The Drug Moneytrail Leads To The Banks

[Gary Oak]

http://silverdoctors.com/jim-sinclair-e ... r-tuesday/

At the end of the very interesting book Gold Warriors by Sterling Seagrave there is a short chapter at the end and it explains how the banks control the presidency.

[Gary Oak]

Isn't this interesting. with what is in some other articles on this thread it appears now that Britain is still in the opium business


http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013 ... -mi5-chief

HSBC recruits former MI5 chief
HSBC, fined

[Gary Oak]

This video is very worth listening to.
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[Gary Oak]

What really goes on at the top ? Is there a bankster gangwar going on ? Is it eliminating rivals ? Eliminating those who know too much ? Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Something appears to be going on. I have suspected for a long time now that it may be a dangerous place for those in the elite circles.


http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/ ... _Much.html

[Blue Frost]

The Fed the top bankers do as they wish pushing out smaller bankers.
They likely manipulate things to their own benefit over anything else, like the small interest rates you get now so they get all the money. .

[Gary Oak]

I didn't know that Canadian banks were so involved. This might be one of the reasons why the Canadian economy is doing so well.

http://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/ ... rty-banks/

Canada

[Blue Frost]

[quote="Gary Oak"]I didn't know that Canadian banks were so involved. This might be one of the reasons why the Canadian economy is doing so well.

http://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/ ... rty-banks/

Canada

[Gary Oak]

https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com ... g-cartels/

[Gary Oak]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ju ... rect=false

As I have long suspected evenbefore I had read an earlier article. It does appear that the drugmoney moneytrail does indeed lead to the banks. It also is my strong suspicion that our own government is in on it as they legalised casinos [ for drugmoney laundering I believe ] at approximately the same time the world including Canada got flooded with cocaine and heroin around

[Gary Oak]

This article is about the drug moneytrail. It is a piece of the current drug puzzle. I suspect that the Turkish banks are getting their piece of the action.

Turkish Labs Processing Afghan Opium Into Heroin to Deliver to Europe © Flickr/ UK Ministry of Defence
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Turkish laboratories are processing Afghan opium into heroin for deliveries to Europe, the director of Russia’s Federal Narcotics Control Service said Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier on Tuesday, Viktor Ivanov said that Russian and Afghan drug police confiscated more than 600 kilograms (over 1,300 pounds) of opium in the province of Baglan in December in a joint operation.

“The cargo traveled along the route of Badakhshan-Doshi-Bamiyan-Herat, then further through Iran and into Turkey, where the opium was processed in well-equipped laboratories … into high quality heroin, and then was to be sent to Europe and Russia,” Ivanov said during an anti-narcotics committee meeting.

Daesh is receiving between $200 million and $500 million annually from smuggling Afghan heroin into Europe, he said.

Heroin on the ground.
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Large Volumes of Afghan Heroin Transit Turkey to Balkans, Further to EU
“According to our figures, the amount of revenue could be from $200 to $500 million annually,” Viktor Ivanov told journalists, adding that Turkey was used as a transit country for the deadly drug.
Last week, Ivanov said that large shipments of Afghan heroin were being transited through Turkey into the Balkan states and on into the European Union. According to him, the drugs from Afghanistan generate profits estimated at $150 billion annually for the people involved in the operations with them.

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151222/ ... z3v6H0AHWL

[Blue Frost]

What gets me is the CIA, they are the biggest drug dealers in the world, and nobody does anything about it.
Drugs = money = war = weapons to terrorist = money = dead innocents.
i sure wish we had someone that would stand up, and fight for whats right, we keep voting in shills for the same behind the curtain corruption.

[Gary Oak]

I have long believed this to be true.

https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com ... oin-trade/

CIA Created Afghan Heroin Trade
Posted on 09/01/2014 | 11 Comments
000047Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai had good reasons for trying to shut down US investigations into corruption in his government. The Afghan aristocracy has always run the nation’s heroin trade. But it was the CIA that created it.

(Excerpted from Chapter 8: Project Frankenstein: Afghanistan: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)

In 1933 King Mohammed Zaher Shah took the throne in Afghanistan, ruling the country in feudalistic fashion until he was deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud in 1973. A handful of families including the Karzais and the Kalilzidads (Zalmay Kalilzidad is US Ambassador to Afghanistan) owned nearly all arable land, while most Afghans languished amidst some of the planet’s worst poverty. Finally, they’d had enough.

In April 1978 King Daoud was killed in a revolution led by Nor Mohammed Taraki, who became President. Taraki embarked upon an ambitious land reform program to help poor Afghan sharecroppers who were traditionally forced to work the land owned by the king and his cronies. He built schools for women, who were banned from education under the monarchy. He opened Afghan universities to the poor and introduced free health care.

When counter-revolutionary bandits began to burn down universities and girl’s schools, many Afghan’s saw the hand of the CIA. By April 1979, a full seven months before the much-ballyhooed Soviet “invasion” of Afghanistan, US officials were meeting with corrupt Afghan warlords and oligarchs bent on overthrowing Taraki.

As the campaign of sabotage intensified, Kabul revolutionaries called on Soviet leader Leonid Brezynev to send troops to repel the bandits. Brezynev refused. The situation deteriorated.

Pro-Taraki militants, convinced of a CIA destabilization plot, assassinated CIA Kabul Chief of Station Spike Dubbs. On July 3, 1979 President Jimmy Carter signed the first national security directive authorizing secret aid to Afghan warlords. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said later that he had convinced Carter that in his, “…opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.” Brzezinski, who co-founded the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller, was baiting the Soviets to invade Afghanistan.

The embattled Taraki appointed Tabizullah Amin as cabinet minister in charge of land reform. Amin launched a brutal campaign of terror against political opponents, turning world opinion against the previously celebrated Taraki government. Former KGB Chief Yuri Andropov believed that Amin was an agent provocateur working with the CIA to infiltrate the Kabul government, intent on discrediting its progressive agenda.

Taraki sensed the same and traveled to Moscow to consult with the Soviets on a strategy to get rid of Amin. When he returned to Kabul, he was executed. Amin seized power. A few weeks later CIA-backed warlords massacred dozens of Afghan government officials in the western city of Herat. This combination of events forced Brezynev’s hand.

In December 1979 Soviet tanks rolled across the Panshir Valley, while KGB operatives stormed the Royal Palace in Kabul. They assassinated Tabizullah Amin and installed Babrak Karmal as the new leader of Afghanistan. Brzezinski now had the justification he’d been looking for to begin overtly arming the counter-revolutionaries in Afghanistan.

Though the decade-long Afghan conflict killed 2 million people, Brzezinski later boasted, “That (Carter’s secret directive) was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap.”

CIA agents streamed into Peshawar in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province. The city lay at the foot of Khyber Pass, the gateway to Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees were flooding into Peshawar to escape the looming war. With help from the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), the CIA scoured the refugee camps looking for modern-day Islamic fundamentalist Assassins who were prepared to intensify the guerilla war on Kabul’s socialist government and now, to repel the Soviets from Afghanistan.

The Company found what it needed in Hezbi-i Isbmi, a force of feudal-minded Islamist fighters assembled and trained by the Pakistani military with CIA oversight. Their leader was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a fanatic who in the early 1970’s had ordered his followers to throw acid into the faces of Afghan women who refused to wear their burkhas. In 1996 Hekmatyar’s troops took Kabul in a coup against the leftist Rabbani government, then handed it over to the Taliban. The recently released Wikileaks documents say Hekmatyar is now helping the Taliban attack US soldiers.

In 1972 Hezbi-i Isbmi murdered hundreds of left-wing students in Afghanistan then fled to Peshawar, where they escaped prosecution under the protection of the US-allied Pakistan military government. The group was feared and despised by Afghans and Pakistanis alike, who viewed them as a terrorist organization.

The US armed these terrorists with Soviet weapons purchased from Egypt, China and Czechoslovakia. Pakistan’s military dictator Zia ul-Huq allowed the CIA to open an intelligence station facing the Soviet Union and to use Pakistani military bases from which the CIA could fly reconnaissance over Afghanistan. These same bases were used to give advanced guerilla warfare training to Hekmatyar’s troops, whom the Reagan State Department would soon fondly refer to as the mujahadeen.

President Zia’s Pakistan became the third largest recipient of US military aid in the world, behind only Israel and Egypt. Much of that aid was going to arm the mujahadeen who launched raids into Afghanistan, seizing large chunks of real estate and immediately planting it to poppies. Between 1982-83 opium harvests along the Afghan/Pakistani border doubled in size, and by 1984 Pakistan was exporting 70% of the world’s heroin.

During that time the CIA Station in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, became the largest spook den in the world. It was no coincidence that Golden Crescent heroin output soon surpassed that of the Golden Triangle, just as the CIA was launching its biggest operation since Vietnam.

While Hekmatyar’s troops planted poppies, another mujahadeen leader, Sayed Ahmed Gailani, was supplying the Turkish Gray Wolves syndicate with Pathan opium. Gailani was a wealthy Afghan aristocrat with ties to former King Zaher Shah. He owned the Peugeot dealership in Kabul and his drug smuggling was underwritten by the Saudis. Hekmatyar himself ran six heroin labs in Baluchistan Province.

But Hekmatyar and Gailani were merely following in the footsteps of Vang Pao, Phoumi Nosavan and Khun Sa, the CIA’s heroin warlords of the Golden Triangle.

In the 1980’s Pakistan became the world’s poster child for political corruption. The Islamabad junta’s unflagging support for Reagan’s mujahadeen was at the root of the corruption. A senior US official stated that, “key Hekmatyar commanders close to the ISI run heroin laboratories in SW Pakistan and the ISI cooperates in heroin operations”. In September 1985 the Pakistan Herald reported that military trucks belonging to the National Logistics Cell of the Pakistan Army were being used to transport arms from the Port of Karachi to Peshawar on behalf of the CIA, and that those same trucks were returning to Karachi sealed by the Pakistani military and loaded with heroin. The practice, according to the Herald, had been going on since 1981, just as Hekmatyar’s forces began planting poppies.

Two high-ranking Pakistani military officers were caught with 220 kilos of heroin, but were never prosecuted. Golden Crescent heroin captured 60% of the US market and bricks of hashish appeared in US cities stamped with a logo of two crossed AK-47 assault rifles circled by the words, “Smoke Out the Soviets”. From 1982-92, roughly the period of US involvement in Afghanistan, heroin addiction in the US rose by 50%. All the while Nancy Reagan was telling us all to “Just Say No”.

For the sake of the oligarchs and their CIA hatchet men, Karzai had better keep the shredder running. There are lots of skeletons in the Afghan closet.

Dean Henderson is the author of five books: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries,Das Kartell der Federal Reserve, Stickin’ it to the Matrix & The Federal Reserve Cartel. You can subscribe free to his weekly Left Hook column @www.hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com

[Gary Oak]

There is nothing about drugs in this article but it does have some interesting background information on how banks work.

4 banker truths you must know

This weekend I finally got the chance to watch the four-time Academy Award-winning (along with two Golden Globes and three BAFTAs – the British Academy Awards) movie “The Big Short.”

Michael Lewis used to be a bond trader at Salomon Brothers back in the heyday of bond trading in the 1980s and wrote about it in his first excellent book “Liar’s Poker.” “The Big Short” is another book that pierced the veil of the Financial Oz that is Wall Street.

And his most recent book, “Flash Boys,” tore open the inner workings of high frequency trading (HFT) and how Wall Street and the bankers organized a system for rigging the market further in the favor of the institutions at the expense of individual investors. And this took place both during and after the financial collapse in 2008.

“The Big Short” is the story of the financial collapse told through the lens of classic Lewis characters; outsiders who realized that the entire mortgage bond market was built on and perpetuated by the collusion and greed of bankers. I mention this in case you are not aware of Lewis: This is a mainstream movie and popular book, not a fringe exposé by a relative unknown.

Some background into the collusion

What the movie doesn’t go into is how the marriage of institutional investment banks (high-flying traders that soared or crashed on an hourly basis) and traditional commercial banks (banks that made pennies on every dollar) was allowed to occur when then-President Bill Clinton struck down the Glass-Steagall Act that had served the U.S. and global banking system since 1933.

It’s important to understand that after the market crash in 1929 and ensuing Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt summoned famed market manipulator and “bucket shop” master Joseph Kennedy to the White House.

He made a deal with Kennedy. He offered him either a government investigation of his market manipulation (Kennedy pulled out all his positions and went short just days before the crash and made a literal fortune) or he could write the rules so that people like him could never rig the markets again.

The Securities Act of 1934 and Glass-Steagall were part of what Kennedy helped build. And they remained effective for 60 years. That’s not to say there weren’t some scandals now and again, but none that would tear down the entire U.S. economy.

That disappeared with a stroke of Clinton’s pen and let Wall Street and the bankers run riot on the system, as we now know. It’s not crazy to think the system will not be spared the same pain under a President Hillary.

I heartily suggest that everyone watch “The Big Short,” which is now out on DVD, Amazon and Netflix, so you have no excuse. In two hours it gives a better picture of how the global financial system works, especially in the U.S.

The key moment for me was one scene where a trader who figured out what a pile of crap the mortgage backed bonds had become — and the impending economic doom once (not if) it collapsed — is talking to a contrarian hedge fund team that thinks he’s lying to them. He looks at them all and says, in essence, to a group of cynical insiders, I’m shocked by your child-like faith that underneath it all, the system is honest.

He tells them the system is corrupt and it’s being corrupted by the banks and brokerage firms knowingly and purposefully.

Now, having spent time with plenty of Wall Street insiders, I am fairly certain that there was no artistic license with that scene. It likely went down exactly like it was portrayed. It would have been a memory seared into the minds of everyone in that room.

But the point is, even after all this, Lewis wrote another book about yet another scandal being perpetrated in the same time frame; and thanks to big money lobbying from Wall Street, continues even today – HFT and dark pool investing.

And after all this subterfuge and malevolent behavior there are four truths about bankers and the banking system of which you need to be aware:
1.Only one Wall Street player was jailed for the fraud that was revealed in 2008.
2.The “too big to fail” banks have gotten even bigger.
3.ALL the players who erased trillions in stock market value and people’s personal wealth are still in power.
4.The banks, after all the QE and manipulation, are still not healthy.

What you can do

For you, it is time to decide how you are going to protect your assets. My advice is, keep it out of Wall Street’s hands as much as you can.

Debt, aka “credit,” is now more important than true wealth for many Americans. No one has savings, they have credit cards and mortgages and car loans. And that suits the banks just fine. Because they can wheel and deal your debt, just like they did mortgages.

So avoid taking on any debt at this point. This is the time for hard assets. Precious metals aren’t incredibly expensive now, even as they continue a long-term rally. Real estate is a good idea. And if you’ve been flirting with the idea of buying property in another country, the strong dollar is a good friend.

In times like these, collectibles are also a good idea; cars, guns, art. Stick with collectibles that have fairly big markets so they remain liquid investments.

There are some investments in the certain strategic sectors — utilities, energy, healthcare — that are worth stepping into the market to own. Just don’t rely too heavily on this part of your portfolio, and make sure you’re either ahead of the crowd or buying into an undervalued trend.

— GS Early

[Gary Oak]

There are some graphs and a video that I believe are worth looking at so you might want to open this page.

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/art ... c3495adf4/


these revelations will have the power to topple governments, its huge


About the Panama Papers

By Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, Vanessa Wormer and Wolfgang Jaschensky




Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that sells anonymous offshore companies around the world. These shell companies enable their owners to cover up their business dealings, no matter how shady.


In the months that followed, the number of documents continued to grow far beyond the original leak. Ultimately, SZ acquired about 2.6 terabytes of data, making the leak the biggest that journalists had ever worked with. The source wanted neither financial compensation nor anything else in return, apart from a few security measures.

The data provides rare insights into a world that can only exist in the shadows. It proves how a global industry led by major banks, legal firms, and asset management companies secretly manages the estates of the world’s rich and famous: from politicians, Fifa officials, fraudsters and drug smugglers, to celebrities and professional athletes.



A group effort
The Süddeutsche Zeitung decided to analyze the data in cooperation with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). ICIJ had already coordinated the research for past projects that SZ was also involved in, among them Offshore Leaks, Lux Leaks, and Swiss Leaks. Panama Papers is the biggest-ever international cooperation of its kind. In the past 12 months, around 400 journalists from more than 100 media organizations in over 80 countries have taken part in researching the documents. These have included teams from the Guardian and the BBC in England, Le Monde in France, and La Nación in Argentina. In Germany, SZ journalists have cooperated with their colleagues from two public broadcasters, NDR and WDR. Journalists from the Swiss Sonntagszeitung and the Austrian weekly Falter have also worked on the project, as have their colleagues at ORF, Austria’s national public broadcaster. The international team initially met in Washington, Munich, Lillehammer and London to map out the research approach.


Making of



The data
The Panama Papers include approximately 11.5 million documents – more than the combined total of the Wikileaks Cablegate, Offshore Leaks, Lux Leaks, and Swiss Leaks. The data primarily comprises e-mails, pdf files, photo files, and excerpts of an internal Mossack Fonseca database. It covers a period spanning from the 1970s to the spring of 2016.



Moreover, the journalists crosschecked a large number of documents, including passport copies. About two years ago, a whistleblower had already sold internal Mossack Fonseca data to the German authorities, but the dataset was much older and smaller in scope: while it addressed a few hundred offshore companies, the Panama Papers provide data on some 214,000 companies. In the wake of the data purchase, last year investigators searched the homes and offices of about 100 people. The Commerzbank was also raided. As a consequence of their business dealings with Mossack Fonseca, Commerzbank, HSH Nordbank, and Hypovereinsbank agreed to pay fines of around 20 million euros, respectively. Since then, other countries have also acquired data from the initial smaller leak, among them the United States, the UK, and Iceland.


The system
The leaked data is structured as follows: Mossack Fonseca created a folder for each shell firm. Each folder contains e-mails, contracts, transcripts, and scanned documents. In some instances, there are several thousand pages of documentation. First, the data had to be systematically indexed to make searching through this sea of information possible. To this end, the Süddeutsche Zeitung used Nuix, the same program that international investigators work with. Süddeutsche Zeitung and ICIJ uploaded millions of documents onto high-performance computers. They applied optical character recognition (OCR) to transform data into machine-readable and easy to search files. The process turned images – such as scanned IDs and signed contracts – into searchable text. This was an important step: it enabled journalists to comb through as large a portion of the leak as possible using a simple search mask similar to Google.

The journalists compiled lists of important politicians, international criminals, and well-known professional athletes, among others. The digital processing made it possible to then search the leak for the names on these lists. The "party donations scandal" list contained 130 names, and the UN sanctions list more than 600. In just a few minutes, the powerful search algorithm compared the lists with the 11.5 million documents.






The research
For each name found, a detailed research process was initiated that posed the following questions: what is this person’s role in the network of companies? Where does the money come from? Where is it going? Is this structure legal?

Generally speaking, owning an offshore company is not illegal in itself. In fact, establishing an offshore company can be seen as a logical step for a broad range of business transactions. However, a look through the Panama Papers very quickly reveals that concealing the identities of the true company owners was the primary aim in the vast majority of cases. From the outset, the journalists had their work cut out for them. The providers of offshore companies – among them banks, lawyers, and investment advisors – often keep their clients’ names secret and use proxies. In turn, the proxies’ tracks then lead to heads of state, important officials, and millionaires. Over the course of the international project, journalists cooperated with one another to investigate thousands of leads: they examined evidence, studied contracts, and spoke with experts.

Among others, Mossack Fonsecas’ clients include criminals and members of various Mafia groups. The documents also expose bribery scandals and corrupt heads of state and government. The alleged offshore companies of twelve current and former heads of state make up one of the most spectacular parts of the leak, as do the links to other leaders, and to their families, closest advisors, and friends. The Panamanian law firm also counts almost 200 other politicians from around the globe among its clients, including a number of ministers.



The company
The company at the center of all these stories is Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian provider of offshore companies with dozens of offices all over the world. It sells its shell firms in cities such as Zurich, London, and Hong Kong – in some instances at bargain prices. Clients can buy an anonymous company for as little as USD 1,000. However, at this price it is just an empty shell. For an extra fee, Mossack Fonseca provides a sham director and, if desired, conceals the company’s true shareholder. The result is an offshore company whose true purpose and ownership structure is indecipherable from the outside. Mossack Fonseca has founded, sold, and managed thousands of companies. The documents provide a detailed view of how Mossack Fonseca routinely accepts to engage in business activities that potentially violate sanctions, in addition to aiding and abetting tax evasion and money laundering.



About Süddeutsche Zeitung
Headquartered in Munich, Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) is one of Germany’s leading newspapers. SZ has a total readership of 4.4 million for its print and online media. Its investigative journalism team counts five people, three of which are members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The Süddeutsche Zeitung has won a number of prestigious awards for its research work. Its team has cooperated with other media organizations on a number of projects, including Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, and Lux Leaks, which ICIJ coordinated. At the beginning of 2015, an anonymous source began sending the Süddeutsche Zeitung data from Mossack Fonseca, a provider of offshore companies. This marked the beginning of the Panama Papers project.


The Süddeutsche Zeitung, in cooperation with the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists, sent Mossfon several written requests for comment. In response Mossfon sent two general statements, which can be viewed here.

[Blue Frost]

I was reading about this this morning, a lot of well known people have been beating the taxes, and laundering money through these methods.
A big list of names came out also, major leaders on it.
For the last year they have been hiding this news.

[Gary Oak]

I suspect that this very well is one of the reasons that Hollywood and the press are going all out to try and influence Americans and libtards all over the world against Donald Trump.This is a very interesting article.Check out this quote from this article.
'and the CIA, which is the operational arm of the banksters who rule the United States, will undoubtedly serve as the enforcer."

Are these the same guys who control the Federal Reserve ? I read an interesting book The Marcos Dynasty which at the end of the book explained how the USA is controlled by the banksters.



MUST READ EXCELLENT ARTICLE!!!-Did Trump’s new anti-drug policy prompt the CIA to move against him?
Editor / 2 days ago
“Trump’s executive orders would launch a new war on drugs! Evidently, president Trump idealistically (or naively) has decided to accomplish what no president before him was able (or willing) to do, namely, eradicate the double scourge of drug and human trafficking which have destroyed so many young lives. Certainly it is a goal worthy of our support. However, there is a hitch, namely, the collision of such a policy with the status quo. This needs clarification: If Trump’s new anti drug trafficking policy is carried out it will place drug enforcement agencies in direct opposition to CIA officers who for many years have “managed” the flow of cocaine and heroin into the United States. In fact, “dismantling the transnational criminal organizations” responsible for the drug trade will ultimately require nothing less than the dismantling of the CIA itself.“

by Mark H. Gaffney for The International Reporter:

kucinich-screenshot_1In recent days, we have witnessed the disturbing spectacle of open warfare between the newly elected president and the intelligence community.

Former congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) described the situation as “unprecedented. Whether you are for Trump or against Trump,” Kucinich told FOX News, “the White House is under attack from elements inside the intelligence community, which are trying to elevate tensions between Russia and the US.” Kucinich continued: “At the bottom of that is money, an agenda for someone to cash in on conflict between the US and Russia.”

Kucinich was spot on. The military industrial complex and their media pawns clearly do not want improved relations with Russia and are using their considerable power to prevent it, for the reason cited. Untold billions in military contracts are at stake. War and the preparations for war are extremely profitable; at any rate, for a privileged few.



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Nikki Haley At The UN. Falsely accused Russia of invading Crimea. Crimea had a legal referendum in 2014 where 90% of the population voted to return to Russia.

During the last few days, Trump and his inner circle made statements about Crimea indicating the immense pressure had the intended effect.

Trump appears to have backed away from improved relations with Russia, at least for the present. Other writers have commented at length about this, so I won’t discuss it further here, except to point out that the pressure shows no sign of relenting, and may even be increasing. A former NSA official, John Schindler, told Raw Story that “Now we [the intelligence community] will go nuclear. He [Trump] will die in jail…”

It’s as if, having smelled blood in the water the intelligence community is circling for the kill. But given that Trump has been made to recant on Russia, the question is why? What is going on? The answer is that the sharp dispute over US policy vis a vis Russia is not the only point of contention. Other issues are also at play. A tell-tale clue in this regard was the timing of the felonious leak that led to the resignation of General Mike Flynn for misleading Vice President Pence about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The leak reportedly occurred on the evening of Thursday February 9th, a few hours after Trump signed three new executive orders, which FOX News first reported at 4 p.m. Although the source of the leak has not been disclosed, I suspect the CIA for reasons that I will now explain.

In my opinion, the timing was no coincidence. As we ought to know from long experience, there are few coincidences in the world of intelligence. Therefor, it behooves us to examine Trump’s latest executive orders which so far have attracted scant attention.



A new anti-drug policy

trump-2-hqdefaultThe orders that Trump signed on February 9th, just before the leak occurred, are about reducing crime in America.

The first would create a presidential task force to develop strategies toward this end. (1)A second more detailed order would “strengthen enforcement of Federal law….to thwart transnational criminal organizations and subsidiary organizations, including criminal gangs, cartels, racketeering organizations and other groups engaged in….the illegal smuggling and trafficking of humans, drugs, or other substances…” [my italics] (2)

I was amazed when I first read this. Trump’s executive orders would launch a new war on drugs! Evidently, president Trump idealistically (or naively) has decided to accomplish what no president before him was able (or willing) to do, namely, eradicate the double scourge of drug and human trafficking which have destroyed so many young lives. Certainly it is a goal worthy of our support. However, there is a hitch, namely, the collision of such a policy with the status quo. This needs clarification: If Trump’s new anti drug trafficking policy is carried out it will place drug enforcement agencies in direct opposition to CIA officers who for many years have “managed” the flow of cocaine and heroin into the United States. In fact, “dismantling the transnational criminal organizations” responsible for the drug trade will ultimately require nothing less than the dismantling of the CIA itself. The wording of Trump’s executive orders leaves no doubt about his intent. The president is not proposing half measures.

Officials at the CIA no doubt grasped the significance of this at a glance, and concluded correctly that the president himself, every bit as much as his new executive orders, must henceforth be viewed as a threat to the Agency’s power and covert prerogatives. The scary part, from the CIA standpoint, is that Trump really means it. This is in sharp contrast with Ronald Reagan, whose 1980s-era war on drugs was nothing but a charade. One can well imagine the brief but intense moment of panic at Langley when CIA officials first learned about the orders. Their signing by Trump created an immediate compelling reason for the CIA to move against the president, and to do so without delay. This, very likely, explains the classified leak on February 9th about Gen. Flynn.

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US Military Contractors Guarding Opium Fields In Afghanistan

I do not mean to suggest that CIA officers themselves smuggle drugs into the US.

The actual smuggling is almost always done by professional traffickers who are treated as national security assets because they also provide various kinds of support for covert CIA operations. In return, the “blessed” traffickers are allowed to ply their illicit trade without interference from US Customs, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), even local police. The CIA oversees the trade which is largely about market share, and also receives a cut of the action, which it uses to fund black-budget operations. Competitors who refuse to cooperate are fair game, and are periodically rounded up and prosecuted to show that the government is seriously waging the war on drugs. Of course, despite the occasional high profile arrests and convictions, somehow the drugs are always readily available on the street. The supply seldom fails, an inconvenient truth never mentioned by the media nor acknowledged by government officials.

Abroad, the CIA’s control system is more complex, as in the case of Mexico where the CIA often plays one cartel off against another to destabilize the country and prevent the emergence of a strong central government. Keeping Mexico perennially weak (and violent) evidently serves the foreign policy objectives of empire.(3)

Despite the American public’s sorry state of denial, complacency and/or apathy on the drug trade issue, the evidence for the US government’s criminal involvement is voluminous and incontrovertible. (4)The sordid history is a long one, and dates back decades before the CIA was created to the 1920s, when the US supported Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, who maintained his army with profits from the opium trade. I refer the reader to the notes.

Trump’s new policy of eradicating human and sex trafficking would likewise require US law enforcement to investigate shady contractors like Dyncorp, which, although a private company, is for all practical purposes a CIA subsidiary. Dyncorp’s longstanding involvement in human trafficking dates back at least to the 1990s war in Bosnia. (5) Obviously, a real investigation would be extremely embarrassing. Over the years, Dyncorp has received billions in Defense Department contracts, which is serious money but small potatoes compared with the hundreds of billions in laundered drug money that annually lubricates the bottom line of the too-big-to-fail US banks. No one knows the actual figure, but reputable sources estimate the total at between $300-500 billion. (6)



At war with the CIA

trump-cia-hqdefaultIt would be hard to overestimate the present-day importance of this laundered drug money to the big banks, most of which are seriously over-leveraged.

According to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, the liquidity provided by an estimated $352 billion in laundered drug profits in 2008 saved a number of large banks from collapse as result of the 2007 financial meltdown. (7) Incidentally, this is also why, 16 years after the 9/11 attacks, the US military is still deployed in Afghanistan. Our troops are there because that is where the poppies are grown, the feedstock for the global heroin trade. This is the reason for the longest war in US history. The plain truth is that our troops are not defending freedom and democracy, but the bottom line of the too-big-to-fail banks.

And all of this would be seriously disrupted if Trump’s new anti drug trafficking policy is implemented. Needless to say, Wall Street and the US intelligence community (which are one and the same) will do everything in their power to prevent this from happening; and the CIA, which is the operational arm of the banksters who rule the United States, will undoubtedly serve as the enforcer.

Donald Trump’s strong position against drug and human trafficking has placed him in the cross-hairs. Is he aware of the powerful forces arrayed against him? It is by no means clear that he fully understands the CIA’s role in the drug trade, or why his executive orders have stirred up such a hornet’s nest. For Trump’s sake, I hope he understands; because, henceforth, his only chance to survive is to go on the offensive, and to actually become the unlikely American hero that he obviously aspires to be. How? By effecting a top-down revolution in the interests of the American people. But time is short and the critical path to success is extremely narrow, with little margin for error. Can Trump outmaneuver the CIA even as it plots his downfall? Can he rise above himself?

A second American revolution

trump-dddt1Here are a few of the steps (in no particular order) that Trump should immediately take to regain the initiative, set his enemies back on their heels, and buy the time that is desperately needed to jump-start the second American revolution:

Empower the FBI. Trump should instruct Attorney General Sessions to clear out the dead wood at the Department of Justice. At the FBI, Director James Comey and his deputy Andrew McCabe have a history of obstructing and/or slow-footing investigations. They too must go. Their replacements should be drawn from within the agency, ambitious young men with hunger in their eyes and fire in the belly. Unleash the idealistic young investigators!

Release the 650,000 emails. I am referring to the mother lode found on former congressman Anthony Weiner’s server. We are very lucky this electronic paper trail exists! Last November, NYPD chief detective Robert K. Boyce, who has seen the emails, told the press they contain evidence linking Hillary Clinton and her associates to money laundering, child exploitation, sex crimes with minors, perjury, pay to play, obstruction of justice and other crimes.(8) Apparently, the key piece of evidence is a list of secret donors to the Clinton Foundation. Everything we have learned to date indicates the foundation was a private investors’ club for the purpose of overthrowing and looting third world nations. All Trump needs to do is to let the sun shine in, then step aside and allow the system to serve up the impartial wrath of justice. And woe to the guilty!

Audit the Fed. Trump supporters should move quickly to guide legislation through Congress requiring an audit of the Federal Reserve. Given a Republican majority in both houses, the bill should pass easily. If the Fed refuses to admit auditors (and it will), Trump should send in US marshals and nationalize the bank. A subsequent honest audit will expose the Fed’s many crimes against the American people. A reorganized and possibly renamed Fed should be made to serve Main Street, not Wall Street.

Get control at the CIA and NSA. This is critical. Trump’s newly appointed directors must take a firm hand in identifying and prosecuting leakers in both agencies while supporting whistleblowers who have exposed illegal activities. Trump should also give the order to fire all neoconservatives, and their ilk. Ultimately, Trump will need to dismantle the CIA and the most objectionable parts of the NSA surveillance regime.

Break up the media conglomerates. Paul Craig Roberts has suggested that Trump use anti-trust law to accomplish this and I agree. The US corporate media has long since abandoned its original function, which is to inform the citizenry, and unfortunately has become an instrument for fake news and propaganda. Press diversity must be restored.

The above short list is only a start, and is by no means complete. There are undoubtedly other steps that Trump should also take.

deep-state-screenshot_1Finally, I need to say that as a long-time radical Leftie I am very displeased that so many liberals and progressives have allied with the globalists and the Deep State to destroy what remains of our precious democracy.

Liberals and progressives need to wake up. Trump’s enemies are also our enemies. If the CIA succeeds in bringing him down, Trump’s replacement will be much worse. I have always opposed US presidents when they were wrong and supported them when they were right. The same principle should hold with Trump. Oppose him when he’s wrong, but support him when he’s right. We can and must do both, at the same time.

Many people have underestimated Donald Trump. Be assured, no one at CIA headquarters is underestimating him any longer. Although Trump has some glaring flaws, he also has the potential to achieve great things, in part, because he thinks big and is capable of bold action. If Trump acts decisively in the coming days to restore our country, we should rally to his defense. If he falters, Trump will be remembered as just another failed wannabe.


A special thank you to George Webb, whose ongoing open sourced people’s investigation at Youtube has been a great help in connecting the dots!
Mark H. Gaffney’s latest book is Black 9/11 (2nd edition, 2016). His next, Never Summer, a novel, will be released in April 2017. Mark can be reached for comment at markhgaffney@earthlink.net

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[Gary Oak]

Here is some related very interesting info.

All Wars Are Bankers' Wars

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Oil & Drug Money Overlords

(Excerpted from Chapter 18: The International Banksters: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)

At the nadir of Four Horsemen/GCC/CIA petrodollar drugs for guns recycling scheme quietly sit the international mega-banks.

Through every major scandal and behind every despotic regime sitting atop petrodollar wealth, stands a global financial oligarchy- ultimate beneficiary of the world’s addiction to oil, guns and drugs; dependencies which these trillionaires themselves created. The oil wealth generated in the Persian Gulf region is the main source of capital for these bankers. They sell the GCC sheiks 30-year treasury bonds at 5% interest, then loan the sheiks’ oil money out to Third World governments and Western consumers alike at 15-20% interest. In the process these financial overlords- who produce nothing of economic import- use debt as their lever in consolidating control over the global economy.

The international bankers oversee Persian Gulf oil wealth generated by their Big Oil tentacles. Chase Manhattan called the shots at Iran’s central Bank Markazi, then looted the Iranian Treasury as insiders Rockefeller, Kissinger and McCloy whisked their Shah puppet into exile. Chase had close ties to the Saudi SAMA central bank and Venezuela’s central bank, where Rockefeller-controlled Exxon Mobil “is the CIA”. Chase launched the Saudi Industrial Development Fund which doled out contracts to Chase-owned multinationals during the Saudi modernization drive, then bought Saudi Investment Banking Corporation, which did exactly the same. [767] World Bank Presidents Eugene Black and John McCloy both came from Chase.

Morgan Guaranty Trust presided over the House of Saud oil kitty. SAMA, created as the Kingdom’s Central Bank as the ink was still drying on the US/Saudi Security Agreement, was run by IMF goon Anwar Ali, who was handled by the “Three Wise Men” or “White Fathers”, the most powerful of which was John Meyer, chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust’s International Division and later chairman of Morgan Guaranty. Meyer funneled SAMA petrodollar royalties into Morgan, which was investment counselor to SAMA. [768] Morgan was banker to Bechtel and ARAMCO. Stephen Bechtel sat on Morgan Guaranty’s board, as did Chevron Texaco CFR insider George Schultz and Sulaiman Olayan, the Bechtel straw man crucial to recycling Persian Gulf petrodollars into international banks.

Olayan owned half of Saudi Bechtel and big chunks of Chase Manhattan, Occidental Petroleum and CS First Boston, where he was director until 1995. Olayan founded Saudi-British Bank, a big player in the secretive Eurodollar market. He had a shady Caribbean partnership with Barclays and Jardine Matheson, which control Israeli finance and HSBC, respectively. He was board member at American Express alongside Henry Kissinger and Edmund Safra- whose crooked Republic Bank is part of the HSBC cesspool. Olayan Group’s bankers were CS First Boston, Saudi-British Bank, Saudi Hollandi Bank (subsidiary of ABN Amro- now Royal Bank of Scotland) and Chase. [769] Through these relationships Olayan was the glue that bonds the House of Saud to its Four Horsemen American, British and Dutch family owners.

In 1975 Morgan Guaranty took a 20% stake in Saudi International Bank in London, whose executive director was Morgan Guaranty Trust Director Peter de Roos. SAMA owned a 50% share, while Bank of Tokyo, Deutsche Bank, Banque de Nationale de Paris, National Westminster Bank and Union Bank of Switzerland each owned 5%. [770] Citibank bought 33% of Saudi American Bank. SAMA was advised by Merrill Lynch and Baring Brothers (now part of Royal Bank of Scotland), assuring both New York and London control over oil proceeds. The White Fathers firmly held the reins over House of Saud ARAMCO oil revenues.

Morgan Guaranty was investment adviser to the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, central bank of the UAE, where monarch and primary BCCI shareholder Sheik Zayed held the purse strings. Morgan Grenfell, the London arm of the House of Morgan, advised the GCC government of Qatar and UAE gold market emirate Dubai. Grenfell- now part of Deutsche Bank- owned a large share of Jordan’s central bank and financed weapons sales to Oman, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. When Saudi Lockheed arms dealer Adnan Khasshoggi bought Arizona-Colorado Land & Cattle Company in 1974, US investment arm Morgan Stanley swung the deal. When Khasshoggi bought a 17,000 acre dairy farm and a million acre cattle ranch in Sudan, Morgan Stanley helped again.

In 1984 Morgan Grenfell led the push for North Sea oil exploration. Sir John Stevens of Grenfell advised Iran’s Bank Markazi. Stevens was a Bank of England insider, where Royal Dutch/Shell Chairman Sir Robert Clark was board member. Morgan Stanley occupied the top 16 floors of the Exxon Building in New York. It handled the 1977 sale of BP shares by the British government to Kuwait’s al-Sabah clan. [771]

Jardine Matheson Chairman David Newbigging sits on the International Advisory Board at Morgan Guaranty and is arguably Hong Kong’s most powerful man. Chairman of Morgan et Cie, the bank’s international division, was Lord Cairncatto; who sat on the London Committee of HSBC, was Chairman of Morgan Grenfell and member of the Inner Council at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. [772]

HSBC and Kleinwort Benson control Hong Kong’s Sharps Pixley Ward gold monopoly. HSBC owns British Bank of the Middle East, which monopolizes Dubai’s thriving gold market; Edmund Safra’s Republic Bank of New York, which dominated the old Lebanese gold markets; and Midland Bank, clearing agent for the drug-riddled Panamanian government.

HSBC’s Sharps Pixley and Samuel Montagu subsidiaries join Cecil Rhodes-founded Standard Chartered’s Mocatta Metals, Johnson Matthey and N.M. Rothschild & Sons in London each day to unilaterally fix the price of gold. The latter two fixers have interlocking board directorates with both HSBC and Anglo-American- the Oppenheimer-controlled conglomerate whose Engelhardt subsidiary monopolizes world gold refining. [773] The Oppenheimers also control Rio Tinto and DeBeers- the Cecil Rhodes-founded monopolizer of the global diamond trade. Anglo-American’s Bermuda subsidiary Minorco plays a big role in Silver Triangle gold/diamond/drug swaps.

Diamond cutting is financed by the Belgian Lambert family, cousins to the Rothschilds; and Barclays Bank, whose board boasts Sir Harry Oppenheimer and four other members of Queen Elizabeth’s Knights of St. John Jerusalem- the most of any firm in the world. [774] Canadian banking giants Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; join British giants National Westminster, Barclays, Lloyds and HSBC, in presiding over Caribbean Silver Triangle drug money laundering.

Bank of Nova Scotia is the biggest gold dealer in the Caribbean and owned the 200 tons of gold recovered from vaults beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in late 2001. The biggest investment bank in the Caribbean is known as ITCO- a joint venture between Anglo-American, Barclays, N. M. Rothschild and Royal Bank of Canada. Lloyds Director A. D. F. Lloyd is brother-in-law of the 10th Earl of Airlie- chairman of the Warburg-controlled Schroeder Bank which financed Hitler. The Earl’s wife is a granddaughter of Otto Kahn, leading partner at Kuhn Loeb. Winston Churchill’s mother-in-law was an Airlie. Churchill’s cousin Viscount Cowdray owns a big stake in Lazard, where the Kennedy family banks. [775] Lazard controls the Financial Times, the Economist and Penguin Books.

Saudi-controlled Citigroup and Baker-controlled Texas Commerce- now a JP Morgan Chase subsidiary- helped Raul Salinas pilfer the Mexican Treasury. Rothschild-controlled Bank of America- founded as the Bank of Italy under the umbrella of Amadeo Giannini’s Transamerica holding company- formed a $3 billion joint venture with Banco Ambrosiano, bought looted Continental Bank, provided seed money for BCCI and cleared deals for BNL. At the time Bank of America was the world’s largest bank. [776]

According to Chicago researcher Sherman Skolnick, Bank of America was the conduit for dirty money generated by Swiss/Israeli Mossad fugitive financier Marc Rich, and for the funny money that vanished amidst the Enron cesspool. Skolnick adds that Nugan Hand Bank morphed into Household International- a sub-prime lender based in Chicago, whose lawyer until his mysterious canoe accident was former CIA Director Bill Colby. [777] Household is now a subsidiary of HSBC.

Tibor Rosenbaum’s Geneva-based Banque de Credit Internationale (BCI) was predecessor of BCCI, skimming profits from Meyer Lansky casinos and drug deals to finance MI6 and Mossad skullduggery, including Permindex. [778] Lansky got his start in organized crime with financial help from the Rothschild family. Robert Vesco got his wings from the Rockefeller-financed Mary Carter Paint Company. Santos Trafficante is their successor.

CS First Boston was founded by the Boston Perkins family with opium proceeds and served as paymaster for both the JFK hit and the assassination attempt on French President Charles de Gaulle. Both Richard Holbrooke, Obama Afghan envoy and chief architect of the Dayton Accords; and Dick Thornburgh, Bush Attorney General during the BNL cover-up, worked at CS First Boston alongside Sulaiman Olayan. The bank teamed up with BP Amoco to grab the first 20% of Russian Lukoil.

Dean Henderson is the author of five books: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries, Das Kartell der Federal Reserve, Stickin’ it to the Matrix & The Federal Reserve Cartel. You can subscribe free to his weekly Left Hook column @www.hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com

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[Gary Oak]

I do believe that the casinos were legalised so that the money laundered there would naturally go to the banks. Just at t he same time the world was flooded with drugs around 1988 including Canada we legalised casinos. Coincidence ?



Crime group laundered millions through B.C. casinos
9 arrests and more expected as investigation continues in Lower Mainland

Nine people have been arrested after a year-long investigation that identified millions of dollars being laundered through Lower Mainland casinos, according to B.C.'s gang task force.
The probe began last May when investigators say they determined that members of an alleged criminal organization behind several illegal gambling houses were helping drug traffickers launder money, as well as being involved in loan sharking, kidnapping and extortion, said assistant commissioner Kevin Hackett of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU).
"It's safe to say that we're looking at millions of dollars" being laundered," Hackett told reporters at a news conference Tuesday morning.
Assistant commissioner Kevin Hackett of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit talks to reporters about a year-long investigation into money laundering at B.C. casinos. (CBC News)
Investigators say the alleged crime group has links across Canada, as well as to mainland China .
"Money laundering, loan sharking and illegal gaming provide an attractive source of income for organized crime," Hackett said.
"Clients who utilize these services need to be aware that often the cash being provided to them is from illegal activity, and that using such services provides financial support to criminals and funds their illegal enterprises and operations."
POLICE OFFER FEW DETAILS

Hackett offered few details about the people who have been arrested, except to say that none of them are in police custody and no charges have been laid. However, he said possible charges could include counts related to money laundering, drug trafficking, proceeds of crime and being part of a criminal organization.
In fact, investigators are revealing very little about the alleged criminal operation, explaining the investigation is still underway and that they anticipate more arrests. Hackett would not identify the casinos where the money laundering has allegedly taken place and would only say that three or four illegal gambling houses have been identified.
At least one of those establishments is located in Richmond and was searched Monday night by officers executing a warrant, Hackett added.
A total of six homes have been searched so far in the course of the investigation, and officers have seized cash and bank drafts, computers, cell phones, drug paraphernalia and several luxury vehicles — including one outfitted with a hidden compartment.
The investigation was conducted by the CFSEU's new Joint Illegal Gaming Investigation Team, which also includes members of the provincial government's Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch.
Officers are asking anyone with information about the alleged laundering scheme or similar operations to call 778-290-2288.

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