Drug money and the stock market

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Back in 2000 Mike Ruppert was giving a presentation at some academic setting in California and he discussed how money from illicit drugs is used to pump the stock market. I don't have the video handy, but as I recall he pointed out that the stock market is one arena where you don't have to launder the money and that the CIA is behind these operations.

We know the CIA was/is? involved in drug smuggling, use of proprietary banks for illegal undercover ops, etc. Now that Afghanistan's illegal drug industry is back up and running at pre-Taliban levels I wonder if this money is being used to boost the stock market.

Is Halliburton involved in this?


Cheney Led Halliburton
To Feast at Federal Trough:
State Department Questioned Deal
With Firm Linked to Russian Mob
By Knut Royce and Nathaniel Heller Washington,

August 2) Under the guidance of Richard Cheney, a get-the-government-out-of-my-face conservative, Halliburton Company over the past five years has emerged as a corporate welfare hog, benefiting from at least $3.8 billion in federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans.


One of these loans was approved in April by the U.S. Export-Import Bank. It guaranteed $489 million in credits to a Russian oil company whose roots are imbedded in a legacy of KGB and Communist Party corruption, as well as drug trafficking and organized crime funds, according to Russian and U.S. sources and documents.
Those claims are hotly disputed by the Russian oil firm’s holding company.
Halliburton, which lobbied for the Ex-Im loan after the State Department initially asserted that the deal would run counter to the "national interest,” will receive $292 million of those funds to refurbish a massive Siberian oil field owned by the Russian company, the Tyumen Oil Co., which is controlled by a conglomerate called the Alfa Group.


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