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Is China behind America's drug problem or are the culprits a little closer to home? Cynthia addresses this question and a helluvalot more |
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There is understandably a growing indignation over the opioid crisis that has become too large to ignore at this point. In many towns and metropolises, tent cities can be found taking up an ever-larger portion of city space. This is occurring throughout the once-affluent western world. The homeless, in such places as the notorious East Hastings of Vancouver, British Columbia, has grown to hundreds upon thousands living on the streets, the greater majority on opioids or crystal meth.
The problem has now entered West Hastings as well. Areas in Victoria, also in British Columbia, are among the worst cases in Canada of municipalities being taken over by these tent cities rampant with drug addiction, prostitution and crime. Canada, a country that has never really had hard-core ghettoes, has been increasingly taken over by the tent-city phenomenon over the last decade.
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Note these pictures cannot do justice to the immense size of these tent cities which in the case of Hastings spans about 20+ blocks of what has become not just people living on the street but in abandoned dilapidated buildings. In other words, most of the businesses have understandably left these areas and no business wishes to take their place. Thus, the city is left with an ever-expanding zone of abandoned buildings. In these buildings are prostitution and drug laboratories amongst other things.[1] The businesses that do remain or take-up shop in these areas are those that cater to the tent city economy, for example pawn shops that ask no questions in dealing with the goods they are presented with.
I have walked through East and West Hastings a number of times and have seen how quickly the situation has worsened over the years, having once lived in Vancouver I visit the city often since I still have family there. It is common to see people living on the street in these conditions “frozen” in time, often standing but with the upper body completely hunched over or leaning sideways, a side-effect from one of the street drugs. They can stay in such a position for hours. Or those who have such terrible health that their hair is falling out and it looks like their skin is bubbling over, likely an effect from crystal meth. Truly, there are sections of East Hastings that look like they are straight out of a Goya painting. And then there are the saddest cases, of those who are covered with bruises and scars, unable to defend themselves from their daily onslaught of attackers fighting for scraps.
I remember twenty years ago, as a young adult, that we were taught not to make any judgement on any of this. In other words, that we shouldn’t judge their “decision” to live on the street and do drugs. Rather, that we should treat them like any other human being we encountered, even if they were literally walking around like an actual zombie and mumbling incoherency. We were taught to sit at a park bench in the middle of filth, and not turn up our noses at it, but to accept this as the chosen ecosystem of certain people and we simply needed to accept this.
For many years, the Vancouver and Victoria municipalities have treated this crisis of homelessness and drug addiction as if it were in fact - not an actual problem. In other words, the city took the stance, and many mushy liberals with them for the past ten years and more, that it was simply a matter of providing food and “safe injection sites” and even “free drugs” so they would not steal and commit crime (in theory), and that this approach was going to somehow decrease the number of homeless living on the street, who mostly suffer from drug addiction.
I remember when the safe injection sites were first being promoted in Vancouver over 17 years ago, the “theory” was that those who were suffering from heroin addiction could safely administer their drug at safe injection sites during their work break. Methadone, a synthetic opioid, was being sold at the time as a way to wean off of heroin and was available in the form of a tablet, oral solution or injectable liquid. It was thought that with Methadone, people with heroin dependence should have no problem getting their “fix” and working full-time. However, after over 17 years it is clear that this theory is a complete failure. Heroin addiction has skyrocketed since and those on Methadone simply got addicted to Methadone. The greater majority of opioid addicts are not able to keep a full-time job for very long and yes, very predictably, they end up on the street.
You would think such cities as Vancouver would have gotten a clue since then, however, rather they have only increased their support for such tent cities. Taxpayer money goes to cleaning Hastings Street daily, during the summer, of the filth that accrues from just one day of tent city traffic and activities. Every morning food and even “free drugs” are offered to the tent city folk, paid for by the taxpayer. Not only this, but areas like Victoria have even encouraged homeless people from across the country to come live in their tent cities. CTV News reported that the Victoria, Vancouver Island tent city in 2016 costed $1.6 million of taxpayer money every year. The cost is most certainly a great deal higher today.
The problem has reached such catastrophic levels that even the mushy liberals are starting to squirm uncomfortably. Clearly, these people who advocated the “right” for homeless people to live in their East Hastings’ ecosystem are starting to have issues if the better parts of town are also going to be implicated. In other words, they were fine with it as long as such people were relegated to a designated part of town, but with the threat of this ecosystem becoming the dominant ecosystem, they are now becoming more critical about the “problem” of the tent cities. And who is to blame? Well, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) of course (as with seemingly everything wrong with our collapsing society)….as well as Mexico, are blamed as the source for this problem for those who have taken all but two seconds to think about the matter. Even those who were advocates of “safe injection sites” for heroin users years ago are now getting on the bandwagon of blaming “communist China” for the situation they find themselves in today, funny how we never seem to want to take any responsibility in such matters and have readily agreed to beating a straw-man that has been conveniently placed in front of us. Anything but admit to ourselves the far uglier truth.
I have thus far spoken about the Canadian situation since it is the one I am most familiar with, however, I think that this also speaks volumes as to how far this opioid crisis has blown up such that it is no longer relegated to just the “dirty” American, British, French ghettoes etc. but has since entered suburbia and what are supposed to be among the most beautiful and peaceful cities in the world, including Vancouver and Victoria. In other words, the opioid epidemic has become ubiquitous. And most westerners know someone personally, or via a second-degree acquaintance who has died from an opioid overdose or has had their life destroyed by opioid or methamphetamine addiction.
If we truly care about the welfare of these people living in tent cities, and thus suffering from drug addiction, we need to acknowledge that none of this was an actual “choice”, a romantic rejection of “sell-out white collar cubicle living” and somehow a political statement of empowerment and freedom.
Let’s not kid ourselves here. If you are not economically empowered (i.e. can’t easily exit tent-city life) and are suffering from a drug addiction, you do not have the “freedom” to choose to do something else with your life, and as we see the pattern formation throughout the decades, most who end up on the street with drug addictions, will die from preventable health issues or drug overdose. To act like this is somehow a dignified and empowered way of living is in fact to completely abandon these people from the support they need to truly become sovereign beings. It is also completely avoiding a much more serious problem - the fact that such an outcome has been designed for that very effect.
This is what Harari speaks of when he discusses the “problem of the useless eaters.” Those, like Harari, who see themselves as at the helm of societal policy see the opioid crisis in a very different light. To them, this is how the “useless” and the “weak” can contribute to their society and at the same time address the so-called “overpopulation problem,” by effectively making up a consumer economy that almost entirely benefits the black market and living an attenuated life.
You might think you are different from the meth and opioid addicts out there as you line up for your government provided stock of weed, but let me tell you, you may not be living on the street but you most certainly are not living your best life either.
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You may be asking the question “if it is government revenue, then how can it be benefiting the black market?” If you find this paradoxical, then this series will be most useful to you.
Sex, Drugs and the Vatican: The Origin of America’s Drug Epidemic | ||||||
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The FBN Myth On the “War on Drugs” Crusade | ||||||
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The reality is that the global business of drugs has always been controlled by the CIA, City of London, Gladio and the Vatican since WWII with the Mafia as their servants to the cause. In other words, drug profits have predominantly always gone to fund terrorist activity, the secret armies of NATO (aka Gladio), fascist dictatorships and their police states, the black budget and parallel states all for their envisioned New World Order.
The FBN Myth On the “War on Drugs” Crusade
“What cannot now be denied is that US intelligence agencies arranged for the release from prison of the world’s preeminent drug lord [Lucky Luciano], allowed him to rebuild his narcotics empire, watched the flow of drugs into the largely black ghettoes of New York and Washington, D.C., escalate and then lied about what they had done. This founding saga of the relationship between American spies and gangsters set patterns that would be replicated from Laos and Burma to Marseilles and Panama.”
- Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press
The beginning of what would be the modern-day opioid pushers would come out of the American presence in Asia during WWII. Recall that the original opioid pushers in the 19th century and earlier were the British East India Company, who destroyed India’s textiles so they could not compete with Britain’s cotton industry and turned India into a British colony and an opioid producer (this is also what justified the cotton slave plantations in the American South). This was followed by Britain claiming its right to forcefully sell said opium to China as per their “free market” rules and fought two Opium Wars with China, taking possession of Hong Kong and Shanghai in the process. (Hence the opium dealing bank HSBC, Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, being a City of London bank).
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Amazingly, this very fact is being used against China. With unsound minds using the zero-sum deranged logic - that certainly with such abuses China suffered in the past it must desire revenge with its new-found power and influence and thus the current opioid crisis must be just that, China’s revenge for our past sins! No need to look any further. Nevermind the fact that the City of London still exists, and that such opioid dealing banks like HSBC are stronger than ever and have been caught recently building the opioid crisis coming out of Mexico among other places throughout the world.
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HSBC has reserved the right to this day, the authority to print 1/3 of Hong Kong currency, the only other two allowed agencies being Standard Chartered Bank (another British multinational bank with headquarters in the City of London) and Bank of China, the only Chinese owned bank. Thus, China has the authority to only print 1/3 of Hong Kong currency even though Hong Kong is legally recognised as part of China. And this despite HSBC being on a blacklist of foreign companies in China.
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Does this not strike the reader as extremely convenient? Hong Kong is a center for the notorious Triad gang and have been responsible for a significant portion of the opioid influx into the United States, however, who is the Triad gang in service to? As we can see from just scratching on the surface a little, it is clear that China, who only recently had Hong Kong returned to them in 1997 (before that Hong Kong was a British colony for 99 years) does not to this day have full authority over what occurs in Hong Kong as seen very clearly from the fact that two British banks have authority to print 2/3 of the Hong Kong currency, a currency that is in Hong Kong Dollars rather than in the Chinese Yuan. And that both of these British banks, but especially HSBC, have been implicated numerous times on very serious charges of opioid trafficking, in fact HSBC was created for that very purpose after the Opium Wars when Britain took possession of Hong Kong and Shanghai hence the name “Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation.”
However, most westerners are not aware of these details. They hear the words “Hong Kong”, and “Triads” and think thus this must be an organic Chinese phenomenon that is backed by communist government of China, the PRC. The reality is, that after the British heavy-handed introduction of opioid production and consumerism in India and China, the Americans took up the helm during the period of WWII of opioid trafficking in East Asia which they then almost immediately brought into Latin America. Note, the City of London has continued its original investments in the opioid market, the Americans just basically took over the “dirty work” for British interests.
So how did the Americans get caught up in this mess that would result in American soldiers dying for a hill in Vietnam?
Before this can be answered, we need to do a little history review of China in order to clarify some things for readers who may not know very much about the political dynamics that were occurring in East Asia during this time.
Peter Dale Scott writes in his foreword to Henrik Kruger’s book “The Great Heroin Coup”:[2]
“As for the American scene, it may be difficult on first reading to accept his [Kruger’s] hypothesis of a huge ‘Miami conspiracy’, now ‘reaching out with a vengeance to Latin America’…Other observers of the so-called ‘Fascist international’ phenomenon (to use the term first given respectability by Le Monde), have seen it as more polycentric…But…there is unquestioningly increasing international unity among the professional terrorists…from Argentine AAA to the World Anti-Communist Leage (WACL) founded by KMT intelligence personnel on Taiwan.
Before World War II the KMT [Kuomintang] regime in China was perhaps the best example of political manipulation of the narcotics traffic, under the guise of an ‘opium suppression campaign,’ to finance both a political and an intelligence apparatus (under General Tai Li). This practice spread after World War II to a number of other WACL member countries and groups.
Today [1980] there is cause to fear that Nixon’s superagency, the Drug Enforcement Administration, has, like other narcotics enforcement agencies before it, come to use corrupt personnel who are actually part of the traffic, as part of a covert war against revolution.”
When Peter Dale Scott is referring to Taiwan as pivotal to the narcotics trafficking, the reader should be aware that China had fought a 22-year-long civil war, namely the communist forces of Mao Zedong against the Kuomintang (KMT) army of General Chiang Kai-shek (August 1927-1949), which overlapped the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) where the Chinese also fought against Japanese fascists for their very existence. This second war with the Japanese fascists as the invaders into China, started before WWII began and only ended once the Japanese were defeated by the Russian allies.
