The Shadow State 77 Pilgrims Society 3

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0:18 Gladio meets Secret Societies with Warhamster Brady. We're talking about the Pilgrim Society. What do you got for us today, Brady? I got some fun pilgrims for you today. It's going to be a good one. I'm glad we got a chance to do this. I was bummed that we missed yesterday, so this should be good. I'm hoping we can get this done in 90 minutes, but there's a lot to cover here. My amount of notes is usually about a 60-minute show, but the things we're talking about today, the Colonel's not going to be able to resist.

0:49 Especially the final one we're talking about. But hey, I wanted to share something really funny happened to me yesterday before we get going, or two days ago. If I can share this screen. I'm on a Zoom call where the guy just gave me an investment pitch. And on his screen, he's got his bio up there. And I left his name out, but right here, a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy. Right there. And I couldn't keep a straight face.

1:18 So that was pretty funny. Because we know. We do. I didn't ask him about it. I'll talk to the guy again because I'm actually really interested in what he's pitching. But, you know, I'll find out a little bit more about what the experience was like there and everything like that. So maybe I'll get some more inside info. But I thought it was funny. I got one other thing to share, which I just thought is brilliant. Familiar with a gentleman by the name of Thomas Sowell, of course. I love him. He's my favorite of all times.

1:50 um guy ever well here's what he has to say here the barbarians are not at the gates they are inside the gates and have academic tenure judicial appointments government grants and control of the movies television and other media sounds really familiar doesn't it yes yeah i wish i knew what year he wrote he said that i wrote that but uh yeah thomas soul is one of the greats so i've i was like you know i like sharing little things i run into during the week connects

2:17 set the table for we're going to talk about and what we're going to talk about is pilgrim society why we're talking about them well these guys were hell-bent on strengthening the anglo-american culture whether it be socially economically militarily diplomatically they wanted to tighten the bonds and expand upon this quote-unquote special relationship between england and america and considering a lot of our politicians are involved in this it's downright treasonous colonel

2:48 Yeah, you're supposed to, you know, our Constitution doesn't say anything about a special relationship and getting us dragged into two world wars. But that's what these guys did. And that's why it's worth talking about, because these guys, you know, in their smoke-filled rooms, shaped the entire 20th century, the bloodiest century in the history of mankind. And they did not do it for the benefit of America. So is the table set? Yep. All right. First week, we talked about the founding over in England.

3:20 We talked about how it got exposed. Last week, we talked about some of the early Americans, all the robber barons, you name it. This week, we're going to start just going through the ones we haven't talked about yet, an almost chronological order of their birth dates. And we'll just go through their story because it just paints the entire 20th century for us one by one. And it all intermixes. And there's some good and bad coming out of this. So with no further ado, I think we'll jump in. Okay.

3:51 First guy we are going to talk about is none other than Lord Acton. Now, Lord Acton died in 1902, right before the first Pilgrim Society meeting happened in England. But he was very much one of the architects of it leading up to it, and he's really worth talking about it for many ways. By the way, this guy's a hero in my mind. His name is John Dahlberg Acton, and he was the first Baron Acton, meaning they rose him.

4:26 they raised him up to a baron from whatever he was before he was born in 1834 he's an english catholic historian the catholic part's really important because you're going to find almost all the pilgrims are protestant and that's a big part of that um catholics were kind of shunned by these uh upper crust intellectual social elites fair enough yeah

4:58 So he was a liberal politician. And I say that in the classical liberal sense. You know, the modern day liberal is anything but liberal. The classical liberal believe in things. We've talked about this before. Free speech, limited government, that kind of stuff. That was him to a T. And he was absolutely known as an advocate for individual liberty. He's the guy who warned about the dangers of concentrated authority. Famous quote from him that everybody knows is power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

5:30 That came from Lord Acton, who's one of the founders of the Pilgrim Society, which seems like a contrast, right? Yeah. He came from Naples royalty. His grandfather was an admiral and was also the prime minister of Sir John Acton, the sixth baronet of Naples. So he was raised in high blood, raised Roman Catholic, denied entry into Cambridge because he was Catholic.

6:02 So we've talked about all these elite circles in Oxford and Cambridge. You see the same thing in the Ivy League. Catholics were shunned. So instead, he goes off to Munich and studies there, Germany, studies foreign languages and builds a very impressive library. He wanted to compose a history of liberty, but never got to it. All of his extensive travel, I'm going to make a lot of friends among Europeans, among Europe's intellectual elite. By 1855, he's back in England and he's a diplomat.

6:35 And he was part of the British mission to Moscow at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia. Kind of a big deal. And it really shows you how the upper class, the upper, upper class operates. They have their inner circles and they cross borders very easily and talk with the royals and the nobles of the other European nations, even though they're getting ready to fight world wars against them. There's a lot of inbreeding and mixing.

7:10 By 1859, he settles back in England and joins the House of Commons, a member of Parliament. And he becomes an admirer of a guy by the name of William Gladstone. Are you familiar with Gladstone? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's another really interesting guy. The Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at one point. Four times, I think. Four times he's the Prime Minister of England, which is some kind of record. And Gladstone was known for promoting...

7:40 equality of opportunity. Not equity, people. Everything we talk about believing in, these guys were preaching 200 years ago. They wanted to repeal taxes and get rid of protectionist trade barriers. They called it Gladstone liberalism, and it's some pretty solid thought there. Gladstone was opposed to the opium trade. He called it Prime Minister Palmerston's opium war, and here's some quotes from him.

8:12 He felt he was in dread of the judgments of God upon England for our national iniquity towards China. He called the opium wars a war more unjust in its origin, a war more calculated in its progress to cover this country with permanent disgrace. Kind of agree with him, huh? Yeah. Gladstone's the guy who introduced the concept of secret voting. Before that, it was a roll call. Raise your hand. Remember we talked about how we switched to secret ballots in America and why? Right.

8:50 What do we call those, the union ward bosses who give you a job if you voted the way they wanted? Right. Couldn't do that with a secret vote. Gladstone was also very outspoken in his opposition to the Ottoman Empire. In 1886, he proposed home rule for Ireland, let them rule themselves. That got defeated in the House of Commons, and that's what caused the liberal Unionists to break from the party and then join a decade later.

9:25 The Labor Party. Same thing happened in America. The Labor Union started out as classical liberal and ended up being leftist. Gladstone was part of that. So great man. That was the hero of our guy, Lord Acton. They were really good friends. He would leave Parliament in 1865 after an election defeat. He was a huge admirer of the United States' federal structure, federalism, what we're supposed to be. And he expressed sympathies.

10:03 with the Confederacy just because of its defense for states' rights over national power. He actually wrote to General Lee that he deemed, and this is a quote, he deemed that you were fighting battles for our liberty, our progress, and our civilization. And anyone who knows me knows I'm inclined to agree with that. He would marry, in 1865, the Countess, this is going to be a mouthful, Marie Anna Ludemilla Euphrosina von Arco off Valley.

10:40 That's her name. Imagine trying to sign that on a check. She's the daughter of a Bavarian count, Maximilian von Arco off Valley. Are you familiar with the von Arco off Valley? I've read about them, but just to throw in here, his mother is an heiress in Germany. That's where the von Dahlberg comes from. Yep, indeed. So that's what I was saying. The nobles in Europe.

11:10 Don't care about borders. So he marries, we'll call it Ludmilla. They have six kids. And one of them was a Richard Lyon Dahlberg Acton, the second Baron Acton. Interesting relative they have is a guy by his nephew was Anton Graf von Arco off Valley, was the guy who assassinated the socialist Bavarian prime minister, Kurt Eisner, in 1919. After the Treaty of Versailles and would split up Bavaria, they installed a leftist.

11:44 Prime Minister Kurt Eisner and Lord Acton's nephews, the guy who assassinated him. Interesting history. The nephew, Von Agrovov Valley, quote, Eisner is a Bolshevist, a Jew. He isn't German. He doesn't feel German. He subverts all patriotic thoughts and feelings. He is a traitor to this land. Sound familiar? Mm-hmm.

12:19 During his trial, he made a bunch of nationalist and anti-communist statements to the court and would see standing applause for his comments in the courtroom. This nationalist German fever was already there in 1919. He favored federalism, not centralized power of the Nazis, and he was even taken into protective custody by the Gestapo in the 1930s. So a very interesting character. All right, back to Lord Acton.

12:49 1869, Queen Victoria raised him to the peers as Baron Acton. That happened because Gladstone had interceded for him prior to Gladstone heading to Rome, ready for this, to resist the Pope's plan to have what's known as papal infallibility confirmed at the Vatican Council. Papal infallibility is the doctrine that since the Pope is God's word on earth, anything he does has to be correct.

13:24 So many things have gone wrong in the 20th century because of papal infallibility. And Acton and Gladstone were pushing against that. 1895, Acton becomes a professor at Cambridge. Remember the place he couldn't get into school because he was Catholic? Right. Yeah. Now he's a professor there. He dies, like I said, in 1902, leaving much unfinished historical work. His 60,000 book library right before he died.

14:01 Gets purchased by none other than Andrew Carnegie in secret. And Carnegie then donates the collection to Cambridge. A couple other great quotes from Acton before we move on. He says, great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. He also is quoted as saying there is no worse heresy than the office sanctifies the holder of it. Interesting guy. Yeah, he also when I was looking through.

14:37 documents that I have out in my studio. One of the authors noted that he was the editor of the Cambridge Modern History and that it basically became the official narrative of history at Cambridge for a very long time. Wouldn't mind reading that to see which version he tells.

15:05 Yeah, it would be interesting because one of the critiques of him is that in doing so, it made everybody aware because his focus was more, which will sound familiar to the audience, scientific interpretations of things and that he basically marginalized

15:33 sovereign nationalist tendencies of states for a more collective agreement across many states, which of course is kind of the whole philosophy of the Pilgrims in general. That was one of the critiques about him is that his historical rendition of things focused more on global issues than on individual sovereign nation issues.

16:04 Yeah, I found it very interesting how he was such a fan of the Federalist model. I mean, obviously, one of my other big shows is the re-Federalist report. So I'm obviously an outspoken fan of Federalism. I think Acton is one of these, of all the characters we've discussed, he's one of the ones I'd like the most to meet. Yeah. Okay. All right, let's go to our next hero. This is our hero. Now we'll go to some anti-heroes, I think. The Astor family. William Waldorf Astor.

16:38 Absolutely a pilgrim. In fact, he's actually the epitome of a pilgrim. William Waldorf Astor was born in 1848. He would live until 1919. Born in New York City, is the only child of financier and philanthropist John Jacob Astor III. Family history real quick. Let's just go down and look at it. Okay, so we have John Jacob Astor. John Jacob Astor I moves to Baltimore, Maryland.

17:18 Starts as a dealer in woodwind instruments. Oh, and his brother, okay. His brother George also left Germany for London in 1778, and they built a flute-making company. So this mighty Astor family started out making flutes. So then John Jacob leaves his brother in England and starts out as a dealer in woodwind instruments. Then he becomes a merchant in opium, furs.

17:51 pianos in real estate in baltimore yes how many of these great american fortunes were built on the opium trade a lot not quite all of them but close uh he's also gets into real estate his wife is a woman named sarah cox todd she would work alongside him um she was such a successful businesswoman that she gets accused of witchcraft in 1817. yeah 1817 in america accused of witchcraft for being a successful businesswoman so they would have eight children um

18:27 Most famous of them is John Jacob Astor Jr. Didn't do much, but then you get to William Blackhouse Astor. And he took the family to the next level and establishes the fur trading company in Fort Astoria, Oregon in 1811. And I've been there. They would quickly become one of the wealthiest families in the United States. The third brother from Germany, Henry, then comes to the United States. And he actually bought a thoroughbred horse named Messenger from England.

19:00 And that horse is the founding sire of all standard bred horses in the United States today. Interesting. So the Astors then settle in what's known as, they renamed it Astoria, Queens. And they also have residence, of course, in Mackinac Island, Michigan, and obviously Newport, Rhode Island. William, this guy, there he is. Get over here, William. Would study.

19:44 Germany and Italy under private tutors. Goes to Columbia Law School in 1875 because, of course, what else comes from Columbia, Colonel? The Fabians. Oh, and the CIA and a few other things. He practiced law briefly, but then just worked in the management of his father's estate. Marries a woman named Mary Dahlgren Paul in 1878, and they would have five children.

20:17 which you can see here here we are a couple of them we'll talk about um he gets involved in politics is a new york republican so we're in a gilded age right right and what other prominent families are in new york republican politics besides the roosevelts etc the rockefellers oh yeah oh yeah

20:50 He is in the New York State Assembly in 1878, New York State Senate in 1880. He tries to run for Congress twice and loses. And the reason for that is William Waldorf has a very shy personality. So in 1882, President of the United States, Chester Arthur, appoints Astor as the minister to Italy. He tells Astor, go enjoy yourself, my dear boy.

21:21 which is interesting. He's a guy with basically no political background. He just has the Astor family name and mountains of wealth, and then he's now going to be our ambassador to an important country like Italy, which is how all these ambassadorships work, as we've been talking about for three years, because all diplomacy is about who you know. 1890, his father dies. He becomes the second richest man in America behind John David Rockefeller. So he builds construction of the luxurious Waldorf Hotel.

21:58 His middle name is Waldorf. That comes from the town in Germany that they're from. Hi there. The Waldorf Hotel is 13 stories high. This is a problem because it's right next door to the adjacent mansion of his aunt, socialite, Caroline Lena Schmererhorn Astor, and she complains. I can't see this. He's blocking out the sunlight with his gaudy hotel. So her son, John Jacob Astor IV, who you can see over here on the left side of the tree,

22:34 convinces her to move away. And then he replaces the mansion with the Astoria Hotel. They combine the complex and you now get the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Remind me, Colonel, where did they have the very first meeting of the American Pilgrim Society? That was their favorite place. Indeed. So this whole feud over the Waldorf Astoria is interesting because his aunt, we talk about the New York Socialist.

23:08 socialite circuit there's this list of like the 300 you have to be on the list of 300 to get invited to all the parties but number one on that list was always mrs astor somehow mrs astor whoever holds that title is the number one socialite in new england or in new york at least so his aunt thinks that she's the mrs astor the title used to believe belong to charlotte astor

23:33 But William Waldorf's wife is probably the real Mrs. Astor. So we got a bit of a cat fight brewing in the social circles. Oh, no. Due to the conflict, William Waldorf moves to England. He would actually fake his own death in 1892 to disappear from public view, but that didn't last long and the tabloids destroyed him for it. So he gets mad and decides to buy out a bunch of newspapers. He buys the Pall Mall Gazette, Pall Mall Magazine, The Observer.

24:04 And he would gift all those to his son, Waldorf Astor, in 1914. He became a British subject in 1899. Because he renounced his American citizenship. Indeed. So he's part of this pilgrim society. He's got his loyalty to, oh, I don't know, the crown. He would give money to Cambridge, Oxford, the Cancer Research Fund. Remember that data point when we get to the Rockefellers?

24:45 Oh, he also gave a ton of money to the British Red Cross. Any problems with that? Yes. Want to tell the audience why? Because the Red Cross was used basically during this time for covert operations. Indeed. And he's helping to fund that. He would become a peer, meaning House of Lords. He got elevated to the Baron Astor in 1916. In 1917, he gets elevated to be the Viscount.

25:20 You can't buy your way into titles and nobility, or at least you weren't supposed to be able to. He did it. I would argue most of them did. Well, that's part of the whole story is that, you know, the landed nobility couldn't afford to keep up their estates. And the rising merchant class, it was England rose to become the great empire, had all the money. So you had to buy your way into the titles. And that was just the tradeoff.

25:50 i also want to emphasize the fact that you have a pilgrim in publishing the one of the first examples of the corruption of media oh yeah and that's that's kind of part of the core mission of the pilgrims is they wanted to you know it wasn't just military and it was just industrial and business and political they also is their stated goal they wanted to basically push

26:20 anglo-american relationships in the media and we talked about the origins of the special relationship dates back to my favorite story about venezuela and how in 1895 this great rapprochement only happened because we were going to invade canada right william waldorf astor would die in 1919 of heart failure but he was deeply involved in pilgrims from the start purely due to the anglo-american networking

26:54 And if anybody exemplifies society's mix of old money, business and Anglo-American ties, it's him. And generations of Astors would be part of the Pilgrim Society. And I would also say that by moving to England and renouncing his American citizenship, it is the clearest example of buying into.

27:24 that aristocratic structure and basically establishing political standing as a result of that. From a family that started out making flutes, trading opium, and then furs in Oregon. Which the opium part had to endear him to England. I'm just wondering, since his family came from opium.

27:54 And our body Lord Acton was against the opium parade. I wonder how well they got along in these conversations. Well, that's why I'm saying, I, I think people think that, um, the, the, what would I say? Not details, but the moralistic, um, standings of these people to us should have, um, trumped the globalistic goals, but obviously they didn't.

28:26 No, and it's, you know, it's interesting. These Anglo-American socialites, you know, a lot of these people in the Pilgrim Society, they'd be considered right wing. And it's about this Anglo-American pseudo-fascist set up mercantilist system. And it's really a different vision than that of the Fabians who were always moving towards eventual one world government, global socialism or communism.

28:55 So you can still see the two ideologies are in contrast, but living side by side at the time. So that's the reason why I don't think you can think in terms of right wing and left wing. They're globalist at their heart. The fact that they want to have it done one way or the other, they want to be the seat of power. That's why they were all able to work collectively together.

29:26 clearest example of the hegelian dialect you have to capture both sides so you're going to have people that appearance-wise tend to line up on a more classical liberal side and then a side that um lines up on the classical um socialist side but at the end of the day it's about power and control yeah and the pilgrims you know obviously we talked about how

29:55 closely related they were to the vision of cecil rhodes and it's about make the world england they wanted one world government but they wanted to be the british crown they were imperialists 100 and i'd say the fabians probably would have preferred to see the imperial system broken down and let the new people run the asylum well i think they um well i i disagree with that because i think they were working on behest of the imperialists because again

30:23 They all came from money. The fact that they used the prop or the cloak of trying to help the poor, they were still, at the end of the day, globalists. They were more the technocrats, if you will, because they're the ones that are going to infiltrate the academia. But they were all going in the same direction. World control factored out of the British Empire.

30:50 yeah it all ends there it's just a matter of different flavor it's like yeah the difference between fascism and say communism in the 20th century is literally who actually controls the means of production but the same result if you're not one of them correct all right speaking of the astor family the most famous of the astors is john jacob astor the fourth i think it's really funny on his wiki bio died says north atlantic ocean

31:22 Well, people, that's the Titanic. We'll get to that at the end of his little bio. So he's born at his parents' country estate called Ferncliff in Rhinebeck, New York. Let's just take a look at Ferncliff. Yeah, that's quite an estate. Yeah, that's where he's born. He's also descended from the Livingston family. And the Livingston family ought to be more of a household name. They migrated.

32:05 from Scotland to the Dutch Republic and then to the province of New York and Manhattan in the 17th century. So early settlers, they got the land and it became Manhattan, all that good stuff. His ancestor, Philip Livingston, signed the Declaration of Independence. His ancestor, William Livingston, signed the Constitution. He spent a lot of his time at Livingston Manor and Claremont Manor, which are both along the Hudson River, small little dwelling.

32:40 Oh, and there's another one. This one is Claremont. Unbelievable. Decadence of wealth. I love showing those houses, though. I know. They're amazing. So there's a lot of other people that are famous descendants of the Livingston bloodline. Among them, former presidents of the United States, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, also descended from the Livingston family.

33:19 Eleanor Roosevelt. Yeah. Quite a few Congress critters came from the Livingston bloodline. And the infamous Collier brothers. You've heard of them. I don't know if you're going to remember them, but these are the famous brothers. They had a lot of wealth. They were known for hoarding. They were hoarders. And they just kept themselves in their little whatever their New York apartment flat, whatever it was, and they just collected stuff. And it was really eerie when they got kind of discovered.

33:49 They were freaks, but an interesting bloodline. We live in this democracy, Colonel, where everyone's born equal, right? Where everybody what? Everybody's born equal. Right. Yep. This one bloodline has basically been pumping out people into Congress and the presidency for two centuries. Yeah. These are pilgrims, people. So John Jacob Astor is the youngest of five children and the only son of William.

34:23 Backhouse Astor. I have no idea where that name comes from. But now we're on the American branch. He went to high school at a private boarding school called St. Paul School in Concord, New Hampshire. Of course he did. Right up the road from me. Where do you think he went to school? Ivy League, of course. Yeah, he's Harvard. Harvard. Okay. Yeah, he was a bit of a dork. And in college, he went by the name of Jack. And kind of a joke in the tabloids.

35:02 Instead of Jack Astor, they called him Jack Astor. But, of course, he's born with money and makes a lot more in real estate. Let's get him back down here. He wrote a science fiction book in 1894 called A Journey in Other Worlds. This is about life in the year 2000 on Saturn and Jupiter. I find this funny because we're going to enter, you know, at some point in time, we're going to cross paths again with Orson Welles and some of the other.

35:45 science fiction writers of the early 20th century, and how much of what they wrote is what the technocrats tried to put into motion. Yes. Yeah. So it's interesting that he did that, but he wasn't an idiot. He had a lot of free time, and he had several inventions that he got patents on. He invented a bicycle brake, something called a vibratory disintegrator, which is how you produce gas from peat moss. He helped invent the pneumatic road improver, and he helped develop a turbine engine.

36:19 So pretty impressive guy for being a jackass. He, to me, is like the grandfather of the technocrats. Let me let that marinate. That may work. So 1894 to 96, he becomes a colonel on the military staff of the New York governor. And what happens two years later is the Spanish-American War breaks out. And he personally finances an artillery unit.

36:53 called the astor battery which served in the philippines he was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the u.s volunteers and served on the staff of major general william schaefer i'm sorry shafter in cuba so would have been alongside none other than the rough riders and teddy roosevelt right but again like all these guys burn with a silver spoon in our mouth he serves on the staff i don't think he saw any combat he allowed his yacht to be used by the u.s government in the war

37:27 And he would, of course, receive a Spanish campaign medal for doing, I don't know, maybe nothing, but he insisted to be called Colonel Astor ever since. You know, this guy's been depicted in so many movies about the Titanic. He looks like a handsome lad. He would marry a socialite named Ava Lowell Willing in 1891. She was actually born in Newport, Rhode Island, which means he was born to be a socialite. They had one child.

38:03 Ava Alice Murrell asked her, and they would get divorced by 1909. His ex-wife and daughter moved to England in 1911. In World War I, she would become involved in the Women's War Relief Fund as the vice president. What do we know about those relief funds and charities? They're usually infiltrated. Yeah. She'd get remarried in 1919 to a government of Thomas Lister, who was the fourth Baron Ribblesdale.

38:37 He would pass away a few years later, never had any more kids. She came back to the U.S. in 1940 as Mrs. Ava Willing Ribblesdale and had a very prominent place in New York high society. Interesting woman. Did I get a picture of her? Yeah, here she is. Nice hairdo, Ava. The Right Honorable. Titles of nobility. They love that stuff, don't they? Yep.

39:14 So, obviously, Colonel Astor was one of the early New York figures who helped found the American pilgrims in 1903. And, of course, the first meetings held at the Waldorf Astoria. John Jacob never actually held any positions, official positions, with the pilgrims. Of course, he died in the Titanic in 1912. His estate was valued at about $2.8 billion in today's dollars. Now, everybody in chat is going to know, or think they know,

39:47 that John Jacob Astor was killed on the Titanic because he opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve. That's the urban legend, right? Right. Ready to burst a bubble? Sure. There's absolutely no public record or evidence that Astor ever wrote or spoke in opposition to the Federal Reserve, the 16th Amendment, or the 17th Amendment. That one appears to be a made-up myth. The whole thing with the people canceling their tickets on the Titanic at the very last minute, well, that happened.

40:21 pretty frequently back then uh jp morgan you know would always buy multiple tickets and you know everything like that and then cancel because schedules were harder back then he didn't have private jets so i think a lot of the titanic lore is um probably more conspiracy than fact but the part about john jacob astor opposing the federal reserve does not appear to be true and it would kind of fly in the face of um what we do know

40:52 because they were definitely gatekeepers to the high society, as you've outlined today. Yeah. Interesting guy, the Astor family. They're still with us today. Not as prominent. Want to do another Pilgrim? Yes. Have you heard of Henry White prior to our research? I don't know exactly when I became aware of him.

41:25 It's a fascinating guy. Born in 1850, lived in 1927. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a wealthy and socially connected family. We're getting a lot of Baltimore today, aren't we? Yes. As a boy, I'll tell you how well connected his family was. His grandfather took him to meet the president of the time, Franklin Pierce. During the Civil War, his family from Maryland sympathized with the Confederacy. And then when the war ended in 1865, they moved to France.

42:00 where White would finish his education. The family then had to flee to England during the Franco-Prussian War, and White started showing signs of ill health, so the doctor orders him to maintain a vigorous outdoor athletic regimen. So Henry White becomes an avid fox hunter. It's one of the sports of kings, right? Yep. So he starts mingling with a lot of elite figures from elite families. He marries...

42:38 a Margaret Daisy Stuyvesant Rutherford in 1879. And she was very ambitious and encouraged Henry to pursue a career in diplomacy. He's basically spent 14 years in Europe, so he's kind of interested in international affairs. So he moves back to the United States and starts using their family contacts to pursue getting a diplomatic post. By 1883, he gets his secretary job for the U.S. legation in Vienna under the minister.

43:13 Of our embassy there. None other than Alfonso Taft. Why is the colonel laughing? Because Alfonso Taft is the co-founder of Skull and Bones. He was also the U.S. Attorney General in 1876 and the Secretary of War under Ulysses Grant. Become the ambassador to Austro-Hungary in 1882-84 where White joined him. And then he become the ambassador to Russia in 1884-85. And of course he's the father.

43:42 of skull and bones alumni future president of the united states and supreme court justice william howard taft well connected yeah so henry white's making these connections so 1884 gets promoted to be the second secretary in london under the minister james russell lowell friendly reminder that 18 years later the pilgrim society would be founded and the u.s ambassador to england was always a member of that pilgrim society and they would have a welcome dinner

44:15 for that minister and this is just 18 years before that became a formality right 1884 democrats win the election in america but he keeps his post somehow because everyone likes him and he gets promoted to become the first secretary not the minister itself but the number two guy and he stays there until 1893. so henry and margaret they are socially polished and they are mingling with all the british intellectuals

44:45 And they were charter members of a group called the Souls. The Souls lasted about 15 years, 1885 to 1900. This was like a social group, kind of like a secret society, but not secret at all. Dinner club, everything like that. But there was the who's who of London elite. You could call it the precursor to the Pilgrim Society. You really could. I know. It was more social, I think, at the time.

45:16 But we know how that politics and the social circles really interact. I mean, they're close. They are adjacent. So he comes back to the United States. Now, he's lived in the United States in only three of the last 27 years, but he's an American diplomat representing our interests, apparently. So he moves to Washington, D.C., trying to lay the groundwork for a return to diplomatic service. He wants to be an ambassador. And he's friends with, oh, I don't know.

45:52 Teddy Roosevelt, John Hay, Chauncey DePue, Henry Cabot Lodge, former vice president of the United States, Levy Morton, who was a vice president in 89 under Harrison. That's who he's rubbing elbows with. 1896, McKinley becomes president and offers Henry White the job as the U.S. minister to Spain. A minister is an ambassador before we have an embassy. That's when we have a legacy there. He turns down the job.

46:26 to be the minister to Spain and takes his old job as the number two guy at the court of St. James in England. The ambassador at the time was none other than John Hay. John Hay, of course, was as a descendant named John Hay Whitney, who we talked about quite a bit. He had work to do. It wasn't going to get done in Spain. What was that work? Hay gets recalled.

46:58 to the united states to become get promoted to be the u.s secretary of state and white was hoping for that job but instead it went to joseph choate one of the founders of the pilgrim society yep while they're waiting for choate's arrival as the number two guy henry white was in charge de affairs he's the guy who led the u.s negotiations and was known as the hay ponce folk treaty

47:26 That's important because this is the treaty in 1901 that led to the building of the Panama Canal under the United States supervision only. And that nullified the older Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850, which renounced canal building under control of one nation. This allowed the United States basically to cement its role as the protector of the Pacific Ocean, the Western Hemisphere. Remember that 1895 deal?

47:56 uh with venezuela yeah this is only five years later yep this is all downstream for that and henry white's the guy leading that and how much have you talked about the panama canal and how important it's been geopolitically how did we get control of panama in the first place we stole it from colombia yep and the law firm that uh performed that uh matt was just laying the groundwork

48:27 running intelligence before we had Intel. And here's Henry White. Fun guy, huh? Yeah. 1905. Go ahead. Go ahead. 1905, Teddy Roosevelt appoints him to be the ambassador to Italy. His wife, Margaret, had fallen ill, so his daughter was doing a lot of the hostess role. He is the lead U.S. mediator in the 1906 Algeciras Conference.

48:59 which is about France and Germany over the economic rights in Morocco. This is leading the foundations to World War I. Yep. Leaves Paris. Former President Teddy Roosevelt and him take a tour in 1910 of Europe, where they would meet with every major chief of state in Europe, with the exception of Tsar Nicholas II. Not significant. They're not going to need him. He's not going to be around much longer. No.

49:37 1910, Henry White leads the U.S. delegation to the Pan-American Conference, where White comes back and recommends to Secretary of State Philander Knox that we need to treat these South Americans and Central Americans with more respect. His daughter had married a German aristocrat in 1909. Henry and his wife are visiting them in 1914 when World War I breaks out.

50:09 So Henry and his wife get sequestered in Berlin for two weeks, sent to Netherlands, and they make their way back to America with a couple of their grandchildren in tow. His daughter obviously stayed with her German aristocratic husband. 1918, we have the armistice, World War I. Woodrow Wilson gives a surprising invitation to Henry White to be one of the five American peace commissioners. It's surprising because White's a lifelong Republican.

50:45 Woodrow Wilson is obviously a Democrat. But Wilson really admired his diplomatic experience. So the peace treaty with Germany was signed. Interestingly, the U.S. Senate never ratified that peace treaty. Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State John Lansing went home, leaving White in charge of doing the treaties with Austria, Hungary, Austria and Hungary and Bulgaria. Pretty important guy.

51:17 So he's one of the signers of the Treaty of Versailles. And we're going to talk a lot more about Treaty of Versailles because a lot of these pilgrims were part of that, right? Yes. But 30,000 foot view, the Treaty of Versailles was very punitive to Germany. Germany didn't start the war and they didn't lose the war, but they're going to be assigned most of the blame on it. In that treaty, Germany loses 13% of its territory and 10% of its population just gets stripped out of Germany.

51:50 One day you're a German citizen, next day you're not. The treaty gave Germany military restrictions. They could only grow their army to 100,000 men while all of their neighbors could grow as much as they want. Not very good for German security, is it? No. And the damages that Germany is required to pay was 132 billion gold marks. I can't do the math, but it's a lot. It's more like five times annual German gross domestic product, meaning it could never be paid back. Right.

52:20 which, of course, leads to hyperinflation in 1922, leads to the Weimar Republic and the conditions to make it right for a strong man like Hitler to rise in the 1930s because of this wonderful treaty that Henry White was a part of. White retires after that, stays active as a trustee for things like the National Geographic Society, the Corcoran Gallery, the Smithsonian, which was just in the news for doing what? Rewriting history under DEI.

52:56 Exactly. A favorite thing of these guys. Uh-huh. That's why they're in charge of all the cultural institutions. Right. Otherwise, people would learn the history like we know it and realize these guys were jackasses. And, of course, he's a long-term member of what's known as the Knickerbocker Club, which is pretty much the cool kids social club if you've got millions of dollars. Henry White would die in 1927. Teddy Roosevelt would say about him,

53:30 He is the most useful man in the entire diplomatic service during my presidency and for many years before. Colonel William House, basically the guy who led Woodrow Wilson around the White House by his nose. He was his handler. Without a doubt. Called him, called Henry White, the most accomplished diplomatist this country has ever produced. And he's a pilgrim. Yeah. I would also.

54:03 say that, just in overview of what you just articulated, that it's obvious his role was to thwart any nationalist tendencies in the United States and bring the United States into the limelight of the, you know, globalization, if you will.

54:33 because the little bit of research that I did into him, he obviously was instrumental in the conversations of the League of Nations. And one of the things, one of the authors said that his view of national sovereignty was an obstacle to the orderly administration of the world. What a British thing to say. Yeah. This is treason.

55:05 You know, you're supposed to be swearing an oath to the Constitution of the United States. And there's some things in here that that's not OK, what he's doing. Right. And that's what our elites. These are our blue blood Eastern seaboard elites that join all these social clubs, these secret societies. They've been selling out our country for their own benefit ever since.

55:28 Rob8331 asks, is that the Choate Rosemary Horror School named after Jonathan Choate? I believe so. I will double-check that, and I'll have you an answer very soon, unless you want to look it up yourself. Since you're a smart guy, you can do that. But I do think that is connected, yes. Are we done with Henry? Yes. See, we're not going to get to Winston Churchill, people, but that's next week's lead, because there's way too much about him. Next thing we're going to do is General George C. Marshall.

56:02 He's got a nice little fruit salad on that uniform, doesn't he? Yeah. What's your impression of George Marshall when you were coming up to the military? Oh, he was a hero. What's your impression of him now? He's a bastard. It's amazing what a little bit of history can do to change your. Yeah. We're going to have plenty of time to do this. The colonel is going to be pontificating on this whole subject. Both of us are. So I'll do the history as quickly as I can. Then we can go off.

56:33 and explain why she thinks he's a bastard george c marshall born 1880 in union town pennsylvania graduates from his family's not that special um graduates from virginia military institute in 1901. what's it that you call the mafia well west point is the mafia but bmi would be like a feeder for the mafia receives his commission

57:09 as a second lieutenant in 1902 and goes straight to the Philippines. What's with the Philippines and all these guys? Well, and let me just also say that he just didn't attend VMI. He was actually the cadet commander, which is a big freaking deal. He was the senior guy in his class. Yeah, he seemed to do very well in all of those classes. Yeah. He would rise to become the company commander during the Philippine-American War.

57:39 Not a whole lot of talk in any of the bios I read on him about his actual military action. He seemed to have been a really good administrative officer. Yeah, like the gatekeeper, like when he was aide-de-camp to Pershing. When we'll get there. Yeah. He's a top-ranked honor graduate in the Infantry Cavalry School in 1907. In 1908, he graduates first in the Army Staff College, teacher's pet.

58:13 World War I, he gets assigned to the staff of the First Division. And what he's doing there is he's planning mobilization and training in the United States, nowhere near the combat. And he planned the combat operations in France. After World War I, as Colonel mentioned, he becomes the aide-de-camp to Army Chief of Staff John Pershing. And by the way, that's a grooming staff for anybody that doesn't know. Yeah, this is military industrial complex stuff.

58:48 If this was modern day, he'd be expecting a really good job at Raytheon. Becomes an instructor at the Army War College and has all kinds of other administrative roles I'm not going to bore you guys with, but just basically climbing up the ranks, pushing papers. In 1938, he gets assigned to the War Plans Division of the War Department. And he would become the chief of staff until the end of World War II, where he worked very closely.

59:19 With the Secretary of War, Skull and Bones alumni, Henry Stimson. And let me just say, today, he's the equivalent of what we refer to as a Beltway General, which was Colin Powell. Colin Powell basically had the same kind of career path. Never an operational commander on the front lines. That's George Marshall.

59:47 He's a paper general who was ferreted through the ranks. Du Bois, even though, as you just pointed out, we fought two world wars, he managed to be in exactly the right place to avoid all of that. Citizen Tim says, our constitution was written for citizens of our republic. Our republic lost the Civil War.

1:00:15 Citizen Tim, you and I would have a good time having a beer and talking about that because I could not agree more. Somebody's been reading my notes. Okay, back to our paper general. He gets promoted to become a five-star general. That's important. He would coordinate allied operations in Europe and the Pacific. He would get accolades from people like Winston Churchill.

1:00:46 George Marshall is Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1943 and 1947. Which tells you everything. Time Magazine was formed by who? Henry Luce. And he was a member of which secret society? All of them, but Scullum Bones. I mean, all of them and Scullum Bones. There you go. These are not coincidences, people. This is how the world really works. These little small circles. So let me just.

1:01:23 Let me just throw one thing else in there so that people understand. While he was the chief of the army during World War II, because it's going to be important going forward in everything you're going to say, even though I don't know what you're going to say, he was the man in charge of the logistics and resource allocation of

1:01:52 the entire world war ii as it relates to the army which was the biggest chunk because it had the army air corps in it as well so he is orchestrating the creation of what has lasted the last 80 years of the military industrial complex during world war ii sitting in his perch um

1:02:20 as the chief of staff of the army. Yeah. And of course he's having dinners with all the war profiteers. Yes. Cause they're making deals. And of course, you know, he's also in charge of what the army's doing over in Asia, which is everything. Yeah. Everything from the opium to you name it. Everything.

1:02:44 The entire war military industrial complex was under his thumb. So after the war, there was something called the Congressional Joint Committee investigation on Pearl Harbor. They would criticize Marshall's lack of knowledge and preparedness. Talking about the Pearl Harbor attack. General George C. Marshall had advised FDR to move part of the Pacific Fleet to the Atlantic to assist what's called neutrality patrols. He said the defenses at Oahu made a Japanese attack impossible.

1:03:21 Even though 10 years before that, there had been a war gaming thing that outlined the exact approach that Japan used was successful. Thankfully, FDR ignored those, dismissed those recommendations. It would have been disastrous had he moved half the fleet out of the Pacific. So this is your five-star general who's the man of the year. So he retires from active service, but because he's a five-star, they're required to remain on active duty, and that kind of matters.

1:03:58 1945 to 47, he becomes the special envoy to China, supposedly to negotiate a coalition government between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. How'd that work out, Colonel? Yeah. You ever heard of the story, I mean, we've all heard the narrative of failing upwards? Yes. Is this guy the poster child? Yes. And he's a pilgrim? Yes.

1:04:28 Of course, fills up anymore, becomes the secretary of state in 1947. Hold on a second. So I just want to foot stomp this. How can you be a U.S. military general officer and a Pilgrim Society member whose primary focus is to merge the United States with England? It's treason.

1:05:00 Yes. While you're basically setting the entire groundwork for what you call the military industrial intelligence complex, because the OSS is operating inside the army alongside it in Asia, setting up all of those drug smuggling rings at the time. Yes. Well, and he was he oversaw the whole adoption of the Galen organization in Europe because it was the army.

1:05:33 that set up the Detachment A that transferred all the caches of weapons for the stay-behind units under Hitler into, those were all former counterintelligence army guys that did that. And Eisenhower and Lemitsker was his agents there to do it. Oh, and I'm sure he's got to put a stamp of approval on the orders to not bomb certain factories that are owned by certain American Nazis. Yes. Yeah, all of it is under Marshall.

1:06:07 So in 47, he fails upwards to become the Secretary of the State, where he advocates the rebuilding of Europe under what became known as the Marshall Plan. Now, people, we have talked about how the Great Depression was orchestrated by the banks so they could buy up all the land on the cheap, etc. We never got out of the Great Depression, ever. The New Deal failed. FDR's, all of his plans failed spectacularly. We've talked about that.

1:06:35 The only way we got out of the Great Depression was the full militarization of the entire economy for World War II. That causes a lot of debt. Well, America is the strongest economy in the world because we didn't get bombed and everyone else did. And Europe is broke and needs to be rebuilt. The only way we've got to convert in America all of our wartime factories into producing consumer goods. And nobody in Europe has any money.

1:07:06 to buy that. So we decided to print a whole bunch of dollars to pay our American corporations so we could basically borrow and spend our way out of the Great Depression. And that's how the 50s were so successful. It was not based on savings. It was based on debt. This is Marshall's plan. The Great Depression only ended because of a nationalization of the economy for the war and a post-war stimulus package that eventually led to $38 trillion in debt that we've got today.

1:07:36 It is a terrible economic structure and Marshall's behind it. And all of that post-World War profiteering went through an entity called the World Commerce Corporation, which was set up by who? Oh, wow, Bill Donovan, who was Marshall's buddy during the war. And a pilgrim. And commander of the OSS.

1:08:08 And from Columbia University. And who basically was the orchestrator of the Stay Behind Unit transfer via Alan Dulles. Shoot me now. All right. Of course, they give him the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah, because he's going to be the.

1:08:43 basically the founder of the mechanism, i.e. the stay behind units that will ensure the capture of all of Europe and the rest of the world and their resources. He is a great, it has nothing to do with peace, of course, but he was definitely one of their heroes. And this is basically the Marshall Plan allowed us, it went right alongside with NATO, which is how.

1:09:11 The Anglo-American alliance kept the rest of Europe under its thumb for the last 70 years. By the use of terrorism under the command and control of NATO, who on the civilian side was staffed with Nazis. And 7% of the overall Marshall Plan was covertly channeled to setting up NATO's secret army called Operation Gladio.

1:09:41 All comes full circle, doesn't it? Yes. Remember I told you how much I was looking forward to doing this show? Yes. All right. So Marshall is known for not really liking to do much work. He let his aides do that. He didn't like to be troubled by the minutia. His number two guy was none other than Robert Lovett, who we've talked about a few dozen times. Yeah. Lovett, of course, was a skull and bones. 1949, he becomes.

1:10:13 the chair of the American Battle Monuments Commission and also the president of the American National Red Cross. Interesting. Which shows up more, Red Cross or the YMCA? It's close. I'd say Red Cross, but not by a lot. So it becomes the Secretary of Defense in 1950 to 51. The early months of... What's going on then? Korean War started. Okay.

1:10:46 So the early months showed how poorly the Department of Defense was doing. It's no longer the Department of War. It's now the Department of Defense. So Truman fires Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson and appoints Marshall. This is a problem because under the National Security Act of 1947, uniformed military officers cannot serve as the Secretary of Defense. It requires a waiver. He's the first guy to ever get that waiver. And there are two other people who got those waivers.

1:11:20 General Mattis and none other than Lloyd Austin. Interesting. He brings a deputy along with him, a secretary of defense by the name of Robert Lovett. And he also brought in a woman named Anna Rosenberg as the assistant secretary of defense. And that's interesting because she was the highest ranked woman in U.S. history at the time. So Marshall opposed making overtures to communist China, while he also argued against a wider war in Korea.

1:11:58 He continues to stress the importance of containing the Soviet threat. Then they've got discussions about removing General MacArthur from the Korean theater. This is a big deal. People involved in that conversation are President Harry Truman, George C. Marshall, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Omar Bradley, Secretary of State Skull and Bones alumni Dean Acheson, and just outside advisor by the name of...

1:12:32 Skull and Bones alumni, W. Averill Harriman. And they unanimously agree to remove MacArthur from the theater. How'd that work out? Well, I think the whole, I mean, MacArthur had already did a lot of bad things over there. I mean, he, it was his irresponsibility that got the Chinese involved because he kept.

1:13:02 So if you go back and you look at the whole thing, it was very obvious that this was not about communism per se. It was about ensuring that Kim was not going to have control. Because, again, like all of these, Kim was a nationalist. He was not a communist. And the north part of Korea was the most industrialized, capable engine of Korea.

1:13:32 They had already, they being the U.S. Army in South Korea, had brought Ri back over from the United States where he's weirdly enough was hanging out and had decided to flee when Japan took Korea as colony. So the Koreans viewed him as a traitor. They didn't have any respect for him at all, but he was a tool.

1:14:01 of the americans and so they inserted him basically gave him dictatorial powers because they were not interested in a unified korea if it had anything to do with kim who again was a nationalist who had fought the japanese and supported america during the um world war ii

1:14:24 So he was on our side until he wasn't on our side and he was no longer useful. And but because he had stayed there, he was a hero of the Korean people at the time. And so he had to go just like Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam. It's a pattern. And Marshall and everybody supported this quote unquote pattern of getting rid of competent nationalists who at the time had nothing to do.

1:14:51 with communism because they just want to exploit the country. And MacArthur's whole thrust, I mean, there's stay-behind units that were set up in the northern sector of Korea in the aftermath of World War II. They exterminated massive nationalists in the South. They destroyed Korea before Korean War even started. And MacArthur's thrust into the North was, in some people's opinion, was an attempt

1:15:19 to reinsert Chiang Kai-shek into China, which is why they were going north of the Korean-Chinese border. And those air excursions into the Chinese country pissed China off. And they were like, oh, hell no, you're not going to do that. And that's what brought China into the war to begin with. And that was over-aggression on MacArthur's part. So he definitely needed to go.

1:15:50 But you already set the table that he was an expendable piece at that point. Yeah, fun little side note is MacArthur found themselves fighting against a lot of trucks using Ford engines. Yes. Ford was shipping through the Soviet Union into China. Yeah, they fund both sides always.

1:16:19 Marshall retires in 1951, doesn't do a whole lot. He would die in 1959. In 1953, an act of British Parliament creates what's called the Marshall Scholarship. And this is a living gift. They called it a living gift to the U.S. in gratitude for the Marshall Plan for providing $150 billion in today's dollars to rebuild Europe. And we would refer to it as a grooming tool. There's five bullet points in this British Parliament.

1:16:51 created a marshall plan it's to enable these are exact quotes okay number one to enable intellectually distinguished young americans their country's future leaders to study in the united kingdom so you can continue your anglo alliance you know anglo-american alliance and continue to wag the dog right so we can groom them yes number two to help scholars gain an understanding and appreciation of contemporary britain so your allegiance wouldn't be to america

1:17:25 Number three, to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in science, technology, the humanities and social sciences. Hello, London School of Economics and the creative arts of Britain's centers of academic excellence. Number four, to motivate scholars to act as ambassadors from the United States to the United Kingdom and vice versa throughout their lives, thus strengthening British American understanding. Taking our intellectually elite air quotes and basically flipping their loyalties.

1:18:00 And four, five to promote the personal academic fulfillment of each scholar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the Marshall, go ahead. If I was going to put a piece of propaganda together, it would sound exactly like that. Yeah, pretty much. So obviously it's a pretty hard scholarship to get. It's got about a 3% acceptance rate. And I found a list of the schools where Marshall scholars come from.

1:18:29 Number one on the list is Harvard Radcliffe with 256 scholars. Number two is Princeton with 138. Yale, 125. Stanford, 94. MIT, 83. These are all the CIA grooming grounds too, people. Yes. You got Brown with 51. You ready for this? The US Military Academy, 47. It's a big deal for US Military Academies. Georgetown, 36.

1:18:59 Cornell 34, the Naval Academy 34, Cal Berkeley 33, Duke 32, and at the bottom, Columbia with only 31. And where do they tend to go to school while they're over there? Almost always Cambridge and Oxford. Yep. And did you have a few of their notable? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. The ones that jumped off the page at me were, of course, two Supreme Court justices, Stephen Breyer and Neil Gorsuch. Yep.

1:19:34 We just talked about how John Roberts is Sir John Roberts. Yep. So we've basically got people with British allegiances settling issues about the U.S. Constitution. A lot of them are ambassadors. Yeah. Former CIA Director William J. Burns. Of course. I got Anne Applebaum, the writer for the Washington Post, because you got to get the propaganda arm in there. Yep. My buddy Patrick Byrne.

1:20:05 Was a scholar, Marshall Scholar. Yep. Patrick was brilliant, is still brilliant, I guess, even though he might be wrong on a couple of things geopolitically. Oh, and by the way, he admits to being CIA. Oh, yeah, openly. The last name I had on there that was interesting was Peter Orszag, who is the CEO of Lazard Investment Bank. Thomas Carruthers.

1:20:33 Harvard University grad, London School of Economics while he was receiving his scholarship and vice president of Carnegie Endowment for International War. Mark Whitaker, Harvard, University of Oxford, president of NBC News, editor of Newsweek. So you kind of get the idea that these aren't people that are just going to go off and do whatever it is that they want to do.

1:21:04 One of them that I thought was really interesting is this guy by the name of Richard Cordray. He ends up as the director of Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So which is a shakedown operation. One. It's a mafia thing. And so you basically understand that these people.

1:21:32 are integrated at all levels. One of them ends up as a law professor at Georgetown, which is another CIA grooming thing. They end up as congressional members on the staffs at Princeton and Harvard. They're just literally everywhere. Now, we didn't go through the whole list of the alumni of Rhodes Scholars.

1:22:01 And that's a really long list. And you'll see that throughout. The Rhodes Scholars are going to be basically intergovernment operators all over the English-speaking world. And the Fulbright. Fulbright is another one. Yeah. So this whole idea that they keep preaching to us, we're a democracy, we're all equal and stuff like that. No, we've been ruled by oligarchs for over 200 years. And it's these blue blood, eastern seaboard people that I'm surrounded by that are the ones that are doing it. And they just sit there and lie to our faces.

1:22:29 as they manipulate the pieces on the chessboard throughout more than the past century. Just go ahead and vote harder, people, because that'll change things. Renee says Reid Hoffman. Reid Hoffman's involved with a Marshall plan, but I didn't see him as actually a Marshall scholar. He's just supporting it. There's some recently formed group about 10 years ago that Reid Hoffman was part of. But yeah, I did not find him as a scholar itself, but he's definitely involved.

1:23:01 Renee, if you find out that he was a Marshall Scholar, send me the list. You know where to reach me. That's all I've got for today, Colonel, because that's a lot. That's a lot. Well done. We've got Astors. We've got Marshalls. We've got Lord Acton. We've got the greatest diplomat in history, Henry White, all part of the same pilgrim society, all manipulating the pieces on the chessboard as we scurry along in our useless little lives.

1:23:33 You know what I have to say to those people? Yeah. I'm done with this. I'm serious. This stuff makes me so mad. It does. But it's critical to understand how infiltrated the government is and all levels, academic, government, the corporations, all of it.

1:23:57 Understanding the ties behind the scenes that we now know, and I think more than anything, this series has given people the ability to look behind the veneer for the telltale signs. You have specific things you can now look for, you can hold on to. Are they a Fabian? Did they go to primarily Fabian schools? Did they major in economics? Did they go on any of these scholarships?

1:24:27 That doesn't mean that someone that could check off one of these box, like I had somebody push back that he was a Rhodes Scholar and he hadn't had anything to do with that. And I said, okay, noted. That just means that while you were there, you didn't pass the test to be one of their assets. Good on you. Congratulations.

1:24:49 But that doesn't mean every one of your classmates wasn't, that they didn't pass the test. That's the same thing I would say about the Marshall and Fulbright. Just because you got one doesn't mean that you're going to pass the subsequent test of your loyalty and be admitted into their club. It is a step along a process. And the more of these steps we can identify, where did they go to school? Who are they related to?

1:25:17 All of those things. What did they major in? What jobs did they get immediately? I just saw somebody who had gotten a job basically right out of, I posted about yesterday, right out of school as a speechwriter for the DNI. I'm telling you, that's impossible. I read that post. Yeah, it's absolutely impossible. So chances are he was a covert CIA guy before that.

1:25:46 There's no record because there's a break there. But those types of things allow you to be a much better researcher and provide much better critical analysis of if you've got four of the five milestones, they're on the inside. Just checking boxes, Colonel. Yes. All right, everybody. Thanks for watching on a Saturday. How was our viewership compared to the Friday show usually?

1:26:18 Twice as much. Good to know. You know, it's funny. I look back on my historical Rumble videos. The day of the year that I get more videos watched every year is 4th of July. Oh, that's hilarious. Yeah. Interesting. All right. Thanks, Walt. Cheers.

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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 3:51

“First guy we are going to talk about is none other than Lord Acton. Now, Lord Acton died in 1902, right before the first Pilgrim Society meeting happened in England. But he was very much one of the ar…”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton founded Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 5:30

“That came from Lord Acton, who's one of the founders of the Pilgrim Society, which seems like a contrast, right? Yeah. He came from Naples royalty. His grandfather was an admiral and was also the prim…”

Anton Graf von Arco-Valley assassinated Kurt Eisner documented ▶ 11:10

“Don't care about borders. So he marries, we'll call it Ludmilla. They have six kids. And one of them was a Richard Lyon Dahlberg Acton, the second Baron Acton. Interesting relative they have is a guy …”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton member_of Cambridge University documented ▶ 13:24

“So many things have gone wrong in the 20th century because of papal infallibility. And Acton and Gladstone were pushing against that. 1895, Acton becomes a professor at Cambridge. Remember the place h…”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton founded Cambridge Modern History host_asserted ▶ 14:37

“documents that I have out in my studio. One of the authors noted that he was the editor of the Cambridge Modern History and that it basically became the official narrative of history at Cambridge for …”

William Waldorf Astor II member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 16:38

“Absolutely a pilgrim. In fact, he's actually the epitome of a pilgrim. William Waldorf Astor was born in 1848. He would live until 1919. Born in New York City, is the only child of financier and phila…”

Chester A. Arthur appointed William Waldorf Astor II documented ▶ 20:50

“He is in the New York State Assembly in 1878, New York State Senate in 1880. He tries to run for Congress twice and loses. And the reason for that is William Waldorf has a very shy personality. So in …”

William Waldorf Astor II funded Cambridge University host_asserted ▶ 24:04

“And he would gift all those to his son, Waldorf Astor, in 1914. He became a British subject in 1899. Because he renounced his American citizenship. Indeed. So he's part of this pilgrim society. He's g…”

William Waldorf Astor II funded University of Oxford host_asserted ▶ 24:04

William Waldorf Astor II funded British Red Cross host_asserted ▶ 24:45

“Oh, he also gave a ton of money to the British Red Cross. Any problems with that? Yes. Want to tell the audience why? Because the Red Cross was used basically during this time for covert operations. I…”

British Red Cross covered_up Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 24:45

Philip Livingston member_of Livingston family documented ▶ 32:05

“from Scotland to the Dutch Republic and then to the province of New York and Manhattan in the 17th century. So early settlers, they got the land and it became Manhattan, all that good stuff. His ances…”

John Jacob Astor member_of Livingston family host_asserted ▶ 32:05

William Livingston member_of Livingston family documented ▶ 32:05

George H.W. Bush member_of Livingston family host_asserted ▶ 32:40

“Oh, and there's another one. This one is Claremont. Unbelievable. Decadence of wealth. I love showing those houses, though. I know. They're amazing. So there's a lot of other people that are famous de…”

Collier brothers member_of Livingston family host_asserted ▶ 33:19

“Eleanor Roosevelt. Yeah. Quite a few Congress critters came from the Livingston bloodline. And the infamous Collier brothers. You've heard of them. I don't know if you're going to remember them, but t…”

Eleanor Roosevelt member_of Livingston family host_asserted ▶ 33:19

John Jacob Astor founded Astor Battery documented ▶ 36:53

“called the astor battery which served in the philippines he was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the u.s volunteers and served on the staff of major general william schaefer i'm sorry shafter in cuba…”

John Jacob Astor appointed William Shatner documented ▶ 36:53

John Jacob Astor married Ava Willing Astor documented ▶ 37:27

“And he would, of course, receive a Spanish campaign medal for doing, I don't know, maybe nothing, but he insisted to be called Colonel Astor ever since. You know, this guy's been depicted in so many m…”

Ava Willing Astor married Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale documented ▶ 38:03

“Ava Alice Murrell asked her, and they would get divorced by 1909. His ex-wife and daughter moved to England in 1911. In World War I, she would become involved in the Women's War Relief Fund as the vic…”

John Jacob Astor founded American Pilgrims documented ▶ 39:14

“So, obviously, Colonel Astor was one of the early New York figures who helped found the American pilgrims in 1903. And, of course, the first meetings held at the Waldorf Astoria. John Jacob never actu…”

John Jacob Astor died_in Sinking of the Titanic documented ▶ 39:14

John Jacob Astor opposed Federal Reserve speculative ▶ 39:47

“that John Jacob Astor was killed on the Titanic because he opposed the creation of the Federal Reserve. That's the urban legend, right? Right. Ready to burst a bubble? Sure. There's absolutely no publ…”

Henry White met Franklin Pierce host_asserted ▶ 41:25

“It's a fascinating guy. Born in 1850, lived in 1927. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to a wealthy and socially connected family. We're getting a lot of Baltimore today, aren't we? Yes. As a boy, I'…”

Henry White married Margaret Daisy Stuyvesant Rutherford documented ▶ 42:38

“a Margaret Daisy Stuyvesant Rutherford in 1879. And she was very ambitious and encouraged Henry to pursue a career in diplomacy. He's basically spent 14 years in Europe, so he's kind of interested in …”

Alfonso Taft appointed Henry White documented ▶ 42:38

Alfonso Taft member_of Skull and Bones documented ▶ 43:13

“Of our embassy there. None other than Alfonso Taft. Why is the colonel laughing? Because Alfonso Taft is the co-founder of Skull and Bones. He was also the U.S. Attorney General in 1876 and the Secret…”

William Howard Taft member_of Skull and Bones documented ▶ 43:42

“of skull and bones alumni future president of the united states and supreme court justice william howard taft well connected yeah so henry white's making these connections so 1884 gets promoted to be …”

Henry White member_of The Souls documented ▶ 44:45

“And they were charter members of a group called the Souls. The Souls lasted about 15 years, 1885 to 1900. This was like a social group, kind of like a secret society, but not secret at all. Dinner clu…”

Henry White negotiated Hay-Pauncefote Treaty documented ▶ 46:58

“to the united states to become get promoted to be the u.s secretary of state and white was hoping for that job but instead it went to joseph choate one of the founders of the pilgrim society yep while…”

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty led_to Panama Canal documented ▶ 47:26

“That's important because this is the treaty in 1901 that led to the building of the Panama Canal under the United States supervision only. And that nullified the older Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850, w…”

Henry White mediated Algeciras Conference documented ▶ 48:27

“running intelligence before we had Intel. And here's Henry White. Fun guy, huh? Yeah. 1905. Go ahead. Go ahead. 1905, Teddy Roosevelt appoints him to be the ambassador to Italy. His wife, Margaret, ha…”

Henry White appointed Woodrow Wilson documented ▶ 50:09

“So Henry and his wife get sequestered in Berlin for two weeks, sent to Netherlands, and they make their way back to America with a couple of their grandchildren in tow. His daughter obviously stayed w…”

Henry White signed Versailles Treaty documented ▶ 51:17

“So he's one of the signers of the Treaty of Versailles. And we're going to talk a lot more about Treaty of Versailles because a lot of these pilgrims were part of that, right? Yes. But 30,000 foot vie…”

Versailles Treaty caused West Germany host_asserted ▶ 52:20

“which, of course, leads to hyperinflation in 1922, leads to the Weimar Republic and the conditions to make it right for a strong man like Hitler to rise in the 1930s because of this wonderful treaty t…”

Henry White member_of Knickerbocker Club documented ▶ 52:56

“Exactly. A favorite thing of these guys. Uh-huh. That's why they're in charge of all the cultural institutions. Right. Otherwise, people would learn the history like we know it and realize these guys …”

Edward M. House praised Henry White host_asserted ▶ 53:30

“He is the most useful man in the entire diplomatic service during my presidency and for many years before. Colonel William House, basically the guy who led Woodrow Wilson around the White House by his…”

George C. Marshall graduated_from Virginia Military Institute documented ▶ 56:33

“and explain why she thinks he's a bastard george c marshall born 1880 in union town pennsylvania graduates from his family's not that special um graduates from virginia military institute in 1901. wha…”

George C. Marshall served_in Philippine-American War documented ▶ 57:09

“as a second lieutenant in 1902 and goes straight to the Philippines. What's with the Philippines and all these guys? Well, and let me just also say that he just didn't attend VMI. He was actually the …”

George C. Marshall appointed John J. Pershing documented ▶ 58:13

“World War I, he gets assigned to the staff of the First Division. And what he's doing there is he's planning mobilization and training in the United States, nowhere near the combat. And he planned the…”

George C. Marshall worked_with Henry Stimson documented ▶ 59:19

“With the Secretary of War, Skull and Bones alumni, Henry Stimson. And let me just say, today, he's the equivalent of what we refer to as a Beltway General, which was Colin Powell. Colin Powell basical…”

Henry Luce member_of Skull and Bones host_asserted ▶ 1:00:46

“George Marshall is Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1943 and 1947. Which tells you everything. Time Magazine was formed by who? Henry Luce. And he was a member of which secret society? All of them, …”

George C. Marshall appointed Chiang Kai-shek documented ▶ 1:03:58

“1945 to 47, he becomes the special envoy to China, supposedly to negotiate a coalition government between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. How'd that work out, Colonel? Yeah. You ever heard of the stor…”

George C. Marshall appointed Mao Zedong documented ▶ 1:03:58

George C. Marshall oversaw Gehlen Organization host_asserted ▶ 1:05:00

“Yes. While you're basically setting the entire groundwork for what you call the military industrial intelligence complex, because the OSS is operating inside the army alongside it in Asia, setting up …”

Lyman Lemnitzer member_of Detachment A host_asserted ▶ 1:05:33

“that set up the Detachment A that transferred all the caches of weapons for the stay-behind units under Hitler into, those were all former counterintelligence army guys that did that. And Eisenhower a…”

George C. Marshall oversaw Detachment A host_asserted ▶ 1:05:33

George C. Marshall funded Marshall Plan documented ▶ 1:06:07

“So in 47, he fails upwards to become the Secretary of the State, where he advocates the rebuilding of Europe under what became known as the Marshall Plan. Now, people, we have talked about how the Gre…”

William J. Donovan founded World Commerce Corporation host_asserted ▶ 1:07:36

“It is a terrible economic structure and Marshall's behind it. And all of that post-World War profiteering went through an entity called the World Commerce Corporation, which was set up by who? Oh, wow…”

William J. Donovan member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 1:07:36

Allen Dulles carried_out_attack Stay-behind units host_asserted ▶ 1:08:08

“And from Columbia University. And who basically was the orchestrator of the Stay Behind Unit transfer via Alan Dulles. Shoot me now. All right. Of course, they give him the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize. Yea…”

George C. Marshall funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:09:11

“The Anglo-American alliance kept the rest of Europe under its thumb for the last 70 years. By the use of terrorism under the command and control of NATO, who on the civilian side was staffed with Nazi…”

Harry S. Truman removed_from_power Louis Johnson documented ▶ 1:10:46

“So the early months showed how poorly the Department of Defense was doing. It's no longer the Department of War. It's now the Department of Defense. So Truman fires Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson …”

Harry S. Truman appointed George C. Marshall documented ▶ 1:10:46

George C. Marshall appointed Robert Lovett documented ▶ 1:11:20

“General Mattis and none other than Lloyd Austin. Interesting. He brings a deputy along with him, a secretary of defense by the name of Robert Lovett. And he also brought in a woman named Anna Rosenber…”

George C. Marshall appointed Anna Rosenberg documented ▶ 1:11:20

Harry S. Truman removed_from_power Douglas MacArthur documented ▶ 1:12:32

“Skull and Bones alumni, W. Averill Harriman. And they unanimously agree to remove MacArthur from the theater. How'd that work out? Well, I think the whole, I mean, MacArthur had already did a lot of b…”

Douglas MacArthur attempted_coup_against Chiang Kai-shek host_asserted ▶ 1:14:51

“with communism because they just want to exploit the country. And MacArthur's whole thrust, I mean, there's stay-behind units that were set up in the northern sector of Korea in the aftermath of World…”

Ford Motor Company supplied_arms_to Soviet Union host_asserted ▶ 1:15:50

“But you already set the table that he was an expendable piece at that point. Yeah, fun little side note is MacArthur found themselves fighting against a lot of trucks using Ford engines. Yes. Ford was…”

Ford Motor Company supplied_arms_to China host_asserted ▶ 1:15:50

United Kingdom funded Marshall Scholarship documented ▶ 1:16:19

“Marshall retires in 1951, doesn't do a whole lot. He would die in 1959. In 1953, an act of British Parliament creates what's called the Marshall Scholarship. And this is a living gift. They called it …”

Neil Gorsuch member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:18:59

“Cornell 34, the Naval Academy 34, Cal Berkeley 33, Duke 32, and at the bottom, Columbia with only 31. And where do they tend to go to school while they're over there? Almost always Cambridge and Oxfor…”

Stephen Breyer member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:18:59

John Kelly member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:19:34

“We just talked about how John Roberts is Sir John Roberts. Yep. So we've basically got people with British allegiances settling issues about the U.S. Constitution. A lot of them are ambassadors. Yeah.…”

Patrick Byrne member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:19:34

Anne Applebaum member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:19:34

William J. Burns member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:19:34

Peter Orszag member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:20:05

“Was a scholar, Marshall Scholar. Yep. Patrick was brilliant, is still brilliant, I guess, even though he might be wrong on a couple of things geopolitically. Oh, and by the way, he admits to being CIA…”

Mark Whitaker member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:20:33

“Harvard University grad, London School of Economics while he was receiving his scholarship and vice president of Carnegie Endowment for International War. Mark Whitaker, Harvard, University of Oxford,…”

Thomas Crothers member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:20:33

Richard Cordray appointed Consumer Financial Protection Board documented ▶ 1:21:04

“One of them that I thought was really interesting is this guy by the name of Richard Cordray. He ends up as the director of Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So which is a shake…”

Richard Cordray member_of Marshall Scholarship host_asserted ▶ 1:21:04

Reid Hoffman funded Marshall Plan host_asserted ▶ 1:22:29

“as they manipulate the pieces on the chessboard throughout more than the past century. Just go ahead and vote harder, people, because that'll change things. Renee says Reid Hoffman. Reid Hoffman's inv…”

George C. Marshall member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 1:23:01

“Renee, if you find out that he was a Marshall Scholar, send me the list. You know where to reach me. That's all I've got for today, Colonel, because that's a lot. That's a lot. Well done. We've got As…”

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 1:23:01

Henry White member_of Pilgrims Society host_asserted ▶ 1:23:01