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Waters, Arianna Huffington, Scott Harshbarger of Common The map that we're following—and this is where I agree whole- Cause, a great many very important American people. I talked to heartedly with Le Monde in Paris, a fabulous publication that's them about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in July of 2000 about to give us a pretty decent endorsement in September [2000], confirming that there was evidence that CIA was ordering drug this month—is that organised crime is probably the lubricating dealing by a Contra leader, Reynato Pefia. And it was funny, force for the entire world economy right now. There's a trillion because I got all these political answers. dollars a year in organised crime money. That trillion dollars a But one guy I talked to was a guy named Rex Nutting, who was year is liquid, and if you think of money—criminal money, drug the bureau chief of CBS Market Watch—he is the head guy for money—as water, which is thin, it can flow very quickly from CBS for the stock market. And we're sitting back in the room— _ point A to point B. And in the world markets, where you apply I'm waiting for Huffington to get free—and I'm talking to this guy money is where you control business. You control markets. You about the fact that Richard Grasso, the Chairman of the New York control banks. You control interest rates. Drug money flows Stock Exchange, last July went to Colombia and cold-called on fastest. Money that is not criminal money has to go through regu- the FARC guerrillas and asked them to invest their drug money in lations and banking systems. It has to go through taxations. It's Wall Street. And Rex Nutting says: "Well, of course they always tracked. The lawyers follow it. That money moves like molasses. go where the money is. It's obvious." So those who have access to the cheapest capital always win. The drug money is always going through Wall Street. Wall That's why if you don't play with drug money in the world econo- Street smells money and doesn't care where my today, you can't play at all. That's why, the money comes from; they'll go for the as we have documented, drug money was drug money. going directly into Al Gore's presidential And we jokingly laughed that the campaign. Why? Because the Republicans, National Security Act that created the CIA going as far back as Reagan, were using in '47 was written by a guy called Clark drug money, and that's how they put Reagan Clifford, who was a Wall Street banker and into office—with Bill Casey. If you don't lawyer. He's the guy that brought us BCCI. . play in that mode, you can't play at all. But The job of writing the outline for CIA, the peo the Chairman of the the analogy I use is that it's like a snake eat- design for the Agency, was given to Clark New York Stock ing its own tail: it's got to stop sooner or Clifford by John Foster Dulles and Allen later. Dulles—both law partners in the Wall Exchange last July We were faced with a huge economic Street law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell. A lapse in 1997 when the Asian economies In '69 after Nixon came in, the Chairman of went to Colombia and collapsed and the whole world held its SEC [Securities and Exchange cold-called on the breath, waiting for the other shoe to drop in Cc issi as William Casey— A the America arkets. Well, it didn't the same guy who. was Ronald FARC guerrillas and drop. But you know why it didn't Reagan's Director of Central asked them to invest drop? Because we went to war in ntelligence. And the current Vice thei osovo. We blew up several hundre eir drug money in Wall Street. President in charge of enforcement for billion dollars worth of bridges, the New York Stock Exchange, Dave refineries and factories. The KLA Dougherty, is a retired CIA General controls 77 per cent of the heroin Counsel. The CIA is Wall Street, and that's entering into Western Europe. vice versa. When you understand We loosened up that money. that, and that money is the primary American companies got all these new objective, everything else just falls contracts to rebuild the refineries, the into place. bridges, and the economy was saved. Now we're going to war in Colombia—we have already taken combat casualties—but it's not sus- tainable because Colombia is and will What is the character of our gov- erning body that's taken on this apparatus? What times do we live in? become another Vietnam. And South America is already saying Well, this is the Roman Empire. This is the Roman Empire "We're not going there". before the fall. There is no question. I have written extensively So I think we're on the brink of some really serious economic in From The Wilderness and we've been right...we talk about a upheavals in the US economy that are essential, because the sys- thing called a map. Have you ever had the experience where tem cannot last. The way I see it, this is this very much like you're reading a map—you're trying to go to a party or some place Rome. And I see some big changes coming very soon. you've never been before—and you follow this map and you read it, and you see that according to the map you're supposed to be at_ = Obviously you deploy information in the desire that people 34th and Main, and you look up at the street sign and it says 34th = might become conscious of it and make a change. What do and Main? You feel good. you think when the average American says, 'Why is this not But if you look up at the street sign and it says Fifth and in the major media and, if it's true, then it's gotta stop"? Broadway, you get this real sinking feeling inside. Everybody, What do you say? most of the world, is operating from a bad map. From The As far as the major media go, it's real simple. First of all, if you Wilderness has a good map because we've been able to predict look at what just happened with AOL and Time Warner who own what's going to happen; we can explain it and make sense out of | CNN. We have proven in From The Wilderness that CNN flat it. lost a lawsuit over the use of sarin gas during Vietnam. The Exchange last July went to Colombia and FARC guerrillas and asked them to invest their drug money in Wall Street. Obviously you deploy information in the desire that people might become conscious of it and make a change. What do you think when the average American says, 'Why is this not in the major media and, if it's true, then it's gotta stop"? What do you say? As far as the major media go, it's real simple. First of all, if you look at what just happened with AOL and Time Warner who own CNN. We have proven in From The Wilderness that CNN flat lost a lawsuit over the use of sarin gas during Vietnam. The 38 + NEXUS ws the Chairman of the _New York Stock Ccold-called on the www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2001