PART ONE
2 MILLION SEVERELY DEBILITATED OPIOID ADDICTS IN THE US.
ROUGHLY 33 THOUSAND DEATHS PER YEAR FROM OPIOIDS.
Let’s
start here. Daily Caller Foundation, August 12, 2021: “Officials at the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have been directed by their
headquarters to stop using the term ‘Mexican cartel’ when speaking with
the media, according to an email exclusively obtained by the Daily
Caller News Foundation from a government official.”
“A
portion of the email sent mid-July stated: ‘Also, we need to now avoid
saying “Mexican cartel” or discussing the Mexican government…Please
continue using “drug cartel”…”
“The
guidance came as the Mexican cartels continue surging drugs across the
southern border and into the U.S. Between October and June, U.S. Customs
and Border Protection (CBP) seized 358,302 pounds of drugs at the
southwest border, including 8,093 pounds of lethal fentanyl.” Fentanyl
is an opioid.
“The
amount of fentanyl seized at the border has steadily increased
throughout the last few years and the amount seized so far in 2021 has
already exceeded what was captured in 2019 and 2020 combined.”
“’Sunday
Morning Futures’ host Maria Bartiromo interviewed former acting
administrator of the DEA Timothy Shea May 9 about the cartels
trafficking drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Bartiromo stated that
Shea was supposed to be joined by a DEA official, but that the DOJ last
minute canceled his appearance.”
“’We
actually invited an official from the Drug Enforcement Administration
to come on with you,’ Bartiromo said. ‘And we thought we would have a
conversation, the three of us. But Biden’s DOJ squashed it’.”
“She added, ‘They did not want the DEA official to be on to discuss this. So, there is also a media ban on this’.”
“The
DEA’s 2020 Drug Threat Assessment found that ‘Mexican cartels are
increasingly responsible for producing and supplying fentanyl to the
U.S. market’ and that ‘they remain the greatest criminal drug threat in
the United States’.”
“A
senior DEA official in May told NPR that Mexican agencies have become
less transparent with the U.S., making it more difficult to combat the
threat of Mexican cartels.”
“’We’re
willing to share [intelligence] with our counterparts in Mexico, but
they themselves are too afraid to even engage with us because of
repercussions from their own government if they get caught working with
DEA,’ said Matthew Donahue, DEA deputy chief of operations.”
So
to sum up: don’t call the MEXICAN CARTELS the MEXICAN CARTELS, even
though they’re killing and addicting and maiming huge numbers of
Americans.
Even though they’re enemy combatants in a war against us, a war which the federal government doesn’t want to acknowledge.
PART TWO
Who
would have thought that, in less than a year, the image of the opioid
drug, fentanyl, would undergo a face lift, enhancing it from “most
destructive killer drug in the world” to “lifesaver in the treatment of
COVID patients?”
And
if this PR miracle is not a sufficient stunner, it just so happens that
Opioid Central for illegally trafficking fentanyl to the planet is
Wuhan, now the focus of claims that a pandemic virus (that doesn’t
exist) was born in a lab there.
(Fake) pandemic transforms fentanyl into “vital COVID medication.”
(Fake) pandemic starts in Wuhan.
Wuhan is the city where killer drug fentanyl is shipped out to dealers all over the world.
High-level
operators, focusing on Wuhan, manage to hide, from the world
population, the city’s global role in killing millions of people with
opioids…by claiming a pandemic was born in Wuhan. “The ONLY thing you
have to know about Wuhan is the virus broke out there.”
This has all the earmarks of a highly successful cover story.
Here’s a prime illustration of fentanyl’s PR facelift:
NJ [New Jersey] Spotlight News, April 14, 2020, “No Longer a Scourge, Fentanyl Is Now Most-Needed Drug in COVID-19 War.”
“…fentanyl,
one of the drugs given to patients so they can withstand the pain of
having a breathing tube inserted, is in short supply along with a
handful of other crucial drugs.”
“The
first wave of critical shortages exposed by the coronavirus was medical
masks and gowns. Then it was ventilators. Now, a handful of crucial
drugs are in short supply in overrun ICUs throughout northern New Jersey
and New York City, many of which are needed to use the ventilators.”
“At
the top of the list is fentanyl, the deadly synthetic painkiller — 100
times more powerful than morphine — the very drug that has become public
enemy No. 1 in the nation’s war on opioid addiction. Demand for
fentanyl has doubled nationwide and shot up more than 500% in the New
York/New Jersey metropolitan region, the current global epicenter of the
pandemic.”
“Fentanyl
may have been killing people in record numbers on the streets of New
Jersey in recent years, but in our hospitals, it is now saving lives.”
SURE
IT IS. Actually, as I’ve demonstrated in previous articles, the use of
fentanyl and ventilators has killed many patients. This medical protocol
amounts to murder.
City-journal.org,
May 12, 2020, “Wuhan’s other epidemic.” “Many don’t know that Wuhan is
also the source of another deadly epidemic: America’s fentanyl
overdoses… Over the past decade, Wuhan has emerged as the global
headquarters for fentanyl production. The city’s chemical and
pharmaceutical manufacturers hide production of the drug within their
larger, licit manufacturing operations, then ship it abroad using
deliberately mislabeled packaging, concealment techniques, and a complex
network of forwarding addresses. According to a recent ABC News report,
“huge amounts of these mail-order [fentanyl] components can be traced
to a single, state-subsidized company in Wuhan.”
The
Atlantic, August 18, 2019, “The Brazen Way a Chinese Company Pumped
Fentanyl Ingredients Into the US,” by Ben Westhoff: “According to Bryce
Pardo, a fentanyl expert at the Rand Corporation, the two most commonly
used fentanyl precursors---think of them as ingredients---are chemicals
called NPP and 4-ANPP. When I first started researching them, in early
2017, advertisements for the chemicals were all over the internet, from a
wide variety of different companies. Later, I determined that the
majority of those companies were under the Yuancheng [company]
umbrella.”
“Posing
as a buyer, I answered an online advertisement for fentanyl precursors
and was put in touch with a Yuancheng salesman who called himself Sean.
We arranged to meet at the company’s main office in Wuhan, in the
Wuchang district, near a busy subway station in a blue-collar
neighborhood…”
FOX Business, March 31, 2017. Headline: “DEA: Made in China Lethal Opioid Fueling US Drug Epidemic.”
“A
homemade designer version of fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid
which is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent, has
been the center of drug busts across the country this month---with law
enforcement pinpointing its origin from underground labs in China. The
DEA says the China-U.S. supply is further fueling the country’s drug
epidemic.”
“’This
[Chinese] stuff is unbelievably potent. It is so powerful that even a
tiny amount can kill you,’ DEA spokesman Rusty Payne tells FOX Business.
‘China is by far the most significant manufacturer of illicit designer
synthetic drugs. There is so much manufacturing of new drugs, [it’s]
amazing what is coming out of China. Hundreds of [versions], including
synthetic fentanyl and fentanyl-based compounds’.”
“China
only made the drug [fentanyl] illegal in 2015, and at that point black
market Chinese labs began increasing production of their own versions,
including the one turning up recently across the country [the US] called
furanyl fentanyl.”
“’While
heroin gets harder to buy on the street or from a dealer, fentanyl
comes via FedEx,’ Brad Lamm, CEO of Intervention.com, tells FOX
Business.”
“Brooklyn
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced this week details on a
mail-order furanyl fentanyl smuggling ring bust. The operation had been
bringing the drug -- which has been dubbed ‘White China’ -- into the U.S
from Asia. NYPD Chief of Detective Bob Boyce said that this was the
first time investigators have seen this type of fentanyl in New York
City.”
“Also
this week, Cincinnati Customs and Border Protection agents said they
seized 83 shipments of illegal synthetic drugs, including 36 pounds of
furanyl fentanyl, from China.”
The
Boston Globe [2017]: “An extremely powerful drug used as an elephant
tranquilizer has quickly become a new killer in the nation’s opioid
epidemic, and New England authorities and health workers are bracing for
its arrival.”
“The
drug, carfentanil, is a synthetic opioid that is 10,000 times stronger
than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl, another deadly
synthetic opioid.”
“The
Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a nationwide alert about the
drug, which its acting chief called ‘crazy dangerous.’ In
Massachusetts, State Police have warned their crime lab staff about how
to handle carfentanil during analysis. Even inhaling the drug or
absorbing it through a cut can be fatal.”
“Law
enforcement and health officials believe most users do not know they
are ingesting carfentanil, which apparently is often mistakenly thought
to be heroin or a mixture of heroin and fentanyl, a weaker but still
lethal synthetic opioid.”
“If
carfentanil’s trade route is similar to that of fentanyl, the path
stretches from Chinese manufacturers to Mexican processors to smugglers
who supply dealers in the United States, law enforcement officials
said.”
“’There’s
no quality control, so when it gets here the distributors don’t know
what they have and the user has no idea,’ said Timothy Desmond, a
special agent with the New England division of the DEA. ‘That’s where
it’s a game of Russian roulette’.”
“Hamilton
County officials are baffled by the marketing strategy behind such a
lethal drug. ‘It doesn’t really make sense that you would want to kill
your customers’,” Fallon said.
“Law
enforcement officials also are concerned that carfentanil will harm
first responders. The DEA has warned police not to conduct field tests
on seized drugs that might contain carfentanil. Instead, the agency
urged officers to secure their samples and deliver them only to
colleagues with training and equipment to handle the drug.”
In 2020-21, the opioid catastrophe continues.
And
its number-one trafficking source, Wuhan, is famous only for birthing a
pandemic that doesn’t exist because the virus causing it has never been
proven to exist.
“The pandemic” is a cover story for the ages.
Wuhan, the lab? No, the other Wuhan nobody is talking about: Opioid Trafficking Headquarters for Death and Destruction.
PART THREE
There
are several major pharmaceutical companies who’ve faced heavy exposure
for their roles in the opioid criminal trafficking business. For
example, Purdue, and Johnson & Johnson. A third one is
(Mossad-connected) Teva.
If
you could offer Warren Buffet an ice cream cone with a truth- serum
cherry on top, it would be interesting to ask him whether the PR
campaign to push opioids as life-saving COVID treatments helped
stabilize his 42,789,295 shares of beleaguered Teva, worth $412,916,000.
Why can’t federal law enforcement stop all the US pharmaceutical companies who have been trafficking opioids?
Is
there some secret we don’t know about? In fact, the answers are right
out in the open. I had them confirmed over a year ago, from a source
inside federal law-enforcement. But talk about “open---” the Washington
Post laid out the sordid story in detail. AND AS USUAL, THERE WAS NO
FOLLOW-UP. That’s how major media work. They have a piece of very ugly
truth. They expose it. But then it mysteriously dies and is
forgotten. In this case (opioid trafficking), a real follow-up would
have led the public down into a Hell of evil influence, exerted by
Pharma, on the US Congress. Buckle up.
A
2016 LAW SIGNED BY OBAMA SHACKLED THE DEA (DRUG ENFORCEMENT
ADMINISTRATION) IN ITS EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON BIG PHARMA OPIOID
TRAFFICKERS.
That
law is the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act
of 2016, passed by Congress and signed by President Obama on 4/9/16.
And that is the federal government’s role in perpetuating and expanding the opioid crisis.
Honest
agents inside the complacent DEA want to have the right to march into a
pharmaceutical company headquarters and say, “We know you’re shipping
millions of opioid pills to little pharmacies and clinics that, in turn,
are selling the pills to street dealers. We’re going to freeze those
shipments now, and we’re going to arrest your key executives.”
But
that 2016 law raises the bar so high, the whole law-enforcement effort
is hamstrung, throttled, and loaded down with legal complications.
In essence, the US Congress gave drug companies a free pass.
And no one in the Congress is admitting it or talking about it.
The
Washington Post, on October 15, 2017, talked about it. The article was
headlined, “The Drug Industry’s Triumph Over the DEA”: “In April 2016,
at the height of the deadliest drug epidemic in U.S. history, Congress
effectively stripped the Drug Enforcement Administration of its most
potent weapon against large drug companies suspected of spilling
prescription [opioid] narcotics onto the nation’s streets.”
“A
handful of members of Congress, allied with the nation’s major drug
distributors, prevailed upon the DEA and the Justice Department to agree
to a more industry-friendly law, undermining efforts to stanch the flow
of pain pills, according to an investigation by The Washington Post and
‘60 Minutes’…”
“The
law [which was passed with an overwhelming YES count by both house of
Congress] was the crowning achievement of a multifaceted campaign by the
drug industry to weaken aggressive DEA enforcement efforts against drug
distribution [pharma] companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and
pharmacists who peddled [opioid] narcotics to the black market. The
[drug] industry worked behind the scenes with lobbyists and key members
of Congress [to pass the 2016 law], pouring more than a million dollars
into their election campaigns.”
“The
new [2016] law makes it virtually impossible for the DEA to freeze
suspicious narcotic shipments from the companies, according to internal
agency and Justice Department documents and an independent assessment by
the DEA’s chief administrative law judge in a soon-to-be-published law
review article. That powerful tool [freezing opioid shipments] had
[previously] allowed the agency to immediately prevent drugs from
reaching the street.”
The
Washington Post article mentioned there was an attempt to reach Obama
(who had signed the law) and obtain his comments. The effort
failed. Obama kept his mouth shut.
EVERYONE IS NOW AWARE OF THE LAW’S HORRENDOUS IMPACT. WHY DOESN’T THE CONGRESS REPEAL IT?
The
fact that no one is stepping up to the plate with a fast repeal is
proof that multiple parts of the federal government are, in fact,
tacitly supporting the opioid crisis and its devastating impacts on
human life.
Failure to act swiftly amounts to collusion in Death by Opioids.
President Obama, the Congress, and key officials within the Justice Department and the DEA are all guilty.
If
you speak to people who have a naïve and lasting faith in the good will
of political leaders, they will probably tell you that the heinous 2016
law I detailed above was “an unfortunate mistake.” The members of
Congress “didn’t know what they were voting for.” And somehow, that lets
everyone off the hook. Really? Congress has known what they voted for
(if indeed they were all ignorant back in 2016) for the past five
years. SO WHY HAVEN’T THEY REPEALED THE LAW? Why haven’t they remedied
their “error?” Why have they let untold numbers of people die for years
while staying silent? Why hasn’t the whole Congress risen up to squash
the “mistake?” They could do it in an hour. Obviously, they don’t want
to admit their prior guilt. They don’t want an investigation which, if
done with even a vague imitation of honesty, would expose some of their
members as WILLING AND KNOWING COLLABORATORS IN DEATH. They don’t want
to admit that the pharma campaign money they take is sufficient
inducement to fake a blindness to the death they’re assigning to their
own constituents and people all over America.
On
the condition of anonymity, an insider with intimate knowledge of the
opioid crime network spoke with me. He is not a participant or a
criminal. He has spent years exposing the network.
My
initial question was: how could a corrupt little pharmacy or medical
clinic in a small town, in the middle of nowhere, sell, as reported, a
MILLION opioid pills a year?
Here
is the answer my source confirmed: a criminal doctor or doctors are
writing 75-100 opioid prescriptions a day like clockwork; “patients” are
flooding in from all over the country (many of them flying in once a
month); they are sold the opioid prescriptions, and either fill them
right there in the clinic, or take them to a friendly pharmacy.
These patients are actually dealers. They return home and sell the pills to addicts.
Where
do the small clinics and pharmacies obtain the huge number of opioid
pills? From distributors. These are legitimate companies. They may
distribute all sorts of medicines. It’s their business. They know they
are committing egregious crimes.
Where do these big distributors obtain their opioid pills? From pharmaceutical companies who manufacture them.
The
manufacturers and the distributors have an ongoing relationship. They
know exactly what they’re doing. They know the bulk of the product is
going into “street sales.”
The distributors and the manufacturers are drug traffickers.
There is no doubt about this. No one is “making a mistake.” No one is in the dark. No one is being fooled.
When
the DEA tries to clamp down on opioid manufacturers, this is not a
sudden action, as some manufacturers try to claim. The DEA has already
made several prior visits and has tried to convince the manufacturers to
stop what they’re doing---to no avail.
I
suggested to my source that the opioid distributors and their
suppliers, the pharma manufacturers, have a “nudge and a wink”
relationship. He quickly told me it was far more than that. He left no
doubt in my mind that these relationships are undertaken and maintained
with full knowledge about the trafficking enterprise these partners are
engaged in.
He
pointed out that the 2016 law referenced above, passed by Congress,
radically changed the conditions under which the DEA could immediately
freeze huge and obviously criminal shipments of opioids. It’s not a
slam-dunk anymore. Far from it.
Before
imposing a freeze, instead of simply showing that the (criminal)
shipment poses an IMMINENT threat of death or grave harm to users, the
DEA now has to demonstrate there is an IMMEDIATE threat.
This
word game means the DEA must establish that people could die, not next
week or next month (imminent), but “right now” (immediate). If this
seems logically absurd and intentionally perverse, it is. Obviously,
“immediate” is designed to give rise to back and forth debate,
legalistic challenges, long postponements---and ultimately a
straitjacket preventing decisive actions against opioid distributors and
manufacturers.
The
Washington Post reached out to Obama, who signed the 2016 law, and his
then Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, the highest law-enforcement
officer in the nation. The DEA is organized under the Attorney General
and the Dept. of Justice.
Both Obama and Lynch “declined” to discuss the law. Naturally.
Who played a central role in crafting the law and pushing it through Congress?
The
Post: “Deeply involved in the effort to help the [drug] industry was
the DEA’s former associate chief counsel, D. Linden Barber. While at the
DEA, he helped design and carry out the early stages of the agency’s
tough enforcement campaign, which targeted drug companies that were
failing to report suspicious orders of narcotics.”
What??
Barber
worked against the drug industry while employed by the DEA, and then he
left the Agency and turned around and attacked it.
The
Post: “When Barber went to work for the drug industry [he now works for
Cardinal Health], in 2011, he brought an intimate knowledge of the
DEA’s strategy and how it could be attacked to protect the [drug]
companies. He was one of dozens of DEA officials recruited by the drug
industry during the past decade.”
“Barber
played a key role in crafting an early version of the legislation [the
2016 law] that would eventually curtail the DEA’s power, according to an
internal email written by a Justice Department official to a colleague.
‘He [Barber] wrote the…bill,” the official wrote in 2014.”
The
opioid crime network extends to Congress, former (if not present) DEA
employees, medical-drug distribution companies, and pharmaceutical
manufacturers.
It then includes medical clinics and pharmacies and prescription-writing doctors.
The murderous network is addicting, maiming, and killing Americans in huge numbers.
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(The link to this article posted on my blog is here -- with sources.)
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