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Thursday, November 14, 2024

The Enrichment Report #10

A selection of articles showcasing the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion:

    The real wake-up call that has changed everything is the brutality of the cocaine gangs, particularly in Belgium and the Netherlands, including contract killings, bombings, drive-by shootings and more. A Belgian justice minister who the cocaine mafia wanted to kidnap. The daughter of a Dutch king who had to abandon her studies in Amsterdam out of fear of the drug gangs. A famous television journalist who was murdered by a shot to the head. All the blood on the streets, spilled by the criminals themselves, but also by passersby who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And behind all the attacks, the pure disdain for the police, the judiciary and the state.

    All that has shaken Europe out of its slumber and made clear that while cocaine might be in the foreground, this battle is for something much bigger: the rise of the dark power of organized criminality, referred to by German investigators by its initials. OC.

    One can imagine OC as a giant kraken, with many different arms. There are migrant smugglers, arms dealers, those who have specialized in cracking open ATMs with explosives. There are the fraudsters going after the unsuspecting with phishing mails, fake online stores and those stories of the nephew suddenly stranded in some foreign city badly in need of money. There are gangs for stealing cars and for stealing car parts. And much, much more. Their schemes all extremely well organized, highly specialized and highly lucrative. Organized crime can, of course infiltrate a society without drugs as well, undermining its rules and disrupting the legitimate economy with laundered profits. The Federal Criminal Police Office has just recently estimated the damage for 2023 at 2.7 billion euros, more than twice as high as in 2022.

While the article does not expressly point its fingers at immigrants, there are a lot of references to people with Islamic names, Turkish companies involved in smuggling, Moroccans, Kurds, and Colombians. And toward the end of the article, the authors write:

What can be said with a fair degree of certainty: The power of the gangs is essentially unlimited and their weaponry is growing increasingly warlike: machine guns, hand grenades, anti-tank missiles – and it’s not just for intimidation. "Inhibitions against using such weaponry are vanishing. We see huge problems ahead,” says one investigator. In Baden-Württemberg, state police have begun approaching hundreds of potential gang recruits from the criminal scene.

    Reported cases of tuberculosis shot up 34% from 2020 to 2023, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and continue to rise.

    More than three-quarters of the cases are foreign-born people who picked up the disease in their home countries or while traveling through countries with high TB rates.

Martinez – who was nabbed Thursday after arriving in the Big Apple on a flight from Ecuador – was charged with staging a motor vehicle accident in the second degree, criminal mischief in the third degree, reckless endangerment in the first degree, as well as conspiracy and insurance fraud, each in the fifth degree, the DA’s office said. 

While those who entered under the programs may be eligible for deportation, the first people likely to be targeted are those considered to be threats, possibly including Chinese men who are deemed to be of military age living illegally in the United States, the two sources and a third source familiar with the plan told NBC News. This group would also include convicted criminals who are in the U.S. illegally and those with final orders of deportation, the officials said.

The cartels already operate with virtual impunity. Their ability to traffic drugs and humans across the border is seemingly unfettered by the Mexican judicial system, let alone by current U.S. efforts. A recent example is the discovery of five decapitated bodies and plastic-wrapped heads in northeastern Jalisco, Mexico. The notorious Jalisco New Generation drug cartel (the CJNG) is most likely to blame. To date, no arrests have been made. Since the beginning of the year, more than a thousand people have been murdered in Jalisco.

 A FEMA official backed up Washington’s claims, telling The Post the agency’s practice of skipping Trump-supporting houses — or avoiding “white or conservative-dominated” disaster zones altogether — is an open secret at the agency that has been going on for years.

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