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Two big drug busts in Vancouver and Edmonton today. Perhaps worth checking out. Lots of numbers as usual.
Edmonton: http://globalnews.ca/news/1387751/record-drug-seizure-in-alberta/
Earlier this year in Calgary: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suspected-heroin-bust-at-calgary-airport-signals-drug-s-rise-officials-say-1.2526098
Don’t forget Toronto: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/border-officials-make-major-drug-busts-at-toronto-airport/article16157299/
Trending?: https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=canada+airport+drug+arrest
This is a great read on drugs : Dope, Inc. Britain Opium War against the US (1978).pdf Version 2
The war on drugs is a SACAM !
And schould end NOW !These staged/fake drug busts are to infuse the impression that something-is-being-done to fight the scourge of drugs that blight our cities. But it’s all theatrics.
The drug trade is tightly controlled from the highest levels – from the vast money-laundering activities that go in the funny-money offshore havens of the Caymans, Seychelles, Antilles, Virgin Islands, Channel Islands, and so on – right down to the protection of low-grade drug-addicted dealers who ply their wares on our city streets, to other addicts.
In Britain, there’s a poster pin-up for the Drug Trade. He’s called Howard Marks. Born in the Welsh Valleys (see the Aberfan Hoax thread), Marks supposedly turned his back on a privileged Oxbridge education. Choosing instead, according to the narrative, to set himself up as one of the world’s most prolific dope traffickers. There’s both an autobiography and at least one biography about him; painting a very enviable lifestyle to it all. City-hopping, jet-setting, staying in the best hotels around the world, limitless cash in his wallet, fast cars, always a beautiful woman on his arm, a joint in one hand, glass of Bolly in the other.
Except it’s all crap; a fraud to get us looking in the wrong direction.
Dope is not trafficked haphazardly around the world by harmless oiks like Howard Marks; with a few kilos of Paki Black concealed in the door panels of his Jaguar car. That’s really not how it’s done. There’s no need to bluff your way through customs with your gift of the gab, as Marks claims to have done. Because at senior level, the customs apparatus is an integral component of the trafficking operation!
It’s a world removed from the romantic fiction of Rudyard Kipling, and his 19th century smugglers’ poem: “watch the wall my darling while the gentlemen go by!”
It’s highly organised crime, involving top-level corruption of the most senior ranks of law enforcement, as well as major institutions – using well-known freight carriers like Cathay Pacific, with high street banks like the HongShang/HSBC handling the transactions and laundering. And logistics on the ground overseen by the global intelligence apparatus (“former” MI6/SIS/CIA/SAS officers).
There’s another book on the drug trade, very similar to Dope, Inc. The two books must share the same genesis.
It’s called Coleman_John_-_Drug_War_Against_America.pdf
Unlike the authors of Dope, Inc., Coleman assiduously names no names, but neverless adds quite a lot of technical background. e.g. Coleman discusses the use of “freeport” trade to move containerised quantities of narcotics around the globe. Containers destined for a Freeport are sealed with a special tag, allowing the illicit drug shipments to move across national borders without risk of being opened/inspected by customs officials. The whole Freeport system appears to have been set-up explicitly with the drug trade (and arms trafficking?) in mind.
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