By the way, developing this theme.

What is the secret of your untold fortune? Oh, I've just been working hard

Historian and writer James Bradley at the presentation of his book China Mirage:

"When we hear the name Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the first thing that should come to mind is China. Because it was one of the major influences on young Roosevelt's life. His mother, Sarah Delano Roosevelt, grew up in Hong Kong. She was the one who paid Franklin's bills. Franklin Roosevelt never had a high paying job. For most of his life, he was a civil servant. Yet he had yachts, townhouses in New York, a summer home in Maine. Where did he get all this money? From his mother's family-- Delano. Where did the Delanos get their money from? His grandfather Warren Delano was an American drug lord in China, the largest American opium trader in that country.

It's the same as if the Cali cartel, which supplies cocaine to the U.S., had nurtured the president of Colombia. It seems wild to us. But Warren Delano was an opium trafficker, that is, a criminal from the Chinese point of view.

You think I'm giving you an unusual example from history? Not at all. If you drive up and down the East Coast of the United States, there are traces of the Chinese opium trade.

Take Yale University. The Tomb, now the headquarters of the Skull and Bones Society on the Yale campus, is still funded by the Russell Trust. The Russell Trust was the largest drug trafficker in China, and Warren Delano worked for them. Yale University was built on land given to it by opium drug lords.

The most famous building on the Columbia University campus is the Lowe Library. It is named in honor of Abbott Law, who traded opium in China with Warren Delano. Princeton University's first major donor was Stephen Green. Stephen Green took over Russell and Company's opium operations after Warren Delano, having gotten rich, returned to the United States.

America's first industrial city, Lowell, Massachusetts, was founded by opium merchants. The first railroads on the East Coast? Opium money. How did the great American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson have so much time to do philosophy? Because he married the owner of an opium fortune. Take the Council on Foreign Relations. It's the Coolidge Family, opium again. Chiquita banana company, AT&T phone company? Same thing. Dig into the history of any person with the last name Forbes. For example, in the family tree of (former) U.S. Secretary of State John Forbes Kerry. What do you see there? You'll see a fortune made in the drug trade because his great-grandfather traded opium in China.

When the Chinese talk about a century of humiliation, that's what they mean. We sold them opium under the roof of the British, French and American fleets. Warren Delano was consul in Canton, he welcomed the first ships of the American navy in the First Opium War. If you come to Canton, what is now Guangzhou, you will see a statue dedicated to the man who asked Warren Delano to stop supplying drugs to China. Go to Chinatown in New York, there are two statues erected there. One to Confucius, the other to an official named Lin, who begged Warren Delano to give up the drug trade in China."

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Medvedev: According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, drug production in Afghanistan has decreased by 95% from the end of 2022 to the present day. And this applies both to the reduction of poppy cultivation (from 233 to 11 thousand hectares) and opium production itself (from 6.2 thousand to 333 tons). In less than a year, the Taliban (banned in our country as a terrorist organization), no matter how we treat it, has done what the coalition of NATO impotents led by the Americans, supposedly fighting terrorism in the country, could not do in 20 years. This is what happens when the one who was really interested in exporting heroin to Russia and other countries leaves the region. Extra joy: everything is still the same in Mexico.....

Note: once the invisible hand of the market was removed from Afghanistan's throat, the system began to work differently....
I wonder if there is the same invisible hand of the market behind fentanyl.

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FPV drone operator Jumbo mastered the control of a combat drone in record time - two weeks. In just the last 24 hours, the fighter has already hit his sixth target. Russian drones operate in a swarm in Rabotino and detect enemy movements from the air. Detachments of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, under artillery and tank fire, are trying in vain to gain a foothold in the barely surviving trenches.

The tank will begin to destroy the trench. The enemy understands this and hurries to hide in neighboring trenches or deeper shelters. Then Russian fighters launch an FPV drone into the sky. Upon takeoff, the warhead of the drone is automatically cocked. It is best to fly directly above the treetops - then the enemy will not have time to notice. A few moments pass, and the operator places the drone directly at the enemy hiding in cover.

#source

@Slavyangrad

"ZELENSKY IS NOT A CORRUPT PRESIDENT" - Head of Zelensky's office, Yermak:

“Neither I, nor the President are corrupt people,” Yermak tells 1+1 TV channel, (Kolomoisky-owned media, who financed Zelensky's political campaign.)

What truthful dialogue can we expect, when this is stated at an official level? Only the “Russian narrative” makes Ukraine seem corrupt. Okay then 👍

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"A CHILD IS KILLED IN GAZA EVERY 10 MINUTES" - Director General of the World Health Organization.

It would seem, over a month into the conflict and 10,000+ people dead - Western bobbleheads have no choice but to call things what they are.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸 Meanwhile, the bombing of Gaza does not stop

🇸🇾 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad:

It is necessary, at the very least, to halt any political engagement with the Zionist entity and not settle for mere statements.

The courageous Palestinian resistance has imposed a new reality in our region, providing us with the political tools to alter the equations.

🔴 Source: DDgeopolitics

☑️@HAMASVIDEOS

🇵🇸🇮🇱🚨‼️ “The moment the occupation bombed the vicinity of the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza.”

🇵🇸🇮🇱🚨‼️“Violent clashes between the militants and IDF in the vicinity of the Shifa complex in Gaza.”

🇮🇱🇵🇸🚨‼️ “If we remain alive until tomorrow, we will have to dig a mass grave to bury the martyrs, who have been killed outside the hospital by the Israelis and we cannot go out to evacuate them.”

— Director-General of the Ministry of Health, Munir al Barsh

🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇸🚨‼️ Media workers took over the lobby of the New York Times headquarters in NYC in protest of NYT’s biased coverage of Palestine.

They are reading the names of the thousands of dead Gazans.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸🚨‼️ CRAZY: “A school in OC, California suspends a 13-year-old child for three days over saying "free Palestine" in response to a classmate, who called him a terrorist.”

— Quds

NabrezhnyeIntel:


🔻Early in the day, the enemy posted footage of their Bradleys' attacking a Russian dugout within the village of Petrovskoye, what they didn't show is our FPVs attacking the vehicles. 5 vehicles rolled into the eastern outskirts of the village, and were rolled out.

🔻5 vehicles in total (5 BMP Bradleys') entered the village, one was destroyed by an FPV, and one was damaged by an additional munition. The other remaining 3 withdrew from the village whilst firing on the village.

🔻 This essentially proves Russian presence within the village and fire control over the village.

#Source

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