The Opium Wars were among the most inhumane and socially devastating events in human history. These wars, which occurred between 1839 and 1858, were b...
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The Opium Wars were among the most inhumane and socially devastating events in human history. These wars, which occurred between 1839 and 1858, were brought upon the Chinese people by the British government acting on behalf of British and American merchants like an Russell & Company, who intended to defy the Chinese government’s ban on opium trading.
It was Russell & Company’s business partner, William Jardine of Jardine Matheson, who successfully persuaded the British Foreign Minister, Lord Palmerston, to wage war on China. As a result of these attacks, the British merchants were able to force Turkish opium upon China, thereby making enormous fortunes paid in silver. By 1906, after several generations of this forced drug trade, opium victims in China were estimated to number 100 million.
China ceded Hong Kong to the British in 1842 as part of an early defeat. Jardine Matheson was one of the opium trading companies that survived for much longer in Hong Kong, being taken over by Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing in 1980. Li Ka-shing later invested in firms owned by Winston Partners, and has also employed Winston Partners cofounder Marvin Bush's brother, Neil Bush, as a consultant.
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As opium traders during and after the Opium Wars, Russell & Company were agents of merchant banks like Baring Brothers and N.M. Rothschild. Initially, the banks funded the purchase of the opium, and Russell & Company sailed to make the purchase and subsequently smuggled the drugs into China, making tremendous fees for their work as operatives in the drug trade. The company’s biggest client, Baring Brothers, was agent for the US government between 1843 and 1871, and actually sold the Louisiana Purchase to the US. Baring Brothers was later agent for the British government and had a close relationship with the British monarchy from 1891 to 1995.
The fortunes that Russell & Company invested in US railroads and other infrastructure were the spoils from The Opium Wars.
They are also related to some important people. President Roosevelt’s grandfather, Warren Delano, was the head of Russell & Company from 1840 to 1842.
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Afganistan 2001
Prawdziwy powód ataku na Afganistan jest taki, że talibański lider, mułła Omar, w lipcu 2000 zakazał produkcji opium, i tegoroczne zbiory zostały zniszczone. Później z armii USA wyciekają informacje, że USA przygotowywały inwazję na Afganistan już od roku.
Przypomina to wydarzenia z 1839 roku, gdy chiński cesarz Manchu nakazał niszczenie opium, by powstrzymać coraz bardziej masowe uzależnienie Chińczyków.
Rodzina Rothschildów przekupiła wówczas brytyjski rząd, by jego armia osłaniała w Chinach ich narkotykowe interesy. Zaczęły się wojny opiumowe, które trwały 25 lat, i na których powstały fortuny słupów Rothschildów, jak np przodków prezydenta Busha. W 2001 to samo zrobiła amerykańska armia.
Afganistan jest źródłem 75% światowej produkcji heroiny, i wobec niszczenia opium przez mułłę Omara nie było czasu do stracenia by zagwarantować dostawy na kolejny rok. Dlatego inwazja rozpoczyna się w październiku 2001, i parę miesięcy potem media donoszą o rekordowych zbiorach opium w marcu 2002.