Gangsters, Money and Murder: How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America’s Illegal Marijuana Market
A quadruple murder in Oklahoma shows how the Chinese underworld has come to dominate the booming illicit trade, fortifying its rise as a global powerhouse with alleged ties to China’s authoritarian regime.
@JoeyBoughtACola A lot of complicit "lawyers", who aid(ed) & abet(ted) an individual, who incited an insurrection to overthrow the will of the majority of the people to escape justice & the laws, are queuing up in a long line to be disbarred, investigated & prosecuted.
When "MAGA" turns into "Make Attorneys GoToJail Again"...
"With a shortage looming and prices rising, sand from Moroccan beaches and dunes is sold inside the country and is also shipped abroad, using organized crime's extensive transport networks, Abderrahmane has found. More than half of Morocco's sand is illegally mined, he says."
"This contempt filing stretches the scope of the court’s stay order beyond its plain language. The stay order says DOJ can’t try to advance the case, and their filings do no such thing. The filings are just there so that if the case gets sent back by SCOTUS there will not have been any delay on DOJ’s side."
Trump's defense is accusing Jack Smith & his team of Contempt of Court, because he passed on evidence to them.
It doesn't appear to be logical to provide them with evidence without them asking for it, a procedure they'd then be utilizing to accuse him of violating judge Chutkan's court order.
Except if it was a trap they deliberately set up for Jack Smith & his team.
A Roy-Cohn-style trick.
"Trump’s legal team said Smith and prosecutors working on the case have disregarded an order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan by continuing to turn over evidence to the defense and filing a legal motion, according to a court filing."
New #openaccess article: The “Nigerian mafia” feedback loop: European police, global media and Nigerian civil society
"This produces a loop: articles echo and repeat institutional narratives because of their reliance on these very same sources and data. As media reproduce these approaches, they also validate and feed police and justice’s tools, approaches and outcomes, hence stabilising labels and categories." #nigeria#media#organizedcrime@sociology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12117-022-09471-0
Today in Labor History December 9, 1935: Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, was murdered in a drive-by shooting with a Thompson submachine gun, as he stepped out of his car, groceries in his hand. His wife and daughter were in the car and witnessed his death. Liggett was a card-carrying member of the American Socialist Party, but he was more of a Mid-Western Populist-Socialist than a Marxist. In the 1920's he participated in efforts to free Sacco and Vanzetti and Thomas Mooney. In a series of articles, he accused Farmer-Labor politicians of collusion with the organized crime family of Isadore Blumenfield. He accused Minnesota Governor Floyd Olson of corruption and said that he should be impeached and prosecuted. In response, Blumenfield tried to bribe him to stop his exposés, but Liggett refused. Blumenfield and his gang savagely beat Liggett up. Liggett escalated his attacks and began printing a list of reasons for Olson's impeachment on the front page of the Midwest-American. Soon after, he was murdered.
🚨 At least 9 precincts in Hinds County—Mississippi's most populous county and the home of the 83%-Black capital city of Jackson—have run out of ballots in the statewide election.
@skykiss Reminder, that in April and December 1869, Congress passed Reconstruction bills mandating that Virginia, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia ratify the Fifteenth Amendment as a precondition to regaining congressional representation; all four states did so.
If they decide to continue to act against the stipulations of the Fifteenth Amendment, there should be impressive consequences concerning the congressional representation of those still-rebellious states.
The Fifteenth Amendment demands:
"Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
If this man is reelected, he will pardon all the January 6 defendants and criminals. And where is the outrage from the right over the “altered” national anthem? This is straight out of dystopian novel.
@georgetakei Allowing a sociopathic insurrection-inciter to run for (any) public office in the United States is a questionable proof of "American exceptionalism".
@marcelias Every single one of those 126 House "Republicans", who signed the amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania before SCOTUS in 2020 should already be disqualified to hold any office under the United States, for election subversion (<= Nancy Pelosi).
So Trump was blindsided that Sidney Powell decided to flip on him. But... my brother in Christ why?
That woman has been nothing but devoted to him & his "cause" and he's treated her with contempt, laughed at her behind her back, never lifted a finger to help... Then there was the plan to try and blame the whole thing on her...
I'm glad she flipped, not just for the case, but it's been disturbing to watch people serve that guy for NOTHING take abuse and just keep going. It's a ray of sanity.
@futurebird Powell, Chesebro & others flipping is just a matter of self-preservation, in no way an indicator of ideological recovery from assholism.
Which prosecutors likely didn't even expect, just being focused on building the case based on available evidence laying bare the facts of the infamous matter.
@crooksandliars 🤔 Wasn't it Ingraham, who begged for Trump to order his insurrectionary hordes to stop assaulting & taintingthe United States Capitol on Jan 6, 2021?
Did Laura come to the conclusion she made a mistake then?
Do Fox & she approve insurrection & conspiracy against the U.S.?
Anyone else get the feeling that Jared Kushner’s Middle East Peace mission was a criminal scheme that involved selling his position, secret intel and himself to hostile foreign actors for money to help settle his debts?
I don’t think Kushner gave a rat’s ass about peace, do you?