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westexas on January 29, 2008 - 9:00am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

Interesting note from Stratfor.com regarding the Mexican/US border:

Dear Stratfor Reader:

There's an undeclared war on the Mexican/US border between Mexican Federal forces and the drug cartels, with spillover into the United States. . .

. . . The mainstream media isn't giving this story nearly the coverage it merits. Partially they don't understand the implications, and partially it's because the journalists who have covered this story tend to turn up kidnapped or dead.

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joule on January 29, 2008 - 9:18am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Badges?! ..... We don't need no stinkin badges!

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SacredCowTipper on January 29, 2008 - 1:26pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Moe fan? I happened to listen to a show with that bit in it on my trip this week :-)

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joule on January 29, 2008 - 6:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

'Moe fan' ..... what on earth are you talking about?

The 'We don't need no stinkin badges' thing is the famous line out of the classic movie, 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre', with Humphrey Bogart.

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Durandal on January 29, 2008 - 8:10pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

While with Cheech & Chong, it's "Badgers? We don't need no stinkin badgers!"

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elwoodelmore on January 30, 2008 - 6:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

the phrase has become a cultural icon. and really, it is p/o related but the connection may be obscure. i recommend reading the book by b traven and watching the dvd version of the movie* which includes a documentary on the making of the movie.

you may have trouble finding them (book and dvd) in your mainstream library, i found them at a branch library in a seedy part of town (along with "twilight"). maybe just coincidence.

*bogie wore a wig during the making of the movie, he had lost his hair because of fertility treatments, trying to have a kid with lauren bacall. i know, i know this is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay of topic.

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SacredCowTipper on January 30, 2008 - 8:06am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I don't know that I've ever seen a movie with Bogart in it, but I have certainly listened to M.O.E. here and there, and this line pops up during a song called "Mexico".

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MUDLOGGER on January 30, 2008 - 8:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

It also appears in Blazing Saddles in the scene where they are getting a whole bunch of baddies (KKK, Wehrmacht and Mexican Bandits etc) to swear into a posse.

My kids used to be in stitches and quoted it all the time, especially at cub scouts and brownies.

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Leanan on January 29, 2008 - 9:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Lou Dobbs has been covering it.

Not that I give Stratfor much credit. They're the ones who predicted oil would be back down below $30 in 4th quarter of 2005.

They've also been predicting the imminent collapse of China...for about ten years now.

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westexas on January 29, 2008 - 9:43am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Yeah, I e-mail the guys every once in a while and remind them about their failed oil price predictions.

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tstreet on January 29, 2008 - 10:28am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Legalize drugs. End war.

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mcgowanmc on January 29, 2008 - 11:00am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Google Mayan Express ICE CIA

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karlof1 on January 29, 2008 - 11:27am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

NarcoNews has been covering this and other undertheradar events related to US DEA and ICE corruption and involvement in "The House of Death," as well as resistence on both sides of the border to its militarization.

As for StratFor, the "Drug War" spilled across the border long ago. Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" and Mike Ruppert's challenge to the CIA over its deep involvement in the drug trade should be required reading. The immorality of the USG is very deep and long standing.

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mcgowanmc on January 29, 2008 - 12:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Why are there no American Drug Lords?

and

When did the British Monarchy stop profiting from Opium?

"Two American-registered drug planes busted in Mexico carrying four and 5.5 tons of cocaine are just the "tip of the iceberg" in a blockbuster aviation deal which sent 50 American-registered aircraft to the Sinaloa Cartel, the MadCowMorningNews has learned."

http://www.madcowprod.com/

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NZSanctuary on January 29, 2008 - 6:46pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Michael Ruppert did a lot of good research into the CIA involvement in drug-running.

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