Opium wars
Where each worldview places it
The British Empire's wars on China (1840 and 1858), which Icke presents as the Black Nobility-Brotherhood "invading China by flooding that society with addictive drugs"[1] and as the blueprint for invasion by drug addiction[2].
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Dates
- 1840
- 1858[2]
- Key events
- Members / notable people
- Lord Palmerston (prime minister, involved in both warsGrand Patriarch of Grand Orient Freemasonry)[4]the Russell family (ran opium from Turkey to China) (BS-16-1)Edward VIIP&O (drug running) (BS-23-1)the East India Company and Edward Bulwer-Lytton[2]
- Author's claims · 4
- 01The aim was to addict and so control Chinese society[5].
- 02The Treaty of Nanking ceded Hong Kong, and "opium vessels" carried the trade[2].
- 03Opium vessels were owned by the Duchess of Atholl, the Marquis of Camden and Pybus Bros, among others[6].
- 04The Boston-based Perkins syndicate, a rival opium syndicate intermarried with British slave-trade families, was eventually bought out by the Russells[7].