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Part TWENTY-THREE of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS – “Perot & Reagan”. Show Notes: William Clements, Texas’ first Republican governor in 105 years. He decided to launch a Texan War On Drugs. And he decided to appoint Texas’s richest businessman to lead it: Ross Perot. He forgot to tell Perot though. Who was mightily pissed. […]

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On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: Someone suggested we should provide some Syria updates. MoD accidentally reveals British drones firing thermobaric missiles in Syria More than 30,000 Syrians displaced in Idlib assault U.S. Holds Talks With U.K., France on Possible Syria Strikes YouTube shuts down pro-Syrian government channels Rescuer hit in airstrike keeps filming […]

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Part TWENTY-TWO of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS – “RICO”. Show Notes: I want to talk about RICO – The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act RICO was passed into law by Nixon in 1970 But it was the brainchild of law professor, Bob Blakey He’d been a federal prosecutor under Bobby Kennedy when […]

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On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: Trump can’t say Anonymous  The “Resistance” Inside the Trump Administration Is the United States of America a republic or a democracy? The United States ranks only 21st in the Economist’s “Democracy Index 2017 Christian author: Trump is under attack from ‘multidimensional Luciferian advanced beings’ Bob Woodward’s book (and […]

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On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: Donald Trump not coming to Australia  Chinese billionaire Jack Ma says the US wasted trillions on warfare instead of investing in infrastructure A “Social Wealth Fund” Could be the Next Big Idea Harvey Weinstein’s money is still good for something Louis CK is back doing standup Follow Cameron […]

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Part TWENTY-ONE of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS – “Broken Windows”. Show Notes: Heroin addicts constituted about one-quarter of one percent of the US population in 1972. But if you listened to the rhetoric coming out of the Nixon administration, they were like the hordes of hell. The conservative Hudson Institute, set up […]

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On BULLSHIT FILTER THE NEWS this week: Australian PM has his Ides of March – in August.  Robert Mueller Might Have ‘Quite Ugly’ Information on Donald Trump’s Unreleased Tax Returns McCain is dead. He wasn’t a hero. California Measure Would Expunge Many Marijuana-Related Crimes Follow Cameron on Facebook. Follow Ray on Facebook.

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Part TWENTY of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS – “Operation Golden Flow”. Show Notes: Meanwhile,  in the early 1970s, Nixon put together something called The Shafer Commission, formally known as the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, to make recommendations about what the government should do about marijuana. Its chairman was former Pennsylvania […]

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Part NINETEEN of our series on the WAR ON DRUGS – The Golden Triangle Show Notes: In May 1971, a couple of U.S. congressmen returned from a visit to Vietnam claiming that maybe as many at 15% of U.S. troops stationed there were using heroin. That would be about 40,000 troops. One of them said that troops […]

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