Mr. Unz, you have Russ Baker’s website listed here, have you by any chance read his Family of Secrets book, which also has a lot of provocative information regarding the American deep state?

I also recommend David Talbot’s The Devil’s Chessboard which also covers the American deep state in regards to the CIA under Allen Dulles.

Gulen’s CIA pal was apparently spotted in Turkey at the night of the attempted coup:

http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO9Aug2016.php

Here’s a a really good detail account on Gulen and his shadowy empire:

http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO25July2016.php

In Mexico, Felipe Calderon’s wife might also be running for president.

I remember a story that happened a fews months ago here in Los Angele about a man with a towel wrapped around one of his hands, flagged a passing police car down for help, and instead was shot in the head by the cops. Last I heard he survived, but not doing too well. Going by his name he might be Hispanic.

I don’t think you have to worry about Latinos converting to Islam anytime soon:

https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNewsService/posts/10153152021210723

Our Lady of Guadalupe is the symbol of Mexican identity:

http://americamagazine.org/issue/our-lady-guadalupe-represents-mexican-identity?utm_content=buffer067f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

I think Sicario’s Denis Villeneuve was influenced by the Brazilian film Elite Squad as many have noticed the similarities in terms of direction.

Another American who was interested in Mexico was John Huston who lived in Puerto Vallarta for a time and his penultimate film was set in Mexico, Under the Volcano, and one also can’ forget about Treasure at Sierra Madre. Jack Kerouac, with his French Canadian roots, was also interested in Mexico as he made several trips into Mexico and wrote about it.

There’s seems to be an ascendancy of narcos in the media with Netflix’s Narcos a success which will probably lead to more narco tv shows and Ridley Scott’s next film is another cartel film.

Anyone who wants to know more about the cartels in Mexico should read Don Winslow’s two excellent novels, Power of the Dog and The Cartel. The Power of the Dog chronicles the rise of the cartels from the 70s and on through the 80s and 90s. The Cartel covers the cartel wars in the 2000s. As someone who has an interest in this subject, I can say that Don Winslow has done his research and did not embellished much in his novels as pretty much everything in the novels are based on actual incidents.

For the sequel I hope they don’t have Adonis fight Ivan Drago’s son, that would be too much.

On Saturday night in Las Vegas there were thousands of Mexicans in Las Vegas cheering for Canelo Alvarez who looks more Irish than Colin Farrell.

Maria de Jesus is the type of ultra-Catholic name you’d find most often among the reactionary upper class that pines for Franco

Maria de is a popular name for Mexican girls of all classes, I know several Mexican sisters that have their names start with Maria de.

Ximena is either Catalan or an affected old spelling. Likely either from Spain or upper class Latin American.

Ximena is a standard Mexican name since in Mexico the letter X is pronounced as the letter J. In Spain, Mexico is written as Mejico.

The German World Cup team of 1954 has been accused of doping. It’ll be interesting to look up the widespread use of doping in an ultra-competitive sport like soccer. Now that I think about it steroids could be explain a lot of things. Soccer play relied less on technique and more on brute force in the 80s, could this be correlated to the widespread use of steroids use as players became more aggressive and relied more on brute strength? The Dutch team of the early 70s was transformed from average mediocrity to being one of the best in the world in a short span of time, could doping had played a possible role?

Jack Warner is a very smart man and probably used the Onion article to plead senility or for propaganda purposes in order to convince his ignorant supporters.

Most strategic location is the heartland of Eurasia as outlined by Mackinder, “…commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; Who rules the World Island commands the World.” Then it was taken up by Brzezinski in his Grand Chessboard book on advocating a Eurasian strategy for controlling the resources of Central Asia and thus ensuring global supremacy.

He could play a Mexican and I’ll find it believable.

Could it be three years in a row for Mexican directors? I’m hearing good things about Del Toro’s next film Crimson Peak.

Protestantism created liberalism.

Steve have you seen A Most Violent Year? I think that’s a film review worth doing.

I’m not sure how much Hollywood is dependent on American talent since a significant portion of those movies have been made in England or Canada with native film crews and with a lot of actors coming from the commonwealth nations.

Oscar Isaac, probably next year’s breakout star, should have been given a role in this movie as he’s racially ambiguous, enough to pass for an Egyptian or Jew.

Here’s a home movie of Rock Hudson’s Malibu house in 1965
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y52Zvc3yG2E

The 1954 German World Cup winning team has long been suspected of doping.

What do rural peasants have in common with gang-bangers?

Steve, have you tried those assistive listening devices that are available at movie theaters.

One of mob boss Joseph Bonanno’s sons became a doctor.

We need to start living like Fremens.

Steve, are you going to review Richard Linklater’s Boyhood.

“Amazing that a top player could come from a middle class academic family -would never happen in the UK”

Germany’s captain Philipp Lahm comes from a banking family.

Hugo Sanchez is arguably the best Mexican player who was also a star forward for Real Madrid in the 80s. He’s very much a Mestizo. This is was he was capable of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_P35-EVec