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SecurityCornerMexico.com Recommended READING: How Safe is the United States of America, REALLY? 2009 US Murders with Guns Stats: 39.5604; Drug Offenses: 560.1 per 100,000 people; Car Thefts: 1,246,096. Prisoners: 2,019,234 prisoners; Per Capita: 715 per 100,000 people. US is world's largest consumer of cocaine; Colombian heroin, and Mexican heroin and marijuana; major consumer of ecstasy and Mexican methamphetamine; minor consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center. Source: Nation Master
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Also, recommended WATCHING: Couple crashes White House Dinner- Illegally Blonde (video) by Examiner.com; Michael Moore's What a Wonderful World & A Brief History of the USA; READING: Richard Reid (shoe bomber) & 2006 Transatlantic Aircraft Plot by Wikipedia; America's New Crusade: Imperial U.S. vs Political Islam; The United Nations' Role in Peace and War; America's Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia; Preparing for Civil Unrest in America; The Truth behind 9/11: Who Is Osama Bin Laden? by Global Research
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
President Obama said Tuesday that U.S. intelligence agencies could have prevented the attempt to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day, and used a grim and forceful White House statement to demand rapid improvements in efforts to protect Americans from attack. More, HERE
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United States Secret Service Confirms Third Uninvited Guest at State Dinner
January 4, 2009
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur to the Nov. 24 state dinner at the White House. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
The Secret Service announced this afternoon that a third crasher made it into the White House state dinner made famous by the uninvited Tareq and Michaele Salahi.
An agency spokesman wouldn't divulge the name or even the gender of the crasher, who appears to have made his or way in completely separately from the now-infamous horse-country reality-show hopefuls -- exposing a completely separate area of weakness in the perimeter around the president. More, HERE.
All Travelers Flying to the United States from Other Countries will Face Increased Random Screening; Stepped-up screening targets fliers from 'terror-prone' lands
All travelers flying to the United States from other countries will face increased random screening, and all passengers from more than a dozen terrorism-prone nations will be patted down and have their carry-on bags searched, under new rules the Obama administration said will take effect Monday morning. More, HERE. PHOTOS | Dubai opens world's -- newest -- tallest building. Following long list of structures reaching for the sky, it is 2,717 feet tall.
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AP Photo: Elizabeth Ortiz, of Mexico City, recounts her airport security experience in Mexico City after arriving at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta on Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. Ortiz said she was patted down just before boarding the flight. (AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser)
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Thousands stuffed the bleachers on both sides of a California high school football field Monday night to remember a beloved teacher who was slain in Mexico a few days ago.
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Northwest Airlines Christmas Day Flight: "Al Qaeda Made Me Do It!”
The rise of patsies and heroes
The Associated Press reported on December 26, 2009 that an attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke sending passengers scrambling to subdue a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travelers said. [1].
According to the report, the commotion began as Northwest Airlines Flight 253, carrying 278 passengers and 11 crew members from Amsterdam, prepared to land in Detroit just before noon Friday. Travelers said they smelled smoke, saw a glow, and heard what sounded like firecrackers. At least one person climbed over others and jumped on the man, who officials say was trying to ignite an explosive device. More, HERE.
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CIA probes Afghan base security after bomber kills 7
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) - The CIA vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths of seven officers in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and to investigate security breaches that allowed the second deadliest attack in agency history.
The Taliban claimed the attacker was a sympathizer from the Afghan army who detonated a vest of explosives at a meeting with CIA workers on Wednesday. An Afghan was also killed and six CIA employees were wounded, U.S. officials said. More. HERE
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The suicide bomber who killed eight last week in Afghanistan had been brought there by Jordanian intelligence to infiltrate the Qaeda organization.
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The Breaking Point
For Sick Illegal Immigrants, No Relief Back Home
David Rochkind for The New York Times: Monica Chavarria preparing for treatment at a dialysis clinic in Guadalajara, Mexico.
EJIDO MODELO, Mexico — On the two-hour bus rides from her village on Lake Chapala to a dialysis clinic in Guadalajara, Monica Chavarria’s thoughts would inevitably turn to the husband and son she left behind in Georgia. More. HERE. Daily Life in Yemen: Photo Essay
An ancient land that globalization seems to have passed by, Yemen -- where the “underpants bomber” allegedly trained for his failed Christmas Day attack -- is not just about Islamic extremism, choking traffic, and crushing poverty. More, HERE.
The Carter Syndrome ( Foreign Policy)
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Life in the Foreign Service
Varied and Fascinating Work, with Some Drudgery
By Jennifer Smith
Two years, 48,000 faces, and a dozen common stories. As a consular officer in El Salvador I interviewed approximately 200 people a day and over the course of two years spoke with more than 48,000 men, women, and children. My job was to decide whether the applicants planned to return to El Salvador after a short visit to the U.S. More. HERE.
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The Fall of Mexico
Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States. —Porfirio Díaz, dictator of Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and 1884 to 1911
Foreign Affairs December 2009 Atlantic
by Philip Caputo
In the almost three years since President Felipe Calderón launched a war on drug cartels, border towns in Mexico have turned into halls of mirrors where no one knows who is on which side or what chance remark could get you murdered. Some 14,000 people have been killed in that time—the worst carnage since the Mexican Revolution—and part of the country is effectively under martial law. Is this evidence of a creeping coup by the military? A war between drug cartels? Between the president and his opposition? Or just collateral damage from the (U.S.-supported) war on drugs? Nobody knows: Mexico is where facts, like people, simply disappear. The stakes for the U.S. are high, especially as the prospect of a failed state on our southern border begins to seem all too real. More, HERE.
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State Department: Phyllis Oakley, a former assistant secretary of state, and her husband Robert, the former ambassador to Somalia, Zaire and Pakistan. Click HERE & Scroll down to read about Foreign Service workers' experiences in overseas postings.
A Day in the Life: An American Diplomat in Kabul
by Ann Wright
Paula Bronstein/Getty Images: A Marine stands guard in front of the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2001.
A Day in the Life: An American Diplomat in Thailand
Ted Osius: Ted Osius gives an elephant a grateful pat for carrying him into the forest in Myanmar's Bago Yoma Mountains, north of Rangoon.
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THE CONSEQUENCES OF MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIME
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Foto Alma Rodriguez: INSUFICIENTE. En los últimos años el gobierno de la ciudad ha instalado en andenes y pasillos del Metro un sistema de seguridad con un centro de mando computarizado, 3 mil cámaras de videovigilancia y botones de pánico. Pese a ello, en el interior siguen ocurriendo diversos ilícitos
Foto Ramón Romero: LOS REYES SATURAN LAS CALLES. Miles de mexicanos salieron anoche al centro del DF a comprar los regalos de Reyes Magos a pesar de que los comerciantes reportan una caída de ventas por la crisis | Ver nota
Foto David Jaramillo; INCONFORME. Isabel Miranda cuestionó las sentencias impuestas a los secuestradores de su hijo, Hugo Alberto Wallace, y pidió la destitución del juez 16 de distrito en materia penal, Augusto Octavio Mejía Ojeda | Ver nota
Foto: Adrian Hernandez. ABRÍGUESE, SEGUIRÁ EL FRÍO. Las autoridades de Salud recomiendan extremar cuidados. El frío seguirá en las siguientes horas, y esto eleva el riesgo de contraer enfermedades como la influenza A H1N1 | Ver nota
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