Operation Blue Lightning, Meet the Narco Politicos

MadCow Morning News is back with a BANG and tons (43 tons, perhaps?) of new information linking a little flight school in Venice, Florida with not just the training of Mohammed Atta and his crew, but heroin and cocaine trafficking PLUS strange escapades involving the to and fro of a pilot named Michael Brassington into Miami Airport and crashing into Teterboro Airport.  Gosh, it just goes on & on!

Although it's hard to keep track of the players in this apparently on-going escapade, Daniel Hopsicker is working hard to connect the dots.  Please visit his site in the link below to get probably more than you wanted to know about this nasty spider's web of CIA/NSA/druglords + Afghani 9/11 conspirators.

9/11 Drug Pilot & Operation Blue Lightning

December 22, 2009

by Daniel Hopsicker

Elements of the U.S. Government took a surprisingly keen interest in controversial Guyanese drug pilot Michael Brassington during 2003 and 2004, when, according to interviews with former Customs Agents, Brassington was involved in—or the subject of—a secretive Miami-based U.S. Government operation.
“Whenever Brassington entered the U.S. a special team from Miami was supposed to come up,” stated former Fort Lauderdale Customs Agent James Sanders.
Brassington was  supposed to be met by Customs Agents from “Operation Blue Lightning.”

“Operation Blue Lightning is some kind of joint task force," Sanders explained. "I found out later,  from a chief inspector on the team,  that I wasn’t even supposed to inspect him.” [...]

[...]  Operation Blue Lightning clearly fits the description provided by a top DEA official in Miami when he informed us why the DEA had not mounted an investigation into the owners of two planes caught carrying over 10 tons of cocaine in Mexico’s Yucatan:

Because the two American drug planes belonged to a “rogue” operation in U.S. Customs, explained the DEA official. So the investigation properly belonged to the Office of Investigations in the Dept of Homeland Security.[...]

And there's so much more for you to research at MadCowProd.com:   http://www.madcowprod.com/12222009.htm

Special thanks go to George H.W. Bush for setting the stage and giving  the go ahead, (as Reagan's VP) for the new Narco State!

 

Running on Angry!

Seems like John McSwine has a habit of ripping off musicians. Send in The Police!
Jackson Browne sues John McCain over song use
Jackson Browne is suing John McCain for using the song "Running on Empty" in a campaign ad -- and the veteran rocker is also calling the candidate a great pretender when it comes to standing up for constitutional rights.
Browne, one of rock music's most famous activists for liberal causes, is "incensed" that the presumptive Republican candidate for president has been using Browne's signature 1977 song "Running on Empty" in campaign commercials, according to the singer-songwriter's attorney. Browne filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against both McCain and the Republican National Committee on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles seeking a permanent injunction prohibiting the use of the forlorn arena anthem or any other Browne compositions, as well as damages.
They may be suing the wrong people. McCain spokesman Brian Rogers tells our colleague Seema Mehta in Colorado that the ad in question is not a McCain campaign ad but one put together by the Ohio Republican Party.
But Browne's attorney, Lawrence Y. Iser, says they have the right defendants. "We have sued the Ohio Republican Party as well, and we have been informed and believe that McCain and his campaign were well aware of the ad. We are also informed and believe that the ad was broadcast on television in Ohio and Pennsylvania.... The fact that it appears on the Internet means it also reaches an audience well beyond those states."
Iser said the lawsuit "is not politically motivated. It's a copyright infringement lawsuit, pure and simple, but the fact that Sen. McCain has used this song in a hit-piece on Barack Obama is anathema to Jackson."
Iser claims the McCain campaign has a track record of using music without permission.
"They used a John Mellencamp song until he made them stop and he used an ABBA song and a Frankie Valli song -- it's ridiculous and it's setting a terrible example," Iser said. "It's shocking that they don't even attempt to get permission. There's no copyright difference between using a song to sell cars or by people running for president. The music industry continues to suffer due to lack of respect for intellectual property rights, and a candidate for president has a duty to lead by example and ensuring their campaign does as well. The copyright protections are derived from the Constitution itself."
In the commercial in question, Barack Obama is mocked for suggesting that the country conserve gas through proper tire inflation. The suit claims that use of the song violates the Lanham Act by falsely implying that Browne is associated with or endorses the McCain candidacy. The suit also claims the commercial violates Browne's right of publicity under California law.
Browne declined comment through Iser. The 59-year-old singer is one of the most politically immersed artists of his generation. He performed at the No Nukes concerts in 1979 and, in the years after, his albums shifted strongly toward political messaging, such as his 1986 album, "Lives in the Balance," and its harsh appraisal of the Ronald Reagan years.
There have been a number of instances through the years when performers have been angered by the use of their music by a politician. Bruce Springsteen, another No Nukes performer, cried foul when Reagan, running for re-election, invoked the patriotic imagery of "Born in the U.S.A.," a song that is actually a dark essay on the fractured American dream.
Our colleague Dan Morain, who spends most of his time tracking campaign money, passes along some of Browne's contribution history. No surprise: Browne likes Democrats. Morain reports that Browne, a modest campaign donor over the years, gave Obama $2,000 shortly after he won his Senate seat in 2004 and another $2,300 in March. Browne also has given about $5,500 to MoveOn.org, $5,266 to Rep. Lois Capps of Santa Barbara. And he's sent $1,000 to Al Franken, the Democratic Senate candidate in Minnesota, $500 to Ned Lamont for his 2006 run for Joe Lieberman's Senate seat in Connecticut.
In the 2000 election, though, he went with Ralph Nader, giving the once and future presidential contender $2,000 for a race many Democrats still think cost Al Gore the White House.-- Geoff Boucher

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/jackson-browne.html

Provocative Ideas from Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk has provided great insight in reporting about Lebanon and Iraq for the London paper, The Independent. This is a risky proposal, but this is also the post-9/11 world. All bets are off. If you know something, share. Please.
Robert Fisk: Do you know the truth about Lockerbie?
I urge anyone who is aware of government lies over Flight 103 to come forward.
"This reached a peak when my father was told by a member of the American Presidential Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism that our government knew what had happened but that the truth would not come out. In the truth vacuum, the worst-case scenario – that lives were sacrificed in expiation for the Iranian lives lost in June 1988 – takes on a certain degree of credibility. The plane was brought down in the last dangerous moments of the Reagan presidency."
Now I should explain here that the Iranian lives to which Mrs Irvine refers were the Iranian passengers of an Airbus civilian airliner shot down over the Gulf by a US warship a few months before Lockerbie and before the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.
By Robert Fisk, 10/13/07 "The Independent" http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18548.htm
You might also enjoy reading Mr. Fisk's report on recent events in Turkey:
Robert Fisk: A reign of terror which history has chosen to neglect
Published: 12 October 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3052373.ece