Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
Mr. Webster is America's leading authority on Venture Capital/Equity Funding. He served as a trustee on some of the nation´s largest trade Union funds. A noted Author, Lecturer, Educator, Emergency Manager, Counter-Terrorist, War on Drugs and War on Terrorist Specialist, Business Consultant, Newspaper Publisher. Radio News caster. Labor Law generalist, Teamster Union Business Agent, General Organizer, Union Rank and File Member Grievances Representative, NLRB Union Representative, Union Contract Negotiator, Workers Compensation Appeals Board Hearing Representative. Mr. Webster represented management on that side of the table as the former Director of Federated of Nevada. Mr. Webster publishes on-line newspapers at www.lagunajournal.com and www.usborderfirereport.com and does investigative reports for print, electronic and on-line News Agencies.
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Articles by Michael Webster, Investigative Reporter
November 19, 2009
Nicholson, met Dragna through a website and had developed a relationship, Kravetz said. Dragna allegedly took several items from Nicholson's home, including a laptop computer, clothing and a cell phone. Some of those items have been found at Dragna's home.
November 13, 2009
This is the crux of the problem the U.S. does not want to admit the terrorist including many of the so called home grown terrorist are radical Muslims and they as well as the two wars in the middle east is part of the overall holy war of which the west does not want to acknowledge that the war itself is a "Holy War" in fear that it will tarnish the non- radical Muslims.
November 15, 2009
I love this country, I consider myself a true patriot. But I do think America´s so called juridical justice system stinks. The only justice one gets in America is the justice one can afford.As far as the monster terrorists are concerned I want those bastards to burn in hell, but not at the expense of our constitution and our own Bill of Rights.
November 09, 2009
Nicholson, who lived alone, was hit several times in his torso and head with a heavy blunt object, and that no murder weapon was found at the home. They believe he was beaten to death sometime between the evening of Oct. 22, a Thursday, and Friday morning of the 23rd.
November 04, 2009
Dwek apparently spent 29 months as a cooperating witness, setting up rabbis and others in the religious community, as well as leaders which included sitting mayors, current political candidates and public officials
Jailed New York City's former police chief Bernard Kerik is in a psychiatric unit and on suicide wat
October 30, 2009
Kerik is displaying worrisome, risky behavior in jail, a federal judge said Friday after speaking with the jail's psychiatric director
October 25, 2009
Laguna Beach Mayor Kelly Boyd told the media he was shocked when he heard news of the murder.
"It's just so rare to hear about a murder in Laguna Beach," he said, adding that he can't recollect when the most recent murder took place in the city.
Laguna Beach is a small, tight-knit community where neighbors look out for each other, Boyd said
October 23, 2009
The remarkable thing about this case is one of the defendants as a high ranking cartel boss of Richard Padilla Cramer a former United States Government agent with ICE
October 20, 2009
An important part of the U.S. military action in the Middle East is to try and win the hearts and minds of its people, so when I saw the attached video I was not only shocked and dismayed but was very disappointed in our troops´
October 13, 2009
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize three expiring provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act. While the bill they passed allegedly strengthened civil liberties in reality, the Committee failed to make any meaningful improvements to the Patriot provisions that violate citizen´s basic rights
October 09, 2009
A Lake Elsinore man who lost his hand in an improvised explosion device (IED) is being held in custody today after he went to a hospital emergency room with his hand blown off...
October 09, 2009
Bob Drake, one of the three bondsmen seeking damages, said that the problem has actually escalated in recent years and shows no sign of ending under Hutchens.
October 07, 2009
Many are well armed and U.S. militarily trained and are organized as well as our most sophisticated corporations
October 07, 2009
Los Zetas the deadly paramilitary terrorist hit men and enforcers for the Mexican Drug Cartels (MDCs) is now operating and extorting American businesses on the U.S. Side of the border.
September 27, 2009
The problem is that most people do not have any serious understanding of the major importance of monitoring and maintaining proper pH levels of the bodily fluids.
September 19, 2009
According to documents obtained by this writer while employed as a high ranking U.S. law enforcement agent in Mexico, Cramer was also allegedly operating illegally by serving as a sort of secret agent and a full blown business partner of some of Mexico´s richest and most blood thirsty drug lords
September 15, 2009
Shopkeepers along the U.S. Mexican border recite the list of "protection" fees they pay to the MDC´s to just stay in business: 100 pesos a month for a stall in a street market, 30,000 pesos for an auto dealership or construction-supply firm.
First offense for nonpayment: a severe beating. Those who keep ignoring the fees - or try to charge their own - may pay with their lives
September 04, 2009
Lawyers say the Georgia Attorney General should investigate this shooting independent of the police and local persecutors
September 03, 2009
Many of those troops sent where taken from the Juarez area. Locals feared that would leave Juarez vulnerable and many now believe that is true and is at least part of the reason for the recent record in violence that has plagued Juarez. Just across the border from El Paso Texas where related Mexican Drug Cartel violence is also accruing.
August 26, 2009
The Mexican president indicated it should be part of a new effort to a lot more money and resources for Mexico. The Merida Initiative, a three-year, $1.4 billion assistance program passed by Congress to help Mexico fight drug trafficking
August 24, 2009
In all, 58 individuals have been charged in the investigation coordinated between the U.S. Attorneys´ Offices in Brooklyn and Chicago but only a handful have actually been arrested.
August 25, 2009
The attackers killed one Mexican Army Soldier and wounded two others. The para-military unit escaped. This is the second deadly attack against soldiers in the past two days
August 19, 2009
At least 21 persons were murdered within 24 hours in Ciudad Juarez. Eight of those victims (two Americans) were shot at the "Seven Seven" bar in Juarez. The other thirteen all died late Sunday within a five hour period.
August 13, 2009
According to court documents Ruben Rodriguez Dorado hired Pfc. Michael Jackson Apodaca, 18, and Christopher Duran, 17, and a un-named 16 year old El Paso juvenile, to assassinate El Paso resident and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement informant Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana
August 02, 2009
Many believe that the Liberty Dollar is a much sounder currency than the U.S. Government's paper dollar
July 28, 2009
According to Alicia A. Caldwell with the APNewsBreak reported today that the eight bullets that killed Gonzalez outside his home just doors from the El Paso City´s Police chief´s own home. The hail of automatic gun fire was fired at close range and left little doubt about their message
Authorities on both sides of the border detain suspects in regard to the killing of U.S. Border Patr
July 26, 2009
Whether it was illegal immigrants or drug smugglers is not immediately clear. What is certain is Border Agent Robert Wimer Rosas, was killed in the line of duty by unidentified individuals at 9:15 PM on July 23rd while on duty patrolling the U.S. Mexican border.
July 21, 2009
There were more violent deaths registered in the country of Mexico during this month´s up-tick in death and violence than during a comparable period in both war torn countries of Iran and Afghanistan combined
July 19, 2009
U.S. attorney Tom O'Brien says the undercover agents were able to find out about the structure and leadership in the gang. O'Brien says gang leaders made the agents take a polygraph test before they could get in.
July 18, 2009
Jose Rosa of Juarez said, "why is president Caldron taking troops from Juarez a main city on the border with the U.S. a big city that is very dangerous and totally out of control? Is it because Michoacán is his home town?"
July 14, 2009
The alarming rise of violence in Mexico perpetrated by warring Mexican drug trafficking organizations and the effects of that violence on the United States, particularly along the U.S. Mexican Southwest Border. The responsibility for this ongoing violence rests with a limited number of large, sophisticated and vicious criminal organizations known as Mexican Drug Cartel (MDC´s) or as the U.S. Government prefers to call them Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) – not individual drug traffickers acting in isolation.
July 05, 2009
Only eat plant foods that are centered around fresh vegetables, fruit, whole grains, beans, nuts, legumes, and all organically grown
June 30, 2009
There are so many diet books out there, some good, others not so good. Many are confusing at the very least, but together they are impossible to decipher what may really work from what doesn't.
June 30, 2009
Authorities said the 31-year-old female victim was taken by ambulance to Mission Hospital just after midnight on Feb. 21. While being treated at the hospital, the woman told authorities she was raped but was unable to resist
June 22, 2009
The attempts at damage control at the anti-immigration groups in the United States following the arrest of Shawna Ford and her gang is on going, but as more and more information becomes available, it´s clear that Ford was not an unknown outsider within the anti-immigrant (and… more to the point… anti-Mexican) movement
June 18, 2009
My Granddad said, "the Yaqui always have been and always will be." They were in the area long before the apaches, Spanish or anyone else. Their origins date beyond written record, and for millenniums they lived in the valleys around the Rio Yaqui River in Sonora, Mexico.
June 10, 2009
We're almost there! HR 1207 (to Audit the Fed) has a whopping 207 co-sponsors. Can you believe we've made it this far? Here's the latest, and what you can do to push HR 1207 over the top:
June 08, 2009
The report says that the U.S. Government is responding to the range of threats along the border with Mexico in several ways.
June 01, 2009
Last night George Knapp of the nationwide Coast to Coast Am radio show welcomed award-winning broadcaster John Barbour for a discussion about the JFK assassination. Parts of Barbour's interview with the late Jim Garrison were played during the show. Garrison as the New Orleans district attorney conducted his own investigation into the assassination and implicated the CIA. In the latter half of the program, AboveTopSecret.com's Mark Allin joined the conversation to talk about the evolution of conspiracy-related media.
May 31, 2009
Today, the JTTFs include more than 4,400 members nationwide—more than four times the pre-9/11 total—hailing from over 600 state and local agencies and 50 federal agencies (the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. military, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Transportation Security Administration, to name but a few).
May 24, 2009
The international and Afghan forces then seized the poppy seeds, along with tar opium, processed morphine, heroin and hashish The statement said the troops had "seized the single-largest drug cache by Afghan-led forces in Afghanistan to date".
Helmand, where thousands of NATO military forces helped Afghanistan troops, is the main producer of Afghan opium, which accounts for more than 90 per cent of the world's supply.
May 21, 2009
DEA Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Landrum stated: "Today's arrests send a message to those who are responsible for bringing violence and distress onto the streets of Los Angeles, that law enforcement is working together to take back our neighborhoods and get violent drug traffickers and street gangs out of our communities."
May 18, 2009
Authorities believe this kidnapping was an attempt to terrorize the family for retaliation purposes.
May 16, 2009
From Brownsville Texas to San Diego California Mexican cities bordering American cities along the U.S. Mexican border are where Americans are being killed by assassinations and executions
May 08, 2009
Investigators told the Laguna Journal that they were looking at several theories, including that the Spanish-speaking kidnappers were from Mexico and may have had ties to organized crime there.
May 06, 2009
From Brownsville Texas to San Diego California Mexican cities bordering American cities are where most Americans are being killed by assassinations and executions. But other Americans are being killed by the long arm of the Mexican drug cartels which reach deep into America. There are accounts of Mexican drug cartel surrogate terrorist´s invading the U.S. by crossing the porous international border and killing Americans in Dallas Texas, Atlanta Geo, New York City, Phoenix Ariz, Las Vegas Nevada, and is believed to have reached Shelby County Alabama where five people were found murdered gangland style by Mexican nationals.
May 04, 2009
The Mexican mafia, Mara Salvatrucha M-13 and many other gangsters are managed by gang leaders operating from state prisons like California, pulling the strings by manipulating their gang solders on the streets.
April 30, 2009
So now they are coming up with new ideas and ways to launder huge amounts of cash.
April 27, 2009
The death total in Mexico now stands at 149 out of approximately 2000 cases and many more are suspected.
April 27, 2009
In a bid for leniency the former Sheriff said he regrets the words he used on a secret recording that led to his witness tampering conviction but did not take any responsibility for illegally trying to influence the grand jury testimony of his former assistant Don Haidl.
April 26, 2009
Experts warn that it may be too late to contain the new outbreak, given how widespread the known cases are. If the confirmed deaths are the first signs of a pandemic, then cases are probably incubating around the world by now, said Dr Michael Osterholm, a flu expert at the University of Minnesota.
Two Dozen Mexican Mafia and other Gangs and Associates Arrested on Federal Narcotic violations today
April 23, 2009
The investigation was initiated early last year by the LAPD and the FBI´s Safe Streets Task Force to address gang-related crime in the San Fernando Valley. The investigation focused on identifying and disrupting drug trafficking organizations and related violence carried out by Hispanic gangs associated with the Mexican Mafia. Said, Michael Moore, Deputy Chief of LAPD´s Valley Operations Bureau.
April 21, 2009
"I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real," Dr Mitchell said.
Mitchell was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission. He is credited with the longest moonwalk in history for his nine-hour walk in the Fra Mauro Highlands region of the moon. Known for his interest in the paranormal, Mitchell conducted ESP experiments during his Apollo 14 mission.
April 19, 2009
the law dramatically expands the ability of states and the Federal Government to conduct surveillance of American citizens. The Government can monitor an individual's web surfing records, use roving wiretaps to monitor phone calls made by individuals "proximate" to the primary person being tapped, access Internet Service Provider records, and monitor the private records of people involved in legitimate protests.
April 12, 2009
For a truly "fine" dining experience the Cliff Restaurant has the best dining view on the California coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
April 12, 2009
They say they take pride on having the most spacious resort in Laguna beach and that their unpretentious yet impeccable service will make you want to visit again and again! And we would not be doing it justice without mentioning the Nine-hole golf course and pro shop. But we were there tonight for the restaurant and lounge.
April 12, 2009
Get there early, before 9:00 pm for the best seats, any day of the week before the entertainment starts and young crowds gather. Many tourist and locals alike consider the place to be their neighborhood Italian Restaurant pub featuring home baked bread, hand stretched pizzas and traditional Italian food made from scratch.
April 11, 2009
Cannons´ has been the destination of choice for locals and visitors alike for over three decades. You know they must be getting it right! And did they ever prove it to us!
April 08, 2009
Mexican Drug cartels are ordering decapitations blind foldings and hooding victims before they shoot them. The Cartels are sending a chilling message to the Mexican President Felipe Calderon Administration by adopting methods of intimidation made notorious by Middle Eastern terrorist groups.
April 05, 2009
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh created a stir last month when he said the Bush administration ran an executive assassination ring that reported directly to Vice President Dick Cheney
March 25, 2009
An insider of the Calderon camp told the U.S. Border Fire Report that help is needed at the Mexican ports of entry mainly because the current Mexican border guards are looking the other way and allowing contraband to enter his country. "The Mexican border guards will look the other way for anyone entering the country who offers a bribe."
March 20, 2009
Chairman Dodd said it was the Obama administration. Evidently meaning the Treasury Department and apparently Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner who insisted and pushed for changes to the executive compensation restrictions that allowed AIG to issue millions in bonuses that have set off a public outcry.Sen. Dodd now claims Treasury forced him to add language to the stimulus bill.
March 22, 2009
Two armed U.S. DEA helicopters intercepted and fired on a smugglers operating from a light aircraft in far eastern Honduras, causing the aircraft to crash killing the lone pilot.
March 16, 2009
Hundreds of Phoenix citizens reported seeing a lighted triangular shaped airship appearing to be two or three football-fields in size, flying slow and silently over the city a few years back. Airline pilots have also reported seeing giant similar airships.
March 10, 2009
After describing the US military as vain and bewildered, the hierarchy of the Church indicated in its weekly publication that Mexico has recognized the serious problem of corruption among its authorities and public servants and demanded that the U.S. do the same
March 08, 2009
"I want to know how many American officials have been prosecuted for this [corruption]."
Calderon acknowledged some Mexican officials had helped the cartels but said the US should ask itself how many of its own officials were implicated.
"It is not an exclusively Mexican problem, it is a common problem between Mexico and the United States," he said.
March 04, 2009
Sirens blared as the army staged its biggest troop build-up ever in Ciudad Juarez, where violent murders and beheadings occur nearly on a daily bases as the bloody war between the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Mexican Government continues to raise havoc and death to its terrified residents.
Alert: Bomb threats and dangerous explosives being stolen by armed robbers along the U.S. Mexican Bo
February 28, 2009
Bomb threats are not new to Juarez and other Mexican cities, however this time the threats were taken even more seriously as highly explosive materials have been taken recently by what many Intel types believe are related to the powerful Mexican Drug Cartels whom are warring with the Mexican Government.
February 28, 2009
The specially trained reinforcements triples the number of federal troops and law enforcement officers operating on the streets of CD. Juarez which is a border city with a population of over two million.
The city is without a police chief. Roberto Orduña Cruz quit last week after several officers were slain and Mexican Drug Cartel lords posted threats saying more would be killed unless he stepped down.
February 25, 2009
The DEA said that they seized $60 million in U.S. currency; 12,535 kilograms of cocaine; more than 16,000 pounds of marijuana; more than 12 pounds of methamphetamine; approximately 8 kilograms of heroin; approximately 1.3 million pills or 500 pounds of Ecstasy; approximately 120 kilograms of MDMA powder; and more than $6.5 million in other assets, including 149 vehicles, 3 aircraft, 3 maritime vessels and 169 weapons.
The arrests against the Mexican Drug Cartels culminated in a series of Drug Enforcement Administration raids Tuesday night and Wednesday morning in cities and towns across America totaling more than a 100.
February 24, 2009
Border protesters told this reporter that the MDC´s claim they are dedicated to overthrowing the current Calderon government and the government is hiding the true Mexican army death totals. Many Mexican troops have been killed by direct confrontations with MDC´s paramilitary forces many more than the Calderon administration is willing to admit.
February 21, 2009
Mexico's drug war is affecting business throughout the country, tourist are no longer shopping in the Mexican border cities and tourism in general is down even in popular hot spots like Cancun. The violence is turning away investors who Mexico needs for business and has concerned and alarmed the Obama administration.
February 18, 2009
It was the largest display of discontent against the army's role in an anti-drug crackdown since President Felipe Calderon began deploying soldiers across the country two years ago to fight Mexican drug cartels. About 45,000 soldiers are now spread out across Mexico.
February 18, 2009
Alex Jones and Jerome Corsi discussed steps many states are taking to preserve sovereignty. Jones provided lots of important information about how President Obama is just a puppet for the illuminati and how America has been sold out to feign banks
February 12, 2009
The latest information is that U.S. authorities are now reporting a spike in killings, kidnappings, home invasions and public shoot outs in broad day light not only in Mexico but also here in the USA. Just today Tucson police report a day light shootout and is believed that this incident and many others like it are connected to Mexico's murderous drug cartels.
February 12, 2009
According to court documents, in order to protect the shipments of cocaine, Sgt.Schroer and his co-conspirators wore official U.S. Military uniforms, carried official forms of identification, and used official U.S. vehicles, when necessary, to prevent police stops, roadblocks, searches and seizures of the narcotics as they drove the cocaine shipments through checkpoints throughout the Southwestern states which were manned by the U.S. Border Patrol, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and Nevada law enforcement officers.
February 12, 2009
Earlier today an Los Angeles Superior court judge ruled in the sheriff's favor by issuing a potentially deadly blow to the county of Orange in its long-standing lawsuit seeking to rescind generous retirement benefits granted to deputy sheriffs in 2001.
The lawsuit has drawn the attention of law enforcement unions across the country because a ruling in favor of the county could unravel pension benefits granted to law enforcement officers nationwide.
February 03, 2009
Many predict that there will be rioting in the streets of America too and that may be the reason the U.S. government is building detention camps all over the states and more are expected
February 02, 2009
Frontline Border Patrol agents told the U.S. Border Fire Report that they were ordered last month to make at least 150 arrests of suspected illegal immigrants
January 31, 2009
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California-based, prison gangs cooperate with Mexico-based MDC´s to smuggle wholesale quantities of cocaine and marijuana and illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico. According to federal authorities.
January 25, 2009
The first and the fourth amendment says that we all have a right to freedom of speech, religion, and freedom of the press and the fourth amendment says that the government can not search our things without a warrant and when they phone tap our phones and read our emails without a warrant they are basically taking our rights away from us.
January 20, 2009
As a result of this corruption the failed state of Mexico has become one of the most dangerous places in the world where violence runs rampant and Citizens wake up to executed headless bodies in their streets. The spokesperson stated.
January 18, 2009
enraged mob swarmed three federal police officers in the Mexico City suburb of San Juan Ixtayopan, and beat them nearly lifeless then doused them with gasoline and then burned two of them alive while thousands watched live on national television
January 16, 2009
The criminal conspiracy involving the men began in April 1, 2004 and continued until their arrests on Feb. 21, 2007.
According to court records, Zubair and Khaleem Ahmed both traveled to Cairo, Egypt on May 21, 2004 with the intent to engage in acts that would result in the murder or maiming of U.S. forces.
January 14, 2009
In terms of worst-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world is Mexico a large and important country bordering the United States and could be facing a rapid and sudden collapse.
January 11, 2009
From Brownsville Texas to San Diego California Mexican cities bordering American cities are where most Americans are being killed by assassinations and executions. But other Americans are being killed by the long arm of the Mexican drug cartels which reach deep into America. There are accounts of Mexican drug cartel surrogate terrorist´s invading the U.S. by crossing the porous international border and killing Americans in Dallas Texas, Atlanta Geo, New York City, Phoenix Ariz, Las Vegas Nevada, and is believed to have reached Shelby County Alabama where five people were found murdered gangland style by Mexican nationals.
January 05, 2009
Silver is the poor mans gold, as of this writing silver spot is around $11.00 dollars per OZ. That still means a relatively small amount of money will buy a lot of silver.
In my opinion investing in silver is the best hedge and defense against all future economic forecasts including a predicted devaluing U.S. dollar, recession, depression, inflation, deflation and hyperinflation.
January 03, 2009
Mexican officials said statistics for the number of homicides were still being compiled. But an unofficial tally shows that the Mexican border cities are among the highest death tolls in Mexico. In just the two largest Mexican cities bordering the U.S. Juárez and Tijuana they ended the year with a record high with more than 2,600 killings, most of them attributed to turf wars among drug cartels. Some of those executions were Americans.
December 17, 2008
A third vehicle was spotted south of the border fence where a subject was observed firing an automatic rifle in the direction of the agents. Several additional subjects with weapons were seen climbing over the fence and they began unloading marijuana from the Chevy Avalanche.
December 19, 2008
Even though McHale said, the new units do not conduct law-enforcement missions. And further stated in the event of civil disturbances and some other types of national emergencies, other designated U.S. military units could be ordered by the president to help civil authorities establish order as part of the Garden Plot domestic security plan.
December 14, 2008
Carey Marcella McClintock was brutally murdered on August 31, 2008 in Juarez, Mexico. She was found in an abandoned house in the desert minutes outside of Juarez. She had been beaten and stabbed multiple times. Her family feels that her murder may never be solved by authorities.
December 08, 2008
If you challenge the bailout and so-called rescue plans that our government and the Federal Reserve propose then you are somehow unpatriotic.
December 02, 2008
According to documents obtained by the Laguna Journal plaintiff Randy Lee Soderstrom formerly a long time employee of Nicholas claims that he personally delivered cocaine to both Nickolas and Carona and at an unidentified Laguna Beach home and he witnessed Carona and Nicholas snort cocaine together.Further alleges that he also witnessed Nicholas giving large some of cash to Carona in manila envelope. And alleges in a letter that "Carona was in fact deeply immersed in Nicholas´s enterprises" and asserts that "Carona also enjoyed the company of underage females and males".
November 24, 2008
"Monzer al Kassar commanded a global munitions empire, arming and funding terrorists around the world, particularly those who wished to harm Americans," said DEA Administrator Karen P. Tandy. "He operated in the shadows, the silent partner behind the business of death and terror. Kassar's capture is a testament to DEA's unique investigative skills and broad reach of its international intelligence network."
November 23, 2008
The American couple were believed visiting in Juárez attending the funeral of the killed woman´s sister, who was also killed in a homicide only last week; Juarez police investigators told the El Paso Journal that the couple were obviously targeted.
November 23, 2008
A high ranking member of the Caldron administration who want to remain unknown says, "there is corruption in regards to Narco trafficking in both governments and when there is unlimited cash available that cash finds its way to the powers to be and has no borders when it comes to influence."
November 23, 2008
Baja California authorities said three masked gunmen walked into the Bar Utopia in Tijuana over the weekend where many Americans where present, the mask gunmen wearing bullet proof vests began spraying gun fire randomly using AK-47 assault rifles. The terrorist killed two men and a woman at the scene, while the other two women died later at a hospital.
November 19, 2008
Fingar has also said that based on what climate scientists are saying there's nothing the world can do to avoid some changes already in motion.
"The changes in sea level, the changes in temperature, the impact on agriculture, the impact on water availability, the impact that comes from melting in the Arctic and opening up resources and extending growing seasons in some places, and shortening them in others. That is going to happen," he said. "All we can begin to do now is prepare to mitigate those impacts."
November 11, 2008
There are real questions being asked, do these spies in the sky surveillance systems comply with privacy laws and doesn´t violate the Posse Comitatus Act?
The 1878 law prohibits the military from playing a role in domestic law enforcement. Since the 1990s however, Posse Comitatus has been eroded significantly by both Democratic and Republican administrations, primarily in the areas of "drug interdiction," "border security" as well as "Continuity of Government" planning by U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).
November 09, 2008
The overwhelming majority of main news items in Mexico on any given day is the killings and violence that happen in Mexico on a daily bases. At the current rate of violent deaths in Mexico it is projected that the number will reach 5,000. That is more deaths than in the Iraq war
November 03, 2008
Hill told the grand jury that Jaramillo—11 years her senior—had begun an "inappropriate" relationship with her when she was around 15 years old. Questioned by Deputy District Attorney Brian Gurwitz, Hill wouldn´t use the word "molestation" but did concede that the "sexual conduct, contact" began before she was an adult.
October 30, 2008
Sagel played excerpts from the secret recordings, including an exchange in which the ex-Sheriff used a racial epithet to refer to blacks. Carona also refers to gifts, saying they are "completely untraceable."
October 26, 2008
Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, was in Mexico for two days to discuss efforts with local officials to stem killings, weapons trafficking and money laundering by Mexican cartels and their U.S. associates.
"Some of these groups not only engage in crime and violence not only in Mexico and along the border, but they come across and kidnap, murder and carry out assassinations," Walters told reporters. "These groups do not respect the border."
October 22, 2008
A federal indictment accuses members of the Mongols motorcycle gang of murder, attempted murder, drug trafficking, assault, procuring, money laundering and firearms violations.
An undercover investigation that put federal agents inside the notorious Mongols motorcycle gang ended Tuesday with arrests of dozens of members on warrants ranging from drug sales to murder and a move by the government to seize the group's name. Agents claim that anyone from now on seen wearing Mongol's colors will be detained and the colors confiscated.
October 19, 2008
Mexican drug cartel gangs and their surrogate´s terror is reaching deep into the states.
The recent home invitation robbery and kidnapping of a young 6 year old American boy in Las Vegas Nevada is a in our face example of what is happening right here in our own neighborhoods.
October 18, 2008
According to police Tinnemeyer allegedly stole millions of dollars from a powerful Mexican drug cartel out of Tijuana, Baja Mexico and believe as a result a contract hit was ordered. Unconfirmed reports say Tinnemeyer turned himself in rather than be found by the Mexican cartels assassination team.
October 16, 2008
Our government admits Criminals are armed with a wide array of sophisticated weapons. In some cases, assailants have worn full or partial police or military uniforms and have used vehicles that resemble police vehicles. How are American travelers expected to be able to distinguish between the real Mexican army at the road blocks and the criminals?
Americans are targeted by Mexican bandits and other Mexican criminals because they are American and are believed to have money with them".
October 12, 2008
According to Michael A. Braun, DEA Chief of Operations, says that the drug trafficking and middle eastern terrorist groups are a "Growing Nexus." He indicates that there is a growing nexus between international drug trafficking organizations and international terrorism. Mr. Braun believes it is a new hybrid organization funded by international drug trafficking and dedicated to terrorism.
October 10, 2008
The lawsuit further alleges that in 2001 Soderstrom delivered cocaine to an unidentified Laguna Beach location where Samueli, Corona and others were present. "Nicholas and Carona snorted cocaine together and Nicholas provided Carona with a large manila envelope that contained cash."
October 01, 2008
The coming economic collapse is something to prepare for, if not fear, for it will be the worst event in our lives with or without the bailout. It will be much worse than the Great Depression and may last much longer.
September 23, 2008
The great depression is about to repeat itself.
Investment banks and deposit banks are failing,
money has frozen up. No loans business or personal.
No money available for employers to make payroll.
There will be millions of Americans with no jobs and
therefore no money. Basics such as gas and food will
be hard to come by and many American families will
go to bed at night hungry.
September 24, 2008
Bottom line the middle class was already on the decline and should this bailout be implemented the middle class as we know it will disappear and after all the dust settles and everything is said and done, it boils down to the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer and the poor is who pays.
September 20, 2008
While it is true more information is needed to make a final determination, al-Qaeda and the Taliban are the most likely ones responsible for the Marriott Hotel attack. Additional attacks against diplomatic facilities, hotels and other Western targets are likely as part of an increased targeting effort and operational tempo in Pakistan against Western targets by al-Qaeda and the Taliban
September 18, 2008
The silence from the investigating camps could mean several things: Either terrorists are responsible for the puts on the listed stocks or others besides terrorists had foreknowledge of the trouble that was about to strike Wall Street or may have even contributed and used that knowledge to reap a nice financial harvest from the instability of the market place.
September 17, 2008
The Gulf Cartel is responsible for the transportation of multi-ton quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana from Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, and Mexico to the United States, as well as the distribution of those narcotics within the United States. The Gulf Cartel is also believed to be responsible for laundering multiple millions of dollars in criminal proceeds.
September 16, 2008
Hell's Angels history is known for their on going criminal activity of drug dealing, prostitution, gun running and money laundering along with more and more legitimate business enterprises. The FBI reports that the Angels are believed to now be working with the Mexican drug cartels and their gangs.
But their focus was on Mark "Papa" Guardado and the local police reported the Angels were Angels this day of mourning.
September 15, 2008
Now, I warn of the greatest threat so far, the trip trigger has been pulled the most difficult years yet for America and Americans is on our doorstep.
I´m warning anyone with more than $100,000 in savings to withdraw it immediately.
September 13, 2008
New developments state investigator wants Harbor Adjustment Service employee as key witness subpoenaed as she claims she was pressured in Wooten´s workers' compensation case. And in a second new and interesting development the Laguna Journal has learned that former US Attorney Wevsley Shea actually wrote to Palin advising her against her current course of action in this matter and warned of "grave" circumstances if she continued.
September 11, 2008
Olbermann: Republicans have hijacked 9/11
An American tragedy made into a political commodity
September 08, 2008
This dangerous decision to take this action made just a week after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned that Russia would mount an unspecified response to recent U.S. aid shipments to Georgia. Putin further warned he would take military action in response to the U.S. Poland agreement to install defense missiles and radar units in Poland, which are believed to be within a hundred miles of the Russian border.
September 07, 2008
The largest and most respected Mexico City newspaper El Universal reports that it has obtained documents from the United States and the European Parliament which "show that the plane flew several times to Guantanamo, Cuba, presumably to transfer terrorism suspects." It said the European Parliament was investigating the private Grumman Gulfstream II, registered by the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, for suspected use in CIA "drug transport and rendition" flights in which prisoners are covertly transferred to a third country or US-run detention centers outside of the USA.
September 04, 2008
"He's still bragging about it in my hometown and after another cop confessed to witnessing the kill, the trooper was 'investigated' for over a year and merely given a slap on the wrist," the e-mail said, according to the Post. That seems to contradict a background paper recently released by the McCain- Palin campaign that says the family never knew that Wooten had been disciplined, which is one reason Todd kept pressing the point.
September 03, 2008
John Cyr of Wasilla, Alaska the Executive Director of Public Safety Employees (PSEA) told the Laguna Journal that "our attorney Steve Sorenson of Juneau Alaska will file the compliant before the end of the business day today." The grievances will include the illegal release of records of Alaska State Trooper Michael Wooten the former brother-in-law of the governor, according to Mr. Cyr.
September 01, 2008
The legal question is did Palin, her administration or family improperly pressured state Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire a state trooper — the ex-husband of Palin´s sister — and whether Palin fired Monegan when that didn´t happen. Trooper Michael Wooten and Palin´s sister, Molly McCann, are divorced but still battling in court over custody and visitation rights.
The McCain campaign says Palin "was never directly involved" and blamed the controversy on the campaign of the Democratic nominee, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.
August 25, 2008
These ruthless drug gangs according to DEA operative who wants to remain anonymous says, "investigators close to the Shelby county murders of five Mexican males was carried out by Mexican drug gangs or their surrogates and is very likely related to drugs and cash." DEA agents say that the cartels' incursions into the United States are spurring more secondary crimes, such as shootings, kidnapping, and murders
August 25, 2008
As reported last year in the Laguna Journal, the drugs raised in Afghanistan finds its way via smuggling routes into markets in both Europe and the United States where they are sold. In turn millions of dollars and Eros are used to fund terrorist and their terror, not only in Afghanistan but around the world. Most of these same terrorist drug organizations that fuel the terror network also help to fund the current Taliban attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan
August 19, 2008
"This phenomenon is a growing threat to the national security and sovereignty of the US. The hundreds of billions of dollars caught up as windfall profit for Arab Islamic oil barons is soon to be used to buy distressed and foreclosed property from the very Americans that the run up in oil has exploited."
August 15, 2008
Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles with war heads pointed at the United States and has the capability to strike every major city in America. Both Russia and China have larger standing armies and are building there war machines much faster then the U.S., which includes their navy and air force. The U.S. has few military options to respond to the aggression in Georgia by the Russians and can only fight back with diplomatic and economic retaliation, U.S. officials say.
August 17, 2008
Global Research´s Michel Chossudovsky reported that during the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia's president Saakashvili ordered an all-out military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia
August 10, 2008
These alliances make them much more dangerous and this organization is much more threatening. Many of the American gangs buy or are fronted drugs from the new alliances from as far away as Afghanistan where drug trades and whole selling take place. This proliferation and gangs adoption of terrorist tactic´s is worldwide and is increasingly accompanied by beheadings, shootings, kidnappings and other extreme violence and is threatening society in general
August 04, 2008
The first thing that stuck us going into ALISO CREEK INN was the short drive in. It is in just far enough that you don´t hear the traffic from coast hwy. In a serine valley of gorgeous greens of Laguna Beach´s only gulf course and a majestic mountain view with the fresh water of Aliso Creek running through the beautiful length of the property, then empties into the Pacific Ocean, at one of the cleanest beaches in America, ("Aliso Creek Beach). This is truly a tranquil rustic resort in one of the few Canyon Resorts in all of Orange County
August 03, 2008
"Their idea is to control the whole economic process of production and distribution," said Georgina Sanchez, an independent security consultant in Mexico and executive director of a public safety policy institute.
In many areas of the United States the cartels have entered into partnerships with local gangs, in others they have directly assumed control of local drug distribution, analysts say.Gwinnett County, Georgia, where Atlanta is located is over 1,000 miles from our U.S. - Mexico border. They have already had nine drug-related kidnappings this year. In one incident it just happened a couple weeks ago, DEA agents raided a home and charged three men, all illegal aliens, with kidnapping and conspiracy to distribute cocaine after finding that they had bound and chained the victim to a wall in a basement in the town of Lilburn and beat him for nearly a week in an effort to collect $300,000 in drug debt
August 01, 2008
New cases of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom continue to be reported. No one can be considered immune from kidnapping on the basis of occupation, nationality, or other factors. Criminals have been known to follow and harass U.S. citizens traveling in their vehicles, particularly in border areas including Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, Reynosa, Juarez, Mexicali, Tijuana and most all border towns.
July 26, 2008
After the slaying of Wood, Presiding Federal District Judge and former El Paso U. S. District Judge and later appointed FBI director William Sessions, agreed to a change of venue and transferred the case to Florida, where he presided. Jimmy was convicted of masterminding an international drug smuggling venture. After that conviction, Jimmy became a fugitive and the subject of a worldwide man hunt for about six months. He was finally arrested in February 1980 in Las Vegas where authorities said they recovered over $900,000 dollars in cash in the back seat floor board hidden in a baby diaper pail.
Jimmy was a will known Las Vegas gambler and was defended by Oscar Goodman the current mayor of Las Vegas
July 17, 2008
"This decision," countered Jonathan L. Hafetz, counsel for al-Marri, means the president can pick up any person in the country–citizen or legal resident–and lock them up for years without the most basic safeguard in the Constitution, the right to a criminal trial." And in effect denies Habeas Corpus to all Americans.
July 15, 2008
Nicholas has been charged separately with using and distributing illegal drugs. He has pleaded not guilty. That trial is scheduled to occur after completion of the criminal backdating case, which is scheduled to begin in April 2009. Nicholas has pleaded not guilty in all of the criminal cases
July 11, 2008
Fred Glusman
owns The Ritz in Newport Beach and Pieros in Las Vegas. Its rumored that Rick Rizzolo and some of his mobster friends frequent the restaurant and may have hidden interests in the enterprise.
July 07, 2008
ICE officials admit they responded to the Congressman´s request and contacted Mexican authorities to coordinate efforts to recover Ms. Posselt. It was learned that ICE officials than met with Mexican authorities in El Paso Texas to workout out a strategy.
Washington, D.C. ICE higher ups then offered their technical assistance. Just what that was they won't say. However on June 22nd, Ms. Posselt and another hostage were released. Ms. Posselt a Mexican citizen was then transported to the United States at U.S. government expense
July 06, 2008
The FBI´s Special Agent in Charge in El Paso David Cuthbertson said when the Juarez cartel war started, it was largely confined to those directly involved in the drug trade, but it now is spreading into new areas of crime, such as kidnapping and Mafia-style extortion, in which innocent citizens are the victims.
June 30, 2008
Many of the U.S street gangs are believed acting as enforcers for the Mexican drug cartels and their Mexican gang surrogates.Many government and other investigators believe there is gang members in the army and some who are active in El Paso are stationed at Ft. Bliss and are involved extensively in narcotics-trafficking activity, murders on both sides of the U.S. Mexican border, and are operating with other gang members in El Paso and drug cartels and their gangs in Juarez Mexico.
June 26, 2008
Phoenix papers report that 6 Mexicans killed a Phoenix man who was found dead by police in a local neighborhood home riddled with more than 100 bullets
June 22, 2008
The ATF says that the intelligence gathered by them and other domestic Federal law enforcement entities indicates that the cartels or as they like to call them DTOs have tasked their money laundering, distribution and transportation apparatuses, all of which reach across the border into the United States, to acquire firearms for illegal transfer back to Mexico for use in facilitating narco-trafficking and other criminal activities.
June 19, 2008
Sharon Ormsby, section chief in charge of financial crimes for the FBI, said "some cases, gang, drug and organized crime investigations have resulted in mortgage fraud cases because such schemes enable criminals to launder money.
June 11, 2008
Pakistan has a powerful nuclear arsenal. According to published reports, Pakistan´s arsenal consists of approximately 100 nuclear bombs. These weapons have yields ranging from as little as 10 to as much as 100 kilotons the upper level is equivalent to the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima
June 12, 2008
U.S. AP reports that the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan released footage Thursday of a skirmish with militants that Pakistan claims resulted in an airstrike on one of its border posts that killed 11 of its troops.
June 11, 2008
Most recognized for her unique exotic looks, this 5´9" slender beauty, Nadia Alexandria, was born on January 26, in Dresden, Germany to the proud parents, Svetlana and Alexander. Her full name Nadezhda means "Hope" in Russian. Her ethnic roots stem from Russian, Brazilian and Armenian descent. Nadia has a versatile look that speaks to many ethnicities and it´s her warm heart that touches all the people she encounters
June 05, 2008
These gang members are known to be attacking Americans all over the states. Recently it came to light that a gang operation of this type was uncovered operating on the east coast from New York to Florida. This New York-based robbery crew used vehicles that resembled police cars with fake police lights and sirens and would pull over and rob drug couriers all up and down the East Coast, federal investigators said. Similar tactics are being used in Mexico´s violence. Police say this type of crime is happening on both sides of the U.S Mexican border.
June 02, 2008
The Sheriff's office did admit by saying," this is a major case and an ongoing investigation is still underway by the Special Operations Division. The identity is still being withheld and it is unknown at this time if any charges will be filed against the driver. It is possible the suspect has secretly been charged and the information withheld from the public which if true that would be in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
June 04, 2008
The reports claim U.S. and Pakistan policy has failed to prevent the penetration of the nuclear establishment over time by individuals sympathetic to the radical extremist goals which is and has been for some time to gain and possess nuclear weapons and use them against the west
DEA, FBI and CIA are all operating covertly in Mexico´s narco-trafficking underworld Many U.S. Agent
May 29, 2008
While reports of federal agents and cops being involved in drug and other crimes like smuggling humans, drugs, guns and cash are almost routine. Many believe the estimates of corruption among our own officials are much higher. This problem is seriously hurting America.
May 26, 2008
What's worse, the cartels have now forged alliances with American street gangs, giving these drug cartels a deep reach into American life and through that alliance with our gangs that gives them control over most of the $300 to $500 billion American drug trade, the largest in the world. These cartels have become a global crime corporation with an international reach of illegal franchises spanning the world.
May 23, 2008
"There will be shootings and executions throughout the city in what is being called 'La Limpia' (the cleansing) in response to threats by the 'Juárez drug cartel' or 'La Linea,' " the e-mail stated in Spanish.
La Linea is reputed to be a "line" of corrupt police officers protecting drug traffickers. Dozens of Juarez police officers have been among the more than 300 homicides in Juárez this year. Many of the killings have been committed boldly and in broad daylight on busy downtown Juarez boulevards.
May 22, 2008
These murders are the most violent of episodes that are believed ordered by Mexican cartels with some of the victims being American citizens. The violent events, combined with a shootout in Durango this week, left at least 16 dead; taking the total to 1,360 executions in the last 141 days. The assailants were all dressed in black and Mexican authorities also reported finding a dozen late-model vehicles that had been reinforced with armor.
May 21, 2008
Shortly after the Baja Attorney General de Justicia del Estado took over the investigation the official word changed and the press was told of only four people killed three Mexican nationals and one female of Mexican decent and denied that the male victims were Americans
May 19, 2008
at seven p.m. last night Sunday, were located the bodies of four people, three African Americans and a white woman, shot in the head.
According to a Mexican policemen at the scene said, "The discovery occurred at kilometer four of the boulevard, under the bridge known as El Morro, where they located a 2nd vehicle a green SUV Cadillac with white California, USA plates
May 18, 2008
This dangerous alliance now coming together includes organizations headed by some of the most feared Mexican drug cartel leaders in the country. These organizations together will have the manpower and money to wage a real war with the Mexican government headed by Mexican President Felipe de Jesus CALDERON Hinojosa
May 16, 2008
It is estimated that Mexico has 36,000 troops fighting the Mexican drug cartels and their Para-military units throughout the country. With the expected injection of more soldiers being sent to the U.S. Mexican border cities those troops will number near 40,000
May 14, 2008
Federal agents arrested one of their own Jesus M. Huizar, 28, an agent of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency on suspicion of conspiring to smuggle undocumented immigrants illegally into the United States
May 13, 2008
If Congress were to rubber stamp this scheme in the President's waning days, U.S. foreign policy options would be severely curtailed for decades to come. The Merida Initiative would arm unaccountable, corrupt and brutal military and police
May 12, 2008
Calderon is reported to be rushing more Mexican Army troops to the border cities of Juarez, Tijuana, Mexicali, Palomas and others. Its believed that Mexico has 36,000 troops fighting the Mexican drug cartels and their para-military.
May 11, 2008
The Juarez's police Chief Guillermo Preito announced his resignation from the Juarez Police Department within hours after his chief assistant, 54-year-old Juan Antonio Roman who was 2nd in command is assassinated and at least four other Jaurez police officers are slain and hundreds others are killed in what is being called the biggest internal drug war between the Mexican government and the rich and ruthless Mexican drug cartels in the history of Mexico
May 09, 2008
Many Americans are wondering when the Bush administration is going to raise the travel alert to its highest level "travel warning," for American travelers to Mexico? How many American citizens are going to have to be shot, killed or kidnapped before the American government move to prevent needless deaths and issue the proper "travel warning," for Americans?
May 07, 2008
One of the main suspects in this international drug investigation is Omar Castaneda, a gang member from Pomona with ties to the Mexican Tijuana drug cartels, officials said.
Castaneda, 36, after his arrest he was arraigned in San Diego Superior Court on charges of possession of cocaine for sale. He is suspected of being a major link between drugs flowing into California from Tijuana and sales at SDSU and other California campuses
May 06, 2008
The robbery teams usually consisted of multiple sworn police officers in uniform or displaying a official police badge, who would gain access to the residence by falsely telling any occupants that they were police officers and that they were conducting a legitimate search for drugs or drug dealers
May 02, 2008
Physical beatings, torture, or body dumped on street or lot torture involving beating, tooth removal, appendage removal, death by torture, strangulation, single shot to head and/or multiple shots to head and body.
Other tactics were same as above with head and/or face fully or partially wrapped with duct tape or other head wrappings or blind folds. Bodies often disposed of by the alternate "Pozole" method. The pozole is where they stuff the body sometime still alive into a 55 gallon barrel and pour gas, battery acid and other corrosive terrible chemicals. The theory being that they think it makes the body easer to dispose of and makes what may remain very difficult to identify later by authorities
April 30, 2008
A legion of conservative talk show hosts, pundits and media-watch groups pound away at the idea that the media exhibit an inherently "liberal" tilt. But the assertion is based on remarkably little evidence and is repeatedly made in the face of contradictory facts.
April 26, 2008
Famed Stevenswood Spa Resort on the ever-eco-centric Mendocino Coast has an offer that's hard to pass-up.Guests arriving in a hybrid or bio-diesel auto are given a $ 100.00 CASH REBATE.
April 26, 2008
Over 200 people have been killed so far this year in and around Tijuana.
Since taking office in late 2006, President Felipe Calderon has sent some 30,000 soldiers and federal police to fight the drug cartels.
April 21, 2008
Dozens of people have been decapitated in Mexico so far this year, with heads stuck on fence posts, found in trash bags and heads being tossed onto a nightclub dance floor for all to see
April 21, 2008
At least 40 people have been decapitated in Mexico so far this year, with heads stuck on fence posts, found in trash bags and heads being tossed onto a nightclub dance floor for all to see
April 19, 2008
The massive explosion blew out windows in apartment buildings, damaged several cars and caused panic in the American La Rosa area of Mexico City
April 16, 2008
Mexican drug cartels according to recent press reports have military style training camps on and near the border with the United States. These Training camps are for military-style killers. Federal authorities say these camps have Afghanistan and other middle eastern instructors who teach the latest military fighting tactics that are utilized in Iraq and Afghanistan by the Islamic radicals that are fighting and killing American and allied troops.
April 15, 2008
The alert warns Americans that armed robberies and carjackings may not be connected to the Mexican cartels, and is apparently unconnected to the narcotics-related violence. This new type of Mexican Violence has increased in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. Dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped, held hostage and killed by their captors in Mexico and many cases remain unsolved. Moreover, new cases of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom continue to be reported.
From Brownsville Texas to San Diego California the State Department has alerted Americans of the dangers of crossing the border.
April 09, 2008
The investigations are expected to not only look into the death of John Derek Chamberlain and determine if his civil rights were violated but is expected to probe much deeper into the over all possible misconduct of the Sheriff´s dept in general.
April 08, 2008
Gen. Richard A. Cody, the Army's vice chief of staff told Congress that the "Readiness of the army Is Dangerously Low." In a stark assessment a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, was to testify on the war's progress, the Army's vice chief of staff, said that the heavy deployments are inflicting "incredible stress" on soldiers and families and that they pose "a significant risk" to the nation's all-volunteer military.
April 07, 2008
An alarming number of Americans are vanishing in Mexico where there has been a dramatic increase in the numbers of U.S. citizens who have recently been reported missing or kidnapped along the border with Mexico, reports the Washington Post. Many who have vanished from U.S. cities are still missing and it is feared they will turn up in the mass graves that have been discovered lately in Mexico.
April 06, 2008
Of growing concern to some U.S. officials is the way the terrorists south of the border are taking advantage of the lack of sophistication on the Mexicans part for their inability and unwillingness to protect their own borders from terrorist infiltration and are using the low Mexican immigration standards and the U.S. open border to slip into Mexico or the U.S. with a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb.
April 02, 2008
According to Mexican authorities they have detained or arrested Juarez police officers, businessmen, bar owners, bartenders, cab drives, city and state employees in a military offensive sweep of the city. It´s also reported that tons of drugs have been found and confiscated.
April 01, 2008
Many Americans are asking why the president won´t protect our borders not only from terrorist but also from the billions of dollars of drugs being smuggled into our country. The war on drugs and terror is connected
March 30, 2008
The Mexican soldiers are armed with combat American supplied M-16 fully automatic rifles. This latest action by Mexican President Calderon now places Mexican armed soldiers on the U.S. Border with Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
This latest Mexican troop movement places more than 30,000 Mexican troops combating the Mexican cartels throughout the country.
March 28, 2008
Mexico's defense secretary, General Guillermo Galavan said at a hastily called news conference today in Juárez Mexico that over 2.000 solders and over 400 federal police officers would patrol the streets and operate checkpoints at entrances to the city.
Officials said the operation will go on indefinitely.
There have been hundreds of killings in Juárez since the start of the new year.
March 22, 2008
NORTHCOM was established following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to provide for the defense of the United States and to provide military support to civil authorities when requested by the president or secretary of defense.
NORTHCOM also is responsible for overseeing military responses to natural and man-made disasters,such as hurricanes and incidents involving weapons of mass destruction within the United States borders.
March 17, 2008
Others Americans are afraid that this is just subterfuge. That the real intent of this administration is to suppress decent, control the masses and some even fear it is designed by Bush to delay the elections in the fall. Invade Iran imprison many Americans and designed for him to remain President for as long as he can.
March 19, 2008
9 billion in cash simply vanished with no trace. What happened to all that cash? No one seems to know. There was not even so much as an investigation in to where it went.
March 13, 2008
The Raptors and awax aircraft are believed to be secretly patrolling the skies over the southern U.S.Border with Mexico now. Awax aircraft called in to help protect the nation from a terrorist attack from the skies or ground. The army has been seen by lots of locals all along the border at what appears to be patrolling on the ground. U.S. Soldiers have told the Journal that those U.S. Army patrols that are on and near the border are simply on maneuvers practicing for the real thing. However they are immeditly available to augment the thin numbers of National guard units lift weak due to the Iraq war. And will be back-up for the U.S. Border patrol and other local border law enforcement agencies. Border Patrol agents and county sheriff' patrolling the border have been witnessing a serous increase of sighting of what appears to be Mexican army regulars and civilian Los Zetas
March 13, 2008
Riverside County Sheriff's Department said at about 7:20 p.m. Saturday evening officers responded to a call of shots fired and a report of an assault in progress involving a deadly weapon in Old Town Temecula after words were exchanged between the off-duty cop and the persons shot. The fight began in a nearby local Mexican bar and restaurant according to witnesses. Deputies report said upon arrival they found two people had gunshot wounds and had been shot by the off-duty officer. At least two were treated at the seen and taken to the hospital, where one person died
March 04, 2008
Dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped, held hostage and killed by their captors in Mexico and many cases remain unsolved. Moreover, new cases of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom continue to be reported.
March 02, 2008
The U.S. Attorneys Star witness Roberto Gerardo "Bobby" Ruiz, a former managing director of Bear Stearns Dallas office who pleaded guilty to fraud and bribery charges in December, stated in court records that while he worked for the investment firm, he bribed EPCC trustees
March 01, 2008
The more than four decades of the fight on the war on drugs has been a dismal and total failure. That fight has costs Americans at the federal level, approximately $4.5 billion every year (40 years X 4.5 Billion = $180 Billion plus)
February 29, 2008
"This is an exceptionally significant currency seizure," said Gene Garza, CBP acting Director of Field Operations in El Paso. "The majority of currency seizures made at this port of entry are of the five figure variety. Taking almost $2 million away from a criminal organization in an instant really hits hard."
February 27, 2008
By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter;
World headlines in late January 2004 reported the gruesome discoveries of murdered victims in Ciudad Juarez where federal Mexican police recovered the bodies of 12 tortured and murdered men from a "narco grave". In a stunning declaration, Santiago V...
February 25, 2008
The American public appears to be being hoodwinked into believing
the Terrorist Surveillance program is good for us and protects us
from the terrorist. What it really does is takes away many of our
constitutional rights guaranteed by our founding fathers
February 22, 2008
In prepared remarks of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at the State of the Border Press Briefing in Washington, D.C. February 22, 2008 said, "The security of our borders raises issues basic to us as a nation. The ability to control who—and what—comes into and out of a country is one of the most important attributes of a sovereign government, and being able to do that is vital to our nation´s security."
February 21, 2008
My Grandfather said, "the Yaqui always have been and always will be." They were in the area long before the apaches, Spanish or anyone else. Their origins date beyond written record, and for millenniums they lived in the valleys around the Rio Yaqui River in Sonora, Mexico.
February 19, 2008
While commercial aviation remains a possible target, federal, state and local law enforcement believe that international drug dealers, gangs and terrorists have turned their attention to other modes of transportation. U.S. Rail and other mass transit are being used as part of the global network of drug traffickers, these routes are being used by Mexican drug cartels, smuggling contraband into American cities
February 18, 2008
The document also states that between 1996 and September 30, 2006, there were 253 confirmed incursions into the United States by Mexican government personnel. The government has documented shots fired on both sides of the border, unmarked helicopters invading U.S. airspace, drug smuggling and actual confrontations between U.S. Border Patrol agents and armed members of the Mexican military.
February 17, 2008
In a recently released FBI report on gangs operating both in Mexico and the U.S which was meant for law enforcement eyes only says and we quote: That these gangs on both sides of the border perpetrate violence—from assaults to homicides, using firearms, machetes, or blunt objects—to intimidate rival gangs, law enforcement, and the general public. They often target middle and high school students for recruitment. And they form tenuous alliances...and sometimes vicious rivalries...with other criminal groups, depending on their needs at the time.
February 17, 2008
It requires going into nature to look deep within ourselves, to discover and measure our own growth through the seasons of our lives, taking time out from our "doing" to enter "just being." Spending time alone, seeking purpose and direction, listening for the voice of Spirit, creating ceremony to mark one's changes, and returning to one's people with a story that gives life new meaning --these are some of the elements of the Vision Quest
February 16, 2008
Paramilitary groups such as the Zetas, Los Negros, Los Numeros, and others who work for Mexican drug cartels as enforcers are a serious threat to public safety on both sides of the entire U.S./Mexico border. They are well financed and well equipped. Their willingness to shoot and kill law enforcement officers on both sides of the border makes these paramilitary groups among the most dangerous criminal enterprises in North America.
February 15, 2008
The FBI has used such warrants to break into homes, offices and hotel rooms to confiscate computers,install hidden cameras, copy computer files and eavesdrop on telephones. Agents also have intercepted e-mails and pried into safe deposit boxes. Now they do not need the U.S. spy court warrants and operate completely un-checked.
February 15, 2008
You should be very uncomfortable with the collection of your records by the government which are using the Patriot Act to demand your social security number and other private financial or medical information by order of secret courts and the muzzling of those citizens who receive such orders from speaking publicly about them. This is a violation of both the 1st and 4th amendment. You should also oppose the collection of both private and business records by banks, pharmacies and other businesses which are using the Patriot Act to demand your social security number and other private financial or medical information.
February 12, 2008
As an observer of and participant in the "human condition", I´ve come to some observational conclusions which you may or may not agree with. But that´s okay, we can and should agree to disagree (or not). But, as the author-at-the-keyboard of this here book, I get to state my views. Should you want to state yours, you´ll just have to write your own book. Not a bad idea, actually, because it really makes you get into your head and heart, your ego and id, your beliefs and knowings, of which there can be a big gap between
February 14, 2008
The problem is our bodies don´t manufacture enough adult stem cells to repair severe damage. The cycle of life goes on every day in our bodies. As we go from birth to death, so do millions of cells go through the same process everyday.
February 14, 2008
The government reports that Mexican drug cartels and gangs operating along the Southwest border are more sophisticated and dangerous than any other organized criminal enterprise. The Mexican cartels, and the smuggling rings and gangs they leverage, weld substantial control over the routes into the United States and pose substantial challenges to U.S. law enforcement to secure the Southwest border. The cartels operate along the border with military grade weapons, technology and intelligence and their own respective paramilitary enforcers
February 13, 2008
The drugs raised in Afghanistan finds its way via smuggling routes into markets in both Europe and the United States where they are sold. In turn millions of dollars and Eros are used to fund terrorist world wide.
February 12, 2008
Mexican drug cartels responsible for recent border violence have also cemented ties to street and prison gangs on the U.S. side. U.S. gangs retail drugs purchased from Mexican traffickers and often work as cartel surrogates or enforcers on U.S. soil