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I presented "Transnational Crime and the State: Criminal Insurgencies, Crime Wars, Gangs, Mafias, and Cartels" to an international seminar sponsored by the Secretaria de Estado de Segurança Pública do Distrito Federal in Brasilia. on 27 November 2019 lnkd.in/gZiEZAq
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#NuevoAnalisis | Pandillas, fintechs y Amazonía: la agenda criminal que espera al próximo presidente de Brasil: bit.ly/4AgxnTZ
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Brazilian police said the gang was involved in flying cocaine consignments from Guarulhos airport to places including Johannesburg. Those investigations started around June last year. OR Tambo cocaine seizure highlights Brazil-SA drug route share.google/gCGPhSi96WuO7Hv…
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Note that the new charges against Comey are brought in an information, not an indictment, which means DOJ bypassed the grand jury. The Constitution requires charging via grand jury unless the defendant consents to an information, which does not seem to have happened here.
Pat Fitzgerald, Comey's lawyer "This most recent case involves an October 5, 2016 New York Times article that two different teams of prosecutors investigated during the first Trump administration. Both times the Government determined that no charges should be brought against anyone. Now, ten years after the article was published, the Government filed an 'Information' against Mr. Comey that was not approved by a judge nor issued by a grand jury. It purports to charge Mr. Comey with crimes that he did not commit."
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#NewAnalysis | Gangs, Fintechs, and the Amazon: The Crime Agenda Awaiting Lula’s Fourth Term: bit.ly/4yGyOcU
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Last November, a Polish rail line used to move materiel to Ukraine was sabotaged. In the event of a larger conflict, NATO would face the same challenges—but on an entirely different scale—and preparing for those challenges should begin now. mwi.westpoint.edu/every-road…
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Walter Koenig, who played Chekov in the original “Star Trek” series and seven “Star Trek” feature films, has died at 90. variety.com/2026/film/news/w…
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The anti-gang force in Haiti is under half its authorized strength and already taking hits. Is the trouble headcount, or something deeper in how the mission was designed? (Members Only) Listen here: warontherocks.com/episode/wa…
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Former Sinaloa Judicial Employee Found Shot Dead in Culiacán Jesús Roberto, 38, a former employee of the Supreme Court of Justice of the State of Sinaloa, was found shot dead Sunday evening near a gas station in the Ciudad Universitaria area of Culiacán. He was reportedly abducted hours earlier by armed men while outside a tire shop on Avenida Nicolás Bravo in the Morelos neighborhood. His body was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds.
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"The value of Khe Sanh changed as the division adopted a more mobile way of fighting. The Marines had developed other ways to reach, support, and maneuver forces in western Quang Tri, reducing how much the campaign depended on the base." mwi.westpoint.edu/when-a-goo…
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This has been a useful skim-read on days when I have time. Even if you aren't directly engaged in autonomy, but you are working in the security or military fields, it's worth the effort to start to get comfortable with the speed and scale drones are already achieving.
AUTOWAR25 Morning Edition, Monday, Oct. 26. The top 25 autonomous-warfare stories, ranked. 🧵 Russia sent 140 attack drones at Ukraine overnight, about half of them jet-powered, while a drone attack on Russia's Voronezh killed two and likely struck a petrochemical plant and an aircraft factory. Russia is also telling its data centers to go underground and add drone defenses after Ukrainian strikes. Links in every post below.
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Sean Connery’s introduction in DR. NO (1962) became one of cinema’s most iconic moments. Director tweaked the timing of Connery’s lighter flick, letting the smoke clear before the line landed. A small adjustment that helped create movie history.
What movie has the greatest first appearance of a character?
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President Trump says inflation can “pay off [the federal] debt very rapidly.” It can’t. Inflation erodes old bonds, but lenders demand higher rates going forward. Social Security and Medicare costs rise with prices too, and with deficits already projected for the foreseeable future, higher inflation offers no escape from America’s debt burden, write Cato’s @MrRBourne and Nathan Miller.
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Britain is embracing AI in warfare, from autonomous drones to battlefield intelligence. But as military technology advances, are the laws, safeguards and mechanisms of accountability keeping pace? AOAV investigates. aoav.org.uk/2026/uk-military…
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🇪🇨 | Los Lobos son una de las organizaciones criminales más poderosas de Ecuador. ¿Cómo logró la banda expandirse más allá de las cárceles del país hasta convertirse en un actor clave del tráfico de drogas transnacional y la minería de oro ilegal? youtube.com/watch?v=pY0RXOok…
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Italy: Four bomb attacks in five days across Rome and its metropolitan area have renewed concerns over criminal groups competing for control of drug markets and local businesses. The latest wave includes an explosive device detonated outside a betting shop in Ciampino, an attack on a garage in La Rustica and an explosion targeting the home of a car dealership owner in Castelverde. The violence follows earlier bombings involving businesses and individuals linked by investigators to criminal networks operating in territory historically associated with the Senese clan. Giampiero Cioffredi, regional representative of anti-mafia association Libera, warned that Rome has become a meeting ground for traditional mafia organizations, locally established mafia clans, foreign criminal groups and drug trafficking networks.
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How Russia and the Trump administration accelerated alternative European arms production.
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