{"id":46615,"date":"2021-10-08T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=46615"},"modified":"2021-10-08T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T15:00:05","slug":"cartel-corner-a-secret-look-at-a-mexican-cartels-low-tech-multimillion-dollar-fentanyl-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/08\/cartel-corner-a-secret-look-at-a-mexican-cartels-low-tech-multimillion-dollar-fentanyl-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartel Corner: A Secret Look at a Mexican Cartel\u2019s Low-Tech, Multimillion-Dollar Fentanyl Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A secret look at a Mexican cartel&#039;s low-tech, multimillion-dollar fentanyl operation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wdoRAjilrhs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wdoRAjilrhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Secret Look at a Mexican Cartel\u2019s Low-Tech, Multimillion-Dollar Fentanyl Operation<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activeresponsetraining.net\/weekend-knowledge-dump-september-17-2021\">Active Response Training<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>A valuable look at how Fentanyl is mixed with heroin and smuggled into the USA by Mexican drug cartels.\u00a0 Besides providing an accurate summary of what\u2019s happening, you should additionally note two things:<\/h2>\n<h2>1- I\u2019ve been writing for some time about how as Americans lose faith in government institutions, private powers will rise up to take the place of the government.\u00a0 We see it now in America with the wealthy hiring private security to patrol the neighborhoods where they live.\u00a0 Here is yet another example.<\/h2>\n<h2>The video shows how the drug cartels have completely supplanted the local government and are now providing many of the available jobs and social services. The cartels serve a role as a type of surrogate government enterprise. Take a look at the video at the 5:10 time stamp.\u00a0 Those are cartel-owned cemeteries (which also serve as high end party spots) in Sinaloa.\u00a0 Some of the crypts are bigger than my house.\u00a0 All provided by the drug cartels.\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u201cDon\u2019t have money for a funeral?\u00a0 No worries.\u00a0 Work for the cartel and you will be forever immortalized in a place like this.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2>I believe something similar will be coming to the USA as well.\u00a0 The criminal street gangs are already a more powerful force than the police\/government in many urban population centers.\u00a0 This power shift will increase with diminishing tax revenues, fewer government support programs, and a \u201cdefunding\u201d of the police.<\/h2>\n<h2>2- Take a look at how the cooks are handling the fentanyl at around the 1:10 time in the beginning of the video.\u00a0 No respirators.\u00a0 No gloves.\u00a0 They are dumping pounds of the stuff into the boiling cauldron of heroin precursors without any protective gear.\u00a0 No adverse effects.\u00a0 Now you see why I\u2019ve always doubted the reports of cops passing out and requiring Narcan for getting a single grain of fentanyl powder on their hands.\u00a0 The \u201cepidemic\u201d of accidental police fentanyl overdoses is utter bullshit.<\/h2>\n<h2>When the cartels have more influence than the government, people\u2019s loyalty shifts to the cartel over the historical \u201cpowers that be.\u201d\u00a0 This power shift will happen here too.\u00a0 Some experts call it the \u201cCartel-ification\u201d of America.\u00a0 When criminal gangs step up and begin providing more benefits to local residents (jobs, infrastructure, schools, hospitals, and charity for the poor) than the government provides, who do you think the people will support?<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Secret Look at a Mexican Cartel\u2019s Low-Tech, Multimillion-Dollar Fentanyl Operation &nbsp; via: Active Response Training A valuable look at how Fentanyl is mixed with heroin and smuggled into the USA by Mexican drug cartels.\u00a0 Besides providing an accurate summary of what\u2019s happening, you should additionally note two things: 1- I\u2019ve been writing for some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5150,6896,2351,13,3688,2620,3986,6265,5396,483,484,5984,2352],"tags":[6238,2406,9408,9590,8979,82],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}