Big Banks fund the Drug Cartel's of Mexico with your money!

Written By FaithRMichaels

This article posted below arrived in my e-mail box this morning.
I read it and thought .."I was right!"
I have long suspected that the current war on drugs is a false front that makes money for the privatized prison systems,while doing away with druglords competition. I also believe that the main reason marijuana is still illegal is because powerful people are making a profit and do not wish that profit or power to be infringed upon .. and now here is the proof. (Cocaine is not the only substance coming from those cartels in Mexico ) ...Read about it then please become outraged..then for the sake of your livelyhood,your loved ones, your family and children...
DO SOMETHING!!!
What can you do???
Well for starters.... Take your money out of "Big Banks" and put it in a local community bank!
Then stop using the credit cards from Chase, Citi-Bank-Wachovia and anything funded by Goldman Sach! (For those that have been following along you also know that these banks are part of the FED.) You say you cannot??? Then when you wake up to a Socialist dictatorship that mandates everything you do,and they come for your family...Smile! Because your apathy helped to create it. Stop waiting for our useless government to do something..YOU DO SOMETHING!
My money is in a local community bank ..I do not have a credit card and I shop Mom and Pop local Bz. By money standards I am very poor..but I drink gourmet organic coffees, own my toyota, wash with handmilled soap made by the Amish, eat well from local farmers co-op,local gardens and my own, buy eggs from a local person, shop at yard sales for clothes, recycle, and more. You can do these things as well even if you live in the city. It's just done differently thats all.
Anyway here is the Mail from Taipan Daily.

Taipan Daily: "Too Big to Jail" - How Big Banks Are Turning Mexico Into Colombia
by Justice Litle, Editorial Director, Taipan Publishing Group

The Dogs of War
are men of hate...
With no cause,
We don't discriminate...
- Pink Floyd, "Dogs of War"

Ah, Megabanks, how we love thee. Let us count the ways... Like clockwork, you create a new crisis every five to seven years or so with your greedy, pig-headed lending. You routinely cover your tracks with torrents of lobbying cash poured into Washington. In the subprime mortgage crisis and the financial meltdown that followed, you nearly succeeded in blowing up the global economy. And then, in the aftermath, you arranged one of the greatest swindles ever, getting the system to make you whole again (via taxpayer blood and treasure) even as a majority of Americans suffered.

The above is plenty of reason to be disgusted, one could fairly conclude. But as that legendary pitchman Ron Popeil likes to say: "But wait - there's more!"

Now we learn that, joy of joys, plundering and pillaging the rotten financial system was not enough for these men. They also saw fit to directly fuel the Mexican cocaine trade... knowingly aid in the laundering of billions, even tens of billions, in bloody drug money... and do their part in helping turn Mexico into Colombia, a struggling developing world country slowly descending into the hell of a narco-state.

Exaggeration? Sadly not...

Black Suitcases and a DC-9

A recent issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine ran a deeply unsettling story titled "Wachovia's Drug Habit."

The story opens with the seizure of a DC-9 jet loaded up with "128 black suitcases, packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine," good enough for a street value of $100 million.


"Law enforcement officials also discovered something else," Bloomberg Markets magazine reports. "The smugglers had bought the DC-9 with laundered funds transferred through two of the biggest banks in the U.S.: Wachovia Corp and Bank of America Corp"...

"This was no isolated incident," the story adds. "Wachovia, it turned 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 - included the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine."

Blind Eye, Greedy Eye

Narcotics is big business in the United States. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Bloomberg reports, "the cartels have built a network of dealers in 231 U.S. cities from coast to coast, taking in about $39 billion in sales annually."

Thirty-nine billion is some serious dough. You don't move that kind of cash without the help of your friendly megabanker.

"It's the banks laundering the money for the cartels that finances the tragedy," says Martin Woods. "If you don't see the correlation between the money laundering by banks and the 22,000 people killed in Mexico, you're missing the point."

And just who is Martin Woods, you ask? He is the former head of Wachovia's anti-money-laundering unit in London. Woods is no longer in that role, having quit his job in "disgust" as higher-up executives ignored his documentation of the drug-money funneling process.

The profits from quietly washing that $39 billion clean were too big to pass up... and so the banks turned a blind eye instead.

The list of banks with questionable connections to the multibillion-dollar drug trade sounds like a "who's who" of financial might: Wachovia (now Wells Fargo). Bank of America. American Express Bank International. HSBC Holdings. Citigroup. Banco Santander. Western Union. There are probably more...

Too Big to Jail

"No big bank - Wells Fargo included - has ever been indicted for violating the Bank Secrecy Act or any other federal law," says Bloomberg. "Instead, the U.S. Justice Department settles criminal charges by using deferred-prosecution agreements, in which a bank pays a fine and promises not to break the law again."

In plain English, "Too Big to Fail" has become "Too Big to Jail." The megabanks are seen as too important to the health and functioning of the U.S. financial system to risk hitting them with criminal charges.

Perversely, the current setup actually reinforces criminal activity. When breaking the law results in a small financial fine, it doesn't take long before the fine is seen as a simple "cost of doing business." The megabanks, protected as they are from on high, are thus encouraged to do whatever they please and take their slap on the wrist later.

A Descent Into Hell

Roughly a month ago, Rodolfo Torre was ambushed and gunned down on a rural Mexican highway. Torre was the clear front-runner in a bid to become governor of Tamaulipas, a Mexican state bordering Texas. Along with Torre, his chief of staff, campaign chief and bodyguard were also killed.

This happened just across the border. Just imagine if a U.S. political candidate running on a strong anti-trafficking platform were hunted down.

In fact, we may not have to imagine at all, because a similar threat has arisen in Arizona... Joe Arpaio, the Sherriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., now has a $1 million bounty on his head. It was placed there by a Mexican drug cartel, Fox Phoenix reports. Do you think the cartel really has the money? I do. I wonder how they got it...

The number of people killed in the never-ending drug war continues to escalate. By some estimates 22,000 has become 25,000. Less than a week ago, four journalists were kidnapped. Attempts by the local police force to stand up to gang threats result in people's heads in baskets. Mexican pop singers who compose song ballads to drug barons, known as narcocorridos, are gunned down in cold blood when a rival baron gets offended. The Mexican Army, supposedly fighting the gangs, has gotten so out of control as to become a source of local terror themselves.

Mexico is on the way to becoming a failed state, or rather, a narco-state. The war on drugs has been completely and irrevocably lost. We are at the point where further efforts to "crack down" only serve to increase the profits of the cartels by raising the street value of various illegal substances. And the money poured into drug-fighting enforcement measures by both the U.S. and Mexican governments only serves to increase the size and frequency of violent, bloody shootouts.

Meanwhile, the dogs of war - i.e. the 'Too Big to Jail' banks - casually sit back and help fund it all.

No Redemption?

As Mexico morphs into Colombia - a de facto fiefdom for drug barons - America's "Great Recession" is showing more signs of being a Soft Depression for some. The latest stats indicate 25% of Americans have a credit score of less than 600, making them ineligible for any basic loans. A frightening majority of Americans are two paychecks or less from total destitution. And things are getting worse...

There seems to be no way around the final conclusion. America is gorging itself to death on complacency and ignorance. Our delusions and self indulgences are now, literally, costing thousands of lives. And the white-collar travesties being perpetrated at the highest levels are helping to transform an immediate neighbor, Mexico, from a promising developing world nation into a blood-soaked third-world hellhole.

What can we do about any of this? "Throw the bums out?" Which bums exactly? Replace the Democrat in the White House with another Republican? Fat lot of good that would do... just look what the last Republican did. When an empire shows itself to be in the final stages of crumbling, perhaps the only sane thing to do is stay wise, stay wary, and focus on the well-being of your loved ones...

Warm Regards,
JL

Related links:
Reclaiming our Sovereignty by creating public banks

Conquering America by Debt

Quote from Web Of Debt:
"John Adams once said: "there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt." The latter method is stealth enough so people don't know what's happening and submit to their own bondage."

Rumors have it that the FED is engineering this economic collapse.
while this is not news to some ,to others this will be a new thought.
Ron Paul has been speaking tirelessly to this issue.
Thanks to those that supported him for president,along with the grassroots campaign and their untiring efforts to bring the truth, we now have a bill before Congress to audit the FED.While any monopoly on anything is not a good idea....
I am in full support of our monetary policy being turned over to the Department of Treasury. That would be a great place to start.
Please show your support for this bill by going here and doing as it suggests. If Your Congressperson is already one of the sponsors-e-mail them and say thank you. Also no matter what the outcome of this -Keep the pressure on because it is working and slowly but surely like the tortoise against the Hair -we will win this race.
My heartfelt thanx to Ron Paul and to many of our members of Congress who have supported this bill.


One last thing.
Every body is worried about Wall Street.
I am concerned about the ones around the world who are working to crash our dollar.
I am concerned about the ones who are buying up all our precious metals, and own our most valuable resources.I am concerned about the traitors in our government who are openly calling themselves Neo-Cons and calling for a new world order.Shortly after 9/11 which was the beginning of this mess there was an article I read in the Wall Street Journal that spoke to this issue.
The article was about the heavy money players in the world who were placing their full support behind the Euro and their desire to crash the dollar.
They knew they could not defeat the USA military war machine on the traditional battlefield so they went after our dollar.
The war is NOT on a battlefield as we have come to understand the term.
The battlefield has shifted to the money, and global trade banking markets .
He who has the most gold and monetary resources rules the world.
We The People have to account to the government for every penny of every dollar so why should they not account to us?
Our FED loving Senators have blocked their part of the bill,which is S-604.
Call,e-mail your senators and let them know this is unacceptable. Remember it is the Senate that passed the bail-out and congress has been getting all the hate mail for it-It is time for our Senators to be told we hold them accountable as well.
So as I stated above keep the pressure on and support the bill that would force the FED to account for itself and the spending of We The Peoples money.