Badlands Media - Badlands Book Club: The Creature From Jekyll Island - Chapter 14

Episode Date: September 11, 2026

CannCon and Ashe in America press into Chapter 14 of The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, titled The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, and the story gets darker fast. This week covers the actual coup that brought the Bolshevik minority to power in Russia, the New York financiers hiding behind Red Cross credentials, and the gap between the official humanitarian story and what really happened. The hosts unpack the two separate revolutions of 1917, why Lenin and Trotsky were not even in Russia when the first one occurred, and how a well funded minority faction ended up controlling an entire nation almost overnight. They also open the door into a side trip through World War II and the financing of both sides of that conflict, though the chapter is not finished this week. Expect uncomfortable parallels to modern events and plenty of genuine disbelief from the hosts.

The Badlands, what are the Badlands? Explain those Badlands. That's a hell of their name. All right. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Badlands Book Club. Welcome to the Bad Mood Hour, where we are learning about how everything about our existence is fake. Knowingly fake.

They know it's fake. They're just profiting off it, so they keep it fake. But, Ash, you silly goose, this is just part of the problem. problem with our society. I was listening to John and the Daily Herald talk about the $5,000 dividends. And, you know, my position on the dividends is based on them being dividends. It's based on them not being taken from taxation, but from tariff revenue. Can I verify and know that that's happening? No. But my position on it is based on that. And he started talking about, we have $40 trillion in debt. We can't afford this. We have to use money paid on the debt.

and I'm going, debt's not real, bro. That's, none of it's real. None of our current financial system, the global financial system, is a scam. It is a system like our elections that is designed to defraud under the color of legitimacy. And so, no, I don't think we have to pay down the debt. I think that as we transition to a golden age infrastructure, golden age system, system, whatever that looks like. I don't think the debt's going to be super relevant. But I think it's going to end up being a GART panel. So that'll be fun. Also, buy your Gart

tickets, Badlandsmedia.tvies. We'll be in Vegas next week. It's going to be super fun. Okay. I'm with you. That was my take right there. If it's dividends, I mean, is it the best allocation of our money? Is it the best use? Maybe. Maybe not. You can make the argument either away. I'm not totally opposed to it, but I'm also not totally for it. I mean, I'll tell you why I'm for it. I like the precedent. I like the precedent of Americans getting a return on investment, right, from the funding not only of our nation, but of the world. Americans have been funding the world. They've been funding the R&D, the innovation, technology, pharma, all of these things for the world. And the elites who design these solutions have been getting the returns on investment,

inverting that, giving it back to the people I like. That's not taxation, right? I mean, it could be argued it's a form of tax on corporations, right? But in terms of the individual, it's not income taxation for the individual that's being redistributed. And I'm for it. I like the precedent of the Americans getting a return on investment. There's a lot of talk about UBI in the context of the technology transformation, right? AI is replacing jobs. There's going to need to be UBI or as Elon talks about UBW, universal basic wealth. The only way that that can happen in which I would support it and even be willing to have the conversation is if we're talking about it as returns on investments, not as taking

from some individual Americans and giving to other individual Americans. And I think that's what President Trump is talking about. I think that's what Scott Bestant is talking about. And so let's see what happens. the interesting thing about that whole concept of giving dividends for tariffs that you know for what we what we either import or export is that it's not socialized like it's not socialism like we had the debate this morning kind of a debate i was trying to move on you and alf on Thursday mornings is quickly becoming one of my favorite rage hours well i i mean i i don't i don't think you're

raging at me. I think we align pretty well on this. Oh, no, I'm totally on your side when we're talking about Alpha. Yeah, I mean, anybody with actual principles that they stand by, um, kind of it's, it's very difficult for me to have those conversations. Uh, and, and not some, like, I understand Alpha's opinions. I understand them. My, my problem is people, I understand them. I don't at all agree with them. Well, wait, sorry, sorry, which opinions, because they are inconsistent. this will definitely be hashed out at Gart. We're not going to, we're not going to do it here.

Both on the stage and in every interaction I have with help at Gart next week. Poor guy is going to be ducking at ash everywhere he goes. Like, looking, is ash around the corner waiting to pounce on me about? He has jumped the shark recently. He, there is,

there is no line. He won't cross. And that's, that's very dangerous in my opinion. But it's kind of like what he's doing is kind of like the social socialism that I spoke of in Venezuela. It's the government making a resource, in this case selling the resource, whereas here it's importing the resource. So we're kind of the opposite of Venezuela in the sense that Venezuela is sitting on 300 billion

gallons or 300 billion barrels of oil. And that is a hot commodity. They're the largest, they have the largest reserves. in the world and they only have 28 million people as opposed to us with 330 million. So they're able to sell that oil and use that as their social incentive. They're able to incentivize the people with the resources from their country that are being extracted. Here it's the opposite. We have become a consumer-based economy and as the country is making tariffs, which they call them taxes on the people, it's absurd. It's taxes on corporations that decide to take loopholes and import cheap labor and cheap

goods into the U.S. and therefore, you know, pay for it. It's incentivizing us in almost like the reverse of what Venezuela does. But it is a form. I didn't think of this until just now. It is a form of socialism. But it's, it's, yeah, it is. It absolutely is. Anytime you, any time you are taking the wealth from others and you're taking the wealth from the corporation. Who are you taking it from? In a sovereign wealth fund, who are you taking it from? You're taking it from the corporations that are paying these tariffs. And you're taking those tariffs, the government is taking them and distributing them to the people. Now, again, I don't think that that's a bad thing because it's not, it's not being extracted from the people. It's not like the wealth that we were talking, hold on,

last point. It's not like the mom subsidy thing that we were talking about yesterday and today, where you're extracting taxes from American citizens and then redistributing it to other American citizens. That's a system that will never be able to work. So, and I'll land that there. So a dividend is not redistribution. No, no, no. It's not. A dividend is treat. the American people as shareholders in the nation, which is what the Saudis do with their sovereign wealth fund. The Saudi people are shareholders and the wealth of the nation. The nation exists off the backs of the people, right? And the people and their investments, they should see some benefit from them.

It is not socialism in that it is a, it is a, it's not, it's not, you're not, you're not, not redistributing, you are... It's not redistribution. Right. Distribution. Right. Distribution. Right.

Distribution. But I think where this is getting caught up, and I think some of what John was talking about, falls into this trap as well, is looking at the end state action, the giving money to Americans, right? That's the part that is being looked at as the key, and that's the part that's being debated. And we're debating that on a number of different fronts right now. We're debating it in this tariff.

5,000 dividend thing, but we're also debating it in the $9,000 for family thing. People are treating those as the same. John on his show today asked me in the chat, how is it different? The difference is not at the end state action. It's at the underlying structural premise for how the end state action is happening. So it is not taxing from rich people and giving it to everyone or giving it to less rich people or whatever. It is building a system that you have passive wealth and income for the nation and treating the American people as shareholders in that. If they were, Brian, taking this wealth, the wealth generated from tariffs, and again, the assumption that the tariff revenue is real, and I can't verify that, I don't know,

but based on the assumption that the tariff revenue is real, if they were taking that revenue and giving free health care for all, or taking that revenue and giving, you know, building, you know, more government schools or free college education or whatever. They were doing those things as a centralized government system with that wealth. That would be socialism. Giving the American people a disbursement as a return on their investment is not socialism. Again, fair enough. The redistribution as opposed to distribution was probably a lack of.

It is not redistribution. The $9,000. I'm agreeing with you that redistribution. I was just broadly talking about it. But the $9,000 thing is redistribution, right? I know. I'm agreeing with you. I'm not arguing with you.

I'm just clarifying that these things are all being debated in the public sphere as the same thing. Because people are focused on the end state of giving money to Americans bad socialism. But the underlying structural change is really important in this case. And that's what people should be, you know, discussing. And everybody keeps asking if this is going to be counted as income and if it's going to be taxed, my opinion. is the IRS needs to go the fuck away. I agree with that, but it will be because dividends are, I believe dividends are taxed as a return on investment for stock investments.

So it will most likely be taxed. So, all right. So again, we are going to dive in. We're going to play one more sponsor here real quick. We are covering, I see a John just rated us over here, or just rated you all over here. So we are covering a creature from Jekyll Island. We are in chapter 14 today. And, you know, if you're new here, welcome.

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Like he is dry skin and he's on trial. Trying to figure out what the legal question in this case has been, has been difficult. He's from California, so the dry skin would work there. But Zach at the end when he's like, I say, I say order in this court. It reminds me.

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So that was really helpful. But, you know, part one and part two are different. Part one was a lot of background and, you know, kind of definition of terms and history in the context of the setup. And then we're in part two looking at execution phase, which is, you know, much more interesting. Regardless, it's all enraging. And by favorite, you mean what's the part of the book? It has made you most raging yet, right? Like, that's what you're asking.

Yeah, the Lusitania chapter I've talked the most about since reading it. But the name of the game is bailout is probably my favorite because it's a foundation for it. All the Mandrake Mechanism as well. The whole book is fantastic. And again, don't have an argument with me about the deep state if you haven't read this book because you are coming from a position of weakness. Or the markets or the, you know, loans and Fannie and Freddie and student loans. and all of these things, if you're arguing from a headline standpoint about any financial

discussion happening in the United States of America and you haven't read this book, you are losing that argument. Amen. All right. Chapter 14, the best enemy money can buy. The coup d'etat in Russia in which the Bolshevik minority seized control from the revolutionary majority. The role played in New York financiers masquerading as Red Cross officials in supporting

the Bolsheviks, the unbroken record. the unbroken record since then of American assistance in building Russia's war-making potential, the emergence of a credible enemy in accordance with the Rothschild formula. In the previous section, we saw that the Red Cross mission in Revolutionary Russia was, in the words of its own personnel, quote, nothing but a mask. This leads to the logical question, what were the true motives and goals that were hidden behind that mask? In later years, it would be explained by the participants themselves that they simply were engaged in a humanitarian effort to keep Russia in the war against Germany

and thus to help the cause of freedom for England and her allies. For Jacob Schiff and other Jewish financiers in New York, there was the additional explanation that they opposed the Tsar because of his anti-Semitism. These, of course, are admirable motives, and they have been uncritically accepted by mainstream historians ever since. Unfortunately, the official explanations do not square with the facts. He's saying it's not just brazen anti-Semitism? Apparently not.

There's nothing new under the sun. Russia's two revolutions. The facts are that there were two revolutions in Russia that year, not one. The first called the February Revolution resulted in the establishment of a provisional socialist government under the leadership of Alexander Kerensky. It was relatively moderate in its policies and attempted to accommodate all revolutionary factions, including the Bolsheviks, who were the small, all's minority. When the February revolution occurred, Lenin and Trotsky were not even in Russia. Lenin was in Switzerland and didn't arrive until April. Trotsky was still in New York, writing propaganda and giving speeches. The second revolution, called the October Revolution,

was the one through which the Bolsheviks came to power. It was, in fact, no revolution at all. It was a coup d'etat. The Bolsheviks simply took advantage of the confusion and indecisiveness that existed among the various groups that compromised the new government and caught them by surprise with a lightning of, with a lightning strike of force. With a combination of bribes and propaganda, they recruited several regiments of soldiers and sailors and, in the early morning darkness of October 25th, methodically took military possession of all government buildings and communication centers. No one was prepared for such audacity and resistance was almost non-existent. By dawn, God, you can see this happening again, right? By dawn, without, I mean,

it did in November 3rd, 2020. By dawn, without the Russian people even knowing what had happened, much less having any voice in that action, their country had been captured by a minority faction and became the world's first so-called People's Republic. Within two days, Kerenzky had fled for his life and all provisional government ministers had been arrested. That is how the communist sees Russia, and that is how they held it afterwards. Contrary to the Marxian myth, they have never represented the people. They simply have the guns. The basic fact of this so-called revolution are described by Professor Leonard Shapiro in his authoritative work,

the Russian revolutions of 1917. Quote, all the evidence suggests that when the crisis came, the great majority of unit of the Petrograd garrison did not support the government but simply remained neutral. The Cossack units rejected its call for support, leaving the government with only a few hundred women soldiers around 2,000 military cadets on its side. The Bolsheviks, on the other hand, could count on several regiments to carry out their orders. Units of the Baltic fleet also supported them. In the event, the Bolshevik takeover was almost bloodless. In contrast, with what happened in February.

Nothing could have been less like a city in the throes of a revolution than Petrograd on 25 October. Crowds of well-dressed people thronged the streets in the evening. Theaters and restaurants were open and at the opera, Shalipin?

Shalipan? Shalipan? Somebody in the chat, I don't know how that's pronounced. Saying in Boris Gadunov. And I kind of need to know who that opera sang. years now. I'll listen to that after the show. The principal stations and services had all been

taken over by the morning of 25 October without a shot being fired. A battleship and several cruisers, including the Aurora, had reached Petrograd from Cronstadt and were anchored with their guns trained on targets in the city. The provisional government inside the Winter Palace received an ultimatum calling for surrender of its members under threat of bombardment of the palace by Aurora and by the guns of the Peter and Paul Fortress. It was only 9.40 p.m. that the Aurora was ordered to fire and discharge one blank shell. The main effect of this was to accelerate the thinning out of the cadet defenders of the palace who had already begun to dwindle. The women soldiers who had formed part of its defense force also left before the palace was invaded. At 11 p.m., some live shells were fired, and the palace

was slightly damaged. The story of the dramatic storming of Winter Palace, popular with Soviet historians and in the cinema, is a myth. Around 2 a.m. on 26 October, a small detachment of troops, followed by an unruly crowd led by two members of the MRC, Military Revolutionary Committee, entered the palace. The remaining officer cadets were apparently prepared to resist, but were ordered to surrender by the ministers. In the end, the total casualties were three officer cadets were wounded. did. Wow. Popular support was not necessary. Eugene Lyons had been correspondent for United Press and Revolutionary Russia. He began his career as highly sympathetic to the Bolsheviks and their new regime, but six years of actual living inside the new socialist utopia shattered his illusions.

In his acclaimed book, Workers Paradise Lost, he summarizes the true meaning of the October Revolution. Quote, Lenin, Trotsky, and other cohorts, did not overthrow the monarchy. They overthrew the first Democratic society in Russian history, set up through a truly popular revolution in March 1917. They represented the smallest of the Russian radical movements, but theirs was a movement that scoffed at numbers and frankly mistrusted the multitudes. The workers could be educated for their role after the revolution. They would not be led, but driven to their terrestrial heaven. Lenin always sneered at the obsession of competing socialist groups with their mass base.

Give us an organization of professional revolutionaries, he used to say, and we will turn Russia upside down. That is eerily. Does yours end there? No, that's eerily relevant. I'm sorry, I was putting words together. Even these contingents were pathetically duped, having not the remotest notion of the real purpose for which they were being used.

They were striking out, they thought, for the multidis. multi-party Soviets for freedom, equality, and other goals which their organizers regarded as emotional garbage. On the brink of the dictatorship, Lenin dared to promise that the state will fade away, since, quote, all need of force will vanish. Not at some remote future, but at once, quote, the proletarian state begins to wither immediately after its triumph. For in a classless society, a state is unnecessary and impossible. Soviet power is a new kind of state in which there is no bureaucracy, no police, no standing army, end quote. Also, quote, so long as a state exists, there is no freedom.

When there is no, when there is freedom, there will be no state. Within a few months after they attained power, most of the Tsarist practices that the Leninites, Leninists had condemned or revived, usually in more ominous forms. Political prisoners, convictions without trial, and without formality of charges, savage persecution of dissenting views, death penalties for more varieties of crime than in any other modern nation, the rest were put into effect in the following years, including the suppression of all other parties, restoration of internal passport, a state monopoly of the press, along with representative repressive practices that the monarchy had outlived for a century or more. That's the end of that passage.

All of this, of course, is a departure from the main narrative, but it has been necessary to illustrate a fact. that has been obscured by the passage of time and acceptance of myth by mainstream historians. The fact is that Lenin and Trotsky were not sent to Russia to overthrow the anti-Semitic czar. Their assignment from Wall Street was to overthrow the revolution. Amazing, isn't it? They created a vacuum. World War II or, excuse me, World War I created a vacuum in Russia and left it completely vulnerable to somebody like the Trotsky, you know, and the Leninist, Trotskyites

I was just going to say that their assignment from Wall Street was to overthrow the revolution. That's what we speculate, at least I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I speculate any time. And it's based on my own personal experience and watching the experience of others as a lot of these things have publicly happened over the past six years. It is the anytime the people start to get organized, start to get most. motivated for change, start to push in their local communities and in their states and to an extent at the federal, but really I'm, you know, talking more local and state. As they start to get organized for change, you get this infiltration, right, that comes in its name, in the name of the change and is actually intent on disrupting, creating chaos, division, keeping people on their heels, fighting each other in their movement, instead. of pursuing the change that they organize. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. There was a video that somebody had posted on X. I saw it yesterday, a guy named Kenny Webster, and he was out like doing a man on the street type interview or whatever, and he came across

one of these communists, like protests. And he starts asking this woman, like, you want to debate me on communism versus, you know, I hate saying capitalism, but, you know, free enterprise. do you want to debate me on that? And, you know, they got back into it. And she says, she volunteers this other guy that's like, he's the leader. He'll debate you on it. And so the guy comes, comes over and he keeps asking him, what is communism ever given society? And his example that he cites is the Bolshevik revolution.

Like, he's bragging about this. And like, do you not realize what the Bolshevik revolution actually was? You know, and I don't think these people do. I think they, well, we see the same, we see the same thing with the, you know, kind of lionizing of Mao. Yeah. And people talk about Mao's youth movements as a beautiful thing. I think we're seeing a rerun of that happening, certainly here in my state.

But they just ignore what happened to those kids, you know, and they focus on literacy. Well, yeah, I mean, they did teach everybody to read a new simplified version of Mandarin and then had them read brainwashing propaganda. I don't know if we're getting... And kids today have pictures. of them on their walls. I don't know if, yeah, exactly. I don't know if we'll get into it in this book or not, but, you know, Mao is another one that was propped up by American society, by American. It's got to be in here. It's in the 1960s. Oh, okay. Then we probably will get to it, so I won't

comment on. We're just not there yet, I don't think. All right, your turn, good. Notes from Lincoln, Stephan's diary. That this was the prevailing motive of the New York money powers was clearly brought to light in the diary of Lincoln Stephens, one of America's best known, leftist writers of that time. Stephens was on board with the SS Christiana Fjord when Trotsky was taken off and arrested in Halifax. He carefully

wrote down the conversations he had with the other passengers who were headed to strife torn Russia. One of these was Charles Crane, vice president of the Crane Company. Crane was a backer of Woodrow Wilson, arguably the worst president in American history,

and former chairman of the Democrat Party's financing. Committee. He also had organized the Westinghouse Company in Russia and made no fewer than 23 prior visits. His son, Richard Crane, was the confidential assistant to then Secretary of State Robert Lansing. It is instructive, therefore, to read Stefan's notes regarding the views of these traveling companions. He wrote, quote, all agree that the revolution is in its first phase only, that it must grow. Crane and the Russian radicals on the ship think we shall be impetrogram. for the re-revolution. Precisely. Re-revolution was the expectation and the goal,

not the elimination of anti-Semitism. With regard to Thompson's claim that he was merely trying to keep Russia in the war against Germany, here again the logic of actual events speak against it. Kerensky and the provisional government were for the war effort. They were for the war effort. There's emphasis on that work. Yet the Red Cross masqueraders eventually, through their strongest support to the Bolsheviks who were against it. Their excuse was that it was obvious the Bolsheviks would soon control the new government and they were merely looking to the future. They did not like the Bolsheviks, they said, but had to deal with them pragmatically.

So they became staunch supporters merely to gain influence with the inevitable victors and hopefully to persuade them to change their position on the war. Alas, it didn't work out that way. influence they had, as we have seen, but the Bolsheviks never wavered in their views. After season control in the October coup d'etat, they did exactly what they claimed all along they would do. They signed a peace treaty with Germany and confiscated private property. They also began one of the world's greatest bloodbaths to eliminate their opposition. None of this could be blamed on the masqueraders, you understand.

It was the fault of Wilson and the other politicians at home who, by not following Thompson's recommendation to send U.S. tax dollars to the Bolsheviks forced them into such drastic action. That at least is the accepted view. That is a description of a mafia. In reality, a Bolshevik victory at that time was anything but certain and there was little reason beyond the support given by the New York financiers themselves to believe they would become the dominant voice of Russia. But even if we grant the assumption that these men were unusually astute political observers who were truly able to foresee the future course. We are still faced with the serious obstacles, not the least of which are the thoughts and words of the masqueraders themselves. For example, in February of

1918, Arthur Bullard was in Russia as head of the Russian branch of the Committee on Public Information, which was the war propaganda arm of the U.S. government. Bullard was aptly described by historian George Kennan as a, quote, liberal socialist, freelance writer, and private eye of Colonel House. In his official capacity, he had many occasions to consult with Raymond Robbins, and in a report describing one of these conversations, Bullard wrote, quote, he, Robbins, had one or two reservations, in particular that recognition of the Bolsheviks was long overdue, that it should have been effective immediately, and that had the U.S. so recognized the Bolsheviks, quote, I believe that we would now be in control of the surplus resources of Russia and have control

officers at all points on the frontier. Wolves behind the mask. Why do you make me beat you? Wolves behind the mask, the following year, the U.S. Senate conducted an investigation into the role played by prominent American citizens in supporting the Bolsheviks rise to power. One of the documents entered into the record was an early communique communique from robins to bruce lockhart in it robin said quote you will hear it said that i am an agent of wall street that i am the servant of william b thompson to get at al tai cooper for him that i have already gone that excuse me that i have already got 500 000 acres of the best timberland in russia for myself that i have already copped off the trans siberian railway, that they have given me a monthly monopoly of the platinum in Russia, that this explains

my working for the Soviet. You will hear that talk now. I do not think it's true, Commissioner, but let me, let us assume that it is true. Let us assume that I am here to capture Russia for Wall Street and American businessman. Let us assume that you are a British wolf and I am an American wolf and that when this war is over, we are going to eat each other up for the Russian market. Let us do so in perfectly frank man fashion, but let us assume at the same time that we are fairly intelligent wolves and that we know that if we do not hunt together in this hour, the German wolf will eat us both up. Professor Sutton has placed all this into perspective. In the following passage, he is speaking specifically about William Thompson, but his remarks apply with equal force to Robbins

and all other financiers who were part of the Red Cross mission in Russia. Quote, Thompson's motives were primarily financial and commercial. Specifically, Thompson was interested in the Russian market and how this market could be influenced, diverted, and captured for post-war exploitation by a Wall Street syndicate or syndicates. Certainly, Thompson viewed Germany as an enemy, but less a political enemy than an economic or commercial enemy. German industry and German banking were the real enemy. To outwit Germany, Thompson was willing to place seed money on any political power vehicle that would achieve his objective. In other words,

Thompson was an American imperialist fighting against German imperialism, and this struggle was shrewdly recognized and exploited by Lenin and Trotsky. Thompson was not a Bolshevik. He was not even pro-Bolshevik. Neither was he pro-Kerenzky, nor was he even pro-American.

The overriding motivation was the capturing of the post-war Russian market. This was a commercial objective. Ideology could sway revolutionary operators like Kaczynski, Trotsky, Lenin, at all, but not financiers. Did the wolves of the roundtable actually succeed in their goal? Did they, in fact, capture the surplus resources of Russia?

The answer to that question will not be found in our history books. It must be tracked down along the trail of subsequent events and what we must look for is this. If the plan had not been successful, we would expect to find a decline of interest on the part of high finance, if not outright hostility. on the other hand if it did succeed we would expect to see not only continued support but some evidence of profit taking by the investors a payback for their efforts and their risk with those footprints as our guide let us turn now to overview to an overview of what was actually what has actually happened since the bolsheviks were assisted to power by the roundtable network um you want to read those i don't know if it's a new yeah i just you know it's it's it's so interesting Raymond Robbins was the head of the American Red Cross mission, right? Like, we need to, we need to go help these war-torn areas and bring relief and supplies and aid and, you know, aid from the U.S. U.S.

We, you know, the American, American aid. And he is having conversations with these military leaders and corporate leaders about controlling all of the resources in Russia. So just apply to all American aid endeavors. Item. After the October Revolution, all the banks in Russia were taken over and nationalized by the Bolsheviks except one, the Petrograd branch of Rockefeller's National City Bank. Item, heavy interest in Russia was also national. What? Heavy industry. What did I say? Interest. Oh, industry. Yeah. It is Heavy industry in Russia was also nationalized, except the Westinghouse plant, which had been

established by Charles Crane, one of the dignitaries aboard the SS Cristiana Fjord, who had traveled to Russia with Trotsky to witness the re-revolution. Item. In 1922, the Soviets formed their first international bank. It was not owned and run by the state, as would be dictated by communist theory, but was put together by a syndicate of private bankers. These included not only former Tsarist bankers, but representatives of German, Swedish, and American banks. Most of the foreign capital came from England, including the British government itself.

The man appointed as director of the foreign division of the new bank was Max May, vice president of Morgan's Guarantee Trust Company in New York. Item. In the years immediately following the October Revolution, There is a steady stream of large and lucrative, read non-competitive contracts issued by Soviets to British and American businesses, which were directly or indirectly run by the Roundtable Network. That still happens today. The largest of these, for example, was a contract for 50 million pounds of food products to Morrison Company, Chicago Meatpackers.

Edward Morris was married to Helen Swift, whose brother was Harold Swift. Harold Swift had been a major at the Red Cross mission in Russia. Item. In payment for these contracts and to return the loans, in scare quotes, of the financiers, the Bolsheviks all but drained their country of its gold, which included the Tsarist government's sizable reserve and shipped it primarily to American and British banks. In 1920 alone, one shipment came to the U.S. through Stockholm valued at 39 million Swedish croner. Three shipments came directly direct involving 540 boxes of gold valued at 97,200,000 gold rubles, plus at least one other direct shipment bringing the total to about 20 million. Remember, these are 1920 values. The arrival

of those shipments was coordinated by Jacob Schiff's Coon Loeb and Company and deposited by Morgan's Guarantee Trust. Kutata, indeed. Item. It was about this time that the Wilson and Minnesota sent 700,000 tons of food to the Soviet Union, which not only saved the regime from certain collapse, but gave Lenin the power to consolidate his control over all of Russia. The U.S. Food Administration, which handled this giant operation, was handsomely profitable for those commercial enterprises that participated. It was headed by Herbert Hoover and directed by Lewis Lichtenstein, Strauss, married to Alice Hanauer, daughter of one of the partners of Coon Loeb and Company. Item. U.S. British and German wolves soon found a bonanza of profit in

selling to the new Soviet regime. Standard oil and general electric supplied 37 million worth of machinery from 1921 to 1925, and that was just the beginning. Junker's aircraft in Germany literally created Soviet airpower. At least three million slave laborers perished in the icy mines of Siberia, digging ore for Britain's Lena Goldfields Limited. W. Averill Harriman, a railroad magnate and banker from the United States, who later was to become ambassador to Russia, acquired a 20-year monopoly over all Soviet manganese production. Armand Hammer, close personal friend of Lenin, made one of the world's greatest fortunes by mining Russian asbestos. Is that, is that where Armand Hammer gets their name from?

Armand Hammer? I don't know. Look that up. Is that where Arm and Hammer, like Arm and Hammer cleaning supplies, right? That's, baking soda, mostly, right? Yeah. Arm and Hammer, yeah. Their name.

Armandham. No, it's a persistent myth, but the timeline rules it out. Armand Hammer predates it. It goes back to the 1860s, predates him. He wasn't born until 1898. What a tragic. I mean, what a cool name, I guess, Armand Hammer. All right. Additional background, the deaf mute blind men. In those early years, the Bolsheviks were desperate for foreign goods, services and capital investment. They knew that they would be gouged by their capital. capitalists, but what of it? It wasn't their money. All they cared about was staying in power,

and that was not easy as it may have seemed. Even after the coup d'etat in which they seized control of the mechanisms of government, they still did not control the country at large. In fact, in 1919, Lenin had almost given up hope of expanding beyond Petrograd and a part of Moscow. Except for Odessa, all of southern Russia and the Crimea were in the hands of General Denechin, who was strongly anti-communist. Speaking before the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, Lenin laid it out plainly. Quote, without the assistance of capital, it will be impossible for us to retain proletarian power in an incredibly ruined country in which the peasantry also ruined constitutes the

overwhelming majority, and, of course, for this assistance capital, will squeeze hundreds percent out of us. This is what we have to understand, hence, either this type of economic relation or nothing. on another occasion Lenin further explained his rationale for accepting Wall Street's terms saying quote the capitalists of the world and their governments in pursuit of the conquest of the Soviet market will close their eyes to the indicated higher reality and thus will turn into deaf, mute, blind men. They will extend credits, which will strengthen for,

they will extend credits which will strengthen for us the Communist Party in their countries and giving us the materials and technology that we lack, they will restore our military industry indispensable from our future victorious attack on our suppliers. In other words, they will labor for the preparation of their own suicide. Arthur Bullard mentioned previously as the representative in Russia of the U.S. Committee on Public Information apparently understood the Bolshevik strategy well. Even as early as March of 1918, he sent a cablegram to Washington, warning that, while it is true, we ought to be ready to help any honest government in need.

Nevertheless, he said, quote, men or money sent to the present rulers of Russia will be used against Russians, at least as much as against Germans. I strongly advise against giving material help to the present Russian government. Sinister elements of Soviets seem to be gaining control. Unfortunately, Mr. Bullard was a minority player in this game, and his opinion was filtered by others along the way. This cablegram was sent to a superior, none other than Colonel Edward Mandel House, in hopes that it would be relayed to the president, but the message did not get through. Shocking. Right.

I think this is probably the last section that we're going to have time for. We're definitely not going to get through this chapter, but this chapter is the end of section two, or section three. Are we in section three? Yeah, section four will be next, which will be after Garretweak, because I think we're going to record. So the rest of this chapter will be next week. A side trip through World War II. Returning to the trail of actual events since that time, let us pause briefly to take a short side trip through World War II.

Financing and profiting from both sides in a conflict has never been more blatant. Item. From the beginning of Hitler's rise to power, German industry was heavily financed by American and British bankers. Most of the largest U.S. corporations were knowingly invested in war industries. IG Farben was the largest of the industrial cartels and was a primary source of political funding for Hitler. It was Farben that staffed and directed Hitler's intelligence section and ran the Nazi slave labor camps as a supplemental source of manpower for Germany's factories. Farben even hired the New York public relations firm Ivy Lee, who was John D. Rockefeller's PR specialist to help improve Hitler's public image in America. Lee, incidentally, had also been used to help sell the Soviet regime to the American people in the late 1920s.

Item. Much of the capital for the expansion of IG Farben came from Wall Street, primarily Rockefeller's National City Bank, Dylan Reed and company, also a Rockefeller firm, Morgan's Equitable Trust Company, Harris Forbes and Company, and, yes, the predominantly Jewish firm of Coon, Loeb, and Company. Wow. Item. During the Allied bombing raids over Germany, the factories and administrative buildings of IG Farben were spared. The U.S. War Department, which determined bombing priorities, was liberally staffed with men who in civilian life had been associates of the investment firms previously mentioned. For example, under Secretary of War at that time was Robert P. Patterson.

James Forrestall was the Secretary of the Navy and later became Secretary of Defense. Both men had come from Dillon Road and, in fact, Forrestall had been president of that firm. Item. During World War II, under the Len Leaston, program, the United States sent to the Soviets more than $11 billion in aid, including 14,000 aircraft, nearly half a million tanks, and other military vehicles, more than 400 combat ships, and even half of the entire U.S. supply of uranium, which then was critically needed for the development of the atomic bomb. But fully one-third of all the lendly shipments during this period compromised industrial equipment and supplies to be used for the development of the Russian economy after the war.

And when the war did end, the Lenley's program continued to flow into the Soviet Union for over a year. As late as the end of 1946, Russia was still receiving 20-year credit terms at 2.8% interest, a far lower rate than returning GIs could obtain. So we were funding both sides. This is what night from 1921 to 1925 I think they said around that time yeah around that time so the so the United States sent half the US supply of uranium right before the Cold War nuclear standoff happened? Um, hold on. Does it say that half of the entire U.S. supply of uranium. which was then critically needed for the development of the atomic bomb.

The U.S. sent to the Soviets. It does say during World War II, so it had to be in the 1940s. It's the first thing after item. During World War II, under the Lent Lease program, the U.S. sent the Soviets more than $11 billion in aid, 14,000 aircraft, half a million tanks, and other vehicles, 400 combat,

ships and even half of the entire U.S. supply uranium. I wonder how widely known it was at that time. 41 to 45 was Lenle's. Yeah. So I wonder if this was pre or post little man, fat boy or fat man little boy, whatever it was. When was that was what year did the Manhattan Project tests take place? Oh, I would imagine that was in 44. I thought it was in the late 30s.

What year did? Looking it up. Yeah, me too. 1945 was the Trinity test. The world's first nuclear detonation was July 16th, 1945. 42 to 46. So Einstein's letter to Roosevelt drafted with Leo Slyzzard warns of possibly, possibility of a German atomic bomb prompting early U.S. government interest in the technology.

1939. 1942 formally established the Manhattan Engineer District giving the project its name. 1942, General put in chart, blah, blah, the Trinity Test, 1945. Atomic bombs, Hiroshima and Nagasaki

are 1945. So at the same time that we are, that's the same time, right? If Len Lease is 41 to 45 and the Manhattan Project is 41 to 45. The entire fucking premise was bullshit because we were giving the Soviets uranium to develop their own capabilities

at the same time that we were saying we have to do this and invest in this in the United States of America to fight the fucking Soviets. We're fighting the Germans, I guess. So the Nazis. We're fighting the Nazis. And then... So we're arming Russia.

Either the world leaders of the American leaders at that time were the most retarded people on the planet with zero ability to recognize what was happening in that nation. Or as the book posits, it was all a freaking scam. All right. What's that? My money's on scam. Don't we have one more ad? Yes, I was just about to play it. Your bank kept $1,600 from you in 2025.

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They all, the people, like, we're having arguments about whether or not the American people can have tariff dividends and people are relying upon facts within the current financial system as a, you know, as, as, as, as their evidence for why President Trump can't do what he's saying he's going to do. Now, that may or may not be true, but those facts that you're relying on to make your argument, are they're not real. We have been lied to about everything going back at least to the turn of the century. I would say, you know,

since before the founding of our nation, we've been lied to about everything, but certainly since the end of the Civil War and the reconstruction period and the reconstruction amendments, we were inverted. And it was, we were inverted

and we were occupied and we have been transformed by genocidal maniacs ever since. This is the first time in, you know, probably since JFK, that there is an effort to fight that real enemy. And this book defines the real enemy, I think, pretty clearly. It's not the Jews, which I know is what some people are. Well, I mean, they're, they're tied in. There are Jewish people tied into it.

Right. But focusing on that as the enemy is another. distraction, right? Focusing on one people group as the enemy that's, you know, the main controller is a distraction from the fact that we have an invisible enemy shadow government controller that uses our incentive structures to manipulate us and change our behavior and subjectate us. And as long as we're blaming that on a nation, we're not fighting the real enemy. I also think it's interesting how the, our secret constitution, George P. Fletcher, also deals with this issue of anti-Semitism being used as a shield for change.

And you can't question it. You can't come after it because that's anti-Semitic to question what we're doing. That that's in our secret constitution as well as creature from Jekyllis and both of these books could be considered suppressed. Big time. Big time. All right, guys, we're going to land that there. Smash that thumbs up if you have not done so already. helps us out.

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We didn't ever talk about that. We have no. We did briefly talk about it. Yeah, it's not that anymore. It's like 53. Oh, it flipped. I think. Oh, maybe it flipped since.

Flips yesterday. So first it said Cancom was beating me 5149. And then yesterday it said that I was beating. him 5149 which we get a now i'm up 53 47 yeah that's the that's the one but it's really funny that for the period of time we were at 51 49 because um it's 50 50 50 game yeah all right guys we'll see you all later god bless bye guys