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Seanie G's avatar

Also, HSBC has been cited as a major money laundering bank for drug traffickers as recently as 2012.

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Esha Krishnaswamy's avatar

Thank you. I should do a follow-up episode. Do you have any recommendations for guests?

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Seanie G's avatar

HSBC admitted to U.S. prosecutors in 2012 that it had helped dirty money flow through its branches around the world, including at least $881 million controlled by the notorious Sinaloa cartel and other Mexican drug gangs.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Hi Esha, there are no instructions on how to buy the book itself ?! Many thanks

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humanitarianclassicide's avatar

Banksters and drug dealers showing the world how class solidarity is done.

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Seanie G's avatar

One thing Carl leaves out is that, due to the British colonial taxation regime, the British were actually getting the opium for free from India — sometimes the farmers would end up owing back taxes to the crown despite having produced massive shipments of opium.

Prabhat and Utsa Patnaik go into this in great detail in their books on imperialism.

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Esha Krishnaswamy's avatar

Excellent point. I will be sure to do a follow-up about this. Thank you!!!

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humanitarianclassicide's avatar

I remember hearing Carl speak on this on the Silk & Steel 13-part History of China. That was when I learned about the Delano family fortune and the Forbes family fortune: from the Opium trade and Opium wars.

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Seanie G's avatar

He also left out that slaves were also traded via the Manila Galleon trade — Chinese and Philippino slaves to Mexico (called New Spain at the time).

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Khalil 🦕 Klingschor's avatar

General Zu Dashou's Tomb is in Toronto btw

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Khalil 🦕 Klingschor's avatar

do you have more information about the factories under Jahangir that the British destroyed?

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Esha's avatar

I do. I will write an article about that

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Thank you -- OUTSTANDING !!!

And - this just in:

Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 41: Ask the Inspector -- Jan. 31, 2023 (Truly outstanding and very thoughtful)

https://rumble.com/v27scfr-scott-ritter-extra-ep.-41-ask-the-inspector.html

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Feb. 1 – Ep. 32 -- Russiagate: A New Deep Dive into the Media’s Stunning Lies, Corruption, & Complicity -- https://rumble.com/v27vze6-russiagate-a-worthwhile-deep-dive-into-the-medias-stunning-lies-and-corrupt.html -- Damning Autopsy on Media’s Russia-gate Lies

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Boris Petrov's avatar

All About Opium with Carl Zha -- Jan. 30, 2023 https://substack.com/inbox/post/99224122

FYI -- An outstanding history of China (and Europe and US)

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RaccoonRancherJr's avatar

Great podcast!

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Esha Krishnaswamy's avatar

Thank you!

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RaccoonRancherJr's avatar

Hi Esha, not sure if you ever heard of the Argentine author Uke Goni who recently published a revised version of his great book: The Real Odessa - How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe.

The original book was from 2002 but he published the revised version months ago. The one I got. A ton of archives have been freed in many countries and he was able to access the "good stuff" with the help of other researchers from Europe, etc. Including plenty of ex-Nazis.

Long and short, he explains how the Red Cross, the Vatican, the Argentine government and countries like Switzerland helped ex-filtrate tens of thousands of Nazis towards Argentina and other countries like Canada were we got thousands of SS Galicia from Ukraine.

Those Nazis were later integrated into cells all over South America usually protected by the local deep state and local generals. They established torture camps in remote areas like in the Bolivian jungle for Bolivia. Those were often designed and created by exfiltrated Nazi specialists like Joseph Mengele and Klaus Barbie.

This is one of the main reason most of those Nazis were protected for the whole run while at the same time Nazi hunters like Simone Wisental and others were actively hunting for them. This was deep state stuff in the sense that it did not matter who the current president of those countries were; those assets were considered "untouchable."

By the way, Goni speaks several languages including English.

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