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Just One Corner of a Corner of the Illegal Drug Megalith, Lower Ranking Danger Drugs in the US and UK, Trafficked Through the Mail

September 25, 2025

Think that the recent crackdowns you might have seen, heard about, or even witnessed in real life, especially amid tenacity against illegal aliens has been inordinate? Think again. What you have seen in the past 6 months might have ministered to about an estimated 5%, to be respectful, of the monster sized drug problem in the US. The number might be closer to 2% or lower in other opinions. A number of narcotics dismantling and seizures that appear to have gained huge amounts of attention in the media, seem to have the story focus mainly on popularly known drug names like fentanyl, meth, and cocaine, a segment of the drug problem. The US drug challenges is just a few dots in the heap of the global drug problem.

Food, shelter, and clothing, a cliche for the 'necessary things' everyone needs; these days, in terms of what can be expected as being a part of global economics, unfortunately is food, shelter, clothing, and drugs, as when not everyone gets the healthy amount of food, shelter, and clothing, chances are, they are going to go through some pain, and reducing pain is where a lot of drug problems that may have started out legal, at some point immediate or further down the line, often turn illegal. The drug problem has gone way too far. It is destroying nations.

Nations shouldn't have to go there- such as placing a video camera on every public and private mailbox and mail courier.


To save a situation of having to write out a screed tirade the size of 4 or 5 PhD dissertations on all the different kinds of insects on the major planets, (thousands and thousands of pages,) here is a brief summary that limits the scope to three aspects, just the US and the UK, lower ranking drugs such as in their risk and danger, referring to drugs in the US that might not be schedule I and II, and drugs in the UK that might be lower than class A and B, and thirdly, just drugs trafficked through the mail, such as through local post offices.

What might be deduced, is all those videos of ICE and the DEA clobbering illegal immigrants and dismantling major drug rings, are foremost indeed a noble effort, but, might be just a few steps taken, and relatively a few dents made into a larger, broader problem.

It may popularly appear to public that basically ICE and reduction of illegal immigration efforts are going hand-in-hand with drug enforcement efforts, as illegal immigrants can facilitate the illegal trafficking of drugs into the country, and the obvious vice versa, crackdowns on illegal drugs can be potentially reduced by reducing numbers of illegal immigrants that illegally traffic drugs.

The story still hasn't begun yet.

What tipped the story, is the combination of Scotland's recent gang wars, wherein huge amounts of drugs and connected finances are reported to have been involved, and a recent law enforcement takedown in the Hull area of the UK, about 50 miles east of Leeds, of a family that was seeing some prosperity taking advantage of the postal system to drug traffic.

Meanwhile, takedowns of drug trafficking in airports in both the US and UK have received significant media glamorization in the past few months.

The following does use the help of AI, due to immediate availability of data, so please read with that discretion upon confirming accuracy. Like what was said, here is only a brief summary, not even the tip of the iceberg, of just one corner of one corner of the global drug problem:

AI says 9/25/25:
Statistics from the U.S. Sentencing Commission on the percentage of drug trafficking cases for each substance provide an indication of which drugs are most commonly seized and prosecuted.

Trafficking cases by substance (FY 2024)

Methamphetamine: 45.8%

Fentanyl and analogues: 22.1%

Powder Cocaine: 19.5%

Crack Cocaine: 3.8%

Heroin: 3.3%

Marijuana: 2.6%

Other: 1.8%

Oxycodone: 1.1% 

AI says 9/25/25 as to the volume or amounts of drugs trafficked through the US postal system:

"It is impossible to know the exact total amount of drugs trafficked through the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), since authorities seize only a fraction of what is actually sent. However, official seizure data from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) shows that thousands of pounds of narcotics are intercepted annually. 

Key facts and statistics on drugs seized from the U.S. mail:

USPIS seizures for FY 2020 In fiscal year (FY) 2020, the USPIS and its partners seized 124,000 pounds of illegal narcotics and nearly $39 million in illegal proceeds from the mail.

Seizures during a 9-month period (Oct. 2021–June 2022) From October 2021 to June 2022, the Postal Inspection Service reported the following seizures:

Methamphetamine: 7,189 pounds seized in 1,607 seizures.

Cocaine: 5,393 pounds seized in 1,727 seizures.

Fentanyl: 4,038 pounds seized in 1,554 seizures.

Heroin: 99 pounds seized in 126 seizures.

Fentanyl increase[:] The amount of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, seized from the U.S. mail increased tenfold in the five years leading up to March 2023."

AI says 9/25/25 "In the U.S., drugs are classified into five schedules under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), based on their potential for abuse, accepted medical use, and potential for dependence...

Drug schedules defined

Schedule I

These drugs are considered the most dangerous. Illegal drugs fall under this category, and are defined as substances with:

A high potential for abuse.

No currently accepted medical use in the U.S.

A lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.

Examples: Heroin, LSD, ecstasy, and marijuana. 

Schedule II

Drugs in this category have a high potential for abuse that can lead to severe psychological or physical dependence, but they also have accepted medical uses. 

Examples: Cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, oxycodone (OxyContin), and Ritalin. 


Schedule III

Substances with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence and abuse potential less than Schedule I and II drugs are in Schedule III. Examples include Tylenol with codeine, ketamine, and anabolic steroids. 


Schedule IV

Schedule IV drugs have a low potential for abuse and dependence compared to Schedule III substances. Examples are Xanax, Valium, Ambien, and Tramadol. 


Schedule V

These substances have the lowest potential for abuse and are primarily preparations with limited quantities of certain narcotics used for purposes like cough suppression. An example is cough preparations with less than 200 milligrams of codeine."


AI says 9/25/25 regarding renown drug laws and classes in the UK: “In the UK, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 categorizes drugs into Classes A, B, and C based on their perceived risk of harm."

According to Wikipedia as of today 9/25/25:

"The act sets out four separate categories: Class A, Class B, Class C and temporary class drugs.

Class A includes cocaine, heroin, morphine, oxycodone, fentanyl, MDMA ("ecstasy"), methamphetamine, opium, LSD, hydrocodone, DMT, mescaline extracts,[a] and psilocybin/psilocin (magic mushrooms).

Class B includes cannabis, synthetic and semisynthetic cannabinoids, ketamine, amphetamine, codeine, methcathinone, barbiturates, mephedrone, methaqualone, methylphenidate, GHB, and GBL. Any class B drug that is prepared for injection use becomes a class A substance.

Class C includes benzodiazepines, xylazine, pregabalin, and most other non-barbiturate tranquillisers; tramadol, gabapentin; anabolic steroids, nitrous oxide, khat, substituted piperazines, and substituted cathinones.

All other psychoactive drugs except alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco (or other approved nicotine preparations) are controlled under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 and Medicines Act 1968."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1971

The takedown in Hull, UK, what happened, how the suspects did it, and how the suspects got caught:

The "operation that saw Daniel Cotson post large quantities of unlicensed Class C drugs - including zopiclone, diazepam and temazepam - across the UK through local shops and post offices. They were sold online with payments funnelled into his bank accounts before being transferred to his parents, Paul and Stephanie Cotson, who invested £460,000 while also claiming benefits.

Suspicions were raised when a staff member from a shop in Hull city centre raised concerns about packages being sent out by Daniel Cotson. Staff at the store carried out a security check and one of the parcels was found to contain blister packaging filled with tablets.

Police officers then attended and seized 32 postal bags believed to contain controlled drugs. CCTV enquiries confirmed Daniel Cotson regularly visited the shop where he was sending out the parcels. He was arrested on May 17, 2021, during one of his visits to post drugs and he was found with two postal bags ready to send out."

Story dated 25 Sep 2025,
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/not-quite-sopranos-hull-crime-10526547


Scotland, and the gang wars

AI says 9/25/25:

"The drugs involved

While many types of drugs are trafficked, seizures, drug-related deaths, and violence point to specific substances fueling the gang wars.

Cocaine: Gangs fight fiercely over the cocaine supply, which has become one of the most profitable commodities. A specific feud in 2025 was reportedly sparked by a £500,000 cocaine deal. Cocaine was also a factor in 41% of Scotland's drug-related deaths in 2023, the highest on record.

Benzodiazepines: These drugs are heavily implicated in drug misuse deaths in Scotland, involved in 56% of fatalities in 2024. Illicit benzodiazepines, including counterfeit tablets ("street Valium"), are a major factor in the drug death crisis.

Synthetic opioids (nitazenes): Extremely potent synthetic drugs, such as nitazenes, are a growing concern. Police found a nitazene drug lab in Ayrshire in 2025, which also led to a reduction in illicit benzodiazepine supply, suggesting a link between the markets.

Cannabis: Along with cocaine, cannabis is one of the most common commodities supplied by organized crime groups in Scotland."

Notable recent multi-national cooperation May 2025, according to the US DOJ website:

  • Operation RapTor occurred.  
    • Arrests of 270 dark web vendors, buyers, and administrators in Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.
    • Seizures of over:
      • $200 million in currency and digital assets,
      • 2 metric tons of drugs, 144 kilograms of fentanyl or fentanyl-laced narcotics
      • 180 firearms  

Concluding words
Round and around, or could be round and around if it goes there, law enforcement chases down traffickers and their designs, while traffickers try to obfuscate and continually improve on their designs plausibly based at least in part on what they think they know about law enforcement's methodologies to catch them. At the end of the day, dangerous, and illegal drugs, are still dangerous and illegal drugs no matter what schedule or class they are in.

 

Besides Air and Drone Defense, an Amplified Look at Undersea

September 23, 2025
Developments as with many technologies, are ramping up on a global scale.
Erudition at this moment might not be as much as popular products in the US today, like cell phones and the Internet, however, adeptness of undersea capacities and vulnerabilities might become a must.

Here is a Google AI overview of where undersea issues may be prevalent:
"Undersea cables are a global issue in several vulnerable geographical areas, including the Red Sea (due to conflict and maritime traffic), Africa (where infrastructure is susceptible to accidental damage and vulnerability), the Baltic Sea (due to its commercial shipping routes and potential for sabotage), and generally in critical telecommunications choke points and shore zones where cables make landfall. Both accidental damage from ships and intentional actions from state or non-state actors pose risks to these vital digital lifelines. "

CSIS.org says,
"An estimated 90 percent of communications between Europe and Asia and 17 percent of global internet traffic traverse cables under the 14-mile-wide Bab al Mandab Strait.

The Yemeni government warned in early February that Houthi rebels might target undersea cables.
...
Internet cables near Svalbard and the Shetland Islands were cut in 2022, the same year the Nord Stream gas pipelines were sabotaged. Last year the Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia was damaged along with two subsea cables..."
https://www.csis.org/analysis/red-sea-cable-damage-reveals-soft-underbelly-global-economy

DPP in Taiwan concerned. [Per Taiwan Cabinet]. "The proposed legal changes would increase penalties for intentionally damaging infrastructure such as submarine communications cables, undersea power lines, and pipelines for water and natural gas"
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6203736

Framework perhaps making it a pertinent current issue is "gray zone".

RAND says in July 2025 article Undersea Cables Are Vulnerable to Sabotage—but This Takes Skill and Specialist Equipment,
"Critical undersea infrastructure (CUI) as these connections are known, supports about US$9 trillion (£6.6 trillion) worth of trade per day. A coordinated attack on this network could undoubtedly have devastating consequences."
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/07/undersea-cables-are-vulnerable-to-sabotage-but.html

Key words/terms/phrases:
  • CUI
  • critical infrastructure
  • undersea submarine communication cables
  • undersea power/pipe lines

 

Volatility and Instability Appear to be Recurring Themes About Unrest in Nepal and Indonesia

September 17, 2025
A complete rundown on everything that has occurred amidst unrest, destructive behavior, and protesting since September 1 of this year, 2025, might take years to compile. As we speak now, DNA techniques are being used to identify the remains of some of those lost, especially in Nepal.

There is a label going on in popular media called 'Gen-Z' or 'Generation-Z', supposedly receiving the blame of whose behind the protesting. Gen and Generation supposedly refers to a generation of young adults about 20 years plus or minus a few years old as of today in 2025.

Perhaps what comprised the protests in terms of the ages of the masses of people, might be individuals from that generation and age group.
However, and there's a big however, there is (to be respectful, plausibly), more to the motor or motors behind the mayhem than just numerous 20 year olds under decentralized leadership upset because of impediments set forth against freely expressing biological themes uncomfortable with 'religious conservatives' on social media.

There is coordination in the protests which eventually grow in magnitude and unruliness and morph into attacks.

One of the NGO, 'non-governmental organizations' said to be behind the push for confronting Nepal government aspects, is [in English] Hami Nepal. (Translation for 'We are Nepal's, might be a reasonably practical English translation.)

The group gained traction post the founding after a devastating earthquake years back. Although the advent that may have been the causation of the materialization of the group was natural disasters, contrasted to for instance, a man-made advent like a coup-de-tat attempt, now that the group is up and running, it has caught the eye of those that sense they should be watchful of it.
Everyone watching the group, may not all necessarily be on the same page; there could be those on the right and those on the left for instance.

Hami Nepal, is said to have been started by a Mr Gurung. His first name when written in English, is Sudan, yes, written out just like the country that sits south of Egypt.

Meanwhile, as analysts study the composition of the protestors, common denominator similarities of other activities and dimensions of society being noted may arise.

There are other challenges in both Nepal and Indonesia besides Gen-Z protesting.

Drugs, that's right drugs, the infamous global narcotics and drug problem, including sales, distribution, usage, trafficking and connected other types of trafficking like human and weapons trafficking that typically go with it, purchasing, manufacturing, mixing with other substances, masking substances and a while bunch more, exist in Nepal and Indonesia, like it exists in numerous other countries.

Often there is a large amount of the petty crime and user base of the drug game and arena on the basic levels, apparent to the public, comprised of relatively naive teenagers and young 20 somethings, which happens to be pretty much one in the same with Gen-Z.

Where are some of the places volatility and Instability come in? First, instability is often used in global politics to refer to stability of an economy or government; that's not really what's being discussed here. Discussed here is more physiobiological and emotional volatility instability, and of entities and organizations.
For example, young protestors ramped up intensity of protesting and went charging toward a government building, or significant infrastructure. There may be some questions as to the wisdom of doing that from a safety standpoint, knowing that defense forces would react. Whoever led them or leads them into that, probably was not a naive 20 year old, (but rather someone plausibly older and with more seasoned experience in social engineering that gets people hurt). Then the next leg of the hurtful process, the reaction by defense forces, where in some places in the world, line spots in Nepal and Indonesia, may have soldiers or members that are young and in their 20s, 'following orders', (by someone more seasoned and older), and in certain circumstances, may carry out activities that can materialize as very awkward or uncomfortable. For example, a protestor winds up getting rolled over by a tank. 

Note that a 21 year old was run over by a tank recently, which is reported to have contributed to an increase in some of the unrest.

In brief, usually what winds up happening is the 20 year old soldier with more weapons and bodily protection, conducts oppressive anti-protesting measures on the 20 year old protesting counterpart. The third leg then appears, where that dominoes into infuriating the mass of 20 years olds even more leading to more unrest, more anti-protesting, around and around and eventually a violent clash results. Clashes could be a reaction or recurrent.

What happened in recent weeks in Nepal, is that a Prime Minister is said to have stepped down, in the timeline after the spare of heightened unrest. Unrest included a jail break of about 15,000 persons, a large superchain that employs about 20,000 people was targeted, perhaps a mall of some kind as well, and a parliament building.

Now there is an interim PM, in the first female in history to hold that post. The elections are supposedly going to be held in 2026.

As shown by the protests, there are no guarantees. The cliche, man plans... but what really happens, may be something else.

Again respectfully, different countries where they have their equivalents to what the US has in the State Department, seem to have distributed safety precautions that differ somewhat. There appears that there may be no guarantees to 100% guarantee and rely in terms of a potentials that could happen, hopefully they don't happen, on; such as 'contact the authorities if you feel you are in danger'.

When and if the authorities like a junta that emerged or guerilla group that took over a territory, is one in the same as the danger you are calling in on, it is obvious to see it is a dangerous equation, that can leave you in even more danger than you started.
Therefore the soundest advice might be the safest precaution, which is to avoid at least certain regions when unrest is taking place. Do not rely on a swift skip to the airport as a recourse, the airport might be a hotbed of risks as well.

Food, shelter, clothing, shelter, equal treatment and equal access to jobs, economic stability, and upward mobility, have been longstanding ideals. Not to say simply it's ironic, because again, there is an expectation for the normal person to have a need for food at some point, need shelter in harsh weather conditions, and have clothes on their back, if not them, their children and family or subjects under their leadership, but in places like Nepal and even Indonesia, at least in ancient times and even through today, all those material ideals, are shed by certain classes, and that's what made the venerated individuals, some of whom became leaders and objects of study in leadership topics.

Wrapping up for now, when both sides have vulnerability, volatility, and instability, young protesters on one side, and protesting suppressors on the other, plus, whatever it is either side might get into or try to get into when things go awry, or just try to go awry, or foment or try to get things to go awry, might spell out that there is a recipe for disaster actually in the pot cooking.


 

'Starting Something', Ghareeb, Strange. :Missile Strikes on Targets in Qatar. 2025.

September 9, 2025
Everyone on earth is not living inside the right and left of the brain of whoever went forward on to follow through or not follow through with a missile strike targeted to a location in a sovereign nation not their own.

As of right this moment 9/2025, it may not be widespread information to the public (yet) just where the physical point of emanation missiles came from that struck targets in Qatar over the past couple of days.

In some aspects, it might not matter all that much.

However there are other aspects where doors are open to serious issues.

If missiles were indeed 'from' Israel, there may be a 3 to 4 option list as to what may have occurred, in order for those missiles to be fired and land on the target.

Option 1- missiles fired from within the geographic confined of today's Israel boundaries (boundaries according to for instance, transnational entities that have certain recognition of nations a precursor to membership).

Option 2- missiles fired outside the above referenced boundaries.

2a- missiles emerged from another country on land
2b- missiles fired from sea, such as a warship
2c- missiles fired from a machine already in the land, in this case Qatar
2d- missiles fired from the air, which could be just like the above list, over Qatar, near Qatar, over water declared it undeclared, from over Israeli airspace, combination, unclear, or not applicable

Some of the above options could include missiles flying over or near the Kaaba and Prophet's Masjid and tomb, which according to the Muslim World, is about the furthest 'no no' one can possibly get.

No no basically in English refers to principles of risk and protection.

Issue/s #2:
If indeed the basic premise, which is what popular media is saying, is Israel is seeking out targets of the referent Hamas, both sides need to, if they haven't already (it's about rest assured they know this and more), recognize the humaneness, today's catchword, humanity, of flying missiles around. If you know you may be the highly potential target of a missile strike, why be in an area that you know if struck would endanger the area, the people, and trajectory of aerial weapons, in and around it?

More background:
Historically, say since about the 1940s, Israel or forces within it, have struck targets outside the Palestine/Israel landmass, for example, targets in Lebanon.

The 'organization' known today as Hamas, on a very basic level and linear historically timeline, was not there/here yet (back in the 1940s). The daily news stories rife in popular newspapers and radio from 1946 to 1956 were not necessarily 'Israel seeks Hamas targets'. 
It may have been more, particular groups declaring to be acting on behalf of advancing certain plans targeted certain targets.

All said, the idea of following through on a vow of destroying any and all threats post the October 7 incident of a few years ago, may be something Israel or forces within it are doing, attempting to, highly considering based on calculations, etc., however again, what's going on in a particular entities brain or mind, is what's in their brain and mind. Just because that entity might assert something is justified based on their assessments and calculations, does not necessarily mean it's justified by everyone else in the world, which brings up another major issue and concern.

The line in the sand of how much is too much, and when going to far, such as in the efforts, statements for, or intentions of defense, protection, security, and revenge.

Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem, Gaza tensions, are not the only places in the world and its history where this subject matter has come up. Entire populations and towns have been wiped out the result of the backlash of an attack whether actual or perceived.


 

Shooter Contained. Mass Shooting at Congregation Site in Minneapolis.

August 27, 2025
Word is spreading that a shooter emerged taking the lives of at least 2 children and injuring at least 17 others; perhaps 20 or more persons physically affected by gunfire as of about 11am EST, August 27, 2025.
The location was Annunciation Church in South Minneapolis, MN. Developing story. Law enforcement and family reunification seems still active there.
 
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