Ann Livingston

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Dark Alliance: key US ally Daniel Noboa linked to S. American drug trade The Grayzone's Oscar Leon interviews Andres Durán, an Ecuadoran investigative journalist who has had to flee his country due to his allegations that billionaire, US-allied President Daniel Noboa, the Noboa family and their inner circle are intimately involved in the international drug trade. In this explosive interview, Durán reveals the following: -Ecuador, not Venezuela, is the primary departure point for cocaine shipments to the US and Europe, with Noboa's family businesses repeatedly linked to drug seizures -Multiple cocaine trafficking scandals involve Noboa-owned companies (e.g., Noboa Trading, Blasti S.A., Transmabo) and a family farm (San Luis), including shipments intercepted in Europe and 193 kg seized in 2025 -Durán accuses Noboa of heading a "criminal economy" enabled by political decisions: defunding port security, deregulating banana exports, lacking financial oversight, and using shell companies for money laundering -Investigations are allegedly obstructed without thorough probes, no arrests of high-level figures, while cases are dismissed as "contamination" despite Noboa companies controlling the full supply chain -Ecuador's criminal economy is estimated at a staggering 18-22% of GDP thanks to weak state oversight, dollarization, and documented ties to the Albanian mafia

@TheGrayzoneNews @MaxBlumenthal Confirmed. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/f…

A top ex-DEA official and veteran CIA asset were busted in $12 million scheme to launder cash and procure drones for Mexico’s Jalisco cartel @MaxBlumenthal visits a Northern Virginia home raided by federal agents and wonders who America’s drug warriors are really working for

@kbolan @VancouverSun Remind us of the cost to taxpayers of the 16 years of litigation. Did we at least break even?

Early version of my story - FYI, the first lawsuit against Nanaimo, Kelowna and East End clubhouses took 16 YEARS to resolve!! B.C. files lawsuit to seize three more Hells Angels clubhouses vancouversun.com/news/bc-files-… via @VancouverSun

@kbolan What is BOLO?

Gangster Omid Mashini (convicted in the US for money laundering) was on bail on new Vancouver charges when he disappeared. Linked to Wolfpack gang alliance.

Here's the 1993 60 Minutes report on how the CIA recruited a Venezuelan military officer, General Ramón Guillén Davila, to help them ship 22 tons of cocaine into American cities The Cartel of the Suns disappeared once it lost its utility to the CIA, and was resurrected by the US government when it began targeting Venezuela

It's a drug apartheid - brutally enforced by the military, the police, customs and government departments. Prohibition is so irrational, so untenable, so harsh and brutal, it raises questions about just how civilised and advanced we really are.

Ah comrade, no. RiP @PeteKrykant_OPC 💔 bbc.com/news/articles/…

Senator Kim Pate Presents New Basic Income Bill S-206

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How about some housing so homeless can get off the street?

Doctors involved in unsanctioned overdose prevention sites resign in protest theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

The media & public are criminally misinformed about what's actually happened in mental health care since the 1950s. Mental health funding has gone up about 40-fold per capita (adj. for inflation), many more people are taking psychiatric meds, many more people are subjected to psychiatric force, many more people are trapped in coercive facilities (just a plethora of smaller ones). It's psychiatric medicating that appears to be backfiring--and there's a lot of evidence to suggest why. I delve into all this in my book. robwipond.com/your-consent-i…

@guyfelicella Fentanyl is being manufactured in Canada (& crystal meth) for domestic & export. Cocaine is an import.

Well look at this. The drugs came into Canada from the USA, not the other way around. So maybe it’s America who needs to clean up their own business, instead of blaming Canada for it!

🚨breaking - BC government has repealed the Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal Substances Act AKA Bill 34. It was redundant anyway, since Eby got the feds to gut drug decriminalization