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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Where's Hunter?
[PJMedia] The White House grounds were evacuated on Sunday due to the discovery of an initially unidentified package.

"U.S. Secret Service Uniform Division Officers located an unknown item on the White House complex," a Secret Service spokesman confirmed. "As a precaution, the White House grounds were evacuated, and the DC Fire Departments Hazmat team responded.

Curiously, there hasn’t been a lot of news coverage of this incident. This seems odd because the evacuation of the White House and the response of a Hazmat team seems like a significant story. It’s true that the item was eventually deemed to be "non-hazardous" by D.C. Emergency Medical officials, but that’s not the whole story.

An audio recording from D.C. Fire Hazmat revealed the test results showed the substance found was cocaine hydrochloride.

Social media users have been saying that cocaine hydrochloride is a local anesthetic commonly used by doctors to numb the nostril for surgical procedures. Is this technically true? Sure. "Cocaine hydrochloride nasal solution is used to numb the mucous membrane inside the nose before a medical procedure or surgery. This medicine is a local anesthetic," the Mayo Clinic explains. "This medicine is to be given only by or under the direct supervision of your doctor."

Are you buying the story that nasal spray was found in the White House? You shouldn’t.

According to Addiction Resources, "Cocaine hydrochloride is a powder used in drug abuse or as a local anesthetic. Abusing cocaine hydrochloride can result in adverse side effects and risks. Cocaine can be processed to produce three different forms of the drug: cocaine hydrochloride, freebase cocaine, and crack cocaine."

What does this tell us? Despite the best efforts of some to insinuate that the cocaine hydrochloride found at the White House was innocuous nasal spray, it is highly probable that it was simply a bag of cocaine. There’s been no official indication that it was nasal spray, and the lack of interest in the story by the mainstream media raises some red flags. On top of that, we know that Hunter Biden, a supposedly "recovering" drug addict, was recently at the White House for a state dinner.

Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cocaine reportedly found at White House, conservatives point to Hunter Biden

Like he's the only user there.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/04/2023 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm going to guess there has been cocaine in the White House back before the Civil War.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/04/2023 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Joe prefers the original formulation of CocaCola from when he was a kid.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/04/2023 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Initial reports were that the cocaine was found "near" the White House but now it has been revealed it was found in the White House library where Hunter does his "work". Immediately following the evacuation the Secret Service assumed it belonged to Hunter. There is 24-7 video surveillance. The Secret Service did not collect fingerprints from the bag as they knew Hunter had left it behind.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/04/2023 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Link for the above information.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/04/2023 12:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Crackhead in Chief
Posted by: Abu Uluque Tablet || 07/04/2023 12:22 Comments || Top||

#7  A documented crime, potential felony, inside the white house, with categorical video evidence of the perpetrator. Let's see who is actually above the law!

"Hunter started drinking as a teenager and confessed to abusing cocaine as a college student.
He has been in and out of rehab. In 2013, he signed up for the US Navy Reserves and took the oath of office before his father - then the vice-president - in a White House ceremony. But on his very first day at the naval base, he tested positive for cocaine use and was discharged, something he later said he was "embarrassed" by."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55805698
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/04/2023 12:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Based on the amount, my bet is that he was trying to make it through either a work Kate Chopin or Flannery O’Connor.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/04/2023 15:03 Comments || Top||

#9  I suspect Hunter Biden with a brick in the library.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/04/2023 15:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Monthly shipment awaiting delivery to Obama.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2023 18:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Too easy to be Hunter. I'll put 20 bucks on Kamala.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/04/2023 20:37 Comments || Top||

#12  It is East Wing - the family side.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/04/2023 20:47 Comments || Top||

#13  Well, Kamala has been known to spread her legs to move up in life.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/04/2023 20:49 Comments || Top||

#14  ^ It's more the lack of gag reflex
Posted by: Frank G || 07/04/2023 20:52 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
CIA officer Ric Prado's stellar career still inspires agents today
[Wash Times] One of the great regrets of my decadeslong CIA career is that I never had the honor of serving under the legendary CIA senior clandestine services officer Ric Prado.

I made my way into the agency’s counterterrorism mission — where Mr. Prado made his mark as a creative and courageous paramilitary officer — a few years after he rang down the curtain on his stellar career.

Having grown up in Cuba and escaped with his family to the U.S. following Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution, Mr. Prado dedicated his life to defending the principles of freedom, liberty and democracy enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

As he recounted in his 2022 autobiography, "Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior," the Castro regime confiscated his family’s business and designated Mr. Prado, then just 10 years old, for indoctrination in the Soviet Union. Instead, Mr. Prado’s father, who never took a welfare check, settled his family in Miami to embrace the freedom of opportunity denied them in Castro’s Cuba.

Mr. Prado’s life story is about serving his country, often at great personal risk.

After serving in the Air Force as a Special Forces pararescue jumper, in the Miami-Dade Fire Department and in the National Guard, he embarked on a remarkable career at the CIA. In his first tour of duty in the early 1980s, he had the distinction of being the only CIA officer allowed into the camps where the agency was training Contra insurgents to fight the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.

"Embracing the suck" of living in the jungle where the enemies were "communists and communism," Mr. Prado spent some 14 months teaching the fledgling rebel fighting force to use mortars and conduct hit-and-run raids.

Even at this early stage in his career, Mr. Prado embodied what today’s CIA leaders seek in new recruits: "We look for commonsense problem-solvers," CIA Deputy Director of Operations Dave Marlowe noted in a recent fireside chat at Vanderbilt University, candidates "who can take your thinking and apply it in real-world situations, often on their own, and make significant decisions of great importance."

Although it was the clash with a communist regime in Latin America that kicked off his CIA career, Mr. Prado went on to serve in the Philippines as a senior manager on North Korean operations and at the agency’s Counterterrorism Center.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
British 'experts' see this as a negative
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

[ColonelCassad] Beautiful.

British experts are concerned that the Taliban are destroying Afghanistan's drug industry.

This is stated in the publication of The Telegraph.

The article says that the Taliban have declared war on drug production, destroying 80% of poppy crops in Afghanistan, which was previously the largest exporter of opiate drugs in the world.

“Taliban fighters move from farm to farm, destroying poppy crops and punishing violators,” the publication says.

However, The Telegraph experts see this as a negative.

Miraculously, in the last year of the Taliban in power before the US invasion, Afghanistan achieved the largest reduction in the production of heroin and poppy crops since the early 90s.

Since the return of the Taliban to power 2 years ago, drug production has steadily declined.

But during the occupation of Afghanistan by the United States and its satellites, the area of ​​poppy crops and the volume of drug production set annual records.

British "experts" see this as a negative.

PS, For those who don't understand why the Taliban are cutting back on drug production. This is one of the conditions for international recognition by a number of countries, including Russia, China and Iran.

Posted by: badanov || 07/04/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA

#1  I used to love seeing the Larouchies' table at the gun shows. Big picture of Queen Elizabeth with the caption "World's Biggest Drug Dealer"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/04/2023 8:20 Comments || Top||

#2  They are working the supply and demand curves like the Saudis do with oil.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/04/2023 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  I'll never forget how Tony Blair promised to eradicate the Afghan poppies...or the way he forgot that promise.
Posted by: Abu Uluque Tablet || 07/04/2023 12:29 Comments || Top||

#4  They are working the supply and demand curves like the Saudis do with oil.

Exactly as they did the first time they were in power.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/04/2023 14:39 Comments || Top||

#5  They are eliminating all flow other than through them. It is similar to cartel activity except they are the government so this is more like the CCP and fentanyl.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/04/2023 15:29 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
‘Fat Guy In A Costume': Tucker Carlson Mocks Rachel ‘Rick' Levine For Pushing Trans Ideology
[Daily Caller] Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson mocked Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health in President Joe Biden’s administration, in Friday’s episode of "Tucker on Twitter."

Carlson called out Levine, who was born Richard "Rick" Levine, for shifting from being a husband and father of two to pushing transgender ideology by identifying as a woman and wearing feminine clothing while being well into adulthood. Levine is the father of a daughter, Danya, and a son, David.

"Few Americans in our history have come as far as Rick Levine. Here’s a fat guy in a Halloween costume who somehow became the federal health minister. ... What we have here is living proof that in this country, you really can be whatever you want to be," Carlson said. "If Rick Levine can become ’Admiral Rachel,’ why can’t you be Napoleon? Or Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India? Ever see that guy’s uniform?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/04/2023 02:34 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/04/2023 5:36 Comments || Top||


#3  Something tells me that he wasn’t the best husband.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/04/2023 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't Mountbatten meet a demise similar to Ghislain Maxwell's daddy?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/04/2023 20:45 Comments || Top||

#5  More like an aquatic version of Danny Green’s death in Cleveland. Several obliterated kids. The IRA never worked subtly.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/04/2023 20:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Shondor Birns days.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/04/2023 21:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Re: Mountbatten...I might be totally off base, but I was thinking of the intelligence angle there. With Maxwell, it was, as Dan Bongino prefers to say, a "Middle Eastern intelligence organization".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/04/2023 21:09 Comments || Top||



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