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• Mexican drug cartels operate here; US blamed for Mexican violence

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Saturday 11/21/09 El Universal (Mexico City) 11/20/09 Tentacles of La Familia Michoacána in US Fifteen members of one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels, La Familia Michoacána , were arrested today in the Chicago area, accused of distribution of thousands of kilos of cocaine. The US Drug Enforcement Agency ...
  6 days ago

• 2002: Craig Neil Ogan, drug war informant

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 469
  (Thanks to David Carson of the informative Texas Execution Information Center for the guest post, originally run on his site . -ed.) Craig Neil Ogan, 47, was executed by lethal injection on 19 November 2002 in Huntsville, Texas for the murder of a police officer. Mugshot clipped from Texas Department of ...
  1 week ago

• Detective Accused of Providing Tips to Informers Is Acquitted

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Earl Williams of the Manhattan North Major Case Narcotics Squad had been accused of tipping off informers about aspects of a federal drug investigation.
  2 weeks ago

• America’s ‘Preposterous War On Pot’ Continues

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 134
  Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and state prisons. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails. But the public is starting to rebel against “the preposterous war on pot,” two political scientists say. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Military Operations Begin on Venezuela’s Western Border to Fight Drug Trafficking

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Venezuela has announced the expansion of military operations along its western border in order to fight drug trafficking and protect a recently discovered reserve of coltan from illegal mining. In what is titled Operation Blue Gold, 15,000 Air Force, Army, and Navy personnel will protect the coltan reserve, which ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trial Shows Fine Balance for Police and Informers

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A narcotics detective is on trial after working with informers who were also employed by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
  3 weeks ago

• 53 gang members busted in Bronx raid

  
  Talk Bronx New York — Authority: 134
  Some 50 gang members affiliated with the Bloods were busted today for allegedly terrorizing two Bronx housing projects and are responsible for at least 20 unsolved murders, officials said. Federal officials said the suspects are charged with dealing cocaine and crack and believe the gang members are behind at least ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senate Committee Seeks Improved Access to Controlled Meds for Long-Term Care and Hospice Patients; Drafts Legislation to Address Issue

  
  FDA Law Blog — Authority: 492
  By John A. Gilbert and Larry K. Houck – Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) and Member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have sent a letter  to U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder seeking improved access to needed pain and other medications for long-term care and hospice patients.  Their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rise and fall of narco-communities

  
  Third Wave — Authority: 107
  The country’s anti-drug czar, no less than President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, must have seen last night’s episode of ABS-CBN’s XXX. Perhaps she might consider getting the services of ABS-CBN’s program researcher and reporters!The XXX episode narrated how an XXX asset (Do they pay their asset?) with a secret ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obama observes fallen soldiers’ return

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  After he stood on a windswept tarmac at Dover Air Force Base in the middle of the night to watch 18 soldiers and U.S. drug enforcement agents killed in Afghanistan arrive home in flag-draped cases, President Obama, known for his soaring rhetorical skills, was speechless. Though he politely thanked a couple of military ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Real Government Effort to Impede Senior’s Drug Medication

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 435
  Interesting story from the Washington Post’s Carrie Johnson: Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication, according to two Senate Democrats and a coalition of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Police announce new crackdown on the back of Operation Algebra

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 578
  By Cara Sulieman SICKENED detectives last night warned Scotland’s secret paedophiles: We’re coming to get you. Cops launched a new crackdown – codenamed Operation Alba – which will for the first time see specialist teams hunt out vile perverts rather than having to wait and react to child sex crimes that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama Honors Fallen Americans At Dover Air Base

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  President Obama made a midnight trip to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to honor the return of fallen soldiers in Afghanistan. He was taking part in a solemn process to transfer the remains of 15 soldiers and three Drug Enforcement Agency agents from the back of the C-17 to a transport vehicle to a base mortuary. ...
  4 weeks ago

• ‘Hired gun’ accidentally shoots self after killing agent

  
  Pinoy News and Blogosphere Buzz — Authority: 137
  MANILA – A man, suspected to be a “hired gun,” accidentally shot himself and bled to death after he shot and killed an “asset” or informant of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Manila, police reported.    
  4 weeks ago

• First Montana hemp license issued, may challenge DEA ban

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 533
  ( Billings Gazette ) The state this month issued its first license for an industrial hemp-growing operation to a woman who said she wants to develop a domestic market for the plant despite federal law barring its cultivation. Laura Murphy, of Bozeman, was the first to apply for the two-year license since the state ...
  4 weeks ago

• WHAT IF BUSH HAD DONE THAT? -- BY JOSH GERSTEIN, Politico

  
  COURAGE IN AMERICA — Authority: 167
  A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. Snubbing the Dalai Lama. Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers. CLICK TITLE OR HERE TO READ REMAINDER OF ARTICLE
  4 weeks ago

• How War Does Speed

  
  Last Free Voice — Authority: 104
  War is not the health of the state. At least not in the long run. I respect Randolph Bourne and his cogent observation that  “War is the health of the state”. But he is far too lenient in diagnosing war and that psychopathic institution of monopolistic coercion, which is the state. Rather war is the [...]
  5 weeks ago

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