Comment: It is no secret that major financial institutions, American and foreign, are deeply involved with laundering drugs for major smuggling operations. A recent article notes the involvement of B of A and Wachovia (now owned by Wells Fargo) in an operation that resulted in the bust of a DC-9 carrying 5.7 tons of cocaine. [...]
Jihadist elements welcomed in Georgia (former U.S.S.R.), apparently with U.S. blessing; Russian fascism growing;Pentagon buying “Peak Oil” hypothesis; corporate jets exempt from FAA regulations; cyber-attack on U.S. power grid?
Venice Airport a center of intrigue long before Mohammed Atta and company arrived; arms and drug trafficking a decades-long staple of the milieu that operated there; elements associated with the JFK hit operated here as well.
Islamist terror, drug smuggling and weapons trafficking are closely linked; major aviation networks serve all three and could be used to strike the U.S. with WMD’s; GOP and Grover Norquist are very close to these elements.
Infiltration point for the 9/11 hijackers, the Venice Airport has a history of involvement with wrongdoing and wrongdoers; Ponzi schemes the least heinous of their activities; the deep history of that facility overlaps the assassination of President Kennedy.
Comment: the refusal by the Marines to destroy the crop should not be surprising in and of itself. The impoverished Afghan farmers depend on it for income and in the “battle for hearts and minds,” that is an important consideration. Considering that other options are available, such as purchasing the opium to make medical morphine, [...]
Comment: In light of the massive volume of broadcasts available on this site about intelligence community involvement in drug trafficking, this should come as no surprise. “NATO Rejects Russia’s Demand to Destroy Afghan Poppy Fields”; New Europe; 3/26/2010. NATO and Russia clashed on 24 March over how to tackle the drug problem in Afghanistan, where [...]
Comment: With this impending merger, it appears that ES & S–one of the companies linked to vote tampering in recent U.S. elections–will be purchasing the money-losing unit of the better-known Diebold firm. “US Voting Machine Makers’ Merger Nears Approval-WSJ” [Wall Street Journal]; reuters.com; 3/4/2010. But the department will require the combined company to divest a [...]
In early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called “the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11.”
9/11 hijackers were part of a vast international criminal network; Germans, Eastern Europeans at the hub of that network; drug-trafficking, massive fraud schemes are their stock in trade.
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