From the CIA's Global Outlook
Organized crime is likely to thrive in resource-rich states undergoing significant political and economic transformation...
• States that transition to one-party systems... will be vulnerable to corruption and attendant organized crime, particularly if their ideology calls for substantial government involvement in the economy...
One party systems? Sound like the views of anyone we know?
Organized crime groups usually do not want to see governments toppled but thrive in countries where governments are weak, vulnerable to corruption, and unable or unwilling to consistently enforce the rule of law.
• Criminal syndicates, particularly drug trafficking syndicates, may take virtual control of regions within failing states to which the central government cannot extend its writ.
-p.96
How awful. So what do these Organized Criminals do to the people in these countries?
In regions where high youth bulges intersect with historical patterns of patriarchal bias, the added pressure on infrastructure will mean intensified competition for limited public resources and an increased probability that females will not receive equal treatment...
In countries such as China and India, where there is a pervasive “son preference” reinforced by government population control policies, women face increased risk not only of female infanticide but also of kidnapping and smuggling from surrounding regions for the disproportionately greater number of unattached males. Thus far, the preference for male children in China has led to an estimated shortfall of 30 million women.
Such statistics suggest that the global female trafficking industry, which already earns an estimated $4 billion every year, is likely to expand, making it the second most profitable criminal activity behind global drug trafficking.
-p.38
Horrific indeed, you doubtless think, but what does this all have to do with the CIA? They're the good guys fighting this stuff, right? And Bu$hie's got a shiny new choice to run this merry band of pirates- excuse me, Patriots?
Perhaps it has to do with some of the rumors floating around about this Team Player's gaming history.
But what exactly did he do from "approximately the late 50's to approximately the early 70's" as "... a case officer, clandestine services office"?
Whatever it was, he became a millionaire from it. Stories about CIA involvement with drug traffic have been around awhile. Did Porter cash in on these while previously in the Company?
More recently, on the morning of 9/11/01, while Poppy Bu$h was meeting with Bandar, Sheik bin Laden and the boys, Porter was chatting with Pakistan's secret police head.
It's good to see while he was a Representative, he was keeping his hand in the Company business.
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Do you think that the president is responsible for every single thing that's ever gone wrong with anything since he's been in office? Sure sounds like it. I bet he shot JFK too.
No, silly, the Company did that.
Or weren't you paying attention to who Oswald's bosses were? Unload as .pdf here . View as html here.
Dear Leader Bu$hie was only a kid at the time. But believe it- Poppy, and by his own admission, Goss, were Company boys. Bu$hie's a figurehead, a newcomer in a very old Corporation, that's all.
He's hardly competent to do anything else.
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