Sunday, February 22, 2015

Here's the secret code a Mexican drug cartel allegedly uses to communicate ...

Borderland Beat

Badiraguato Mayor talks: Chapo's replacement, El Azul's "death", the whereabouts of Rafael Caro Quintero

Posted: 22 Feb 2015 12:31 AM PST

Lucio for Borderland Beat-translated from El Pais and posted by siskiyoukid

Driving along the road we happen upon cows and men with cowboy hats riding on the back of old mares. We journeyed until in the distance, we saw the giant letters written on a hill, Hollywood-style, they read ‘BADIRAGUATO’. In this town of 32,000 inhabitants, located in the foothills of the Sierra in Sinaloa, where more savvy farmers grow marijuana instead of beans, the most famous drug traffickers in Mexico's history were born.

The mayor is one of those ever present politicians. The municipality comprises a town and many villages scattered through the mountains, some seven hours away up the mountain.

This winter, Mario Valenzuela is touring all of them handing out blankets, wheelchairs and messages like this to residents: "I come to ask them to be responsible citizens. In Spain or United States they have the same laws, but there they are enforced. That is the problem we have in Badiraguato and in Mexico in general."

Valenzuela endures the midday sun at El Sitio de Arriba, a village which can be reached after crossing El Sitio de Abajo and El Sitio de Enmedio. His audience waited on the field where they are having the rally: women with children and the elderly. Before the interview in which Valenzuela (PRI, the ruling party) will talk about El Chapo, the mother of El Chapo, the flight of Caro Quintero, the cousin of Caro Quintero and the non-death of El Azul, play a guessing game with voters:

" What is the name of the animal that flies with legs? ".

“Duck!", someone among the public shouts.

Q:What is the situation of Badiraguato a year after the arrest of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán?

R:The problem is in the State (Sinaloa). An arrest of someone of the caliber of Chapo Guzman

leaves many people unemployed, at least temporarily. While things are transitioned, there are new controls, new hierarchies, resulting in new problems. Robberies have increased, also there are more assaults...

Q. A year ago, you told me that you had a relationship with the mother of El Chapo.

R.La señora (María Consuelo Loera) is thinner. On Wednesday of last week I was in La Tuna (a village of the municipality where EL Chapo was born).

She is quiet, stable.

Today I did not see her, but the time before I went to a first stone ceremony (first stone laid commemorating a construction start) and to the Churchof which she belongs, (built by El Chapo, although he is Catholic, the church is Evangelical) and I was with her for a while. She invited me to join her for breakfast and I did so with much pleasure. It is not her fault what her child does.

Q. Do you believe that the successor of El Chapo may be Dámaso López Nuñez, El Licenciado?

A. I don't know. What is certain is that El Chapo has a son, who is Ivan, also his brother, who is Aureliano [El Mudo], and I think that they would be in control before El Licenciado.

Q.Have you seen presence of other criminal groups that want to take this plaza that belongs to the Sinaloa cartel?

R.No. The hierarchy of these people isn’t local, it is essentially international.

Q.They have detected methamphetamine laboratories in Badiraguato?

R.They already produce synthetic drugs here. And that's bad, because in the end it is more harmful than marijuana. Synthetic drugs are the trend, as the plebes (young) say.

Is Badiraguato the cradle of drug trafficking? Yes, here were born many drug traffickers. The Lord of the Skies (Amado Carrillo, who died in 1997 in a cosmetic surgery operation), El Azul (José Juan Esparragoza, historic capo whose children say died), is supposed to be dead, but it is not certain.

Q. Was his death a sham for the authorities to stop pursuing him?

R.We have checked with his relatives and those who are close and they say no. Moreover, supposedly, the remains were transferred up here, I imagine, ashes or whatever.

Q.Mexican intelligence believes that Caro Quintero - who spent 30 years in prison for the murder of a DEA agent and came out last year through a legal gimmick - freely hides in his village, La Noria, near here.

R.It would be difficult to say, too bold.. They say yes. In February the Navy came with 18 helicopters. They badly beat the commissioner of the community, a first cousin of Caro Quintero.

He is not guilty of anything just because he is his cousin. He told the marines that yes; it is true that Caro had been here; he came and they (the people) made a roast (BBQ). They went to greet him in La Noria, with much pleasure. When he was free Caro helped a lot on this road: he installed lights, he built a beautiful church, generated employment for the people. Of course, they treated him like a family member who had been in prison for 30 years.

There are many hypotheses concerning Caro: he is working in the mines, that he is helping people, or that he is in control of the cartel. They say that he prefers to be eaten by the mosquitoes of the Sierra, than to return to prison.

Q.in the mural of illustrious characters of Badiraguato that you are building will it include...?

R. N’ombre! (Contraction of "no hombre" used like "no way") I will not put El Chapo there. I would say Peña Nieto is going up.

Mora Hipólito candidacy for federal deputy is still 'viable'

Posted: 21 Feb 2015 09:02 PM PST

Borderland Beat posted by DD from material at Red Politica and Movimiento Cuidano

The ex-leader of the AUC, Hipolito Mora seeks political contest in the upcoming elections on June 7 despite being imprisoned.

Dante Delgado , National Citizens Movement coordinator said a bid by Hipólito Mora,former leader of the AUC is "viable".

Mora at this time is imprisoned after the confrontation in Apatzingán that occurred in December 2014, with elements of the Rural Force commanded by Luis Antonio Torres, El Americano.

Last year before the confrontation on Dec. 16 which resulted in 11 people dead, Mora expressed his desire to contend as a candidate for deputyship in the elections of 2015, however he did not indicate what party he would prefer to represent.

Different versions pointed to the Labor Party (PT) or National Regeneration Movement(Morena) as a possibility, however Citizens Movement (DD; a registered political party) gave to understand that they are with the ex-leader of the AUC as he seeks a seat on the federal council.

Despite the legal situation and incarceration in which he was placed in 2014 , his lawyer Eduardo Quintero pointed out that amparos (legal protections) are available so that he is not deprived of his political and electoral rights and can seek election as a federal deputy.

Here's the secret code a Mexican drug cartel allegedly uses to communicate

Posted: 21 Feb 2015 09:01 PM PST

Borderland Beat posted by DD republished from Business Insider

By Christina Sterbenz.

To sell drugs and transport their profits, Mexican cartels need to stay off the grid. That means using ultra-secret communications.

In a recent money-laundering case in Chicago, special agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Jill Dennewitz testified against 32 members of various Mexican drug cartels.

A cell phone and charger hooked up to a battery (not shown) and a solar generator are seen following the arrest of eight men accused of serving as scouts for Mexican drug cartels in Pinal County, Arizona

The cartel members often used blackberry messenger, or BBM, according to prosecutors. In one instance, Carlos Parra-Pedroza, also known as "Walt Disney" or "Don Walt," allegedly emailed a confidential HSI informant a list of codes to use while they talked.

When they communicate, cartels likely spend a lot of time discussing shipment amounts and prices. Therefore, they created a system of codes that correlated with numbers.

62 = 0
83 = 1
71 = 2
49 = 3
57 = 4
66 = 5
35 = 6
21 = 7
18 = 8
96 = 9

The cartel members also used coded phrases that pertained more to scheduling.

Make an appointment = let's go to the beach
Appointment was made = it's warm
Which day = [depends on the day]
I am on my way = the beer are cold
I am on my way back = I'm with my wife
I am verifying = I have diarrhea
Mercedes = ticket is complete
Hamburger = is missing/short
It's f***ed up = I like your sister
They are following me and I have money with me = let's go to the movie theater
Monday = Red
Tuesday = Yellow
Wednesday = Green
Thursday = White
Friday = Blue
Saturday = Black
Sunday = Purple

During one conversation on Aug. 21, 2014, for example, Para-Pedroza told the informant: "The red one we'll start with 2 orders .... One is of 66 62 62 and the other of 96 62 62 .... Let's see if we can work all the colors. [Name redacted] and his brother go to the beach the whole week."

That most likely means: On Monday (August 25, 2014), Looks like we'll start with two orders .... One is 500 (probably meaning $500,000) and the other one of 900 (probably meaning $900,000) .... Let's see if we can pick up the narcotics proceeds every day of the week. [Name redacted] and his brother make an appointment the whole week.

The lawsuit claims that "Walt Disney" and his brethren laundered more than $100 million in drug profits using these methods

Islam and Norway's Leaking Fish Tank

THE VIDEO THAT PROVES OBAMA IS LYING ABOUT MUSLIMS AND ISLAM !

One Citizen Speaking...

THE VIDEO THAT PROVES OBAMA IS LYING ABOUT MUSLIMS AND ISLAM

Posted: 20 Feb 2015 04:12 PM PST

Here is a video that all Americans should see …

It appears to have been filmed in 2013 at a Muslim "peace conference" in Norway and the speaker, Fahad Ullah Qureshi, Chairman of a Norwegian organisation Islam Net, and clearly and convincingly demonstrates that normal, everyday, mosque-attending Muslims believe the Qur’an is correct in prescribing punishments for those who transgress its word.

“I would ask you, everyone in the room: How many of you are normal Muslims – not extremists, not radical – just normal Sunni Muslims? Please, raise your hands. Everybody, with the grace of God. Okay, take down your hands.
How many of you agree that men and women should sit separately? Please raise your hands. Everyone agrees, brothers as well as sisters. So it's not just these "radical" sheiks, then?
Next question: How many of you agree that the punishments described in the Koran and the Sunna – whether it is death, whether it is stoning for adultery, whatever it is... If it is from Allah and His Messenger, that is the best punishment ever possible for humankind, and that is what we should apply in the world. Who agrees with that?
Allahu Akbar. Are you all radical extremists? So all of you are saying that you are common Muslims, you all go to different mosques in Norway... Or are you a specific sect, like the Islam Net sect, or anything like that? Are you like that? No. Are you like that? Please raise your hand if you are like that extreme Islam, that sect, or anything like that? No one, Allahu Akbar.
How many of you go to the normal Sunni mosques in Norway? Please raise your hands. Allahu Akbar. What are the politicians going to say now? What is the media going to say now? That we are all extremists? That we are all radicals? That we all need to be deported from this country?”

So where are the activists, the agitators, the gays, the women’s rights advocates, and the chattering classes is made up of progressive socialist democrats?

Why is nobody defending our Constitution? Why is nobody defending Western Cultural Values? Why is nobody pointing out that Islamists are incompatible with freedom-loving people? Political correctness? Multiculturalism? Moral equivalency? Or because President Barack Hussein Obama is in the White House and power trumps everything in the world of progressive socialist democrats?

Saudi Arabia at the forefront of state-sponsored terrorism?

Islam, as practiced by the majority of Muslims, appears tolerant of those Islamicists who actually practice the strictest interpretation of Islam – and one that found a home in Saudi Arabia where the majority of the terrorists originated.

Some even believing, myself included, that the Saudis are playing a dangerous game to preserve their Kingdom from overthrow – striking a Faustian Bargain with the terrorists to fund their activities and to spread Whabbism throughout the world by building Mosques and providing Imams who espouse strict adherence to the Qur’an.

And, let us also remember that the other state-sponsored source of terrorism, Iran, is comprised of the minority Shia sect of Islam that is fighting for their existence against the majority Sunni sect of Islam. A religious war that has continued for hundreds of years and is not likely to be resolved unless Islam is reformed or the Shia are ethnically cleansed as apostates. And, this war has nothing to do with Jews or Israel – other than they are mentioned in the Qur’an as the enemies of Islam.

The right questions were asked – and the answer is YES, stop immigration of Muslims and deport the radicals …

The questions were asked, “What are the politicians going to say now? What is the media going to say now? That we are all extremists? That we are all radicals? That we all need to be deported from this country?” and the answers are self-evident. The United States must cease allowing Muslims to immigrate, self-segregate into communities, and then turn those communities into the Crapistan they left because they claimed they were “persecuted.”

ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe as a 'psychological weapon' in chilling echo of Gaddafi's prophecy that the Mediterranean 'will become a sea of chaos'
Transcripts of telephone intercepts published in Italy claim to provide evidence that ISIS is threatening to send 500,000 migrants simultaneously out to sea in hundreds of boats in a 'psychological weapon' against Europe if there is military intervention against them in Libya.
Many would be at risk of drowning with rescue services unable to cope. But authorities fear that if numbers on this scale arrived, European cities could witness riots. <Source>

Obama the stealth warrior for Islam?

Obama: 'Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding'
We hear a lot about the United States' Judeo-Christian heritage, but according to President Obama, "Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding."
That's what the president told a White House conference on "countering violent extremism" on Wednesday.
"I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story,” Obama said in a June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt. "Islam has always been part of America," he said in a 2010 statement marking the start of Ramadan. And in a 2014 statement marking Eid, Obama said the holiday "also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy."
In his speech on Wednesday, Obama was making the point that Western nations must show that they "welcome people of all faiths," at a time when "extremists" are saying that Western nations are "hostile to Muslims." <Source>

Here is the man who is “slow-walking” our attack on the ISIS rebels in Syria and Iraq – expending costly ordinance on empty buildings. Using cruise missiles against specious targets that do not destroy, but merely degrade, the enemy’s capabilities.

Welcoming those who do not share our values …

Jeh Johnson: The Administration Must "Give Voice To The Plight Of Muslims"
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY JEH JOHNSON: We in the administration and the government should give voice to the plight of Muslims living in this country and the discrimination that they face. And so I personally have committed to speak out about the situation that very often people in the Muslim community in this country face. The fact that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world and the Islamic faith is one about peace and brotherhood. <Source>

Jeh Johnson is the man that is expected to coordinate American counter-terrorism activities and he, like President Obama, cannot bring himself to define radical Islamists as the enemy, nor is he willing to meet that the Qur’an, in its strictest interpretation, is not compatible with Western values.

US Officials Admit Concern Over Syrian Refugee Effort
Top U.S. counterterrorism officials say they worry a potential terrorist could be hiding among refugees who are looking to come to the United States after escaping the brutal war in Syria.
"It's clearly a population of concern,” the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Nicholas Rasmussen, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, went further, saying it would be a “huge mistake” to bring refugees from the conflict to the U.S. – even as an estimated 4 million children, women and men have been forced to flee Syria and another 7 million have been displaced from their homes there, unable to leave.
Senior officials leading the State Department’s refugee efforts say the U.S. government has a long history of caring for the innocent victims of war. <Source>

We have seen what unrestricted illegal immigration has done to California, overwhelming our medical, educational, and social support infrastructure and disrupting the lives of legal Californians. Refusing to assimilate as they self-segregate and form enclaves where Spanish is the predominant language and where non-Hispanics are not welcome. Areas that are overwhelmed with domestic terrorists in the form of minority gangs.

Do we not want Muslims to continue to concentrate their political power in the United States to the point where they can simply grant themselves additional political power and self-serving rules and regulations?

Bottom line …

It is amazing that Muslim activists in the United States demand that their minority rights be upheld and protected, and yet in most Muslim countries controlled by Islamists, there is no minority – and what minority exists, they are considered apostates to be killed.

The problem with Islam and the Qur’an is that it is unlike our bible, written by men, the Qur’an is the literal word of God as dictated to his Prophet Muhammad; and any alteration would be blasphemy and subject to death. Making true reform next to impossible in our times.

There are two types of Muslims in my opinion, the radical Islamists and those that do not participate, but accept and maybe cheer what the radical Islamists are doing.

Call me Islamaphobic, but for all practical purposes it is insane to continue to allow Muslims to immigrate into the United States. Why would we import illiteracy, poverty, disease, and a breeder class of social service recipients? While I feel sorry for the individuals involved, let them be rescued by their Islamic brothers and sisters who are enjoying the paradise known as Islam.

It is also insane to believe the progressive socialist democrats are capable of upholding their oaths of office or defending America and Americans from its enemies, both foreign and domestic.

We are so screwed.

-- steve