Guess who's going to get raped and murdered!

This person:

That person right there is going to get raped and murdered. She didn't have much of a chance to start with lets be honest but with this being the main Americas story out there today. The chances this attractive young woman seeing out the year dropped to pretty much zero. Not only will she present an exceptionally alluring target for the cartels but she's unlikely to see much support from the more veteran officers either.

Libertarians believe the freer the markets the freer the people.

Alas, reality keeps displaying that liberal bias.

Reddit, one of those websites where you upvote or downvote links has been forbidden by its' corporate owners from accepting paid for adverts in favour of Califronia's proposition 19 which is the legalising Marijuana ballot.

To Reddit's credit they have decided instead to run pro-prop 19 ads for free, still a nice example of corporate censorship.

thanks jonny

Set Uh-Oh levels to 10! Affluent whites affected by Mexican drug civil war.

I may be feeling this a little too harshly but while this report is informative it smacks to me of "the nice place I went on holiday isn't so nice now, this is a shame for white little me but because I went on my hols there I am an expert you see." The snapshots of everyday Mexican's views of the conflict are certainly interesting but one wonders if the war hadn't escalated to the point that the cartels no longer were willing or were able to keep the lucrative drug trade in tourist areas peaceful and safe if we would be hearing about Mexico's problems in such details.

Finally someone benefiting from the Mexican Civil War on Drugs

Bankers! Banks are receiving hundreds of billions of dollars of to launder. Some of the bankers doing this got caught but don't worry, thanks to a plea bargain they wont serve any jail time for this.

Wachovia admitted it didn’t do enough to spot illicit funds in handling $378.4 billion for Mexican-currency-exchange houses from 2004 to 2007. That’s the largest violation of the Bank Secrecy Act, an anti-money-laundering law, in U.S. history -- a sum equal to one-third of Mexico’s current gross domestic product.

Which all reminds me of:

The system works kids.

Mexico's Civil War on Drugs continues

Three recent events worth mentioning:

El Shaka's estate likely to be sued for fraud after he was murdered mere hours after claiming he had not been. He sang narcocorridos "drug balads" and its not like pop music hasn't often had ties to organised crime but still famous crime singers generally don't get killed which shows just how bad things are.

Secondly, drug gangs seem to agree with Right wing politicians that jail is preferable to rehab for drug addicts. In all seriousness the three possible reasons for these attacks all stink of utter desperation on the drug gang's part. Attacks such as these will be deeply unpopular and will weaken the community's willingness to look the other way. Sure they're heavily armed drug gangs with ex-specops enforcers but in the middle of a war and with the state still existent to some degree making yourself literally the devil isn't wise.

Thirdly the ongoing war is harming the democratic process as a front running gubernatorial candidate was assassinated yesterday.

But hey, we gotta keep our kids from taking weed, the consequences for us are far worse than whats happening to those brown people in their country atm!