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“Rockefeller was involved in that as well. But yes, it was the New York City. They put him up in a very expensive apartment with a refrigerator, a driver, and air conditioning, which no one had at the time. He had no income. He was writing s…”
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And expected. And expected. And if you know how San Francisco is just like, what do you call it, the New York of the East Coast or the Boston of the East Coast? Yeah, I think it's the New York of the West Coast. Yeah, well, what's interesti…
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So it was founded in 1903 just exactly for that reason. Who are the big New York banks in 1903? The who's who of what we've been talking about, you know, JP Morgan, Rockefeller, et cetera. The Bankers Trust had many partners, but the voting…
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He became the first governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was also at the meeting on Jekyll Island. This guy is back right in the formation of the Fed. Benjamin Strong from Bankers Trust was there right alongside the Morgans,…
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I wish I had some music to play because here comes the villain. Darth Vader walks in the room. Enter a guy that I've talked about before, Maurice Strong. He's the cool guy. Yeah. So who's Maurice Strong? So growing up, this is a guy who's w…
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1970, Marie Strong gets appointed to the undersecretary general for this big 1972 Stockholm conference that launches this entire green movement. It came from the United Nations. It came from the Rockefellers. At the time, Nelson Rockefeller…
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to Jewish parents. And again, that's a big trend we've seen in the last several Bonesmen that we've featured. I think prior to this period of time, the last decade or two, Jewish people didn't even get into Yale, much less Skull and Bones. …
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But he's an interesting story. So let's get into it. Sorry, Steven Mnuchin. Did I call him Neil? Yes, you did. I went to college with a guy named Neil Mnuchin. That's why. Actually, a fraternity brother. I can't believe I made that mistake.…
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The big boys get to play under different rules than you and I. Exactly. That's the bottom line right there. And I knew you would get to that. That's exactly it. Yeah. And that's an important point. Yeah. All right. Enough of nerdery. So Rob…
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So that's dad. Now we get back to Steve Mnuchin. Grows up in New York, attends a private high school, a grooming school that is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School. The name of the school is the Riverdale Country School because, of cours…
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He's a guitarist for a band that I mentioned previously called The Bravery, who I happen to like. Well, that's interesting. Why did we bring him up before? Well, because the lead singer of The Bravery was a guy by the name of Sam Andicott, …
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He was a co-captain of the colony's military with a guy by the name of Miles Standish. So we're talking real American history. He's also part of the peaceable surrender of New Amsterdam. We talked about how the Dutch traded New Amsterdam an…
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And it worked out pretty well for the Americans. Ouellette was also the first and third mayor of New York City. Wow. Okay. So now we get into the Russell family itself. And that's the last bit he's descended of. A patriarchal guy by the nam…
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almost all of them before the 20th century. Of those U.S. senators, Connecticut had four U.S. senators. So if you think about it, in about a 70-year period, each senator probably sits for 15 years on average. Pretty much half of Connecticut…
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all across the northern states, Connecticut, New Jersey, and there's Nebraska thrown in there, some New Yorks, a little bit of Ohio, but it's the congressmen. And some of these are names you know, and we're going to go, as we go through the…
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I wouldn't have made that connection without you. No, I'm kidding. Yeah, you're right. Why would you want to have so much control over the interior? I'm going to be right back. Keep talking because I'm going to be able to hear you. I just n…
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About that same time, you've got a secretary of the treasury named McClung. A guy named Harrison would also be the governor general of the Philippines. I think it was just after Stimson. We've got a guy, oh, another director of the New York…
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He was the president of the New York City Bar Association. And going down, oh, guess what I have next? A third president of the New York Fed by the name of Harrison. That's three New York Fed chairs. The odds of that are pretty exorbitant. …
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I've got the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Gillespie. Got to be in charge of the judicial branch, too, don't you? Yes, either to block things from happening or to make things happen. Absolutely. And you're kind of cra…
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That's where the U.N. is. That's where all of the and in most countries that have ambassadors in the United States also have an office in New York with a like an assistant ambassador there, like a consult there. And so the world revolving a…
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Yale, Skull and Bones, class of 1892. He would grow up on what's known as the Jay Estate in Rye, New York, which is the ancestral home of his great-great-grandfather, a guy by the name of John Jay. You familiar with John Jay? Yeah. For thos…
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He was one of the Federalist Papers co-authors, along with Hamilton and Madison, as they were going around mostly New York trying to get them to ratify the Constitution. He was the first Secretary of State of the United States. Notice the S…
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There you go. Francis Burton Harrison. Okay, that's enough of you, Francis. So why is he important? Stop me because this is about five or six touch points. You're just going to want to jump all over. So just jump in anytime you want. Okay. …
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That's not good. Yeah. He served as the captain in the army during the Spanish-American War. Became a congressman in New York from 1907 to 1913. Gets fun here. Hold on. Was he in the Philippines when he was in the army? Where was he station…
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And I'm talking tens of billions of dollars, if not hundreds of billions of dollars worth of gold. And just a friendly reminder that both Citibank and Chase Manhattan are both banks with deep skull and bones and Rockefeller connections. Cor…
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to play this great global Game of Thrones. People try to say, oh, you know, whatever, Rothschilds rule the world. No, they do not. They are a major player at one point in time. But there are so many different moneyed interests throughout th…
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All right. The last name we want to talk about that went to this school, the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is none other than former director of the FBI, Christopher Wray. Oh, holy crap. Well, let's talk about holy crap, Chris…
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alpha last night one of the other major players was aig and aig traces its roots back to cb star who was part of the oss cia nexus in china before moving their headquarters to new york and they just so happened when they moved their headqua…
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Which, of course, they're part of the apparatus that instigated it to begin with. Absolutely. And we'll get to that more. A lot of it's the same family. Anyway, that's the ISW. That's where Kimberly Kagan, that's where she does most of her …
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had a military officer in charge of it. And listen to where Petraeus went. He was hired by Colbert Kravitz Roberts, New York investment firm. CCR, I know them. Hired Petraeus as chairman of the firm's newly created KKR Global Institute. Per…
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He also was a visiting professor at the University of Xavier in England, which kind of takes us back to the root of this bridge between the U.S., New York specifically, and the city of London. Absolutely. And the foreign policies overlap di…
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We had a William Whitney from Broome County, New York, recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution as ancestor number A125404. We had a Moses Whitney, served in Colonel Edmund Finney's 31st Regiment of Foot in 1775, and he has do…
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Yeah, that's definitely more than a handful. Yeah, those are just the ones that I could find. You know, the Whitney family is not really a household name. You know, we know Mount Whitney. And if you're into the arts, you know about the Whit…
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Yeah, that's definitely more than a handful. Yeah, those are just the ones that I could find. You know, the Whitney family is not really a household name. You know, we know Mount Whitney. And if you're into the arts, you know about the Whit…
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big position yes so this guy gets that job and then lincoln when he gets elected removes him because he was a democrat so we get through civil war he doesn't do a whole lot um northern democrats were opposed to the war a lot of them got imp…
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big position yes so this guy gets that job and then lincoln when he gets elected removes him because he was a democrat so we get through civil war he doesn't do a whole lot um northern democrats were opposed to the war a lot of them got imp…
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She marries a guy by the name of Charles T. Barney. Remember that name? I can't get a chance to look if it's related to Smith Barney or not, but Charles T. Barney is important. He becomes the president of what's called the Knickerbocker Tru…
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She marries a guy by the name of Charles T. Barney. Remember that name? I can't get a chance to look if it's related to Smith Barney or not, but Charles T. Barney is important. He becomes the president of what's called the Knickerbocker Tru…
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Well, Susan Collins is from Maine. I mean, that's probably worth a genealogical dive. That's a good question. Yeah. So you want to hear about the DeMock family? Sure. Guess when they came to America? When? Right around 1637 to Massachusetts…
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Well, Susan Collins is from Maine. I mean, that's probably worth a genealogical dive. That's a good question. Yeah. So you want to hear about the DeMock family? Sure. Guess when they came to America? When? Right around 1637 to Massachusetts…
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Gives a job for the Port of New York as the dock commissioner. Oh, gosh. And what's going on, that's 1875 to 1881, right? And in New York City, you've got Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed and a whole political ring. Yes. Well, the dock commissio…
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Gives a job for the Port of New York as the dock commissioner. Oh, gosh. And what's going on, that's 1875 to 1881, right? And in New York City, you've got Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed and a whole political ring. Yes. Well, the dock commissio…
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Susan's dad's company. And DeMock becomes a director and a large shareholder. Later on, we're going to skip around the timeline here. In 1890, he would join William C. Whitney, William Collins Whitney, who's the star of the show, the brothe…
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Susan's dad's company. And DeMock becomes a director and a large shareholder. Later on, we're going to skip around the timeline here. In 1890, he would join William C. Whitney, William Collins Whitney, who's the star of the show, the brothe…
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The steamship that was named after Dimock is the one that would collide with William K. Vanderbilt's yacht. We talked about the Alva in Sanker. Case goes already to Supreme Court and found the captain innocent. Dimock's involved in the Bost…
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The steamship that was named after Dimock is the one that would collide with William K. Vanderbilt's yacht. We talked about the Alva in Sanker. Case goes already to Supreme Court and found the captain innocent. Dimock's involved in the Bost…
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in particular, until the Civil War. War breaks out, and he goes to New York City and gets into the shipping business and becomes an agent of, of course, the Metropolitan Steamship Company, his father's company. He would establish the West E…
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in particular, until the Civil War. War breaks out, and he goes to New York City and gets into the shipping business and becomes an agent of, of course, the Metropolitan Steamship Company, his father's company. He would establish the West E…
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So William Collins Whitney then moves to New York City and founds, okay, this is 1871, going back a bit. He would found something in New York called the Young Men's Democratic Club. That was the real big opponents of the Tweed Ring, the Bos…
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So William Collins Whitney then moves to New York City and founds, okay, this is 1871, going back a bit. He would found something in New York called the Young Men's Democratic Club. That was the real big opponents of the Tweed Ring, the Bos…
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it's like right at the foundation i think it's 1930s or so i mean we talked about it on the previous show yeah but um and i think you had a pretty good theory of why that is uh what else do we have more philippines another treasury secretar…
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Well, a lot of the robber barons are involved with the founding of the Federal Reserve. And the Bonesman becomes the very first chair of the New York Fed. So we have another New York Fed director. New York City president of the bar. Another…
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Well, a lot of the robber barons are involved with the founding of the Federal Reserve. And the Bonesman becomes the very first chair of the New York Fed. So we have another New York Fed director. New York City president of the bar. Another…
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yeah it was a very hazardous job indeed gotta give you guys a little bit of credit that's not easy that's not an easy tour of duty uh so he uh aviator um goes back to columbia law gets involved in the new york state legislature and then the…
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implicated in laundering arms sales proceeds, including Pakistan's nuclear black market procurement. Declassified U.S. Treasury papers from 1991 to 93 show UBS New York processing wire transfers totaling $400 million for BCCI numbered shell…
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There was court filings in a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York in 2009 that accused UBS of maintaining numbered accounts for Aviation Worldwide Service, the company that provided civilian-lease Gulfstream jets used in the Extraor…
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and that's in the 1980s this guy came from ubs in the 1960s he's considered very disciplined very cautious very legitimate he previously worked globally both in new york and beirut should i let that hang there for a second yeah because beir…
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The toxic ones. And that's going on quite a bit. All right, so we get to 99. Remember we talked about the UBS's history in World War II? Yeah. It's going to come back to bite them. Because they've been taking personal items, dental fillings…
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Rockefeller was involved in that as well. But yes, it was the New York City. They put him up in a very expensive apartment with a refrigerator, a driver, and air conditioning, which no one had at the time. He had no income. He was writing s…
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The country is in the early stages of transitioning from kind of agrarian to this raw industrial capitalist system which would dominate the 19th century. Cornelius is in Staten Island, New York, seeing it right in front of his eyes. He grew…
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to ferry cargo and people back and forth from Staten Island to Manhattan. And by the age of 16, he's got a really reliable reputation. And no matter the weather, this guy delivers on time. He bet on himself and outworked the competition. Wa…
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and killing innovation. Good point. We're going to be talking a lot about that theme going forward. Good question, though. Here we are. He embraces the steamboat technology. He's going fast. He's working for a ferry entrepreneur by the name…
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which is kind of a, well, at this time, it's the highest rank in the Navy, but there was kind of a, you'd use it in commercial enterprises and use it at yacht clubs. The head of the yacht club was the Commodore, but he got that nickname and…
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So they granted a license to Ogden to run it. Well, under Cornelius Vanderbilt's guidance, they undercut the prices. Gibbons and Ogden, which is a famous Supreme Court case, goes to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court holds that the st…
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So these kids aren't living like they grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth. Not these ones. So he's doing great in his steamship business. Marrying, kicking out kids all over the place. Although they live in a humble abode. He's buyin…
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moved south and developed a monopoly on the California steamship business because that's what this guy does. We get to the Civil War, and he donates his biggest steamship, known as the Vanderbilt, to the Union Navy. That's the one they outf…
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So he sells off his shipping interests and invests in railroads and consolidates railroads throughout the North. And it's even richer. He's the guy that built Grand Central Station in New York City. A lot of it was consolidating rail lines …
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The famous event that changed the Vanderbilts socially was Mrs. Astor of the Astor family, who made their money in the fur business, was considered pretty much the queen of New York high society. And with the tabloid writers, I forget the g…
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And he's the guy who served as the U.S. consul for Chile in New York from 1840 to 51. The Chilean connection again. Yeah. He would marry a woman named Laura Eugenia Astor. Yeah, she's the daughter of William Blackstone Astor Sr. And the bro…
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Washington is desperate to learn the location of the imminent British invasion of Manhattan and asks for a spy to stay behind enemy lines. Nathan Hale is the only volunteer to do so. So he goes behind enemy lines, gets ferried across Long I…
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Teterra in the Rumble chat. Yes, that is the correct spell. Let me see if it's Linolian. I'll spell it out for you. Hang on. L-I-N-O-N. Yeah, you got it spelled right in chat. Okay, so the Culper Spiring. Some important characters. Now, the…
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All right, next person part of the Culper Ring is a guy by the name of Abraham Woodhull. That's W-O-D-H-U-L-L. He's an interesting story. Look him up. His codename was Samuel Culper Sr., and that's why it's the Culper Ring, because they wen…
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This is not a good time to be alive. He got really motivated to get involved because his cousin, his brigadier general by the name of Nathaniel Woodhull, got captured, tortured, and pretty much brutalized. So in August of 1778, Talmadge, wh…
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by ferry back and forth, allegedly to visit his sister. And the first trip letter he wrote was in October 1778. Washington is looking for information on troop movements, supplies, new ships coming into the harbor of Manhattan, which is the …
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He's known for his daring whale boat missions across the Long Island Sound to deliver messages. And he's also born in 1747 in Setauket. Another big name came in later was Robert Townsend, who they ended up dubbing Samuel Culper Jr. And this…
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which, of course, criminals were going to exploit. Banks are issuing their own notes. You have thousands of different notes that are easily copied during circulation. And, you know, the techniques are easy. You get crude printing presses, a…
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He was very influential in the Democrat Party. These guys, the parties don't mean so much to these scrolling key guys. They have to influence both. He would be so influential, he would actually be the chairman of the New York State Democrat…
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He was always famous for his opposition to Randolph Hearst when he ran for governor. And of course, Cord II was a member of the New York Yacht Club and the New York Athletic Club. So why don't you jump in there and talk about great grandfat…
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So we first find out about it in 1973, when CIA director William Colby shares some information with journalists. Here we are in the early 70s. We had all kinds of CIA scandals coming out. And in 1974, there's a New York Times article by Sey…
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Class of 1944. Are you familiar with the name? It seems vaguely familiar, but I don't know why. He was a big mayor of New York City in the 70s, late 60s, early 70s. And as we'll see, he'll go down as one of the worst mayors in American hist…
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Hang on a second. So John Lindsay looks like a politician, doesn't he? He does. Born in 1921, of course, in New York City. So his father is a successful lawyer and investment banker. Where do you think he went to high school? St. Paul. He w…
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He wins a Republican primary and is elected to Congress. His district is called the 17th District. It's known as the Silk Stocking District of New York, Upper East Side. Still pretty conservative. While in Congress, he establishes a pretty …
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Well, yeah, but he's cozying up with the neocons and now he's running against them. I think that's controlled opposition. I'm not sure that it's even a... You're going to get what you get regardless. Yeah, there is some of that. The false c…
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He's got bridges being shut down. He goes to the state, lobbies, tell me if this is familiar, lobbies for a municipal income tax and higher water rates and a commuter tax to pay for his programs, right? Right. What New York has done is they…
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Parents, it led to a lot of tension between blacks and Jews in New York City. Lindsay, of course, sides with the union. This is a Republican, mind you. Yes. New York quality of life is going to hell. Sanitation strike gives you mounds of ga…
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and he's not really dealing with it very well. He gets named to a National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders called the Kerner Commission. Remember, there's been a lot of riots in New York that's happening all over the country, Detroit…
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60s and 70s says hold my beer. The violence in the streets was every bit as bad and probably worse back then. Of course, LBJ completely ignores the reports and the recommendations, so they spent two years doing nothing. About a month later,…
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and New York City did not see riots after the MLK shooting, and Lindsey's given some credit for that. 69, you get a huge blizzard called the blizzard of 1969, and Lindsey gets criticized for giving favored treatment to Manhattan. There's ac…
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And Lindsey would run on the Liberal Party. He's a Liberal Party candidate, New York Liberal Party. Percocino is the guy who is describing Lindsey, coined the term limousine liberal. This guy is the original limousine liberal is John Lindse…
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He had been considered as a VP possibility for the Republicans in 1968. Southern conservatives wouldn't have him, so that's how Speer Ragnew got the nod. 1971, Lindsey and his wife cut ties with the Republican Party and registered as Democr…
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A lot of other people have ticked off because he's supporting all these low-income housing projects. And he'd end up leaving office, the mayor's office, in 1973. Became a commentator and a regular guest on ABC's Good Morning America. Of cou…
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60% of New York City said he had done poorly, and 9% said he did good. That's pretty damning. Yeah, it's about the worst approval rating I've ever seen. In 1978, the New York Times called Lindsay an exile in his own city. He was that hated.…
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to the ground and the second part talks about the how they infiltrated the united states now how did the ideas cross the atlantic taking root in the elite circles um we're looking to the turtle bay intellectuals in 1920s in new york one of …
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was not unique to the fabians it had already been being discussed for a few decades before they um form but i wanted to um give you this quote that was one of cornelius roosevelt's famous quotes economy is my doctrine at all times and that …
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brought the prussian education system to the northeast right and where they've been indoctrinating our children in public education ever since which is a core tenet of the fabian society yes he would end up working in new york city uh at wh…
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And they meet at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Pretty exclusive. And the people there, of course, is diplomat Joseph Choate, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor. Oh, just a few small names in American, you know, industria…
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New York City area. He was born in Connecticut. He set up a company. His banking company was called MK Jessup and Company. He organized the United States Christian Committee during the Civil War. He also was one of the founders of the YMCA …
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He became, let's see, after 1960, became the president of the Five Points House of Industry in New York. And basically that served as like a settlement house for banking. He was big into setting up education for all of the immigrants that t…
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Let me ask you this. How do you think the people in Texas could have ever survived initially without the people in New York? Do you want me to answer that? Yeah. You're talking about the financial survival? Yeah, because that's the same thi…
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Yeah. Well, okay. So should we talk about the John Kerry connection? Okay. We're going to get to that. Okay. Let's go through just a little bit more of the setting up of Bloom. So Bloom starts asking all of these questions and he finds out …
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or to be stored outside of the prying eyes of regulators. And whether it's Switzerland, Panama, BCCI, all these different places, it shifts depending on the lay of the land. But I guess the big picture is that market will always exist. So w…
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All right, jumping back to banks. So we've got Sindona. He goes to New York City in the 50s, builds up a bunch of networks, gets to know a bunch of right-wing politicians, New York bankers, becomes a banker for the Gambino family. It's kind…
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The whole government can organize crime. And they just built this fantasy world for consenting adults. The big bank Sindona built in Cuba is called the Bandas Development Bank. And what they did is they used debt financing, so public-privat…
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$60 million was laundered, much of it through BCCI Panama and Cayman Islands. Nothing was done. In 1989, in Oklahoma City, the IRS, which was in the Oklahoma building that blew up, indicted and convicted a heroin dealer who had laundered ov…
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You know, he's had a heart attack. He's hiding in Pakistan. During the time that he's hiding in Pakistan and Morgenthau is trying to build a case of his money laundering, we gave Pakistan $60 billion during the course of all of this time in…
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You just have to love how little this is. I'm trying to find my note of the name that was the guy that was at DOJ. So anyway, the DOJ does this kind of delay, pause, everything. Then they try to get out in front of the New York City attorne…
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The DOJ, the attorney general, basically retires, gets relieved, and in walks William Barr. And do you know what William Barr does? William Barr tells the DOJ to stand down, that he will not interfere with Morgenthau. He is not going to usu…
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get them convicted. And who I'm talking about is Clark Clifford and Altman, the real kind of criminals in this as far as the U.S. was concerned. They're the ones that facilitated the buying of these banks in the U.S., which was criminal fro…
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to U.S. attorneys in Miami and New Orleans to seize BCCI records. Lloyd's accuses BCCI of taking part in smuggling operations and falsifying shipping documents. Big surprise there. And boy, why would you want to falsify shipping documents i…
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That's important. And Robert Maxwell was involved in Megagroup too. So Robert Maxwell, after he does all of his media and big conglomeration in London, he decides he's going to splash down in New York City. And he wants to be the golden boy…