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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 8 Num. 34
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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THE SECOND OPIUM WAR AND THE AMERICAN BEACHHEAD
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(Source for the following is *Dope, Inc.* by the Editors of
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Executive Intelligence Review. I neither necessarily agree nor
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disagree with all or portions of the following.)
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1816 -- John Jacob Astor imports, among other products, opium
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into China. Astor is a "pioneer" in the introduction of opium
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into China. Astor invests his opium profits in Manhattan real
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estate.
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One strange fact: East India Company has a de facto monopoly
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on the dope trade into China. Yet Astor is allowed to
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participate. Is this a payoff by the Brits in return for Astor
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serving as an intelligence operative? Aaron Burr, British
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intelligence agent, was provided funds with which to escape the
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U.S. by Astor, after Burr had killed Alexander Hamilton in a
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duel.
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Besides Astor and associates in New York City, the East India
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Company develops similar networks in Philadelphia and Boston.
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British bank Baring Brothers becomes linked by business and
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intermarriage with prominent families in Philadelphia.
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1832 -- The East India Company monopoly on the dope trade into
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China expires. Now too, the Astor family is no longer a major
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player. The Forbes family of Boston achieves notoriety in the
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dope traffic into China.
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1833 -- The British discontinue the slave trade because it has
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become unprofitable. It is picked up by the Perkins and Forbes
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families, among others, operating through Russell and Company.
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Other families involved: Cabot, Lodge, Bacon, Russell, Coolidge.
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1846 -- 117,000 "coolies" -- indentured servants -- are brought
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into the U.S. With them comes 230,000 pounds of gum opium and
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over 53,000 pounds of prepared (smoking) opium.
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Circa 1850s -- British firms bring cotton from the southern U.S.
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to Liverpool. This cotton then goes to the mills in the north of
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England where, under Dickensian conditions, it is spun into cloth
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by the workers -- many of them children. Finished goods are
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exported to India, incidentally destroying India's existing cloth
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industry. India must pay for its imported cloth with its Bengali
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opium exports to China.
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"Without the 'final demand' of Chinese opium sales, the
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entire world structure of British trade would have collapsed."
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(From the Feb. 1996 Conspiracy Nation Newsletter)
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While all this was going on, the "secret ideology of
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international finance... aimed at eventual rule over all
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the world by the British Government" was seething at a
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perceived affront to its plans as promulgated in the Monroe
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Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine, "America for the
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Americans," was in conflict with British plans to maintain
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and advance the worldwide British empire. But at the time
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of its inception during the 1820s, the British were then
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preoccupied with problems in the Mohammedan world. By
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1856, however, Great Britain turned its attention to
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America. A close business connection existed between
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cotton manufacturing England and the cotton aristocracy of
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the American South. The southern states "were swarming
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with British agents." These agents acted upon the business
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connection between the South and Great Britain to help
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foment rebellion. The British also provided indirect aid
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to the Confederacy which "brought the fortunes of the North
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to a very low ebb; and every indication at this stage was
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that Britain was preparing to enter the war." "In
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December, 1861, a large British, French and Spanish
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expeditionary force was landed at Vera Cruz [Mexico] in
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defiance of the Monroe Doctrine." Things looked bad for
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the Union. However the North itself received timely
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assistance from Russia and that, combined with other
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factors, resulted in eventual Union victory.
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(The question arises as to whether John Wilkes Booth, a
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known agent of the Confederacy, really was a "lone nut"
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when he assassinated the victorious Abraham Lincoln. This
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editor does not believe that it was Booth who perished on
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or about April 26, 1865 at the Garret barn in Virginia.
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Support for this opinion can be found in, among several
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works, Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth by Finis L.
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Bates. Memphis: Pilcher Printing Co., 1907)
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Pre- American Civil War -- British pharmaceutical houses begin
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commercial production of morphine. They misleadingly claim it is
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"nonaddictive" and even say it will cure opium addiction.
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June 1859 -- Lord Palmerston returns to the post of Prime
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Minister of Great Britain. He continues his push for an "open
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China" policy.
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1858-1860 -- The British Crown precipitates the Second Opium War,
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against China. One consequence is the founding of the Hongkong
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and Shanghai Corporation.
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Britain establishes its method of control over the opium
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trade:
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(1) Sponsorship of mass-scale opium addiction of targeted
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colonial and neo-colonial populations as the way to sap the
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vitality of the nation;
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(2) Willingness of Her Majesty's government to deploy
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Britain's national military forces to protect the opium trade;
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and
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(3) Use of the gigantic profits reaped from the trade to fund
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allied terrorist and organized criminal infrastructure within the
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targeted nation to carry out the trade and to act as a fifth
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column of British interests.
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1860 -- Opium exports from India to China: 58,681 chests.
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1862 -- Abraham Lincoln outlaws the coolie trade. But black
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marketeering in coolie labor nonetheless continues, in fact it
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escalates, through the end of the century. With the coolies
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comes opium; they are a ready market for the drug.
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1866 -- William Hathaway Forbes joins the board of directors of
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the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank -- a.k.a. the HongShang Bank.
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1880 -- Opium exports from India to China: 105,508 chests.
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1905 -- The Anglo-Chinese agreement calls for the Chinese to
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reduce domestic opium production and for the British to reduce
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their exports to China from British India. But the British evade
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their end of the deal by merely sending their opium to Hong Kong.
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The agreement is also evaded by British-sponsored underground
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crime networks in China that redouble their smuggling efforts.
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1911 -- An international conference at The Hague agrees to
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regulate the narcotics trade.
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Also in 1911, Britain issues a huge loan to Persia. The
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collateral? Persia's opium revenues.
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1921 -- In India, Gandhi and followers begin agitating against
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opium. They are arrested on charges of "undermining the revenue."
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1924 -- In the U.S., heroin is outlawed as a prescription drug.
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(Heroin, by the way, had been originally touted as a cure for
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morphine addiction.)
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