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In both GMM and standard growth curve modeling the distribution of the random intercept and slope terms should be normally distributed, correct? Could a possible impetus for running a GMM be that a standard growth curve model does not meet the normality assumption but a properly specified GMM of the same data has roughly normal within class variation? This seems to make sense to me if the underlying data truly are a function of multiple subpopulations.
If my thinking here is correct, are there any tests that take into account improvement in normality for a GMM with k and opposed k-1 classes?
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posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 - 3:39 pm
Yes on your first question.
For your second question - I am not sure I understand what you mean. Do you mean better fitting of non-normality using a GMM with k as opposed to k-1 classes? If so, the Mplus Tech13 is aimed at this, but may not be a sensitive enough test.
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posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2008 - 5:45 am
Thank you for your response. I guess I am asking is there a statistical test that shows that a GMM with k classes is significantly more normal (regarding the distribution of intercept and slope terms within classes) than a k-1 class model?
If a standard growth curve model (1 class) is misspecified, then the trajectories will cluster together around multiple distinct trajectories and probably not be normally distributed around some grand trajectory, right? I would think part of finding a GMM with the correct number of classes would involve increasing the classes until the within class variation is roughly normal. So I guess I am wondering if there is a test statistic that tests this?
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I don't understand the phrase "test that shows that a GMM with k classes is significantly more normal...than a k-1 class model". A distribution (here you consider the distribution for growth factors) gets less normal the more classes you add, not more normal.
In any case, regarding your first question, no there is not a direct, neatly contained test of the distribution for growth factors related to mixtures. You can use a non-parametric representation of the growth factors using mixtures, as explained in my 2004 Kaplan chapter on GMM.
Regarding your last question, I now see what you mean by "more normal" within class - that's a heuristic way of describing the observed data. No test I know of is formulated that way. Instead, the way to settle on the number of classes (with within-class normality specified) is to use BIC and the Mplus BLRT.
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Two weeks ago we looked at the FMA's latest guidance on performance fees and noted that whilst the FMA has put its foot down about unfair performance fees on some KiwiSaver products it is not able to extend this discipline to all the other local managed funds. NZ investors are therefore going to be stuck with unsuitable performance fee arrangements in some managed funds for a bit longer.
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The next item on the agenda is, periodically, the very high cost of trading in Smartshares. The spread between the bid and offer of FONZ on the 25 May 2012 was $1.22 and $1.27 respectively. This is ridiculous in what is supposed to be a low cost investment vehicle. A five cent spread on $1.22 is about 4.0 per cent and a huge cost to any potential investor. ETF's overseas are highly liquid and an investor is able to buy and sell at minimal cost, beside brokerage charges.
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ETF's are particularly keen to offer this service as a way of the fund manager making extra money however according to the London Financial Times "operators of ETF's are making increasing sums of money by lending securities". The question the FT asks is what is a fair split of the income received from stock lending between the manager and the fund?
The ETF owns the shares and takes all the risk and the FT reckons international investors are starting to get a wee bit concerned with the split of this income. According to the FT, the world's biggest ETF provider, Blackrock, keeps 35 per cent of the fees, State Street keeps 15 per cent and Vanguard keeps 5 per cent. The NZX keeps a whopping 50 per cent. In their defence Smartshares said that if they had hundreds of billions of dollars under management like Blackrock etc their charges would be closer to those of the offshore giants but in order to get the stock lending process underway it involved the NZX making a substantial investment in terms of systems and documentation.
These three issues probably contribute to the fact that the ETF boom in the US and the UK hasn't really reached NZ yet which is a pity because the inclusion of ETF's in a portfolio really does bring your average cost down so that Mum and Dad gets to keep a more reasonable part of the returns. When the Government finally realizes they have to ban commissions demand for ETF's will increase and the NZX needs to promote Smartshares more aggressively rather than waste time and money trying to list small companies which are irrelevant to almost all investors and certainly make no sense as part of Mums and Dads share portfolios.
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Hess Corp. has agreed to buy eight duplexes in Loch Raven and demolish them to settle homeowners' claims of contamination from a nearby gas station, the company said Friday.
Residents of Yakona Road had filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the company over the past two years. Terms of the settlement were confidential, but a Hess spokesman said the agreement includes razing the buildings — likely in the spring — to make way for green space. The gas station, which is still open, is located in the 1600 block of E. Joppa Road.
"Hess Corp. agreed to purchase eight duplex buildings on the north side of Yakona Road to settle a claim with homeowners who were concerned about residual amounts of gasoline on or near their properties," Hess spokesman Jon Pepper said. "This is in addition to the remediation efforts Hess has undertaken under the review and approval of the Maryland Department of the Environment, and in compliance with state and local requirements."
Pepper said the company "felt that the best course to address any remaining neighborhood concerns was to demolish the houses, ensure that the cleared land is safe for use with [state environmental] oversight, and transform the land into an attractive public space, which will be donated to a local organization that has expertise in maintaining such properties."
Residents in the 1600 block of Yakona Road had contended that a leak in the underground storage tank at the service station caused health and environmental hazards and produced strong vapors that permeated the area.
The cases were pending in Baltimore County Circuit Court when the settlement was reached and were dismissed as part of the agreement. Pepper would not say exactly when the settlement was finalized, but said it was recently.
Attorney Roy L. Mason, whose Annapolis firm concentrates on environmental law, represented the residents and said he could not discuss details of the settlement.
"I can say this is an excellent result for the entire community," Mason said.
Baltimore County Councilman David Marks said he's been communicating with Hess officials, community leaders and state environmental officials about the issue. Hess plans to assemble an outreach team to keep residents informed, Marks said.
"I don't want the Loch Raven community to be surprised when the houses start to get demolished," said Marks, a Perry Hall Republican. "I want them to know what's happening and to understand there's a plan for preserving the site as usable open space."
Turning the area into an attractive space could become "a net positive for the neighborhood," he said.
"This is a neighborhood that's had some challenges from time to time with crime and other things, and maybe this is a way to improve and stabilize the community," he said.
The gas station was the site of a shooting in 2010, in which owner William R. Porter was killed. His wife, Karla Porter, was accused of ordering the killing and is awaiting trial.
Barbara Hopkins, executive director of NeighborSpace, said her nonprofit is considering taking over the land once the homes are razed after lawyers representing Hess approached the organization. The decision will hinge on whether the land is safe for the public after the state Department of the Environment issues cleanup requirements to the oil company, she said.
"Our primary interest in coming into any community and acquiring land — whether we buy it or it is given to us — is what does the community want," Hopkins said. "The process has a while to play out for us to understand what the existing level of contamination is. We want to make sure it's safe for people."
Hopkins said if NeighborSpace were to preserve the land in a trust, the organization would seek feedback from the community about how to proceed. Area residents would need to be willing to help take care of the land, she said.
"We can't do it by ourselves," she said.
Preserving land for open space is of big interest in the congested area of Baltimore County, including Loch Raven Village, she said.
"It's a real opportunity for this community to get some open space," Hopkins said. "There is a cluster of homes; there is no open space. There is no park that people can walk to."
The nonprofit spends an estimated $1,300 a year per property it maintains on expenses such as liability insurance. It is funded from a mix of sources, including private donations and a portion of waiver fees from developers that do not meet the county's requirement for open space.
Earlier this month, Exxon Mobil Corp. asked the Maryland Court of Appeals to erase most of the more than $1.5 billion awarded in two lawsuits over a large gasoline spill in 2006 at a service station in Jacksonville, in Baltimore County. Residents contended that gasoline that leaked from a tank there had polluted their well water, put their health at risk and ruined property values.


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Reagan Tokes' parents discuss their struggle and desire to create change
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Reagan Tokes' parents say they have tried to turn the tragedy of their daughter's death into something positive.
They've tried.
But in the year that has followed her murder, Toby Tokes and Lisa McCrary-Tokes are the first to admit it hasn't been easy.
"This past year has been brutal to put it bluntly. There's no other way to describe it," Lisa McCrary-Tokes told 10 Investigates.
"It will never go away. It's difficult and it's a pain that unless it's happened to you, you just can't know," Toby Tokes said.
On a recent warm day near their Florida home, the Tokes spoke at-length with 10 Investigates about the year that has followed the unthinkable – the rape, kidnapping and murder of their oldest daughter, Reagan.
The man charged with her murder, Brian Golsby, will stand trial later this month. The jury selection process is slated to begin Feb. 23.
Golsby has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, kidnapping and murder. If convicted, he faces the possibility of the death penalty. His defense attorneys have declined repeated recent requests for comment following his most recent court proceedings.
Golsby, a convicted sex offender, was released from prison homeless three months before Reagan's death in November of 2016.
As a tier three sex offender, no halfway house would initially accept him, according to a 10 Investigates' review of parole records and interviews conducted with those close to the matter.
At the request of the state, Alvis in Columbus agreed to place a GPS ankle monitor on Golsby.
But 10 Investigates found that Golsby was not closely monitored. And no "geo fences" "inclusion" or "exclusion zones" were assigned to Golsby – a failure on the part of the state and its parole officers which violated a 2016 state corrections policy.
Golsby also faced little sanction even after failing to charge the battery on the device and being caught AWOL from the EXIT program, the community residential housing facility that later agreed to take him in.
Police say data from Golsby's GPS ankle monitor places him at a series of robbery locations in the German Village neighborhood in the weeks leading up to and the days before Reagan's disappearance, as well as at Scioto Grove Metro Park where Reagan's body was found February 9, 2017.
Police also say DNA found on a cigarette butt found in Tokes' car matches Golsby.
The Tokes declined to talk about Golsby because they did not want to interfere with his upcoming criminal trial, but they talked at length about their struggles, how they're learning to cope and the desire they have to create change – including what they call fixing a "broken system" and "flawed laws" in Ohio.
The struggle
"We just miss her every day. There is a huge void in our family. Some holidays, some birthdays have come and gone, they'll never be the same without her," Toby Tokes told 10 Investigates.
"Every day is tough," Toby Tokes told 10 Investigates. "The loss doesn't get any easier. When you go to work and try to function there, when you think about Reagan and what happened, when you are home and you are sitting around you think about what happened, it's every minute of every hour of every day."
Lisa McCrary-Tokes said some days are better than others. Holidays, she says, were especially tough the first year without Reagan.
"Just to function sometimes on a given day. Just to be able to get up and put one foot in front of the other is tough," Lisa McCrary-Tokes said.
"There is always a missing spot in anything we do," Lisa said.
"There's an empty bedroom in our home," Toby added.
"There's an empty chair at the table," Lisa said, fighting back tears.
"There's a permanent emptiness in your heart that doesn't heal. Time does not heal all wounds. It does not," she said, wiping her eyes with a tissue.
Time has also not answered all their questions.
Namely, how a paroled felon like Brian Golsby could be released from prison homeless, assigned a GPS ankle monitor, and then not closely monitored by parole officers or the community housing facility that later agreed to take him in.
"Every single emotion and adjective you want to throw in we felt it at some point," Toby said.
10 Investigates uncovers problems
As 10 Investigates first reported in November, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction may have violated its own 2016 policy by failing to assign exclusion zones that would've restricted Golsby's movements.
Video surveillance from the Columbus bus system shows he traveled throughout the Short North area the night Reagan disappeared.
10 Investigates also asked the Tokes about another discovery we first reported in November - that Reagan wasn't the first victim of lax monitoring.
There were others who fell victim to paroled felons under state supervision who were not watched and went on to commit additional acts of violence.
You can watch 10 Investigates November investigation here.
"I think what Lisa and I find difficult – difficult is may be the wrong word – but surprising – is that we are not the first victim, Reagan wasn't the first victim. You know that. Everybody knows that these things happen way too frequently. And why somebody didn't do this before is really surprising to us," Toby Tokes said.
"I think shocking is the more appropriate term. That's the thing that we don't understand," Lisa added.
On September 27, 2017, the same day the Tokes stood by lawmakers to introduce the Reagan Tokes Act, (a bill that would change how violent felons are sentenced and how they are watched once they're released from prison) the Tokes met privately with Gary Mohr, the Director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
10 Investigates asked the Tokes the following question: "You guys had one-on-one time with the guy at the top. I imagine you had that question for him, were you satisfied with his answer?"
Lisa: "There is a system and I will tell you that not one person is capable of making change without the support of the system. That's how I can best answer that."
Through a spokeswoman, Director Mohr again declined a request for an interview with 10 Investigates.
A year later, 10 Investigates has found there are still problems – there are still hundreds of offenders, like Golsby, who are being released homeless from prison. And there are more than 1500 offenders who have violated the terms of their parole and are at-large, meaning the state has lost track of their whereabouts, according to ODRC records.
Knowing those facts, 10 Investigates asked the Tokes what goes through their mind?
"Fear. Fear of some other family experiencing what we have," Lisa said.
Learning to cope
In an effort to move away from those feelings of fear and anger, Lisa McCrary-Tokes says they have leaned on friends and family for support.
"That support has been very, very helpful," Toby said.
"It will take forever. It will take the rest of our lives. There is no timeframe on it," Lisa said. "All the other emotions never go away. They are always there. It is which ones do you choose to hang onto and bring to the surface and propel you forward."
Helping them move forward, Lisa says, are the cards and gifts the Tokes say arrive at their Florida home constantly.
The most touching thing, Lisa says, are the stories they hear. Like the young woman who approached them at Reagan's funeral and told them how Reagan befriended her in grade school when no else would.
"And she met Reagan when she was in the second grade when she was in elementary school… she was only at the school for a week because of her circumstances (parents were getting divorced) and Reagan was the only child who was kind with her. To this day, she still goes through life telling others that Reagan Tokes was her friend," Lisa said. "It's things like that that how do you not move forward with that in a positive way."
Most the Tokes' time this past year – they say - has been split among their own efforts to heal, continuing to work on their business and to work with lawmakers on the Reagan Tokes Act.
"Reagan is a number in a long line of people that have had this happen. And it has to stop. And I refuse to allow her to become just a number and statistic. That's part of the motivation to do this."
Rally for Reagan
Next month, on what would have been Reagan's 23rd birthday, the Tokes and their friends are planning what they are calling the Rally for Reagan Fundraiser in Maumee, Ohio to remember Reagan. It will include a social event, tennis tournament and self-defense class.
More information about that event the weekend of March 9 can be found here.
"This is an outlet for us to celeb Reagan first and foremost. The love we had for Reagan as Lisa said is immeasurable," Toby Tokes said.
"It is. And it helped us cope. And it's the right thing to do and it's what she would want us to do.," Lisa said.
Last week, the Ohio State University Board of Trustees approved an annual $50,000 scholarship in Reagan's name.
A murder trial lays ahead for the Tokes. They say it is not easy being robbed of a child, but they are quick to point out not all has been lost.
Lisa said: "The love you share with your child and within your family that never goes away and that can't be taken away from you."


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With the Italians involved we weren't surprised at the incredible food served at the event, and of course they had beautiful women serving espresso as well. We were also struck by the elegant and modern design of the dealership that helped to highlight the impressive new design of the Fiat 500 that was tailored for the American market. The company also had a vintage 500 on hand at the auto show which of course was promoted by a beautiful booth babe. The Italians are reintroducing sex appeal to the auto business, and we couldn't be happier!
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On Feb. 25, a fire broke out in a Las Vegas condo. In it, the body of James Lacella, 48, was discovered. According to investigators, Lacella had been dead for days prior with a bullet in his head. The fire was apparently a cover-up.
ABC Las Vegas affiliate KTNV reported that police were able to trace Lacella's missing PlayStation 3 to a pawnshop. The seller was 42 year-old Patrick Wilcock (pictured), who was supposedly Lacella's best friend.
Police arrested Wilcock at his family's home. However, he did not confess and when authorities asked him about the .25 caliber handgun in his possession. Wilcock said that his grandmother gave it to him so he could put an injured dog out of its misery. Lacella was murdered by a .25 caliber.
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Victory of good over evil is the one theme that features in most of our festivals. But, this idea is expressed in its most clearest form only during the festival of Dussera. The 10 day festival signifying the 10 days that the Goddess took to fight and slay the demon Mahishasura, is the most eloberate celeberation of the victory of good over evil. The culmination of the festival is on the 10th day when the demon Mahishasura was slayed by Goddess Durga, thus defeating evil and protecting the good.
The festival of Dussera starts from 16th October 2012.
There is no other place to experience the grandeur of Durga-Puja than in Kolkata. It can be said that what Ganesh Chaturthi is for the city for Mumbai, so is Durga-Puja or Pujo for Kolkata. And as they say, there is no seperating a Bengali from his fish and there is no seperating Kolkata from Pujo.
In fact, according to one widely held opinion, the city gets its name from Kalikata which is a corrupted form of the word Kali-Kshetra, which means "Place of Kali". Such is the association of the city with its goddess and passionate celeberation of the festival by its people only reflects this fact.
The celeberations start on the day of Mahalaya which generally falls during September-October and ends with Bijoya (Vijaya)- Dashami on the 10th day from Mahalaya. During these 10 days the Goddess is invoked in her various forms. For the native Bengali, the day starts with the rendition of Mahishamardini by Birendra Krishna Bhadra, which is broadcast on the All India Radio every morning during the festival days. You can find an MP3 version of the song here. This is followed by completing all the morning chores and ritualistic puja for the Devi Maa. Here is a nice writeup of the celeberations of Durga-Puja.
On the day of MahaShashti which is the 6th day from Mahalaya, grand idols are erected in almost every locality in Kolkata and this marks the begining of Sarbojanin (public) Durga Puja which lasts for the next four days. It is the evenings which are more colourful and energetic. People go to visit various Pandals or stages where the Sarbojanin Durgotsav is organised. The pandals themselves are majestic constructions which are the outcome of generous donations collected by the organisers from the general public. Each pandal vies with the others for popularity and their eloberate constructions and artistic work are testimony to the healthy competition between the organisers and the passion of the Bengali public. The people visit various pandals during the 5 days of the festival starting from MahaShashti to BijoyaDashami and spend their time outdoors well into the midnight. Pandal-hopping is the favourite pastime of the Bengalis during Durga-Puja and there is enough on the palette for the next 4 days. On the 10th day of the festival of VijayaDashami, also known as Bijoya, a grand farewell is given to Maa Durga and the idols of the Goddess are immersed in nearby lakes and the river Ganga. The ritual is known as Bishorjon.
History of Pujo :
History of Pujo :
The first eloberate Durga-Puja is supposed to have been arranged at Shovabazar Rajbari in the year 1757 by the then Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb Bahadur in his palace. It was a private affair which was attended by affluent Bengali families and people from the then British raj. More details can be found here.
Soon the practice spread and many other rich and princely Bengali families began to organise Durga-Pujas, but they were still largely private affairs. Around the 1920s groups of people began to organise Durga-Puja for the general public where anyone could come and participate and pay their obseince to the Mother Goddess. These are known as the Sarbojanin Durga-Pujas. The Baghbazar Sarbojanin Durgotsav and Exhibition is one of the oldest of such celeberations which traces its origins from the year 1919. You can find more information here and here
Presently the practice of organising Sarbojanin Durgotsav has spread to such an extent that you will find thousands of Durgotsavs in Kolkata alone. The celeberations elsewhere in West Bengal and among the Bengali Diaspora throughout the world too are popular.
Kumartuli : The Artisans' Village
Kumartuli : The Artisans' Village
As the popularity of the Durgotsav increased, the fame of the idol makers of Kumortuli also increased. It is from the area of Kumortuli, that the idols which adorn the various pandals come from. So popular are the idols that nowadays there is an increased demand of idols made by the Kumortuli artisans elsewhere in India and even abroad. The preparation of the idols starts on the day of the Rath Yatra of Puri. Clay from the Ganga river is brought and the idol preparation starts. The preparation is completed on the day of the Mahalaya with the ritualistic painting of the eyes of the Goddess, called Chokku-Daan. You can find a photostream of the making of the idols in Kumortuli here. A short note on the idol makers of Kumortuli can be found here.
You can watch a short video of a typical process of making the idol here
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So if you plan to visit Kolkata during Durga-Puja then it is the evenings and nights that you have to watch out for. Start at twilight and hop, hop, hop till you drop. Take it for granted that Kolkata, which truly transforms into the "City of Joy", will not let you get bored for the 5 days starting from Mahashashti to Bijoya. The pandals themselves are majestic and beautiful constructions which will leave you amazed and the various public performances and drama enactments at many of the pandals are enthralling still. Here is a list of some of the pandals which are sure to leave you speechless.
So if you plan to visit Kolkata during Durga-Puja then it is the evenings and nights that you have to watch out for. Start at twilight and hop, hop, hop till you drop. Take it for granted that Kolkata, which truly transforms into the "City of Joy", will not let you get bored for the 5 days starting from Mahashashti to Bijoya. The pandals themselves are majestic and beautiful constructions which will leave you amazed and the various public performances and drama enactments at many of the pandals are enthralling still. Here is a list of some of the pandals which are sure to leave you speechless.
Better still, you can visit Kumortuli and get a real-life glimpse into the world of the artisans.
You can take a guided walking-tour into Kumartoli area by registering on this site.
You can find recipes for some special dishes for Pujo here and here.
Dussera is a festival which is celeberated throughout India in different ways. In this post we have had a glimpse into the celeberations of Durga-Puja in Kolkata. Wait for future posts to know about celeberation in different parts of India. Till then lets welcome Maa Durga with the well known slogan "Jai Kali Kalkatte Wali". Bye!!


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Mexico's New President Set to Empower a "Devil's Cartel"
CIA Operative Claims Corrupt Colombian Law Enforcer Now Advising Peña Nieto Is Sign Of That Danger Ahead
Baruch Vega, a long-time CIA operative, has raised a red flag over the incoming president of Mexico's decision to employ the former head of the Colombian National Police, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, as his security advisor in the war on drugs.
"I do not think Naranjo will be running a war against drugs," Vega contends. "He will be running a war to protect Mexican drug traffickers."
Vega contends there is a real danger that Mexican president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto is on a path to recreate a similar corrupt alliance between government security forces and major narco-traffickers — many shadowed in the trappings of legitimate business interests — as existed in the early to mid-2000s in Colombia during Naranjo's rise to power in the Colombia National Police (CNP) while he also allegedly was assisting elements of the infamous North Valley Cartel.
In addition to the role Naranjo will play in helping to cultivate Mexico's drug-war strategy for Peña Nieto, the president-elect has already made public his plans to stand up a paramilitary force, composed of ex-soldiers, that would be some 40,000 strong. Peña Nieto also hopes to created a single, consolidated national police force. With these tools, he says, the Mexican military can be replaced as the primary enforcer of security in the drug war in Mexico and the battle can be refocused from hunting down the top narco-capos to stemming street violence and other crimes against the community, such as extortion and kidnappings.
The elements of Peña Nieto's plan, however, as Vega has already exposed in Colombia while working as a US government asset, are almost identical to what gave birth to what Vega calls the "Devil's Cartel."
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Vega told Narco News that between 1997 and 2000, the FBI and DEA each employed him as an operative in separate investigations focused on the North Valley Cartel leadership. At the same time, Vega claims, he also worked as a foreign counterintelligence source for the CIA. Those facts are verified in US federal agency judicial-hearing documents [link here].
During the course of those DEA and FBI investigations, Vega claims he discovered the operations were being compromised by corrupt players within both DEA and U.S. Customs — a federal law enforcement agency whose investigative arm has since become U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. ICE is part of the US Department of Homeland Security.
Vega's allegations are supported by a US Justice Department memo obtained by Narco News in 2008, known as the Kent Memo. That memo, drafted by Department of Justice attorney Thomas M. Kent, contains some of the most serious allegations ever raised against U.S. antinarcotics officers: that DEA agents on the front lines of the drug war in Colombia are on drug traffickers' payrolls, complicit in the murders of informants, and directly involved in helping Colombia's infamous paramilitary death squads to launder drug money.
Vega alleges that in the late 1990s and early 2000s, agents in the DEA office in Bogotá, as well as someone within U.S. Customs, were leaking information about ongoing U.S. law enforcement investigations to key players in the Colombian National Police. Vega says those corrupt CNP officials were aligned with North Valley Cartel narco-traffickers, in particular a faction of that cartel led by an individual named Wilber Varela.
In the aftermath of the information being leaked, there was a bloodbath, Vega says, resulting in numerous informants and cooperating sources being assassinated. Similar allegations are made in the Kent memo.
"I have had three contracts on my life …," Vega told Narco News previously. "I am one of the few survivors in this whole ordeal. Almost all of the people in my group (cooperating sources and other informants) are now dead."
Vega says the many pieces of this dark mystery make it appear very complicated to unravel.
"But, if they are lined up in the right way, it becomes easy to understand," he adds. "It's a matter of putting the right players in the right place."
The way things lined up, according to Vega, involved what amounts to the perfect narco-trafficking organization, or the "Devil's Cartel."
This so-called Devil's Cartel was an alliance of North Valley traffickers under the capo Varela, many of them, like Varela himself, former CNP officials, along with active members of the CNP under the direction of a corrupt CNP colonel named Danilo Gonzalez. Vega also contends that Naranjo, who served in the CNP with Gonzalez, was also a key part of this circle of corruption.
Paramilitary forces under the leadership of Carlos Castaño, who headed the murderous paramilitary force called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (the AUC), provided the muscle and protection for this Devil's Cartel and its operations, Vega contends.
The intelligence arm of this Devil's Cartel, Vega claims, was composed of corrupt U.S. federal agents with DEA and U.S. Customs.
The goal of the Devil's Cartel alliance was to protect its highly profitable narco-trafficking business, which grew out of the ashes of the Pablo Escobar narco-empire, and to neutralize rival drug traffickers. Among the chief organized rivals at the time was the Cali Cartel, which eventually was overshadowed by the North Valley Cartel.
Déjà Vu
Naranjo, of course, denies Vega's allegations and contends that it is Vega who is corrupt. Narjano concedes "making dark alliances," according to a past Associated Press report, but only to advance Colombia's national security.
Vega, though, insists that Naranjo is in it for himself, not for the cause of the Colombian people, and contends his role in Mexico, as Peña Nieto's "security advisor," is not likely to benefit the Mexican people either.
And, Vega adds, the fact that Naranjo remains a US law-enforcement favorite son to this day is a mirage created for a gullible US mainstream media. The pretense is designed to guard against any move to indict Naranjo for his crimes, because to do so, Vega explains, also would expose US law-enforcement corruption in Colombia that to this day has been covered up.
"All the traffickers that were surrendering and talking to the U.S. government [at the time Vega was working as a U.S. government asset] spoke of … CNP corruption — especially [by] colonels Danilo Gonzalez, and Oscar Naranjo [then head of intelligence for the CNP]," Vega alleges.
Other evidence has emerged in recent months, some of it in US court records, some revealed via DEA documents leaked to Mexican media outlets like Proceso, that bolster Vega's allegations of the existence of the Devil's Cartel.
For example, jury trial transcripts featuring the testimony of Gildardo Rodriquez Herrera, a top lietenant in the Diego Montoya Sanchez (a/k/a, "Don Diego") faction of the North Valley Cartel — which was at war with the Wilbur Varela faction in the early to mid-2000s — reveal that Naranjo was very concerned that allegations of his corrupt involvement with Wilbur Varela might prevent him from ascending to the top position within the Colombian National Police.
Hence, according to the jury trial transcripts, filed in US District Court in Miami, Naranjo arranged a meeting with Rodriquez Herrera, not to arrest him, but to convince him to remove information from a website that implicated Narjano in the corruption.
Following are some excerpts from the jury trial transcripts, with North Valley Cartel narco-trafficker Rodriquez Herrera responding to questions asked by a defense attorney for another party in the case:
Q: You also said in an interview you had met with Oscar Naranjo, who was a high police official, in July of '04 in a hotel in Bogotá. Do you remember that?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And for a time reference, that would have been about three months after Danilo Gonzalez had been killed. [CNP Col. Gonzalez, who was about to be indicted by the US government in 2004, was assassinated after a meeting with his attorney, allegedly gunned down by individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Diego Montoya faction of the North Valley Cartel.]
A. More or less.
Q. Which hotel in Bogotá did this meeting [with Narnajo] take place in?
A. That was at the Capital Hotel.
Q. Who called the meeting, you or General Naranjo?
A. Naranjo is the one who was looking for Diego's people because he wanted to discuss some matters with them. …
Q. And did you meet with General Naranjo by yourself?
A. Yes, and another police officer.
Q. Was this an official police investigation from what you could tell?
A. No, it was more a personal matter, Naranjo's personal matter.
Q. Meaning what?
A. Two — how do you call those — two web pages came out, one from the Varela people and another one from Diego's people. That was on the Internet.
[Wilbur Varela was a major Colombian narco-trafficker who was killed in Venezuela in 2008 by still-unknown assailants. Both Wilbur Varela and Diego Montoya were leaders of the North Valley Cartel in Colombia whose respective factions went to war against each other.]
On Diego's web page, it stated that Naranjo was allied with Varela in the war against the Montoyas. At that time, Naranjo was still a colonel [in the CNP] and his promotion to become general was in proceedings before [the Colombian] Congress and he requested from me specifically that we should take his name out of that Internet web page because that was going to prejudice his possible promotion.
Q. In any event, as we sit here today [May 2011], he [Naranjo] is currently the general chief of police of Colombia, is he not?
A. Because we took him out of the web page.
[Emphasis added.]
Naranjo, in June 2012, retired as commander of the CNP and that same month agreed to take on the role of security advisor for then-presidential candidate Peña Nieto, who was subsequently, on July 1, voted in as president of Mexico in a process marred by allegations of media manipulation and election fraud. Peña Nieto will be sworn in as Mexico's next president on Dec. 1.
Given the component parts of Colombia's so-called Devil's Cartel, as outlined by Vega, and the fact that Naranjo has been accused of being among the major players in that corrupt alliance, the drug-war plan being advanced by Peña Nieto should give all of us pause for concern.
Because, like the Devil's Cartel, if president-elect Peña Nieto's plan comes to fruition, Mexico would have the following elements in place:
1.) A large standing paramilitary force composed of former soldiers — many of whom have already been implicated in numerous human rights violations, and murders, as part of the drug war, not unlike the track record of Colombia's paramilitary AUC;
2.) A centralized police force, not unlike Colombia's CNP;
3.) Long-standing, entrenched narco-corruption within the government, involving officials who have the power, connections and money to control these new powerful tools (a paramilitary army and centralized police force) to achieve their political and profit-making goals — all under the cloak of a so-called drug war aided by billions of dollars in US assistance under programs such as the Merida Initiative.
It has played out before, in Colombia (which, of course, was aided by the US government's multi-billion dollar Plan Colombia), and it was accomplished in Colombia with the help of corrupt US law enforcement agents, Vega contends, who also were enticed by the allure of money and power.
Why would human nature be any different in Mexico, where some 120,000 human beings have been murdered and/or disappeared since late 2006 — all in the name of a drug war that seems incapable of stopping either the flow of drugs, money or blood?
Stay tuned…..
[Note: For more on the Devil's Cartel, Vega's role as a US government operative, US law-enforcement corruption in Colombia and the Kent Memo, check out Narco News' past coverage of the "Bogotá Connection" at this link.]


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Pontius Pilates is a physical fitness system developed in the early 1st century by Pontius Pilate, a high-ranking Roman prefect. Although Pilate is most famous today for his "tough but fair" approach to criminal justice, he was also one of the earliest historical figures to treat exercise as a combination between science and new-age wackiness.
Unlike more conventional fitness systems, which focus only on improving the physical conditioning of the body, Pontius Pilates takes a philosophical approach to exercise: practitioners seek to fuse mind and body, create a sense of wholeness within self and oneness with the universe, and build sexy abs, through the breakthrough technique of being nailed to pieces of wood.
Today, Pontius Pilates is second only to Yoga as the workout of choice for pretentious women with too much time and money on their hands. It is particularly popular in metropolitan areas such as New York City and Los Angeles, where one can hardly turn his head without seeing a woman with a beautifully developed core and nasty, weeping scars on her wrists and ankles.
According to historians, Pilate first dreamed up Pontius Pilates while watching a match between gladiators at the arena in Rome. Pilate's friend observed the rippling, glistening abdominal muscles of one gladiator, and turned and said to Pilate: "I say, Erotacus's abs must be as hard as oak. I'd like to lick the sweat from between those bulges. And don't get me started on his glutes, girlfriend."
Although this may, to modern readers, seem like kind of a gay thing to say, it was actually pretty normal straight-guy chat back in Roman times.
At any rate, this casual conversation gave Pilate an idea: the best means by which to build abs that resembled oak would be to fuse mind, body, and oak. That night, he went home, and after having drunken sex with a concubine while his wife fed him grapes, he tied several long oaken boards to his waist and went to sleep.
In the morning, Pilate's core was in no way impressive, and his back hurt. Undeterred, Pilate announced to his servants that he now had a stomach that would be the envy of the recently-alive Erotacus; although a few expressed doubts as to the veracity of this claim, their skepticism was overcome when Pilate had one of them stoned to death in the town square.
This was the beginning of Pilate's realization that physical fitness didn't have to be limited to (depending on one's social status) lifting heavy rocks, fights to the death, and/or orgies. Over the next several years, he laid out the principles of a brand new approach to physical fitness.
Pontius Pilates can be practiced with nothing more than a board, a nail, and a mat. This is called "Mat Pontius Pilates," and many gyms offer it for free.
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Shortly before his death, Pilate created what he considered the ultimate form of exercise equipment: the Pontius Pilates Cadillac, named after a popular but overrated model of chariot. The Cadillac was a wooden cross housed inside a scaffolding. While the Reformer offered only two options for positioning a fitness enthusiast - upright and upside-down - the Cadillac enabled people to be nailed to wood in almost any conceivable position. While this offered no actual fitness benefits, it looked pretty cool.
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