Savings and loan crisis event
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Claims (8)
Walter Mischer member_of
Savings and loan crisis host_asserted
“When he was 30, he was a sewer contractor, somehow bought into a bunch of Honduran paper mills, ended up selling them to Clint Merkelson Jr. And in 1952, that land that he had the paper mills in Honduras were where they staged the 1952 Unit…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:28:22
Herman Beebe member_of
Savings and loan crisis host_asserted
“Another mafia guy is a guy by the name of Herman K. Beebe. And he's out of La Costa, California. And they're my old hometown mafia organization. He's connected to Barry Seal. So that's Herman K. Beebe. All these guys were running SNLs in th…”
▶ The Shadow State 19 Secret Societies 3; The Bush Dynasty @ 1:29:24
George H.W. Bush covered_up
Savings and loan crisis book_quoted
“When Bush won in 1988, one of the reasons he did was his ability to keep the savings and loan scandal out of the political debate.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 6:09
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
Lloyd Bentsen covered_up
Savings and loan crisis book_quoted
“He was assisted by Lloyd Benson. They both had things to hide.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 6:39
George H.W. Bush proposed
Savings and loan crisis host_asserted
“They purposely did this to facilitate the disaster that they knew. They planned the disaster. They literally planned the savings and loan implosion. And we're going to prove it based on this book.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 48:18
Ronald Reagan proposed
Savings and loan crisis host_asserted
“They purposely did this to facilitate the disaster that they knew. They planned the disaster. They literally planned the savings and loan implosion. And we're going to prove it based on this book.…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 48:18
U.S. Department of Justice covered_up
Savings and loan crisis book_quoted
“The Department of Justice International Division, the government body through which subpoenas to offshore banks must pass, inexplicably became a brick in the wall to Curtin's efforts to obtain records from the Isle of Jersey…”
▶ Colonels Corner_ Mafia, CIA & GHWB Part 1 @ 10:11
Mentions (67)
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and kind of skip over some of the lesser players, but it's a lot of information. And so I'm going to do the introduction and we may get into chapter one, but it's a lot of information. So it starts off talking about something significant ha…
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What everyone missed was a massive transfer of wealth from American taxpayers to a select group of extremely rich, powerful people. And again, I lived through this. Never once during all of this did I ever hear anyone talk about the collusi…
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and two of the most prominent, powerful politicians in Texas was associated with it, President George Bush and Senator Lloyd Benson. This small cabal of businessmen realized that the savings and loan were antiquated in the way they did busi…
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They were a competition for a lot of middle class Americans to big banks who didn't want to bank at big banks because they weren't in their communities. So they decided to exploit the savings and loans, basically imploding them, using mafia…
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Had the author jokes saying that had the Democrats won, it would have been called the mafia CIA and Lloyd Benson because he would have been in the White House. But basically, Benson and Bush were two peas in the same pod. When Bush won in 1…
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He was assisted by Lloyd Benson. They both had things to hide. Not only were many of the president-to-be's friends involved, along with two of his sons, but Bush himself as vice president had personally intervened in the federal regulation …
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had to pay as part of the bailout. Sounds so familiar to 2008. The bulk of the money lost in the savings and loan crisis that American citizens had to pay for went to the owners of the property and the assets that the more notorious borrowe…
▶ 11:14
and everything they could about them, and then doing the same thing for the savings and loan proprietors and borrowers. That's what's presented in this book, that evidence. The evidence uncovered is clear. Members and associates of the mafi…
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Some of the richest, most powerful people in the country did business with these participants and profited off of the savings and loan crisis. It is well known that members of the MOPI and the CIA conspire routinely. There were other substa…
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are involved in a failed savings and loan, that is usually enough to establish the involvement of the mafia. Members and associates of the mafia don't do such things without the knowledge, permission, and sharing of the spoils with their su…
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They always maintain plausible deniability and then tell you if you FOIA the records that they can't release them because it's national security. The perfect crime. In the case of the failed savings and loan, the CIA has categorically denie…
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connected so many pieces of things, all tied to the implosion of the savings and loan industry that was directly tied to Iran-Contra, weapons trafficking, now human trafficking, and the whole nine yards. And all of us that lived through tha…
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The people that were injured in this that thought their savings and loan was a regular bank and all of their money is now gone to creditors had to be bailed out by us. And at the end of this merry-go-round of them doing this over and over a…
▶ 47:22
This is how they do this kind of stuff. This is what the 2008 financial crisis was all about. It's the exact same thing, just different banks. It was a controlled implosion that left all of us. And of course, then they changed the laws. The…
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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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as money traffickers for the Contra operation that was coming up and all of the rest of their covert operations in Iraq, Kuwait, wherever. They purposely did this to facilitate the disaster that they knew. They planned the disaster. They li…
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It's just it's truly stunning. You know, these scandals, the SNL scandal, the BCCI scandal in the late 80s and early 90s. And then the and then the banking scandal, you know, and the Enron scandal and the and the WorldCom scandal. You know,…
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Without a doubt. We got the forever wars for 20 years and counting almost out of his lovely decisions. You can't talk about George W. Bush without talking about the savings and loan scandal of the 80s. His fingerprints are all over it. The …
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While you're finding that, let me talk about what I found with the savings and loan scandal, just from a Gladio perspective. If you look at some of the back players of Gladio, you find that a lot of them here in the United States, whether t…
▶ 1:24:09
just prior to the savings and loan collapse. And basically what they were doing looks exactly what they do at BCCI and New John Hannon Castle Bank, which all collapsed as well. And they were taking, like the example that I use is if you had…
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You look at the major savings and loans that collapsed in Texas, you would find on the board of directors of let's just say A, B and C. Well, the C guys were some of them were on A and B and then the B, some of them were on A and C. And the…
▶ 1:25:08
And so basically it ends up being a major money laundering episode, which is exactly what they were doing at BCCI Nugent Hand. And the similarities when I started looking into that, I was just like mind blown. The similarities are all over …
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When it came to what were called thrifts or savings and loans, they used to have a requirement that you had to have a minimum of 400 shareholders and no shareholder could own more than 25%. They changed that in 1982 so you could have a sing…
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And as a quote says, many of the entrepreneurs attracted by these changes were actively actually con men intent upon draining as much money from the system as they could get. And then moving on. I don't most call them CIA assets. Well, ther…
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That's supposed to be pretty good-backed asset class, but they leveraged these banks like you wouldn't believe. Who owned these people? Well, a lot of power structure of the country. Big, big players. A lot of these guys are out of Houston.…
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Did a lot of work with charity work, like in the hospitals. Those are insider dealings, all kinds of corrupt. And of course, he was very close to LBJ. Misher did a lot of business with Carlos Marcello, who, of course, was a New Orleans mafi…
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Yeah, he's an interesting connection. You start getting more and more mafia connections in here. You talk about James Baker, not mafia, but he who had money involved in mainland savings, who lent money to Khashoggi. And Baker is a huge part…
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War Hamster, I saw you come up. What you got? I just stopped by about 10 minutes ago, so I have no idea what I missed. But I did hear you talking about the Bushes, and I didn't hear my buddy Neil Bush mentioned. And I felt that that's somet…
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And I'll leave it alone with that. Halper was the last entry in Oliver Norris' White House diaries when Oliver Norris was leaving the White House. The last entry was him talking about Halper. And that actually circled back to Silverado Bank…
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So this guy does it a little bit, but not enough for me to have not had to go back and find the guy's name again to figure out who the heck that one was. So it's going to be a challenge, but I do want you guys to understand. And it deals wi…
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It's fascinating. It talks about Nugent Hand. It talks about BCCI. And it's all surrounding. And if I told you all of that, you'd think, oh, that's just another book about, you know, all of the stuff that we've talked about. It's actually a…
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or we're going through the mafia CIA and George Bush, where we talked about Albuquerque, right? Because that's where a lot of the savings and loans were. And look where he moved, Houston and Miami. Do y'all think that's weird? I think that'…
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He founded Amazon in the mid-1984s. He was on Wall Street in the 80s when this book and all of the savings and loan debacle was happening, okay? And then it said he went from New York City to Seattle and created Amazon, which was started as…
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You have Baker and all of these people from Houston, and you're going to meet a lot of them throughout this book because a lot of them were involved in this savings and loan debacle to include George's sons, as in more than one. So it wasn'…
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to the CIA. He had connections to the savings and loan debacle. And he was a registered Democrat, which goes to the two wings of the same bird that we constantly talk about. And it goes on to basically say that Walter Mitner led, while he w…
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It says Michener sold the savings and loan in 81 before the bottom dropped out of the entire industry. That's going to be a reoccurring theme as well. In a book called Who Will Tell the People, it reported that when Democrat presidential ca…
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You can see from all of those shenanigans that this is all connected, every bit of it. It's incredible. I see we lost Bridget again. So that's the end for today. That's a lot. All of these stories that you guys thought were all separate sto…
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to money launder through savings and loans. All of the CIA, not all of their money, obviously they have trillions of dollars floating around, but this scheme called brokered loans allowed them to parse out money in the form of a quote unquo…
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The Allies had numerous no man's lands pockets in Germany. Thank you for your response. No, this book does not cover World War II at all. So this is primarily about the savings and loan collapse. And he does go back into the early 70s to th…
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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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that led to the most fascinating characters in the savings and loan debacle. The first relationship, a Silverado director, Diane Ingalls, a Denver real estate broker, who was also on the board of the Federal National Mortgage Corporation, w…
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was the last one of the savings and loan crisis that the author had written about in the Houston Post. It appeared in December of 1990 and was followed eight days later by a series of articles on Walter Michener. Those articles were never p…
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George Bush's aide, son, was the head of Utica National Bank. And this guy that's basically working for the CIA is borrowing money from the son, whose dad is the aide, to George Bush. Robert Thompson gained notoriety in the summer of 1990 a…
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A combination of 15 failed Texas savings and loan in Southwest plans bailout. Fail, whose insurance company pleaded guilty to fraud in Alabama in 1976, put up $1,000 of his own money, borrowed $70 million to buy this clump of savings and lo…
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another milking job of the American taxpayers. About $35 million of Fales' borrowed money came from ICH Corporation, which is a Kentucky insurance company that at one time tried to buy Southmark, the real estate dumping ground for the mafia…
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all involved in the savings and loan crash. And every nefarious thing that happened during that time, the October surprise, the selling of missiles one to Iran, the selling of missiles two to Iran, the Contras drug shipping into the United …
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all centers around the fricking savings and loans. And when they got done with their operations, they just collapsed them all and move on. They've milked them dry. Billions and billions of dollars gone. Laundered through the savings and loa…
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The investigation has extended nationwide and involves illegal operations dealing in banks, labor unions, construction companies, and savings and loan companies, unquote, which encapsulates the entire savings and loan debacle. Novelli, a co…
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Lincoln Savings, and then left Office of Thrift Supervision in 1990 and went to work for the law firm of Jones, Day, Revis, and Pogue, which represented Keating's Lincoln Savings, and many others of the savings and loan debacle, including V…
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Ten years after the surety deals and the rent-a-bank scandal, every one of those people were heavily involved in the savings and loan debacle that together was responsible for billions of dollars of losses to you and I. Luna, who got convic…
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as a money laundering opportunity. So that's what it's all about. Go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel. And thank everyone for attending on Rumble and here on X. And for those that were having issues with sound on X, hopefully they found their …
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Yep. Yeah. So it was a big deal. But prior to reading this book, I had never put the savings and loan crisis in the same bed with the Contras or the CIA or even the mafia. I had no idea they were all connected. So basically, in a nutshell,…
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Thank you, Colonel. For those that don't follow at Warhamster, I highly recommend you do. He is into and has been a part of the financial system practically his entire life. I'm sure he's got a lot of stories to tell about this savings and …
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Without a doubt. We got the forever wars for 20 years and counting almost out of his lovely decisions. You can't talk about George W. Bush without talking about the savings and loan scandal of the 80s. His fingerprints are all over it. The …
▶ 1:23:57
While you're finding that, let me talk about what I found with the savings and loan scandal, just from a Gladio perspective. If you look at some of the back players of Gladio, you find that a lot of them here in the United States, whether t…
▶ 1:24:27
just prior to the savings and loan collapse. And basically what they were doing looks exactly what they do at BCCI and Nugent, Hannon, Castle Bank, which all collapse as well. And they were taking, like the example that I use is if you had …
▶ 1:24:55
You look at the major savings and loans that collapsed in Texas, you would find on the board of directors of let's just say A, B and C. Well, the C guys were some of them were on A and B and then the B, some of them were on A and C. And the…
▶ 1:25:25
And so basically it ends up being a major money laundering episode, which is exactly what they were doing at BCCI Nugent Hand. And the similarities when I started looking into that, I was just like mind blown. The similarities are all over …
▶ 1:25:56
When it came to what were called thrifts or savings and loans, they used to have a requirement that you had to have a minimum of 400 shareholders and no shareholder could own more than 25%. They changed that in 1982 so you could have a sing…
▶ 1:26:25
And as a quote says, many of the entrepreneurs attracted by these changes were actively actually con men intent upon draining as much money from the system as they could get. And then moving on. I don't most call them CIA assets. Well, ther…
▶ 1:28:22
When he was 30, he was a sewer contractor, somehow bought into a bunch of Honduran paper mills, ended up selling them to Clint Merkelson Jr. And in 1952, that land that he had the paper mills in Honduras were where they staged the 1952 Unit…
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He was famous for his role with the Silverado Savings and Loan in Colorado. That's one of the SNL scandal ones that we talk about when we talk about the IRA and Contra. That name comes up every once in a while. Neil Bush ended up paying abo…
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um from my research um was the the failures were not unlike what you just described as far as the network of them serving all on each other's boards so that it functions as one organism a lot of the savings and loans um that failed were alm…
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um and um businesses family members and stuff like that and so um it could have been seen and i'm not going to put words in brady's mouth him being the actual banker but from my perspective it looked a lot like money laundering i'm just goi…
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My VP has gotten more probably involved in international diplomacy than any VP in history. A couple of the initiatives that he spearheaded, one was the deregulation of the banking system. Deregulation of what you cut out? Deregulation of th…
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But I think the population of Jersey is like 10,000 people. It is almost no one lives there. Yes. It's tiny. But it is a hot spot. As a matter of fact, you find that all of the people that were associated with the savings and loans collapse…
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He was a governor of Pennsylvania, was known as the hero of Three Mile Island because he was the governor when that happened. He apparently did a good job. He was real big on going after white collar crime and got a whole lot of convictions…