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Latest Patreon Talk: Legacy of “The California Violences,” Intrigue in Philippines, World War II Looted Gold, “The Dallas Conspiracy”

The lega­cy of the late Mae Brus­sell is embod­ied and per­pet­u­at­ed in Dav­e’s work. The lat­est Patre­on talk high­lights that fact, as well as fac­tors set forth in the unpub­lished Peter Dale Scott man­u­script “The Dal­las Con­spir­a­cy.” As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.


FTR#1424 Cartels, Part 2

Intro­duc­tion: This broad­cast con­tin­ues dis­cus­sion from FTR#1423. The man­i­fes­ta­tion of what Mus­soli­ni called “The Cor­po­rate State” is illus­trat­ed by the Zaibatsu–the giant fam­i­ly trusts that dom­i­nate Japan­ese eco­nom­ic, polit­i­cal and mil­i­tary life.

The 1960s were aes­thet­i­cal­ly dom­i­nat­ed by the Bea­t­les, and John Lennon in par­tic­u­lar.

Mr. Emory does not share his fel­low “Baby Boomers’ ” infat­u­a­tion with the late John Lennon.

That notwith­stand­ing, Lennon’s mur­der appears to have been a polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed assas­si­na­tion and Mark David Chap­man was­n’t the killer.

One of the most fas­ci­nat­ing and rel­e­vant aspects of the deep pol­i­tics sur­round­ing Lennon, his mur­der and the behav­ior of Yoko Ono con­cerns the back­ground of the wife/widow, her father’s work as a
pay­mas­ter for Japan­ese Naval Intel­li­gence pri­or to World War II and his piv­otal work in the finan­cial indus­try after the war.

The Yasu­da Trust and the Mit­subishi Cor­po­ra­tion fig­ure promi­nent­ly in the dis­cus­sion.

The arti­cle below is on Mr. Emory’s Patre­on plat­form.

Key Points of Infor­ma­tion and Analy­sis Include: The adopt­ed grand­son of the founder of the Yasu­da trust is Yoko Ono’s mater­nal grand­fa­ther; Review of Mit­subishi’s pri­ma­ry role in using Allied POWs as slave labor in World War II and the fir­m’s cen­tral role in the Japan­ese-dom­i­nat­ed nar­cotics trade; Mit­subishi’s dom­i­nance of the Japan­ese cor­po­rate land­scape by the end of 1945; Fred­er­ick Rut­land’s employ­ment by Mit­subishi train­ing Japan­ese pilots to take off and land on ships; Rut­land’s appar­ent cen­tral role in the events lead­ing up to the attack on Pearl Har­bor; Yasu­ki Ono’s role as Rut­land’s Japan­ese Naval Intel­li­gence pay­mas­ter; the role of the Yoko­homa Specie Bank in secret­ing abroad Emper­or Hiro­hi­to’s enor­mous wealth (much of it gleaned from the loot­ing of Asia dur­ing World War II); Gen­er­al Dou­glas MacArthur and Emper­or Hiro­hi­to’s co-own­er­ship of the Showa Trust at the San­wa Bank (which gen­er­at­ed a bil­lion dol­lars a year in inter­est by 1982!); The renam­ing of the Yoko­homa Specie Bank as the Bank of Tokyo; Yasu­ki Ono’s pri­ma­ry posi­tion with the Bank of Tokyo when it net­worked with Schroder­bank of Lon­don to re-enter the West­ern finan­cial world after World War II; The entry of the above-men­tioned San­wa Bank into the word of West­ern finance post-World War II; John Mark Ram­sey­er’s posi­tion as the Mit­subishi Pro­fes­sor of Japan­ese Legal Stud­ies at Har­vard Law School; Ram­sey­er’s his­tor­i­cal revi­sion of the Kan­to Mas­sacre of 1923; Ram­sey­er’s his­tor­i­cal revi­sion of the Japan­ese slave pros­ti­tutes; U.S. Ambas­sador to Japan Thomas Foley’s work negat­ing attempts to sue the Japan­ese gov­ern­ment for using Amer­i­can POWs as slave labor­ers; Foley’s work as a key mem­ber of Mit­subishi’s board of, and lob­by­ist for, Mit­subishi; Foley’s wife’s work for the Sum­it­o­mo zaibat­su; Foley’s assis­tant Christophe LaFleur’s mar­riage to the daugh­ter of for­mer Japan­ese Prime Min­is­ter and man­ag­er of the M‑Fund Miyaza­wa; Mit­subishi’s mur­der of Allied POWs work­ing its gold mine on Sado island.


Patreon Zoom Talk–Hal Sanderson on Black Fascist Organizations: The Nation of Islam

The bril­liant Hal Sander­son joined us for anoth­er Patre­on Zoom talk. Con­tin­u­ing dis­cus­sion of African-Amer­i­can fas­cist orga­ni­za­tions, he focused on the Nation of Islam, with par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on the group’s col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Japan­ese Black Drag­on Soci­ety and the assas­si­na­tion of Mal­com X. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.


Patreon Tutorial: The Eclipsed History of Japan, Asia, The Economic Looting of Asia During WWII and Perpetuation of Japanese Fascism

In an online Patre­on tuto­r­i­al, Mr. Emory set forth Oper­a­tion Gold­en Lily exe­cut­ed by Japan dur­ing World War II. The unimag­in­able wealth gen­er­at­ed by that pro­gram and the Amer­i­can pow­er elite’s doc­tri­naire anti-Com­mu­nism insti­tu­tion­al­ized a “Japan­ese Cor­po­rate State,” the per­pet­u­a­tion of Japan­ese fas­cism in the Lib­er­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty and a polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic dynam­ic that shapes our world and threat­ens to over­whelm the con­tem­po­rary polit­i­cal land­scape. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.


FTR#1412 The Covid-19 “Op,” Part 7: Pfizer-BioNTech: The I.G. Farben Vaccine?

Intro­duc­tion: The tra­jec­to­ry of pan­dem­ic man­i­fes­ta­tions trac­ing for­ward from the Third Reich is embod­ied in the I.G. Far­ben her­itage of the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech vac­cine.

Before read­ing into the record the sixth and final arti­cle about the Covid-19 “Op,” we repeat a read­ing and analy­sis of the con­clu­sion of the third arti­cle, read into the record in our last pro­gram.

Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Includes: The mas­sive Pen­ta­gon and CIA oper­a­tion direct­ed at dis­cred­it­ing the Chi­nese anti-Covid mea­sures in the Philip­pines and Cen­tral Asia; Review of the Gold­en Lily oper­a­tion and the cen­tral role of the Philip­pines in that dynam­ic; Review of 40 Wall Street and the LLC’s that con­trol the prop­er­ty beneath the build­ing; The LLC used to laun­der Mar­cos mon­ey; Review of Fer­di­nand Mar­cos, his links to the Axis and to the Kuom­intang; The fun­da­men­tal role of the I.G. suc­ces­sor com­pa­nies in the devel­op­ment of BioN­Tech, Ganymed and the Pfiz­er-BioN­Tech vac­cine; The piv­otal role of the Stru­eng­mann broth­ers in this dynam­ic.


Venezuela The Most Recent Case–Dave’s Latest Patreon Talks About Oil, The Illicit Drug Trade, Empire and Aristocratic Fascism

High­light­ing Venezuela as the lat­est case in U.S. empire-build­ing, Dave presents a decades long dynam­ic involv­ing what Tex­ans call “The Ahl Bid­ness,” the ille­gal drug trade, inter­na­tion­al fas­cism and aris­to­crat­ic elites’ deci­sive role in the rise and preva­lence of fas­cism. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.


“What Did Yoko Ono’s Father Do in World War II?” Article from Mr. Emory’s Patreon Platform

One of the most fas­ci­nat­ing and rel­e­vant aspects of the deep pol­i­tics sur­round­ing Lennon, his mur­der and the behav­ior of Yoko Ono con­cerns the back­ground of the wife/widow, her father’s work as a banker for Japan­ese Naval Intel­li­gence pri­or to World War II and his piv­otal work in the finan­cial indus­try after the war. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.


FTR#‘s 1373 & 1374: 40 Wall Street, Parts 1 and 2

Intro­duc­tion: “Fol­low the Mon­ey” is an axiom. These pro­grams explore the forces con­trol­ling the cen­ter­piece of his real estate port­fo­lio.

Before delv­ing into analy­sis of 40 Wall Street, we note the alto­geth­er dubi­ous nature of Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Anna Pauli­na Luna, who will head over­lap­ping inquiries into, among oth­er things, the assas­si­na­tions of JFK, MLK and (pos­si­bly) RFK.

Appar­ent­ly fun­da­men­tal mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions of her back­ground are a mea­sure of Ms. Luna’s intel­lec­tu­al cred­i­bil­i­ty.

It will be inter­est­ing to see if Ms. Luna’s rep­re­sen­ta­tions give intel­lec­tu­al momen­tum to Holo­caust Denial, “Yes” on Aliens, “Yes” on Con­trolled Demo­li­tion of the World Cen­ter, and, per­haps, Don­ald Trump on Mount Rush­more.

Key Points of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: Ms. Luna’s Mater­nal Grand­fa­ther’s Third Reich Ser­vice; The use of a finan­cial real estate vehi­cle as a mon­ey laun­der­ing instru­ment for Fer­di­nand Mar­cos’ wealth, the bulk of which came from Gold­en Lily recov­er­ies; The mys­te­ri­ous Ger­man aris­to­crats (includ­ing the Von Bis­mar­ck fam­i­ly) who own the land beneath Don­ald Trump’s 40 Wall Street prop­er­ty; The sale of the 40 Wall Street land to the Mar­cos front three weeks after its pur­chase; The mys­te­ri­ous own­er­ship of the LLC’s con­trol­ling the land beneath 40 Wall Street and (pos­si­bly) Trump him­self; Fer­di­nand Mar­cos, Jr.‘s Gold­en Lily pres­i­den­cy in the Philip­pines; The pro­jec­tion of a fas­cist Gold­en Lily milieu about tak­ing over the U.S. with their own nation­al secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus; The encour­age­ment of the Mar­cos Gold­en Lily pipeline into the U.S. by the Rea­gan White House and William Casey’s CIA.


FTR#‘s 1371 & 1372: Korea on Our Minds, Parts 4 & 5

Intro­duc­tion: Con­tin­u­ing our analy­sis of the fright­en­ing events occur­ring in Korea, these pro­grams detail the attempts by South Kore­an pres­i­dent Yoon to estab­lish mar­tial law, includ­ing appar­ent false flag attacks on South Kore­an politi­cians, as well as Amer­i­can instal­la­tions and per­son­nel.

Impor­tant dis­cus­sion con­cerns the appar­ent launch­ing of hos­til­i­ties in the Kore­an War by South Korea, there­by lur­ing the North into a well-laid trap. Of para­mount impor­tance in this con­text is the fact that Gen­er­al Kim Suk-won (who fought for Japan dur­ing World War II) was in charge off the bor­der forces for Syn­g­man Rhee’s forces:

. . . . He [John Gun­ther] says that “two impor­tant mem­bers of the occu­pa­tion” went along on the excur­sion to Nikko and that “just before lunch” one of them “was called unex­pect­ed­ly to the tele­phone.” He came back and whis­pered, ‘A big sto­ry has just bro­ken. South Korea has attacked North Korea.’” . . . .
. . . . In the ear­ly morn­ing hours of June 25, 1950, South Korea’s Office of Pub­lic Infor­ma­tion report­ed a South Kore­an mil­i­tary attack on the bor­der city of Hae­ju, which North Korea con­firmed but South Korea lat­er retract­ed.
On June 25, 1950, South Kore­an troops had pro­voked the Kore­an War by cross­ing into the DPRK at sev­er­al points along the 38th par­al­lel and intrud­ing 1 to 2 kilo­me­ters into the DPRK.

Of para­mount impor­tance is John Fos­ter Dulles’ use of the Kore­an War to resus­ci­tate the Axis pow­ers of WWII in order to use them in the Cold War”: . . . . Dulles feared that peace would fatal­ly inter­fere with the plan to rebuild the old Axis pow­ers for a new anti-Sovi­et cru­sade. . . .”

Key Ele­ments of Dis­cus­sion and Analy­sis Include: Dis­cus­sion of Yoon’s pres­i­den­tial body­guard (formed by Japan­ese col­lab­o­ra­tor Park Chung-Hee) helped block his arrest; The “Stop the Steal/MAGA” res­o­nance between the Trump forces in the U.S. and Yoon’s back­ers in Korea; The South Kore­an intel­li­gence service’s back­ing of the Ukrain­ian intel­li­gence agency’s alle­ga­tion that North Kore­an sol­diers were fight­ing in Kursk; Detailed analy­sis from the Moon of Alaba­ma blog cast­ing seri­ous doubt on the verac­i­ty of the Ukrainian/South Korean/U.S. alle­ga­tion about North Kore­an sol­diers fight­ing in Rus­sia; Indi­ca­tions that it was South Korea that attacked the North first, there­by lur­ing the North into a strate­gic trap; Review of Gen­er­al Kim Suk-Won’s role as com­man­der of bor­der forces for Syn­g­man Rhee; Dis­cus­sion of the crit­i­cal strate­gic gains the Kore­an War pro­vid­ed to the West; Dis­cus­sion of the cor­ner­ing of the soy­bean mar­ket by polit­i­cal allies of Chi­ang Kai-shek on the eve of out­break of the war; The revival of the UN Com­mand struc­ture and its augur­ing of the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the resump­tion of hos­til­i­ties; Review of mate­r­i­al from FTR#1142; Colonel L. Fletch­er Prouty’s recount­ing of a deci­sion to launch hos­til­i­ties against Com­mu­nist nations arrived at pur­suant to the Cairo Con­fer­ence of 1943; Prouty’s recount­ing of the Oki­nawa har­bor master’s state­ment that the mil­i­tary equip­ment stock­piled on that island in prepa­ra­tion for the inva­sion of Japan would be divid­ed between Korea and Indochi­na (direct­ly fore­shad­ow­ing the wars that would be fought there in 1950 and 1965; The U.S.-backed assas­si­na­tion of Kore­an patri­ot Kim Koo, who advo­cat­ed for a reuni­fi­ca­tion of Korea; The meet­ing of John Fos­ter Dulles, Kodama Yoshio and Kore­an Yakuza leader Machii Hisayu­ki in Seoul on the eve of the out­break of the war; The use of yakuza and Japan­ese vet­er­ans of WWII as sol­diers fight­ing in South Kore­an uni­forms dur­ing the war; The Japan­ese polit­i­cal view that the Kore­an War was “a gift from the gods.”


FTR#‘s 1368, 1369 & 1370: Korea on Our Minds, Parts 1, 2 & 3

Intro­duc­tion: These pro­grams set forth devel­op­ments in Korea, past and present. FTR#1368 relies heav­i­ly on excerpts from FTR#1141, set­ting forth the his­to­ry of Japan’s cen­turies-long loot­ing of Korea, cul­mi­nat­ing in its bru­tal col­o­niza­tion. Fol­low­ing the end of World War II, the Japan­ese influ­ence in Korea remained dom­i­nant.

That influ­ence derives from the pre­em­i­nent posi­tion in Kore­an soci­ety of col­lab­o­ra­tors with Japan dur­ing its decades-long occu­pa­tion.

Those col­lab­o­ra­tors dom­i­nat­ed the mil­i­tary, police, polit­i­cal cul­ture and cor­po­rate life of South Korea.

A key per­son involved in cement­ing the Japan­ese dom­i­nance over post-World War II Korea is Nobusuke Kishi, whose rise to promi­nence took place dur­ing the Japan­ese occu­pa­tion of Manchuria.

The Japan­ese dom­i­nance of South Korea is a sig­nif­i­cant fac­tor in Pres­i­dent Yoon’s recent attempts at declar­ing mar­tial law, stag­ing provo­ca­tions to jus­ti­fy his actions and (appar­ent­ly) using false-flag attacks on U.S. mil­i­tary per­son­nel and instal­la­tions in an attempt at re-start­ing the Kore­an War.

Key Points of Analy­sis and Dis­cus­sion Include: The tac­tic of tar­ring all oppo­nents of the sit­ting regime as “communists”–a tac­tic that dates to the Japan­ese occu­pa­tion of Korea; even­tu­al Sec­re­tary of State Dean Rusk’s role in draw­ing the 38th Par­al­lel as the divid­ing line between the Kore­as; Rusk’s posi­tion as a key mem­ber of the Chi­na Lob­by; Gen­er­al Kim Suk-won’s role as a key Japan­ese offi­cer dur­ing World War II, as well as his posi­tion as the com­man­der of Syn­g­man Rhee’s bor­der forces; Japan­ese-occu­pied Manchuria as a dom­i­nant pro­duc­er of opi­um and hero­in for the glob­al mar­ket and Chi­ang Kai-shek’s Kuom­intang.