Wednesday, December 27, 2017

It's The System Stupid. What is? All of it.



Mexico: In 2014, 42 students disappeared assumed murdered. There were 2371 killings in October in what is being described as a catastrophic year for crime. 12th Journalist murdered in front of his kids at their school Christmas play. It is becoming harder to do business and investors are considering pulling out as gangsters take over. "It's not just theft of cargoes. They are selling these goods on illegal markets at below the cost of production and competing against our own products." Leonardo Gomez, head of the National Association of Private Transport.

In Mexico there is a military presence in 28 out of 32 states. There is a massive crime wave and "near total immunity for the powerful..."   Quotes from the Financial Times, 12-27-17.

In Puerto Rico people still are without basic needs. The US life expectancy is declining. Mass killings in malls, churches, concerts homes as people wipe out their entire families.  None of these details are a crisis of the system, of capitalism according to the mass media.

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