“20 kilograms of fentanyl is enough to kill the entire population of Ohio, many times over,” said https://kdvr.com/2019/10/30/enough-to-kill-the-entire-population-of-ohio-massive-fentanyl-bust-leads-to-multiple-arrests/
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8-30-19 In total, authorities seized over 30 kilograms of fentanyl, 30 kilograms of heroin, five kilograms of cocaine and over $700,000. It's the largest drug takedown in Virginia in 15 years. They also seized roughly 24 firearms, including an AK-47.
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3-2-19 5 kilos fentanyl bust in NY.
https://pix11.com/2019/03/01/five-arrested-in-westchester-heroin-fentanyl-mill-bust-feds-seize-drugs-worth-millions/
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9-4-19 Ben Westhoff's book
"Basically it's so cheap to produce and it's so powerful that drug dealers began realizing it was a way to increase their profits," Westoff says. "Since only 2 milligrams of fentanyl is enough to kill you, just the slightest miscalculation can make people overdose and die. ... If fentanyl starts taking over prescription pills and other drugs, the problem could get even worse. Fentanyl in places like St. Louis (where I'm from) is actually starting to catch on as a drug unto itself. And it is so much stronger that longtime addicted users who don't even get high on heroin anymore ... with fentanyl they can actually feel that feeling again of being high."
On contacting a U.S. fentanyl dealer on the dark Web
I think it's fair to say that a lot of dark Web dealers really don't care who they're selling to. They don't care what it's being used for, the amounts. But at the same time there are other dark Web dealers I talked to who specialize in psychedelics. They specialize in drugs they think should be legal medical drugs to help people with things like PTSD. ... So it's a whole wide swath of different types of people on there.
On how fentanyl from the dark Web is shipped to users
It's surprisingly easy to send these drugs through the mail, and that's been another big bone of contention that President Trump has been tweeting a lot about recently. The amounts needed are so small that just a tiny amount, hundreds of doses, can fit in an envelope. And it's often mislabeled. ... It doesn't say what it really is on the customs declarations, and also it's often hidden inside other products. So this guy [I] was talking to ... said that he received his in, like, a cleaning product I think, something like an Ajax can, and from the outside it just looked exactly like a cleaning product and you would have had to open it up to see what was inside. ... He showed me the little nasal spray mister that he sends and it does looks like something you would buy at CVS or Walgreens; it has a little label and it looks totally innocuous.
On the Chinese government's attitude toward fentanyl
China has big problems with drugs like heroin and meth and ketamine but they don't have a fentanyl problem like we do in the U.S. And so a lot of people think this is why they haven't sufficiently cracked down on this huge industry that they have. ...
The big problem in China is that a lot of these drugs which are banned in the U.S. are still legal in China. And so the companies can make them with the full support of the government and have them basically smuggled into the U.S. ... The biggest and most disturbing revelation from my book was that not only is China not doing enough to contain this industry, they're actually encouraging this industry through a series of tax breaks, subsidies and other grants.
When I got started in this story, I started hearing about all this adulterated ecstasy, and since then there have been some really sophisticated test kits can check to see: is this drug what you think it is, or is it something else? And this was developed out of the rave scene, and now fentanyl test strips are providing this same sort of service for drugs that may be adulterated with fentanyl. So if you have a longtime user of heroin, and they're able to check their heroin to see if there's fentanyl, if they discover it, studies have shown that they're less likely to use it or to use as much or to use as quickly — and therefore overdose rates are likely to drop. ...There are also city governments, even certain states that are providing funding for public health organizations to dispense these kits. At the same time, in some states including Pennsylvania, fentanyl test strips are actually illegal, and so that's really hindering and making things worse. https://www.npr.org/books/titles/757090964/fentanyl-inc-how-rogue-chemists-are-creating-the-deadliest-wave-of-the-opioid-ep
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2-1-19 DEA officials have said that while 85% of the illicit fentanyl found entering the United States from Mexico is seized at San Diego-area border crossings, an increasing amount is being detected on the border with Arizona, a state where the Sinaloa cartel controls the drug trade and fatal fentanyl overdoses are rising. https://www.azpm.org/p/home-articles-news/2019/2/1/145516-us-border-agency-announces-biggest-ever-fentanyl-bust-worth-35m/
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7-17-19 Thanks to new and more precise data from India and Nigeria – two countries that are among the 10 most populous in the world – the World Drug Report 2019, published last week by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), now estimates there are 53 million opioid users globally, up 56 percent from earlier estimates. Additionally, opioids – including oxycodone, fentanyl, tramadol, heroin, morphine and related drugs – are to blame for two-thirds for the 585,000 people who died in 2017 from drug use around the world.
In 2013 worldwide nearly 9 tons were seized, and in 201 7a record high of 125 tons. The report says that data is limited on Africa’s crisis, but what is available indicates that the tramadol that is being used for non-medical purposes in Africa is being illegally manufactured in South Asia and being trafficked to West, Central and North Africa and the Middle East. https://www.undispatch.com/un-report-finds-opioids-are-responsible-for-nearly-400000-deaths-worldwide/
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5-31-19 Four of the UK’s satellite jurisdictions – the British Virgin Islands (#1), Bermuda (#2), Cayman Islands (#3) and Jersey (#7) – made it onto the list of “top 10 most corrosive corporate tax havens in the world.” https://www.undispatch.com/these-ten-worst-corporate-tax-havens-in-the-world-are-stifling-sustainable-development/
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2-7-18 Last week the US was ranked the world’s second worst jurisdiction for lack of financial transparency by the Tax Justice Network (TJN). The only more secretive country is Switzerland, according to the anti-corruption organization’s 2018 …after last year’s Paradise Papers revelations, the EU as a whole agreed to set up a fully public register by 2020. In an email, Cobham described this as ”a major breakthrough.”…
UK nevertheless has a massive share (17.4%) of the offshore banking market; if combined with territories like the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands, plus Crown Dependencies like Guernsey and Jersey, it would rank first (barely, over US) in the index.
The total amount hidden in offshore bank accounts has been variously estimated at $21 trillion to $32 trillion or 10% of the world’s wealth. https://qz.com/1200096/the-us-is-the-worlds-second-worst-tax-haven-say-tax-justice-networks-ranking/
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The US Treasury estimates that something like 300 billion dollars a year is laundered through the United States. Foreigners are coming in and buying up property with anonymous shell companies and some of that is perfectly legitimate but some of it is clearly money laundering and corrupt officials and other people using their cash to park it in property and making it impossible for the people who live there to afford it.
And our government is claiming that it doesn't have enough money for infrastructure or for healthcare or for police or for education, and at the same time there's just huge amounts of tax avoidance and tax evasion going on through this secrecy world. https://www.businessinsider.com/jake-bernstein-panama-papers-offshore-banking-shell-companies-2018-2
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287. True, Armageddon is not wanting, yet even the dark force itself at some time yields a store of new cunning devices. Let us not complain because of the many, many attacks. It cannot be otherwise. The ability to become accustomed to danger is a powerful weapon against enemies. Verily people are in danger every moment. It is a great delusion to think that everything rests in safety. Maya appears to men under the guise of tranquility, but precisely the yogi senses that the cross of existence stands immutable. 
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259. One should acknowledge that the forces of darkness are united and fierce in their attacks. But there is nothing surprising about this, for they know their finite nature and must defend their very existence. Even the methods of fighting are different, for while We are ready to receive many blows to Our shield, We can end the combat by a single arrow. -M: Supermundane 2, 1938
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