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The Mafia Is Running the Giant World Casino

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[4] GMO - Another Reason Not to Eat Processed (American Chronicle, April 2009) According to Responsible Technology, Animals fed on GMO in labs and farms around the world, have exhibited symptoms related to the growing list of diseases in the U.S. population. Various feeding studies in animals have resulted in potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, damaged immune systems, smaller brains, livers and testicles, partial atrophy, odd shaped cell nuclei and other unexplained anomalies besides false pregnancies and higher death rates.

[5] The USA PATRIOT Act Was Planned Before 9/11

[6] Secret Patriot Act II to give Hitler's Powers to Bush

[7] China and the other Brics will rebuild a new world economic order

[8] Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

[9] China-ASEAN Free Trade Area - Origins, Developments and Strategic Motivations "Apparently China is employing this regional integration or regionalism to dilute U.S. strategic unilateralism in East Asia.

[10] "With the beginning of CIA support for him in 1959, the CIA's client Phoumi Nosavan, for the first time, directly involved his army in the opium traffic, "as an alternative source of income for his [Laotian] army and government" This decision ultimately led to the growth of northwest Laos as one of the largest heroin-producing centers in the world" in the late 1960s.[23] (The CIA not only supported General Ouan Rattikone (Phoumi's successor) and his drug-funded army, it even supplied airplanes to senior Laotian generals which soon "ran opium for them" without interference.)[24] Conversely, when the US withdrew from Laos in the 1970s, opium production plummeted, from an estimated 200 tons in 1975 to 30 tons in 1984." (Obama and Afghanistan: America's Drug-Corrupted War by Peter Dale Scott)

[11] Obama and Afghanistan: America's Drug-Corrupted War - America's Return in 2001, Again With the Support of Drug-Traffickers

[12] Implemented in 2000-2001, the Taliban's drug eradication program led to a 94 percent decline in opium cultivation. In 2001, according to UN figures, opium production had fallen to 185 tons. Immediately following the October 2001 US led invasion, production increased dramatically, regaining its historical levels. "

According to the UN, Afghanistan supplies in 2006 some 92 percent of the world's supply of opium, which is used to make heroin.(Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade? - by Michel Chossudovsky)

[13] Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade? by Michel Chossudovsky

[14] "Blurred Clarity: Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics Have Much to Answer For.'


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Siv O'Neall was born and raised in Sweden where she graduated from Lund University. She has lived in Paris, France and New Rochelle, N.Y. and traveled extensively throughout the U.S, Europe, and other continents, including several trips to (more...)
 

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