The Narcosaurus
For over two decades at LRC I have been writing about the Narcosaurus — The Narcosaurus in the Room; Narcosaurus Update: Banksters and Gangsters; and The Narcosaurus.
Along with the multinational petroleum and weapons/intelligence industries of the military-industrial complex, the global narcotics trade is one of the biggest and most lucrative businesses in the world. It is fueled and enabled by the intersection of drug money, intelligence and money laundering on a vast scale by banks and financial institutions.
I said that it was time to quit ignoring the Narcosaurus in the bankster board room (and the network newsroom) and come clean with the truth. Pieces of the story were starting to emerge from Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, in this brief article, “Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor.”
Researchers have connected the dots linking the “underworld” of organized crime (narcotics) to the “upperworld” of the Establishment (Wall Street banks and CFR-connected corporations/foundations/media). Interwoven within the nexus are the covert intelligence agencies of the deep state.
Besides the vast illegal proceeds from international drug trafficking and money-laundering, one of the important early covert sources of financing the syndicates’ Las Vegas Strip was from the Eccles brothers banking empire. George Stoddard Eccles was the heir of the largest Mormon fortune in Salt Lake City and one of the richest men in the Rocky Mountain West, while his brother Marriner Eccles was chairman of the Federal Reserve and key architect of the New Deal’s central banking system. Somehow it seems reassuring that along with gangsters Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, and Moe Dalitz, the head of the Fed was an important player in the building of this oasis of crime. What’s past is prologue. When will today’s unsavory truth finally come out about those Teflon Dons, Greenspan and Bernanke, and their roles in this mess? AUDIT (then END) THE FED!
It’s all about drugs. It has always been all about drugs. Researcher Peter Dale Scott has convinced me that the “deep politics” reality of our foreign policy with the Third Wo
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