>>6263875 (lb)

UCP video is a puzzle. The MSM has been demonizing both preppers and militia since the 1980s. People are waking up to MSM being a propaganda arm of the dems and militia numbers have begun to increase again because of Pelosi and other gun grabbers. We know top FBI/DOJ have been dirty and does the recent arrest indicate an attempt to demonstrate control before the Border becomes a next level Bundy Ranch situation? Is FBI/DOJ probing militia to see what reaction comes about? Is the whole UCP thing an attempt to keep militia demonized? If militia effectively halts the illegals then those who profit from the flow of people and drugs will be pissed. Add a very liberal Governor in New Mexico that would be in a bad position. Try to return the Guard to the area and admit pulling them back previously was a bad idea? Find out the hard way if Guard and Militia would engage each other or would Guard side with Militia? Would Militia trust Guard to remain and keep Border secured?

For Mike Vickers, not much has changed here since 1823, the year a group of frontier lawmen formed the Texas Rangers to protect settlers and their land.

“We’re still dealing with the bad guys from Mexico,” Vickers, 69, told The Post, referring to smugglers who traffic in drugs and migrants. “This is a war.”

Dressed in a cowboy hat, tan cargo pants and weathered boots, Vickers, a veterinarian, runs Las Palmas Animal Hospital, but he’s also chairman of the Texas Border Volunteers, a 300-strong militia helping thinly spread Customs and Border Patrol agents cover more than a million acres of private land throughout the state’s border counties.

Thirty Volunteers armed to the teeth patrol the hundreds of thousands of acres of ranchland near this city of nearly 5,000. And they are expecting an influx of smugglers this weekend.

“We always have big traffic at Easter,” he said. “It’s a big smuggling week for us.”

The land, cut by mesquite and cactus, lies nearly 90 miles from the Mexican border but only 4.5 miles from a US Border Patrol checkpoint.

Traffickers want to avoid this interior checkpoint — located on the only highway in this part of the state — so vehicles crammed with drugs or migrants from Central America and even China drop off the migrants and smugglers south of the checkpoint.

Smugglers and their human cargo jump fences onto private ranches to traverse the vast expanses on foot.

full article:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/20/this-is-a-war-meet-the-texas-ranchers-forming-their-own-border-militia/

>>6264740

The cool part is they will beg for prison because walking the streets will not be safe for them. Old "friends", donors, and "associates" will be too busy trying to save their own asses to render any aid.

>>6264730

Only shills come out with such attacks in red text

The Nigerian Navy has arrested nine people including one American for possession of firearms in what the Navy claimed was Nigerian waters.

The suspects were part of a maritime security team providing anti-piracy services in the Gulf of Guinea region.

A spokesperson for the maritime security firm, confirmed as U.S.-based Trident Group, said the team was located well into international waters when their vessel was boarded and the weapons found were all licensed and permitted.

The nine suspects were arrested during a joint operation called Junction Rain, a combined maritime law enforcement operation involving the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy in support of African Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership.

West African media reports that the suspects were arrested on board the Sea Angels 3. They are comprised of three Greek nationals, one American, and five Nigerians.

A Nigerian Navy official told local media that the suspect’s boat was boarded after the captain apparently lied about how many people were on board. Upon boarding the vessel, the boarding team discovered that there were more people on board and a subsequent search of the vessel turned up weapons, including four semi-automatic rifles, as well as ammunition and other military-style gear.

The official also indicated that the Sea Angels 3’s tracking and communication equipment had been turned off and the vessel was painted in navy colors, adding to suspicions of the vessel.

“What they are doing on our waters, we do not know,” the official said.

Nigeria’s The Nation identified the American as Zanski Michael-Anderson. Zanski is listed as an employee on the LinkedIn page of the Virginia-based Trident Group, which specializes in anti-piracy security.

A spokesperson Trident confirmed the incident to gCaptain and denied the team was operating in Nigeria’s territorial waters.

Piracy off the coast of Nigeria and in parts of the Gulf of Guinea continues to pose an extreme threat to ships and their crews operating in the region. According to data from the International Maritime Bureau’s Piracy Reporting Centre, reports of attacks in the Gulf of Guinea more than doubled in 2018, accounting for all six hijackings worldwide, 13 of the 18 ships fired upon, 130 of the 141 hostages taken globally, and 78 of 83 seafarers kidnapped for ransom.

Despite the extreme threat, however, Nigeria prohibits ships from entering its territorial waters with armed maritime security details similar to those that help stop the scourge of piracy off the Horn of Africa earlier this decade. The situation is so bad, in fact, that the shipping association BIMCO has called for naval action to combat piracy in the region.

In February, the Nigerian Navy was recognized for its efforts in curbing the activities of illegal maritime security outfits in its waters.

https://gcaptain.com/maritime-security-team-arrested-nigeria/

BRAZZAVILLE, April 19 (Reuters) – Congo Republic shipped its first iron ore exports on Friday from a rehabilitated deep-water port that will be used by Congolese billionaire Paul Obambi’s Sapro SA and Swiss commodities giant Glencore.

Sapro mined the oil-dependent Central African country’s first iron ore in 2017 from its Mayoko project in the southwest and plans to reach output of 12 million tonnes per year by 2022.

Glencore’s joint venture with British Virgin Islands-incorporated Zanaga Iron Ore Co plans to ship 2 million tonnes of iron ore per year through Sapro’s port and rail link over the next two years, and 30 million tonnes by 2024.

Sapro, the Congolese government and British shipping company Ashley Global are spending a combined $550 million on rehabilitation to Pointe Noire’s deep-water port, the Mayoko mine and an old railway track connecting the two.

At a ceremony on Friday in Pointe Noire attended by the mines minister, a ship loaded with 23,000 tonnes of ore set sail for China, where it will be processed for a European buyer.

“We are heading towards more than a century of production,” said Obambi.

Iron ore prices are near their highest in two years, spurred by growing demand from China and the collapse in January of a dam operated by Brazil’s Vale, which has cut into global output.

Congo’s economy has been hit hard in recent years by low crude prices, which led its debt to balloon. It is currently negotiating with the International Monetary Fund to try to secure a bailout. (Reporting by Christian Elion and Roch Bouka Writing by Sofia Christensen Editing by Aaron Ross and David Evans)

(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.

https://gcaptain.com/congo-ships-first-iron-ore/

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