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Bibi1581 Blog For 05/12/2018: Evening Edition

1…………> Fighting Obama’s War: No More Silence


Drug addiction and opioid abuse are ravaging America. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their lives to drug abuse.

President Trump is fighting back. In its first year, his Administration has moved quickly to answer this growing threat.

On October 26, 2017, President Trump announced that his Administration was declaring the opioid crisis a national Public Health Emergency under federal law, effective immediately. “I am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis,” the President said.

He unveiled a new website, where Americans can share their own stories about the dangers of opioid addiction. “This epidemic can affect anyone, and that’s why we want to educate everyone,” the President said at Manchester Community College in New Hampshire.

 

“We will work to strengthen vulnerable families and communities, and we will help to build and grow a stronger, healthier, and drug-free society,” President Trump says.


CrisisNextDoor.gov

 

 

 

 

2…………> Cartel Country: Tierra Caliente, MX

Residents and authorities of the Mexican Tierra Caliente region of Guerrero are defenseless against the relentless harassment and threats of three feuding drug cartels, identified as La Familia Michoacana, Los Tequileros and the Knights Templar, whose leaders have not been apprehended by the Mexican Policia Federal.

Extortion, kidnappings, “cobro de piso” or “derecho de piso” are some of the common tools used by the criminal gangs as regular payments in exchange for allowing commercial activity to continue undisturbed.

The cartels also target municipal governments for extortion payments by demanding between 5% and 10% of the cost of infrastructure projects they carry out, according to law enforcement sources.

Violence in the region continues despite federal and state governments carrying out three massive security operations in the past four years in which the Federal Police, the army, and the National Gendarmerie have all participated.

The only question on many peoples mind is, how long will it take for the degradation and Narco Cartels induced collapse of the Mexican government to force President Trump to invade, crush the drug infrastructure and to destroy its thousands of soldiers.

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/tierra-caliente-defenseless-against-drug-cartels/

 

 




3…………> Pimps “Pimped”: In Prison

Two Hyattsville, Maryland men named  Dennis Davis Jr. aka Dee, 26, and Ivan Williams aka Lucci, 28, were both sentenced to 26 years in prison for sex trafficking three minors throughout the East Coast from September through November 2016.

Davis and Williams’s pimped three underage girls while working with their convicted co-conspirators, Chelsea Canterbury aka Katt, 26, and Rebecca Hamilton aka Becca, 22, also of Hyattsville, Maryland. Davis, Williams and their co-conspirators recruited the three underage girls, whom they trafficked in numerous locations, including Northern Virginia; Richmond, Virginia; Maryland; Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. They worked together to post online advertisements of the victims on websites such as Backpage.com offering them for commercial sex with men throughout the region; reserved hotel rooms at which they and the victims would stay when traveling to engage in commercial sex acts; drove the victims to the hotels and other locations where the commercial sex acts occurred; and collected the money given to the victims by the commercial sex customers. 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pimps-sentenced-26-years-prison-sex-trafficking-three-minor-victims-throughout-east-coast

 

 




4…………> The “Fado” Fad: Lisbon

“It’s all about feeling moved – whether good or bad. Fado can also make you angry or pensive if you know how to submit to the beauty of this music,” the Islamic Merkeldom of Germany’s Ruhr Valley native Telmo Pires said of using fado magic to celebrate the rich heritage of Portugal’s traditional music around the world. 

“You see, I didn’t grow up in Portugal, so I only knew fado from the radio and from listening to my parents’ records. The reason I fell in love with this music was the grand voices in it – above all, Amalia Rodrigues.”

During her lifetime, Amalia Rodrigues has become the uncontested “Queen of Fado”, and her style of singing these mournful, passionate songs that goes deep in the soul of Portugal has brought her success in introducing “fado” to people around the world.

http://p.dw.com/p/2xXyi

 

 

 

5…………> A Message Of Peace

Leave the madness behind and listen to the music of eternal peace, Christus Vincit circa 1982.

http://youtu.be/7cFgpvylbRU 

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Bibi1581 Blog For 03/31/2018: Morning Edition

1…………> Another MS 13 Cell Busted: Maryland

A federal grand jury has indicted today six MS-13 members, five of whom were unlawfully in the United States, on charges in connection with their MS-13 gang activities, including racketeering conspiracy; murder in aid of racketeering; violent crimes in aid of racketeering; use, carry and possession of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence; and conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering.

Charged in the nine-count indictment are alleged MS-13 members and associates Moises Alexis Reyes-Canales aka Sicopata, 19; Marlon Cruz-Flores, aka Little S, 22; Fermin Gomez-Jimenez, 20; Manuel Martinez-Aguilar, aka El Lunatic and Zomb, 19; Juan Carlos Sandoval-Rodriguez, aka Picaro, El Pastor, and Gasper, 20; and David Diaz-Alvarado, 20. All the defendants except Cruz Flores, of Annapolis, Maryland, were illegally residing in Annapolis.

According to the indictment, MS-13 members and associates conspired to murder a rival gang member.  On or about March 11, 2016, Sandoval-Rodriguez lured the victim to a park in Annapolis, Maryland with the intent to murder the victim.  On or about that same date, Cruz-Flores, Gomez-Jimenez, Sandoval-Rodriguez, and Diaz-Alvarado, and other members and associates of MS-13 murdered the victim in Annapolis, for the purpose of gaining entrance to, maintaining, and increasing position in MS-13.


https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/six-ms-13-members-born-el-salvador-indicted-maryland-charges-ranging-racketeering-conspiracy

 

 

 

2…………> Pill Mill: Houston

A federal jury found a Houston physician and the owner of a pain management clinic guilty today for their roles in running a “pill mill” that provided tens of thousands of unlawful prescriptions for millions of doses of opioids and other controlled substances.

 After a  nine-day trial, Gazelle Craig, D.O., 41, and Shane Faithful, 48, both of Houston, Texas, were convicted of one count of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute controlled substances and three counts of unlawfully distributing and dispensing controlled substances. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled before U.S. District Judge David Hittner of the Southern District of Texas, who presided over the trial.  Both defendants were remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshal’s Service.

According to evidence presented at trial, from March 2015 through July 2017, Craig, a licensed doctor, and Faithful, the clinic owner, ran Gulfton Community Health Center (Gulfton), which operated as an illegal pill mill.  The evidence showed that Craig unlawfully wrote approximately 18,252 prescriptions for over 2.1 million dosage units of hydrocodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, and approximately 15,649 prescriptions for over 1.3 million dosage units of carisoprodol, a Schedule IV controlled substance.  The combination of hydrocodone and carisoprodol is a dangerous drug cocktail with no known medical benefit, the evidence showed.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/houston-physician-and-pain-management-clinic-owner-convicted-running-pill-mill-provided

 

 

3…………> Dog Fighting Ring: Busted

On March 23, 2018, the United States filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking the possession of 63 pit bull-type dogs that were allegedly involved in a dogfighting venture in violation of the federal Animal Welfare Act. 

According to the complaint filed last week in federal court, the animals were seized after GSP troopers conducted a traffic stop involving a vehicle inside of which an injured dog was found. The operator of the vehicle admitted to having been present at a dogfight in Eastman, Georgia, and provided law enforcement with the location of the fight. At the reported location, agents discovered a disassembled dog fighting “pit” and more than 60 pit bull-type dogs staked to the ground by heavy chains. The condition of a majority of the dogs, including scarring and aggression towards other dogs, was consistent with dog fighting and related training.


https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-agents-seize-63-dogs-suspected-dog-fighting-ring

 

 

 

4…………> For The Glory Of Allah: IS Diehard

Mohamed Elshinawy, 32, of Edgewood, Maryland, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization; providing and attempting to provide material support to ISIS; terrorism financing; and making false statements in connection with a terrorism matter.

As a part of the conspiracy, Elshinawy expressed his support for an Islamic caliphate and his belief in the legitimacy of ISIS. In addition, he expressed his hope that ISIS would be victorious and its enemies defeated and discussed his readiness to travel to live in the Islamic State.  In various other conversations, Elshinawy pledged his allegiance to ISIS, described himself as its soldier, committed to making violent jihad, and asked that others convey his message of loyalty to ISIS leadership.

Elshinawy also received payments from a foreign company totaling $8,700 to be used to fund a terrorist attack in the U.S.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-20-years-prison-providing-material-support-isis-and-terrorism

 

 

 

5…………> Espionage For ‘Larger Public Good’: FBI Agent

For the second time in less than a year, a former US government employee, this time an FBI agent in Minnesota was arrested for sharing documents that supposedly would help expose “systemic bias” at the FBI, the US government source widely believed to have supplied sensitive information to The Intercept magazine. 

Terry James Albury is likely to plead guilty to two counts filed against him on Thursday by the US Justice Department’s National Security Division, the Star Tribune, a Minneapolis-based newspaper, reports.

“Terry Albury served the US with distinction both here at home and abroad in Iraq,” his attorneys said in a statement.

“He accepts full responsibility for the conduct set forth in the Information. He would like to add that as the only African-American FBI field agent in Minnesota, Mr. Albury’s actions were driven by a conscientious commitment to long-term national security and addressing the well-documented systemic biases within the FBI,” the statement concluded.


https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201803311063088627-ex-fbi-agent-espionage-whistleblower/

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Bibi1581 Blog For 03/20/2018: Morning Edition

1…………> A Galactic Battle: Nevada Skies

“I was waiting in the car while my buddy went into the store. I noticed about 9 to 10 bright dots in the sky that looked like stars. The dots were in a line at approximately a 45-degree angle. All of a sudden they started to move upward at that same angle and it looked like they were attacking each other,” an eyewitness described a recent incident in the skies above Nevada’s second-largest city of Henderson, referring to the emergence of up to ten bright dots which looked like stars and which started to attack each other.

A video of what looked like a “battle” between unidentified flying objects (UFO) has emerged on the Internet, prompting users to scratch their heads.

https://sputniknews.com/science/201803201062722242-us-nevada-video-ufo-battle/

 

 

2…………> The Dog Fighting Cartel: Busted

Four defendants were sentenced this month in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey, as a result of their roles in a multi-state dog fighting conspiracy that extended to New Mexico and Indiana. 

Lydell Harris, 32, of Vineland, New Jersey, a/k/a “Sinn,” was sentenced to serve 17 months in prison. He had pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to sponsor or exhibit a dog in an animal fighting venture, and one felony count of possessing a dog intended for use in an animal fighting venture.
Anthony “Monte” Gaines, 37, of Vineland, New Jersey, was sentenced on March 5, 2018, to serve 42 months in prison. Gaines had pleaded guilty to two felony counts of conspiracy to buy, sell, receive, transport, deliver, and possess dogs intended for use in an animal fighting venture, and one felony count of possessing a dog intended for use in an animal fighting venture.
Frank Nichols, 40, of Millville, New Jersey, was sentenced March 9, 2018, to serve 57 months in prison. He had pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to transport, deliver and receive dogs intended for use in an animal fighting venture, and one felony count of possessing a stolen firearm subsequent to a felony conviction.
Pedro Cuellar, 47, of Willow Springs, Illinois, was sentenced on March 12, 2018, to serve 12 months and a day in prison. He had pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to transport, deliver, and receive dogs intended for use in an animal fighting venture.

According to court documents filed in connection with the cases, from October 2015 through June 1, 2016, the defendants and their associates fought dogs – including to the death – and trafficked in dogs with other dog fighters in Indiana, Illinois, New Mexico, and elsewhere so that those dogs could be used in dog fights. 

“In close partnership with the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and USDA Office of Inspector General, our Division is aggressively pursuing those who engage in illegal animal fighting ventures,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Wood. “These sentencings demonstrate our firm commitment to prosecute those who violate federal laws banning the torture of animals in the fighting ring. As these cases also demonstrate, animal fighting ventures often involve other forms of serious criminal conduct like illegal gambling and illegal trafficking in drugs and weapons. I applaud the law enforcement officers and prosecutors who worked tirelessly to deliver justice in these cases.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/last-four-defendants-sentenced-prison-multi-state-dog-fighting-conspiracy

 

 

3…………> TX Unabomber: 5th Blast

Shortly after 12 midnight, a package destined for Austin, TX detonated at the FedEx distribution facility located at 9935 Doerr Lane in Schertz, about 105 kilometres south of Austin. The package explosion sent a cloud of nails and shrapnel in the area, injuring one employee in the fifth such explosion in the state this month.


Officials did not say if they believed the device was the work of a “serial bomber”, who police fear may be responsible for the four earlier devices, which killed two people and injured six others.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-20/package-explodes-at-fedex-facility-in-texas/9569260

 

 

4……………..> Trump’s Doctrine: Return Fire

An armed attacker struck early in the morning before lessons at the Great Mills High School in St Mary’s County, 65 miles south-east of Washington DC, shooting and injuring two students in Maryland before being gunned down by an armed security guard.

The two students are being treated in hospital, one is in critically condition.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43474309 

5…………> Philippine Army 121th Anniversary 

Soldiers from the Philippine Army march during the 121st founding anniversary of the Philippine Army in Taguig City, the Philippines, March 20, 2018 

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-03/20/c_137053158.htm

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