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Published on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 by Common Dreams Will World Act to Protect Bees from Pesticidal 'Nerve Agent'? New study in Europe points sharp finger at neonicotinoids, but will it be enough to get governments to act against industry? - Jon Queally, staff writer www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/16 I'm going with No......;}
BP's Big Plan: Burn It. Burn It All. Showing no concern for climate, CEO of oil giant says notions of Peak Oil are 'increasingly groundless' - Jon Queally, staff writer BP CEO Bob Dudley. (Photo: AP)Ignoring overtly and by design the dire and repeated warnings of scientists who say that in order to avoid catastrophic and irreversible changes to the world's climate we must drastically reduce carbon emissions by curbing our use of fossil fuels, BP has a different plan for the next two decades which translates to this: Burn it. Burn whatever we can find.
O and another Huge BTW: None of the above envisions Collapsing/Disintegrating Empires. Be they the USSA. OR China. OR India..... :twisted: The Algeria hostage situation reported yesterday, where alleged Al Qaeda operatives took numerous hostages at a local BP, Statoil and Sonatrach JV gas plant in retaliation for the French incursion into Mali, has rapidly gone from bad to worse as some 34 hostages (out of the 41 originally reported) have been killed. Good Luck on Getting ANY Foreign workers to go to the Sahara now and pump out your Oil/Gas....... :twisted:
WTF? How did that happen? I hope it wasn't some sort of rescue mission.
MAybe worse. Report from PressTv says hostages (Some?) were being moved to another location. The Insurgents would only do that with negotiations and safe travel arrangements. Which were promptly abrogated....;} Reports of some hostages left. Which would explain the lack of reporting by the USSAMSM....the situation is still fluid.
Check out this Google/Cia headline: Algeria hostages reportedly escape captors; some may have been slain Accentuate the positive, ignore that fact that most are dead. At least that's my take on it. Louisville is #1 in hoops; that's my team. You got a Derby horse yet? Violence is mine right now. Can you get me one of those Calvin Borel baseball cards when he gets his 5,000th win at Oaklawn? He's nursing a broken wrist right now. Or do I have to drive down there myself?
Accentuate the positive, ignore that fact that most are dead. At least that's my take on it. Remember way back when that the Energy Plant was to be saved at all costs? If it went up it would take X lives and years to re build? Louisville and Kentucky sitting in a tree. Louisville's turning into a real powerhouse, eh? Pitino, Strong....they get a baseball team and the SEC will take them.....;}
I remember either betting Borel in an Exacta Box or Place because of Pat Day. And another jockey who I should remember. Borel and Mike Smith were always 3rd and 4th in the Season Standings....;} Boy, I miss that....;}
#1. To: Brian S (#0) (Edited) Did you catch that? Deep in the Second paragraph. The words: 'militants' 'are' 'besieged' And the Lulz is that the Algerian Army is killing 20 of the fu,ckers per day....... sounds like the Afghans......BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HEY Guess What? The Insurgents are STILL holed up at the Algerian Gas Plant. BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA And .....wait for it...... Lance Armstrong is the Lead on CNN....... :twisted: :roll: 8-) :roll: :twisted: 8-)
That's sad. OVer 34 hours old and still one of the most up to date articles out there....;} 'Prepare for bad news': Cameron warns of many deaths in Algeria as ... Mauritania: a history marked by political instability Internally, Mauritania is characterized by chronic political instability. From 1978, the year in which President Mokhtar Ould Daddah was deposed by the military, the country lived through 13 coups d’état or attempted coups d’état before its first free, lawful, multiparty presidential election in early 2007 (Fichter, 2007, p. 17). The presidency of Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, how ever, was brutally interrupted on [color=#800000]6 August 2008[/color] by another coup d’état, which terminated the country’s first experience of democracy and brought the head of the presidential guard, Gen. Mohammed Ould Abdelaziz, to power. After a year during which his power was disputed, Abdelaziz won the presidential election on 18 July 2009, which confirmed his legitimacy as the head of state (see Table 1). Table 1. Chronology of Mauritanian governments since 1963 Dates Type of government Party in power Leaders [color=#800000]1963–78 [/color] Single party Hizb ash-shaab al-muritani (Mauritanian People’s Party) Mokhtar Ould Daddah 1978–84 Military dictatorship Military Committee for National Salvation Moustapha Ould Mohamed Saleck [color=#800000](1978–1979)[/color] Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Ahmed Louly (1979–[color=#800000]1980[/color]) Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidallah ([color=#800000]1980[/color]–1984) 1984–92 Col. Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya ([color=#800000]1984–2005[/color]) [color=#800000]1992–2005[/color] Multi-party with an appearance of democracy Al-hizb al-jumhuri ad-dimuqrati al-ijtimai (Democratic and Social Republican Party) 2005–07 Military dictatorship Military Council for Justice and Democracy Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall 2007–08 Multi-party with an appearance of democracy None10 Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi 2008–09 Military dictatorship High Council of State General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz 2009–… Multi-party and democratic Union for the Republic Sources: Ould-Mey (2008, pp. 81, 87); Reuters (2008b) http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/f...AS-OP24-Mauritania-EN.pdf Mauritania is IMHO the 'signal' state of West Africa. The same group at the Algerian Gas Plant was responsible for this: [quote]In June 2005, al Nigeri led the GSPC team that assaulted a Mauritanian military barracks in Lamghiti in northern Mauritania. Seventeen Mauritanian soldiers were killed in the attack. Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/ar...dist_id.php#ixzz2IQgkIvE4 [/quote] which precipitated Mauritania's Current Configuration. Also Noting How E[color=#800000]VERYONE[/color] is quoting this: Canadian among Islamic militants in Algeria siege, Mauritanian ... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/n...agency.../article7510921/ 21 hours ago ... Reached in Nouakchott, the Mauritanian capital, ANI website editor Sidi ... because the movement often uses the Mauritanian news agency as ... Algerian army helicopters raid petroleum facility where hostages are ... http://news.xinhuanet.com/englis...013-01/17/c_132110355.htm 2 days ago ... NOUAKCHOTT, Jan.17 (Xinhua) -- Algerian army helicopters on ... the spokesman for the kidnappers told Nouakchott News Agency (ANI). but good luck on you getting to their site...... :twisted: :roll: :lol: 8-)
not a surprise for those of us who consider AQ in its entirety to be a western false flag network Every time you hear the USSAMSM say ' Al Qaeda' think 'CIA'.....;} Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings? Daniel Howden, Independent, Jan 22 2013 Canada is investigating an allegation by the Algerian Prime Minister that one of its citizens coordinated the terror raid at the Saharan gas plant in which dozens of hostages were killed.Westerners, including a man with blond hair and blue eyes, are believed to have been among the attackers. A French jihadist, previously unknown to authorities, and 2 Canadians are suspected to have been involved in the hostage-taking, and reports also claim that a man with a Western accent was among the extremists who lured terrified gas workers from their rooms during the hostage crisis.
Acute Human Self-Poisoning with Imidacloprid Compound: A Neonicotinoid Insecticide
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Futures Impressive in Light of Apple (AAPL) Carnage By: Mark Hanna Posted on: January 24, 2013 at 9:00 am While the NASDAQ futures are taking it on the chin, the premarket read for the S&P 500 and Russell 2K is flattish which is an impressive showing by this market as it continues to segregate Apple (AAPL), much as it has for the past few months. When I posted last night Apple was testing recent lows in the $480s, it is opening in the $460s (-10%!). Call me a bit surprised the market has completely isolated it." marketmontage.com/2013/01/24/fut ... Montage%29 COUGH*****RIGGED*****COUGH :twisted: :roll: :lol: 8-)
# Net Energy End Game Theory… | Doomstead Diner www.doomsteaddiner.org/bl...t-energy-end-game-theory/ 7 hours ago ... Net Energy End Game Theory… Published ... The time frame is less than two years: the world becomes net energy negative. At that point there ... From Capitalism To Democracy jayhanson.us/ - Cached - Similar Oct 7, 2012 ... Net Energy is the Critical Variable; The Market System as “A Means of Control” ... like two billion tonnes (metric tons) of oil equivalent energy each year! .... The above observation is so important that I am going to repeat it: ..... Friedman left EUT as a basis for decision and game theory without further ...
Swartz and Wikileaks.... Israel and 9/11.... "Did the Israeli nationals have foreknowledge of the events at WTC and were they filming the events prior to and in anticipation of the explosion?" The fact that it's blanked out indicates that the answer is clearly not an emphatic "no". Nonetheless, the material that has already been released is sufficient to prove that the Israelis did indeed have foreknowledge of the attacks on the WTC. That is of course consistent with Israel's capability and history of staging false-flag terror, the two hours' advance warning of the WTC attack transmitted via the Herzliya / New York-based Israeli instant messaging service Odigo, the failure of Benjamin Netanyahu's friend Larry Silverstein and his children to turn up for work that day at the World Trade Center, Netanyahu's advance warning of, and Efraim Halevy's intimate knowledge of, the London 7/7 attacks, the $250,000 "loan" received by Bernard Kerik from Israeli billionaire Eitan Wertheimer together with $236,000 in rent paid by Steven C. Witkoff after Kerik visited Israel from August 26-29, 2001 to meet with Wertheimer and then claimed on September 16, 2001 that a "hijacker's passport" had been "discovered", along with multiple corroborating evidence much too numerous to mention in an introduction." " The reason for the assassination was to control the power of the presidency."
http://www.dhushara.com/paradoxhtm/chaos.htm The logistic map: (a) As r increases from 2 to 4 the attracting final state is initially a single curve ( an equilibrium point for each r ) but then it repeatedly subdivides (pitchfork bifurcations) to make a rich and lean year (period 2) then periods 4, 8 etc., finally entering chaos (stippled bands). Subsequently there are windows of period 3, 5 etc. with abrupt transitions to and from chaos. The Lyapunov exponent indicates whether the system is chaotically amplifying small differences. During chaos it remains positive. The Mandelbrot set illustrates the fractal nature of the ordered and chaotic regimes when x and r are extended to the complex number plane. (b) A series of 2-D views of the iteration, including periods 1, 2 and 8 chaos, intermittency, and period 3. Pick an initial value x and find y by moving vertically to the curve y = r x (1 - x). Next we let the new x = y by moving horizontally to the sloping line. The two steps result in one iteration, i.e. xn+1 = y = r xn (1 - xn). (c) The non-escaping points form a disconnected repelling fractal for r = 4.5. The attracting final set has now broken up, resulting in a fractal Julia set. (d) A connected Julia set for the complex logistic [x-axis vertical] plotted by inverse iteration taking all the 2n square root solutions of the inverse function IMG] At this point, a new erratic behaviour emerges, and the system wanders with no fixed period. chaos has appeared. All of the previous periodic attractors continue to exist hidden in the chaos as repellers, generating a tangled repelling flow, whose spreading causes sensitive dependence. As r increases further, windows of order, with new periods appear in a new and abrupt type of transition from chaos to order. There is yet a third type of chaotic transition represented by the mode-locked periodic feedback, as in the heart pacemaker and rotations on the periodic spirals of the Mandelbrot set illustrated below. A portion of the Mandelbrot set of the logistic map. The fractal displays all possible quadratic dynamics. Although these vary and it is thus not exactly self-similar, it is nevertheless a fractal. Finally a new situation emerges. The attractor becomes unstable. All that is left is a residual set of points, which do not escape, but are mapped chaotically among themselves.
[quote="Foster"] "We can grow forever! Stay happy and chipper everyone!") Moms will break the bad news: "I'm sorry honey, we can't afford that. We have to buy food." That is taking place now. It will take place more as "business" and credit dries up around the world. "The first things to go"... are already going.[/quote] Seems is 30 years late to the party. That we can go over the Asymptote and float down to a sustainable level and enjoy the Holidex.... :twisted: [quote] What is the Difference Between Entrained Air and Cavitation? Along with entrained air, cavitation is a top candidate for causing pump problems. Cavitation occurs when the pump’s internal pressures are lower than the vapor pressure of the liquid which results in rapid vapor formation within the pump which collapse as the liquid is swept into the higher pressure regions of the pump. The cavitation effect may cause material damage to the impeller and possibly casing, which is resultant of the sudden formation and implosion of vapor bubbles. [/quote] The USSR was the 'pump' that was cavitating with the Berlin Wall. Cheap oil could no longer be supplied to the Warsaw Pact. To bleed the air, the Berlin Wall was collapsed. Not enough. A coup to 'streamline efficiencies' was carried out in Moskva. But instead, an 'Entrained Air' moment occurred. Nothing moved anywhere in the USSR. It disintegrated. [quote]For reasons already presented in Part 1, I believe that per capita consumption rate is an important indicator of the direction and magnitude of economic growth/de-growth, and, that below a certain low level or per capita consumption (e.g., less than 1 barrel of petroleum per person per year, b/py) the petroleum driven food production system of a region starts to decline, along with a concurrent and proportional an increase in starvation and death in that region. In particular, my thesis is that that the extent of population decline is in direct proportion to that needed to keep per capita consumption at 1 b/py, until the population drops to its pre-petroleum era population, which I have assumed to equal that region’s population in 1900.[/quote] FORMER SOVIET UNION [img]2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mqlzqy.../s640/PPO-Fig19.jpg[/img] POPULATION [img]2.bp.blogspot.com/-eFmSg4...PO-Fig4-revised.jpg[/img] CHINA [img]4.bp.blogspot.com/-JWbiSJ.../s640/PPO-Fig16.jpg[/img] POPULATION ASIA PACIFIC minus CHINA [img]3.bp.blogspot.com/-iglrbK.../s640/PPO-Fig18.jpg[/img] [quote]Final thoughts Of course, if the disaster presented above for rAP occurs, it would, by far, be the greatest magnitude of human loss and suffering in the history of mankind. This would eclipse the starvation and population decline of 1 billion I predicted for AF and FS by 2026, or the 67 million population decline in JP predicted to start a few years later in about 2033. All told then, we are looking at population declines for the four regions of rAP, AF, FS and JP totaling about 3.4 billion people by the end of my study period in 2065.[/quote]
Country music can promote the war machine and corporate criminals but don't tell even a wee bit of truth about anything that matters, you'll get boycotted. In other earth shattering news...Ariel Sharon's brain is said to be showing significant activity after vegetating for the last seven years. Doctors are amazed because brain activity is rare in any Israeli politician, awake or in a coma. When asked about Sharon's condition, Netanyahu foamed at the mouth and threw a copy of the Sunday Times at the reporter. Sharon was Prime Minister of Israel during the September 11, 2001 joint Israeli/neocon attack on America. In an attempt to provoke more stimulation in Sharon's brain, doctors are playing him a looped recording 24/7 of his alleged famous quote... "We, the Jewish People, Control America, and The Americans Know it!"
"it was a form letter from a long-time friend and colleague. The opening line took me aback: “Especially considering the political strife and random unexplainable (sic) violence of the past year, we find ourselves feeling incredibly blessed …” Wow. Apparently this particular professor hasn’t been paying attention to the news. Or perhaps she is plagued by the sentiments of James Baldwin, the American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic: “Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with society.” Being at war with society is a tough sell for a university professor embedded within and dependent upon the current version of society. "
“This task force [one of several in place in Mexico] is pretty heavily armed and is embedded with the Mexican military,” says William Robert "Tosh" Plumlee, a former CIA contract pilot who flew numerous missions delivering arms to Latin America and returning drugs to the United States as part of the covert Iran/Contra operations in the 1980s. “These are boots on the ground ... seven to eight of them [in Joint Task Force 7], working in a civilian capacity, meaning they are not in uniform. http://narcosphere.narconews.com...ng-mexican-crime-organiza ZETAS say Hello......;}
MEXICO CITY February 1, 2013 (AP) An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company in the capital Thursday left at least several workers injured, blew out windows and damaged the building, the company said. Local media reported that at least one person had died and that about 40 were injured. PHOTO: Firefighters search for survivors Guillermo Gutierrez/AP Photo Firefighters and workers dig for survivors... View Full Size PHOTO: Firefighters search for survivors Guillermo Gutierrez/AP Photo Firefighters and workers dig for survivors after an explosion at an adjacent building to the executive tower of Mexico's state-owned oil company PEMEX, in Mexico City, Jan. 31, 2013. Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said workers have been evacuated from the building. A reporter at the scene saw rescue workers trying to free several workers trapped. Television images showed people being evacuated on office chairs, and gurneys. Most of them showed injuries likely caused by falling debris. Pemex said in a Tweet that several workers were injured in the blast but no one answered at its offices. In an earlier Tweet, the company said it had evacuated the building because of problems with the electricity in its administrative skyscraper.
30 dead, at least 25 trapped. Nothing to see here. Move along.....;} Zetas say Hello...... "A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said preliminary findings suggested the blast was caused by aged boiler exploding in a Pemex building next to the tower, Reuters reported. "Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto arrived at the Pemex administration complex by helicopter Thursday night to supervise rescue operations, Pemex and the news agency La Prensa reported. Hundreds of Mexican military forces were sent to the complex to "preserve security," officials told newspaper El Universal. "Sánchez said as many as 30 people remained trapped in the debris Thursday. Search-and-rescue dogs were sent into the skyscraper, parts of which remained on fire at 10 p.m. ET, cloaking the Mexico City skyline in a thick cloud of smoke, Telemundo reported. The main floor and the mezzanine of the auxiliary building were heavily damaged, along with windows as far as three floors up. "Pemex initially said the building had been evacuated because of a problem with its electricity supply. It then said there had been an explosion, but it didn't give the cause." RIIIIIIGHTTTTT.....;}
#3. To: Robin (#0) From the Two Gas Plant Explosion links above: "Pemex Director Juan Jose Suarez said that there was "no evidence that it was a deliberate incident, or some kind of attack". Company officials said that maintenance work had been carried out on the plant just minutes prior to the explosion. President Calderon praised the emergency workers, who he said had managed to contain the fire before it could spread to the massive tanks of a neighbouring gas processing plant. There have been several fires at Mexican refineries over the past month. While investigations into those blazes have not yet concluded, preliminary evidence suggests they could have been caused by thieves tapping the lines to steal petrol." " Company officials said that maintenance work had been carried out on the plant just minutes prior to the explosion." Trying to maintain the plant how?....;} Another report stated that the ZETAS were taking 45% of PEMEX production out of Tamaulipas Province....;} You know, once you're over 10%, you're really not stealing. You're part of the Business......;} mcgowanjm posted on 2013-02-01
I'm now thinking this is a CIA/FBI/SpecOps.... Reason: Los ZETAS are already taking 10% of PEMEX net. They're major stakeholders in PEMEX remaining Status Quo. # Business News Americas - Pemex will not be privatized - Peña Nieto www.bnamericas.com/news/....be-privatized-pena-nieto1 22 hours ago ... Pemex will not be privatized - Peña Nieto ... Peña Nieto said the other principal goal of energy reform would be to reduce energy power costs. Business News Americas - Pemex will not be privatized - Peña Nieto www.bnamericas.com/.../pr...-be-privatized-pena-nieto 22 hours ago ... Pemex will not be privatized - Peña Nieto ... Pemex are deceptive and untrue, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said during a meeting. Enrique Peña Nieto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Peña_Nieto - Cached - Similar Not to be confused with Enrique Peña or Enrique Nieto (architect). ... Peña Nieto proposed that he will reinvigorate Mexico's economy, permit the national oil company, Pemex, to compete in the private sector, and reduce drug ... Peña Nieto said that he became interested in politics during elementary school, when he was ... Mexico explosion: How will the Pemex blast affect the country's race ... www.csmonitor.com/.../Mex...he-country-s-race-for-oil 1 hour ago ... Privatization is strictly forbidden under the Constitution, but new Mexican ... My condolences to their families," President Peña Nieto said in a tweet. ... he believes the tragedy will not shake public trust in the powerful Pemex. MEXICO is famous for sending messages......;}
C'mon, get real.
C'mon, get real. You talkin' to me or Juan.
Why does the MSM link this bombing to other explosions in Pemex Refineries/Pipelines. Why did the MSM dismiss statements of an explosion in the WTC Basement.
# # Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_Ejecutiva_Pemex_explosion Earlier in the day, Pemex sent out a tweet saying that the building was being evacuated due to a "problem with the electrical system in the complex that includes
As an economist, Suárez Coppel has served as Director of Finance in Pemex, chief advisor to former Mexican Secretary of Finance Francisco Gil Díaz, as Adjunct-Director for Derivatives in Banamex, as Treasurer of Televisa, and as Vice President of Finance in Grupo Modelo; the largest Mexican brewery.[1] Sweet Baby Jesus. Everyone of those up to their necks in Plutarchy. DOJ sues to block Anheuser Busch merger with Mexico's Grupo Modelo ABA Journal - 16 hours ago - 1105 related articles » The Justice Department on Thursday sued to stop a planned merger of Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev with Mexico's largest beer # Televisa, Telemundo ink cross-border content deal | News | C21Media www.c21media.net/archives/36567 - Cached The channel, which will feature branded Telemundo entertainment and news content, will be available on Televisa-owned satellite and cable networks, Sky and ... What the Televisa, Univision Deal Means | Adweek www.adweek.com/news/.../w...ivision-deal-means-103473 - Cached Oct 6, 2010 ... Rife with betrayal, relationships gone bad and court battles, the decades-long relationship between Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa and ... # Banamex loses bid to censor Narco News By Chuck Armsbury ... www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/27/page12.html - Cached David slew Goliath with a stone, and similarly on December 5, 2001 in a New York courtroom, tiny NarcoNews.com cut down the giant Banamex, humbling ... # Dubious Lawsuit Forces Narco News To Shut Down www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1448/a07.html?2051 - Cached Aug 20, 2001 ... The Banamex lawsuit, which began hearings on July 20, is raising eyebrows in media-watchdog circles. Narco News, which is written in ... I covered that presidential summit eight years ago, investigated the charges for three months, and published the first of many reports that May (see “Clinton and His Mexican Narco-Pals,” Boston Phoenix, May 17, 1999). Follow-up reports and translations of Por Esto!’s investigations appeared on Narco News after we began publishing in April 2000. By July of that year, Narco News, the Por Esto! publisher Mario Menéndez Rodríguez and I found ourselves as defendants in the New York Supreme Court from a lawsuit filed by Banamex. The bank had hired the mega-lobbying and law firm Akin Gump, of Washington DC, to harass us with that nuisance suit. More than a year of our lives was dominated by the painstaking presentation of all the evidence to the Court. In December 2001, the New York Supreme Court delivered a thunderous blow to Banamex (by then part of Citigroup, the world’s wealthiest financial institution): it dismissed Banamex’s case, and established, for the first time, First Amendment protections for Internet journalists in the United States. "
The day El Presidente announces no privatization, Pemex Building bombed, Suarez is on a jet. Shades of Silverstein.....;}
BANAMEX: "Journalist Ed Vulliamy informed us that the authors of that report provide compelling evidence that "financial regulators in the west are reluctant to go after western banks in pursuit of the massive amount of drug money being laundered through their systems." Indeed, at the height of the global financial crisis Antonio Maria Costa, then the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime told The Observer "he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were 'the only liquid investment capital' available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into the economic system as a result." "In many instances," Costa said, "the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital. In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor."
A third-generation drug trafficker, Ávila is the niece of of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, onetime godfather of the Guadalajara Cartel now serving a 40-year prison term for the 1984 murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Camarena was kidnapped and tortured to death after he uncovered evidence linking the CIA and Oliver North's sordid "Enterprise" to drug trafficking Nicaraguan Contras during the Reagan administration.
The document went on to assert that before becoming a key U.S. "partner in the drug war," and rewarded with some $3 billion under Plan Colombia to "fight drugs," Uribe "was linked to a business involved in narcotics activities in the United States" and "has worked for the Medellín cartel." Although the U.S. government disavowed that report, for purely political reasons I might add, several members of Uribe's family, including the president's cousin, Mario Uribe Escobar, the former President of the Colombian Congress, was convicted and removed from office over his close ties to the far-right, drug trafficking paramilitary death squad, the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or AUC.
By Anahi Rama and Mica Rosenberg MEXICO CITY, June 14 (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential frontrunner Enrique Pena Nieto said on Thursday he would name Colombia's top crime fighter, known for tackling drug cartels and guerrillas, as his government's chief security advisor if he wins. Retired general Oscar Naranjo served as head of Colombia's national police from 2007 until he resigned on Tuesday. Colombia: Ex-Security Chief Accused In Drug Trafficking ... latindispatch.com/.../col...king-wiretapping-schemes/ - Cached Jun 19, 2012 ... Colombia: Ex-Security Chief Accused In Drug Trafficking, Wiretapping ... Santoyo Velasco, who served under former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe from ... Mexico Protests: Rumors Of Deaths During Anti-Peña Nieto ... BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Los ZETAS say HOLA y BIENVENIDOS ;}
Citing findings by two Colombian academics, Alejandro Gaviria and Daniel Mejía in their study, Anti-Drugs Policies In Colombia: Successes, Failures And Wrong Turns, Ed Vulliamy disclosed "that 2.6% of the total street value of cocaine produced remains within the country, while a staggering 97.4% of profits are reaped by criminal syndicates, and laundered by banks, in first-world consuming countries."
Zambada Niebla, extradited to the US in February 2010 and now facing narco-trafficking charges in federal court in Chicago, claims in pleadings in his case that the US government entered into a pact with the leadership of the Mexican Sinaloa narco-trafficking organization that supposedly provide its chief narcos with immunity in exchange for them providing US authorities with information that could be used to target other narco-trafficking organizations. The US government, in pleadings filed in the case this past July and again this past Friday, denies that Zambada Niebla was granted immunity by any law enforcement agency for the narco-trafficking crimes spelled out in the indictment against him. Those same pleadings do not broach the topic of whether he, or his Sinaloa organization associates, might have had a cooperative relationship with US intelligence agencies, such as the CIA. Former deep undercover DEA agent Mike Levine describes the scenario apparently playing out in the Zambada Niebla case this way: This is very typical of DEA infighting with CIA involvement, especially the, well, clumsy stupidity of the whole thing. Of course [Loya Castro] would be meeting with the Sinaloa guys even though he was a known snitch, simply because it is now a respected sport among big bad guys to "play" the US government for their (the cartel's) own advantage. If you are killing the opposition, why not rat on them? [Boston organized crime leader] Whitey Bulger did it successfully for the FBI for decades…. Playing the informant game with our government is now a win-win gambit for every bad guy on the globe. … Don't miss the trees for the forest. If it's weird, sounds like a grade Z movie and is handled in a clumsy, obvious way, it's CIA [behind the curtain pulling the levers]....
Jesus Fucking Christ, are you reading this? And ever since Cantarell started collapsing. Drugs, Oil, Banks, money laundering, military.... Mexico's in the Middle of a Civil War. And it just took a step to the next level. "The former federal agent who spoke with Narco News about the Zambada Niebla case, and who asked not to be named, says that in CIPA cases, individuals are often brought in by the government who have “particular specialties, like defending CIA interests.” “Find out what other similar cases they have handled,” the source adds. “Sometimes these answer can be very telling.” In the CIPA filing made by the US government in the Zambada Niebla case, prosecutors ask that the judge appoint “Daniel Hartenstine, Security Specialist, to serve in the position of classified information security officer in this matter.”
(An alert reader pointed out when my piece appeared in 2010, that Herb Sandler, who sold Golden West at the top of the market saying he wanted to devote himself to "philanthropy," "now owns ProPublica, a Left gatekeeper that goes after easy targets like racist cops ... but which will not examine Sandler's wing of the power elite. Michael Barker wrote a great series on this outfit and its Establishment handlers called "Investigating the Investigators--A Critical Look at ProPublica.")
However, unless Suárez Coppel obtained an iron-clad promise from President Felipe Calderón that he can work without interference, there's little reason to believe he'll enjoy any more success than his predecessor, experts say. In his annual State of the Union address last week, Calderón pledged to push through a fresh set of reforms aimed at strengthening Pemex, the government's largest single source of tax revenue. "We must take profound [reforms] and move quickly," he said. Reyes Heroles, 57, a politically savvy economist who served as ambassador to the U.S. in the late 1990s, officially "resigned" to make way for Suárez Coppel, 50, a University of Chicago-trained economist. He is expected to take dramatic steps in an effort to stem losses at Petroleos Mexicanos, where production dropped 7.3% in the first half of the year and revenues plummeted 30%. On Sept. 7, Calderon praised Reyes Heroles for helping to win passage of the "historic" reforms Congress approved in 2008, measures which the President said would put Pemex "on the path to once again becoming … one of the most important oil companies in the world." He also said that Suárez Coppel's task would be to "transform Pemex profoundly, to its roots." Having served as Pemex's chief financial officer from 2001 to 2006, Suárez Coppel knows the company's numbers well. But he also knows that his ability to turn Pemex's fortunes around will be limited by the fact that the company doesn't operate autonomously; it is subject to budgetary and spending decisions dictated by the finance and energy ministries and by Congress. Even Pemex's divisional chiefs of exploration and refining are named not by the CEO, but by President Calderón, notes George Baker, an energy analyst in Houston. "The head of Pemex really has very little authority, so it's not clear how much this change in CEOs will mean," Baker says.
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...has rapidly gone from bad to worse as some 34 hostages (out of the 41 originally reported) have been killed.
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I hope it wasn't some sort of rescue mission.
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Which would explain the lack of reporting by the USSAMSM....the situation is still fluid.
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Algeria hostages reportedly escape captors; some may have been slain
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"Pemex Director Juan Jose Suarez said that there was "no evidence that it was a deliberate incident, or some kind of attack".
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"Pemex Director Juan Jose Suarez said that there was "no evidence that it was a deliberate incident, or some kind of attack".
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You talkin' to me or Juan.
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