I really can't listen to it as I can't stand the guy. I couldn't get past about the 45-second mark. And it's not the language as that doesn't bother me. I'm a Carlin fan. I've just always found him to be so inarticulate that I question his intelligence and his voice grates on my nerves. If anyone wants to give me a synopsis, great. If not, I doubt I'm missing much.

Yours is only tainted because your side lost.

It's not a breaking story.
I've been reading news outlets and speaking with missionaries about it for over a decade.

MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that Mexico's cartels in many cases have moved beyond drugs as their main money-earner and are even trying to supplant the government in parts of the country.

Speaking at an anti-crime conference, Calderon said gangs are imposing fees like taxes in towns they dominate, extorting money from both legitimate and unauthorized businesses.

"This has become an activity that defies the government, and even seeks to replace the government," he said. "They are trying to impose a monopoly by force of arms, and are even trying to impose their own laws."

Calderon said cartels may even be taking money from churches. "I do not doubt that they are also extorting money from priests and pastors in this country," he said.

Drugs are becoming less of a focus for the gangs, he said.

"Their main business is not anymore even drug trafficking, sometimes," Calderon said. "Their business is dominating other people."

the Catholic churches were stripped of their wealth and power creating a vacuum for the cartels to fill through the churches...either by bribery or extortion.

Just as the mafia garnered more power through the churches in Italy and the US, so too the cartels in Mexico.