Massive drug busts in Saudi Arabia and Iran:

Authorities seized the 5-million plus amphetamine capsules, three grams of heroin, a machine gun and a pistol, Al-Turki added.

At around the same timeframe, Saudi customs officials at two separate border crossings stopped an attempt to smuggle a total of 394,000 Captagon amphetamine capsules into the country. Ibrahim Al-Inizi, who heads Saudi Arabia’s customs center, said the smugglers attempted to stash the capsules in vehicle tires and in the dashboard of a truck.

Iranian officials estimate that 42-percent of the world’s opium consumption occurs in Iran, and that the regime spends about $1 billion dollars a year to fight the drug war there. According to Azernews, statistics released by the government estimate that there are about two million drug users in Iran.

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San Francisco, best known as the epicenter of smug as ridiculed in that one South Park episode, is furious with Justin Bieber.

Not for the reasons you or I or any other good folks with functioning ears might be, but because Bieber’s marketing team took to graffiti-ing their famously highbrow city for the purpose of promoting a new album release. Y’know, sales, money, capitalism… the rotten little twerp!

Anyway, the graffiti apparently hasn’t washed away in the rain (or the rampant public urination) so the city has paid for it to be pressure-washed away at a cost to taxpayers that has yet to be revealed.

(See? Poor Justin just wanted to help with job creation!)

Of course, this being San Francisco, one wonders if folks would complain so much if it had been promotion for a new Joan Baez album. Or Rufus Wainwright’s latest, Prima Donna.

This just in: switching from Jack Daniels to vodka might not yield all the health benefits one might think: Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead has died, according to a statement posted to Motorhead’s Facebook page:

Lemmy had just turned 70.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in The Telegraph today reports that Saudi Arabia is burning through foreign reserves at an unsustainable rate and may be forced to give up its prized dollar exchange peg as the oil slump drags on, the country’s former reserve chief has warned.

“If anything happens to the riyal exchange peg, the consequences will be dramatic. There will be a serious loss of confidence,” said Khalid Alsweilem, the former head of asset management at the Saudi central bank (SAMA).  Read More

And this on the back of recent news that Russia overtook the Kingdom as the main oil supplier to China.

We did share this story some weeks ago, but feel it’s so ridiculously juicy that it warrants an update.

Next time someone tries to impress upon you the virtues and benefits of a socialist system, please ask them to explain Ontario under Kathleen Wynne. Not ashamed at mismanaging the budget to the tune of $300 billion, the no-game, no-shame officials are going cap-in-hand to ask their provincial citizens to voluntarily hand back their tax rebates or write them a cheque.

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After completely decoupling from reality, the left has now entered the world of entertainment. The Guardian today teamed up with George Soros playing the part of the Fairy Godmother, to warn us of the dangers of Donald Trump and the ‘hysteria’ of identifying a threat and allowing it to change our perception.

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Turkey is training Islamic State terrorists in a camp disguised as a training ground for the Free Syrian Army, a 20-year-old jihadist captured by the Kurdish YPG told Sputnik. The prisoner said Ankara’s help to the “moderate” Syrian opposition is not as innocent as portrayed.

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New York is reaping the whirlwind of sky-high cigarette taxes with a wave of smuggling decimating the state’s revenue.

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In what a new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today is describing as President Barack Obama’s “worst nightmare”, the Ministry of National Defense (MoND) of the People’s Republic of China has secured the permission of the Syria Arab Republic to begin “flooding” into the Levant War Zone up to 5,000 of its most elite military forces, and which will first include the feared Shenyang Military Region “Siberian Tiger” Special Forces and Lanzhou Military Region “Night Tiger” Special Forces Units.

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