Pete Brewton person
also: Pete Bruton, Pete, Pete Gruden
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Claims (9)
Pete Brewton exposed
CIA book_quoted
“Pete Bruton makes is that at the end of the day, when the quote unquote savings and loan operation was finished, the aftermath, there was a couple of points he wanted to make. One was all of the big, rich, oligarchical landowners made money…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:20
Pete Brewton member_of
Houston Chronicle host_asserted
“I was pretty much done. I think he was an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, if memory serves. He worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Post, and The Economist. That was his career. But as you'll see at the end of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:26:33
Pete Brewton member_of
Houston Post host_asserted
“I was pretty much done. I think he was an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, if memory serves. He worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Post, and The Economist. That was his career. But as you'll see at the end of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:26:33
Pete Brewton member_of
The Economist host_asserted
“I was pretty much done. I think he was an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, if memory serves. He worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Post, and The Economist. That was his career. But as you'll see at the end of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:26:33
Simon & Schuster covered_up
Pete Brewton host_asserted
“applying the coercive pressure to get him fired. So, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, Colonel, the book was published by Sapolsky Publishers, who also published Terry Reid's book. There's a sticker, if you, you know, buy one of the original hardcove…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 11 @ 1:28:55
Pete Brewton founded
The Medusa Files host_asserted
“That's it for today. Like I said, we will be done with this book probably in the next couple of days. If you guys want to get the Medusa file and follow along, like I said, every time I pick up that book, I get mad, which is why I know you …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 4 @ 1:15:15
Pete Brewton founded
The Medusa Files host_asserted
“with the Northern tier. You know, Pete Bruton's book talked a lot about the Southern, the Florida banks, we knew that there were tie-ins to like...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 4 @ 1:16:35
Pete Brewton founded
Belly Up host_asserted
“Pete Bruton's book, which talked about how the whole savings and loan debacle during the 1980s was basically the CIA money laundering with the mafia and supporting the Contras, George H.W. Bush, blah, blah, blah. Well, evidently, they didn'…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 4 @ 1:05
Pete Brewton exposed
Savings and loan crisis host_asserted
“Pete Bruton worked at the local paper in Houston and was publishing articles, but just like Gary Webb, ends up getting fired.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 2:29
Mentions (33)
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ran all of these savings and loans. And it's mind-blowing. There were some articles written about it, but they were generally done in local areas. Like this book is written by Pete Bruton. Pete Bruton worked at the local paper in Houston an…
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abandoned as he was beginning to reveal too much information. That's a common story. If you make it for a long time in media, you're not doing your job. That's just kind of the takeaway from all of these stories. With what these people had …
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with mafia and CIA operatives, and some of the money disappeared in foreign bank accounts controlled by the mafia and CIA. So that's the circumstantial evidence of which you can certainly gain a conviction if anybody was ever interested in …
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In the national news. The only news. At the time. Was a local reporter. In Houston. So. And I'm sure he didn't live very long. Well he did. But like I said. He got fired. Not before he got a lot of good information out. But he did get fired…
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crisis after another crisis after another crisis. And by the way, as this author points out, none of this was possible prior to 1980. None of it. They could not have done any of this. One of the very first things Bush and Reagan did when th…
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including, I think it's called either lost history or secret history and secrecy and privilege about the Bush family. But he's got, he's got, you know, thousands of notes in the back of his books too, based on all kinds of journalism, based…
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I mean, I'm not going to front run the ending of this book, but, you know, look, Gary Webb, Robert Perry, Pete Bruton, Terry Reed, those guys are heroes. And when they get to heaven, there is a special seat for that. There's a specially res…
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So much happening. Okay, we're live over on Rumble now. So although we're gonna start the devil's chess board today, I did wanna go through a couple of points in the epilogue to our previous book, the Mafia CIA and George Bush, just to kind…
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Pete Bruton makes is that at the end of the day, when the quote unquote savings and loan operation was finished, the aftermath, there was a couple of points he wanted to make. One was all of the big, rich, oligarchical landowners made money…
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savings and loan failures, the federal regulator hired private law firms to track down the money. And as Pete Bruton says, it was akin to putting the fox in charge of the hen house because it was the law firms that was at the central part o…
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In January of 90, one month before the Post series began, one month, several months after the CIA became aware of the fact that the newspaper was working on it. So quick, get a guy over there so that he can head off any uncomfortable inform…
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They can't hide it today. They can't hide it today. I'm getting to my point, though, which actually ironically ties back in to Pete Bruton's book, which is the Pritzker family is only mentioned once in Pete Bruton's book. But it's in refere…
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An FBI agent told author Pete Bruton that some global flights had munitions and arms going out and narcotics coming back in, which of course is exactly what was happening in Vietnam, Afghanistan, everywhere. Azima also had a contract for gl…
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And there's no journalist to even banter about it. It's all like, well, you know, the New York Times News Service is printed from this newspaper to to California. And it's just like, what's interesting? Thank you, journalism. There is no jo…
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You know, Jack Anderson and Seymour Hersh were kind of the exceptions that almost sort of proved the rule. You know, when we got, you know, Pete Bruton, I think, you know, he wasn't, I think the Houston Chronicle was the second biggest pape…
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I mean, what a tour de force by Pete Bruton. This book came out in 1992, and it was based on a lot of journalism work from the late 1980s, of course. I never remember the fact that, you know, I think I did flip through the index once. I thi…
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And making these allegations. And I think that's how you know that Pete Bruton has an incredibly responsible story here. Yes. And the amazing thing that you just pointed out is he basically had it first. And again, he did it with a stubby p…
▶ 1:23:13
fascinating to me that as you pointed out this was all done in the 1980s almost in real time which was virtually and we know from Gary Webb all of the hours and hours and hours of reading court documents and Pete Bruton and his partner was …
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Too much time for him to spend in jail. And that's how he got out. Well, they have all kinds of ways of getting you out of jail. One hundred percent, Colonel. One hundred percent. Ron, go ahead. It all depends on what type of a purpose you …
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I was pretty much done. I think he was an investigative reporter for the Houston Chronicle, if memory serves. He worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Post, and The Economist. That was his career. But as you'll see at the end of the…
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publisher gets set up in some kind of steam operation where they'll attempt to take them down as well. So they have many ways of doing it, but the only people that actually have to submit transcripts is people that work for them. But, you k…
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Operation Gladio, Stay Behind, Caches, had C4 in them and was used in multiple domestic terror events throughout Europe and the world, for that matter. And so that's why I think going through these books with the other hundred books having …
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And that's why I think it's so important for us to be able to do what Pete Gruden did in a wonderfully wonderful way of here's the character. Let me go back to where he came from and bring you forward to his role in this savings and loan ma…
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Well, I mean, with Oliver North, you know, that gets you to Barry Seale and, you know, the drug running in Iran-Contra. Yep. So, yeah, it's, I don't think Pete Bruton, like, Pete Bruton did a terrific job of all the link analysis, which was…
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And ask it to find – you can throw 1,000 pages of text into Google Gemini in a single context window and ask it to find the different links between two books. We didn't – Pete Bruton didn't have any of that. He had to do everything by hand.…
▶ 1:19:52
um, questions answered, that is definitely something that I want to go back and do. Um, but Alicia, go ahead. Um, when, when Pete was teaching his, uh, his first assignment to every, to every class was, um, like an assignment where you had …
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how basically, I mean, we knew when we read Pete Bruton's book about the savings and loan, about the arrest that was made in Houston of the guys trying to take the trigger systems for nuclear weapons out of the country. It was actually ment…
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And I had no idea that we actually, I mean, I know we contributed just from the bits and pieces that I've picked up through these books that we have done, like Pete Bruton's book. But I didn't know that we funded almost the entire fucking t…
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with the Northern tier. You know, Pete Bruton's book talked a lot about the Southern, the Florida banks, we knew that there were tie-ins to like...…
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Hanson Baldwin was the military affairs editor for the New York Times. Joseph Barnes was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster. And remember, several of our books have talked about the difficulty in getting their books published, like Pete Br…
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I will bet you, too, that there's stuff in the Paradise Papers on this as well. The last thought on all of this is Pete Bruton is still alive, and he's still a professor at Texas Tech. That would be a fascinating interview. And I think if h…
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Pete Bruton's book, which talked about how the whole savings and loan debacle during the 1980s was basically the CIA money laundering with the mafia and supporting the Contras, George H.W. Bush, blah, blah, blah. Well, evidently, they didn'…
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The same setup, except it's in Oklahoma. And there's a lot of nuances to that. So what's interesting, at least I'm halfway through the book. You don't see this guy's, Pete Bruton was such an amazing investigative journalist. He could see th…