War on Drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZszbqdOq7g

They were competition.

I was gonna' say that boat was probably just competition to MAGA interests, but much more likely it's just another example of a contrived (illegal?) and dramatic show of "We're damned tough on crime!" that gets the MAGA media & base excited, while in reality 50 more boats and 50 more planes and 50 more ships loaded with drugs and cartel illegals continue to flow in untouched and the borders remain wide open to crime & criminals..... because the fix is in.

As it always has been, and always will be.

There's a reason they call it "organized crime".

This is just another cheap, mean-spirited and ultimately empty MAGA show, and once again people are dead because of it.

On it goes?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPncMw5oWZs&pp=ygUbSW1tb3J0YWwgdGVjaG5pcXV...

Why would you have 11 people on a small drug smuggling boat?

Trump's about to pull a Noriega on Maduro.

Trump is 100% shaking down the cartels for money and this was just a little demonstration. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMSJSTpT0Ws&list=RDKMSJSTpT0Ws&start_rad...

Greetings
This is the Secretary of War
At the State Department of the United States

We have a problem
The companies want something done
About this sluggish world economic situation
Profits have been running a little thin lately and we
We need to stimulate some growth

Now we know
There's an alarmingly high number of young people
Roaming around in your country with nothing to do
But stir up trouble for the police and damage private property
It doesn't look like they'll ever get a job
It's about time we did something constructive with these people
We've got thousands of 'em here too
They're crawling all over
The companies think it's time we all sit down
Have a serious get-together and start another war

The President?
He loves the idea!
All those missiles streaming over-head to-an-fro... napalm...
People running down the road, skin on fire...
The soviets seem up for it...
The Kremlin's been itching for the real thing for years
One little goin' away present for Mr. President
Hell, Afghanistan's no fun

So whadya say?
We don't even have to win this war
We just want to cut down on some of this excess population
Now look, just start up a draft
Draft as many of those people as you can
We'll call up every last youngster we can get our hands on
Give 'em an hour or two to learn how to use an automatic rifle
And send 'em on their way
El Salvador?
How 'bout Northern Ireland?
Or a "moderately repressive regime" in South America?
We'll just cook up a good Soviet threat story in the Middle East
We need that oil
We had Libya all ready to go
And Colonel Khadafy's hit squad didn't even show up
I tell ya, that man is unreliable
The Russian Kremlin had their fingers on the button
Just like we did for that one

Now just think for a minute
We can make this war so big, so big
The more people we kill in this war
The more the economy will prosper
We can get rid of practically everybody on your dole queue
If we plan this right
Take every loafer on welfare right off our computer rolls

Now don't worry about demonstrations
Just pump up your drug supply
So many people have hooked themselves on heroin and amphetamines
Since we took over
It's just like Vietnam
We had everybody so busy with LSD they never got too strong
Kept the war functioning just fine
It's easy
We've got our college kids so interested in beer
They don't even care if we start manufacturing germ bombs again
Put a nuclear stockpile in their back yard
They wouldn't even know what it looked like

So how 'bout it?
I mean, look, war is money
The arms manufacturers tell me unless
We get our bomb factories up to full production
The whole economy is going to collapse
The Soviets are in the same boat
We all agree the time has come for the big one, so whadya say?!?

That's excellent
We knew you'd agree
The companies will be very pleased

i'm down the DK rabbit hole....

everything is frighteningly relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waCN32Hsal0&list=RDwaCN32Hsal0&start_rad...

What Surfdead said 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JBNzcJNTR3I&pp=ygUKQ29sIGplc3N1cA%3D%3D

This bullshit also serves as a good diversion tactic. Look over here at what we're doing, not here. Epstein files,  70 some percent disapproval rating on handling the economy. And bottom line: fucking legalize most of it.  My devout Christian brother has no problem with these murders either. These folks are the low-end smugglers with the highest risk work, they're not the king pins. But why go after the king pins when they operate in billions of dollars worth of bitcoin that you could have access to.

If it wasn't for foreign coke and weed, would we have had so much good music from the late 60s through the 70s?

In real dollars coke is $20 a gram compared to 1980. It's working great. When they say inflations is under control that is what they are talking about. 

Duality.....it's not just for philosophers

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-sparks-outrage-after-pardo...

The expanding war on Venezuela is:

A. A distraction - from what?

B. Because we want their oil.

C. To enable Trump to cancel the mid-term elections.

D. All of the above.

Nice to see you, Surfdead.

Good list.

.

E. A way to deport all Venezuelans under the Alien Enemy's Act because we will be at "war" with them.

Fun fact. In the movie Avatar the Marine who lost his legs and was put into the aliens body lost his legs in the war in Venezuala. 

Killin in the name of Exxon, Mobile.

why not, they get all the tax breaks and make hefty donations to your representative. 
 

Stuck inside of Mobil with the Exxon blues again.

It's not about drugs, it's about installing right wing fascist dictators in as many Central and South American countries as possible.

The "civilized" nations float on oil, and will until it's gone. If you won't give it to us, we'll take it by any means possible  necessary.

Regardless, no one in this country whines about low gasoline prices,  and politically speaking,  that's highly important.

Keep driving.

Former DEA agent charged with agreeing to launder millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartel

NEW YORK (AP) — A former high-level agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain military-grade firearms and explosives for a Mexican drug cartel, according to an indictment unsealed Friday in New York.

Paul Campo, 61, of Oakton, Virginia, who retired from the DEA in 2016 after a 25-year career, and Robert Sensi, 75, of Boca Raton, Florida, were caught in sting involving a law enforcement informant who posed as a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, prosecutors said.

The cartel, also know as CJNG, was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. in February.

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said Campo betrayed his DEA career by helping the cartel, which he said was responsible for “countless deaths through violence and drug trafficking in the United States and Mexico.”

Campo and Sensi appeared Friday afternoon before a magistrate judge in New York, who ordered them detained without bail. Their lawyers entered not guilty pleas on their behalf.

Campo’s lawyer, Mark Gombiner, called the indictment “somewhat sensationalized and somewhat incoherent.” He denied the two men had agreed to explore obtaining weapons for the cartel.

Prosecutors say pair talked of laundering money, obtaining weapons

Over the past year, Campo and Sensi agreed to launder about $12 million in drug proceeds for the cartel and converted about $750,000 in cash to cryptocurrency, thinking it was going to the group when it really went to the U.S. government, the indictment said. They also provided a payment for about 220 kilograms of cocaine they were told would be sold in the U.S. for about $5 million, thinking they would get a cut of the proceeds, prosecutors said.

The two men also said they would look into procuring commercial drones, AR-15 semiautomatic rifles, M4 carbines, grenade launchers and rocket-propelled grenades for the cartel, the indictment said.

Campo boasted about his law enforcement experience during conversations with the informant and offered to be a “strategist” for the cartel, authorities said. He began his career as a DEA agent in New York and rose to become deputy chief of financial operations for the agency, the indictment said.

Evidence in the case includes hours of recordings of the two men talking with the informant, as well as cellphone location data, emails and surveillance images, Assistant U.S. Attorney Varun Gumaste said in court Friday.

Sensi’s attorney, Amanda Kramer, unsuccessfully argued that Sensi should be freed while he awaits trial, saying he wouldn’t flee partly because he has multiple health problems, including injuries from a fall two months ago, early-stage dementia and Type II diabetes.

Sensi was convicted in the late 1980s and early 1990s of mail fraud, defrauding the government and stealing $2.5 million, said the prosecutor, Gumaste. He said evidence shows Sensi also was engaged in a scheme to procure military-grade helicopters for a Middle East country.

Other criminal cases have roiled the DEA

DEA Administrator Terrance Cole said in a statement that while Campo is no longer employed by the DEA, the allegations undermine trust in law enforcement.

The DEA has been roiled in recent years by several embarrassing instances of misconduct in its ranks. The Associated Press has tallied at least 16 agents over the past decade brought up on federal charges ranging from child pornography and drug trafficking to leaking intelligence to defense attorneys and selling firearms to cartel associates, revealing gaping holes in the agency’s supervision.

Starting in 2021, the agency placed new controls on how DEA funds can be used in money laundering stings, and warned agents they can now be fired for a first offense of misconduct if serious enough, a departure from prior administrations.

Campo and Sensi are charged with four conspiracy counts related to narcoterrorism, terrorism, narcotics distribution and money laundering.

https://apnews.com/article/drug-enforcement-agent-cartel-money-launderin...

Public records further reveal that Mr. Sensi, who was noted to be 75-years-old and from Boca Raton, Florida, is the infamous former CIA operative Robert Mario Sensi, who was born on November 22, 1950 and unsuccessfully sued Penguin Group for defamation in January 2008 over their publication of Larry J. Kolb’s book “America at Night.”

The news follows widespread reporting of the 29-year-old former CIA asset Rahmanullah Lakanwal being the primary suspect in the shooting of two national guard members in Washington, D.C. late last month.

According to the indictment, Sensi told a confidential source for the DEA, who posed as a member of the CJNG, that he could help procure commercial drones capable of carrying six kilograms of C-4 explosives, which were enough to “blow up the whole fucking…I don’t want to say.”

This same Robert Mario Sensi was sentenced to six months in prison for stealing $2.5 million from Kuwait Airways by U.S. District Judge George H. Revercomb on July 1, 1988, as reported at the time by The Washington Post, including with an age compatible with the indictment’s description of him as 75 years old. “The federal government has said that Sensi had a ‘relationship’ with the CIA from late 1983 until the time of his arrest,” reported The Post, adding that “Assistant U.S. Attorney Theodore A. Shmanda, who prosecuted Sensi, said the charges against Sensi were unrelated to his CIA activities.”

Roughly thirty minutes after publication of this article, The Associated Press indirectly referenced the above prison sentence, stating that “Sensi was convicted in the late 1980s and early 1990s of mail fraud, defrauding the government and stealing $2.5 million, said the prosecutor, [Assistant U.S. Attorney Varun] Gumaste.” The prosecutor was said to have further claimed Sensi “was engaged in a scheme to procure military-grade helicopters for a Middle East country,” reported the AP, which did not reference The Post’s previous reporting on Mr. Sensi’s role with the CIA.

Sensi’s past role in the CIA has led to him being treated as a credible witness to the Ronald Reagan administration’s alleged “October Surprise” negotiation of the delay of Americans being released as hostage from Tehran until after his 1980 presidential campaign against Jimmy Carter ended. When journalist Craig Unger asked Sensi about whether the ‘October Surprise’ was real, he reportedly replied, “One hundred million per cent,” before adding that,“Absolutely. Unequivocally. And you can print it.”

But Mr. Sensi had been found liable for $325,000 as a result of fraudulent transfers in September 2015 by Judge John F. Walter for his role in what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission described as a “Hong Kong-Based Pyramid Scheme Targeting Asian and Latino Communities.” Led by the Temple City, California-based “Phil” Ming Xu, the World Capital Market pyramid scheme had tapped Sensi “to help handle complaints about the Receivership Entities’ Ponzi scheme from authorities in Peru, Taiwan, and Dubai,” according to a successful complaint in the Central District of California. “Sensi further claims that he used to work for the Central Intelligence Agency and therefore had contacts in these locations,” continued the complaint, which had named Robert Sensi’s son Stefano Robert Sensi-Davenport as a co-defendant.

Public records further show that a Robert Mario Sensi from Boca Raton, Florida filed for bankruptcy in the state in 2023, while Florida public records for Stefano’s consulting firm Spacetao LLC list his and his father’s full name and share a registered address with that of Sensi Sr.’s Global Asset Tracking Corp, which is affiliated with the father’s public LinkedIn profile.

Mr. Sensi’s suit against Penguin for the publication of “America at Night” — in which he was a major subject — alleged that Kolb, the son of former senior CIA official, had committed a felony by publishing a short biography of Sensi which revealed his past undercover work in the CIA. “The publishing of Robert Sensi’s biographical information that Kolb claims [CIA co-founder] Miles Copeland gave him is a felony act,” claimed Sensi’s complaint, adding that “Kolb claims he knows for certain that Sensi is or was a CIA agent, and knowingly published Sensi’s bio on pages 25 and 26 of [‘America at Night’].”

Mr. Sensi’s claim that Kolb committed a felony by publishing his CIA background is likely a reference to the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which was passed in response to former CIA officer Philip Agee naming myriad station chiefs around the world through the magazine CovertAction Information Bulletin.

Mr. Sensi was claimed in the biography allegedly provided by Miles Copeland to have been a “fixer, adept at solving problems with INS, customs, [and] local police,” referring to the defunct U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) which preceded the post-9/11 formation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/former-dea-officials-alleged-conspirator