‘So for Goldman to get into the $10 billion cheque for bailout they had to go from a gambling house, an investment bank, into a nice commercial bank.’ ibid. Greg Palast, interview Democracy Now
The tissue of wanton criminality that permeates the very fabric of Goldman Sachs history. ibid.
‘Doin’ God’s work.’ ibid. Lloyd Blankfein
When Goldman Sachs becomes Government Sachs … well who is going to stop them and how? ibid.
Save this company, don’t save that one – who’s making those decisions? Oh that’s right, Hank Paulson, ex-Goldmanite. ibid.
Wait – did he say drain the swamp or to fill the swamp as quickly as possible with as many members of Goldman Sachs as can possibly be stuffed into it? ibid.
Throughout the course of history there’s been many viciously cruel dictators. But few as deranged as Muammar Gaddafi. Yet for over 40 years the Libyan leader terrifies, tortures and torments the world with one horrific act after another. This is the story of the Middle East’s longest serving dictator. Evolution of Evil s1e1: Gaddafi: Mad Dog of the Middle East, History 2015
Suddenly the colonel’s convey is hit by a Nato air-strike forcing the once almighty tyrant to take refuge in a sewer pipe. But how has it come to this? ibid.
1969: After more than ten years in the planning Gaddafi is ready to make his move. With King Idris out of the country receiving medical treatment in Turkey, the mission he calls Operation Jerusalem is a go … ‘Probably one of the most peaceful coups that has happened in history. ibid.
He will pursue any Libyan that opposes him. ibid.
And he will fight his war dirty. ibid.
Gaddafi is US public enemy number one: ‘This mad dog of the Middle East.’ ibid.
The United Nations imposes tough sanctions. ibid.
His methods would become ever more deranged. ibid.
‘The Liberace of the Arab world. ibid.
‘The most prolific rapist in history.’ ibid.
Adolf Hitler is the very personification of evil … The most malevolent dictator the world has ever seen. Evolution of Evil s1e2: Hitler: The Benchmark of Evil
For the Fuhrer he and the German state are one. What he wants, it wants. ibid.
‘Wherever I went I now saw Jews … and became an anti-Semite.’ ibid. Hitler
He is blinded by a British gas attack. ibid.
In 1933 the Nazis become the largest party in parliament. ibid.
Within six weeks Poland is crushed. ibid.
By December 1941 his final solution is underway. ibid.
The Jews are made responsible for their own misery. ibid.
Japanese general Hideki Tojo is a cold-blooded control freak responsible for millions of deaths. In this pursuit of ultimate power he fights the dirtiest war ever known. This is the story of the Japanese leader responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, an Asian holocaust and the torture of POWs. Evolution of Evil s1e4: Hideki Tojo: Japan’s Razor of Fear
His methods involve intimidation and torture. ibid.
Tojo is rewarded with command of Japan’s military police. ibid.
This belief gives the Imperial Japanese army the right to invade China. ibid.
Burn all. Loot all. Kill all. ibid.
Tojo’s potent brew of Japanese nationalism and racist ideology picked up from the Nazis. ibid.
Starving, torturing, murdering at will. ibid.
The Battle of Midway strips Japan of its naval dominance in the Pacific. ibid.
His speeches leave Italy bewitched. But behind all Benito Mussolini’s bluster and posturing lies a dark heart of violence and brutality. Evolution of Evil s1e7: Mussolini: The Father of Fascism
By now Mussolini has completely turned his back on the left. He wants to forge his own path, one based on the glory of Italy and its Roman past. ibid.
They call themselves fascists; many of them wear the black shirt. ibid.
It’s the beginning of Italy’s descent into hell. ibid.
All political parties are closed down except the fascists. ibid.
FDR says he is deeply impressed by him. ibid.
At first its Hitler who apes his great hero. ibid.
Mussolini drops mustard gas on Ethiopia. ibid.
The invasion of Greece is a disaster … The war is becoming a humiliation for Italy. ibid.
They seem like ordinary men: articulate, educated, civilised. But they will turn into depraved, twisted monsters. They will commit acts of unimaginable cruelty for which they will feel no shame or remorse. Here is true evil. True Evil: The Making of a Nazi s1e1: Josef Goebbels, Yesterday 2020
Berlin 1945: At the heart of the ruined city the charred remains of Dr Josef Goebbels and his wife. Josef Goebbels: the Nazi master of propaganda and marketing. Josef Goebbels: the man who sold Hitler. ibid.
Hitler is depicted as a national superhero idolised by his screaming fans. ibid.
Nicolae Ceausescu: once revered throughout Romania and the West, he stole power by cunning and ruled by oppression. Ceausescu’s tainted genius and his wife Elena’s influence were finally extinguished by a hasty execution. History’s Most Hated s1e2: Ceausescu
Ceausescu’s criminal activities often took him to jail. ibid.
‘He was a Machiavellian genius.’ ibid. historian
Ceausescu was proclaimed First Secretary of the Communist Party and the country’s leader. ibid.
‘It is the first visit of a president of the United States to Romania.’ ibid. Nixon
Ceausescu was a cheat. He was a passionate game hunter and a terrible shot … He had begun to live in an unreal world where he couldn’t bear to lose at anything. ibid.
Ceausescu’s bouts of paranoia meant that he increasingly relied on his wife … Her influence was a malign one. ibid.
It is the dawn of the 13th century over Asia. A fierce storm reaches deep within the heart of the continent. Growing to a tempest, it spills over into China devastating one of the most ancient cultures on Earth. Then, gathering momentum, its violent fury vents westward laying waste Afghanistan and Persia. Riding this bitter winds are unstoppable hoards mercilessly carving out an empire that will know no equal in all of human history. History’s Most Hated s1e3: Genghis Khan: Terror & Conquest
Known by many terms: madman and genius, bloodthirsty warrior and brilliant politician, architect of nation and destroyer of civilisations, he was all of these. His name: Genghis Khan. ibid.
He was born somewhere in the Steppes in about the year 1165. ibid.
In the heart of Berlin children play innocently over what was once Adolf Hitler’s death tomb. It was here in the Fuhrer-bunker on April 30th 1945 that Hitler made the final preparation for his suicide. Outside in a devastating final assault on the heart of the Third Reich, the Russian army closed in on the Fuhrer. Hitler’s death brought to an end his dream of a thousand-year Reich: it lasted only twelve years but changed the world. History’s Most Hated s1e4: Hitler & Stalin
They were both mass murderers. Hitler was responsible for nearly ten million deaths in The Holocaust … Stalin murdered more than twenty million of his own people. ibid.
Both Hitler and Stalin suffered from inferiority complexes. ibid.
Adolf sold his paintings on the streets. It is interesting that he only painted landscapes, never people. Two years in a row, Hitler applied to and was rejected from the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts … The Academy told him he had no aptitude for painting. ibid.
The same cruelty and sadism of Stalin’s political life dominated his family life, especially his relations with his second wife Nadia. ibid.
Hitler’s relationships with women were equally troubled. ibid.