Cayman Islands has SHUT DOWN HSBC (revoked their license)!

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32. Lot of that, think Steve Kangas, Barry Seal. I emboldened the figures. Enough money to kill over.

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The old saying is the oldest businesses in the world are sex, drugs and arms. It's how criminal elements make fortunes to buy up assets. Look at the history of the British in China, the Boxer Rebellion. IDK well enough to say with certainty, but some say it was about forcing the Chinese to take opium in trade, that the Empire was getting from the Near East or Middle East, some other place.

Cartels have had a strong presence in Latin America. Mexico is under their boot. There is nothing democratic about any of this but it is enormous power. Consider Iran - Contra, you have two of those there involved. Just with Seal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal

Look at all the places in the references. It's what goes on outside of government and has existed before and after them. Afghanistan and Iran and so many other countries - drugs and arms. They are in the human trafficking business, whether it be women, children, men or all for slave labor. The underbelly of all of this is horrific. But when the profits come to the first world, pirates live like kings.

We do have good and honest people who go after this... but if their names are published, they are dead. Most of us are simply not cut out for this kind of thing. I wouldn't want the job, myself.

We are living in a time of disclosure that is coming from many places. Many bad actors are being revealed. So many... so much money involved. I would not like to be holding the reins riding this dragon.