Operation Gladio - Honduras

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0:00 okay hello everybody we're started um and um i was waiting for um my co-host but they're trying to call me instead of coming on x um so i'm just shooting them a quick text message and um so just as a couple of reminders

0:32 We do a presentation and then we, well, I don't know why it did that. I added SR-71 as a speaker and then it just like cut you off. I don't know why it did that. So anyway, still figuring this thing out. It really doesn't like what we have to say, I'm telling you.

1:08 Our rules of engagement in this space is that we do a presentation of Operation Gladio as it relates to a particular country. We're trying to stay geographically specific, although I have the prerogative every once in a while when I find something that's remarkably similar to the area that we're studying that's geographically separated. I do want to bring that in as I did.

1:38 Recently, because I think it shows you the consistency worldwide of a particular hallmark set of circumstances. And I do think that adds credibility, if you will, or it allows you to see patterns that are not just regionally specific. And it goes to the global nature of this.

2:07 entity and how it has been used around the world, as opposed to its implied recognition of it being a NATO generated towards Europe only phenomenon, because it is not. Secondly, we don't take questions or comments. So if I give you the speaker thing, please understand that we are doing that.

2:37 In anticipation of you having, and there are certain people that question often, and so we don't mind handing you the mic, but we recommend that you not use those during the presentation so that it's a consistent presentation and then we can all discuss it afterwards. And of course, the whole idea of doing this is for that discussion afterwards. So I hope you stick around to do that.

3:07 Anyway, I've been doing... Colonel, I'll keep track of who has requested a mic and we'll just go in that order. Okay. And so I've been doing this for the better part of a year, investigating Operation Gladio, trying to figure out what it is, what the scope of it is. And I will tell you today, this morning specifically, was the very first time I felt overwhelmed.

3:36 And it was investigating Honduras. And it's not that it's any more gruesome than the rest of them. But if you look at Honduras on a map and the unbelievable reach of what was going on in Honduras, it will literally blow your mind.

4:03 I'm just going to give you one example before we get started. Again, I just had this overwhelming sinking, and this is what hit me. There's a man that's involved in Honduras. His name is Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez. Okay, he was a military officer, and this is why it hit me.

4:29 He was head of the armed forces in Honduras from 1982 until he was thrown out in 1984. And you're like, well, what could he have done in two years? Well, he was actually in charge of a thing called Battalion 3-16. It was a particularly vicious death squad army unit that he went around murdering people.

4:59 And this Battalion 3-16 is specifically tied to the Contras. As you might remember, Felix Rodriguez, who I keep talking about because he's literally connected to everything as Operation Gladio, he's the guy that Tucker Carlson just interviewed. He was a member of the Cuban Exile Death Squad Battalion.

5:26 23, 2506, I believe was the name of it. And he wore the shirt on Tucker Carlson's television show. This is the counterpart for Honduras. And he actually, Felix Rodriguez was actually in Honduras during this time when this guy was doing these things. And that's why it's just so overwhelming to me. So during the whole Contra scandal in the 80s,

5:55 They were trying to kill, as we've said many times, the Sandinistas. And the Sandinistas was actually the freedom fighters trying to take their country back from the global oligarchies, the international syndicate, as I refer to it. And you get into his Wikipedia page and about, what is it, six lines down, the U.S. government in 1983 awarded this man the Legion of Merit.

6:22 And if this was a video presentation, I would show you guys my shadow box behind me. My shadow box, the highest award that I received as a colonel after 30 years was a Legion of Merit. And these son of a bitches gave this murderer under the Reagan administration a Legion of Merit. I just was like dumbfounded sitting here. And this is probably going to be a two-part.

6:54 show because we're going to go through the history of it, but I want to show you independently of what the author Stephen Kinzer writes about Honduras that we're going to review today. What you just find on your own, and it's tied to so many elements of our government. I'm going to tie probably in part two because I don't think we're going to get to it all. I'm going to tie this Honduras to

7:23 an organization that is called the American Security Council that not only created the Reagan administration's doctrine as it relied to the, which allowed them to enable the Iran-Contra and all of these other ridiculous national foreign policies, but it also required every...

7:49 administration after it, because they got in bed with Congress, to write a similar document. And the amount of military people, specifically this guy by the name of John Thompson, who is prevalent throughout

8:10 Honduras and our interactions in it. And I will get to that probably tomorrow. But there's been detailed congressional investigations. There's been CIA, IG investigations into this. And again, we're going to get into that. But the depth of this is just dumbfounding. And it was ongoing as late as the Obama administration that we have documented proof of it.

8:38 And I'm going to go into that, but it's just literally crazy. All right, so we're going to get started. There's a guy by the name of Sam Zamuri, Z-E-M-U-R-R-A-Y. And I'm going to ask Bridget to post his Wikipedia page because, again, it's crazy. And I encourage all of you just to look him up.

9:08 because we can talk about him at the end. There's a lot to talk about. He liked to describe Honduras, which, if you pull it up on a map, is across the border from Nicaragua, as a country where a mule costs more than a congressman. And he's not joking, because he personally bought quite a few of the congressmen.

9:37 installed several of the presidents. In the years after the coup that he sponsored in 1911, his Cuyamel Fruit Company and two others, Standard Fruit and United Fruit, which of course we recognize, came to own almost all of the fertile land in the country. They also owned and operated its ports.

10:05 its electric power plants, its sugar mills, which was a huge source of income, and the single largest bank in the country. Now, I have to stop here for just a second to remind everybody because this is my new soapbox. There are states within the United States enacting legislation or proposing legislation be enacted that foreign governments don't own our farmland. The irony of that

10:33 as those of you who've been with me on this journey understand, that the U.S. oligarchs have made it a practice throughout the world when they imperialize, and the same thing is true with any Western country, their primary goal is owning the farmland. You control the people because you control the food. Every argument

11:03 that is being put forth today by conservatives about why we don't want the CCP owning our farmlands was completely ignored by every one of those conservatives when we did it to every country. And is it because of our ignorance? I don't know. There were plenty of things that were written about this happening. It's been in newspapers. You can do searches and find it.

11:30 It was not hidden from us that this was being done and it was being done in our name and it was being done by U.S. owned corporations. It is currently being done all over the world in mining and it has been for the last 150 years. That's how you control the people is by controlling their harbors, their custom houses and their farmland.

11:55 We need to understand, and I think we now all do, how important not having a foreign government own our farmland is. But I want you guys to understand the hypocrisy of people in all of these other countries looking at us going, what the hell is wrong with you people? You did that to us for a hundred years and now you've got a problem with it? It's their people. I have a couple of people that are...

12:22 in Spain that correspond with me on a daily basis and one particular one in South America. And it is irony of all irony for those people. In exchange for these concessions, meaning I'm going back to this article, meaning the concessions of having ownership of all of these things, the ports, the power plants, the sugar mills, etc. The fruit companies

12:51 promised to build a rail network throughout the country, not just to their locations, throughout the entire country, and that it would tie the country together to basically encourage industrialization and progress within the country. However, they reneged on that promise and never did it. They built only a railroad line that they needed that connected their plantations.

13:19 where they basically employed people at slave labor wages to the ports that they owned and through the custom houses that they also owned. And there was an atlas that was published in 1961 that was devoted exactly one sentence to Honduras. It said, it described the entire country as a great banana exporter. Honduras has 1,000 miles of railway.

13:51 900 of which belonged to the U.S. fruit companies, and they were put there specifically to be used only by the fruit companies to haul their fruit to the harbor, not to be enjoyed by the people. Strikes, political protests, uprisings, and attempted coups was frequent in Honduras for decades. To suppress them, the bought and paid for country presidents maintained a strong army.

14:22 that absorbed more than half of the national budget. The army could not do the job alone, and when it was overwhelmed, it called in the U.S. Marines. The control that the Americans maintained over Honduras, both privately through their companies and publicly through the U.S. military, prevented the emergence of a middle class.

14:49 In Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, coffee planters slowly accumulated capital. They invested in banks and other commercial enterprises and went on to assert a civic and political power, although it eventually was cued, all of those. And even in Costa Rica, where we didn't do a formal coup, we didn't buy a president. But we did coup Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua eventually.

15:19 This is much earlier than those coups occurred. The author is describing the fact that for some reason, Honduras was kept completely isolated. And coffee, by the way, was a low labor intensive, or that's not even the right way to say it. It was a low technology.

15:42 farming capability that gave them a nice middle-class wage. And I don't know if you know this, but I found this out as well doing research in this. When we were investigating the USS Liberty attack by Israel, Yemen, obviously because Egypt had...

16:02 70,000 troops in Yemen, which is how we knew that it wasn't premeditated and they weren't going to attack Israel because they didn't even have their army ready to do that. It was deployed forward in Yemen. Yemen had been inhabited by the British Empire for hundreds of years. Yemen was the only supplier in the 1600s of coffee. They were the only country in the world that had coffee. They had somehow

16:28 monopolized the coffee tree. And that was like their huge revenue around the world was coffee. When the British basically needed to occupy Yemen and did so with a false flag very early on in the 1600s, they took possession of the capital there and stole

16:57 literally stole coffee trees and put them in all of the British territories in the East and West Indies Company. So the ships would come there and dock for coal, which is why the British was there to begin with, because they needed it as a stopping off.

17:17 point to get to India, they literally stole their coffee. And that's how coffee ended up in the Caribbean and in Central America was through this theft. So just a little history for you that I found fascinating. So anyway, coffee was the way they would have like family farms and coffee was the way that they achieved middle class throughout Central America. And that's why these

17:44 large fruit companies coming in and working corrupt deals with the legislatures or the senators that they bought and installed and the presidents that they bought and installed. They would, in exchange for being bought and installed in the presidency, allow, they basically confiscate this private land and sell it to

18:04 the oligarchs that wanted to use it to grow bananas or whatever it is that they were growing. And it took the ability of these people to maintain a middle-class lifestyle away from them using coffee farms to do it. That's why that's so significant here. The use of this industry never happened in Honduras.

18:29 The only option available to energetic and ambitious Hondurans was to work for one of the banana companies. These companies were basically presented to Central America as an American free market capability, but they were using their power to prevent capitalism from emerging in the countries in which they were growing the produce. So in 1958,

18:59 the Liberal Party, which Sam Zamuri's coup had forced from office nearly half a century before, finally returned to power. Its leader was a guy by the name of Ramon Valenda Morales. He took over the country in which United Fruit was the biggest company, the biggest landowner, and the biggest private employer.

19:27 He called it a country of the 70s, 70% literacy, 70% illiteracy, or excuse me, 70% illiteracy, 70% illegitimacy, 70% rural population, and 70% avoidable deaths. Valenda tried to pass land reform, which would force the withdrawal under, basically to confiscate.

19:59 united fruits land back for the people and you you notice that that's exactly what happened in nicaragua when we covered nicaragua um and that got that guy killed um this is the same thing and it also happened in chile um this land reform it's what happened in cuba the land reform is what gets you killed when his um

20:23 Term was about to expire in 1963. The liberal candidate who was nominated to succeed him vowed to revive the law and also curb the power of the army. That's two strikes against him right there. That combination activated several powerful Hondurans because remember, just like in Cuba, these people buy an elite class of the native population.

20:53 And they're installed as basically overseers of, if you go back to the southern plantations, you had the overseers and the plantation owners. They are very conniving in that they ensure that they have this elite class of indigenous people that are their local overseers. And they keep them very comfortable with a lifestyle and many plantations and wealth that...

21:23 make sure they keep their fellow countrymen where these oligarchs want them. So they actually act as their eyes and ears in the local community. So 10 days before the election, the army staged a coup. They install a guy by the name of General Oswaldo Lopez Arilano.

21:52 It's A-R-E-L-L-A-N-O. He was very well known and closely associated with the CIA. And he becomes the president. He immediately dissolved the Congress and suspended their constitution. Military officers ruled Honduras for the next 18 years. So this is in 63. During the period, the fruit companies grip on the country.

22:24 ended up lessening to a degree, but only because there were diseases that destroyed some of the banana production and it became less economically viable for them to continue to produce in that area, not because of doing the right thing.

22:54 In 1975, the SEC discovered that General Lopez Aureliano had received $1.25 million in secret payments from United Fruit, which evolved into United Brands, which then evolved into today Chiquita Banana. The conglomerate had absorbed United Fruit.

23:25 Army reacted by removing Lopez Arellano from the presidency and replacing him with another military officer. At the New York headquarters of United Brand, the scandal was a little more dramatic. A man by the name of Eli Black, and again, y'all need to look him up too. We can talk about him at the end. The company's president and board chairman became the focus of a federal investigation.

23:56 On the morning of February 3rd, 1975, he smashed a hole in the window, supposedly, no one believes this actually happened, the way they say it did, and basically jumped out of the 44th floor of the Pan Am building and killed himself. It's almost physically impossible to do what they're describing happened, but we're just going to go with the story as it is today.

24:27 Honduras held its next election in 1981, and Roberto Suarez O. Cordova, a country doctor and veteran political infighter, emerged as the president. True power remained with the military, specifically a military commander by the name of General Gustavo Alvarez, which completely suited the CIA.

24:53 and the United States because Alvarez was a fierce, quote-unquote, anti-communist who detested the Sandinista movement. And keep in mind, the Sandinista movement was the freedom fighters that the U.S. government labeled as communists so they could justify arming and aiding the Contras to basically get rid of them because they were the reformists that wanted their country back from United Fruit, too. When, and that was in...

25:24 Nicaragua, by the way. When the Reagan administration asked him to turn Honduras into a base for the anti-Sandinista rebels, known as the Contras, he eagerly agreed. And keep in mind, this is when Felix Rodriguez deploys to Honduras because he's part of the training of the Contras that are going to be unleashed in Nicaragua and murder tens of thousands of people.

25:53 Soon, hundreds of Contras were operating from the camps along the Nicaraguan border inside of Honduras, and thousands of American soldiers were flying in and out of an Aquacate, A-Q-U-A-C-A-T-E, airbase nearby. From 1980 until 1984, annual U.S. military aid to Honduras increased

26:18 From $4 million to $77 million of your taxpayer dollars is going to fund people that are murdering other people who just want their country back from United Fruit. Once again, it had surrendered its national sovereignty to Americans. Rivals forced General Alvarez from power in 1984, but did not dismantle his machine.

26:46 It had two purposes, supporting the Contras and repressing dissent within Honduras domestically. The army established a secret squad, which goes by the name of Battalion 3-16. We're going to look into that tomorrow a little bit more. It is basically the equivalent of the 2506 that Felix Rodriguez was a member of. So the secret death squad.

27:11 Trained and supported by the CIA, it maintained clandestine torture chambers and carried out kidnappings and killings. The most powerful figure in the country during this period was the American ambassador, John Nicroponte, another guy we will look into, who studiously ignored all pleas that he tried to curb the regime's killings.

27:41 While the Contra War progressed, there was, let's see, there was no progression in Honduras towards democracy because it became impossible and citizens faced a government who had adopted the sponsorship of terror in every aspect. The war had other effects as well.

28:12 But those did not come to light until much later. Thousands of poor Honduran families submerged the grinding poverty and fear of the military fled the country in the 1980s. And guess where they all went? They went to the United States. Many of them ended up in Los Angeles. Hundreds of Honduran teenagers joined violent street gangs because that's what they grew up with.

28:42 in Honduras. And that's what they watched Americans teach their family members how to do. So they are thinking that they can come here and do to us what was being done by the Americans in Honduras. In 1990, many of these youths were deported back to Honduras. Not all of them. Soon they established their own

29:11 homeland replica of the gang culture that they had created in Los Angeles. I would also argue, in hindsight, when you start looking at this, that's almost like the plan. So the CIA goes down and trains these people and creates this disruption, knowing, especially in the landmass of

29:36 the Americas, that these people are going to flee. And if they're training them on how to kill people and they come up to the United States, we already know that MS-13 from El Salvador had been co-opted in many ways and used by this police state that has developed in the United States as actual assassins.

30:01 And then they either kill them or deport them or whatever, but they already served their purpose. And so, in essence, you can look at this entire operation as the CIA funding and creating Operation Gladio cells all over the Americas to be used not just in the United States, but in these countries of origins as well, because that's exactly what happened in Chile. And I'm sorry, in Cuba.

30:29 If you go back and you do your actual history on Cuba, the CIA trained Castro's army, the rebels, and we paid for that. And then those people that fought for him that didn't like the fact that he wasn't going to go along and be another stooge for the United States, they all left and came to Miami. And we've already documented in this series how some of those Cuban exiles, like

30:59 Felix Rodriguez, were trained murderers and how some of them, like the ones that killed the Ledier guy from Chile, who was the former ambassador to Alente, in the streets of Washington, D.C. He actually planted a car bomb and blew him up.

31:20 We have documented evidence that these people have done domestic terror events inside the United States that were trained in a foreign country by the CIA and then later allowed to immigrate here. So, just saying. I want to keep you guys totally how all of this relates to each other. So, obviously, this change in the Honduran life was much attributed to the U.S.'s intervention.

31:53 on the private industry side by the international syndicate and the government. And it also shows you the consequences, both foreign and domestic, of this regime change, Gladio operation, that has gone on since the aftermath of World War II. Americans deposed a government in Honduras in order to give banana companies the freedom to make more money. For decades, these countries imposed

32:22 governments that crushed every attempt at national development and went back on lies, bribery, and everything. In 1980, when democracy finally seemed ready to emerge in Honduras, the U.S. prevented it from flowering because it threatened the anti-Sandinista project that had been adopted in Washington in the 1980s. Honduran children turned up by the thousands in Los Angeles.

32:54 And Hondurans were basically earning less than three thousand dollars a year in Honduras. No one can know what might have happened in Honduras if it had been left alone. Two facts, however, are indisputable. First, the U.S. had used overwhelming force in Honduras.

33:23 for more than a century. Second, Honduras today faces a nightmare of poverty, violence, and instability as a result of that. The shattering events in 1898 established the U.S. as a world power. In the first years of the 20th century, it began flexing that newfound power, and the first region to feel the effect was the Caribbean Basin.

33:47 And they're basically talking about what we have talked about with the Spanish-American War and ending up with Cuba and Puerto Rico and our involvement in that area. The U.S. resolved to build an interoceanic canal, which we've talked about as well. It was originally going to be in Nicaragua, but the people in the power...

34:17 decided it wasn't going to be in Nicaragua, that they were going to move it to Panama because of their buddies could make money because they already owned the land in Panama. And they basically set up Nicaragua to lose that by printing a stamp with a volcano on it and then telling all the senators that that volcano was near the canal and it'd be a waste of money when the volcano is nowhere near where the proposed canal was going to go through. But they wanted their friends to make money.

34:46 That's what this is all about. It's what it's always all about. So the author talks about the Americans came to believe by establishing this quote unquote order in all of these awful poor places that they were going to be bringing economic benefit to the locals when in fact the only person that economically benefited from it was their paid off stooges in these countries and themselves.

35:19 Because they did not bring any civilizing or modernizing to these countries in general. All of these countries were left worse off because of all of the dead bodies that remained after some of these coups. And this is a quote from Theodore Roosevelt. All that these countries desire.

35:44 is that the other republics on this continent shall be happy and prosperous. He goes on to say, and they cannot be happy and prosperous unless they maintain order within their boundaries and behave with a just regard for their obligations towards outsiders. The outsiders towards which a Latin American was supposed to behave was the businessman from the U.S.

36:15 Countries that allowed them free reign were considered progressive and friendly. Those that did not were turned into basically a war. The first burst of American expansionism was over by the time President Taft left office in the beginning of 1913. By then, the U.S. owned Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and had basically turned Cuba, Nicaragua, and Honduras into official protectorates.

36:46 Through a series of political and military maneuvers, it had come to dominate the Caribbean basin. And the reason they did that, I mean, and you can understand, I don't want to be overly critical, but having friendly governments, not like colonies, but having friendly governments back in those days because everything was done via trade in the shipping lanes.

37:13 You can understand how people would want to have friendly relationships with these foreign countries, but it was not supposed to be done by force and it was not supposed to be done with a bunch of littered dead bodies and do it my way or the highway kind of approach. It was supposed to be mutually beneficial to each country. And I think those of us living in America had always assumed based on the...

37:39 persona that our government has given to us that that's exactly what was going on. Never did we realize because of the media complicity in this entire operation that this entire diplomatic approach to trade was littered literally with millions of dead bodies. So also during this time, the U.S. annexed

38:09 Wake Island, Midway Island, Guam, the America Samoas, and basically did so because they wanted naval bases there. The tendency of modern times towards consolidation, a Senator Lodge, I think this is Cabot Lodge, he's very prominent in all of these things that happened back then too. He asserted, quote, small states are

38:40 a thing of the past, and they have no future, unquote, because we're just going to take them all. The leader of those small states, like Jose Santos Zalea in Nicaragua and Miguel Davila in Honduras, found that powerful figures in Washington considered their independence deeply threatening. Their overthrows marked the end of a period during which Central America was moving towards profound social reform. They dreamed of transforming

39:09 transforming from a feudal society into a modern capitalist state. But America's intervention aborted their grand project. The U.S. had a dilemma that was confronted by many of these colonial powers. If it allowed democracy to flower in the countries it controlled, those nations would begin acting in accordance with their own interests and not those of the United States. And Americans' interest

39:40 over them would diminish because they may be free to actually do business with other people and that would be competition. That thing we're supposed to be behind, but these oligarchs are not interested in competition. So what they were interested in is establishing influence, which was the reason the U.S. had intervened in all these countries in the first place.

40:05 America's had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. And therefore, when our government tells us that they're protecting democracies, you can be guaranteed they are destroying democracies as they just did in Ukraine. If the U.S. had been far more farsighted, it might have found a way to do both.

40:32 both embrace and influence these people without um instituting terror regimes it would probably be more expensive for him though um a couple of the things first it would have improved the lives of many of the people which they tell you that that's what it's all about and second it would have eased the social conflicts that has exploded violently um in the years since

41:05 Nationalists reflectively rebel against governments that they perceive is owned by foreign power. So, again, our presence there is what prompted much of what has happened over the years to include the creation of the Sandinistas. There would never have been a need for the Sandinistas if we hadn't have couped that government in Nicaragua to begin with. Their defiance made them...

41:36 basically evil in the eyes of American business owners and government officials who basically were installed by the business leaders. So the course of the US followed enormous power and wealth, but slowly poisoned the political climate of all of these smaller countries. Many of their citizens concluded that democratic opposition movements had no chance of success because the US was going to beat them down.

42:06 That led them to embrace much more radical elements to include doing business with the USSR. Because as we've articulated many times, when the U.S. cuts you off and they mine your harbor, you have no option but to look for other superpowers to come to your rescue. And so by adopting these regimes,

42:36 You have to step back and you go back to the 30,000 foot look. Was that their intention all along? Was the strategy of tension to push them into the arms? Because keep in mind, these oligarchs are the same people that created the Bolshevik communist revolution too. So they are pushing everybody into a totalitarian type.

43:07 leadership in all of these countries in order to be able to so even the good guys turn bad and they are co-opted just like what happened with Castro eventually he takes on all of the dressings of a communist because he has been radicalized by the fact that he's not allowed to be who he originally wanted to be which was much more

43:37 democratic than what Batista was and certainly what he ended up being. And so there is an overwhelming radicalization of even middle-of-the-road people in the process that the CIA has been using. And so it makes you step back for a second and look at the long-term results of all of this.

44:05 basically further that one world government because they don't really care if you are on what they label as the left and right because they own both. They just want you under their thumb in one way or the other. But when the USSR failed and now they're having to deal with Russia and Russia's stepping in, that's a whole different ball of wax because

44:33 Russia, despite what they will tell you, is not communist. And so it's not a far left or far right entity. It is, by all definitions, according to these people, a democracy. Whether it's a strongman democracy or whatever, you can make that argument if you want. But he is definitely not under their control, which is why they try to regime change him as well. So I just wanted to add that kind of perspective because...

45:02 It's pretty crazy that no matter how these countries go, whether it was to adopt the U.S.'s version of a far-right fascist dictator, or in rebelling that, they ended up adopting a USSR-type strongman, they had them either way. And I think at some point we're going to recognize that was the overall goal. So, moving on.

45:34 In the quarter of a century before the 1898, much of the world suffered through a series of economic crises. And the U.S., of course, was not exempt from that. Overseas expansion was a way to deal, at least some of the leaders thought, the destructive cycle. And also, we were at a point where

46:02 We had pretty much exhausted the frontier of the U.S. boundaries, and they were looking for an open-door policy, even if it required them to kick the door open, of foreign nations in order to export our surplus of capability on behalf of the international syndicate. And, of course, they used the Marines in order to kick the door down.

46:32 By embracing the open door policy, the U.S. managed to export many of its social problems as well, as far as this overwhelming, violent way of capturing countries with regime change operations. And another person that this author kind of highlights was the first American regime change operation.

47:03 had effects that rippled across the country and around the world. And this was in, obviously, the aftermath of the Civil War. And you had William Randolph Hearst that had convinced most Americans that their country and destiny was for global leadership. It basically...

47:30 um changed our isolationist policy to be um one of the big government um globalist and of course um the author goes on and we've talked about this to talk about the hawaiian the philippine the puerto rico um sessions after the um uh american spanish war and um let's see

48:00 He goes on to talk about the election of Grover Cleveland, who was very anti-imperialist. But he lost out to Benjamin Harris. Even though Cleveland had won the popular vote, Benjamin Harris won the electoral college. And that's how close it was to us missing.

48:28 the first round of this expansionist globalist agenda in the United States. And then he also makes the observation of someone other than William McKinley had been president in 1898. He might've decided to set Cuba and the Philippines on a path to independence after the Spanish American war, instead of trying to hold onto them as colonies. And he says,

48:58 that William Howard Taft had not won the presidency in 1908, if he had not won it, and named the corporate lawyer Philander Knox as his Secretary of State, there may have not been the crushing of the Zelaya government in Nicaragua, which then, of course, would have changed things in Honduras as well.

49:27 He's kind of making the case that this has been going on for an excessively long period of time. And most of the fallout is still being felt today. So that is kind of Zinser's take on all of this. I did want to add this one part.

49:58 This is from The Intercept, and it was written in 2017. And it says that at Fort McNair, one of the oldest U.S. military posts in the country, is the National Defense University, which I've attended. And there are

50:28 Hundreds of Hondurans that had taken courses there over the years. In the mid-July 2000s, Honduran military officials sought the center's help to solve a problem that had recently arisen. Honduran military had just dispatched

50:49 President Zayala with a military coup. Now the Central American military was facing international and regional condemnations for a brazen display of 1970s behavior in the 21st century. The military needed friends in the U.S. to rally behind it, but Americans were very leery of doing that to include revoking visas and other travel documents.

51:13 Two Honduran colonels were dispatched to Washington on a mission to convince the Americans that the Honduran military involvement in the coup was in fact constitutional. The military had reached out to the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, which was part of the National Defense University. And this organization they refer to as the CHDS.

51:45 Dean, let's see, the Kenneth LaPlante, L-A-P-L-A-N-T-E, was the deputy director at the time. And he said to the public that they had refused to help. However, one of the former communication directors, a guy by the name of Martin Anderson,

52:14 became a whistleblower and said that one of their advisors or deans, a General John Thompson, had allegedly provided behind-the-scenes assistance to the Honduran coup plotters. Anderson's allegations was made in a complaint that was investigated by the DODIG. At the time of the coup in Honduras, a number of Republicans who supported the Honduran military sat on

52:41 the American Security Council Foundation's Congressional Advisory Board. One of them was Connie Mack from Florida. He announced a fact-finding mission to Honduras while the colonels were in town. The Honduran colonels had a number of congressional meetings with all of these same people. Thompson, who served on the foundation's board in 2009, didn't respond to the intercept for comment. Another guy by the name of Crescerio

53:12 Arcos, A-R-C-O-S, a former U.S. ambassador to Honduras who had taken a job at this same hemispheric regional advisory group. By the time the coup occurred, he told me that he received an angry call from a congressional staffer who had met with the Honduran colonels. The colonels, Arcos said, had told the staffers that this organization had its support.

53:40 He confronted the director, Richard Downey, and his deputy, LaPlante, telling them, we cannot have this sort of thing happening where we're supporting coups. LaPlante denied being confronted by the allegations or Thompson by anyone other than Anderson, the whistleblower who raised the issue at the time. He said that since it was an allegation of just one individual, it was not seriously pursued.

54:09 This organization never officially provided any support or encouragement, LaPlante said, but if it was this organization or the Pentagon, yeah, personal opinions of professionals were shared. That's how the world works. We didn't do it, but if we did, here's how we would have done it. For Arcos, however, the implication of assistance for the Honduran military by U.S. General was very clear.

54:39 What are we going to conclude? That indeed there was complicity on the U.S. side. Honduran politicians and businessmen who backed the coup were already hard at work lobbying the halls of Congress. One group even set up an informal headquarters in a company's conference room in downtown D.C., according to a former Honduran military officer who lives in Washington, D.C. While not a quote-unquote coordinated plan,

55:08 They definitely coordinated. A retired U.S. military intelligence officer who helped with the lobbying and the Honduran colonel's trip told me as a condition of anonymity that the coup supporters debated, quote, how to manage the U.S., unquote. One group, he said, decided to start using the true and trusted method.

55:33 Here is the boogeyman. It's communism. And who are the allies? The Republicans. So, see, they've even figured it out. A network of former Cold Warriors and Republicans in Congress loudly encouraged Honduras' de facto regime and criticized the newly elected Obama administration handling of the crisis. Zelaya, so his critics alleged, was simply a friend of Venezuelan Chavez and a communist to boot.

56:02 The U.S. had publicly worked for months to avoid the coup and then to overturn it. But on the ground in Honduras and behind closed doors in Washington, that was a very different story. New details of how the coup and its aftermath unfolded, based on unpublished government records and dozens of interviews with high-ranking U.S. and Honduran military officials, policymakers, and other sources,

56:32 was part of a deep investigation by the Intercept and the Center for Economic and Policy Research. It offered a glance into how the U.S. foreign policy dealt with the crisis. The new information paints a picture of the American government and with no single policy, but rather a bloated bureaucracy acting on competing interests, hidden actors during the crisis, which tilted.

57:01 Honduras into chaos, which was undermined by U.S. official policy about the coup and the further militarization and violence as a result. And there's a lot more to this. I will link this article in the comments. Let's see, I'll be, okay, so I'm going to,

57:33 link this article. I'll have to bring it, send it over to my phone here. So it's going to take me a minute, but I do want y'all to look at this because it is a damning indictment as late as, you know, during the Obama administration. But it certainly was not isolated to the Obama administration because almost everywhere in here, you're going to find both sides

58:03 Oh, so Liza said she already, Liza, I got your back. Thank you, Liza. So anyway, that's the presentation. We're going to open it up for people to speak. If anybody wants to add anything, ask any questions, please request a mic. I'm going to give Dwayne and Stellar, if they want to add anything,

58:36 to the presentation. They're welcome to come up and talk. Miles, go ahead. Good afternoon, Colonel. You know, when you do a certain country, I like to pull up the map. And it's interesting, the thought process is like, we know in the Middle East that they divided these countries up. And now I'm looking at Central America and going, that's kind of a weird map.

59:12 I wonder how they did that. But, you know, I always go back to the simple things like the resource confiscators. Who are those people? Oh, the robber barons. And then I look at, well, what are the resources that they're confiscating? And all this other stuff that we talk about is just a control mechanism to make money for the robber barons. So you ever thought about gum?

59:42 Chewing gum? How many people have died so people can chew gum around the world? So thanks, Colonel. You're welcome. Anybody else? Go ahead, SR-71. Thank you, Colonel, and thank you all for attending. We do really appreciate it. You did mention... I can't hear him if he's talking. I'm sorry, Colonel. Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now, Colonel? SR...

1:00:19 Bridget, is he talking? I can't hear him. He is talking. Can you hear any of us? Yes, I can hear you. Okay. Then you probably are going to have to drop him down because I can hear Dwayne and everybody else. I just can't hear SR-71. If you wouldn't mind dropping him down and bringing him back up so I can hear what he's saying. Sure. I'll be happy to. Hang on, SR. In the meantime, Miles, did you have anything else? No, I like to keep it short and sweet. Thanks.

1:00:52 Thanks, Miles. So Miles brings up a good point. We've talked about this map while we're trying to get SR-71 back up so I can hear him. We've talked about this map. You look at where you have Mexico and you have to go through Guatemala in order to get to Honduras. And you have to go through Honduras to get to Nicaragua. And you have to go through Nicaragua to get to Costa Rica.

1:01:19 and then Panama, and then into South America. That's why when you look at those countries, they became critical. Belize is kind of a sideshow off to the east, and El Salvador is basically a sideshow off to the west, which El Salvador kind of rests between Guatemala and Honduras.

1:01:48 But you don't have to go through it in order to get through the entire length of Central America. And so that does lend itself. And again, we know that Operation Gladio lends, they will do the borders of the countries that they're targeting, which in this case was Nicaragua. So Honduras and Guatemala, for that matter. Honduras, hold on just a second.

1:02:22 Honduras became critical because they were launching operations into Nicaragua, both from Costa Rica, but primarily Honduras. Go ahead, 71. Thank you, Colonel. Hopefully you all can hear me now. Yes, I can hear you. Good deal. Thank you, everybody, for attending. We really appreciate it. You did mention something here, Colonel, and it got me thinking concerning ignorance. And I don't think we're ignorant.

1:02:55 I think we just don't realize it until you're the ones affected. And the other thing I was looking at concerning everything that's going on, and you were talking about basically the food industry, the Amish now are being targeted, if you want to look at it in that manner here in the U.S. Along with that, I started thinking about the smaller countries and exactly what's going on with them.

1:03:26 And of course, we already know and we already see that the majority of the smaller countries have already been infiltrated. They've already been taken care of. The only thing left to do now is to go after the big countries. And as far as the U.S. goes, in my opinion, it doesn't matter who owns the land, be it China or not. Somewhere along the line, they're going to say, nope, we're taking it. We're there. China, you...

1:03:57 You lost it. If that makes any sense. Well, let me go back to the comment about ignorance. Understand that the definition of ignorance is lack of information. It's not stupid. Stupid is when you have the information, you just can't process it or refuse to it.

1:04:18 process it. Ignorance is just a lack of information. I was completely ignorant about all of this crap until I started investigating it. So ignorance is not a bad thing. It just means you don't have the information. If I give you the information and then you refuse to either comprehend it or believe it, then that makes you stupid in my book. I'll agree with that. This information is out there for everybody.

1:04:46 I'm not like looking at classified information. The information is out there. It's a matter of gathering it all up and understanding and comprehending it in a process that makes sense. And that's why I'm hoping that that's kind of our mission with people like you helping spread the word, which you do on a daily basis, I know, and being in all of our spaces.

1:05:12 which I can't thank you enough for doing that. But that is how we fix this by educating people. Correct. And by ignorance, what I mean is we're not putting two and two together. We see it happening. We just don't put two and two together. Yeah. Which is why I think this is amazing that we can all share this information and put it in a format that does make sense.

1:05:44 Thank you, Colonel. Sure. What else we got? Does anybody have any questions? Can I go, Colonel? Sure. Can you hear me? Oh, Miles, I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah, I can hear you. Colonel's going to be on SitRaps with CanCon. When is that going to be, Colonel? Tomorrow night at 9 o'clock. Okay. Thank you. I just wanted to have you push yourself out there on other platforms.

1:06:33 Just to remind you, I don't know, maybe you're going to say it at the end of the show here. No, I appreciate that. I'm also going to be on a live presentation tonight. So I'll actually be on two channels tonight at the same time. We're in a little bit going to record the show tonight for Alpha Warrior, the continuation of the series. And I'm also going to be at 930 live.

1:07:02 with a different SITREP show that's going to be with Warhamster and the Ghosts of Base Patrick Henry, which does Breaking History on Badlands Media. Just kind of a redoing of what Liza and Bridget and I did the other day on Sunday night. It's an update on what is going on currently, kind of like a current events show.

1:07:32 um, with some of the things in New, uh, Caledonia and Iran and those types of things. And so that just got set up, um, yesterday as well. So you can have your pick, but thank you for doing that, Miles. Um, I would just like to have any questions. I'd love it if you guys come up and, um, uh, talk, give us your opinion on things. Um, if this is beneficial to you.

1:08:10 Can you hear me? Do you have anything you want to add, Duane? Can anybody hear me? I hear someone. Yeah, we can hear you, Cousinette. Colonel, can you hear Cousinette? No. Oh, that's funny. All right, then. Thanks, Yvonne. Yeah, right? Okay, so I guess I'll have to drop out then.

1:08:41 But one thing I do want to say is I noticed all the Swedish. Colonel, drop Cousinette down and bring her back up real quick, please. I did. I did. I just like saying Cousinette a lot. I see that. Okay. Connie, did you have anything that you wanted to say? Go ahead. Yeah. Go ahead, Connie. Is it all right if I go ahead?

1:09:41 Susie, I'm sorry. Okay. That's all right. Good morning. Thank you for doing this. So I wanted to ask, do you see any elements within our current, not so much the administration, but somewhere within our, I don't even want to call them bureaucrats, but somewhere within our system of people who are actually actively working to.

1:10:11 fix these issues in whatever way, like whether it's through the military or any other way of fixing what's going on here. So I do believe that there are elements, and you can go back. So we're all familiar with the NSA Admiral Rogers telling Trump that he was being spied upon.

1:10:39 People look at Admiral Rogers and then, of course, he's retired. But Admiral Rogers doesn't have a console on his desk as the commander of NSA that says, oh, my gosh, look, we're picking up signals that Trump's being spied on. There's an entire apparatus within the NSA that not only initially detected that, but then shared that. And you have to believe that.

1:11:09 There are elements. So one of the things that has been very clear to me is there are cells within these organizations of infiltrators. It is not the entire organization. And we like to paint everything with one brush. So there are people, even although they may be the minority, within the CIA that...

1:11:36 are not the bad guys. And I know it's so hard for people to believe that you can operate within these organizations and not truly see what they are actually doing. But I can tell you unequivocally, that's true. I don't consider myself dumb. And I was inside of this beast for 30 years and didn't see it for what it was. Because all of these things are compartmentalized. They are not readily available to the normal.

1:12:05 people in these organizations. So even in the FBI, there are elements within the FBI that have been infiltrated. But you see from the whistleblowers, there are people not corruptible inside of them. And for everyone that has the courage to stand up, there's another 10 of them that are still on the inside watching everything.

1:12:29 Not like in a maniacal way that they're going to pop up and testify against them later on, but they are observing what is going on, maybe just because they have 18 years and they can't retire until 20. Maybe that's their motivation, but they're still in there. They're not part of it. One of the amazing things that I have found is I don't know how prevalent this is. I didn't know it existed until a few months ago.

1:12:58 The CIA in the late 1970s, when Jimmy Carter fired a thousand of them, kind of divided and conquered. They infiltrated the DEA, the IRS. They found homes for cells of then basically distributive in a way in which they can approach things from a completely different perspective.

1:13:32 So they captured more of our government. And I have I've recalled to you guys as I come across them where people that are on the books as military officers are actually CIA agents. They are not real military people.

1:13:51 I knew that they did this in the form of like Office of Special Investigations, OSI, which is kind of like the NCIS for the Air Force. So when those people come to your base, they have these personnel files that makes it look a little weird. And because I had been in personnel for a long time as an officer, you know what normal career paths are. And some of these people were obviously not normal.

1:14:18 And so, although there's no difference between that. So they basically set up a persona. They put them in there. They make up a record so that they are supposedly on the outside look like everybody else. When in fact, they're an OSI agent. Those people are in the military though. And then they...

1:14:39 infiltrate, for lack of a better word, whatever the target organization is to do whatever it is mission they're going to do. And then they go back to being a CIA agent. They will wear different ranks as far as they will pretend enlisted when they're actually an officer or vice versa because they're undercover. And that's very interesting to note, which I knew went on because, again, I was a personnel officer, but also.

1:15:08 The part that I didn't know is that we were completely infiltrated with CIA as well. And they pretend to be generals. They pretend to be colonels. They pretend to work at all different levels. So that part was astounding to me, actually. But anyway, I hope that answers your question. We definitely.

1:15:36 have people that are good on the inside. So hold the phone. You're saying that there have been elements of the CIA within our military. Now, is this a good guy operation? Are they like, they're looking at... No, those people were not good guys. I was going to say, is that even legal? Well, they're allowed to basically...

1:16:05 Most of the people understand that there are findings for like assassination attempts and stuff like that. The CIA has a very wide berth of being able to infiltrate.

1:16:20 uh, these organizations, um, whether or not it's technical, I'm not a lawyer. Um, I'm not going to, um, profess to be one. I don't know the legality of it. Um, I do know, like I just said, that, um, our own internal investigations, um, do that. Um, and they, I, they do it all the time. Um, whether or not the CIA is able to do that, um, legally, I don't know, but.

1:16:46 It happens. So I've come across repeatedly in investigating Operation Gladio. So what would be the purpose of some CIA infiltrating elements of our military? Like what what possible. The authority that it brings them. So if you're in let's just take what we were just talking about in Honduras. If I'm going to go down there and I'm going to orchestrate.

1:17:16 But I'm going to do it under the guise of being military mill to mill, which is military to military. So that's an official program. I'm going to go down there dressed up as a military officer and I'm going to work amongst the military to incite them to a revolution. Well, that's a lot easier to do in a military uniform.

1:17:39 working military to military than it would be for a civilian to go down there and start doing that crap. And then everybody is going to immediately do what they did on January 6th and call them a Fed or a CIA agent. You stand out a lot more. There is an acceptability for military to military engagements. So dressing up like a U.S. military officer gives you a different

1:18:04 acceptance within foreign countries than would be a civilian who is immediately going to be fingered as a CIA agent. Go ahead, Dwayne. Okay, I've been trying to get context of what's going on. Okay, I'm not able to hear him. Oh, you can't hear me? Oh, dear. Can you hear him, Bridget? Yeah, I'll drop you down, Dwayne, and bring you back up. Okay. All right, I'm going to go ahead and go to...

1:18:38 Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and go to end divide and then I'll go to Dwayne when he gets back up. Hang on. Hey, how's everyone doing? Thanks, Colonel Towner. I appreciate you letting me come up and comment. You bring up a really interesting point. And, you know, being ex-military, my gut feeling has always told me about Alexander Bidman. OK, so this guy supposedly went to ranger school.

1:19:07 And, you know, became a lieutenant colonel. But this, in my opinion, is an example of a bad CIA operation that has been inserted into the military. Because any person that served in combat arms can look at Alexander Vindman, and this guy does not strike me as an infantryman, okay, or a ranger. So what's your thoughts on Alexander Vindman?

1:19:37 And his connections with Ukraine and everything, yeah. Yeah, he definitely is the Pillsbury Doughboy version of, and again, I agree with you. I've never met a ranger that gave me the impression of a Pillsbury Doughboy. So he definitely doesn't fit the part.

1:19:57 Would I say he's definitely CIA? I would say, as John Brennan does, he definitely has the hallmarks of being that because we understand his connection with the CIA operation with Eric Sharimella as it was inserted into the Trump administration. But keep in mind who those people worked for. They worked for McMaster.

1:20:26 And he's the one that replaced Flynn. So you understand the connection that if we had not lost Flynn, the whole Alexander Vindman thing would have never happened. So that was all a critical operation. And you rightfully point out that that is someone, when you look at things in...

1:20:51 Understanding what we now know about all of this stands out like a sore thumb. Go ahead. Right. And yeah, I wanted to just comment on that is I look, you know, I think of it more as, you know, the CIA inserting people into, you know, like combat arms, especially like a specialized infantry like the Ranger Battalion.

1:21:18 just kind of keep an eye on what's going on in the military and target potential people to rise to the top in order to, you know, put the people that are going to follow their orders in leadership positions. That's right. Absolutely. Yeah, that's absolutely what they do. That's a good point. Thank you for bringing that up. Go ahead, Dwayne. Okay. Can you hear me, Colonel? Yep, I can hear you.

1:21:47 Okay, so with regards to context from the questions I've been hearing about when it comes to CIA infiltration, all this stuff, please understand, nobody knows who's who. Nobody knows. Nobody identifies themselves. Hi there, I'm working for the deep state. No, before I learned about werewolf units went global, I thought they ended in 1947. I thought that was the end of them.

1:22:16 Before I before any of that, before I learned about Operation Gladio, I tried to get myself educated on the absolute dismal record of the U.S. State Department, because it seems that the lobbyists and the U.S. State Department literally formed what's now known as America Last. And I could tell you stories about the State Department of generational apparatchiks.

1:22:47 who've worked at the State Department, multi-generationals from grandfather to kids to their kids. And their entire goal is to serve the interests of not the United States or we the people. And that's before I ever figured out what this actually was. So when it comes to a lot of the things you're hearing or you're asking questions about, well,

1:23:13 When is something going to happen? When are we going to see something? Well, the answer is these are institutions, American institutions. We're going to have to have some format or foundation existing after all this is over. So some of what you're seeing is not being handled where you can see it. It's being handled what's known as in-house. If you're in the military or ever lived on a military base, you probably have a better idea.

1:23:40 of what I'm saying when I say some of these things are being handled in-house. And when it comes to the future, I predict, and this is actually happening, so I can actually say this, the GOP is going to be phased out and rebranded. It's no longer going to be the GOP because it's tied to all the criminality, because it's basically tied to the uniparty, left and right, Democrats and RNC. However,

1:24:11 Since 2017, Trump has been filtering out the bad actors. He's been filtering out the compromised. He's been filtering out the blackmailed and all of the people that just can't do the job and put America first. We call that a lot of people. I mean, if you start adding it up, a lot of GOP have left since 2017, a lot. And now his endorsement is platinum.

1:24:37 Donald Trump's endorsement is platinum. He is going to rebrand and rebuild the GOP into basically, I think it's going to be called America first. DNC, they're going to be burned to the ground. Once all this comes out for criminality, they're going to be burned to the ground. They're going to have to be rebranded, not rebranded. They're going to have to come up with an alternative because they're simply too corrupt and too far gone. But when it comes to

1:25:08 Trump's party is not really the GOP. It's a useful vehicle, and it's going to rise from the ashes like a phoenix. But that is one way of the context I'm providing of things being done or handled in-house. You don't necessarily see it, but it is occurring. Thanks, Dwayne. What do you got, Miles? Well, I always tell people that there's always a counterbalance.

1:25:38 I mean, they can't be all bad. Oh, I hope he's not talking because I can't hear him. Why are they doing this to us? Miles, do you want me to drop you down and bring you back up? Okay, go ahead. Are you going to do that, Bridget? Go ahead, Miles. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Okay. So I always tell people there's a counterbalance. There can't be all bad. The universe does not work that way, right? So you can always say that.

1:26:42 Within these agencies, there's got to be some good. That's just the way the universe works. So as far as these people that show up, there's been people that have left the Navy SEALs that they'd be on an exercise or a training mission. These guys would show up and they're like, who are these guys? And they would say, yeah, you know, they're observers. You know, they're going to try to.

1:27:08 do what you're doing. And they're like, well, do I have to give them CPR when they have a heart attack? They can tell that these people are not, they're out of place and they're not military, but they have to deal with these people. And then they disappear and they go somewhere else. So that happens a lot. Thanks, Colonel. Thanks for adding that. All right. I was trying to send Snow, my buddy, my...

1:27:36 guy that makes my videos and my songs to come up and speak, but I guess he's busy. He was over in London today, earlier, looking through libraries for me. He found a couple very interesting books. I'm glad to see him here. So anyway.

1:27:56 That's all I got for today. I got to get back outside and help my husband finish our garden. So I appreciate everybody being here. I am going to go into the other half of the Honduras story tomorrow with what I'm basically going to do now that we've got the background on what it is. I want to walk you through how I go about vetting this information and where it leads because where this one led,

1:28:26 Was again, I'm just telling you, it's overwhelming for me sometimes just to see how far these tentacles go. And I actually want to walk you through that process because this is probably one of the best ones in a bad way that I have found that goes throughout not just Washington, D.C., but our military and the military institutions. So hopefully I'll see you tomorrow.

1:28:55 And we'll do part two of Honduras. Colonel. Yes. May I speak real quick? Sure. How are you? I want to first, I just want to thank you for all the work you're doing. I put on my Gladio glasses about seven years ago and I didn't have a term for it until I started seeing your work. I want to thank you for that. I want to ask you, have you looked into.

1:29:25 The Sinaloa cartel in El Chapo. Yes. I don't have it to a point where I could present it, but I have looked into it. They were, if you look at the Universal article that was written, they talk about how the DEA came to Mexico and worked with the narco terrorists there and said that if Sinaloa, you take out all the other cartels, we'll give you free access to Chicago.

1:29:55 Chappell was putting the drugs on freight trains directly to Chicago. They were actually using car manufacturing after NAFTA. The auto trains where they were manufacturing cars in Mexico, they were using those cars as conveyance to Chicago and Detroit for the drug. Okay, so you know what I'm talking about. So if you look at Chicago.

1:30:25 You see the violence problem in Chicago right now. I know I posted a video or I tagged you in a video or something on one of your posts where it's a former gang member in Chicago explaining how they were just gun drops.

1:30:41 in chicago where they'd get a call and they'd come down there and there would be crates of guns military grade guns and when this guy you know this one particular gentleman he went legit he would go to a gun range or a gun store and ask for something they're like how did you even have access to these type of weapons so this is going on in every

1:31:03 black community in the u.s where you see violence you are absolutely this is going on and i've you know spoken to people personally who are in that life who can attest to that and so you know this you you spoke about um fred hampton and i i nearly came to tears because i know who fred hampton is

1:31:24 And if you see what he was doing, not only was he, you know, he was combating violence, prejudice, but he was creating, you know, medical programs, free food, free medical programs for his community. He was a threat. He was a threat to the division. Yes. Yes. You are. Yes. But let me I want to comment on something you just said, though, because it's critical. I want everybody to understand what you just said.

1:31:52 This, what you described initially as the elimination of the competition. So again, when we talk about patterns, when you guys go and when we move over to Europe, we're going to cover this extensively. And you've heard me say it in other book reviews, other podcasts, the war on drugs.

1:32:17 that Nixon set up in the early 70s, late 60s, was not a war on drugs. It was a war on the Corsican mafia portion of the drug trade. And they wanted it all aligned because they owned the Sicilian mafia. And the Sicilian mafia and the New York mafia was in bed with each other and they channeled through Cuba all of the heroin.

1:32:46 Into Harlem. Right. And it was done to destroy the wealthy, well-developed middle class that was black in New York City. Thank you. And they did the exact same thing coming up through Mexico to L.A. Thank you. And to San Francisco.

1:33:09 I want to tie it also back to the late 1800s. The people that set up this entire network at the Fabian Society were the most racist people that God ever created. And I know he didn't create them. Satan did. But they were.

1:33:28 One hundred percent. I have explained this on many different podcasts that out of their mouth came these words. We're going to have a pan America. We're going to have a pan Europe. We're going to have a pan British empire and we're going to have a pan Asia and ask, well, what are you going to do with Africa? Well, they're they're going to be our slave colony. They are going to be workers.

1:33:51 for this, the rest of the, that's going to be our economic engine because that's where they're going to work in the mines. That's literally what they said out loud. Their entire vision was there was a place for these people and it was to work for the elite because you can't put all white people in that category because they don't give a crap about you and me either. They give a crap about their elite.

1:34:18 And this bloodline hierarchy because they're all Satanist. The rest of us, and there was no better person that I had ever seen than that Rainbow Coalition initiative in Chicago that took what my, when I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was low, not even middle class. It was just low class. None of us had any money. And there were.

1:34:46 was every race. I lived in central Florida. We had these seasonal migrant workers that came up from Mexico. They went back to Mexico. They weren't interested in living here.

1:35:00 They picked the citrus and stuff like that. They went to school with us. The same people came every spring. They were here from spring until about June. And we grew up with them. They come to our class reunion still today. We were a very integrated neighborhood. And going into the military, when I started listening to people say about how the South was prejudiced, and I'm watching on television.

1:35:29 Louisville, Kentucky and them turning over buses because they said black and white kids had to go to school together. I went to a primarily black school most of my elementary school year. So this was just crazy to me that there was all of this racial animosity the farther north I went. I didn't see it in the south. And I grew up down here. I'm not saying it didn't exist. I just didn't see it.

1:35:57 Because we all lived together because we had no money. We all played together. And so, yeah, it just hit me really hard. I agree with you on that Rainbow Coalition. And now that I see everything with glasses on, you know, the guy, you know, the guy had to die because he was doing exactly what they don't want done by anybody. Because if anybody can be successful at bringing us all together, they're going to die. Right.

1:36:24 Exactly. And I just I want to add as well that so for one thing, everybody who's listening right now is woke by definition and not what it's the co-opted term that's being used right now. Woke is just what black Americans have been saying since 1930. That just means keep your head on a swivel. That lead belly started that in 1930s, you know, and now the term has been co-opted, but it just means keep your head on a swivel.

1:36:53 pay attention to what's going on. So I want to tell everybody something and then I'll get off. Okay. If you look, two things to look at are COINTELPRO and

1:37:03 And urban urban renewal, because you said it, Colonel, how they were attacking middle class black communities. If you look at what happened with urban renewal and you look at the Tulsa, Oklahoma, you look at Hayti, Durham, North Carolina, you look at Rosewood, Florida. These were wealthy black communities.

1:37:25 And then through urban renewal, which was, you know, and I'd be interested if the Fabian Society was involved there or those type of ilk. But basically, they worked with the government to destroy these communities. They put highways and railroads through these communities. They condemned people's properties and displaced them. Then you had the social movement where you had, okay, women, don't worry. Women and children can be put into public housing, but they can't have a man.

1:37:54 man in the house and so now what we see are we have generations of black children in this country who have been raised without their fathers and the institutions have been created to have fatherless homes but then the flip side of that now is that's coming to mainstream america and that and and people and i'm telling you americans are seeing it and this whole woke thing

1:38:19 They're being told that anything coming out of black mouths, and I don't mean to say it like this, but anything coming out of black mouths is Black Lives Matter. We don't even mess with Black Lives Matter. From the start, the majority of us, even that, we're just political cannon fodder in that. So pay attention now to the history and what was done to black Americas because it's being done to mainstream America right now.

1:38:46 The political assassination, whether it's through legal means or whether it's through actual assassinations, the infiltration of drugs. They gave us heroin in the 1940s, 46, Paul Hallowell, right? Then they gave a crack in 1986. What are they doing now? They're flooding in the methamphetamine and the fentanyl into the white communities.

1:39:09 And they're being completely decimated at this point. So I just wanted to put that point in there because, like, again, I put on my Gladio glasses at least seven years ago. And it is a breath of fresh air to hear your content and to see people. The aha is going on with people who realize the ski. It's against all of us. It's against all of us. And I just want to thank you. It's against all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for being here.

1:39:38 You guys, I really have to go. I'm sorry, SR71 and Miles. If you guys will show up tomorrow, I'll let you talk about what we have, anything that you want to address then. But anyway, thank you all for being here. And Craig, thank you for saying what you just said. Our holding hands together is exactly what scares the hell out of them. So thank you for being here.

1:40:06 Again, thank everybody else for being here as well. We will finish this up tomorrow.

Entities here

Honduras28 United States26 Nicaragua15 United States government13 United Fruit Company11 Cuba8 Operation Gladio8 Contras6 Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez5 Soviet Union5 New Mexico5 Felix Rodriguez5 Sandinistas5 Guatemala4 José Santos Zelaya4 John Thompson4 El Salvador4 Oswaldo López Arellano4 Philippines3 Battalion 3163 Spanish-American War3 Crescencio Arcos3 Ronald Reagan3 CFR3 Chicago3 Costa Rica3 Alexander Vindman3 Puerto Rico3 Yemen3 Chile3 British Empire3 Panama2 Kenneth LaPlante2 Fabian Society2 Rainbow Coalition2 National Defense University2 Cuban Exile Death Squad Battalion 25062 Fred Hampton2 Michael Flynn2 U.S. State Department2

Claims made here

Battalion 316 carried_out_attack Honduras host_asserted ▶ 4:29

“He was head of the armed forces in Honduras from 1982 until he was thrown out in 1984. And you're like, well, what could he have done in two years? Well, he was actually in charge of a thing called Ba…”

Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez headed Battalion 316 host_asserted ▶ 4:29

Felix Rodriguez member_of Cuban Exile Death Squad Battalion 2506 host_asserted ▶ 4:59

“And this Battalion 3-16 is specifically tied to the Contras. As you might remember, Felix Rodriguez, who I keep talking about because he's literally connected to everything as Operation Gladio, he's t…”

Ronald Reagan paid Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez host_asserted ▶ 5:55

“They were trying to kill, as we've said many times, the Sandinistas. And the Sandinistas was actually the freedom fighters trying to take their country back from the global oligarchies, the internatio…”

CFR founded Ronald Reagan host_asserted ▶ 7:23

“an organization that is called the American Security Council that not only created the Reagan administration's doctrine as it relied to the, which allowed them to enable the Iran-Contra and all of the…”

Sam Zemurray attempted_coup_against Honduras host_asserted ▶ 9:37

“installed several of the presidents. In the years after the coup that he sponsored in 1911, his Cuyamel Fruit Company and two others, Standard Fruit and United Fruit, which of course we recognize, cam…”

Sam Zemurray secretly_owned Cuyamel Fruit Company host_asserted ▶ 9:37

United Fruit Company secretly_owned Honduras host_asserted ▶ 9:37

British Empire trafficked Yemen host_asserted ▶ 16:57

“literally stole coffee trees and put them in all of the British territories in the East and West Indies Company. So the ships would come there and dock for coal, which is why the British was there to …”

Ramon Villeda Morales headed Honduras host_asserted ▶ 18:59

“the Liberal Party, which Sam Zamuri's coup had forced from office nearly half a century before, finally returned to power. Its leader was a guy by the name of Ramon Valenda Morales. He took over the c…”

Oswaldo López Arellano installed Honduras host_asserted ▶ 21:23

“make sure they keep their fellow countrymen where these oligarchs want them. So they actually act as their eyes and ears in the local community. So 10 days before the election, the army staged a coup.…”

United Brands succeeded Chiquita Brands International host_asserted ▶ 22:54

“In 1975, the SEC discovered that General Lopez Aureliano had received $1.25 million in secret payments from United Fruit, which evolved into United Brands, which then evolved into today Chiquita Banan…”

United Fruit Company succeeded United Brands host_asserted ▶ 22:54

United Fruit Company paid Oswaldo López Arellano host_asserted ▶ 22:54

Eli Black headed United Brands host_asserted ▶ 23:25

“Army reacted by removing Lopez Arellano from the presidency and replacing him with another military officer. At the New York headquarters of United Brand, the scandal was a little more dramatic. A man…”

Roberto Suazo Córdova installed Honduras host_asserted ▶ 24:27

“Honduras held its next election in 1981, and Roberto Suarez O. Cordova, a country doctor and veteran political infighter, emerged as the president. True power remained with the military, specifically …”

Gustavo Adolfo Alvarez Martinez headed Honduras host_asserted ▶ 24:27

United States government supplied_arms_to Contras host_asserted ▶ 24:53

“and the United States because Alvarez was a fierce, quote-unquote, anti-communist who detested the Sandinista movement. And keep in mind, the Sandinista movement was the freedom fighters that the U.S.…”

Felix Rodriguez trained Contras host_asserted ▶ 25:24

“Nicaragua, by the way. When the Reagan administration asked him to turn Honduras into a base for the anti-Sandinista rebels, known as the Contras, he eagerly agreed. And keep in mind, this is when Fel…”

United States government funded Contras host_asserted ▶ 26:18

“From $4 million to $77 million of your taxpayer dollars is going to fund people that are murdering other people who just want their country back from United Fruit. Once again, it had surrendered its n…”

John Negroponte covered_up Battalion 316 host_asserted ▶ 27:11

“Trained and supported by the CIA, it maintained clandestine torture chambers and carried out kidnappings and killings. The most powerful figure in the country during this period was the American ambas…”

Felix Rodriguez assassinated Orlando Letelier host_asserted ▶ 30:59

“Felix Rodriguez, were trained murderers and how some of them, like the ones that killed the Ledier guy from Chile, who was the former ambassador to Alente, in the streets of Washington, D.C. He actual…”

United States government overthrew Honduras host_asserted ▶ 31:53

“on the private industry side by the international syndicate and the government. And it also shows you the consequences, both foreign and domestic, of this regime change, Gladio operation, that has gon…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change Nicaragua host_asserted ▶ 34:17

“decided it wasn't going to be in Nicaragua, that they were going to move it to Panama because of their buddies could make money because they already owned the land in Panama. And they basically set up…”

United States installed Honduras host_asserted ▶ 36:15

“Countries that allowed them free reign were considered progressive and friendly. Those that did not were turned into basically a war. The first burst of American expansionism was over by the time Pres…”

United States installed Nicaragua host_asserted ▶ 36:15

United States overthrew José Santos Zelaya host_asserted ▶ 38:40

“a thing of the past, and they have no future, unquote, because we're just going to take them all. The leader of those small states, like Jose Santos Zalea in Nicaragua and Miguel Davila in Honduras, f…”

United States overthrew Miguel Davila host_asserted ▶ 38:40

United States funded Sandinistas host_asserted ▶ 41:05

“Nationalists reflectively rebel against governments that they perceive is owned by foreign power. So, again, our presence there is what prompted much of what has happened over the years to include the…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change Cuba book_quoted ▶ 48:28

“the first round of this expansionist globalist agenda in the United States. And then he also makes the observation of someone other than William McKinley had been president in 1898. He might've decide…”

United States targeted_for_regime_change Philippines book_quoted ▶ 48:28

Philander Knox overthrew José Santos Zelaya book_quoted ▶ 48:58

“that William Howard Taft had not won the presidency in 1908, if he had not won it, and named the corporate lawyer Philander Knox as his Secretary of State, there may have not been the crushing of the …”

William Howard Taft appointed Philander Knox book_quoted ▶ 48:58

Honduras overthrew José Santos Zelaya documented ▶ 50:49

“President Zayala with a military coup. Now the Central American military was facing international and regional condemnations for a brazen display of 1970s behavior in the 21st century. The military ne…”

John Thompson funded Honduras guest_asserted ▶ 52:14

“became a whistleblower and said that one of their advisors or deans, a General John Thompson, had allegedly provided behind-the-scenes assistance to the Honduran coup plotters. Anderson's allegations …”

Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies funded Honduras guest_asserted ▶ 53:12

“Arcos, A-R-C-O-S, a former U.S. ambassador to Honduras who had taken a job at this same hemispheric regional advisory group. By the time the coup occurred, he told me that he received an angry call fr…”

United States funded Honduras documented ▶ 55:33

“Here is the boogeyman. It's communism. And who are the allies? The Republicans. So, see, they've even figured it out. A network of former Cold Warriors and Republicans in Congress loudly encouraged Ho…”

United States supplied_arms_to Nicaragua host_asserted ▶ 1:02:22

“Honduras became critical because they were launching operations into Nicaragua, both from Costa Rica, but primarily Honduras. Go ahead, 71. Thank you, Colonel. Hopefully you all can hear me now. Yes, …”

Alexander Vindman worked_for H.R. McMaster guest_asserted ▶ 1:19:57

“Would I say he's definitely CIA? I would say, as John Brennan does, he definitely has the hallmarks of being that because we understand his connection with the CIA operation with Eric Sharimella as it…”

H.R. McMaster succeeded Michael Flynn guest_asserted ▶ 1:20:26

“And he's the one that replaced Flynn. So you understand the connection that if we had not lost Flynn, the whole Alexander Vindman thing would have never happened. So that was all a critical operation.…”

War on Drugs targeted Mafia guest_asserted ▶ 1:32:17

“that Nixon set up in the early 70s, late 60s, was not a war on drugs. It was a war on the Corsican mafia portion of the drug trade. And they wanted it all aligned because they owned the Sicilian mafia…”

Sicilian Mafia channeled_through Cuba guest_asserted ▶ 1:32:17

Richard Nixon initiated War on Drugs guest_asserted ▶ 1:32:17

Urban Renewal destroyed Rosewood caller_asserted ▶ 1:37:03

“And urban urban renewal, because you said it, Colonel, how they were attacking middle class black communities. If you look at what happened with urban renewal and you look at the Tulsa, Oklahoma, you …”

Urban Renewal destroyed Hayti caller_asserted ▶ 1:37:03

Urban Renewal destroyed Tulsa caller_asserted ▶ 1:37:03