Poppy Bush

THEY DON’T CALL HIM POPPY BUSH FOR HIS PATERNAL INSTINCTS!! NOW IT ALL SEEMS TO BE DISAPPEARING, BUT STILL A BUMPER CROP!

THE FULL BUSH UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY BY WEBSTER TARPLEY HERE (A Truly Informative Book!!): http://killtown.911review.org/bushbio/chapter5.html A COUPLE OF EXCERPTS: How Poppy Learned The Drug Trade! During the Reagan years, Bush was given a much-publicized assignment as head of the South Florida Task Force and related efforts that were billed as part of a "war on drugs." In 1975, President Ford had ordered the CIA to collect intelligence on narcotics trafficking overseas, and also to "covertly influence" foreign offocials to help US anti-drug activities. How well did Bush carry out this critical part of his responsibilities? Poorly, according to a Justice Department "Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities," which was compiled in 1976, but which has only partly come into the public domain. What emerges is a systematic pattern of coverup that recalls Lapham's spurious arguments in the Leletier case. Using the notorious stonewall that the first responsibility of the CIA was to shield its own "methods and sources" from being exposed, the agency expressed fear "that the confidentiality of CIA's overseas collection methods and sources would be in jeopardy should discovery proceedings require disclosure of the CIA's electronic surveillance activities." [fn 52] This caused "several narcotics invesitgations and'or prosecutions...to be terminated."

It was during 1976 that Bush met the Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega. According to Don Gregg, this meeting took place on the edges of a luncheon conference with several other visiting Panamanian officials.

Rules Apply, Just Not To The Bush Family! Secretary of War Stimson made a famous speech in June 1942, to Poppy Bush and the other graduating Andover boys. Stimson told them the war would be long, and they, the elite, should go on to college. But George Bush had some very complicated problems. The decision had already been made that he would join the service and get quite far away from where he had been. For reasons of family (which will be discussed in Chapter 7), there was a very special niche waiting for him in naval aviation. There was one serious hitch in this plan. It was illegal. Though he would be 18 years old on June 12, he would not have the two years of college the Navy required for its aviators. Well, if you had an urgent problem, perhaps the law could be simply set aside, for you and you alone, ahead of all the five million poor slobs who had to go in the mud with the infantry or swab some stinking deck--especially if your private school's president was currently Secretary of War (Henry Stimson), if your father's banking partner was currently Assistant Secretary of War for Air (Robert Lovett), and if your father had launched the career of the current Assistant Navy Secretary for Air (Artemus Gates). And it was done. As a Bush-authorized version puts it, `` One wonders why the Navy relaxed its two years of college requirement for flight training in George Bush's case. He had built an outstanding record at school as a scholar [sic], athlete and campus leader, but so had countless thousands of other youths. ``Yet it was George Bush who appeared to be the only beneficiary of this rule-waiving, and thus he eventually emerged as the youngest pilot in the Navy--a fact that he can still boast about and because of which he enjoyed a certain celebrity during the war. ''

It Is Who Ya Know! The hierarchical top banana of the A.U.V. in George's class was Godfrey Anderson (`` Rocky '') Rockefeller. In the yearbook just above the A.U.V. roster is a photograph of `` Rocky Rockefeller '' and `` Lem [Lehman F.] Beardsley ''; Rockefeller stands imperiously without a shirt, Beardsley scowls from behind sunglasses. Certainly the real monarch of George Bush's Andover secret society, and George's sponsor, was this Rocky's father, Godfrey S. Rockefeller.

Bush Administration Assists Afghanistan with Opium Production By Michael Lang on May 7, 2008 in INSIGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS There has been a dangerous, but very interesting shell game going on in the opuium fields of [tag]Afghanistan[/tag] that is primarily dictated by the policies of the [tag]Bush Administration[/tag] and carried out by the United States Marines.

In Afghanistan, the Marines of Bravo Company’s 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies in the world’s largest opium poppy-growing region surrounded by green fields of the illegal plants that produce the main ingredient of heroin. Now, even though these drugs are illegal and the U.S. spends billions of dollars in the war against drugs, the Marines do not destroy the plants. In fact, they are reassuring villagers that the poppies won’t be touched leaving many Marines in the field scratching their heads over the situation. The Taliban, whose fighters are exchanging daily fire with the Marines in Garmser, an Afghani province, derives up to $100 million a year from the poppy harvest by taxing farmers and charging safe passage fees — money that will buy weapons for use against U.S., NATO and Afghan troops. Just before the United States invaded Afghanistan, the Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim group that has controlled much of Afghanistan from 1995 until U.S. military intervention in 2001, outlawed the production and use of opium. This had positive rippling effect on the world’s drug trade including the slowing of heroin imports to the United States. Supposedly a good thing….right? Well here comes the Bush Crime Family, using their now perfected "pretzel logic" to save the world from itself and eradicate the evil Al Qaeda. So we, (the U.S. military) invade Afghaistan thereby putting an end to the reign of the Taliban. And what happens? That’s right! The Afghanis begin producing opium in unprecedented quantities raising exportation to records levels which lowers the price of heroin in the U.S. so that every "boy and girl can afford it using their lunch or allowance money! An expert on Afghanistan’s drug trade, Barnett Rubin, complained that the Marines are being put in such a situation by a "one-dimensional" military policy that fails to integrate political and economic considerations into long-range planning." DID YOU CATCH THAT? No wonder things are so screwed up with our relationships with the rest of the world! We spend billions to fight a war against drugs with the primary focus on the poor schmucks from the recreational user to the more serious full-time addicts while our Marines sleep beside groves of poppies. PRETZEL LOGIC? ….you tell me. MORE ON OPIUM in AFGHANISTAN •

Winning the Afghan opium war

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Legalizing opium production in Afghanistan for medical use is … Afghan opium – The farmer’s perspective Afghanistan Opium Poppy Cultivation Highlighted in UNODC Annual …


From: Eddie NWO Censored
Date: 10 Oct 2008, 13:28


Eddie NWO Censored

I hope everyone knows by now... USA IS THE BIGGEST DRUG SMUGGLING COUNTRY THAT MONOPOLIZES THIS MOST PROFITABLE BUSINESS BY OUTGUNNING THE WORLD - ITS BUDDY UK NATO WORK SIDE BY SIDE WITH USA - WAKE THE HELL UP, YOU THINK DRUG DEALERS CARE ABOUT BANKRUPTING YOUR FAMILIES? NOW WHAT THE HELL DID THEY DO WITH THE DRUGS? TO PAY OFF DEBT??


US soldier guarding the precious US drug crop (There are only 3 real currencies - G-O-D - Gold, Oil and DRUGS)




October 09, 2008 - Without tackling the huge drug trafficking problem in Afghanistan, which is funding the Taliban and Al-Quaeda, there is no hope of success in the foreseeable future, says RT military analyst Evgeny Khruschev

Afghan President (former Unocal oil executive) Karzai's brother angrily denies drug connections - Provincial chairman summons journalists to his home to denounce allegations in U. S. paper from 'politically motivated' sources
GRAEME SMITH - October 7, 2008

US Calls On NATO to Target

Afghanistan Opium Trade - VOA News 09 October 2008

NATO to Legalize Afghanistan's Opium? - Despite efforts to eradicate Afghanistan's opium production, the problem keeps getting worse. And the Taliban insurgency is the primary beneficiary. Now, some European governments are weighing a legalization of the drug trade.




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Map of the week: The mystery of the missing opium
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BBC
Mark Easton 8 Oct 08, 11:27 AM GMT

http://www. bbc. co. uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2008/10/map_of_the_week_the_mystery_of. html


It's a mystery that has got British law enforcement officials and others across the planet scratching their heads!Put bluntly, enough heroin to supply the world's demand for years has simply disappeared

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) describes the situation as "a time bomb for public health and global security"

This week's Map of the Week comes courtesy of the UNODC!It shows their latest estimate of opium production in Afghanistan - another bumper year

A crop of 7,700 tonnes will produce around 1,100 tonnes of heroin - it basically works on a 7:1 ratio.The mystery is that the global demand for heroin is less than half that!In other words, Afghanistan only needs to produce 3,500 tonnes to satisfy every known heroin user on the planet

Look at the graph, though



For the past three years, production has been running at almost twice the level of global demand!The numbers just don't add up

There are two credible theories

Theory 1: A large and undocumented market has opened up in countries which don't want to admit the problem!Russia has long been in denial over the scale of its heroin problem and the same may be true in emerging drug markets like Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan

The Iranians are certainly increasingly anxious about the opium fields on their doorstep!Border guards and police have been involved in deadly shoot-outs with smugglers with experts suggesting that there are now a million heroin users in Iran

But the over-supply is so great that it is hard to conceive of it all disappearing in to the blood-streams of new addicts in Tehran and Ashgabat

Theory 2: Vast quantities of heroin and morphine are being stockpiled. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UNODC is convinced that is the only explanation. In a recent bulletin he issues an urgent order: 'Find the missing opium.' "As a priority, intelligence services need to examine who holds this surplus, where it may go, and for what purpose" he says!"We know little about these stockpiles of drugs, besides that they are not in the hands of farmers"

Further credibility is given to the stockpiling theory in that 'farm-gate' prices for opium remain pretty stable at about $70

per kilo

So where are the thousands of tonnes of drugs that the UNODC describe as a "time bomb"?

Read The Rest HERE




American Gangster - Stuffing Burma 'Golden Triangle' heroin in dead US soldiers bodies and transport back to US during Vietnam war - think there is any difference now we are in another 'Vietnam' in Afghanistan, looking for BIN LADEN for the last 7 years?

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Mystery buyer of Afghan poppy resin thrives on drug trade
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Sunday Times Online UK
April 23, 2008
http://ww w. timesonline. co. uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3799400. ece

Everyone in this part of Helmand is waiting for the arrival of “The Businessman” – a mysterious individual who turns up at about this time each year to buy poppy resin from the acres of crops in the green belt along the Helmand river

No one knows what nationality he is – Afghan, Pakistani or Iranian – but during the winter he turns up with cash to pay the farmers to keep them in food and supplies, on the understanding that he gets the lion’s share of the poppy resin the following April or May Even the locals refer to him as The Businessman, never putting a name to the one who guarantees them an income, although the farmers receive a meagre wage for a product that generates millions of dollars further up the drugs chain as heroin in the rest of the world

The Taleban demand one kilo of the poppy resin for every ten produced, telling the farmers it is a tax that they have to pay. But The Businessman scoops up the rest, and neither the farmers nor the Taleban interfere. As one British Army officer said: “This is real Mafia territory; it’s like The Sopranos but without the humour.” For the British troops at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Inkerman, a Rorke’s Drift of a place between Sangin to the south and Kajaki to the north, there is nothing they can do to stop the trade!That is the job of the Afghan police’s counter-narcotics teams But in this swelteringly hot, dusty location – desert on one side, poppy-growing fields on the other – there is no sign of anyone trying to prevent the poppy harvest, let alone seeking to uncover the identity of the man who stands to profit the most

From the ramparts of FOB Inkerman, crafted by Royal Engineers out of a deserted compound, the soldiers of B Company 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment keep a wary eye on all the activity!Among the farmers and their families scraping off the resin as it oozes from slits made with razor blades in

the poppy heads, there are probably lower-tier Taleban helping out, ensuring they get their money’s worth when the harvesting finishes in less than three weeks They spend the cash on more arms and ammunition to fight the British

It already looks like a bumper harvest!Wherever you look in Helmand, where the bulk of Afghanistan’s poppies are grown, there are fields and fields of poppies Last year, as part of the Government’s eradication programme, about 3,000 acres (1,215 hectares) of poppy crops in Helmand were destroyed – out of nearly 100,000 acres in the province

British officials acknowledge that it will take at least 20 years to rid Afghanistan of its opium economy In the meantime, with the Government and international community pecking around the edges of the poppy business, the farmers carry on with their normal lives, catering for their families but also for the Taleban, the drug barons and their intermediaries

Poppy farmers here say that it takes 20 days to harvest the crop and they are already three days into the time-table The resin is put into saddlebags and containers, and when the scraping is completed the first of the “jingly trucks” will arrive to pick up the opium and take it on to Garmab, up the road north towards Kajaki

Once the poppy harvest is over, the troops at FOB Inkerman are sure that the Taleban will go back to attacking them from across the fields, hiding in the deep irrigation ditches and wheat crops that grow to chin height!The Taleban are concentrated here mainly in an area known as Jusaly, consisting of about 15 villages to the west of FOB Inkerman The soldiers can see Jusaly from the ramparts

No one is expecting any full-scale assaults – the base is too well defended, as the Taleban know. But they have a range of weapons that pose a threat through indirect fire, including the RPG7 rocket-propelled grenade, a recoiless rifle called SPG9, 107mm Chinese rockets and the fearsome Russian DshK, a 12!7mm antiaircraft gun