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Words of Wisdom

"Time is what we want most, but what we use the worst."
~William Penn

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

BREAKING NEWS!! - US Troops Mass on Mexican Border

...oh wait, I must have been dreaming.
Now that I have your attention... do something about it!  Read, talk about, discuss and work toward a solution to the Border issues we face today.  I've posted current news stories below.
~Jeff/TOR~
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Contact Congress and STOP THE INVASION!
Contact your State Reps NOW!
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Mexican drug cartels accused of greater aggression against US
AHN | All Headline News
American law enforcement authorities say they are tracking what appears to be a more aggressive approach toward the United States by Mexican drug cartels. The latest revelations show the powerful Sinaloa cartel was considering a military assault ...
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Mexico Says Drug Cartel Operator Arrested
ABC News
Mexican officials say they have arrested a drug dealer who controlled smuggling routes and ran a campaign of murder and intimidation for the Knights Templar drug cartel. The Defense Department says Juan Gabriel Orozco Favela was in charge of smuggling ...
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Mexican journalists report on drug cartels despite the risks
CNN International
(CNN) -- Three years after the killing of Mexican journalist Armando Rodriguez, his colleagues said they are more determined than ever to write about the nation's drug cartels despite the risks. "Those who ordered the killing of Armando were wrong ...
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New Study on Mexico's Drug Cartels and the Global War on Drugs
Cato @ Liberty
A new policy is needed to stem the violence and consequences of the Mexican drug cartels pervasive power. In a new study released today, Ted Galen Carpenter, senior fellow, argues that the only lasting, effective strategy for dealing with Mexico's drug ...
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United States and Mexico must join forces against drug cartels
San Francisco Examiner
America can't afford to let our leaders play politics when conditions in Mexico have become so serious. Transnational cartels are now so powerful and dangerous that they pose a real threat to national security on both sides of the border. ...
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Mexico election signals return of Figueroa's PRI
The Guardian
Luisa Maria Calderón, too, implied that the drug gangs were threatening her party's voters and poll watchers on behalf of the PRI in retaliation for its aggressive stance against cartels. She said her team would carefully review vote tallies in parts ...
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The Guardian
Mexican drug balladeer shot dead
AFP
Last May the government in the home state of Guzman's Sinaloa cartel banned the popular drug ballads in places serving alcohol, but they still ring out from radio stations and in music videos. A member of a.
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AFP
Ignore Mexico and We'll All Pay the Price
City Watch
ZOCALO PUBLIC SQUARE - Last Friday morning, the second most powerful man in Mexico's government, the cabinet member leading the war against the drug cartels, died in a helicopter crash. Mexicans were stunned: Francisco Blake Mora was President Felipe ...
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Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, on the record
Globe and Mail (blog)
Mexico is facing a dramatic security challenge. President Felipe Calderon has confronted the drug cartels by sending in the military. Has this worked? President Calderon arrived at the presidency five years ago and his victory was widely doubted ...
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Hacker group backs off from naming Mexican drug cartel members
The International
December 27, 2010 Members of the the prominent hacker group Anonymous have opted not to name a list of collaborators and members of the Mexican drug gang, Los Zetas, after threatening to do so in a video posted on the YouTube video-hosting service last ...
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The International
Feds say drug cartel leader to face NY charges
Wall Street Journal
AP GARDEN CITY, NY — A fugitive identified as one of the leaders of the world's most powerful drug cartel, who fled to Mexico after his 2003 arrest, has been returned to New York where he will face federal charges of importing tons of marijuana into ...
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Anonymous force Mexican drug lords to release their kidnapped member
NEWS.com.au
A logo for the "hacktivist" group Anonymous, who have forced the Los Zetas drug cartel to release a kidnapped victim. Picture: Courtesy of Anonymous Source: Supplied A MEXICAN member of online "hacktivist" group Anonymous was released by a Mexican drug ...
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NEWS.com.au
Valley drug bust leads to La Familia drug cartel
ABC30.com
In fact, investigators say they've been following the drugs all the way up from Mexico. And they blame the drug cartel known as the most violent in Mexico. "They have a direct link to La Familia, which is a criminal organization in Mexico," said ...
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ABC30.com
Border Surveillance Plan Stumbles as Two-Thirds of Mexico Declared Unsafe
Wired News
“[Transnational criminal organizations] are getting squeezed tighter and tighter by authorities on both sides of the border,” explains Sylvia Longmire, analyst and author of Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars. “However, they still need ...
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Wired News
Senate grills Holder on Fast and Furious gun-trafficking sting
Los Angeles Times
Republican lawmakers want to know when the attorney general first learned of the program that allowed guns to go untracked into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. He says he acted responsibly. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. gestures while answering ...
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Los Angeles Times
Online critic of drug violence beheaded in Mexico
AFP
Nuevo Laredo lies in Tamaulipas, once of Mexico's most violent states where the Zetas -- a brutal gang of former hitmen -- are fighting turf wars with their former employers the Gulf cartel and others. Police found the decapitated, tortured body of a ...
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AFP
Texas Law Enforcement Battle 15 Armed Mexicans Crossing Border At Least one ...
Texas GOP Vote
This is possible spillover Drug Cartel violence. My brother went to the scene to find a blocked off dirt road with dozens of law enforcement vehicles from several different agencies. I called the Starr County Sheriff Department but they could not ...
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Fundraiser Scheduled for Slain Border Patrol Agent's Family to Attend Court Dates
Fox News
The stated purpose was to allow the transfer of those weapons to Mexican drug trafficking operations in hopes of exposing the entire arms smuggling network and lead to the "bigger fish" or leaders of the cartels. Also speaking at the event will be ...
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Fox News
Can Mexico win the war against drugs? Yes
Americas Quarterly (blog)
No one would argue that the Mexican government should turn its attention away from the drug cartels. However, since the inception of the current strategy, the government has never allowed citizens the legal tools to fight this battle. ...
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Hacker Group 'Anonymous' Takes On Mexican Drug Cartel
The Missourian
Bloggers and tweeters claiming to belong to the hacker movement "Anonymous" say they plan to expose collaborators of Mexico's bloody Zetas drug cartel, even if some of them seem to have backed away from the plan out of fear. Their debate is playing out ...
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Texas AG wants President to take action against drug cartel violence in Texas
Brownsville Herald
Brownsville police linked the September 2010 homicides to the Mexican drug cartels and reported that one of the victims was the younger brother of a former Gulf Cartel member. Three suspects in the double homicide remain at large. ...
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Mexican Drug Lord Makes Forbes 'Most Powerful' List; Mexican President Doesn't
Fox News
The Sinaloa cartel leader has remained a shadowy figure, despite being ranked as the 937 th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2010. Since his 1993 escape from prison, Guzmán has eluded Mexican authorities by hiding deep in the mountains near ...
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Drug investigation leads to 12 arrests in Lubbock area
LubbockOnline.com
The suspects have connections to the Barrio Aztecas prison gang and Mexican drug cartels, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. By IRIE PRICE A yearlong investigation into heroin trafficking in the Lubbock area has led to 12 arrests in ...
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Mexico mayor slain campaigning for president's kin
The Associated Press
The Knights Templar gang is fighting the once-dominant La Familia, a pseudo-religious drug cartel that controlled methamphetamine smuggling. At least five mayors have been killed in Mexico this year while more than a dozen were slain in 2010. ...
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Killings of US citizens in Mexico hits eight-year high
msnbc.com
BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: We have an NBC News exclusive tonight about a frightening trend in the drug war along the border between the US and Mexico . In the state of Texas , state officials are warning parents that Mexican drug cartels are now ...
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'Fast and Furious' flap likely to linger
CNN
By Matt Smith, CNN Guns seized in Mexico are believed to be part of a botched gun probe that led to drug cartels' receiving weapons. (CNN) -- A botched gun probe that allowed hundreds of weapons to reach Mexico's drug cartels is likely to be a ...
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FBI Classifies Juggalos As A National Gang Threat
Ology
When I think of the FBI's National Gang Threat list, collective culprits such as the Bloods, Crips, gangs associated with the Mexican drug cartels, international biker gangs, even white supremacist groups come to mind; the last thing I'd consider are ...
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Ology
Texas Sheriff Says Shootout Was “Spill Over” of Mexico's Drug Violence
Hispanically Speaking News
After a shootout left a deputy seriously injured and a Mexican man dead, the local county sheriff is saying it was linked to a nearby dispute involving the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's largest drug trafficking gangs. Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino ...
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Texas sheriff labels shootout 'spillover violence'
Boston Herald
By AP McALLEN, Texas — A South Texas border sheriff who long downplayed claims of Mexican drug violence spilling across the Rio Grande into the United States said Tuesday he always knew it could happen and that his department was prepared. ...
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Think Texas
The Cherokeean Herald
Despite empty assurances from Washington, communities along the Texas/Mexico border continue to face violence from invading Mexican drug cartels. The report called, “Texas Border Security: A Strategic Military Assessment,” offers a powerful perspective ...
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Cartel chiefs seek haven
Houston Chronicle
By JASON BUCH, STAFF WRITER Two alleged Gulf Cartel leaders arrested last week in South Texas were most likely hiding out north of the border to avoid the extreme violence caused by warring cartels in Mexico, analysts said. ...
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Feds Make Statistical Strides Curbing Illegal Immigration But States Pass ...
SEOLawFirm.com Legal News Center
There is a border fence along about 650 miles of the border, according to an Oct. 19 story in the New York Times. That leaves about 1400 unfenced miles to be guarded with agents and technology. [2] Security fencing along the Mexican border can cost as ...
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Border Battle: Drug cartel shipped millions through Denver
9NEWS.com
The tractor goes back to El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico. The people who lived here stored the cocaine in the barn until it came time to have someone take it east," Roach said. The drugs usually went east to cities such as New York, Chicago and St. ...
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Justice Official Regrets Not Speaking Up About Federal Anti-Gunrunning Operation
Fox News
Under Wide Receiver, which ran from 2006 to the end of 2007, the ATF recruited a gun dealer to sell some 450 assault rifles to known straw buyers and then watched as many of those guns crossed the Mexican border. Under Fast and Furious, more than 2000 ...
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Hackers Takes on Mexican Drug Cartel
Mobiledia
By Kendra Srivastava | Tue Nov 01, 2011 1:00 pm Anonymous is threatening Mexico's Zetas drug cartel after the kidnapping of one of its fellow hackers, a bold move against a powerful organization known for suppressing freedom of speech. ...
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Mobiledia
Massive Hit to Mexican Drug Cartel - 76 Arrested in Arizona
Gather.com
American law enforcement agencies have arrested 76 people in a roundup of a Mexican drug cartel accused of trafficking two million dollars' worth of marijuana across the Arizona desert. The announcement in Phoenix follows 17 months of investigation ...
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Mexican Drug Cartels Invading California Farming Industry (Video)
City Watch
Watch this video assessment by Mexican Mafia and Gang Specialist Sgt. Richard Valdemar, who retired after more than three decades with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. He describes how the Mexican Drug Cartels are controlling industrial farming of ...
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Drug cartel shipped millions through Denver
9NEWS.com
Agents had also identified a house in El Paso where money was stashed over night on its way to Mexico. They convinced a judge to let them secretly break into the home and install cameras in main areas. The cameras captured drug cartel members ...
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US official wants data to stem gun flow to Mexico
AFP
According to Justice Department figures, in the past five years 94000 weapons have been recovered from Mexican drug cartels, of which 64000 -- 70 percent -- come from the United States. Yet currently the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) ...
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AFP
Longmont Police: Cartel cases in city are 'loose or roundabout'
Longmont Daily Times-Call
By Pierrette J. Shields Longmont Times-Call LONGMONT -- While Longmont is included in a 2010 federal report that lists more than 1200 cities nationwide with some level of confirmed Mexican drug cartel activity in 2009, Longmont police report that any ...
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The coming invasion of Mexico's drug wars
Minnesota Public Radio
Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes readers deep into the heart of the drug world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American ...
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The Complications between Cartels and Catholicism
Honduras Weekly
With the violence surrounding the drug cartels reaching explosive levels within the last several years in Mexico, the Mexican Catholic Church has been outspoken in its criticism of the violence and the drug trade, but the Catholic Church has found ...
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Drug dealer said he sold to protect family
Pueblo Chieftain
DENVER — A Mexican national who admitted selling cocaine and marijuana on Pueblo streets claims he did it only because he was scared of a Mexican drug cartel that decapitated his half-brother as coercion. Miguel Salais-Dominguez said last week he ...
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The Dark Side of Legalizing Medical Marijuana: Full Disclosure Network® Video ...
MarketWatch (press release)
1, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Mexican drug cartels are taking over marijuana farming operations throughout California according to an online video news report released this week by the Full Disclosure Network. The video features former Los Angeles ...
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Hacker Collective 'Anonymous' Goes After Mexican Drug Cartel
TIME
Now the hacker collective known as Anonymous is going after a Mexican drug cartel. The Zetas are one of the biggest players in Mexico's drug war, which has resulted in about 40000 deaths since 2006. Earlier this month, a YouTube video showed a man in a ...
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Authorities: Mexican Drug Cartel Suffers "Death Blow;" Billion-Dollar ...
Phoenix New Times (blog)
Authorities announced this morning the results of "Operation Pipeline Express," a 17-month investigation into a drug trafficking ring that has ties to Mexico's Sinaloan cartel. The operation was a collaborative effort by US Immigration and Customs ...
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70 tied to Mexico drug cartel busted in Arizona
msnbc.com
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in drug-related violence since Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched his military campaign against the cartels after he took office in late 2006. Tijuana, June 2009: Mexico's drug culture is defined by ...
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(In)security: China denies US satellite hacking; threats to UK; Anonymous ...
Good Morning Silicon Valley (blog)
Hacking group Anonymous appears to be targeting a Mexican drug cartel in a video posted on YouTube. According to the Associated Press, Anonymous has asked the Zetas to release a kidnapped member of the hacktivist group or risk the exposure of ...
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Drug bust tracks millions of dollars
KTAR.com
The gun-running operation allegedly lost track of many weapons which were put in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. "We do not talk about the trace results that come from those firearms," Allen said. "That will obviously be the focus of follow-up ...
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Families of Central American illegal immigrants search for lost relatives in ...
AHN | All Headline News
They entered Mexico from Guatemala Sunday on a route that will take them through dangerous territory where drug cartel violence is common. They are stopping at homeless shelters, jails and hospitals along the route to ask whether anyone has seen their ...
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5 Gunmen die in shootouts with soldiers in western Mexico
Fox News
Morelia – At least five suspected members of Mexico's Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel died in shootouts over the weekend with soldiers in the western state of Michoacan, the army said. Four men who opened fire with assault rifles on an army ...
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A Brave Tijuana Woman Wins '2011 Courage in Journalism Award'
Mexidata.info
Ruthless drug cartels have murdered her editors and repeatedly threatened to kill Adela Navarro Bello, but she refuses to stop writing about Mexico's raging violence. Navarro - an IWMF 2011 Courage in Journalism Award winner - is facing daunting ...
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