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  • US Tightens the Siege Around Venezuela – Military Reportedly ‘Preparing To Seize Ports and Airfields’ After Trump Declares Full-Scale War on Drug Cartels’ ‘Unlawful Combatants’

    10/04/2025 4:08:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 31 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | Oct. 4, 2025 5:00 pm | Paul Serran
    The Caribbean is a powder ked ready to explode.In the last few days, there has been a surge in activity on the maritime siege of Venezuela and the operation against the drug Cartels.The Trump administration has reportedly declared – in a memo to Congress – drug cartels to be ‘unlawful combatants’, further declaring the United States to be in ‘armed conflict’ with them.Then, yet another alleged drug boat was destroyed on the Caribbean.A squadron of US F-35’s are detected flying over coastal city of Maiquetia, according to the Bolivarian Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino. After all these developments, multiple reports note...
  • Trump Says U.S. Engaged In ‘Armed Conflict’ With Caribbean Drug Cartels, Declaring Them ‘Unlawful Combatants’

    10/02/2025 12:35:23 PM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 17 replies
    Forbes ^ | October 2, 2025 | Ty Roush
    President Donald Trump has labeled drug cartels operating in the Caribbean as “unlawful combatants” and said the U.S. is engaged in an “armed conflict,” multiple outlets reported Thursday, following recent strikes targeting alleged drug smuggling boats in the region. The Trump administration said in a confidential notice the U.S. was engaged in an “non-international armed conflict” against the drug cartels, the Associated Press and New York Times reported, citing a person familiar with the matter and a copy of the notice, respectively.
  • Trump admin tells Congress it determined US engaged in formal 'armed conflict' with 'terrorist' drug cartels

    10/02/2025 11:38:29 AM PDT · by bitt · 6 replies
    https://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | October 2, 2025 | Louis Casiano , Tyler Olson
    Trump administration sends memo to Congress declaring 'non-international armed conflict' with drug cartels The Trump administration sent a memo to Congress on Thursday saying that the United States is now "in a non-international armed conflict" with drug cartels, which administration officials have designated as "terrorist organizations." "The President directed these actions consistent with his responsibility to protect Americans and United States interests abroad and in furtherance of United States national security and foreign policy interests, pursuant to his constitutional authority as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive to conduct foreign relations," the memo states. The notification to congressional lawmakers came...
  • Sinaloa cartel leader admits to CNN that Trump’s border crackdown is stiffling criminal operations

    10/02/2025 12:29:15 AM PDT · by Libloather · 7 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/01/25 | Shane Galvin
    An alleged Sinaloa cartel leader admitted President Trump’s aggressive border policies have made the illegal work of the powerful Mexican drug gang more difficult in an interview with CNN. An anonymous member of El Chapo’s former gang explained that Trump’s immigration and drug policies have put a damper on their black-market tradecraft in a bizarre interview with the news station’s senior national correspondent, David Culver, in the back of an SUV. “From killing to coordinating smuggling operations, he says he’s done it all,” Culver said, referring to Trump. “Do you think what President Trump has been doing has been making...
  • Exclusive: Federal drug prosecutions fall to lowest level in decades as Trump shifts focus to deportations

    09/29/2025 1:07:18 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 15 replies
    Reuters.com ^ | September 29, 20255:11 AM CDT | Brad Heath
    Summary Federal drug prosecutions drop 10% in 2025 as agents focus on immigration Number of new cases being filed is lowest in decades, according to Reuters analysis High-priority drug investigations have stalled, officials say WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the lowest level in decades this year after the Trump administration ordered enforcement agencies to focus on deporting immigrants, a Reuters review of nearly 2 million federal court records found.So far this year, about 10% fewer people have been prosecuted for drug violations compared to the same period of...
  • Yet Another Strike! Trump Confirms Venezuelan Drug Runner Vessel Hit, Several Terrorists Killed by US Forces

    09/19/2025 9:57:17 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 38 replies
    Red State ^ | 09/19/2025 | Katie Jerkovich
    President Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. military carried out another strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug vessel, following his recent announcement that we would wage war against narco-terrorists "poisoning" our citizens.In a post on Truth Social on Friday, Trump said that, "On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.""Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage en route to poison Americans," he added. READ MORE:Trump Administration Just Put a Massive...
  • X: Marjorie Taylor Greene says SARs reports show CONFIRMED EVIDENCE Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were using a law firm to facilitate human trafficking and sex trafficking from foreign countries

    09/19/2025 7:14:41 PM PDT · by TigerClaws · 38 replies
    Conversation Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes WOW 🚨 Marjorie Taylor Greene says SARs reports show CONFIRMED EVIDENCE Joe Biden and Hunter Biden were using a law firm to facilitate human trafficking and sex trafficking from foreign countries READ THAT AGAIN, also foreign country bribes to Biden Family shell companies “The Biden family is the largest crime syndicate that America has ever seen in politics” “I read in over 2,000 pages of SARs reports is there is evidence, real evidence, of human sex trafficking, with Hunter Biden and Awasco, which is his law firm, that's not just some fake company — some...
  • Coast Guard Seizes Over 5K Lbs of Cocaine and Apprehends Nearly 60 Suspected Narco-Terrorists

    09/19/2025 5:29:06 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    Rumble Via Liberty Daily ^ | September 19, 2025 | Staff
    0:23 VIDEO AT LINK.................... Nobody got hurt....................
  • A Tragedy Worse Than Epstein’s Island, But With Less Paperwork

    09/10/2025 4:30:15 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10 Sep, 2025 | Kevin Finn
    Under Joe Biden, or whoever was running the country between 2021 and 2024, over 470,000 unaccompanied migrant children waltzed into the country. Many of these kids promptly vanished into a bureaucratic black hole. Since then, in a move both heroic and horrifyingly necessary, the Trump administration has located over 22,000 of these kids, arrested 400 traffickers, and uncovered the grim reality that 27 children met tragic ends through murder, overdose, or suicide. Yes, Epstein’s operation was a master class in depravity, but Biden’s border policies might just take the cake, and it’s a moldy, taxpayer-funded one at that. While Epstein...
  • 'Five Eyes' ministers meet to discuss smashing people smuggling gangs, UK says

    09/08/2025 2:25:51 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 18 replies
    Reuters ^ | September 7, 2025
    Homeland ministers from Britain, the United States and the other "Five Eyes" alliance will announce new measures this week to increase border security and target people smugglers, British interior minister Shabana Mahmood said on Sunday. The ministers from the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network - the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - will meet in London on Monday and Tuesday, Britain's Home Office said, with measures to "smash criminal smuggling gangs" the focus of the talks.
  • Four Charged in Conspiracy to Smuggle Children From Mexico

    09/05/2025 7:38:32 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 11 replies
    Justice.Gov ^ | Sept 4, 2025 | US DOJ Office of Public Affairs
    Note: View a copy of the criminal complaint.Four people were charged for their roles in a scheme to smuggle children from Mexico into the United States, sometimes using candy laced with THC to sedate them during smuggling events.“This Department of Justice is investigating and prosecuting human smuggling more aggressively than ever before, and Joint Task Force Alpha is the tip of the spear,” said U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “We will not rest until those who profit from the suffering of vulnerable people — including many unaccompanied children — face severe, comprehensive justice.”“These defendants allegedly risked the lives of children...
  • Venezuelan kingpin goes full thug, threatens dissident if Trump keeps blowing up narco boats

    09/05/2025 5:03:23 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 34 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 4 Sep, 2025 | Monica Showalter
    President Trump's high-seas Navy strike on a boat full of illegal drugs and 11 narcos, taking it out and feeding the local sharks, didn't go over well with the Chavista elites in Caracas. But instead of pretending they had no idea drugs were being trafficked from Venezuela to the U.S., or at least pretending that they didn't know the particular criminals aboard, a leading Chavista kingpin went full frontal 'thug' instead: [X post in Spanish at link] Google Translation: #URGENT | Direct threat from Diosdado Cabello against María Corina due to the US offensive: "If they squeeze us, we squeeze...
  • Rubio Says U.S. Will Work With Other Nations to ‘Blow Up’ Crime Groups

    09/04/2025 2:12:59 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 13 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Sept. 4, 2025, 3:48 p.m. ET | Edward Wong
    The Trump administration aims to carry out more violent strikes against drug cartels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he met with Ecuador’s president.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the Trump administration wants to help partner governments conduct violent strikes against criminal groups, following the playbook the U.S. military used this week to carry out a lethal attack on a boat in the Caribbean.“Those governments will help us find these people and blow them up,” he said at a news conference in Ecuador. “They might do it themselves, and we’ll help them do it.”Mr. Rubio made his...
  • Venezuela: Trump sends a message to Maduro

    09/03/2025 6:11:09 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 21 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 3 Sep, 2025 | Monica Showalter
    There probably isn't a more useful policy aim for the U.S. than taking out Venezuela's socialist regime. President Trump has hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan illegal aliens, including many criminals who have wrought mayhem, to deported and sending back to a democracy will be a lot easier. Venezuela's regime has served as a useful catspaw to multiple anti-American dictators, including China's oligarchs, the Russian regime, and the Iranian mullahs to keep the U.S. in check, propping up the otherwise bankrupt regime in power to harass the U.S. They've threatened and attempted to destabilize their neighbors. And close to President Trump's...
  • US strike on 'Venezuela drug boat': What do we know, and was it legal?

    09/03/2025 2:23:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 40 replies
    BBC ^ | Sep 3, 2025 | Matt Murphy & Joshua Cheetham
    A strike carried out by US forces on a boat in the Caribbean Sea - which the White House says killed 11 drug traffickers - may have violated international human rights and maritime law, legal experts have told BBC Verify.President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that US forces destroyed a vessel which he said had departed from Venezuela. He said the boat was operated by the Tren de Aragua cartel and was carrying drugs bound for the US.US defence officials have so far declined to offer details on the strike, footage of which Trump shared on Truth Social, including what...
  • ‘Murder’: World’s Biggest Cocaine Producing Country Upset Over Trump’s Narco Vessel Strike

    09/03/2025 11:51:10 AM PDT · by DFG · 60 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 09/03/2025 | Wallace White
    The president of the leading cocaine producer in the world said Wednesday morning that the U.S. strike on a Tren de Aragua drug trafficking vessel Tuesday was tantamount to “murder.” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said, in in a post translated by the Daily Caller News Foundation, that the pilots of the boat were likely “poor young people” and that the killing was unjust because the transporters weren’t the “big narcos.” Colombia is not only the world’s largest exporter of cocaine, but also plays host to some of Latin America’s most vicious cartels and militias. “We have been capturing civilians who...
  • Putin Demanded Release of Assassin From German Prison in Exchange for Marine Paul Whelan in Brittney Griner Trade

    12/09/2022 8:45:41 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Red State ^ | 12/09/2022 | Bob Hoge
    (The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com.)The lopsided trade that sprung basketball player Brittney Griner didn’t include U.S. Marine Paul Whelan—because the Kremlin demanded convicted assassin Vadim Krasikov be freed from a German prison in exchange, according to the New York Times and multiple other outlets. The murderous Krasikov was once a colonel in the notorious Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the KGB.After Germany refused to take part in a three-way deal to free Krasikov, the United States instead settled on swapping Griner for “Merchant of Death”...
  • Is Tren de Aragua a Military Incursion? You Bet!

    03/27/2025 7:15:55 AM PDT · by george76 · 76 replies
    American Greatness. ^ | March 27, 2025 | Bart Marcois
    Judge Boasberg blocks Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua, despite intelligence linking the gang to Venezuela’s government and acts of sabotage in the U.S. As President Trump fulfills his campaign promise to deport criminal illegal aliens, a blatantly corrupt judge is trying to stop him. Judge James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has abandoned all pretense to fairness. I will leave it to others to focus on his conflicts of interest (the FISA Court, his wife, his daughter) and his double standard of justice. This article...
  • Al-Qaida Suspect Received Haz-Mat License in Minnesota

    06/30/2004 6:14:53 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 5 replies · 202+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 6/30/04 | AP
    MINNEAPOLIS – A man who authorities believe might have been part of an al-Qaida "sleeper cell" obtained a license to haul hazardous materials months after he was identified as a suspected terrorist by the FBI, officials said. The FBI identified Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi as a suspected terrorist before the attacks of 2001, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday, citing unidentified law enforcement officials. Yet Minnesota Department of Public Safety officials said they did not know that Elzahabi was suspected of having al-Qaida connections when he applied in early 2002 for a commercial license to drive a school bus and haul hazardous...
  • Coast Guard seizes enough cocaine to fatally overdose entire Florida population

    08/27/2025 12:39:03 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    Scripps News ^ | 8:05 AM, Aug 26, 2025 | Scripps News Group
    Authorities say the cocaine haul, part of a $473 million drug seizure, carried enough lethal doses to kill every resident of Florida.The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday apprehended suspected drug smugglers and seized drugs off the coast of Florida. It was one of several operations aimed at preventing drugs from reaching the United States. The drugs were part of a recent haul that included more than 61,000 pounds of cocaine and 14,000 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $473 million. In total, authorities said the drugs came from 19 different interceptions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea between...