Texas youth targeted by Mexican drug cartels

This is from the Arab Herald. The over seas press is good about picking up news that our news outlet give little attention to, in favor fluff and candy. It is old, but news-worthy all the same.

Texas youth targeted by Mexican drug cartels
Mexican drug cartels appear to be expanding their presence and activities in the United States, even targeting ‘expendable’ US teens in a concerning new trend, say Texas officials. The United States is the primary market for Mexico’s drug cartels, feeding the cycle of violence in the country as the state tries to suppress the violent gangs, but now Mexico’s war on the drug cartels may be spilling over into the United States.  

Bugs?

According to the Tampa Florida:
Millions of Bees Mysteriously Die in Florida
Florida officials are abuzz as to how millions of honey bees were killed in Brevard County. Several beekeepers in the county have reported lost colonies this week. Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company told Stuart News Thursday he lost 400 beehives. He says the bees appeared to have been poisoned.

And Yahoo news is reporting that:
Hairy, crazy ants invade from Texas to Miss.
And they're on the move in Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. In Texas, they've invaded homes and industrial complexes, urban areas and rural areas. They travel in cargo containers, hay bales, potted plants, motorcycles and moving vans. They overwhelm beehives — one Texas beekeeper was losing 100 a year in 2009. They short out industrial equipment.  
 

Moody's outlook and O'bama's plan

According to The Wall Street Journal Moody’s Analytics said its near-term outlook for the U.S. economy has fallen significantly in the past month wake of the debate over the U.S. debt ceiling and the downgrade of the nation’s credit ratings by Standard & Poor’s .

President Barack Obama has promised a "very specific" plan next month to improve the flagging US economy. He was in Iowa on day one of a rural Midwest bus tour. By the way, those two armored and tricked out buses cost us 2 million dollars. Anyway he said he would put forward the blueprint when Congress returned in September.

Meanwhile Europe continues to slide toward a fiscal meltdown. This is from Bloomberg:

Swiss Ponder Battle Over Runaway Franc

Switzerland, the nation that hasn’t gone to war with a foreign power since Napoleon, is reluctantly debating a generational taboo: ceding monetary independence to win a battle over its runaway currency. Swiss National Bank Vice President Thomas Jordan said the central bank is assessing “a whole range of options” to prevent the franc, which reached a record against the euro this month, from making Swiss goods prohibitively expensive.

EUROPE ‘ON COURSE TO BECOME ONE COUNTRY’

DAVID Cameron was under mounting pressure last night to hold a referendum on EU membership amid claims that the Coalition is paving the way for full eurozone financial integration.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/265048/Europe-on-course-to-become-one-country-

Merkel, Sarkozy take on debt crisis amid slowdown

A slowdown in European economic growth is overshadowing a meeting Tuesday between the leaders of Germany and France aimed at getting the eurozone's 17 countries to work closer together to dig Europe out of its debt crisis.

http://news.yahoo.com/merkel-sarkozy-debt-crisis-amid-slowdown-095419635.html

Eurozone bank buys record €22bn in bonds to contain euro crisis

The European Central Bank last week spent a record €22bn buying euro-zone government bonds in a bid to prevent the eurozone debt crisis spreading, a move that is likely to fuel debate on the creation of eurobonds. The buying spree represented the most the central bank has spent since it first began bond-buying in May last year in response to the Greek debt crisis.

http://euobserver.com/19/113325

Perils abound, but answers are elusive. I think "very specific" plan next month are too late and too little.

In the words of my grandpaw:

Never kick a fresh cow patty on a hot day.

//rb