The UAE has spent billions of dollars on African farmland, supposedly to address its food insecurity. Now, with Iran blocking food shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, the strategy’s limits are being revealed.

Both pentiti detail the fluid cooperation among mafias and confirm a shared structure reaching into local politics, though large portions of their statements remain sealed. Pace died by suicide in custody after beginning his cooperation, raising investigative questions. 3/3

Italy: The Hydra investigation has led to a major trial in Milan involving 45 defendants accused of forming a criminal alliance between Cosa Nostra, 'ndrangheta, and the Camorra, operating as a consortium in Lombardy and beyond. 1/3

Yeah thanks for that Brussels

"Fact: [Cops] never should have came to my house in the first place. Fact: If they hadn't have came to my house, they wouldn't have put themselves on the video camera and in my music career. All of this is their fault, and they have the audacity to sue me. These people, and you, are the predators"

No. Not one bit. Fuck off with this disgusting shit.

Netherlands: Recent investigative breakthroughs have tied the 2021 assassination of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries directly to Ridouan Taghi’s criminal organization. 1/4

Europe: Wastewater analysis from 115 cities in 25 countries revealed significant drug consumption trends between 2024 and 2025. 1/5

Albania: Hajdar Çopja, a fugitive linked to a major cocaine trafficking organization, is reported to be living in Dubai under multiple identities and displaying a lavish lifestyle on social media. 1/3

Italy: Bernardo Pace, a mafia boss recently sentenced to 14 years and 4 months in the Hydra trial for his role in a criminal network uniting Cosa nostra, ’ndrangheta, and camorra in Lombardy, died by suicide in his cell at the Lorusso e Cutugno prison in Turin. 1/3

Mexico: Authorities arrested Juan Carlos Montero Mestre, alias Lobo Menor, in Polanco, identifying him as the mastermind behind the 2023 assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito. 1/2

No way to explain this other than another massive intelligence failure. This shouldn't be happening based on our (and Israeli) assessments of their remaining strike capabilities from 7-10 days ago.

older i get the more obvious it is that even a modest sliver of power over another person completely shreds the human soul. not sure what's to be done about that "haha" 👍

The Trump regime is a Mafia-style racket. Everything is about the grift.

Nine Prairieland Defendants Found Guilty in First ‘Antifa’ Test Case The guilty verdict in Texas marks a significant blow to protest movements under the Trump administration, which is criminalizing a wide range of historically protected activity. unicornriot.ninja/2026/nine-pr...

People want Alex Garland and Paul Thomas Anderson to be able to explain things but their failure is that they’re kind of smart. If you want to explain 2026 you needed to give 200 cans of Mountain Dew to Uwe Boll in 2007 and instruct him to direct an adaptation of Catch 22 but not to read it first

smoking on that shit that makes you realize that life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced

This article does not mention Covid even one time, and suggests maybe just all 40 yos have hypertension for no particular reason at all.

"The greedy, profit-seeking exploiter cannot see beyond the end of his nose... He has no capacity for literature; no appreciation of art; no soul for beauty. That is the penalty the parasites pay for the violation of the laws of life." — Eugene V. Debs

Excellent investigative work here. Looks like a reputation management consultancy might have been systematically sanitising Wikipedia

Based as fuck

Best thing I ever read about what a good economy is, is that it's when you can start a cat cafe with a bookshop and it's viable.

When good people die they respawn in New Orleans

"the imperium of man is based" "the imperium of man is satire" the imperium of man is just what a 17th century Scotsman thought the church of England was like

modern warfare is so uniquely horrifying because it is unbelievably totalitarian in its destructiveness but not really any more effective at achieving political objectives than when you just gave ten thousand guys muskets and told them to walk into the other ten thousand guys

You could read any number of specialist or even non-specialist articles and understand that the West has not waged war in Iran since 1979 because once Hormuz is closed there is no practical way to open it. Or you could simply bet like a rube on his first night in Las Vegas.

This is the last sea route that does not involve the Cape of Good Hope.

China has all the money in the world turning to it as we speak. They are not going to jeopardize that.

MLS has suspended Philadelphia Union sporting director Ernst Tanner after a four-month investigation into alleged misconduct found "substantiated violations," the league announced Monday.

Glencore must be laughing their asses off because they are the ones that started the liberalization of the Cuban economy back in the 90s. They backed the first new hotels and beaches for tourists. It's been slow death ever since

Despite decades of legislative assault the mob is still embedded into NYC construction on some level. Even without them the NYC government under Adams was a cesspit of corruption. Regulations are just suggestions if you have the money.

“Even in a legendary better future, art could not disavow remembrance of accumulated horror; otherwise its form would be trivial.” -Adorno

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." Aristotle

"Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table." W. H. Auden

“Washington has for decades dedicated less than 1% of its naval budget to mine warfare, despite mines being responsible for almost 80%of US warships disabled since 1945 and over 75% of its naval casualties since 1950. European nations now have more developed mine-warfare capabilities than the US.”

I'm adding "doing a Zoom call in a cafe" to my list of crimes that will be punishable by death in my firm but fair regime

David Douglas Duncan 1956

Bolivia: Tatiana Marset Alba, the stepsister of Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, was apprehended in a safe house in Santa Cruz de la Sierra alongside three men—two Colombians and one Venezuelan. 1/3

Sinéad O’Connor by John Stoddart, 1994.

Dubai real estate has lost one third of its value in 9 days.

Boy I sure hope that multiple Asian currencies trading at all time lows at all at once and sinking lower isn't an ominous economic indicator

I've represented many asylum seekers in the past, and what is being done to them by this administration is particularly egregious. But this is especially dishonorable treatment of someone who put his life on the line on our behalf in a war we started. And then abandoned when abruptly pulled out.

Becomes believable to me when you consider they also brought in such a broad tent that they fatally compromised the project by not even trying to kill Marc Anthony

Economic warfare, even of the most “kinetic” blowing up bits of your opponent’s economy sort, works slowly. It adds cumulative costs to the enemy’s ability to fight. It is not about knock-out blows. Seizing or destroying the facilities at Kharg does not instantly end Iran’s ability to fight.