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Did you know the British Royals have about $35 billion in assets, and they colonized every continent except Antarctica to get it?
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#KingCharles
#AndrewWindsor
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The source of Britain's wealth was / is the slave trade.
Reparations are owed worldwide, and if they were paid, this family would be broke.

#WindsorFamily
#UK
#enslavers
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#Britain hooked the Chinese on #opium, and took over #HongKong in 1842.

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Lyndon LaRouche: "#QueenElizabeth was a poor imitation of the Witch of Endor. Well, that's what she is, in effect. She's evil."
#Happy100thLyndonLaRouche!! I wish Marsha Malouk was alive today to read and hear about the death of the "Witch"!
#Elizabeth, RIH!!
#September 8, 2022
Lyndon LaRouche: "The #BritishEmpire, since the 1790s, has been running the international drug traffic. And the #Queen, as head of state, was responsible for this. For example, let's take #Afghanistan. ..."
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..."Now, in #Afghanistan, a farmer who is working under duress, that is, the gangsters who run this #drug operation, force the #farmer to grow #opium. They say, we'll kill you if you don't. He grows opium. He doesn't get paid much for it. ..."
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#Happy100thLyndonLaRouche!
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"The killings last Monday, which led Pope Francis, himself a Jesuit, to bemoan #Mexico’s unrelenting violence, underscore how Mexican #organizedcrime groups rule over huge swaths of the country’s territory."

wsj.com/articles/killi…
1/ "Last year, U.S. Northern Command chief Gen. Glen VanHerck told a congressional committee that about one-third of Mexico’s territory is effectively run by organized crime groups. Mexico’s government denied the claim."
2/ "The two #Jesuits, Joaquín Mora, 80, and Javier Campos, 79, were killed inside their church, said Roberto Fierro, the attorney general of northern #Chihuahua state, where the killings occurred. Chihuahua is one of Mexico’s most violent states."
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Bitter Facts:
- #Ahmed Shah #Massoud gave safe passage to #USSR invading troops into #Afghanistan in exchange for money.
- #ASM had a major role in the bombing of #Kabul during civil war.
- ASM used #opium to fund his fight against #Taliban, dubbed by US gov as druglord
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- #ASM kept asking #CIA for weapons and endorsement of his resistance and then settled for being paid for spying on Bin Laden.

No, these facts can’t be countered by listing what Hekmatyar did. Everyone seems to remember that. This is to counter selective readings of history.
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I refuse to engage in these arguments most of the time because it generates more hate than solve much but it’s important to not be unjust to history. You don’t see me cursing or cussing at him. He was an imperfect figure as are most that #Afghanistan has had.
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A thread about drug smuggling, the British Empire, and the ways in which historical wrongdoing by the Establishment persists into the present day. 🧐🧵🌳🍃🍂⛓ #EstablishmentPsychopathy #history #ToriesOut #OpiumWar #ColonialViolence
It’s generally well known that the Opium Wars of the mid nineteenth century were launched by Britain against China in order to benefit British drug smugglers… 🤨🇬🇧🇨🇳 #OpiumWars #BritishEmpire #ColonialViolence #China
After all, even the National Army Museum – not typically regarded as a bastion of anti-Establishment lefties – states this frankly in its displays on the Opium Wars. #BritishEmpire #ColonialViolence #China
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 08/21/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/08/21/dai…
How opium led to ‘the banality of evil, the birth of megacorporations, the foundation of empires’

scroll.in/article/100302…

#opium #tea #GlobalTrade #BritishEmpire #history #india #china
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Pic of soldier guarding the 👑’s poppy farm in Afghanistan for ‘Poppy’ Bush who was a 👑 asset. Did you think he was called Poppy as a term of endearment? #Opium #DrugWar #Heroin Image
More pics from #DrugWar in Afghanistan. How many trillions of tax payer’s $ laundered for this? ImageImageImageImage
So many lives lost over this #DrugWar. This was was about #Adrenochrome too. Many Afghanistan murdered for their blood & organs. ImageImageImageImage
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