Recommended Reading – Cinco De Mayo Edition
….Prosecutions of government corruption initiated under the Calderon administration are falling apart in the early months of the Peña Nieto administration, leading to accusations among Mexico’s political elite. On one side, PRI officials say the Calderon government abused its authority, relied on untrustworthy witnesses, and targeted politically convenient officials. On the other side of the debate are concerns that the PRI is allowing impunity for corruption and harming relations with US agencies that provided evidence and want corrupt officials out of government. Regardless of whether the officials named were or were not working with transnational criminal organizations, the Mexican government’s failure to successfully investigate and prosecute high-level corruption should be a source of concern. Rumors of high level corruption have only increased since ex-President Felipe Calderon declared a war on violent drug trafficking organizations in Mexico upon taking office in December 2006.
SWJ Blog –Cyberwar in the Underworld: Anonymous versus Los Zetas in Mexico
WIRED –Don’t Panic, But Mexico’s Zetas Cartel Wants to Recruit Your Kids
FOXnews Latino –Mexico’s Blog De Narco Author Gives First Major Interview
Washington Post – Obama’s trip to Mexico hints at new balance of power and What did we learn about Obama’s thinking in Mexico?
OTHER TOPICS:
TIME C. Christine Fair –Can This Alliance Be Saved? Salvaging the US-Pakistan Relationship
J.M. Berger –FORECASTING TERRORIST ATTACKS WITH BIG DATA AND THE WISDOM OF CROWDS… OR NOT
Steven Pressfield Online (Shawn Coyne) –Getting Screwed is a Compliment
Global Guerrillas-The Flaw that May Bring Down Bitcoin or Change it Forever
Information Dissemination (Robert Farley) Book Review: China’s Search for Security
Col. Pat Lang –“Israeli attacks inside Syria risks widening war” CSM
RECOMMENDED VIEWING:
A harbinger that we are in grave danger of becoming a nation of autistic mimes 😉
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Carl:
May 7th, 2013 at 4:10 am
Geesh, if the various administrations are so solicitous of the big banks they won’t risk inconveniencing them by going after drug murderer’s money, it raises the question of who is regulating whom.
zen:
May 7th, 2013 at 4:32 pm
The infiltration of drug money into the US banking system has been an open secret since at least the BCCI scandal and the sums involved are so enormous that it is hard to escape the conclusion that permitting this state of affairs is de facto US policy
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/03/opinion/how-bankers-help-drug-traffickers-and-terrorists.html?_r=0
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http://www.policymic.com/articles/10959/bank-of-america-laundered-drug-cartel-money-according-to-fbi
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http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980519&slug=2751614
Mr X:
May 7th, 2013 at 11:06 pm
Examples like this are why people believe Brother Alex Jones when he says the funky runs the drug trade or that the US is in Afghanistan to control the opium traffic. I understand that if A and B (ie Tamerlane T being an informant for a certain if not two three letter agencies) then not H but a lot of his audience accepts such immediate logical leaps to complete the loop of evil. So Tamerlane rather than being the guy Debka described as turning on his handlers becomes just another patsy. And the FBI rather than ‘foiling’ plots of mental defectives it has egged on becomes the terror agency itself.
One side commits the error of insisting its all a New World Order conspiracy, while the other side insults our intelligence and historical fact insisting there have been conspiracies at all when the Nazis and Bolsheviks both began thus.
carl:
May 7th, 2013 at 11:39 pm
Zen:
The interesting thing about the penalty the US banks pay for laundering drug money is that it is the same type of penalty they pay when the do any other kind monkey business they pull, the institution is given a fine. Since it is the institution that pays the fine, it is really the shareholders who incur the penalty. As noted by Mr. Mazur, no individual banker ever seems to go to jail for anything. The way the system is set up, it is as if fines for any sort of violation are just a cost of doing business that the shareholder pays. In effect, the US gov is taxing the shareholders in return for which the banker get to violate the law and reap the financial reward.
And people complain about corruption in Afghanistan.
Mr X:
May 8th, 2013 at 6:36 am
I think people get the idea I was trying to convey above despite the smart/dumb phone typos.
Mr. X:
May 8th, 2013 at 12:25 pm
People can watch this program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=awSVcX_uyG8&NR=1
and decide for themselves. I will only say while I’m not convinced that the Boston bombing was a ‘false flag’ I am certain that we haven’t been told the whole truth about Tamerlane T’s career up to that point, whether he was ever an FBI or other agency informant/asset (given that Uncle Ruslan briefly ‘married into’ an Agency family and had Chechen rebel fundraising ties). The drill and presence of private security contractors hasn’t been adequately explained.
Simply because Brother Alex brings something up doesn’t mean real video and eyewitness evidence can be memory holed.
Lynn Wheeler:
May 8th, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Most of the too-big-to-fail have been found to be laundering money for both drug cartels and terrorists … and the government just slaps then the hand and asks them to please stop doing it … but they continue anyway … compared to some financial institutions (that aren’t part of too-big-to-fail) which can get shutdown and executives thrown in jail for the same illegal activity. just a few recent news items on the subject (has resulted in not only references to “too-big-to-fail” but also “too-big-to-prosecute” and “too-big-to-jail”)
HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-prosecution-fine-money-laundering
Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213
Outrage: Some Banks Are Too Big to Prosecute; Attorney General Eric Holder admits that the biggest banks are not just too big too fail, but above the law. http://www.alternet.org/outrage-some-banks-are-too-big-prosecute
Elizabeth Warren Wants HSBC Bankers Jailed for Money Laundering
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/elizabeth-warren-wants-hsbc-bankers-jailed-for-money-laundering/
The Corrupt US Government: Why US Treasury Officials Refused to Consider Recommending Criminal Charges Against Drug Money Laundering Bankers
http://johnhively.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/the-corrupt-us-government-why-us-treasury-officials-refused-to-consider-recommending-criminal-charges-against-drug-money-laundering-bankers/