We all know this will never happen with Obungler, unless he’s forced to (kicking and screaming, like the liberal sissy he is) but signs are pointing to the fact, as reported by U.S. federal investigators, that Hugo Chavez is as deeply, if not more, involved in trafficking narcotics not only to the U.S., as Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was two decades ago, but also to Europe (which Manuel Noriega was never accused of), when President George H.W. Bush decided it was time to remove yet another central American tinpot dictator.
Newsmax has an excellent article about central American drug cartels attempting to buy large aircraft to transport narcotics to Europe.
And what’s the one common denominator in this article, you might ask?
The involvement of narcotic traffickers and criminals from or based in Venezuela, from Columbia and other central American countries.
And since anyone with half a brain knows that virtually nothing happens in Venezuela without the approval of Chavez or his stooges, there’s almost no doubt that they’ve given the green light to conduct this illicit activity.
US: Gangs Buy Jets for Trans-Atlantic Coke Flights
Federal investigators are piecing together details of an audacious new trend in drug smuggling: South American gangs are buying old jets, stuffing them full of cocaine and flying them across the Atlantic to feed Europe’s growing coke habit.
At least three gangs have struck deals to fly drugs to West Africa and from there to Europe, according to U.S. indictments. One trafficker claimed he already had six aircraft flying. Another said he was managing five airplanes. Because there is no radar coverage over the ocean, big planes can cross the Atlantic virtually undetected.
“The sky’s the limit,” one Sierra Leone trafficker boasted to a Drug Enforcement Administration informant, according to court documents.
[...]
In some cases, executive jets have been used, including a Gulfstream II that landed in Guinea-Bissau in 2008 and another Gulfstream seized in 2007 as it tried to depart Venezuela for Sierra Leone.
In the last year, a flurry of arrests has begun shedding light on how the air routes work. The cases are being prosecuted in a New York federal court because some of the cocaine was supposed to have been sent to the United States.
“The quantity of cocaine distributed and the means employed to distribute it were extraordinary,” prosecutors wrote in one case. They warned of a conspiracy to “spread vast quantities of cocaine throughout the world by way of cargo airplanes.”
In some ways it is a throwback to the 1970s and ’80s, when drug pilots flew freely between Colombia and staging areas near the U.S. border, Decker said. Back then, drug lords such as Amado Carrillo, nicknamed The Lord of the Skies, sent jets with as much as 15 tons of cocaine from Colombia to northern Mexico.
Recent U.S. court cases involving trans-Atlantic flights include:
— The Valencia-Arbelaez Organization, broken up by undercover U.S. agents after it bought a $2 million plane to run monthly flights between Venezuela and Guinea. The group claimed to have six aircraft already flying between South America and West Africa.
— A ring based in Colombia and Liberia, arrested after one of its planes was seized in May with two tons of cocaine as it prepared to leave Venezuela. Prosecutors say the group was planning to fly jets twice a month. One defendant claimed to manage five other aircraft making similar hauls.
— Three Sierra Leone men, accused of scouting out airstrips and arranging for a four-ton flight of cocaine from South America in March.
Two other recent cases have involved cocaine and cargo jets, though investigators have not revealed yet whether the flights were going to Africa:
— Francisco Gonzalez Uribe, a Colombian trafficker due to be sentenced this month. Gonzalez Uribe was recorded while trying to purchase large aircraft including a DC-8, a four-engine jet.
— Walid Makled-Garcia, who prosecutors say controlled airstrips in Venezuela used to launch drug flights. Prosecutors say Makled-Garcia was behind one of the biggest drug plane shipments in recent years: a DC-9 that landed in Mexico in 2006 with more than 12,300 pounds of cocaine on board.
All five cases are being prosecuted in a federal court in Manhattan.
[...]
Read the rest of the article here…
Tags: Hugo Chavez
Obama ain’t got the balls to do it, so the question is moot until we get a real leader as President. If and when that happens, though, old Chavez might want to watch his back…
I think hard drugs should be provided free to persons that want drugs.
The result should be filmed and broadcast as “Junkie Survivor”.
@ unspecial:
The thing is, with good pharmaceutical grade drugs, junkies will live a long time. What kills junkies more than anything are the impurities and uncertain doses in street “quality” drugs. If drugs were legal, fewer people would OD.
Iron Fist wrote:
Time to send in Bad Bob
@ Iron Fist:
I hadn’t thought of that.
I guess I was thinking about meth, when meth users get out of prison, thay seem to always go back to cooking, taking more young people with them. I thought if meth was free, they might self-destruct in place, without taking more with them.
@ Iron Fist:
Well, that was Keith Richard’s strategy. Only use “good” illegal drugs, and don’t overindulge.
Tomohawk or Yamamoto him though, for the moment we don’t need to kill anymore American youth trying to right the world.
Yeah, I know it’s illegal, but it would also help to start a ‘discussion’ with the left about the proper responsibilities of the Executive vis the health and saftey of Americans.
I don’t need Federal healthcare but, I do need some assholes kilt for a more unfettered persuit of Life, Liberty, and Hapiness
@ tanker on the horizon:
And summer in Switzerland at your spa of choice getting an oil and filter change
@ tanker on the horizon:
I’m not saying it won’t take its toll, but it takes a long time to die on good drugs. In fact, the recreational drugs don’t harm you in some ways as bad as the non-recreational drugs. It is the acetiminiphine in percocet that eats up your liver, not the hydrocodone. Things like that really piss me off.
@ Scott Madsen:
Those oil changes make me shudder.
Scott Madsen wrote:
Amen. The Old Lady got the skinny on how much her insurance is going up because of ObamaCare, and it ain’t pretty. I haven’t heard on mine, but the insurance company is bitching about the drugs I am on, wanting additional paperwork from my doctor before they will authorize them. Thanks, Democrats! Hope the Devil fucks you with a barbed dick! For eternity…
Here is another aspect of the rogue airlines as provided by al-Reuters
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Travel Panama, The Blogmocracy. The Blogmocracy said: Is it about time to remove Chavez in #Venezuela, as we did Noriega in Panama? http://goo.gl/fb/XdJLS #crime #europe [...]
@ African Moondog:
Of course. The Mohammedans cut off people’s heads. Smuggling drugs is a step up for them. A good way to raise cash for the Jihad. Lovely, isn’t it?
@ African Moondog:
Why don’t we put a training carrier in the middle and give the young Navy pilots some practice. These are airliners so its easy for the first time nuggets…
Iron Fist wrote:
It is not something new, the Arafish was doing it years ago.
@ Iron Fist:
They are number one bad boys. Lets negotiate with them.
@ MikeA:
Good Question. Do you think that the current Admin the necessary quantity of cojones?
@ huckfunn:
The ORIGINAL Bad Bob the albino. LOL
@ unspecial:
Hey, that’s Obama’s line! I’m surprised he hasn’t sent a crack team of negiotiators from the State Department todown to the Mexico border to find out how we can appease the drug cartels. Of course, that would actually be doing something about the border, even if it is a wrong thing. I think he thinks the cartels are like the monster under the bed, and if he just ignores them they will go away…
@ African Moondog:
No.
Iron Fist wrote:
The word Assassin derives from Hashashiyyin — a super-militant “heretical” Islamic sect founded by Hassan-i Sabbah, flourishing in the 12th century in the Near East, spreading terror against not only kuffar but also against those whom they condemned as murtaddeen. They would recruit people with promises of booty in this life or the hereafter, a promise derived directly from the Koran and Sunnah, but their unique twist was drugging their recruits into submission…
Hashashiyyin means “smokers of hashish”.
Islam has quite an…erm…distinguished heritage not just in regards to senseless massacre and brutal imperialism, but also in regards to drug use…
@ Iron Fist:
@ Scott Madsen:
The Colombian Army can easily remove Chavez. I say let them keep Venezuela as part of Greater Colombia with us getting oil discounts.
US troops aren’t needed to invade Venezuela. We are broke and bleeding to death. Let someone else do our dirty work.
@ African Moondog:
He would give the cargo planes a fighter escort.
@ Rodan:
For what time should I schedule my upcoming post?
Iron Fist wrote:
In Colombia One of the Cartels flipped and members of them are part of the government now. We should have the Mexican governmnet negotiate with teh Cartels and find the most reasonable one.
Rodan wrote:
That works for me. I’ve never really seen anything sanctified by the current system of International “Law” that sort of, kinda, forbids conquest except when China does it to Tibet.
@ Philip_Daniel:
Put it in pending and we will schedule it. WHat time today will you be around?
African Moondog wrote:
Rodan wrote:
After 1:30…
@ Iron Fist:
He thinks it’s our fault, we should apologise to the cartels and provide them with military surplus air transports.
@ Rodan:
I remember when one of the Golden Triangle warlords offered to sell us his entire production of heroin fo rsomething like a billion dollars a year. When you look at all the variables, it really wasn’t a bad offer. He’d have probably taken half that. That was during Bush I, so there wasn’t even any consideration given to it. Me, I’d legalize and regulate the shit, and then exterminate anyone that tried to go outside the regulations. It is ultimately what will have to happen.
@ Iron Fist:
I agree, I believe in facts on teh ground. Heck I’m all for the US invading and annexing Cuba, Dominican Republic and Panama.
Iron Fist wrote:
These days the Chinese are a tad more sophisticated.
More weird seemingly inexplicable military happening a week after the California missle plume
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2010/11/usaf-search-launched-for-overd.html
@ Philip_Daniel:
Ok it will be scheduled for 8:30 this evening.
@ Iron Fist:
I agree, we have no choice.
Iron Fist wrote:
Isn’t that the way it worked about a century ago? We have to come up with a whole new game plan. The War on Drugs seems to have been won by the Drugs.
Rodan wrote:
Sounds good.
@ African Moondog:
That’s a smart move on China’s part. It sucks that China’s leaders seem to care more about the future of their country than Ours do. We could have been doing shit like that 20 years ago, and be importing our own oil, but no, that would be Imperialism, and Imperialism is bad. But not when China does it, of course.
Rodan wrote:
You want us to be like the (intentionally-obscured) imperialist Shamkhalate of Kazi-Kumuk in the medieval Caucasus? Oh, wait, at least we don’t behead unbelievers…
@ Scott Madsen:
It was a bird! No a plane! No, it wasn’t Superman…
@ Philip_Daniel:
We could behead prisoners of war, though, if they are Mohammedans. Send a message, that would…
@ African Moondog:
As long as demand is this high, someone will supply it. The barrier to entry is fairly low, and the rewards are high. If I didn’t have a morbid fear of incarceration, I’d be doing it myself, I suppose. I’m sure not going to get rich doing what I’m doing now…
@ Rodan:
I was sixteen when Carter dumped the Canal and did a facepalm WTF at his strategic ineprtness masquarading as some kind of benevolence from strength as an example that all will follow.
A sixteen year old had a greater grasp of geo political realities than that egotistical prick. I told my mother what a mistaken man he was, and the world couldn’t entertain such frivolities for at least another thousand years when the majority of the world may be on par spiritually with common intent and purposes, then be able to act with such trust and openess.
She told me it was the right thing to do.
Yeah, she voted for the Bamster
@ Scott Madsen:
From what you’ve said of her, I bet she votes for him in 2012, too. He’s got a solid base of 35% of the populace who will vote for him no matter what. It sounds like your mother is firmly in that demographic.
@ Scott Madsen:
Panama should of been part of the US.
Iron Fist wrote:
I have had the same issues. Somehow the argument that if my doctor did not think I needed the meds, she would not have prescribed them did not hold much water.
These are the same folks who make me use mail order for maintenance meds that take over 2 weeks to get shipped. My last go-round with them was when I switched over and did not get the meds I was supposed to. When I finally called and asked where they were, they said that the transferred prescriptions expired so they did not honor the refill request.
They send me so much unneeded junk mail most of cya nonsense, I asked why they could not tell me there was a problem rather than ignoring the request, its not like this was something I needed like medicine, no, wait, yes it was……
Obamacare, medical care at the standard of service exemplified by the MVA.
Iron Fist wrote:
I put that at 45%. No matter what he does, how bad the economy is, 45% will not abandon him.
@ Rodan:
The canal zone was. I was disgusted when Carter gave it up, and I was 8. Bastard. And now we have another Bastard as President who wants to reduce America abroad and destroy America at home. God help us.
@ Rodan:
I think it is a bit lower than that, but you may be right. I’ll take that. Assuming we run anybody reasonable, they should get 55% of the vote. That’ll do.
Philip_Daniel wrote:
Hey we have the show tonight, your thread will be at 2:00PM. Since you’ll be around after 1:30 it works out.
Iron Fist wrote:
AGreed a good Conservative Republican who can actually be telegenic can get 52-55% against this clown.
I read that Obama’s last minute campaigning and the Daily SHow rally helped the Dems prevent the loss of 15 House seats and even the Nevada and Colorado seats. So He can’t be underestimated. He can be beaten, but we have to pulvarize him.
Iron Fist wrote:
Health insurance for self and husband takes roughly one-third of my earnings at work.
I just read a headline, then the article on Bristol Palin making it to the Final of Dancing with the stars. It is making liberal heads explode and the View scrunys are apoplectic about “Tea Partiers” stuffing the ballots to keep her in as they belive she can’t make it on merit….how effin ironic is that? It also seems that the judges have been very rude and condecending towards her. I’m guessing they are Hollywood lobs too.
Now, I have never watched this show, and have never voted on any TV talent thing that I have seen, but in this case I am going to. If my vote sticks it up the left’s nose with a rubber hose regardless of Bristol’s talent, I will feel better for having gave them a dose of their own medicine in the only venue where it is ethical to do so, fantasyland, and not the real world of political elections where they ply their malfeasance to gain power over people’s lives.
A bonus is that Jennifer Grey is in the finals as a ringer, has been snotty to Bristol (who is probably the least political person in the world) and I can’t stand her much to begin with.
If anyone else is in, there it is. A chance to harmlessly tweek the shitbird smug elites of Hollywood.
Rodan wrote:
Absolutely. Obama is a snake, and we must crush his head. It is as I keep saying. Politics is War. War to the Knife, Knife to the Hilt. No Mercy. Anything less, and we can lose, no matter how great our candidate is.
Rodan wrote:
Oh, ok.
@ Scott Madsen:
Yeah, I feel the same way. I watch it with the Old Lady as a love gift (and sometimes peace offering
). I keep thinking how that talent could be applied to martial arts. Be that as it may, yes, let’s win this bauble for Bristol if we can. Just to spite the Left, if for no other reason.
zero isn’t going to stop his boyfriend from doing any criminal activity.
http://worldmeets.us/images/obamachavez_handshake.big.gif
African Moondog wrote:
If we are defeated (economically or militarily) by the Chinese, we will have only ourselves to blame. The Clinton Administration let them take our military secrets. For that I blame the Clintons, not the Chinese. Since then, we’ve outsourced our industry – and our expertise – to India, China, and other parts of the world. Although China is not yet our equals in technology, it is already a serious rival, not to mention a creditor. We should listen when THEY lecture US about the need for free market principles.
@ 1389AD:
Mine alone as a rider on my wife’s policy was $900 hundred a month untill three years ago when she was given additional benefits by her employer.
The only change we need is allowing insurers to build risk groups across state lines, tort reform, and enforcement of medicaide and medicare fraud along with minimal co-pays for welfare medicine so they stop showing up in the e-room every time little billybob and shanikra get a splinter or cough.
Rodan wrote:
A substantial portion of that 45% are DEAD PEOPLE. They don’t have the option to abandon Obozo, no matter how much they would have wanted to. Never forget that Obozo got his start in Chicago, where the dead vote early and often.
Scott Madsen wrote:
That would about do it. From there the Market will take it. ObamaCare is intended to fuck things up so badly that the people scream for Socialized Medicine to save us. If we can’t get rid of this thing, it will eat up our healthcare system like a cancer.
1389AD wrote:
ok, lets listen to them, while they hold the yuan at a severe undervalue range on forex despite the complaints of the rest of the world so they can build an export based economy…yeah, thats real free market principals right there. the chinese are hypocrites on the issue of free markets, and up next in the chinese free market: price controls enforced by law (guns and the threat of violence)to prevent inflation!
Iron Fist wrote:
Roosevelt Baby, English Lit major, Feminist, etc. etc. etc.
@ Iron Fist:
The Obama Boom continues! I linked this in our linkviewer!
Housing Starts Fall to ’09 Levels
@ Rodan:
Wonderful. I just want my house to close. Get that albatross from around my neck. It is all but sold, but I want to get it done and gone.
@ coldwarrior:
They joined the big leagues, time to step up to the plate with an uncorked bat.
A weaker dollar and cheaper drugs – man, next year’s vacation just keeps on getting better.
Scott Madsen wrote:
i swear this is what qe2 is about, well that and payback for the chinese attempted dump of bonds last year.
This will be entertaining:
Wow! Find the nuttiest moonbat and put him up as a shill for the administration? Works for me…
Beeduwine wrote:
just dont try to fly our of greece, portugal, or ireland…those three are next to collapse, oh, and try not to fly over france, i am sure that the air traffic controllers will be on strike.
Iron Fist wrote:
I don’t blame you. I regret buying my townhouse 2 and half years ago.
@ Iron Fist:
oh that’s just perfect!
@ coldwarrior:
Lufthansa via Frankfurt. The Germans got their shit together.
Beeduwine wrote:
Their economy is booming.
@ Rodan:
Yeah, Merkel is doing alright. She is even talking about “judeo-christian values” now. Who would have thought. Is the CDU back?
@ Scott Madsen:
And make the government pay full price for medicare and medicaid, how can they promise more benefits without costing private insurance more?
Beeduwine wrote:
yeah, i used to fly out of there all the time, a french atc strike caused a trip back to pgh to be an 18 hour ordeal.
@ coldwarrior:
It doesn’t make a lot of sense otherwise.
Siezing the high ground as it were.
Beeduwine wrote:
they cdu bavarian style is back.
Scott Madsen wrote:
round one already stomped the chinese stocks market and resulted in an announcement about price controls.
let the games begin!
@ unspecial:
I forgot about that carrying burden
@ coldwarrior:
yep
Scott Madsen wrote:
the chinese are capitalist my ass. its time to stop playing this charade.
@ Scott Madsen:
Just the baby boomers retirement is liable to destroy healthcare.
Our government hates us.
I’ve dealt with addicts and as bad as cocaine is (and it’s bad), heroin is worse.
more chinese capitalism:
glorious capitalism!
Iron Fist wrote:
What if he and his demons have anvil-shaped ones?
This is probably old news , but the TSA has announced that air travelers will not be able to decline full body scans or “enhanced”
pat downs on religious grounds.
You just know that Muslims will test the policy by refusing to
see if they can get more submission. You just know it.
Oh & good morning
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s almost like some cheesy Star Trek episode where they’re following the example of the great leader Nick-sun.
Can of Coke
@ coldwarrior:
heh, heh, about time they learn to herd figurative cats instead of killing them to keep the house calm.
@ Rodan:
But first we’ll have to invade CA,
coldwarrior wrote:
I would listen to what they say when they tell us that we cannot afford this health care boondoggle.
However, when they use actual slave labor in factories, that has NOTHING to do with free market competition. We should not import stuff that is made by slave labor.
Creative Smuggling
/Drug Bug
coldwarrior wrote:
Every once in a while the Chinese arrogance gets the better of them and they over estimate their abilities. In the world of international high finances they are the amateurs. They are about to seriously get their clocks cleaned, but it is going to hurt a lot of other innocent countries as well.
My guess is that part of the strategy they were counting on is the US not crashing the economies of their allies while defending the US economy. More importantly I think they were also counting on the worlds other nations to not get directly involved in an economic war between them and the US, or that if they did those other nation would side with them for purely financial reasons.
Both of those assumption are tenuous at best and fly in the face of realities that exist but are not visible above the surface. Most of Europe and a significant portion of Asia have incredibly strong ties with the US that do not appear at surface level. China is about to discover this in a very brutal fashion.
A very good example of this is Vietnam, once a military foe of the US and now one of the US’s strongest allies in South East Asia. Vietnam has no intention of allowing itself to once again become a vassal state of China.
An odd thing happened in Vietnam, although the most bitter of enemies during the Vietnam War after decades of self reflection the Vietnamese came to the conclusion that while the Americans, in their opinion, had no business involving themselves in Vietnamese internal affairs, the Americans never the less were not only brilliant militarily but also conducted themselves with a remarkable degree of honor.
The Chinese on the other hand, in Vietnamese opinion, not so much. In Asian culture honor is a damned significant issue. It appears that the question of honor was the tipping point in the Vietnamese peoples opinion between China and America. Cambodia, Laos and Thailand all line up pretty much behind Vietnam in the regard.
They are not interested in becoming slaves of another Chinese dynasty. Their freedoms, such as they are, were hard won and not something they are ready or willing to surrender.
Ancient Chinese xenophobia and racial supremacist attitudes are going to bite China in the ass big time as they discover that their habit of treating their vassal states as inferiors means that those with long histories of dealing with china are not interested in resuming those ancient subservient roles again.
Drop the Jeringa
Chalupa@ BuddyG:
That loos like someone I saw this morning here in Pittsburgh running a stop sign, except they had Kielbasa hanging out of their mouth.
@ doriangrey:
An economic war is a disaster. China and America will self destruct. We have too much debt and they have internal weaknesses. It’s a lose-lose.
Rodan wrote:
We had to much debt, China fucked up and is about suck that dept down a Chinese hole. China is about to get a world class lesson in swallowing.
@ African Moondog:
Seems to me it would pretty easy to simply shoot them down over mid-Atlantic, but you’d have to be absolutely certain that you were shooting down an illicit flight. Accidentally shooting down a lawful airliner or air freighter from a neutral country would be extremely bad juju.
I think you’d need to have spies on the ground at airports of departure, and get the markings and tail numbers of flights known to be transporting drugs, and then pass them to a carrier at sea, which could then task an interceptor to make visual contact, confirm, and then shoot down.