Drugs, guns, oil, Bilderberg ... ~ CookingFood.Org

Afghanistan and drugs: "Narcotics trafficking isn't merely big, it's more than half the economy - amounting to $2.7 billion annually, according to the (UNODC) - that is, 52 percent of the country's entire GDP.

"And many of the underground industry's most important figures are said to be senior government officials...

"President Karzai's... younger brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai... was alleged to be a major figure by nearly every source who described the Afghan network to NEWSWEEK for this story, including past and present government officials and several minor drug traffickers. 'He is the unofficial regional governor of southern Afghanistan and leads the whole trafficking structure,' says the veteran Interior Ministry official." - Ron Moreau & Sami Yousafzi " A Harvest of Treachery" Newsweek

Malalai Joya - telling it like it is in Afghanista. Presdent Karzai - telling lies, more lies and more land getting unqualified support from the West

The Pentagon's basic budget, a huge US$300 billion when Bush became president, has almost doubled to roughly $541 billion.

If you add cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and global "war on terror", then "defense" spending has tripled.

The USA now spends nearly as much on its military as the rest of the world combined. - How the Pentagon shapes the world

"Oil, and rivalry with Russia and China, have also played a crucial part in why the US went to war in Iraq and may attack Iran in the near future." - And the winner is ... the Israel lobby

School apologizes for teacher's comment that 9/11 was inside job

"Os presidentes das Câmaras de Lisboa e Porto, António Costa (PS), e Rui Rio (PSD), são os convidados portugueses do grupo Bilderberg, que realiza a sua reunião anual no final desta semana em Washington." - Portuguese Newspaper Admits Bilderberg Kingmaker Power

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