About 60% of India’s nearly 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 a day, the World Bank’s median poverty line. And 21%, or more than 250 million people, survive on less than $2 a day.
Feb 24, 2026
Polluted leaders, thugs, billionaires, zealots.
“We waded together in the waters of the Mediterranean, and much water has flowed since then in the Mediterranean, the Ganges, and the Jordan, though less in the Jordan.”
This is how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described his friendship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi since his landmark visit in 2017. On that visit, India signed a raft of deals, formalising the two countries as strategic partners in water and agriculture.
On Wednesday, Modi is scheduled to return to Israel for a two-day visit that Netanyahu says will underscore what he describes as a “special relationship” between the two countries – language typically reserved for US–Israel ties.
“This week, expression will be given to the special relationship that has been forged over recent years between Israel and the global power that is India, and between myself and its leader, Prime Minister Modi.”
Fucking lunacy: World Killing Bank ;;;; Poverty in India has decreased significantly over the last decade, with extreme poverty falling from 27.1% in 2011-12 to 5.3% in 2022-23, lifting over 269 million people out of severe poverty. The World Bank reported that 44% of the population remained below the $3.65/day lower-middle-income line in FY 2021/22. Major drivers include government welfare schemes, digital inclusion, and economic growth.
Tel Aviv ranked #1 among the most polluted cities in the world on Friday morning, with nearby cities like Jerusalem also affected.
Air pollution in India linked to millions of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
India’s Deadly Air Pollution Keeps Getting Worse Not Better ///
Between 2015 and 2019, India’s purchases of Israeli weapons increased by 175 percent. India has, for the better part of a decade, been the biggest purchaser of Israeli weapons, including drones, missile systems, censors, surveillance technology, and border-control equipment.
And so the pollution is now the second lady, soon to be the first lady!!
Usha Vance (née Chilukuri) is the wife of Vice President JD Vance and the first Indian-American second lady of the United States. Raised in a Hindu household in San Diego by Indian immigrant parents, she is a Yale Law graduate, former litigator, and clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
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[Indian PM Narendra Modi’s name is 341 times in Epstein’s files]
More Epstein shit . . ..
His father, Howard Trivers, was a Jewish-American diplomat and philosopher.
Here, Hidden in the Epstein Files: The Rutgers Biologist Who Helped Epstein Justify Murdering Girls Who’ve Been Raped by More Than One Man
I continue to comb through The Files from Hell so you don’t have to, and today I want to share what I found out about the relationship between a dead child-rapist Jeffrey Edward Epstein and a should-be-dead-soon-if-we’re-lucky pseudo-intellectual piece of shit named Robert Ludlow Trivers.
You’re welcome.
Trivers, 83, is a mediocre white man still hailed in many circles as an influential evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist.
He shouldn’t be.
And anyone who still thinks he’s smart is probably an idiot, just like Trivers.
His “important” work, pioneered back in the 1970s when he still had a full head of hair, is one big exercise in motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, non-falsifiable thinking, and pseudoscience in service to his ad-hoc hypotheses — a classic case of a sexist, racist, bloviating, narcissistic pus-bucket who hid his personal insecurities, depravities and lack of conscience behind “academic research” as a university professor, one of the few careers where men with his so-called personality are still allowed to spew bullshit in lecture halls whilst getting paid for it.
Well, until he got fired, anyway. Which he did. In 2015. From Rutgers. Where he did things like — brace yourselves — lick the ear of a pregnant student, who complained about this to the administration there. He also insulted women students generally from behind his protective podium. A lot. And they complained about him. A lot. Oh, and he also threatened to hurt and perhaps kill a colleague back in 2012. None of this got him fired though. He was only fired after he refused to teach a course on aggression, saying he knew nothing about it whilst, you know, being aggressive.
God, I hate men like Bob. Can I call him Bob now? I don’t want to dignify him by using his last name. Bob would have been perfectly despicable without a close friendship with Epstein — Jeff. Can I call him Jeff? Yes. His close friendship with Jeff over decades. Bob would have been worthy of shoving out of a plane into an active volcano even without the more than 900 emails between the two (or their assistants) that I was able to find in the digital Syrup of Ipecac that is Los Epstein Files. But alas, there is all of THAT, too.
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Back to the bizarro news: No More Wheaties box photos?
Meet the retired Olympic champions starting second careers at Goldman Sachs with zero financial expertise and no office experience
Go India and Tel Aviv: 19 years ago, the Supreme Court told EPA it could regulate climate pollution. Trump is trying to undo that
Go Europe for Ukraine and Ukraine and War War War: ‘Groundbreaking’ model can calculate true impact of climate change and it’s bad news for Europe.
The study, published in the journal Weather and Climate Extremes, found that the total extremity of heat in Austria and most regions of Central and Southern Europe has increased about tenfold in the current climate period from 2010-2024 compared to 1961-1990
“This massive increase in the total extremity metric goes far beyond its natural variability and shows the influence of human-made climate change with a clarity that even I as a climate researcher have never seen before,” says Kirchengast.
The cost of extreme weather
Thousands of deaths across Europe last summer were attributed to extreme heat, as temperatures soared to 40℃ across large parts of the continent and pushed several countries into drought.
Researchers at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine looked at 854 European cities and found that climate change was responsible for 68 per cent of the 24,400 estimated heat deaths during this period, having raised temperatures by up to 3.6°C.
2025’s extreme summer weather also sparked short-term economic losses of at least €43 billion, with total costs slated to hit a staggering €126 billion by 2029.
Not for Room Temperature IQ Trump reading list:
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- Meet the struggling coffee farmers whose harvests are under threat from fossil-fuelled warming
What could go wrong here for the House Negroes? First official Somaliland delegation visits Israel, tours wastewater recycling plant.
Listen Listen Listen. Mohammed El-Kurd. Fucking hero. You think those dumb as ducks in Somaliland would get this gentleman on board to explain what is in the collective DNA of Jews in Israel (sic)?
Real anti-Zionist Africans:
[L-R: Ghana’s President John Mahama and President Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso. ]
Ghana and Burkina Faso have signed seven agreements to revive bilateral cooperation after a six-year hiatus.
The deals focus on counterterrorism, trade facilitation, and coordinated border governance.
Officials say the move responds to rising insecurity and humanitarian risks in the Sahel region.
Analysts view the pact as a critical step toward stabilising a key West African trade route.
Fucking Nigeria: The U.S. warns Nigeria to dump Russian weapons for American ones to protect Christians.
Fucking Claudia . . . What the FUCK?
Mexico Got Help Killing Drug Lord From Secretive U.S. Campaign Led by FBI and ICE
The U.S. military’s intelligence sharing came as part of a new “counter cartel” task force focused on the U.S.–Mexico borderlands.
“We are considering whether we take legal action,” Sheinbaum, a member of the left-leaning MORENA party, told reporters. “The lawyers are reviewing it. But the truth is what matters to me is what the people say.”
On his platform, Musk, a right-wing ally of President Donald Trump, on Feb. 23 said Sheinbaum was “just saying what her cartel bosses tell her to say.” Musk, whose net worth is more than $840 billion, was responding to a 2025 video in which Sheinbaum said returning to a war on drugs wasn’t an option.
“Let’s just say that their punishment for disobedience is a little worse than a ‘performance improvement plan’ …” his X post said.
A new player in the U.S. military’s decadeslong war on drugs announced itself to the world on Sunday, providing intelligence that supported a Mexican military operation that killed the head of the infamous Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Though details continue to emerge from the operation, which set off a spasm of violence that left at least 70 people dead, some of the information that led Mexican security forces to Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes was delivered by a new Joint Interagency Task Force called Counter Cartel, based out of Southern Arizona.
The outfit operates out of Fort Huachuca, a military intelligence hub nestled in a rugged mountain chain 15 miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border. According to media reports, the task force, staffed by a combination of some 300 military and civilian employees, provided its Mexican counterparts with a “detailed target package” in the run-up to Sunday’s operation. The CIA also provided key support for the mission.
Existence of the task force was first revealed in a little-noticed ceremony at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, last month. Its online footprint is slight. The information that is publicly available, however, confirms deepening ties between President Donald Trump’s domestic homeland security agenda and his lethal drug war operations abroad.
Known internally as JIATF-CC, the task force is part of the U.S. Military’s Northern Command, once considered a backwater that today enjoys renewed prominence under Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. In the past year, Trump and Hegseth have used the Southern Command, NORTHCOM’s counterpart in the Western Hemisphere, as well the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command, to conduct the kinds of targeted killing missions long associated with the war on terror against targets in Latin America.
To date, the military has conducted more than 40 airstrikes against alleged drug traffickers, killing at least 137 people without producing a shred of evidence to support its claims. While those strikes have been concentrated in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, the task force involved in Sunday’s Mexico operation is distinct for its focus much closer to U.S. soil.
“What the Trump administration has done more than its predecessors is give NORTHCOM a hugely bigger role,” said Adam Isacson, director of defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America, an advocacy group.
The director of the task force, U.S. Brig. Gen. Maurizio Calabrese, compared his team’s mission to the targeted killing campaigns previously waged against terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. The motivations were different, he said, but in terms of sheer size, the drug cartel threat was perhaps even larger.
The general estimated that hundreds of leaders occupied the upper echelons of Mexican organized crime, supported by as many as a quarter-million lower-level operatives, which he referred to as “independent contractors.”
Mexico Defense Secretary says, USA Did Everything to Mexico, like C!vil War, Political Instability, and Army-Cartels wars to steal Mexican natural resources, and he claims 80% of weapons seized from cartels originate from the United States.
Nearly 80% of weapons seized by Mexico’s current administration come from the US
Ricardo Trevilla, Secretary of Defense, says that the Claudia Sheinbaum government has recovered 215 powerful .50 caliber rifles from criminals, one of the drug traffickers’ favorites
Reminder, Cartels today are supplied by the US to destabilize regions of the world so the US can swoop in and control the political economy of the country to further exploit it for colonial purposes.
Hegseth warns Anthropic to let the military use the company’s AI tech as it sees fit, AP source says.
Anthropic makes the chatbot Claude and is the last of its peers to not supply its technology to a new U.S. military internal network. CEO Dario Amodei repeatedly has made clear his ethical concerns about unchecked government use of AI, including the dangers of fully autonomous armed drones and of AI-assisted mass surveillance that could track dissent.
Defense officials warned they could designate Anthropic a supply chain risk or use the Defense Production Act to essentially give the military more authority to use its products even if it doesn’t approve of how they are used, according to the person familiar with the meeting and a senior Pentagon official, who both were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts
yeah, Gestapolandia:
Last month, Colleen Fagan was observing an immigration enforcement operation at an apartment complex in Portland, Maine, when federal agents scanned her face with a smartphone and appeared to record her car license plate number.
In a social media video she recorded, Fagan can be heard asking why the agent was taking her information. What the agent said next made the video go viral.
“Cause we have a nice little database,” the masked agent said. “And now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”
Fagan, who is a social worker, has now joined a federal class action lawsuit that argues the Department of Homeland Security and a number of its sub-agencies are violating the First Amendment and are taking actions “designed to chill, suppress, and control speech that they do not like.”
The Trump administration halted disaster aid Sunday to states for long-term rebuilding projects in order to focus on emergency operations as the partial government shutdown enters its second week.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency “is scaling back to bare-minimum, life-saving operations only,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “All non-emergency recovery work is paused.”
AND YOU THOUGHT you were ready for the Spit of the State of the Union Under Pedophile and Rapist in Chief?
Swabby, seeing the world one ton of turds at a time: The USS Gerald Ford is on it’s way to the Middle East but has had to dock in Greece due to the vessel being overwhelmed with running sewage throughout the decks.
Why?
The crew are putting t-shirts and socks down the toilets as they fear the vessel is being set up to be sunk to start a war on behalf of ‘israel’ with Iran.
Twenty-three fucking years ago!!
Iraqi prisoner of war comforting his 4-year-old son in Najaf, Iraq, March 31, 2003.
Witkoff: Trump’s frustrated cause he doesn’t understand why Iranians haven’t capitulated. The answer’s simple: Iranians value independence.
[Audrey Sawyer, a hydrogeologist, and Vincenzo Calvanese, principal investigator at the Blood Stem Cell Identity Laboratory of the IJC.]
Abandoning ship: The growing number of US scientists moving to Spain: ‘My colleagues are having a very hard time’, One in three recipients of the state-funded Atrae program comes from the United States,
Spain’s Ministry of Science and the State Research Agency (AEI) have announced that more than 254 researchers from around the world applied to the Atrae program, an initiative to attract established talent of recognized international prestige to Spain. Of these, 33.5% were from researchers based in the U.S. This figure appears to confirm an ongoing exodus of U.S. researchers following Donald Trump’s attempts to exert political control over science policy in the U.S.
In 2023, the first year of the program, not a single U.S. researcher received the grant. In the second, in 2024, the number of beneficiaries from this country was 16%. In 2025, the rate doubled to 32%, said the AEI in a recent statement.
Jew York City: “It’s shameful that the City of New York is providing them with subsidies while in that very rented space, they produce tactical equipment for ICE and a genocidal army,” said a DBNY spokesperson, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation. “Instead of that subsidized space being used for the benefit of the community, it is being used by a war profiteer.”
New York City offers a contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Border Patrol, and the Israeli Defense Forces millions of dollars in rent and construction subsidies, according to leases obtained by Drop Site through a Freedom of Information Law request.
Yeah, beautiful killings of 10 and 12 year olds, says Trump and the majority of USA:
In Mexico, children as young as 10 recruited by drug cartels
‘They go around looking for kids who are out on the streets and need money’
By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Published: October 16, 2021, 9:07pm
MEXICO CITY — Jacobo grew up in the western Mexico state of Jalisco, home to the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. Never comfortable in school, he had an abusive childhood: At one point, his mother held his hands over an open flame after he allegedly shoved a classmate.
Now 17, Jacobo claims he didn’t do it. But by 12, he was recruited to carry out his first murder for the cartel. “They go around looking for kids who are out on the streets and need money,” he recalled. “At 12 years old, I became sort of a hired killer.”
Jacobo told his story to Reinserta, a Mexican nonprofit group that withheld the youths’ full names because all are underage and are being held at facilities for youthful offenders, and most are scared of retaliation by the gangs.
“A neighbor asked me, ‘Do you want to earn money?’” Growing up in a household where his family could seldom make ends meet, the answer was obvious. “I said yes. Who doesn’t want money?” But the $1,500 Jacobo earned didn’t last long; he picked up a meth habit, in part to quiet the psychological effects of what he was doing.
By his mid-teens, he was torturing members of rival cartels for information, killing them and cutting up their bodies or dissolving them in acid, by now on the outskirts of Mexico City.
It was his last job that did him in; the cartel ordered him to carry out a killing in public, with lots of witnesses. Police came looking for him, and he went into hiding. The cartel contacted him to say it wanted to switch his hiding place, “but it was a trap,” he recalled. With him being no longer useful — like so many disposable teen street-level drug dealers, lookouts and hitmen — the cartel wanted to get rid of him.
“When I showed up to meeting place, they started shooting me,” said Jacobo, whose last name was withheld because of his age. “I was shot in the head, in the back, in the abdomen.” Left for dead, he miraculously survived and is now serving a four-year youthful offender sentence for murder.
Mexican laws allow sentences of between three and five years for most youthful offenders, meaning almost all get out before they are 21.
Reinserta works to prevent youths from getting recruited by drug cartels and to find ways to rehabilitate them if they have already been recruited.
That is a difficult job in Mexico; though he’s alive, Jacobo is still afraid; he knows from his own work for the cartel that it is everywhere and won’t stop at anything. “Now I am just a target to be eliminated, a minor irritant for one of the most powerful cartels in the country,” he said.
Marina Flores, a researcher for Reinserta, said the study suggests some common myths about kids in drug cartels aren’t true.
While kids almost always engage in drug use and leaving — or being expelled from — school prior to joining a cartel, membership in local street gangs no longer appears to play much of a role. Cartels in Mexico are directly recruiting kids as soon as they leave school.
“Street gangs are not a previous step for them joining organized crime,” said Flores. “We are finding out that as soon as they are taken out of school, they immediately go into organized crime.”
The Network for Children’s Rights in Mexico says that between 2000 and 2019 in Mexico, 21,000 youths under 18 were murdered in Mexico, and 7,000 disappeared.
The group estimates that some 30,000 youths had been recruited by drug gangs by 2019.
Reinserta says kids are frequently recruited to cartels by other children their own age; drug use is one way to recruit them, but the cartels also use religious beliefs and a sense of belonging that kids can’t get elsewhere. Combinations of poverty, abusive homes, and unresponsive schools and social agencies play a role.
In the report released Wednesday, Reinserta interviewed 89 minors held at youthful offender facilities in three northern border states, two states in central Mexico and two southeastern states. Of the 89, 67 of the youths said they had been actively involved with the cartels. The average age at the time they came in contact with the cartels was between 13 and 15. All of them had dropped out of school, and all eventually went on to use firearms.
Drug cartels find kids under 18 useful because they can go unnoticed more easily and can’t be charged as adults. They are initially used for street-level drug sales and as lookouts, but they are often quickly promoted to act as killers.
In the northern border states, kids are lured with a wider variety of drugs, get more weapons and other training from the cartels, engage in a wider range of criminal activities and accelerate faster into violent roles than do youths in more southern states.
For example, Orlando grew up in the streets of northern cities like Ciudad Juarez, after escaping from an orphanage. Between the ages of 10 and 16, he estimates, he killed 19 people, mostly on the orders of the Sinaloa cartel.
Now, at 17 and serving four years for homicide, he said, “I don’t know any other way to live, other than killing people.”
Like Orlando, Iván grew up in a northern border town with a father who worked for a cartel. But Iván didn’t suffer poverty or abuse; he made a conscious decision to join the same cartel his dad worked for.
“I was very influenced by the narco culture,” he recalled. “I liked the corridos, the (television) series, the guns, the trucks.”
By the age of 11, he was working as a killer for the cartel, hacking up or dissolving the bodies of his victims. His first sight of corpses scared him, but within a short time, “I didn’t feel anything — not fear, not regret, not guilt, not anything.” Ivan is also serving a sentence for murder.
Reinserta proposes possible solutions, including more early attention for kids, more recreation and learning opportunities, and intervention to prevent domestic violence. The group also proposes creating a national registry of kids recruited by cartels, psychological attention for them, and early and effective treatment of addictions.
In addition to social forces, individualistic motivations also drive criminal recruitment, the researchers found.
Recruits are motivated by personal desires for the wealth, power, and status that they associate with group membership. This link has been explained in previous literature, according to the authors.
In neighborhoods with little other economic opportunity, offers by criminal groups are difficult to turn down. The authors saw this firsthand in Tepito, where individuals see membership of a criminal group as a way to live a lavish lifestyle and hold influence within the community.
“The kids from Tepito are attracted by all this cash, and they want to work for La Unión Tepito to have the same things,” a Tepito resident told the authors.
SEE ALSO: Going Door to Door: Mexico City’s Response To Child Recruitment
The problem extends beyond Tepito. Millions of Mexican adolescents experience poverty, according to official statistics. Many of these children become prime targets of criminal groups, who use promises of wealth to draw them to the organization.
Mexican criminal groups have increasingly used social media to flaunt their lifestyles. Posts that display the trappings of the criminal life — cars, weapons, drugs, and money — likely aid recruitment. Perhaps the best example of this is the Chapitos, the sons of former Sinaloa Cartel leader, Joaquín Guzmán, alias “El Chapo.” They have built a strong brand on TikTok known as “La Chapiza.”
Notions of Masculinity
As members are mostly male, fulfilling societal notions of masculinity also plays a role in recruits’ decisions to join criminal groups, the authors found.
Through group membership, males can obtain financial independence and provide for their family.
The authors provide the example of an interviewee who was an active member of the Knights Templar (Caballeros Templarios), a powerful criminal group in western Mexico. He first got involved in the group at age 14 to earn money for his family as his father’s income was not enough.
The authors’ work builds on prior findings and highlights an aspect of the relationship between masculinity and organized crime that extends beyond the more common focus on how masculinity drives groups’ ultra-violent tendencies towards other groups and women.
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Beautiful people don’t need no stinkin’ badges: 130,000 missing persons in Mexico
“I had to burn some guys alive; that was my first task,” the 18-year-old said with some excitement in his voice, recalling his first assignment in a Mexican cartel. “We were chilling out, and two hours later they brought them. We tied them up and sprayed them in gasoline and then fire; it smelled terrible,” he recounted while eating tacos and drinking Coke in downtown Morelia.
Cocaine, a derivative of the coca plant, is a stimulant drug that causes its users to feel euphoric and alert. Recreational cocaine use was not illegal in the United States until 1914. Before that, it was frequently included in patent medicines, most famously a drink called Vin Mariani, which was so popular that it was even endorsed by Pope Leo XIII. In modern times, cocaine use carries serious legal consequences. People who use cocaine recreationally are at high risk of overdose. Though cocaine is now illegal, the wealthy and famous are able to obtain it relatively easily. Here is a list of fifteen famous cocaine addicts.
1. John Belushi
John Belushi’s cocaine use is practically legendary in Hollywood. Reportedly one of his favorite party games was cocaine chicken, in which a line of cocaine was poured, and he and a friend would race to see who could snort the most before reaching the middle. Unfortunately, Belushi’s cocaine abuse contributed to an early death at the age of thirty-three.
2. Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston, a 7 time Grammy winning, 26 time Grammy nominated R&B soul singer who also met an untimely early death that was caused by drug use. At the age of forty-eight, Houston was found dead in a hotel bathtub. The medical examiner found that heart disease and cocaine caused her death. During an interview with Diane Sawyer in 2002, Houston opened up about her career and substance abuse—saying that it wasn’t the drugs that were the problem, but herself.
3. Ike Turner
Rock ‘n roll musician Ike Turner died in 2008 from a cocaine overdose. Earlier interviews with Turner indicate the drug abuse with a lifelong struggle for him. In 1989, he was sentenced to seventeen months in prison for drug-related offenses.
4. Tim Allen
Comedian Tim Allen is a Hollywood success story; after early struggles with drug abuse that included incarceration for possession of cocaine, Allen cleaned up his act. He wrote about his struggles in his memoir, Don’t Stand too Close to a Naked Man. Allen said once in an interview with Closer magazine, “It put me in a position of great humility, and I was able to make amends to friends and family and refocus my life on setting and achieving goals.”
5. Kate Moss
Model Kate Moss shocked the world when in 2005 pictures of her apparently using cocaine were published in the United Kingdom’s Daily Mirror. In October 2005, she went to a drug rehabilitation program and reportedly urged a friend to do the same. British police did not pursue charges related to the cocaine photos.
6. Sigmund Freud
Psychologist Sigmund Freud thought that cocaine was a good treatment for morphine addiction. He also used cocaine extensively, and some historians think that he wrote much of his original psychology theory while under the influence of cocaine. It is important to note that cocaine was not illegal when Sigmund Freud was using it.
7. Angelina Jolie
Actress Angelina Jolie went public in 2011 with her struggles with drug abuse, which were years in the past at that time. A man who claimed to have been her drug dealer said that in her early 20s she used to buy cocaine from him two or three times a week. By all accounts, Jolie has recovered from her substance abuse struggles.
8. Robert Downey Jr.
Actor Robert Downey Jr.’s substance abuse problems are no secret in Hollywood. He was arrested in 1987 and multiple times in 1996 for drug possession. He attended rehab to help him overcome his cocaine addiction several times, but he did not seem to make real headway until about 2002. Since then he has starred in several blockbuster movies and appears to have got his career back on track.
9. Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler, the lead singer of the band Aerosmith, reportedly spent millions of dollars on cocaine over the course of his career. In a 2013 interview, he said that he had “snorted half of Peru.” In 2012 on the tv show Ellen, Tyler said as a warning to rockers and all users of cocaine “It’s what we did, but you know there is no end to that. It’s death, jail, or insanity for real reals.”
10. Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore struggled with substance abuse at an extremely early age, and was reportedly snorting cocaine by the age of thirteen. Fortunately, she went to rehab as a teenager and has been clean since then. Barrymore is one of few child stars to transition to a successful career as an adult.
11. Corey Haim
Corey Haim was a child star in the 80s, known for films like Lost Boys and Busted. He died at the age of 38 in 2010 from a cocaine overdose. In 1994 Haim told The Sun, “But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of Lucas. I lived in Los Angeles in the ’80s, which was not the best place to be. I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack. I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day—the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the Valium—I’m not talking about the other pills I went through.”
12. Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor Thomas Edison was one of many people who used legal cocaine-infused patent medicines during the late 1800s. He credited Vin Mariani, a drink that is basically wine with cocaine in it, with helping him work long hours. Along with the long hours of working, he supposedly he only slept four hours a night all due to the Vin Mariani.
13. Robert Louis Stevenson
Writer Robert Louis Stevenson, known for works like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, reportedly counted on cocaine, then legal, to help him work. Stevenson was chronically ill with tuberculosis and relied on the stimulating effects of cocaine to help him write his novels.
14. Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson is most famous for writing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A frequent cocaine user, Thompson reportedly had it with sausage and eggs in the morning for breakfast. In a book that came out in 1994 titled HUNTER: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, it was written that Thompson would use cocaine up to 11 times a day along with other drugs such as LSD, marijuana, and alcohol.
15. Stephen King
Stephen King battled with cocaine addiction early in his career, but in the late 80s overcame his addiction with the help of his wife. Since then, he has written celebrated novels such as The Green Mile and Hearts in Atlantis. in an interview in 2014 with Rolling Stone he said, “Yeah, coke. I was a heavy user from 1978 until 1986, something like that.”
In Mexico, drug trafficking has become one of the types of organized crime that generates high levels of insecurity among young people due to its violent manifestations in communities. Murders associated with organized crime have increased in the last two decades. This violence has not been evenly distributed around the country. The conflict has intensified in stages and has erupted sporadically on the municipal level. A study in Mexicali reported that drug trafficking organizations also create feelings of insecurity in young people through their associations with sexual violence, feminicides, and disappearances.
Young people have been one of the main victims of violence associated with drug trafficking. Various conditions favor the participation of young people in drug trafficking: deterioration in the structural conditions that favor effective incorporation into society, the weakening of public health, education, and employment institutions to meet the needs of a growing youth population, mistrust toward formal politics, and the tendency to value extralegal practices. Young people are victims of a system that negates and excludes them, where they face objective and symbolic difficulties in constructing meaningful lives in circumstances of greater stability. They become the “social refuse” on which drug traffickers operate .
In addition to the risk of violence, drug trafficking represents another threat to young people: it exposes them to models of criminal activity, opportunities for involvement in crimes, and other problematic behaviors. Particularly in neighborhoods with insufficient informal social control, these types of activities are more likely because adults do not monitor or sanction them or provide alternative identities, employment, or economic independence. Conditions that encourage young people to get involved in drug trafficking include the lack of connection between education and the labor market, low wages coupled with the stimulus to consumerism, the crisis of family authority, and even the perception of selling drugs as a less morally problematic activity than crimes such as theft or robbery .
Drug trafficking also creates a third threat to young people. A study in San Luis Potosí showed that drug use has various effects on communities: individual behavior becomes less predictable, aggressive and criminal behavior increases, and a variety of places are dedicated to drug use. These factors contribute to the intensification of violence and the reconfiguration of spaces through changes in social and personal practices as well as the perception of space. Considering the various psychosocial impacts that drug trafficking has on the daily lives of young people, this work aims to understand their perspective on the transformations generated in the neighborhood they live in, as well as their relationship with this space.
Remember who the real monsters are!
Monsters who autograph missiles used to blow up children, journalists and aid workers have no business lecturing anyone else on “diplomacy”.
Quentin Tarantino on Roman Polanski fleeing the US after raping a kid:
“She was down with it…I don’t believe that’s rape. I mean, not at 13. Not for these 13 year old party girls.”
Tarantino now lives in Israel.
Fucking heroes:
“We don’t want to become the fourth wife of a 60-year-old man, existing solely for his whim and pleasure.”
Two women among the 15,000 Afghan women who took up arms in the Red Army against the mujahideen. Photographer unknown. Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, 1988.
Head of the Snake, the Global Cartel:
Cartels Attacked 20 Welfare Banks in Jalisco, but not the US Embassy… It’s like how Islamic terrorists never attack Israel.
Trump’s biggest donor flew the worst spy in American history back to Israel on her private plane.
Heroes:
They offered me five million dollars…
In exchange for a treacherous bullet in the back of Ibrahim
Traoré, at the moment he was prostrating to Allah.
And they promised me citizenship for myself and my family, and said with confidence: “This is an offer that cannot be refused”…
But I asked myself:
Are five million enough to buy a conscience?
Shall I trade my honor for a passport?
Shall I spend the rest of my life being haunted by my own face in the mirror?
Money can build a house…
But it cannot build dignity.
It can buy a body…
But it cannot buy a soul.
To live as a free lion in my own land
Is better for me than to be a pampered slave in someone else’s land.
Dignity is not for sale…
Even if the price is five million.
– Companion of President Ibrahim Traoré
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Paul Haeder, Author 