Ukrainian counterintelligence services are investigating the infiltration of Latin American drug cartel members into the country's International Legion, with operatives seeking advanced drone training to later deploy against rivals and security forces in their home countries. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) launched a joint investigation with military intelligence after Mexico's National Intelligence Center warned in early summer that Mexican volunteers had joined Ukraine's foreign fighter units specifically to acquire first-person view (FPV) drone capabilities. The probe has since expanded to include Colombian nationals, raising concerns about Ukraine's inadvertent role as a training ground for transnational criminal organizations. Mexican drug cartels have been using FPVs to drop hand grenades on their enemies, including killing some luckless Mexican soldiers. read more
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In addition to the hardship many families could face, SNAP cuts could lead to the loss of grocery stores in rural areas that already have few food retailers. read more
A culture of fear has persisted at a Florida nuclear power plant owned and operated by the state's largest utility, Florida Power & Light (FPL). Workers were hesitant to report safety concerns to upper management lest they face retaliation. Inspectors came to this conclusion after interviewing more than 75 employees at the St. Lucie plant, located on a barrier island an hour north of West Palm Beach. A federal database showed workers' anonymous complaints of wrongdoing at the plant skyrocketed last year. On-site workers filed far more reports here than at any other of the nation's 54 nuclear power plants. The findings come as the utility asks regulators for permission to hike Floridians' electric rates by billions of dollars over the next four years. FPL's proposed increase represents the largest rate hike request in US history. FPL CEO Armando Pimentel Jr's total 2024 compensation was $11.4 million. read more
JAMA informs: "Teenagers and children across America are increasingly inhaling nitrous oxide, better known as "laughing gas" or "whippets" to get high. Inhaling nitrous oxide comes with serious health risks: Blood clots, frostbite, asphyxiation, heart palpitations, hallucinations and even paralysis, brain damage, or death. Sold in canisters, easy access appears to be growing throughout the US. There are no age restrictions on buying nitrous oxide which is available online and in gas stations across the country. US deaths linked to misuse of the common, legal inhalant climbed nearly sevenfold -- 578% -- between 2010 and 2023. In 2023, 156 Americans, many of them children, died from huffing nitrous oxide. Eighth-graders make up a large proportion of users." read more
Hi Corky. Where's Alexander Acosta? Miami, Florida. Link: thecinemaholic.com
Mr. Acosta may wish to take an extended vacation in the nearby Bahamas to avoid any subpoenas or inquiries.
The Statute of Limitations for certain crimes of sexual predation in New York State is up to 20 years. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and NYAG Letitia James must immediately begin the process of local prosecution against Ghislaine Maxwell in the event Trumpf pardons her. Dollars to donuts, should this horrific sex trafficker see the light of day, Maxwell will head for the UK where she is a citizen. If Ghislaine Maxwell was indeed a blackmailing asset for the Mossad as many suspect, she will end up in Israel.
Ghislaine Maxwell knows that she is a huge problem for many, many powerful people that would like to see a neat and permanent resolution to their anxieties: static.wikia.nocookie.net
#45: What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them.
"So mote it be": i.imgflip.com
#4: "Weather satellites? We don't need no stinkin' weather satellites!" ih1.redbubble.net
BTW: How'd you make out at Morongo? Make any dinero?
#13: Those thugs certainly abused William McNeil Jr as a runaway slave. The poor guy stayed calm while the goons shattered his window. If those cretins are fired but not prosecuted, they will be welcomed into ICE: prisonhistory.eadrummondhistory.lmu.build
#12: Ask yourself, with the exception of Congressman Jerrold 'Jerry' Nadler (D-NY), why would so many Democrats from all over the country find voice and reason to slime fellow Democrat poor Zohran Mamdani? AIPAC. Check the names of Zohran's detractors against these two websites and you will see. The more money AIPAC has given them, the louder, meaner, and baseless will be their attack. These two websites work like a charm. Try John Fetterman or Josh Shapiro or any Democratic critic of Zohran you hear or see on the news.
Links:
www.boughtbyzionism.org
www.trackaipac.com