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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#History
The elites based in the UK and US are the opium drug lords at the top.
Warren Delano, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s grandfather, was an opium trader, as was the Russell family, one of whom founded the Skull and Bones franternity at Yale (the skull and bones symbol is used because the traders were pirates):
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/28/opinion/the-opium-war-s-secret-history.html
I am well aware of the Chinese opium wars. I am also aware that the Chinese refer to the period that followed the Opium wars as “the century of humiliation”. That’s what America has to look forward to.