US Soldiers In Afghanistan Protect Poppies

Caitlin Treston, of Holbrook, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance after police seized 80 bags of heroin and other drugs from her home Saturday, Suffolk police said. (handout, handout / April 26, 2008)
May 8, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

As the US troops protect opium war lords in Afghanistan, the rest of the world is seeing a flood of cheap heroin. The US, like England before us, conquers nations and turns them into drug addicts selling illegal drugs which then produces prodigious profits which flow into the banking system. This is one great way to sop up excess dollars produced by the banks. The War in Vietnam increased the drug trades immensely and the 'War on Drugs' forced prices to the stratosphere during a very inflationary period in the US due to war costs. This is the Snake Ouroboros eating its own tail. Look at that lovely girl in the mug shot from today's news from Long Island: she is a drug addict/drug dealer. Heroin is now so cheap, it is flooding our markets and hooking our children. And it is all the fault of Bush, the CIA and the Pentagon...and the Federal Reserve.

From Al Jazeera:

Nassau cops: Teen heroin use on rise

Heroin is becoming the drug of choice for an alarming number of Nassau County teenagers, police told local school officials at a meeting Thursday morning.

The teens, many of whom come from middle-class homes on Long Island's South Shore, often start out using prescription drugs, and move on to heroin when their supplies get scarce, police said. Many of them begin by snorting or smoking the drug, rather than injecting it, police said.

Whereas in 2002 there were about 100 heroin possession arrests countywide, last year there were about 150, said Det. Lt. Pete Donohue, deputy commanding officer of Nassau's Narcotics and Vice Squad.

"It's scary," said Mark Scher, principal of East Meadow High School. "Kids on the edge will try anything. Now they can get a bag of heroin for less than the cost of going to a movie."

When 9/11 happened, the US didn't bomb Saudi Arabia, Yemen or Egypt. We attacked Afghanistan. I was one of the few online writers to say, this was pure madness. Even if Bin Laden was guilty of organizing the 9/11 attacks, invading Afghanistan would not fix that. Note that he was never captured. This is obvious why: he had virtually nothing to do with 9/11, he may have inspired the attackers but he didn't arrange, fund or plan it. The people who did this are still in the shadows.

A warning to readers: there is a gigantic difference between assisting and enabling attacks on America and staging fake attacks. So long as our government works day and night to assist attackers as well as motivate them into attacking, all they have to do is sit back and reap the fruits of terroristic labors. They are working day and night right now to insure that someone will be motivated and able to attack us before November. The chances of this are rapidly rising. I would say, to 100% if Obama is nominated by the Democrats.

People are very naive about the CIA and our ruling elites. They give both way too much credit for being able to carry out dastardly schemes. But often, all they do is leave doors open, funnel money to the right places at the right times, meddle a tiny bit and voila! They get their results. I grew up deep inside this world. Hell! As a child, 50% of the time, I didn't know what continent my parents were on, much less, exactly where they were. Indeed, when I requested to be made an adult at 16, I told the judge, I was on my own much of the time, anyway. He agreed.

Back to the CIA: they make contact with tribes. My parents were awesome in this business. They took along medications and other things like shortwave radios, etc. And used this as a way of introducing themselves to important people who thought they were mere shepherds or stone age farmers. After insinuating themselves into the community, they begin to form alliances and make suggestions. The Peace Corps was the crowing triumph of the CIA, by the way. 'Are you CIA?' people would ask suspiciously.

'Oh no, I am not! I know nothing about the CIA,' the agents were all told to say in return. Once, a CIA agent was not shot by the Chinese when she said, 'Why would the CIA send a 6 foot tall woman into Tibet to spy?' Heh.

Back to the CIA and drugs: tribes like to make money and if local governments are suppressing drugs, the CIA says, 'We will PROTECT you while you make illegal drugs. Don't worry.' And so it goes. In Afghanistan, the Taliban had crushed the opium growers. The minute the fires stopped at the WTC, the CIA had all the agents already in place on the edges of Afghanistan hard at work with the drug dealing war lords who were harassing the Taliban. We immediately brought in more money [they were always funded by the CIA] and fire power. Then our government refused to look for bin Laden who is a CIA tool in the first place, and they instead, attacked the innocent Taliban who had no idea about the planning or nature of the 9/11 attacks.

Click here for a good historical review of the opium industry.

RUSSIA RETURNING TO AFGHANISTAN WITH NOT-SO-SOFT POWER

By Vladimir Socor

Russian power is returning to Afghanistan in military and security terms, albeit without a military presence on the ground, at least for now. Moscow is using the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as a thin cover.

On March 9 through 13, a CSTO Working Group on Afghanistan held talks in Kabul with senior officials of the Afghan Ministries of Defense, Internal Affairs, Foreign Affairs, and other security and civilian government departments. The Russian-led delegation proposed to institute regular contacts with Afghanistan’s military, security, and law-enforcement agencies and invited Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak to Moscow. The delegation offered assistance to Afghanistan to build its army, security agencies, and border protection units and to combat “terrorism” and the drugs trade. Specific proposals include delivering arms and military equipment and training Afghan military and border-troop officers as well as “special services” personnel. In the civilian sphere, Russia and the CSTO are offering “help in establishing the organs of executive government both at the central level and in the regions” (Interfax, RIA-Novosti, Itar-Tass, March 12, 13).

Although such assistance could only be initiated politically and supplied in practice by Russia, the official reporting presents it as an initiative of the CSTO’s Central Asian member countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). The delegation held meetings with these countries’ embassies in Kabul. There were apparently no working meetings with Western representatives there.

Both Russia and China are immensely furious about the US aiding and abetting illegal drugs production. In the Al Jazeera clip at the top, we see the Afghanis are now growing immense cannabis plants to produce hashish! Also, the stupid US program to bring democracy and education to the people there is revealed to be totally false propaganda. There is virtually no attempt by either the drug overlords or the US military death machine to educate anyone.

Marines ignore Taliban cash crop to not upset Afghan locals

The Taliban, whose fighters are exchanging daily fire with the Marines in Garmser, 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.

Yet the Marines are not destroying the plants. In fact, they are reassuring villagers the poppies won't be touched. American commanders say the Marines would only alienate people and drive them to take up arms if they eliminated the impoverished Afghans' only source of income.

Many Marines in the field are scratching their heads over the situation.

"It's kind of weird. We're coming over here to fight the Taliban. We see this. We know it's bad. But at the same time we know it's the only way locals can make money," said 1st Lt. Adam Lynch, 27, of Barnstable, Mass.

The Marines' battalion commander, Lt. Col. Anthony Henderson, said in an interview Tuesday that the poppy crop "will come and go" and that his troops can't focus on it when Taliban fighters around Garmser are "terrorizing the people."

"I think by focusing on the Taliban, the poppies will go away," said Henderson, a 41-year-old from Washington, D.C. He said once the militant fighters are forced out, the Afghan government can move in and offer alternatives.

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.

Our military is certainly 'one dimensional'. It always fights with, not against, illegal drug warlords. In South America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East or anywhere: illegal drugs makes our world go round. It is the most excellent way to sop up excess dollars. It is the world's most profitable trade per ounce. Vast fortunes are made this way and the money flows into the banking system in odd ways. Above all, the CIA has an open-ended source of illicit funds they can use for black ops deals like giving Atta many thousands of dollars and note, he also had access to lots of illegal drugs! This funds all the terrorists. If the US wants terrorists, this is the very easiest way to give them the moolah for the murders.

So why is our military PROTECTING the opium trade? The soldiers, who are heavily brainwashed, can't figure this out. Nor dare they ask their predecessors, the warriors from the Vietnam war, why this is so!

From the Pentagon:
DoD Winning 30-Year War Against Drugs in the Ranks

The incidence of service members using illegal drugs is at a 20-year low, evidence that DoD is winning the war against drug abuse in its ranks -- a conflict that began during the Vietnam War.

Ana Maria Salazar, deputy assistant secretary of defense for drug enforcement policy and support, noted that drug use by DoD personnel is down 90 percent compared to two decades ago. Just 2.6 percent of all service members reported drug use within the 30 days preceding their response to a 1998 survey, she said. More than 27 percent of respondents in a 1980 survey said they used illegal drugs in the preceding 30 days, she noted.

"Overall, the use of illegal drugs by service members is down. Drug use has decreased every year since we started monitoring it in 1980," Salazar said.

She pointed to the effectiveness of DoD's "zero tolerance" policy toward drug use, pre-employment and random drug testing, and substance abuse education programs. She also cited DoD's participation in such drug awareness information campaigns as national Red Ribbon Week -- Oct. 23-31 this year.

HAHAHA. In Vietnam, a huge percentage of the troops were hooked on drugs! The flood of drugs from Vietnam into the US was via our own troops for the most part! But the military doesn't want druggies to run the show so they cleaned up the troops but set them up as guards for the illegal drug warlords, knowing that the troops can't fall for these drugs due to constant drug tests.

To woo conservatives, McCain pledges war on 'evil'

On Wednesday, he vowed to take the fight to religious persecution, human trafficking, child pornography and other "evil" if elected. Speaking at Oakland University in Rochester, Minnesota, CNN said the event was part of the Arizona' senators efforts to reach out to conservative voters.

A war for values? McCain rebuked "a tendency in our age to accede to the spurious excuse of moral relativism and turn away from the harshest examples of man's inhumanity to man, to ignore the darker side of human nature that encroaches upon our decency by subtle degree."

Adding to President George W. Bush's list of rogue nations -- or his infamous axis of evil (Iran, North Korea and Iraq) -- the presumptive Republican nominee "singled out" China, Iran, Myanmar, Sudan, North Korea and Saudi Arabia for restricting religious freedom -- "a subject of great importance."

This war on evil should begin with a mirror. McCain is professionally stupid. With 'annihilate all Iranians' Clinton a close second. The major slave state, the US, the country that shipped over millions of helpless Africans and then, when 'freed', refused to grant them simple civil rights for another 100 years, is going to stop trafficking in humans? HAHAHA. As well as fighting drugs? While stationing soldiers around poppy fields to protect them? Have you at long last, no decency, sir? Is McCain denouncing this? Is Hillary Clinton? Or Obama? Are any of them swearing on a stack of Bibles, they will stop this stupidity? Or shall we wait until all our children are drug addicts?

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[Judy]

Good article, Elaine. It would appear that your explanations for 9/11 closely parallel mine. I started reading about it on the internet when I was "laid up" in bed with a bad leg. Before that I had accepted the "official" explanation. But as I read, I soon realized there were many, many discrepancies in the official story. And I encountered many veiled references to clandestine CIA operations, rogue elements, drugs, etc. And I read about Sibel Edmonds and Indira Singh. All of which convinced me that the picture presented by our govt. wasn't the truth. Too bad most people don't bother to investigate and read instead of and simply lazily accepting whatever the govt. puts out there.

[Jay]

Once again another highly entertaining post, Elaine. My friends and I get many a chuckle when reading your 'theories'. Keep up the good work!

[GK]

Any idea who would be able to pull this off?

http://wrhstore.com/fiveisraelis.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw

In GOD we trust. It is on our money.

In Gold, Oil and Drugs we trust.

British empire founded on Gold, Oil and Opium trade.

Hates the US for leaving the empire and works tirelessly for 200 years to get it back in control.

Gets Japan to bomb the US so they will help British empire crush the German industrial threat.

Founds small country in middle east to control oil and drug trade.

Taliban shuts down British heroin trade, and Saddam prevents British control of middle eastern oil.

Britain recruits small country in middle east (arms length transaction to ensure plausible deniability of dirty work) to bomb the US and get them to help the British empire regain control of the Afghan drug trade and the middle eastern oil trade.

Anyone dumbed down by the US/British empire 'education' system wish to debate this obvious history?

[GK]

I just cannot resist this picture of Bush, the Queen and the Devil Horns.

http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/1554

OK, back to work now. ;-)

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Bush often does that. It is part of his Skull and Bones magic ritual stuff. He is an obvious Satanist. Who uses Geronimo's skull stolen by his grandfather, he uses it in various rituals.

The Christians are following this Fool because they want Jesus to come back and slay everyone following the Antichrist who happens to be someone the Christians follow in order to bring back Jesus....and they are utterly unable to understand this obvious contradiction.

[Greg]

LOL Judy thinks she knows what Elaines explanations for 9/11 are......

NOOB!!!!

EVERYONE knows that Bi Laden and that filthy terrorist bastard Atta did it!!!!

[greeb]

um... greg, you need to read.

try,

web: www.fromthewilderness.com

book: Crossing the Rubicon

web: 911truth.org

bin laden was a CIA tool, who is now dead. wake up.

stop being a simple-minded cracker.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Worse, bin Laden's family is very close to the Bush family and friends. Geeze.

[Greg]

Oh fucking DUH greeb!!!!!

my comments were completely facetious!!!!!

dont mention 911 truth to Elaine or YOU will be branded simple minded LOL

simple is as simple does!!! LMAO!!!!

CRACKERS!!!!!

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Well, anyone who swallows what I believe is a CIA dark ops misinformation propaganda campaign to set doubters off on a wild goose chase looking for bombs in the WTC, is too simple.

Smart means looking past obvious misinformation campaigns. Just like the stupid 'Elvis LIVES!' garbage. Recall that? Only idiots believed that fantasy. Just like people need to believe in other equally foolish ideas, for some reason, bizarre, unsupportable fantasies are always preferred to hard reality.

I can't fix this, it seems to be a hard-wired part of the human psyche. But trust me: the CIA EXPLOITS THIS ALL TO HELL. You are warned, Greg. Think about it. Being duped is part of the way you are controlled. This is why you resist me ferociously on this topic and why I am very relentless about it.

[BioSphereMind]

I have long suspected, that the major drug cartels, and the shipping of all illegal drugs around the world are in fact, controlled by the Mexican and American governments. It is another form of the Iran-Contra scam, only more sinister in it's scope and coverup. The Billions of dollars being made off of pot,hash,cocaine,
heroin,opium,meth drugs is not going to be allowed to be controlled by individual groups of criminals. Some of it is,but,very little. Most is controlled by gov't sponsored drug king pins, who then funnel the cash to accounts held secretly by the US government criminals. The WAR on DRUGS is a scam, and is used to garner public support for a campaign that's neither helpful or lawful. The ATF/DEA/CIA goons are involved up to their necks.
If our goverment was really all that serious about stopping illegal drugs, it would fire bomb (NAPALM), and chemically spray all areas where this crap grows. We wouldn't defere to some pip squeak gov't outcries about sovereignty. We'd do it, and in a big way. Letting poppy fields stand,and protecting them, is not a war on drugs. It is involvement in the trade...I have suspected that the war in Afghanistan is more about grabbing control of the opium trade, and about 5% terrorists. On occasion
the Coast Guard or the Port Authorities release photos of a major drug bust score.
But, is it really that, or just another cleaver part of the scam, to show, that the war on drugs is legitimate! Do you actually believe that the authorities do not know where all products are going, and to whom?
We are talking about 100's of millions of tons of illegal drugs yearly just vanishing into thin air. Come on, just how stupid does the gov't think we are? Including the Billions of dollars anually that are supposedly unaccounted for?
(where is W.Bush getting the money to build his fortress/armed compound ranch,complete with air strips, in Paraguay from? And why is he doing it? Anyone ? Anyone?)
No extraditions, central to command of the drug trades, plus he speaks fluent Spanish!
NWO indeed! Bilderberg criminal empire crap is more like it.
Vote for CHANGE? HA! elist horseshit propaganda...is what it all is
Wake up sheeple.
Now, is anyone up for a discussion on CHEM-Trails?

[Jacobi]

have you ever seen the movie brazil? in that story a totalitarian government actually creates its own criminals and terrorists, hunts them down, and punishes them to maintain the status quo......
sound familiar?

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

I love 'Brazil' and when I saw it years ago, I was one of the few people in the audience who loved it. I love all of the stuff made by nearly all of the Monty Python guys. The dream sequences were lovely but there were other beautiful moments in that great film.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

The use of nameless terrorists was good, too. Americans forget that the Irish were bombing the British for years and years.

[Deacon]

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Introduction:

"Because many nations' agricultural
production will decline under NAFTA
and GATT, in becoming dependent on
the more productive nations' capacity
to export cheaper product to them,
they'll become gravely vulnerable to
any of the exporting nations' food-
production declines, possibly resulting
from bad weather conditions or bad
economies. "Free trade" in food sets up
a looming catastrophe (read my essay,
GATT: Ubiquitous Treason). Wouldn't such
worldwide economic interdependence
necessarily set the stage for a worldwide
economic collapse should any one nation
seriously falter? Such a worldwide collapse
would make America's Great Depression
appear like good times. Why aren't the
NAFTA and GATT crafters arguing for more
economic independence for nations - for
rugged individualism among nations, rather
than building this One World interdependency
that their brand of "free trade" necessarily
engenders?

The NAFTA Debacle (1995)
http://naftadebacle1.blogspot.com/

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You'll not get any closer to
the truth about what's afoot with
Bush's GLOBALIZATION and
and this LOOMING FOOD CRISIS
than my below thoughts and links
((copy and send to friends and colleagues;
and note that I REPEAT MY PREMISE
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, TO DRIVE
HOME THE POINT)):

The Third-Way push of
socialism/capitalism to
equalize the world's
economies has caused
this looming food
crisis, NOT CAPITALISM.

Socialist/communist leftists
have captured capitalism
and enslaved it to EQUAL/
"FAIR" outcomes.

Of course, you'll have to
think more deeply to find
the truth.

Read and learn the truth:

What we are facing in 2008
is a Third-Way (socialist/
communist/capitalist)
conspiracy to equalize the
world's economies, as preface
to installing one-world
government; a plan hatched
during the 1940s GATT
formulations, which were
socialist/communist, in
effect.

Keep in mind that there is
no PEAK OIL crisis, only a
decades-long, purposeful
cap on searching and drilling
and refining for oil, in order
to put the world in crisis-mode.

Using food to produce fuel
is part of the conspiracy to
generate food riots, in order
to destabilize governments;
and this so-called "war on
terror" is also part of the
secret plan, although its
primary beneficially is Israel
in the exchange of blood
and treasury for oil--as
payoff for protecting Israel
from an ever-threatening,
encircling Islamic Arabism.

The secret plan?: to create
one-world government under
GLOBAL ECONOMIC SOCIALISM.

This is a conspiracy-driven
dismantlement of the West's
financial underpinnings,
for a certain purpose: TO
EQUALIZE GLOBAL ECONOMIES,
for future installation of
one-world government.

I've provided all the details
in my essay, "Planned
Destruction of America"
(linked below), which is my
report on Lt. Col. Archibald
Roberts' 1968 booklet: "The
Anatomy of a Revolution".

http://planneddestructionofamerica.blogspot.com/

Study my essay, then write as
if we're all being led down
a path to hell on Earth by
secretive, elite movers and
shakers on the Left and Right
(path to hell aka "Third-Way
Global Economic Socialism").
Read and learn and teach:

The EU and the coming North
America Union are products of
the 1940s GATT formulations,
and very few analysts are
aware of it ((GATT, NAFTA,
and CAFTA are socialistic
attempts at equalizing global
economies, in order to in-
stall one-world government
under THIRD-WAY Global
Economic Socialism)).

The NAFTA Debacle (1995)
http://naftadebacle1.blogspot.com/

-Deacon

P.S.
Read my missive to Ron Paul's
staff, regarding my view that
this financial crisis is not
by happenstance nor
mismanagement, but BY
DESIGN!:

The Honorable Ron Paul is
ignorant of an ongoing conspiracy
to topple, financially, the West,
in order to equalize the world's
economies; for building one-world
government under GLOBAL ECONOMIC
SOCIALISM. // The conspiracy
began in the 1940s with the GATT
formulations. // Ask why Greenspan
had violated his chairmanship
duties by advising prospective
home buyers to take out an ARM.
// Ask why Greenspan had sent out
fed regulators to warn banks that
they'd be charged with RACISM
if they didn't loosen home
loans for minority, HIGH RISK
home buyers. // Ask why Greenspan
recently, TRAITOROUSLY, had
advised OPEC oil producers to
de-link from the U.S. dollar. //
Greenspan - the FEDERAL RESERVE
- has embarked on a purposeful
set of monetary policies designed
to destroy the West's financial
underpinnings.

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[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

We are at the Hubbert Oil Peak. This means there is LOTS AND LOTS OF OIL. We then consume even more oil and the Peak is when CONSUMPTION hits its maximum.

The shift of economic power from Europe and America to Asia is due to the simple fact, there are many more Asian workers available than European or American workers. There is nothing we can do about this fact.

Understanding capitalism is important. It is all about LABOR. And capitalism collapses if labor can't get the profits. The battle is over who gets these profits.

[Coolest Guy on the Planet]

An eye opener. Thanks.

[Ben]

Good article. I'd like to point out that the key wording in the facade of lower drug use amongst US troops is ILLEGAL. The rates of current and former Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers on psychotropic prescription pharmaceuticals is staggering. So is suicide.

[Ben]

By the way, big ups on posting a Marsboy clip. That guy's work is, albeit horribly edited, a rare and valuable find. Back it up on hard disk while you can. The torrents are out there!

[vigilon]

Fit an electronic surveillance system. This could be a monitored or tape set-up. Monitored is the best. An added bonus to a surveillance set-up is that you can be sure what your baby sitter gets up to while you are out too. You can turn it off when you personally are at home or just leave the outside cameras on.

[Ugg Boots Outlet]

It's good to hear Chico's still around and coming out with a new cd soon. I've been a fan of the brother for a while now and was glad you mentioned his first hit, "Talk to Me".

[Abbigliamento Moncler]

I'd be interested in hearing. The TOS seems rather clear that it is not unless expressly approved by Amazon. I guess if the library got it in writing then they would be ok.

[Spaccio Moncler]

I follow you VIA GFC and I love your blog!