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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
George Soros: Legalize Marijuana
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 26, 2010
Infowars.com
October 26, 2010
Gazillionaire hedge fund swami and globalist George Soros wants to legalize weed. He has bankrolled three initiatives to change drug laws in California and has endorsed the marijuana legalization initiative known as Proposition 19. Michael Vachon, a Soros worker bee, said the one-worlder “plans to make a significant contribution” to Prop 19 and possibly help make it so, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Anybody with two remotely active brain cells to rub together knows that marijuana prohibition is absurd. George Soros, however, is not a Libertarian or an old hippie nostalgic for the Haight Ashbury days.
For Soros, marijuana legalization is about taxation, pure and simple. “Besides allowing adults 21 and older to grow and possess marijuana, the initiative would allow cities and counties to authorize commercial cultivation, sales and taxation,” reports the Times.
Marijuana is the largest cash crop in the United States coming in at an estimate of $35.8 billion a year. In California alone, the value of its 8.6 million-pound harvest is worth about $14 billion, according to newly released state reports. “Pot brings in more than grapes in California, more than tobacco in the Carolinas, and more than cotton in Alabama. Nationally, it earns more than wheat and corn combined,” write Cynthia Balderas and Helen Tobin for the Associated Press.
Legalizing marijuana would not threaten the illegal and murderous drug operation of the banksters and their cartel partners over the border in Mexico.
Earlier this month, the RAND Corporation issued a report saying that Prop 19 “that would permit possession, production and taxation of small amounts of marijuana for personal use would do little to curtail the profits of violent drug-trafficking cartels in Mexico,” reports the Los Angeles Times.
Prop 19 is not about Mexico or the drug cartels. It is about people telling the government to get out of their lives. The feds, however, have to intention of relinquishing their arrogantly assumed power of dictating at gunpoint what the residents of California or any other state consume.
In August, former DEA officials wrote Attorney General Eric Holder and said “potential legalization of marijuana would challenge federal authority and merit a lawsuit against the state — much like the one Mr. Obama has filed in protest of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, which the administration say contradicts national policy,” according to CBS News.
National policy is to keep marijuana illegal, criminalize hundreds of thousands if not millions of users, and perpetuate the prison-industrial complex.
For George Soros, it is about taxation. For now taxes collected by cities, counties, and states, but eventually collected by a world government. Soros pushed hard for the world government scheme under the ruse of climate change during the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last year.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Head of Investigator in Falcon Lake Case Delivered to Mexican Military
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 13, 2010
Infowars.com
October 13, 2010
According to CNN, the severed head of the lead investigator in the Falcon Lake murder case, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, was delivered to the Mexican military in a suitcase.
“His head was delivered to the army garrison this morning in a suitcase after he failed to report back home last night,” Zapata County, Texas, Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. said.
The report that Villegas was murdered appeared after the Tamaulipas state attorney general’s office provided conflicting information on whether authorities were looking for a pair of suspects in the case of David Michael Hartley’s disappearance. The murder of Villegas has fueled speculation that Hartley was killed by drug cartel enforcers.
Hartley was shot in the back of the head on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake in Texas while jet-skiing there with his wife on September 30. Tiffany Hartley escaped the gunfire by assailants described by the corporate media as “pirates.” She returned to the American side of the 60-miles-long “big fishing paradise” that straddles the U.S.-Mexican border after attempting to rescue her husband but was forced to abandon his body when the gunmen opened fire on her.
The attack on the Hartleys is not an isolated case. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, gunmen armed with AK-47s and AR-15 rifles have attacked American tourists on Falcon Lake during a number of robberies in recent months. Gunmen use Argos-type fishing boats and are often dressed as Mexican police. Others have used duct-taped signs to disguise their boats as Texas Parks and Wildlife vessels, victims report. Since April 30, five incidents of armed robbery or attempted theft have been reported on the lake.
Humberto Palomares, a security expert at the Tamaulipas campus of the Colegio de Frontera Norte, told the Christian Science Monitor on October 7 that Mexican drug cartel thugs now claim to own public spaces.
Mexican drug cartels not only claim to own and control public spaces in Mexico, but also in the United States. In June, the U.S. ceded part of southern Arizona to the drug cartels. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said that a wide corridor of Arizona from the border North to the outskirts of Phoenix is effectively controlled by the cartels. In June, a drug cartel threatened police in Arizona after they confiscated a marijuana shipment. “The threats appear credible because various informants were able to identify the officers who intercepted the drug load,” ABC Newsreported.
In response to the situation in Mexico, the Obama administration said crime on the border is down, an assertion obviously at odds with reality. For more than two years, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials have been warning that the dramatic rise in violence along the southwestern border could eventually target U.S. citizens and spread into this country. Violence against Americans visiting Mexico has risen significantly over the last few years. According to the State Department, 79 U.S. citizens were killed last year in Mexico, up from 35 in 2007. In Juarez, across border from El Paso, Texas, 23 Americans were killed in 2009, compared with two in 2007.
After the Hartley story surfaced, the corporate media insinuated that Tiffany Hartley had fabricated it.
On Monday, David Michael Hartley’s widow said that she was frustrated by the lack of response from the federal government.
Mexico is now a narco state controlled by powerful and murderous drug cartels.
In large parts of the country, the drug cartels employ up to one-fifth of the population and own everyday businesses such gyms and a day-care centers. “We are approaching that red zone,”Edgardo Buscaglia, an expert on organized crime at the Autonomous Technological University of Mexico, told AZCentral in February. “There are pockets of ungovernability in the country, and they will expand.”
In July, it was reported that nearly 50 candidates and public figures were assassinated in the run up to Mexico’s 2010 state elections. Political murders have also targeted Americans. In March, a U.S. Consulate worker in Ciudad Juarez was ordered murdered by high-ranking drug cartel enforcer.
The drug cartel takeover of Mexico was facilitated in part by American banks. In June, it was discovered that Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America were involved in laundering drug money for the cartels. “This was no isolated incident,” Bloomberg reported. “Wachovia, it turns out, had made a habit of helping move money for Mexican drug smugglers. Wells Fargo & Co., which bought Wachovia in 2008, has admitted in court that its unit failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers — including the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine.”
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Mexican Cartels in Norcal?
Nathaniel Mayer -- Contributing Writer
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In April of 2008, Barack Obama was quoted saying Medicinal Marijuana is “appropriate” but since his “election”, the Federal and State raids on Clubs and Growers have only increased. CAMP (The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) has spearheaded many raids this year along with the local Sheriff’s Department and “The Emerald Triangle” (consisting of Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity Counties) is their primary target. In 1983 CAMP destroyed about 150,000 plants the entire year. During a 12 day period last month officials destroyed 150,667 pot plants in Sonoma County. It’s been speculated that so far this year, over 7 Million plants have been destroyed by Law Enforcement In 2009, 148,486 plants were seized in Sonoma County and 4.5 million plants were seized statewide. At least 4 people have been killed by police in The Emerald Triangle during pot raids in the last seven weeks.
I started paying closer attention to this subject after talk began stirring of a State of Emergency being declared here in Northern California, possibly in the county of Mendocino. That could mean Martial Law and the Military being called in to sweep the over cities and forests by land and air. The people now demand it according to a recent poll taken by The Press Democrat of Sonoma County. Fifty –Three Percent of those who took the Poll willingly from the P.D.’s website believe that it’s up to the National Guard to join in to help stop the Pot-Growers. The locals of Mendocino County are mad and scared like small weak mammals in a harsh oversized reptilian dominated jungle. They asked the Mendocino County board of supervisors to declare a state of emergency on August third but by the 17th, the board of supervisors had decided against it.
The Local Media has also been reporting to the people that the violent Mexican Drug Cartels may be involved in Northern Californian Grow Operations but the only evidence of this is the presence of Latinos at a few grow-cites. White U.S. citizens are almost always present, but that doesn’t seem to stop the police from spreading The Fear.
With this frame of mind, the next logical step for the National Guard and Law Enforcement would be to raid the Mondavi, Kunde, and Martinelli Wineries since their properties are littered with Mexican Nationalists working for them daily in their gardens. If just the frightening presence of Mexicans indicates ties to Murderous Cartels then I predict that every grape field in Sonoma and Napa counties will be raided by the authorities by week’s end.
I’ve been told why it makes sense that Mexican Cartels would set up shop here. It wouldn’t cost a thing for transportation into the U.S. since it’s already here and the risk of smuggling is erased. These are valid theories but there is one serious discrepancy thereby discrediting this twisted viewpoint. The fact is, there isn’t a single person I know who has purchased inferior “Mex Weed” in the last 14 years (probably since prop. 215 passed in 1996). Even before that, no one I know would purchase it by choice, and I was hanging out with every sort of desperate depraved stoner Nor-Cal offers. “Mex” has always been considered the worst, most embarrassing grades of Ganja in existence. Not to mention the profit margin is much lower on even the highest grade Marijuana compared to other drugs (e.g. cocaine) that carry the same penalties. Cocaine per gram can get you $50-$70 on the street. Weed goes for $15-$25 per gram. Hash, $20-$35. It just wouldn’t make any sense to take the same risks for potentially less than a quarter of the profits.
Mexico hasn’t had an influence on the Northern California Marijuana trade and culture for decades, so to say that “Cartels” are germinating in our forests is a lie and simply government created propaganda and scare tactics. The only thing those Nationalists are doing is getting paid under the table to guard against thieves. If only one of the five people who had been shot and killed by the cops had actually fired their weapon during the raids, then perhaps the police would have been justified but that is just not the case. The police may just be hiding their Gestapo-Tactics behind our Fear of Evil Brown People.
Filmmaker, Kevin Booth, was recently allowed by a group of Mexican Growers to interview and film them for his documentary, “How Weed Won the West
”. Would members of a vicious deadly Mexican Drug Cartel allow themselves to be exposed and compromised like that? I’m sure if they had any ties at all to the cartels, Booth and his crew wouldn’t have made it out of those forests with their heads attached.
They’ve gone too far; CAMP, the Sheriff’s Department, The National Guard and, as always, the Federal Government. Meth labs still persist, Oxycontin is flooding the streets, road rage kills at least 5,000 people daily, and a small herb that you cannot overdose on (and coincidentally can’t be patented by drug companies) is causing people to be killed and jailed to a record breaking degree.
All this violence, money, lies and suffering over the lightly toxic herb, Marijuana. It’s been over 30 years since John Lennon sang for John Sinclair, who got busted at a concert with two joints and was sent to jail for Ten years. Lennon helped get him out but not all of us have dead rock stars in our back pockets waiting for a chance to save us.
But why should we care? In November it’s going to be settled once and for all whether or not Weed will ever stand a chance in America. If California can’t legalize this plant, then we might as well abandon all hope that it will ever have any remote chance of survival. Either the days of CAMP will soon be extinct from this era or Grass will be gone for good.
Nathaniel Mayer is a California-born journalist and author. He has been dedicated to his writing for over a decade and is a regular contributor to Minds Eye World News and other alternative news publications. Nathaniel's only bias is against those in control and his integrity for the Truth is only matched by his passion for music and firearms.
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I started paying closer attention to this subject after talk began stirring of a State of Emergency being declared here in Northern California, possibly in the county of Mendocino. That could mean Martial Law and the Military being called in to sweep the over cities and forests by land and air. The people now demand it according to a recent poll taken by The Press Democrat of Sonoma County. Fifty –Three Percent of those who took the Poll willingly from the P.D.’s website believe that it’s up to the National Guard to join in to help stop the Pot-Growers. The locals of Mendocino County are mad and scared like small weak mammals in a harsh oversized reptilian dominated jungle. They asked the Mendocino County board of supervisors to declare a state of emergency on August third but by the 17th, the board of supervisors had decided against it.
The Local Media has also been reporting to the people that the violent Mexican Drug Cartels may be involved in Northern Californian Grow Operations but the only evidence of this is the presence of Latinos at a few grow-cites. White U.S. citizens are almost always present, but that doesn’t seem to stop the police from spreading The Fear.
With this frame of mind, the next logical step for the National Guard and Law Enforcement would be to raid the Mondavi, Kunde, and Martinelli Wineries since their properties are littered with Mexican Nationalists working for them daily in their gardens. If just the frightening presence of Mexicans indicates ties to Murderous Cartels then I predict that every grape field in Sonoma and Napa counties will be raided by the authorities by week’s end.
I’ve been told why it makes sense that Mexican Cartels would set up shop here. It wouldn’t cost a thing for transportation into the U.S. since it’s already here and the risk of smuggling is erased. These are valid theories but there is one serious discrepancy thereby discrediting this twisted viewpoint. The fact is, there isn’t a single person I know who has purchased inferior “Mex Weed” in the last 14 years (probably since prop. 215 passed in 1996). Even before that, no one I know would purchase it by choice, and I was hanging out with every sort of desperate depraved stoner Nor-Cal offers. “Mex” has always been considered the worst, most embarrassing grades of Ganja in existence. Not to mention the profit margin is much lower on even the highest grade Marijuana compared to other drugs (e.g. cocaine) that carry the same penalties. Cocaine per gram can get you $50-$70 on the street. Weed goes for $15-$25 per gram. Hash, $20-$35. It just wouldn’t make any sense to take the same risks for potentially less than a quarter of the profits.
Mexico hasn’t had an influence on the Northern California Marijuana trade and culture for decades, so to say that “Cartels” are germinating in our forests is a lie and simply government created propaganda and scare tactics. The only thing those Nationalists are doing is getting paid under the table to guard against thieves. If only one of the five people who had been shot and killed by the cops had actually fired their weapon during the raids, then perhaps the police would have been justified but that is just not the case. The police may just be hiding their Gestapo-Tactics behind our Fear of Evil Brown People.
Filmmaker, Kevin Booth, was recently allowed by a group of Mexican Growers to interview and film them for his documentary, “How Weed Won the West
”. Would members of a vicious deadly Mexican Drug Cartel allow themselves to be exposed and compromised like that? I’m sure if they had any ties at all to the cartels, Booth and his crew wouldn’t have made it out of those forests with their heads attached.They’ve gone too far; CAMP, the Sheriff’s Department, The National Guard and, as always, the Federal Government. Meth labs still persist, Oxycontin is flooding the streets, road rage kills at least 5,000 people daily, and a small herb that you cannot overdose on (and coincidentally can’t be patented by drug companies) is causing people to be killed and jailed to a record breaking degree.
All this violence, money, lies and suffering over the lightly toxic herb, Marijuana. It’s been over 30 years since John Lennon sang for John Sinclair, who got busted at a concert with two joints and was sent to jail for Ten years. Lennon helped get him out but not all of us have dead rock stars in our back pockets waiting for a chance to save us.
But why should we care? In November it’s going to be settled once and for all whether or not Weed will ever stand a chance in America. If California can’t legalize this plant, then we might as well abandon all hope that it will ever have any remote chance of survival. Either the days of CAMP will soon be extinct from this era or Grass will be gone for good.
Nathaniel Mayer is a California-born journalist and author. He has been dedicated to his writing for over a decade and is a regular contributor to Minds Eye World News and other alternative news publications. Nathaniel's only bias is against those in control and his integrity for the Truth is only matched by his passion for music and firearms.
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Expanding U.S.-Canada Security and Economic Partnership
Dana Gabriel
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September 14, 2020
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| Janet Napolitano and Canadian officials met to “advance a strategic dialogue on developing a shared vision for border security.” Photo: United States Mission Geneva. | |
In recent years, U.S.-Canada border issues have been overshadowed by concerns surrounding illegal immigration and drug violence on the southern border. Earlier this summer, both countries agreed to work towards a more joint approach to border security aimed at addressing common threats and promoting economic cooperation.
In July, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, “met to advance a strategic dialogue on developing a shared vision for border security for Canada and the United States—one that will enhance security and resilience against common threats, while bolstering competitiveness and job creation.” A number of initiatives were announced, including an agreement to complete a joint threat and risk assessment which, “addresses drug trafficking and illegal immigration, the illicit movement of prohibited or controlled goods, agricultural hazards, and the spread of infectious disease.” In addition, a memorandum of understanding on cross-border currency seizures and information sharing was signed that, “will help to identify potential threats and assist in money-laundering and terrorist-financing investigations and prosecutions.” Increasingly, Canada is being pressured to further take on U.S. security priorities in an effort to keep trade flowing across the northern border.
Secretary Napolitano and Minister Toews also reached an agreement to safeguard and respond to disruptions of shared infrastructure that connect the two nations such as roads, power grids and bridges. The Canada-U.S. Action Plan for Critical Infrastructure is designed to, “strengthen the safety, security and resiliency of Canada and the United States by establishing a comprehensive cross-border approach to critical infrastructure resilience.” This includes building partnerships, improved information sharing, as well as risk management aimed at increasing the ability to prepare for emergencies like a terrorist attack or a natural disaster. The action plan is part of ongoing cross-border collaboration and builds off a recent deal reached between the Canadian federal and provincial governments in regards to protecting local infrastructure. It also appears to be linked to the Civil Assistance Plan signed by the U.S.-Canadian military in 2008, which allows the armed forces of one nation to support the other during a civil emergency.
In April, Minister of International Trade Peter Van Loan was in Washington, D.C to promote deeper Canada-U.S. ties. He met with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and they agreed to hold twice-annual trade meetings to enhance bilateral relations. In July, they met in Ottawa to discuss greater economic cooperation and the need to avoid protectionism. Through NAFTA, both nations economies are already intimately interrelated. and integrated. While some advocate more trade between the two partners as the answer to strengthening their respective economies, it was recently reported that Canada’s trade deficit increased by a record level in July. This is related in large part to its dependence on the struggling American economy.
At the trade meetings in Ottawa several months back, Minister Van Loan and Ambassador Kirk also addressed the Canada–U.S. Agreement on Government Procurement. The deal resolved the Buy American issue and is essentially an extension of NAFTA. Some believe that it is an important step in providing protection for future bilateral trade relations, but in the process it opens up provincial and municipal contracts to foreign corporations. The 5th round of negotiations between Canada and the European Union (EU) on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) will take place in October. One of the EU’s top objectives includes gaining access to procurement and services in areas of health, energy, water, as well as other sectors. The Canada-U.S. Buy American deal could be used to further reinforce EU demands. While Canada needs to lessen its dependence on the U.S. economy, there are concerns that CETA will be based on the failed NAFTA trade model.
The report Skating on Thin Ice: Canadian-American Relations in 2010 and 2011 released earlier this year and authored by Alexander Moens of the Fraser Institute, praised the Canada-U.S. agreement on government procurement. It suggested the deal, “should encourage free traders on both sides of the line to continue pressing for deeper economic cooperation.” Considering the bilateral discussions and initiatives which have progressed in the last several months, it appears as if this forecast was indeed correct. The report also emphasized that, “Canada and the United States need to pursue deeper trade integration in such areas as regulatory harmonization, common external tariffs on manufactured products, free trade in agricultural products, and an overall energy and environmental accord.” For the U.S. to be more receptive to increased trade and investment, it recommends establishing a, “unified regime to deal with a common security threat.” In order for deeper economic integration to move forward, Canada will be further pressed to adopt a single security strategy dominated by American interests. This poses a serious threat to its sovereignty.
The trilateral framework remains intact, but NAFTA partners at least for the time being, are pursuing a more bilateral agenda for advancing continental integration. This seems to be drawing less attention. The current approach is due in part to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America being exposed and discredited. It is interesting to note that there has yet to be an announcement concerning this year’s edition of the North American Leaders Summit introduced in 2005 with the launching of the SPP. Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s separate trips to the U.S. to meet with President Barack Obama and to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper back in May, might have served as this year’s version of the leaders summit. Calderón used the state visits as an opportunity to strengthen NAFTA ties and promote deeper North American economic integration.
The SPP appears to be dead in name only as some of its key priorities continue through other initiatives. It remains the blueprint for further expanding NAFTA. Continental integration is a permanent agenda and the vision for a North American Union has not been abandoned.
Related Articles by Dana Gabriel
Passing on the Mantle of Deep North American Integration
U.S.- Canada Border Security and Military Integration
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Passing on the Mantle of Deep North American Integration
U.S.- Canada Border Security and Military Integration
A North American Security Perimeter on the Horizon
Strengthening NAFTA Ties and the Push Towards a Common Security Front
Dana Gabriel is an activist and independent researcher. He writes about trade, globalization, sovereignty, as well as other issues.
Contact: beyourownleader@hotmail.com
Contact: beyourownleader@hotmail.com
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