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Posted on Oct 23, 2009
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If an athlete is caught cheating in the Olympics or another sports competition, that person is disqualified, and it is seen as a disgrace. In the case of the recent election in Afghanistan, however, cheating has been rewarded and even praised by no less than the president of the United States, says Link TV’s Jamal Dajani in this week’s “Mosaic Intelligence Report.”

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By Hulk2008, October 28 at 7:33 pm #

How about just carpet-bombing the Afgahni poppy fields with agent orange left over from our Viet “classic”.  We can dump all the spent nuclear fueld and unused-and-unusable-ammo crud from prior conflicts and wipe out the opium industry ...... AS the last US troops are pulling out. 
  Once the poppy fields are wasted, the Taliban and the Al Qaeda remnants can figure out how to continue fighting without the ONLY cash crop ever raised there.
  As an alternative, maybe the US can offer to transport all the Medellin drug lords and their militias over to Afghanistan and Pakistan - they would K.O. Al Qaeda and the Taliban in short order to take over the opium industry.  Maybe the US could even get a discount on opium imports.

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By PSmith, October 28 at 3:55 pm #

WE THE PEOPLE

The only suckers who don’t know what’s going on.

Suckers? Who - US?

America’s Drug Crisis - Brought to You by the CIA - by Dave Lindorff - October
28, 2009 -

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10282009.html#at

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By PSmith, October 28 at 4:12 am #

WHAT’S OUR OPIUM DOING IN THEIR COUNTRY?

THE CIA AT WORK. AGAIN.

The Golden Triangle? Iran-Contra? Gary Webb? Hello? Anybody home?

If he’s a major drug dealer he has links with the CIA. Period.

Peter Dale Scott - The Global Drugs Meta Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 911 - http://lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/global-drug.htm

Peter Dale Scott does theories about real conspiracies - aka politics as usual -http://www.peterdalescott.net/q.html

See the main page, at Lobster UK for the difference between ‘theories about conspiracies’, versus the ‘little green men did it’ disinformation alternative. - http://lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/l29consp.htm

DRUGS, 911 and SIBEL EDMONDS

SIBEL EDMONDS
Wall Street _is_ laundering up to $500B a year (B as in Billion) in drug profits and using it as capital on a twenty to fifty times multiplier.

In the following interview Peter Dale Scott refers to Sibel Edmonds’s interview with Philip Giraldi in the American Conservative revealing high level US corruption—in Congress and Senate—covering up the importation of drugs to the US, that is just now coming into widespread public view. In an interview on 100509 with Global Research News Hour. Starts @ 42.50.

‘I DON’T WANT TO ATTACK OBAMA’
@ 45.30. Iran-Contra - The most courageous, and there weren’t very many; those who stood up, were targeted and weren’t re-elected. (Including Senator Church). Government funds used to defeat those attacking Oliver North’s crowd and the secret government inside the government.

“So you’re not going to get a very courageous opposition. I don’t want to attack Obama because he’s tried to do some things, but obviously he’s moved cautiously and he’s backtracked on quite a few of the things that he said he would do. That’s because you don’t mess with the CIA. And I think everybody who survives in Washington knows how dangerous it is to do that.”

FURTHER SECRETS - ‘VERY HOT STUFF’
@47.15 PDS - “Not all of the cat is out of the bag, by the way. You can see the general outlines of what she was talking about and it isn’t by any means all in this American Conservative article because I’ve been tracking her very closely and communicated with her. And, eh, she is sitting on something that could, if fully disclosed, I think would not just tell us what is happening now, but would cast a great deal of light on the deep history of our country in the last fifty years.”

Stephen Lendman - “So she has some very, very hot stuff that she is sitting on.”

“The big new element is she has been backed in a lot of what she has been saying by a senior official of the FBI, in her area, at a much higher level than herself.”

Go to 2009 archives and find Peter Dales Scott - October 5th 2009 @42.50. - Link trouble - put the whole string into ‘Search google’ or ‘Go to URL’ and be prepared to ‘fiddle’. -
http://republicbroadcasting.org/Global Research/index.php?cmd=archives.year&ProgramID=33&year=9

‘FAR WEST’ DRUGS META GROUP
The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11, by Peter Dale Scott - 10/29/05 - http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/global-drug.htm

SPECULATION
Interviewer “But, I mean, it leaves intact the whole criminal structure.” - Peter Dale Scott, 911, Left Gatekeepers, Zelikow. - @4.05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDZR72PPUO0#t=04m05s

_What_ criminal structure?

2009 - 50 = 1959.

“Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds,” by Philip Giraldi - September 18th 2009 - http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/nov/01/00006/

About the article - See useful links - http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/09/17/sibel-edmonds-speaks-out/

Sibel Edmonds - http://www.justacitizen.com/

Peter Dale Scott - Best single source on JFK, 911 and ‘Deep Politics’ -

http://www.peterdalescott.net/index.html

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By diamond, October 26 at 4:41 pm #

Karzai used to work for the Unocal oil company and his brother is a drug lord in Afghanistan. America is hopeless at choosing its enemies and even more hopeless at choosing its friends.

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By Canada Guy, October 26 at 12:58 pm #
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Instabilty and war are the primary factors responsible for increased opium production in Afghanistan. Before the Soviet invasion, and during the brief rule of the Taliban, opium production was either very limited, or deliberated curtailed. Soon after the war is over, production is likely to plummet.

http://watching-history.blogspot.com/2009/10/opium-in-afghanistan.html

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By tropicgirl, October 26 at 11:57 am #
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I find it hilarious that Kerry went there to challenge the election results. He can’t
even fight for his own stolen election and Gore’s (not one senator stood up, thats
all it would have taken).

Karzai is an american puppet that also serves the pashtoons (regular people), who
we are in the process of blowing up.

The other guy is wanna-be puppet with no local support except from agitators
who want to nation-build.

And before you criticize anyone for opium you might be interested to know where
the primary markets are (US, Britain, Russia) and whose laundering the money for
them. (too big to fail).

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By Blackspeare, October 26 at 11:02 am #

Apparently Karzai hasn’t learned how to properly steal an election.  He will be given a second chance!

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By DGR, PhD, October 25 at 1:54 pm #
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How do we know that Karzai isn’t providing free opium or heroin to resisters of the US so they will
be forced to continue murdering to get their next fix?  This seems like a no-brainer to me but nobody is talking about it.

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By dihey, October 25 at 10:40 am #

Secretary Gates has already stated the President’s position: “the election in Afghanistan will have no bearing on the CIC’s decision on eszcalatio”. We are our own puppet!

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By johannes, October 24 at 6:03 am #

What do you think how much people geth bloody rich with this OPIUM business, and it are not alone Afganes, belief me.

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By randyha, October 23 at 11:35 pm #

Afghanistan is a lost case. We should get the hell out of there. Didn’t we learn from Iraq?

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By Wendy Martinez, October 23 at 11:31 pm #
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Karzai is a US puppet. That’s why Obama is willing to look the other way.

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