Archive for July 6th, 2009
Flood Of Afghan Heroin Fuels Drug Plague In Russia – Via CIA?
Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Newspapers – July 6, 2009
FLASHBACK: Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?
CHELYABINSK, Russia — Young men with sores on their arms shuffled up the stairs of a dark, underground shopping arcade and into the daylight to plop dingy wads of rubles into the drug dealers’ hands. The dealers casually reached into their pockets or plastic shopping bags and handed over tablets of synthetic morphine, a type also used as a horse tranquilizer, and paper packets that appeared to contain heroin.
Across the street in this gray, post-Soviet industrial town, two Russian policemen sat in a faded wooden booth, and a couple more sat in a police truck outside. They didn’t seem the least bit interested.
A police officer walked by but didn’t interrupt the transaction. Asked whether he was worried, one of the dealers, a young man with a white driving cap tipped down over his eyes, leaned back against a railing and giggled.
In Miass, a small town west of Chelyabinsk near the foothills of the Ural Mountains, Elena Shapkovskaya wasn’t laughing. She works at the No. 40 pharmacy and often has to call the police when heroin addicts crowd the shop and begin shooting up in plain view.
“Sometimes instead of calling the police, we call an ambulance, because they’re lying on the floor,” Shapkovskaya said, looking down at the tile floor beneath her feet.
Drugs have become yet another scourge of post-communist Russia, with millions addicted to heroin and an annual death toll reportedly in the tens of thousands from overdoses and other drug-related causes.
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Israeli Air Force (IAF) Prepares With NATO And U.S. To Strike Iran?
Sri Lankan News – July 6, 2009
The Israel Air Force is planning to participate in aerial exercises in the US and Europe in the coming months.
It is believed pilots will be trained for long-range flights as a precautionary measure against possible Iranian attacks and in test-runs for potential strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
IAF planes will take part in a joint aerial exercise with NATO forces in Europe and the US.
On Sunday, US Vice-President, Joe Biden, told ABC television the US would not stand in the way militarily if the Israelis decided they needed to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
He said: “The US cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do. Israel can determine for itself – it’s a sovereign nation – what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he would prefer to see Iran’s nuclear program stopped through diplomacy, but has not ruled out a military strike.
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Senator Inhofe: About “Global Warming” And Cap And Trade Scam
Senator Jim Inhofe (R – OK)
Dr. Garth Nicolson – About The Deadly Dangers Of Vaccinations
Contaminated Vaccines
Chronic Diseases By Vaccines
The Tonka Report 