from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Politics as Usual Addicted to Drug Profits by Kris Millegan 'YES, VIRGINIA, there is an octopus.' " Interesting words from a lady who raised $100,000 for George Bush. "There are more people in America addicted to drug money than there are addicted to drugs," Catherine Austin Fitts said. "Most of us don't even know that we are addicted - but whether through the stock market or the banking system or the financing that helps us create jobs, we are." Catherine's stance is, "If we, the people, can face it ... God can fix it." Here I was, a guy from Noti, lunching with a former assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Bush administration and talking about the U.S. intelligence communities' role in the international narcotics trade and the ramifications for families in communities throughout America. The day before, there was breakfast with a former Drug Enforcement Agency agent and a former Los Angeles police officer who regaled the table with tales about a netherworld of factions "fighting" for hundreds of billions of dollars; "wet-boys" (hired killers) and death threats; an ex-cocaine cartel leader in the federal witness protection program "running dope to the Russians;" and "shill" lawyers who destroy cases, gag witnesses and bankrupt supporting citizens. These extra encounters were the icing on top of a full day of amazing revelations and eyewitness accounts of corruption and official malfeasance relayed to attendees at last month's CIA-Drugs Symposium at the Lane County Fairgrounds. The weekend left me with a lot to digest - and wishing that more people in Eugene had heard the presentations or benefited from more coverage in the news. What did those who attended learn? A typical reaction came in an e-mail message: "After planning to attend for a few hours in the morning, I ended up staying for the whole time. It was a paradigm transforming experience for me, even though I have been interested in drug policy for a decade." The scope of the corruption presented was chilling, involving both major political parties and our major financial players. The theme that ran througho ut was the extent to which the profits from drugs flow through the economy like the blood that flows through our bodies. The four top states for the importation of illegal narcotics are New York, Florida, California and Texas. Those are also the states with the highest concentration of money laundering, as well as the reinvestment of laundered funds in legal businesses - in mergers and acquisitions and in venture capital. Those are also the states from where 80 percent of all the presidential campaign contributions originate. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent for a position that pays only $200,000 a year, but which controls the allocation of trillions in government contracts and subsidies. The office also influences the regulations and legislation that can make or break a business - not to mention the intelligence, enforcement and prosecution agencies that wield the power to indict and convict and, some say, even to kill. Our addiction to drug profits is powerful because of our need to support our staggering debt load both here and abroad. The bankers know that the interest on many of their international loans is being paid with narco-dollars, now estimated to be as high as a half-trillion dollars a year. These narco-dollars moving around the world are in demand at bargain rates and infect the integrity of our markets. One of the best books on the history of the drug trade is Carl Trocki's "Opium, Empire and the Global Economy." Trocki helps put events in a historical perspective. More than a few private and political fortunes amassed through the centuries in America and globally were made with prohibited drugs in concert with organized crime. " ... the drug traffic ... restructures the social and economic terrain in the process. Two major effects are the creation of mass markets and the generation of enormous ... unprecedented, cash flows. (Which) results in the concentrated accumulation of vast pools of wealth. (Which) have been among the primary foundations of global capitalism and the modern nation-state itself. Indeed, it may be argued that the entire rise of the West, from 1500 to 1900, depended on a series of drug trades ... and fed the institutions that accumulated it: the banking and financial systems, the insurance systems and the transportation and information infrastructures." Some news from the CIA-Drugs Symposium was ominous. Efforts to ensure that Colombia's rich flow of profits are cycled back through the U.S. stock market and banking system have not been successful. That means we are headed toward a land war in Colombia. At the same time, new technology unleashes tools such as the Internet to bring people from all walks of life together to help find ways to build new wealth without the old drug model and to allow all of us to exercise more responsibility about how both our private investments and public resources are used. Only the Internet could bring together such a diverse group of speakers and seekers of the truth. It was a powerful weekend hearing from such different sources - all pointing to the traitorous activities of the same group of elite deviants and reminding us all that understanding how the money works around us may present a fascinating look at what is really happening in our world. And with the help of new tools such as the Internet, we have an opportunity to make a difference. Those who missed it and want to know more may go to www.ctrl.org/cia and hear audio from the CIA-Drugs Symposium and find links to pertinent information. Peace. Kris Millegan, a writer, lives in Noti and helped organize the CIA-Drugs Symposium. He prepared this column with the assistance of Catherine Austin Fitts, who served in the Bush administration as an assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and as a federal housing commissioner. She is a former managing director and member of the board of directors of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. in New York City. Register-Guard, July 18, 2000 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, All My Relations. Omnia Bona Bonis, Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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