Bush and UAE: partners in the drug trade

[AntiFascist]

Just say Yes?

I noticed an interesting comment by V for Vendetta to this blog post:

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/02/lawyers-guns-money-and-drugs.html

It outlines the pro-fascist agenda supported by hard drug use and the history of its support within the Bush family empire. Some DUers may be struck by the comment that increasing the price of marijuana may be part of this tactic.

Any supporting documents?

Stand fast for the deluge of Heroin part II. The official "my life sucks and I'm terrified to change it" drug of choice. It keeps attritional genocide, covert intelligence budgets and prisoner rates up, and keeps the masses distracted and generally unable to facilitate the organization necessary to rectify their corrupt environments.

Worked like a charm to take down the empowerment and anti-war groundswells of the late 60's through the 70's. Got a viable, coordinated mass movement? Nothing puts it down faster than government cultivated and distributed products (Coke, Heroin, Meth, LSD, etc.). Also makes fascism go down smooth with no bitter aftertaste.

Plus it's the Bush heritage! Poppy Bush (no pun intended) was a Coke slinging top dope mover. His father Prescott was the Superfly of the Russell Trust, pushing Opium cultivated in India on China (gotta put down those Chinese Boxer insurgents you know).

Then they can also tweak and punch up it's potency in the labs to make the monkey that goes on your back, just a little heavier and a bit more intractable.

Then you can do like Nixon when he used his Bureau of Narcotics to dry up the U.S. marijuana supply and drive up it's price, so that Heroin became a more economically viable option.

[blm]

1. If you want supporting documents, read Gary Webb's articles from the

mid90s. After the report was denied and Webb derided, CIA documents turned up that supported the charges of drugrunning made by Webb. ONE Senator stood with Webb to help get the documents made public.

Prior to that most of the drugrunning, armsdealing and moneylaundering was exposed in BCCI as a global network thatjust happened to touch Bush and most of his cronies around the globe - just another one of those amazing "coincidences" the Republicans believe in.

[AntiFascist]

3. Thanks blm, here's some info re: Iran Contra...

http://www.geocities.com/iran_contra_christic_institute/

Here's an interesting reading list:

1.The Politics of Heroin by Alfred W. McCoy (1972, 1991)
Lawrence Hill Books - ISBN 1-55652-125-1

2.Cocaine Politics by Peter Dale Scott & Johnathan Marshall (1991)
U.C. Press - ISBN 0-520-07781-4

3.The Iran-Contra Connection by Scott, Marshall, and Hunter (1987)
South End Press - ISBN 0-89608-291-1

4.The Big White Lie by Mike Levine (1993)
Thunder's Mouth Press - ISBN 1-56025-064

5.Compromised by Terry Reed (1995)
Penmarin Books - ISBN 1-883955-02-5

6.Powder Burns by Clerino Castillo (1994)
Mosaic Press - ISBN 0-88962-578-6

7.The Underground Empire by James Mills (1974, 1978)
Doubleday - ISBN 0-385-17535-3

8.Inside The Shadow Government by the Christic Institute (1987)
Declaration of Plantiff's Counsel Filed by the Christic Institute -
U.S. District Court, Miami, FL.

9.Kiss The Boys Goodbye by Monika Jensen-Stevenson and Wm
Stevenson (1990)
Dutton - ISBN 0-525-24934-6

10.Defrauding America by Rodney Stich (1994)
Diablo Western Press - ISBN 0-932438-08-3

11.Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win
by Elaine Shannon (1988)
Viking Press

"THESE BOOKS NAME NAMES, DATES AND PLACES WHERE THE CIA DEALT DRUGS. NOT ONE OF THE ABOVE AUTHORS HAS BEEN SUED FOR LIBEL -- EVER!

Almost all of these books are available by mail or phone order from:
THE CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MODERN HISTORY
[phone]"

[blm]

4. What most people DON'T know is that almost every reporter who got close

was eventually fired, blackballed, demoted, or ostracized. Every now and then one would be found dead from a suicide or mysterious accident.

Robert Parry was one who was muscled out of his gig by the Bush administration's constant complaints against his work.

[AntiFascist]

6. Like Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Webb for example?

"Investigative Reporter Gary Webb Who Linked CIA to Crack Sales Found Dead of Apparent Suicide"

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/13/1457240

[lovuian]

2. This is why they need the ports!!!

and for other things!!!

[pberq]

5. Kick & Nominated - Also check out Michael Ruppert

General link:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/index.shtml#drugs


MR comment on CNN story on Afghan poppy production:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/121103_afghan_poppy.html

December 11, 2003 100 PDT (FTW) -- Ever wonder why the markets are doing so well? As FTW has documented for years, with almost $600 billion in drug money being laundered through Wall Street and US banks, the markets should be improving. According to CNN, opium production in Afghanistan is 36 times higher than at the end of Taliban rule. Not every US policy overseas is a failure. Hamid Karzai controls a few square blocks of Kabul. But CIA-controlled warlords control the real estate that really matters.

[converted_democrat]

7. I had never thought of that angle.. It does make since though, especially

with the uptick of product in Afghanistan..

[AntiFascist]

8. Speaking of "upticks" check out this article...

AFGHAN OPIUM PRODUCTION DOUBLES
Ever wonder why the markets are doing so well? As FTW has documented for years, with almost $600 billion in drug money being laundered through Wall Street and US banks, the markets should be improving. According to CNN, opium production in Afghanistan is 36 times higher than at the end of Taliban rule. Not every US policy overseas is a failure. Hamid Karzai controls a few square blocks of Kabul. But CIA-controlled warlords control the real estate that really matters.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/121103_afghan_poppy.html


On Edit: Notice how the US dollar and DJI remain "elevated" when many have been predicting their downfall?

[AntiFascist]

9. Whoops, just noticed this was a sub-dupe...

:kick:

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10. This is an interesting post....

http://www.ariannaonline.com/forums/printthread.php?t=17357&pp=40

The history of the CIA™s involvement with the American press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation and deception . . . Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Agency were William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce of Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal and James Copley of the Copley News Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Associated Press, United Pres International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scripps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune. By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc. . .

[blm]

13. The alleged "liberal" press always carried more water for BushInc than the

RW press as they were considered more valuable as news sources.

[Just Me]

11. BushCO's into money. There's a LOT of money to be made in the,...

,...illegal drug trade. However, my guess is that they do more in the "association" arena than in the trade itself. On the other hand,...

[AntiFascist]

12. Kick for late night n/t