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2008-10-04 Caribbean-Latin America

US denied permission to fly over Bolivia

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Posted by Fred 2008-10-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Well, we know what business Bolivia's government is going into to float the cost of the Peoples' Bureaucracy.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-04 09:18|| 2008-10-04 09:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I keep kicking myself for my career choices.

I became a doc and a biologist trying to figure out a couple of human diseases so that I could treat them better.

Instead, I should have become a molecular plant virologist. And an airplane pilot. If I had, by now I'm sure I could have created the perfect coca plant phage virus. And I could deliver it in one of those agricultural sprayer biplanes.

Posted by Steve White 2008-10-04 11:22|| 2008-10-04 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Why don't Americans spend some of that money trying to reduce demand instead of driving up the price and profit potential. This policy is stupid.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-10-04 11:56|| 2008-10-04 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 School curricula across the country call for students to be reminded frequently that drugs are bad. What more can you want, Nimble Spemble? ;-)

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-10-04 15:46|| 2008-10-04 15:46|| Front Page Top

#5 I've long thought Steve White's idea was a good one. Cross-bread the plants for sterility and then introduce them. Add a virus or two. Really cripple the crops and yields and drive the price way, way up. Then bomb the shit out of the known drug lords estates, all but one and let them decide he'd ratted them out so survivors go after each other.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-04 18:14|| 2008-10-04 18:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd like to add that a few shipments could be intercepted quietly, doctored and allowed to pass on. A series of "hot dose" fatalities might do alot the reduce the demand, not just from those unfortunate enough to have actually got the hot dose, but from those that just heard about it too.

Posted by Rob06">Rob06 2008-10-04 19:18|| 2008-10-04 19:18|| Front Page Top

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