Cannabis Is In Your DNA

Cannabis Is In Your DNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWXuaMXfbJA

By:
Date: 2016-04-22

The nutritional and healing powers of fresh raw Cannabis is one of of the best kept secrets of the last century. Because Cannabis is, essentially, a wonder plant, it was only a matter of time before the anti-cannabis propaganda machine would fall apart. That is what is happening today. This video calls out the "authorities" who do nothing but harm the public for enrichment and corruption of the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgEP9... (Dr. William Courtney, Cannabis Therapies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DttdD... (How Cannabis Cures Cancer)

https://www.leafly.com/news/health/a-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsDic... (Documentary on Cannabis)

http://www.naturalnews.com/035759_can...

http://montanabiotech.com/2011/03/26/...

Excellent documentary on Cannabis from British Columbia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1F2N...

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One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana

One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/one-striking-chart-shows-why-pharma-companies-are-fighting-legal-marijuana/

By: Christopher Ingraham
Date: 2016-07-13

There's a body of research showing that painkiller abuse and overdose are lower in states with medical marijuana laws. These studies have generally assumed that when medical marijuana is available, pain patients are increasingly choosing pot over powerful and deadly prescription narcotics. But that's always been just an assumption.

Now a new study, released in the journal Health Affairs, validates these findings by providing clear evidence of a missing link in the causal chain running from medical marijuana to falling overdoses. Ashley and W. David Bradford, a daughter-father pair of researchers at the University of Georgia, scoured the database of all prescription drugs paid for under Medicare Part D from 2010 to 2013.

They found that, in the 17 states with a medical-marijuana law in place by 2013, prescriptions for painkillers and other classes of drugs fell sharply compared with states that did not have a medical-marijuana law. The drops were quite significant: In medical-marijuana states, the average doctor prescribed 265 fewer doses of antidepressants each year, 486 fewer doses of seizure medication, 541 fewer anti-nausea doses and 562 fewer doses of anti-anxiety medication.

But most strikingly, the typical physician in a medical-marijuana state prescribed 1,826 fewer doses of painkillers in a given year.

How Is Marijuana Legalization Going? The Price Of Pot Peace Looks Like A Bargain.

How Is Marijuana Legalization Going? The Price Of Pot Peace Looks Like A Bargain.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/07/10/how-is-marijuana-legalization-going-so-far-the-price-of-pot-peace-looks-like-a-bargain/

By: Jacob Sullum
Date: 2014-07-10

In 2012 John Larson, a retired high school math and science teacher, voted against I-502, the initiative that legalized marijuana in Washington. Yet this week Larson was one of the first government-licensed marijuana merchants to open a store in that state: Main Street Marijuana in Vancouver. “If people were dumb enough to vote it in, I’m all for it,” he told The New York Times. “There’s a demand, and I have a product.”

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper also seems to have had a change of heart about marijuana. The former brewer, who opposed Amendment 64, his state’s legalization initiative, is not about to become a budtender. But in a recent interview with Reuters, Hickenlooper conceded that the consequences of letting people grow, sell, and consume pot without risking arrest have not been as bad as he feared.

Medicinal Cannabis and Its Impact on Human Health - A Cannabis Documentary

Medicinal Cannabis and Its Impact on Human Health - A Cannabis Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxVyNWt3clg

By:
Date: 2016-02-02

In this myth shattering, information packed documentary, learn from physicians and leading researchers about medicinal cannabis and its demonstrated effects on human health.

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Request for McCain Investigation for Narcotics Trafficking and War Crimes

Vatic Note:  This post was extremely enlightening and educational about many things we have not heard about, even from the alternative news, on the net.  It is time we seriously considered what type of action should the people of the world consider when dealing with these enemies of the state, as well as fascists of the corporate world.

This not only covers McCain and his treason, but also the drug industry that both MI6 and the CIA as well as Mossad are engaged in, and the pedophiling and sexual exploitation of Afghan children.   That is the greatest crime of all and now you know  why these satanists hate christians and kill them every  chance they get.

There is so much evidence available highlighting who these power brokers are and why they control so much of most countries governments.  Now its our turn and we best fight back or we are as guilty as our leaders.

Request for McCain Investigation for Narcotics Trafficking and War Crimes
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/23/378169/

By Kadir A. Mohmand, Veterans Today,  on October 23, 2015

To the Honorable Johnny Isakson, U.S. Senator
Chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee
220 Hart Building
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
 

The Main Reasons the United States Invaded Afghanistan are to Control the Rare Earth Elements (REEs), Geopolitical, because Afghanistan is the Heart of Central Asia and to Control the Narcotics; U.S. War Profiteers Continue the War and Occupation to Continue Their Profits

The Pentagon’s Biggest dirty secret ?

Vatic Note: This is definitely a "MUST READ" all the way through.  I can't believe what we did not know about all this. The authors on Veterans Today are doing a superb job of educating and exposing.  I commend them deeply for taking the risk.  Its definitely dangerous work.  No question about it. 

Also, Is this why both Cheney/Bush, and Obama cleared out over 90 top officers of the military Pentagon???  Or at least "one" of the many reasons??? Remember, we have had top Khazar banker dual Israeli citizens running the Pentagon all these years in both administrations.   That is why I continually make the point that both parties are run by the khazars/Illlum banking family bloodlines, since the appointments after winning the election, reflect that fact, regardless of which party gets into power.

This below FULLY  explains Holders gift of assault weapons to the Mexican drug cartels.   Remember when that was the big scandal of the day?  In fact, He had to resign as Attorney General when the scandal would not go away.   It was a back fired false flag attempt to grab our guns and shut down gun shops. As well as re-addicting America on hard drugs.   Instead, someone did effective research and exposed the criminal plan to aid the Mexican drug cartels in securing the drug market here in the states.   We did several blogs on that issue.  And Obama just announced his intention TO KEEP TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN AND THIS ARTICLE EXPLAINS PERFECTLY THE "WHY" OF IT. 

Further, we covered why Britain seems to continue trying to get her empire back again, including the USA, and drugs are part of the program. The corruption we are experiencing has been built into the system for centuries, starting with Britain and migrating over here to the western hemisphere, and now both Canada and Australia are definitely gone, and the USA is almost there.

This article also talks about music as an antidote to all the negativity that these disclosures create within us. and I must agree.   You must realize, I have to read an enormous amount of writings in order to select 3 each day for your consideration.  Then I have to analyze, using my Vatic Notes, for each of the 3, and then I have to publish them with all the various associated items that go with each one such as photos, etc.   Then I have to fight the powers that be to KEEP them up, since they change dates on me,  they change fonts to extra small so you can't read it, so I have to monitor blogs at least 3 times a day and make the necessary corrections.  Sometimes, I miss them.  I spend at least 13 hours a day researching, and all the rest above.  So, what I wrote below explains how I can do that and keep my sanity. 

Well, I keep getting asked "How do you keep such an upbeat, positive attitude doing this"?  And my answer is "I always have my spiritual music on all the time and that balances it out for me and keeps me positive about how we are exposing and causing them such a problem.   These blogs help us do that to these Satanists.   Now its time to call our senators and reps, as I have done, and tell them truthfully what treason really is and the penalty and to ask them to rescind their acts of treason or else, we will have to push enmass for their prosecution.   Will it make a difference???  IT WILL IF ENOUGH OF US DO IT. SO LETS MAKE IT A PRIORITY.   Make this one go viral since it surely motivated me to call and make my point.  

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Thank you for all your support over these many years.  I am still trying to find a way to fund this deficit without fund raising.  So far, no luck, but I am not giving up, so hang with us until we do.  Thank you again and God bless you and your family.

The Pentagon’s Biggest dirty secret ?
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/17/the-pentagons-biggest-dirty-secret/
By Preston James, Ph.D, Veterans Today,  on October 17, 2015

Over the years some who have retired from working inside the upper levels of Intel and Defense have claimed that the core controllers of the Pentagon are themselves under the control of a secret occult-linked drug trafficking group. 
 
This group is also believed to run the Israeli-American Terror machine and the private central Banking Systems run out of the City of London.

US won't destroy poppy fields In Afghanistan

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Vatic Note:  Add this to the information we have on how Zbig intended to surround Russia and then we wonder why Russia will feel the need to defend herself by attacking us.   This below shows the extent of what we are doing to that country in order to stoke her into a world war to prevent her from developing her natural resources,  expand her young democratically structured Government and economy,  and prevent her from kicking the bankers out of their economic life.   The Zionists and bankers have already ripped Russia off of much of her wealth like they have us.  Now they want the war between us in order to move attention away from those scummy blood sucking bankers.  We just got word that the USA has sent PATRIOT MISSLES TO CHINA which were intercepted by Finland.   That will certainly make Russia feel a lot better.  NOT!!!  Well, Russia and USA people should ignore our governments and all of us go after Zbig, bankers and those for whom they operate.  The 13 bloodlines would be a good start.  We have their photos.

Title:    NATO won't destroy Afghan poppy fields
By:      http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121596§ionid=351020403
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:04:40 GMT

Opium poppy fields in Afghanistan


NATO has rejected an appeal made by Russia for eradication of opium fields in Afghanistan, arguing that the sole source of income in the region cannot be removed.

Addressing a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on Wednesday, head of Russia's Federal Drug Control Agency (FSKN) Victor Ivanov said "Afghan opiates led to the death of 1 million people by overdose in the last 10 years, and that is United Nations data. Is that not a threat to world peace and security?"

The Russian official tasked NATO forces with "normalizing the situation in Afghanistan" which includes "the elimination of drug production."

Meanwhile, NATO spokesman James Appathurai voiced understanding for Russian concerns, given the country's estimated 200,000 heroin and morphine addicts and the tens of thousands dying each year as a result of their addiction.

However, he went on to say that the Afghan drug problem had to be handled carefully in an effort to avoid alienating local residents.

"We share the view that it has to be tackled," the spokesman said. "But there is a slight difference of views," Appathurai added.

"We cannot be in a situation where we remove the only source of income for people who live in the second poorest country in the world without being able to provide them an alternative. That is simply not possible," the NATO official explained.

According to statistics provided by Ivanov, Russia was the single largest consumer of heroin in 2008. Moscow blames NATO for the surge in heroin trafficking from Afghanistan to Russia.

The production of opium in Afghanistan has skyrocketing since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.

SG/CS/RE

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1,200 National Guard Troops Being Deployed to Border Will Not Be Used to Stop and Detain Illegal Aliens

Vatic Note:  So, WHAT will they be used for???  Not sure this makes sense;  didn't the President just sue AZ to kill the bill that would allow the state to do this???  Is this to be a Federal vs state confrontation?  Please notice how they will not tell us exactly what they will be doing on the border.

I wonder, given our gov need for drugs to fund their black ops (or those running our government who are not true members of our government, rather foreign occupiers, if this is about escorting and making sure the drugs get through, like the military does in Afghanistan. We wrote about that on a previous blog. We also wonder if the militia stepping up and shooting drug dealers who tried to enter private property is the reason they sent the guard to prevent that from happening again probably for the same reason. We also wrote about that as well. Or maybe that is for us, and not for them. Identification etc???

Its been impossible for the gov to declare martial law and maybe they decided to do what they would normally have done had it been declared and then see how we respond to the intrusion into our freedom of movement and road blocks, only for citizens and not illegals or drug dealers. Some interesting questions and feedback from that area would be most welcome on what you actually experience there in AZ and the other states.  Or maybe its just because its election time and once over, we will be back to normal  with drugs and illegals all over the place.  We don't know why this is happening, but given our history with this gov, its best to watch and observe diligently so we are not leaving our states to the mercy of the neocon occupiers of our fed government. 

1,200 National Guard Troops Being Deployed to Border Will Not Be Used to Stop and Detain Illegal Aliens
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/70702
Friday, August 06, 2010
By Edwin Mora

(CNSNews.com) -- The 1,200 National Guard troops that are being deployed incrementally to the southwest border “will not be doing direct law enforcement,” said U.S. National Guard Bureau Director of Communications Jack Harrison when asked if the forces would be interdicting drugs and undocumented immigrants.

“The two mission sets are criminal analysts and enter-identification team,” Harrison told CNSNews.com. “I can tell you that guardsmen will not be doing direct law enforcement on the southwest border.” In other words, the National Guardsmen will not be used to actually stop and detain illegal aliens trying to sneak across the border into the United States. Harrison made his comments on Friday during a “bloggers roundtable” sponsored by the Department of Defense (DOD).

When CNSNews.com asked if the National Guard assessed whether 1,200 troops were adequate to accomplish the mission assigned by the Department of Homeland Security and DOD, Harrison said, “DHS and DOD determined the number necessary for this request and I don’t have anything further on that part of your question.” “The mission in a nutshell is a two-fold support mission in criminal analysis and enter-identification team on the southwest border,” he said.

Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners

Vatic Note:   This along with the naked scanners, makes it appear as though they do not want us flying and setting it up for us to do so voluntarily.   Looks like this is the drug industries presidency like Bush was the oil companies president.   We need someone to rise up for us, the people.   Soon too or else we are going to have to do it.   Freedom of movement is becoming slowly more controlled.   Remember, also, all of the lone gunman shooters were on psychotropic drugs and violent.  Not a good combination.

Title:   Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners

http://www.naturalnews.com/z028514_antidepressant_drugs_pilots.html
By:    Mike Adams,  Natural News Editor
Date:  April 5 2010


(NaturalNews) What would happen if the Columbine high school rampage shooters who were psyched out on mind-altering antidepressant drugs had been piloting a jet airliner instead? On Friday, the FAA issued a new rule that says pilots taking psychiatric medications are now allowed to pilot passenger airliners while medicated!


This "permission to fly while medicated" decision by the FAA covers pilots taking the antidepressant psychiatric drugs Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro. Not coincidentally, these are the same drugs that, in the minds of many industry observers, are linked to acts of aggression, suicide and mass murder. People on these drugs may simply lose touch with reality and feel like they're playing out a video game rather than acting out in the real world.

It begs the question: Why is the FAA putting medicated pilots in control of jet airliners? What happens if a psych drug medicated pilot suddenly thinks he's in a video game and aims his Boeing 767 at a civilian target "just for the fun of it?" Or what if he goes raving mad, strangles the copilot and then crashes the jet airliner nose-first into the ground?

While this kind of scenario may seem remote, you have to remember: It only takes one such event to cost the lives of hundreds of air passengers (and perhaps thousands of people on the ground).

Today, air travel is remarkably safe in terms of the number of fatalities per miles traveled. It's far safer than traveling in your car, in fact, and a fair amount of the credit for that safety belongs with the FAA. So why is the FAA now making a decision that seems, on its surface, to endanger the lives of air passengers by allowing psychiatric patients to pilot airplanes?

According to the FAA, the answer is because modern psychiatric drugs have fewer side effects. That seems like a political statement, not a medical conclusion, because the side effects that are experienced by a very small number of psychiatric medication users can be so whacked out that they can pose a very real danger to the lives of those around them. The majority of U.S. school shootings that we've seen over the last 15 years have been carried out by shooters taking psychiatric medications.

Can Anyone Pacify the World's Number One Narco-State?

Bruecke Notes: This provides insight into why the war in Afghanistan will not be won militarily and that attempting to do so will only increase drug trafficking. I particularly like the solution offered: "renew this ancient, arid land by replanting its orchards, replenishing its flocks, and rebuilding the irrigation systems ruined in decades of war."


Can Anyone Pacify the World's Number One Narco-State?
Tuesday 30 March 2010
by: Alfred W. McCoy  |  TomDispatch.com

In ways that have escaped most observers, the Obama administration is now trapped in an endless cycle of drugs and death in Afghanistan from which there is neither an easy end nor an obvious exit.

After a year of cautious debate and costly deployments, President Obama finally launched his new Afghan war strategy at 2:40 am on February 13, 2010, in a remote market town called Marja in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province. As a wave of helicopters descended on Marja's outskirts spitting up clouds of dust, hundreds of U.S. Marines dashed through fields sprouting opium poppies toward the town's mud-walled compounds.

After a week of fighting, U.S. war commander General Stanley A. McChrystal choppered into town with Afghanistan's vice-president and Helmand's provincial governor. Their mission: a media roll-out for the general's new-look counterinsurgency strategy based on bringing government to remote villages just like Marja.

At a carefully staged meet-and-greet with some 200 villagers, however, the vice-president and provincial governor faced some unexpected, unscripted anger. "If they come with tractors," one Afghani widow announced to a chorus of supportive shouts from her fellow farmers, "they will have to roll over me and kill me before they can kill my poppy."

CHEMTRAILS: Is U.S. Gov't. Secretly Testing Americans 'Again'?

Vatic Note:  The new Mission statement is up.  We received a great number of responses and input and have reconfigure the statement to reflect the best of those suggestions.   If you have received the email on this article, you are included in on those who may comment and then vote yes, or no on the mission statement.  Please do so as soon as possible as we wish to then get the strategies and tactics up next which will be how we impliment this initiative.  Please send an email to vatic2010@gmail.com with your vote of yes or no, and your suggestions or comments or creative ideas on implimenting this mission statement.  Its above this article in the link so named.   Thanks all of you who have contributed to this stage of the process.  Now enjoy the article.   Its a mainstream press even though regional, that is publishing this article on chemtrails and that is a first.... we are making progress and all is being exposed slowly but surely. 


Title:    CHEMTRAILS: Is U.S. Gov't. Secretly Testing Americans 'Again'?

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=7339345
By:     KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana


Could a strange substance found by an Ark-La-Tex man be part of secret government testing program? That's the question at the heart of a phenomenon called "Chemtrails." In a KSLA News 12 investigation, Reporter Jeff Ferrell shows us the results of testing we had done about what's in our skies.


"It seemed like some mornings it was just criss-crossing the whole sky. It was just like a giant checkerboard," described Bill Nichols. He snapped several photos of the strange clouds from his home in Stamps, in southwest Arkansas. Nichols said these unusual clouds begin as normal contrails from a jet engine. But unlike normal contrails, these do 'not' fade away.

Soon after a recent episode he saw particles in the air. "We'd see it drop to the ground in a haze," added Nichols. He then noticed the material collecting on the ground.

"This is water and stuff that I collected in bowls. I had it sitting out in my backyard in my dad's pick-up truck," said Nichols as he handed us a mason jar in the KSLA News 12 parking lot back in September after driving down from Arkansas.

KSLA News 12 had the sample tested at a lab. The results: A high level of barium, 6.8 parts per million, (ppm). That's more than three times the toxic level set by the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA.

Armed with these lab results about the high levels of barium found in our sample, we decided to contact the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. They told us that, 'yes,' these levels are very unusual. But at the same time they added the caveat that proving the source is a whole 'nother matter.

We discovered during our investigation that Barium is a hallmark of other chemtrail testing. This phenomenon even attracted the attention of a Los Angeles network affiliate, which aired a report entitled, "Toxic Sky?"

There's already no shortage of unclassified weather modification programs by the government. But those who fear chemtrails could be secret biological and chemical testing on the public point to the 1977 U.S. Senate hearings which confirmed 239 populated areas had been contaminated with biological agents between 1949 and 1969. Later, the 1994 Rockefeller Report concluded hundreds of thousands of military personnel were also subjected to secret biological experiments over the last 60-years.

But could secret testing be underway yet again? "I'd rather it be something inert and you know something that's not causing any damage but I'd like to know what it is," concluded Nichols.

KSLA News 12 discovered chemtrails are even mentioned by name in the initial draft of HR 2977 back in 2001, under the Space Preservation Act. But the military denies any such program exists.

It turns out, until just nine years ago the government had the right, under U.S. law, to conduct secret testing on the American public, under specific conditions. Only a public outcry repealed part of that law, with some "exceptions."

Mark Ryan, Director of the Poison Control Center, explained that short term exposure to barium can lead to anything from stomach to chest pains, with long-term exposure causing blood pressure problems.

Ryan addressed concerns by chemtrail researchers that barium could be meant to wear down a person's immune system. "Anything that causes ill effects on the body long-term, chronically, is going to affect your ability, it's just constantly working on the body. So from that aspect yeah it's a potential."

Ryan told us he's conducted research of his own about secret government testing on the public. But he's still a bit skeptical about chemtrails at the moment, especially considering that his Poison Control Center has seen no calls about barium exposure.

Story by Jeff Ferrell

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Rotarix rotavirus vaccine contaminated, officials say - PART II

Rotarix rotavirus vaccine contaminated, officials say - PART II


http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/22/rotavirus.vaccine/?hpt=T2

By: Tom Watkins, CNN
Date: 03-22-2010

About 1 million children in the United States and about 30 million worldwide have gotten Rotarix vaccine, the FDA says.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Doctors have been advised to suspend use of Rotarix rotavirus vaccine
Another vaccine, RotaTeq, is still OK to use, officials say
GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Rotarix, says the contamination is not harmful

(CNN) -- Federal health authorities recommended Monday that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the United States against rotavirus, saying the vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus.

"There is no evidence at this time that this material poses a safety risk," Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg told reporters in a conference call.

Rotarix, made by GlaxoSmithKline, was approved by the FDA in 2008. The contaminant material is DNA from porcine circovirus 1, a virus from pigs that is not known to cause disease in humans or animals, Hamburg said.

About 1 million children in the United States and about 30 million worldwide have gotten Rotarix vaccine, she said.

Rotavirus disease kills more than 500,000 infants around the world each year, primarily in low- and middle-income countries, she said. Before rotavirus vaccine became available, the disease was blamed for more than 50,000 hospitalizations and several dozen deaths per year in the United States, she said.

The FDA learned about the contamination after an academic research team using a novel technique to look for viruses in a range of vaccines found the material in GlaxoSmithKline's product and told the company, Hamburg said. The drug maker confirmed its presence in both the cell bank and the seed from which the vaccine is derived, suggesting its presence from the early stages of vaccine development, she said. The FDA then confirmed the drug maker's findings.

GlaxoSmithKline emphasized Monday that the pig virus is not known to cause illness in humans, saying "it is found in everyday meat products and is frequently eaten with no resulting disease or illness."

"No safety issue has been identified by external agencies or GSK," Thomas Breuer, the drug maker's chief medical officer, said in a written statement. "GSK is committed to patient safety and to the highest manufacturing standards for all our vaccines and medicines. We are already working closely and discussing this finding with regulatory agencies around the world."

Another vaccine, RotaTeq, is made by Merck and was approved in 2006. There is no evidence that the Merck product is affected, Hamburg said. Both vaccines are given by mouth to infants to prevent rotavirus disease, which is marked by severe diarrhea and dehydration.

Mexico gunmen kill American consulate staff

Source:   Yahoo/Reuters News - provided by Michael Strachner, a vatic contributor

Title:   Mexico gunmen kill American consulate staff
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100314/wl_nm/us_obama_mexico_murders/print
By:      Julian Cardona Julian Cardona
Date:     03-14-2010

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Gunmen in the drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez killed two Americans and a Mexican linked to the local U.S. consulate, an attack U.S. President Barack Obama said "outraged" him.