released back in October after a meeting between President Joe Biden and LĂłpez Obrador outlines whatâs supposed to be an update to the George W. Bush-era Merida Initiative, which was focused on helping Mexico wage war on powerful drug cartels.
The new initiative, dubbed the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities, seeks to address not just âtransborder crimeâ but also things like substance abuse, âroot causesâ of violence, and efforts to improve education and economic opportunity â all while âensuring racial equity,â of course.
Given the stakes, however, all it amounts to is a series of exhausted platitudes. The reality is that the Mexican state is collapsing, and rather than having a partner to address the âroot causesâ of violence, we donât even have a partner to address what might well become a humanitarian catastrophe on our border this spring.
Make no mistake: as things deteriorate in Mexico, they will also deteriorate on our southwest border. Federal border authorities made more than 173,600 arrests at the southwest border in November, up from 164,300 in October (Decemberâs numbers, as of this writing, are still unreported for some reason). Reporting on these figures recently, the Washington Post framed them as no big deal. âBorder arrests ticked up 5 percent in November, first increase since summer,â the headline ran.
In fact, weâre still in the midst of an historic surge in illegal immigration. After an unprecedented 1.7 million apprehensions at the border in fiscal year 2021, Bidenâs border crisis continues to roll along, month after month, shattering records with huge, ongoing surges in illegal crossings at a time of the year when they would have normally dropped off. At this rate, weâll easily see more than 2 million border arrests in fiscal year 2022, breaking the all-time record for a second straight year.
Amid this ongoing crisis, though, a worse one is brewing far south of the border, in the heart of Mexico. If we donât start paying attention to that crisis, if we refuse even to acknowledge it, weâll eventually look back on our current border troubles as a simpler, easier time.
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Many similarities with the demo-fascist here in the US, thugs reeking havoc, criminals confiscating voting so their candidate wins, the national guard (Meixco’s version of our FBI, CIA, DOJ) is crooked and does the policing at all levels but only when given the green light by Obrador. Worse is we have an incompetent government in the US applying outdated policy to the situation because they don’t want to know the truth or are letting the DS dictate an outdated policy that is 50 years old. Mexico is not an equal partner they are a third world country whose citizens are living in a civil war.
Grooming is now.
Depending on the part of the country you were into Scouts, the descent into the Dark Side started 30 years ago.
Maybe more.
Great post! Will read it thoroughly tomorrow.
-SB
Cetrizine is otherwise known as Zyrtec.  Loratadine is otherwise known as Claritin.  Dexchlorpheniramine is not often-used in the US anymore, but it used to be. The other two core drugs were Azithromycin and Levofloxacin, both common antibiotics with the first being the infamous "Zpak" from the HCQ+Zinc+Zpak combination that a fraudulent study was used to discredit.
Bookmarking article to rear later.
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