The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 9

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0:00 Can you hear me now? I can. Thank you. Yeah. Well, it crashed it. It took me out and I had to like restart the whole app. It's still doing the same stupid ass things. All right. Let me get go live over here on Rumble. How are you doing, by the way? I'm doing awesome, by the way. How are you?

0:29 Good. Pre-happy birthday birthday. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it. There is a fantastic Italian restaurant over in Tampa that we are going to go to tomorrow. And I am really looking forward to that. I went for one of my daughter's birthday. It was her pick.

0:56 And we all kind of pick our restaurants in the local area for our birthdays. And it was so good. I'm going back. It's the only restaurant, Italian restaurant that I've ever been to in the United States that had grappa, which is like this.

1:13 grain alcohol version of wine that my landlord used to make over in Italy. And so the food was out of this world. There's a famous restaurant in Tampa called The Columbian. And there's also, they opened one later in St. Augustine. I don't know if they have other ones. But the one in Tampa is in Ybor City. And they have an Italian restaurant that they opened as part of The Columbian that's behind it.

1:43 And, oh, my gosh, if you're ever in Ybor area, Tampa area, and want a good Italian restaurant, it's like a 15-star. It's authentic Italian food. It is fantastic. And that is so hard to find. Like you said, real, true, authentic. Not the Americanized version. Not that there's anything wrong with the Americanized, but there's just two different types there.

2:11 Yeah, I don't like the American, because it's got too much sauce, not enough good pasta. Yeah, I'm all about real Italian food. See, I live near St. Louis, and St. Louis has The Hill, which is all true Italian. It was an Italian community that birthed an Italian, real true restaurant down there. Yeah, yeah. So, anyway.

2:44 Let's get started. You guys, please repost the space out and invite everybody in. I don't see SR 71 or Stellar right now. So we're going to go ahead and get started. Bridget is just going to have to hold down the fort, which she's perfectly capable of doing. OK, so let me change this studying over here so I can see all of the different.

3:13 comms coming in over on Rumble. All right, we're ready. This chapter, as I said, is called The Heyday of Britain's Cold War. Think Tank, Brian Cozier, and the Institute for the Study of Conflict from 70 to 79. And again, these are individual essays, so they change authors each time. The intro to this one is highlighting the fact that the UK had

3:43 think tank community that was devoted to foreign and security policy issues that was formed decades ago. And it was dominated by Chatham House, C-H-A-T-H-A-M. And their specific think tank was called the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

4:11 They also had one called the Royal United Services Institute. Beginning in the 1970s, the Chatham House, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Royal United Services Institute.

4:37 the author says, almost became a foursome because there was a new one that showed up called the Institute for the Study of Conflict. It was headed by a highly controversial Cold War activist by the name of Brian Cozier, C-R-O-Z-I-E-R. The Institute for the Study of Conflict was called ISC. It was created to conduct, quote unquote,

5:07 unbiased research into social, economic, and political military causes and manifestation of unrest and conflict throughout the world. So get this. You have them creating all of the political and military unrest and conflicts all over the world. And they create a think tank to study.

5:38 Their own work. You just can't make that shit up. Unofficially, the Institute's research and activities were very much shaped by its politically active director, Cozier. He admitted in his autobiography that throughout my period as director of ISC, it was involved in exposing the fallacies of detente and warning the West of the dangers inherent in any type of detente.

6:08 policy illusion. In other words, it was non-stop warmongering and there was going to be no peace. He was going to make sure of it. So they weren't actually studying conflict. They were preventing peace. They were promoting conflict, not studying it.

6:32 Cozier's anti-Soviet and anti-detente views, as well as his reputation as a front man for the CIA, the ISC as a whole became a target of the proverbial left. For instance, in the book, The Terrorism Industry, Edward Herman and Jerry O'Sullivan noted that ISC provides an

6:59 Essentially, well-documented case study of the use of purportedly independent institute as a front for propaganda operations as a hidden intelligence agency with corporate sponsorship. Well said. One of the consequences of this was, well, the author says it was an exaggeration of their influence, but it was not.

7:31 It was very influential, but not for its stated purpose. The ISC was deservedly a controversial institution, and there was often a great deal of substance in the criticism. The impact of think tanks in relationship to public policy, particularly in Britain, the ISC would probably be viewed as having a quote-unquote marginal impact.

8:00 On the other hand, both Cozier and the ISC were portrayed as important British representatives for the larger transnational anti-communist network, i.e. Gladio. He basically has five sections that he goes over in his essay. The background of the Institute and its activities. He highlights its...

8:29 mixed relationship with Whitehall and Westminster. He talks about the relationships it had with the anti-communist groups, i.e. Gladio, criticisms of it, and the final section is his defense of the, Cozier's defense of the organization and its subsequent decline in the 1980s.

8:58 The ISC was a brainchild of Cozier and grew out of his earlier work as a quote-unquote journalist and head of a thing called the Forum World Features, FWF, which in and of itself was another CIA front company responsible for disassembling anti-Soviet propaganda. Many projects were running at the same time as it related to propaganda.

9:29 and by the late 1960s, his work with the FWF, Cozier came up with the idea of starting a research center that would focus on topics such as subversion, terrorism, insurgency, and revolutionary moments, which is ironic because that's what they're actually doing. Underlying this broader approach,

9:59 there was an assumption that the Soviets were merely paying lip service to detente and that Moscow's support for quote-unquote subversive movements indicated that their actual intent was to undermine the West and not to peaceably coexist with it. But see, in order to generate chaos, regardless of what the Soviet Union wanted, you have to say that.

10:26 No one ever gave it a chance. They have no idea if that was true or not, because you weren't even allowed to talk to the Soviet Union. According to Cozier, the mainstream British think tanks did not cover these issues. There was emphasis on conventional military and nuclear issues, but not the aspects of what I would refer to as Operation Gladio, the subversion, counter-revolutionary, and that type of thing.

10:59 To fill the gap, he initially complemented his work with FWF by starting up an entity called Current Affairs Research Services Center. It was abbreviated CARSC. In 1969, he began that effort. Initially, it centered on some generic work, but...

11:33 It appears to have really just been a front for soliciting funding. It didn't have any full-time staff. And they produced a few things, one of which was a publication called Conflict Studies. And there was a discussion with a professor, Leonard Shapiro, who was an expert on Soviet affairs.

12:05 at none other than the London School of Economics. It was suggested that a research center was the wrong model, and maybe you needed an institute. A result of that, in June 1970, the ISC emerged out of CARSC. So it just morphed into a different organization. Cozier created a founding council with an impressive...

12:34 cast of characters to include academics, former civil service and military officers. It was headed by none other than the idea generator Shapiro. And it included Max Beloff, B-E-L-O-F-F, Major General Richard Clutterbuck, Clutterbuck, C-L-U-T-T-E-R-B-U-C-K. I think I'd have changed that name. He should have been a name changer. Amen.

13:04 Right? Jeffrey Fairbarn, F-A-I-R-B-A-I-R-N. S.E. Finer, F-I-N-E-R. Hugh Stetson Watson. Sir Robert Thompson. Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson. And J.H. Adam Watson. Obviously, they're all British.

13:37 Over the years, other prominent individuals joined the council, and they were predominantly military. Retired Major General Fergus Ling, F-E-R-G-I-G-U-S, and his last name L-I-N-G, helped the ISC negotiate the Institute's tax-exempt charitable status and served as its first administrative director.

14:06 Michael Goodwin, who had previously been involved with Cold War propaganda, would later replace him. Another organization called the National Strategy Information Center, NSIC, and the International Documentation and Information Center, Interdoc, which we've already talked about, the ISC did not rely on a steady stream of government stipends or philanthropic funding.

14:34 Neither the British nor American governments were prepared to subsidize the ISC in the way that they had other organizations, although it did receive some funding from none other than the International Syndicate, Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, and the Scaife Foundation, S-C-A-I-F-E, which we come across them repeatedly, all of them actually.

15:04 There was considerable evidence that the ISC didn't generate a lot of contributions. And it does look, based on their travel schedule and stuff like that, that they were getting covert funding, not just what they were admitting to. In 1972, Cozier complained to Defense Secretary Lord Peter Carrington that the ISC needed more money.

15:34 He sought money from NATO and CENTO, C-E-N-T-O. And its main source of money seemed to have come from some mysterious place. A highly critical 1976 Guardian article based largely on ISC documentation stated that the bulk of their annual budget came from 2,000 subscriptions to various reports.

16:09 like the conflict studies, which the Institute published. An additional discrepancy arises, again from Cozier's own account, when he noted that from 77 to 79, he and a colleague had raised 73% of their budget had gone to the ISC. Without access to their financial records, it's hard to make all of the...

16:37 ends meet based on what they were doing. So again, a lot of contention about where they were getting money because they traveled extensively. They issued three types of publication, one called conflict studies, the other one called special reports, which was based on deliberation of study groups, again, requiring money. And the third one was called annual

17:09 of Power and Conflict. It was a survey of political instability and violence worldwide. This publication was a book link and mainly as a reference guide for use on, from what I've read, and I did some research on this, I would characterize it

17:38 as a way to do an assessment of who was going to pony up what covert operations people. And what they were doing is they were going around assessing like where their next operation, and it doesn't come out and clearly say that, but their assessment of the locations and the corresponding locations to where eventual coups happened. My assessment is that they were actually looking.

18:08 Who do you want me to add, Bridget? Stellar. She showed up. Thank you. Just for backup. It looks like they were going around doing quote unquote surveys in order to publish something like the Jane's military capability annual report. Only this one specifically was looking at conflict areas.

18:37 or quote-unquote potential conflict areas, which weirdly enough seem to almost 100% end up in conflict at some near-term point. And it does look like they were using that as an assessment on a plan on who was going to pony up what covert resources to do the future events.

19:04 Again, my assessment, I don't have a smoking gun, but if you compare what they were saying to what actually happened, very close. The range of topics for ISC publications, for example, the conflict studies talked about Northern Ireland, which of course we know had Gladio tenets to it as well.

19:28 In the first segment of Special Report, it focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Apart from looking at the issues of terrorism and insurgency in a broader Cold War perspective, mainly dealing with the Third World, which is where they were going to be doing all their coups, a great deal of attention was placed on subversion. You know, like how to actually conduct a coup. There was...

19:58 Other topics such as, this is one I found, the survival of the capitalist system. Another one, the attack on higher education, Marxism and radical penetration. While they were actually doing it. Marxism and the Church of Rome. Huh? Y'all are the ones that infiltrated the Church of Rome. Let's see.

20:34 series that they did on conflict studies had an article called Salt 2, the Euro Strategic Imbalance. And you guys know that this is part of the propaganda machine that made hay out of the Reagan missile, how we were way behind and we got to do, well, before Reagan.

21:01 the whole missile disconnect thing that happened during Kennedy, the space race during Reagan. That's what they do. They create the propaganda that they're going to use to steal all of our tax dollars to put it into the military-industrial complex. That's it in a nutshell. Crozier's maintained a separate office, although most of his day-to-day contact was with...

21:30 White Hall, he had an office in Piccadilly. And at the height of the mid-1970s, his staff was about 15 people, most of which were researchers that went around and collected all of this material. They were frequently invited to lecture on security matters, such as the police, military training centers.

22:00 And again, this is all of the people that have been involved in all of this Operation Gladio stuff. So they're the guys that went around and was doing all of the briefings relating to this. ISC's most sympathetic point of contact seems to have been an office called the Information Research Department. This is a quote from them.

22:29 We have a reasonably close connection to ISC, particularly with the director. We have provided background material for a number of his periodics, and they have been distributed widely to overseas posts. In general, we consider the ISC to be useful and valuable in formulating policy, and we tend to give it whatever assistance we consider appropriate.

22:57 That's an official government office saying that. And here's another quote. There was considerable scope for drawing on well-researched work by a non-official body whose products could in some cases carry more weight than material known to be official or bearing a government imprint and possibly a security classification. So again, they are using this body

23:28 to justify what it's going to do. We helped the Institute with open source research material available to us and our financial contributions was confined to priming purchases of their material for our overseas locations, meaning they send it to all of their embassies. So in 1974, the IRD

23:58 this entity that's supplying them with all this material, lobbied behind the scenes to get Cozier to speak at a meeting at NATO, specifically their information area, which is their propaganda arm. The most important IRD assistance came in the form of commissioning the ISC to produce a counterinsurgency manual. Imagine that. And again, remember,

24:28 counterinsurgency is asked backwards. It's actually an insurgency manual because it's NATO that's the insurgent against the indigenous people, who then when they mount a counterinsurgency against the invasion of NATO forces that are the actual insurgencies, they are then called guerrillas or communists. And ISC wrote a

24:58 quote-unquote counterinsurgency manual for the UK to use. Beginning early 70s, the FCO had been receiving requests from its overseas post on quote-unquote how to deal with counterinsurgencies, I'm sure. So in March of 1973, the ISE published the manual, although

25:30 the rights to it were eventually purchased by the minister of defense in the UK and it became their official policy. Just, it's crazy. And these guys have no, like Cozier had no military whatsoever. So this is basically kind of the CIA feeding them and MI6, the information to produce as an outside entity. And then,

26:01 They take the Purdue's supposedly independent research and put it into the military via the defense minister. It's quite shocking, actually. The minister of defense didn't necessarily want to become too close to it, which is why they hired someone from the outside to do it. Let's see. Despite being politically...

26:32 being a political hot potato, ISC was also welcomed by others. In his biography, Cozier recalled that he was invited several times by different military establishments to lecture on the subject material in the counterinsurgency manual, and he's not an expert. I'll just put it as that. He's a hired gun.

27:03 Other ISC staff members ended up being lecturers at all kinds of NATO Army institutions and discussed terrorism and subversion, which they were going to be doing. All of this work also had, remember the guy that we talked about, Violet, or Violet, B-I-O-L-E-T, that had everything to do with Le Cercle?

27:34 He also was part of this effort. Hold on a second. Before we get to that part, I forgot this one part. The ISC had ambitious relationships with national police forces all over the world.

27:56 And that's the piece, just like the Office of Public Safety. We are now learning that the UK had basically the same setup, which makes sense because if you guys remember when we did the Vietnam and I told you that everything that happened in Vietnam, the Phoenix program, Agent Orange, putting people in basically concentration camps.

28:21 And those prison islands that all happened in Malaya before Vietnam ever even was a thing for the United States. The UK was doing that using the same national police training program. So it makes perfect sense. And that that predates this. So it makes perfect sense that they're codifying this and then going to be using it just like we did.

28:51 That's why I'm saying that it's not just our Office of Public Safety, State Department, USAID. All of these entities in NATO had similar programs set up for similar situations. In 1974, Frank Brenchley, B-R-E-N-C-H-L-E-Y,

29:20 who served as Britain's ambassador to Warsaw, was seconded to the ISC for an academic year, meaning he basically did an internship there. And he contributed to the ISC study group that produced a 1975 special report called New Dimensions of Security in Europe, which means basically there was not going to be any security in Europe.

29:50 It goes on to say that after Margaret Thatcher replaced Heath as party leader in 75, she maintained a relationship with Cozier, as well as many other hierarchy that was at the ISC. Then he moves into the ISC and transnational anti-communist networks,

30:23 through Barnett, Cozier was able to gain access to funding from the Scaife family, S-C-A-I-F-E. That was essential to the operation of ISC, excuse me, ISC. The initial publication of Annual Power and Conflict, again, the one that kind of mimics where we're going and what we're doing.

30:52 was co-produced by NSIC. The two of them both had a sponsor called German Thyssen Foundation. Yeah, like in Nazis. Not even lying. They also were involved in a thing called Multinational Conference on New Dimensions for the Defense of the Atlantic.

31:22 which had absolutely nothing to do with defense. They are like-minded. This was in 1976, by the way. Like-minded anti-communist groups would coordinate their activities. You know, like Operation Gladio. Cozier volunteered the ISC to assume the role of administration for what would be several different meetings relating to that.

31:54 Jeffrey Stuart Smith set up from the NSIC a thing called Foreign Affairs Research Institute. So many of them. But it's important to know the names of all of these things in case you come across them in reading so you know how they fit into the whole scheme. So after Cozier resigned from the ISC in 1979, Barnett

32:24 maintained a close relationship with the guy that replaced him called Michael Goodwin. The ISC attempted to launch an American branch of itself. The committee for the American branch in March 1975 was Barnett himself, George Ball, Brzezinski, Edward Schil, S-H-I-L-S.

32:55 Richard Pipes, Rear Admiral J.S. Mott, M-O-T-T, Admiral John McCain, Sr., Kermit Roosevelt of the Iran coup, and several others, by the way, and R.F. Burns, B-Y-R-N-E-S. Can you say CIA, CIA, CIA?

33:29 In May 1975, Cozier did gain some attention in D.C. as the first witness to testify at the U.S. Senate hearings on international terrorism in 1975. Think they're generating what's going to happen? Yes. Senator Strom Thurmond introduced Cozier, describing him as, quote, one of the free world's...

34:00 foremost expert on international terrorism, unquote. Now, why would that be? Because he's the guy behind it. He's writing reports telling you where it's going to happen next. Another important ISC association was Le Circle, of which Cozier was a member himself. Cozier mainly kept his Circle activities

34:33 more in a covert manner. He was mostly known for his ISC, but he definitely was a member of Le Cercle, which, because of that, brought him in very close contact with French intelligence and Jean Vallée, or Violet. And that's how he got some of his funding from the ISC special reports product.

35:03 But again, Le Cercle and Valet was very much tied into NATO and Operation Gladio as part of Le Cercle. The January 1972 report called European Security and the Soviet Problems. Nothing like telling you what they want you to think. It was funded by an international syndicate member.

35:34 Italian industrialist Carlo Pesenti, P-E-S-E-N-T-I. It was reproduced in French and put in the New York Times version of the media. Likewise, the 1973 report called The Peacetime Strategy of the Soviet Union was not only inspired by Bollé,

36:05 But it was funded through Volet's connections, and it was the 1975 report called The New Dimensions of Security in Europe that basically, unlike it says peacetime strategy of the Soviet Union, it actually, the entire thing was addressing how they were never going to be peaceful at all. Hosier's Le Cercle Associates ensured that the ISC report was translated and reproduced.

36:36 in French, Spanish, Italian, and German. They also wrote a report called The Security of the Cape Oil Route, again, addressing the industrialist need for where they were going to do operations, and these reports served as the basis to justify the next operation.

37:07 The ISC maintained relations with a number of other international entities, such as the Interdoc from The Hague. The ISC board member Brigadier W.F.K. Thompson also served as Interdoc's president in 1971. Again, this is just overlap versus overlap. Like Warhamster and I were talking about today, how all of these people overlap all of their circles. I'm describing the exact same thing.

37:38 in Europe happening there. Okay. Oh, and so around the time that they were going to start doing coups in Africa, a guy by the name of Peter Jank, J-A-N-K-E, just so happens to have written several things in the series called Conflict Studies, all of which focuses on Africa.

38:13 An example of the ISC connection with South Africa and Rhodesia was actually one of the many that emerged in what Cozier described as the Great Smear Campaign of 75 and 76. The ISC had elicited little public attention because they wanted to be doing this stuff on the down low. That changed in July 1975.

38:48 when a theft from the ISC premises of some 300 documents running a total of 1,500 pages happened. The material included files belonging to Dr. Peter Cenk, Lynn Price, financial data, and some of Cozier's own material. Cozier, of course, immediately blames Russia.

39:17 Shortly after the theft, a number of highly critical newspapers and magazine articles began being published. But none of them was from Russia. They came out in things called the Time Out and the Guardian, back when the Guardian used to actually do journalism. Labor MPs in the House of Commons started asking questions about how their government was actually linked to ISC. One MP asked the Prime Minister,

39:49 if he would conduct an inquiry into links between the current members of the cabinet and the Institute for Study of Conflict, in view of the links between that organization and South Africa, Rhodesia, and the CIA. Another MP sought assurances from the Defense Secretary that the ISC had not been commissioned by them to do anything.

40:17 And again, this is important delineation. So they don't ask the right questions. So if you ask them if the Defense Department commissioned any of their work, they're going to say no, because they don't, because they don't know about the International Syndicate. The International Syndicate, through all those foundations and covert intel money, funds it and they use it. So they can very easily get out of the question, honestly say, no, we didn't commission anything.

40:46 And that's actually true. They didn't. But it's dumped in their lap through coordinated plausible deniability methods. That's why when Brian Cates says you have to ask the right questions, you have to ask the right questions. And generally requires you to know your history in order to know what they do to get out of it and create plausible deniability so you can ask the right questions.

41:15 Additional questions were raised about the ISC's role in producing the counterinsurgency manual. A couple of years later, further revelations about the IRD's connection to ISC helped lead the department's closure by the labor government. It also didn't help that ISC's image, didn't help their image when Ian Hamilton, who had replaced Cozier,

41:44 as head of the FWF, was later employed as the ISC's director of studies, showing a direct connection. Okay, Cozier was officially the ISC's director, and he left most of its operations day-to-day to Gott Goodwin. Among his jobs, Cozier was a writer and journalist. Again, no experience in terrorism.

42:17 counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, or anything else. He was an asset, quote, journalist. Posier was also a political activist and loved political intrigue. He often used his ISD office, which had secret entrances, to conduct secretive meetings, including individuals from intelligence agencies. No shit, Sherlock.

42:48 were the who's who of British government. It included people from domestic organizations like civil assistance and also international organizations like the Ames of Industry. One was called National Association for Freedom. You know, all named ass backwards, as usual.

43:22 In 1976, Cozier was introduced to Margaret Thatcher and helped form what became known as the SHIELD Committee. The purpose of this secret committee was to advise on security and intelligence matters. Its members included MI6 officers, conservative MPs. Cozier ensured the ISC resources were made available for this committee.

43:53 and published some 20 papers on different aspects of subversion in order for this committee to then use to go to the government. In addition to his work on the SHIELD committee, he decided in February 77 to start yet another venture by creating his own private intelligence network. This network became known as Six...

44:24 I can't tell if that's 6-1 or 6-1. You know, like MI6. The key members of the network was Elliot, Violet, and none other than General Vernon Walters. Yeah. He always turns up evil POS. Right? Yeah, it's crazy. Who, as everybody knows, was the deputy director of the CIA.

44:58 The work of the 6-1 was kept separate, supposedly. Again, these authors are just so naive. None of this shit separate from the ISC. And, for example, November 1978, conflict studies issued, authored by Robert Moss, entitled The Campaign to Destabilize Iran.

45:24 that's probably one of the only actual honest titles that I come across in this whole research, was based largely on material supplied by the 6-1 group and Iranian intelligence, SAVAK, which, guys, remember, was created and trained by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr. Yeah. Is that crazy?

45:56 When Thatcher became prime minister in 79, Cozier's secret activities began to worry a number of influential people, to include Lord Carrington, who was going to be the foreign secretary. Why would he care? I mean, he's just writing papers, right? He's just a journalist. The precise detail of the palace coup that forced Cozier to stand down from his position remained unclear.

46:23 with the only account of the event being Cozier's own. According to him, in August 79, the ISD council member, Sir Louis LaBailey and Leonard Shapiro, most likely at the instigation of Carrington, presented an ultimatum. Either Cozier would have to give up his secret work at the 6-1 or resign from the ISD.

46:53 That's weird, since they had nothing to do with each other. On September 12, 1979, Cozier offered his resignation and immediately was locked out of the ISC premises. Missing from Cozier's account is a correspondence that he had with Thatcher a week and a half earlier. In a letter that was dated to September,

47:20 To Thatcher, he complained, I am being pressed from various quarters to undertake additional commitments largely involving my institute. He then goes on to ask her for advice on whether to devote more time to ISC or his other secret activities at 6-1. Thatcher's reply three days later said the following, quote, please accept the extra commitment.

47:46 By doing so, you will be putting across the right views to a wider audience. I am sure that this is the most important factor to consider, unquote. Thatcher appears to be telling Cozier to continue working for the ISC rather than focus on his secret activities. But I don't view that as that at all. The additional commitments that he was being asked to undertake

48:16 It had nothing to do with ISC. It had everything to do with his intelligence effort. And because what you find out is in the 1980s, a large chunk of his material is used by Thatcher and Reagan as the justification for Star Wars, the buildup of the arms race with the Soviet Union.

48:44 A lot of his material was used for that. And he turned, he created that intelligence function right around the time the elections were coming up. We're changing pace. We're going to go into Angola. We're going to go into the Iran-Contra and all of those other things.

49:06 Secret activities that he was involved with with the 6-1 organization was intimately involved in that. So I think the author makes an incorrect assumption that the additional activities that he's being asked to do had to do with the ISC. And I think the fact that he resigned and stuck with the 6-1 is indicative of that. I think they misinterpreted the letter. Anyway, that's the extent of that.

49:36 And I didn't really have any notes that stood out to me on this one. But the next chapter is a global crusade against communism, the circle in the Second Cold War. And again, that's why I think it was critical that he stay with the 6-1 organization because he was going to be needed. And basically, like I said, for the ISC, basically what he had done is

50:06 written justification for them to do what they're going to do anyway. He was kind of their propaganda arm. And quite frankly, with the staff that he had there, other people could do that. Him having proven his worth to the UK government and him having his own private intelligence agency was going to be much more valuable in what's going to come up in the 1980s that Thatcher and Reagan was working on. So anyway.

50:37 That's that. You can open up the floor to questions. Anyone? Boy, there's just certain names that just keep popping up, popping up, popping up. Well, and I think Vernon Walters is a key name to be the bridge because he was involved in so much of the Operation Gladio events.

51:08 That, to me, was just kind of like the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae on that section. It really is. It's not a shock because we are understanding all this stuff, but the nepotism is really strong, too, because names that you're bringing up are names that we're familiar with in the last decade or so. Yeah. Yep. I see we got Warhamster in the audience. And Ron.

51:41 And Ron and Renee has a special something for you. Who does? Renee. Renee. Hey, Colonel. Hey. Hey, Colonel. Hey, everybody. Always good to be here with you. Actually, I had a first question regarding the lesson today. So you said Thatcher. Didn't she have a son that was involved as well?

52:09 some way connected to this whole apparatus? Yes, she did. She was involved in weapons. Yesterday you brought up Mosley, the name. I don't know if I missed it in the news, but you said, I don't know if it was Oswald Mosley, a son or a relative. What came up in the news that you kind of mentioned? Oswald Mosley was part of the conversation.

52:39 And I mentioned his grandson. And now you're going to make me go back and figure out why. Give me a minute and I'll figure it out. I'll have to replay that conversation. Okay, no problem. His son was in the news, I believe. Yeah, I'm trying to remember why. I'll remember. It's okay.

53:08 More importantly, moving on, I would kind of like to just share a point of gratitude to you. The other night I listened to you and Alpha and talking about reflecting of our journeys and this whole Operation Gladio moment together as a group has been

53:38 such an otherworldly next level lesson and so meaningful and insightful to all of us. We have so much gratitude and love for you and all the hard work you and Bridget and Cousinet have put into this.

54:00 During this journey in the beginning, I think I was listening to Ron and that's how on his untold history, I came upon you and then Trump frog over on the pond. And then from the pond, I had to take the big leap and join the big leagues on X, which I'm not a social media person, but.

54:25 to continue the journey with listening to you. I made that brave move. And you have equipped all of us with so much information and knowledge and confidence. And it's been a tragically sad journey to learn all of this about the world.

54:52 And nowhere in the world has anyone been void of this tragedy of these evil ship of fools going from one continent or country to the next, cooing, infiltrating, etc., manipulating humanity. But you have been at the forefront of planting the seeds to awaken us.

55:21 And planting the seeds for us to move forward and hopefully gently spreading those seeds on our next move and next parts of life. And we cannot thank you enough. And that said, I wanted to share that we have all joined together because we know it's your special day tomorrow.

55:50 the day that we are blessed with having Colonel in our presence. And so now we would like to present you with a present. We have joined forces to give back to you in the form of a seed. Since you have given us the seed of knowledge, we have joined forces to...

56:16 we will present you with an e-card of some beautiful bulbs, actually, of gladiola flowers. And we hope that you will plant them around your gorgeous Colonel's Corners cottage. And in memory and a symbol of our love and gratitude to you.

56:44 And hopefully these seeds and these beautiful gladiola flowers will be a symbol of a sphere, a beautiful plant, the blossoming of more positive things to come for us and everyone in this world. We are so blessed to have you.

57:13 We hope, hopefully someday we can all get together, maybe having a strawberry margarita at the Strawberry Festival, or maybe when a lot of this, all the dust has settled from this fog of war, we can all get together for a barbecue and share our stories and how many times our rice bowl has been peed in in person with each other.

57:43 But thank you, Colonel. Thank you so much. Happy birthday. We really love you and are so blessed. Thank you. Renee, thank you. I know you're purposely trying to make me cry. No, I couldn't hold it together. You got it too. But you did a damn good job of that.

58:12 That's so humbling. Thank you. I don't even know what else to say. Thank you. I'm not rendered speechless very often. Just thank you. Thank you very, very much. I really appreciate that. So it stayed a secret? It stayed a secret? You had no idea? I had no idea. I don't even want to. I have to admit, we were working covertly behind the scenes.

58:42 So I've taught you guys how to be devious, covert operatives. Well, sort of, in a good way. But it was totally, Renee, spearheaded the whole thing. And it was a beautiful, amazing idea. Y'all are so awesome. And I bragged on how you have an elaborate flower collection, but the gladiolas will be perfect. And I have none. I do have a lot.

59:10 I do not have any of those at all. And I love them. So that's amazing. That's so amazing. Thank you so much. Ron, go ahead. I listened to you and Warhamster this morning. As I was driving, I couldn't respond. But you guys, I mean, I had to pick my...

59:41 my jaw off the floor of the car again when you're doing all that stuff with Sullivan. But you got me thinking when I was looking for, I was trying to put together some things and doing an AI search of people and their connections with.

1:00:06 If they've got multiple data points and they're in positions of power. Now, I did a search on this. It's called Ranker or whatever. And it was very interesting. And I'm just going to go through a few because it's important, I think. Obviously, Bill and Hillary Clinton were on there. Ben Stein, Cory Booker, Pat Robertson. These are all people who went to Yale Law.

1:00:34 Gerald Ford, Gary Hart, Paul Songes, Sonia Sotomayor, Jerry Brown, who was the governor of California twice, Robert Rubin, Clarence Thomas. I was a little surprised at that, but that doesn't mean that he's bad, but he went there. Richard Blumenthal, Judah Benjamin, who a lot of people attribute to the...

1:00:57 He played a significant role in the American Civil War. Van Jones. I didn't know Van Jones went there. Anita Hill. But another one that I thought was really, really interesting is a guy by the name of Charles Goodell. Now, Charles Goodell was born in 26, and he died in 87, and he was an American representative and senator from New York. And this is what I found interesting.

1:01:24 In both cases, he came into office following the deaths of his predecessors, first in a special election and second as a temporary appointee. He was elected to four terms in Congress after winning his first race in 1960. He resigned on September the 9th of 68 to accept an appointment.

1:01:42 by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Having earned the support of both the Republican and Liberal parties in 1970, he lost in a three-way race to Conservative Party candidate James Buckley, having split the Liberal vote with the Democrat Party candidate Odinger. But this is the thing that I think is, and I want to give some context here. Goodell is the father of the commissioner of the NFL. Yep.

1:02:12 OK, now I have a good friend who's a sports writer and he's told me he's been to many Super Bowls and he's been to many events. And he said, man, he said, you wouldn't believe how absolutely just totally corrupt that whole organization is. He said he said it is is that every every press conference is scripted. Yep.

1:02:37 Now, I know I'm probably preaching to the choir, to you, but to a lot of the people in the audience, they probably don't know that. And they think that the NFL—see, I don't believe every single sport is rigged, but I believe that the major ones, specifically football and basketball, I think those are two of the most majorly fixed ones out there. But it just shocked me. But I'm going to delve into this further. I asked—

1:03:06 I actually asked a war hamster to send me a list of criteria to search for, and I'm going to cross-reference a lot of these things because I want to find out who in our government is, you know, what current members of our government are, you know, potentially in that category. Right. Miles, go ahead. Happy birthday, Colonel. Thanks. You're welcome. Renee, this is the first time I've been on special covert ops.

1:03:38 And I enjoyed it so much. Ron, I hate to tell you, but the whole world is rigged, not just sports. Okay. I don't see anybody. That's true. That's true. Yeah. I don't see anybody else's hand stellar. Bridget Southern, go ahead. Mine's just real quick. It's I just want to thank you because of you.

1:04:08 I had been digging hard into our constitution and back into my Bible as my foundation. I got away from it, but I'm back there now. I wanted to thank you. Southern, that's probably the highest compliment I've ever received. I know for me, this whole journey has God's hand on my shoulder the whole way.

1:04:38 Just as like when I was on active duty, I would have someone come to me with issue that I didn't have an answer for. And a few days would go by and like I'm brushing my teeth or something in the morning, getting ready to go to work. And it would just come into my head, whatever the answer was. That has happened to me my whole life. And I know that this was placed on me to do.

1:05:04 And I've shared with you guys that so many of the aspects that we have uncovered kind of delve directly into things that I've experienced in places I've been. So I feel like it's a mission. And that has done the exact same thing for me, Southern. It has definitely made my belief in Jesus Christ.

1:05:32 like on a, on a plane that it had never been on before. So, um, yeah. Amen. Amen. Yeah. Um, Annie, go ahead. Happy birthday, Colonel. I was so blessed that Bridget asked me to be a part of this and thank you Bridget and everybody for being here. I learned so much with y'all and I love y'all. We're a family. Thank you. Thank you. Um,

1:06:00 And I just wanted to mention I did stick the link to it down in the pill if anybody wants to add to her birthday gladiolas. I also thought that it would be kind of cool. I just went to look what the meaning of gladiolas was, what the meaning was, and it totally, totally fits this whole thing.

1:06:25 I took a picture of the image and I can't pull it up now. But in any case, it talked about a sword, like little sword and the Greek word sword. Thank you for sharing your sword of knowledge with us as we are the little swords gaining and sharing your truth and the truth of what the real history and all the shenanigans. Yeah. Thank you. And again, thank you. Carrie, go ahead and then we'll go to Ron.

1:06:54 Hi, Colonel. I love you very much. Thank you for being. Thank you for being willing to be self-actualized and have a voice and really exist. It's a very difficult thing to do. And thank you, Renee, for your incredible idea. I was just like, what?

1:07:23 So smart, so intelligent. And Colonel, I think you shouldn't really pick on Jake Sullivan. I mean, the poor little guy. He's just a rich fuck. He wants to kill a lot of people. You need to be nice to him. Jesus said, love thy neighbor. I think when the weather gets a little warmer up there, I'm going to go visit Warhamster and stalk him. Just kidding.

1:07:54 Ron, go ahead. Well, and forgive me because I should have led with happy birthday. And you have a very, very, very, very interesting birthday on the 19th. I'm telling you, it's just another one of those divine signs. Yes, exactly. All of that stuff, every time I started reading history, it's like April 19th. What the hell? April 19th? What the hell? And let me just share with you guys one.

1:08:23 I don't know if I've ever told this story. April 19th, 1995, I believe it was. Come on, buddy. Come on. I was on a bed and breakfast long weekend for my birthday in West Virginia with no phones, no nothing for the entire weekend.

1:08:53 And when I got back Sunday night, I learned about Oklahoma bombing. I had not even known it happened. And I'm like, son of a bitch, not on my birthday again. Yeah, it's a crazy, it's a crazy thing. And then, of course.

1:09:14 Again, all of these things that has happened to me in my life gave me heightened awareness when I would see and it allowed me to track them easier. Right. So it's my birthday. So, of course, I'm sensitive to April 19th, just like August 2nd. I know everything that happened on August 2nd in 1990 because there was such a monumental event in my life because I got my first overseas assignment. And all of those kinds of things has allowed me to.

1:09:43 categorize all of this stuff in a way I don't think anybody else would have been able to do. I mean, they could have if they were a savant, but for some reason, those dates became personal to me and then it allowed me to kind of distill the information a lot easier, I should say. Well, let me, I wanted to tell you something because I've been working as a secret agent as well with a couple of your cohorts.

1:10:12 And we're working on a project for you, and I'm going to share. It's not complete, but I'm going to share it with you probably via email. I'll have to be. But I think you're going to be pretty impressed with it. But before it's complete, it needs to have your stamp of approval, and you'll understand what that means. So just know that I've been working on this for about two and a half, three weeks.

1:10:42 Okay. So, yeah. So I think you're going to be impressed when you see it. Okay. I can't wait. Miles, go ahead. Well, I just want to say happy birthday to all the spring babies out there. Because if you do the math, you probably were conceived in July around our birthday for our country having a good time in July. So happy birthday to all the.

1:11:13 April birthday, people. Oh, yeah, that's me on the 24th. So I happen to be a Taurus. And just happy birthday to all the Tauruses out there. I love you guys. Yeah, my mom was at least consistent. My youngest sister is the first day of Aries. I'm basically, I think it's the 20th or 21st, whatever that ends up being.

1:11:41 Um, I'm obviously the 19th and my older sister is the 14th. She just had her birthday. So we're all within 30 days of each other, which is kind of crazy actually. Um, anyway, anybody else got anything? I don't see. There's one more Omega. You just call me Mikey. That was a nice plug miles. Um, same thing with my family, Colonel. Uh, um,

1:12:09 March 22nd. My, my mother is, was January 22nd. My father's April 22nd. I'm March 22nd. Wow. Yeah. My sister is, uh, which I, I don't associate with her in any way, shape or form, but she's a September 22nd. So she's the oddball. Yeah. My, my youngest sister is March 22nd as well. Um, yeah, that's very interesting. Cool.

1:12:39 All right. Anybody else? I don't think so. All right. All right. So thank you again, Renee. I am humbled beyond belief. Ron, thank you for whatever it is that you're working on. And thank you all for all the prayers. I feel them. I feed off of you guys's energy here and your,

1:13:12 Responses on X2. And a lot of you guys don't want your, I don't know why, but you DM me stuff. Somebody's reading a book and they DM me some screenshots of the page that was consistent with something that we were talking about. And I'm glad.

1:13:35 There's a lot more people reading. There's a lot more people buying books, actual books and reading material and then providing those things that you now see that you never saw before. And the fact that you guys point them out, please feel free to point them out publicly on X so that I can repost that.

1:14:02 I think there's a lot of momentum. And I understand if you want to DM them if you don't feel comfortable posting that. But there's a lot of momentum if you guys share that information in public because it excites other people and it makes other people even more curious about wanting to contribute. It's contagious. Our group has grown.

1:14:29 tremendously because it is contagious. And the more we talk about it out in the open, the more it's going to catch on.

1:14:39 I just encourage you guys to do that. And I love the fact that, like Illini, in all of his conversations about wanting to have a checklist of factual documentation on many of these different aspects of Operation Gladio, he can have like a notebook to go over to basically give a testament on here's what happened and why with irrefutable.

1:15:06 sources to do that. And I love that. And everybody gets involved and they're providing videos and they're providing references. This stuff is how other people get exposed to how you peel the onion back to find the truth. And the more we do that on X collectively together.

1:15:28 With the threads that I provide, you guys put attachments on there. Hey, did you think about this or whatever? The only ones that bug me is, well, you didn't add this. Okay, well, I can't add everything to every thread. That does get an eye roll. I'm going to be honest with you.

1:15:52 I love all of this. And I do. I think it is what other people see you posting. And they're like, hey, I'm going to go look for something, too. And I do that with other people. If Brian Cates posts something and I think that I have something to add, I will go find it and post it to his. So his audience also has that information as well. So it's definitely contagious. It's how the truth gets out.

1:16:19 Again, I'm humbled beyond belief that you guys are all here. You come here every day and we are learning this stuff together. And at some point, we are going to have to have for anybody that's available. And I know some of you are retired and wouldn't mind a trip to Florida. I promise I won't do it during the summer. We are going to have to have a get together. In some form or fashion, we're just going to have to do it.

1:16:44 Because I would love nothing more to meet all of you in person. That day is someday in the future. I promise. Maybe. Can I echo your sentiment about sharing publicly? I think, you know, I don't I think sometimes people are.

1:17:04 It's like they're afraid to raise their hand in class, you know, or they don't want to appear as, oh, I don't, you know, like they don't know what they're talking about or whatever. And I encourage everybody, please don't ever have that fear, you know. By all means, share the things that you're seeing and share it publicly. Because if you don't, then you're not going to generate the curiosity that we need to grow.

1:17:28 And, you know, that's a huge thing to do. So please, by all means, share stuff publicly. And, I mean, I assure you, the colonel's going to respond. She's going to see it. I've never seen anybody as devoted to her Twitter as colonels, though.

1:17:46 By all means, definitely share stuff publicly. That doesn't mean that you can't, like, if you want to give a nice note or something. But if it's Gladio-related, make it as public as possible. Because even if you think it's wrong and she corrects you, don't think that she's correcting you because she's coming down on you. Her focus is accuracy. But don't be afraid to put something out there. Because, again, like what she said, it just grows the movement. Yeah, there's two things.

1:18:14 One is a factual correction. And anybody should welcome that. I do. The second thing is there are some pieces of this that are opinions. They're assessments based on patterns. We may look at the same pattern and come up with a different assessment of what that pattern means. And we can agree to disagree. You guys have heard me say this many times in spaces that I'm in.

1:18:43 As long as you're respectful and as long as you allow the other person their say, you don't have to agree. You don't have to agree with me. In many of the respects that we are very careful about telling you when we are speculating based on patterns.

1:19:01 And people try to get me to speculate a whole lot more than I'm comfortable with doing. And I frankly just tell them I'm not going to speculate on that. I don't know. I know people want people's opinions. I prefer not to be an opinion person. I want to be a factual person. I want to be bring material to people and let them make their own assessment. The problem that we have had for so long, number one, we had no information to make assessments on. No facts because we've been.

1:19:31 lied to forever and second because of that most people can't take a set of facts and make a logical conclusion of where those fact patterns lead you and i think that's a discipline that we all have to learn again um and that's what i hope we're all in the process of doing miles go ahead so colonel um is there a place i can park my rv it's a class c so it's not that big sure

1:20:00 Now, the problem is I can't go to a lot of parks because it's an older RV. They won't let me in. Well, we're in Florida. You know, there's an RV park on every corner. Yeah. Like I said, if you have an older RV, they think you're just some. No, no, not here. We have parks with older RVs in them. Okay. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah. I just, you know, you got to check those out because you pull up and they just look at you like.

1:20:29 Yeah, what kind of drugs do you want? Go away. Yeah. Carrie, go ahead. Well, Colonel, Bridget and I live in Missouri, and we have better food here, so I think we should have it here in Missouri. I'm inviting you to have your get-together in Missouri. Yeah, that's not going to happen, but thanks, Carrie. You don't like us?

1:20:58 I didn't say I didn't like you. I've been to Missouri. I've been to Missouri several times. But if I'm having a get together, we're going to have the get together where I'm at. Stellar, go ahead. Yeah. And one of the other reasons, because like I a lot of us will see other patterns, even though, you know, and it ends up being something that's another layer. But also when you guys share or when we share publicly like out there and then tag Colonel Towner and.

1:21:28 Wing Gal or Bridget up here and even SR Warhamster and stuff like that, it puts more attention on it because those guys are so shadow banned. So it actually helps to bring the algorithms to bring that to exposure, if that makes any sense. So if we could do that, that really helps, too, to spread the truth because we've been bamboozled for so long. Yeah, I agree with that. Let's see. Omega, go ahead.

1:21:58 With what you said earlier, this is a time for acceptance. You're either going to accept what has unfolded as the truth, finally, because our parents' parents' parents were misled, mistaught, misguided, manipulated. And that's been happening for so long. And I get shut down every time that I try to say this in other spaces. But if you don't want to accept it,

1:22:28 Then don't waste your time coming in to listen because you're just going to get mad. And and again, you may get mad anyway. But I think at this point we've established the fact that all of this stuff is based on sources. And just, you know, just to give you that one chapter that I just read, which was an essay, had 60 references.

1:22:58 listed. So again, I don't bring this stuff to you unless I check out and I do a sampling. I'm not checking out every single 60, but I do a random sampling on everything that I bring you guys to make sure that I'm bringing you reliable information before I ever even choose it as a book. Like you guys have seen my book collection. I have way more books.

1:23:26 A lot of the books give me a foundation knowledge that's not worthy of spending, you know, three weeks, which is probably what it takes for us to get through a normal book, maybe even a little bit longer. It's not worth that because there may be only three things I learned in that entire book that was not a repeat of stuff we've already covered.

1:23:50 What I do in those cases is I put sticky notes in them and I eventually go back and I do a thread based on those three pieces of information. So you guys still have the information. I just don't have to spend the entire time doing the book. And once I get my new shelf put up, I'm going to be able to put them in sections to know here's the books that not only I've read, but I've also done the book review on. And then a section that has...

1:24:17 ones that I'm not going to do a book review on. But I have the stickies in them that I need to do a post about. So collectively, you guys are going to have all of the information that I have at some point. That's the plan anyway. Warhamster, did you have something to say? I see you came up as a speaker. Howdy. Hi. And happy birthday. Thank you.

1:24:44 I had to keep my mouth shut when we were doing the show today because some of our friends let me know that they were going to do something special for you. And I didn't want to let the cat out of the bag. I appreciate that. Yes, it wasn't easy. A couple of things. I heard most of the comments here. I had to step away for a second. But I think Ron said something important or implied it that, you know, we don't do guilt by association when we're making these connections. Just because someone went to Yale.

1:25:14 or went to Harvard Law, or what have you, or was a Rhodes Scholar, doesn't necessarily make them nefarious. It's more saying, okay, this means we see the connections and say, okay, now I want to pay attention to everything else they're doing. It's sort of like a lighthouse that tells, it's a beacon that says, okay, there may be something to see here. But when you just automatically assume that someone matriculated to a certain school, they're automatically going to be some deep state stooge, you can end up making some

1:25:42 jumping to some wrong conclusions. And I think Ron did a good job of insinuating that. The other thing I was going to say is, Ron, you looked at Yale law. The pattern we see over and over again with stuff we've been doing is it's private boarding school, Yale undergrad, Harvard law, Oxford Road Scholar. Yale law does not appear to be as nefarious as Harvard law. Correct. I'm not going to get in too much of a soapbox on constitutional stuff right now.

1:26:12 But if you really want to understand what went wrong with our legal system, one of the two or three men most responsible was a guy who taught at Harvard Law for decades by the name of Joseph Story in the 1800s. And every single law student gets cited Joseph Story. There's a phenomenal book by Brian McClanahan. Gosh, what is the name of that? Ron, step up and tell me what the name of it is because I know you've read it too. Oh, God, he's got so many. Are you talking about the –

1:26:42 The presidents that screwed up America? No, this will be where he basically talks about – oh, it's Hamilton. How Alexander Hamilton screwed up America. Yeah. Well, that's basically a Harvard law has been teaching a twisted version of what the Constitution intended our legal system to be. And, of course, everything flows downstream for the Ivy League.

1:27:06 So if you're looking for the connection, Yale Law is there, but Harvard Law is the keyword I would search more often. Absolutely. Well, it's funny that you said that because actually what I did is I didn't just use the Yale Law. When I was using the AI, I used Yale, Columbia, Harvard.

1:27:24 and Stanford. And then I included Boston University, but I couldn't find anything. But those criteria, I didn't really get anything kicked back from Stanford, but Harvard was the one that was the most prominent of the politicians specifically in D.C. that are there now. You'll get Stanford Business School is the one I would look for for Stanford. That's where I've seen a lot. Shoot, there's another major there that we've talked about.

1:27:55 Oh. The Research Institute. Yeah. There's a couple things at Stanford, but it's not their law school per se. It's definitely the business school. Maybe the Hoover Institution? I'm just saying. Oh, yeah. That one you can assume. When you run across Hoover, you can pretty much assume deep state. Right. Pretty much. Yeah, that's one where you can make the leap without a doubt. Right.

1:28:20 Yeah, their research part there, they're more into, like, they had a lot of medical stuff there, too. But they have had a few people go on from Stanford to Rhodes Scholars as well. There's definitely, but their School of Medicine, that's a lot of the psychological operations research was done there. Yeah, they're big into the...

1:28:49 I would say they're like the level below the Ivy Leagues as far as they're the actual hands-on international syndicate people as opposed to the movers and shakers at the East Coast one. They're more the applied science. It's also more like the new generation. It's a lot of the tech. I was going to say the tech. Yeah, they're the applied science.

1:29:17 And we saw that with the last couple decades of Bonesmen with these people starting the venture capital firms. And that's where the move to the West Coast actually happened. All the capital came out of Silicon Valley. We've actually seen that pattern emerging with the more recent Bonesmen. That's when the Stanford started popping up left and right. And it obviously coincides with the VC rush and big tech. Yeah. Okay.

1:29:48 Anything else? Southern, go ahead. I just had a question for Warhamster. What do you think of Victor Davis Hanson? Oh, that's a great question. He's a brilliant historian, especially when it comes to World War II. Sometimes he opines on subjects where he is not very well schooled on. I speak particularly when he talks about the Civil War or the Constitution.

1:30:15 That is not his area of expertise, but when you get to World War II, he's the best going. And a lot of the modern stuff, he's phenomenal. As someone who's studied those two periods extensively, I almost wish he would stay in his lane occasionally. But he definitely comes from the Straussian school of conservatism. And the Straussians, they taught that Lincoln was the savior of the Union. I'm not going to get on a soapbox right now, but that's a flawed understanding of history.

1:30:45 And you can almost call him a neocon, but I think he's a neocon with good intentions. He just basically, with some periods of history, he absolutely espouses a mainstream media narrative that real history shows is probably not quite true. But I do like the guy. I mean, he's phenomenal. With the periods that he's really studied, he's as good as it gets. Yeah, I mean, he talks about Trump a lot now, that little six-minute thing he does. He's very pro-Trump. Yeah. And he's also very pro-California.

1:31:16 because I'm out here in California, and he's very pro-California. So I'm a fan of Victor David Henson, but I echo what Warhamster said in terms of staying in his lane. Yeah. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. But I get what you're saying. Thank you. Thanks for the question. Because he's at the Hoover Institute, you remember that when Antony Sutton, especially with World War II,

1:31:45 went off the reservation and actually started talking about who really funded World War II, he was told to leave. So you do have to keep that in mind. Thank you. Sure. Okay. Omega, go ahead, and then we're going to jump off. Talking about laws and tech, massive miles down there had a space one day, and somebody was in there and asked to look up the Seventh Amendment.

1:32:17 Because it's the only amendment that's never been ratified or amended or, you know what I mean? And we literally, how long did it take to find the actual amendment? It was insane. But doesn't California have one of the strongest constitutions? No. In fact, if you go look at the California Constitution, all...

1:32:49 All 49 other states essentially, and I'm going to harken back to the Second Amendment, but all 49 other states have some language in their state constitution that protects the ownership of firearms, and California is the only one that does not. And just to add to that, Ron, California used to.

1:33:12 Their original constitution did. They've changed them twice. And now it's what Ron's talking about now. They actually did that willfully. So I'm going to close this out by reading you guys something. I just, when we were talking about the Stanford Research Institute that I've come across repeatedly in Operation Gladio and the CIA, the CIA is embedded in that thing.

1:33:44 knee deep, or was, I'll just say that. Listen to this with your Gladio glasses on. In 1953, Walt and Roy Disney hired Stanford Research Institute, specifically Harrison Price of the Stanford Research Institute, to consult on their proposal for establishing an amusement park in Burbank, California.

1:34:13 The Institute provided information on location, attendance pattern, and economic feasibility. The Institute selected a larger site in Anaheim, prepared reports about the operation, provided on-site administration support for Disneyland, and acted in an advisory role each time the park expanded. In 1955, the Institute was commissioned

1:34:41 to select a site and provide design suggestions for the JFK Center for Performing Arts. Wasn't that just in the news? That's crazy. That's crazy. Holy shit. Yeah. So, that's just crazy. Yes, Colonel, it was just in the news. That's the perfect mic drop moment to close the show for today, for this weekend.

1:35:17 And you guys have a wonderful Easter weekend, everyone. And we will be back here on Monday at four o'clock. Thank you again for such a kind and thoughtful thing for my birthday. It is one of the most humbling things that anybody has ever done. So thank you, everyone, for doing that.

1:35:46 I'm just I'm totally amazed by you guys every day. I'm amazed by you guys. So thank you very much. You guys have a nice weekend. Love you. Love you all. Love you. Bye.

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Brian Cozier headed Institute for the Study of Conflict documented ▶ 4:37

“the author says, almost became a foursome because there was a new one that showed up called the Institute for the Study of Conflict. It was headed by a highly controversial Cold War activist by the na…”

Institute for the Study of Conflict front_for Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 8:00

“On the other hand, both Cozier and the ISC were portrayed as important British representatives for the larger transnational anti-communist network, i.e. Gladio. He basically has five sections that he …”

Brian Cozier headed Forum World Features documented ▶ 8:58

“The ISC was a brainchild of Cozier and grew out of his earlier work as a quote-unquote journalist and head of a thing called the Forum World Features, FWF, which in and of itself was another CIA front…”

Institute for the Study of Conflict succeeded Current Affairs Research Services Center documented ▶ 12:05

“at none other than the London School of Economics. It was suggested that a research center was the wrong model, and maybe you needed an institute. A result of that, in June 1970, the ISC emerged out o…”

Leonard Shapiro headed Institute for the Study of Conflict documented ▶ 12:05

Max Beloff member_of Institute for the Study of Conflict documented ▶ 12:05

Richard Clutterbuck member_of Institute for the Study of Conflict documented ▶ 12:34

“cast of characters to include academics, former civil service and military officers. It was headed by none other than the idea generator Shapiro. And it included Max Beloff, B-E-L-O-F-F, Major General…”

S.E. Finer member_of Institute for the Study of Conflict documented ▶ 12:34

J.H. Adam Watson member_of Institute for the Study of Conflict documented ▶ 13:04