Earlier ODCCP estimates in the 1990s put the total annual global figure near $400 Billion but revisions in their research now cause the ODCCP to say that it is more likely that this figure is closer to a little under $200 Billion annually, the majority coming from the United States and the European Union. Non-U.N. estimates place international drug profits much higher than $400 Billion.
Whatever the actual figure may be, any “industry” which has an annual income in the range of $200 Billion must have some influence. Organised crime is no exception and it should be remembered that drug trafficking is but one “department” of the organised crime business enterprise.. Other illegal imports, extortion and the trafficking in human beings contribute to illegal revenues.
Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner, in the first Bush Administration, has been studying the links between illegal drugs, private industry, the military and government, not only in the United States, but in so many countries that it might seem that drugs are the basis of the “New World Order”.
In a three-part series for NarcoNews.com, she begins with an example of two men in transport. One uses his boat to move sugar; the other uses his for cocaine. Because of the eventual higher profits of cocaine transport, one is able to to get better finance from banks to expand his fleet and further his profits. The other, unable to obtain finance for sugar, gets left behind with a slowly deteriorating boat.
Whatever the actual figure may be, any “industry” which has an annual income in the range of $200 Billion must have some influence. Organised crime is no exception and it should be remembered that drug trafficking is but one “department” of the organised crime business enterprise.. Other illegal imports, extortion and the trafficking in human beings contribute to illegal revenues.
Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner, in the first Bush Administration, has been studying the links between illegal drugs, private industry, the military and government, not only in the United States, but in so many countries that it might seem that drugs are the basis of the “New World Order”.
In a three-part series for NarcoNews.com, she begins with an example of two men in transport. One uses his boat to move sugar; the other uses his for cocaine. Because of the eventual higher profits of cocaine transport, one is able to to get better finance from banks to expand his fleet and further his profits. The other, unable to obtain finance for sugar, gets left behind with a slowly deteriorating boat.