Fentanyl Is the Real Chemical Weapon Attack at the U.S. Border

The left is shrieking about President Donald Trump committing “war crimes” at the border by using tear gas to disperse a mob of violent migrants, while the media try very hard to keep anyone from remembering the sainted Barack Obama repeatedly did the same thing. All of these hysterics are curiously silent about the real chemical weapons attack perpetrated at the U.S. border: the fentanyl epidemic.

Fentanyl is a powerful and deadly synthetic drug often mixed with other street drugs to make them more potent. It is largely manufactured in China and pushed across the porous southern border into the United States by Central and South American gangs. It kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.

Fentanyl is incredibly dangerous because of its potency, the poor quality control of the labs that make it, its tendency to induce respiratory failure, and its resistance to the emergency antidotes carried by first responders. Its potency makes it highly portable and its ever-changing formula makes it difficult for law enforcement to detect.

The Centers for Disease Control counted 72,000 overdose deaths last year. Fentanyl is believed to have played a role in nearly half of them nationwide, with much higher percentages in hot spots like Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Ohio. The CDC released a study in March that found fentanyl and similar synthetics are driving the increase in overdose deaths. The death rate from synthetics “more than doubled,” while overdose deaths from prescription opioids rose by 10.6 percent.

Media coverage and government policy for the opioid crisis is heavily focused on prescription drugs and their deep-pocketed, settlement-prone manufacturers and distributors, but the difference between a 10.6 percent increase in mortality rates and a surge of over 100 percent is stark. Fentanyl is by far the worst killer, followed by two other increasingly popular street drugs, cocaine and heroin, whose mortality rates increased by 52.4 percent and 19.5 percent respectively. Fentanyl passed other opioids as the most common cause of overdose deaths in 2016, and possibly even before that, since the exact type of drug involved in an OD is not always recorded on death certificates.

This is not just an American problem. Fentanyl was fingered as the primary culprit behind a 29 percent rise in overdose deaths in the United Kingdom last year. While fentanyl is seen as a relatively small part of the continental European illegal drug market, it still managed to kill at least 250 people there over the past two years, and there could be more uncounted deaths because European gangs have a habit of selling fentanyl disguised as prescription pain medication or heroin.

Fentanyl is so dangerous because it gets mixed into everything else by ambitious street dealers looking to juice up their products with a cheap and powerful additive. When a federal raid in October seized about 25 pounds of fentanyl from a drug ring in Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling remarked it was enough fentanyl to “kill half the state.” The Ohio Attorney General figured 20 pounds of fentanyl seized in June could have caused four million fatalities. When state troopers bagged 118 pounds of fentanyl in May, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration calculated it was enough to kill over 26 million people.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/11/28/fentanyl-real-chemical-weapon-attack-u-s-border/

MS-13 Gang Member Traveling With Migrant Caravan Arrested in California

A member of the notorious transnational gang, MS-13, was arrested over the weekend in California after traveling north with the migrant caravan and illegally entering the country, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said on Nov. 28.

Border Patrol agents encountered the man just east of the Calexico Port of Entry and suspect him of entering the United States illegally.

The man, later identified as 29-year-old Jose Villalobos-Jobel, admitted to being a Honduran citizen and active gang member with MS-13, short for Mara Salvatrucha 13.

Villalobos-Jobel told agents he traveled from Honduras to the southern U.S. border with the migrant caravan. A group from the caravan rushed the border on Sunday, forcing American officers to fire tear gas to disperse the mob.

An estimated 8,500 migrants have crowded into Tijuana, just south of the border, as President Donald Trump works to prevent them from entering the United States.

Trump has noted that the migrants already rejected an asylum offer from Mexico and that confirmed criminals and gang members are among them.

Department of Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Nov. 27 that the caravan members are “predominately male” and that 90 percent aren’t eligible for asylum. She said that the department has confirmed there are over 600 convicted criminals traveling with the main caravan, including people known for rape, drug crimes, and child abuse.

Hundreds of migrants involved in the border rush were identified and will be deported, Mexico said on Monday.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that the confirmed MS-13 member will also be deported.

“How many more gang members & criminals are among caravan members? Without interdiction there is no way to know,” the agency said on Twitter.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/ms-13-gang-member-traveling-with-migrant-caravan-arrested-in-california_2726044.html

‘Project Hysteria’: Bank of England Claims Massive Economic Crash After Clean Brexit

The Bank of England has relaunched its ‘Project Fear’ campaign after claiming that in the result of a clean, no deal, break from the European Union, the UK will suffer a massive fall in GDP and a sharp rise in unemployment.

Governor Mark Carney said Theresa May’s exit plan would also damage the economy, but a “no deal” Brexit free from all EU rules and regulation would be a “worst-case scenario.”

He said the bank’s assessment, conducted on request of the Government, found that in the eventuality of a ‘No Deal’ with no “transition period,” there would be sudden tariff barriers and border problems “for some time.”

The doomsday prophesies also claimed the pound would fall by 25 per cent; by 2023, GDP will be 10 per cent lower; unemployment would double to 7.5 per cent; house prices would fall by 30 per cent; and commercial property prices would crash by 48 per cent.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/28/project-hsyteria-bank-england-claims-massive-economic-crash-clean-brexit/

Russian Forces Shoot Down Another Armed Drone Over Hmeimim Airbase. Is Response Expected?

On November 28, Russian forces launched at least two surface-to-air missiles at an unidentified aerial object near the Hmeimim airbase in the western governorate of Lattakia, according to local sources.

Later, the media office of the Syrian National Defense Forces (NDF) confirmed in a short press release that an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was shot down while it was heading towards Hmeimim airbase.

This was the first drone attack on the strategic Russian base since September 17, when Russia and Turkey reached a demolitarized zone agreement on the governorate of Idlib, east of Lattakia. During the two months prior to the agreement, more than 50 armed UAVs were shot down while they were attempting to attack Hmeimim.

Local observers believe that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) [the former branch of al-Qaeda in Syria] is responsible for these UAV attacks on Hmeimim.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia also said that a U.S. Poseidon-8 reconnaissance plane had coordinated at least one of these attacks.

Last month, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow and its allies in Syria will resume their military operations against the militants in northwestern Syria if UAV attacks continue.

However, several recent serious violations of the deconfliction agreement were met with a very limited response by Russia and its allies. This raises the question: will the new escalation will be addressed in a more suitable manner? If it is not, militants will likely consider this as a sign of the weakness and will further expand their violations of the ceasefire regime in western Syria.

https://southfront.org/russian-forces-shoot-down-another-armed-drone-over-hmeimim-airbase-is-response-expected/

Prime Minister Theresa May should ‘hang her head in shame’ – Police Watchdog

The London Metropolitan Police is being overwhelmed by people phoning for mental health related issues.

In a report conducted by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Service, it was found that in 2017, 8,655 calls were made to the Met police by just five individuals with mental health problems.

They received a call every four minutes and sent out an officer every 12 minutes to deal with situations of a mental health nature.

Zoë Billingham, HM Inspector of Constabulary said, “…we cannot expect the police to pick up the pieces of a broken mental health system.

“Over-stretched and… overwhelmed police officers can’t always respond appropriately, and people… in crisis with mental health problems need expert support… that can’t be carried out in the back of a police car or [in]a police cell. All too often, the system is failing people when they most need help.”

The damning report highlights serious possible negative implications of the situation including that vulnerable lives may be being put at risk.

National Chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, John Apter, said of the situation Theresa May and the Home Secretary created, “[The report] acknowledges we are… the organisation which cannot refuse to go when we are called, the people who fill the 5-9 gap left by other agencies and that is placing an ‘intolerable burden’ on police officers.

The government’s austerity policies have led us to this dire state. I hope the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary read this report and hang their heads in shame at the situation they have not only created, but were warned about on numerous occasions.” He continued, “We’re police officers not social workers or medical experts.”

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/11/prime-minister-theresa-may-should-hang-her-head-in-shame-police-watchdog/

Liberals, conservatives asked if they’d befriend each other. Their answers speak volumes.

Earlier this year, Will Witt of PragerU visited New York City’s Washington Square Park to find out if anyone there had Republican friends.

As you might expect, he had zero problems running into left-wing folk — and none of them on the accompanying video said they had Republican friends or would ever even dream of the prospect.

“We stay away from those people,” one person told Witt.

Many respondents seemed to equate being a Republican with being racist, bigoted, and intolerant — and being a Democrat or on the left as being open-minded and accepting of diversity.

But oh, how the tables turned

Witt recently traveled a region where he stood a better chance of running into a conservative or two. The destination? The campus of Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg — quite a long way from the Big Apple both in terms of distance and values.

So, to find out if conservatives felt the same way as some on the left about befriending those with opposing ideologies, Witt put the question to conservatives: “Would you be friends with a Democrat?”

The responses in the clip were quite a bit different.

“I would if they would be open to just hearing my views, too, and not just shutting me down,” one guy answered. “That’s what I’ve seen a lot with some Democrat friends.”

Another person characterized Democrats’ arguments as more “emotional” and conservatives’ arguments as more “logical,” which makes it difficult to hold civil political discussions.

One respondent said it’s important for conservatives to back up what they say with how they live when interacting with Democrats: “Actions really do speak louder than words.”

Here’s the clip:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/11/28/liberals-conservatives-asked-if-theyd-befriend-each-other-their-answers-speak-volumes

>>4063469

NOTABLE

C_A trying to infest companies to derail the alliance!

FAIL THEY WILL

>>4063549

She doesn't have enough left in that old Vag to work off that kind of debt

Trump Tells Agencies To Find Ways To Cut GM Subsidies As Buyout Offer Details Emerge

Following up on his earlier threat, Bloomberg reports that according to "a person familiar with his instructions", President Donald Trump has asked federal agencies to look for ways to cut subsidies to General Motors following the automaker’s plans to close factories and lay off thousands of workers.

On Tuesday, Trump threatened GM that his administration is “looking at cutting all @GM subsidies,” including tax breaks for the purchase of electric cars.

And since a change in the tax break would require action by Congress, Trump has directed a broader examination of ways for the federal government to block funds to GM. Fox Business reported earlier Wednesday that the Energy Department was examining funds provided to GM. Other agencies have received similar instructions, the Bloomberg source said.

Still, in the past 12 months GM has received a relatively modest $333.5 million in federal spending according to a U.S. government website that tracks federal expenditures. More than 93% of that came through federal vehicle purchases for use by government departments.

Where taxpayer generosity features more prominently if indirectly, is that GM is also a frequent recipient of major research and defense contracts. Among the largest are a Department of Defense project that began in 2000 and earned the company $167.9 million as well as two Department of Energy grants of more than $100 million related to electric vehicles and batteries awarded during the Obama administration. Of course, U.S. taxpayers lost more than $10 billion in the rescue of the company during the financial crisis a decade ago.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-28/trump-tells-agencies-find-ways-cut-gm-subsidies-buyout-offer-details-emerge

>>4063604

Sounds like you know it well! KEK