​​​​​​​It's Spreading: America's Top Oil Field Terrorized By Armed Venezuelan Gangs

It's only going to get worse from here, as the Biden-Harris administration's disastrous open border policies have now come to a 'neighborhood near you' (for some of you). In the past week, we saw armed Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua members terrorize the northern Denver suburb of Aurora and other sanctuary cities run by far-left Democrats. New concerns out Thursday afternoon indicate critical infrastructure is now under threat from migrant cartel members.

According to Libs of TikTok, a Texas-based oil/gas company issued a memo to employees informing them that police and the FBI have warned armed Cuba and Venezuela migrant gangs are committing thefts in the Permian Basin (America's highest producing oil field).

Here's the memo:

Industry peers and law enforcement in West Texas (WTX) are aware of a recent increase in organized criminal activity inclusive of violent crimes, gang activity and oil field thefts in and around WTX operational areas. Specifically, regional law enforcement and the FBI advised that gang members emanating from Cuba and Venezuela are organizing and working in concert to commit thefts within the Permian Basin. These individuals and groups are armed, violent in nature and will not hesitate to use force.

Crimes associated with these groups include the theft of oil, diesel fuel, copper wire, and catalyst elements. Recent incidents have also included two assaults by water haulers who were attempting to steal oil from WTX oilfield sites. After the thieves were observed by witnesses who drove up to investigate, the thieves attempted to use their vehicles to run the witnesses off the road. In another incident, a thief, acting as a spotter and following a water hauler who had stolen oil, also attempted to run a witness off the road. There have been numerous reports of second vehicles acting as spotters for water haulers committing oil thefts.

An industry peer provided the below snapshot of a video surveillance of an armed thief checking out an area before stealing diesel from the location.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/its-spreading-americas-top-oil-field-terrorized-armed-venezuela-gangs

Netanyahu on Fox & Friends:

“There's not a deal in the making, unfortunately.. It’s not close…

“I'm not interested in my political future. I'm interested in my country's future..

“I have red lines. They were set before this massacre .. but they've become redder…”

https://x.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1831688988949680250

Chase Bank Issues Fraud Warning After ATM Glitch Videos Spread Online

Over Labor Day weekend, videos appeared on TikTok and other social media platforms allegedly showing people depositing fraudulent checks written for large sums of money at Chase Bank ATMs. They would then make a withdrawal for a significant amount, believing they discovered a glitch that allowed them to get free money.

However, a spokesperson for Chase Bank said those people were likely committing fraud and that the issue was resolved. The bank also warned customers not to mimic what they’ve seen on the internet.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1829932871664181596

“We are aware of this incident, and it has been addressed,” a Chase spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement on Tuesday.

“Regardless of what you see online, depositing a fraudulent check and withdrawing the funds from your account is fraud, plain and simple,” the spokesperson added.

The bank did not respond to a question about whether it is investigating the videos or whether law enforcement is involved, and it’s unknown how many Chase customers attempted to make such withdrawals.

“Check kiting. It’s called check kiting. And it’s been around since the invention of … checks,” Cornell University law professor Dan Awrey wrote on X, responding to videos depicting the alleged fraudulent activity.

Check kiting, considered a form of check fraud, is when a person tries to cover “a bad check from one bank account to another,” says the Cornell Law School on its website. People with several accounts can take advantage of this because it takes several days to process checks, it adds.

“Banks will usually resolve issues of check swapping, or the exchange of checks between two bank accounts, without prosecuting the kiters. When the scheme involves payment to a third party, however, banks must prosecute,” says the Department of Justice research paper.

Advice From Finance Professionals

Jim Wang, a financial educator who operates the website WalletHacks.com, said in multiple social media posts that some people who attempt to bilk the bank out of money could have their accounts placed on hold.

“The people that were doing this were seeing big holes in their accounts or huge negative balances,” Wang said on Instagram. “Bank errors in your favor are almost never in your favor. In the case of this ‘glitch,’ it was just check fraud.”

If a large sum of money shows up in a person’s bank account, that person should tell their bank right away, he advised.

“Just because money appears in your account, doesn’t mean it’s literally yours,” Wang said. “If you spend it and are forced to pay it back, you’re going to have to figure out a way to pay it back.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chase-bank-issues-fraud-warning-after-atm-glitch-videos-spread-online

==Accusations of US Regime-Change Operations in Pakistan and Bangladesh Warrant UN Attention

The very strong evidence of the U.S. role in toppling the government of Imran Khan in Pakistan raises the likelihood that something similar may have occurred in Bangladesh.

Two former leaders of major South Asian countries have reportedly accused the United States of covert regime change operations to topple their governments. One of the leaders, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, languishes in prison, on a perverse conviction that proves Khan’s assertion. The other leader, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Hasina, fled to India following a violent coup in her country. Their grave accusations against the U.S., as reported in the world media, should be investigated by the UN, since if true, the U.S. actions would constitute a fundamental threat to world peace and to regional stability in South Asia.

The two cases seem to be very similar. The very strong evidence of the U.S. role in toppling the government of Imran Khan raises the likelihood that something similar may have occurred in Bangladesh.

In the case of Pakistan, Donald Lu, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia, met with Asad Majeed Khan, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the U.S., on March 7, 2022. Ambassador Khan immediately wrote back to his capital, conveying Lu’s warning that PM Khan threatened U.S.-Pakistan relations because of Khan’s “aggressively neutral position” regarding Russia and Ukraine.

The Ambassador’s March 7 note (technically a diplomatic cypher) quoted Assistant Secretary Lu as follows: “I think if the no-confidence vote against the Prime Minister succeeds, all will be forgiven in Washington because the Russia visit is being looked at as a decision by the Prime Minister. Otherwise, I think it will be tough going ahead.” The very next day, members of the parliament took procedural steps to oust PM Khan.

On March 27, PM Khan brandished the cypher, and told his followers and the public that the U.S. was out to bring him down. On April 10, PM Khan was thrown out of office as the parliament acceded to the U.S. threat.

We know this in detail because of Ambassador Khan’s cypher, exposed by PM Khan and brilliantly documented by Ryan Grim of The Intercept, including the text of the cypher. Absurdly and tragically, PM Khan languishes in prison in part over espionage charges, linked to his revealing the cypher.

The U.S. appears to have played a similar role in the recent violent coup in Bangladesh. PM Hasina was ostensibly toppled by student unrest, and fled to India when the Bangladeshi military refused to prevent the protestors from storming the government offices. Yet there may well be much more to the story than meets the eye.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/regime-change-pakistan-bangladesh

Former Mexican Police Officer and CJNG Cartel Member Sentenced in El Paso to 25 Years in Federal Prison

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdtx/pr/former-mexican-police-officer-and-cjng-cartel-member-sentenced-el-paso-25-years

Former University City High School Teacher Sentenced to 120 Months for Trying to Buy Sex Acts from a 16-Year-Old

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/former-university-city-high-school-teacher-sentenced-120-months-trying-buy-sex-acts-16

Durov speaks out for first time since arrest in France

The Telegram founder said it was wrong to charge him with crimes allegedly committed on his platform

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has said that the French authorities used “surprising” arguments when they arrested him at a Paris airport last month.

The Russian-French businessman was detained after landing at Paris-Le Bourget Airport on August 24 and released on bail several days later. He was charged with 12 counts, including complicity in distributing child porn, drug dealing and money laundering. The charges stem from the accusation that Telegram’s lax moderation rules allow for the widespread use of the platform by criminals.

Durov released a lengthy statement on Telegram on Thursday night, arguing that the position of the prosecution was “surprising for several reasons.”

“If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself,” Durov wrote. “Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach.”

Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.

According to the tech billionaire, the police told him that he could be “personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram.”

Durov dismissed the claim that his company was hard to reach, noting that Telegram has an official representative in the EU that replies to requests. “Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles ‘Telegram EU address for law enforcement,’‘‘ he wrote.

“The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance,” he continued, adding that he was “a frequent guest” at the French consulate in Dubai.

Durov was born in Russia but has lived in Dubai since the late 2010s. He is also a citizen of France, the UAE, and the Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

https://www.rt.com/news/603595-durov-speaks-out-arrest-france/