Odessa, Texas place
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Yeah, I'm going to say no. So they also have principals of schools. You can't find a school principal in all of the United States with all of the teacher unions. Not one qualified principal to go to a magnet school in Texas, Odessa, Texas. …
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Dr. O-N-E-R-U-L-B-I, second name, third name, C-E-L-E-P-C-I-K-A-Y. I don't even know what that is. But that's the new principal at a K-8 school in Texas through the H-1B program. This is broke. I'll be back with a bombshell.…
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We had talked about Belize. As a matter of fact, I was with you. I thought Belize was just a playground for the rich and famous. And it turns out to be much more than that. But we go from a ranch in Texas to Belize to Bolivia to Venezuela. …
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Those weapons were being ferried out on aircraft down to Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, where all the death squads were, and they all need lots of guns, and they were bringing drugs back on the same aircraft. And then to find an entire …
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the drug planes. Evidence produced during a DEA investigation of Manuel Noriega revealed that his drug trafficking ring loaded up planes with cocaine in Colombia. The planes refueled in the Contra airstrips in northern Costa Rica before con…
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In September of 85, Ainsworth was contacted by U.S. Customs officials who was investigating the Nicaraguan role in a large narcotic ring extending from Miami through Texas to California. The customs agent wanted to ask Ainsworth about the F…
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Completely irresponsibly aggressive people in that line of work. Now, what I keep and I've stopped myself from going there, but I've got to say this. Can you imagine that you're a parent and your child has injured themselves or someone else…
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And he was reputedly the richest man, this Moore guy, in Houston. So Michener's behavior kind of belied his business, financial, criminal intelligence in international circles in not just Texas, but as we're going to find out, international…
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regularly places on Texas Monthly's magazine, Most Powerful Texan. He is one of only two people who made the magazine's list of the most powerful Texans in 1976, and then again later in 1987. And just to give you an idea of who generally ma…
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Primarily Democrats, but both sides of the aisle. Among the politicians that he donated to, LBJ, Ronald Reagan, John Conley. John Conley, we're going to hear that name a lot in this book, too. Preston Smith, Mark White, and Republican Bill …
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Every Texas governor since Conley, except Richards, had appointed Michener to some board or commission. In 1966, Conley appointed Michener to the board of Texas Department of Corrections. Now, you're going to find that really ironic as we g…
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Texas Deepwater Port Authority in 78, which is very important in Houston. He was also appointed to the governor's task force on water resource use and conservation later on. Michener had no problem promoting Democrat Mark White and Republic…
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his hip pocket, with the exception of one lady by the name of Kathy Whitmire. That's going to come back later, too. He and his developer friends also controlled the Houston County Commissioner Court, which determines flood control policy an…
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Bush returned to Texas, met with Michener, and they decided, among other things regarding their private activities, to use Corson as a cutout or front man. When the story of his alleged meeting with Bush was related to Michener for comment,…
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and the Republican Party in Houston. The event was the death of Albert Bell Frey, who passed away while he was on vacation. Bush described the late Houston businessman, Bell Frey, former U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago and former Rep…
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One of Bush's oldest and closest friends is the previously mentioned Midland, Texas oilman, William Blakemore. Blakemore was a fierce supporter of the Nicaraguan Contras and was president of the Gulf and Caribbean Foundation, which raised p…
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good friend, fierce Nicaraguan Contra supporter, was presiding over a foundation that raised money for the Contras. Norse Diaries also listed several meetings with Blakemore and the Gulf and Caribbean frontman, Dan Kuykendall, who was a Tex…
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has said that he knows Michener well and said he gave a little money to his foundation, one supporting a desert museum in far west Texas. But Michener, when asked if he knew Blakemore, said, yeah, I know him. He's got a ranch by Alpine. And…
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and taking weapons out of the United States down to the Contras. Michener's response, saying that, yeah, he knows them a little bit, was intended to convey the impression that he knows nothing about Blakemore or his Iron Mountain Ranch, whi…
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is actually outside of Marathon, 30 miles east of Alpine. Michener, a man who has owned hundreds of thousands of acres in that exact area, knew exactly where his ranch was, but he tried to play coy. Another strong Contra supporter and Houst…
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Harrison County contributors. Michener was introduced to the circle of Brahmin Houston Republicans like Bush, James Baker III, and Mosbacher by Lyons and Tony Robinson. Robinson, another banker, he was also a contractor who owned First Mort…
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the right-wing newspaper called the Houston Tribune. The money for Michener's first construction jobs came from Tommy Robinson. He had been a longtime Houstonian who stated that Robinson, Michener, Bush, and Baker all hung out together at a…
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Mishner Jr. were very good friends. A Houston newspaper gossip column confirmed that Neal and Walt Jr. had lunch and dinner together often all over Houston. The two sons of Neal and Walt Jr. also attended first grade together at Kinkade Sch…
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Neil's son and Walt Jr.'s son. It was a very exclusive private school in Houston, one that Neil Bush attended when he was a kid as well. Baker's kids attended that, James Baker's, Moss Bacher's kids attended that. So it's basically the...…
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The schools that Warhamster and I have all talked about, the grooming schools, this is the grooming school for Houston. And Michener Sr. served on their investment foundation. I've never went to a school that had an investment foundation. A…
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The Office of Thrift Supervision attorneys incredibly did not question either Neal or Pickett about it. Before joining Allied Bank Shares, Pickett was a regional counsel for the Dallas region of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, FD…
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I just noticed Bridget down there. I'll bring you up, Bridget. Michener and Terry's stock in Marathon was swapped for Penn Central stock. And Terry was named to the Penn Central Board of Directors. In 1986, Michener and Terry sold their Pen…
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Texas. That's crazy. When James Michener, when he was writing his novel about the Lone Star State, Michener actually interviewed Michener, their names are too close together, as kind of to model some of the people in his book off of his lif…
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and narco-trafficking facilitated by the CIA. The largest donor to Chanel's NEPL was Ellen Clayton Garwood, an Austin widow of a former Texas Supreme Court justice and daughter of one of the founders of the great Houston conglomerate, Ander…
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was involved in the Texas Rennebank scandal. He and his partner, Richard Rossmiller and William Wall, bought control of East Texas Bank that was part of Herman Beebe, the mobster, and Ben Barnes' Rennebank circle. Barnes and Beebe then brok…
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$60 million in existing debt and provided good with $30 million of additional cash. In the savings and loan industry in Texas, there was a game played called the last greatest fool. This was a savings and loan equivalent to musical chairs. …
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It is interesting that this expression has been credited to Jarrett Woods, although some say it started with Tyrell Barker, because Western Savings was the biggest, last, greatest fool in Texas. It was Western that took out Vernon, Continen…
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from Hernandez Cartier thanking an ESM principal for his offer to help in the sale of a purchase of Jefferson Savings and Loan in McAllen, Texas to Lloyd Benson, Senator Lloyd Benson. When Warner returned from Switzerland, so they're money …
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Warner's home state savings lost $150 million because of ESM and failed precipitously as a savings and loan crisis in Ohio broke out. Among others, the city of Beaumont, Texas also lost $20 million in that deal. Warner eventually lost his l…
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I went back on active duty for training as a lieutenant after I graduated from IU in October. And so between May and October, I had a job at the A&P school at Love Field in Dallas, Texas. And so I was able to go to his very first Dallas Mav…
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And he goes, oh, yeah, that's not unusual up there at all. And I was just sitting in shock compared to my 50 people in a big gym in Florida compared to 25,000 in the state of Indiana, because everything in Indiana, it's like Florida and Tex…
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went in to send troops during World War II. But that's not unlike that base in Texas that was used during World War II. It's down in this very southern part near Brownsville that the CIA used to teach all of Operation Condor and much others…
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taking the C4 explosives and blowing the indigenous population up. And they were being taught how to do that in Southern Texas. That's another one of those locations that we came across when we were doing the research into Operation Gladio.…
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and the mafia in the spy agency's attempt to use Costa Nostra members to assassinate Fidel Castro. So there you've got the narcos, the mafia, and the CIA all tied together. And the Murchison's factor really huge in Texas politics.…
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not John Ehrlichman, but John Haldeman's diary that said that when Nixon dined with Hoover, they would get steaks flown in for the Murchison Ranch. So this is a very connected family that apparently also has some interesting underworld ties…
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It's just very fascinating. It's a big club, and we're not in it. As a native-born Texan who's still got a few thousand relatives there, including some who have been involved in Texas politics, I was turned on to that family a long time ago…
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About as deep as Texas. Texas politics is about as corrupt as you'll find anywhere, but it's got its own unique brand. And it kind of does tie into Yankees, Cowboys. It's at some point. But it goes back to the founding of Texas, cattle baro…
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And one of the brothers was a professor and was running interference in Austin for them. And they were never held to account. As a matter of fact, the colonel, when he was finally driven out of the National Guard, got a job working for the …
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Capitalizing on such potential in the summer of 2011 was the firm International Security Agency, ISA. It had headquarters in Houston. ISA employed former security special forces as well as former police and told the press that it had done w…
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In August 2011, ISA announced that it had received the required license to operate in McAllen, Texas, on the Mexican border. At the time, ISA President Jerry Bromley, B-R-U-M-L-E-Y, told the press, quote, I love my country. If I were king o…
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Admiral Poindexter, who was infamous for the Iran-Contra Operation Gladio, had a ranch in Texas. That ranch was the Texas head of the St. Hubris Hunt Club for Texas. Of course it was. And that's where Scalia was murdered. Okay, go ahead. Ye…