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54 - THE OCTOPUS 8: The Enterprise
🕑 Added 2022-12-05 09:05:36 +0000 UTCWe try to understand The Enterprise, exploring Poppy Bush's time as Vice President and the way Iran-Contra was quickly transformed into a limited hangout to hide a much bigger matrix of breathtaking corruption. From the oil capos of Saudi Arabia to the banking scams of 80s America, the opium fields of Afghanistan and the rise of counter-terrorism in foreign policy circles, we look at how this systemic corruption planted the seeds for much of our ongoing derangement.
Check out @marina0swald superb piece on the Reagan assassination attempt here:
https://medium.com/@marinaonline/politicizing-the-shooting-of-ronald-reagan-f9d2698504d
Comments
Mark Philip
Michael Parenti / There will Be Blood
JNG
The Hinckley thing is bone-chilling, I return to it again and again. "Crazy" guy who already tried to kill a President. Multiple layers of cover stories starting with Jodie Foster and leading ultimately to a young man taking revenge for government "harassment" of his family's business (none of them leading you closer to the truth). With Bush presiding over a martyr's corpse, free of suspicion, with loads of sympathy and a free hand at the pinnacle of power. Poppy truly was a dark genius. Given how things turned out anyway, it's interesting to imagine if he was on the throne in the 80s rather than the power behind it.
dadbod_napgod
one of Biden's last acts was an EO amending CoG.
John
How can we find Marina's piece of Hinckley?
John
Whats the Intro clip?
John
Great listening to this i never got this fat on the octopus series first time round. I find poppy bush to be fascinating. So much stuff going on that i’m vaguely aware of enough to find it all so confusing.
John
Gotta get a copy of that.
Winstie
I just tried to get it and it's gone. Not even in the wayback machine. I had to tried to find it while taking a break about 50 minutes in due to being 100% totally freaked out as I listened and the wind is howling outside.
Jamie Sego
Did anyone get Marina’s article before it was deleted?
Tvvvv
Listening back through these episodes about this famed obvious antisemitic trope and coolest animal. Great stuff.
Joshua P. Kelly
also wondering and legit thought the same - I came here to see if there was any info on who the clip came from!
Willy D
Who is the person speaking in the clip at the very beginning of the episode? It sounds like Michael Parenti to me
KS
Nvm, go it!
KS
What books did you draw from most for these eps? Thanks.
William
“Bush got away with everything” fuck man, that hit like a megaton bomb
pinballa
I don't give a shit, it's all fake.
JENNIFER GRAY
There is no such thing as a “Bitcoin CEO.” Your comments about Bitcoin were very uninformed. Crypto and Bitcoin are not the same.
Paul Sullivan
This is the best money I've ever spent sure I could read these books but I love the narrative and narrator.
Paul Sullivan
Can't wait for more. :)
Travis Linnemann
you had a quote from a woman author towards the end speaking of drug war/COG/urban warfare, where did you get that?
pinballa
Many thanks 🙏🙏🙏
Travis Linnemann
great episode, pure poetry at the end
NYCM&AHole
Holy shit a two hour ep. Gonna put this on when I get home tonight
