How did Maduro get his hands on the poppy that the US military was guarding for 20 years in Afghanistan, while the folks at home suffered from a heroin epidemic, followed by Purdue Pharma pushing opioids on drug addicts?
The CIA has been trafficking drugs around the world for decades. Does everybody remember the story of Barry Seal in Mena, Arkansas, while Clinton was governor? Even when Clinton became POTUS, he buried the Mena drug trafficking story.
Interestingly, Jeffrey Epstein bought most of the planes used to traffic drugs and delivered them to Les Wexner in Columbus, OH. It's a small world.
About Maduro, what happened to his presidential or executive immunity? Goodness, if the president could be held accountable, all our POTUSs would be in prison.
At the end of the day, all this Venezuela excitement stopped the masses from demanding answers about Epstein's Cover-up and Kirk's murder. Nothing else.
The US obviously bribed a lot of people to get hold of Maduro, so they may be able to keep a handle on the country if the bribery goes deep enough. However, as Nutmeg points out below, there's already fighting on the streets. Some of those folks want their CIA money!
I guess I’m just too cynical nowadays Kim, but I suspect that they are still scrambling to put all the gold back in Ft. Knox! The fact that the much ballyhooed audit of the fort’s inventory during Elon’s brief tenure seems to have been memory holed forever, leads me to conclude that the gold has long since left the building along with Elvis!
Hard to imagine this one going all the way to trial on these charges. Maduro's counsel is Barry Pollack, who represented Assange against Espionage Act charges, a guy who knows his way around any hide-the-ball the government might attempt on broad-brush natsec grounds. I would think that Maduro will strike a deal that keeps him sidelined and any unsavory info buried.
Astonishing to me how many "legal experts"--who clearly know better--will simply toe the party line just for clicks.
Watching three of the authors of my Con Law casebooks and hornbooks from 30+ years ago (Tribe, Tushnet, Chemerinsky) argue for blatantly unconstitutional Bill of Rights curtailments during the peak "Get Trumpy" era was absurd, but not unexpected from longtime Lefty subversives who seemed to be just waiting for their moment.
For so-called conservatives, however, to abandon the notion that settled-law-is-settled-law is really disturbing.
Rubio is salivating about Cuba next. “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned, at least a little bit,” he said. Trump and Lindsey Graham are also predicting that Cuba's "ready to fall." Cuba is probably the longest running regime change failure, going on 70 years now. All the CIA assassination ops failed to topple Castro, and the embargo only impoverished the Cuban people. I know this firsthand; I left Cuba in 1962 with the Pedro Pan airlift of unaccompanied Cuban children. My mother had died in 1958 as the revolution was getting started. My father was unable to leave and died in 1979. Castro had nationalized his two distilleries, in Havana and Matanzas. I've been given photos of their ruins that bring me to tears. Would I love to be able to go back and visit as an American citizen? (I became one in 1971.) Of course. Would I support Rubio's insane plan? Not this Cuban.
Remember your Godfather II and the Jewish mob in Cuba. Lee Strassberg played Hyman Roth. His character supposedly was modeled after Meyer Lansky. Has anything changed or is it just threat that the Kosher Nostra wants their Island back? /sarc
I'm at the point where I see Trump as a deeply insecure leader, who takes every perceived affront against him as questioning the size of his manhood, and looks at the international stage from the perspective of where he can show off his toughness. Maduro's dance, Machado's non-rejection of the peace price in his favour etc.
Those surrounding him are using that insecurity and focus to pursue their own interests, i.e. if you want him to do something, present him with an opportunity to show off his magnificence.
The man is essentially a clown without much agency, and as such, the US seems in pretty much the same position as it was under the late Biden years.
I see Trump's antics as a distraction from the deafening silence of the parliament.
In 2014, Mearsheimer debated Chrystia Freeland and Michael McFaul in London, he told both of them that if they continued with their policies that Ukraine would be destroyed as a consequence of their actions, to which they laughed:
President Trump in a widely circulating photo held up a ballcap which says "Make Iran Great Again" cap in a photo alongside Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday:
The list of wacko and dangerous women gets longer. Adding to Clinton, Powers, Nuland, Monaco, and many MSM darlings, we have Rodriguez and Freeland, who have uncertain loyalties and zero moral codes, to join the unhinged Van der Lying, Kalas and Baerbock (exiled to the UN for now) crowd. Woe to us!
Trump told reporters "Let's talk about Greenland in 20 days". Is that the next squirrel he's going to chase? The foreign policy sure seems like a dog chasing this squirrel, that squirrel, etc. It's exasperating.
8/26/2021, "Afghanistan has become the globe’s leading narco-state under NATO occupation which accounts for more than 90% of global opium production that is used to make heroin and other narcotics....US Marines are now tasked with guarding the opium crops....
The impression one gets from mainstream media is that the vast majority of smack on America’s streets is coming solely from Mexican cartels,
a statistical impossibility based on the scale of the US user demand in proportion to the amount of hectares produced in Latin America,
when the majority is inevitably being sourced from a country [Afghanistan] its own military has colonized for two decades....
Meryl Nass also commented on the chart of opium production in Afghanistan, noting, "Please note that the Taliban banned production in 2001 (before we attacked them) and in 2023-2025, after the US left. You can also see that after Obama took office, opium production rose."
Seems to me that in some aspects the Taliban has a higher morality than the US government.
Speaks volumes, doesn't that?
How did Maduro get his hands on the poppy that the US military was guarding for 20 years in Afghanistan, while the folks at home suffered from a heroin epidemic, followed by Purdue Pharma pushing opioids on drug addicts?
The CIA has been trafficking drugs around the world for decades. Does everybody remember the story of Barry Seal in Mena, Arkansas, while Clinton was governor? Even when Clinton became POTUS, he buried the Mena drug trafficking story.
Interestingly, Jeffrey Epstein bought most of the planes used to traffic drugs and delivered them to Les Wexner in Columbus, OH. It's a small world.
About Maduro, what happened to his presidential or executive immunity? Goodness, if the president could be held accountable, all our POTUSs would be in prison.
At the end of the day, all this Venezuela excitement stopped the masses from demanding answers about Epstein's Cover-up and Kirk's murder. Nothing else.
#distraction
The US obviously bribed a lot of people to get hold of Maduro, so they may be able to keep a handle on the country if the bribery goes deep enough. However, as Nutmeg points out below, there's already fighting on the streets. Some of those folks want their CIA money!
I just wonder.......Is the um..detained/stolen venezuelan gold still housed in London or has it already escaped to the US?
I guess I’m just too cynical nowadays Kim, but I suspect that they are still scrambling to put all the gold back in Ft. Knox! The fact that the much ballyhooed audit of the fort’s inventory during Elon’s brief tenure seems to have been memory holed forever, leads me to conclude that the gold has long since left the building along with Elvis!
For your interest~ this Jan.5 report from The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal:
Behind the DOJ's politicized indictment of Maduro: a CIA-created 'network' and coerced star witness
https://open.substack.com/pub/thegrayzone/p/behind-the-dojs-politicized-indictment?r=2vzf0g&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Hard to imagine this one going all the way to trial on these charges. Maduro's counsel is Barry Pollack, who represented Assange against Espionage Act charges, a guy who knows his way around any hide-the-ball the government might attempt on broad-brush natsec grounds. I would think that Maduro will strike a deal that keeps him sidelined and any unsavory info buried.
Very disappointed with many "conservative" legal commentators.
Astonishing to me how many "legal experts"--who clearly know better--will simply toe the party line just for clicks.
Watching three of the authors of my Con Law casebooks and hornbooks from 30+ years ago (Tribe, Tushnet, Chemerinsky) argue for blatantly unconstitutional Bill of Rights curtailments during the peak "Get Trumpy" era was absurd, but not unexpected from longtime Lefty subversives who seemed to be just waiting for their moment.
For so-called conservatives, however, to abandon the notion that settled-law-is-settled-law is really disturbing.
Could turn into a real shit show.
Quite trenchant analysis. Shades of Afghanistan as reflected in "Bad, Bad Uncle Sam" https://www.bitchute.com/video/G5NO1fUcWXOo. I can't envision a better outcome.
By the way, it's "Waltz." "Walz" is the buffoon in Minnesota.
Rubio is salivating about Cuba next. “If I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I’d be concerned, at least a little bit,” he said. Trump and Lindsey Graham are also predicting that Cuba's "ready to fall." Cuba is probably the longest running regime change failure, going on 70 years now. All the CIA assassination ops failed to topple Castro, and the embargo only impoverished the Cuban people. I know this firsthand; I left Cuba in 1962 with the Pedro Pan airlift of unaccompanied Cuban children. My mother had died in 1958 as the revolution was getting started. My father was unable to leave and died in 1979. Castro had nationalized his two distilleries, in Havana and Matanzas. I've been given photos of their ruins that bring me to tears. Would I love to be able to go back and visit as an American citizen? (I became one in 1971.) Of course. Would I support Rubio's insane plan? Not this Cuban.
Remember your Godfather II and the Jewish mob in Cuba. Lee Strassberg played Hyman Roth. His character supposedly was modeled after Meyer Lansky. Has anything changed or is it just threat that the Kosher Nostra wants their Island back? /sarc
I'm at the point where I see Trump as a deeply insecure leader, who takes every perceived affront against him as questioning the size of his manhood, and looks at the international stage from the perspective of where he can show off his toughness. Maduro's dance, Machado's non-rejection of the peace price in his favour etc.
Those surrounding him are using that insecurity and focus to pursue their own interests, i.e. if you want him to do something, present him with an opportunity to show off his magnificence.
The man is essentially a clown without much agency, and as such, the US seems in pretty much the same position as it was under the late Biden years.
I see Trump's antics as a distraction from the deafening silence of the parliament.
in the meantime:
Zelensky Names Canada's former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland As Top Advisor
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-names-canadas-chrystia-freeland-anti-russia-hawk-top-advisor
In 2014, Mearsheimer debated Chrystia Freeland and Michael McFaul in London, he told both of them that if they continued with their policies that Ukraine would be destroyed as a consequence of their actions, to which they laughed:
https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1763966987284152440
and the gift keeps giving:
President Trump in a widely circulating photo held up a ballcap which says "Make Iran Great Again" cap in a photo alongside Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-believes-trump-readying-attack-again-admits-precarious-survival-mode
https://x.com/MLiamMcCollum/status/2008206816841511348
The list of wacko and dangerous women gets longer. Adding to Clinton, Powers, Nuland, Monaco, and many MSM darlings, we have Rodriguez and Freeland, who have uncertain loyalties and zero moral codes, to join the unhinged Van der Lying, Kalas and Baerbock (exiled to the UN for now) crowd. Woe to us!
Why not drop all pretense? The U.S. is.
Just as an example:
https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-2674845158/
Why does Lindsey Graham look lewd and predatory in every photo?
Because the camera never lies. Or at least not in this case!
George, I think you’ve answered your own question!
The oil is a very small part of the project. A big part of it is world-wide election fraud. The Promethean Action women can explain it to you. https://x.com/PrometheanActn/status/2008269297450156182
Thanks for sharing this link.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/breaking-coup-detat-venezuela-heavy-gunfire-caracas-anti/
Heavy Gunfire in Caracas, Anti-Aircraft Artillery Firing Non-Stop – Armed Groups Moving Through the City, Clashing With Government Troops
Trump told reporters "Let's talk about Greenland in 20 days". Is that the next squirrel he's going to chase? The foreign policy sure seems like a dog chasing this squirrel, that squirrel, etc. It's exasperating.
A lot of the drugs killing young American kids come from Greenland, Nutmeg. If you were informed, you'd know that!
8/26/2021, "Afghanistan has become the globe’s leading narco-state under NATO occupation which accounts for more than 90% of global opium production that is used to make heroin and other narcotics....US Marines are now tasked with guarding the opium crops....
The impression one gets from mainstream media is that the vast majority of smack on America’s streets is coming solely from Mexican cartels,
a statistical impossibility based on the scale of the US user demand in proportion to the amount of hectares produced in Latin America,
when the majority is inevitably being sourced from a country [Afghanistan] its own military has colonized for two decades....
Poppy cultivation in the Islamic Republic increased by 37% last year [2020] alone....Heroin use in the US more than doubled among young adults in the last ten years."..."The War in Afghanistan: The real ‘Crime of the Century’ behind the Opioid Crisis," Max Parry...https://off-guardian.org/2021/08/26/the-war-in-afghanistan-the-real-crime-of-the-century-behind-the-opioid-crisis/
Meryl Nass also commented on the chart of opium production in Afghanistan, noting, "Please note that the Taliban banned production in 2001 (before we attacked them) and in 2023-2025, after the US left. You can also see that after Obama took office, opium production rose."
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/quickie-opium-production-in-afghanistan
https://mronline.org/2021/06/29/geopolitics-profit-and-poppies-how-the-cia-turned-afghanistan-into-a-failed-narco-state/
Great headline in the article, The World’s First True Narco-State.