The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads&The War on Terror Part 8

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0:00 Hello, everyone. I hope Bridget's able to make it. She had some paperwork to do yesterday, so we missed her. I'm going to go ahead and go live over here on Rumble so we can get started. Renee, I'll try to throw you the mic again and see if that works. I've already been kicked out of the space a couple of times, so I'm not sure it's working any better than it was yesterday. But anyway, we're going to go ahead and get started.

0:48 So we left off at the end of the chapter about the narco state terror. And we're going to pick up there and run into the next chapter, which is about relocation and regionalization as far as the narco state goes. So this particular.

1:26 subchapter is called Draining the Sea to Kill the Fish. It was part of the PSYOPs war against the FARC insurgency. The Colombian military had adopted a method used in America's war in Vietnam, which became known as draining the sea to kill the fish. The aim was to defeat the Vietnamese by killing all of the local population in which they operated.

1:56 Similarly, in Colombia, this method had been applied to drive all of the rural FARC supporters out of their homes into the countryside in order to separate and isolate the FARC. In 2002, Uribe declared emergency powers, i.e., I'm going to be a dictator, see if that fits a pattern, that included the right to arrest and detain people without due process.

2:26 And in many cases, without any cause at all. They tapped phone lines. They entered homes without warrants, establishing rehabilitation and consolidation zones. Kind of sounds like the Phoenix program. They limited and restricted all foreign access to these areas because they didn't want anybody telling on them.

2:56 Uribe justified these measures as a means to fight terrorism and to confront the FARC. What was unofficial policy became formalized, according to government-funded studies by the Commission on Ways to Overcome Violence. Politically motivated deaths increased from 10 per day in the early 1990s to 14 per day in 1999.

3:27 and more than 20 per day in 2002. Doubled. The commission was set up in the early 1990s following the elimination of the EPL, which aimed to identify perpetrators of violence while ignoring state officials committing it. When unable to attack the guerrillas in the countryside, the Colombian military and paramilitary forces worked together to punish and attack

3:59 any civilians that they thought were sympathizers. It didn't matter, just like in Vietnam, whether they were or not. You just had to be accused of it. Human rights groups contended that the AUC and Colombian armed forces were responsible for approximately 90 to 95 percent of all politically motivated killings, which had included massacres by chainsaw and other methods designed to terrorize

4:30 the people in the rural area. Others targeted in urban areas included trade unions, university lecturers, and students, human rights workers, they killed Catholic priests, and anyone supporting or even thought to sympathize with the FARC. Castano of the AUC adopted the method of targeting selected civilian FARC

5:03 FARC supporters, people that they thought were their supporters, from General Van Martinez of the Colombian Army in the 1990s. Castano worked closely with another Colombian general, Ivan Ramirez Quintero, who had been a key intelligence source for the CIA. Trained in Washington, another pattern.

5:34 Ramirez became the first head of the narco-military network in Colombia, which was designed by U.S. experts. According to the Washington Post, he also served as a paid informant for the CIA while maintaining his ties to the paramilitary groups. He was like the liaison for the CIA.

5:58 Ramirez directed the state's war against Pablo Escobar and provided political protection for the Cali cartel, because we're going to pick the winners and losers, and the losers are always the people that don't support us 100% of the time. At the center of this link between the U.S. and the cocaine trade were the CIA and the Pentagon. In 1993, Colombian legal authorities discovered that General Mario Montoya Uribe,

6:28 The Colombian army of the Colombian army, sorry, had been involved in the 1978-79 bombing campaign that took place. The Colombian prosecutor general issued a scathing report regarding the conduct of the civil war under Matoya's command. The discovery of his past to a paramilitary terrorist organization called the AAA.

6:56 led to further investigations by human rights groups and Montoya's eventual resignation in 2008. 2008 from 93? Really? The reason why he resigned became known as the false positive scandal, inflating body counts by shooting innocent civilians and claiming them as guerrillas of the FARC. The Colombian prosecutor general reported that the sea was drained,

7:32 to isolate the FARC from their rural support base as part of an official counterinsurgency strategy. This is an actual quote. The security forces acted under the premise that gained currency in El Salvador of draining the sea, which means that a direct relationship is established, for example, between a trained union or a peasant movement and the subversive ranks.

8:00 When counter-guerrilla actions are carried out, these passive subjects are not identified as independent victims, but rather the enemy. This is a mirror example of what we've seen over and over again, which is how you know these are the fingerprints of the CIA.

8:23 The AUC may not be a proxy army of the United States, but it functions as a vanguard force of the counterinsurgency strategy in the Colombian countryside. Yeah, they may not be a proxy. They're just trained and funded by us. But how would that be construed as being a proxy? Draining the sea to kill the fish has also been assisted by the Colombian army, as well as all of the large landowners.

8:53 who were directly financed and running the paramilitary units doing it. In 2003, President Uribe initiated his policy of democratic security. That's an oxymoron. Which created a civil defense peasant militia and a spy network of one million civilian informants.

9:19 In a nation where 69% of the population live below the poverty level and 87% of the countryside, sorry, and 87% of them live in the countryside, 9.6 million are destitute. One in five children in rural Colombia are malnourished, according to the UN High Commission report. Two million Colombians were internally displaced by the war.

9:53 Two million people. President Uribe based the creation of this civilian militia upon the RAND study, another CIA think tank, called the Columbian Labyrinth, which detailed a plan for a civil defense counterinsurgency structure made up of ordinary people. The new civil defense forces were under direct army command, so they weren't civil at all. Under President Uribe's civilian informer strategy,

10:25 More than half of the taxi drivers in Colombia became spies for the state. In the country's regional airports, armed soldiers were seen wearing hoods to conceal their faces, a modern military attire used by South American military juntas in the 1970s to intimidate sympathizers. The goal was to create a network of informers along the lines.

10:53 of a civilian security group that Uribe had supported when he was governor of one of the local provinces. That experience allowed armed civilians to patrol and gather intelligence on their neighbors. Under President Uribe's democratic security war plans, spies were given political blacklists with photos and state identification numbers. In the same year of his presidential inauguration,

11:23 Uribe argued that civilians should be provided with radios, vehicles, and weapons. Quote, initially, they will not have guns because people will kill them to take the weapons. But the defense minister, his successor as president, Juan Manuel Santos, and the high commanders will study under the circumstances the use of arms to be authorized.

11:53 The Uribi government pushed for a constitutional amendment that would reestablish some of the provisions of the security state, which stripped civilians of their civil liberties in the 1970s and enabled the military to prosecute anyone they didn't like with impunity.

12:21 and Interior Minister stated that Colombians should be prepared to sacrifice all civil rights for greater security. Sound familiar? The AUC was allowed to infiltrate the administration, faculty, and student body at all of the universities and resorts throughout the Atlantic coast and carried out assassinations.

12:48 The law of silence was applied in so many areas of Colombian life that a foreigner might think that the ordinary Colombians were supportive of the paramilitaries. According to an Australian organization called Peace and Justice for Colombia, there were up to 10,000 political prisoners jailed in Colombian prisoners living in humane conditions.

13:16 had been activists against their government, including academics, unionists, and others. When the Uribe administration stepped up its Civil War preparations in 2002, the U.S. government demanded cooperation in shielding U.S. forces stationed in-country from prosecution for war crimes. The U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, along with the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of SOUTHCOM,

13:46 requested the Colombian government sign an agreement not to turn any U.S. national over to the International Criminal Court at The Hague. In some ways, the U.S.-sponsored state terrorism in Colombia resembles the political repression in Latin America in the 70s and 80s, because it's exactly the same, conducted by the same people, by the way, and the continuing democratic security measures initiated by Uribe.

14:17 can be seen as a means to legitimize state terrorism by denying any knowledge of the existing narco-military network. After being extradited to the U.S. on charges of drug trafficking in 2008, the former AUC leader, Salvador Mancuso, testified that 100 politicians in Colombian Congress had direct ties.

14:48 to the paramilitary groups. These revelations led to what became known as the Parapolitica scandal, implicating Uribe's intelligence service chief, Jorge Nagara, with a recent sentence of 25 years for collaborating with paramilitary groups. One-third of Colombia's congressional representatives came under investigation. 133

15:19 Current and former members of Congress were implicated. Nearly all members of President Uribe's governing coalition were indicted. Uribe denied all involvement. Billions of dollars of U.S. capital had been pumped into Colombia to supposedly restore order. We know what it was really used for. Throughout Uribe's term in office, the FARC's ability to build a base of mass support among the peasantry

15:50 created a political and financial vacuum that rocked the narco elite with scandals, extraditions, and division among the paramilitary groups because they just couldn't defeat them. Drug traffickers competed with one another by establishing direct alliances with mid-level AUC leaders who then championed AUC commanders for command and control.

16:18 of the paramilitary organizations. With the successor, paramilitary groups like the Black Eagles increased internal warfare for territorial control between the emerging factions, plus the mysterious death of Mancuso's predecessor, Carlos Castano, exposed weaknesses among the narco elite.

16:50 The state had no interest in pursuing paramilitary groups or even the drug traffickers because they were supporting them. While at the same time, the AUC alongside the Army were unsuccessful in reining in their paramilitary groups that they in fact created. Prior to the crisis surrounding the AUC leadership, the Colombian Army deployed more than 1,000 soldiers in an offensive against one group.

17:21 in the eastern department of Casanare in August of 2004 that resulted in the deaths of 21 paramilitary members. The Colombian army used aircraft and helicopters, killing another 13 and then capturing 32. Following the selective extradition of paramilitary leaders Mancuso, Diego Morella, and

17:50 Rodrigo Tovar, known for their annihilation of indigenous Indians in the northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, paramilitary groups have been in disarray and weakened the state's central authority and the military chain of command. So all hell's breaking loose in Colombia. So moving on.

18:23 In the midst of the Civil War, the U.S. Colombian counterinsurgency campaign to destroy Latin America's most powerful counteroffensive became a nightmare. They lived in an environment of state-controlled terror and political violence. One of the most devastating consequences has been the ecological destruction of peasant land with biochemical agents. Sound familiar? Which was sprayed over...

18:54 Any territory they didn't control. Washington and Bogota justified the aerial fumigation strategy as a way of taking away the resources of the people allegedly supporting the FARC. The spraying is part of a relocation strategy for those thought to sympathize with the FARC. It was designed to isolate FARC guerrillas and separate them from their supporters.

19:25 As the cocaine trade is regionalized, coca cultivation will remain under the control of the narco-military networks before it reaches the global market. The U.S. South Com, based in Miami, Florida, states that its aims in Latin America are to conduct military operations to promote security cooperation to achieve U.S. strategic objectives, one of which...

19:57 is to lead efforts to halt the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. and support host nations' effort to combat narco-terrorism, threats to legitimate governments, dangers to their citizens associated with the production and sale of drugs. Meanwhile, we're killing the civilians and we're aerial spraying them because they got designated as the terrorists. And meanwhile, we are deploying

20:25 our special operation guys down there, to actually train people to be terrorists. And all of this time that this is going on, the drug trafficking continues to increase. That wasn't just a byproduct. That's the entire purpose. South Com contends that its impact of drug trafficking is a destabilizing factor to countries of the region, a threat to public security, and a threat to national security.

20:56 However, in assessing that the U.S. means by strategic objectives, it's important to keep in mind that the former commander in chief of SOUTHCOM, General Peter Pace, argued in 2000 the vital U.S. interests included the preservation of capitalistic socioeconomic relations and unhindered access to Latin American markets by American transnational corporations.

21:25 We have more recently the four-star South Com commander that just left saying exactly the same thing. That's the strategic objective, is to make sure that our corporations have open access and we don't care how many people die in the process. Or whether or not we're decreasing the flow of drugs into the United States, because we certainly did not do that.

21:55 Pace explained the real goal in Colombia was to maintain a continued stability required for access to markets in the CENTCOM, or excuse me, Southcom AOR, which is critical to the expansion of prosperity in the U.S. I don't even know how those words can come out of somebody's mouth. Pace's successor at Southcom was General James Hill. He added.

22:23 that by 2010, trade with Latin America is expected to exceed that with the European Union and Japan combined. In order to cement the integration of Latin America into the U.S. capital market, all things were on the table. The comments made by South Com commanders highlight a reality between the stated and real objectives, which involve the protection and security of operations of U.S. capital.

22:54 in Colombia. To destroy the insurgency in Colombia and secure control of the hemisphere and its natural resources, the banner of the war on drugs and terror had been politically expedient. Leading CIA officials proposed a political use for the war on drugs. According to Michael Levin,

23:18 important DEA operative in Latin America in the 1980s. The idea was discussed about how to make Americans surrender their constitutional rights voluntarily and going so far as to create a horror drug. I don't know, maybe it looked like fentanyl. If necessary, that Americans would be begging their governments to take any rights they needed to protect them from the drug.

23:45 The U.S. counterinsurgency strategy in Colombia has consistently used the fear of cocaine to justify the controversial drug war in the Colombian countryside. The aerial spraying of biochemical agents over any held territory they didn't control under the guise of curbing the coca cultivation and forced relocation became one vehicle they used to do this.

24:19 American drug law enforcement defines this function as fumigation. According to a declassified CIA document, the aerial fumigation strategy was known to U.S. policymakers as early as 2000, when the first phase of Plain Columbia was put in effect. Such a strategy contradicted the stated aims of the plant, which was to promote peace with the guerrillas.

24:48 Combat the narcotics industry, revive the Colombian economy, and strengthen democracy with mostly military assistance. President George Bush, chief supporter of Clan Colombia, was the Colombian president, and the Colombian president, Uribe, spearheaded the aerial fumigation strategy. A declassified report from the USDA

25:17 From 1991, ranked Uribi number 82 on a list of 104 more important Colombian narco-traffickers contracted by the Colombian narcotic cartels for security, transportation, distribution, collection, and enforcement of narcotic operations in both the U.S. and Colombia. The report described him like this, quote,

25:45 Alvaro Uribe Vales, a Colombian politician and senator dedicated to the collaboration with the Medellin cartel at high government levels. Uribe was linked to a business involved in narcotic activities in the U.S. His father was murdered in Colombia for his connection with narcotic traffickers. Uribe has worked for the Medellin cartel.

26:13 and is a close friend of Pablo Escobar. He has participated in Escobar's political campaign to win a position as assistant parliamentarian. Uribe has been one of the politicians from the Senate who has attacked all forms of extradition treaties. So what did we do? We got in bed with him, co-opted him, made sure he became president, and then worked with him.

26:43 to establish the narco-terrorist state. The report lists mostly unknown members of a Colombian narco-elite linked to the Medellin cartel, as well as a number of hitmen used to assassinate anyone they didn't like, including members of the Union Patriot Party, which they say was linked to the FARC.

27:13 Since 1978, small-scale coca cultivation in guerrilla zones had been subject to forced eradication policies from the air. The aerial spraying program in Colombia uses, I'm not going to be able to pronounce this word, fusarium oxysporum, sometimes described as agent green. It's a derivative.

27:45 of a fungus and then there's a whole bunch of scientific words that is the basis of a chemical weapon developed by the united states the former soviet union britain israel and france the research conducted on this agent was considered controversial by the science community because of covert sources of funding in the covert sources of funding

28:15 You mean like Gladio funding? In the mid-1970s, the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California conducted research funded by the DEA on a strand of this bioagent called mycop herbicide. By 1983, the CIA was funding research on it in Hawaii and Peru, where research on coca paste, smoking, and...

28:47 Cocaine addiction had been conducted. Scientists under contract with the CIA experimented on it using coca leaves in Hawaii and worked with Hawaiian fusarium in Peru. The fungus occurs naturally, particularly on coca growing soil, and can have disastrous effects on coca crops.

29:17 When it's distributed in large doses, the aim of the research and whether data between the scientists working on these projects was exchanged is not known. But the monocrop drug, Vincus, of the narco elite in Colombia were not sprayed. In other words, they only sprayed the crap they didn't control. In Hawaii, a coca test field.

29:51 established by Coca-Cola, the largest importer of coca leaves in the world, was destroyed by this agent. The Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agricultural Laboratories further developed these experiments. A scientist by the name of David Sands repeated the CIA's clandestine work in trials conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

30:21 And by 1986, that U.S. Department of Agriculture office had developed the bioagents. The program aimed to legitimize the research so that it would no longer be considered top secret. In 1987, the USDA took over the Hawaiian site and the U.S. Department of Energy, that's weird, continued to...

30:52 conduct other clandestine work there. At David Sands' private company, Agricultural and Biological Control, and the Department of Plant Science and Plant Pathology of Montana State University, Sands argued for spraying huge quantities of this using military cargo plants. So just to kind of sum that up, again, you have the CIA,

31:23 working with industry, Coca-Cola, and the USDA, and another private company, and a university, all to do this. Just like we saw with the Office of Public Safety doing all of these types of things on the police side of things. Links among the AgBiocon, which is San's company, high-ranking U.S. military personnel,

31:56 And guess who? Jeb Bush were reported. There were links between all of them. Sands, high ranking military personnel and Jeb Bush. It was reported in 1999. James McDonough, Florida's director of Office of Drug Control, engineered the proposal to use these basically chemical weapons.

32:27 Bush brought him to Florida from his position as director of strategy for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Florida Republican Bill McCollum helped secure the first $23 million for financing this chemical in his defense contractors bill.

32:54 The $2.3 billion Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act is where the money came from. And $23 million was set aside for this project. Virtually all the money went to weapons purchases for South Com using the anti-drug tagline. Title VIII of the Omnibus Consolidation Appropriations Act.

33:25 Contains the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act. The legislation authorized billions of dollars in funding during 1999, 2000 and 2001 for U.S. Customs Service, Coast Guard and the State Department and USAID, the Department of Defense and the Department of Agriculture and the DEA to enhance these programs. The George W. Bush administration ensured.

33:55 that this chemical weapon research would continue in government laboratories. The Office of National Drug Control Policy Reorganization Act of 1996 was passed through Congress, which required that this chemical substance be deployed to Colombia and Southwest Asia counterpart, Afghanistan. We're going to control all of it.

34:26 In the spring of 1999, the U.S. government passed on responsibility to the U.N. to manage the program in Colombia. The first approach was through the U.N. Drug Council program, which proposed a project to establish a research station to conduct field trials. Klaus Nyholm, who was the U.N. representative in Colombia, said the proposed arrangement

34:52 of a U.S. presence in Colombia under the banner of UN was not his idea. So now we're just going to shift the blame. We're still actually doing it, but we're going to put it under the banner of the UN. Glycerin and its mycotoxins are biological warfare agents that were used in Southeast Asia and sold in Iran, causing human deaths and all kinds of skin.

35:23 diseases. In experimental animal studies in the U.S., Army Biomedical Research and Development Labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Gosh, where have we heard of that before? This agent has penetrated through skin, causing symptoms ranging from skin lesions to death. The American War on the Processing and Exporting of Colombian

35:50 Cocaine saw significant developments in U.S. biological and biochemical research with a focus on striking the supply side of the trade, but only the supply side that they don't want. In March of 2002, the U.S. State Department revealed estimates of Colombia's cocoa crops. The aerial defoliation program and provisions of military aid had failed.

36:20 to eradicate or even diminish it, despite displacing millions of people. Colombia's cocoa crop had actually increased. Imagine that! The U.S. and Colombian government have discouraged independent investigations of all of this. The U.S. has used this compound as a herbicide for two decades for its imperialistic...

36:53 counterinsurgency efforts. The biggest selling commercial formulation of glyphosate is Roundup and Roundup Ultra, products of Monsanto, a chemical and biotech transnational company located in St. Louis. Monsanto, the supplier of Agent Orange in Vietnam, has been a major provider of glyphosate in Colombia. Monsanto's herbicides

37:21 have produced consistent health complaints from peasants in the Colombian countryside, which were promptly ignored by both the White House and Monsanto. When interviewed by Corp Watch, a nonprofit investigative research group, a U.S. State Department official described the relationship between the U.S. government and Monsanto as proprietary, that information between them was exempt.

37:51 from FOIA request. The spraying of herbicides is a grave risk to humans and their environment. The chemical efforts on Colombia's ecology remain unknown. Yet this compound contained over 250 enzymes that may be activated or deactivated depending on the environment. The fumigation process is ineffective. The FARC informs

38:20 The locals, when fumigations are coming, so that they can dig up their coca plants and hide them, when the fumigation is over, they let a little time pass and replant. Coca is not eradicated. Even without the fart, peasants can also cut down the coca shrubs to the roots before and shortly after the spring so that they don't die. And again,

38:54 I need to reiterate, these peasants use coca plants for their own personal use because it's part of their culture. They were also selling it in teas around the world before any of this started happening. So you're literally depriving them of century-old economic welfare.

39:27 which is all they've ever known. The targets are, in truth, the peasants and their family and their livestock, because chemical warfare does not discriminate when dispersed from the air. Between 1992 and 1998, there was over 141,000 acres of cocoa that was drenched with glyphosate.

40:00 It is difficult to estimate the environmental damage of the spraying. Chemical pollution of the soil and water in the ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest has never been examined. Glyphosate is promoted as a mild defoliant as it allegedly breaks down quickly. But in 1997, Monsanto was forced by the New York Attorney General to remove the term biodegradable.

40:31 Because it didn't happen. A broad spectrum herbicide like Roundup has severely affected and killed numerous other plants in Colombia, including food crops like banana, cocoa, maize, and papayas. Eating these affected crops and drinking Roundup polluted water has caused severe health issues among the peasant population.

41:02 The long-term effects are unknown. Farmland was turned completely yellow in color, meaning that it was contaminated. Young cattle lose their hair after they're sprayed with it. Chickens almost die immediately. The new super cocoa plant had been cultivated in Colombia, according to media reports, which grows to more than 12 feet when a normal plant only grows to five.

41:31 It grows faster and produces more leaves. Jeremy Bigwood contends that the percentile of cocaine concentration seems extremely high in the bigger plants. Experts say the science could manipulate coca bushes to be resistant to the herbicide. University of Missouri scientist Brant Sellers points out that

42:00 Given Monsanto sells Roundup, they sell the seeds like corn, cotton, soybeans, and canola to be able to resist their own spraying. Obviously, a cocoa plant could be developed to resist it as well. If such a product were developed, cocoa farmers could spray Roundup to kill weeds without harming their plants.

42:33 Sellers argue that even without the manipulation, if you spray any plants or species over time, it will naturally grow some level of resistance to it. There have been reports of the large plants that go back to at least a few decades, but having them grow too tall would require ladders for harvesting, which is why they don't normally do that. The narco elite.

43:04 Unending demand for control over cocoa production has forced many peasant families from their land. The narco-military network orchestrated this forced relocation through tactics such as fumigation backed by terror. Fleeing from war and lacking alternatives, hundreds of thousands of them moved into fart-controlled areas.

43:29 In 2010, the UN estimated that up to 3.7 million people had been displaced by that point, the largest number of dislocated people in the world. In Mira Flores, a town in southeastern area, a joint Colombian military and police so-called counter-drug operation.

43:59 provoked mass demonstrations, according to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, were sustained by funds from coca production. Embassy officials saw these kinds of operations as proof that, in cases where peasants and FARC threatened mission success, the participation of the Colombian military is vital. In other words, no resistance is allowed.

44:34 So in one cable that was later declassified in 1996, this is what it said. The aim of the operation is to take over Mira Flores, effectively shutting down coca production in that area. Large numbers of residents have been displaced by relentless push of the Army 2nd Mobile Brigade from surrounding areas. Let's see.

45:01 The peasants from surrounding areas has flocked to Mara Flores as a show of solidarity. And then in a follow-up table, it said, an estimated 4,000 to 20,000 peasants have descended on the town of Mara Flores, blocking access to the local airstrip in protest of the Colombian government's counter-drug operations.

45:26 Colombian police and Army troops from the 2nd Mobile Brigade have begun deploying in that area to prevent the area from being overrun, yet their aim was to destroy the town. The cable goes on to note that the presence of the Army troops alongside the anti-drug police ensures that the guerrilla attack on the town would be met with commiserate force.

45:59 the Miraflores operation would result in major damage to narco-traffickers and anyone protesting. Many of the peasants had been forced to migrate into the mountain regions in the Amazon basin as aerial spraying pursued their cocoa production. As in Afghanistan, equally quote-unquote successful

46:26 Manual eradication methods, as well as ceremonial burning of drugs, was held as proof that they were fighting drugs. Meanwhile, agricultural techniques are used to grow coca, which has resulted in an increased crop. According to a Mandala project, an independent research group from American University in Washington,

46:59 At this rate, Columbia's woodland would be depleted in 40 years if they kept spraying it. The deforestization has increased the rate of extinction of many plants and species in the country. The social and economic fabric of indigenous people who inhabit the forest are being destroyed. Columbia's total forest coverage accounts for 10% of the earth's

47:30 biodiversity behind Brazil. So all of these people who are screaming about climate change probably ought to go scream in front of the CIA. And one of the goals that I read in another article was if they destroy that area, like the trees and stuff like that, then they will farm it with cocoa. Win-win for them.

48:00 Ostensibly, the aerial fumigation strategy is presented by Columbia in the U.S. as a method of destroying illegal drug trade and the park. In reality, the supply of coca will be sustained as long as there's growing area left and people willing to grow it. In this sense, the relocation strategy is a method to relocate coca so that they control it all. If the peasants are driven off any particular land, the narco elite

48:31 just takes it over. In the past, the potential growing area of the Amazon area in Colombia seemed almost inexhaustible. The total area of the Colombian Amazon is 40 million hectares, of which 29 million was rainforest.

48:55 There are significant numbers of impoverished and internally displaced people desperate enough to do anything to survive. And so you notice around this time that there was all of this, you know, Sierra Club and all this other stuff that was screaming about destruction of the Amazon basin, while at the same time.

49:22 you have these people pushing all of the people into that area. It's just the whole story is crazy. Drug crop cultivation and chemical processing of the raw materials into cocaine causes substantial environmental damage, but it's the cows. The U.S. rationale that the fumigation policy is an antidote to the environmental impact of illicit crops is flawed.

49:53 Chemical spraying aggravates directly and collaterally the already negative environmental effects of the illicit crops. The continuous displacement of crop by fumigation multiplies the pace of deforestization of the Amazon and the mountain forest. It spreads pollution everywhere. By increasing fumigation, the United States has created the conditions for an ecological catastrophe.

50:22 as the only viable crop will be coca. Human rights are continuously violated, the legitimacy of the government eroded, and the Civil War extended. Simultaneously, coca production increases. So does the dead bodies. In 2000, a Colombian newspaper wrote the following. The Colombian state should avoid deepening disaster.

50:51 disastrous contradictions that erode its legitimacy, that intensify the conflict, or that destroys the environment even more. If there are nowadays more than 100,000 hectares of coca and the Colombian Amazon disposes of 40 million of that area for expanding the agricultural frontier, this will spiral the fumigations

51:23 And they will never come to an end. So you can see it's kind of like they don't really care about the fact that they're pushing these people into the forest. And there's going to be the eventual deforestation because it just expands their ability to grow more coca. So it's hard to see how the people who are wanting to do that.

51:56 Again, it just seems like a win-win for them and a lose-lose for the people involved. The book goes on and talks about a whole bunch of different environmental groups going in and talking about it. And that there were people from Britain that had documented all of this stuff happening. Human Rights Watch was involved.

52:27 And basically, it says that the bottom line was that the fumigation promoted cocoa production in areas that were not controlled by the FARC. They just continued to grow and harvest, and none of their areas were ever sprayed.

52:59 is the key indicator of exactly what is going on. So that's where we're going to stop for today. Did we ever get Bridget in here? No? Let me bring Renee back up. I see snow. How are you doing today, Illini? Hey, Colonel. I'm doing pretty well. How are you? Good. Are you following all these Epstein developments?

53:49 It's getting interesting. On the one hand, you've got Gloria Allred in the room, which is never a good thing if you come at things from a conservative perspective. On the other hand, you've got some of the more independent Republican Congress people working on this. I've done some research on the most recent

54:17 child sex abuse scandal, which was, you know, the, you know, Craig Spence and, um, Larry King of Omaha, Nebraska, not the Larry King talk show host guy. Um, but, but, but Larry, I mean, it's, it's, it's confused. People always get confused when I say the name, um, different Larry King, but there was a Larry King, Craig Spence, um, scandal of, of 1989.

54:46 Where, I mean, they almost, that thing almost got exposed completely by the Washington Times. And, you know, there's some interesting links to all of that through Les Wexner. And certainly through, you know, Iran-Contra and the Bush family. You know, one of the kids actually got a tour, got a midnight tour of the White House.

55:15 Back in 19, I think Secret Service logs recorded the event back in like 87. You're talking about the Franklin scandal thing? Well, it's the Franklin scandal. So people have probably, when I was in college, I remember watching, you know, Conspiracy of Silence. It finally managed to make its way onto YouTube back in the aughts, the original Discovery series.

55:43 What did not manage to make it – what I didn't see at the time was, number one, one of the kids they followed up with on America's Most Wanted, and they discovered the underground room that basically got people almost convicted of – I mean, in one case, Alicia Owen was convicted of perjury. But it was one of those fantastical things that everybody said there's no way it could be true that these kids got ferried off to Denver.

56:13 you know, Colorado and were locked in this underground room. He found it on America's most wanted in the mid nineties. So that's made it on the YouTube. And then, um, uh, Nick Bryant followed up on all of it in the aughts. Um, he wrote a book. He managed to talk to one of the adult photographers at the time, um, who, who confirmed it, who, who was one of, um,

56:40 Larry King's co-conspirators who confirmed everything. There's a lot more backup to all of this than what was initially led on when John DeCamp wrote his book and when Conspiracy of Silence was initially filmed. There's some pretty strong out-of-sample validation on this that this happened.

57:08 And it's going to be interesting to see some of those internal FBI and Department of Corrections emails that are slowly getting released by Congress. It'll be interesting to do the link analysis on that. I agree. I think that'll be fascinating. And that's, I think, to your point, I think that's what gets lost in all of this. People act like this is the worst thing that's ever happened.

57:39 It's never the worst thing that's ever happened. There's always something that has happened before that is equally bad. And everything that you just described is equally as bad, if not worse, because there seems to have been a lot more people involved with that boys home. We'll never know the extent because, again, they started killing people and they imprisoned the kids.

58:07 When they got old enough to start talking, they're the ones that went to jail, not the perpetrators. Alicia Owen ultimately wound up getting prosecuted by, not by the federal government, but by the county prosecutor for Omaha, Nebraska, for perjury. But it started...

58:32 When the FBI agents, in particular, I think the guy's name was Mickey Mott, basically, you know, tried to flip, you know, a couple of the kids against Alicia Owen. And basically they started doing secret wiretaps of her and basically, okay, not wiretaps, but they started trying to secretly record her and get some of the kids to inform on her and try to claim.

59:02 that she was committing perjury. It started with the FBI, and I think Mickey Mott may have initially come through the FBI's both New York and Washington, D.C. offices was how he got there. I don't know if he's part of the counterintelligence section, too. But that's pretty fascinating.

59:27 And you have the names of the different FBI agents who are all involved because they were involved in the prosecution. I mean, there's other elements of it, too, that have some links like these kids were getting taken from Boys Town, you know, a Catholic institution. That's number one. And then number two, the Franklin Credit Union was accused of being involved as one of the savings and loans. You know.

59:56 firms in Iran-Contra. And that guy that ran the Franklin was big time in the Republican Party. Yes. Larry King sang the national anthem at the Republican National Convention in 1984. If you watch Conspiracy of Silence, they tracked down the video of him singing the Star Spangled Banner.

1:00:24 For the opening of the RNC. This guy was a big Republican donor. And Craig Spence was a big Republican lobbyist. And the kids were allegedly getting ferried off to sex parties in Washington, D.C. with Craig Spence. And Henry Vinson, about 10 years ago, came out with his book, Confessions of a D.C. Madam.

1:00:52 saying that, number one, he wasn't involved in any of, you know, the underage stuff, but he did supply, you know, adult sex workers to, you know, Craig Spence's parties, and he did see the whole system where they were recording everything, which has a really, I mean, that's an interesting behavioral link to the Epstein case.

1:01:21 And it also kind of ties back, too, to the Columbia Plaza scandal, which is – it's still not totally vetted. But Jim Hoogan of Harper's lays out a pretty interesting case for it that Len Kolodny also picked up in 1994. So there are some journalists out there who are kind of backing –

1:01:50 There was stuff going on during Watergate, too. So there's this pattern here. The Catholic Church is ancillarily involved at one point alongside Vatican Bank. I'm not saying the Catholics are bad, but there are sort of these...

1:02:18 There are these termites underneath the foundation of the church that are occasionally causing issues. They use that. Because they're all satanic. They want to destroy religion. Not just one religion. And they will infiltrate the religion.

1:02:46 in order to destroy it. So to your point, it's not everybody in the Catholic Church, but you have to be able to call out the institution that doesn't do anything to address the problem. The kids were all videotaped by Gary Caradori, who is an investigator for the Nebraska Senate committee who was overseeing.

1:03:13 the Franklin credit unions blow up. And that was how John DeCamp actually got involved. Eventually he was a Nebraska, um, you know, state Senate legislator who was the head of the committee and he wound up writing the book. Um, but you know, the reports had already been filed by, by Gary Caridori and they were going to prosecute him for, um, defrauding the committee was also what the FBI, including, you know,

1:03:45 Mott was ultimately involved with. Of course, before they got the chance to do that, his plane blew up over rural Illinois when he was flying back to Nebraska.

1:04:04 I assess the whole thing as just having enough – it's got too much corroboration. They wound up being able to – they wound up having the executive jet aviation passenger manifests showing that Alicia Owen was an unaccompanied minor on these flights out to Washington, D.C. with Larry King.

1:04:29 So there's hard evidence going back to 1989 where Gary Caridori is locked in. The files are all locked in. The evidence is all there. We didn't find out until much later about Epstein that they're going through Columbus, Ohio. Some of these pilots wind up later working for Les Wexner of the Limited.

1:04:56 We don't find that out until much later. And some of the facts and evidence and all these coincidences are locked in before anybody knows it's an issue. And then finally, of course, these kids don't want to talk. Okay, it is the late 80s, but these kids aren't initially volunteering.

1:05:17 That they're witnessing what they describe as satanic ceremonies, and they describe what happens in them. And I'm not going to trouble everybody on a Friday afternoon with some of the descriptions here. But you can read about it in the John DeCamp book. Nick Bryan actually sanitizes a lot of it. He just focuses.

1:05:43 You know, was there some kind of extortion ring going on or what was going on with all that? And maybe the scandal is real and all that covered up. But the original John DeCamp book and Conspiracy of Silence, you know, they mention it. And, you know, the 94 videos, Conspiracy of Silence, you know, has the videos of the kids occasionally talking about it, I think, if I recall correctly.

1:06:12 This stuff was all locked in 30 years ago. We didn't understand the significance. We looked at it. We saw late 80s satanic scare. The Operation Gladio links add some significance to it. And that's why we spend so much time going back over our history.

1:06:42 Once you're wearing your Gladio glasses, you see everything differently. And you do bring up a good point. It may be the right time to go back and look at that entire thing using DeCamp's book and then all of the other stuff that has come out since then and show people current day that nothing that is going on right now.

1:07:12 Hasn't gone on before. And now that we know so much more about Gladio and what it's all used for, because the Bush administration, Bush senior administration, you know, Mr. CIA himself is tied into that story. It may be the perfect time to go back and look at that. Thank you for adding that. Oh, there's Bridget. Go ahead, Renee. Hi there. Sorry, I got kicked out, but.

1:07:49 I wanted to bring something up to everyone that connects to Colombia and Venezuela and actually the whole Operation Condor. It's kind of a new theory I have. And I just, if you don't mind that we have everybody here, I want to pass it by you and see what you think, please. Okay, cool. So yesterday, I think it was a lie and I, he brought up Kissinger.

1:08:17 And I've been digging into, you know how you always tell us to look into the ambassadors and stuff, right? Okay, so I was looking actually into elite individuals in Colombia and Venezuela. And I saw that during the time of Uribe, this one guy that was like a billionaire and had a lot of businesses and whatever, he was an advocate of Uribe.

1:08:47 He was asked to be an ambassador to China, right? So I started thinking and I was like, well, huh, because in parts of the Caribbean, Central and South America, it's weird over history that a lot of these countries originally, they recognized Taiwan over mainland China, right?

1:09:15 OK, so then over I started looking in the history of ambassadors, ambassadors of Colombia and ambassadors, particularly from Venezuela to China. And so I was digging in even Mexico. I looked into and originally the ambassadors to China. They were later on like Cuba was the first to have an ambassador to China. And that didn't happen until the 60s.

1:09:45 And that was Taiwan. And then they all trickled in, Argentina and the whole Latin America. And originally, they all recognized Taiwan. Well, then it kind of switched and they recognized China. So I was looking into that timeline. And when was this? This was in the early 70s. And that's when Kissinger and Nixon and all that went over there, right?

1:10:14 to do their monkey business. And I started thinking, okay, so they can't really recognize and do their shenanigans through the proxy of Taiwan. Where are all the ambassadors and located Beijing, right? So I'm looking in Beijing and that has always been the political center of China. And it's very complicated and confusing because we have the Republic of China, we have...

1:10:41 You know, Communist China, the People's Republic of China. It's like so much information. It blows my mind. It boggles my brain, actually. But then I was looking and reading more about the timeline. And I also learned that, you know, over the past five, ten years, Xi has been getting rid of a lot of corrupt military in Beijing.

1:11:07 So then I'm looking into the United States diplomatic relations in China and particularly Beijing. And at the time that Nixon and Kissinger were over there, we created something called the United States Liaison Office, USLO in Beijing. And this was created by no other than.

1:11:37 George Herbert Walker Bush, David K.E. Bruce, Leonard Woodcock, and Thomas S. Gates. Now, of course, we all get a red flag with Bush, but I didn't know who Bruce were and Woodcock. But I did hear of Gates, Thomas S. Gates. Thomas S. Gates was with Rockefeller in the...

1:12:03 I think it was late 40s or early 50s down in Brazil. He was a Navy office intelligence agent who went down with Nelson and David Rockefeller. And it's like, what is this guy doing down in Brazil? So anyway, there's that. But I'm going to post in the pill because what it seems to me, and I could be totally wrong and it could be a bogus theory.

1:12:29 But was Beijing a proxy after Taiwan wasn't working anymore, you know, and they all had to switch over with the ambassadors because the ambassadors, obviously, and at that time in Kissinger and Nixon, outsourcing all of our industry and our production for the whole West and sending it to China, you know, didn't really serve any of the West. And so I'm thinking. It served them. It didn't serve them.

1:12:59 Right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I'm going to put in the pill, I'm going to put the link to this liaison office. And all these guys, David Bruce, all of them, you know, are the usual corrupt suspects. And I'm just like, what did we just see last week or this past week? We saw a huge celebration in Beijing.

1:13:27 with Putin, Modi, Xi, Kim Jong-un celebrating the 80th year since World War II and a military parade, right? So I'm thinking maybe this is all connected. Maybe these ambassadors in Latin America were actually, you know, installed.

1:13:51 to be the angle of corrupt business doings in Beijing and as a proxy. I don't know. Do you kind of get where I'm coming from? Kind of, but... Yeah, it's complicated. Well, once the U.S. formally recognized China, you are going to have ambassadors to China. And the correlation of putting

1:14:20 ambassadors or people that have experience in the 1950s and 60s in Latin America and overthrowing the governments there and exploiting mega corporations opportunity at resources would be a shoo-in for doing the same thing in China once we're going to formally go in there and actually set up an embassy and have

1:14:49 formal recognition because their entire mission is to exploit the country, not to actually have a diplomatic relationship with the company. So they would have provided the entree of American businesses into that. And then, of course, the offshoring of all of our product manufacturing is that you're talking about the same model.

1:15:19 noticing the patterns that we have established. The pattern of taking parts and things and putting them down in Latin America where the labor is cheap because you're not going to allow an effective labor union down there. Same thing in Mexico where they're building car parts and stuff like that. So this is one big effort to

1:15:47 destroy America from the inside without us ever knowing. It's like a pinhole size in a blow-up chair that eventually is going to be flat. But you want it to go flat slow enough that no one notices it's going flat. Unfortunately for them, everybody started noticing. And what we're doing is pointing out the patterns in the past so we can see them happening today.

1:16:17 And you just articulated one of those patterns. You're going to use ambassadors that know how to exploit local markets. So those would have been the first ones you'd put in China, because the whole purpose of opening up China to the West was to exploit their workers and deflate our chair.

1:16:47 So you're getting both ends of it. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, it does. I was just kind of, I don't know. What are your thoughts on Beijing? I understand, but it just seems too coincidental. And yeah, there is a pattern, and especially with...

1:17:13 The CIA, how they constantly rebrand and relabel themselves. And if one angle doesn't work, then they have to quickly move to another angle and another company and another strategy. And I was thinking maybe the abundance of these ambassadors, like it was also really strange with Mexico because at this time they had a lot of.

1:17:36 they all have pickup of ambassadors. Sometimes there's no ambassadors to country, but like in, since the seventies until like 2016, 17, they have a surge in ambassadors to Yugoslavia and Serbia. And there's a surge in ambassadors to China, you know, and I just saw that pattern and I know it, it was good for the oligarchs and the elites of doing business, even though.

1:18:05 For the majority of citizens in the West, it took away our industry. It took away our jobs. It created a control supply chain, all this stuff. But I'm just like was because we you've told us, you know.

1:18:21 Is it China or Taiwan? And I'm like, we never really talk about Beijing. Was Beijing perhaps a proxy for, you know, as well for a hot minute with corruption or for more than a hot minute? Beijing is, you know, kind of just like you said, it's the center of China. So as far as.

1:18:44 comings and goings. It's the new Shanghai that used to be Shanghai back in, you know, the early 1900s. Shanghai was an international city, you know, and there was a lot of activity in Hong Kong because, you know, the British acquired that after the Second Boxer War. So the placement of ambassadors are always going to be strategic based on where we want to exploit next.

1:19:13 If we get caught doing bad things and we'll go through a period of not having any ambassador there at all, because in some cases they kick us out. In other cases, we do it kind of as a show of force, if you will. So I the the whole thing of China, like every other country in the world, they have a corrupt center as well.

1:19:41 And I think that's what Xi has spent the last several years in, especially once Trump came into office to start with, is he's been eradicating their deep state. And I think that happened with Putin when he first came into office in Russia, too. He was doing it without any help because the U.S. had already went in and tried to corrupt.

1:20:08 privatize all of the assets after using corrupt oligarchs inside of Russia. When Putin finally got in office, he put a stop to that immediately. And so he kind of was the first guy in as far as getting that under control. So other than to say that I think obviously China has

1:20:38 a deep state. And I do think that she has been working with President Trump. I don't have any more to add to that. But yeah, it's the whole thing is very interesting. And it is, to me, exciting when you go back and you read like what you were just suggesting, Renee, in doing research, you look at all of your research so much differently now. Illini, go ahead.

1:21:09 I think the way that I see it is there's still different interests that aren't necessarily part of the Gladio network. Like something that's been playing out over the past 24 hours on Twitter is we just found out that there was this huge influence campaign by India over the past couple of days where they were paying influencers and stuff like that quietly to make tweets and to support India.

1:21:39 And to try to get a good trade deal and everything else. But – so I mean that's relatively minor compared to some of the other stuff. Like we know that like Eric Swalwell – there are stories with Eric Swalwell's girlfriend. There's still Chinese people trying to bring trade secrets back specifically sent there by –

1:22:07 This is kind of state-sponsored trade secret theft sometimes. There's still interests, and there's still corruption abroad. And then, of course, the CCP has also got their own fentanyl issues coming in through Canada, too. So I'm not sure China is exempt. I think it's just a different...

1:22:37 know the network maybe they're just as corrupt maybe they're less corrupt um i i used to think that they were more corrupt i now i'm a little bit skeptical about that yeah it's kind of hard to beat the um corruption that and i mean again it's it's you're going to have um people um especially when there's this um i hate to use the word secret because it's not so secret anymore but the

1:23:07 The secret background of the people that you can't see that have all been driven, driving us to this one world government. And so they didn't leave any country out that this is a global effort. And, you know, we we cover a.

1:23:37 small smidgen to a line ice point of um part of their network which is referred to as gladio that is just the paramilitary the drug trafficking the weapons trafficking and um to a lot less extent the human trafficking but it's there because it's a result of all of the other things when they destabilize countries recognizing the fact that they destabilize these

1:24:06 They take people and put them into human trafficking. That is one of the byproducts of all of this. And so that's the part that we've stayed concentrating on because if you follow those networks, it opens all kinds of other areas that you could research. It opens the area of the oligarchs and the corporations and everybody that is behind it.

1:24:34 And so there's lots of corollaries to the research that we've been doing. And again, to Illini's point, not everything involves Operation Gladio. It is a piece of a much bigger pie. But the piece is so big for one Bridget and I to...

1:25:02 And along with all of you and the great research that you guys do that complements all of this, that it's not possible to paint the whole picture. We're just painting our corner. If you were to try to run all of the facts to ground on all these different deep political events, it would probably take like thousands of analysts. And that's even with AI to help you on it.

1:25:32 I think if you're going to do this, if you're going to have a full-time job outside of Operation Gladio, I think you've kind of got the space in your brain to kind of know about 10 or 15 different deep political events. And if you're going to be able to run everything all the way to the ground and be able to argue that this happened and to be able to defend it to Malcolm Nance.

1:25:59 Um, or, or some CIA skeptic, um, and to be able to prove it and to look reasonable doing it and to be able to cite, you know, you know, front page news articles about this and basically saying, guys, this happened. Um, you can really only cover about, you know, 10 or 15 events if you're doing it part-time. Now, Colonel's got more, you know, time and she's got a lot, she's done a lot of research on this. Um, but, but we always.

1:26:30 If you're not if it hasn't been done before, it's probably because it's really complicated and it's probably an opportunity. Yeah. And, you know, obviously, the people that were doing it at the beginning got killed. Hopefully we're past that part. But, you know, there was a lot of great people that did a lot of the legwork and all of this. And just as I said, you have your airplane blow up or.

1:26:56 You get hit by a truck or your car just goes off driving by itself or whatever. Your both of your wrists get sliced down to the bone like you can't physically do that. But it happened and somebody called it a suicide or you shoot yourself with a shotgun and hang yourself. Yes. Or you get shot twice in the head. Not suicide, too. So there's a lot of people that put out.

1:27:22 you know, their life on the line to get us the research that we're just putting all the pieces. So anyway, I mean, most of the journalists who covered Iran Contra, you know, Robert Perry, Pete Bruton, and then we don't even get started about, you know, Terry Reed and, and some of the, you know, other folks, they had their careers destroyed.

1:27:54 I mean, the one thing that we can do today to, you know, the thing is, is that because they had their careers, because they did this and, you know, one of the consequences was they had their careers destroyed. But one of the other consequences is we can get into a debate with Malcolm Nance or, you know, any kind of other operative out there. And we can say.

1:28:21 Look, this happened, and we look totally reasonable doing it. And those guys made a huge sacrifice so that we can basically look reasonable today making our points. Yeah, they were considered lunatics at the time. They were considered lunatics at the time. And what Bush must have been terrified of was everybody putting it all together.

1:28:47 He must have been like, you know, Pete Bruton on his own was a threat to Bush. But if you got Pete Bruton and Robert Perry and Terry Reed and Alicia Owen and, you know, Henry Vinson and, you know, John DeCamp and Gary Caridori and you got like all six or seven of them into one room. He was toast. Yeah. And they knew it.

1:29:17 So, yeah, we're living in a different time in a good way from that perspective. And crazy. Go ahead, Bridget. Oh, and just to your point, look at what they just did yesterday to Robert Kennedy Jr. when he was just saying that he wouldn't endorse anything that wasn't safe. Yeah. That just, you know, the.

1:29:46 visceral reaction the lambasting the the scorching that they tried to do on him was not just to discredit him and to you know boost their followers why not but it was also to try and make a point that anyone following him in in these new cdc positions

1:30:15 That if you try and go against us, this is what you have to look forward to. Yeah. Yeah. It's they terrorize anybody that speaks out, whether it just be in a defamation type one. And then obviously there's different scales of that.

1:30:41 And to Illini's point, what they did to Paul Williams, you guys heard him describe, he lost everything. He had been on every mainstream news media. He was considered a consultant both in national news and foreign affairs because of all of the research he had done. He wrote columns in the New York Times and everything.

1:31:09 After he wrote his book in 2015, he never has received a single call since then. Now, they didn't attack him like they've done a lot of other people, but you are literally cutting yourself off from everything that you know by doing that. Which is also the same thing they do in a cult, by the way. Just saying. Yeah, the satanic cult.

1:31:40 Wolfie, I don't know how you say your name, but... Yeah, that's fine. What's going on? I used to be in a lot of spaces. Illini was in there. I think I'm mispronouncing that. Oh, it's Illini. So I just want to contribute to this conversation. You all know a lot more in depth, but...

1:32:02 Before I do that, I just want to say, Alain and I, if you can add me back, I'd love to message you about energy companies and some research and commodity stuff I'm looking at. Because I know you've been on that for a long time. But anyhow, my interpretation of what's happening is that...

1:32:26 They're still trying to break down. They do want global control, and I don't think they quite have it yet. There could be a scenario where there is a deep state that is coordinating with China deep state, Xi, and India and Russia. I just have a hard time believing that. I personally believe that the West broke from the gold standard in the 70s.

1:32:54 And has used this paper, this paper dollar, this fiat system and priced everything in dollars to, you know, extend their tentacles. With every crisis, the dollar, you know, was more and more embedded in the SWIFT system and the way money moves. And I personally feel that I want to say like a Zionist.

1:33:18 power took control after world war one and world war two i i feel like after world war two the axis power was was decimated and now look at look at now germany italy and japan right they're they're strong allies they just pledged what japan just pledged 550 billion dollars just for no tariffs you can spend it however you want i still personally believe that the the major reason that

1:33:44 The U.S. is the administration. I don't think the strategy ever changed. I still think it's they're trying to take over the world and they need. Russia does have a substantial amount of resources and they are so afraid that as we move into a multipolar world, that Europe will be so dependent on Russia. It will bring Europe and they might lose control of the Middle East.

1:34:09 And so I think they're pressuring India to stop buying oil from Russia because they need to weaken Russia and crack Russia and China. China and Russia are now moving closer together. So that's my interpretation. I think they're very close to that goal. But I still think that they are still trying to crack Russia, China.

1:34:35 Mainly those two. I mean, look what they did with Iran and separate them from India. That's just my personal opinion. Yeah, we're not saying that Xi's part of the deep state. We're just saying that China has one. And the same thing with Russia. Obviously, theirs are much more subdued at this point, but that doesn't mean it's completely eliminated. And yes, they've made it a stated goal that they.

1:35:02 If you go back to the Fabian Society, their idea of the world order that they were trying to set up was to divide Russia and give the more Asian part of it over to what they referred to as Pan-Asia and to take the more European side of it and include that in a Pan-Europe.

1:35:27 um concept and that basically they were going to have like regional supervisors that set at a round table and decided what all of the peasants um were going to be doing for them so that they could you know form this new world order um and russia um stood in their way and is still standing in their way um and it's very frustrating to them um and i think that's basically what's going on is this global fight

1:35:57 to defeat this one world order syndicate that has led us to where we are today. Let me just respond quick. You see comments from India, I'm sorry, China and Russia, where they'll say, we care about humanity.

1:36:19 We don't want to we don't want propaganda to try to change the facts in history about World War Two, because a lot of the West, the West is very good at hot wars and economic wars. And with this propaganda, same with Russia and China. Right. It's it purely is East versus West.

1:36:40 I like energy and commodities right now. And hence why I wanted to talk. I've been meaning to talk to you a lot about this this sector, because I think that there's going to be a forcing of a multipolar world. And and that's because these these governments, the Western governments have spent so much money and now you're starting to see population decline. They've really taken this as far as possible.

1:37:05 And so I think if energy does act, if we do move into a world where energy and commodity prices are in a secular rise and maybe even interest rates have bottomed out on our secular rise, they'll have no choice but to retrench, pull back military spend and try to weaken these opponents now and just try to draw the lines and get the allies on your side and try to bring them to their knees.

1:37:35 But, yeah. Okay. So, oh, a line I must have dropped out. Yeah, there's really a lot of kinks today after Brittany told me to do my update. Well, let me respond. We will keep this on the subject of deep politics, you know, under the Gladio umbrella. But I'll also address your oil thing.

1:38:05 And specifically with the situation with Russia. I think this was 2023. What I like to do is I usually like to give people detailed specific points so that they can do the research on their own. But in 2023, one of the things that happened was Poland, basically Eastern Europe outside of Russia, shut down.

1:38:34 This Russian oil export pipeline called the Druzhba Pipeline, both the north, certainly the northern Druzhba Pipeline. And what happened right around at the same time was Russia had all this oil that was piling up that, you know, was still producing. And, you know, it was in full compliance with its OPEC agreements, but they could no longer export it via the Druzhba Pipeline. So what they started doing was they had more seaborne exports.

1:39:04 What then happened was you started seeing all these Bloomberg, I think Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and maybe Reuters articles. I think Bloomberg was one of the news services involved that then started basically coming out and saying that Russia was cheating on its OPEC.

1:39:33 You know, export obligations due to, you know, seaborne exports and like Vortexa, and they were selling Vortexa and Kepler and all these different, you know, neuroservices by focusing on the seaborne exports. Well, meanwhile, in Eurostat, it was showing that, you know, the Drewsburg Pipeline exports were down. I think the Bloomberg article.

1:39:59 actually specifically cited a European intelligence analyst saying that Russia was cheating on its OPEC obligations. And then, of course, you've got the Wall Street Journal articles by this lady named Somerset. She always comes out and says there's this huge war in OPEC and they're about to have a price war and they can't agree on stuff.

1:40:23 And and, you know, I think one article was even like Abdulaziz bin Salman is on the phone, you know, screaming that they're going to have 40 or 50 dollar oil. Of course, what then happens is what happens a month or two later is Abdulaziz bin Salman at the OPEC meetings basically kicks out a number of these news services. The funny thing is, is that a bunch of Twitter people are allowed in. They're given press passes.

1:40:51 Paul Sankey is given a press pass. Bloomberg doesn't get one. And it's because OPEC is annoyed. And they're not annoyed that they said something that was negative for OPEC. They're annoyed that they said something that they couldn't really back up and that OPEC didn't think had any basis in reality and couldn't really get confirmed and that they think was actually made up. Yeah.

1:41:27 So continue down that. So what do you think is transpiring there? I think the first casualty in war is truth. And I think it's really difficult to really get – I mean you can try to get a read on stuff. I also think that China is probably manipulating – they're probably – I would not be shocked if China was pumping water.

1:41:57 into, you know, some of their above ground oil storage tanks just to confuse some of the satellite services. That wouldn't be a shock to me. I think the hardest, the easiest call to make here is that the first casualty in a war, including an information war, is the truth. And I think this part of the process calls for humility and, you know, it calls for, you know, probably reduced

1:42:26 You know, VARs and heavier tail assumptions. You really do have to step back and watch from a more strategic level because oftentimes when you get wrapped around the axle on the details, you miss the big picture. If you can buy volatility right now and you can buy it cheap, do it. That's my general thought on this, but I don't have a directional view on stuff. And I think Colonel Towner wants us to keep this on.

1:42:58 um you know deep politics we we could we could address you know the oil if it's part of geopolitics well oil is obviously part of i mean that's why we did that whole book about um the oil and the control of it because a lot of operation gladio efforts are to exploit oil and quite frankly that was one of the main drivers in columbia

1:43:25 um that and obviously um cocaine but they wanted control of those oil fields and if you can get the u.s military and the cia in training paramilitary so that you can control the country and you can guard against sabotage and stuff like that with those trained paramilitaries and you can do all of that at the expense of the american taxpayer and you don't have to do it yourself um you know like they used to have to do in the old days

1:43:54 Then more power to them is what they think, not what I think. But a lot of what we have discovered throughout all of this is it all involves the control of resources. And one of the main resources is oil. So while it's a little base, we don't need to go into any more depth for today. But all of this stuff is because it involves resources.

1:44:22 um is one of the driving impetus for the destabilization which always involves some gladio-ish um activity and so anyway um lively discussion um i appreciate that um but if we don't have any more hands i'm gonna go jump off here so i can go have dinner and um just um to reiterate um you guys i want to have all of you to have a

1:44:54 Wonderful weekend. I will be traveling back home most likely. We have toyed around with the idea of going home late on Sunday so that I would be in place on Monday to have the show. But I'm still going to say for now, we're not going to have a show on Monday. We'll resume on Tuesday on our normally scheduled program for next week. But I want to wish you guys all a wonderful weekend.

1:45:22 We're going to be downtown Savannah tomorrow, hanging out and having some fun. And I hope I'm going to make the one exception. So I will tell you this one really short personal story. I think I've mentioned it before, but you guys know my dad growing up was a truck driver and I was a Tom girl and my dad's shadow and I loved him to death. There used to be a truck stop on the way into Florida called Patty's Truck Stop.

1:45:51 Patty's Truck Stop was notorious with truck drivers because of their pralines that they sold. They were cooked right nearby. There was a lady that delivered them to the store, and my dad always brought me pralines home. And that's kind of the one thing that is, I don't eat any sweets. I eat a very clean diet now. Bridget can attest to that.

1:46:18 But pralines would be the one exception. And I do know because I ate at a restaurant the last time I was in Savannah across from a homemade praline store that I resisted going over and buying myself a praline, but I am not going to resist tomorrow. I am going over and buying myself a praline. So we're going to enjoy a dinner downtown Savannah. I'm going to finish off that dinner with a praline.

1:46:45 And we will be back on Tuesday. The Pirate House. I don't think the Pirate House is the right one. But anyway, somebody said Oberon Rumble is at the Pirate House. I'll let you know on Monday. But anyway. Sounds delicious, by the way. Well earned. Well earned and safe travels. Yes. Thank you very much. I will be happy to be back home and see my grandbaby.

1:47:16 All right, everybody, take care. Have a wonderful weekend, and I will see you either Monday or Tuesday.

Entities here

China29 United States25 Colombia25 Alvaro Uribe17 FARC15 Colombian Army13 Soviet Union12 CIA11 Operation Gladio11 AUC9 United States Central Command8 Beijing8 U.S. Department of Agriculture7 Amazon rainforest6 OPEC6 India5 Draining the Sea to Kill the Fish5 Monsanto4 Hawaii4 David Sands4 Lawrence King4 Republican Party4 Office of National Drug Control Policy4 Alicia Owens4 U.S. State Department4 Catholic Church4 John Camp4 Conspiracy of Silence4 Latin America4 George H.W. Bush4 Vietnam4 Mira Flores4 Department of Plant Pathology3 Peter Grace3 Salvador Mancuso3 AgBioCon3 U.S. Congress3 Iran3 Medellin Cartel3 Mexico3

Claims made here

Colombian Army carried_out_attack FARC host_asserted ▶ 1:26

“subchapter is called Draining the Sea to Kill the Fish. It was part of the PSYOPs war against the FARC insurgency. The Colombian military had adopted a method used in America's war in Vietnam, which b…”

Alvaro Uribe ordered_assassination_of FARC host_asserted ▶ 1:56

“Similarly, in Colombia, this method had been applied to drive all of the rural FARC supporters out of their homes into the countryside in order to separate and isolate the FARC. In 2002, Uribe declare…”

AUC carried_out_attack FARC host_asserted ▶ 3:59

“any civilians that they thought were sympathizers. It didn't matter, just like in Vietnam, whether they were or not. You just had to be accused of it. Human rights groups contended that the AUC and Co…”

CIA trained Ivan Ramirez Quintero host_asserted ▶ 5:03

“FARC supporters, people that they thought were their supporters, from General Van Martinez of the Colombian Army in the 1990s. Castano worked closely with another Colombian general, Ivan Ramirez Quint…”

Carlos Castano recruited Ivan Ramirez Quintero host_asserted ▶ 5:03

Ivan Ramirez Quintero spied_on Cali Cartel host_asserted ▶ 5:58

“Ramirez directed the state's war against Pablo Escobar and provided political protection for the Cali cartel, because we're going to pick the winners and losers, and the losers are always the people t…”

Ivan Ramirez Quintero spied_on Pablo Escobar host_asserted ▶ 5:58

Alvaro Uribe funded AUC host_asserted ▶ 8:23

“The AUC may not be a proxy army of the United States, but it functions as a vanguard force of the counterinsurgency strategy in the Colombian countryside. Yeah, they may not be a proxy. They're just t…”

Alvaro Uribe funded The Colombian Labyrinth host_asserted ▶ 9:53

“Two million people. President Uribe based the creation of this civilian militia upon the RAND study, another CIA think tank, called the Columbian Labyrinth, which detailed a plan for a civil defense c…”

Alvaro Uribe funded RAND Corporation host_asserted ▶ 9:53

United States funded Colombia host_asserted ▶ 15:19

“Current and former members of Congress were implicated. Nearly all members of President Uribe's governing coalition were indicted. Uribe denied all involvement. Billions of dollars of U.S. capital had…”

Army Biomedical Research and Development Labs founded Fort Detrick host_asserted ▶ 35:23

“diseases. In experimental animal studies in the U.S., Army Biomedical Research and Development Labs at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Gosh, where have we heard of that before? This agent has penetrated throu…”

United States funded Colombia host_asserted ▶ 35:50

“Cocaine saw significant developments in U.S. biological and biochemical research with a focus on striking the supply side of the trade, but only the supply side that they don't want. In March of 2002,…”

United States funded Colombia host_asserted ▶ 36:20

“to eradicate or even diminish it, despite displacing millions of people. Colombia's cocoa crop had actually increased. Imagine that! The U.S. and Colombian government have discouraged independent inve…”

Monsanto supplied_arms_to United States host_asserted ▶ 36:53

“counterinsurgency efforts. The biggest selling commercial formulation of glyphosate is Roundup and Roundup Ultra, products of Monsanto, a chemical and biotech transnational company located in St. Loui…”

Monsanto funded Colombia host_asserted ▶ 36:53

U.S. State Department covered_up Monsanto host_asserted ▶ 37:21

“have produced consistent health complaints from peasants in the Colombian countryside, which were promptly ignored by both the White House and Monsanto. When interviewed by Corp Watch, a nonprofit inv…”

FARC member_of Colombia host_asserted ▶ 38:20

“The locals, when fumigations are coming, so that they can dig up their coca plants and hide them, when the fumigation is over, they let a little time pass and replant. Coca is not eradicated. Even wit…”

New York Attorney General exposed Monsanto documented ▶ 40:00

“It is difficult to estimate the environmental damage of the spraying. Chemical pollution of the soil and water in the ecosystem of the Amazon rainforest has never been examined. Glyphosate is promoted…”

U.S. State Department spied_on Colombia documented ▶ 43:59

“provoked mass demonstrations, according to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, were sustained by funds from coca production. Embassy officials saw these kinds of operations as proof that, in cases where peasa…”

Colombian Army carried_out_attack Mira Flores documented ▶ 44:34

“So in one cable that was later declassified in 1996, this is what it said. The aim of the operation is to take over Mira Flores, effectively shutting down coca production in that area. Large numbers o…”

Mandala project member_of American University of Beirut host_asserted ▶ 46:26

“Manual eradication methods, as well as ceremonial burning of drugs, was held as proof that they were fighting drugs. Meanwhile, agricultural techniques are used to grow coca, which has resulted in an …”

United States funded Colombia host_asserted ▶ 49:53

“Chemical spraying aggravates directly and collaterally the already negative environmental effects of the illicit crops. The continuous displacement of crop by fumigation multiplies the pace of defores…”

Les Wexner funded Franklin Scandal host_asserted ▶ 54:46

“Where, I mean, they almost, that thing almost got exposed completely by the Washington Times. And, you know, there's some interesting links to all of that through Les Wexner. And certainly through, yo…”

Bush family funded Iran-Contra host_asserted ▶ 54:46

Franklin Credit Union funded Iran-Contra host_asserted ▶ 59:27

“And you have the names of the different FBI agents who are all involved because they were involved in the prosecution. I mean, there's other elements of it, too, that have some links like these kids w…”

Lawrence King member_of Republican Party host_asserted ▶ 1:00:24

“For the opening of the RNC. This guy was a big Republican donor. And Craig Spence was a big Republican lobbyist. And the kids were allegedly getting ferried off to sex parties in Washington, D.C. with…”

Craig Spence member_of Republican Party host_asserted ▶ 1:00:24

Henry Vinson funded Craig Spence book_quoted ▶ 1:00:52

“saying that, number one, he wasn't involved in any of, you know, the underage stuff, but he did supply, you know, adult sex workers to, you know, Craig Spence's parties, and he did see the whole syste…”

Gary Caradori member_of Nebraska Senate committee host_asserted ▶ 1:02:46

“in order to destroy it. So to your point, it's not everybody in the Catholic Church, but you have to be able to call out the institution that doesn't do anything to address the problem. The kids were …”

John Camp member_of Nebraska Senate committee host_asserted ▶ 1:03:13

“the Franklin credit unions blow up. And that was how John DeCamp actually got involved. Eventually he was a Nebraska, um, you know, state Senate legislator who was the head of the committee and he wou…”

Bush family member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:07:12

“Hasn't gone on before. And now that we know so much more about Gladio and what it's all used for, because the Bush administration, Bush senior administration, you know, Mr. CIA himself is tied into th…”

Henry Kissinger member_of United States host_asserted ▶ 1:09:45

“And that was Taiwan. And then they all trickled in, Argentina and the whole Latin America. And originally, they all recognized Taiwan. Well, then it kind of switched and they recognized China. So I wa…”

David Bruce member_of United States Liaison Office host_asserted ▶ 1:11:37

“George Herbert Walker Bush, David K.E. Bruce, Leonard Woodcock, and Thomas S. Gates. Now, of course, we all get a red flag with Bush, but I didn't know who Bruce were and Woodcock. But I did hear of G…”

Leonard Woodcock member_of United States Liaison Office host_asserted ▶ 1:11:37

Thomas Gates Jr. member_of United States Liaison Office host_asserted ▶ 1:11:37

George H.W. Bush member_of United States Liaison Office host_asserted ▶ 1:11:37

Fabian Society targeted_for_regime_change Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 1:35:02

“If you go back to the Fabian Society, their idea of the world order that they were trying to set up was to divide Russia and give the more Asian part of it over to what they referred to as Pan-Asia an…”

Operation Gladio targeted_for_regime_change Colombia host_asserted ▶ 1:42:58

“um you know deep politics we we could we could address you know the oil if it's part of geopolitics well oil is obviously part of i mean that's why we did that whole book about um the oil and the cont…”