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The Drug War’s Banking Blowback

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2023
In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.
– Reverend Martin Niemoller [1946]

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
November 6, 2023
The Drug War’s Banking Blowback
At the end of the great 1988 movie Midnight Run, which stars Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, Grodin hands De Niro a small pouch containing $300,000. How could a small pouch contain so much money? Because it was filled with $1,000 bills. So, where are the $1,000 bills today? They are gone. The feds withdrew them from circulation. The reason? They felt…
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