For decades millions of people have come here in search of the American dream but for many that dream is quickly disappearing. Thousands of people around the state are losing their jobs every day … Our experts are going to give you everything you need. You can make a $1,000 in an hour … Masters of the trade are going to reveal to you their secrets. How to Make Money Selling Drugs, 2012
Marijuana: it’s the most profitable farmed product in the country. ibid.
Now that you’ve got some customers you’re going to need some product. Where do you get it? Ask a cop. ibid.
If you don’t end up getting killed by rivals or hooked on your own product, the cops are going to pick you up eventually. In today’s drug market, you’re risking your life for less than minimum wage. It’s not worth it. ibid.
Consider an exit strategy. ibid.
90% of those locked up under the Rockefeller Drug Laws are African American and Latino. ibid.
To be a big time player you need to get committed. It’s time to start building a business. A K is a kilo of cocaine; a single kilo can run you about $20,000. ibid.
You’re going to want some new options on your vehicle. ibid.
The trick to becoming a kingpin in any industry is innovation. ibid.
You’re almost ready for the top level – running a drug cartel. ibid.
Secret Level: New Player: US Government … All you need is a drugs war. ibid.
Richard Nixon would pick up where Harry Anslinger left off. Nixon used drug police as a weapon to move against those he thought of as his political enemies … The Reagan administration stepped up the rhetoric. ibid.
1986 Federal drug war budget: $2.9 billion. ibid.
‘Chemical warfare against the youth of this nation.’ ibid. politician
2012: 50,000 SWAT raids a year. ibid.
2012 Federal drug war budget: $25.2 billion. ibid.
You’ll be so used to killing, nothing will phase you any more. ibid.
Managing Your Drug Cartel: To run a global company, you need operatives all over the world. ibid.
Do you want a job that could change your life? Retire at 30? Make money in your sleep? More than 400,000 people in the UK are signed up. But very few will make it to the top. Secrets of the Multi-Level Millionaires: Ellie Undercover, BBC 2019
All over social media I’ve seen thousands of mysterious job ads. They’re offering massive salaries, cars and holidays. But very few of them say what the job actually is … Multi-level marketing, also known as network marketing or MLM for short, is a way of selling products via individual distributors instead of in the shop. If you sign up for one, there is no salary and no office. You work from home, cover your own expenses and earn commission on what you sell. ibid.
The multi-level marketing industry is worth £2 billion in the UK. Three-quarters of multi-level marketers are women. ibid.
RITA: Recruiting is the answer … There are even scripts depending on whether I’m recruiting friends or strangers. ibid.
There is a growing anti-MLM movement. ibid.
NuSkin 2017: 90,079 in European region; 89.2% = £0 commission monthly; 1.09% = £870; 0.04%/36 people = £18,100 commission. ibid.
People are both victims and offenders at the same time. ibid. professor MLM expert
It seemed a little bit like a cult. ibid. victim
It becomes a culture and a lifestyle that is really hard to escape. ibid.
Salt Lake City: the world capital of Multi-Level Marketing. ibid.
The global MLM market is worth $189.6 billion. ibid.
It’s the largest online retailer in the world and has revolutionised the way we shop. It offers everything from best-selling books to children’s toy, and a third of all online purchases in Britain now go through Amazon. Dispatches: The Secrets of Amazon, Channel 4 2019
We ask whether the company is putting profit before other priorities, revealing the dangerous toys for sale on the site, uncovering the enormous amount of money the company makes with our personal data … What is the hidden cost behind Amazon’s unstoppable growth? ibid.
An incredibly tough place to work. We’re going undercover … Even going to the loo can land staff in trouble. ibid.
Amazon’s revenue in the UK is approximately eleven billion. Yet it paid two hundred and twenty million in tax last year. That’s about 2%. ibid.
It’s a job, a business opportunity. We go door to door. We sell magazines door to door being friendly. You know you seem friendly. You make $300 a day if you’re good. American Honey 2016 starring Sasha Lane & Shia LaBeouf & Arielle Holmes & Riley Keough & McCaul Lombardi & Crystal B & Chad Mckenzie Cox & Garry Howell & Kenneth Kory Tucker et al, director Andrea Arnold, him to her
So you’re a Southern girl. A real American honey like me. ibid.
God can go fuck himself. God is a cunt. ibid. Star
I feel like I’m fucking America. ibid.
American consumer culture: It’s [US] perfected the art of creating the kind of theatre of capitalism, a vast and tantalising spectacle where even your strangest and most forbidden desires are commercialised and turned into a saleable product. Louis Theroux, Life on the Edge II: The Dark Side of Pleasure, BBC 2020
Since 2000, more than 500,000 Americans have died of opioid overdoses. Millions of Americans have become addicted. Every 25 minutes a baby is born with opioid withdrawal. The US government estimates that the cost of opioid abuse is over $1 trillion. We call this ‘the opioid crisis’. But a crisis is something that just ‘happens’. What if we discovered that the opioid crisis was caused by businesses seeking to profit from pain? What if behind the crisis there was a spectacular crime? Alex Gibney, The Crime of the Century I ***** Sky Documentaries 2021
No American family has profited more from controlled substances, from Valium and Oxycontin, than the Sacklers. ibid.
In the 1960s Sackler became incredibly rich by expanding the market for addictive tranquillizers. ibid.
Controlled-release Oxycodone, or Oxycontin, would be the drug that triggered what we call the ‘opioid crisis.’ ibid.
Johnson & Johnson also genetically altered the nature of the plant to create a super-poppy … Soon 74,000 acres of Tasmania were devoted to opium. ibid.
Blinn was taking the equivalent of 200 hits of heroin a day. He kept the prescription bottle for 20 years because he felt something was not right. ibid.
A nationwide criminal conspiracy that included Fraud, Pills Mills, doctors trading drugs for sex, false statements to Congress, and attempts to target key officials of the Bush administration … The FDA was used to falsely and fraudulently market Oxycontin. ibid.
None of them would spend a day in prison. ibid.
Lifetree Pain Clinic prescription: 60 x Amitriptyline 50mg; 30 x Celexa 40mg; 224 x Oxycodone 30mg; 112 Percocet 10/325mg; 60 x Requip 1mg; 60 x Xanax 1mg; 60 x Zanaflex 4mg. ibid.
Starting in 2013 a powerful synthetic opioid surged in popularity: Fentanyl. It’s a 100 times more powerful than morphine. Rather than reckoning with its dangers, companies sold it as aggressively as drug cartels. But instead of gun-toting dealers on street corners, men and women in suits and lab coats pushed opioids and cash bonuses and power-point presentations at pain management jamborees. Flush with campaign cash from Big Pharma, Congress would look the other way. ibid.
‘40 people every day die from Prescription overdoses.’ Alex Gibney, The Crime of the Century II ***** news
‘The opioid crisis started with prescriptions, prescriptions and patient care. This idea that we weren’t adequately treating pain. Drugs like Oxycontin … began to preach the gospel of the opioid … They developed new medical terms like pseudo-addiction … As you get stronger drugs, it’s more expensive. ibid. Joe Rannazzisi, insider whistleblower gives evidence
Fentanyl byproducts is killing a lot of people … It was a natural progression … Overdose deaths is under-reported, we know that for sure so we don’t know really how many people died. We started seeing massive amounts of death … prescriptions: 250 million. ibid.
An onslaught of pills, hundreds of thousands of deaths. Who is accountable? ibid. The Washington Post online article 20 July 2019
Some of America’s biggest pharmaceuticals were not only profiting from the opioid crisis, they may have been manufacturing it. ibid.
We have had many run-ins with the Sacklers lately. The crisis began when Oxycontin hit the streets. Their man point of contention is that they did not ignore the opioid crisis single-handedly. Whether you believe that or don’t believe that, there is voluminous evidence the crisis began when Oxycontin hit the streets. Purdue [Pharma] led the charge. ibid. Bernstein, Washington Post
Generic versions … sending massive amounts of these drugs downstream because there were corrupt doctors all over the country. It became like the Wild West. This was a new drug cartel that was being established in the United States. But instead of coming in from a foreign country, they were drug dealers who were wearing suits and lab-coats. ibid.