- Whitey Bulger: protected by the FBI for decades while being the biggest heroin importer in the northeast
- Freeway Ricky Ross: supplied by the CIA with coke from the Contras, in a relationship mediated by a DEA informant
- Golden Triangle heroin trade: controlled by the CIA for decades after the Korean War, arming and protecting manufacturers and traffickers, with heroin flown on CIA planes
- The French Connection: French gangsters were protected by the CIA and allowed to import heroin to their primary market, the US, in exchange for keeping the port of Marseille out of the control of French communists
- La Corporacion: the biggest Bolivian cocaine cartel, the "GM of cocaine", started with the cooperation and protection of the CIA according to a DEA agent whose investigations into them were repeatedly thwarted by the State Dept and CIA
- Ronald Stark: the world's biggest manufacturer and supplier of LSD for a period after its criminalization, sole supplier of late-period Brotherhood of Eternal Love, threw parties at the US embassy in Brussels, sent letters using their letterhead, and when he was finally arrested in Italy, the judge in his case accused the CIA of protecting him
The drug war has always been a hoax. There are more drugs in the US now than there were when prohibition started. The cops have always been in on it.
emizeko
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when communism is made off-limits in the popular consciousness, the only response to crises of capitalism people can imagine is fascism.
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The History of US and British Support to Mussolini’s Fascism https://janataweekly.org/the-history-of-us-and-british-support-to-mussolinis-fascism/
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How Mussolini once worked for British intelligence https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mussolini-idUSTRE59D4MW20091014
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Okay so like, this family, a father, mom and daughter, move into their grandma's empty house, and discover that the Dad's weird Brother has been camping out there. It's established in a flash back that the Brother hooked up with the Mom right before she married the Dad and she's still kinda horny for him. Also the Brother was some kind of super crazy sex pervert who did so much sex pervert stuff that he felt he had exhausted all the pleasures the Earth had to offer and so bought some kind of demonic Rubik's cube from some dude cuz he heard a legend that if you solve it you gain access to some other dimension of pure pleasure. So he takes it to his grandma's house and solves it and it turns out it summons some fucked up torture demons who come from a dimension where pain and pleasure are the same thing so they just take him and torture him a bunch, but he sorta gets into it a bit, kinda. Also like he can't die so they just like torture him till he's a big pile of living viscera.
Anyway back in the present, the Dad accidentally spills some blood on the floor of of the room his Brother summoned the demons in and that allows the Brother to come back from the demon world, but he's still a living pile of guts. He is able to talk to his horny sister-in-law though and tells her he can become a normal dude again if he can drink a bunch of blood so she goes out and picks up dudes at bars and brings them back so the gross guts guy can eat them and become less gross. The daughter finds out about this and freaks the fuck out, steals the Rubik's cube and runs away, but passes out from how freaky it all is.
She wakes up in the hospital and solves the Rubik's cube and the demons show up and are like "sweet we can torture you till you're kinda into it" and she's like "I think you want my pervy uncle" and they're like "sure help us find him and we'll just torture him forever and he'll kinda be into it". So like she goes back home and her Dad's been killed by her sex pervert uncle but now he's wearing her Dad's skin and she summons the demons who they take both her perv Uncle and Mom away to torture land and she runs away and tries to throw the Rubik's cube away, but some weird hobo who's been in the background of the movie the whole time shows up and grabs it, turns into a flying demon, and brings it back to the merchant dude who gave it to the sex pervert Uncle guy in the first place and then he gives it to some other sex pervert guy.
The End.
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Hellraiser (1987)
i have more fish and tape and will,, power than youre intire organisation
She just died? Wow. I didn't know that, I just uh... you're telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman... whether you agree or not, she was an amazing woman, who led an amazing life. I'm actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.
They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless.
Before the war, the USSR gave Finland several proposals to create mutually benefical alliances to defend both of them from inevitable Nazi aggression, but in every case Finland refused.
“Our proposals in the negotiations with Finland are modest, and they are confined to the minimum, short of which is it impossible to ensure the safety of the Soviet Union”
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“The Government of Finland feels obliged to maintain the attitude which it has taken up from the outset regarding the proposal that it should lease the port of Hanko and the surrounding district to the Government of the USSR and place the Bay of Lappohja at the disposal of the naval forces of the USSR for use as an anchorage”.—V. M. Molotov: The Development of Finnish-Soviet Relations
The Soviet Union needed strategic security from the Nazis. They were negotiating to rent some small pieces of land to be able to close the Gulf of Finland to enemy naval forces in the event of war to protect Leningrad. The USSR also needed the border near Leningrad itself to be moved outside of the artillery range. In exchange for a total of 2700km² the Soviets offered 5500km².
The Nazi-sympathizing government of Finland of course refused and took a hostile stance against the USSR. Eventually there was a build up of troops at the border near Leningrad and shells were fired into Soviet territory. This led to a costly war that the USSR eventually won and in peace demanded essentially what they had asked for before the war.
The USSR managed to take several important regions of Finland. The areas taken contained several large cities and industrial areas and ports, giving them greater access to the gulf.
“The meaning of the war in Finland lay in the necessity for safeguarding the security of the north-western frontiers of the Soviet Union and above all of the safeguarding of the security of Leningrad.
The Soviet Union smashed the Finnish Army and having every opportunity of occupying the whole of Finland, did not do so and did not demand any indemnities for her war expenses, as any other power would have done, but confined her demands to the minimum.
We pursued no other object in the Peace Treaty but that of safeguarding the security of Leningrad, Murmansk and the Murmansk railway”.
—V. M. Molotov: Speech to the 6th Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
In this sense, the USSR won in that they got what they wanted (achieved their war aims). The fact that it took the Red Army several months to defeat the Finnish forces was used as propaganda to claim that the Red Army was ineffective.
adapted from a Quora post by David King
ask a communist and a capitalist to criticize each others’ ideas, and they’ll both describe capitalism.
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Putin's Full Speech: BRICS, NATO Expansion and Ukraine Peace Talk Conditions | Moon of Alabama
(www.moonofalabama.org)
Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up!