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March 26, 2024 - Jim Fetzer
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Joe Olson Interview II with Cypress Conservatives
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Music I am here today with Joe Olson.
He's an engineer, researcher, and author, whose articles can be found on Principiascientific.com.
He has appeared on the Drudge Report, Breitbart, InfoWars, Coast to Coast AM, and is a weekly talk show host on TNT Radio.
As a self-employed engineer, he presented a tour de force city planning proposal to the City of Houston, which consisted of a rail system, space tower, recreational park, and storm system lake on Buffalo Bayou.
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Joe, the other day when we spoke you mentioned that you had two red pill moments.
One was regarding your grandfather's land on Padre Island.
Can you tell us more about that and about your second red pill moment?
There's a movie called The Matrix where there's a blue pill and you're down to the point of a choice where you can take the blue pill and remain in your coma along with the rest of the zombies and sheeple or you can take the red pill and find out how the world actually works.
For a lot of people, their red pill moment has been fairly recently.
Maybe it was with COVID.
Maybe it was with the election theft.
Maybe it's some other event recently that's allowed you to wake up.
But for me, my initial red pill moment was in 1972, when my grandfather had owned five acres of land on the Laguna Madre side of Padre Island, waiting for the causeway to be built that would Make a tremendous increase in the value of that property.
He ended up in 1972 having heart bypass surgery and realized that my grandmother was not going to be in a position to market that piece of property or hang on to it.
So he ended up selling it to a consortium which included US Senators John Tower, R, Lloyd Benson, D., the Texas governor and the head of TxDOT, they bought that five-acre track for $600,000.
They sold the center three acres to TxDOT to make the new landing point for the bridge.
And then they kept the acreage on both sides.
Basically, this syndicate was able to quadruple the amount of money that they, quote, invested in less than a year's period of time from my grandfather's property.
And it cost the taxpayers of Texas an extra $2 million to put a double S curve and land the causeway.
That's my Red Pill moment, number one.
would have intended landfall on Padre Island, but it preserved all of the wealthiest people's property.
So that's my red pill moment, number one.
Number two, in the '80s, I was doing a lot of work with developers here in Houston, and I found out that the people that I thought were just B-level office park developers were in fact Essen health thieves, and we'll get to that a little bit later. and I found out that the people that I thought S&H thieves, and we'll get to that a little bit later.
But at the end of the 80s, I had been traveling all over the country because the Houston economy had pretty much tanked with the oil markets in the mid-80s, and I'd been working in a bunch of different jurisdictions and flown hundreds of domestic flights to every major city in the United States doing retail developments for Coach Leather, Gucci, Alfred Dunhill, on and on and on.
And so I would always be on the airline and people go, "Oh, I hear about Houston, but I never hear anything good about it." And it's like, "Yeah, that place is kind of boring." And so I came back and when Houston was getting ready to enter the new century, I thought, "Man, it'd take 10 years to do some really good projects." And one of the projects that would make Houston great would be a functional rail system.
At that time, they had been talking about Kathy Whitmire's, quote, 14-mile monorail project, and I knew that was goofy.
I'd ridden the monorail in Disneyland at Anaheim, and I rode the monorail in Orlando at Disney World and I knew that those were not functional transportation systems.
So I went downtown, took a photo of downtown, overlaid it in my office and did my first ever single point perspective elevation.
I'm an engineer so this isn't stuff that we typically do.
I took my French curve and drew a glass covered top on it.
I took a photo from when I rode the Metro Rail in Washington DC to get the end of the rail car.
City of Houston has a hundred and twenty foot wide right-of-way on Main Street.
The city blocks are 300 feet wide.
On each side of Main Street is one-way traffic on Fannin and Travis.
And so by putting in a low-rise, six-foot-high overpass over the center part of Main Street, you could recess the rail six feet down into the street.
You'd have plenty of ramp on both sides to service the one-way traffic on each side.
You would have sped up traffic downtown, and you would never have a problem with a train-car collision.
I have a glass barrier to keep people from walking across the high-speed heavy rail center median on Main Street, and that would be adjustable.
You could come back at any time in the future, and just by putting in a set of sliding doors, you could relocate rail stops wherever the demand needed it.
So, I went down on 1st of September and started making presentations for what's really a tour de force of city planning, best that any civil engineer has ever presented to any city in the United States in the history of the country.
And I ended up being on Channel 2 News, and this is a little segment with B.D.
Burns who came out and interviewed me at my house and then also interviewed me at several of the locations that we're going to be talking about.
So right now I'm going to show the news clip that was presented on Nightcast December 13th, 1989.
Soon Houston will be entering a new decade and already some people are making big plans for the Houston of the future.
Tonight's Business Report of Amy Burns talks with one of those visionaries, just an ordinary guy with some extraordinary ideas.
It was some graffiti scrawled on a downtown building that started Joe Olson dreaming his big dreams.
Well, somebody written in about three-foot-high letters, Houston is boring, and it was just an insult.
Olsen's a consulting engineer, a native Houstonian, and someone determined to think big thoughts.
He spent hundreds of hours of his own time drawing up futuristic designs for Houston, like a space tower that would change the Houston skyline by adding a 1,500-foot glass tower with a Disney-type space ride inside.
In 1889, the French built the Eiffel Tower, and for 40 years it was the tallest building in the world.
And I've been up in the Empire State Building, and I've been up in the Arch at St.
Louis, and I figured that Houston really needed something on our skyline of major importance.
And he doesn't stop there.
Olsen proposes a lake just north of Memorial Drive that could be a home for glass-bottom boats, scuba divers, and all sorts of recreational activities.
And his rail transit system would link both airports to downtown with a Galleria-like mall on Main Street.
When Olsen thinks big, he really thinks big.
But does anybody care?
A rail system connecting Intercontinental Airport, Downtown, and Hobby Airport seems a most logical first step.
Olsen's taken his plans to City Council and Metro, where they've gotten a less-than-enthusiastic reception.
Not surprising, since the dreamers of this world have long been ignored.
I want a chance to talk to people who believe me!
You might say Joe Olson is a modern-day Mr. Smith, fighting for a vision of a better city, even though he doesn't have a whole lot to gain from it.
Saved me a lot of time getting between the airports.
So you do have an ulterior motive.
Yeah.
So when you're lying comfortably in your bed tonight, just think about Joe Olson, who'll be at his work table into the wee hours of the morning.
We may not have time, but Joe Olsen's still dreaming.
And as long as he is, maybe there's hope for the rest of us.
B.B.
Burns, Channel 2 News, Nightcast.
By the way, Mr. Olsen will be back before Metro next Monday at a public hearing, whether anyone listens or not.
I think he has his work cut out for him.
I love that.
I love it.
Joe, that was an awesome clip!
Towards the end, Ron Stone stated that you were going to be back in front of Metro for a public hearing.
What more can you tell us about that hearing?
So in the clip that Ron Stone said, that Joe Olson would be back in front of Metro on Monday, which was December 18th, to promote More on His Rail, and I went, oh great, another bunch of sleepless nights for me.
So I had already decided what I wanted to do in the way of a corridor.
I'd already gathered a team with three architectural firms, two civil engineering firms, a surveying firm, to do the proposal which was supposed to be a design bill proposal.
And so I laid out my Harris County tax maps on the floor of my office and taped out the way the routing was gonna go.
I drew them up on poster board, and this is the actual poster board that was presented to Bob Lanier on December 18th.
And as you can see, it's fairly large This is just half of the routing.
I had it reduced size, and so let me go ahead and walk you through the exact routing.
This is Intercontinental.
I would start off with a rail station at Intercontinental and go down existing 100 foot wide right-of-way of Kennedy Boulevard.
This match line connects over here.
These are cross stations.
I would have one at Tidwell.
I'd have one at Gulf Bank.
I would have had one at North Belt, and then I would have had one at the North Loop, and then this is where the match line is where it goes into downtown.
The important thing here is that we could build a tunnel from Intercontinental underneath the runways and connect with 1960 and put a parking lot and a terminal there, and then it would have been a short five-mile extension from there up to pick up the woodlands.
So, as you can see, this is pretty much a straight line.
And that allows you to do what rail does best.
Go high speed in a straight line for long distances with no traffic.
Because this would all be elevated sections.
Then, as you get into downtown, I would come over and this red line would be a future extension that could go out to Baytown and pick up Katie, and there would be a transfer station that would be built right now.
This is right across the bio from U of H downtown.
As you come down Main Street, which is what I call Main a la Train, you pass South Texas Law College, Houston Community College, St.
Thomas, Rice University, the Medical Center.
I stop at the Medical Center, but it was only 1.7 miles from the Medical Center.
Down to the Astrodome and had this rail system been built, we wouldn't have lost the Oilers and we wouldn't have needed to build a stupid baseball stadium and a stupid football stadium.
So we could have saved the taxpayers a lot of money there.
Then I have a cross station at Blodgett and Main Street and the Blodgett line goes over and picks up, has a station at Scott Street, goes down Wheeler, picks up TSU, ...and University of Houston, and then goes down and picks up Hobby Airport.
The future extension from Hobby Airport could go down and pick up Galveston.
This is a 27.5-mile high-speed heavy rail that would convert Main Street from a noisy, stinky, dirty, abandoned bus corridor to a marble-lined, glass-covered shopping mall with 12-hour-a-day traffic seven days a week, which no other rail system is capable of doing.
Now, what Kathy Whitwiner was proposing was a Disney 14-mile rail system, and we'll get into a little bit more detail on that in a little bit, but bottom line is, Disney's monorail has never been approved by the DOT as a transportation system.
It is approved as an amusement park ride.
It's never been crash tested, flame tested, evacuation tested, does not meet ADA standards.
It's basically a rubber-tired bus on top of a concrete beam that's 18 inches wide, 30 feet in the air, 24 inches deep.
You got outriggers to keep it from tipping over.
It can't operate in 50 mile an hour or greater winds.
It can't operate when there's more than two inches per hour of rainfall because it hydroplanes.
Disney makes you sign a Non-disclosure agreement anytime you enter Disney property.
There have been, to my knowledge, at least nine deaths on Disney monorails which existed in Anaheim at the original Disneyland in 1959.
They put in a short segment for Seattle in 1962 and then they installed the one in Orlando.
At the same time they were proposing that Mickey Mouse system in Houston, they submitted it to Honolulu, and Honolulu said, this is laughable and not worthy of consideration.
And if you think about it, what they were trying to sell us is the beauty of this system is you've just got these thin little ribbons of concrete that the monorail runs on.
Well, if you're in a wheelchair, how are you supposed to get out of that car And get down to ground when you're 20 to 30 feet in the air.
The whole thing was absolutely absurd and we'll get into more about what the corruption involved there was.
Joe, that was not an insignificant feature of you by B.B.
Burns.
What were the results of her coverage?
As a result of being on Channel 2 News with this excellent coverage, thank you forever to Ron Stone and B.B.
Burns, I was invited to be a guest speaker at St.
John Divine's High School, which happens to be on the corner of River Oaks and Westheimer.
And it is the most prestigious high school in Houston.
And their senior class had a thing called Future Day, where you got to talk to all of the seniors.
So they got me in a great big auditorium.
And there was 70 of the most sophisticated high school students in the city of Houston.
And I was supposed to give an hour-long presentation.
I realized that high school kids were not going to be real excited about a functional rail system.
And they weren't going to be real excited about a 25-acre lake on Buffalo Bayou that you could go scuba diving.
And it would have worked as a flood control effort that would have stored 250,000 cubic feet of water, the exact amount of water that three different times since then have flooded the downtown tunnel system.
them.
It was at the Oxbow Meander on Buffalo Bayou.
We've got a copy of it.
I call it Town Lake, but basically we would have had a 25 acre lake with a small aqueduct allowing straight flow of Buffalo Bayou and then two low water dams and you can flocculate out the colloidal clay particles very easily with a little bit of lime.
So we would have had a wonderful 25 acre recreational lake when we have our downtown Fourth of July picnics.
Everybody could have been floating around and We hate it.
It's in a horrible location.
It's gang infested.
It'll be constantly tagged.
Kathy Whitmire came in there and stuck a memorial to the fallen police officers.
And I talked with Mark Welch, who was head of the Houston Patrolman's Unit, and I said, "What do you think about this monument she's putting over there on Buffalo Bile?" He says, "We hate it.
It's in a horrible location.
It's gang-infested.
It'll be constantly tagged.
It has to be constantly monitored.
There's no sewer or water service available, so we have to use porta-potties." He said it's miserable half the year because of mosquitoes, heat, or cold.
He said it's the most terrible location.
I said, well, where did you want it?
He goes, well, we wanted it downtown in front of the new convention hotel, which we'll get to in a minute.
And I said, oh, okay.
So, you know, I tried to make that presentation.
I met with four City of Houston mayors, every member of City of Houston Council.
Eight different U.S.
representatives, every member of the state senate and state representatives from the metro tax district, which was about 15 representatives and a half dozen senators.
I met with all of them for an hour apiece trying to convince them into doing something that would be useful.
In addition, I had a proposal for a 1,500 foot tower on Market Square downtown.
This tower would have at the base a simulated lunar crater with a cover over it.
And then the 1,500-foot tower, you would go up 100 feet in the air to a floor where the three legs of the tower we're standing makes it look sort of like a spaceship.
And then you would get in an elevator.
The elevator would have reclining seats, so you would sit in your seat.
The seats would recline 90 degrees.
Above you would be a simulated windscreen from a space shuttle.
As you accelerated up the 1400 feet of that tower, I could get you up to speeds which would be variable depending on the health of the people that were in the elevator, but I could get you up to a speed where I could give you up to three seconds of weightlessness at the same time the screen was showing you turning and rotating into Earth orbit.
So it would have been a space shuttle, and the kids were really excited about that.
That proposal was spiked by Kathy Whitmire because she managed to get an $80,000 donation from the National Arts Foundation to put up some concrete easels in Market Square, and that was going to make Market Square just the most wonderful tourist attraction Houston's ever seen.
So we're dealing with some people that are really corrupt, and you're going to find out how corrupt in just a minute.
So, I also had heard Buckminster Fuller speak when I was a student out at University of Houston.
And the guy was the most fascinating speaker I've ever heard in my entire life.
And he was talking about the extension of human senses, very much like Marshall McLuhan.
This was in the early 70s.
Very much like Marshall McLuhan was talking about.
And so I brought kids that had never heard or seen of electron microscope photos and Mount Palomar telescope photos.
And so we talked about, you know, extending our senses and all the world was going to be open to them and it was going to be a wonderful future.
The kids were already excited, but I knew what would really get high school kids excited was A car that was going to be unbelievable.
And I'd been thinking about this for a long time.
I'd read Popular Science.
They had an article about an Australian company that had patented an air-injected two-stroke system.
Where instead of having ports for intake and exhaust on a standard two-stroke engine down at the base of the piston stroke, they ended up putting a fuel injector off of a big diesel truck onto a small motorbike engine And they injected air, and then they also had a separate fuel injector.
What that did is allowed you to have perfect scavenge across your combustion cylinder as you got down to the bottom of your exhaust port, and that allowed you to have more exhaust port area, and that gave you a lot cleaner exhaust, but it also gave you the ability to just use pressurized air and blow the piston down with nothing but air and not use any fuel at all during certain parts of the cycle, and you could have Instead of just a two-stroke, you could have a variable stroke.
You could have two-stroke, four-stroke, six-stroke.
And I was going to make it a 90-degree V, which has perfect harmonic balance, just like my 900 Ducati Monster had.
And so you have no vibration from the system.
And having two cylinders means that you've got 50% ratio of power there.
Placing this in a hybrid electric car with electric drive on the front wheels where you get the maximum amount of regenerative braking, and then putting the gas engine in the rear, this car would be able to get 200 miles per gallon, be completely injury-proof in a 60-mile-an-hour collision. be completely injury-proof in a 60-mile-an-hour collision.
And the kids were so excited that they had to have multiple teachers come in there and push the kids out of the room so that the next speaker could speak.
They go, you've got to go to the next thing.
You need to get out of this room.
And it was really great.
So after I did that presentation in January of 19, 1990.
I was invited to speak to Rotary Clubs, and I spoke to 60 different Rotary Clubs in Houston.
And some of the clubs invited me back for a second, and I think there was even a couple that invited me back for a third speech just because they said I was the best speaker that they ever had, which is pretty flattering.
And then on Texas Independence Day, March 2, 1990, I had a scheduled 15-minute meeting with U.S.
Representative Bill Archer, District 7.
He had been in Congress for decades, and he was chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee.
So he had scheduled me for a 15-minute meeting.
I sit in his office, and I start talking about all these different ideas.
I looked down at my watch and I said, Congressman, we've been in here for an hour and a half.
And he goes, yeah, I know.
He says, but you're just the most incredible person I've ever met in my whole life.
I've only met one or two people like you.
And he said, you keep talking about this car and that we should manufacture this car.
He goes, what happens if we don't manufacture this car?
I said, Congressman, if we do not manufacture this injury-proof, 200 mile per gallon car, in 20 years, half of the U.S.
Treasury will be in Saudi Arabia, and General Motors would be bankrupt.
I was wrong.
It only took 19 years for General Motors to be bankrupt.
And when the government gave them a billion dollars to get them out of bankruptcy, they built a billion dollar plant in China.
So tell me again how wonderful this system is working.
So, then on March 19th, I made a presentation to the largest Rotary Club that I've ever spoken to, probably the largest in-person audience that I've ever been to, and that was for the Woodlands Rotary Club at the Tournament Players Country Club in the Woodlands.
And there was 220 people in the room.
The guy came up to me and said, oh man, he says, I realize we scheduled you for a 30-minute presentation, but we forgot we needed to do this awards presentation to some local high school kids, so you'll only be allowed to do 15 minutes.
I said, well, I can't possibly discuss this stuff in 15 minutes, but I'll allow anybody that needs to leave to be excused.
And he goes, that's fair enough.
So they did the presentation of the high school kids.
I got up and did my 45-minute extemporaneous stump speech.
Main Street before, a noisy, sinky, dirty, abandoned bus corridor.
Main Street after, a marble-lined, glass-covered, air-conditioned shopping mall with a high-speed rail connecting Intercontinental, Downtown, 7 University Campuses, a medical center, and Hobby Airports.
For you, only $1 billion.
At the end of my presentation, I got a standing ovation.
I stood at the door and shook hands with everybody as they left.
There was at least 30 people standing in line to shake my hand for the next hour.
One of the people I met was Kevin Brady.
He handed me his business card.
He said, man, you're the greatest speaker I've ever heard.
And I looked at it and it said, Woodlands Chamber of Commerce.
I said, oh man, my rail system with a real short extension can pick up the woodlands.
I need to come by and talk to you.
He goes, oh, there's nothing I can do.
I'm just Chamber of Commerce.
I said, trust me.
I'll come by and talk to you.
We'll talk about it.
When the presentation was over and I shook the last hand, one of the guys came up to me and said, man, you're really incredible.
He said, normally people get up and leave during our presentations, and you said they could.
He said, we only had two people that got up and said they had to leave, and one of them was a dentist that had an appointment, and the other one was an attorney that had a deposition.
And so that was my introduction to public speaking on the largest scale that I've done so far, but I'm willing to do larger.
So then I ended up going to Kevin Brady's office and explaining to him in more detail about how this could benefit.
And he goes, well, I'm still, I don't even have the secretary.
There's nothing I can do for you.
And I went, "Okay, well just keep my name in mind and we'll cross paths later." So then I ended up having a meeting.
Kathy Whitmire fired Bob Lanier right after I made my routing map presentation.
So I went by his Landauer office over off of San Felipe and I had an hour-long private meeting.
And I said, "Bob, why is Kathy Whitmire trying to do this no-bid contract It's a violation of the state competitive bidding law, Vernon's Code 664-4.
It was in my engineering newsletter last month.
Bob Lanier, who is an attorney, Said, yeah, I know.
He said, Leo Lindbeck, the owner of Lindbeck Construction Company, said, if I don't have to bid against anybody, I can hide $200 million of excess profits and we'll all get rich on it.
And I went, gee, Bob, why didn't you go along with him?
He goes, well, because I already made enough money.
I didn't need to make any more that way.
And I looked at him and I went, yeah, you and Joe Johnson The owner of Metro National, Memorial City Hospital, and Memorial City Shopping Mall bought University Savings, syndicated it with a bunch of your buddies, got $140 million from the Resolution Trust Corporation, and I know how you made your $70 million, Bob.
I had that printed in the Houston Press.
I was interviewed 16 times by John Matthews on KPRC Radio, where we repeated it every time.
I was interviewed on every radio station in Houston, every TV station in Houston, printed in every newspaper except the Chronicle, and we'll get to why they did that later.
But, bottom line is, I was never sued for slander, and no place that published that information was ever sued for slander, because that's exactly what these people had planned.
A $200 million, no-bid, illegal rip-off of the taxpayers.
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So, one of the things that my rail system did is it went through the third ward, and it went through the fifth ward, and it took minorities to the universities and the job places that they needed to go.
And so, to me, it seemed like a natural ally for a functional rail system in Houston would be the minority community.
And so, I started reaching out to the minority community.
I talked with Michael Harris at KCOH.
And I dropped off copies of my maps and he said, OK, I'll give you an hour long interview.
And so I showed up at KCOH station.
I think it's over on Wheeler.
And I got there an hour before the program so that I could walk through some of this stuff and answer any questions.
And Mike and I would be comfortable talking to each other.
And so I started showing him again my routing maps and all the wonderful things that it could do for the black community.
And he kept looking away.
And I said, Mike, What's the problem?
We talked about this last week and you were all excited about it.
And he goes, yesterday, Anthony Hall, who was the director of Metro that was appointed after Kathy Whitmire fired Bob Lanier, held a press conference for Houston's black news media.
He got 50 of Houston's black reporters in a room And he said, I need to make this rail thing happen, and here's what you're going to do.
You're only going to talk about Metro's rail, you're only going to ask me the questions I give you to ask me about rail, and you're not going to talk about anybody else's rail system.
And if you don't do what I say, you won't get any advertising or printing money out of the City of Houston or out of Metro.
I jumped out of my chair and I said, Mike, that's what we've got to fight against.
And standing outside the open door in the corridor was station manager Skipper Lee, who is an absolute legend in the black community and the black radio market.
He's the man who first put Ray Charles on the radio.
He stepped into the room and he said, who's we, Olsen?
He said, let me tell you something, buddy.
I promised you an hour of time on my station, and I'm going to give it to you.
But if you make these people mad at me, they can seriously hurt me, and they will.
And I went, oh, and they go, OK, it's time to record.
So we go into the recording room.
The KCOH studio has a half hemisphere glass front that looks like a fishbowl.
And Mike Harris is sitting.
It to me looks like in a pillbox, a concrete arced bump bunker above me.
There's street traffic all over behind me because we're on a corner intersection.
And I'm sitting there looking up at Mike Harris and there's people walking up and down the sidewalk that could put a cap in my ass through the window.
Driving up and down that could put a cap in my ass through the window.
And I'd already had two death threats on the phone.
People calling me up and saying, if you don't quit messing with Kathy Whitmire's rail system, we're going to kill you.
I said, hey dude, you've got my phone number.
Go to the bookstore.
Get a crisscross directory.
You can find my address.
Come on out to my house.
I'll be sitting on the front porch with my 12 gauge waiting for you.
So, anyhow, we did a very subdued discussion about how the black community might benefit by a rail system, but basically that's as far as I made it with Michael Harris at that particular point.
Wow, Joe, that is quite a monumental series of after effects from the news feature.
What additional events can you share with our viewers?
So the next event that happened in my life, on my birthday when I was speaking to the Woodlands Rotary Club, my ex-wife went down and had Divorce papers filed on my birthday, the day that I was scheduled to be a speaker at the Senate Transportation Committee hearing in Austin.
She had emergency service that night at 10 o'clock.
I loaded my 7 and 10-year-old daughters in the back of a car with tears streaming down everybody's faces, and my ex-wife disappeared with my children, and I did not see them for nine months because I was thrust into the most corrupt divorce court, to my knowledge, in the whole entire and I did not see them for nine months because I
And one day when I was walking into divorce court, there was a guy that had a card table set up in front of the courthouse, and he was selling copies of a book called The Mafia, The CIA, and George Bush, And this is by author Pete Bruton.
Pete Bruton had been an investigator with the Houston Post, had been investigating the SNL crisis, which ended up costing us $800 billion, and it was an intentional deregulation under Reagan rip-off by the Bush family.
So anyhow, He was selling these things for $25 a copy, and I said, well, why are you selling it here?
He goes, well, I had a contract with Simon & Schuster that this book would be published by September of 1992 so that I could let people know what George Bush did as Vice President that he would turn around and do again as President.
And Simon & Schuster signed a million dollar contract and they defaulted.
He said, I got a default judgment against them.
I printed 10,000 vanity copies and I'm just trying to make sure enough copies get out so that people know what happened to our country.
I said, man, I'm on a $25 a month food allowance.
I buy a carton of the store brand tuna and the store brand macaroni and cheese, and I have macaroni and cheese, half of it for lunch and the other half for dinner, and I have a slice of toast for breakfast.
This book is $25.
Let me see if it's worth reading.
I opened it up.
Whambo Bambo!
Fifty of the projects that I had worked on in Houston in the 80s, a dozen of the crooked real estate syndicators that I know personally and sat in closings with, were in this book.
I said, Sir, you have done your homework.
So I picked up a copy of the book, later bought a second copy, which is the only purchase I've ever made from Amazon, used for $6 so that I could be a certified buyer so that I could make a recommendation to this book.
In the comments at Amazon and I had the highest rated comment for years before they decided that nobody needed to know anything more about this book and they dropped my comments.
So I ended up in divorce court.
There's a large group of men's activists because men's rights were just absolutely being crushed by these wicked divorce court judges and then there was also a lot of women that were being adversely affected by the crooked courts.
And so there was a group called Court Watch, and there was a lady named Froggy Simon that had a vigil down in front of the courthouse, and they said, as long as you don't leave, we will allow you to do your protest, but the moment that you're not here and don't have a presence here, we will remove your material and you'll never be allowed to do a protest on courthouse grounds again.
So she maintained a 24-hour vigil with volunteers, and I volunteered to spend the night down there so that we could maintain the vigil.
And it was a horrifying experience, but, you know, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do.
In the process of collecting information, I was invited to the FBI Houston's local office, their public integrity unit.
And at the time, I didn't know the extent of all of their investigations, but they were doing an investigation of all three of the probate court judges and five of the family court judges, and then several of the people that had been appointed as psychologists and and then several of the people that had been appointed as psychologists and ad litems and the other leeches that hang on to the And so I was invited twice to speak to the FBI.
They were also interested in the S&L crisis and all the information that I could provide on that.
And then after a couple of months later, it started being disclosed that this public integrity unit that the FBI had also caught seven city of Houston councilmen in a sting to do a bribery thing on another no bid contract for a downtown convention it started being disclosed that this public integrity unit that the under Kathy Whitmire.
And then they had also caught several members of the Port Authority.
And then the big fish that they caught was 50 people taking bribes and kickbacks at NASA and the NASA contractors.
And this was an operation called Lightning Strike.
Well, in 1993, when Slick Willy got inaugurated, he appointed Janet Reno to be the Attorney General, and the first thing that Janet Reno did was fire every Assistant Attorney General in the United States except for Michael Chernoff.
So he was in New Jersey, and they fired every other one, which killed all of the investigations going on about the Iran-Contra cocaine smuggling into California and into Mina Airport.
And it killed all of the other investigations that were going on.
And then, surprisingly enough, a couple of weeks later, they started the siege in Waco, where they ended up Roasting alive 80 people and a dozen kids in what was obviously a bungled event.
And surprisingly enough, there was four ATF agents that were at that site.
All of them that were killed at that site, all of them were killed by friendly fire.
And all of them had been shot, had been former bodyguards with Slick Willy when he had worked in Arkansas as a governor, and he got them promotions to be federal officers with higher pay and more benefits.
But one of the benefits is Arkansas because we don't need witnesses like you ever be able to testify against this.
So that's how that little chapter of life ended up.
Turns out the woman that was appointed to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Houston District was a woman named Gaynelle Jones.
And by dismissing the charges against All of the family court judges, which the FBI told me they had wheelbarrow loads of evidence against those judges, and the three probate court judges, and the seven city council members, and the Port Authority members, all of whom were Democrats, well what really bothered the FBI is that they had spent
$2 million of civil forfeit aperture money in order to set up the stings down at NASA.
And they said, we've spent $2 million on this.
They had it broadcast on 60 minutes and it was Operation Lightning Strike.
I was able to find it recently on YouTube, so it may still be available, but once they hear about this, I'm sure it'll be scrubbed.
But bottom line is, CBS did two 20-minute episodes showing how crooked this woman was.
She was immediately fired, and then immediately hired by Compaq Computers for the same salary.
So that's pretty much how that part of the rotten system operates.
You are presenting a very impressive chain of events.
Can you tell us about additional press coverage, speaking engagements, and presentation opportunities you may have received?
Yeah, as I mentioned, I was in every newspaper in town.
I was in the Houston Press several different times.
One with the disclosure about the $200 million of excess profits in the billion dollar bid rigging contest.
Another one was written, Rasputin of Rail, by Barry Moore.
And then I was also interviewed by Juan Palomo at the Houston Post.
But I had never had anything presented to the Houston Chronicle.
And finally, Kathy Whitmire had claimed that she was going to be mayor forever.
And she had the support of what I didn't know.
They described themselves as the Houston power elite.
And I was actually invited to speak to that group at River Oaks Country Club on their Tuesday morning breakfast club.
And there was about 80 of the most powerful people in Houston.
And I was told, you need to take a witness with you just to make sure that they don't frame you or stick you in a drum and drop you in the gulf.
And so I took Sissy Farenthold's son.
And so we went to that meeting together and it was cordial enough.
They didn't threaten me in any way.
But the Houston Chronicle is owned by Hearst Corporation.
And like I said, I had made my presentations to Metro dozens of times, to city council a dozen times.
Every time John Williams, who was the city editor for the Chronicle, was there.
And I asked John, I said, why won't you ever cover me in the Chronicle?
He said, because it ain't news unless I say it's news.
I said, John, You're not reporting the news, you're controlling the news.
And that's exactly what we've got.
So, because of Kathy Whitmire's excesses, the Houston voters voted to have term limits where you could only be a mayor for three terms.
And I think the terms were two years at that particular point.
I think they've changed it since then.
So Kathy Whitmire was term limited limited out.
And before she got term limited, Bob Lanier ran against her.
And they had a debate with the League of Women Voters out on the west side of Houston.
And I bumped into one of the Houston Channel 2 film crews out there.
And I said, why aren't you guys filming this?
And they said, oh, we were told by the city of Houston owned channel, TV channel, that they would provide us the footage from inside the event.
And we didn't need to have anything there.
And so Bob Lanier is debating Kathy Whitmire.
so She is in front of a group of 300 people, mainly women, probably 75% women, that are, you know, West Side Republican women.
But they weren't opposed to her, and they certainly weren't anti-women.
And they booed her three times over the ten questions that they answered.
And I caught the Channel 2 news people outside, And I said, what's the deal with this?
And they said, oh, they're going to provide us the footage.
And when the thing aired on the Houston Channel, there was only seven questions asked.
So the three times that Kathy Whitmire made miserable answers and the crowd booed her, they edited out so that if you weren't one of the 300 people in that room, You didn't know what a wicked person this was.
And at one of the events, I asked the people, they set up their cameras and walked outside, and I said, what's the deal?
You guys have just got your cameras running and you're not even watching?
They go, oh, we're just running B-roll.
And I go, what's that?
And they go, well, we go film these events and then we go back to the office and we figure out if she says anything intelligent and we want to make her look good, we do an off-camera question.
And then we give her the answer.
And I'd sat for an hour and a half in her private dining room eating off the wonderful pottery and plates and genuine silver flatware with Kathy Whitmire, her campaign director, who I believe was Gary Page, Head of the Houston Home Builders Association on permitting problems with the city.
And I watched this woman up close and I called her Chatty Kathy because she just talked constantly.
And if you listen to the proper segment, she could sound intelligent.
Otherwise, she sounded like an idiot.
And she said, yeah, that's exactly what we do.
If we want to make her look good, we'll edit a section where she she sounds good.
But otherwise, we'll ask her an off camera question and we'll show her For what she really is.
And I went, oh, so this is how news media actually works.
It's all theater.
Has nothing to do with educating people on the proper function of government.
So Bob Lanier gets elected.
Metro at that time had $600 million of saved up money for a rail and they were just peeing all over themselves to spend that money.
So Bob Lanier gave $60 million to Enron so they could convert the bus fleets to liquefied natural gas and create a new market for Enron.
Well, it turns out when you take diesel buses and you convert them to natural gas, you don't have any lubrication qualities that you get with diesel fuel.
They were burning up engines every 50,000 miles that, as a diesel engine, would operate for a million miles.
You have to refrigerate liquefied natural gas down to minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit.
It doesn't store well, it's explosive, it's an absolutely ridiculous waste of energy, and it's a ridiculous form of transportation.
And so, bottom line is, we squandered that money.
Then Bob Lanier was already on board with them doing a rail system, so he squandered another couple of hundred million dollars.
of the quote rail funds putting in new utilities along Main Street and downtown which they were hundred-year-old cast iron water and sewer pipes that were all rusting and needed to be replaced anyway but they certainly need to be replaced and some of them need to be placed deeper in order to put in a functional rail system so that much of the money was squandered for that and then he squandered some more money on more police but bottom line is then
When he took over as mayor, he fired the rotten police chief that we had under Kathy Whitmer, Lee P. Brown.
Lee P. Brown was hired by Dinkins to go to New York City and destroy New York City.
So we have a failed police chief from Houston that went to New York and was a failed police chief for several years in New York before they finally fired him.
They brought him back to Houston and put him in the puppet closet waiting to be the next mayor.
And when Lanier was term limited out, they ran Lee P. Brown so we could have the first black mayor in Houston.
I met with Lee P. Brown's staff and showed them the rail system that Houston could benefit from, but they didn't want that rail system.
Instead, 1997, I submitted an editorial that I wrote to the Houston Chronicle.
Picture this train ride through Houston.
Imagine you've just boarded a high-speed train at Bush Intercontinental.
You're gliding along above traffic at 70 miles an hour.
After a few brief stops, you're in downtown Houston, quietly cruising the most beautiful and unique main street in all of America.
With low-rise overpasses connecting the one-way auto traffic on Fannin and Travis, the train tracks are recessed slightly below grade and with marble walks and gardens leading to the buildings on each side.
Above you is a glass-covered roof of a 120-foot-wide, Galleria-like shopping mall condominium.
This was published.
It was taken down from their website a week later.
They accidentally left two of the comments that were published while this was still there, and they said, this does not exist.
So that's what the Chronicle did.
Then they turned right around and said, we told you Main Street would be perfect for a rail, so let's go ahead and build a rail street.
So what did they do?
They built a light rail, where you have an overhead cantonary wire that's 700 600 to 750 volts direct current so you have to convert AC current to get that current to go to the rail system.
And it opened in January of 2004.
Currently they have 22 miles, but the first 7 miles cost $1 billion.
Because they have two lines that don't intersect, or that are non-continuous, they had to have two separate maintenance yards.
They were having six crashes per month during the first 18 month of operation.
They had over a hundred crashes.
I've been able to document at least 16 people, pedestrians, bicyclists, and automobile drivers have been killed by this rail system up until 2018 and to date on June 19th they released the latest statistics.
629 automobile crashes.
statistics, 629 automobile crashes.
My rail system would have never had an automobile crash.
So bottom line is, we've been swindled by the biggest swindlers on the planet.
And And there again, I got as involved in politics as I could at the time.
It cost me enormously.
I was raped by the judicial system.
My ex filed 25 different motions against me.
I filed five against her for non-visitation.
The judge never punished her for months after months of not being allowed to see my children.
I ended up paying $80,000 in attorney's fees.
And then by the year 2000, I was out of divorce court.
I had a really dear friend that wanted to visit Egypt.
And so she goes, would you be my escort to Egypt for three weeks?
And I went, yes, I would love to go to Egypt for three weeks.
But I don't want to just go there and come back.
We're going to have to fly to Paris and do a transfer, and as long as we're in Paris, I want to spend a few days in Paris.
Let's spend a few days in Paris on the way back from Cairo, because I'm going to need to detox after being in a Muslim third world country.
So we went over and we visited Abu Simbel, Luxor, Karnak, Saqqara, Giza, had a wonderful time in Egypt.
Then we went to Paris and I had dinner in the Eiffel Tower and rode the Paris Rail, which surprisingly enough doesn't involve rail.
The Paris Subway runs on rubber tires made by Michelin, and it's actually a little bit quieter than our rail systems, probably safer, and probably no less effective, and it's the same system that they use in Mexico City.
So, you didn't actually have to have rail, and actually, if we'd have built a rubber-tired system, you could have it where they could exit off of the off of the elevated segments and have electric buses operating on the same system with an overhead cantonary had we chosen to do that.
My system was actually a third rail.
Joe, after you got back from Egypt and around 2008, didn't you get involved in writing publications about global warming and being interviewed by alternative news platforms?
Bring us from then to today.
After I got back from Egypt, I met a lovely lady from London and ended up having a long distance romance for three years.
And in my trips to England, which I made six trips two weeks each time, We traveled from Dover to Bath and from Warwick to White.
I saw dozens of castles, dozens of cathedrals, historic Roman ruins.
Had just an absolutely wonderful time in England.
And then when Obama got elected, I was very opposed to what is scientific fraud as far as global warming, green energy, and peak oil.
So I started writing articles about those.
I've been published at every major alternative website that there is.
Drudge Report, Breitbart, Infowars, Canada Free Press, PJ Media.
I've also been interviewed on Coast to Coast AM five different times.
I was co-author of a book called Slaying the Sky Dragon with eight international authors and after our book was having trouble selling because of the enormous censorship for the true scientific method research we formed Principia Scientific and currently Principia Scientific has over 5,000 members and our website gets 12 million views per month.
In addition, we were contacted in February of this year to start doing a talk program on TNT Radio, so I'm now a weekly talk show host on TNT Radio with more to come.
So bottom line is, even though I've been through the ugliest system possible.
I've survived on the other side and I'm doing everything I can to red pill as many other people as possible.
I've written a dozen really good articles about WuFlu including possible treatment methods.
In the last two years I've attended probably 40 different events in Texas for Stop the Steal and Uh, against the lockdowns and social distancing and masks and mandatory vaccines.
And they're really well researched, well written articles.
I've met all of the leaders that are in this Texas area on that movement.
Dozen, over a dozen doctors.
Uh, so bottom line is, uh, we're going to end up in a better world, but it's only because of the determination of people who want to share truth.
And so I hope you found this video educational and I hope you've been a little made a little bit more aware of what the enormous level of corruption that we have to deal with and we have to overcome.
And thank you so much and we'll be in touch again soon.
Thanks.
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