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White House drug policy chief John Walters refers to the report as �disappointing.� �It's almost the devil's own problem,� CIA Director Michael Heyden says of poppy production in Afghanistan. Afghanistan 2006 �In addition to a 26 percent production increase over past year -- for a total of 5,644 metric tons -- the amount of land under cultivation in opium poppies grew by 61 percent. Cultivation in the two main production provinces, Helmand in the southwest and Oruzgan in central Afghanistan, was up by 132 percent.� (1) Celebrity Profile �Supermodel Kate Moss was "discovered" at 14 by �the Storm Modeling Agency � Through the 1990s and early 00s, she was one of the world's most recognizable models ... Moss starred in a series of Calvin Klein ads through the 1990s, spurring a period of waify "heroin chic" in the modeling world, which emphasized emaciation and de-emphasized breasts. Moss was photographed with utterly blank face, as if stoned or exhausted. Klein reported[ly] paid her �1 million a year �� (3) New York, 1972 "[CIA official] Mr. Meyer urged several of his old friends among [publisher] Harper and Row's senior management to provide him with a copy of the galley proofs of my [Alfred W. McCoy�s] history of the international narcotics traffic, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. In this book I show the complicity of various US agencies--particularly the CIA and the State Department--in organizing the Southeast Asian drug traffic since the early 1950s �� (4) ______________________________ Serv http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12 /01/AR2006120101654.html http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/13/spain.models/inde x.html http://www.nndb.com/people/489/000022423/ http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=1 0079 Edited by Servetus |
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This might not be very heroin chic of me but I am going to post it anyway! Those of you who have an aversion to the Left might have to excuse the source, but please do at any rate read on: �� So exit the Taliban [from Afghanistan] and then came the drug boom on the re-entry of the [US-bought] warlords, laughing at the Americans up their capacious sleeves and all the way to their Swiss banks. Their lucrative enterprises were welcomed by their soul-mates in the West, who now make billions of dollars from selling high grade heroin, ironically in all the European countries that have troops in Serv http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley12212006.html
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Servetus said: "Perhaps in this case, continuing the theme, one could
say that the Kabul is flowing into the Tiber, Danube, Seine and Thames.�" Not 'perhaps' oh wise Servetus, it is a fact: Mountains of Coke along the Rhine www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,384456,00.html By Markus Becker � Germans, it turns out, snort more coke than originally thought. That is the result of a new study which measured cocaine residue in the country's rivers. Eleven tons of pure cocaine per year -- and that's just in the Rhine River region." Here in Spain, where most of Europe's 500 Euro bills circulate (out of reach of the tax man, of course i.e these are the undeclared ill- gotten gains of unscrupulous property developers and drug barons) it was recently discovered that hardly a single bill exists with no trace of the drug. I don't suppose this means all drug users inhale the stuff from a Euro bill, simply that more hands are tainted with the stuff. � |
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Thanks, Duende. That was interesting! It never even occurred to me that chemists would be literally checking the major rivers. I would guess that the drug content of the But seriously, despite the tantalizing tunes that such as the Storm Modeling Agency, Calvin Klein and the many other arbiters -or, rather- pied pipers of Western fashion and so-called �beauty� might play, I know all too well that, if ever there were an absolute oxymoron, �heroin chic� would have to be it. Vigilance! Su amigo, Serv |
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This post might be either sung or whistled to the tune of one of my all-time favorite bands, REM�s song, �All the way to �Humming Concerning that which the glitterati call �heroin (also known as �cocaine, amphetamine and ecstasy�) chic�, and even though the news, from a dodgy source, is a bit dated, here is some more highly lucrative and, well, let�s call it �model� behavior for young girls, women and fashion marketeers of the world to emulate � �� Explaining the decision, Mr Barclay, CPS London's director of serious casework, said video footage of Miss [Kate] Moss's activities [viz., snorting blow] could not prove whether the substance was cocaine, ecstasy or amphetamine. These drugs are in different categories - Classes A and B - and therefore the prosecution could not proceed because prosecution lawyers must prove beyond reasonable doubt which category of substance was being abused. The film footage provides an absolutely clear indication that Miss Moss was using controlled drugs and providing them to others," he said �. � since the furore financial considerations have overridden any moral qualms and she has picked up a number of new deals, including several with companies that had ditched her. [bold emphasis added]� Serv |
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The message most received from this sordid little affair, was that if
you are a Celebrity SuperModel, you receive rewards for taking illegal drugs. It seems her takings since this incident have risen a few million. Funny thing, Great British Law ... |
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�You know what you are, you�re gonna be a star.� Disregard, for now, the �organic� poppy fields of Afghanistan, the yield from which seems almost healthy in comparison, and notice the new trend among fashion marketeers, image makers and other hucksters to feed (or allow) their increasingly emaciated mannequins (to feed themselves) upon clenbuterol, or �clen,� an asthma treatment approved for horses, no less. One might almost assume that, to get �fixed up,� one need only ring up Rachel Zoe �
All five share the hallmarks of being seriously underweight � chicken wing arms, deflated, sagging breasts and protruding hip and chest bones. And three of them are "Zoe-bots", clients of the super-stylist Rachel Zoe. �Humming, all the way to Serv Edited by Servetus |
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In this age of supreme Disinformation, isn�t it possible the poppy crop in
Afghanistan is secretly being used to fund the American trained �Death squads� in Iraq? After all, there would be nothing new in this, and experience counts. Compare for example the CIA support for and cooperation with the Colombian drug cartels which funded the Nicaraguan Contras, which formed the basis of the well known Iran- Contra scandal of the Reagan era. Many of those involved in the Iran Contra operation are back at work now within the Bush admin, according to Seymour Hersh�s article in the NewYorker: �The Redirection�. The US special advisor to Iraq�s Ministry of the Interior Steven Casteel, for example, whose experience during the 1990s hunt for Pepe Escobar alongside the CIA, DEA and top secret military intelligence operatives must be proving invaluable to Iraqis. Or James Steele, who graduated from the battle fields of Vietnam as a US Army special forces operative, to El Salvador where �he was responsible for selecting and training the small units (or death squads) who were boasted to have inflicted 60% of the casualties caused in that �counterinsurgency� campaign (Manwaring, El Salvador at War, 1988, p 306-8).� He is now in charge of training the Iraqui Special Police Commandos. �In fact, The New York Times Magazine in a 2005 article (May 01) revealed that the Iraqi counterinsurgency was being advised by an American who led the Special Forces in El Salvador in the 1980s.� If the actions of the Salvadorian Rapid Deployment Infantry Brigade are anything to go by, the daily horrors of Iraq, with the deaths of children an as yet to be established development, are foreseeable, indeed predictable; �On the morning of the 11th the Brigade decided to put its training to work and make an example of the people of El Mozote. They decided to kill the entire population of the village (about 900 people including peasants from the countryside who came to stay in El Mozote out of fear of the Atlacatl Brigade in the field. The population was unarmed. The men were separated from the women and children and publicly executed, many were beheaded (not an Iraqi invention). Then all the girls and women 12 years old and up were killed, many were first raped. Finally all the children under 12 and the babies were taken into the village church and then shot and bayonetted.� (Remembering Rufina Amaya By Thomas Riggins at ICH)) This article argues the possibility that what we are seeing in Iraq today is not actually the result of �poor planning� or lack of exit strategy at all, but is in fact going quite according to plan, thank you very much: www.globalresearch.ca Crying Wolf: Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq In view of mounting evidence of Anglo-American involvement in the bombing campaigns targeting Iraqi civilians, notably the brief arrest of two British SAS men found with a car packed with explosives (William Bowles), it is worth speculating a little on the implementation of their wider strategy. Discounting Al-Qaida and Zarqawi in Iraq as fabrications designed for easy media consumption (Centre for Research on Globalisation), we are left with a situation in which someone is targeting Shias, mainly through the planting of bombs around mosques and at religious ceremonies, and someone is targeting Sunnis, mainly through extrajudicial executions carried out by parties that look a lot like the police but have become linked with the Shiite Badr Brigade in the popular imagination. It is impossible that the Iraqi resistance could account for this pandemic of fratricidal violence, whatever Adnan Thabit might say about insurgents in police uniforms. It is equally impossible that SCIRI and the Badr Brigade could account for much of it in a milieu dominated by CIA assets and US military forces. What is possible is that both sides of the apparent sectarian violence are run as part of a huge CIA-lead intelligence operation designed to split Iraq at the seams. I tentatively suggest that the intelligence apparatus at the Interior Ministry is contriving attacks on Sunnis and that British and US special forces in conjunction with the intelligence apparatus at the Iraqi Defence Ministry are fabricating insurgent bombings of Shias. Overseeing the entire operation is the �cream� of CMAD under the direction of top-level US intelligence asset Mowaffak Rubaie, a man already experienced at participating in bombing campaigns, undoubtedly working hand in glove with the CIA and the National Security Council in the US. False Flags, Semiotics and Vulgar Marxists The French theorist Jean Baudrillard famously once stated that the first Gulf War did not take place. By this he did not mean that nothing happened, but that its presentation in the media consisted of an overwhelming barrage of the signs of War, which bore essentially no relationship to the annihilation of a Third World army by the most advanced military power in history. In short it was a simulation of war. This was perhaps the most extreme example of what Baudrilliard referred to as the �ecstacy of communication�, that in our Information Age, concepts spin at such a rate that their outlines become lost and their original meanings are replaced with empty alternatives. Fifteen years later, the same charges can be levelled against the recent Iraq �War� and the country�s subsequent occupation. Most importantly, I believe that a process akin to that Baudrillard highlighted is being actively employed to simulate a civil war in Iraq. False-flag intelligence operations are aimed at sowing seeds of a sectarian strife that was largely non- existent prior to the invasion. Thus, even many Sunni Iraqis are coming to believe that the well-organised death squads run from the CIA-controlled intelligence hub are actually the Badr Brigade they often claim to be; and thus British SAS men in Arab disguise plant bombs at Shia religious festivals to be blamed on fanatical Wahabi Sunni �insurgents�. Whether such tactics succeed in provoking further, autonomous acts of violence directed against the civilian population is much less significant than the impact they are able to exert within the media. This Anglo- American intelligence operation acts as a factory churning out the signs of Civil War: a �wave of tit-for-tat sectarian violence� and the consequent ethnic cleansing. The signs are produced to be picked up by the media and spun and spun until nothing is left but a nebulous Civil War with no internal logic or structure, with the occupying forces as powerless to intervene as they were in the Balkans while Iraq splits into Rubiae�s desired four to six autonomous provinces. Those few journalists, like Yasser Salihee and Steven Vincent, who break the mould and start to investigate the actual authorship of extrajudicial killings themselves become victims. When one former CIA operative candidly claimed that �Intelligence services are the heart and soul of a new country� (Washington Post)), they were inadvertently expressing a position that Noam Chomsky might call �vulgar Marxist�. What they were actually confessing is that the essence of a state is the organisation of violence as the ultimate coercive measure and that the intelligence apparatus functions as its brain. Little wonder then that the US is so closely involved with intelligence services the world over, or that both coup d��tats and savage repressions of sectors of the population deemed opposed to US interests have emanated from the offices of these same services. To penetrate the media smokescreen of spontaneous, uncontrollable violence and understand the role of intelligence operations in the creation of a beholden, occupied client state or series of statelets is fundamental to understanding the processes in Iraq today. It is also fundamental to recognising that the presence of Anglo-American forces in Iraq does not merely exacerbate the present violence; in Iraq we are the violence. Max Fuller is the author of �For Iraq, the Salvador Option Become Reality� published by the Centre for Research on Globalisation Edited by Duende |
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