Monday, June 13, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Just because it's 'Murder City', doesn't make it a ghost town.
'Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity'
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico 10 June 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Australian Market Remains Robust
''Australians are among the world's highest per capita consumers of illicit stimulants, and drug prices in Australia far exceed prices overseas, making domestic drug production and importation highly profitable'' says a recent report from the Australian Crime Commission, 'Organised Crime in Australia 2011' Report.
As cocaine markets continue to decline in the US, the global market remains ''robust'' and Australia is a favoured market, given the relatively high profit margins.
Last year it was revealed that the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel controlled by Joaquin ''El Chapo'' Guzman - had infiltrated Australia, bringing massive amounts of cocaine into the country as well as concerns that the culture of violence might also follow.
''Organised crime reaches into many sectors - sometimes almost as a direct competitor and, increasingly, intermingled with legitimate businesses" says ACC chief executive John Lawler.
According to the ABC underworld activities are costing the economy up to $15 billion a year, enough to wipe out the national debt.
More at the Sydney Morning Herald
As cocaine markets continue to decline in the US, the global market remains ''robust'' and Australia is a favoured market, given the relatively high profit margins.
Last year it was revealed that the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel controlled by Joaquin ''El Chapo'' Guzman - had infiltrated Australia, bringing massive amounts of cocaine into the country as well as concerns that the culture of violence might also follow.
''Organised crime reaches into many sectors - sometimes almost as a direct competitor and, increasingly, intermingled with legitimate businesses" says ACC chief executive John Lawler.
According to the ABC underworld activities are costing the economy up to $15 billion a year, enough to wipe out the national debt.
More at the Sydney Morning Herald
Sunday, March 6, 2011
The Sacrificial Economy
“Mexico’s policy is consistent: It makes every effort to appear to be stopping the drug trade so that it will not be accused of supporting it. The government does not object to disrupting one or more of the smuggling groups, so long as the aggregate inflow of cash does not materially decline.“
Friedman, George "Mexico and the Failed State Revisited" STRATFOR Global Intelligence, April 6, 2010
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“It is here that the sovereign power must intervene, not necessarily to kill those who refuse to die but to ensure, through the use of force, that they will be exposed to death and compelled to accept the rationing of life by the market."
Montag, Warren "Necro–economics: Adam Smith and death in the life of the universal" Radical Philosophy 134 November–December 2005 pp 7–17
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If the drug trade is so significant economically, then the right to kill exercised by the Narcos, is ultimately accepted as part of that set of relations. As the recent Reyes–Salazar and Escobedo cases illustrate, the conditions by which this ‘rationing of life’ occurs is beyond the control of much of the body politic. Also, in this situation it we can’t always distinguish between state powers and organized crime, as it is well known that these organizations sponsor politicians and have law enforcers on their payroll, often also by force. Perhaps, to follow Margolles analogy, the situation is like an ‘infection’ of civic life. A economy infected by death – where death proscribes the rituals and processes of daily life.
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Huitzilopochtli the sun god and source of all life commanded terrible fear that had to be assuaged by human sacrifice.
Friedman, George "Mexico and the Failed State Revisited" STRATFOR Global Intelligence, April 6, 2010
...
“It is here that the sovereign power must intervene, not necessarily to kill those who refuse to die but to ensure, through the use of force, that they will be exposed to death and compelled to accept the rationing of life by the market."
Montag, Warren "Necro–economics: Adam Smith and death in the life of the universal" Radical Philosophy 134 November–December 2005 pp 7–17
...
If the drug trade is so significant economically, then the right to kill exercised by the Narcos, is ultimately accepted as part of that set of relations. As the recent Reyes–Salazar and Escobedo cases illustrate, the conditions by which this ‘rationing of life’ occurs is beyond the control of much of the body politic. Also, in this situation it we can’t always distinguish between state powers and organized crime, as it is well known that these organizations sponsor politicians and have law enforcers on their payroll, often also by force. Perhaps, to follow Margolles analogy, the situation is like an ‘infection’ of civic life. A economy infected by death – where death proscribes the rituals and processes of daily life.
...
Huitzilopochtli the sun god and source of all life commanded terrible fear that had to be assuaged by human sacrifice.
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