Dope, Inc.

Is the World Banking System a Global Drug-Laundering Operation?

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I can recall hearing someone, let’s call it 6+ years ago, before I was awakened from my lifelong slumber, say that if illegal drugs were eliminated, the world’s financial system would completely collapse. I can even remember internally rolling my eyes and shaking my head at the statement. What a conspiracy theorist.

It’s crazy, but I have become the guy I once politely mocked.

In this article, I want to focus on how the world’s drug trafficking was started and how it has progressed, and not spend much time discussing the mechanics of how the world’s financial system launders the money through the banking system and real estate. I hope to tackle that laundering process in a later article.

Most of what I will talk about in this post comes from part one of a book called Dope, Inc.: Britain’s Opium War Against the World, first published in 1978 and commissioned by controversial American Political figure Lyndon LaRouche. The book was written by Editors of the Executive Intelligence Review. EIR is a weekly newsmagazine founded in 1974 by LaRouche.

LaRouche was a controversial political figure who died in 2019. He was said to be a Marxist as a young man, and over time was later described as a Right-wing extremist. I interpret this as that he started off leaning more left due to his disdain for the government and the establishment, and eventually leaned more right due to that same disdain for the government and the establishment.

LaRouche had controversial beliefs, including the belief that ‘climate change was a hoax used to enrich the elite,’ and that 9/11 was an ‘inside job’ used to gain control, while bringing in Military Industrial Complex-churning wars and drug-running ops.’

He was critical of the British Empire, the Royal Family, George Bush Sr., Henry Kissinger—basically all the usual suspects of his time. LaRouche referred to George Soros as “the Queen’s favorite little drug pusher.” The ADL (Anti-defamation League) called him an antisemite, even though he adamantly denounced antisemitism. He considered the ADL a propaganda tool used by the Deep State. As I mentioned, he was controversial to the Pravda-like news media in America, and this period spans 50+ years, so for anyone who thinks things haven’t always been bad, well, there’s your proof that they have been.

I found the book Dope, Inc. to be very informative; it filled in a lot of the gaps in my mind with why events or narratives occurred and how events and people are connected. The world is run by a Deep State Cabal, whose tentacles reach far and wide. The more I learn, the more I realize how much control the Deep State actually has. Coincidences are rare, random events tend to be coordinated, and seemingly-unconnected parties are actually working in unison to control the world.

The Opium Wars

During the 18th Century, England’s domestic manufacturing was beginning to fall behind. England had created a trade deficit with China, was importing much more than they were exporting, and this was quickly draining their silver reserves. To remedy this, King George III mandated the East India Company to begin shipping large amounts of opium from British-controlled Bengal, India to China. This would not only balance out the trade deficit, but would also create a country of drug addicts, who would be more easily controlled. In 1715, the British East India Company opened up its first Far East office in the Chinese port city of Canton.

The British Empire later tried the same tactics with the American Colonies, but the Americans pushed back. This is one of the reasons the Revolutionary War occurred.

I’ve mentioned this before, but do people really think the American patriots of the Revolutionary War risked life and limb over a tea tax? Things were much more sinister than our high school history books taught us. In fact, the war chests used to fight the Americans were filled with the profits from England’s drug trade in the Orient.

The British drug trade quickly ramped up after the American Revolutionary War.

In 1801, the British sold 5,000 chests of opium per year. By 1836, the figure surpassed 30,000 chests. By the 1830’s, England’s trade deficit with China had reversed, and was now 8 to 1. China was now importing 8 times more from Britain than they were exporting to them. In 1839, the Emperor of China decided enough was enough; his country was now full of opium addicts, and he decided to crack down on the British opium coming into China. This caused the British to go to war with China. Basically, if China wouldn’t let England destroy them with drugs, then England would destroy them with battleships.

The powerful British Navy forced the Chinese to succumb to the Brit’s demands, allow their opium into China, pay for the confiscated opium, and give the British sovereignty over several offshore islands. This was how the British came to control Hong Kong.

After a second Opium War in 1860, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) was established. According to the book,

“HSBC became the central clearinghouse for all Far Eastern financial transactions relating to the black market in opium and its heroin derivative. By 1860, Britain was in control of 7/8 of the vastly expanded trade into China.”

By the mid 1800’s, the London opium traffickers began to diversify out of the opium trade and into the cotton trade. The slave and cotton trade in the American South was run by many of the same people who ran the opium trade in the Orient. Opium money was used to buy cotton, which was sent back to England to create manufactured products. The Rothschild Family, as well as the Lehman Brothers made their initial entry into the US through the pre-Civil War cotton and slave trade. The British opium traders financially backed the South in the American Civil War.

While the British opium traffickers weren’t able to fully infest America in the 1700’s or the 1800’s with mass opium use, they were able to establish China Towns throughout the US, where opium trafficking occurred under the radar. I always wondered why every major US city seems to have a China Town when today, less than 1% of Americans are of Chinese descent. It wasn’t until Prohibition that the British opium traffickers really took control of the US.

Opium Drug War in the US

In the early 1920s, the British opium traffickers declared their war against the US. They did this through Prohibition, but first they needed to create Prohibition.

The Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and its Anti-Saloon League offshoots were a small, well-Financed and highly organized circle that enjoyed the financial backing of the Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Warburgs, and the Rockefellers.

(Notice the backer’s direct connection to the American financial system, the City of London, real estate and the elites in general.)

The Temperance Movement was run by Jane Addams, who studied “the Fabian Society’s London settlement house Toynbee Hall experiment”. The Toynbee Hall experiment was an attempt to replace charity with government programs; it was essentially a blueprint for the modern welfare system. As the welfare system fails today, so did this 1884 London experiment. The welfare system fails in that it doesn’t help lift people out of poverty, but it is a great success if your goal is to perpetually keep the poor in poverty.

In my research, I find it obvious that an ongoing conspiracy has been occurring to enslave America—to enslave Americans to debt through the development and control of the Federal Reserve. To enslave Americans in poverty, as the welfare system has achieved. And to enslave Americans with drugs, including illegal drugs, but also the overconsumption of Big Pharma drugs.

(By the way, at the same time the Rockefellers were funding groups that demonstrated for Prohibition, making way for an organized crime operation built on running illegal alcohol and drugs, they were also taking over control of the medical industry, converting the medical system from herbal-based medicines to pharmacology.)

The Temperance Movement was founded at Oberlin College following the Civil War. Oberlin College was founded by British ‘Christian missionaries’. All students at Oberlin were required to become vegetarians. Oberlin was organized around the principle that the material world was wholly evil. Early on, the Temperance Movement was considered a violent cult known as ‘Organized Motherlove’. During the peak Prohibition demonstrations in the 1910’s, it is said this group of ‘axe-wielding lesbians’ made headlines through their assaults against saloons throughout the Ohio Valley.

Oberlin College was founded by British Christian missionaries? Violent, axe-wielding vegetarian lesbians? Financially supported by the Rockefellers, the Warburgs, the Vanderbilts and the Astors? None of this makes any sense, unless you see it under the framing that these elites were financially supporting a cult who opposed all worldly pleasures because Prohibition was a means to creating an organization and system for trafficking bootleg, drugs and possibly humans.

Few understand that one of the main reasons the FBI was formed around this time was to combat human trafficking.

From Prohibition came the creation of organized crime.

From Dope, Inc.,

“Prohibition brought narcotics traffic, narcotics traffickers, and large-scale organized crime into the US. Illegal alcohol and illegal narcotics made up two different product lines of the same multinational firm. The British, through their distilleries in Scotland and Canada, and the British, from their opium refineries in Shanghai and Hong Kong, were the suppliers. The British, through their banks in Canada and the Caribbean, were the financiers.”

Agents of organized crime bosses Meyer Lansky and Arnold Rothstein made their first trips to the Far East in the 1920’s to buy heroin from the British. Some may recognize Lansky, who ran organized crime worldwide until his death in 1983. His best friend, who he later had killed, Bugsy Siegal, opened the first Casino in Las Vegas. Eventually, all organized crime was run by Lansky—even the CIA drug running out of the Golden Triangle during the Vietnam War. It turns out the CIA was doing the same thing during the Korean War and the War in Afghanistan as well.

Wonder why we need so many wars—wars that drag on when they should probably be over in weeks?

Some may recognize Arnold Rothstein, on whom the mob boss from the TV series Boardwalk Empire is based.

Britain’s leading distilling companies sold bulk quantities of liquor to Rothstein and Joseph Kennedy. Yes, that Joseph Kennedy, the father of JFK and RFK. Sorry if this bursts anyone’s bubble, but Joseph Kennedy was a bootlegger, and worked with organized crime to build his family’s fortune.

Care to guess where Joseph Kennedy was later the US Ambassador to from 1938-1940? That’s right, the United Kingdom. When did the US join England in WWII? One year later.

Joseph Kennedy also married his daughter Kathleen into the family of the Duke of Devonshire; the Duke was responsible for Kennedy getting his British liquor wholesaling rights during Prohibition. Kathleen’s husband died in WWII, four months after their wedding.

The combined revenues of the illegal alcohol and drug trade during Prohibition was a multibillion-dollar industry. Families like the Kennedys and the Bronfmans (John McCain married into the Bronfman Family fortune) were financially set up to make a smooth transition into the legalized liquor trade in the early 1930’s. With liquor now legal again, the organized crime syndicates developed during Prohibition turned their efforts to casino gambling, and organized crime boss Meyer Lansky moved to the Caribbean, to prepare the way for British offshore unregulated banking.

By the 1960’s, with an organized crime syndicate in place, the British drug traffickers flooded America with illegal drugs. By the end of the decade, America had a drug epidemic. Recognizing this, President Nixon declared a war on Drugs. Nixon’s war on drugs caused him to be outed as POTUS.

Few know that George Bush Sr., who later became the Director of the CIA, played a vital role in forcing Nixon out of office through the intentionally-botched Watergate break-in disaster. In other words, they were supposed to be caught, to pin it on Nixon. We had a case of highly trained covert CIA operatives who suddenly became bumbling fools and were easily caught.

Hollywood has two TV shows out right now: Gaslit and White House Plumbers, both designed to convince us the Watergate break-ins were done by really dumb people.

The CIA has been working hand-in-hand with the mob to push drugs since at least the 1960’s … probably earlier. They played a major role in the development of LSD, and the pushing of LSD and heroin in the 1960’s. The CIA also trafficked cocaine into Los Angeles to fund the Iran-Contra Affair, which was exposed in 1986. George Bush Sr. was VP at the time.

Dope, Inc. states,

“At the same time that Nixon generically understood the top-down nature of the problem (drugs), he and his assistants scarcely understood that by going after the drug infrastructure, they were taking on the entire British oligarchy and the entire underpinnings of the Eurodollar market and the People’s Republic of China. Had Nixon understood the drug problem as a London-Peking problem, he would have perhaps been better prepared to deal with the ‘inside-outside’ attack against his Presidency.”

Interestingly, before becoming the Director of the CIA in 1976, Bush Sr. was the Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China.

Did reading ‘Eurodollars’ in the last paragraph stand out to anyone?

As I theorized in the article I wrote in April called, ‘Is Jerome Powell a Patriot?’, I postulated that the Trump-appointed Fed Chair Powell was raising interest rates, not to fight inflation, but to kill the Eurodollar market, and in turn, sever the control the City of London has on the US financial system. The Trump-appointed Head of the New York Fed, John C. Williams, created SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate,) which, in June of 2023 fully replaced LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) as the means of determining bank lending rates.

The strings are currently being cut.

I should probably take a step back and explain what the Eurodollar is for those who didn’t read my article on Powell.

Eurodollars are US dollars held overseas—usually in offshore accounts. Because the Eurodollar is held outside of the US, it isn’t taxed or regulated. Where do criminals tend to keep their money? You guessed it—in Eurodollars in offshore accounts. Raising interest rates in the US is causing Eurodollars to lose their value. The people holding Eurodollars in offshore accounts are left with a tough decision: do they continue to allow their Eurodollars to lose value, or do they move them to the US, where they will be taxed and transparent?

Call me a nerd, but I find it fascinating how the more one digs, the more one discovers how everything ties together. Drug trafficking, bootlegging, human trafficking, Prohibition, the welfare system, organized crime, the CIA, the world’s banking system.

What do they all have in common? They are all controlled and, in some cases, created by the British Cabal.

Let me leave you with this: besides being former Republican US Presidents from California, what did Nixon and Reagan have in common? They both declared a war on drugs in the US. An attempt to remove both from office is another commonality they share. Nixon was removed through a hoax led by George Bush Sr. and the CIA, and Reagan was shot by an assassin who had close ties to the Bush family.

Bush Sr. was the VP at the time of Reagan’s assassination attempt, and was a former Director of the CIA.

The more you know …

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