Richard Baker
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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The Briefing · Aussie accuses IDF of sexual assault + Going inside a $1b cocaine sting · 24 May 2026
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And because of the difficulties in getting in the distance, getting cocaine to Australia and New Zealand, we pay crazy money, $350, $400 a gram.
And also, don't complain about really low quality.
They'll often cut
the product and put other sort of bulking agents and things in there.
This is to increase their profit, adding some really dangerous things like synthetic opioids, which are called nitazines, fentanyl, into the powder.
And the user has absolutely no way, there's no way to tell.
And so we've actually seen in Australia, and there's some coronial data supporting this in the last few years, a rise in accidental overdose deaths from people who think they're just consuming cocaine that has been laced with nitrosine.
And that's like, I think it's 500 times more powerful than morphine.
So you don't need much.
And what we're seeing actually is in the Pacific islands like Fiji and Australia,
Tonga and different places, which the cartels have now got a foothold in and are using them basically as depots or warehouses to store cocaine to make it easier to supply Australia and New Zealand because the distance is shorter.
So you're seeing over the last couple of years quite a few reports of like these things called narco subs, which are semi-submersible boats.
which just sit above the surface of the water and they're cruising across the Pacific and washing up sometimes on Pacific islands and that, and there's, you know, hundreds of kilograms of cocaine in there.
And obviously, you know, for the stability of the Pacific and that, we know drugs bring money and money brings corruption.
Who's going to green light the warehousing of this stuff so long as they get a cut?
And you can sort of see that could pose a real problem
right across the Pacific area.
And again, it's due to Australia's demand.
There's a guy, a really interesting guy I interviewed from a city in Mexico called Angal Nakamura.
So he's grown up in a city that's been controlled by the Gulf cartel since he was a kid.
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