Project Camelot Interviews Benjamin Fulford - Part 1 of 3 SOTTOTITOLI-SUBTITLES
Feb 18, 2025
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oh yeah
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mr takanaka has talked telling me that he was forced to do it because
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the united states threatened to hit japan with harp h-a-a-r-p if they didn't okay okay and what would
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have been the impact of that i mean what tell us what what that meant to japan
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earthquakes so i asked them is it true and i have this on tape too it says yes
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you know we have to in order to protect the environment we need to reduce the world population to 2 billion and
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war just doesn't do it so we're going to try to use disease and starvation i i use rockefeller as a abbreviation
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for this group of inbred aristocratic families the american side versus the european
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side right but i mean the bushes are part of it for example
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i had two rings one was a mask of a devil with horns and the other looked
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like a wedding ring and you go like this and there is a freemason mark
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and he says he says he's horns he could put a little bit of poison on him touch me and i'd be dead and he tells me
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he's a ninja which is a professional assassin he says to me mr fulford if you want to be you know
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a muckraking journalist go ahead and do so but you will die at age 46.
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however it gives me a big freemason badge
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it says if you don't the other choice is you can become finance minister of
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japan okay so he's offering me a choice from
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death and the job of finance mystery that's how you describe it so you know we're looting these people's money
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but we're not going to kill them and he said the population japan would be reduced to 70 million but they
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would allow 70 million to live and they need about 500 million asians
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to keep making toys and stuff you know she's describing you know massive genocide i guess a lot of people
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at the very elite i'm sure it happens mr obama and clinton and anybody else at the high-level u.s politics that they're
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someday or you know senators whatever they're given the same kind of ultimatum death or cooperation so either
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you join us or you die and that's how they manage to control the united states
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and enslave the american people and i had this great what i call my kill bill moment you know
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there's a scene in the movie kill bill these two women fighting with swords it looks like it'll be a long nasty fight right i'm not gonna be sure who's the
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winner right yes and but one of the woman the bad one has a has a one eye missing she has a patch
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and suddenly she grabs the eye and blinds and ends unbelievable yeah
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very very graphic very graphic but i thought hey why not just target the eye of the pyramid
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because most westerners don't even know it exists uh i realize the society has six million
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members and the western secret side the top is only ten thousand so it's six million
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against ten thousand so suddenly i said well that's it wasn't it we can we got these bastards
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i became the first westerner in 500 years to join a bodyguard at that point did you hire
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someone no look if you need a bodyguard it's too late oh you have to operate at a higher level i
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mean if they really want to shoot me they're going to shoot me uh you have to make them not want to shoot you
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the key to democracy is control over money by the people not by a secret elite it's the money
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that counts if you lose control over your money hand it over to people you can't see
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you're a slave it's that's what you have to remember never ever again let some secret power elite
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take control of your money away from you you know if they're going to try to kill
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billions of people then we're going to have to kill 10 000 people in order to prevent that if necessary
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and the arrangements have been made i'm carrie cassidy from project camelot
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and we're really pleased to be here with ben fulford today former bureau chief asia pacific
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for forbes magazine which is really fabulous you did that for six years i
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understand yeah six and uh you've been living and working
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as a writer and journalist in japan uh for 20 years more than that i first came in
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1980 oh really i went to university oh i didn't know that okay so you went to the university of
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tokyo or what's what's it called maybe i should give you my a brief background um i was born in ottawa canada
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okay 1961 and when i was six months old my family moved to cuba my father was a canadian diplomat right
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okay um he was kicked out uh by castro because he was helping all
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these refugees escape um and i lived in mexico till i was eight
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and then from eight to about 16 i lived in canada went to a french school so i grew up
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speaking speaking three languages so you spoke you actually spoke spanish
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and english as a child and then french you know from middle school i was on french so all
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right and then you know i was at the tail end of the hippie era and i
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was picking up like these echoes from the past that was going on and this is the street
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wisdom as opposed to what you're learning in school and you know the word was that if you
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went to university they just brainwashed you into being a consumer and
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that you know there was something wrong with the world that the grown-ups had made was sort of the
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zeitgeist at the time right and i decided that if i went to university i would also be brainwashed
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so i decided to escape i went to the amazon i lived with some people indians
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how old were you at that time when you were 17 really i mean that's incredibly gutsy to to do
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something like that the amazon is very well i mean actually they were former cannibals
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yeah so even yeah i have a lot of you know hair-raising experiences
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machine guns in my head and also just stuff like that nearly eaten by a bear chased by the wolf so you went to the amazon you're you're
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like 17 years old and you're not going to college did your parents have a problem with that
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well i mean what could they do i mean i physically laughed and disappeared you know so you're just very
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independent from a young age yeah i think i sort of
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um i mean that you know spending nights out in the wilderness alone like
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from age around 12 and stuff so wow uh it was for me it was just
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really itching to go is it i mean did your fulford name because you know we know about like your
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grandfather was uh you know this very well-known fulford was your family considered
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uh um you know i don't know part of the ruling class in canada at that point i mean my great grandfather was you know
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what would be today a billionaire and a senator and my grandfather was an mp member of
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parliament for about 20 years and my father was the ambassador to different countries so you would be
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considered something of a child of the elite at that point sure
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at the same time i had a very unusual upbringing we were
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taught very from a very young age you know to have a lot of empathy and uh
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i was very disturbed by things i saw as a child in mexico in extreme poverty
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i'll never forget when i uh was seven i met this kid on the streets and
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we played and talked and he was the same height as me and the same mental level
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and it turns out he was 12. i asked my mother how could that be and uh she said well he doesn't have
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enough food to eat he said how could such a thing be allowed to happen you know
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and it's happening right now to billions of people are not allowed to develop their human
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potential they're not getting adequate education adequate nutrition medical care nothing
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i mean it's a shame that such things are allowed to happen at the same time
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when i was in the amazon you know it was a beautiful uh virgin
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forest but they told me that in about five years it would be gone because the loggers were coming and i said what's you know what's out
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there destroying the nature and leaving so many people suffering how could this be and
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to me it was clear that and this is what you've got us you know in this third world in the street at the poor level there's
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something wrong with the way the westerners were ruling the planet
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um and so i decided finally after lots of about three and a half years of traveling
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adventures and i you know to compensate for not going to university i read all the holy books the quran
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the bible confucius you know the bhagavad gitas et cetera et
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cetera great so you've studied you were you studying eastern philosophy say before you came to japan
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um you had mystic stuff you know like meditating and and i mean like the iching have you read
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that sure yeah okay all that kind of stuff right um and you know the
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word on the street level was that something would have to come from the east to help us right
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so i finally decided i'd go to university um in japan it was a choice from india
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china and japan for various reasons i chose japan did you know at that point you were
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going into economics i mean i'm assuming that was maybe your major i just wanted
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to learn i didn't think about majors or jobs i just in fact i took every subject there is i think uh
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right for economics sociology anthropology um math biology you name it
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i took up to at least third year level courses in all the courses and all the subjects did you graduate
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with a degree i eventually got a degree from the university of british columbia in
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asian studies with the china area specialty
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so you went to british columbia i went to associate university in japan for three
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and a half years okay that was i took like i say about eight years worth of undergraduate
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courses way more than i needed i mean how did you learn japanese
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well uh two ways i arrived in japan i took a
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two-month intensive course at the university of british columbia before coming and then i arrived in japan i spent
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three days in english at a japanese school and i said this is useless i got a job as a bartender and a bar run
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by a gangster it was from 9 00 p.m to 5 a.m and there's some sort of place where it had fights and sometimes people would come
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in naked and very you know kind of lowest level of japan you could find basically but
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the good thing about barca as a job for uh learning a language is
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that drunks keep saying the same thing over and over again so you eventually pick it up
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also i went to what's called futon university at least i had a girlfriend who didn't speak english oh okay combination i used to sort of speak
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like a cross between a gangster and um transvestite you know
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it's kind of uh either very womanly or very you know like low level street at this point that's
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how you're describing your your ability to speak the japanese language less hilarious
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i'm more or less able to carry on a fluent conversation after about six months wow that's great so do you write
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japanese at all can you read it i've written i think over a dozen books in japanese oh right um and i have to know are your
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books available in english because we didn't see that no i mean i haven't actually i you know i
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i deliberately switched to japanese a few years ago after i left forbes because
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i knew that i was dealing with something dangerous and i didn't quite understand what it was oh wow i remember being warned for
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example by makiko tanaka the former foreign minister and the
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daughter of president uh prime minister kakoe tanaka who was taken down in the lockheed
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scandal she told me she said hey if you start looking into this stuff you're gonna get killed
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so i knew that there was something very dangerous
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i didn't know exactly what it was so i kind of went underground and started writing in japanese
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at that point then could i just ask you that that stuff you referred to at that point what was
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the stuff that you were starting to get into which you were warned about at that point what was the stuff
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when i was at forbes i had already written several stories about the yakuza
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and the gangsters and i got lots of death threats as a
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result and uh now the
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moscow bureau chief for forbes paul klebnikov was shot ten times you know outside of
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his house and taken to the hospital putting the elevator and the elevator stopped for
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eight minutes and that's where he died wow and what year was this do you know approximately five or six
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years ago okay so you at the time were you working for forbes or you just left performance
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he was from moscow i was a tokyo guy okay okay and around that time
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some people from the osaki newspaper and pbs television came to me said that
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the head of the goto crime syndicate was in ucl ucla berkeley
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university hospital getting a liver transplant now this raises a lot of interesting
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questions one is what is a you know known gangster and criminal doing getting a visa to the u.s
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and why is a 70 year old guy like that getting bumped to the top of the long waiting list for liver transplants
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so i started thinking well maybe he was doing some work for the cra or something and i was going to write this up in
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forbes and uh before that i called up a very senior
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gangster source i knew um and told him about this and he said hey if
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you write that you're gonna get turned into fish paste what i don't you know i don't respond to
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threats i said so we never threatened i said well i'm a well-known journalist if you kill them it would cause a lot of
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trouble so we'll kill you you'll just disappear you'll say goodnight to your girlfriend and that's it you'll never be seen again
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and then he named a couple of journalists who disappeared oh man now remember there was a guy for example who wrote
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about how the goto gang was selling the old shinrikyo religious
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sect was importing amphetamines from north korea and selling them to the goto gang
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um and he disappeared after writing a few article articles
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like that and some of the other has he ever been found no no a whole bunch of them disappeared
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okay and a lot of the japanese journalists told me you know the only reason you're still alive is because
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you're a white guy we if we tried to write that same kind of stuff we'd be dead um so i knew there was some dangerous
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people and by the way after when this gangster guy when i told about the
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liver transplant thing finally he said look i won't be able to talk to you again if you write that story and i thought
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okay this guy is a very senior source he's given me a lot of valuable information and i don't want to lose
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this connection over one story so i decided not to write the story but it was a very kind of bad atmosphere
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and then i flew off to sahali what's that i'm saying in russia oh you
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know the russian farce would have all the oil and gas now right to do a story and the local
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representative of his gang was waiting for me he took me around and i was taken to a
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giant casino with about 400 chechens standing outside
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it was like something with a movie they all had new guns you know and they were hired by the japanese gang as bodyguards for their casino
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and chechens kitchens yeah working for japanese gangsters no there's a lot of stuff going on that
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you don't see in the surface right well we just got back from moscow actually
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um so it's a fascinating place well you're so in asia you'll find that there's no real
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line between gangsters and government it's all a continuum so you can almost think of well some would say that's true
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of you know the us and russia and sure in the us i mean large parts of the cia
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are basically organized crime what they're doing you know i mean large parts are honest
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patriarch people trying to defend their country but there are groups in there that's you know as we all know they they
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smuggle drugs and do all sorts of criminal stuff right
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um so i'm sitting in this uh club and this guy's beside me he's
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really not like the one i knew in tokyo he's like a very high level businessman this guy is a real thug really dangerous and you know not a nice
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guy and he's very very tense i said listen i want to go home he says no no
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you can't um you're going to be killed or something right and i just realized that i was being set
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up for a hit oh my so i think quickly oh my god i point to these two uh oil maps
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you don't have to worry about me see those guys are cia in their garden plus i have a file
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i will go public if anything happens to me that names names and put you on jim
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it was total bluff okay i didn't have any such fire and those guys were just oil men but you know uh what can i do and the guy just gets
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up like a rocket run with the phone right now you know like and i pick up my phone i call a token i said
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listen i'm not here to write about your dealings with russian gangsters and stuff i'm here to write about the oil industry i'm not going to cause
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any trouble the guy comes back it's all relaxed i said okay good night and that's it
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but something out of a movie yeah but you know they really did shoot the chechens really did shoot my colleague
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now didn't they um that was after this happened to me but
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so once that took place i did make a file and i still have it in hard disks and
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dvds with voice recordings and videos uh for example
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a well-known japanese prime minister has murdered three women and i have the proof in one of these um a lot of stuff like
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that but my job is not to try to expose people okay that's not where i'm coming
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from that's just insurance i had to take out i don't need that insurance anymore because i have this secret society
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backing me but again my idea was not just trying to expose people
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that's not the level i'm at anymore i'm trying to save the planet right so
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this stuff will never come out probably ever as long as you know they don't kill me basically if they do they'll be
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horrible repercussions of all sorts but again um i'm trying to make a win-win
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situation for everybody okay so now we go back what when i just arrived in japan i want
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to talk about that um well yeah but i i just i kind of wanted to get a nugget of what it it was
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in your amazon experience that you kind of discovered like what did you what did you knowing
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there well frugal you see what i did was
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my thinking was for a fish does not know water exists until it jumps so to understand
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civilization i had to leave it so i tried um different things
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in the amazon they survived on fish and bananas so you have roast bananas and fish soup
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or banana soup and roast fish or roast fish and roast bananas or you know you get the idea right right i got tired of it i said well why
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don't we get some meat it's okay we'll go hunting spend all day in the jungle
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don't get any don't catch anything come back we're hungry there's nothing to eat so we lose in
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civilization that contact between our working and our eating and our surviving so we kind of so many
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layers in between actually getting food from the earth and putting in our mouths that we don't
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realize sometimes so that's the thing i learned there okay uh the other thing is that
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these people are much simpler in their communications they don't they're very straightforward
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they see exactly what they think so you you know say walk in the room and the first thing they think is hey you're fat don't sit
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whereas in civilization it's much more complex they say oh you know uh oh you're looking healthy or
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something you know they they try not to you know anyway so there's the mask is not so so
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deep yeah and the other thing is they're well these people were former cannibals
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so the elders all used to eat human meat when they were young and
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it was they explained to me that in the rainy season they couldn't get enough fish so the only way to get protein was to
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eat their neighbors now they survive with canned fish um
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rainy season but uh okay but did you go there by yourself i just have to know yeah completely alone yeah i hitchhiked
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and got in a boat and just kind of arriving unbelievable okay well you must have an incredible
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strong personality i had read you know the teachings of don juan yeah right and
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i was looking for a witch doctor okay to do an apprenticeship i see i actually found it with doctor
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and did do an apprenticeship on amazon so that's some training in magic
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yeah like you know i can purge river spirits and stuff for me if you need it you know okay herbs and plants and
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right i did a lot of this stuff called ayahuasca which um oh that's like a trippy drug yeah at
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the time there was almost nothing wrong about it in english right and like i said i had to go right up to the
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upper reaches of the ukulele river and out to the finest people indians to find the stuff so you can imagine my surprise when i
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see it for sale in the street here uh as a legal drug years later
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uh which is here in tokyo yeah okay
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that's interesting well there's no specific law against it but anyway um so fast forward you're here you're in
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tokyo you've gone to college and did you go to apply for to work for
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forbes at that point i don't know my first job um
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was well i wanted to write a theory of everything um but you know you can't really pay the
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bills that way so the first job i got with was with an outfit called knight ritter which was
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part of the night riddle newspaper chains it was a but it was their financial wire so uh i would go and
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meet finance ministers and governors of bank of japan and stuff and all the market news so
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uh my stories would move the dollar or move the and remove the price of commodities
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every week just back and forth and it's really amazing to see that
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what i learned there as a financial market reporter is that it's really
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finances mass psychology it's mob psychology um and that was a very interesting
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lesson that you don't learn in the school club you know so you learned like the power of the written
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word at that point right well you see information and how they all have this story that they're following and and they're
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looking for slight changes for example you see governor of the bank japan says
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well we might tighten interest rates a bit everything moves right
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um or even for the commodity markets uh rumors that
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china is going to buy oil or something like that cause everything to move um but tell me something about your
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background because we listened to this interview with the canadian radio and and you show an incredible
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understanding about the economy of the world really and how what makes it tick and i'm just
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wondering where did you learn everything that you learned in that well of course i did all the you know the university classes
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and stuff but basically for over 20 years i've been following it writing about it
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i mean everybody comes through tokyo presidents prime ministers finance ministers they have their g7s and all
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that stuff g7 is here right now as you may know i mean so yeah so i've been following it
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um for over 20 years at the highest level and
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i've been interviewing gangsters prime ministers finance ministers presidents of big
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companies presidents of small companies you know just more than 20 years almost 30 years
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interviewing all sorts so it's an education in itself i guess
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interviewing as we find as a journalist you know you find that your job is a filter you suck in huge amounts
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of information and then look for the nuggets uh that are easy to understand and convey
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the essence and you give that to the public so so that's the job you know you're an information filter but there
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are a lot of other financial journalists out there who are toeing the party line well this is categorically what you
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haven't been doing you're a real maverick in this field well you see it's very high level
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propaganda they're brainwashed they really really do not understand at the essence of what it's all about
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and that's the trick they're trying to get people sidetracked into esoteric mathematics
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and they try to cover it with lots of
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complex words so you know they come up with these derivatives that are so
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complex that most people don't even understand what they mean anymore like i remember even almost 15 years ago when we're
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talking about delta hedge formations and you know and so they get into this stuff and it
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blinds them it's like almost a deliberate you know uh confusion because at the essence it's
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really very simple economics is people working to
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earn their living and finance is a process of deciding what people will do
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next and they try to not let us understand this
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especially the part about finance and that is the the key to the world's problems now
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so how did you as a journalist for forbes did was it gradual the way that you because
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i can imagine if you have this knowledge that you have and you have this approach as a journalist don't you
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didn't you get pushed back from forbes saying no don't write this or don't worry let me don't okay maybe i should give you
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i'll i'll show you how i discovered things in chronological order maybe the easiest
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way first thing i noticed in japan that
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everything was not as it seemed was when i saw some people line up at a little booth
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and i said what are you doing so we're exchanging our prizes for money from the pachinko
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to the kind of slot machine and you find out that they have a huge gambling industry
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with giant neon signs everywhere that's basically illegal and yet it functions
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openly and with rules for example no matter how hard you could try it's going to be hard to lose more
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than a thousand dollars a day at those places so here i have a whole system
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outside of the legal framework and it connects policemen gangsters and
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businessmen all outside of the so-called legal apparatus so this is something
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that made me realize something was different about this country it was not just
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a asian version of canada which on the surface it is they have the upper house the lower house you know
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the courts and everything so structurally it's the same but in essence it's totally different
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what i learned was that this so-called legal democratic system
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was a front for a very different uh real power structure okay this is
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something that i you know i learned in tidbits uh but the first was a potential another
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one was a friend of mine got beaten up by a gangster in front of a police box we went to the police box and police box
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guy said the policeman said you shouldn't pick fights with gangsters that's it um so again i said geez you know that's
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weird but again i thought this was just related to gambling and prostitution which is kind of a gray area anywhere
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anywhere really so yeah i didn't think much about it until as a financial journalist with the wire
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service it's very important to be quick to be if you beat your competitors by 30 seconds it's considered a big scoop
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right so you have to find out where the power comes from and talking for example to the bureaucrats at the agriculture ministry
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they said well if you want to know what's really happening you talk to mr kato koichi kazoo he was a ldp power broker
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and he was a man making decisions then and he once caught so i got to know him and he once i got called to as a pitcher for one of
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his speeches and then he came up and made his speech he's very impressive and then he got a big fat envelope of
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cash i said oh politics ah you know certain day and then i thought the
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finance ministry was the real source of power japan that's what people believe it was the
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most powerful bureaucracy but when i started talking to finance minister people
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when i started talking to people at the finance ministry they told me finally if you really want to know what's going on
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you have to go to no more securities and this was in the 80s it's different
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now but in the 80s during the bubble numerous securities
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had a vip list of 5 000 people and they had these two bosses the big
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tabochi and the little tabuchi not related who were later proved to be connected to a big
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crime gang but they would take all these journalists politicians come you know all you know sort of top movers
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and shakers and they'd lend them a couple million dollars they say buy this stock and then
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they would take every salesman in the country and all their journalistic connections
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and say these are the stocks you got to buy now and every housewife and small businessman and doctor buy these stocks
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the price would go up and the vips would sell so that was how they controlled politics
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now you say it's different now so how is it different well there's different players different uh ways of handing out the
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money um and in fact that is the the core of the
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problem which we're dealing with do this step by step because it's easier to see the whole story then
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so i got quite cynical about japan but the real
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clincher for me was the the juice in housing loan scandal
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this was a bunch of companies that lent only for real estate and
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after the japanese bubble burst it was the first time they're going to
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use taxpayer money by the way in 1992 the japanese
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government already knew they had 200 trillion yen in bad debt but the newspapers only said two or
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three trillion it wasn't until more than 10 years later they finally admitted the whole number
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and that's what's happening in the u.s right now only they're not going to have 10 years because they didn't borrow from other americans
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they borrowed it from the rest of the world so right you'll see huge changes there but we'll get to that
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okay anyway this is a question i'd like to bookmark because i remember that you said to rent that you felt that
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in your opinion the us debt was 120 trillion and i went and looked it up and i thought i wonder where that figure comes from so
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i'd like to ask you that well i can tell you right now the the 66 trillion comes from the sen the
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essay by a professor kilbourne that was published by the st louis uh
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federal reserve board branch in 2005. and that's the money they owe to american citizens
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um you know stuff they promised to pay like medicaid and uh social security and
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things like that it's in that essay you can find it now the other 53 trillion
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is the amount of dollars out in circulation so the u.s is the amount of i gotcha so add them together and you
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get 120 trillion 120 yes yes i mean you've only got a gdp of
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13 trillion well you know this this is where the whole scam unravels but we'll get to that but
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it's um okay so this housing you've got the housing all right so here's the point is that
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they were going i was working for the nihon keiseimbun at this point it's like the japanese wall street journal it's in
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japanese but it's their number one business finance newspaper by far
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and they were talking about pouring in tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer
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money to bail out these companies and there were some weird discussions
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about uh borrow a responsibility
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borrow responsibly what's going on here and so i sort of said who are these
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borrowers and it turns out this is my sources where people the bank of japan and
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uh various other agencies like uh credit rating agencies that more
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than half the loans were made to gangsters to yaguza gangs so
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it was very to me it was amazing thing here we have the government using tens of billions of
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dollars of taxpayer money to bail out uh companies that lent money to gangsters and they were all headed by
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former finance ministry officials so you see a link now between the finance ministry officials
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uh politicians and gangsters and they're using taxpayer money to give to the gangsters
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right so uh i wrote this up in the english nikkei
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and it was a huge reaction over 400 foreign journalists or magazines
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wrote similar stories half the juice the housing loans were like two gangsters right
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and then newsweek wrote a story almost identical to mine
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and then the nikkei their own paper said according to newsweek half the loans to
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the housing to the juice and companies or to yakuza and i went to the editor i
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said hey i wrote that story first why do you say according to newsweek and they called me up and they gave me
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the editor's award and fifty dollars and then they told me um mr fulford you
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know you really shouldn't write stuff like that it's just not done and it could be dangerous
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and after that they started watching me they would not let me write anything except the stuff the government announced wow
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so this is after you left forbes you're writing before before i got to four oh before you got to forbes okay
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right so i started to realize the japanese press was not at all free i see and uh you know it turns out
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there was an editor at the nikkei mr otsuka who won a bunch of
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awards for writing about the ito man scandal which and then he was suddenly sent off
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to some weird subdivision removed from the reporting business and he got very suspicious he started
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following the president around it turns out they lent like 100 million dollars to gangsters money that would never come back
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and the ito man scandal was another huge
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one which basically japan's one of japan's largest
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banks a sumitomo bank had been taken over by a crime syndicate that's what the story really boiled down
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to it's a long complicated thing but um
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anyway i started to realize that the newspapers and the politicians and the bureaucrats
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and the gangsters were all in together in some kind of
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crooked power structure that was totally different from what people were seeing on their television they're reading in their newspapers
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and i got totally disgusted when they started suppressing my stories
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so i quit the nikkei i worked as a freelancer for us i was trying to morning post a bunch of places
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before i got the job with forbes okay uh and at first the people at forbes were
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happy to let me write stories about gangsters uh i did one on public works i got a
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formal letter of protest from the japanese embassy in washington which is i thought you know good night guys i hit
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a sore point right um and then it was another story i did
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when they were finally starting to clear up the bad debt with the banks i was finding all sorts
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of people were dying and this is either committing suicide
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or you know disappearing whatever but it was not a typical what you call
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hierarchy suicides where you did something bad and you kill yourself to apologize it was people who were gonna
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testify people who were going to uh
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yeah i mean prosecute people for example the there was a financial scandal and
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the president of daichi kangyo bank which is now part of mizuho uh
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was due to testify the day before he was going to testify at 11 o'clock at night his wife left the house
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and about 10 men in black clothing showed up the lights turned off then they left
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and around one am the wife came home and he was dead uh and they said it was a suicide now
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this came from the english version of the young beauty newspaper it did not appear in the japanese
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version okay now so i then
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at this point i made lots of gangster connections because i realized that to understand what's going on in finance you need to
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not talk to gangsters otherwise you don't know what else going on at all okay uh
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and so there was a bank called the nippon credit bank that turned into aozora bank uh
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i think it's now owned by some one of those u.s hedge funds maybe carl i can't remember to check but anyway
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um the director from the bank of japan mr honma was made president two weeks later he was found hung they
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said it was a suicide and i knew this guy from when i used to cover the bank of japan there's no way he
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could have committed suicide so i asked my gangster buddy he said well i'll check out with the guys down in
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osaka and he calls him and i meet him again he says well what happened was they pointed a gun at
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him told him to write his will and they injected with the sleeping drug and they hung him
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and like of course i cannot write a story based on an anonymous gangster and i knew he was a gangster because i had a
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detective agency confirm for me he really was what he said he was a senior boss of one of the biggest gangs um
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so i called the hotel and they where they found his body and said yeah well you know the place they found the body
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where there's nowhere to hang himself from right so i called the police and said we said he found the body by the window but
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there's nowhere to hang himself by the window so they please change it say oh well we found him in the bathroom
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and there was a japanese uh tv personality in the room next door mori kumiko or kumikomori she is
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in japan she does the voice of pikachu you know from the uh what is it pocket monsters oh yeah
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pokemon anyway she's well known in japan and she wrote in her blog that there was screaming and moaning in the room next
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door and she couldn't sleep and there was no way that could have been a suicide
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i confirmed that with her manager uh and apparently he was killed because
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a bunch of loans to north korean credit cooperatives he was going to call him as bad loans
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and if he did that he would have exposed a huge north korean ruling party
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underground link the north koreans have been sending pachinko money to japan
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importing amphetamines doing all sorts of stuff and to get the police to turn the blind eye they paid huge bribes to
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the ruling party over the years uh so did you write about this
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i wrote it in forbes yeah yeah that's there um although you know the editors were such chickens that they really took a lot of
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that out of that story but it's still there you can still find it so i started digging deeper but then
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suddenly forbes starts putting pressure on me i had a story about ge doing some very
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funky accounting here involving billions of dollars you know they killed it without explanation
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and then citigroup was kicked out of japan for you know money laundering uh for
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gangsters they were kicked out and that story didn't run right
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um and finally what for me was the last straw was
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the antivirus software company paid a guy to make a virus a computer
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virus right and i talked to the guy who made the virus you know and there's something some guy living in a filipino slum but
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he's got a brand new 20 000 car you know anyway they said to me
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well this guy is the president of the company is a friend of mr forbes and he bought a lot of advertising
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and so we're not running his story oh so they told you that they actually told you that well the editor told me
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that you know we have problems with your facts mr fulford you know
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fact-checking this is their their trick they raised the hurdle higher and higher facts for example you saw them in bed
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together are you sure that doesn't mean you're making love was there a blanket on top no there's no blanket
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well did you see the actual penetration well no his butt was in the way oh well then we don't know you can't confirm it sorry that's that's
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their trick that's how they train the corporate media they they raise the effect but anyway
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the business manager told me for the real reason okay that the advertising and stuff so you
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know i get one thing from the editor another thing for the business manager so uh i got totally disgusted and
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alienated right and so after that the quality of my work at forbes degenerated because i just didn't give a
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damn and i was going to quit i was getting ready to quit i mean at that point a a book of mine
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appeared in japanese became a best seller so i didn't need the income a book about what well just the first
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this isn't the rockefeller one isn't it no no no no this is stuff that came out a long time some of the stuff i just
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told you uh about the murders and the other stuff going on was it about japanese corruption
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um and a lot of people in japan were you know
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knew something like this was going on and so anyway i wrote several best sellers like that so i had
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an independent income but what really made things click for me
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was i was on a tv debate show with some of japan's top politicians
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and i said these are the guys running this country come on you got to give me a break
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they're retards i'm sorry to say this but they're not high caliber okay i'm
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debating them so what on earth is going on now i know of course they're just actors reading the script but at the time i thought
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you know my god i could do better and then i suddenly was like it was too enormous
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the thought but i realized oh my god the japanese have five trillion dollars in overseas
46:43
assets that's enough money to end poverty and stop environmental destruction
46:50
well why don't they use it and i decided hell you know i could become a cynical
46:56
alcoholic you know foreign correspondent old fart like i see so many of at the foreign correspondence club you know who
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just their careers plan out and they just spend years coasting along and getting bitter and cynical
47:08
right i said no hell with that i'll become a japanese citizen i'll try to run for office and i'll try
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to convince them to use this money to save the world you know that makes so
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much sense but um
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at the same time though i was very confused and bitter right and i wasn't you know so another part of me was
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saying well you should write a book about japan
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and then leave the country and go to hollywood try to become a scriptwriter or something so that's two
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conflicting ideas in my mind you know i had that one idea but it's just too big and two is no no you know it just can't
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be real right but so i wrote two chapters that would have really named names you
47:57
know specific politicians specific crimes specific gangsters uh it would have been so
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much of an expose that would i would have had to either leave japan or be killed after the book was published
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the very day after i sent two chapters to my agent in english i got a call from the
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granddaughter of the meiji emperor karu nakamaru and she said to me
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you know mr fulford you really should not get the yakuza angry and are you sure that's what you really
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want to do is there something else you'd rather do in this you know why is this lady calling me at this timing and she tells me that a goddess had
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contacted her through the astral plane and was worried about me
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but turns out the goddess was the japanese security police um but you know whatever
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she still insisted to go only one time but she told me it was the police every other time she says a goddess but anyway it doesn't matter
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it was the timing and what you really want to do is that something else and i realized yes you
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know i want to save the world and unlike so many people want to do that
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i actually had a concrete method this was five trillion dollars that's enough money and
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you can't take that money out of the u.s because that would ruin the us economy so you have to
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pay americans to do it right so that they benefit as well otherwise you know in the past what happened is if a
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japanese politician threatens to take that money out of the u.s well then the u.s is getting really angry and
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trying to crush that politician right so i think okay we will do it in situations benefit too
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then they can't complain and this is what i sort of said i started
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writing books along the lines why don't the japanese save the world okay and
49:51
but what the what happened though you see this um meiji emperor's granddaughter
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handed me a 9-1-1 video and said look mr fulford you know all
50:04
about the corruption in japan well you have no idea about the corruption in the world
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right okay and when she gave me that i was shocked i said oh my god i read about this in
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the new york times this is some anti-semitic thing i'm not gonna look at that you know
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because we've all been trained anti-semitic equals
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nazi which equals gas chambers right and you don't want to be involved
50:32
with people who want to kill millions of innocent people right so this is the sort of thinking i had so i
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wasn't even look at it because i had it all associated and she kept calling me did you watch it no did
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you watch it finally oh man i'll watch 10 minutes so i can tell it i watched it and when i did
50:49
it was like the scales fell off my eyes as they say in japanese it's like remember i was a financial journalist
50:55
for a long time and because so many people read what you write it moves markets so you have a constant
51:02
barrage of people trying to feed you bs information which means you build very high immunity to false information okay
51:08
so i knew i mean i you know this is something very very weird
51:15
because and the problem most people at the high level of western society have
51:20
with the 911 thing is they say well no because
51:25
i don't care what evidence they show me there's no way on earth that new york times washington
51:32
post bbc wouldn't be reporting this you know because to accept that it was a
51:40
cabal in the us government that did this it means to accept that the entire belief system you have about
51:48
your society is wrong but having experienced what i did at forbes with censorship
51:54
and what i knew about the japanese corruption so you know i started to do the research
52:00
find out what's been going on here and the answer is essentially that
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european society is not really democratic anymore it's a plutocracy combined with
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an aristocracy and the democracy is kind of a way of
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keeping tabs on the sheep sentiment you know keeping them giving them a way to vent
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their frustrations within very restricted boundaries this is so
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uh you know there's many different words out there that people use
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and it makes it very hard a lot of people have trouble even now believing this stuff so but what i'm
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able to do is i can show you within the normal matrix of financial
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reports wall street journal stuff how to trace it
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okay and what you need to do and what i did finally to figure this out is you go back to 1918
53:02
edition of forbes and their first rich list and you'll find that seven of the
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the top 10 richest americans controlled 70 of the money in the country uh john
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rockefeller the first was worth about
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30 billion in today's money and i think he controlled 25 percent of all
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the wealth in the u.s at the time what happened was the reason why the
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rockefellers did not appear as so rich in the forbes list and remember i was you know one of
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my jobs was to identify billionaires and count their money was because it's put in as a charitable
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foundation and in fact they have hundreds of them
53:48
rockefeller carnegie brookings you know hudson's the whole alphabet soup of them but
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each generation of the rockefeller families and the other families the morgans which are the bush you know
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people and stuff you can see that they inherit the power
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they still control that money and they have a system that each generation has one person in charge so
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it's like a kind of hidden aristocracy instead of inheriting land they inherit
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assets and everybody who works within those assets is like a peasant working on the lord's estate
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so if you work for standard oil you're a rockefeller surf in a way
54:39
because they have the ultimate okay that's the rockefeller side of things are you also able to trace it from the
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ross rothschilds the european side yeah um now the rothschild thing
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goes back 300 years basically i think this is well-known stuff but i can summarize it for you you know it was the
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the first roth child to appear set up in frankfurt with a red shield he
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changed his name red shield right rothschild uh and the
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local king was gonna get involved in a war and rothschild said i'll lend you a
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bunch of money and if you win
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if you lose you don't have to pay me back if you win i'd like to be your banker
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and of course when he had all this extra money he could hire lots of more extra soldiers and he won
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and here we have the beginning of a link between royalty and finance kings like wars
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wars cost money um and the process of intermarriage between
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these financial and aristocratic families began that is you know well it's been going on for 300 years
55:59
but the next big thing is we go to he had five sons they're set to different parts of europe and they had
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you know they were only bankers to kings they they tried to you know with the very highest level and nathan rothschild
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i went to england you started out buying um cloth and silent and then you started
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you know realizing if i control the die makers and the cloth makers put it all together
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i can make more profit so he was a exporting british textiles at first he got richer richer
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and uh his big big coup came in the battle of waterloo
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where the british exchange everyone was wondering you know if the british were going to win or lose right and they knew the
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rothschilds had very fast information quicker than anyone else my assumption is they were involved in
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insider trading with the king okay because
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suddenly rothschild started selling everything just sell whatever you got sell sell sell and everyone said oh my god the british
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lost the british lost and stuff that was worth a hundred would fall down like two or three and everyone panicked oh my god it'll
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sell while you have a chance you know we're gonna we're all gonna be you know napoleonic slaves anyway
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uh and then when it fell down he started buying it all up and the news came the british won and it
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had been 100 rose to 200 and he controlled most of british wealth after that time and he said i don't care you know the
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famous quote i don't know the exact words but what fool sits in the crown of england whoever controls the money in england
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controls england and i control the money of england however you know um
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i think the rothschilds had a very deep religious convictions and
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were at heart fairly decent people the reason i say that is because although they they apparently financed
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and engineered the u.s revolution in 1776 with the east india company money
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they also financed and engineered the meiji reforms but these are good things you know in
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many ways um canada was always been rothschild territory and canada is a very nice
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country you know uh so i don't think they're the
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same level i mean they did a lot they had their system was basically you know
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uh ancient babylonian royalty and this is where it gets really
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weird and esoteric but um it goes back five thousand seven hundred
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and seventy one years the rothschilds used to say they're descendants of nimrod who
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conquered the peoples of babylonia they were um hurting people pastoral people and they
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conquered the people of babylonia or present-day iraq and they
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said well isn't there some way we can herd people the way you heard sheep and they came up with the system
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you have to control their food supply you have to control their information supply and you have to have means of violence
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to discipline them and this was the start of the bible the old
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testament was they they took all the different stories people had and put it in one story
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and this is the only story of people allowed to have
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