The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 7

auto-scroll word highlight ▶ Rumble @ here

Transcript

0:00 Good afternoon, Colonel. Hello, Bridget. How are you? Oh, hey, it got up to 60 degrees. I thought about breaking out my swimsuit. You're funny. It's better than the snowshoes, I'm just saying. Yeah, let me get us live over here on Rumble so we can start.

0:27 And SR is here, if you can add him as co-host too. I will do that right now. Would that make him a co-co-host? Yes. Am I the co-co-co-host? He's the deputy co-host. Ah, there you have it. And if I'm going to post or pin the post in the nest, the colonel did an incredible article today.

0:54 She posted it on X, and it will literally blow your mind. Absolutely freaking, when you think you heard it all, and you think you pretty well, okay, got all this down. This one's just going to blow your head apart. Okay, so I am going to be quite honest with all of you guys. You have heard me say on multiple occasions that I blow my own mind.

1:23 on a daily basis. This is probably the biggest mind-blowing thing, and I want you to hear it personally from me. So I surpassed all of my previous mind-blowing episodes today. I was so blown away, I ran out into my backyard, not even kidding, to find my husband to tell him what I found.

1:53 I've done a lot of research about all of this stuff because obviously a lot of the companies associated with the CIA is in Southern Florida. So I've used Sunbiz. I have my own businesses. So I'm very adept at looking at information on Sunbiz, both searching on people and companies.

2:24 these books. So of course we've come across, and that's why I think our position in this whole narrative field is so, so important because when the most recent, I don't even remember his name, DEA guy got exposed for money laundering that his entire last job in the DEA was supposed to be finding out who's money laundering and prosecuting him.

2:54 except that he was actually involved in the money laundering himself and was just indicted for that. When they said that the co-conspirator with him was Robert Sensei, I was like, holy shit, because we've come across his name repeatedly in Operation Gladio. Money laundering, drugs, weapons trafficking. He's like...

3:23 I mean, he's another Edwin Wilson. He's another War Bull III. There's tons of these people that we've come across. So some of their names obviously stick out to me. Sensei is a weird name. So I decided this morning that I was going to write an article about all his past endeavors because, of course, he came up in Iran-Contra, blah, blah, blah.

3:54 In doing this, let's just set that aside for a second. Part of the pattern that we have noticed is that when the CIA sets up proprietaries, now I went through, there's a list out there somewhere on the web of a declassified spreadsheet that has code names for all of the CIA proprietary companies for decades.

4:23 And out in one of the columns, it says what role that company played as a proprietary. And it's mind-boggling. So reading the column of what the purpose was is like they were using proprietary companies like those UPS mailbox stores. And if you recall, when we talked about the Bay of Pigs,

4:52 they had a mailbox set up for the Alabama guard people that died, those four guys, where they could write letters to their family and they would send it to this mailbox. And then one of the CIA proprietaries that owned that particular mailbox place would take that mail out of the box and put it in.

5:18 a different envelope and send it to his family. And then the same thing with the family. The family would send their letters to the Alabama pilots to a particular mailbox and that's how they communicate. So they've got mailboxes in these proprietary companies. They have investment companies that when they pay people off the books, they set up retirement funds and they were using hundreds of millions of dollars for...

5:48 investments. And of course, that skewed the stock market. They know where there's going to be an operation. They know when to short stocks and stuff like that. As a matter of fact, the whole 9-11 shorting of the stock, I think is going to be traced back to this type of an operation. Because of course, the CIA knew when that was going to happen. So I've just got all of this information running around in my head. So I've got all of these things set up. So today, this morning, when I was investigating

6:18 sensei more in depth than I've ever done before, I noticed that the company that he had set up in Jupiter that he was running the operation out of was a home address. I just looked it up on Apple Maps. That's another sign. And you can use that address to find out what other companies are registered there, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so I...

6:44 look up both the person that's the registered agent and the authorized signature. So there's two different, there's actually three different entities that can be named on those Sunbiz websites. So one of them, who was the registered agent, was like Registered Agent Inc.

7:08 located in Jacksonville, which is really weird because there's a lot of them in Miami and this is down near Miami. So why would you use the Jacksonville one? Although I found a lot of them in Jacksonville, I'll just say that. So I go to the Jacksonville one and it's in a strip mall, which is again, not unusual when you're doing this. So I look up that company. That company's registered agent just so happens to be in Houston.

7:35 We're doing Houston right now in this book. So we know there's lots of nefarious shit going on in Houston, right? And I'm like, oh, that's funny. So I look up the address in Houston and I get a listing of all of the entities that are at this address. Well, there happens to be a mailbox place at this address. There happens to be a lot of shit. I picked one because I thought it was really weird that...

8:04 It was actually a foreign registered company whose owner was in Florida. What's the chance of two entities being associated with a Houston address being ran out of Florida? That's really weird. So I look up that company on Sunbiz. The registered agent just so happens to be

8:35 Cincy's wife. And I didn't know it at first because she uses a different last name. And so then I went on Grok and put the name in. And I asked for all of this owner's family. And I asked for all of Cincy's family. And it's this woman with the married name Cincy. And of course, the location is another residential house.

9:06 right off the beach in Southern, it's actually more central. It's a little North of the other location. But I asked Grok to show me all of the things associated with this woman. And I put the numbers in there, whatever it was. It was almost like a hundred emails, like 40 some phone numbers. Who has that? Do y'all have like almost a hundred emails registered in your name? Do you have like 50?

9:36 phone numbers registered in your name? No. What they do is these people sit in detached locations with phone numbers for the CIA to call. It's basically a proprietary front. And that's like a communication hub where they can send secret information through a cutout. And that's what Cincy's wife is. It is obvious to me she's a cutout.

10:06 She is collecting information off of these phones. She's making those phone numbers. And this fits a pattern of several that we've come across that I've researched. I don't generally write about that. I just know that that's there because it's kind of boring, actually. But I've developed kind of this prototype of how they...

10:29 work these operations based on collecting all of this information. And so I surprised myself today. Did that about cut it, Bridget? Yes, ma'am. And it's mapping out their playbook. It's getting those patterns. And again, after we've gone through these over and over and over again, I was even listening to a totally unrelated podcast the other day, and I think I may have found, we'll call it a splinter group of,

11:02 but I'm still working on it anyway, some of the cults that is currently going on right now in Brain Fart. Anyway, long story short, it's a worldwide missionary. Oh, yeah, yeah. And as soon as I, I mean, it's obvious because we've gotten to these things so many times.

11:33 That in your subconscious is that pattern recognition that's going ding, ding, ding. It lights up like a big red bulb. That's the reason why no one talks about this because once you see it, you can't unsee it. Exactly. And once you can't unsee it, they can't do it anymore. Correct. Well, they can't hide it. They can still do it. They just can't hide it. Right, right. Yeah. All right. Now, enough patting myself on the back. Let's get into chapter six. Okay.

12:01 It was well-deserved on this one, and I pinned it up in the nest. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So this is There's Nothing New Under the Sun. This chapter begins in January of 1972 when Houston Police Chief Herman Short announced the indictment of a mafia associate, Raymond Nouvelli. Quote.

12:29 The investigation has extended nationwide and involves illegal operations dealing in banks, labor unions, construction companies, and savings and loan companies, unquote, which encapsulates the entire savings and loan debacle. Novelli, a contractor and developer who had been indicted for embezzling a former employer.

12:54 When asked by journalists about reports of his connections to organized crime, he said, again, this is a political thing. Every time something is written, they connect my name to the mafia. I don't know where they get it from. Novelli did acknowledge being connected to some labor unions in Nevada. And later that year, an attorney for one of Novelli's associates, Albert Stravetsky, filed an affidavit.

13:24 saying that Novelli told him that Novelli was a mafia member and would have Stravetsky killed if he testified before a grand jury. Stravetsky fled to Spain, so he obviously believed he was part of the mafia. Novelli had come to Houston from Utah four years earlier with nothing but a shirt on his back. Utah seems to appear...

13:56 quite frequently in these stories. When he was indicted, he controlled five banks and had interest in two additional savings and loans. He owned a 3,500 acre ranch near Dallas and an island off Haiti where he was trying to set up a casino. He also owned his own Learjet and an 85 foot yacht. Sounds like CIA or mafia, either one.

14:27 When he was arrested, Novelli told reporters he had flown some politicians around in his Learjet, but he refused to say which ones. 16 years later, the author filmed one of Novelli's pilots, Ronnie Poledge, P-O-W-L-E-D-G-E, who revealed that Novelli did business with Ben Barnes and Herman Beebe, the mafia guy.

14:58 who was not Novelli's chief pilot, said Barnes, could very well have flown in Novelli's plane. Novelli's former secretary, Helen Spencer, confirmed that Barnes used the plane on several occasions. According to a former Pasadena, Texas, which is a suburb of Houston's police officer who investigated Novelli, Lloyd Benson also used Novelli's plane. Lloyd Benson, the senator.

15:30 However, Pollage said Benson didn't use the plane, while Spencer said she didn't know if Benson used it or not. I don't think he and Benson had much to do with each other, she said. But Pollage did say that Novelli knew Lan Benson, one of the senator's sons. And one of Novelli's business partner, Vannie Cook, said Novelli was friends with Jim Bath of Atlantic Aviation.

16:00 who was Ian Benson's partner and an alleged CIA operative. Jim Bath was definitely a CIA agent or asset. He's the guy that retrofitted all of the Saudi corrupt princes' aircraft outside of Houston. He's been in several of these books. He was in business with everybody.

16:30 everybody being the CIA, on different, he was in business with the Bushes. Yeah, his name shows up everywhere. And we're going to get into Bath in a lot of depth in this book later. Cook was on the board of directors with Lloyd Benson at a savings and loan in South Texas that eventually ended up in the hands of the CIA asset,

17:07 Then in January 1973, Novelli and five former security savings officers and directors were indicted for fraud. The charges included Novelli's purchase of stock in five small Texas banks from the officers using a loan from Surety.

17:32 of almost $3 million. Novelli jumped bond in 1974 and disappeared. He was found two years later by the FBI living under a false name in California and was sentenced to 15 years in jail. After he got out of prison, he went to work for some organization called Jesus Jubilee Foundation and Convicts for Christ. Art Leiser, the former

18:02 Texas Savings and Loan Examiner said that in the mid-1980s, he ran across Novelli's wife as one of the proposed purchasers of a savings and loan that he put a stop to. After Novelli had been indicted in January 1972, Surety Savings was sold by its owners, who were indicted with Novelli the next year. They sold the bank to Cyril Smith.

18:34 Jr. Smith was the son of the state's leading water district attorney who had helped Michener set up his utility districts on the properties that he was developing. Smith Jr. was indicted in 1978 for fraud at Surety Savings, along with the former state representative James C. Day Jr., who would later become a partner with Leonard

19:06 Leonard Capaldi. They both pled guilty and received probated sentences. Several months before he was indicted in Texas, Day became a target in a bizarre FBI sting that involved fugitive financier Robert Besko, who again shows up in all of these stories, and the military planes that were destined for Libya and former

19:34 DNC Committee Chairman John White, who was the former Texas Agricultural Secretary. Details of this sting operation, which are practically incomprehensible, are detailed in a book, Vesco, by author Herzog. I actually have that book. I have not read it yet. Day pled guilty to defrauding Vesco and lying about his influence with White and got a two-year prison term.

20:04 The FBI spent $25,000 trying to bribe White, but the Justice Department refused to appoint a special prosecutor and the charges against White were dropped. In late 75, before he was indicted, Cyril Smith Jr. secretly sold the savings in loan to a man named Larry Parker, who was building a tennis club in Houston. Parker had been introduced to Bebe by a local attorney.

20:35 and immediately got involved in all of these shenanigans. One of the first loans Parker made was to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture, which was comprised of TMC Funding, a Michener company, of course, and two other of Michener's associates, including Robert Corson, his former son-in-law. The loan from Surety for the Strip Shopping Center was for almost a million dollars,

21:07 and refinanced an earlier loan of half that amount. That earlier loan had been made by Michener himself at his allied Spring Bank. Teamster Union deposits began to flow into Surety, which was buying certificates of deposit at Beebe's Bossier Bank and Trust, which in turn bought $1.5 million in San Antonio.

21:38 ranches municipal utility bonds from surety. Again, you just see this round, I know it's a lot of names, but just think of it as like washing money. It's just moving it from one entity to another entity to another entity, almost like trying to confuse where the origins of the money comes from. Surety made a almost $2 million loan to Eagle Pass rancher, Richmond Harper.

22:08 who was indicted with drug smuggler Barry Sill and the Gambino Mafia family associate Murray Kessler in the sale of explosives to the CIA-trained Castro, anti-Castro Cubans, the Cuban exiles, the CIA. The loan was arranged by Ben Barnes, who got a quarter of a million dollars of the proceeds for a mortgage he held on some of Harper's property.

22:39 Another $1 million of the loan went to pay Harper's overdraft at a Mexican bank that was threatening to foreclose on his ranch that he owned in Mexico. So, ranches everywhere that can be used for drug trafficking. In addition, Navarro Savings and Brazo Sport Savings, controlled by Carol Kelly with financing from Mafia BB,

23:11 made loans, two different loans, to Harper at the urging of Ben Barnes. By May of 1977, Parker signed a $100,000 promissory note to Denver developer Richard Ross Miller. It was secured by 8,000 shares of surety stock. That same day, Ross Miller sold the note to Mafia BB. Earlier that month,

23:41 Ross Miller had signed an $800,000 promissory note to Bebe and Bebe's partner, Casey Hood. This note was secured by seven other promissory notes to Surety Savings. One of them included George Aubin's company and several others signed by a company affiliate that was also an associate of Bebe's.

24:12 At the time, Aubin had a home loan financed at surety as well. And his front man to be, J.B. Harrelson, went to work for surety after the rent-a-bank scandal broke in Texas. It's not clear how the promissory notes to surety ended up being controlled by Ross Miller. Some were assigned to him by Arvada State Bank in Arvada, Colorado.

24:43 where he was a major stockholder, nor why Beebe was apparently moving close to a million dollars over to Ross Miller. Ross Miller showed up a year earlier in Texas' rent-a-bank scandal when he and two Denver partners bought People's State Bank in Marshall, Texas from Ben Bards and Beebe.

25:09 Before they bought this bank, Ross Miller and his partners were seeking help from Beebe in financing their marketplace shopping center in Aurora, Colorado. To help with this, Beebe brought in a buddy, Donald Luna, who was a con man and loan broker from Birmingham, Alabama. He claimed to represent labor unions in making loans of union funds.

25:36 Luna lined up High Mile Savings and Loan in Denver to make loans to Ross Miller and his partners. In a letter to Beebe and Barnes, Luna stated that the lender had requested that you keep your young man, Mr. Ross Miller, quiet and away from the lenders to complete the deal. A letter to Luna that was part of a congressional hearing mentions Ross Miller's marketplace loan among the loans to something called ICE Forum.

26:06 from Carol Kelly's Bizarro Sport Savings. One of Ross Miller's two partners was Denver architect Bill Walters. Walters came to national attention in the late 80s because of his relationship with the president's son, Neil Bush. In 1983, after Neil had worked just a few years at Amoco as a landman,

26:38 someone that searches property titles for oil leases, he and his two partners were set up in an oil business by none other than Bill Walters. Walters contributed $150,000 in initial startup capital and received a limited partnership of 6.25% in the company. One of Walters' bank, Cherry Creek National, opened up a $1.25 million loan of credit

27:07 which later was increased to almost $2 million for Neal's company. In August of 1985, Neal Bush was named to the board of directors of Silverado Bank and in that capacity voted on a number of loans and other transactions involving Walters and his companies. In 1981, the Office of Thrift Supervision

27:34 reprimanded Neal for not revealing his business relationship to Walters as he voted on Walters' loans. In 1976, when Donald Luna, Herman Beebe, and Ben Barnes were trying to arrange a loan to Ross Miller and Walters, they went to Mile High Savings in Denver, which agreed to make the loan. Several years later, Mile High Savings

28:04 name was changed to Silverado, where Neil Bush is. The director of enforcement for the Office of Thrift Supervision that sought sanctions against Neil Bush in the late 80s was Rosemary Stewart. This is the same Rosemary Stewart who 13 years earlier, as an attorney for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, was the examiner of surety savings during the Rennebank scandal.

28:35 who saw the almost $2 million loan to Richmond Harper, who saw the involvement of Ben Barnes and Herman Beebe, and who saw the loan to Walter Michener's associates. And then she apparently did nothing and said nothing when all of those people got back into the business of savings and loan shortly thereafter. This is the same Rosemary Stewart who urged regulators to go easy on Charles Keating's

29:06 Lincoln Savings, and then left Office of Thrift Supervision in 1990 and went to work for the law firm of Jones, Day, Revis, and Pogue, which represented Keating's Lincoln Savings, and many others of the savings and loan debacle, including Vernon.

29:31 Ten years after the surety deals and the rent-a-bank scandal, every one of those people were heavily involved in the savings and loan debacle that together was responsible for billions of dollars of losses to you and I. Luna, who got convicted for his union loan brokerage scam, showed up at Flushing Federal Savings, a mob-infested savings and loan in Queens, New York. Luna?

30:02 was convicted of fraud at Flushing Federal, where he was obtaining and brokering loans. Also convicted at Flushing were Mario Renda. He was brokering deposits there as well. Several mob associates who were involved in a scheme that received some financing from Arcadia Savings in Louisiana, which was controlled by Beebe's associate, Edmund Regge. Ross Miller became

30:36 according to a federal regulator pursuing his hidden assets, the biggest debtor in the country to the federal deposit insurance system, owing more than $200 million for loans that went in default. In 1989, Ross Miller filed for personal bankruptcy in Denver, showing debts of over $57 million.

31:03 which made his one of the biggest personal bankruptcies in Colorado history. Ross Miller and his affiliated companies borrowed close to $180 million from Hill Financial Savings in Red Hill, Pennsylvania, one of the biggest, dirtiest savings and loan in the country. Hill Financial also lent $80 million to Mike Atkinson in the $200 million.

31:34 Florida land deal that we'll talk about later. That's the one that involved the DuPont family. That one also implicated Michener's former son-in-law who had kicked in $20 million to the deal. One of Ross Miller's associates and partners in borrowing from Hill Financial was Alan Reaver. He was a retrobat lawyer who had moved to Denver from Houston.

32:05 Reaver graduated from the University of Houston's law school in 1968. The next year he filed a lawsuit against Houston's police department claiming police officers had been harassing him by stopping and searching his car for drugs. His request for an injunction was denied and the next year he moved to Denver. Must have been drawn too much heat. In 1989, Reaver, who was a known drug user, pleaded guilty to assault.

32:34 The victim was a woman, and she claimed Reaver mutilated her genitals during oral sex. Sometime in the 70s, Reaver was introduced to the chairman of the Atlantic Richfield Company, who was Robert Anderson. They formed a partnership. Now, again, this guy is a criminal.

33:06 Atlantic Richfield formed a partnership with him for the purposes of real estate development in Denver. And can I say it one more time for the record? The CIA's favorite destination for their dirty money is real estate. One of their most infamous developments was Broadway Plaza, in which they took an old warehouse.

33:32 style Montgomery Wards in 1984 and converted it to an upscale shopping center. Hill Financial, to whom Ross Miller had introduced Reaver, sank more than $80 million into the project before the bottom fell out and Reaver withdrew in 1988. In addition to Reaver and Anderson, one of the limited partners in the project was a limited partnership of Hill Financial and Ross Miller.

34:03 Now, again, I want you guys to understand when they say they sunk $80 million, that means they moved $80 million through the project. That doesn't mean there was $80 million worth of work done on that project. Again, this is all money laundering. During the time Anderson was doing business with Reaver and Ross Miller, he brought Walter Michener as a partner in a $250,000 ranch.

34:33 in far west Texas near Big Bend National Park. Michener told me that when he was visiting Anderson in Denver, the oil men showed him Broadway Plaza and introduced him to Reaver and Rossmiller. And by the way, that big Texas ranch, drug blaming strips. In 1989, Anderson and Michener sold the ranch to the state of Texas for a park. The eastern edge of this ranch is only a few miles.

35:07 from another CIA landing strip and trans-shipment point for the CIA. In 1978, Surety was brain-dead from all the years of abuse. Federal and state regulators were scrambling to find something to do with the savings loan or someone to buy it. One person whose BB's buddy, Larry Parker, brought in to try to resuscitate Surety

35:39 Horwich, the head of the Federated Development. Horwich and Federated, whose primary bank was none other than Michener's Allied Bank, were turned down by the regulators because the capital Horwich wanted to put up consisted primarily of junk real estate and repossessed real estate, according to the examiner of the Texas Savings and Loan Department.

36:11 Hurwitz was better known as a corporate raider and green mailer who had drawn the ire of environmentalists with his purchase of Pacific lumber and his plans to increase the cutting of redwoods in Northern California. He bought Pacific lumber in a...

36:35 1985 with the help of a $450 million loan from Michael Milken's junk bonds. They're all related. Horwich grew up in East Texas. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1962, where he had rubbed shoulders with Larry Mizzel, M-I-Z-E-L, who also graduated around that same time.

37:05 He would go on to be the head of MDC Holdings, a home builder in Denver, and one of the biggest players in the Silverado Savings, Lincoln Savings, San Joaquinto Savings, and Drexel Burnham Circle. Twice during the 70s, Hurwitz's company got into trouble with federal regulators. In 71, his Summit Insurance Company

37:33 of New York agreed to a permanent injunction with the SEC barring it from violating security laws. I thought you were already barred from violating laws. What the hell kind of settlement is that? Oh, okay. I promised not to break any more laws, but you had to have been guilty of breaking the laws. This case also involved convicted felon and security con man, John Peter Galanis.

38:04 and his associate, Raymond D'Onofrio, these names are crazy, D'Onofrio, who shows up later as a business partner of an intelligence operative, Richard Benake, who again shows up in many of our stories with the CIA. Hurwitz also had a number of contacts with mafia guy, Herman Beebe.

38:35 It was Hurwitz who introduced Bebe to B.G. Wiley, Carol Kelly's half-brother. And let's see, Bebe's former partner, Dale Anderson, said they saw Hurwitz several times in relationship to Herman Bebe. One time that Anderson remembered was Hurwitz was trying to do a big deal with an insurance company in Chicago.

39:06 Jack Freeman, quote, Jack Freeman made him the loan. We didn't get the play, unquote. Freeman was a Dallas insurance man and close business associate of Bebe and Ben Barnes. So they kind of got the deal, but just not with the one that Anderson was associated with. Because Bebe had lots of partners and Bebe got lots of deals. In 1982, Hurwitz-

39:34 begin to buy stock in United Financial Group, the parent company of United Savings of Texas, one of the largest savings and loan in the state of Texas. By 84, Hurwitz Company was the biggest United Financial shareholder with an ownership of 25% of the stock. He even became the chairman and CEO. By 88, United Savings was insolvent.

40:05 and Hurwitz had to step down as CEO. Regulators cited loan underwriting deficiencies, meaning that the loans were not properly collateralized. The savings and loan also had a large portfolio of junk bonds from Drexel Burnham, which in turn owned some 10% of United stock. The savings and loan was sold to a fellow corporate raider, Lewis.

40:36 Ranieri, we lost $1.6 billion in that deal. In March of 1991, Hurwitz Umbrella Company called Maxim, M-A-X-X-A-M, was allowed by federal regulators to buy 32 mortgage loans and 26 commercial properties that were owned by failed savings and loan after he had already crashed a bank.

41:09 The Resolution Trust Corporation, which managed the assets of failed savings and loan, sold the property to Maxim for $130 million. Where did he get that money? Maxim officials said they were going to increase the value of the properties and then sell them or hold them for long-term investments. Maxim didn't volunteer and no regulator suggested that any profits off of those sales

41:39 be given back to us who lost the money on them. So just to clear up, they've got all of this property. It's sold at pennies on the dollars in bankruptcy. The same freaking people that caused the bankruptcies buying it back up and are gonna flip it for a profit after they've stole our money. Just wanna make sure you got that. After Hurwitz was turned down in his attempt to buy Surety Savings,

42:15 The institution was finally sold to Farm and Home Savings, which was headquartered in Nevada, Missouri. But it does a great deal of business in the state of Texas, even though it's in Missouri. Farm and Home Savings had a long history of associations with people close to Michener.

42:47 by Charles Sonny Duncan Jr. He's originally from San Angelo, Texas. Duncan was a good friend and business partner of Howard Terry, Michener's closest associate and colleague. In fact, Terry served on the board of directors at one time in the 80s and was also chairman of the board of a bank in Missouri. In turn, Duncan had been a member of the board of directors at Marathon Manufacturing.

43:17 which was owned by Michener and Terry. That's what I was telling you guys at the beginning of this story. They just trade board seats around like a merry-go-round. In 1982, Duncan's stepson, Dempsey Watson, married Michener's daughter, Paula, the one that Corson was married to. It was their home that President Bush and his wife visited at the beginning of this story. So she had her new husband.

43:47 And the Bushes leave their hotel and walk over to the house, literally walked over the house. They weren't taken to the house with security. He's the president. And they walked in the back door of Michener's daughter and her husband, Dempsey Watson. After Duncan died in 87, Dan Arnold was brought in to run Farm and Home.

44:13 Arnold was a former partner of Vincent and Elkins, one of Michener's law firms. So they just replaced one guy that's on their team with another guy. He had also been chairman of First City Bank, where Michener's companies had a number of outstanding loans. Then in November 1989, Houstonian Joe Lynch was named vice chair of Farm and Home in Missouri.

44:43 People from Texas was on the board. The next year, the Office of Thrift Supervision forced Lynch's resignation, giving no public reasons, but indicating concern that he had significant conflicts of interest. At that time, Lynch was the chairman of National Asset Bank in Houston, which was set up to sell off all of the foreclosed property and non-performing loans at Allied Bank.

45:13 when First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles had purchased Allied. Lynch was also the chairman of First Continental Real Estate Investment Trust, a REIT, which was a real estate trust in Houston, whose director, one of the directors, was none other than Walter Mishner Jr. Robert Clark, who was the former comptroller of the currency in Washington, D.C.,

45:43 had an investment in First Continental REIT and also a big loan from Farm, I'm sorry, Farm and Home Savings. So the comptroller Robert Clark, he's been in a lot of this story. The Washington Post reported that Clark was a longtime business associate of Lynch and had taken out a quarter of a million dollar loan from Farm and Home in 1988.

46:14 In April 91, Dan Arnold submitted his resignation as CEO of Farm and Home, while Lynch was allowed back in as vice chair. No questions asked. The Office of Thrift Supervision removed Houston's certified CPA, Mark Buchner, as a consultant to Farm and Home because of his previous position as vice chair and financial officer.

46:45 of a failed savings and loan called Gibraltar Savings in Houston. At the time, it was the largest savings and loan in Texas, and he was the vice chairman when it was ran into the ground. Bruckner's boss at Gibraltar was J. Livingston Cosberg, who after he left Gibraltar, went into business with Charles Herzwig, the criminal. One of the loans from Farm and Home

47:20 that Farm and Home inherited when it bought Surety in 1979 was almost a million dollar loan to Michener's company and his two associates at the Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center, which we mentioned earlier. Michener's partners were his former son-in-law, Robert Corson, and Corson's cousin, Roy Daly. Less than a month after Surety's demise, the joint venture sold the property.

47:50 to Michael Shea and his wife Cheryl of San Diego, California. San Diego's back in. Who flipped it the same day to a company called KLP Inc., whose president was Leilani Jones Pierce of Houston. In 1986, KLP defaulted on its promissory note to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture, by that time solely Michener's company,

48:22 which took the property back. Three months later, Michener's company defaulted on its loan of almost a million dollars from Surety and Farm and Home foreclosed on the mortgage and took the property. This foreclosure created an additional tax liability for Michener and his former partner and son-in-law and resulted in communications back and forth between the two companies.

48:47 When the ex-son-in-law, Robert Corson, found out about this, he became furious and told an employee never to talk to Michener's employees again and never to mention Michener's name in his office. This story was told to the Houston Post reporters that wrote this book by Rebecca Sims in the fall of 1988, some 18 months after they had started their investigation of Mainland Savings. Sims had been the accountant for Corson's development company.

49:17 and had quit when asked to commit bankruptcy and tax and bank fraud. She then started investigating Corson and his associates, who also owned a savings and loan. Sims called one of the investigative reporters and chewed him out over a savings and loan story that she claimed had missed several important points. The authors decided they needed to pay her a visit.

49:48 After she told us about her background and her break with Corson, she said she had found out that Corson was a CIA asset. That was not what we wanted to hear. We were looking for something to the effect that Corson was a mafia associate. I think it's much more important. Obviously, these guys don't know that he was a CIA, which basically is in bed with the mafia. Sims also said she had gone to Houston's attorney.

50:17 Marion Rosen to see what her legal rights against Corson were. Rosen was a flashy criminal defense attorney and divorce attorney. He had represented ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson of the notorious Libyan gun running company that the CIA turned their back on because they wanted his company and they threw him in jail. Yes, that Edwin Wilson.

50:50 What the hell? Edwin Wilson was on trial for smuggling C4 explosives to Libya because the CIA set him up to steal his company. He had been a CIA asset for a very long time, but Angleton wanted his company and didn't want him, so they set him up and sent him to jail. Sims said Rosen was initially enthusiastic about taking her.

51:20 case and was very knowledgeable about nefarious CIA activity and connections. I bet he was because he's approved. He let Edwin Wilson go to jail. Sims said she and Rosen began looking for another person to join her in suing Corson in order to get additional funding for the lawsuit. Then one day, Rosen said she was going to be meeting with Senator Lloyd Benson and other high-ranking Democrats.

51:51 and would be discussing Sims' case with them. Sims never heard anything further from Rosen. And when she called Rosen's office, the next week she was informed that they were no longer on her case. Sims said Rosen did give her one piece of advice. Marian told me that if I wanted to stay alive, that I should get in touch with an investigative reporter.

52:19 Because this guy is actually one of those attorneys that takes defense cases with no intentions of defending people and on behalf of CIA. And as soon as they mentioned Lloyd Benson, they knew that they were in trouble and that if she keeps talking, they're going to kill her. When the reporter returned to Houston Post after meeting with Sims and began thinking about what she said,

52:49 her story began ringing some bells. When I had researched the Sunday Magazine piece on Michener, one of the power broker business rivals said he was convinced Michener had purchased 700,000 acres in Belize, the small Central American nation, for a CIA project. And during

53:16 their tracking of Mario Renda across the country, they had encountered organized crime strike force prosecutor in Kansas City, Lloyd Monroe, who had been after Renda and his mob associates in a Kansas City banking scam. Lots of mafia in Kansas City, by the way.

53:43 been sending Monroe copies of our stories on the mafia involvement in all of the savings and loan failures. But instead of praising them as we had hoped, he kept saying that we were missing something important, something big. Maybe Monroe was talking about the CIA. It was at this point in time that the fellow investigative reporter

54:09 was told by his editors that he could no longer work with the author of this book on his stories. So as soon as they got close to the CIA, you can't do that. His duties as the daily banking reporter for the business section took precedence over exposing the savings and loan scandal. In fact, the editor-in-chief, Peter Sullivan, issued an order.

54:40 that both of them were forbidden to talk to each other. Like, not just about this. They weren't allowed to talk to each other. It was also about that time that the other investigative reporter's original source, DT, dried up. They had eventually learned his identity. He was a Republican political operative who was trying to embarrass Democrat politicians.

55:10 The reason he had pointed us to mainland savings was that it had lent more than $3 million to a limited partnership full of Houston and Texas Democrat politicians. The partnership went bust and the loan went bad, leaving the taxpayers holding the back. But when I started working on the CIA, their deep throat shut up.

55:40 After the investigative reporters had met with Sims and the other one was pulled off the story, this author wrote a memo to the City Editor, Margaret Downing, asking for two months to check out the CIA allegations. Downing okayed it and I plunged into the CIA morass. The two months stretched into a year and the first questions to answer.

56:08 Were Weather Sim's former boss, Robert Corson, and his father-in-law, Robert Michener, were operatives for the CIA? Newsflash, they are. Okay, that's the end of the chapter for today. And we're going to dig into that, obviously, because that's huge. And a lot more of that is in this book. But you guys know that that...

56:36 When I got to that page, you can go back in my timeline when I was reading this book, is when I put out that post, I finally figured out Belize. Because that was like a shot for me. Always Belize had been hanging out there in the background. Never could figure it out until I read that chapter. Go ahead, SR.

57:04 Thank you, Colonel, and thank everybody for being here on X's and on Rumble as well. A few things I'm listening to. Well, I'm listening to this, and just you find out all these people who are known for literally tearing tanks apart and crashing them, and yet you go hire them somewhere else. That part sort of escapes me, but what's even worse is you find out that these criminals

57:33 Well, what do they do when they're doing it? Well, I'll use my wife's maiden name. She'll do the work. Or I'll use somebody else in the family to do the work. And hopefully nobody will point it at me. Yeah. It just blows my mind what's going on here. Yeah. And unfortunately, just because of the way that our media is controlled,

58:01 This information's been out there for a very long time and hidden from all of us. But once you understand it, it makes everything else make so much more sense. Reading all of these books, you're able to figure out some of their central nodes. Obviously, Houston is one of them. Denver's another one.

58:24 It allows you when you're reading other books to start putting pieces together that otherwise, if you just read this book, just because it's a lot of sense. The fact that when you find out Belize, you don't know that there had been something going on in other Latin American country and Caribbean country over the past 60 years. The fact that you finally locked up Belize wouldn't even like be a blip on your radar screen.

58:56 When you combined all of this information together, it just reads differently. They needed Belize for R&R for all the hard work they're doing, Colonel. I'm just blown away. Go ahead, Warhamster. Howdy, everyone. I caught most of it today, and I heard you mentioning Neil Bush and Silverado Bank. Yep. And I'm curious, like I said, it's been a long time since I read that book. Was the mention between Neil Bush and the Hinckley family,

59:31 mentioned in this chapter no does everyone know that or should we you can go ahead and say it well the guy who shot reagan was hinkley and his family were involved with silverado bank with neil bush who of course his father was reagan's vice president and stood to benefit quite a bit a lot of people speculate that reagan's second term um he was nothing but an auto pen for bush and that's one of the reasons why yep great point

1:00:05 I love that. An auto-pin for Bush. I think we've had a lot of auto-pin presidents myself. And I think the ones that are not auto-pin presidents either get shot or impeached a lot. Yeah, it seems to be the trend post-World War II, doesn't it? Yes, it does. You know what, we can go back a little further than that and talk about McKinley. Yes, yeah, actually you can. Yeah, crazy shit.

1:00:38 Crazy. All right. Anybody else? Oh, my gosh. Did you hear the first part, War Hamster? Yeah, I definitely caught the first 15 minutes. Okay. All right. Bye. Was there something in particular you wanted to do? No, I was just wondering if you'd heard my story about my stumbling across Sensei's wife. Yeah, I caught that.

1:01:12 still blows my mind we live in a crazy world i do i do when i go running out in the backyard to tell my husband i found another one i found another one and my husband he just happened to be on his way um to pick something up he says are you gonna be all right here by yourself so my wife uh you know she's very much read into most of this stuff she just

1:01:45 She doesn't even want to hear the information anymore. She goes, yeah, I know. It's just all fucked. Oh, but I want to know the names. Come on. Alexis, you've got to be more inquisitive. That's why I hang out with you guys. People actually want to know the details. She's done with it. She's waiting for revelations to play out. I feel her pain. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel.

1:02:14 Well, you got the comptroller backing you, I guess. How can you go wrong? Good point. But alongside that, given what the discussion that's happened today and a little off subject at this point concerning the European Union wanting to cash in all their... Dollars? Yeah, so to speak. And listening to the conversation,

1:02:47 going on between Warhamster and Cousin It. It's been a hoot. Thank you, Warhamster. He's an amazing guy. I'm so glad he's on our team. Did you want to say anything about that, Warhamster? Which one do you want me to address? The Cousin It exchange? The EU. Well, go ahead with the Cousin It exchange. Well, no, give me the EU question. Tell me it's simply with me.

1:03:19 I want to answer because I'm in a mood to actually go on a rant. I want to be specific. Okay. SR, what's the specific question? Well, I find it kind of odd that they would even attempt such a thing when the EU won't get anything out of it. Yeah, okay. So let's touch on that. So you always hear me talk about decentralization. And the example I used the other day is, I think it's somebody, one of the people on our regular threads, I forget who I was going back and forth with, is one of our sharper Twitter people in our community.

1:03:50 Basically, if Joe Bob's grocery store on one side of town goes under, Sally Mae's grocery store on the other side isn't interdependent upon it, you can still get your groceries. The problem with our banking system is ever since pretty much the Currency Act of 1864 and even further than that, the Aldrich-Vreeland Bill, 1908, all of our American banks are totally interconnected.

1:04:17 And that's great so they can pull their sources and paper over a point of failure. But it's bad because if you start getting the daisy chain domino effect, they all go down together. That's where you get the systemic risk. With the international banking system that's been put in place, basically the Anglo-American rules-based order, World Bank, International Bank, IMF.

1:04:44 bank of international settlements they're all interconnected which means they're all counterparties to each other so if the bank of the colonel goes under um i am at risk because i've lent her money every single night we settle overnight lending back and forth and the bank of sr is involved in this daisy chain too and then he's at risk so he starts charging because he knows my balance sheet got weaker he's going to charge me higher interest rates

1:05:09 That's the domino effect. Rates go skyrocketing all across the interconnected banks. Now, they will tell you – and the biggest risk, of course, is the global derivatives market. A derivative is basically security on a security, and it's leveraged usually at least 10 to 1, and therefore it's far more – 10 times more volatile. $800 trillion of global derivatives risk.

1:05:37 At the Bain Bank of International Settlements, and you can go to their website, bis.org, and just look up these statistics. They're right there, are in interest rates. Now, they'll tell you, well, there's 800 trillion gross interest rates. The derivative is outstanding. But it's like Bank of America owes 400 trillion to Citibank. And so that their net, it's not so grossed out, but it all comes out to zero if one person loses, the other person gains.

1:06:07 The issue, and we saw this in 2008 and 2009, is what happens when net becomes gross. Basically, they all go down together. It takes down the entire thing. And that was what we saw in 2008 and 2009. They all were counterparties to each other's on these mortgage-backed securities. Now, that was a $24 trillion market. It was enough to take down.

1:06:32 It was named – not Geithner, but Paulson was telling the politicians, you're going to see tanks in the street if you don't bail out these banks because they'll all go under. Every bank will close their doors, and there will be panic, and it's entirely possible. But I'm talking about a market that is almost 50 times bigger than that. Now, it goes deeper than that. They're all – everyone buys the US treasuries. During 2008 and 2009, the European banks were in worse trouble than the American banks, if you can believe it or not. We have –

1:07:00 Our banks have at least a 10% or they're supposed to have a 10% reserve requirement. In the EU, it's below 3%, which means they take three times more risk. During the great financial crisis, they were gone. You remember all these bailouts of like Italy and Greece? That's what that was about. But of the 19 banks that borrow at the Fed window, which means they're borrowing overnight, buying treasuries and short-term treasury securities, half of them are European banks. So we didn't just bail out.

1:07:26 the American banks, we bailed out the European banks. And bailed out is the wrong term, because I should say it, we are still bailing them out to this very day. The only reason Europe has a banking system is because of the US Federal Reserve, period. They cannot stand alone. If they try to pull out of the treasury market, forget about the derivatives risk, stuff like that, their banks are insolvent overnight. It is an absolutely empty threat, but it's a real danger.

1:07:54 That's how fragile the global economy is. Now, they talk about pulling the plug on that to implement the Great Reset, which we've known about for more than a decade. And there's many ways to reset our financial system. The way the globalists have mapped it out is not the way we want to do it. Because that's when you get your digital currency, the mass surveillance and censorship. That's what the internationalists want to implement upon us. And they're close. I mean, the technocrats.

1:08:22 are in position throughout our institutions, particularly banking. So this is a very dangerous time, but Europe's threat is empty because they can't afford it either unless this is what they want. And you start going to Brussels and you realize, holy shit, that is what they want. It is what they want. I agree. Was that a decent explanation? Yes, it's perfect. Thank you very much for that. Renee, go ahead.

1:08:48 Hey, everyone. Good afternoon, evening. Warhamster, I hope your recovery is going smoothly. And did I hear correctly, Colonel, when you were reading this chapter, and it was right before you mentioned Silverado Bank, did you mention a Mile High Bank? I don't remember that one. I'll go back and look. Okay, because I was going to say, if that doesn't sound like a mafia.

1:09:20 Laundering, drug running, bank. But Mile High, that's kind of the nickname in the Denver, Colorado Springs, Mile High. That's a nickname in that area because of the elevation of that area.

1:09:36 Okay. Yeah. I was like, well, good God, that sounds like a, if that one doesn't sound like a drug moving, laundering bank, I've never heard of it. Yeah. My best, my best friend lived in Seasprings for many years. She's an Academy graduate. When she got off active duty, she joined the Air Force Reserve and I used to fly out to her and her husband. They were both Academy grads. He was a Thunderbird pilot.

1:10:02 Everything in that area, the bars, they're all named Mile High. You see that routinely around Denver and Seasprings area. For anyone that doesn't know that, it does seem a little weird. Anybody else got anything? Or Hamster, did you have any closing thoughts? No, I'm good. I'm hoping to get enough homework done here so we can actually do a show this week.

1:10:39 Yay. Yep. No promises quite yet. Oh, and you were gone yesterday. We had a new guy over on Rumble said, I love that guy when you were talking yesterday. So I mentioned it at the end of the show, but I wanted to mention it to you today. So I don't see him in the chat over on Rumble today, but he was very impressed with you yesterday. I'm flattered. I appreciate it. Yeah, I stuck my head in on.

1:11:08 It goes to Patrick Henry's show, Last Night in Rumble. It's in the chat for a little bit. And a couple people go in there. I mentioned one of our shows. I just subscribed to the Colonel and Warhamster's channel. They've got some really interesting stuff. I'm going to go check it all out and binge watch. Yep. A lot of information out there. Lots of information. Well, the fun thing is, apparently, I've had a little more downtime than usual the last week or so. So I've been listening to some

1:11:38 podcasts that I probably haven't listened to in a while. And some of the stuff we've talked about, you know, the last two, three years, other people are repeating ad knowledge. I'm not going to say there's acting like it's original research, but it's really fun to hear our stuff regurgitated back. Yes. Yes. Well, and I think I mentioned it on one of the shows or somewhere. I was watching CanCon and I communicate a lot.

1:12:05 him and Alpha do on Thursday morning, because we do our show Wednesday night, about half of their daily brief, maybe less than that, but certainly the last part of last Thursday's conversation was both of them arguing with each other about what the colonel said.

1:12:29 And it was kind of funny because it was they eventually came to the conclusion that they realized what I had said in a fairly accurate depiction of it. But it was like, I don't want to put words in the colonel's mouth, but I think she means this. No, CanCon says that's not what she said. I've been texting her. I know. CanCon is awesome. I've been watching him. He got in on the election integrity stuff as a, you know.

1:12:56 independent journalist when he was very small. I picked up on him early when I was posting all this stuff on patriots.win during all the audits. CanCon was one of my number one sources and I gave him full credit. And so I've been following, I just love his stuff. I think he's intellectually honest. He is. He's brilliant. He is one of my favorite people to check things out. We share information almost on a daily basis.

1:13:25 He is just, he's awesome. And I don't know if you know this, but when I went down to, there was an event down in South Florida. Oh, when I went to see Tucker Carlson, I took our RV, my husband took our RV down there and we hung out near.

1:13:46 CanCon's house, and we got to spend time. It was the first time I'd ever met his wife. And we went jet skiing together. He's just such an awesome, regular person. I just love him to death. Yeah, I hope to get a chance to meet him someday. There's probably maybe 10 or 12 people on all of Twitter that I actually consider intellectually honest, and he's one of them. Yeah, definitely. Renee, go ahead. Sorry, one more question directed for Warhamster, if you don't mind, please.

1:14:15 Cool. Warhamster, please, when you do get all your info and everything together to help teach us about the banking industry and the history and all the shenanigans, would you mind terribly adding about hedge fund stuff, please? Because I've encountered a lot.

1:14:38 of that just in my past. And I know there's a George Soros connection, but I still don't fully understand it. If you don't mind just adding a five-minute, 10-minute chapter to our lesson on hedge funds, I would be grateful, please. Well, I can absolutely do that. I can give you a quick sneak preview right now. Go ahead. So hedge funds is a pretty generic term. The real key to it is they're able to make investments that you're playing vanilla.

1:15:07 investment funds like a mutual fund or an ETF can't do. Things like using leverage short, buying private securities, that sort of thing. Hedge funds are the best performing asset class of the last 50 years, and I have used them frequently with my clients. That being said, there's a lot of really dirty hedge funds, like what Soros would do, obviously. He'll send his NGO into a foreign country, disrupt the country. In the meantime, his hedge fund's been shorting their currency.

1:15:35 Yes. That's a dirty hedge fund. But there's really clean hedge funds, and they're some of the sharpest minds in the entire investment industry. When I was getting ready to put a client's money into a hedge fund, I would spend weeks of due diligence getting to know the managers, their strategies, looking at their actual—they've got to be somewhat transparent. Not as much so as a public-facing fund like you have in your 401k, but the amount of due diligence you have to do before you touch them is—

1:16:03 If you don't do the homework, you get what you deserve. There's some dirty ones and there's some very good ones. And the bottom line is anytime you're applying leverage, you're taking on excess risk. So it's all about risk management. It's one thing. Remember, money goes down twice as fast as it goes up when you're using leverage. And that should be lesson 101 of investing with anything but plain vanilla. The thing that gets me is they always said you have to be an accredited investor to invest in a hedge fund.

1:16:33 And allegedly, that's to protect the public, which doesn't have the resources to do that kind of due diligence, can't afford a financial professional to do it. But their definition of accredited investor used to be a million dollars liquid. That was in 1977, I think they came up with that rule. Well, here we are 50 years later, and it's the exact same definition, a million dollars. They didn't inflation adjust it. They allow you to fudge on what you consider a liquid asset.

1:17:03 And now just about anybody who even owns a house can probably get it on the hedge fund. And I'll make the argument that not everybody should because it is a sophisticated – I think 10% to 20% of a real – if you have a big portfolio, around 20% ought to be in alternative investments that are non-correlated to the markets. And that's the idea of a hedge fund. Anything else is speculative risk, and if you can afford to lose it, go for it.

1:17:31 And then the third section, third category, of course, are the dirty ones, the Soros hedge funds. And our regulators obviously have turned a blind eye towards what they do. And that is a problem because most of the industry is regulated properly. That's well done. That's why I'm so happy he's here. Go ahead, SR. Thank you, Colonel. And I hate to steal away from your show.

1:18:03 I want to ask Warhamster one more question out of his fears concerning what's going on. How do you think BRICS is going to fare out of that if this happens? Your worst fear. The question is Brexit? BRICS. Oh, BRICS. You guys all know the history of BRICS? It was a marketing ploy in 2014 by Goldman Sachs to sell a new fund. Brazil, Russia, India, China.

1:18:34 South America, this whole BRICS of the United Countries and stuff like that, that actually is something that's happening. I don't believe necessarily in this sovereign alliance theory that some of our friends talk about, but they are definitely looking to operate outside of the dollar-based economic system, as they should out of self-defense, because we've abused our privilege. If you look at 1998, Russia's

1:19:03 It's basically a foreign policy statement called the Primakov Doctrine. They had like four pillars of what Russian foreign policy should be. And one of the main ones was to get away from the dollar-based hegemony. So will they do well in a crash of the dollar-based system? They'll do better than if they're inside the dollar-based system. Just like you and I as individuals, if you've got all your money in U.S. treasuries and the thing crashes, well, you're down to zero. You want to diversify your risk.

1:19:32 Is that real estate, precious metals, cryptocurrency, what have you? Yeah, you do not want to have 100% exposure to this potential collapse. But you've heard the concept of too big to fail. Well, this is the biggest thing ever. So if it's allowed to fail, it's not going to fail quietly. Yeah, well said. Okay, great space, you guys. I love all of you. We make such a great team. All right.

1:20:07 I posted a few articles out there. If you guys haven't read them, please go do that. Repost them. Just crazy stuff going on. I do have a schedule update and I'm going to have to offer my apologies up front. I got an invite today to go on Redacted tomorrow to talk about Tim Pool.

1:20:35 I have some information that I've been sharing with Clayton Morris, and we're going to expose that tomorrow. I will be on around 4.20. So if I can carve out some time in the morning, I'll do a show, our normal show. But if not, I will not have a show tomorrow. I'm going to, as I mentioned to you guys, I'm going to be a speaker at a Christmas

1:21:06 get together where General Quast is going to be a speaker. And then Brian, Dwayne, Kate, and myself will also do a panel discussion tomorrow evening. And then I come home and do the Alpha Warrior show. So tomorrow's going to be crazy.

1:21:21 I may not do one of our shows, but then on Thursday, just as a reminder at noon, we'll be on with War Hamster and then our normal four o'clock show tomorrow. So that's, or Thursday, that's just a schedule update for everybody. So anyway, you definitely don't want to miss the redacted show because it's going to be very, very interesting. So you guys.

1:21:49 Colonel, sorry for interrupting. Didn't you say you had an early morning show tomorrow as well with someone? Yes, Tommy's podcast. We did a kind of a panel discussion last week. And let me check my calendar real quick. That is tomorrow morning. I want to say it's 10 East Coast time. Let me make sure. Yeah, 10.

1:22:16 Tommy podcast is what it's called. As soon as I get a link, I will shoot it out to you guys. But if you guys want to go follow him, he has some very interesting information and he always posts the links out on his X page. I will do a highlight as soon as we get off here, just to give you guys the link to his page on X. So yeah, that's 10 a.m. in the morning.

1:22:46 Can I promote a show too? Sure. Friday night, 7 p.m. Eastern, I've been invited to come on Matt Youngblood's spaces to talk about the Constitution. I have no idea who's going to ask. I'm bringing Doug Gibbs and Ron Partain on as well. You can find him at underscore, capital T-H-E, capital Y-O-U-N-G, capital B-L-O-O-D. So it's at the Youngblood. They'll be doing that at 7 o'clock on the spaces. It should be interesting.

1:23:15 I've only been on one show with Matt. He's a young guy, but he's very inquisitive, and I'm expecting some interesting questions on the Constitution. So we'll see how that goes. Yeah, well, there's obviously a lot being decided about what our Constitution actually says right now. So that's very, very timely. Did you catch what Gorsuch said yesterday? Yes, I did. There is no fourth branch of government? Yes.

1:23:40 That foreshadows so many decisions that are coming up. And I did the show a year ago, almost a year ago to the date, about birthright citizenship because I knew the Supreme Court was going to have to pick up this case when Trump got in. And they are going to be hearing it real soon. And we also have the Kalai decision coming up, which is about redistricting. And they basically rule the way it looks like they're going to. You've got no more race-based. You have no more.

1:24:08 minority-majority districts, which immediately adds 20 to 25 Republican seats by 2026. And that's coming probably by Christmas. So it is a very hot Supreme Court season. And I will be doing shows with Doug on that when the time comes. And Colonel, you're always welcome to join us. It's crazy because obviously the first thing I, when I read what he, whoever posted that,

1:24:36 My mind went immediately to the Fed. Well, the Fed's not federal. I know. I know. But everybody tries to pretend that it is. Well, it's in the name. I mean, of course it's federal. I know. But I completely agree with you. But that's the whole argument of why Trump can't fire the Fed chair. And if you have no fourth branch, because this is going to come to a head.

1:25:08 they're arguing out both sides of their rear end on this issue. We all know the Fed isn't federal, but they're still trying to pretend that it is. And Trump, by him saying that, keep saying that he's going to fire the Fed chair, and now you have all of these other decisions boiling up that he can, in fact, fire every federal thing.

1:25:35 It is going to get exposed that the Fed isn't federal in real time. Yeah, the real interesting part about this is it was Gorsuch, and he's one of the two swing votes on these important cases, which means we already have four votes that are going to go the right direction. So all you need is ACB or Kavanaugh to come through, and we continue to scale back probably 75 years of judicial activism.

1:26:05 The left is going nuts over it. And let me point out to you guys, just so that this is crystal clear, as far back as the 50s and 60s, in the immediate aftermath of World War II, Congress, because they don't want to do their job. I mean, the whole creation of the Fed is them not doing their job. All of these different things that they don't want to have to run on.

1:26:32 They have farmed out over the course of time to these quote unquote independent agencies, right? So the, let me get Bridget back up here. So they create.

1:26:50 the independent agency of the Institute of Peace. They create the independent agency of the National Endowment for Democracy. They create the independence agency of the USAID. And every single one of these entities, and then all of the rest of them, the CDC, the FCC, all of these things, under the auspices that they're somehow an independent agency, which put them in their feeble attempt.

1:27:20 outside of the executive branch. And what I want everybody to understand is every freaking president from the beginning of the creation of these things until today went along with the farce, every single one of them. Every single one of them knew that not a single one of these things was outside the executive branch, but they loved it because they could...

1:27:46 have these unelected bureaucrats make all of these decisions and stand up in front of the cameras and shrug their shoulders saying, but they're an independent organization. What are we gonna do? And so you had both, it worked on both parties. Both parties would point over there to that fourth branch of government and say, they're independent. They're independent. They're only independent because you pretended.

1:28:14 that they were independent. They knew 100% constitutionally because most of those bastards up there are lawyers. They knew that that was not true. They knew that every single one of them was under the executive branch. But president after president after president played along with this until we got President Trump. And this is what cracks me up about people who want to criticize President Trump.

1:28:44 How is all of this fourth branch of government and the fact that the Fed isn't federal and all of this other stuff being exposed and you still go online time after time after time and pretend that none of this is happening and Trump is basically worthless. It just literally makes no sense. He is exposing every...

1:29:13 the dynamic of this, not just the fourth branch of government, but the whole underbelly of this entity that has been built up around Washington, D.C., and he's burning it to the ground. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel, and thank you for bringing this subject up because I was listening to the oral arguments on the slaughter case on c-span.org last night.

1:29:44 And it seems to me we still have a few judges out there that want to play this stupid if game. Well, what if it was this? What if it was that? What? How would we handle this? How would we handle that? And you have the lawyer that's given the argument and trying to be as forceful as he can to say, no, there's only three branches. There's no what if. Right. It blows my mind. Yep.

1:30:17 Yep. Did you have anything you wanted to add to that Warhamster before we go? No, I'm good. Okay. So we're going to call it a day. You guys got the schedule for the next few days. And I will see you in the chat tomorrow. And you guys have a nice rest of your evening. Take care. Colonel, I take it redacted will be recorded, correct?

1:30:50 Yes, theirs are always recorded. And this is their normal show. It's live. I will be on there live. But it is also recorded and they post the show up, their entire show. I'm just doing a segment of their show live. Thank you, Colonel. Sure. Okay. Take care, everybody.

Entities here

Houston19 Robert Michener14 Surety Savings14 Denver13 Richard Ross Miller12 Raymond Nouvelli11 Herman Beebe11 Texas10 Robert Corson8 Rebecca Sims8 Ben Barnes7 Farm and Home Savings7 Neil Bush7 The Book by Rebecca Sims6 Bill Walters6 Lloyd Bentsen6 Walter Mischer6 Office of Thrift Supervision5 Colorado5 Silverado Savings and Loan5 Joe Lynch5 Alan Reaver5 Marion Rosen5 Robert Anderson4 Allied Bank4 Donald Luna4 Rent-a-bank scandal4 Richmond Harper4 Belize3 Hill Financial Savings3 Savings and loan crisis3 Libya3 Larry Parker3 John White3 Cyril Smith Jr.3 Miami3 Ronnie Poledge3 James C. Day Jr.3 Rosemary Stewart3 Charles Sonny Duncan Jr.3

Claims made here

Albert Stravetsky fled_to Spain host_asserted ▶ 13:24

“saying that Novelli told him that Novelli was a mafia member and would have Stravetsky killed if he testified before a grand jury. Stravetsky fled to Spain, so he obviously believed he was part of the…”

Raymond Nouvelli ordered_assassination_of Albert Stravetsky host_asserted ▶ 13:24

Raymond Nouvelli member_of Gambino crime family host_asserted ▶ 13:24

Raymond Nouvelli owned Surety Savings host_asserted ▶ 13:56

“quite frequently in these stories. When he was indicted, he controlled five banks and had interest in two additional savings and loans. He owned a 3,500 acre ranch near Dallas and an island off Haiti …”

Raymond Nouvelli did_business_with Ben Barnes host_asserted ▶ 14:27

“When he was arrested, Novelli told reporters he had flown some politicians around in his Learjet, but he refused to say which ones. 16 years later, the author filmed one of Novelli's pilots, Ronnie Po…”

Raymond Nouvelli did_business_with Herman Beebe host_asserted ▶ 14:27

Ben Barnes used Raymond Nouvelli host_asserted ▶ 14:58

“who was not Novelli's chief pilot, said Barnes, could very well have flown in Novelli's plane. Novelli's former secretary, Helen Spencer, confirmed that Barnes used the plane on several occasions. Acc…”

Vannie Cook member_of Surety Savings host_asserted ▶ 16:30

“everybody being the CIA, on different, he was in business with the Bushes. Yeah, his name shows up everywhere. And we're going to get into Bath in a lot of depth in this book later. Cook was on the bo…”

Jim Bath did_business_with Trump administration host_asserted ▶ 16:30

Raymond Nouvelli indicted_for Surety Savings documented ▶ 17:07

“Then in January 1973, Novelli and five former security savings officers and directors were indicted for fraud. The charges included Novelli's purchase of stock in five small Texas banks from the offic…”

Raymond Nouvelli worked_for Convicts for Christ host_asserted ▶ 17:32

“of almost $3 million. Novelli jumped bond in 1974 and disappeared. He was found two years later by the FBI living under a false name in California and was sentenced to 15 years in jail. After he got o…”

Raymond Nouvelli worked_for Jesus Jubilee Foundation host_asserted ▶ 17:32

Raymond Nouvelli fled_to Arcata, California documented ▶ 17:32

Surety Savings sold_to Cyril Smith Jr. host_asserted ▶ 18:02

“Texas Savings and Loan Examiner said that in the mid-1980s, he ran across Novelli's wife as one of the proposed purchasers of a savings and loan that he put a stop to. After Novelli had been indicted …”

James C. Day Jr. partner_with Leonard Capaldi host_asserted ▶ 18:34

“Jr. Smith was the son of the state's leading water district attorney who had helped Michener set up his utility districts on the properties that he was developing. Smith Jr. was indicted in 1978 for f…”

Cyril Smith Jr. indicted_for Surety Savings documented ▶ 18:34

James C. Day Jr. defrauded Robert Vesco documented ▶ 19:34

“DNC Committee Chairman John White, who was the former Texas Agricultural Secretary. Details of this sting operation, which are practically incomprehensible, are detailed in a book, Vesco, by author He…”

Cyril Smith Jr. sold_to Larry Parker host_asserted ▶ 20:04

“The FBI spent $25,000 trying to bribe White, but the Justice Department refused to appoint a special prosecutor and the charges against White were dropped. In late 75, before he was indicted, Cyril Sm…”

U.S. Department of Justice dropped_charges_against John White documented ▶ 20:04

Robert Corson associate_of Walter Mischer host_asserted ▶ 20:35

“and immediately got involved in all of these shenanigans. One of the first loans Parker made was to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture, which was comprised of TMC Funding, a Michener company, of course, and…”

TMC Funding owned_by Walter Mischer host_asserted ▶ 20:35

Larry Parker loaned_to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture host_asserted ▶ 20:35

Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture comprised_of TMC Funding host_asserted ▶ 20:35

Surety Savings loaned_to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture host_asserted ▶ 20:35

International Brotherhood of Teamsters deposited_in Surety Savings host_asserted ▶ 21:07

“and refinanced an earlier loan of half that amount. That earlier loan had been made by Michener himself at his allied Spring Bank. Teamster Union deposits began to flow into Surety, which was buying c…”

Walter Mischer loaned_to Enchanted Oaks Joint Venture host_asserted ▶ 21:07

Surety Savings bought_from Bossier Bank and Trust host_asserted ▶ 21:07

Bossier Bank and Trust bought_from Surety Savings host_asserted ▶ 21:07

Surety Savings loaned_to Richmond Harper host_asserted ▶ 21:38

“ranches municipal utility bonds from surety. Again, you just see this round, I know it's a lot of names, but just think of it as like washing money. It's just moving it from one entity to another enti…”

Richmond Harper indicted_with Murray Kessler host_asserted ▶ 22:08

“who was indicted with drug smuggler Barry Sill and the Gambino Mafia family associate Murray Kessler in the sale of explosives to the CIA-trained Castro, anti-Castro Cubans, the Cuban exiles, the CIA.…”

Richmond Harper indicted_with Barry Seal host_asserted ▶ 22:08

Robert Michener member_of Allied Bank documented ▶ 35:39

“Horwich, the head of the Federated Development. Horwich and Federated, whose primary bank was none other than Michener's Allied Bank, were turned down by the regulators because the capital Horwich wan…”

Charles Sonny Duncan Jr. member_of Howard Terry documented ▶ 42:47

“by Charles Sonny Duncan Jr. He's originally from San Angelo, Texas. Duncan was a good friend and business partner of Howard Terry, Michener's closest associate and colleague. In fact, Terry served on …”

George H.W. Bush carried_out_attack Dempsey Watson documented ▶ 43:17

“which was owned by Michener and Terry. That's what I was telling you guys at the beginning of this story. They just trade board seats around like a merry-go-round. In 1982, Duncan's stepson, Dempsey W…”

Robert Michener member_of Marathon Manufacturing documented ▶ 43:17

Paula Michener member_of Robert Corson documented ▶ 43:17

Dempsey Watson member_of Paula Michener documented ▶ 43:17

Howard Terry member_of Marathon Manufacturing documented ▶ 43:17

Dan Arnold member_of Farm and Home Savings documented ▶ 43:47

“And the Bushes leave their hotel and walk over to the house, literally walked over the house. They weren't taken to the house with security. He's the president. And they walked in the back door of Mic…”

Joe Lynch member_of Farm and Home Savings documented ▶ 44:13

“Arnold was a former partner of Vincent and Elkins, one of Michener's law firms. So they just replaced one guy that's on their team with another guy. He had also been chairman of First City Bank, where…”

Joe Lynch member_of National Asset Bank documented ▶ 44:43

“People from Texas was on the board. The next year, the Office of Thrift Supervision forced Lynch's resignation, giving no public reasons, but indicating concern that he had significant conflicts of in…”

Walter Mischer member_of First Continental Real Estate Investment Trust documented ▶ 45:13

“when First Interstate Bank in Los Angeles had purchased Allied. Lynch was also the chairman of First Continental Real Estate Investment Trust, a REIT, which was a real estate trust in Houston, whose d…”

Robert L. Clarke financed_via Farm and Home Savings documented ▶ 45:43

“had an investment in First Continental REIT and also a big loan from Farm, I'm sorry, Farm and Home Savings. So the comptroller Robert Clark, he's been in a lot of this story. The Washington Post repo…”

Mark Buchner member_of Gibraltar Savings documented ▶ 46:14

“In April 91, Dan Arnold submitted his resignation as CEO of Farm and Home, while Lynch was allowed back in as vice chair. No questions asked. The Office of Thrift Supervision removed Houston's certifi…”

J. Livingston Cosberg member_of Gibraltar Savings documented ▶ 46:45

“of a failed savings and loan called Gibraltar Savings in Houston. At the time, it was the largest savings and loan in Texas, and he was the vice chairman when it was ran into the ground. Bruckner's bo…”

J. Livingston Cosberg member_of Charles Herzwig documented ▶ 46:45

Robert Corson member_of Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center documented ▶ 47:20

“that Farm and Home inherited when it bought Surety in 1979 was almost a million dollar loan to Michener's company and his two associates at the Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center, which we mentioned earli…”

Roy Daly member_of Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center documented ▶ 47:20

Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center carried_out_attack Michael Shea documented ▶ 47:20

Robert Michener financed_via Surety Savings documented ▶ 47:20

Michael Shea carried_out_attack KLP Inc. documented ▶ 47:50

“to Michael Shea and his wife Cheryl of San Diego, California. San Diego's back in. Who flipped it the same day to a company called KLP Inc., whose president was Leilani Jones Pierce of Houston. In 198…”

Robert Michener member_of Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center documented ▶ 47:50

Leilani Jones Pierce member_of KLP Inc. documented ▶ 47:50

KLP Inc. financed_via Enchanted Oaks Shopping Center documented ▶ 47:50

Rebecca Sims member_of Robert Corson documented ▶ 48:47

“When the ex-son-in-law, Robert Corson, found out about this, he became furious and told an employee never to talk to Michener's employees again and never to mention Michener's name in his office. This…”

Rebecca Sims exposed Robert Corson documented ▶ 49:17

“and had quit when asked to commit bankruptcy and tax and bank fraud. She then started investigating Corson and his associates, who also owned a savings and loan. Sims called one of the investigative r…”

Marion Rosen member_of Edwin Wilson documented ▶ 50:17

“Marion Rosen to see what her legal rights against Corson were. Rosen was a flashy criminal defense attorney and divorce attorney. He had represented ex-CIA agent Edwin Wilson of the notorious Libyan g…”

James Jesus Angleton covered_up Edwin Wilson guest_asserted ▶ 50:50

“What the hell? Edwin Wilson was on trial for smuggling C4 explosives to Libya because the CIA set him up to steal his company. He had been a CIA asset for a very long time, but Angleton wanted his com…”

Marion Rosen member_of Lloyd Bentsen guest_asserted ▶ 51:20

“case and was very knowledgeable about nefarious CIA activity and connections. I bet he was because he's approved. He let Edwin Wilson go to jail. Sims said she and Rosen began looking for another pers…”

Robert Michener financed_via Belize guest_asserted ▶ 52:49

“her story began ringing some bells. When I had researched the Sunday Magazine piece on Michener, one of the power broker business rivals said he was convinced Michener had purchased 700,000 acres in B…”

Lloyd Monroe spied_on Mario Renda documented ▶ 53:16

“their tracking of Mario Renda across the country, they had encountered organized crime strike force prosecutor in Kansas City, Lloyd Monroe, who had been after Renda and his mob associates in a Kansas…”

John Hinckley Jr. attempted_assassination_of Ronald Reagan documented ▶ 59:31

“mentioned in this chapter no does everyone know that or should we you can go ahead and say it well the guy who shot reagan was hinkley and his family were involved with silverado bank with neil bush w…”

Hinckley family member_of Silverado Savings and Loan caller_asserted ▶ 59:31

Neil Bush member_of Silverado Savings and Loan caller_asserted ▶ 59:31