@ewahlwriting @RizomaSchool Generalizations are dangerous but the drug money is VAST, as is rank moral bankruptcy. Then again, at a whole nuther level, as Illich notes, the corrupting structural deception of 'the demonic complex' is now so all-encompassing, most can't see it. The Country Club least of all.
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1/2 I wrote for Euromoney magazine in London in the early 80's and once cold-called the CIA Economics team to talk to them about this stuff. We'd heard they'd occasionally turn up at the back of financial conferences. I told them, fast, what I was looking for. And the response?
@timparrique @AimeTim 1/2 Forty years ago, investigating a white hot trail of systemic, criminal connivance at stratospheric levels of international finance, the UK's Official Secrets Act shut me down. Then again, in complete defeat, my initiation: I'd seen the truest face of global political economy.
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Copy of two tweets: “Who will police the police?” Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? #juvenal I can answer that question. No one. My first career? Journalism, with a specialist interest in oversight of the international financial system. 2/2 “Notes and References 10. Nick Routledge, ‘How The Bank of England Failed The JMB Test’, Euromoney, February 1985, pp. 49–56. Google Scholar”