 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today is June 27th, 2021. Originally we had scheduled in a live stream where we're gonna grade some comic books, take offers on the comic books, and anything that we didn't end up selling we're gonna list on eBay or didn't get offers for. I didn't accept the offers for, however way it was gonna work. This was gonna be our first time trying this thing, right? I wouldn't say it was gonna be an open auction, it was gonna be me grading comic books and to sell them, and if anybody came in with a reasonable offer, done, sold. Do it that way, right? Get rid of the eBay middleman in a sense, so hopefully people can get their comics a little bit cheaper because eBay's cut is not there, as well as it goes to people that are watching the live stream. So it would be a pretty cool idea to do, and some people mentioned that it would be fun to do, and I think it would be super fun to do. However, it is crazy hot where I am right now. West coast of Canada, we're hitting, like this has got to be record-breaking, 30, mid-30, in the sun you're like 40 plus, it's like crazy hot. The cool breeze that we have in my area usually is not there. We're getting a little bit coming in just now for the last three days, so it being really hot, everybody's sweating, and I didn't think it was a good idea to handle expensive comics or key comics while it's this hot. So we changed what we're going to do in this live stream, and what we're going to do in this live stream, facet, how are you doing? So happy you've gone live now. Midnight on Sunday in Manchester, long live the weekend, long live the weekend. Awesome, awesome. I hope you're having a good time, brother. I hope you're having a good time. What we're going to do in this live stream is read drug war trading cards from Eclipse Comics. Crack, good afternoon, how are you doing? And these are trading cards that were put out by Eclipse Comics in 1991. Okay, so drug war trading cards, the straight dope on America's dirtiest deals. It should start focusing. This might be a little bit too glaring, but I tried out the cards, and the cards are focusing nicely. Okay, so here's the box for it. Hey, what's up, everyone? MC Mike, how are you doing? I think I'm going to run to the store to get something called do it, brother. I got my cold drink here, right? Oh man, looking forward to this. Me too, me too. I took a peek at some of these, man. They're super cool, super cool. Cold beers, nice. Now check this out. This is a straight dope on America's dirtiest wars, dirtiest deals, drug war trading cards from Eclipse Comics from 1991. The writer for this, check this out, writers Paul Brancato and Bob Callahan. Now Paul Brancato is, I looked this guy up, and we'll see the intro for it. There's a little card in here that gives us the intro. Okay, but he, when he wrote this, he was a part of, let me find this, symphony, which symphony? San Francisco symphony, and his name is still there. Second violinist. I want to link you guys up in chat. So, and I'm pretty sure this is the guy, right? Because inside it says he was with the symphony. So, this is the guy that wrote a lot of this stuff. Okay. And the, I didn't look up, look up Bob Callahan. Bob Callahan, I believe, he's known from the comic book world. His name is very familiar to me. Ding Bobber, how are you doing? How's it going? Pretty good. And the artist is Salim Yaqab. Okay, and I don't know Salim Yaqab. I didn't know him. And I looked him up, and he's written multiple books regarding America's foreign policy in the Middle East, and Arab uprisings, and stuff like this. And he is a professor at UCSB, Department of History. Okay, and let me give you the link for this. Now, this came out in 1991. I'm pretty sure this is the guy. Okay, pretty sure this is the guy. So, this is like 30 years later. I'm assuming that picture is, that picture is an older picture. Okay, that's what I'm assuming. Eclipse Enterprise PO Box, right? Oops, where are we? PO Box 1099 Forestville, California 95436, 995 U.S., 1095, Canadian. And we talked about this when we're doing Eclipse Comics readings. And Eclipse Comics, during the distributor wars in the early to mid 1990s, sort of went defunct. They went bankrupt. And Tom McFarlane bought the rights to all of Eclipse's Comics Library for $25,000, I believe, in 1995, right? So, he has the rights to this thing, I guess. I don't know what this fine print says. I couldn't read it with my glasses. It was too small for me. Let's see if this is going to work out. What does that say? It's way too small for me to read. Now, we're going to get glare off this. So, it's not going to work. I could bring in our magnifying lens. Let's bring in our magnifying lens. Hopefully, we're not going to be too noisy about it. Let's check this out. Let's bring in a magnifying lens. Let's see what the fine print says here. See if we can read it. Come on, come on, focus. What are you good for if you're not good for reading fine print? Oh, oh, oh, oh. Too much glare. Too much glare. Is this going to work? It's not working. Oh, there it is. Text, Copyright 1991, Paul Brandt, Cato and Bob Callahan. Art, Copyright 1991, Salim Jacob. Okay, very cool. And this Eclipse Comics was one of the independent publishers that gave the rights to creators. One of the early ones that came out, right? A fantastic company, an eight month clean, nice cider, no cider. Ah, I guess that might be the case in the case. Eclipse Comics Crack says one of the best of the independent publishers of the time. So much quality came out from that company. Indeed, I've been reading some of their comics again and some new ones that I found and you can get these comics on the cheap as Crack says one of the most fantastic comic book companies ever, period. Right? Here's fine print information for this thing. Much of the information in these cards is covered in greater depth in drug war corruption, counterinsurgency and covert operations in the third world by Jonathan Marshall, published by Cohan and Cohan, available at a postpaid price of $15.95 from Eclipse Comics P.O. Box, $10.99 for Spill California, $9.5436. Cool, cool, cool. Iran Contra scandal, we will be reading those cards as well and I'm waiting for the coup d'etat cards to get to me, but they've been in the shipping process for two weeks now. I don't know where, like the tracking is stuck, so I've got to contact the person this week to see if they know more information on where the cards are. Someone actually on Discord contacted me saying if I didn't have the cards, they bought a pack, they'd be happy to send it to me, so I might have to hit them up if my cards don't arrive if they're still open to it, right? Lions, how are you doing? Hey, Cheecho, how's it going? I've had a great day, good vibes all around, awesome, awesome, awesome. Glad to have you here, brother. All I got, and I'm trying to make a year, it's been very hard as like you said, too much wheat gives you a belly, gives you a belly, beer belly, you got a beer belly, oh brother, you got a beer belly, you got to be cardio. Yeah, make a year, man, maybe two years, right? So gang, we're gonna look through this, these cards, okay. Aside from that intro, let's check this out, we're about 10 minutes in, we'll get people another five minutes. Welcome, welcome everyone. Despair, not go go off topic, not to go off topic, but did you see Senator Mike Gravel? Oh, what? Mike Gravel passed? I didn't know that. One of the few US politicians who I can honestly say was a good person. I believe so, he was straight-up honest man. He wasn't bought and paid for, he passed today. I didn't know that, I didn't hear that news. Deng Bob or Cheecho, I'm confused. This card is full of legendary drug dealers. No, this card is full of history, okay. If so, I expect Escobar is in here, will be in there. Don't know too much, too many others. Yeah, Escobar is in there, and there's a handful of drug cartel, kingpins and stuff like that, or CIA operatives, right? But it's not about the, it is about the main characters, but it's also about the history. There's a fair bit of history in this. It's pretty important actually. These cards, if I was teaching history class in any high school, for a month we'd be studying these cards, end of story, right? I wouldn't give a rat's ass what the curriculum said we're supposed to do. You could teach the high school curriculum in a matter of months, and you would have like multiple months left over for people to go through these. Okay. In 1987, Paul Brandt Cato, a violinist for the Vang San Francisco Orchestra, right? Yeah, I was reading this last month. Yeah, that's him. That's him. Crazy, right? Elego Cheecho, no belly here. Great, he keeps a belly away. Nice despair. Also, I was, oh, Fascar, how are you doing? Change my name to start my own streaming endeavor. Awesome, despair. Let us know what you're going to start doing, brother. And yeah, you still got the sword. That's right. I forgot. Fascar is in the house or despair. 2077 is about parallel parking expert. Hi, Cheecho. Off topic question. Which crypto exchange is the best? Oh, I don't know. I can't tell you which crypto exchange is the best. I haven't looked into crypto exchanges. Which one's the best? Which ones? I knew some that weren't that good and they went defunct. All right, crack. Just had a peak on eBay. One set going for about $10 Canadian plus shipping. Yeah, we ended up getting these at sweet price crack. We ended up buying, we found a whole, not a wholesaler, but someone that sells a lot of sets. And we ended up buying 38 of these or 40 of these boxes, right? They came in eight packs. Eclipse Comics was selling them in eight packs. And we bought five eight packs. So 40 of these boxes we bought for $100 or $117 US or something. Basically, it came out to around $3 a pop for us. We're going to auction some of these through points. Okay, we're going to auction some of these through points. So $3 including shipping. So it was a great deal. Bianca, or Beyonce or Gemini or Robin Hood. I don't know. I wouldn't go on Robin Hood. That's for sure. I wouldn't do Robin Hood. I'm interested in this stream a lot. Me too. Me too. Fassett says, Chicho Ronnie, how you doing brother? How was life? This pair. Good to be back brother. Been a busy many months. Glad to sit down with some Chicho ASMR once again. Awesome brother. $3 a pop crack. $3 a pop. He financed the project himself. Amazing really. He financed the project himself. This guy here, Paul Brancato financed the project himself. That guy. Really? It's a mod party. When is the auction going to take? The auction is going to take place probably towards the end of the year. What we decided to do crack is do a yearly auction as a thank you for everyone that comes into these streams and it's basically you're redeeming your points. If people really want to, when we do a comic book grading auction, I'll put a couple of these on the side and people can bid on them, make an offer and we'll sell them as well. Right? So we'll do that as well. I got a bunch. I got a bunch. Yeah. Wow. This guy. Huge respect to this guy man. Huge respect to this guy. This guy right there. Paul Brancato. Huge respect. He funded this himself. Dude. Huge respect. Huge respect. Huge respect. Huge respect. I'm going to make sure I put his name in the title of the videos that we're going to upload. New status message. Ding Bobber. A friend I knew from public school. One of the best-hearted people I've known is reaching my place tonight. He went to a different high school than me but we still kept in touch. Looking forward to his arrival. We're gonna drink. Listen to music. Play darts. Awesome. Awesome. M-M-T-L. How are you doing? Did you re-purpose some old geophysics equipment to make the... No, no. This is a tripod. Good cash though. This is a tripod the family has had from the 1960s. I jacked it from my parents. I said mine. I'm digging it. They're not using it. Yearly auction. Yeah, crap. Looney Tunes and squad criminals. The Iran Contra scandal trading cards. Yeah, I got those. Iran Contra scandal. That's one of the ones I got. There's a coup d'etat one as well that's... Hopefully it's on its way to me. We're gonna do the Iran Contra reading as well by the way. 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Hey, Chih-Chou, Lang-Tang, no see, we can Barney's. How are you doing? Welcome. Welcome. Oh no. Oh no, I know. He was so cute though. He was so cute. Yo, what is that? How are you doing? Let's go. Does not mean you will either. Despair. Don't use crypto as a gift rich quick scheme. Never invest anything that you aren't willing to lose. That's the best advice there is. Never invest anything that you're not willing to lose. That's my top crypto advice indeed. Padre, padre, padre. How are you doing? Gang, I'm going to take these guys down. I'm going to take down the notifications from here. Here is going. I'm taking the chat down. I'm going to take the chat down here. Okay. I'm going to take my camera down. I'm going to take my camera down and we're going to start reading these. Okay. I'm going to give a quick little intro at the beginning. Okay. See you after the stream game or after we finish reading this. Hi everyone. This is Chicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to a trading card reading and what we're going to do in this live stream. We got our hands on a bunch of drug war trading cards. The straight dope on America's dirtiest deals. The trading card set that was put out in 1991 by Eclipse Comics. Okay. It was put out by these guys down here, Eclipse Comics or Eclipse Books and Eclipse Comics, Eclipse Books is considered to be one of the most important and one of the greatest independent comic book publishing companies ever. Okay. And they were functional, I believe in the late 1970s, very active in 1980s and they went defunct in mid, early to mid 1990s during the comic book distributor wars and looking these guys up because we did a reading of one of the comics, which I'm going to show you. Right. During the mid 1990s, when they went bankrupt, Todd McFarland bought their library for $25,000. Okay. And this trading card set, I didn't know this thing existed. Right. I should have known this thing existed, but I didn't know this thing existed. And we found out that this thing Eclipse Comics put out trading cards and they were actually the first comic book publishing company to put out trading cards like this. We found out about this through reading real war stories number two. This is a series. This was just the two issue set that I bought in a previous comic book haul. This is real war stories number one. This one is real war stories number two. When we did a reading of this comic, we read, I believe, two or three of the stories in this. One of the ones that we read was citizen soldier regarding sort of an anti-war peace activist group in the United States that I don't think they're around anymore because I sort of looked this up, but I don't think they're around anymore unless they changed their name. And they were supporting veterans. Right. And the other story that we read in this, which was really the one that really got my attention on this comic and why I bid what I did to get this comic book haul, came with a whole bunch of other stuff. It was a great deal was Smetley Butler's War is a Racket, sort of adaptation of War is a Racket, the book that we read during a previous stream. Sort of we did an ASMR reading of it with an overlaid with a little bit of mathematics. Right. So we read General Smetley Butler's War is a Racket and then we read the adaptation of General Smetley Butler's War is a Racket in comic book format. And at the back of the back cover of this comic, we saw the advertisements for trading cards that Eclipse Comics had put out. Okay. And we're going to try to get our hands on all of them and read all of them. This is the first one we're doing a reading for. Okay. The drug war trading cards. And the writing for this is done by by Paul Brancato and Bob Callahan. And the art is done by Salim Jacob. Okay. An editor, Catherine Euronwood. Okay. And Eclipse Enterprises, PO Box 1099, Forestville, California 95436. Okay. In 1991, this was selling for $8.95 US and $10.95 Canadian. And at the beginning of the stream, someone looked this up and they found out that Paul Brancato funded this project by his own money. Right? So he was respect to Paul Brancato. And he's with the San Francisco Symphony, the second violinist right now. He was the violinist in the San Francisco Symphony. So he funded this thing. And Salim Jacob is a professor at a university and he's written multiple books. I believe since he put out these, you know, the art for this, he's written multiple books. I believe it's the same guy on U.S. foreign policies, especially specifically in the Middle East. Okay. And we had, we were able to focus on this just before, you know, we got into this. And basically this fine print here, oh, we got to focus. Text, copyright 1995, Paul Brancalo and Bob Callahan and the artist copyright 1991, 1991, Salim Jacob. Okay. Fantastic. And let's read the fine print here before we crack this baby open. Should be able to focus. I was able to focus on this earlier. There we go. Well, much of the information in these cards is covered in greater, greater, greater depth in drug wars, corruption, counterinsurgency and covert operations in the third world by Jonathan Marshall, published by Callahan and Callahan available at a post-paid price of $15.95 from Eclipse Books, P.O. Box, $10.99, Forestville, California, $9.54, $3.6. So that's our quick little intro to this. And there's 36 cards in this. Okay. Let me crack these open or pull them out. And these are in mint condition, by the way, gang. In mint condition, we're able to get our hands on a bunch of these, 40 sets of these, right? So there is art, okay, done by Salim Jacob. Okay. And there's a little write up at the back of each one of these. And we're going to do, take a look at the artwork of each one and read the description in the back. I'm not sure how many we're going to get through. Take a look at this one. Beautiful. Up in smoke. That's number 36. So I put the number one up top. Okay. But before we do that, let's have a read through the little info card that comes with it. Okay. Drug war trading cars are meant to serve as an introduction to a most complicated subject. In preparing this material, the author consulted the following books, the politics of heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred McCoy, the great heroin coup by Henry Kruger, the foreign mud Anglo-Chinese opium war by Maurice Collins, news stories from the St. Louis post dispatch, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and articles in Extra Newsweek, Covert Action, Information, Bulletin, and other magazines were also used in researching facts. Basically, this is the way history should be taught in school. Paul Brancato is a violinist with the San Francisco Symphony and the author of three previous trading cards sets. The Iran Contra scandal, Bush League and Kudettah, the assassination of JF Kennedy. He is currently working on two additional sets of trading cards, one of which, from Dallas to Watergate, continues themes introduced in Kudettah. And just so you guys know, I already got my hands on the Iran Contra scandal cards, which we're going to do a reading of. I don't have Bush League. Bush League is baseball cards. I've got, I've ordered, or bought, is somewhere stuck in shipping. Kudettah, the assassination of John F. Kennedy. So we'll do a reading of those as well. And Eclipse Comic put out some other cards as well. One of them is Rotten Scandrels, which sort of has a rookie card of Donald Trump. And that thing sells for a lot. As soon as they get some funds, I'm going to get my hands on that as well. I'm going to do a reading of that. It sells for a couple of hundred bucks, that set, if not more. The artwork for this, Salim Yokop is a freelance artist who collaborated with Paul Brancato on the Iran Contra scandal and Bush League trading cards sets. A graduate of San Francisco Academy of Arts in 1986. His illustrations have appeared in San Francisco Weekly Yoga Journal, The Bay Guardian, and The Express. And these are a list of the cards that they have, right? Other current events, items from Eclipse Books, drug war, okay, drug wars, corruption, counter insurgency and covert operations in the third world. So that's a book, okay. Jonathan Marshall, timely. Iran Contra scandal trading cards, we got our hands on those. Rotten to the core, New York City politics scandal trading cards. Gordon Mulroney, Brent Kosher. I'm going to try to get my hands on those. Okay. Friendly dictators trading cards, Bernstein, Seidel, Sinkwalski. We're going to try to get our hands on those. Okay, I don't have those. Bush League trading cards, we will try to get our hands on those as well. Kudeta, the assassination of JFK trading cards. We got those guys coming to us, I hope. Brought to light, more. Brought to light. I don't know what those are. Graphic documentary based on the Crestic Institute's investigation. Wow, that would be cool. El Salvador, a house divided by Bill Tulp, a factual book, a black and white comic book. Oh, we don't have that. Real War Stories number one, we have that. Real War Stories number two, we already bought that. Okay, we did a reading of it. Fantastic book. Okay. Additional sets of drug war trading cards, $8.95. Please add a dollar postage and handling per item. Very cool, very cool. Gang, let's take a look at these cards. Let's take a look at these cards. This is my reading set. So I'm okay with messing with these things, right? And gang, before we start reading these, which is very much related to everything that we're doing here, all the discussion in this stream and many other streams, free assange, free assange, free assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capital's power to humanity. For more information, see wikileaks.org, defend.wikileaks.org, or our Julian Assange and WikiLeaks playlist on Sensor 2. Gang, let's have a read through these trading cards. Declaration of War, that's George W. Bush holding up a bag of cocaine or crack cocaine as evidence. Beautiful artwork. Let's read the description. Drug wars, number one. This is card number one. In his first nationally televised address from the Oval Office in September 1989, President Bush declared a $7.9 billion war on drugs. Brandishing a bag of crack cocaine, he called narcotics the gravest threat facing our nation. Quote, the greatest threat facing our nation. End quote. Every U.S. President since Richard Nixon has waged war on drugs, yet today they are more widely available than ever before. Bush's own involvement with drug wars began in 1971 when Nixon appointed him to the White House Cabinet Committee on International Narcotics Control. As Vice President, Bush was Ronald Reagan's drug, drug czar, heading the National Security Council's drug interdiction task force, spending interdiction tax force, yet during Reagan's presidency, while federal anti-drug spending tripled cocaine supply's sword tenfold, 1990 saw new highs in worldwide narcotics production. Bush's plan echoes failed policies of previous administrations. Over 72% of funds are allocated for law enforcement, new prisons and inter interdiction. And less than 23% for prevention and treatment. The casualties of the war on drugs are mostly poor people of color, while the real criminals, bankers and businessmen who shared a fabulous wealth created by the $300 billion a year worldwide drug trade are rarely punished. Historically, drug wars have been used by imperial powers as smokescreen for foreign intervention. For the U.S., this has taken the form of spending, sending military aid to corrupt allies who use the weapons not against drug traffickers with whom they are often in league, but to crush their internal policy political enemies. Meanwhile, U.S. agriculture and trade policies encourage production and export of deadly legal drugs. Drug war trading cars, tax copyright, 1991, Paul Brancato Art, 1991, Salim Yocup, Eclipse Entertainment, PO Box, and we know that. Now one of the stories here, okay, now keep this name in mind, Gary Webb, okay? In this sentence here that you see, yet during Ronald Reagan's presidency, while federal anti-drug spending tripled, cocaine supply soared tenfold. That is not a coincidence or bad management. That is the CIA running drugs. And we know this because of Gary Webb's reporting and looking to the investigative journalist, in-depth investigative journalistic work that he put out, called The Dark Alliance, okay? And Gary Webb was suicided, abstained. Uh, he was basically assassinated for what he put out and he was blacklisted by the establishment, by the so-called news agencies, by the government and targeted, okay? That's card number one. This alone would be at least a couple of classes in any history class, in any grade in high school, okay? Let's look at card number two. Opium and Empire. Opium and Empire. Anglo-Chinese Opium War. Beautiful artwork. The Chinese ships were a lot smaller, eh? That's why they got knocked around, the British Navy. Opium and Empire. Card number two. When Britain conquered India's Bengal province in the mid-seventeen hundreds, the region's Patna opium came under the control of British corporate proxy, the British East India Company. China refused to accept English manufactured goods in exchange for tea and silk, insisting on hard currency. So each year, the East India Company brought the entire opium crops and brought in, brought the entire opium crops and smuggled it into China for Chinese silver with which it legally purchased Chinese tea. The Emperor of China viewed opium as a poison introduced by foreign devils to destroy his nation and in 1799 banned opium smoking and importation. The British ignored the ban because opium financed Britain's growing tea habit. 10% of Britain's revenue was derived from taxing tea and the booming drug economy in Bengal provided a market for English textiles. Between 1773 and 1839, British exports of opium to China multiplied 30-fold. By the 1830s, after the British East India Company lost this monopoly, the smuggling trade was handled by firms like Jardin, Matheson and Company and Denton Company, who operated under British protection and brought Canton officials to allow the drug traffic. In 1839, the Chinese again took a stand, blockading shipping routes and confiscating 3 million pounds of opium. One year's production, but British naval forces backed up by armed merchant ships destroyed all Chinese resistance by 1842. Following their defeat in the First Opium War, there was a later conflict in 1860s. The Chinese were forced to cede certain port cities to the British and could no longer contain the flood of opium. By the early 1900s, there were 15 million Chinese addicts and China, which had begun its own opium cultivation in 1880, was the world's leading producer. When this was card number one, we didn't take a look at it again after we did a reading. Let's see the next one. Card number three. Number one killer drug. Tobacco is the one drug of abuse in the U.S. 53 million. Tobacco is the number one drug of abuse in the U.S. 53 million Americans are addicted to it. Tobacco is also the most deadly drug in common use. In 1989, while 2,000 people died of cocaine use, 390,000 died from tobacco. Even passive smoking, breathing in other people's smoke, causes 3,800 deaths a year. 80% of adults who smoke want to quit, but fully two-thirds of them have tried and failed. Tobacco used costs society 50 billion a year in healthcare, insurance, and lost productivity. As with alcohol, tobacco companies target low income people. Some 35% of tobacco billboards, billboard advertising, is placed in ghetto neighborhoods. Government publicity on the hazards of smoking has resulted in 5,000 Americans quitting every day. Teens take up smoking at the rate of 3,000 a day, leaving a shortfall which has caused U.S. tobacco companies to aggressively expand their markets worldwide. It is here that we see the power of the tobacco lobby, led in the U.S. Senate by men from tobacco producing states like North Carolina, North Carolina Republican Senator Jesse Helms, to whom Philip Morris, makers of Marlboro cigarettes and Miller beer, as well as craft foods, donated $200,000 for his successful 1990 re-election campaign. In 1989, tobacco companies saw 20% growth in exports largely as a result of strong armed tactics by the U.S. government to force countries like Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan to open their markets to American tobacco or face trade sanctions. In 1990, Thailand, which has discouraged smoking for 20 years and forbidden tobacco ads, succumbed to U.S. pressure. It now allows U.S. tobacco companies to sell and advertise their products. And remember, this this set of cards came out in 1991. So this is as of 1991, the history that we're reading here. Card number four, St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Valentine's Day Massacre. America's Drug of Choice. On January 19, 1920, the 18th Amendment became law, making alcohol illegal. Not only was prohibition unenforceable, the enormous profits generated by bootlegging created a new criminal class, whose legacy flourished long after the law was repealed on December 5, 1933. Though Chicago gangster Al Capone, whose inter-nessing St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929 symbolized the mob violence of prohibition era, was in jail by then. Bootleggers like Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Mo Dallitz and Frank Costello used their ill-gotten millions to create legal liquor, liquor empires, and coordinate the gambling business and the heroin trade. Joseph Kennedy used his bootlegging fortunes to create a political dynasty. The violence during prohibition taught mob leaders the value of bribes over bullets and of cooperation between families of cartels. Eventually, both labor unions, especially the Teamsters and Hollywood, became victims of this powerful new national crime syndicate. Not only is alcohol use legal, it is often glamorized. Beer makers spend billions sponsoring major sporting events and linking beer drinking to athletics in their TV ads. Producers of high octane, low-cost beers and wines like King Cobra and Tight Train Express target ghetto communities with special promotions. But the figures on alcohol abuse aren't pretty. Out of 102 million users in the US, 18 million abuse or are addicted to alcohol, costing the US 120 billion a year in lost work, accidents, treatment costs and deaths. Each year 75,000 babies are born with permanent brain damage, which can occur with even moderate alcohol use during pregnancy. Alcohol is a causative factor in one third of all accidental deaths. And I believe the person here, Joseph Kennedy, we're talking the Kennedy's dynasty, right? John F Kennedy, I believe that would have been his grandfather, I'm assuming. Maybe, if I'm not mistaken. And this is, I believe, Al Capone. And alcohol was illegal for 13 years in the United States, I believe. 1920 to 1913 years. 1933. Incredible, incredible. Right. Incredible, incredible. Car number five. Big Ear 2. Big Ear 2. He does have big ears. He's got a pretty big head too. Big Ear 2. Let's check out what the story on Big Ear 2 is. The Green Gang. While rival warlords vied for power in the chaos following the 1911 fall of China's Manchu dynasty, the nationalist party of Kuomintang KMT joined forces with the communist lit labor movement. After KMT leader Su Yat-sen's death in 1925, Chiang K Shek took over the party. And by 1927, the KMT army, bankrolled by Chiang's close relatives, financier, financiers H H Kong and TV Song controlled most of northern China and was preparing to march into Shanghai. Communist labor leaders called the general strike to welcome KMT liberation from Shanghai's warlords. Not wanting to share power with the communists, Chiang turned to his old friend Tu Yong Xing, the head of a Shanghai secret society of triads called the Green Gang, controllers of the local heroin trade. Big Ear 2 recruited and armed thousands of gangsters who brutally suppressed the strike and murdered most of its leaders. The subsequent infiltration of Tu's thugs into the labor movement combined with financial and public relations aid from Song's American connections, the Roosevelt and Henry Luce publisher of Time and Life magazine. Magazines helped Chiang stay in power until World War II when the Japanese invaded and took over the drug traffic. After the war, the KMT and the Green Gang regained control, but in 1949 Mao Tung's communists drove them out of China. The Green Gang tried to move into Hong Kong but failed. The KMT relocated to Taiwan but sent a large KMT army contingent to Burma where with CIA assistance, they expanded the local poppy growing industry. Chiang profited from Burma's heroin trade and enjoyed US government support until his death in 1975. Long time warlord working for the CIA with the CIA, staying in power with the aid of the CIA. Lucky Luciano! Lucky Luciano! Lucky Luciano! That's a great picture or great piece of artwork. Look at that. Lucky Luciano! This is card number five, I believe. Isn't it? Card number six. Card number six. Lucky Luciano! Lucky Luciano! It's got a little moon. Operation Underworld. Card number six. During Prohibition, Jewish gangsters like Meyer Lansky and Arnold the Brain Rosting controlled the heroin trade, while Italian and Irish mobsters concentrated on bootlegging. But in 1931, with the end of Prohibition in sight, the Italian mafia led by Salvacor C. Luciano aka also known as Lucky Luciano forged an alliance with Lansky and moved into the heroin business. In 1936, Luciano was convicted of forced prostitution. His incarceration in the U.S., combined with Benito Mussolini's crackdown on the Sicilian mafia, was a major blow to the syndicate's heroin operations. But World War II gave the mafia a new lease on life. Concerned with German sabotage on New York's waterfront, the U.S. Navy through Lansky convinced Luciano to enlist his gang in protecting East Coast docks. Luciano also arranged for Sicily's mafia to help the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. As a result of these successful operations, and perhaps aided by $250,000 in contributions, Lansky had given to New York Governor, New York Governor Thomas Dooley's election campaign. Luciano was released by Dooley and deported to Italy in 1946. In 1947, intent on rebuilding their heroin empire, Luciano and Lansky met Havana with the U.S. leaders of organized crime. Lansky was entrusted with managing the syndicate's finances and negotiating with suppliers. Florida Mafioso Santos Traficante Sr. was designated to run local heroin operations. Cuba became the major transit point for Luciano's heroin shipments. At first obtained by diverting Italy's legally produced pharmaceutical heroin, Italy authorities soon disrupted the source, but by then there were new suppliers. Corsican gangs led by the Giurini brothers who ran heroin labs in Marseille. Lucky Luciano getting in bed with the U.S. military and the Jewish mafia and helping the landing of Normandy, the invasion of Normandy. Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Marseille, Marseille, Marseille, Lisa, Doc Strikes. Marseille, is it Marseille? Is that how you pronounce it? Doc Strikes. The card number seven, the French connection, so Marseille. Marseille, Doc Strikes. The French connection, and there's a movie called The French Connection which is really good. Marseille, Marseille, thank you, Allah God. Card number seven, the French connection. Having found the Sicilian mafia useful during World War II, the U.S. government again turned to organized crime in its post-war battle against European communists. In November 1947, Wildcat Strikes erupted all over France and in Marseille. The vital port city which was the stronghold of French communists, 80,000 striking workers, paralyzed the city. The newly formed CIA sent agents of a psychological warfare team there to meet with Corsican underworld leaders such as Anton and Bartholomew Girini. The CIA supplied money and arms to the Girini brothers to assault for assaults on picket lines and union leaders, finally breaking the strike a month later. In 1950, another strike was similarly defeated, leaving control of Marseille's dock to Corsican gangsters. Within a year, Marseille's heroin labs run by the Girini's and others were in full operation. By 1965, America's heroin addict population largely supplied by these labs had grown from 10,000 to 150,000. At first, most of the opium supply from Marseille labs came from Turkey, but as time passed, Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle became the main source. France had a colonial outpost there from 1890s until 1954 when it was replaced by the US. As the colonial power in the region during the First Indochina War, 1946-1954, French intelligence working closely with Corsican narcotics syndicates took over the opium traffic to finance their operations. After the French left, the Corsicans remained and until 1965, these syndicates led by Bono Venture Rock Francesi who had ties with the Girini's and his airline Air Laus commercial, Air Opium, quote Air Opium, provided drug transport to markets in Bangkok and Saigon. Just a note regarding the US government shipping weapons and providing training to the mafia in France to prevent that region from unionizing further and getting adequate work and paying compensation for their workers and to fight against so-called communism that was prevalent at the time, rising at the time. These same operations are sort of going on in Mexico as well. They occurred under the Obama administration in a big way, looking to fast and furious where the United States was shipping automatic and semi-automatic weapons, supplying automatic and semi-automatic weapons to Mexican drug cartels during the Obama administration. So this practice still continues to this day, to this day. Card number eight, my lovable fascist, my lovable fascist Yakuza in the background. Let's see where this takes us. Card number eight, Wilbury and the Yakuza. Less well known than the CIA collusion with Corsican gangsters in France and the US, is the US military's use of Yakuza gangs in Japan. The Japanese equivalent of the Italian mafia, Yakuza syndicates have controlled the rackets in Japan since the early 1900s. Long allied with the ultra-nationalist right, Yakuza thugs provide the muscle which suppressed the left and kept fascists in power during World War II. After the war, Japan was occupied by the allies under supreme command for the allied powers, General Douglas MacArthur. In 1946, MacArthur's G2 Intelligence Chief Major General Charles Wilbury began paying Yakuza criminals to break communist legs, leg strikes, and infiltrate labor unions. Born out of wooden bench in Germany and called my beloved fascist by MacArthur, Wilbury recruited Japan's former chief of military intelligence, Lieutenant General Seizu Arizu, to help run his covert operations and succeeded in freeing many Class A war criminals. One of these men, Yoshio Kodama served as a liaison between G2 and Yakuza gangs and later worked for the CIA for 25 years. What the Corsicans became to the heroin trade that Yakuza became to the Asian amphetamine market and monopoly they still hold. Amphetamines speed have been popular in Japan since World War II when the most well-known military users of amphetamines were kamikaze pilots. Today, Yakuza have allied with Chinese triads in Hong Kong and Taiwan in global sales of heroin and speed. Together they now market a smokable amphetamine called ICE, common in Hawaii but still rare in the US mainland. ICE is cheaper and more potent than crack cocaine and could become the next drug epidemic. Card number 8 is my lovable fascist, serious dose of history. Wow, wow, wow, serious dose of history. Chairman of the board. Chairman is shining on us. Chairman of the board, chairman of the board. Who's that guy in the wheelchair? Look at him laughing it up, drinking it up. Where are, Meyer Lansky. That's the person that we read about earlier in the previous card, right? The Jewish mobster in the United States. Meyer Lansky, the father of white-collar crime. Meyer Lansky was the mob's financial wizard. Born Meyer Schuchow Lansky in 1902 in Poland. Lansky came to the US at age nine and by 1921 was lefating stolen, refitting stolen cars and bootlegging liqueur. He soon entered the heroin business. In 1931 Lansky became partners with Lucky Luciano and during Luciano's incarceration from 1936 to 1946 he oversaw syndicate operations. After gaining Luciano's release, Lansky reorganized World War II inter interrupted heroin business and set up a chain of banks in southern Florida, the Caribbean and Switzerland to launder drug profits. Lansky's investments associated in these banks included CIA agents, other drug lords, billionaire eccentrics, and Republican party bigwigs. The syndicate's base of operations was Cuba. Lansky had used the Caribbean as a smuggling base since 1920s when he cut deals with Bahamian and Cuban officials to ship bootleg room to the US. After 1933 he and Cuban strongman Fulginco Batista or Batista were partners in several Havana hotels and casinos. When Fidel Castro overthrew Batista and kicked out the syndicate, Lansky oversaw the mob's resettlement in the gambling and resort paradises of Las Vegas and Bahamas. Luciano died in 1962 and Lansky assigned his Havana lieutenant Santos Traficanta, the junior to run the heroin business. In 1965, Lansky sent his Swiss banker courier John Pullman to Hong Kong, setting the stage for Traficant's 1968 meeting in Hong Kong and Saigon with Chinese heroin suppliers. Near heroin resources created by the US war in Laos had made it necessary to deal with Corsican middlemen. The future disruption of the French connection was already in the works and that's why the United States government still has such a hard on for Cuba and they consider the Cuban revolution to be one of the biggest threats to the United States because it cut into their main port of drug money with the mafias of the world, right? That's why Castro is so hated, very cool. That's card number nine. Card number 10. Look at this, look at this. Who's that scumbag in the middle? Who's that scumbag in the middle? The great heroin coup. The great heroin coup. Who are those two other guys? Oh Traficante, that was the name of the guy. Card number 10. Traficante, Nixon, Gerini. Traficante, Nixon, that's Traficante, Nixon and Gerini. When Richard Nixon became president in 1969, the heroin trade was dominated by the Corsican mob which had been led by the Gerini brothers until factionalism put the Franciscan venturi gang in power. The new world division of this empire was headed by Auguste Rekord, a former Gestapo collaborator who operated from Paraguay. But before Nixon left office, the Corsicans had been supplanted by the Sicilian mafia. This coup was achieved through Nixon's selective war on drugs by working to extradite Rekord from Paraguay by securing Turkey's commitment to halt opium cultivation and by encouraging France's crackdown on the Francisci venturi gang. Nixon helped destroy the Corsicans while leaving the Sicilian network intact. Southeast Asia replaced Turkey as the main source of heroin and Santo Traficante Jr. unseated Rekord as the western hemisphere's top drug lord. From his Teamster Hall headquarters in Tampa, Florida, Traficante's influence spread widely. In the landski generated banks of southern Florida, his fortunes were laundered alongside KMT drug money from Southeast Asia and CIA funds for secret wars against Castro. The Torio's government in Panama and the Nicaraguan Sandinistas. Traficante even had connections in the White House. When Watergate burst, it was learned that four of Nixon's plumbers had worked for more controlled casinos and Batistas Cuba. Nixon's drug war also employed CIA trained BFPIC veterans linked to Traficante's drug operations. With heroin supplied by Hong Kong's KMT linked syndicates and with friends in high places, Traficante had by 1973 built the most powerful narcotics organization in the world. In the world. Traficante. Great heroine. Card number 11. Our man in Laos. Who's our man in Laos? Who's our man in Laos? General Vang Pao. One of America's dirtiest drug deals was made during the U.S. secret war in Laos from 1961 to 1973. The CIA set up a secret military base in Laos. Laos' second largest city, Long Tiang, often called Spook Heaven. Air America, a CIA property, flew up to 400 flights a day in and out of Long Tiang in order to supply an army of 40,000 Hmong or Miao tribesmen, mercenaries with mercenaries who were fighting communist forces in northern Laos. The CIA supplied army was led by General Vang Pao, a major Laotian opium supplier. Air America transported his opium from Hmong villages where it was grown to market in Vienti Laos and Saigon, South Vietnam. In 1967, the CIA helped Vang Pao set up his own airline named Jiang Clang Air Transport. It was soon dubbed Air Heroin by the Air American employees who piloted the planes. Vang Pao's original CIA case officer, Anthony A. Pushepski, aka Tony Po, was transferred out of Long Tiang after he complained to his superiors about the opium traffic. According to Tony Po, Vang Pao was quote, killing was quote, was making millions because he had his own avenue for his heroine. We were giving him freedom of navigation to Thailand. They weren't going to Thailand. They were flying over to Da Nhanh and then President Thieu, South Vietnam's president, 1968 to 1975, would receive it. It was like a big organized mafia, end quote. A secret Department of Defense reports later showed that the CIA spent $60 million more in Laos than they got from Congress. Many CIA men who ran the Laotian War surfaced during the Iran Contra scandal, including Richard Secord, Theodor Shansky, Thomas Klein's John Sing-Lob and Ralph Chichi Quinterino. So from the 1960s to 1970s, they leapfrogged into the Iran Contra scandal in the late 1970s and early 1980s or 1980s, mainly. That's when it broke. Wow, wow, wow, our man in Laos. Look at that. Look at that. Our man in Laos. Look at that pretty smile. Look at that pretty smile. Bloody smile. CIA funded smile. Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Kobe and Company. Who's this? Who's this? Kobe and Company. That's gotta be Vietnam. The helicopters? Is it? Is it? Let's check this out. The Vietnam drug war indeed. The helicopters, the sunglasses and the helicopters gave it away. The sunglasses and the helicopters. This is like the opening scene at Poclips now. Who's this guy? Who's this guy? The Vietnam drug war. According to former CIA director William Colby, quote, the CIA has a solid rule against being involved in drug trafficking. That's not to say that some of the people whom the CIA has used over years may, well, themselves have been involved in drug trafficking, but not the CIA, end quote. Colby should know from 1959 to 1972, he oversaw most major US intelligence operations of Vietnam theater undertaken in support of a series of drug corrupted South Vietnamese leaders like Ninh Dinh Diem, 1955 to 1963, Ninh Nhi Nguyen Khao K, 1965 to 1967, and Ninh Hanh Van Thu, 1968 to 1975. Diem's brother Ninh Dinh Huan, no, head of South Vietnam's secret police, guarantees safe contact for the Corsican run Air Laos commercial to ship opium from Laos to Vietnam. Nu used his profits to expand the scope of the secret police power. After Diem's CIA sponsored 1963 assassination, Kuy became commander of the Vietnamese Air Force, which in two years displayed the Corsican airline as the prime mover of Laotian opium. Kuy also taxed opium shipments through his control of both the Vietnamese custom service and the Saigon port of authority. Thu's intelligence chief, General Dang Van Quang, was by 1971, quote, the biggest pusher in South Vietnam, end quote. According to the NBC Saigon correspondent, Phil Bradley, Koby became CIA director in 1973. In 1976, he formally retired, but soon became a lawyer for the Australian based CIA connected Nong Hanh Bank. There he joined forces again with several men previously under his command in Vietnam. Theodore Shansky, Thomas Kleins, Richard Sokort, and the Banks co-founder, Michael Hanh. Koby and company, look at this guy. The guy who was running, working with the CIA, and running the drugs, was coming out and saying that the CIA doesn't do, doesn't, is not involved in drugs, drug trafficking. Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Card number 13. I want you, I want you to enlist for the USA. This has got to be the soldiers all addicted coming back from Vietnam to heroin. The war comes home. GI Junkies, card number 13. GI Junkies. As a result of the, of allying with Southeast Asian heroin dealers in the fight against communism, the US government created an epidemic of heroin addiction among American troops in Vietnam. At first this was a minor problem, as only low grade heroin was being produced in the golden triangle. But in 1969, Chinese chemists went to Laos and began producing high grade number four heroin. As a cover for, for purchasing the chemicals used in the process, Chinese gangster Hu Tim Heng built a Pepsi-Cola ballroom plant in Vien, Vien Shien, Laos, with money supplied by the US Agency for International Development. Wow. An official arm of the CIA, CIA. Heng's heroin was distributed by the smuggling apparatus of then vice president Young Cao Cai. The heroin was flowed to Saigon by the South Vietnamese Air Force and sold by dealers, many of them teenage girls, at stands outside US military bases. By 1971, 10 to 15 percent of low-ranking enlisted men were hooked. Wow. GIs began shipping heroin to the US, some going so far as to cut open the bodies of dead soldiers and stuffing them with up to 50 pounds of heroin per corpse. Between 1965 and 1972, the number of heroin addicts in the United States soared from 150,000 to 560,000. Keep in mind in the previous card, we read that it was originally 10,000 and then soared to 150,000, now soared to 560,000. In 1973, then-president Nixon formally wrote off 2,000 missing GIs as dead, when in fact many were POWs captured in secret wars in Laos and Cambodia. In the 1980s, British spy master Sir William Stevenson and Texan billionaire H. Ross Perot, wow, wow, investigated the fate of these men. They concluded at least 20 were still alive, wow, but found their search blocked by American intelligence officers still involved in heroin trafficking. Oh my god, this is Ross Perot, right? H. Ross Perot that ran for president in the 1990s, right? So in the late, in the 1980s, he did an investigation with British spy master Sir William Stevenson and found out what American oligarchs and the American government was doing, which was not releasing the information of the 2,000 soldiers that were classified as POW, 20 of which that were still alive. Oh my god, I'll bet you a million bucks that this is never taught in any American history class anywhere in the United States of America and you can find it on trading cards released by an independent comic book company called Eclipse Comics and you could order it in an ad they had on there in a comic book that they released that's called real war stories number two. I'll say it again if you want to know history, if you want to know what's going on in the world, get your hands on independent comic books and some of the mainstream comic books and you will learn more history, more facts as to what is going on in the world in comic books then you will get out of any history class in the western world in school. End of story. Wow, wow, wow. Wow, wow, wow. I had no idea Ross Perot looked into this stuff and that's the reason they demonized him. Some would say the first true, one of the first true, patriot politicians I guess. Who's this guy? Look at this, look at this. The CIA's bankers, also known as Wall Street and the big banks, right? Who are those? Who are those people? Cox, Wilson, Bush. Aha, he's looking at the cards. Look at this. He's actually holding up a deck of cards, like trading cards and he's got Bush on there. Very cool, very meta. What is this? The cards. CIA attack. Ha, ha, ha. CIA's bankers. Card number 14. The Nugan Hand Bank. What is this? What is this? January 1980. Frank Nugan, co-founder of the Australian-based Nugan Hand Bank, was found shot dead in his car on the outskirts of Sydney. Over the next few years, the Australian government investigated the firm's mysterious activities. They discovered that the bank did not, did no legitimate banking during its seven-year existence. What it did do was laundromony for many large Asian drug traffickers and arrange arms sales to several third-world countries. The banks, the bank's officials were mostly retired U.S. military and CIA personnel, such as Admiral Earl P. Yates, former chief of Navy's Pacific Strategies, General Leroy J. Manor, former chief of staff for the U.S. Pacific Command, General Earl Cook, Junior, and Edward F. Blank, Walter McDonald, former CIA deputy director, William Colby, former CIA director, and Nugan's co-founder, Michael John Hand, a former special forces operative in Laos, who disappeared shortly after the bank collapsed. Wow. The investigation showed strong links between the bank and CIA, bank and bank and hand CIA superiors in Laos, Theodore Schen-Shackley, and Thomas Kline's, as well as with former CIA and Navy intelligence agent, Edwin Wilson. Wilson's longtime partner, Frank Turpel, Turpel explained Nug's hands' role in the CIA drug wars in a 1983 interview. Quote, Where do the drugs come from? Laos. Who is the boss of Kline's? Shackley. Who were they coming from? Where were they coming from? Laos. The pilot was sickward. What was on the plane? Gold. He was going to pay off the warlords, the drug lords. Now what do you do with all the opium? You reinvest it in your own operations. Billions of dollars, not millions. Billions. Where did the money come from? Nugan Hand. There you go. Wow. 1983 interview. The Australian connection. The Australian connection. Well, not really. Headquartered in Australia, but ran, operated by CIA and US military. Retired. The same type of retired generals in US military that come on corporate propaganda news and tell you that the United States is winning the war everywhere. Drugs are bad and look at this. Look at this. And they're going into Afghanistan to save the women. Guns and poppies. This has got to be Afghanistan. Guns and poppies. Look at this. Look at this. Card number 15. Afghan Mujahideen. This is an amazing story, gang. If you've never looked into the origins of the Afghan Mujahideen, it starts off in the 1970s. Okay. And it's incredible. It's incredible and very much connected to what is happening in the world right now. Card number 15. Afghan Mujahideen. After 1978, Marxist coup, the government of Afghanistan, mounted an anti-narcotic campaign against the opium growing Mujahideen tribal groups near the Pakistan border. As these fundamentalist Muslims stepped up opium production to finance their resistance to Marxist rule, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan to prop up the government. The CIA used Pakistan's military to funnel arms to the Mujahideen. Rebel leaders shipped tons of opium out of the same pipeline. In 1984, despite full knowledge of these drug deals, the U.S. pledged to give Pakistan's ruler, General Zua Ohag, $5 billion in military aid. Two years later, the United States Department admitted Afghanistan was the world's top producer of opium for export. Xi's chief minister, personal banker, and pilot were all implicated in the trade. By 1988, when the Soviets left Afghanistan, 100 heroin labs were operating in Pakistan. And as had happened to U.S. forces in Vietnam, thousands of Soviet troops went home hooked on heroin. By 1989, Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle had resumed leadership of the world's opium production. With Burma, by far the leading source, 2,600 tons in 1989, Burmese drug lord, Khan Sa, in ethnic Chinese, controls the lion's share of this production and supplies the Hong Kong triads who make China white, a pure form of heroin which counts for 70% of the world's supply. Wow! Burmese General Ni Wen, the Noriega and Southeast Asia is on the take. His violent regime murdered thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in 1988. Assistant Secretary of State Melvin Levinsky admits Ni Wen's drug-dealing ways but adds, quote, we have no plans for any kind of military action. It would violate another country's borders and, quote, crazy, crazy. And this card, keep in mind, came out in 1991, right? In the 1990s, opium production in a huge way drifted back into Afghanistan, where Afghanistan was supplying the lion's share of opium to the world by the late 1990s. Now when the Taliban sort of took over Afghanistan, they destroyed the opium production in Afghanistan. If you look at the numbers, the charts, okay, in 2000, opium production in Afghanistan had dropped. 2000, 2001, opium production had dropped to a trickle in Afghanistan. Okay, what happened after that was 9-11 and the U.S. NATO invasion of Afghanistan and occupation of Afghanistan. Almost every year since, within a year really, opium production had basically gone back one to two years of the U.S. NATO invasion of Afghanistan. Opium production had gone back to pre-Taliban levels in the mid 1990s, before at the end of 1990s when the Taliban killed the opium production there. They had gone to that level and almost every year since, opium production in Afghanistan has been a record production year under NATO occupation. Under NATO occupation, what is being described right now in 15 cards of a 36 set of cards of the drug war, trading cards, the straight dope on America's dirtiest deals, okay, is continuing to this day. Connect that up with the leak that came out from the Washington Post of all places where it shows that all U.S. administrations that have come since the invasion of Afghanistan have been coming out and saying that they're winning the drug war, have been lying to the American people, that every administration knows that the war is unwinnable. They're just there to occupy Afghanistan and one of the reasons they're there to occupy it should be clear by now is because the U.S. military is the largest supplier of drugs in the world, right, as per Gary Webb's The Dark Alliance report that came out which basically is a must read for anyone that wants to understand what is going on in the world, okay. I just have to put in a little filler since these cards came out because these cards were in 2021 right now. They're 30 years behind. I would love to see the drug war trading cards part two maybe someday, maybe someday. Todd McFarland, do you hear us? Pan Am Flight 103. Pan Am Flight 103. Semtext. Pan Am Flight 103. Let's see what this is all about. Death over Lockerby. Wow, wow, wow. We're going into Libya, I believe. Wow, wow, wow. Card number 16. Death over Lockerby. Investigations into who plays plastic explosives on Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up over Lockerby, Scotland on December 21st, 1988, killing all 259 people on board are still ongoing. But the tragedy is widely thought to have been a terrorist attack on a U.S. target. At various times stories have surfaced implicating Syrian President Assad, Libya's colonel Qaddafi, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, and Palestinian terrorist Ahmed Jibril. In 1990, the DEA looked into claims that one of its agents had smuggled explosives on board, believing it to be a heroin shipment, part of an undercover sting operation. In Interfault, an anti-terrorist consulting firm which undertook an investigation for Pan Am's insurance carrier, concluded that the CIA was warned that a bomb had possibly been loaded onto the plane in Frankfurt, Germany, but allowed the flight to continue to protect the heroin shipment by Monzer Al-Kazar, a Syrian arms and drugs smuggler who had successfully negotiated a May 1989 swap of arms for French hostages. Al-Kazar had earlier received 1.5 million from Iran contra figures Richard Secord and Albert Hakim for providing 100 tons of arms for the contras. The Interfault report named Army Major Carl Mackie as heading an 8-member CIA team in Beirut, who while trying to gain release of CIA hostages had uncovered other CIA agents protecting Al-Kazar's drug pipeline in hopes that he would aid them. Mackie's team planned, quote, to bring the evidence back to the US to inform the government and to publicize their findings if the government covered it up, end quote. At least five, and possibly all eight, of Mackie's team were aboard Flight 103 when it crashed. What? Oh no, we gotta read that again. The Interfault report named Army Major Charles Mackie as heading an 8-member CIA team in Beirut, who while trying to gain release of US hostages had uncovered other CIA agents protecting Al-Kazar's drug pipeline in hopes that he would aid them. Mackie's team planned, quote, to bring the evidence back to the US to inform the government and to publicize their findings if the government covered it up, end quote. At least five and possibly all eight of Mackie's team were aboard Flight 103 when it crashed. Oh my god, I know a little bit about this. I'm not going to say what I've heard, what I read about this. This stuff was coming out way back when, where they were trying to blame Qaddafi for the bombing. Qaddafi took the rap for it for a deal that he cut where the Western government said that they would not try to overthrow him as long as he took blame for the Pan Am flight, and he did take blame for the Pan Am flight, right? So Western governments made the Libyan government Qaddafi the patsies for Pan Am flight. This thing is revealing a little bit of information that I've never heard about. Wow, wow, wow. Holy Kamoli. Pan Am Flight 103. If these weren't trading cards, this would probably not go on CensoredTube, but they are trading cards from a comic book company, and they're going to go on CensoredTube. Holy Kamoli's card number 17. LSD and the CIA. Are we looking at Timothy Leary? Look at this, look at this. Dick Helms and Timothy Leary. Holy Kamoli's. Holy, there are so many discussions about who Timothy Leary is. Wow, wow, wow. Let's read two more cards, gang. There's 36 cards in this, and we're going to do the next 18 later. This is number 17. We're going to read number 18. There's a Vatican. We're going to read that, and we're going to read this, and then we're going to call the stream because we're coming off the two hours for this gang. Okay, let's check this out. Card number 17. LSD and the CIA. In 1952, the CIA began mind control experiments under the code name MKUltra. The project, Brain Child of Richard Helms, included dosing unsuspecting Americans with LSD. That also should include Canadians. They did it to Canadians as well. This stuff came out later, after this 1991. The US government settled with the Canadians that sued them a few years ago, the families. Okay, so included dosing unsuspecting Americans with LSD. Some were permanently disabled, but the experiments continued for 12 years, by which time Helms ran the CIA's, quote, dirty tricks, end quote department. While Helms was CIA director in 1966-1973, the agency mounted a massive campaign to discredit the anti-war movement. Helms destroyed most MKUltra documents in 1973, so it is hard to know if the huge increase in LSD supply during his tenure was a CIA covert action. But a close look at asset guru Timothy Leary, whose quote, turn on, turn in, tune in, drop out, end quote motto was anti-theatrical to the new left raises questions. Leary's patron from 1963-1969 was stockbroker Billy Mellon Hitchcock, a session of the wealthy Melanie family. Hitchcock invested drug profits from the brotherhood of eternal love and Leary connected LSD dealing motorcycle gang in mob link resorts international and at the Bohemian base castle rank, a CIA mafia money laundering. From 1969 to 1971, with Leary's blessing, Ronald Stark supplied 50 million doses of LSD to the brotherhood. The gang was busted in 1971, but by then Stark was in Europe with their money. Jailed in Italy in 1975. He was released in 1979 when the judge found, quote, a series of scrupulously unnumerated proofs, end quote, that Stark had been a CIA agent, quote, from 1960 onwards, end quote. Leary was jailed, escaped to Algeria and linked up with alleged agent provocateur Edg Elbridge Cleaver. He later returned home and served time. By the 1980s, he was touring the lecture circuit with Watergate burglar G Gordon Libby. This is a PhD thesis game, PhD thesis, these trading cards. And remember the writer of this. Paul Brancato provided his own money to do this. There are a lot of well-intentioned Americans, people in the world trying to bring to light what is happening to the world. Card number 18 gang. We got the Vatican. We got the Vatican connection coming in. Pope. Who is this Pope? This isn't Pope John Paul, is it? Who is this? DC the 16th? I don't know who that was. The Pope's bankers, the Pope's bankers were into the Vatican. Oh my God. I'm surprised this stream hasn't been cut off yet. I have no idea this thing was this intense. Oh my God. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Eclipse comics. Thank you comic book haul. Thank you real war stories number two for hooking us up, hooking us up. And we're doing this the day before we do a politics live stream at 8pm and we do a conspiracy live stream on Tuesday at 8pm. For those of you that are really watching this video or watching this video after this live stream, you missed the politics stream, you missed the conspiracy stream, but we'll be doing more of these. And you want to, for these live streams, I got to do this gang. This thing's so sweet. You want to join our Twitch channel, twitch.tv, teach all life to get a feel for this stuff as they're happening, as they're happening. Okay. Let's check this out. Card number 18. Scandal in the Vatican and there are many. In the early 1970s, the Banco Ambrosino of Milan, Italy, was organized by Robert Calvi and Michael Sondona. Loyal members of Propaganda Du P2. An Italian or Italo Argentine Neofascist Masonic Lodge whose membership also included some of the most important political, military, and business leaders in the post-war Italy and Argentina. Sondona was linked to both the CIA and Italian mafia, so in addition to P2 funds, the bank also handled heroin profits deposited by Sicilian mobsters, CIA money for Italian anti-communists, and P2 sponsored causes and political campaigns, and most dramatically, Vatican Bank funds later used by Calvi to purchase a series of Panamanian shell companies which laundered cocaine dollars to finance P2 paramilitary dirty war activities in South America. My God. The Vatican money was transferred to Calvi by the head of the Vatican Bank. Chicago born Paul Marc Sincos, a bishop known as the Pope's banker, while the Vatican later denied knowledge of this involvement. Michel Sondona flatly stated that Marc Sincas had been kept informed by Calvi all along, and the Vatican had been happy to embark on P2's new crusade. Calvi himself said nothing. As alert to it, in Godfather III, Robert Calvi's body was found hanging from Black Friars Bridge in London in June 1982. Marc Sincas was indicted for his part in the bank scandal where charges were dropped when Italian authorities found an impossible to extradite him from the Vatican. In 1990, two former CIA contacts stated that the CIA had paid P2 leader Lysio Gilly, mastermind of the 1980 Bologna train bombing to foment terrorist activities in Italy. Gilly attended Ronald Reagan's first inauguration ball. My God. Wow. Wow. Wow. The Pope's banker gang. The Pope's banker. That's the dude right there connected up with the Vatican. Who wants to know what's in the dungeons below Vatican City? Who wants to know what books they got there? Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That's the first 18 cards for drug war trading cards from Eclipse Comics that were put out in 1991. We will read the next 18 in a future live stream, most likely in the next set of live streams that we're going to do. Without a doubt, without a doubt, and we will be reading more of Eclipse Comics trading cards because I'm finding this extremely, extremely informative. There's so much here that I don't know and I thought I knew a lot. Okay. Absolutely brilliant, absolutely brilliant. And if I ever set up my own school, I can guarantee you that each one of these trading cards will be a course that I set up for history. Okay. One card per term. It would take four months of grade 11 or grade 12 course to go through this, at least, at least, just the first 18 alone. And then part two would be this. Okay. Gang, we're live streaming this. I'm going to go back to the live stream for those of you that are going to be watching this or are watching this on our secondary platforms. Thank you for being here. And if you want to support this work, we are on Patreon. We are live streaming on Twitch. I announced these live streams on Mines, VK, Gap, Parler, and BitCloud. We upload streams that we don't have any visuals for to SoundCloud as podcasts. And we will be uploading this live stream to SensorTube, BitShoot, Rumble, and Odyssey. But if you want to watch all of our content, you want to be on BitShoot, Rumble, and Odyssey, because everything does not go on SensorTube. Aside from that, gang, thank you for being here for the live stream. I'm going back to the chat and I'm going to turn on the chat, the notifications, and my video. Hello, gang. What amazing, amazing trading cards, amazing trading cards. Holy cow. Holy cow. I think we have a shocked audience. Brother, oh my God. I'm shocked. This was, blew me away. I read a couple of these before. I couldn't hold off. I read two of them, but I didn't, like I skimmed. I read a couple of paragraphs, but holy cow. Best stream ever. Parallel parking expert. Wow. So good. Seriously, gang. One of the greatest buys I've ever done. Okay. And I'll let you know this. We bought 40 of these, mint condition, right? I love them so much. I went back to the same seller and I bought extras. They're on their way here because people were really interested in getting these and I want to make sure we have enough for the next few years to auction off to send to people. Okay. Had to be done. Had to be done. Had to be done. Had to be done. Such a welcome surprise. Grow a forest. How are you doing? I hope you're doing well. Amazing. Amazing. Man, this is what the gems in life that you find, right? Some of the gems in life that no matter what you think you know, how good something is going to be, it ends up surprising you and it's better. It blows you away, right? Phenomenal. Oh, my God. I notice a lot of connected streams in the car. Yeah. And then these cards, like it's referencing the Iran Contra. So the Iran Contra cards are related to these guys. So we're going to put out a whole set of these things. Man, I got to get my hands on all of them. I got to get my, I got to build up my funds a little bit. Some of the cars are pretty expensive. The sets, I got to build up my funds and I'm going to try to get my hands on all of them. Okay. Did you buy it from eBay or a specialist seller? eBay. I bought it on eBay. And as far as I'm concerned, they're going on the cheap, right? Right now, you could get these sets for around $10 U.S., not $8 to $10 U.S., including shipping, right? I ended up buying the set as a lot, right? In bulk and including shipping, it ended up costing us $3 a pop. Each set. What are the greatest buys ever? I came in an hour in and didn't expect this in a comic hall. Can't wait to listen to the beginning. Awesome, awesome. Lubash Orin. Yeah, we do some, we do as many interesting stuff as we can. We got a few comic book readings in our belts. This is the first trading cards that we're reading, by the way, but we have a few comic book readings and we've read some amazing stuff, amazing stuff, right? Those are some cool trading cards. Yeah, MC Mike, really, grow for a genius way of spreading truth, genius way of sir, in high school, right? This came out in 1991. Not a word of this was the truth of this was taught to us in high school history. It was all garbage, what we were taught in high school history, all of it, right? You had to read independent sources of news, independent books, books that like, and read comic books to be able to get the truth, right? Twitching Jason, gonna have to re-watch this later. I literally just tuned in at the end twitching Jason, you're gonna love this stream, you're gonna love this, and thank you for the bits, by the way. Now, the truth is found in the most unexpected places and places where information is not censored, which is why we have to make sure censorship does not take a foothold in our societies, because if censorship takes a foothold in our societies, this will be banned, right? This will be banned. This will be wiped from human history, okay? No censorship. That's why you have to go to independent publishers and creators, right? People who are not paid propagandists, right? To be able to get the truth of what's going on in our world, okay? MC Mike, you only get partial truth at best from mainstream media, unfortunately. Yeah, mainstream media will corrupt your soul, mush your brain, turn you into what Malcolm X warned you. If you're not careful, the liberal mainstream, all mainstream corporate propagandists will make you praising the oppressor, will convince you to praise the oppressor, and hate the oppressed, right? Oh my god, I was out of school by 1991, and I was reading my own knowledge, yeah. Touching Jason, I basically just walked into a room with everyone freaking out, and I have zero context. I've missed tuning into these streams. Oh, I'm touching Jason, you gotta get into these ones. MC Mike, math and staffs helped me develop a better BS detector. Indeed, MC Mike. Me too, me too. And gang, if you want to be anti-fragile, you want to be resilient. First order of business, learn your mathematics, learn math. Second order of business, stop consuming anything from mainstream corporate propagandists, okay? In terms of news and information, okay? When you're consuming their entertainment, consume it if you want. Be warned, if you're only consuming that, you will be brainwashed. Know what you're consuming. If it's propaganda, recognize it for propaganda. It's okay to still enjoy it, but appreciate that it is propaganda, and this is in turn partially destructive, partially destructive. Gang, we're over two hours. Let's call the stream. Thank you for being here. Again, I'll say those of you who are supporting this work on Patreon. Gang, thank you very much for the support. I hope you're enjoying the content. We've got many more years of this to do. Alla God, I love the timeline that the car is covered, and all the connections were a three-letter agency. All the connections were three-letter agency. Two hours and eight minutes have been going. Gang, on Twitch, thank you very much for being here. Mods, thank you for taking care of business. We're on mines, we're on GAB, we're on parlor, we're on BitCloud, and we're on GAB. We're on SoundCloud. This will go on SensorTube, but if you want to consume all of our content, you want to be consuming, joining, BitShoot, Rumble, and Odyssey. Aside from that gang, tomorrow night, current events, 8 p.m. PDT my time. That's Monday night, Tuesday night, two days from now, conspiracy live stream, 8 p.m. PDT my time. Wednesday morning, late morning, 11 a.m. I believe. We're going out on a patio, most likely we're going to smoke svogis or drink liqueurs and talk about life, whatever it is we're talking about. Okay, out of God, last mod standing, awesome. So if you can make it, we've got three more streams coming up, and I hope to see you guys, and thank you for being here. Will the VOD stay on Twitch? Only the segment where I'm doing the reading, because I'm cutting the full live stream, because I'm not a partner yet, I'm an affiliate or whatever it is. Full live stream, Twitch takes it off, but I'm going to cut out the segment where we do the intro to the card and read the card, cards up to the point where I came back to the live stream. That will be beyond there. Okay, so the VOD will be on Twitch for two weeks. I think Twitch kills it in two weeks. Okay, you're trying to kill me, teach me how to stream. I know how to, sorry. Sleep, brother. I'm going to be doing my current events so I can watch the chat as well and take action if need be. Twitching Jason, I'll definitely check it out. Either way, wherever it ends up, awesome. Gang, I'll see you. Three more streams that can make it. Bye, everyone.