Another Fast & Furious Scandal? Mexico Demands Answers As Cartels Acquire US-Military Grade Weapons
Mexico is furious and demands an investigation into how belt-fed machine guns, rocket launchers, and grenades are ending up in the hands of cartel members, the country’s top diplomat said.
“The (Mexican) Defense Department has warned the United States about weapons entering Mexico that are for the exclusive use of the US army,” Foreign Relations Secretary Alicia Bárcena said, who was quoted by AP News.
Bárcena said, “It is very urgent that an investigation into this be carried out.”
In June, the Mexican Army announced it had seized a dozen rocket launchers, 56 grenade launchers, and 221 fully automatic machine guns since 2018.
#Mexico 🇲🇽: A noteable video allegedly shows members of Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (#CJNG Cartel) in #Jalisco.
A member of the cartel seemingly fires a noteable RPG-7 Launcher with 85mm PG-7V projectile —quite interesting to see. pic.twitter.com/IvhMN9GWF4
The influx of military-grade US weaponry entering Mexico comes as the Biden administration fails to secure the southern border as millions of illegals flood into the US. But what’s rarely discussed, in what seems like an Obama-era Operation Fast and Furious scandal, are weapons flooding Mexico from the US.
Last week, at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agent from a field office in southern Texas revealed to us that the agency is very concerned about a flood of 50 cal rifles and belt-fed machine guns that are illegally entering Mexico from the US.
The cross-border firearms trafficking of military-grade US weaponry on the southern border is very concerning. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill should investigate this worrisome development to ensure the Biden administration does not repeat the Obama-era Fast and Furious program.
Video footage of a police support officer ordering a young Christian singer to stop performing gospel songs in public on London’s Oxford Street has gone viral.
The officer, who is an unpaid volunteer, is seen in the video telling 20 year old performer Harmonie London that she is “not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds.”
The young singer, who has an impressive online following, protested against the claim, telling the officer “You are, you are, you are.”
The officer continued to bizarrely claim that gospel songs cannot be sung on the street “unless you have been authorised by the church to do these kind of songs”.
“That’s a load of rubbish,” the singer responded, adding that hassling her and making up fake laws based on her religion goes against her human rights.
The officer then attempted to walk off, bizarrely sticking her tongue out at the camera and laughing.
This police officer ordered a gospel singer to stop performing in London, claiming singing ‘church songs’ outside is against the law. The singer said the claim was a “load of rubbish” and the officer walked off laughing and sticking her tongue out. Report: https://t.co/bQ0Lm2DHRhpic.twitter.com/JwjKXKwuQV
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A clip published by the European Commission on the Holocaust was accompanied by describing Auschwitz as being in Poland, without any further mention as to who set up the concentration camp and how it was set up during a period when the territory was annexed by Germany. The clip includes European commissioners reading out the names of those who perished in Auschwitz.
At least on the #HolocaustMemorialDay, @EU_Commission should refrain from manipulating facts. I do not believe that any of the authors of this film are unaware that the KL Auschwitz was a German concentration camp established on territories that the Germans annexed to their… pic.twitter.com/z7E6kNgWAr
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski took to X platform to state that “when writing about the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, there is a need to inform that it was set up under German occupation. The European Commission’s social media post will be corrected, but it’s a shame that Poland’s European commissioner for agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, did not represent Poland’s point of view.”
Pisząc o nazistowskim obozie zagłady w Auschwitz należy wskazywać, że powstał pod niemiecką okupacją. Informacja w mediach społecznościowych Komisji Europejskiej będzie doprecyzowana ale szkoda, że polski komisarz UE zawczasu nie zaprezentował polskiego punktu widzenia.
However, according to commercial radio RMF FM, Wojciechowski did not participate in the exercise precisely because he objected to the way Auschwitz was portrayed in the clip.
The museum in Auschwitz also reacted to the clip.
It issued a statement that “the concentration death camp Auschwitz was on occupied Polish territory, which in October 1939 was annexed directly into Germany, therefore it is inaccurate to state that the camp was on the territory of occupied Poland.”
The Auschwitz concentration & extermination camp was located in an occupied part of Polish territory that in October 1939 was annexed directly into Nazi Germany. Therefore, it’s accurate to say that the camp was located in occupied Poland. pic.twitter.com/PNjWRu1N9I
Since the material did not include any information that Auschwitz was a part of the annexed territory, describing it as a part of Poland may mislead readers into thinking that Poland was in any way co-responsible for the functioning of the German concentration camp.
“The correct term to use is German Nazi death camp in occupied Poland as it identifies the perpetrators of the crimes committed in these camps during the Second World War,” said Arkadiusz Mularczyk, an MP and former deputy foreign minister responsible for reparations issues.
The caption in the clip has now been changed to state “German Nazi death camp Auschwitz.”
EC President Ursula von der Leyen has changed the video #WeRemember, changing the text about Auschwitz.
The new text says Auschwitz was a German Nazi extermination camp.
That’s exactly what it was. Let this be the first step in correcting the extremely damaging and offending… pic.twitter.com/x4Q5C2cxrx
Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki noted on social media that “the European Commission has turned the day of remembrance of the Holocaust into a ’day of manipulation and fake facts’ together with a ‘day of lies about occupied Poland’.”
He called on the present Polish government to react strongly and accused Foreign Minister Sikorski of reacting inappropriately by attacking a fellow Pole, commissioner Wojciechowski, for failing to represent the Polish point of view instead of criticizing the president of the EU commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Europe’s Own Tech Stars Are Leading Index To Record
By Michael Msika, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist
The Euro Stoxx 50 Index’s multi-year transformation, led by the emergence of tech champions, may finally set the region’s benchmark on course toward a new high.
Europe may lack a “Magnificent Seven” tech cohort of its own, but a pared-down version of that phenomenon has emerged. The Euro Stoxx 50 has just hit its highest since 2001, with the latest leg of the surge powered by blowout earnings from the region’s two biggest tech stocks, ASML and SAP. And that hasn’t even made the benchmark expensive.
With its forward price-to-earnings ratio just below 13 times, the Euro Stoxx 50 is still relatively cheap, trading at 35% discount to the S&P 500 Index. What’s more, the latest phase of the rally has done little to increase valuations, suggesting that the gains have been driven by stronger earnings. Easing price pressures and looming interest-rate cuts should help too.
“The valuation of European equities remains very attractive,” said Indosuez Wealth Management portfolio manager Laura Corrieras. “While the level of unemployment has remained stable, disinflation continues at a faster-than-anticipated pace and more and more investors now expect the European Central Bank to reduce its rates in 2024.”
There is still a way to go before making new records: the Euro Stoxx 50 remains about 15% short of its peak. But ASML and SAP now account for almost 15% of the benchmark, the latest sign of how the index, once dominated by oil majors and banks, has radically changed.
The nadir for the index came in March 2009. Since then, more than 50% of its ascent can be attributed to just five names: ASML, LVMH, SAP, Siemens and TotalEnergies. Just ASML and LVMH alone have generated nearly 27% of the benchmark’s return, with ASML joining the index only in 2012. The chip equipment company’s market value soared to nearly €320 billion ($347 billion) from around €6 billion in 2009, while that of LVMH’s increased by 20-fold during the same period.
A glance back to March 2000 shows that telecom stocks, along with Nokia, were the investor favorites then, accounting for about 28% of the index. When the internet bubble burst and flushed out those names, oil and banking stocks stepped up to carry the baton of market dominance. By July 2007, the index was highly diversified, with no stock exceeding 6% in weighting.
The global financial crisis spurred progressive change in the blue-chip benchmark, but financials have largely survived to be the biggest industry group, at nearly 20% today. They are now challenged by consumer discretionary, industrial and tech stocks, each at about 17%.
Still, there may be bumps along the road to a record. For one thing, Europe’s heavy reliance on China links its fortunes to those of the world’s No. 2 economy.
“We think Europe is a top pick to play the China story in the developed market space, providing a wide range of cyclical exposure,” Citigroup strategists led by Beata Manthey wrote in a note last week. Investors may prefer to use European stocks as a proxy for China, rather than taking direct exposure, even as government measures to boost the economy improve sentiment.
The euro-area benchmark remains highly international, with less than a third of its members’ revenue generated within the euro area. It’s 37% exposed to broader Europe, 22% to North America, 25% to Asia and 16% to emerging markets, according to Goldman Sachs strategists.
“Europe remains a good source of diversification from the concentrated valuation risk in US equities which, even excluding the Mag 7, do not reflect the higher-for-longer environment,” said Bernstein strategists Sarah McCarthy and Mark Diver.
A European Union body has called for all ‘gendered language’ to be purged from existence, including completely innocuous sayings such as ‘Joe Public’, as well as words such as ‘virile’ which it claims are too often associated with men.
The Telegraph reports that The European Institute for Gender Equality (yes that exists) has compelled a 61-page document outlining what words should be wiped from existence and have more “sensitive” replacements.
EU calls for ‘gendered language’ to be banned, with phrases such as ‘no man’s land’ or ‘Joe Public’ axed… and ‘king and queen’ phrased ‘queen and king’ to put the female first https://t.co/KzQncgzqMzpic.twitter.com/NGvXqLfQqA
The document has been named Toolkit on Gender-sensitive Communication. Examples of words and terms to be resigned to the dustbin of history include ‘Master of ceremonies,’ ‘No man’s land,’ ‘Manpower,’ and ‘Repairman.’
In EU Newspeak, those terms would become ‘host,’ ‘Unclaimed territory,’ ‘human power,’ and ‘Repairer’, while they want the term ‘Joe public’ replaced with ‘average citizen’.
Comply average citizen.
Conservative MP Nigel Mills commented “This is utter madness. It’s an attack on the English language.”
The EU also suggests swapping around the words ‘King and Queen’, so Queen comes first. The fundamental problem with this is that the reason people put ‘King’ first is because he’s the guy in charge. He was supposedly chosen by God to be the leader. The Queen is just the woman he married. She isn’t in charge of anything. Swapping around words doesn’t change that concept, it just makes you sound a bit stupid.
Where this gets really creepy, however, is with the call to erase words that have nothing to do with gender.
The document suggests that words like ‘bossy,’ ‘pushy,’ and shrill should not be used because they “have strong connotations that are strongly associated with only women”.
They used the word ‘strong’ twice there.
Suggested newspeak replacements for those words are ‘assertive’ and ‘high-pitched’ or ‘grating voice’.
Let’s try this out for size.
‘The female sports commentator is annoyingly high pitched and has a very grating voice’.
Is that acceptable?
The EU institute also wants to consign the concept of virility to the scrapheap, reasoning that it is “strongly associated with only men” and should be replaced by “strong or energetic.”
They really do like the word ‘strong.’
The development comes in the wake of legions of other efforts to police and change language considered to be ‘insensitive’ or ‘gendered’.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that his state is “prepared” to deal with President Joe Biden potentially federalizing its National Guard as the Lone Star State utilizes the troops to secure the border.
On Jan. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal agents could not be blocked from removing the razor wire that Texas has placed along the U.S.-Mexico border. In response, Gov. Abbott announced that his state will not “back down from our efforts to secure the border.” This triggered Democrats to call on President Biden to federalize the National Guard.
The razor wire along the border was set up by the Texas National Guard and the state’s Department of Public Safety. In a Jan. 26 interview with Tucker Carlson, Gov. Abbott was asked about his response if President Biden goes ahead with the proposal.
“Well, first, I’d be shocked. That would be a boneheaded move on his part—total disaster,” Gov. Abbott said. “For one, as you might imagine, we are prepared in the event that that unlikely event does occur to make sure that we will be able to continue exactly what we’ve been doing over the past month, and that is building these barriers.”
“Whatever we’ve been building, the Biden administration is now trying to attack us because of it, and we will continue to do exactly what we’re doing to expand our denial of illegal entry into the state of Texas.”
Gov. Abbott pointed out that state forces were already operating at the border and that he expects more forces to come to Texas from other state National Guards.
“There’ve been about ten [states] so far that have sent National Guard or other law enforcement … They now are joined together with us. This is a fight for the future of America, and they all know it. And so I believe that they will all be in on this effort.”
In an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, the governor said that Texas was “adding more razor wire as we speak right now to make sure that we are doing even more to secure the border.”
Gov. Abbott insisted that his state has the authority to defy the U.S. federal government in accordance with the U.S. Constitution since the founding fathers believed that “there would be times when the federal government does not do its job and states have a right of self-defense.”
On Wednesday, Gov. Abbott accused the Biden administration of failing to fulfill the duties outlined in Article IV, Section 4, which asks the federal government to protect each state against “invasion.”
President Biden’s failure has triggered “Article 1, Section, 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense,” he said.
The governor declared an invasion under Clause 3 and invoked “Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.”
The conflict between the federal government and Texas comes as the U.S. border patrol registered 302,034 encounters with illegal migrants along the southwest land border in December—the highest level since 2021.
Supporting Texas
Republicans have announced strong support for Texas in the clash with the federal government. “Joe Biden is defying federal law by allowing 9.6M illegal aliens to flood through our border,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said in a Jan. 26 post.
“If the federal government won’t step up, Texas has the Constitutional authority to protect itself. I’m proud to stand with Texas and Governor Abbott as we work to stop this invasion.”
Former President Donald Trump also backed Texas. “We encourage all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of illegals and to remove them back across the Border,” he said in a Jan. 25 statement.
“All Americans should support the commonsense measures by Texas authorities to protect the safety, security, and sovereignty of Texas, and of the American people. When I am president, on day one, instead of fighting Texas, I will work hand in hand with Governor Abbott and other border states to stop the invasion, seal the border, and rapidly begin the largest domestic deportation operation in history.”
The National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), which represents around 18,000 Border Patrol (BP) agents and support personnel assigned to the U.S. Border Patrol, extended support to Texas’ measures as well.
“Rank-and-file BP agents appreciate and respect what TX has been doing to defend their state in the midst of this catastrophe that the Biden Admin has unleashed on America,” it said in a Jan. 26 post.
“We want to be perfectly clear; there is no fight between rank-and-file BP agents and the TX NG (National Guard), Gov. Abbott, or TX DPS (Department of Public Safety). It may make flashy headlines, but it simply isn’t true.”
Meanwhile, calls for impeaching Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis are gaining steam. Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is expected to introduce articles of impeachment against the official next week.
“Secretary Mayorkas has outdone himself yet again—never have we seen such catastrophic numbers, even with historically high encounter numbers on his watch,” he said in a statement. “December’s numbers serve as more undeniable proof that Secretary Mayorkas must be impeached.
“This staggering number of encounters at our borders only happens by design and a willful refusal to comply with the laws passed by Congress.”
The current news cycle gives the impression that Taylor Swift is everywhere.
According to Bloomberg data, corporate media headlines featuring “Taylor Swift” began ramping up in the first half of 2023 and hit new record highs later in the year.
The singer, who has made an entire career whining about having chosen the wrong men, has been pitched by legacy media as finally finding the “perfect match”: Kansas City Chiefs Travis Kelce.
Taylor Swift net worth in April of 2023, before she started dating Travis Kelce: $570 million
Taylor Swift net worth in January of 2024, after she started dating Travis Kelce: $1.1 billion
The relationship doesn’t pass the sniff test, given Taylor’s terrible choices with men.
Let’s begin with Michael Benz, a former Trump admin State Department official whose work has been cited in congressional hearings, posted on X a video from 2019 featuring the Pentagon’s psychological operations research that pitched the idea of turning Taylor into an asset to combat “disinformation.”
Watch the incredible moment that a rep from the Pentagon’s psychological operations research firm pitched NATO’s military psyops center on turning Taylor Swift into an asset for the Western military alliance to stop “disinformation” on the Internet. https://t.co/BYIordpx18pic.twitter.com/ThXhnjiFMD
We’re not alone. Fox News’ Jesse Watters also asked: “Why is Taylor Swift Everywhere?”
During a NATO meeting, the idea for Taylor Swift to be used as a PSYOP for the Pentagon was brought up. It looks like they decided to go this route. She BLEW UP out of nowhere, and has been plastered EVERYWHERE.
Perhaps it’s not by chance that the story count in corporate media for Taylor has exponentially exploded, averaging above 1,000 per day since late September.
Taylor’s surge comes as legacy corporate media is terrified about the rise of alternative media. Wall Street Journal Chief Emma Tucker warned WEF elites at Davos this month: “We no longer own the news.”
WSJ Editor-in-Chief Admits ‘We No Longer Own the News’
“During a WEF discussion at Davos entitled ‘Defending Truth,’ Wall St. Journal EIC Emma Tucker lamented this loss of control over ‘the facts,’” @zerohedge reported.
Back to Taylor’s relationship with Kelce. Consider this:
👀 UFC Veteran Paige VanZant Says the Taylor Swift / Travis Kelce Love Story is ‘100% Fake’
“I think that the Taylor Swift / Travis Kelce ‘love story’, I believe it is 100% fake…I truly believe it is publicity to a T…Taylor Swift is huge and now she’s getting an entirely… pic.twitter.com/wu7YzQqC3r
I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here, let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.
While it remains to be seen if Taylor has become a NATO asset. Certainty Democrats appear to be salivating all over her ahead of the presidential election to turn ‘Swifites’ into blue voters.
Oil Shorts Squeezed As Cushing Inventories Tumble To Historic Low For January
With 22-year-old portfolio managers shorting energy stocks and commodities beyond record levels to avoid “career risk” and fund NVDA longs by jumping on the biggest bubble bandwagon since the dot.com days , the inevitable short squeeze will be a sight to behold, and according to Reuters it may have started.
As Reuters energy analyst John Kemp write4s, portfolio investors “recoiled” from short positions in U.S. crude futures and options in the most recent week as rapidly depleting inventories at the Cushing delivery point “underscored the risk of a squeeze on deliverable barrels.”
Hedge funds and other money managers purchased the equivalent of 46 million barrels across the six most important futures and options contracts over the seven days ending on Jan. 23.
Fund buying was dominated by NYMEX and ICE WTI (+56 million barrels) with smaller purchases of U.S. gasoline (+8 million) and European gas oil (+7 million). Investors sold Brent (-19 million barrels) and U.S. diesel (-6 million), according to records filed with ICE Futures Europe and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
But most of the buying came from covering existing bearish short positions (-28 million barrels) rather than initiating new bullish long ones (+18 million).
The imbalance was especially pronounced in WTI where managers reduced short positions sharply (-38 million barrels) while initiating a smaller number of new longs (+18 million). As shown in the chart below, money managers cut their short positions in WTI by the most since April.
At the same time, money managers boosted net longs in WTI by 44k lots last week, the most since September.
As a result, WTI short positions were slashed to 79 million barrels from 112 million on Jan. 16 and a high of 128 million on Dec. 12.
Crude inventories around the NYMEX delivery point at Cushing in Oklahoma had depleted to 30 million barrels on Jan. 19 down from 35 million barrels three weeks earlier.
Cushing inventories stood at the lowest for the time of year since 2012 and were 14 million barrels (-32% or -1.26 standard deviations) below the prior ten-year seasonal average.
With inventories shrinking, many fund managers concluded it was no longer safe to run short positions potentially requiring delivery at Cushing.
The net position in WTI jumped to 99 million barrels (6th percentile for all weeks since 2013) up from just 43 million (1st percentile) the previous week.
The gap between ultra-bearish positioning on WTI and neutral positioning in Brent narrowed slightly but remained very wide.
There was still significant scope for short-covering to lift WTI flat prices and calendar spreads if inventories continue to deplete.
Still, despite the squeeze, short positions in NYMEX WTI were still almost 4 times higher than at the start of the current short-selling cycle on Oct. 3. But with the amount of “pent up” wars around the world, they won’t be there for long.
Elsewhere, investors trimmed positions in the two major futures and options contracts tied to gas prices at Henry Hub in Louisiana. Investors reverted to selling after trying to build a bullish position, as the big freeze earlier in January was followed by milder weather.
Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of 596 billion cubic feet (bcf) over the seven days ending on Jan. 23, the fastest rate of sales since August 2021.
It came after fund managers had purchased a total of 1,409 bcf over the previous five weeks, according to regulatory records. Funds cut their position to 186 bcf net short (26th percentile for all weeks since 2010) from 410 bcf net long (42nd percentile) seven days before.
Nat gas front-month futures prices continued to slide and have averaged just $2.81 per million British thermal units so far in January (8th percentile for all months since the start of the century once adjusted for inflation).
The end-of-winter calendar spread between March and April 2024 has fallen to flat from a backwardation of 21 cents at beginning of winter in early October, as traders expect the market to remain oversupplied.
Investors anticipate gas stocks will end winter well above the long-term average so lower prices will be needed to encourage more consumption from power generators and slow production further.
Shifting Gears: Dealers Urge GM To Prioritize Hybrids Over EVs
Two months after thousands of US auto dealers warned President Biden to reconsider the pace of electric vehicle mandates, citing waning demand for those vehicles, a new report from The Wall Street Journal reveals dealers are pressing one major automaker to include a broader range of hybrid models, over fears of losing customers.
General Motors’ top auto dealers have voiced concern about the automaker’s aggressive push into the EV space while mostly bypassing hybrids, according to people familiar with the matter. They said customers are hesitant to buy EVs and search for a “middle ground between conventional gas-engine cars and EVs.”
The people said that GM executives have acknowledged dealers’ pleas but have yet to decide on adding future hybrid lineups. This could complicate Chief Executive Mary Barra’s foray into the EV space.
Unlike its competitors, GM went all-in on EVs and skipped the hybrid market.
Last month, Barra told reporters at an event in Detroit:
“I still believe in the endgame that you want to move to EVs as quickly as you can.”
With the EV market slowing, Toyota’s chairman and former CEO, Akio Toyoda, recently offered a dose of reality that EVs aren’t the future but instead hybrid vehicles.
Toyoda has noted time after time that EVs aren’t the silver bullet against the supposed ills of carbon emissions they’re often made out to be.
Toyota has a history of being at the forefront of adopting new technologies. However, its slow EV adoption is because it mistrusts lithium-ion batteries and has positioned itself as a leader in hybrid vehicles.
Earlier this month, Ford Motor announced plans to slash production of its all-electric F-150 Lightning in April “to achieve the optimal balance of production, sales growth, and profitability.” This is yet more evidence that EV demand is going the wrong way.
“With EV adoption slower, hybrids are going to be a bigger part” of the business, Ford Chief Financial Officer John Lawler admitted at a Barclays investor conference in November.
And in late November, 3,900 auto dealers penned a letter to Biden, telling the president to “tap the brakes on the unrealistic government electric vehicle mandate.”
“Hybrids are what’s hot right now,” said Chris Hemmersmeier, a Salt Lake City-area car dealer with GM stores.
Ilhan Omar is an ethno-bigoted warmonger who embodies everything that she claims to oppose about the US and Israel, and her removal from Congress is required to prevent her from exploiting her position to provoke a regional war.
Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar accidentally outed herself as an undeclared foreign agent while speaking with her co-ethnics about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia and Somaliland. The English translation can be watched here at the Somaliland Deputy Foreign Minister’s X account. Omar didn’t refute the translation but only its “interpretation” of her warmongering and admitting to being a foreign agent. The video will now be summarized for the reader’s convenience.
She began by questioning the ethnic Somali identity of the Somalilanders, which was a curious angle of attack for her of all folks to make given the fact that she’s built her career on condemning nationalists. By the standards of her fellow “Squad” members, she should be “canceled” for that, but ethno-bigoted double standards are par for the course when it comes to those politicians. Moving along after pointing that out, Omar then said that many Somalis want her to talk to officials about the MoU.
She specified that they want to find out what she can do to ensure that the US Government (USG) prevents the MoU from becoming a reality, to which she thundered that “My answer to Somalians was that the US Government will only do what Somalians in the US tell them to do!” That was already provocative enough since it implied that this diaspora controls the regional policy of the world’s most powerful country exactly as she hypocritically lambasted Jews for doing by clear innuendo in the past.
Omar then removed all ambiguity about her role by adding that “They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interests of Somalia…The US is a country where one of your daughters is in Congress to represent your interest. For as long as I am in the US Congress, Somalia will never be in danger, its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others…Sleep in comfort knowing that I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from within the US system.”
She concluded her rant after a tangent by repeating the genocidal mantra that “Somalia is for Somalis only” and claiming that “over 45% of Somalia’s population are not even ethnic Somalis” in an allusion to the false claim she made at the beginning implying that the Somalilanders aren’t ethnic Somalis. There’s more to what she was suggesting than just a repeat of the late 1980s Isaaq genocide that led to Somaliland’s redeclaration of independence in 1991, however, as her final words from the clip prove.
According to her, “Ethiopia and Kenya have stolen and continue to occupy the Somali Region state, which belongs to Somalia. We will liberate the occupied territories that were stolen. What remains of Somalia cannot be further divided.” Recalling what Omar earlier admitted, she seemingly plans to leverage her role “within the US system” to “order” the world’s most powerful country to back militant Somali irredentism against Ethiopia and Kenya, which could plunge nearly 200 million people into war.
Somaliland is her first envisaged targeted as suggested by her closing words about how “What remains of Somalia cannot be further divided” after repeating the genocidal mantra of “Somalia is for Somalis only” several minutes after questioning the Somalilanders’ ethnic Somali identity. In other words, this undeclared but accidentally self-admitted foreign agent of Somalia is conspiring to pull the USG’s strings in order to secure support for the Hybrid War that the Somalian leader is plotting against it and Ethiopia.
She needs to be expelled from Congress before she deals irreparable damage to America’s objective national interests in the region through her connivances that risk the largest interstate African war since the two Congo Wars of the 1990s-2000s. Omar must also be investigated to discover the extent to which she’s already damaged those aforesaid interests and bust the rest of Somalia’s foreign agent network, which could include non-Somalis under her influence within the USG and/or on Mogadishu’s payroll.
The US’ objective interests are served by getting Somalia to negotiate a “dignified divorce” with Somaliland instead of preparing for a repeat of 1977-1978 Ethio-Somali War that laid the seeds for Somalia’s collapse a little more than a decade later till the present day. Omar is an ethno-bigoted warmonger who embodies everything that she claims to oppose about the US and Israel, and her removal from Congress is required to prevent her from exploiting her position to provoke a regional war.
