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Thank you, Mexico. Thank you, China. Thank you, corrupt money laundering US banks and hedge funds. The youth of America salutes you. A legitimate pharmaceutical company in India exports cold pills to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where they are falsely labeled as herbal supplements and shipped to Belize, and then to Veracruz [...] From Naked Capitalism This video from a Mexican news broadcast… illustrates one of the mechanisms of propaganda: how the non or under reporting of key facts is used to manage popular perceptions. This video appears getting play only on CNN and some local newstations in the US. The newswoman says the teenagers were [...] CBS News The problem with that statistic is that it is only partially true. There is a word missing – and that word is “traced.” The U.S. is responsible for over 90 percent of the traced firearms found in Mexico, but the vast majority of guns recovered in Mexico are not sent back to [...] Two 9mm pistols available in any gun store– even in California. I’m an accountant, and by nature I analyze numbers. So when Bob reported the oft-quoted statistic that 90% of the guns recovered in Mexico originated in the U.S., that statistic bothered me. Don’t get me wrong: Bob accurately quoted his sources. But his sources were [...] President Calderon of Mexico. “There is trafficking in Mexico because there is corruption in Mexico” “But by the same argument if there is trafficking in the United States it is because there is some corruption in the United States… It is impossible to pass tonnes of cocaine to the United States without the complicity [...] Shootouts with police by heavily armed gangs. High level governmental and police involvement with criminal gangs. Police shot dead. Corpses booby trapped with IEDs. Mexico is getting wobbly. What happens when the violence spills over across the US border? And it will. Why is the US such a huge consumer of drugs? Without a US [...] |  | ||||
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