Friend, A 12 02 95 Bloomberg newsstory is headlined: Latin American nations will help U.S. combat money laundering The newsstory's datelined: BUENOS AIRES (Dec 2, 1995 - 16:38 EST) It reports: A communique issued after a two-day meeting of ministers and anti-drug officials from throughout the Americas said countries had agreed to...establish systems to identify transfers and deposits that could be linked to illegal activities. Please note: NOT transfers and deposits that are so linked but t & d's that COULD BE so linked, and seized ! Perhaps that's why US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin exclaimed ...this conference was an enormous step forward. In particular, Countries in the region were encouraged to follow the U.S. lead in setting up organizations which use computerized technology to search data bases for suspicious transactions, said Rubin. Such organizations can be distant, official organizations or they can be neighborhood, job-creating, community-aware, entre- preneurial blessings. Anyway you like it ! One selling-point at the conference: Crime organizations such as the Yakuza in Japan, the Col- ombian drug cartels and the Italian mafia depend on money laundering to place their gains beyond the reach of the law. Rubin summed up the point: Profits that can't be spent aren't profits. He would have us believe he doesn't know where to shop. The illegals can spend profits on neighborhood troops, troops armed --one way or another-- by the world's most successful arms supplier. The advantage to that supplier? It keeps all 34 [minus 1] democratic governments in the region destabilized --amenable to penetration by money bags who know how to thrive in managed chaos-- ; and still dependent on arms from the "distant," official supplier. The advantage to the money bags? It diverts "profits that can't be spent" from directly competing with them. The advantage to the illegals? Neighborhood troops protect turf and provide inexpensive medical treatment for those with complaints. The advantage to the politicos? Low intensity warfare keeps government troops busy doing something besides staging coups. Managed chaos? Like the Buenos Aires conference which ...emerged from [Clinton's] Summit of the Americas held in Miami a year ago. Right to privacy? But of course. From scheming in Miami to "profits that can't be spent" coverup in Buenos Aires to "we don't do that anymore" death squads in any of the 34. "But I meant, for the people." "You mean you have a complaint?" Cordially, Jim NOTE. The Nando Times website URL is: http://www.nando.net The online filename of the above newsstory is: biz634_2.html