🇲🇽 ❌️ 🇺🇸 The Sinaloa Cartel fired at a US drone. US border agents found a camp of the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel near the US-Mexico border, revealing the moment the criminals fired at a drone.

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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 On the topic of CIA subversion in Russia:

Rather than a new cold war, our era is one perhaps more comparable to the 19th century in terms of various empires competing across the globe. And so, the US is openly trying to influence fifth columns in Russia, along with efforts throughout the former Soviet space, especially Central Asia.

The Russians have returned to being a global player after recovering from the Soviet collapse. They expend their own energy to influence American dissidents or interact throughout America's backyard in Latin America. A tale as old as time in geopolitical rivalries for millenia.

In a world of instant communications, spycraft has heavily become digitized with cyber teams focused more on human psychology than hard military intelligence gathering.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/30170

🛡 🇵🇱 🇰🇷 Four Borsuk BWP vehicles during preparations for a parade on August 15th on the occasion of the Polish Army Day.

📎 Jun Supreme

🚀 🇺🇸 The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion
"NASA is looking to go to Mars with this system."

Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.

NASA announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the US Department of Defense to launch a nuclear-powered rocket engine into space as early as 2027. The US space agency will invest about $300 million in the project to develop a next-generation propulsion system for in-space transportation.

"NASA is looking to go to Mars with this system," said Anthony Calomino, an engineer at NASA who is leading the agency's space nuclear propulsion technology program. "And this test is really going to give us that foundation."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/nasa-seeks-to-launch-a-nuclear-powered-rocket-engine-in-four-years/

🇸🇾 🇯🇴The Jordanian military downed a drone from Syria carrying crystal meth into Jordan on Sunday

"War-torn Syria has become a hub for a multi-billion-dollar drugs trade, with Jordan a main transit route to the oil-rich Gulf states for a Syrian-made amphetamine known as captagon, Western anti-narcotics officials and Washington say.

Citing a source within the Jordanian armed forces, the state agency said in a statement the drone was "taken control of and downed".

The Jordanian military has previously downed drones from Syria carrying narcotics or weapons but has rarely identified seized drugs as crystal meth.

Military and security officials from Jordan and Syria have met to discuss ways to curb the growing smuggling problem. Despite pledges by Damascus, Jordan says it has not seen any real attempt to clamp down on the illicit trade.

There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities. In an interview last week, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied Syria's role in the drug trade, saying that ending narcotics smuggling was a common interest that Syria shares with Arab countries."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/jordanian-army-downs-drone-syria-carrying-meth-state-news-agency-2023-08-13/

🇩🇪 Germany is debating whether to ban the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as the party surges to 21 per cent in the polls, amid warnings from intelligence officials that its members are becoming increasingly extreme

In a rare move, the respected Der Spiegel news magazine weighed into the debate with a leader noscriptd: “Ban the enemies of the constitution!” 
It warned that “the AfD has become more and more radicalised. It’s time to defend democracy with better weapons”.

The co-leader of Olaf Scholz’s ruling Social Democrats also said a ban should be considered if the AfD is categorised as a group of “proven Right-wing extremists” by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/afd-party-ban-germany-far-right-extremists

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🇺🇦❌🇵🇱— UKRAINE IS PLAYING WITH GERMANY AND THE US FOR A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT IN WARSAW

Since May this year, a number of incidents have occurred between Poland and Ukraine.

First off, the disproportionate reaction to the Polish FM's comments in a media program that called for the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to apologize to Poland for the Volhynia massacre, followed by the Ukrainian Institute for National Remembrance claiming Ukraine would not resume the exhumations of Polish victims of the Volhynia massacre until Poland restored monuments on Polish territory to the Ukrainian liberation army. Next was the Ukrainian grain embargo, in which the European Commission took Ukraine's side. Poland led the charge on behalf of other Eastern European countries when banning Ukrainian grain import bans. This eventually led to every European country bordering Ukraine to ban grain imports, which the European Commission would reluctantly allow.

Ukraine then accused Poland of trying to stop the transit of Ukrainian grain and falsely accused Poland of being in violation of the World Trade Organization's rules. And last week, the Ukrainian government summoned the Polish ambassador to Kiev after the comments made by Polish President Andrzej Duda's chief aide about Ukraine's lack of understanding for Poland's farmers and that Kiev should be more grateful for Polish help.

In the editorial written by Polish political scientist Dr. Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski, he reaches the conclusion that Ukraine wants to join NATO, and that the U.S. perspective will be the final decision maker. However, regarding EU membership, he believes that Germany will make the final call. Ukraine seems to think that defeating Russia is in Poland's national interests, Poland will support whatever Kiev will do, so a liberal Polish government backed by Washington and Berlin seems like the better option for them, and by cooling relations with the incumbent Polish govt., they seek that.

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⚡️🇪🇬🇯🇴🇵🇸 The Egyptian-Jordanian-Palestinian summit has finished in Alamaen, Egypt.

The King of Jordan, The President of Egypt, alongside several Palestinian factions and political organizations, held a meeting.

The Leaders affirmed the priority of international and Arab legal references to settle the Palestinian issue and stressed the following.

1) The necessity of ending the Israeli occupation within a clear timetable and restoring the full rights of the Palestinian people

2) The need to stop settler terrorism and extremist currents and hold them accountable

The King of Jordan and the Palestinian President also praised the role of Egypt and the Egyptian President in uniting the Palestinian ranks and ending the division, especially in Gaza.

No.1 most likely refers to Israeli occupation of Jerusalem, not the actual entity itself, as most Arab leaders are in favor of returning to 1967 borders instead of the complete abolition of Israel.. so far.

@themediterraneanman

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Official ™ /SCI/ half-hour update on the count

Last update for the night folks, heading to bed now.
Outstanding performance, have a good night and God bless you all my dear friends.

Update: - 08/14/2023 - 02:01
Voter turnout - 69,62%
Booths installed: 104,532
Booths processed: - 99,956 - 95,62%

La Libertad Avanza: - 30,15%
Juntos por el Cambio: - 28,26%
Union por la Patria: - 27,18%
Hacemos: - 3,88%
Empty Ballots: - 4,73%
Frente de Izquierda: - 2,64%

Minimum threshold of 1.5%

🏴‍☠️ 🇺🇸 Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advised hundreds of employees in San Francisco to work remotely for the foreseeable future due to public safety concerns.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drugs-crime-nancy-pelosi-federal-building-18292237.php

📉 🇺🇸 Shades of post-1989 USSR in the US since the GFC in 2008.

Comparable countries bounced post-COVID, but US did not.

~1 million Americans have died of OD’s just since 2010; that’s more than the # of Americans that died in all wars America has ever fought in.

Via @DanRDimicco

📎 Luke Gromen

🇵🇱 Polish government plans referendum asking if voters want ‘thousands of illegal immigrants’

Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to hold onto power in an October parliamentary election.

Poland currently hosts more than a million Ukrainian refugees, who are primarily white and Christian, but officials have long made clear that they consider Muslims and others from different cultures to be a threat to the nation’s cultural identity and security.

EU interior ministers in June endorsed a plan to share out responsibility for migrants entering Europe without authorization, the root of one of the bloc’s longest-running political crises.

The Polish government wants to hold the referendum alongside the parliamentary election, scheduled for Oct. 15. Morawiecki said that the question would say: “Do you support the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European bureaucracy?”

The video announcing the question includes scenes of burning cars and other street violence in Western Europe. A Black man licks a huge knife in apparent anticipation of committing a crime. Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski then says: “Do you want this to happen in Poland as well? Do you want to cease being masters of your own country?

🔗 https://apnews.com/article/poland-migration-referendum-election-e43f5f5f76a34a6f7f3a24b3d39fbc00

🇫🇮 Finns Party mastermind defends long-term goal to leave the EU.

Finland should aim to leave the European Union in the long term, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine means European unity should be the priority for now, the far-right Finns Party's Jussi Halla-aho said ahead of a party congress on Saturday.

Halla-aho, author of the anti-immigration party's "Fixit" policy that envisioned an EU exit in 2019, is expected to be nominated during the congress as its candidate for a presidential election due in January 2024.

Opinion polls show the hardline former party leader is unlikely to win the presidency, but his views are influential within the Finns Party, which is part of the right-wing government that took office in June.

"It is justified that we aim to leave the EU in the long term," Halla-aho told Reuters, citing "a democratic deficit" in which the EU limits member states' sovereignty.

"But at the same time, of course, we recognise that in the prevailing world situation, a fragmented Western Europe would be much weaker against the threat of totalitarian countries," he said. The Finns Party backed the country joining NATO this year.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finns-party-mastermind-defends-long-term-goal-exit-eu-2023-08-12/

🇫🇮 Finland negotiating Defence Cooperation Agreement with the United States

The agreement will dictate the specifics regarding the stationing of US troops in Finland for military exercises and overall preparedness, which would be the first instance of an extended foreign military presence in Finland during peacetime.

The agreement's primary aim is to grant US military personnel access to facilities and areas within Finland for training, weapons storage, and equipment maintenance. This includes the potential use of airports, harbours and designated training zones.

It is likely that the US military would be granted access to at least one airport and harbour, as well as a training area. The Finnish Defense Forces' (FDF) existing barracks or locations in close proximity might be allocated for US use.

🔗 https://yle.fi/a/74-20045002

🇺🇸 Barrels of drinking water for migrants walking through Texas have disappeared

As one of the worst heat waves on record set in across much of the southern United States this summer, authorities and activists in South Texas found themselves embroiled in a mystery in this arid region near the border with Mexico.

Barrels of life-saving water that a human rights group had strategically placed for wayward migrants traveling on foot had vanished.

Usually, they are hard to miss. Labeled with the word “AGUA” painted in white, capital letters and standing about waist-high, the 55-gallon (208-liter), blue drums stand out against the scrub and grass, turned from green to a sundried brown.

Exact counts of those who die are difficult to determine because deaths often go unreported. The U.N. International Organization for Migration estimates almost 3,000 migrants have died crossing from Mexico to the U.S. by drowning in Rio Grande, or because of lack of shelter, food or water.

Humanitarian groups started placing water for migrants in spots on the U.S. side of the border with Mexico in the 1990s after authorities began finding bodies of those who succumbed to the harsh conditions.

On one of his rounds in July, Meza said, 12 of the 21 stations he maintains were no longer there.

🔗 https://apnews.com/article/texas-heat-migrants-missing-water-02d75b9ef982f2d60c6a9b246969f44b