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showed up, the lights turned off, then they left. At around 1.00 So I wrote two chapters that would have really named am the wife came home and he was dead. And they said it was a names—specific politicians, specific crimes, specific gangsters. suicide. Now this came from the English version of the Yomiuri It would have been so much of an exposé, I would have had to newspaper. It did not appear in the Japanese version. At this either leave Japan or be killed after the book was published. point, I had made lots of gangster connections because I had The very day after I sent the two chapters to my agent, in realised that to understand what's going on in finance, you need English, I got a call from the granddaughter of the Meiji to talk to gangsters. Otherwise, you don't know what is going on Emperor, Kaoru Nakamaru, and she said to me: "You know, Mr at all. Fulford, you really should not get the Yakuza angry. Are you KC: Okay. sure that's what you really want to do? Isn't there something else BF: And so...there was a bank called the Nippon Credit Bank you'd rather do?" And she tells me that a "goddess" contacted that turned into Aozora Bank. I think it's now owned by one of her through the astral plane and was worried about me! Well, it the US hedge funds. Maybe Carlyle? I can't remember. I'll have turns out the "goddess" was the Japanese Security Police! [Both to check. But, anyway, [a] director from the Bank of Japan, Mr laugh.] Honma, was made president. Two weeks later he was found And I realised: "Yes, I want to save the world." And unlike so hanged, and they said it was a suicide. I knew this guy from many people that want to do that, I actually had a concrete when I used to cover the Bank of Japan. There's no way he could method with this five trillion dollars. You can't take that money have committed suicide... Apparently he out of the US because that would ruin the was killed because of a bunch of loans to US economy, so you have to pay Americans North Korean credit cooperatives. He was to do it so that they benefit as well. Sol going to call in his bad loans. And if he did said: "Okay, we'll do it in such a way that that, he would have exposed a huge North the Americans benefit, too; then they can't Korean ruling party underground link. complain." And this is what I started The North Koreans have been sending saying. I started writing books along those pachinko money to Japan, [selling] " lines: why don't the Japanese save the amphetamines, doing all sorts of stuff, and Because to accept world? to get the police to turn a blind eye they that it was a cabal in paid huge bribes to the ruling party over the Rothschild and Rockefeller control years. the US government BF: But what happened, though, was this KC: Did you write about this? that did this [9/1 1 1 Meiji Emperor's granddaughter handed me a BF: I wrote it in Forbes, yeah. The . 9/11 video and said: "Look, Mr Fulford. editors were such chickens that they really it means to accept You know all about the corruption in Japan, took a Tor out of that sfory, but is still that the entire but you have no idea about ihe ere... So I started digging deeper. F corruption in the world." And when But then suddenly Forbes starts belief system you she gave me that I was shocked. putting pressure on me. I had a story have about your Remember, I was a financial journalist about GE doing some very funky accounting here involving billions of ollars and, you know, they killed it without explanation. Then Citigroup was kicked out of Japan for money aundering for gangsters. That story idn't run... I was getting ready to uit. At that point, a book of mine appeared in Japanese and became a for a long time and because so many people read what you write, it moves markets. There is a constant barrage of people trying to feed you BS information, which means you build very high immunity to false information. The problem that most people at the high level of western society have with the 9/11 thing is, est-seller. I didn't need the income. they say: "I don't care what evidence KC: A book about what? they show me; there's no way on Earth BF: This was stuff that came out a long time ago, some of the that the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC would be stuff I just told you about—the murders and the other stuff going reporting this." Because to accept that it was a cabal in the US on, things about Japanese corruption. A lot of people in Japan government that did this, it means to accept that the entire belief new something like this was going on. And so, anyway, I wrote system you have about your society is wrong. society is wrong." several best-sellers like that. So I had an independent income. KC: Uh huh. But what really made things click for me was, I was on a TV BF: Having experienced what I did at Forbes with censorship debate show with some of Japan's top politicians. And I said: and what I knew about the Japanese corruption, I started to do "These are the guys running this country? Come on!" Now I the research to find out what's been going on here. The answer now, of course, they're just actors reading a script, but at the is, essentially, that European society is not really "democratic" time I thought: "My God, I could do better!" This suddenly any more. It's a plutocracy combined with an aristocracy, and was...truly enormous. I realised: "Oh my God, the Japanese the "democracy" is kind of a way of keeping tabs on the "sheep" ave five trillion dollars in overseas assets. That's enough sentiment. I can show you, within the normal matrix of financial money to end poverty and stop environmental destruction. Then reports, Wall Street Journal stuff, how to trace it. What I did, why don't they use it?" I said: "I'll become a Japanese citizen, finally, to figure this out is go back to the 1918 edition of Forbes I'll try to run for office and I'll try to convince them to use this and their first "Rich List". You find that the top 10 richest money to save the world." You know, that makes so much Americans controlled 70 per cent of the money in the country. sense... John Rockefeller I was worth about US$30 billion in today's "Because to accept that it was a cabal in the US government that did this [9/11], it means to accept belief system you have about your ee JUNE — JULY 2008 NEXUS = 15 _that the entire society is wrong." www.nexusmagazine.com