CAUSES OF RECESSIONS

 

This is a chart of the unemployment rate, not stock prices

The UN replaced the League as Global Prohibition Organizer in 1945, after the opium war historians obediently refer to as WW2. This made sense the same way transferring the banning of plant leaves from the Hague to The League--by way of the Treaty of Versailles--made sense. After all, that early effort had appeased China into calling off its boycott of U.S. goods. But it also resulted in two Balkan Wars and WW1 as the members of the Opium Advisory Committee gleefully wielded the Versailles Treaty and Geneva dope convention as a club with which to put competitors--such as Germany and cannabis--at a disadvantage. 

Few perceived the connection between the forced financial oscillations of 1927, 1928, 1929 and waves of banking panics that swept the USA with the income tax was weaponized against the twin evils of the alcohol and drug traffic. But America's homegrown alcohol industry and the burgeoning drug trade which flowed in to occupy part of alcohol's market niche since 1920 felt the causality on their hides. The worst of the 1929 market breaks came when the Opium Advisory Committee handed its recommendation that the League organize a global crackdown on the production of not just addictive narcotics, but any leaf, twig, vine, tea, cactus or fungus capable of inducing any pleasure whatsoever. This occurred the first week of September, 1929, and the markets never recovered until war broke out anew in 1939. 

With the Al Capone tax case as background, and with aid and comfort provided by Hoover Appointee Harry Anslinger in 1931, U.S. policies wrecked Germany's drug industry, toppling the house of cards whereby Germany had been making reparations payments to debt-laden Allies. Germany's chemical industries reacted by financing the truculent and xenophobic National Socialist Party. Herbert Hoover Prohibitionists concurrently had the bad luck of zealously wrecking the U.S. economy and were ostracized from executive office shortly after Hitler's elevation to power--for two decades!

Soon after the usual war, prohibitionists in 1949 renewed their vow to rename everything a narcotic and ban it globally. That pledge was renewed in 1958 so March 1961 brought the "Single" global prohibitionist convention with its calendar. With JFK out of the way, Nixon rampaged in 1969 and a drug recession resulted. Asset forfeiture was weaponized in 1971. Then came "Psychotropic", then War on Drugs, then the MAR 1972 plot to revisit 1961 promises to ban stuff with its 15-year deadline... meaning 1986! Reagan timely revived global prohibitionism, the Crash crashed in 1987. Bush2 hoisted the sumptuary banner urging cops to practice faith-based asset forfeiture looting of homes. Suddenly 2008 mortgage derivatives Crash gets Obama elected in a Great Recession. Wallace/Reagan voters wail "a Black America will lose its greatness" (Ole Miss, 1962). Gary Johnson redealt 127 electoral votes & accidentally squeaked Trump into office. Is any of his true? How does the record look? Do recessions accompany laws making production and trade a crime? 

03DEC1949: 1. The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, by resolution 689 J (XXVI) of 28 July 1958, decided to convene in accordance with Article 62, paragraph 4, of the Charter of the United Nations, and with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 366 (IV) of 3 DECEMBER 1949, a plenipotentiary conference for the adoption of a single convention on narcotic drugs. Seventy-three countries were drawn into its web. Ten years later gestation was well under weigh and pecking order firmly established. Observe the onset of recession-level unemployment in the chart above.  

28JUL1959: from 03DEC1949: 1. The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, by resolution 689 J (XXVI) of 28 July 1958, decided to convene in accordance with Article 62, paragraph 4, of the Charter of the United Nations, and with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 366 (IV) of 3 December 1949, a plenipotentiary conference for the adoption of a single convention on narcotic drugs. Background to this was the December 1949 resolution, coinciding with recession-level unemployment in the chart above.  

30MAR1961: ...and the term "Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs" means the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs signed at New York, New York, on March 30, 1961. Recommends that the Parties: 1. Should bear in mind that drug addiction is often the result of an unwholesome social atmosphere in which those who are most exposed to the danger of drug abuse live; 2. Should do everything in their power to combat the spread of the illicit use of drugs; Nixon was defeated and this version contained no 25-year deadline for enacting worldwide prohibitions in 1986. Yet the recession in the chart above indicates someone had a bad feeling about all this prohibitionism.

21SEP1969: Operation Intercept was an anti-drug measure engaged by President Richard Nixon—effective 21 September – 11 October 1969—that resulted in a near shutdown of border crossings between Mexico and the United States. Observe the close fit with the 1969-70 recession in the chart above, well before the so-called "Nixon Shock."

27OCT1970: [To accompany H.R. 1658] July 1999 (https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/106th-congress/house-report/192/1)

The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of October 27, 1970 made civil forfeiture a weapon in the war against drugs. Here too, note the recession bar conjoined with the 1969 violence of law date in the graph above. 

21FEB1971: (31) The term "Convention on Psychotropic Substances" means the Convention on Psychotropic Substances signed at Vienna, Austria, on February 21, 1971. Few Americans knew of this pincer movement. Many crashes and recessions occur as realization set in that bad things are about to happen. 17JUN1971 was when Nixon announced the "War On Drugs." Observe the lengthy recession bar not long afterward in the chart above. 

06MAR1972-24MAR1972: United Nations Conference to consider amendments to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, met at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Ninety-seven countries show up eager to have their economies destabilized through America-led asset-forfeiture looting, reefer madness, cocaine negroes. At this convention the 1961 original was retroactively jimmied to include in Article 14 a 25-year deadline for international banning of everything that could possibly be banned, which meant 30MAR1986, about the time Nancy and Ronald Reagan went Reefer Madness with Just Say No, mandatory testing, fining federal employees and invading other countries to loot assets and burn crops. Once realization dawned as to what had transpired in, lengthy recession set in before 1974 through into 1975. Unemployment never dropped back to its palmy 1969 levels until Obama left Office. 

We'll be looking at more Prohibition Panic coincidences with this same unemployment chart, so stay tuned.  

Good Reading: A Religious Orgy In Tennessee, by HL Mencken.(link) I found the paperback overseas, and well worth the price. The chapters are Mencken’s own reporting on the Scopes Trial in Tennessee’s prohibitionist War on Science and Education. Most striking are the parallels between the book burning yokels of 1925 Dayton and today’s national resurgence of White Stupremacy no less deplorable. (link) 

Find out the juicy details behind the mother of all economic collapses. Prohibition and The Crash–Cause and Effect in 1929 is available in two languages on Amazon Kindle, as cheap as a pint of craft beer.

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the Hollywood-style beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Brazilian blog… Expatriotas

American blog… Libertariantranslator, with contact form

ASYLUM APPLICATION FORM i589 INSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE: INSTRUÇÕES PARA O FORMULÁRIO DE ASILO i589. What we did was make the instructions accessible to and understandable by people accustomed to thinking in Portuguese. This costs one dollar ($1) and you can read it on a cellphone with the Kindle app.(link)

Connecting Prohibition, Crash, War dots

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 to the Wealth of Nations.(link) As Smith cannily observed "We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen."

So ingrained by conditioning is blindness to the prima facie obviousness that banning trade brings Panics, Crashes, Depressions and War that the very suggestion that Prohibitions on commerce--be it of liquor, drugs or books--elicits an almost instinctive skeptical reaction worthy of the attention of the son of a deputy opium inspector second-class. Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was in fact just such a son and in 1930 wrote a book the publication and sale of which was soon banned throughout the British Empire.(link) This blog mostly unfolds a tale of the whys and wherefores of this censorship. You and I are examining the facts it conditions people to ignore by methods proven to sell liquor and cigarettes.(link)

The chart above claims that German production of morphine fell in 1930 to a level lower than the previous five years of rapid population growth. Nobody mentions that American prohibition laws urged ahead by Chinese trade boycotts as of 1905, had expanded internationally via the Hague until war exploded in morphine-exporting Europe. The Versailles surrender treaty operated by the League of Nations took over drug cartel prohibitionism--in its Article 23--and also demanded Germany pay war reparations to the European victors. German morphine found its way to the USA as a replacement for alcohol, but those clandestine exports were hampered by the establishment of the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs on 15DEC1920, the day before liquor was banned by U.S. law. The subsequent  Jones-Miller Act of 26MAY1922 creating Federal Narcotics Control Board soon played a role in wrecking the German economy.(link) Government schools elide these laws and focus instead on French incursions into Germany's Ruhr region and the horrors of hyperinflation.(link) 

America's War On Beer and Gin led to enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment via the Income Tax Amendment. This method leaked over into so-called "narcotics" as of 16MAY1927, and all German industrial output fell sharply, as the 1927 morphine bar shows on the League of Nations chart above. That same politician, Wesley Livsey Jones, wrote a law making even beer offenses a felony in March 1929, one month after the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee meeting in Geneva spent two weeks in lively discussions of ways to enforce prohibitions on the "illicit" traffic in what it called "dangerous drugs." 

The word CRASH described the U.S. financial situation in Time Magazine in its 21APR1929 edition.(link) But the word CRASH soon returned to journalistic vernacular, for the Opium Advisory Committee turned its report and recommendations over to the League of Nations which met on 02SEP1929. These came complete with Chinese recommendations that drug manufactures be limited by government fiat and that China be given a world monopoly on producing opiates. Three days earlier, talks on war reparations payments at the Hague were concluded. Check any interactive chart and you can see that stock prices changed from rising to falling on 03SEP1929. There are lots more of these examples. 

Good reading: The Forbidden Game: A Social History of Drugs, Kindle Edition, by Brian Inglis. This brilliant Irishman assembled a fluent and readable history of the way prohibitionism extended its reach throughout all global trade and production. (link)

Find out the juicy details behind the mother of all economic collapses. Prohibition and The Crash–Cause and Effect in 1929 is available in two languages on Amazon Kindle, as cheap as a pint of craft beer.

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the Hollywood-style beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Brazilian blog… Expatriotas

American blog… Libertariantranslator, with contact form

ASYLUM APPLICATION FORM i589 INSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE: INSTRUÇÕES PARA O FORMULÁRIO DE ASILO i589. What we did was make the instructions accessible to and understandable by people accustomed to thinking in Portuguese. This costs one dollar ($1) and you can read it on a cellphone with the Kindle app.(link)

Behind the Scenes in 1929

 

Off with their heads! Qing prohibitionism

On the 17th of January, 1929, the League Of Nations' coryphaeus of opium prohibitionism met in Geneva to deliberate on the initiation of deadly force in furtherance of prohibitions outlawing production and trade. On September 2, this Opium Advisory Committee recommended that the League organize gangs to kill, imprison and confiscate throughout the entire planet, as the Republicans had done in the USA. As of March 2, 1929, beer and wine made one liable to five years in jail and a fine of about 14 pounds of gold.(link) Stock markets shriveled and interest rates climbed steeply. 

All that remained was for Europe to withdraw investments from the USA, as England had done when China, in December of 1836, invited the East India Company opium dealers to leave.  Germany--the world's premier heroin producer even before the First World War--stood threatened by the Christian fascism of compulsory abstinence. Japan was the only Asian country that confessed to being a cocaine producer--for which non-addictive stimulant there was a "huge black market" all over Asia. That same Advisory Committee met again January 20th to February 14th 1930, this time entertaining suggestions that China ought to be given a global monopoly on production of opiate narcotics. Is it any surprise that Japan and Germany were the first countries to abandon the League of Nations and join together as allies against all who supported the global exportation of Sino-American prohibitionism?

The mechanism was similar to that of the Panic of 1837. China in 1936 sent away the British dealers and Britain liquidated American bonds to finance the Opium Wars. Similarly, the Crash of 1929 turned into an avalanche in 1930, the year , and the export of violent prohibitionism blew up the German economy with the Convention on the Limitation of "narcotics", i.e. EVERYTHING, which hit in June-July 1931. Wars are born from that. See what a Republican congressman published that month: 

See 16JUN1931, Germany in collapse (link)

Government Control of Narcotics Urged as Crime Deterrent--by HAMILTON FISH JR., 43, former NY assemblyman elected to Congress for NY District 26 in 1919, and has been returned each term since. 

"The illegitimate drug trade should be out in the same category as piracy, calling for the full exercise of naval, military and police powers of all nations to combat its spread as was done against the slave traffic. 

In spite of pious pronouncements by civilized nations, the main difficulty in combatting the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs is the apparent willingness on the part of certain nations to produce or manufacture narcotics many times the amount required for the legitimate use of science or medicine. The flow of dangerous, habit-forming illicit narcotics of Europe and Asia into the United States continue in spite of international agreements and pious pronouncements. 

There are a number of large international drug rings operating in the United States, backed by ample capital and guided by shrewd and unscrupulous minds. The profits are so enormous that the underworld crooks do not hesitate to take any kind of risk to smuggle narcotics, easily secured from factories in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Turkey and Japan, into the United States and then through well-developed operations to deliver those evil drugs into every state and city in this country. 

The crime wave which has assumed such terrible proportions in the United States is largely attributable to smuggled heroin and cocaine and other vicious drugs. One-third of all the inmates of our federal prisons are addicts or violators of our narcotics laws. It is estimated by reliable authorities that 50% of the crimes of violence can be traced back to some form of drugs. 

Every available weapon must be brought into use against these smugglers in habit-forming drugs, particularly against the higher-ups in the big international dope rings, who are worse than murderers. /meaning worse than prohibition agents/ We have remained silent and have tolerated their insults and their criminal activities far too long. 

The narcotics traffic is world-wide and it is essential that there should be unity and cooperation among the great nations, in order to secure enforcements and control the manufacturer of habit-forming drugs in all nations of the world by their own governments. [this while the Narcotics Limitation Convention is riveted onto Germany, the world's largest exporter of heroin, now in demand thanks to the prohibition of beer and wine as narcotic liquor. Fish made a similar speech over the radio May 28. Hitler met Baron August von Finck and raised 13 million Reichsmarks February 3.] 

This hit the news while the Convention on the Limitation of Narcotic Drugs was targeting Germany, the world's largest exporter of heroin, a product for which there was an exaggerated demand thanks to the prohibition of beer and wine as narcotic drinks in the USA. Fish had delivered a similar speech on May 28, and throughout the Hoover administration he had been agitating in Congress and in meetings with the America's first Quaker President. 

Almost a year earlier, the US signed an extradition treaty with Germany, clause 7 of which provided for extradition for piracy and 28 for crimes or incidents of drug trafficking. Bigwigs, even millionaires from Germany's chemical and pharmaceutical companies could have been dragged off in handcuffs to the fanatical United States if Deputy Fish had been taken at his word. 

Hitler had a meeting four months earlier, in February, with Baron August von Finck (of Merck) and raised 13 million Reichsmarks for his election campaign.(link) The Baron's son was one of the biggest backers financing the current German party of positive Christianity during the rise of Donald Trump. (link) Germans refer to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a Nazi-fascist party, and rarely miss a chance to embarrass the U.S. Libertarian Party--infiltrated since May 2022 by the prophets of von Mises---whose institute is also funded by billionaires descended from Nazis.(link) U.S. meddling had some really unexpected consequences then, and now. 

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Good reading: The Forbidden Game: A Social History of Drugs, Kindle Edition, by Brian Inglis. This brilliant Irishman assembled a fluent and readable history of the way prohibitionism extended its reach throughout all global trade and production. (link)

Find out the juicy details behind the mother of all economic collapses. Prohibition and The Crash–Cause and Effect in 1929 is available in two languages on Amazon Kindle, as cheap as a pint of craft beer.

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the Hollywood-style beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Brazilian blog… Expatriotas

American blog… Libertariantranslator, with contact form

ASYLUM APPLICATION FORM i589 INSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE: INSTRUÇÕES PARA O FORMULÁRIO DE ASILO i589. What we did was make the instructions accessible to and understandable by people accustomed to thinking in Portuguese. This costs one dollar ($1) and you can read it on a cellphone with the Kindle app.(link)

  

1987 Crash: Naming Names

What happened after a Republican fanatic was reelected, 1986.

Reagan Speech: There've been some real champions in the battle to get this legislation through Congress: Senators Bob Dole, Robert Byrd, and Strom Thurmond; Congressmen Bob Michel, Jim Wright, Benjamin Gilman, Charles Rangel, and Jerry Lewis. I'd like to single out Senator Paula Hawkins in particular. She took this battle to the public and has been a driving force behind the effort to rid our society of drug abuse. Like Nancy, she made her commitment to fighting drugs long before it was the popular thing to do. This kind of honest, hard-working leadership is what makes all the difference. And now, Paula, if you and your colleagues will join Nancy and me, we will get on with the signing of that bill, making it the law of the land. 

Here are the names given "it," "the" law of the land. 

Signed by President.
10/27/1986:
Became Public Law No: 99-570.

TITLE(S): (italics indicate a title for a portion of a bill)
SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act of 1986
Career Criminal Amendments Act of 1986
Coast Guard Drug Interdiction and Law Enforcement Act of 1986
Comprehensive Money Laundering Prevention Act
Defense Narcotics Act of 1986
Designer Drug Enforcement Act of 1986
Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Act of 1986
Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986
Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986
Drug Enforcement Enhancement Act of 1986
Drug Eradication Act of 1986
Drug Smuggling Enforcement Act of 1986
Federal Employee Substance Abuse Education and Treatment Act of 1986
Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986
International Narcotics Control Act of 1986
Money Laundering Control Act of 1986
Narcotics Control Trade Act
Narcotics Penalties and Enforcement Act of 1986
National Antidrug Reorganization and Coordination Act
National Park Police Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act
Transportation Drug Act of 1986
U.S. Insular Areas Drug Abuse Act of 1986
White House Conference on Drug Abuse and Control Act of 1986
SHORT TITLE(S) AS PASSED HOUSE:
Omnibus Drug Enforcement, Education, and Control Act of 1986
Career Criminal Amendments Act of 1986
Coast Guard Drug Interdiction and Law Enforcement Act of 1986
Comprehensive Money Laundering Prevention Act
Defense Narcotics Act of 1986
Designer Drug Enforcement Act of 1986
Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Act of 1986
Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986
Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986
Drug Enforcement Enhancement Act of 1986
Drug Eradication Act of 1986
Drug Smuggling Enforcement Act of 1986
Federal Employee Substance Abuse Education and Treatment Act of 1986
Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986
International Narcotics Control Act of 1986
Money Laundering Control Act of 1986
Narcotics Control Trade Act
Narcotics Penalties and Enforcement Act of 1986
National Antidrug Reorganization and Coordination Act
National Park Police Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act
Transportation Drug Act of 1986
U.S. Insular Areas Drug Abuse Act of 1986
White House Conference on Drug Abuse and Control Act of 1986
SHORT TITLE(S) AS ENACTED:
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Amendments of 1986
Ballistic Knife Prohibition Act of 1986
Career Criminals Amendment Act of 1986
Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986
Continuing Drug Enterprise Act of 1986
Controlled Substances Import and Export Act Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986
Customs Enforcement Act of 1986
Defense Drug Interdiction Assistance Act
Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund Amendments Act of 1986
Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986
Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986
Drug Possession Penalty Act of 1986
Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act of 1986
Federal Employee Substance Abuse Education and Treatment Act of 1986
Freedom of Information Reform Act of 1986
Homeless Eligibility Clarification Act
Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986
International Narcotics Control Act of 1986
Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act of 1986
Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act
Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Improvements Act of 1986
Money Laundering Control Act of 1986
Narcotics Control Trade Act
Narcotics Penalties and Enforcement Act of 1986
National Antidrug Reorganization and Coordination Act
National Drug Interdiction Improvement Act of 1986
National Forest System Drug Control Act of 1986
National Park Police Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act
President's Media Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act
State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1986
United States Insular Areas Drug Abuse Act of 1986
White House Conference for a Drug Free America

Two other things occurred: 
October 27, 1986 - Big Bang in the London Stock Exchange abolishes fixed commission charges, paving the way for electronic trading. 
27OCT1986: Government Securities Act of 1986, amending FDR-era Securities Exchange Act of 1934. (link)

Now, are you surprised that stock markets all over the world crashed in 1987? When was the last time you saw inflation charts for various countries from 1986 through the next Crash-- like the one that hit in 2008? The 1929 Crash occurred after possession of beer was elevated to felony status on 02MAR1929, This was immediately after the Opium Advisory Committee of the League of Nations met in Geneva to plan an international conspiracy to cartelize addictive narcotics. When THAT plan was handed to the General League 

On 02SEP1929 the following occurred: 

China pays League $100,000... The new Nationalist government of China had the largest delegation that country has ever sent to Geneva, its three official spokesmen being the Chinese ministers at Washington, Berlin and Paris. A more substantial evidence of Chinese interest was the payment of $100,000 into the League treasury just before the Assembly convened. This sum, representing six months dues in the case of China, was the first payment that country had made in several years.  

The Tenth Assembly of the League of Nations, which sat at Geneva from September 2 to September 25, 1929, was in many respects the most notable gathering of that body since the League was organized in January, 1920, The representation was more complete than at any previous Assembly, fifty-three of the fifty-four member nations having delegations present... Adopts Limitation of Manufacture of dangerous drugs resolution. The following day, September 3, 1929 is the date U.S. stock market values changed from increasing to decreasing, as can be seen on the charts. (link)

This resolution on some drugs would assume pressing importance to Germany in June and July of 1931.  Stay tuned, we'll be back to 1987 presently. 

Good Reading: The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan, by James Scott. One of the facts disclosed is how easily submarines smuggled cargo--everything from weapons, fuel, ammunition, explosives, men and materiél--past armed and eager enemy blockades. Nor was this news in 1916, when the Deutschland carried a hefty load of goods to the neutral United States in 1916. It makes you wonder about how Rum Row turned a profit 12 miles off the coast during Prohibition. After all, 97% of U.S: alcohol demand was met by brewing and distilling corn sugar. Only 3% in all could have come from Canada, Mexico and Rum Row ships--but what if those floating contraband stores were also selling drugs the government made disappear in 1914.  If so, how did those supplies arrive? 

Find out the juicy details behind the mother of all economic collapses. Prohibition and The Crash–Cause and Effect in 1929 is available in two languages on Amazon Kindle, as cheap as a pint of craft beer.

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the Hollywood-style beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Brazilian blog… Expatriotas

American blog… Libertariantranslator, with contact form

ASYLUM APPLICATION FORM i589 INSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE: INSTRUÇÕES PARA O FORMULÁRIO DE ASILO i589. What we did was make the instructions accessible to and understandable by people accustomed to thinking in Portuguese. This costs one dollar ($1) and you can read it on a cellphone with the Kindle app.(link)

Prohibition laws, the 1987 Crash and Recession

Bush notices the difference between his prohibitionism and freedom of production and trade

Ronald Reagan published an autobiography in 2007 bragging about how he and Nancy had seen to it that only people willing to pee into a Drug Czar sample cup could hold jobs in the federal bureaucracy. All others would be fired. 

Onto this bandwagon hopped a Texas congressman with ambitious plans to spread enforcement tentacles around the entire planet, invade other countries, choose foreign politicians and assassinate or jail any who balked.  A year after Reagan's biography revealed--bragged about--what had gone on in the hustings, Texas President George W Bush blinked at teevee cameras as the economy crashed around him.  Bush was absolutely baffled that "the market" Reagan, Bush Daddy and he himself had coerced at gunpoint with prohibitionist zeal and faith-based asset-forfeiture highway robbery, had "stopped working." Let's look at the record. 

The following material was proudly posted on government websites, then disappeared as voters invested their ballots in Libertarian and Democratic repeal platform candidates. The plotting began in earnest on September 11, 1986. 

9/11: H.R. 5484 Title: A bill to strengthen Federal efforts to encourage foreign cooperation in eradicating illicit drug crops and in halting international drug traffic, to improve enforcement of Federal drug laws and enhance interdiction of illicit drug shipments, to provide strong Federal leadership in establishing effective drug abuse prevention and education programs, to expand Federal support for drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation efforts, and for other purposes. 

Sponsor: Rep Wright, James C., Jr. [TX-12] (introduced 9/8/1986) Texas Congressman Jim Wright

9/8/1986 Introduced in House 

9/11/1986 Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 392 - 16 (Record Vote No: 378). 

9/30/1986 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate in lieu of S. 2878 with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 97-2. Record Vote No: 302. 

10/8/1986 Resolving differences -- House actions: House Concurred, in Senate Amendments, with Amendments by Unanimous Consent. 

10/15/1986 Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate concurred in the House amendment to the Senate amendment with an amendment by Voice Vote. 

10/17/1986 Resolving differences -- House actions: House Concurred in Senate Amendments to House Amendments, with Amendments, by Unanimous Consent. 

10/17/1986 Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment by Voice Vote. 

10/17/1986 Cleared for White House. 

10/27/1986 Presented to President. 

10/27/1986 Signed by President. 

10/27/1986 Became Public Law No: 99-570. (Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986)

27OCT1986: Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. The penalty for any country that urges the production or distribution of illegal drugs, or whose officials do likewise, or that threatens US drug enforcement officials, or that fails to cooperate, is clearly stated: "The law requires the president to suspend all United States assistance, and to oppose any loans or other use of multilateral development banks funds for the benefit of any such country."

When was the last time you saw any reporting on this tiny tidbit of what went on during and after that 9/11 attack on the freedom of production and trade? When did you learn that U.S. law threatened and coerced other countries to intimidate them into silencing any talk of repealing prohibition? The above is only the sketchiest outline. The details are nothing if not surprising to those who never bothered to look until after the Crashes, recessions and military invasions, after the autobiography, and after the Crash of 2008 with its attendant recession. There is plenty more to come, straight from original sources. 

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Find out the juicy details behind the mother of all economic collapses. Prohibition and The Crash–Cause and Effect in 1929 is available in two languages on Amazon Kindle, as cheap as a pint of craft beer.

Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the Hollywood-style beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

Brazilian blog… Expatriotas

American blog… Libertariantranslator, with contact form

ASYLUM APPLICATION FORM i589 INSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE: INSTRUÇÕES PARA O FORMULÁRIO DE ASILO i589. What we did was make the instructions accessible to and understandable by people accustomed to thinking in Portuguese. This costs one dollar ($1) and you can read it on a cellphone with the Kindle app.(link)