>>14476693

The Real Drug Lords: A Brief History Of CIA Involvement With Drug Trafficking

EARLY 1950s, SOUTHEAST ASIA

The Nationalist Chinese army, organized by the CIA to wage war against Communist China, became the opium barons of The Golden Triangle (parts of Burma, Thailand and Laos), the world’s largest source of opium and heroin. Air America, the CIA’s principal airline proprietary, flew the drugs all over Southeast Asia. (See Christopher Robbins, Air America, Avon Books, 1985, chapter 9)

1950s to early 1970s, INDOCHINA

During U.S. military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indochina, Air America flew opium and heroin throughout the area. Many GI’s in Vietnam became addicts. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin. After a decade of American military intervention, Southeast Asia had become the source of 70 percent of the world’s illicit opium and the major supplier of raw materials for America’s booming heroin market.

1973-80, AUSTRALIA

The Nugan Hand Bank of Sydney was a CIA bank in all but name. Among its officers were a network of US generals, admirals and CIA men, including former CIA Director William Colby, who was also one of its lawyers. With branches in Saudi Arabia, Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and the U.S., Nugan Hand Bank financed drug trafficking, money laundering and international arms dealings. In 1980, amidst several mysterious deaths, the bank collapsed, $50 million in debt. (See Jonathan Kwitny, The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA, W.W. Norton & Co., 1 987.)

1970s and 1980s, PANAMA

For more than a decade, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was a highly paid CIA asset and collaborator, despite knowledge by U.S. drug authorities as early as 1971 that the general was heavily involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. Noriega facilitated ”guns-for-drugs” flights for the contras, providing protection and pilots, as well as safe havens for drug cartel officials, and discreet banking facilities. U.S. officials, including then-CIA Director William Webster and several DEA officers, sent Noriega letters of praise for efforts to thwart drug trafficking (albeit only against competitors of his Medellin Cartel patrons). The U.S. government only turned against Noriega, invading Panama in December 1989 and kidnapping the general once they discovered he was providing intelligence and services to the Cubans and Sandinistas. Ironically drug trafficking through Panama increased after the US invasion. (John Dinges, Our Man in Panama, Random House, 1991; National Security Archive Documentation Packet The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations.)

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>>14476749

Exactly..don't believe them..Seen this attack many time and each time they post the same bullshit..trying to get people to change their host files…

>>14476788

>Lindsey Graham

He's a Traitor ..He's been on this board a few times…claiming he was set free after no name died… then he crawled back to his cage

>>14476911

Graham says Trump will have 'a place in history' for Capitol riot

One of former President Trump's longtime allies in the Senate said Sunday that Trump would be remembered for his role in the events leading up to the deadly riot that overtook the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) indicated that he thought history would judge Trump's responsibility for the siege that resulted in the deaths of several people, including one Capitol Police officer, but added that he did not think it was the Senate's role to convict the former president for inciting the riot.

"Well, I mean, he’s going to have a place in history for all of this, but the point of the matter is that we're in Congress. We're not prosecutors. Impeachment was never meant to be a prosecution," Graham said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/537717-graham-says-trump-will-have-a-place-in-history-for-capitol-riots

>>14476913

>I think the storm is coming and this is kind of like "Batten down the hatches"

Ever think that the calm before the storm was Trumps 4 years in office and Bidens term is the Storm

US military says it carried out drone strike targeting ISIS-K member in eastern Afghanistan

The Pentagon has said it launched a drone strike to take out an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) member, believed to be involved in organizing the attack at the Kabul airport, that killed 13 US servicemen.

https://www.rt.com/usa/533312-afghanistan-strike-isis-retaliation/

>>14477032

He is bought and paid for…just like McCarthy who is owned by Silicon Valley..He WILL stab us in the back in a heartbeat

Silicon Valley would welcome McCarthy as new House speaker

Though representing a solidly Republican, largely agricultural district hundreds of miles away, McCarthy has talked often about Silicon Valley’s huge potential as an economic driver and political force. And he has earned a reputation for being curious about new technology and responsive to the tech sector’s needs.

Carl Guardino, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, calls him a longtime friend and an established political partner. As he often does, Guardino next week will shepherd a flock of local CEOs to Washington, D.C., to have lunch with McCarthy and other GOP House members.

If McCarthy becomes speaker, it would be “a significant positive step for Silicon Valley,” Guardino said Friday, adding that McCarthy’s positions on patent reform, tax policy, cybersecurity and immigration reform for highly skilled workers “are all close to, if not in alignment with, what’s best for America’s innovation economy.”

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2015/09/25/silicon-valley-would-welcome-mccarthy-as-new-house-speaker/

>>14477116

Interesting how times have changed

U.S. Civil War: The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union

April 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War, which began when Confederate forces opened fire upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The following essay by Webster Tarpley, tells about the largely untold alliance between President Abraham Lincoln and Russian Tsar Alexander II, which by many accounts was key to the North winning the U.S. Civil War, sealing the defeat of the British strategic design.

The Russia-American Special Relationship that Saved the Union

Adams tells his reader that he does not view his topic as part of American history; rather, he poses for himself the contorted question of “how is the American Civil War to be depicted by historians of Great Britain…?” (Adams I 2) Adams treats the autumn crisis of 1862 as the main danger point of US-UK conflict, writing that “here, and here only, Great Britain voluntarily approached the danger of becoming involved in the American conflict.” (Adams II 34) He pleads for understanding for the much-vituperated British role, recalling that “the great crisis in America was almost equally a crisis in the domestic history of Great Britain itself…,” and providing valuable materials in this regard. (Adams I 2) Adams generally relegates Russo-American diplomacy to the footnotes, mentioning the “extreme friendship” and even the “special relationship” of these two nations. In the North, he notes, Russia was viewed as a “true friend” in contrast to the “unfriendly neutrality” of Great Britain and France. (Adams II, 45n, 70n, 225) But for Adams, the main lesson is that the Anglo-American disputes of the Civil War era have “distorted” the “natural ties of friendship, based upon ties of blood and a common heritage of literature and history and law” which exist or ought to exit between the two countries. Those disputes, he suggests, can be relegated to the category of “bitter and exaggerated memori