The idea of using a narcotic to redress the imbalance in trade was conceived by the first Governor General of British India, Warren Hastings, in 1780.

The Chinese demanded payment in silver which began to put pressure on the British coffers. However, the Chinese were relatively self-sufficient and demand for European goods was almost non-existent. The operation was managed by the British East India Company, a trading company owned by English merchants and aristocrats, which operated under Royal charter.Įuropean demand for Chinese tea, silk and porcelain was soaring. They then smuggled hundreds of thousands of tonnes of the highly addictive drug into China during much of the 19th century. The British controlled massive fields of poppy farmed by forced Indian labour and built industrial scale opium factories. “During the 1800s the British Empire managed a massive drug cartel based in British India that was both state-sponsored and under Royal patronage. Switzerland served as a repository for Jewish capital smuggled out of Nazi Germany and the states threatened by it, and also for vast quantities of gold and other valuables plundered from Jews and others all over Europe.” #2 In recent months a vast amount of incriminating documentation has been unearthed that reveals the sinister side of Swiss “neutrality”. What began as an examination of the dormant bank accounts of Holocaust victims has gained momentum to include the whole gamut of Swiss financial dealings with the Nazis. “Switzerland’s reputation as a neutral safe-haven during World War 11 has been badly tarnished by recent revelations about its wartime transactions with Germany.

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