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THE Mexico Thread Pt. 2 (merged)

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Re: THE Mexico Thread Pt. 2 (merged)

Unread postby ROCKMAN » Wed 08 Mar 2017, 23:42:07

Looker - "In First Trade War Shot, Mexico Cancels Sugar Export Permits To U.S.. Wow! Great news for the Rockmn's cane growing kin in south Louisiana. If President Trump keeps that going the R's will likely hold all the congressional seats in 2 years.
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Re: THE Mexico Thread Pt. 2 (merged)

Unread postby Tanada » Thu 09 Mar 2017, 11:56:58

Sugar rots the teeth and destroys the liver, it should be discouraged in every way possible.
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Re: THE Mexico Thread Pt. 2 (merged)

Unread postby Synapsid » Thu 09 Mar 2017, 20:27:25

Tanada,

Use maple syrup, then, and not honey.
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Re: THE Mexico Thread Pt. 2 (merged)

Unread postby ROCKMAN » Thu 09 Mar 2017, 20:27:58

T - Dentist have to make a living also. Like I said before: in every trade war there winners and losers on the same time. My big hope is that Mexico sells all its oil to China. Now if we could just piss the Canadians off that bad. LOL.
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Re: THE Mexico Thread Pt. 2 (merged)

Unread postby Tanada » Fri 10 Mar 2017, 00:53:17

Synapsid wrote:Tanada,

Use maple syrup, then, and not honey.


Both of those options are just as bad for the liver as white sugar.

The safest natural sweeteners to use would be barley malt syrup, glycerine separated from fatty acids in biodiesel production, or low fructose corn syrup. The first consists mostly of Maltose, the second of Glycerol and the third of Glucose, all three have a mild sweetness and can be used by every cell in your body for energy. White sugar, maple syrup, honey, high fructose corn syrup, brown sugar, molasses, agave syrup, each contain half or more of the caloric content as fructose which we now know causes non alcoholic fatty liver disease aka cirrhosis of the liver. The UN recommends you consume no more than 6 teaspoons aka 24 grams of sugar or 12 grams of fructose per day. A single 12 ounce can of cola has 20g of fructose in it.
The American Heart Association recommends limiting intake of added sugar to 6 teaspoons for women and 9 teaspoons for men.
Those limits work out to 12 grams fructose for women, 18 grams for men, meaning that single 12 ounce can of coke exceeds the DAILY limit for an adult male.

Fructose causes liver damage via the same metabolic pathway that ethanol (alcohol) does because the liver has to absorb and transform it using the same enzymes for part of the process. The massive outbreak of non alcoholic fatty liver disease in North America is directly traced back to the introduction of high fructose beverages coupled with the addition of fructose to almost every processed food you will find in every market in the USA or Canada.
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Re: THE Mexico Thread Pt. 2 (merged)

Unread postby Tanada » Sat 15 Apr 2017, 11:29:36

https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/e ... 300&w=600'

Click on the link to see the graph, Mexico lost 200,000/bbl/d of petroleum production in calendar year 2016.

Things are looking increasingly grim for NAFTA oil balance between USA/Mexico, at least from the Mexican side of the deal.

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Re: THE Mexico Thread Pt. 2 (merged)

Unread postby ROCKMAN » Sat 15 Apr 2017, 12:51:43

T - Already very bad: if I recall correctly in 2016 Mexico became a NET FOSSIL FUEL IMPORTER. US companies make a lot of money selling them NG and refinery products.
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Mob justice

Unread postby onlooker » Sun 21 May 2017, 18:55:10

Came upon this story by chance. An example of segments of population in a country lacking in law and order resorting to their own justice. Pretty harrowing
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... yptr=yahoo
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Re: Mob justice

Unread postby Rod_Cloutier » Sun 21 May 2017, 23:04:36

There are other forms of 'Mob justice' like political cartoonists:

http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2017/05/16
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Oil spills into Gulf of Mexico after underwater pipe bursts

Unread postby AdamB » Sun 15 Oct 2017, 22:44:10


The Coast Guard is responding to a report of a crude oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans says they received a report from the National Response Center at 1:30 p.m. Friday from a damaged pipeline associated with a subsea well 40 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana. The pipeline, which Coast Guard said is operated by LLOG Exploration Offshore, has been secured. LLOG Exploration said between 333,900 and 392,700 gallons of oil was released (7,950 to 9,350 barrels). Two vessels from Clean Gulf Associates and the Marine Spill Response Corporation have responded to the scene. The Coast Guard says they are continuing to conduct overflights of the area. BSEE Responds to Oil Release in the Gulf of Mexico https://t.co/rVZTCRElLw pic.twitter.com/Zs2OKLNtRE — BSEE (@BSEEgov) October 14, 2017 The Coast Guard is working with Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the National Oceanic ...


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Another Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Unread postby kublikhan » Mon 16 Oct 2017, 17:21:23

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig. The Delta House floating production facility about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Venice, Louisiana, released 7,950 to 9,350 barrels of oil Oct. 13, according to closely held operator LLOG Exploration Co. That would make it the largest spill in more than seven years.

The LLOG spill was triggered by a fracture in a flowline jumper, Rick Fowler, the company’s vice president for deepwater projects, said in an email. That’s a short pipeline used to connect nearby subsea structures. Multiple barriers placed on either side of the fracture stopped the release, but the the flowline jumper hasn’t yet been repaired. The subsea system affected by the fracture was shut in, though nearby connected systems weren’t. The fracture wasn’t caused by Hurricane Nate and there were no associated injuries.

BSEE, the federal agency which regulates offshore energy and mineral extraction, started an investigation into the cause of the spill.
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill May Be Largest Since BP Disaster

Unread postby AdamB » Tue 17 Oct 2017, 11:57:45

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig. The Delta House floating production facility about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Venice, Louisiana, released 7,950 to 9,350 barrels of oil from early Wednesday to Thursday morning, according to closely held operator LLOG Exploration Co. That would make it the largest spill in more than seven years, data from the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement show, even though it’s a fraction of the millions of barrels ejected in the 2010 incident. The LLOG spill was triggered by a fracture in a flowline jumper, Rick Fowler, the company’s vice president for deepwater projects, said in an email. That’s a short pipeline used to connect nearby subsea structures. Multiple barriers placed ...


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Global Majors Eyeing Mexico’s Deep Waters

Unread postby AdamB » Mon 13 Nov 2017, 19:50:46


As the price of oil rises, an international rush is on for Mexico’s untapped deep-water riches. The who’s who of the oil world -- led by Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s two biggest drillers by market value -- are lining up to bid in the country’s Jan. 31 deep-water auction. And the interest is international in scope, drawing Chevron Corp. from the U.S., the U.K.’s BP Plc, Norway’s Statoil ASA, France’s Total SA, Australia’s BHP Billiton Ltd, Russia’s Lukoil PJSC and China’s Cnooc Ltd, among others. The total: 25 registered to bid for 29 deep-water plots across the southern Gulf of Mexico, the nation’s regulator said Thursday. It shouldn’t be a surprise. The areas up for grabs are estimated to hold as much as 4.2 billion barrels of crude oil in untapped deep waters where 76 percent of Mexico’s


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Mexico - Failed State?

Unread postby vox_mundi » Fri 12 Jan 2018, 11:39:47

US Issues Highest Travel Warning for Five Mexican States

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MEXICO CITY — Five states in Mexico have gotten the sternest “do not travel” advisories under a revamped U.S. State Department system unveiled Wednesday.
The State Department had previously discouraged travel to all or part of the five states’ territories but the new warnings are sterner, placing the drug- and crime-plagued states on the same warning level as Somalia, Yemen, Syria or Afghanistan.

The five Level 4 states are the northern border state of Tamaulipas and the Pacific coast states of Sinaloa, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero.
In the case of Tamaulipas, it says that gun battles are widespread and warn of travel by both public and private bus as armed criminal groups take passengers hostage and demand ransom payments.

"Local law enforcement has limited capability to respond to violence in many parts of the state," it says.

Sinaloa, where criminal gangs such as the Sinaloa cartel are active, is particularly dangerous.

The state department warns that "in Guerrero state, armed groups operate independently of the government in many areas". It adds: "Members of these groups frequently maintain roadblocks and may use violence towards travellers."

Its website also states that US government employees are prohibited from travelling to the entire state of Guerrero, including Acapulco.

The resort town was once a glamorous destination, but in recent years it has had one of the highest murder rates in the country.

Mexico as a whole has a Level 2 rating, “exercise increased caution,” in the new four-level alert system, because of concerns about crime.

But an additional 11 of the 31 Mexican states get a Level 3 warning, “reconsider travel.” They are: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Jalisco, Mexico, Morales, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora and Zacatecas.

The popular beach resorts of Los Cabos, Cancun and Cozumel are all in Level 2 states but the one-time tourist hot spots of Mazatlan and Acapulco are in Level 4 states.

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Hanging Bodies Found Near Los Cabos Tourist Areas

Six bodies were found hanging from bridges near major tourist areas in Los Cabos late Wednesday.

Two of the bodies were found near Los Cabos International Airport, hanging from a bridge in Las Veredas, while two more were on a bridge on the highway between Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, Reuters reports. Two more bodies were found on a third bridge near the airport. While authorities have not released details on what happened to the men, drug gangs often hang the bodies of their murdered victims publicly in order to intimidate rivals. Fueled by drug gang violence, 2017 is on pace to become Mexico’s deadliest year in modern history.


Shootouts Over Weekend Near Acapulco, Los Cabos; Security Updates

A series of shootouts over the weekend killed 18 people, including community police, near Acapulco and Los Cabos, Mexico.

According to ABC News, seven people were killed in San Jose del Cabo Saturday night when marines responding to reports of gunfire encountered heavily armed men in tactical vests in two vehicles with California license plates. A car chase ensued, after which the vehicles crashed and all seven people in the cars were shot dead by the marines. In a separate incident in La Conception, which is near Acapulco, eight people were killed when gunmen ambushed community police. Two of those dead were from the community police force. Later that morning, when state police arrived to disarm the local agents, another shootout ensued in which three more people were killed. At this time it is unclear how those three died. 30 members of the community police force have been detained on suspicion of crimes ranging from homicide to illegal weapons and drug possession.
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Re: Mexico - Failed State?

Unread postby dissident » Fri 12 Jan 2018, 18:03:08

Interesting how Mexico went down hill into a drug civil war when it took over the role of Columbia as the prime supplier/conduit to the USA. Looks like Columbia was in a similar drug civil war even though it was cast in the guise of a leftist rebellion. Another dope supplier with serious domestic issues can be found in South Asia, namely Afghanistan. Dope pushers cannot get along with each other. This is true at any scale, from the organization scale, to the street scale. These vermin are always shooting each other over their precious business.
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Re: Mexico - Failed State?

Unread postby vox_mundi » Fri 12 Jan 2018, 21:46:55

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Re: Mexico - Failed State?

Unread postby dissident » Sat 13 Jan 2018, 00:15:40

You wouldn't post some stupid tourist photo, pstarr, if you knew personally anyone murdered by a druggie in Mexico City.

That was back in the early 2000s. Mexico City was much safer before the drug running operations moved north from South America.

If you think Mexico is doing just dandy, please go on a vacation to any of the regions where "you do not see any problems".
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Re: Mexico - Failed State?

Unread postby rockdoc123 » Sat 13 Jan 2018, 01:05:21

If you think Mexico is doing just dandy, please go on a vacation to any of the regions where "you do not see any problems".


Do you actually regularly go to Mexico or is this just some rant from someone sitting on the outside who has actually never been there?
Pretty much every year we go somewhere in Mexico, it is our chosen destination for various reasons. The crap that is going on down there is mostly gang on gang. People get caught up in this because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Most people in Mexico are not much different than anywhere else in the world...they are good people, mostly Christian who want to raise a family. They got caught up in the drogo cartels but to a large extent if they were not involved in some way they are left alone unless they end up being in a club at the wrong time.
The press talks about lots of bad things but spending lots of time down there and keeping my head around not being in the wrong place at the wrong time it has all been pretty good.
If you want to go to Tijuana and buy drugs then you are in a different experience than someone who wants to just go to a resort and relax or someone who wants to explore the Maya antiquities.
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