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Ambushing Germany, February 1931

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  A most important event  in February 1931 was Hitler’s visit with his personal banker at Merck Finck & Co ( link ) August von Finck( link ) on the third, to raise 13 billion Reichsmarks ($3billion, that much in $20 gold coins weighed 307,328 kilos) for the National Socialist party campaign. Why? Over in Geneva , League of Nations cartel experts had been meeting since 1920, all the while demanding Germany make regular payments in restitution for damage done to “Allied” (U.S. not included) nations AND ban a bunch of drugs.  Versailles Treaty Article 23 read the same as League of Nations Charter Article 23, which repeated the 1912 Hague Convention demands that Germany produce less morphine and cocaine.  By the first week of 1929, these prohibitionist demands had jelled into U.S.-backed plans to cause every country in the world to enter into a combination to limit production to whatever governments said was the right amount. Of course they would have to divide ...

Ambushing Germany, January 1931

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  Ambushing Germany, January 1931 Leave a comment Rate This Besides enforcing felony beer, the Hoover Admin. also funded exportation of drug laws worldwide Did you know that in February 1931 President Herbert Hoover pardoned a prohibition law violator? That same month he signed a bill to deport “drug violators” and later an Executive Order making it difficult for women to become citizens by marriage? Do you believe that making beer an asset-forfeiture felony and paying the League of Nations to extend Harrison Act bans worldwide had nothing to do with the 1929 Crash, 1930-33 banking panics and great Depression? Brace yourself. Here you will see newspaper headlines anyone can look up at a library–yet omitted from subsidized & paywalled academia. Blow-by-blow, every move in the game up to the final ambush of Germany by countries that were NOT America’s Allies in WW1 will unfold before thine eyes. January 1931: Al Capone’s buddy Frank Nitti was already doing time for tax ev...

Prohibition, crises and War in the 1930s

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  Typical drug manufactures chart, 1930 No American schoolbook mentioned the Opium Wars  until Brian Inglis published The Opium War in 1976, the election year the Libertarian Party ran its second slate of candidates demanding repeal of drug prohibition laws. The audiobook version is now available.( link )  Brian's other drug book, the Forbidden Game, gives further insights into how prohibitionism developed as a cudgel with which pharma cartels wielded government laws as marketing tools and double-edged weapons once the colonial harnessing of addiction was out of the bag.( link ) The link between the dragooning of political States into marketing tools and weapons of economic warfare is not the sort of thing those political states extoll with pride. Enormous effort goes into disguising the fact made plain by Adam Smith in 1775 that wars prohibiting production and trade necessarily wreck national economies, just as purging the violence of law from trade relations gives rise ...