U.S. arrest of former Mexican defense chief tests anti-drug alliance
MEXICO CITY — During the years that Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos spent as Mexico's defense secretary, he would sometimes brag about the partnership he helped build with American officials.
“The only thing that I am sure of is that the bilateral, military-to-military and defense-to-defense relationship between Mexico and the United States will continue to strengthen more and more,” Cienfuegos told Craig Deare, a former assistant U.S. defense attache in Mexico and a military historian, before leaving office in late 2018.
Now, Mexican and U.S. officials are left to pick up the pieces after Cienfuegos was arrested in Los Angeles earlier this month on U.S. charges that he had aided a drug cartel during his six years as the country’s top defense official.
The allegations have shocked Mexicans and humiliated the military, one of the country’s most venerated institutions. Some officials worry that the backlash could damage cooperation in the fight against narcotics trafficking.
i feel like im getting a lecture from my handler
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solidar posted:"The grown-ups in the room
instant thunderclap headache
solidar posted:she also got an award for "her dedication to stopping child trafficking" about which i can find no information. a very "people are asking a lot of questions about my connection to human trafficking already answered by my mysterious award saying how much i'm against it" moment imo (or maybe that's just my brain being full of cia mockingbird, drug trafficking, and pedophile honey-potting conspiracies)
I seriously think that Hillary Clinton sees Jeffrey Epstein's face behind every stranger on the street, because she knows that's the one thing that can still sink them both, and shameless as the Clintons may be she still has to get out of bed every day and look at herself in the mirror knowing that her husband traded favors with a pedophile so he could fuck a 12-13 year old or two (or ten).
I think she'll green-light any coup or assassination that any ghoul at any three letter agency wants if they frame it in an anti-pedophile virtue signaling charade, and I think her inability to perceive the world but through a filter of herself explains the demise of everyone from David Koresh to Muammar Gaddafi.
I think the financial and political weight of promising payoffs to all of these judges who are keeping Jeffy Jeff and Ghislane under wraps is getting a lot heavier than she will ultimately be able to bear. I think Biden was chosen not despite but because of his cognitive and physical decline, since Kamala is the only one who can be trusted to save that antichrist daughter of theirs' inherited grifts and grafts. When not a soul outside of the DNC staff would vote for Kamala they had to get a guy with one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel to appoint her.
wasted posted:Someone post this in the whenever journalism makes you want to die thread:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/nov/06/child-labour-doesnt-have-to-be-exploitation-it-gave-me-life-skillshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/01/cocoa-supreme-court-child-labor/
cars posted:it's LOL whenever the SC hears a case that's obviously going to be them making national or global policy as an unelected cabal and the defendant tries to argue against the SC's own jurisdiction. Like... it works when a majority sitting already wants to punt on a policy question, but otherwise, you're just going in there to tell them they're not the rulers of the world. And they do not want to hear that shit from some pissant lawyer.
this is the pissant lawyer arguing on behalf on nestle btw lmao. obama's former solicitor general.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?477430-1/alien-tort-statute-consolidated-arguments
Under D.C.-remora doctrine, the ONLY people to whom Katyal's station is allowed to mean nothing is the U.S. Supreme Court. The reason why is because he's not sitting on it and never has, at least not yet.
Nestle plans to argue that they are not liable as a corporation for child slavery because during the Nuremberg trials, IG Farben was not charged as a company for suppling Zyklon B to the Third Reich but instead individual executives were charged.
— Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger? (@HasBezosDecided) December 2, 2020
If Trump had every justice dragged out into the street to be shot today, their opinion would be unanimous, unwavering and 100% sincere: "He can't do that! That's illegal!"
After all, the hardiest survivors of de-Nazification were the Third Reich's judges.
EDIT: we have confirmed that her father is in fact a Textron and/or Lockheed-Martin drone bomb accountant, more at 11.
How it started...
If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, @ebruenig writes, she may soon have to reconcile her Catholic morality and the law over a death penalty case https://t.co/cqlkyPtX1v
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) October 19, 2020
How it's going...
Supreme Court continues capital punishment trend with Barrett on the bench https://t.co/uomT0iQkxK
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 21, 2020
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cars posted:After all, the hardiest survivors of de-Nazification were the Third Reich's judges.
judge (owing wealth unto tenth generation to President): I don't even care if you get the cancer Tasmanian devils bite into each other
me writing it all down for my posting pals: simply epic.....
Farmers protest across India against laws liberalizing agricultural markets
In some states, farmers blocked roads and squatted on railway tracks, delaying people getting to work, and preventing produce from reaching markets.
I am upset that Jon Hatami survived the assault by rhizzone poster "tears"
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But a non-zero amount of them are like... being publicly racist because they think that prevents them from being liberals according to Marx or something, because they think socialism defines "liberal" the same way as the KKK does.
[time passes]
Even in the Civil War, the Confederate flag never got close the Capitol. More than 150 years later, the sight of a man casually carrying one outside the Senate floor was a piercing reminder of the persistence of white supremacism.https://t.co/l2fW7HHBOn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 9, 2021
well except for the hundreds of reps and senators that had it hanging in their offices for most of those 150 years and in the tattoos on all the cops and Troops, but this time, on the funniest day in history, it was bad