Welcome back to New World next week.

I'm James Corbett at Corbett Report.com.

And I'm James Evan Palado for MediaMonarchy.com.

All the cool kids want drugs in the water.

We've got that story.

Plus some good news about illicit trails.

But first, the swamp thing

strikes back. Trump taps ex-Monsanto executive to lead wildlife agency. America's next stop

president says he is nominating a former executive at agribusiness giant Monsanto, which, of course,

we know, doesn't exactly exist anymore. They're retiring the name

of they've been absorbed into the bear monstrosity, but still in the public, still referred to as

Monsanto, nominating a former exec at Monsanto to head the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Aurelia Skipwith of Indiana, currently Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary for Fish Wildlife and Parks,

a biologist and lawyer, a deadly combination, Skipweth spent more than six years at Monsanto

and his works at the USDA and the USAID, which I think we generally know is a pretty close conduit to

V.CIA. If confirmed by the Senate,

Aurelia Skipwith would be the first African American to head the Wildlife Agency,

which has 9,000 employees in a $2.8 billion annual budget. Fish and Wildlife Service has been

without a Senate confirmed director since Trump took office in January 2017, which is a whole

other set of hilarious

shenanigans involving people who don't even have college degrees in the area that they

want to run.

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