by Jon Rappoport<\/p>\n
Tucker:<\/p>\n
You recently had emergency back surgery, and when the other pain killers didn\u2019t work, the doctors gave you fentanyl, an opioid. You said the drug did erase the pain, but it also produced fear and anxiety\u2014which you haven\u2019t felt in 20 years\u2014and temporarily took away any concern about maintaining simple order in your personal life.<\/p>\n
So I thought I\u2019d forward you the real facts about the Opioid Wars.<\/p>\n
PART ONE<\/p>\n
2 MILLION SEVERELY DEBILITATED OPIOID ADDICTS IN THE US.<\/p>\n
ROUGHLY 33 THOUSAND DEATHS PER YEAR FROM OPIOIDS.<\/p>\n
Wuhan is the city where the killer opioid fentanyl is shipped out to dealers all over the world.<\/p>\n
The press manages to hide the city\u2019s global role in destroying millions of people with opioids\u2026by claiming the ONLY thing you have to know about Wuhan is \u201cthe virus broke out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
City-journal.org, May 12, 2020: \u201dOver the past decade, Wuhan has emerged as the global headquarters for fentanyl production. The city\u2019s 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, \u2018huge amounts of these mail-order [fentanyl] components can be traced to a single, state-subsidized company in Wuhan\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Atlantic, August 18, 2019, \u201cThe Brazen Way a Chinese Company Pumped Fentanyl Ingredients Into the US,\u201d by Ben Westhoff: \u201cAccording to Bryce Pardo, a fentanyl expert at the Rand Corporation, the two most commonly used fentanyl precursors\u2014think of them as ingredients\u2014are 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPosing 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\u2019s main office in Wuhan, in the Wuchang district, near a busy subway station in a blue-collar neighborhood\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
FOX Business, March 31, 2017. Headline: \u201cDEA: Made in China Lethal Opioid Fueling US Drug Epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA 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\u2014with law enforcement pinpointing its origin from underground labs in China. The DEA says the China-U.S. supply is further fueling the country\u2019s drug epidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019This [Chinese] stuff is unbelievably potent. It is so powerful that even a tiny amount can kill you,\u2019 DEA spokesman Rusty Payne tells FOX Business. \u2018China is by far the most significant manufacturer of illicit designer synthetic drugs. There is so much manufacturing of new drugs, [it\u2019s] amazing what is coming out of China. Hundreds of [versions], including synthetic fentanyl and fentanyl-based compounds\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cChina 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019While heroin gets harder to buy on the street or from a dealer, fentanyl comes via FedEx,\u2019 Brad Lamm, CEO of Intervention.com, tells FOX Business.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced this week details on a mail-order furanyl fentanyl smuggling ring bust. The operation had been bringing the drug \u2014 which has been dubbed \u2018White China\u2019 \u2014 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Boston Globe [2017]: \u201cAn extremely powerful drug used as an elephant tranquilizer has quickly become a new killer in the nation\u2019s opioid epidemic, and New England authorities and health workers are bracing for its arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a nationwide alert about the drug, which its acting chief called \u2018crazy dangerous.\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLaw 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf carfentanil\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019There\u2019s no quality control, so when it gets here the distributors don\u2019t know what they have and the user has no idea,\u2019 said Timothy Desmond, a special agent with the New England division of the DEA. \u2018That\u2019s where it\u2019s a game of Russian roulette\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLaw 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
PART TWO<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, there are several major pharmaceutical companies who\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n
Why can\u2019t federal law enforcement stop all the US pharmaceutical companies who have been trafficking opioids?<\/p>\n
Is there some secret we don\u2019t 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 \u201copen\u2014\u201d the Washington Post laid out the sordid story in detail. AND AS USUAL, THERE WAS NO FOLLOW-UP. That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
A 2016 LAW SIGNED BY OBAMA SHACKLED THE DEA (DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION) IN ITS EFFORTS TO CRACK DOWN ON BIG PHARMA OPIOID TRAFFICKERS.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
And that is the federal government\u2019s role in perpetuating and expanding the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n
Honest agents inside the complacent DEA want to have the right to march into a pharmaceutical company headquarters and say, \u201cWe know you\u2019re shipping millions of opioid pills to little pharmacies and clinics that, in turn, are selling the pills to street dealers. We\u2019re going to freeze those shipments now, and we\u2019re going to arrest your key executives.\u201d<\/p>\n
But that 2016 law raises the bar so high, the whole law-enforcement effort is hamstrung, throttled, and loaded down with legal complications.<\/p>\n
In essence, the US Congress gave drug companies a free pass.<\/p>\n
And no one in the Congress is admitting it or talking about it.<\/p>\n
The Washington Post, on October 15, 2017, talked about it. The article was headlined, \u201cThe Drug Industry\u2019s Triumph Over the DEA\u201d: \u201cIn 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\u2019s streets.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA handful of members of Congress, allied with the nation\u2019s 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 \u201860 Minutes\u2019\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
EVERYONE IS NOW AWARE OF THE LAW\u2019S HORRENDOUS IMPACT. WHY DOESN\u2019T THE CONGRESS REPEAL IT?<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Failure to act swiftly amounts to collusion in Death by Opioids.<\/p>\n
President Obama, the Congress, and key officials within the Justice Department and the DEA are all guilty.<\/p>\n
If you speak to people who have a na\u00efve and lasting faith in the good will of political leaders, they will probably tell you that the heinous 2016 law I detailed above was \u201can unfortunate mistake.\u201d The members of Congress \u201cdidn\u2019t know what they were voting for.\u201d 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\u2019T THEY REPEALED THE LAW? Why haven\u2019t they remedied their \u201cerror?\u201d Why have they let untold numbers of people die for years while staying silent? Why hasn\u2019t the whole Congress risen up to squash the \u201cmistake?\u201d They could do it in an hour. Obviously, they don\u2019t want to admit their prior guilt. They don\u2019t 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\u2019t want to admit that the pharma campaign money they take is sufficient inducement to fake a blindness to the death they\u2019re assigning to their own constituents and people all over America.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
Here is the answer my source confirmed: a criminal doctor or doctors are writing 75-100 opioid prescriptions a day like clockwork; \u201cpatients\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
These patients are actually dealers. They return home and sell the pills to addicts.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s their business. They know they are committing egregious crimes.<\/p>\n
Where do these big distributors obtain their opioid pills? From pharmaceutical companies who manufacture them.<\/p>\n
The manufacturers and the distributors have an ongoing relationship. They know exactly what they\u2019re doing. They know the bulk of the product is going into \u201cstreet sales.\u201d<\/p>\n
The distributors and the manufacturers are drug traffickers.<\/p>\n
There is no doubt about this. No one is \u201cmaking a mistake.\u201d No one is in the dark. No one is being fooled.<\/p>\n
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\u2019re doing\u2014to no avail.<\/p>\n
I suggested to my source that the opioid distributors and their suppliers, the pharma manufacturers, have a \u201cnudge and a wink\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s not a slam-dunk anymore.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
This word game means the DEA must establish that people could die, not next week or next month (imminent), but \u201cright now\u201d (immediate). If this seems logically absurd and intentionally perverse, it is. Obviously, \u201cimmediate\u201d is designed to give rise to back and forth debate, legalistic challenges, long postponements\u2014and ultimately a straitjacket preventing decisive actions against opioid distributors and manufacturers.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Both Obama and Lynch \u201cdeclined\u201d to discuss the law. Naturally.<\/p>\n
Who played a central role in crafting the law and pushing it through Congress?<\/p>\n
The Post: \u201cDeeply involved in the effort to help the [drug] industry was the DEA\u2019s former associate chief counsel, D. Linden Barber. While at the DEA, he helped design and carry out the early stages of the agency\u2019s tough enforcement campaign, which targeted drug companies that were failing to report suspicious orders of narcotics.\u201d<\/p>\n
What??<\/p>\n
Barber worked against the drug industry while employed by the DEA, and then he left the Agency and turned around and attacked it.<\/p>\n
The Post: \u201cWhen Barber went to work for the drug industry [he now works for Cardinal Health], in 2011, he brought an intimate knowledge of the DEA\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBarber played a key role in crafting an early version of the legislation [the 2016 law] that would eventually curtail the DEA\u2019s power, according to an internal email written by a Justice Department official to a colleague. \u2018He [Barber] wrote the\u2026bill,\u201d the official wrote in 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n
The opioid crime network extends to Congress, former (if not present) DEA employees, medical-drug distribution companies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.<\/p>\n
It then includes medical clinics and pharmacies and prescription-writing doctors.<\/p>\n
The murderous network is addicting, maiming, and killing Americans in huge numbers.<\/p>\n
\u2014This is war against life. Launched from China and Mexico; launched from major pharmaceutical companies and their distributors.<\/p>\n
And of course, given the policy of open borders, the US government has been inviting the enemy to float right into America with so much tonnage of fentanyl that, despite drug seizures, no one can stop the flow.<\/p>\n
SOURCES:<\/p>\n
(forthcoming)<\/p>\n