Ferdinand Marcos Gold is Real and according World Bank Lawyer — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:1521 years former lead consul for the
3. 0:17world bank she turned whistleblower
4. 0:19attorney karen huges karen judith can
5. 0:22you give the audience a little
6. 0:23background on yourself
7. 0:25yes i'm a lawyer and an economist and i
8. 0:28worked in the legal department of the
9. 0:30world bank for 20 years
10. 0:32i did what a lawyer inside
11. 0:34a bank is supposed to do which is when
12. 0:37the financial information was getting
13. 0:39fiddled i reported it up the corporate
14. 0:42ladder i went to the audit committee
15. 0:44when that didn't work i went to the u.s
16. 0:45treasury department when that didn't
17. 0:47work i went to the u.s congress when
18. 0:49that didn't work
19. 0:50i went to ben bernanke when that didn't
20. 0:53work i went i know that where i heard
21. 0:55that name yeah and when that didn't work
22. 0:57i went to the rest of the world and
23. 0:58that's where we are now we're with the
24. 0:59rest of the world
25. 1:01[Music]
26. 1:06that there is um a special trust that
27. 1:09contains just about all of the world's
28. 1:11gold
29. 1:12it was established by ferdinand marcos
30. 1:16he um this gold people want to know what
31. 1:18the gold is it's referring to the
32. 1:20president of the philippines of the
33. 1:23former president of the philippines who
34. 1:25died in 89 correct
35. 1:27that's correct
36. 1:28that's who except you know it's not
37. 1:31clear about the exact date of his death
38. 1:34because he had a cousin
39. 1:36who you know he was removed he was
40. 1:37removed by the cia was not by a popular
41. 1:40uprising you know how how the cia stages
42. 1:43these things and he was sent off to
43. 1:46hawaii but he had expected that this was
44. 1:48going to happen and he had gotten his
45. 1:50cousin to stand in for him so he was
46. 1:52actually it was his cousin that was um
47. 1:55in hawaii captive but but anyway what
48. 1:58ferdinand marcos did was he took the
49. 2:00world's gold i was explaining what is
50. 2:02the world's gold it's gold from king
51. 2:04solomon it's gold that the conquistadors
52. 2:07in spain gathered up from the aztec and
53. 2:09inca civilizations it is gold that was
54. 2:13gathered by general yamashita between
55. 2:16world war 1 and world war ii and what
56. 2:18the banks did when they gathered up the
57. 2:21gold they issued certificates to the
58. 2:24wealthy people who had the gold and
59. 2:26those certificates had interest that was
60. 2:28payable in gold and the interest has
61. 2:30been compounding what ferdinand marcos
62. 2:32did was he put the gold in a trust for
63. 2:35benefit of humanity and he did he said
64. 2:38that the trust would be for 50 years the
65. 2:42reason he did this he was a lawyer and
66. 2:44he knew that if somebody claims that
67. 2:46they own something and they are not able
68. 2:49to prove their claim for 50 years that
69. 2:52claim is extinguished that's a legal
70. 2:54concept called statute of limitations
71. 2:58[Music]
72. 3:08so
73. 3:12[Music]
74. 3:24you