OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 1

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0:46 Hello, everybody. Put this down a little bit. See if we can't get that screen aligned a little better. All right. So let me get a sound check if I can. The Prophet, you're the only one that's checked in. You're going to have to give me a sound check here. Seems like. Awesome. All right. So we're going to go ahead and get started. We're on chapter one. We talked a little bit.

2:26 On Tuesday night about the prologue, it was fairly long and extensive and kind of gave us an overview of what we're going to talk about. So we're going to dive right in this. It originally takes us back. The name of this chapter is called Behind the Mask, and it takes us back to October of 1895, where.

2:52 30 Japanese assassins had forced their way into the Korean royal palace in Seoul and basically went into the queen's private quarters and killed her two ladies in waiting and cornered the queen. Her name was Min Min.

3:20 Her minister of royal household tried to shield her. They basically cut off both of his hands. So she was stabbed repeatedly and she was thrown outside onto a pile of firewood, drenched in kerosene and set aflame. So that was Japan going into Korea.

3:48 So the American military advisor, General William Dye, was one of several foreigners who heard and saw the killers milling around in the palace compound with drawn swords while the queen was burning. Japan had declared that the murders were committed by, quote unquote, Koreans dressed as Japanese in European clothes. That may be the first Gladue event on record in 1895.

4:21 where somebody is dressing as someone else to commit crime. So we're going to go with the fact that they were Japanese assassins. According to the British minister in Tokyo, Sir Ernest Sato, S-A-T-O-W, it was a Japanese legation that had led the assassination. The grisly murder of the queen was a turning point.

4:55 in Japan's effort to gain control of Korea. The queen's husband, King Kojon, K-O-J-O-N-G, was kind of an early version of a weak soy boy. And he basically was controlled by the queen. So the queen...

5:27 was allied with China against Japan. So once the queen was dead, Japan basically ruled over the king and put it into their relationship with China. The coup was planned by a guy by the name of Miura Goro, G-O-R-O. He was an agent of Japan's aggressive Yamagata clique.

5:58 At first, the killing was to be done by the Japanese-trained Korean soldiers, and so that it could be passed off as like an internal matter. But they didn't trust them enough to have them do it. So the Japanese had a terrorist organization called Black Ocean, and it was their members that are the ones that carried out these types of assassinations.

6:27 So many of its members were in Korea posing as business agents of Japanese companies. And they have a name called, and I'm not exactly sure the pronunciation, Zaibatsu. It's spelled Z-A-I-B-A-T-S-U. And I need to explain what those are. Zaibatsu. Those are the...

6:56 family type oligarchs that I talked about on Tuesday night, that they're like a mafia family that owns a particular company. And these families get assigned a particular company and then they run it in perpetuity. So if you were assigned Mitsubishi, then that's your company. And you kind of.

7:24 are in charge of the mafia that runs it. So you do all the hiring and firing and you run it literally like a mafia. This particular company that the Black Ocean people belong to is called Mitsui, M-I-T-S-U-I. And that's different than Mitsubishi because we'll get to that one. So Black Ocean and other secret societies called Black Dragon.

7:54 functioned as Japan's paramilitary on the Asian mainland. So they basically are like an early version of Gladio. If you look at how they were trained, I'm not saying they're Gladio because they're not. But if you look, they function like what we have come to know as Gladio entities because they're trained in assassination. They're trained in torture. They're trained in kidnapping.

8:25 So they function just like that. So they carry out all of the dirty work so that Tokyo can deny it. And they operate as a secret society. They were positioned all over Korea, all over China. They ran all of the brothels, pharmacies, pawn shops, buildings, like for people to rent.

8:55 They loaned out money. They had alcohol. They controlled the drugs, pornography, and they even controlled Spanish fly. So they basically had the market on everything. Hello from Tennessee and California. I'll buy a dollar here. Mitsui. Okay, I got it. Thank you to profit. Mitsui. I don't know if I have my...

9:24 You're going to have to keep reminding me of that. So Black Ocean was obsessed with Korea. Black Dragon, which got its name for an area in Manchuria and Siberia, was dedicated to blocking Russian encroachment and seizing China for Japan. So Black Ocean provided...

9:52 Miura with the professional assassins he needed and the rest of the killers with security men from Japan's consulate. So many of the Japanese leaders, like their statesmen, Ito Hirabumi, were enlightened and reasonable men who would have vetoed the murder had they known about it. So they just don't tell them. But there was a deep contradiction inside of Japan following the

10:22 Mijing Restoration in the 19th century, two cliques competed ruthlessly for power behind the throne and influence over the Mijing Emperor. Those associated with Ito were more cosmopolitan and wanted to be like the German Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, that kind of use Queen Victoria as a model.

10:51 Those allied with General Yamagata were the throwbacks to the medieval Japan, where power worked in the shadows and they snuck around. They had assassins, surprise attacks. So those are kind of the competing entities inside of Japan in the early part of the late 18th century and the early 19th century. So Yamagata built a modern construct.

11:21 conscript army and he was replacing japan's gangsters and what they referred to as super patriots there were key elements in the police state that yamagata was creating in japan underworld godfathers were a critical component of the ruling structure so you had members of the imperial family the financial elite that controlled japan

11:47 And they all had intimate ties to gangsters, kind of like New York City back in the day. Yamagata's army invaded Korea and Manchuria. Gangsters basically kind of honed their talents during this process and became way more lethal. So they also, these...

12:19 crime syndicates played a league in looting Asia. And from 1895 until 1945, when they lost World War II, they spent that entire time stealing treasures out of all of Asia. Queen men's murder marked the beginning of a half a century of extreme Japanese brutality and industrial scale plunder throughout all of Asia.

12:54 You have the Japanese army that staged, they have a, I mean, it's kind of an infamous thing called the Rape of Nanking in 1937, where they basically murdered 300,000 defenseless people in full view of foreign observers who, you know, included the press. There was pictures of this.

13:26 Had the rape happened only once, it might have been a grotesque accident. But variations of Nanking occurred many times during Japanese lightning conquest of the East and Southeast Asia. By the time they overrun Singapore in 1942, the atrocities committed against overseas Chinese civilians there, the Suk Chiang massacres were happening all over Southeast Asia.

13:57 and not only to Chinese. This occurred so often that it suggested more to Japanese aggression than a purely military operation. After successfully conquering a neighboring country, did Japan torment the Chinese and others who had money or property? The explanation lies in the shadows behind the army. Few history books take this into account, the role of the underworld, but

14:28 because the scholars were rarely outlaws. So they didn't do a very good job of capturing the criminal underbelly of this entire episode. The conquest of Korea was Japan's first experience in foreign plunder on an industrial scale. They were kind of surprised at how much there was there to steal as well.

15:02 Obviously, that area is like, you know, thousands of years old. So they had all kinds of antiquities. Korea's influence on Japan was far greater than Japan's influence on Korea. In ancient times, Japan was raided by marauders from the Korean peninsula and raided Korea in return. But these were bands of swordsmen and archers, not armored regiments.

15:31 Such raves caused a mutual loathing of Koreans and Japanese that has its parallel in the Catholic and Protestant troubles of Northern Ireland, according to the author. So they're going to give you just a quick overview of that history so you can get an idea of the depth of what it entails. So first started feuding 2,000 years ago.

16:03 There was no Korea or Japan as we know it today. In different parts of the Korean peninsula, there were city-states with highly developed economies supporting magnificent religious, literary, and artistic cultures. Their porcelain was among the most prized in the world. They had elegant paintings, sculptures, gold filigree, palaces on great estates, thousands of slaves, and they had no interest in commerce or warfare.

16:32 They developed astronomy, mathematics, woodblock printing, invented movable type long before anyone else. Until the 16th century, Korea was one of the world's most advanced civilizations. Meanwhile, in the secluded isles of Japan, immigrants from China and Korea were linked in a loose confederation ruled by priests and priestess.

16:59 There were rival domains feuded among themselves, but before finally submitting to a central military dictatorship of shoguns. So chronic conspiracy produced what one historian called Japan's paranoid style in foreign relations. And they definitely have that. Still, Japanese treated each other ruthlessly. Koreans regarded Japanese as uncouth dwarfs.

17:31 Chinese were more cultivated, so Korea willingly accepted a tributary role with China. In return, China protected Korea from Japan. In the 16th century, after Japan was unified, they launched an invasion of Korea with 158,000 men. His plan was to crush Korea and erase its culture from the face of the earth.

18:06 He nearly succeeded. After several years of cruel occupation, Korea was rescued by Admiral Yi Sun-shin. It's Y-I and then the next name is S-U-N-S-H-I-N. He had what was kind of, it was very unique at the time. It was called a turtle ship.

18:35 the world's first iron-clad, 65-foot-long, firing cannonballs filled with nails from this ship. So Admiral Yi cut Japan's supply routes and destroyed its ships with his ships. So they were humiliated. And then the Japanese leader that had launched this attack to begin with soon died after the defeat.

19:06 So despite this failure, the invaders profited richly by looting the part of Korea that they had actually come ashore on. Their army included monks, scholars assigned to steal Korea's finest manuscripts, samurais kidnapped masters of ceramics, such as the great Ri Sam Fung, and made them slaves in Japan.

19:31 A Korean scholar said that Japanese were wild animals that only craved material goods and were ignorant. Centuries later, when Japan invaded Korea again, its armies once more included teams of monks and scholars to find and loot the finest art. Korea never recovered. In the 19th century, it was weakest, least commercial country in all of East Asia.

20:04 right for the picking. China's Manchu's government was on the verge of collapse and was in no shape to save it this time. Hi, Stuart from Austin. So Japan made a effort to modernize and become the first Asian nation able to compete militarily with the West. So as she began developing her army and navy,

20:35 into actual militaries and not kind of the samurai version. She was in a position to launch a new campaign onto the mainland to acquire colonial empire, which was kind of what her goal. And her first target was Korea again. So the politicians in Japan argued that if they could grab Korea and man Korea and Taiwan,

21:08 which was Formosa at the time, it wasn't even called Taiwan. They would be able to basically invade Russia as well, potentially even getting over to France or England. So you have General Yamagata and the Black Ocean boss, because keep in mind, that's like a mafia boss, Toyama Mitsuru.

21:38 that basically was looking for an excuse to do this invasion because they wanted to be able to internationally blame Korea for their own invasion. So basically, they used the proverbial, we're going to start a fire in Korea, and they used Black Ocean terrorists to attack a rural religious sect called Tonghak. The Tonghak...

22:11 struck back, causing some Japanese casualties. With this as an excuse, Tokyo rushed in troops to protect its citizens in Korea. When the news came that China was sending 1,500 soldiers aboard a chartered British ship, a Japanese squadron intercepted the vessel and sank her and killed all on board. So this surprise attack set a precedence, which was followed by Japan.

22:41 for decades, because that's how they were going to basically start every war from then on. Kind of sounds like Gladio. China's tottering Manchu government foolishly declared war on Japan in September of 1894 in the mouth of the Korea's Yalu River. The Japanese destroyed half of China's navy in a single afternoon. Japan then captured in Korea's

23:12 Port Arthur, and the fortified harbor, sinking all of the Chinese ships in the harbor. China immediately sued for peace. Japan controlled the whole of Korea and also Manchuria, strategic peninsula. Japan also gave Japan, sorry, China gave Japan control of Taiwan for Mosa.

23:41 which basically became Tokyo's first colony. When South Manchuria and Port Arthur also was turned over to Japan, France, Germany, and Russia pressured Tokyo to return them, but they weren't going to have any of that. So that's when Queen Min refused to surrender to Japan after...

24:10 She'd already seen all of that. She wasn't going to surrender, so of course they murdered her. So having humiliated China and Korea, Japan felt like they were ready to take on the Tsar in Russia. And they were busy building railroads into Main Korea at the time. So in 1904, Japan launched two more surprise attacks.

24:39 one on Russian's Navy base and another on two Russian warships that were in the mouth of the Korean Incan harbor. The Tsar sent his Baltic fleet halfway around the world only to see it destroyed by Japan's Navy in the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. As China had done, Russia sued for peace, giving Japan the lower half of Sakhalin.

25:11 transferring it to Japan and also basically part of Manchuria that they had controlled. So this gave Japan control of a railway between Port Arthur and Changchun. So Japan's just busy conquering all of these foreign lands.

25:41 What you have to understand is when they were doing this is they're taking everything that these people have and killing a lot of people. So then Japan declares Korea a colony. So they've got Formosa and Korea completely, the entire area of Korea. And no one said a word while they were doing any of this. Japanese arrived in the peninsula to make their fortunes.

26:12 From all of the Korean resources. So they seized every commercial opportunity, every natural resource. They took control of law and order. They created a new police, a secret police network. No longer making any pretenses. They abused Korean sovereignty at every turn, crushing all resistance. Closed newspapers, everything.

26:45 The Japanese guy that was in charge said, your country does not have power to defend itself. I'm not insisting that your country commit suicide. I expect that you thrust forward boldly. The day will come when you will advance to a position of equality with us and we will cooperate with one another. But they weren't ever going to let that occur. So Ito Hirobumi.

27:17 It's H-I-R-O-B-U-M-I. He becomes the first Japanese viceroy of Korea. And he sets up basically a national government. Now, I want to also highlight something here. For us, looking back at this, we're aghast at this happening. But this is exactly what happened.

27:44 the British was doing all over the world. It's exactly what Germany was doing. It's exactly what, um, Belgium did. Um, all of them, they went into these places, they invaded them in the most brutal way, um, and colonized them and basically stole all of the resources. So General Yamagata saw to it that Ito's staff included Black Dragon Boss,

28:18 and basically secretly financed from army funds his kind of mafia thugs that basically went on a rampage murdering 18,000 Koreans during the time that Ito served as the viceroy there. So Ito resigned in 1909 and basically was shot dead right after his resignation.

28:46 He was even appalled at how awful these gangs were that were assigned to keep the people complacent. So his murder was used as a pretense to demand full annexation of Korea. So basically the thugs that Japanese installed in Korea.

29:16 kills the guy that the Japanese installed to be in charge of it immediately after he resigned. And then Japan uses that as an excuse to formally colonize Korea. So there's a guy named Turokchi who was basically put in charge at this point. He's going to be the first governor general.

29:57 And he was even more brutal than all of the rest of them. So some of the Japanese army officers refused to do, carry out some of the deeds that the assassins were doing. And he was not kind to those people either. Basically telling him that he was going to whip them.

30:29 He created this sadistic police force and ordered it to use torture. And it said he's quoted as saying no Oriental can be expected to tell the truth except under torture. So basically they set up their own Japanese Gestapo. And most of the people that carried out this kind of Gestapo level tyranny.

30:59 wore civilian clothes that could only be identified by a chrysanthemum crest on the underside of a lapel on their clothes. So they basically created this spy informant terrorist network, kind of like they did in Vietnam under the Phoenix program. And they basically will, it grows to be about 35,000 people and they...

31:28 spread it over all of the territories as they acquire them, like the Philippines and Malaysia and Indonesia, because they went everywhere. So Korean resistance didn't go away. They still fought back. In 1912, some 50,000 Koreans were arrested. By 1918, the number rose to 140,000.

31:57 So during Korea's first 10 years of Japanese rule, even Japanese school teachers wore uniforms and carried swords. Japan's army stood guard and the Black Ocean thugs pillaged the peninsula. Excuse me. Japanese police controlled rice production and the majority of it was not fed to the locals. It was shipped back to Japan.

32:26 They extorted people, intimidated, kidnapped, murdered, blah, blah, blah. And Tarachi's style was so brutal that Japanese bankers and businessmen made a public display of showing contempt for mercy. Eventually, the Tarachi style spread across Asia, remaining in place until 1945. Japan did modernize Korea in their industry area.

32:56 However, the Korean workers were paid a fourth of the wages that the Japanese counterparts were working in the same factories. And they were forced to eat millet where the Japanese ate their rice. So there was just nothing left. I mean, they're just totally humiliating them. The chrysanthemum is still used as the official government emblem of Japan. That's interesting because this was not the government.

33:26 This is their Gladio people. These are the assassins. They're secret police. So, Donnie Vision, thanks for adding that. That's very interesting. That they took something that's so evil and just put it out there in front of everybody, right? You just can't make this shit up. All right. So, the peninsula was stripped of everything from artwork to root vegetables.

33:57 As Korea now belonged to Japan, the transfer of cultural property looting was not theft anymore. The wish list was Korea's famous Celadon porcelain, which many thought surpassed China's Tang porcelain. Korea's stoneware was distinctive in that it was a translucent blue-green glaze with floral designs incised in the clay and filled

34:26 It was very colorful, even before they got to the glazing part of it. It was sought after all over the world. And basically, because there was some unique clay there to make it from. So it says Japanese valued their celadon above all others for ritual purposes and tea ceremonies. So some of these plunder that they took was.

34:56 displayed at Tokyo's museums, but most of it ended up in private Japanese collections and was never put on public view. Japanese collectors keep these treasures in vaults. Most of Korea's stolen antiquities were never, ever returned. All Korea's private collections were confiscated, experts saying

35:23 that the finest Celeron still sleep in the tombs of kings, meaning Japanese. Tarachi introduced laws for the preservation of historic sites. By preservation, he meant that the tombs would be looted and the valuable contents preserved in Japan, not Korea. He opened over 2,000 tombs, including the royal tombs.

35:54 and emptied them of everything, Buddhist images, crowns, necklaces, earrings, bronze mirrors, ornamental treasures, and some 1,400 tombs in Penang. This wholesale theft was overseen by General Tarachi's personally. One of his first acts was to destroy the 4,000-room palace. 4,000-room palace.

36:26 To make way for the construction of a residence for himself, to decorate his personal quarters, he chose 600 artworks from thousands that were being prepared to ship to Japan. Japanese private collectors and antique dealers carried off not only artwork, but literary, text, and important national archives. Many of these still reside at Japanese universities, and they won't return them.

36:58 Tens of thousands of the finest books listed as Koreans' national treasures, including all 1,800 volumes of the Ri dynasty archives, were shipped to Japan. Scholars say some 200,000 volumes of ancient books of lesser distinctions were then burned as part of a deliberate program to erase Korea's history.

37:25 42,000 cultural relics, including ancient manuscripts taken to Japan for study, were never returned. For good measure, Japanese used dynamite to blow up monuments, several of them, to include ones to Buddhist priests. Japan's aim, said Korea historian,

37:52 was to eradicate the consciousness of Korean national identity, roots and all, and thus to obliterate the very existence of the Korean people from the face of the earth. Once stripped of their heritage and identity, Koreans would be made into second-class citizens underneath the Japanese. Divested of their inherited land, their names were changed to Japanese names. They were forced to adopt Shito.

38:21 in place of their own Buddhist religious beliefs. Japanese emperor would be their only god, and Korea, who refused to acknowledge his divinity, were arrested, tortured, and murdered. Religious metal work was removed and melted down into other things. Koreans were to speak only Japanese. Korean newspapers were closed. Political parties disbanded.

38:51 You could only print stuff in Japanese. All schools taught Japanese. And at home, Koreans were expected to speak Japanese to each other. And basically, if you didn't and somebody ratted you out, you get tortured. So in 1907, Tokyo forced King Kojo to abdicate in favor of his retarded 10-year-old son.

39:23 They styled the boy a crown prince and sent him off to Tokyo, claiming that he'd be educated next to the grandsons of the Japanese emperor. In truth, the boy was a hostage whose survival depended on continued cooperation by the Korea's royal family. For some reason, Emperor Mijing found the boy sympathetic and lavished attention and gifts on him.

39:51 the sort of affection he never demonstrated towards his own grandsons. The boy was easily persuaded to sign away his claim to the Korean throne. Thousands of other Korean artifacts were forcibly removed by Japan. It's impossible to come forward later with a precise list of what was stolen because there was no inventory made of many of the things.

40:16 In 1965, South Korean government demanded the return of 4,479 items that had been able to be identified individually. Of those, Japan begrudgingly returned 1,432, taking another 30 years to do so. The great mass of Korean cultural treasure remains in Japan to this day, in private collections, museums, and in the vaults of the imperial family. So, let that be.

40:49 Point number one, when we get to the point where John Foster Dulles negotiates that BS peace treaty at the end of World War II, they are acknowledging that they were not broke. They had mountains of treasure. There always are collaborators. Over 40 years, a Japanese antique dealer named Nakata.

41:22 amassed a fortune looting and exporting ancient celadons. His partner was a former high official of the Ri dynasty, who also became a millionaire. Most Korean landowners were stripped of their estates and agricultural property, which were snapped up by Japanese developers. One developer acquired over 300,000 acres in Korea, where he intended to settle Japanese immigrants.

41:53 As tenant farmers, their lost land and urban poor were rounded up and shipped off to slave labor camps in mines and construction brigades in Japan. 60,000 Koreans were forced to toil as slave laborers in coal mines and military factories in Siberia. 43,000 were still in Siberia at the end of World War II. When they came under Soviet control,

42:26 They had great difficulty getting home. In 1945, well, before 1945, it's believed that over 6 million Korean men were forced into slave labor battalions. 6 million. You see that number a lot in World War II, don't you? 6 million Korean men turned into slaves. Of these, nearly 1 million were sent to Japan.

42:57 Others were sent to the Philippines and to the Dutch East Indies to do construction work for the Japanese Army and Navy and to dig tunnels and bunkers for war loot, where they were worked to death or buried alive to hide the location. That's what happens in the Philippines, as we're going to get into in other chapters. August 24, 1945, a group of 5,000 Korean slave laborers who had spent the war digging a major underground complex for war loot

43:27 in japan's um aman amari perfecture were put aboard a warship to be taken home to korea the ship sailed first to a navy base on the west coast of japan there the koreans were sealed in a cargo hold and the ship was taken offshore and blown up out of the 5 000 koreans aboard only 80 survived

43:59 Tokyo claimed the Koreans locked in the hold had done that themselves. 57 years later, 15 of those survivors and relatives of others at last had won a lawsuit against the Japanese government for compensation. 57 years later, a court in Kyoto ruled in August 2001

44:29 that the Japanese government must pay 3 million yen, less than $30,000, to each of the plaintiffs. That's so disgusting. But the court also ruled that there was no need for the government of Japan to apologize for the incident. You know, because it's just perfectly normal to lock people in the bottom of a ship and blow it up. Aside from the 6 million Korean men,

44:59 As slave laborers, tens of thousands of young Koreans were constricted into the Japanese army. And they basically are the ones that were the cannon fodder for the American attack. Many of them ended up in Burma and New Guinea. The Korean girls duped into going into Japan for employment instead ended up in brothels. It was Korea.

45:32 that set up its first official army brothels in 19... It was in Korea that they set up, the Japanese set up brothels originally in 1904. They were filled with kidnapped women and girls, forerunners to hundreds of thousands of Korean women, later forced to serve as comfort women in army brothels all over Asia. Koreans were targeted because it is believed that Japanese women and girls were forced into prostitution.

46:01 the soldiers would have mutinied. The Japanese army took pains to characterize Korean women as basically cattle. There's that psychological operation for you. Millions of people used and abused by the Japanese cannot get records on what they know to have happened to themselves. And thousands of Koreans who worked with the Japanese have simply erased that history as if it never happened.

46:36 Korea's tragedy can only be appreciated fully by contrast to the mellow experience of Taiwan, Japan's other colony. Neglected by China, Taiwan had never been an independent nation, and it still isn't. Although an attempt was made in 1661 when a half-Chinese, half-Japanese merchant warlord named Coxina

47:04 chased away Dutch traders and set up his own domain there. Unluckily, he built his headquarters beside a mosquito-infested swamp and died later that year of malaria. Then his rebel kingdom collapsed. Japan had an idealized image of Taiwan as an unspoiled paradise where they could basically go there and do whatever they wanted with little resistance by native Taiwanese.

47:34 Unlike Koreans, they had no ancient loathing of Japan and no experience with war. They also had nothing to steal. No rich culture built up over thousands of years, basically nothing. In Japan's eagerness to turn what they renamed Formosa into a money-making venture, they made life on the island better than ever before. They rationalized, or excuse me.

48:06 Yeah, they rationalized the agriculture, established an efficient government, and imposed strict public order. They had an army of police and a colonial administration with businessmen, and they went into partnerships with some of the locals. Their chief enterprise that they set up, can anybody guess what it is? Morphine and heroin laboratories.

48:40 to pour drugs into mainland China. That was the exact same thing that England was doing, Britain was doing on the other side, coming in from India. Let that just sink in for a second. By the 1930s, Taiwan also became Japan's most important staging base for the conquest of South China and Southeast Asia.

49:13 Huge sums were invested to create a permanent military platform on the island. The first air fleet made its headquarters in an underground complex in a mountain. They dug in quarters for at least a thousand men. And from bases on Taiwan, Japanese bombers took off to destroy America's air forces on Clark Air Base in the Philippines. They used constrictors.

49:43 constrict labor um and let's see that's basically the end of chapter uh one so that's probably all we're gonna do tonight but i i do want to um highlight what we just learned so the japanese sets up opium and morphine heroin labs on taiwan

50:23 Formosa, Taiwan. So I want everybody to understand this. Taiwan has over 50 pharmaceutical plants today on this tiny little island. In France, part of Operation Gladio illustrated that all of the white powder refining of heroin is done.

50:58 in what is called pharmaceutical laboratories. So they had this humongous one in Marseille, France, where the Corsican mafia operated. And the chemist that was there is the one that had kind of marketed this number four refined, like the best heroin in the world. And lots of people experimented with trying to make it as well as he did.

51:28 But this is so critical to what's going on today because I have explained multiple times on here how they use the word national Chinese to describe Chiang, the drug guy. Chiang was the world's most prolific drug trafficker in history.

52:00 He started off working with the Brits, bringing it in to the west of China, in from India. He then was working in South China with the Flying Tigers, the Chenaults, all of that. He's then, with Mao, pushed out of China into Burma.

52:26 And they operate there for a little bit. And you've got Lansdell and all of the CIA guys in it by now. And then the Burmese government kicks them out of there. And where does Chiang go? And his army. And his army is called KMT. Where did they go? They went to Taiwan. So you have the world's most prolific drug trafficker.

52:55 as the guy that takes over Taiwan after Japan loses World War II. He takes his KMT army, he changes it into a political party, and he rules it for a very long time, and his son succeeded him. Yes, he ran from Mao because Mao didn't want him drugging Chinese people.

53:25 Regardless of whatever we think of China today, we need to understand that we've been lied to about what our history is. And I'm not saying that Mao's good. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. I am saying that Mao was the actual nationalist that wanted Chiang out of the country. And he is by blood Chinese. Chiang is.

53:51 There is no such thing as a Taiwanese. That's not even a thing. They're all Chinese. So you have one really evil Chinese drug guy, and you have another evil Chinese guy that's going to turn into what we've been taught to hate, Mao. And so you've got Chiang Mao. Mao is doing what's best for the Chinese people, at least at this one point, and kicking the drug guy out.

54:22 So the drug guy goes to Taiwan and over the course of the next several decades, they build out an entire operation where they become the most prolific drug supplier in the world. Out of Taiwan, not China. And I did post that thing earlier. Let me see if I can find it real quick. Where you end up.

54:53 um with it actually saying um i'm gonna see if i can find it real quick just give me one second um in a different book that i'm reading yeah right here in the early 70s the opium bank rollers in taiwan sent out through their international lobby the world anti-communist league so let me read that again

55:27 The World Anti-Communist League is the international lobby for Taiwan. That's what this author is saying. And for those who are new, the World Anti-Communist League is the apparatus under the title anti-communist that all of Gladio's meetings happened, right? So they...

55:58 I'm getting sent, Bridget's sending me, or Liza's sending me, somebody's sending me rainbow pictures. So the fact that this author is making the connection of Taiwan using the World Anti-Communist League, of which houses the Operation Gladio meetings.

56:29 It's just crazy to me. That blew my mind today. So that's profound to me. Taiwan may be much bigger than what we think. So it says, let me start over. Through their international lobby, the World Anti-Communist League, propaganda charging Red China, meaning Mao's China, with, quote,

57:03 the drugging of the world unquote the propaganda generated by taiwan in the world anti-communist league was directed at nixon's rapprochement when mainland china with mainland china a 1972 basically dea report stated however that quote not one investigation into heroin traffic

57:33 in the area in the past two years indicated Chinese communist involvement, unquote. So I made a comment probably a month ago on one of our book reviews that I had convinced myself that the whole reason they keep this one China policy kind of there but not there, they won't say.

58:03 Taiwan is an independent country because as soon as they do that, they can no longer say the drugs are being supplied by China. So this is a narrative switcheroo. When they say that the drugs are being supplied by China, if they have a one China policy, that can include Taiwan, right? So that's huge, guys. That's freaking huge.

58:36 And to find this, and it's in a footnote. I'm like, that's probably the highlight of the whole book that I've read thus far for us, because we already know most of the other part. That's just huge. And the fact that they're calling the World Anti-Communist League a Taiwan lobby, I'm floored. I'm floored. So at some point, we're going to have to do a little bit more investigating into Taiwan, because there's something big sitting there.

59:07 Something really big. Anyway. All right. So that's it for tonight. And we will do one this weekend. It's probably going to be on Sunday evening. And I'll make sure that's updated for everybody. Because it's going to be getting good. We'll be on to Chapter 2. And Chapter 2 is about a rogue samurai. Just so that y'all can have a heads up.

59:40 And I understand the first couple of chapters is kind of slow, but it is very important for everybody to understand that our history that we've not been taught. OK, it's very important to understand how affluent Korea used to be and how affluent it was even after World War Two before what happened happened.

1:00:07 And we're going to talk a little bit about that when we get to that part, because what happened in Korea is not anything that you believe it is. That's a whole nother lie. And we will spend a little bit of time talking about that in the middle of this book. It won't be parts from this book. It's research that Bridget and Liza and I've done. But I do want to bring it to you because it's relevant to this entire story. So anyway, I will see you again Sunday.

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Japan carried_out_attack Queen Min host_asserted ▶ 2:52

“30 Japanese assassins had forced their way into the Korean royal palace in Seoul and basically went into the queen's private quarters and killed her two ladies in waiting and cornered the queen. Her n…”

Japan overthrew King Gojong host_asserted ▶ 5:27

“was allied with China against Japan. So once the queen was dead, Japan basically ruled over the king and put it into their relationship with China. The coup was planned by a guy by the name of Miura G…”

Miura Gorō ordered_assassination_of Queen Min host_asserted ▶ 5:27

Black Dragon Society carried_out_attack Queen Min host_asserted ▶ 5:58

“At first, the killing was to be done by the Japanese-trained Korean soldiers, and so that it could be passed off as like an internal matter. But they didn't trust them enough to have them do it. So th…”

Black Dragon Society member_of Mitsui host_asserted ▶ 7:24

“are in charge of the mafia that runs it. So you do all the hiring and firing and you run it literally like a mafia. This particular company that the Black Ocean people belong to is called Mitsui, M-I-…”

Japan carried_out_attack China host_asserted ▶ 13:26

“Had the rape happened only once, it might have been a grotesque accident. But variations of Nanking occurred many times during Japanese lightning conquest of the East and Southeast Asia. By the time t…”

Yi Sun-sin carried_out_attack Japan host_asserted ▶ 18:35

“the world's first iron-clad, 65-foot-long, firing cannonballs filled with nails from this ship. So Admiral Yi cut Japan's supply routes and destroyed its ships with his ships. So they were humiliated.…”

Black Dragon Society carried_out_attack Tonghak host_asserted ▶ 21:38

“that basically was looking for an excuse to do this invasion because they wanted to be able to internationally blame Korea for their own invasion. So basically, they used the proverbial, we're going t…”

Japan carried_out_attack China host_asserted ▶ 22:41

“for decades, because that's how they were going to basically start every war from then on. Kind of sounds like Gladio. China's tottering Manchu government foolishly declared war on Japan in September …”

Japan carried_out_attack Russia host_asserted ▶ 24:39

“one on Russian's Navy base and another on two Russian warships that were in the mouth of the Korean Incan harbor. The Tsar sent his Baltic fleet halfway around the world only to see it destroyed by Ja…”

Japan carried_out_attack Korea host_asserted ▶ 26:12

“From all of the Korean resources. So they seized every commercial opportunity, every natural resource. They took control of law and order. They created a new police, a secret police network. No longer…”

Japan installed Itō Hirobumi host_asserted ▶ 27:17

“It's H-I-R-O-B-U-M-I. He becomes the first Japanese viceroy of Korea. And he sets up basically a national government. Now, I want to also highlight something here. For us, looking back at this, we're …”

Yamagata Aritomo funded Black Dragon Society host_asserted ▶ 27:44

“the British was doing all over the world. It's exactly what Germany was doing. It's exactly what, um, Belgium did. Um, all of them, they went into these places, they invaded them in the most brutal wa…”

Black Dragon Society carried_out_attack Korea host_asserted ▶ 28:18

“and basically secretly financed from army funds his kind of mafia thugs that basically went on a rampage murdering 18,000 Koreans during the time that Ito served as the viceroy there. So Ito resigned …”

Japan installed Terao Masatake host_asserted ▶ 29:16

“kills the guy that the Japanese installed to be in charge of it immediately after he resigned. And then Japan uses that as an excuse to formally colonize Korea. So there's a guy named Turokchi who was…”

Terao Masatake carried_out_attack Korea host_asserted ▶ 30:29

“He created this sadistic police force and ordered it to use torture. And it said he's quoted as saying no Oriental can be expected to tell the truth except under torture. So basically they set up thei…”

Japan carried_out_attack Korea host_asserted ▶ 35:23

“that the finest Celeron still sleep in the tombs of kings, meaning Japanese. Tarachi introduced laws for the preservation of historic sites. By preservation, he meant that the tombs would be looted an…”

Japan carried_out_attack Korea host_asserted ▶ 36:58

“Tens of thousands of the finest books listed as Koreans' national treasures, including all 1,800 volumes of the Ri dynasty archives, were shipped to Japan. Scholars say some 200,000 volumes of ancient…”

Japan carried_out_attack Korea host_asserted ▶ 38:51

“You could only print stuff in Japanese. All schools taught Japanese. And at home, Koreans were expected to speak Japanese to each other. And basically, if you didn't and somebody ratted you out, you g…”

Japan carried_out_attack Korea host_asserted ▶ 39:51

“the sort of affection he never demonstrated towards his own grandsons. The boy was easily persuaded to sign away his claim to the Korean throne. Thousands of other Korean artifacts were forcibly remov…”

Japan trafficked Korea host_asserted ▶ 41:53

“As tenant farmers, their lost land and urban poor were rounded up and shipped off to slave labor camps in mines and construction brigades in Japan. 60,000 Koreans were forced to toil as slave laborers…”

Japan carried_out_attack Korea host_asserted ▶ 43:27

“in japan's um aman amari perfecture were put aboard a warship to be taken home to korea the ship sailed first to a navy base on the west coast of japan there the koreans were sealed in a cargo hold an…”

Japan trafficked Korea host_asserted ▶ 44:59

“As slave laborers, tens of thousands of young Koreans were constricted into the Japanese army. And they basically are the ones that were the cannon fodder for the American attack. Many of them ended u…”

Japan operated_in Taiwan host_asserted ▶ 47:04

“chased away Dutch traders and set up his own domain there. Unluckily, he built his headquarters beside a mosquito-infested swamp and died later that year of malaria. Then his rebel kingdom collapsed. …”

Japan renamed_to Taiwan host_asserted ▶ 47:34

“Unlike Koreans, they had no ancient loathing of Japan and no experience with war. They also had nothing to steal. No rich culture built up over thousands of years, basically nothing. In Japan's eagern…”

Japan trafficked China host_asserted ▶ 48:06

“Yeah, they rationalized the agriculture, established an efficient government, and imposed strict public order. They had an army of police and a colonial administration with businessmen, and they went …”

Japan operated_in Taiwan host_asserted ▶ 48:40

“to pour drugs into mainland China. That was the exact same thing that England was doing, Britain was doing on the other side, coming in from India. Let that just sink in for a second. By the 1930s, Ta…”

Japan carried_out_attack United States host_asserted ▶ 49:13

“Huge sums were invested to create a permanent military platform on the island. The first air fleet made its headquarters in an underground complex in a mountain. They dug in quarters for at least a th…”

Chiang Kai-shek trafficked China host_asserted ▶ 51:28

“But this is so critical to what's going on today because I have explained multiple times on here how they use the word national Chinese to describe Chiang, the drug guy. Chiang was the world's most pr…”

Mao Zedong removed_from_power Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 52:00

“He started off working with the Brits, bringing it in to the west of China, in from India. He then was working in South China with the Flying Tigers, the Chenaults, all of that. He's then, with Mao, p…”

Chiang Kai-shek did_business_with Flying Tigers host_asserted ▶ 52:00

Chiang Kai-shek did_business_with United Kingdom host_asserted ▶ 52:00

Chiang Kai-shek moved_to Taiwan host_asserted ▶ 52:26

“And they operate there for a little bit. And you've got Lansdell and all of the CIA guys in it by now. And then the Burmese government kicks them out of there. And where does Chiang go? And his army. …”

Chiang Kai-shek headed Kuomintang host_asserted ▶ 52:55

“as the guy that takes over Taiwan after Japan loses World War II. He takes his KMT army, he changes it into a political party, and he rules it for a very long time, and his son succeeded him. Yes, he …”

World Anti-Communist League front_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 55:27

“The World Anti-Communist League is the international lobby for Taiwan. That's what this author is saying. And for those who are new, the World Anti-Communist League is the apparatus under the title an…”

World Anti-Communist League front_for Taiwan book_quoted ▶ 55:27

World Anti-Communist League carried_out_attack China book_quoted ▶ 56:29

“It's just crazy to me. That blew my mind today. So that's profound to me. Taiwan may be much bigger than what we think. So it says, let me start over. Through their international lobby, the World Anti…”