Spanish Police Bust 12 Tons of Hashish

Spanish Police Bust 12 Tons of Hashish

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Published: Tuesday, 04 May 2021 17:51

Written by Zdravko Ljubas

Spanish law enforcement agencies said that in two separate operations they arrested 11 people and seized 12 tons of hashish that came in from Africa by boats.

The Guardia Civil (Civil Guard), National Police and the Tax Agency, “have seized more than seven tons of hashish and arrested three people,” the Guardia Civil said in a statement Sunday.

Police claimed that a “high-level criminal organization” had been using a boat to spread large quantities of drugs along the Spanish coast and that the Maritime Analysis and Operations center (MAOC) - an organization initiated by seven EU countries to suppress illicit drug trafficking by sea and air - as well as Maritime Intelligence offices of Galicia and the Canary Islands, have been monitoring the vessel for a year.

The “Felsted” was sailing under the flag of Vanuatu and was intercepted in April after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar coming from the western Moroccan coast. The tug vessel was taken to the port of Algeciras in Spain, “where a deep search was conducted, and 200 bales of hashish were discovered on board,” while three crew members, all Ukrainian nationals, were arrested, according to MAOC.

In another operation, Spanish police seized five tons of hashish, as well as more than €200,000 (US$240,406) in cash, jewelry and a significant quantity of “electronic and computer material of the interest for the investigation,” police said in a statement Monday.

Eight people were arrested, mostly skippers of the so-called “narcolanchas,” or fast boats and fishing boats used for drug smuggling to Spanish ports of Malaga, Cádiz and Almería, from where the drug was allegedly further distributed to several European countries.

The suspects are believed to be members of one of the “leading criminal organizations” involved in smuggling of “large quantities of narcotic substances” to Spain, according to police.

Among the arrested was a Spanish citizen of Moroccan origin believed to be one of the leading “drug traffickers operating between Morocco and the Andalusian coast,” as well as an Italian national, wanted by Italian authorities for his alleged membership in the Neapolitan Camorra mafia group.

However, police did not reveal the identities of the suspects, publishing only initials of the alleged drug traffickers group’s leader M.L.M., as well as the initials of the Italian national suspect P.V., wanted in his home country for “drug trafficking and mafia-type association.”

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14336-spanish-police-bust-12-tons-of-hashish

Son of Sinaloa Cartel leader pleads guilty in the US to drug trafficking

The son of the leader of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to drug trafficking and agreed to forfeit US$5 million in proceeds, a statement from the Department of Justice said. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April next year.

Ismael Zambada-Imperial, also known by the nickname “Mayito Gordo,” was extradited from Mexico to California in 2019 after he, his brother and his father were indicted in 2014 along with the son of the previous leader of the cartel, incarcerated Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera.

After El Chapo was arrested in 2016, his close associate Ismael Zambada-Garcia, or “El Mayo,” took over command over one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world. He remains out of reach to U.S. authorities.

“Zambada-Imperial accepted responsibility for his role as a leader within the Sinaloa Cartel, acknowledging that he organized the transportation and distribution of thousands of kilograms of controlled substances, including cocaine, heroin, and marijuana for importation from Mexico into the United States,” the DoJ statement said.

Despite the arrest of El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel remains the most prominent drug trafficking group and criminal enterprise in Mexico and much of the Western Hemisphere.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/14333-son-of-sinaloa-cartel-leader-pleads-guilty-in-the-us-to-drug-trafficking

Thailand, Laos Report Surging COVID Cases As India's Outbreaks Spreads Across Asia

Just as the WHO feared, India's brutal second wave has spilled over its borders, sending COVID-19 cases rising across the region, as cases climb in neighboring Bhutan and Nepal and as far away as Laos and Thailand.

According to Bloomberg, the acceleration in the region is mainly due to more contagious mutant strains, like the B.1617 variant first identified in India, which has been now been traced beyond its borders. The WHO has released a list of 10 mutant strains that it is keeping a close eye on.

New strains are identified every day as the virus continues to evolve, but only a handful make the WHO’s official watchlist as a "variant of interest" or the more serious designation "variant of concern," which is generally defined as a mutated strain that’s more contagious, more deadly and more resistant to current vaccines and treatments.

Like in India, the surging case numbers are overwhelming health-care systems in Laos and elsewhere. Laos health minister last week sought medical equipment and supplies as cases jumped 200x in a month. Nepal is seeing hospitals quickly filling up and, like India, it's running out of oxygen supplies. Health facilities are under pressure in Thailand, where 98% of new cases are from a more infectious mutant strain, while some island nations in the Pacific Ocean are facing their first waves of COVID.

On the vaccine front, Thailand has launched a campaign on Tuesday to vaccinate 50K people living in a crowded river-side district of the capital Bangkok, as the country tries to contain a third wave of coronavirus infections.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/thailand-laos-report-surging-covid-cases-indias-outbreaks-spreads-across-asia

Kansas Legislature Overrides Governor's Veto, Bans the Election Zuck Bucks. Plus: A Win for 2A Rights.

In the span of a month we’ve come full circle on election reforms — actual reforms, not the Democrats’ monstrosity that’s merely advertised as such. That unconstitutional power grab is going nowhere.

Kansas’ legislature has just overridden its governor’s veto and put into law a set of election reforms similar to those that just weeks ago Joe Biden declared were “Jim Crow on steroids.”

Biden would know these laws are nothing like Jim Crow, if he still had all his mental faculties, because he was around for Jim Crow. Biden happily cavorted with segregationist Democrats when it suited him. And Jim Crow was a Democrat policy.

Biden called slammed Georgia a month ago, and Coke, MLB, American, and Delta Airlines duly lined up with Biden and his shrill supporters — many of whom, like Stacey Abrams, can’t actually win elections. Their power is mostly on social media and as any real PR pro will tell you, much of what you see on social media isn’t real. MLB moved the All-Star Game from majority black Atlanta to very white Denver in the name of social justice, or something. Following Biden is a fool’s game and has been for going on 50 years. He’s the guy who would have left Osama bin Laden alive 10 years ago if it had been up to him.

That boycott effort has crashed hard. Republicans didn’t bow to woke corporate America. We called them out for being moral cowards swayed by partisan tripe. Coke, baseball, the airlines, they’ve all taken a public relations hit. Which is ironic, since corporate wokeness is coming from their public relations and human resources departments.

A smart CEO at any of these companies would remember who advised the woke path, and take those people off the path to the corner office and put them on a path to the parking lot. They give poor advice that does not work in the real world.

A month after all that, the Kansas legislature adopts some sensible election reforms. Media will spin it six ways from Sunday and Joe Biden, who isn’t very bright, will also trash it, but here’s what the new law does:

2020 proved that all of that needs to be done in every state that monkeyed around with election processes and/or accepted Zuck Bucks. Ban that nonsense hard.

Bonus: Kansas also pumped up Second Amendment rights.

The Legislature overrode Kelly’s veto of a bill that would create a special concealed carry permit for 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds, and that’s a major victory for gun-rights advocates. The state already allows people 21 and older to carry concealed guns without a permit and adults can carry them openly, but Kelly’s election had advocates of tougher gun laws hoping for a roll back of Kansas’ generally loose policies.

The votes were 84-39 in the House and 31-8 in the Senate. The measure also expands Kansas’ recognition of other states’ concealed carry permits.

That’s what I call a win.

Keep going woke, Democrats. You’re not strong in Kansas anymore and you’re on the road to losing deep blue places like Austin.

Did I mention that the media would spin? Get a load of this from the AP in reaction to another vote in the legislature.

Republicans also overrode Kelly’s veto of a bill expanding the number of specialty license plates available to drivers willing to pay an extra fee. The votes were 86-37 in the House and 28-12 in the Senate.

The governor and other Democrats objected to a provision allowing a special plate featuring a coiled snake and a “Don’t Tread on Me” slogan. They’re featured on what’s known as the Gadsen flag, after its Revolutionary War-era creator, who owned a wharf where an estimated 100,000 African slaves arrived. Critics also see the flag as a symbol of white supremacist and alt-right groups.

The guy owned a wharf. Wokes have a problem with that. Media carries their water, as usual, without offering any counter sanity. Because the media is fresh out of sanity.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2021/05/03/kansas-legislature-overrides-governors-veto-bans-the-election-zuck-bucks-plus-a-win-for-2a-rights-n1444380

https://twitter.com/FBIWFO/status/1389671211806900224

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Conservative think tank Heritage Foundation stops taking Big Tech donations

The Heritage Foundation has stopped accepting donations from tech giants amid an escalating battle with Silicon Valley over censorship, The Post has learned.

The influential conservative think tank — which famously turned pro-Trump after initial skepticism of his presidential candidacy, brokering appointments of cabinet members including Mick Mulvaney, Jeff Sessions and Betsy DeVos — said it will join a group of more than 40 right-leaning research outfits refusing to accept money from Big Tech firms including Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon, according to a memo obtained by The Post.

“As you know, there is a growing momentum in Washington to rein in Google and other technology companies, either through antitrust action or changes in liability protections you enjoy,” Heritage President Kay Coles James wrote in the memo to the tech firms. “Heritage is in the midst of reviewing these proposals, and the last thing we need is for anyone to think that our conclusions have in any way been influenced by a relatively small donation from your company.”

In October 2020, Heritage turned down a $225,000 donation from Google and returned $150,000 it received from Facebook. Previously, Google had donated a total of $1.55 million to Heritage and Facebook had given $275,000, according to a Heritage spokesman. Donations to Heritage in 2019 totaled $87 million, according to the think tank’s most recent tax filings.

Last month, dozens of conservative think tanks including the Family Research Council, Media Research Center, Center for Renewing America, and Citizens United pledged to turn down donations from big tech. Other big right-leaning research nonprofits like American Enterprise Institute, Mercatus, Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the Hoover Institution and the Rand Corporation haven’t announced positions on tech donations.

Tech companies are in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, and dozens of states attorneys general over their increasing clout. In response, they have significantly ramped up lobbying. In 2020, Facebook spent $19.7 million, Amazon spent $17.9 million, Google spent $7.5 million, Apple spent $7.4 million, and Twitter spent $1.5 million, according to public filings.

Donations to think tanks, meanwhile, can be made privately, making it a more discreet way of influencing policy and shaping legislation. But a growing number of think tanks are concerned about possible conflicts of interest.

A Heritage spokesman said the group — which gets most of its donations from smaller donors despite big-name trustees that include Rebekah Mercer — has felt escalating bias from Big Tech during the past two years.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/04/conservative-think-tank-heritage-foundation-stops-taking-big-tech-donations/

Biden Says People Unwilling to Get Covid Vaccine Are “Lazy” and Will Cause Others to Die

Joe Biden on Tuesday delivered remarks on his administration’s efforts to get more jabs in people’s arms.

According to the White House, more than 105 million Americans have received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Idiot Biden could barely read the teleprompter on Tuesday and jumbled his speech.

Biden said people who refuse to get the experimental Covid vaccine will cause others to die.

ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers asked Joe Biden about the next phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout and Biden said, “Most people will be convinced by the fact that their failure to get the vaccine may cause other people to get sick and maybe die.”

Biden also said people who refuse to get the vaccine are “lazy.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/biden-says-people-unwilling-get-covid-vaccine-lazy-will-cause-others-die-video/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/biden-says-people-unwilling-get-covid-vaccine-lazy-will-cause-others-die-video/

Antrim County Plaintiffs Introduce New Evidence in 2020 Election Case — Experts Were Able to Compromise Data on Data and Flip Votes

Michigan Attorney Matthew DePerno filed an explosive new report in the ongoing Antrim County 2020 election lawsuit.

According to DePerno, his team of experts was able to prove the voting machines were vulnerable to compromise.

And DePerno’s team says they were able to manipulate software that was able then to flip votes to Joe Biden.

Matthew DePerno filed his latest legal report this week.

Matthew DePerno: ​We have the proof that voting machines used in the 2020 elections can be compromised and votes easily transferred from one candidate to another. We can flip votes at the tabulator/precinct level. We can flip votes at the county level. The American people are losing their voice for the future of our democracy. We must fight together for free and fair elections.

Matthew DePerno says he will be able to show the tabulator tapes at the precinct lever were different than the paper ballots.

This is a BIG story! — And, of course, the fake news media will ignore it.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/antrim-county-plaintiffs-introduce-new-evidence-2020-election-case-experts-able-compromise-data-data-flip-votes/

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