C Lagarde recently explained to us that citizens in the EU who paid more than 1000 euros in a cash transaction had entered an illegal grey zone. This despite her own condemnation for criminal negligence involving hundreds of millions of euros. Her predecessor C Trichet was involved in the Credit Lyonnais scandal (prosecuted but not condemned). Thanks for reminding us how dangerous and immoral these people are.
"While the country was under military control of the US and its NATO allies (including Ukraine), Afghan heroin production exploded: in 2001, Afghanistan had 8,000 hectares under poppy crops; in 2016, they had 200,000 hectares - a 25-fold increase. This increase had a direct impact on heroin addiction in the US: in 2000, there were 189,000 Heroin addicts in the US; in 2016, there were 4.5 million - a 24-fold increase (these figures were cited by MEP Ivan Pernar in an EU Parliament speech on 12 April 2017)."
This is probably one of the few cases where correlation DOES imply causation!
It could go either way -- (1) the Afghans responded to an increase in demand by growing more dope; or (2) the users responded to an increase in supply buy using more.
One way to clarify which is the driver here is to look at prices over the same time period: if prices went up, likely #1; if down, then #2. It is also possible that both #1 and #2 were present to a certain extent (in which cases prices would remain stable) or that both factors were responding to some other, as yet unidentified, third factor.
Correlation/causality is indeed a complex issue, though by asking the right questions the truth can often be determined.
The Taliban explicitly set out to destroy opium cultivation in Afghanistan and succeeded in the 1990s. Then the West comes in and cultivation explodes. Then the Taliban come back in and once more successfully destroy opium cultivation in Afghanistan. You don't need a complex analysis to understand this, if the West was serious about curbing opium cultivation they could have done what the Taliban have done twice. For the poppies to get out of Afghanistan and processed, the connivance of the occupation forces and Pakistani intelligence was also required.
Only if hypothesis #1 or #2 is correct, or if a third factor is involved causally.
It is also possible that there appears to be a correlation mathematically (which is the case here) but it is not causal. It is human nature to infer causality in these situations, which is why we must be particularly aware of this, and of confirmation bias (we presume that things must be in accordance with our pre-existing belief system).
It is most often possible to resolve these situations by asking the right question. Answering that question may take quite a bit of work though -- one of the reasons people like the MSM (the home field of confirmation bias) never bother.
Excellent, Alex. You are of a rare breed which brings such clarity to the under-riding issues that lurk behind the headlines. If and when there are any headlines, which seems to be rarer and rarer when the focus is turned on the truly high crimes and their criminals.
I'm old enough, elderly in fact, to have had enough glimpses into this world of high finance druggery and its marriage to national governments---these lowest of miscreants---that I actually carry the reality of it with me every day and long into the night. That we are indeed ruled by such a criminal class is now a given to me, I don't compartmentalize it like I believe most do; it is always front and center as the primary reality in how humans have organized themselves at this later date of the wobbling U.S. empire.
In fact I've considered the U.S. military the blunt force trauma dispensing unit of the drug-peddling Owner class for decades now, the CIA-MI-6 the Praetorian guard for Wall Street, City of London, etc. I think most people tend to turn such disturbing knowledge off and go back to the semi-comforting arms of the carefully calculated and dispensed reality provided to them by the social scientists and tech platforms that aid and abet the Owners with their dispensed reality that keeps the masses in check and fearing stepping out of line.
It remains a conundrum as to how we can actually get ourselves unstuck and move toward a higher level of values, the ones we know absolutely as being necessary for a more provident society, one that does not compel especially its young into the desperation of drugs.
Truthfully, I believe only Eastern Orthodoxy at this time holds out the power to be the bulwark vs these dark forces if we are to stand any chance at all for a better world. Mr Putin has so much on his shoulders. But I also believe he has divine assistance.
I'm saying the above having been pretty much a lifelong agnostic since becoming an adult.
A brief mention of an always overlooked factor in bank fines: sometime in Obama's second term Jamie Dimon got together with Attorney General Eric Holder and devised a sweet little deal in the banking regulations that gave the big banks the ability (the free pass) to write off on their income taxes any bank fines that came their way to the tune of 75%. Either way, they never pay.
Thanks again for your clarity and choice of subject matter, I always learn from you. Which reminds me: I sometimes wonder if Bill Browder has employed an interior decorator for his special place in Hell...? And how it would be fitting if he were Chrystia Freeland's immediate neighbor as she eternally nags and throws pots and pans at Justin Castreaux.
Alex, this is all control fraud as exposed by William K. Black. Those in control knowingly create policies and an environment where underlings are able to meet targets only by committing fraud. Since the boss never explicitly ordered the underling to commit fraud, he can claim innocence. Meanwhile, subordinates who fail to meet targets are removed for poor performance.
The underling works directly with a criminal like Al Capone, charging him fees far outside market prices. Capone may even be named in reports available to the CEO or staff. When questioned about the arrangements and the outsized profits, the CEO is "Shocked! Shocked that liquor is being served in this establishment!" He had no idea who Al Capone was!
We like to think of Ukraine as being the most corrupt country in the world, but it doesn't hold a candle to the control fraud and political payoffs rampant in the West. It's been the driving force behind the S&L scandal in the late '80s, the derivatives frauds in 2008, what you describe and everything in between.
Yrs, except all bankers must comply with KYC requirements which should preclude them from claiming ignorance and shock about some client whk is generating them 100s of millions in deposits. They MUST know. Of course, different rules apply for them.
Offshore havens, no tax, no accounting, no reporting. A real spider's web.
Just for example, Thatcher's Al Yamamah (dove of peace!) arms-for-oil with BAE and Saudi - $50 billion vanished into that spider's web, the slush fund for 9/11 , the attack on the US , and ISIS etc.
The US has been a target ever since Lincoln sent Britain's CSA packing. McKinley, Lincoln, JFK, RFK, 9/11, drugs, CRT , Ukraine.
The US Constitution was a huge upheaval, unique. Still today the bulwark against the Oligarchy, under siege.
What happened in the last week involving US Gov't funding and Ukraine :
Mexican military is taking control of ports of entry.
To shut down banksters, concurrently with controlling cartel supply chokepoints, could be effective.
Can and will they execute!?
"...the army and navy will manage more than a dozen civilian airports, the national customs agency, maritime ports and two new train lines. There are plans for an army-run passenger airline to start operations in December, reviving the name of Mexicana de Aviación, which went bust in 2010. Hotels and nature reserves will follow...."
Excellent article, as always! I would add that I think the City of London and Panama have a special place in this too. While money laundering in jurisdictions like the US and EU is undoubtedly common, there is always the risk of some whistle blower or over zealous regulator, whereas in the City of London and Panama they are wholly unconstrained.
A great example of banks being the true gangsters is the movie Scarface. In the movie Tony Montana is laundering so much money that the banks decide they need to start charging him more to do so. This causes Tony to try laundering it through a mob connection, who is actually law enforcement, and Tony gets busted. Had the bank not gotten greedy they could have continued laundering his millions indefinitely, though they probably did anyway via the next cocaine kingpin.
I saw you on a pod cast where the topic of population was discussed. Although there were interesting points made (how is the number arrived at and is it over stated), I think it's a mistake to think the population can grow without limit. Sure modern agriculture can sustain more people than previously thought, however, should the population grow unbounded? Malthus's thesis is fundamentally correct. Ultimately it a question of quantity of life vs quality of life. Fortunately, for most developed nations, their populations are in decline because of lower fertility rates. It's in the third world where the population bomb is more of an issue. The solution for developed countries is simple. Stop mass migration! This causes massive social disruptions and problems as seen in countries like Sweden.
I'm on board with your thesis that governments are waging wars on their citizens. That is self evident. No need to go along with the low brow conservatives on the population issue.
Do you think the excess fentanyl supply which has flooded American over the past few years has anything to do the excess supply’s made by China during the pandemic? Hospitals don’t need as much now.
I din't know. I keep hearing, China this, China that... but if you try to find iut anything sprcific and concrete about it, you can't. It's like Saddam's WMDs.
As you rightly pointed out in your video links Alex. Deliberate horse manure conveyed by American government agencies and media, to disguise the true drug dealers (big banks and big pharma), addicted to money and greed. Thank you for your insights 👌let’s hope they too die a sorry and painful death.
Thank you Vivien. Myself, I'd prefer to see them imprisoned for life on a diet of insect protein and quarterly boosters. And also 100% expropriation of all family assets.
Excellent. disturbing and right on the money. a glimpse into the hell the West has become - their crimes in the south were always an Indication of what would happen in the hearland
I was speaking with a retired surgeon at a local gym I go to, we were talking about sport injuries and such, said that in 2013 the hospital administration requested that he not prescribed pain relievers to his patients. He scoffed, and continued his prescribing, however he noticed that fentanyl was making its debut in the city, and drew his conclusions. This Coordinations of hospitals, not prescribing vicoden or hydrocodone to their patients that have chronic pain lead to this outcome of
Illegal sourcing. Even a herb from Asia will be banned if its found to have pain relieving qualities with no addiction or side effects. Compared to Tylenol or nsaid hydrocodone is safer for long term use.
The first time I found a very important piece of information on the internet, then found all traces of it had disappeared from any kind of search I could carry out?
Around the beginning of 2001, I accessed a PhD dissertation in economics which showed in easily understood language and with verifiable data/statistical maths that banks which were willing to serve black ops of state intelligence agencies, international drug cartels and similar level financially involved criminal enterprises derived sufficient competitive advantages from such activities over (more) law abiding financial institutions as to inevitably drive them from the marketplace/buy them out.
I did not realize I needed to make an offline copy of this information at that time. I did bookmark it. A couple of years later, the link was dead. And with no trace I could find of that paper anywhere.
Nothing I have seen since has convinced me that the premise of that paper was incorrect.
Great and timely article Alex. Thank you. I was just reading the Story of the Committee of 300 by Dr. John Coleman. Yep, he calls the drug project as part of their culling. Make it easily available so that people off themselves basically, and help to create Chaos for the rest. Sickening.... but we are watching in unfold. They banksters/destroyers want total eradication of ethics/morals.... as I believe Alistair Crooke said (a few days ago in some interview ) that it is a new Cold War against Traditional Values. So true.
C Lagarde recently explained to us that citizens in the EU who paid more than 1000 euros in a cash transaction had entered an illegal grey zone. This despite her own condemnation for criminal negligence involving hundreds of millions of euros. Her predecessor C Trichet was involved in the Credit Lyonnais scandal (prosecuted but not condemned). Thanks for reminding us how dangerous and immoral these people are.
"While the country was under military control of the US and its NATO allies (including Ukraine), Afghan heroin production exploded: in 2001, Afghanistan had 8,000 hectares under poppy crops; in 2016, they had 200,000 hectares - a 25-fold increase. This increase had a direct impact on heroin addiction in the US: in 2000, there were 189,000 Heroin addicts in the US; in 2016, there were 4.5 million - a 24-fold increase (these figures were cited by MEP Ivan Pernar in an EU Parliament speech on 12 April 2017)."
This is probably one of the few cases where correlation DOES imply causation!
It could go either way -- (1) the Afghans responded to an increase in demand by growing more dope; or (2) the users responded to an increase in supply buy using more.
One way to clarify which is the driver here is to look at prices over the same time period: if prices went up, likely #1; if down, then #2. It is also possible that both #1 and #2 were present to a certain extent (in which cases prices would remain stable) or that both factors were responding to some other, as yet unidentified, third factor.
Correlation/causality is indeed a complex issue, though by asking the right questions the truth can often be determined.
The Taliban explicitly set out to destroy opium cultivation in Afghanistan and succeeded in the 1990s. Then the West comes in and cultivation explodes. Then the Taliban come back in and once more successfully destroy opium cultivation in Afghanistan. You don't need a complex analysis to understand this, if the West was serious about curbing opium cultivation they could have done what the Taliban have done twice. For the poppies to get out of Afghanistan and processed, the connivance of the occupation forces and Pakistani intelligence was also required.
Yes, of course, but still the correlation - causation still holds either way! :)
Only if hypothesis #1 or #2 is correct, or if a third factor is involved causally.
It is also possible that there appears to be a correlation mathematically (which is the case here) but it is not causal. It is human nature to infer causality in these situations, which is why we must be particularly aware of this, and of confirmation bias (we presume that things must be in accordance with our pre-existing belief system).
It is most often possible to resolve these situations by asking the right question. Answering that question may take quite a bit of work though -- one of the reasons people like the MSM (the home field of confirmation bias) never bother.
The right question is: does the cia like selling drugs? The right answer is yes
🤣💯
Excellent, Alex. You are of a rare breed which brings such clarity to the under-riding issues that lurk behind the headlines. If and when there are any headlines, which seems to be rarer and rarer when the focus is turned on the truly high crimes and their criminals.
I'm old enough, elderly in fact, to have had enough glimpses into this world of high finance druggery and its marriage to national governments---these lowest of miscreants---that I actually carry the reality of it with me every day and long into the night. That we are indeed ruled by such a criminal class is now a given to me, I don't compartmentalize it like I believe most do; it is always front and center as the primary reality in how humans have organized themselves at this later date of the wobbling U.S. empire.
In fact I've considered the U.S. military the blunt force trauma dispensing unit of the drug-peddling Owner class for decades now, the CIA-MI-6 the Praetorian guard for Wall Street, City of London, etc. I think most people tend to turn such disturbing knowledge off and go back to the semi-comforting arms of the carefully calculated and dispensed reality provided to them by the social scientists and tech platforms that aid and abet the Owners with their dispensed reality that keeps the masses in check and fearing stepping out of line.
It remains a conundrum as to how we can actually get ourselves unstuck and move toward a higher level of values, the ones we know absolutely as being necessary for a more provident society, one that does not compel especially its young into the desperation of drugs.
Truthfully, I believe only Eastern Orthodoxy at this time holds out the power to be the bulwark vs these dark forces if we are to stand any chance at all for a better world. Mr Putin has so much on his shoulders. But I also believe he has divine assistance.
I'm saying the above having been pretty much a lifelong agnostic since becoming an adult.
A brief mention of an always overlooked factor in bank fines: sometime in Obama's second term Jamie Dimon got together with Attorney General Eric Holder and devised a sweet little deal in the banking regulations that gave the big banks the ability (the free pass) to write off on their income taxes any bank fines that came their way to the tune of 75%. Either way, they never pay.
Thanks again for your clarity and choice of subject matter, I always learn from you. Which reminds me: I sometimes wonder if Bill Browder has employed an interior decorator for his special place in Hell...? And how it would be fitting if he were Chrystia Freeland's immediate neighbor as she eternally nags and throws pots and pans at Justin Castreaux.
That's very kind David, thank you!
The post-GFC bank fines were all out of court settlements. Paid, not to the gov, but to third party NGO's and other Democrat causes.
WOW! Brilliant!! Thank you!
Thank you!
Alex, this is all control fraud as exposed by William K. Black. Those in control knowingly create policies and an environment where underlings are able to meet targets only by committing fraud. Since the boss never explicitly ordered the underling to commit fraud, he can claim innocence. Meanwhile, subordinates who fail to meet targets are removed for poor performance.
The underling works directly with a criminal like Al Capone, charging him fees far outside market prices. Capone may even be named in reports available to the CEO or staff. When questioned about the arrangements and the outsized profits, the CEO is "Shocked! Shocked that liquor is being served in this establishment!" He had no idea who Al Capone was!
We like to think of Ukraine as being the most corrupt country in the world, but it doesn't hold a candle to the control fraud and political payoffs rampant in the West. It's been the driving force behind the S&L scandal in the late '80s, the derivatives frauds in 2008, what you describe and everything in between.
Yrs, except all bankers must comply with KYC requirements which should preclude them from claiming ignorance and shock about some client whk is generating them 100s of millions in deposits. They MUST know. Of course, different rules apply for them.
Not so easy to even find the money. Shaxson has 2 books, and this documentary:
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | Documentary Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
Offshore havens, no tax, no accounting, no reporting. A real spider's web.
Just for example, Thatcher's Al Yamamah (dove of peace!) arms-for-oil with BAE and Saudi - $50 billion vanished into that spider's web, the slush fund for 9/11 , the attack on the US , and ISIS etc.
The US has been a target ever since Lincoln sent Britain's CSA packing. McKinley, Lincoln, JFK, RFK, 9/11, drugs, CRT , Ukraine.
The US Constitution was a huge upheaval, unique. Still today the bulwark against the Oligarchy, under siege.
What happened in the last week involving US Gov't funding and Ukraine :
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-gaetz-announces-motion-oust-mccarthy-speaker-after-secret-ukraine-deal
Mexican military is taking control of ports of entry.
To shut down banksters, concurrently with controlling cartel supply chokepoints, could be effective.
Can and will they execute!?
"...the army and navy will manage more than a dozen civilian airports, the national customs agency, maritime ports and two new train lines. There are plans for an army-run passenger airline to start operations in December, reviving the name of Mexicana de Aviación, which went bust in 2010. Hotels and nature reserves will follow...."
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/anybody_notice_mexico_is_being_taken_over_by_the_military.html
Excellent article, as always! I would add that I think the City of London and Panama have a special place in this too. While money laundering in jurisdictions like the US and EU is undoubtedly common, there is always the risk of some whistle blower or over zealous regulator, whereas in the City of London and Panama they are wholly unconstrained.
A great example of banks being the true gangsters is the movie Scarface. In the movie Tony Montana is laundering so much money that the banks decide they need to start charging him more to do so. This causes Tony to try laundering it through a mob connection, who is actually law enforcement, and Tony gets busted. Had the bank not gotten greedy they could have continued laundering his millions indefinitely, though they probably did anyway via the next cocaine kingpin.
Hmm... Hollywood sometimes knows how shit works...
Alex,
I saw you on a pod cast where the topic of population was discussed. Although there were interesting points made (how is the number arrived at and is it over stated), I think it's a mistake to think the population can grow without limit. Sure modern agriculture can sustain more people than previously thought, however, should the population grow unbounded? Malthus's thesis is fundamentally correct. Ultimately it a question of quantity of life vs quality of life. Fortunately, for most developed nations, their populations are in decline because of lower fertility rates. It's in the third world where the population bomb is more of an issue. The solution for developed countries is simple. Stop mass migration! This causes massive social disruptions and problems as seen in countries like Sweden.
I'm on board with your thesis that governments are waging wars on their citizens. That is self evident. No need to go along with the low brow conservatives on the population issue.
UGH. Thanks for laying this all out.
Do you think the excess fentanyl supply which has flooded American over the past few years has anything to do the excess supply’s made by China during the pandemic? Hospitals don’t need as much now.
I din't know. I keep hearing, China this, China that... but if you try to find iut anything sprcific and concrete about it, you can't. It's like Saddam's WMDs.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/23/us-charges-chinese-companies-with-trafficking-fentanyl-materials
As you rightly pointed out in your video links Alex. Deliberate horse manure conveyed by American government agencies and media, to disguise the true drug dealers (big banks and big pharma), addicted to money and greed. Thank you for your insights 👌let’s hope they too die a sorry and painful death.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/whats-behind-the-spike-in-fentanyl-overdoses-in-mexico/id1438817292?i=1000623632457
Thank you Vivien. Myself, I'd prefer to see them imprisoned for life on a diet of insect protein and quarterly boosters. And also 100% expropriation of all family assets.
Excellent. disturbing and right on the money. a glimpse into the hell the West has become - their crimes in the south were always an Indication of what would happen in the hearland
Thank you Tom!
I was speaking with a retired surgeon at a local gym I go to, we were talking about sport injuries and such, said that in 2013 the hospital administration requested that he not prescribed pain relievers to his patients. He scoffed, and continued his prescribing, however he noticed that fentanyl was making its debut in the city, and drew his conclusions. This Coordinations of hospitals, not prescribing vicoden or hydrocodone to their patients that have chronic pain lead to this outcome of
Illegal sourcing. Even a herb from Asia will be banned if its found to have pain relieving qualities with no addiction or side effects. Compared to Tylenol or nsaid hydrocodone is safer for long term use.
The first time I found a very important piece of information on the internet, then found all traces of it had disappeared from any kind of search I could carry out?
Around the beginning of 2001, I accessed a PhD dissertation in economics which showed in easily understood language and with verifiable data/statistical maths that banks which were willing to serve black ops of state intelligence agencies, international drug cartels and similar level financially involved criminal enterprises derived sufficient competitive advantages from such activities over (more) law abiding financial institutions as to inevitably drive them from the marketplace/buy them out.
I did not realize I needed to make an offline copy of this information at that time. I did bookmark it. A couple of years later, the link was dead. And with no trace I could find of that paper anywhere.
Nothing I have seen since has convinced me that the premise of that paper was incorrect.
The fact that it vanished is a good confirmation that it was over the target.
Great and timely article Alex. Thank you. I was just reading the Story of the Committee of 300 by Dr. John Coleman. Yep, he calls the drug project as part of their culling. Make it easily available so that people off themselves basically, and help to create Chaos for the rest. Sickening.... but we are watching in unfold. They banksters/destroyers want total eradication of ethics/morals.... as I believe Alistair Crooke said (a few days ago in some interview ) that it is a new Cold War against Traditional Values. So true.
Thank you, Jono!