Liberia country
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Claims (16)
United States founded
Liberia host_asserted
“It is another one of those completely made up countries, but it didn't appear after World War II. It appeared in the 1800s, and it was created by the United States as a colony. Now, I don't remember, and again, I was at public school educat…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 5:16
American Colonization Society founded
Liberia host_asserted
“formed, and it was called American Colonialization Society, ACS, in the United States. And this American Colonialization Society went looking for a place to repatriate Black Americans and formerly enslaved people back to Africa.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 9:19
Firestone funded
Liberia documented
“It goes through, operated the world's largest rubber plantation in the world in Harpo, Liberia, for over 80 years. Firestone signed a concession agreement with the government of Liberia, who leased one million acres of land in 1926 for six …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 57:11
Liberia founded
International Registries host_asserted
“became the world leader of flags of convenience. That is very interesting. And no, I had not even tied those two things together. And yeah, I do see where Liberia merged with the Marshall Islands to create a joint flags of convenience corpo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:10:55
Nina Simone member_of
Liberia caller_asserted
“She apparently became entangled with this whole thing. She moved to Liberia because she was heavily affected by MLK's assassination. Do you know who Nina Simone is? I know who she is, yeah. Okay. Yeah, so basically she got in...…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:16:10
Samuel Doe overthrew
Liberia documented
“Sergeant Doe, who was a sergeant in the Liberian Army, overthrew the government. The government was backed by our CIA. And when the Revolutionary Coup occurred, the United States then wanted to become friendly with the new government. They …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 37:05
CIA funded
Liberia documented
“Sergeant Doe, who was a sergeant in the Liberian Army, overthrew the government. The government was backed by our CIA. And when the Revolutionary Coup occurred, the United States then wanted to become friendly with the new government. They …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 37:05
Robert Sensi spied_on
Liberia documented
“after the Doe coup. As reported earlier, CIA agent Robert Sensei testified that he worked with Clint Murchison Jr. on a CIA project to try to replace the Liberian stations. That guy just keeps coming up. When I asked Anthony Russo if the Do…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia CIA & George Bush Part 14 @ 38:09
Charles Keating headed
Liberia host_asserted
“In this article, the very first picture that you see is a guy by the name of Charles King, who was the 17th president of Liberia from 1920 to 30. And he's in a very nice dress or suit. His wife is in a beautiful dress, a mink hanging around…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 18:26
True Whig Party headed
Liberia host_asserted
“dominated Liberian politics in what was essentially a minority-ruled one-party state, you know, like a dictatorship. Though they were Black, the Americo-Liberians created a cultural divide. From the day they arrived, they set about establis…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 13:22
Liberia overthrew
William Tolbert book_quoted
“And it does a very good job of it doesn't have an author, though, listed. Oh, there it is. Brooks Marmon. It was written in 2017. And I'm just going to read you kind of the highlights here. The U.S. was deeply involved in the overthrow and …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 15:34
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Liberia book_quoted
“The closest that Liberia has come to closure was in 2009, a release of a final report on the nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Most international media centered around the commission's recommendation that the sitting president, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 28:08
Standard Oil funded
Liberia guest_asserted
“He knew all of the people, big names in American corporations. And basically, he wanted for them to have an easy place for them to register their ships and evade all of the oversight that came with registering under the American flag or any…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:09:02
Sullivan & Cromwell funded
Liberia guest_asserted
“as basically his buddy in Liberia, to create the law in Liberia that basically allowed ships to come and register there. So Sullivan and Cromwell. Exactly. Now, all of that kind of registry is run out of the United States. They basically ru…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:09:31
Edward Stettinius Jr. founded
Liberia guest_asserted
“They didn't come up with this idea themselves. It actually, the Liberian flag of convenience comes down to an American guy called Edward Stettel... I can't even say his name. Stettinus. Yep, Stettinus Jr. Yes. And now he is a very interesti…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:05:02
United States installed
Liberia host_asserted
“Liberia, where we basically took over that country to repatriate the slaves back and make them quote unquote free. And all they did was go and set up their own government there and enslave the indigenous Liberians. So again, slavery begets …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 45:00
Mentions (54)
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And the last thing that comes to mind right now, since it's kind of open mic, I guess, is another friend, a guy I met. I didn't really know him well, but he had been on the MTT to Liberia, the mobile training team for SF down there. They'd …
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And unfortunately for Bout, he was on the opposite side of the CIA trying to help the indigenous people, much like Che Cavera. So at least he didn't end up like Che Cavera. And then, of course, he got his name Sanction Buster because he's t…
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And in Liberia, he supplied Charles Taylor with arms for their civil war. And he used the UAE for much of his financial arrangements. He was involved in arming the good guys, the anti-CIA and NATO guys in the Bosnia conflict.…
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peninsula that sticks down and then it has the big bend in it that goes out to the west, it reminds you a lot of the state of Florida. So as you go down the peninsula, you have Equatorial Guinea, you have Angola down there, and then at the …
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That actually made statements that of what happened. And he was the aid to a Liberian warlord that happened to be present at the assassination. And he said, I was right there when Thomas Sankara said, because you are my best friend, I call …
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to Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, who had been recruited by the CIA to overthrow Liberian dictator Samuel K. Doe in the 1980s. And we're probably going to go there tomorrow because that is a very interesting story, too. One of these aides…
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had told him to approach Sankara for help in taking power in Liberia in exchange for a lucrative business opportunity. When Sankara rejected the idea, because they basically were trying to frame him, set him up, Taylor met with a general th…
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and the country of Chad's president, along with a white Frenchman who was probably part of the Foucart network, which is basically Gladio for France. At the meeting, it was decided that Taylor would be able to use Burkina Faso as a launchin…
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according to the man. So again, this is exactly the same pattern. So we want to take over Nicaragua. So we're going to take over Costa Rica. We're going to take over Guatemala. We're going to take over El Salvador. We're going to take over,…
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And they are talking right here about doing that exact same thing. They want a launching pad, which is Burkina Faso, to wage war in Liberia. And Sankaro refused to play along. He won't let them put Operation Gladio terror cells along his bo…
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Now, keep in mind, when they say Secret Service, they're not talking Secret Service like our. They're talking actually like their Operation Gladio forces. Prince Yormy Johnson, another one-time Taylor associate, stated that the CIA had infi…
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rumble up um and going and um then we're gonna get started with Liberia this is going to be one of the most interesting ones that we've done um for a whole bunch of different reasons so let me it looks like um the…
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I will be going over there to give them a couple hours break and spending a little grandma time. Okay. So I don't know how many of you know anything about Liberia. So we're going to do a little.…
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And we start off with our map, as we usually do. When you pull up, and I've got to tell you, Liberia, we did probably several months ago talk a little bit about Liberia, just not a deep dive into it, because it has one of the most fascinati…
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So Liberia, if you go, it's on the furthest western side of Africa up. So like we talked about Africa looking like the peninsula of Florida, Liberia is around the Pensacola area. If you were comparing it to Florida, it is as you go up the l…
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Just as you make the curve north, Liberia is on the coast there. And Sierra Leone is the next country up. And Guinea kind of is the next country up, but it loops back around the eastern side of Sierra Leone and becomes Liberia's northern bo…
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So, Monrovia is the capital. Now, yeah, there you go. So, you see it's the Pensacola of Florida. Thank you for putting that up there, Bridget. Paints that picture perfectly. So, here's what's the most fascinating thing to me about Liberia. …
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didn't necessarily know what country. So we weren't just repatriating African descendants back to their home countries in Africa. We specifically went over there and carved out a country and gave it a name, Liberia, and said any freed black…
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With all of the negative aspects of that caste system, they had what they basically referred to as the America-Africa people, and then they had the African people. And just to give you a little bit of specifics, in 1816, Liberia was...…
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And that particular area of Africa is called the Grain Coast because they harvest a lot of grains, rice, and that type of thing. And in July 26, 1847, so about 30 years later, they declared their independence from America and said, we're no…
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Well, America said, screw you. You're still our colony and we're not going to recognize the fact that you're not. So they continued to treat them as a colony. And no one else basically recognized Liberia as a free state because you didn't d…
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internationally a colony until 1862 after the Civil War. And then it was a little hard to say, yeah, we're going to free all of the slaves in the United States and keep a colony of basically slaves in Africa under the tutelage of former Ame…
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Because by that time, the caste system had been fully developed and you had black former American slaves enslaving the indigenous population of Africa to work for them in basically an India-style caste system. So I found that like just abso…
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All of the settlers and their descendants became known as Americo-Liberians. It's like we say African-Americans. They're called Americo-Liberians. Those people are like the elite within Liberia. They are black, but they are not.…
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indigenous. They are not indigenous not only to Liberia, but a lot of them were actually born in America and went over there in this repatriation type effort. In 1931, the International Commission revealed that several prominent Americo-Lib…
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of the Liberian population. But in the 19th and 20th century, they made up 100% of the voters because they were landowners. For over 100 years, from its formation in 1860s, like being separately recognized as a country and not a colony, unt…
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dominated Liberian politics in what was essentially a minority-ruled one-party state, you know, like a dictatorship. Though they were Black, the Americo-Liberians created a cultural divide. From the day they arrived, they set about establis…
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Obviously, the whole reason we're talking about this is because they have had coups as a result of and very much into the bring up my other article here. Hold on just a second, because it gets pretty dang crazy here.…
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And it does a very good job of it doesn't have an author, though, listed. Oh, there it is. Brooks Marmon. It was written in 2017. And I'm just going to read you kind of the highlights here. The U.S. was deeply involved in the overthrow and …
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They are very well wealthy and owned a large corporation there. Liberia's largest and most successful private enterprise was this company that was owned by the brother of the president. International syndicate going on. Richard had just com…
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Only these people were allowed to vote because no one else owns land. And that was the determinant of whether or not you got to vote. And that's how they maintained power for so long. So all of that stuff is very important to get in your br…
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everything that was ever written about Liberia and the nuances on how this whole thing unfolded. So we're going to carry on a little bit more about this. All right. So in the early morning of April 1980, as the president prepared to go to s…
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Several days later, Richard watched in horror as his father, Frank, who was the president of the Senate, was executed on live TV. They had taken several Liberian heads of state in different occupations, but government employees, out to a be…
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And they said that they were haunted by the idea that the U.S. actions led to the demise of Tolbert and gave way to a 14-year civil war where over 250,000 Liberians died. And that's just in that 14-year period because they had a couple othe…
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The closest that Liberia has come to closure was in 2009, a release of a final report on the nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Most international media centered around the commission's recommendation that the sitting president, …
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and other family members of those who lost loved ones in the coup have established an April 22 Memorial Group to push for further disclosure, although the activities are primarily like annual meetings. Liberia was one of the few African nat…
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They would absolutely march in torchlight parades guarding his speeches, Lincoln's. Then, of course, there were John Brown's raiders, and we talked about John Brown. Anti-slavery extremist. Lincoln was a bit of a moderate compared to these …
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chaos in whatever country in Africa has whatever resource they want. They overthrow the government. We did it in Angola. We did it in Liberia. We did it in Rwanda. I mean, there's just country after country after country. And you have all o…
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that basically said that they didn't want anybody trading with the Soviet bloc. What I found interesting is the companies that were actually trading with the Soviet Union that supposedly is bad. And Firestone, you know, the guy that has or …
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session by first looking at the map. And we're going to look at Ghana. We're going to look at Ivory Coast and Benin, B-E-N-I-N. And let me look these up or pull up my map. I already have it. All right. So we were yesterday in Liberia, which…
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southwest corner of the big bump out in western Africa. Again, we mentioned that these are former French colonies, and you go across over to the armpit of Africa. You start out with Liberia, then you have Ivory Coast, then you have Ghana, t…
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Wardner, he's kind of interesting too. Where did I find that? He was one of the original guys that advocated for Liberia and setting up that colony in Liberia to repatriate the Africans back to Africa. Are you familiar with that?…
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No, I don't have that part. What I have is he was just a Vermont state treasurer, Alan Werner. I didn't have the stuff that you just brought up. Yeah, he was a member of the American Colonialization Society. That thing, that was a shock to …
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And I started looking or Liberia. Sorry. I started looking into that. I'm like, what the hell? Why don't I know this? Yeah. So from like 1820 till the mid 50s and he was in 1850s in that general time frame, there was an entire movement in t…
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when setting up the corporations for clients in the Channel Islands, Cayman Islands, UK, and Liberia. Another entry in the Florida Law Enforcement Report on Freeman and DuBose says, quote, on January 21st, 1983, Harvey initiated a discussio…
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Also, in 1976, Renda arranged for financing for construction of a hotel in the Ivory Coast, a country on the west coast of Africa and a neighbor to Liberia. Liberia, that's the former colony of the United States that after the Civil War, we…
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He had been certain of years in the sun and he had gotten them. Sudan, Algeria, Jordan, Chad, then Somalia for the first time. Yeah, that's interesting knowing what we know now about all of those. So he's definitely one of the covert guys w…
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Liberia, where we basically took over that country to repatriate the slaves back and make them quote unquote free. And all they did was go and set up their own government there and enslave the indigenous Liberians. So again, slavery begets …
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During Anthony Russo's trial for tax income fraud in 1986, Russo testified that in 1982, he received $25,000 from Global for accompanying the dictator of Liberia, Samuel Doe, on a trip. Well, you all met Farhad Azima. He was the chairman of…
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to fly the president of Liberia, which was a new government and its cabinet around the world on a Goodwill tour. And they hired criminals to do it. That's when Liberia had had a change of regimes. And remember, Liberia is the colony that we…
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wanted to keep control of Liberia and we have over time. And so we were afraid this guy wasn't going to be one of our friends. So we did a goodwill tour around the world, all expense paid by you and I. The U.S., quote, the U.S. has supporte…
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Sergeant Doe, who was a sergeant in the Liberian Army, overthrew the government. The government was backed by our CIA. And when the Revolutionary Coup occurred, the United States then wanted to become friendly with the new government. They …
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I was head of the bank and I had to check with Mr. LeMaster, who was the president. And he covered for me. And I took the trip around the world and we went all around the world with the president and his cabinet. And the president and I bec…
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talking about people who were hired at the State Department. Women were sent to the jungles of South America. Jewish people could not be handled as crassly, but they were made to feel just as unwelcome as any black or woman and shut out of …