Did Bush/Cheney rebuild Reagan's "Iran Contra" drug gang?(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - News out of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India reports massive corruption at the highest levels of government, corruption that could only be financed with drug money. In Afghanistan, the president's brother is known to be one of the biggest drug runners in the world.
In Pakistan, President Zardani is found with 60 million in a Swiss Bank and his Interior Minister is suspected of ties to American groups involved in paramilitary operations, totally illegal that could involve nothing but drugs, there is no other possibility.
Testimony in the US that our government has used "rendition" flights to transport massive amounts of narcotics to Western Europe and the United States has been taken in sworn deposition.
American mercenaries in Pakistan are hundreds of miles away from areas believed to be hiding terrorists, involved in "operations" that can't have anything whatsoever to do with any CIA contract. These mercenaries aren't in Quetta, Waziristan or FATA supporting our troops, they are in Karachi and Islamabad playing with police and government officials and living the life of the fatted calf.
The accusations made are that Americans in partnership with corrupt officials, perhaps in all 3 countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, are involved in assassinations, "unknown" criminal activities and are functioning like criminal gangs.
There is no oil. There is nothing to draw people into the area other than one product, one that nobody is talking about. Drugs.
The US got involved in massive drug operations, importation, processing and distribution during the Reagan years, supposedly to finance covert CIA operations involving death squads tasked with murdering Sandinista "infrastructure" in Nicaragua.
The deal involved Israel, Iran and the Colombian cartel. Saddam was even involved. In the end, President Reagan was put on the stand only to remember little or nothing of his tenure in office. Lt. Col. Oliver North was convicted as was Secretary of Defense Weinberger and many others. Pardons and "other methods" were used to keep the guilty out of jail.
Now we find what was supposed to be a CIA operation with one company only, Xe, operations that were meant to hunt a couple of terrorist/Taliban leaders in and around Quetta, a city of 1 million in remote Baluchistan has turned into a honeycomb of operations involving millions of dollars and personnel of all kinds, perhaps even ranking diplomats and high government officials, the highest.
The cover of hunting terrorists in remote areas with hundreds of armed men in cities on the other side of the country, cities filled with 5 star hotels, country clubs, polo, cricket and fine restaurants is not really cover, even by CIA standards.
The reports, bribes, actions that look and smell like drug gangs at work, tell a story that nobody wants to talk about.
With 50 billion dollars of opium from Afghanistan alone and crops in Pakistan and India also, managing the world's heroin supply is, by my estimation, how all of this "muscle" is staying busy. When you see a black van full of armed men, is there a sign somewhere saying:
"We are counter terrorists working for the Central Intelligence Agency and we are only in town here, hundreds of miles from the nearest terrorist because we need a hot shower and to get a noise in the transmission checked out."
Everyone can choose to believe what they want. It's time we stopped lying. Its about drugs, always has been, always will, drugs and money. It buys men, it buys guns and it can buy governments and has, as anyone with eyes can see.
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December 14, 2009More than a dozen Wisconsin child-care centers that reaped millions of dollars in state subsidies have had close ties to drug-dealing operations, including big-time crime bosses, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.
The newspaper identified 16 child-care centers with recent connections to drug operations, and the number is likely much higher. Those 16 alone have collected more than $8.5 million in public subsidies since 2006.
Records show many of those centers have been used to stash and transport drugs, launder dirty cash and provide fake employment for criminals - at taxpayers' expense.
In an ongoing investigation that has spanned more than a year, the Journal Sentinel has revealed rampant fraud within Wisconsin Shares, the state's $350 million child-care subsidy program. The investigation has spurred sweeping reforms by lawmakers and regulators, led to more than 130 child-care centers losing public funding and resulted in criminal charges against several providers.
December 9, 2009
Editor’s Note: This week’s Global Security & Intelligence Report is an abridged version of STRATFOR’s annual report on Mexico’s drug cartels. The full report, which includes extensive diagrams depicting the leadership of each cartel, will be available to our members next week.
There are two cartel wars currently raging in Mexico that have combined to produce record levels of violence in 2009. The first war is the struggle between the government of Mexico and the drug cartels. The second, a parallel war, is the fight among the various cartels as they compete for control of lucrative supply routes. Shortly after his inauguration in December 2006, President Felipe Calderon launched an all-out effort to target the cartels, which he viewed as a major threat to Mexico’s security and stability. Over the past three years, the government’s effort has weakened and fragmented some of the major cartels (namely the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels), but this government progress has upset the balance of power among the cartels, which has resulted in increased violence. Former cartel allies have been pitted against each other in bloody battles of attrition as rival cartels have tried to take advantage of their weakened competitors and seize control of smuggling routes ...
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In the 19th century, (1839 -1842 and 1856 -1860) the British empire went to a war with the Chinese empire due to the fact that the latter had banned the sale of heroin and opium in China.
The British colonial trading houses, and banks owned the monopoly on heroin trading to China. They obtained it from their sphere of influence in the Indian sub-continent but especially in the territory later known as Afghanistan.
The opium war killed millions of chinese and lead to the virtual enslavement and colonization of the proud Chinese empire.
The British empire and its European cohorts won the won and imposed humiliating conditions of surrender on China. For one, China was turned into the largest drug zone on earth since the Europeans demanded and received free and unrestricted access to trade their deadly chores opium to the chinese population.
It was not until Chairman Mao Zedong won back the national sovereignty of the chinese people did China regain its pride, stride and purpose on the world stage. It was not until the Communist Party of China had rehabilitated, jailed and killed many drug junky victims of European imposed policies did Chinese people understand the word sobriety.
AFGHANISTAN AND THE GLOBAL OPIUM TRADE
Today, Afghanistan has a monopoly on illegal opium production. According to the UN there is an opium market worth $65bn (£39bn) annually in Afghanistan. This market caters to 15 million addicts.
Afghanistan produces 92% of the world’s opium, with the equivalent of 3,500 tonnes leaving the country each year.
It is interesting to note that when the Taleban was in power the penalty for illegal opium production was a lost limb or life.
Consequently, production of opium plunged under the Taleban regime and Afghanistan was barely producing a trickle of the world’s supply.
The United States and Britain are today the biggest consumers of heroin followed by European countries. As such British and US heroin traders are amongst the most powerful and the richest in the world. They have a notorious heritage stemming from the opium war of China and drug trafficking all over the pre-20th century colonized world.
The Iran-gate Contra scandal of the late 1980s showed the entire globe that the American secret service C.I.A. is one of the top drug selling organizations in the world. The British secret service M.I.6 and M.I.5 all share the same dubious connections to cocaine and heroin as the C.I.A.
Drug dealing funds the C.I.A.’s illegal political and white supremacist programs and activities all over the world including political assasinations, coups, kidnappings, insurrections, and wars.
THE 2001 OPIUM WAR AKA THE WAR ON TERROR
When the Taleban banned opium production and consmption in Afghanistan, American and British stakeholders suffered unbelievable losses.
This is a market of more than $65 billion dollars annually. A market controlled by a cabal of powerful traders who make wars all over the earth to ensure a their control over the flow of drugs. You plant too much like Columbia you get controlled, and you plant too little like Afghanistan you get taken over.
In 2001 American heroin traders association lead by the CIA, the M.I.6,the British and the American army attacked Afghanistan under the guise of stamping out 9-11 linked terrorism.
The notion that one of the poorest states in the world at that time, situated tens of thousands of miles away from Europe and America, without any airforce, navy or standing army could attack, and imperil the very existence of the western civilization is simply preposterous.
But that was the silly reason which was presented to the world at the United Nations meeting on the issue. The so called west got its way. It was given a blank cheque to launch a war against a defenceless people.
The American army and airforce kicked out the Taleban regime. In a few months, the heroin production was back on track. Drugs followed out liberally once again from Afghanistan.
When one asks what is America doing in Afghanistan, remember the story above and the pictures shown here below:
Insurgents in Afghanistan are using heroin as a tactical weapon against US forces, hoping to emulate the drug problems that plagued US troops in Vietnam and Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the 1980s, says a new investigative report. In a report at the Daily Beast, author Gerald Posner cites "an internal US intelligence report" that "concluded [insurgents] are targeting American troops in an effort to undermine their effectiveness, while raising cash to pay for new recruits and weaponry."
The report brings up inevitable comparisons to the Vietnam War of the 1960s and 1970s and the Soviet war in Afghanistan that ended two decades ago. It also raises the possibility that the conflict in Afghanistan will spill over into the streets of America as returning troops bring their addictions home with them. FULL STORY
DEA says key ICE official sold info about informants, ran Panamanian cocaine to Spain via US ports
Richard Padilla Cramer, a 26-year veteran anti-drug official, is behind bars, arrested after officials accused him of directing a massive cocaine shipment to Spain via the United States, and selling important information in law enforcement databases to a vicious Mexican drug cartel.
