{"video_id":"br2MxJ3fUHU","title":"The World Bank's Psychological Operations","creator":"Mike Benz","source":"User-supplied YouTube transcript","entry_count":1081,"duration_seconds":8510,"entries":[{"time":"0:00","seconds":0,"text":"World Development Report, a World Bank Group flagship report. Public disclosure authorized. Mind society and behavior."},{"time":"0:08","seconds":8,"text":"Spicy. Can I just make a prediction? US A has a division called social and behavioral change. It's not full bureau."},{"time":"0:16","seconds":16,"text":"I think it's within DRG, the democracy, rights, and governance. Yes, social and behavior change. Social and behavior change. This is the kind of the equivalent of like digital MK Ultra type"},{"time":"0:25","seconds":25,"text":"stuff that I talked about a lot in the censorship industrial complex. I mean all MK Ultra was I don't want to say all but I mean the stuff that gets a lot of"},{"time":"0:33","seconds":33,"text":"loud megaphone amplification is the stuff like scoping a particular individual to become an assassin and"},{"time":"0:40","seconds":40,"text":"using drug induced LSD induced pain and trauma training to get them to believe"},{"time":"0:48","seconds":48,"text":"something radical and take part in a radical movement or carry out some act of primitive violence. But a lot of it"},{"time":"0:54","seconds":54,"text":"was just on social and behavioral change. How to get someone on side, how to get someone to pursue a thing that"},{"time":"1:03","seconds":63,"text":"you want them to pursue, which is classically hearts and minds work. Soft power, it is bread and butter. Every"},{"time":"1:11","seconds":71,"text":"soft power institution has social and behavior change as a lynchpin core of the operation. If we want someone to"},{"time":"1:20","seconds":80,"text":"vote for a particular candidate or against a particular candidate in a foreign country, we need to get their hearts and minds to believe something."},{"time":"1:27","seconds":87,"text":"we need to induce some social or behavioral change and so a lot of inputs go into it to produce the outputs we"},{"time":"1:35","seconds":95,"text":"want. Those inputs include things like funding the media organizations, funding the various legal advocacy institutions,"},{"time":"1:42","seconds":102,"text":"paying off heads of local labor groups and workers groups, humanitarian nos and"},{"time":"1:49","seconds":109,"text":"human rights nos, various forms of digital censorship to stop the spread of infomics associated with the wrong"},{"time":"1:57","seconds":117,"text":"behaviors. Yes. US A's social and behavior change apparatus is the AY's institutional capacity for using"},{"time":"2:06","seconds":126,"text":"behavior science communications, social norm interventions, community mobilization related techniques to change what populations actually do. So like for example, vaccine hesitancy."},{"time":"2:16","seconds":136,"text":"You're exhibiting the behavior of being hesitant about getting a vaccine. How do we remove their hesitancy so that they unhesitatingly"},{"time":"2:25","seconds":145,"text":"take whatever expired Fiser vaccines we're shipping through Gabi to some god-forsaken country? Or it could be the"},{"time":"2:32","seconds":152,"text":"scourge of populism, right-wing populism. What kind of social and behavior changes can we induce? And if you think about what the World Bank is,"},{"time":"2:40","seconds":160,"text":"I believe the World Bank is the world's largest lender. Is that right? World's largest lender. Give me a 101 on that."},{"time":"2:48","seconds":168,"text":"Why did I hear that before? Uh yes, the World Bank is routinely described as the world's largest multilateral development lender bank. Not literally the largest"},{"time":"2:56","seconds":176,"text":"lender, it's the largest development bank. Its main lending arm, the IBRD, is the largest multilateral development bank in the world. The World Bank was"},{"time":"3:04","seconds":184,"text":"created at Bretton Woods in 1944 before World War II was even over. The Allies came together. Yeah. International Bank"},{"time":"3:12","seconds":192,"text":"for Reconstruction Development came together our new monetary system for when we come out of this world war. This is like one of the central crux"},{"time":"3:20","seconds":200,"text":"institutions associated with the rules-based international order and the like. Think of it as a government-owned global development bank. Countries are"},{"time":"3:27","seconds":207,"text":"its shareholders. It raises enormous amounts of money in financial markets and lends that money to governments for development projects and policy"},{"time":"3:36","seconds":216,"text":"programs. And a lot of countries in the world depend on the World Bank for their financial solveny. that is they would go"},{"time":"3:43","seconds":223,"text":"bankrupt without their next World Bank or IMF loan dispersement. And so because of that, they have to do what the World Bank tells them to do. I always think of"},{"time":"3:52","seconds":232,"text":"it like that scene in Game of Thrones Iron Bank."},{"time":"3:56","seconds":236,"text":"Please sit. How much wheat and barley and beef and pork do you produce on Dragonstone to feed your 4,000 ships?"},{"time":"4:04","seconds":244,"text":"More than any man living."},{"time":"4:06","seconds":246,"text":"We're going to build up to this and this is just the slow burn kind of start of it. It's going to be a little bit of a long and winding road, but what we're"},{"time":"4:13","seconds":253,"text":"going to see is this fusion of these World Bank sponsored music festivals and the participation of the most [ \\_\\_ ] the"},{"time":"4:22","seconds":262,"text":"system, man, hardcore rapping ass rappers sort of folded in line with the World Bank sort of became instruments of"},{"time":"4:30","seconds":270,"text":"statecraftraft for initiatives pushed by the World Bank. And when I think World Bank, I think economic soft power. And I"},{"time":"4:37","seconds":277,"text":"think about how basically debt dependency by various stakeholders and governments forces countries and"},{"time":"4:45","seconds":285,"text":"governments and movements to put a cap on their own sovereignty as they absolutely must have enough money to be"},{"time":"4:53","seconds":293,"text":"solvent. And so therefore, no matter what they want to do with their government, they have to do what the World Bank says first in order to make"},{"time":"5:01","seconds":301,"text":"sure they have enough money to do what they want to do. So if the World Bank imposes preconditions on receiving dispersements of their loans, they have"},{"time":"5:08","seconds":308,"text":"to do what the World Bank says. So if the World Bank tells you to trans your kids or the World Bank tells you to stop using hydrocarbons, stop using oil and"},{"time":"5:17","seconds":317,"text":"gas, if the World Bank tells you you need uh media literacy programming, well you need that money. So it's"},{"time":"5:25","seconds":325,"text":"negotiations with the World Bank are a different thing than bilateral negotiations with a independent third party country. China and India want to"},{"time":"5:33","seconds":333,"text":"do a deal. Each has leverage in terms of what they want or don't want. But at the end of the day, they can kind of walk away from each other. You can't walk away when you need the money to survive."},{"time":"5:45","seconds":345,"text":"And what you see is the best aspirations of aspiring politicians with the promises that they make to their"},{"time":"5:52","seconds":352,"text":"constituents are often capped by what what the actual state of the books of the country are. Does that make sense?"},{"time":"5:59","seconds":359,"text":"So, and there's some scenes in Game of Thrones with this where, you know, you see you see that dependency on empires to borrow money or to repay debts that"},{"time":"6:08","seconds":368,"text":"impacts their ability to conduct military operations or, you know, to pay their police officers to quell a coup."},{"time":"6:15","seconds":375,"text":"So just going over this this note, let's just take a little bit of time. Then we'll get to the document Spiral did and then we'll get into the OTI music"},{"time":"6:24","seconds":384,"text":"industry and then we'll circle back to the intersection between the World Bank and the and the music industry just cuz it's fun. Okay. The International Bank"},{"time":"6:32","seconds":392,"text":"for Reconstruction Development, the IBRD, loans mostly to middle- inome and creditworthy countries like Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Argentina. And"},{"time":"6:40","seconds":400,"text":"the International Development Association is for the poor, the super poor countries. Now, what's interesting here is it lists Brazil as the first"},{"time":"6:48","seconds":408,"text":"first one. And I don't know if that's because Brazil is the largest debtor."},{"time":"6:52","seconds":412,"text":"Let's see. Why would Brazil be first and Argentina last? Argentina is the is the largest debtor to the IMF. Who are the"},{"time":"7:00","seconds":420,"text":"top 10 biggest debtors to the World Bank and IMF respectively? My understanding the primary difference between the World"},{"time":"7:07","seconds":427,"text":"Bank and IMF is like IMF is more short-term and World Bank is more long-term, but they're both sort of one conjoined institution. And I always give the example of John F. Kennedy's"},{"time":"7:16","seconds":436,"text":"Pentagon chief became the World Bank chief. Kind of the ultimate blobster to bankster story. Robert McNamera. Yeah."},{"time":"7:23","seconds":443,"text":"He was secretary of defense, head of the Pentagon from ' 61 to ' 68 and then became president of the World Bank in ' 81, 10 years later. Think very much of"},{"time":"7:31","seconds":451,"text":"it as being a military a hard power soft power as a sort of connected. You know, one of the first things that we do to"},{"time":"7:38","seconds":458,"text":"rattlesnake a geopolitical adversary is to cut off their sources of funding, cut off their sources of lending. I want to see where Brazil ranks because one of"},{"time":"7:45","seconds":465,"text":"the things that has been this big question, why did the first Trump administration, unbeknownst to the first Trump administration, ousted Bolsinaro"},{"time":"7:55","seconds":475,"text":"from Brazil? The Trump White House loved Bolsinaro, but the Trump State Department and the Trump US A ran a 4-year operation to get Bolsinaro out."},{"time":"8:04","seconds":484,"text":"How do you explain those things?"},{"time":"8:06","seconds":486,"text":"Bolsinaro, Trump. This was the big bromance, the Trump of the tropics they called Bolsinaro. So while they had this"},{"time":"8:13","seconds":493,"text":"big bromance, why were effectively large, powerful, influential cells at the State Department in US aid funding"},{"time":"8:21","seconds":501,"text":"tens of millions of dollars to get this guy out even though their boss pus want him in? Well, there are a couple of reasons like but you understand why Democrats didn't want this guy, right?"},{"time":"8:30","seconds":510,"text":"Democrats said he's Trump aligned. He's a therefore a fascist. He doesn't like gay people. He's uh far right. You"},{"time":"8:38","seconds":518,"text":"understand why Democrats would want him out and and no doubt the Democrats did ratchet it up the ops against Bolsinaro."},{"time":"8:46","seconds":526,"text":"Again, Bolsinaro came into office in October 2018 and then lost the election to the left-wing Lula in October 2022."},{"time":"8:55","seconds":535,"text":"So, you had two years of Trump and then two years of Biden comprising his Bolsinar's four years in office. But the story of the operation against Bolsinaro"},{"time":"9:03","seconds":543,"text":"did not start in 2021 when Biden came into office. Just like the story of the censorship industrial complex did not start in 2021. We were all censored"},{"time":"9:11","seconds":551,"text":"during COVID 19, which if you check your calendar was during the first Trump administration. We were all censored in"},{"time":"9:18","seconds":558,"text":"2018 talking about the border wall or talking about immigration policy or talking about crime statistics. Trump"},{"time":"9:25","seconds":565,"text":"supporters were censored under that. And it was the first Trump government doling out those grants. Now again, Trump was just kind of learning the ropes back"},{"time":"9:34","seconds":574,"text":"then, I think, of how the bureaucracy worked. The inner circle, the sort of new ascended, newly ascended sort of"},{"time":"9:40","seconds":580,"text":"MAGA insiders just got their hands on government for the first time trying to figure out how to fly a a jet engine"},{"time":"9:48","seconds":588,"text":"asking chat GPT while the plane is going down. They're like playing the hardest level of flight simulator, having just gotten their driver's license and never"},{"time":"9:55","seconds":595,"text":"having flown a plane. And so the system was running laps around them. The FBI sicked a special prosecutor under them."},{"time":"10:02","seconds":602,"text":"You had a Republican Congress that was all neocon. You had concessions that had to be made to them. And you had these agencies who just simply didn't tell the"},{"time":"10:10","seconds":610,"text":"White House, didn't tell the National Security Council what they were doing."},{"time":"10:13","seconds":613,"text":"They were running their own independent foreign policy. But it wasn't just the Obama holdovers and careers doing it."},{"time":"10:20","seconds":620,"text":"There were certain institutional forces that wanted Bolsinaro out for financial reasons. Now, some of it had to do with"},{"time":"10:28","seconds":628,"text":"the huge climate finance capability. You know, Brazil sits on the Amazon and is, I think, under Lula announced this $ 1.3"},{"time":"10:36","seconds":636,"text":"trillion climate finance program, which basically juices every hedge fund invested in uh green energy. But you"},{"time":"10:42","seconds":642,"text":"also had a large conflict between Bolsaro and the IMF. In December 2021, the government of Brazilian President"},{"time":"10:50","seconds":650,"text":"Yerbalsaro entered a public conflict with the IMF, resulting in Brazil dismissing the IMF's representative in"},{"time":"10:57","seconds":657,"text":"Brazilia. So, this is the World Bank's identical twin, short-term finance identical twin. Brazil sacks IMF office,"},{"time":"11:04","seconds":664,"text":"cut diplomatic ties with the IMF. So, you're going to have a lot of banking interests who are pissed. This is one of the reasons. This is one of the things I"},{"time":"11:13","seconds":673,"text":"had uh I I used to talk about with MLE and I know Elon and I have slightly different opinions about that. Look, I I"},{"time":"11:19","seconds":679,"text":"generally like MLE seems like a in some sense a breath of fresh air, but I I don't I'm not naive about it. If you"},{"time":"11:27","seconds":687,"text":"remember, I did this spot the op. You're falling for an IMF world banker trap if you think Malay is shutting down Argentina's central bank is based."},{"time":"11:35","seconds":695,"text":"Remember we did like three streams on this where I was making the argument although I love capitalism and abhore socialism communism cautious optimism is"},{"time":"11:44","seconds":704,"text":"perhaps more appropriate than unfettered fanboy dum until the results are seen because there's another reason that the"},{"time":"11:52","seconds":712,"text":"austerity in Argentina may be happening which is that Argentina is the world's largest debtor to the IMF and one of the things that the IMF and World Bank"},{"time":"12:01","seconds":721,"text":"impose on countries is austerity cuts to social benefits and cuts to public"},{"time":"12:07","seconds":727,"text":"expenditures so that those funds can pay back the IMF and the World Bank. And this is, I suppose, the liberty of a"},{"time":"12:17","seconds":737,"text":"financial institution to do to impose its terms because it needs its money back. But it's a complicated portrait."},{"time":"12:25","seconds":745,"text":"You could be saying that you're doing this because yay, capitalism, but the you're not doing it to promote capitalism. You're you're doing it"},{"time":"12:34","seconds":754,"text":"because bankers have told you that you owe them money. So stop paying for programs for your own people. Cut those"},{"time":"12:41","seconds":761,"text":"programs and pay us. So So that money doesn't go back to the people. It goes back to the banks because of a back"},{"time":"12:48","seconds":768,"text":"channel conversation between the banks and the candidate running for office."},{"time":"12:54","seconds":774,"text":"And that there's a there's a micro that microcosm is a macrocosm of all kind of"},{"time":"13:01","seconds":781,"text":"uh political opposition development work on every policy issue. But on the money issue, it's just very very clear. You owe this money. Your your government owes this your country owes this money."},{"time":"13:12","seconds":792,"text":"You want to run this country. Do you want all of the NOS that are financed through our financial web to back you or do you want them to back your opponent?"},{"time":"13:22","seconds":802,"text":"what will you do for our banking interests? And so you dog and pony show for the bankers. I mean, this is what Biden did before he ran for office. He"},{"time":"13:31","seconds":811,"text":"had to get the seal of approval from Larry Fank, the head of Black Rockck. If you guys remember in 2019 before he announced his candidacy when he was hemming and hawing and then he finally"},{"time":"13:38","seconds":818,"text":"met with Black Rockck, they said, \"We'll support you.\" He goes, \"Okay, all right."},{"time":"13:40","seconds":820,"text":"I'll run for president.\" You don't think Black Rockck laid out a couple asks. This is a big thing. USA loves this."},{"time":"13:46","seconds":826,"text":"When they do donor coordination to get all the big private philanthropies to contribute, they'll have a section in every BCL, every one of these clearance"},{"time":"13:54","seconds":834,"text":"memos, what are our ass to them? What are we asking them to do? Put up money, promote this policy, promote this opposition movement. Now, getting back"},{"time":"14:03","seconds":843,"text":"to this, okay, top 10 largest debtors to the World Bank. Okay, so Brazil is number eight. So, it owes a lot of money. Yeah, and Argentina owes the most"},{"time":"14:11","seconds":851,"text":"money to the IMF. You'll note also all of these countries are places where we were running ops. India, the DNC side of"},{"time":"14:20","seconds":860,"text":"the blob was running all sorts of ops to get India to get Modi out of office."},{"time":"14:25","seconds":865,"text":"Just curious, could there be an opposition candidate who promises to pay more money to the World Bank? Could that be part of the destabilization? Remember"},{"time":"14:33","seconds":873,"text":"the Greta Thunderberg farmers protests PR firm notes that were posted stupidly on Twitter? just uploaded like the whole"},{"time":"14:42","seconds":882,"text":"Google document of those uh India farmer protests from like 2021. Google Jigsaw descends on India to get misinformation"},{"time":"14:50","seconds":890,"text":"censored. The 35,000 Hindu accounts that were censored by like the Stamford Internet Observatory and SISA in the Twitter files and the Atlantic Council."},{"time":"14:59","seconds":899,"text":"All right, I said write me a primer on how the World Bank exerts economic soft power and give me three vivid historical examples of this. How the World Bank exerts economic soft power. The World"},{"time":"15:08","seconds":908,"text":"Bank is best understood not simply as a bank that finances dams, roads, schools, and power plants, but as one of the world's most important transmitters of"},{"time":"15:16","seconds":916,"text":"economic policy ideas, institutional models. I remember this. I don't have the screenshot on Big Mama, but I've got it on one of my other computers. I"},{"time":"15:24","seconds":924,"text":"remember going to the IMF YouTube channel. I'm sure I could use Gemini or something to sweep for this, but like IMF, they have an official YouTube channel, and I think the video was"},{"time":"15:33","seconds":933,"text":"called like foreign policy. There was this IMF video where I listened to them talk about how they were proposing that"},{"time":"15:40","seconds":940,"text":"basically countries should not be able to vote on their own foreign policy."},{"time":"15:44","seconds":944,"text":"that like what can what can the IMF do to push a new kind of democratic norm"},{"time":"15:50","seconds":950,"text":"that populations can vote to change things in terms of the their own country's domestic policy but people"},{"time":"15:58","seconds":958,"text":"should not be able to vote on and heads of state should not be able to change their country's foreign policy and they"},{"time":"16:06","seconds":966,"text":"were doing this in conjunction with this idea of austerity in promoting cuts to public spending to pay back the IMF It"},{"time":"16:14","seconds":974,"text":"was like, how can we make the idea of not being able to vote your way around what we want a precondition to lending"},{"time":"16:21","seconds":981,"text":"out money to us? How can we close the bear trap around the legs of of every country? And that left a pretty deep imprint on me. I It's going to take me"},{"time":"16:29","seconds":989,"text":"too long, I think, to find it. But all right, its influence, the World Bank's influence comes from an unusual combination of three things. Money, expertise, and legitimacy. Uh, I don't"},{"time":"16:37","seconds":997,"text":"know if I agree with that. Definitely the money. I don't know about I don't know about expertise. I think it's just the NGO plex around it. A developing country's finance minister may need"},{"time":"16:46","seconds":1006,"text":"World Bank financing, but the relationship frequently goes considerably beyond receiving a loan."},{"time":"16:50","seconds":1010,"text":"World Bank economists may diagnose the country's problems, recommend reforms, fund consultants who help design these reforms and then finance the government"},{"time":"16:58","seconds":1018,"text":"while it implements them while measuring whether the reforms are working and then publish indicators that tell investors and other governments how the country is"},{"time":"17:06","seconds":1026,"text":"performing. Okay, now this is the secret sauce in here. So, you need money. You really, really do. You need that money."},{"time":"17:14","seconds":1034,"text":"And they go, they're not like JP Morgan Chase, who's like, well, are you creditworthy? Yes or no. They go, you"},{"time":"17:21","seconds":1041,"text":"need our money. Well, we don't know if you are creditw worthy or not. Nah, you're a middle- inome country. You already got some debt. You're a very"},{"time":"17:29","seconds":1049,"text":"low-income country. We would give you money if you change yourself. Change yourself for me. Reform thyself. You"},{"time":"17:37","seconds":1057,"text":"want the funds, you got to go through reforms. And who doesn't love reforms?"},{"time":"17:42","seconds":1062,"text":"Ain't we all reforming every day? How bad could a reform be? So, you need the money. And instead of saying, \"Well, listen, you have a credit rating of 750."},{"time":"17:51","seconds":1071,"text":"You have a credit rating of 650. Get your FICA score up to 800 and we'll give you the loan.\" No, no, no, no, no. What the World Bank will do is they'll say,"},{"time":"17:59","seconds":1079,"text":"\"Oh, you need money, do you? You really, really do. You need that money.\" What they'll do is they will then go into a huddle with all of their banker friends,"},{"time":"18:06","seconds":1086,"text":"team of bankers. They'll go into a conference room. They'll go into their NATO style, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb style thing."},{"time":"18:15","seconds":1095,"text":"And it'll be all bankers in here and at the table will be heads of major commercial banks, hedge funds, private equity funds, alternative asset funds,"},{"time":"18:24","seconds":1104,"text":"big swinging dick forex speculators. And they'll go, \"Brazil needs money. Just spoke with the finance minister. They need $10 billion.\" And banker A sitting"},{"time":"18:33","seconds":1113,"text":"at this dude walks in the room. Yo yo, what up guys? Yeah. And they're like, \"Yo, World Bank president showed up. We're"},{"time":"18:41","seconds":1121,"text":"back again, boys. Brazil needs that money. What reforms do you want me to put them through to maximize your"},{"time":"18:49","seconds":1129,"text":"investments at Apollo? Your investments at Bridgewater, your investments at Black Rockck, your investments at"},{"time":"18:58","seconds":1138,"text":"Service?\" Just the list goes on. And he goes, \"Well, Brazil, I have a $5 billion investment"},{"time":"19:05","seconds":1145,"text":"in ethanolbased fuels that can replace diesel, but my investment is only doing that. If you put them through a clean"},{"time":"19:12","seconds":1152,"text":"energy reform that imposes a mandate to buy my ethanolbased fuel rather than diesel so that all the truckers buy my"},{"time":"19:20","seconds":1160,"text":"[ \\_\\_ ] instead of my market competitors, I will make a [ \\_\\_ ] ton of money if you put them through an energy reform.\" This guy"},{"time":"19:28","seconds":1168,"text":"will say, \"We've just started a new micro financing department and we're trying to scale it up. Brazil's got 220 million people. A lot of them are low"},{"time":"19:37","seconds":1177,"text":"income with very few current bank services. If you force banks in Brazil to loan to uncreditworthy low-income"},{"time":"19:46","seconds":1186,"text":"people with no credit history as part of a access to banking for poor and indigenous populations, then our new"},{"time":"19:53","seconds":1193,"text":"division here at Black Rockck or here at whatever bank, name it, we'll capture that market and we'll make billions of dollars. So, put them through like a"},{"time":"20:00","seconds":1200,"text":"capital access reform. And this one will say, well, listen, we're long on publishing services. We're invested in the education space. We're Pearson. We"},{"time":"20:09","seconds":1209,"text":"do all the textbooks and curriculum. If you have them go through educational reforms, then that opens up a whole new"},{"time":"20:17","seconds":1217,"text":"market for all our [ \\_\\_ ] So the World Bank then goes back to the finance minister, goes into the other boardroom"},{"time":"20:24","seconds":1224,"text":"and goes, \"So you say you need those 10 billion, right? This is our this is our World Bank president for the moment. And"},{"time":"20:32","seconds":1232,"text":"let's just call this Brazil's finance minister. Well, if you want our 10 billion, we're not just going to ask for"},{"time":"20:38","seconds":1238,"text":"$10 billion worth of collateral. I.e., if you don't repay us, we take your [ \\_\\_ ] We take your infrastructure. We"},{"time":"20:46","seconds":1246,"text":"take control of your ports. And they go, in addition to the collateral, because this is how a normal loan works, okay?"},{"time":"20:53","seconds":1253,"text":"You have a not great credit rating. We don't trust you to repay. the worse your credit history, the the more you got to put up in collateral, the more we got to be able to seize if there's not payment."},{"time":"21:03","seconds":1263,"text":"But they say, \"Listen, I don't know."},{"time":"21:05","seconds":1265,"text":"Your currency could drop like a stone and that collateral could become worth a lot less than it is today. If you want to split up the investment, you need to"},{"time":"21:14","seconds":1274,"text":"go through these reforms.\" And what you will hear in the media is that these are Democratic"},{"time":"21:22","seconds":1282,"text":"reforms. No. to get this 10 billion, you got to trans your kids, stop using oil or coal, you got to empower these like"},{"time":"21:31","seconds":1291,"text":"weird indigenous groups and give them autonomous zones in the Amazon. And the official answer looks like pure [ \\_\\_ ] liberty. And you go, well, I guess I"},{"time":"21:39","seconds":1299,"text":"guess that's what they think democracy is. But no, actually what it really is, this is just donor dealer drafter class investment sweeteners. It is just"},{"time":"21:47","seconds":1307,"text":"molding the cookie into the shape where it can be eaten. Does that make sense?"},{"time":"21:51","seconds":1311,"text":"It's this is very similar to what we talked about in Venezuela with the rule of law and making it investable and what we talked about with Iran making it"},{"time":"21:58","seconds":1318,"text":"investable what we talked about in Iraq making it investable and part of this is because it is a funny thing if you think about loans loans I'll tell you a funny"},{"time":"22:07","seconds":1327,"text":"story I used to be a private equity and hedge fund the practice was technically called private investment funds and it was hedge funds and private equity funds"},{"time":"22:14","seconds":1334,"text":"and alternative asset funds big big players for a big New York City law firm and these loan agreements are like huge"},{"time":"22:21","seconds":1341,"text":"multiundpage agreements. And I remember, you know, I'm sitting there in my mid20s and I'm looking at the revolving credit"},{"time":"22:28","seconds":1348,"text":"facility for movie companies. I did a little bit of movie finance, just as an example. And I I got thrown on this on"},{"time":"22:35","seconds":1355,"text":"this deal because the firm had a pretty big entertainment division, but I was I'd been doing just private fund stuff and I but I was kind of new. I was green to movie finance and how it all works."},{"time":"22:48","seconds":1368,"text":"And I remember as a junior associate, I'm in the due diligence room, which is the Library of Alexandria. It's kind of like what I'm doing right now with the"},{"time":"22:57","seconds":1377,"text":"US A files, except it's just about the debtor. The creditor's lawyers just reviews everything about the debtor, its"},{"time":"23:04","seconds":1384,"text":"real estate holdings, its employment contracts, its corporate structure, all of its contracts and licenses and"},{"time":"23:11","seconds":1391,"text":"government permits. And do they all check out? Do they meet EPA standards?"},{"time":"23:15","seconds":1395,"text":"what's the expected liability of their current employment discrimination lawsuits and all this stuff because all this is going to get folded into effectively the loan conditions the"},{"time":"23:24","seconds":1404,"text":"interest and and rate of return and all that stuff. And I remember coming across the template actor agreements. It was like a bunch of celebrity because this"},{"time":"23:32","seconds":1412,"text":"was a movie deal here for this in this diligence room and it was a bunch of template and model contracts with famous"},{"time":"23:40","seconds":1420,"text":"movie actors and they all had these reputation clauses that the person is not allowed if you're Tom Cruz and your"},{"time":"23:50","seconds":1430,"text":"public image changes radically in a way that makes the public hate you take like a strong position on a political issue"},{"time":"24:00","seconds":1440,"text":"that might cause the public to see you in a material materially different light than it currently does. The actors are not allowed to do that. It's in their"},{"time":"24:08","seconds":1448,"text":"contract. They all had this reputation clause where I forget if it triggers a different payment waterfall or if it's like a straight breach of contract, but"},{"time":"24:16","seconds":1456,"text":"effectively the way it works is the actors have to cryogenically freeze the public image of them or else it's either"},{"time":"24:23","seconds":1463,"text":"like a breach of contract or they are put on a track where they just make way less money because of it. They're not free to say whatever they want to say in"},{"time":"24:33","seconds":1473,"text":"front of a camera without it having contractual hard material contractual implications for their career. Not like"},{"time":"24:42","seconds":1482,"text":"hypothetical, hey, maybe I'll get less likely to be booked for this kind of role or hey, you know, maybe The View"},{"time":"24:51","seconds":1491,"text":"won't want to have me on. No, it's like the contracts I've already signed that I signed like four years ago preclude me"},{"time":"24:59","seconds":1499,"text":"from telling you my opinion about this matter unless it is exactly what the"},{"time":"25:05","seconds":1505,"text":"counterparty to that contract I signed wants me to say. And I remember seeing that and being like, \"Oh, well that explains everything.\" You know, that's"},{"time":"25:13","seconds":1513,"text":"why they all are these cookie cutter actors. you know, maybe they are not all one cookie cutter monolith of opinion,"},{"time":"25:20","seconds":1520,"text":"but they're just contractually obligated to form one unatron voice and and that but it puzzled me like I I understood"},{"time":"25:29","seconds":1529,"text":"financially why that would be imposed, but I still I didn't understand really the economics of the movie industry that would get that clause to be so"},{"time":"25:36","seconds":1536,"text":"normalized. Then I started getting deeper into the lending world because we, the law firm, represented the lender to these movie production houses. And as"},{"time":"25:46","seconds":1546,"text":"it turns out, movies are a risky business. Unlike a barrel of oil, movies are not a commodity product. And it is super [ \\_\\_ ] hard to predict how much"},{"time":"25:55","seconds":1555,"text":"money your movie will make. This is one of the reasons predictable blockbuster series. For the past 15 years of my"},{"time":"26:02","seconds":1562,"text":"life, there have been more sequels than original movies. It seems if one movie is good, they'll make 12 of them. Well, you know, there's obvious reasons for"},{"time":"26:10","seconds":1570,"text":"that that have to do with just if it worked before, it'll work again. But there's another reason having to do with lending, which is that lenders, if you"},{"time":"26:17","seconds":1577,"text":"want to get that movie made, lenders will give you a better rate. They'll charge less interest. They'll impose"},{"time":"26:24","seconds":1584,"text":"fewer terms if they are more certain that that money will be repaid. If you're a brand new director, you're it's"},{"time":"26:31","seconds":1591,"text":"your first movie. If it is not Marvel or Superman or Batman or Spider-Man, if it's a concept film, what's like a"},{"time":"26:40","seconds":1600,"text":"recent example? Obsession, then it's really [ \\_\\_ ] hard to raise money for it without 20% interest. And your pet"},{"time":"26:48","seconds":1608,"text":"pigeon is put up as collateral. Your left foot is put up as collateral. If you can't repay, they own your life."},{"time":"26:55","seconds":1615,"text":"They take your firstborn son. And everything runs on debt. Borrowing money. If you think that if you borrow a"},{"time":"27:03","seconds":1623,"text":"million you'll make $2 million, then it's better to borrow a million than it"},{"time":"27:10","seconds":1630,"text":"is to put it in treasury bills and earn 1% and end up a year later with $1 million, $1,000 rather than $2 million"},{"time":"27:19","seconds":1639,"text":"if you just borrowed a million and then paid it back or whatever, right? And all of your competitors in the industry are borrowing money to make bigger and"},{"time":"27:27","seconds":1647,"text":"better [ \\_\\_ ] So you need to get in the borrowing game if you want to compete with the market. So what that does is that makes what you do not what you want"},{"time":"27:37","seconds":1657,"text":"to do as a movie house, but what you need to do in order to qualify for the loan to be able to build out big [ \\_\\_ ]"},{"time":"27:45","seconds":1665,"text":"And so you can but but in this case the idea here is just coming back to our other image. The way this is justified"},{"time":"27:54","seconds":1674,"text":"versus the way it actually works are very different things here you have in the back room this lady cuz this is what"},{"time":"28:02","seconds":1682,"text":"a World Bank president does and it's very similar to what US A does and they're they're kind of one conjoined beast or at least economic soft power is one aspect of what US A does whereas"},{"time":"28:10","seconds":1690,"text":"World Bank is kind of a pure play economic soft power. But what happens is this World Bank president will walk in here and all of the bankers will draft"},{"time":"28:20","seconds":1700,"text":"donor drafter dealer class. They will draft off of the reforms that the banker imposes on the prime minister or the"},{"time":"28:28","seconds":1708,"text":"finance minister. And you will see two PR campaigns run to justify this shakeddown which is that well brand"},{"time":"28:36","seconds":1716,"text":"safety democratic norms the investors won't invest in your country unless you trans your kids. So we don't trust you"},{"time":"28:45","seconds":1725,"text":"to pay back the loan. We can't be sure that the collateral will maintain its value. So we're putting you through these reforms both because it's the"},{"time":"28:52","seconds":1732,"text":"right thing to do. Don't you know it's a democratic reform? But we also want to make sure that your country is"},{"time":"28:59","seconds":1739,"text":"investable. That these guys I just talked to who want to make money off of your country's policies will actually"},{"time":"29:07","seconds":1747,"text":"invest money into making more money off of work around your country. So, so they're sort of getting at both ends."},{"time":"29:14","seconds":1754,"text":"Does that make sense? The World Bank is not an island. The World Bank sits in this island of bankers who all have a"},{"time":"29:21","seconds":1761,"text":"seat at the table whether formally or informally. Whether as revolving door, they're in, they're out, they go back and forth. Uh, one one week I'm at Black"},{"time":"29:29","seconds":1769,"text":"Rockck, one week I'm at World Bank, one week I'm a I'm a consultant while I'm also working this other thing. I'm on the advisory board. And where do you"},{"time":"29:37","seconds":1777,"text":"think the World Bank president is going to go? If he does a good job to make money for them, he'll make a [ \\_\\_ ] ton of money with these people when they repay the favor in kind. But you are making the country investable. investable."},{"time":"29:47","seconds":1787,"text":"You're making it you're opening its butthole. Democratic backsliding, if you remember, the whole point was we're"},{"time":"29:54","seconds":1794,"text":"opening you up so that the donor dealster drafter class can come in, shove a drill through it, extract and"},{"time":"30:01","seconds":1801,"text":"take all your [ \\_\\_ ] And it has nothing to do with democracy and it's got nothing to do with international best practices. It has to do with making money for the people in this room. And"},{"time":"30:09","seconds":1809,"text":"this is also why you have this for democratic backsliding. This is how you have the open society foundation and this open society concept so closely"},{"time":"30:18","seconds":1818,"text":"associated with the hedge funds. The open society foundation to stop democratic backsliding. Who's it run by?"},{"time":"30:25","seconds":1825,"text":"One of the world's biggest hedge fund managers, George Soros. It's the same thing with all these foundations. It's all hedge funds and private equity funds"},{"time":"30:32","seconds":1832,"text":"and forex speculators. The reforms they push for are to profit the portfolio companies or the investments they"},{"time":"30:40","seconds":1840,"text":"already have so that they yield a lot more money and they use economic dependencies of foreign countries or governments in order to force those"},{"time":"30:49","seconds":1849,"text":"reforms through. All right. So this this is this is like a long hour prelude to this thing here which is on mind society"},{"time":"30:58","seconds":1858,"text":"and behavior at the World Bank 2015. So basically this I imagine is going to be a 237"},{"time":"31:06","seconds":1866,"text":"page US a style social behavior change about how to basically get populations"},{"time":"31:14","seconds":1874,"text":"to agree to do what the world bank wants it to do to make it more investable for the financial stakeholders investing in"},{"time":"31:23","seconds":1883,"text":"the development of the country. Let's see. Overview. Human decision-making and development policy. Three principles of human decision-making. Psychological and social perspectives on policy. Yeah."},{"time":"31:32","seconds":1892,"text":"Again, this is how to get people to support reforms. How do we get a population to support the reforms that"},{"time":"31:40","seconds":1900,"text":"we're imposing on that population's elected finance minister? Because if the finance minister says, \"Okay, I'll do"},{"time":"31:48","seconds":1908,"text":"it.\" But then everybody riots in the street because they're like, \"What? Why are you transing our kids? Why are you saying we can't use gasoline? Why did"},{"time":"31:56","seconds":1916,"text":"you create a racial autonomous zone for for indigenous people in this already semi-balkanized ethnic enclave of our"},{"time":"32:05","seconds":1925,"text":"country? And if the people revolt and kick that person out and put in a populace or destabilize the country because of it, then the finance minister can't go through with the reforms, i.e."},{"time":"32:15","seconds":1935,"text":"can't make money for the donor drafter dealer class in the back room. So, how do we get the people on board? If you remember, probably the cleanest analogy"},{"time":"32:24","seconds":1944,"text":"to this is that um Manurva initiative grant that we went over, which gets back to this connection between the World Bank and the Pentagon. I did this thread a couple years ago. Here's a thread on"},{"time":"32:32","seconds":1952,"text":"the War Department's psychological operations social science research program, the Manurva Initiative, and its connection to the censorship industry. A lot of people may look at the following"},{"time":"32:40","seconds":1960,"text":"social science research grants and wonder what the heck is the US Department of War doing funding all this. It's odd enough that the government is spending tax dollars, but why the Pentagon specifically?"},{"time":"32:50","seconds":1970,"text":"weaponized conspiracies, how to stop conspiracy theories, the social construction of martyrdom, and I'll just I'll post this thread for people who want to want to see why is my bank gay."},{"time":"33:01","seconds":1981,"text":"John Tori says the cognitive side of counterinsurgency, infomic, all this stuff. Climate change and alternative"},{"time":"33:08","seconds":1988,"text":"governance. Why is the SCOP research center of the Pentagon funding climate change and alternative governance"},{"time":"33:16","seconds":1996,"text":"psychological manipulation methods awarded in 2022 under Biden? Remember, climate finance is one of the biggest financial fields for DNC mega donors."},{"time":"33:26","seconds":2006,"text":"George Soros, Bill Gates, Tommy Styer, they're all hugely overinvested in the climate finance side. This project"},{"time":"33:34","seconds":2014,"text":"answers key questions about how different actors contribute to or impede climate governance or control over a government's energy policies and how"},{"time":"33:43","seconds":2023,"text":"different actors in a society compete or cooperate as governors and how these uh these connections impact actors"},{"time":"33:51","seconds":2031,"text":"legitimacy and authority and how civilians interact with them and attribute responsibility negatively or positively to climate hazard management."},{"time":"33:58","seconds":2038,"text":"the Pentagon, which if you remember in our Milton Friedman series, he said, \"Keep the Department of Energy, but fold it under the Pentagon because the"},{"time":"34:06","seconds":2046,"text":"Pentagon is how we procure our energy resources.\" You wonder why Gary Kasparov was getting Milton Freeman awards from the National D for Democracy."},{"time":"34:15","seconds":2055,"text":"Department of Education abolish gone. Energy abolish accepted. Energy ties in with the military."},{"time":"34:23","seconds":2063,"text":"Well, then we shove it under defense."},{"time":"34:24","seconds":2064,"text":"So, first he says abolish the Department of Energy. DJ, play that back. Abolish. Department of Education. Abolish. Gone. Energy. Abolish."},{"time":"34:33","seconds":2073,"text":"So, first he says, \"Abolish.\" And then he goes, \"Oh, shit.\" But all of the oil companies who love my work and who I"},{"time":"34:41","seconds":2081,"text":"slash through their whole network, we've been mutually reinforcing each other for 30 years. They need the Department of War to secure their markets. Exxon has"},{"time":"34:51","seconds":2091,"text":"no market if there's no US military securing their oil fields and imposing its will on foreign countries so that"},{"time":"34:58","seconds":2098,"text":"Exxon Mobile gets access to their oil reserves. So actually I I said abolish cuz I'm libertarian but uh actually we"},{"time":"35:06","seconds":2106,"text":"do need that but it's really a military thing the department of energy. So tuck it under keep it but make it a sub agency of our department of war. How?"},{"time":"35:15","seconds":2115,"text":"Except energy ties in with the military."},{"time":"35:18","seconds":2118,"text":"More so than State Department negotiations with the counterpart. Hey, will you give us all your oil? Uh, how about no? Okay. Um, how about we fly in"},{"time":"35:26","seconds":2126,"text":"with Seal Team 12, use a discombobulator weapon on your presidential palace and we kidnap your prime minister in the"},{"time":"35:33","seconds":2133,"text":"dead of night and threaten to do that to the next person in the chain of command unless you give us all your oil. Uh, okay, fine. Take 100 million barrels of"},{"time":"35:41","seconds":2141,"text":"our oil. The Department of Defense is who got all the raw materials for Chevron and Exxon and Philips Kico and"},{"time":"35:49","seconds":2149,"text":"Shell and BP and all the other big oil companies. And what do you think those DoD officials are going to rotate into and make 10 times more money when"},{"time":"35:57","seconds":2157,"text":"they're done with the Pentagon? They'll go straight to board seats at Chevron and Condisa Rice and all these people, Nikki Haley, I mean, you name it. Let me keep going with some more of these"},{"time":"36:04","seconds":2164,"text":"grants. But the Pentagon's doing the same thing. What kind of climate and energy reforms do we need to put people through? when they're funding how do we"},{"time":"36:12","seconds":2172,"text":"structure our programs? How do our program development officers fund NOS's to exert influence on the local populations so that when we impose this"},{"time":"36:20","seconds":2180,"text":"[ \\_\\_ ] on their leaders, their people don't revolt? They don't challenge our policy. Postconlict security structures"},{"time":"36:28","seconds":2188,"text":"and citizen buyin. After we successfully pull off a color revolution or orchestrate a military coup, how do we"},{"time":"36:37","seconds":2197,"text":"get the citizens to buy in to our installed puppet government? We just overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government"},{"time":"36:44","seconds":2204,"text":"in Syria in 2024. How do we get the Syrians to buy in to our newly installed leader? We we are trying to regime"},{"time":"36:53","seconds":2213,"text":"change Iran. How do we get citizen buyin? If you remember, we spent about an hour and a half last stream on this very question when we went over Akmad"},{"time":"37:01","seconds":2221,"text":"Jad and we went over Makmoud Akmad Jad who was being cultivated secretly by the Israelis as someone who the citizens would buy in on but they had to"},{"time":"37:09","seconds":2229,"text":"orchestrate these like sham academic conferences to whisk him out of Iran to be able to read him into the plan."},{"time":"37:15","seconds":2235,"text":"Citizen buyin under Raza Palavi, son of the Sha would be very low because the Iranian people [ \\_\\_ ] hated the Sha"},{"time":"37:23","seconds":2243,"text":"era. citizen buyin under Patrick Bet David don't know probably better than the Sha but maybe not and Patrick Bet"},{"time":"37:30","seconds":2250,"text":"David declined being the president of Iran well how about someone they already know like and trust but who will implement the policies that we want they"},{"time":"37:39","seconds":2259,"text":"like him now will they like him after he starts implementing our democratic reforms and Iran's oil is owned by Chevron and Exxon and Shell and BP and"},{"time":"37:48","seconds":2268,"text":"not by the Iranian people this psychological operations research project seeks to understand how to stabilize those precarious moments when"},{"time":"37:56","seconds":2276,"text":"the state needs to reestablish itself as the accepted authority. When the state needs to establish itself or re-establish itself, I love the re here."},{"time":"38:07","seconds":2287,"text":"If we just pulled off a coup, our new puppet government has to establish itself. If we've reinstalled a leader in exile like we did with Aristed in Haiti,"},{"time":"38:15","seconds":2295,"text":"we cooed Aristed out of office, then we cooed him back into office in Haiti when the next guy turned out to be worse."},{"time":"38:20","seconds":2300,"text":"Sometimes we need to reestablish as the accepted authority member Justinda Arden in New Zealand as the single source of truth on COVID particularly on the"},{"time":"38:28","seconds":2308,"text":"emergence of postconlict security structures state reforms not just about on military policy or security"},{"time":"38:36","seconds":2316,"text":"agreements but state reforms coming back to our image reform. Coming back to our other image, the HR lady."},{"time":"38:44","seconds":2324,"text":"Congratulations. Back to our USIP streams. The HR lady who uh congratulates you at the end of the US Institute of Peace backed coup."},{"time":"38:55","seconds":2335,"text":"Make sure that your president has previously worked for the World Bank."},{"time":"39:00","seconds":2340,"text":"Make sure that there is a international private enterprise coalition from the US Chamber of Commerce who determines the"},{"time":"39:07","seconds":2347,"text":"economic policy of your country. throw in a couple Harvard trained economists and just do everything that your adviserss tell you to do or that is in a"},{"time":"39:17","seconds":2357,"text":"red lines memo from a US a funded NGO consortium and we'll call that good governance. Just do everything you're told like a good little boy. But don't"},{"time":"39:25","seconds":2365,"text":"try to exercise any sort of national autonomy or else we'll say that you've gone through democratic backsliding and now you need to open your butthole."},{"time":"39:35","seconds":2375,"text":"The term good governance involves a process that is informed and to a degree monitored by and ultimately serves all members of society."},{"time":"39:46","seconds":2386,"text":"To see who rules over you. This rules over you."},{"time":"39:54","seconds":2394,"text":"your brand new government installed in an 18-month street campaign where the truckers are blocking the roads and the"},{"time":"40:02","seconds":2402,"text":"railway unions blocking the highways and the unemployed people and the youth are blocking the city streets. Then they surround the parliament building and"},{"time":"40:10","seconds":2410,"text":"they set everything on fire. You have a new government and now you need to be told what your new government can do by"},{"time":"40:16","seconds":2416,"text":"this all that work and this is who rules over you."},{"time":"40:28","seconds":2428,"text":"This HR lady, it just tells you exact all that work to get a new government."},{"time":"40:34","seconds":2434,"text":"All that all that work, all the people dead, all the people who've gone bankrupt, all the people who've lost"},{"time":"40:41","seconds":2441,"text":"their jobs, all the institutions, all the buildings have been burned to the ground, all at the end of the day. To have this HR lady tell you exactly what your new government can and can't do."},{"time":"40:51","seconds":2451,"text":"You can't sign this oil deal. You have to privatize this company. You have to sign up for this indentured servitude IMF loan. You have to sign over your oil"},{"time":"41:00","seconds":2460,"text":"to Chevron. You have to let Pizza Hut into your [ \\_\\_ ] country just to plant all the mom and pop shops. You need to let Walmart in. This"},{"time":"41:09","seconds":2469,"text":"is going to give you your little good governance good boy checklist."},{"time":"41:13","seconds":2473,"text":"It refers to a level of accountability and transparency."},{"time":"41:17","seconds":2477,"text":"Accountability. Accountability to the US Institute of Peace. Accountability to the CIA, accountability to the State Department. Once you've been good little"},{"time":"41:24","seconds":2484,"text":"pawns and you've gotten us what we want, a power vacuum that we can fill with the puppet president. Now, we just need to make sure that the puppet president stays a puppet. Great. Here are the state reforms you need to put in place."},{"time":"41:36","seconds":2496,"text":"And every single reform is going to redound to the profit of some donor drafter dealer who will lean on the"},{"time":"41:43","seconds":2503,"text":"president and his adviserss. If you want more of our donor money, if you want to get in on our deals, do this in Syria."},{"time":"41:49","seconds":2509,"text":"do this in Libya, do this in Iran, but how do we get the citizens to buy in to our bilking of their money by the"},{"time":"41:58","seconds":2518,"text":"imposition of these state reforms? How do we get citizen buyin to the government policies being imposed by the"},{"time":"42:05","seconds":2525,"text":"banks and the diplomats? That is what I presume we are going to encounter left, right, and center in this 237page"},{"time":"42:14","seconds":2534,"text":"World Bank tome on mind, society, and behavior. All right. Now, let's get to the substance of it. Part one. All"},{"time":"42:21","seconds":2541,"text":"right. Biases, thinking socially, social preferences, the influence of social networks. Uhoh. Disinformation alert,"},{"time":"42:29","seconds":2549,"text":"social norms, mental models, the roots of mental models, the effects of making an identity salient, mental models, mental models, psychology,"},{"time":"42:38","seconds":2558,"text":"early childhood development of this is where we're going to have these educational reforms. This is part of how you have these new democratic memory laws like Spain. Spain has made it"},{"time":"42:47","seconds":2567,"text":"illegal to praise the Franco, like the 1930s right-wing Franco movement, kind of taking the Holocaust denial laws in"},{"time":"42:56","seconds":2576,"text":"Europe and turning it to Franco genocide denial kind of thing. And so kids are like not allowed to speak positively or"},{"time":"43:06","seconds":2586,"text":"be told anything remotely nice about the fascism versus communism about the sort of hard right side of the fascism versus"},{"time":"43:16","seconds":2596,"text":"communism conflict that played out in Spain. So basically just putting their thumb on the press of communism and this is where you're going to get into like education and early childhood"},{"time":"43:23","seconds":2603,"text":"development, household finance, uh oh this is where we're going to get to these micro finance thing. Productivity."},{"time":"43:28","seconds":2608,"text":"Okay. How to how to take control of the business sector. Health. How to force everyone to buy Fizer. Climate change."},{"time":"43:35","seconds":2615,"text":"Here we go. How to get people to basically buy portfolio companies of breakthrough ventures and Tommy Styer funds and Soros funds. Interventions."},{"time":"43:45","seconds":2625,"text":"Designing an intervention. Oh my god, it's all the same. It's just us a"},{"time":"43:54","seconds":2634,"text":"remember what they call a censorship technique. It's called an intervention. Deb boosting is an intervention. Demonetization is an intervention."},{"time":"44:01","seconds":2641,"text":"Deppplatforming is an intervention. Shadowbanning is an intervention."},{"time":"44:05","seconds":2645,"text":"Virality circuit breakers are an intervention. Clickthrough interstitials are an intervention. That is their word."},{"time":"44:10","seconds":2650,"text":"Just like a coup is an intervention at democracy rights and governance at US."},{"time":"44:14","seconds":2654,"text":"Right? We're intervening. This is not some academic thought experiment in the abstract trying to arrive at the answer"},{"time":"44:21","seconds":2661,"text":"of how mind society and behavior works in a country. This is how do we intervene to change their minds behaviors in a country? Spotlight six."},{"time":"44:32","seconds":2672,"text":"Why should governments shape individual choices? That's a great question actually. Shouldn't the government respond to individual choices? Isn't"},{"time":"44:40","seconds":2680,"text":"that kind of what gives democracy its entire legitimacy? that it is elected by the people in order to serve the people."},{"time":"44:47","seconds":2687,"text":"Not that it is selected by a bunch of bankers in the background and then uses the people's own money to change the"},{"time":"44:55","seconds":2695,"text":"people so that they support something they wouldn't ordinarily support. Well, when you understand that in these"},{"time":"45:02","seconds":2702,"text":"foreign countries and a dynamic of this plays out in every country, whether or not they're a small, tiny, third world,"},{"time":"45:10","seconds":2710,"text":"low GDP country or whether it's elements of this in the United States as well, when you understand that in asking this question, they are abandoning the"},{"time":"45:17","seconds":2717,"text":"democracy framework. Why should governments shape the choices? Because the World [ \\_\\_ ] bank who's commissioned this 237 page report on how"},{"time":"45:27","seconds":2727,"text":"to scop people knows that the policies it's imposing on the governments are not going to be easily digested and"},{"time":"45:35","seconds":2735,"text":"swallowed and supported by the people the government is supposed to serve. So you have just to open up a quick Photoshop, you've got a government and"},{"time":"45:43","seconds":2743,"text":"its government insiders that are subject to, just to keep it simple, two very different sources of pressure. You have a government and its various insiders"},{"time":"45:52","seconds":2752,"text":"who have to look after their own personal interests and careers. And you've got two sources of carrots and"},{"time":"45:59","seconds":2759,"text":"sticks, pleasure and pain. One is bottom up from the people, the voters, who exert bottomup pressure during election"},{"time":"46:07","seconds":2767,"text":"season and through media and social media and press scandals throughout who exert bottomup pressure on the government and specific government"},{"time":"46:16","seconds":2776,"text":"insiders. And then you've got top- down pressure from the donor drafter dealer class which the World Bank is kind of an"},{"time":"46:25","seconds":2785,"text":"ultimate clean example of. These are all major donors whose businesses and hedge funds and private equity funds and"},{"time":"46:33","seconds":2793,"text":"commercial banking drafts off government policy takes advantage of maximizes profits off of which is putting top down"},{"time":"46:40","seconds":2800,"text":"pressure. And so the government and government insiders who have to draft and implement and maintain successfully"},{"time":"46:48","seconds":2808,"text":"those policies, what you have is a conflict if the donor drafter dealer class perceives that the bottomup"},{"time":"46:55","seconds":2815,"text":"pressure by the people will be too much pressure on the government. So the government is going to either not do what the donor drafter dealer class says"},{"time":"47:04","seconds":2824,"text":"or they will start doing it to get the money and then they'll kind of encounter opposition from the people and just kind"},{"time":"47:12","seconds":2832,"text":"of not complete it, not get it done, do it 25% of the way and then just kind of say, \"Yeah, we're getting to it. We're"},{"time":"47:20","seconds":2840,"text":"getting to it. We're getting to it.\" If you remember that is exactly this is the perfect segue into what we talked about last week in our OTI office of toppling"},{"time":"47:29","seconds":2849,"text":"government's office at US A. Let's just pull up this report real quick. We're back here. I'm just going to take a shot in the dark. 51page document. This was"},{"time":"47:38","seconds":2858,"text":"written in 2002 after US aid orchestrated the regime change of Sloban Mallich in Yugoslavia and successfully"},{"time":"47:47","seconds":2867,"text":"broke Yugoslavia into like five. We created Kosovo wholesale and then we just broke Yugoslavia into its various ethnic balkcanized standalone countries."},{"time":"47:58","seconds":2878,"text":"If you remember the people who pulled off the coup, Oatpur and Das both on these are the opposition movements who"},{"time":"48:05","seconds":2885,"text":"formed this coalition government were all on US aid OTI payroll and they literally said point blank without OTI"},{"time":"48:13","seconds":2893,"text":"the democratically elected government would not have been overthrown coming from OPOR's executive board. And as we saw in these documents, literally US AI,"},{"time":"48:22","seconds":2902,"text":"the Office of Transition Initiatives, toppling governments, literally listed the purpose of the US aid program was to"},{"time":"48:29","seconds":2909,"text":"overthrow the democratically elected Melovich government. And look, I'm not even opining on Malloich Qua Mallosvich."},{"time":"48:36","seconds":2916,"text":"But the fact is he was democratically elected and we did overthrow him using fake you know philanthropic operations"},{"time":"48:44","seconds":2924,"text":"masking covert intelligence operations as we covered last stream for those who didn't get to it. This is a USA document on us.gov."},{"time":"48:53","seconds":2933,"text":"You see that says USA.gov who in 1997 5 years before this report was issued had as phase one initiate support to"},{"time":"49:01","seconds":2941,"text":"opposition to the democratically elected government. And then we started bombing Serbia, bombs over Belgrade. Phase three, intensify opposition support to"},{"time":"49:10","seconds":2950,"text":"the government. Phase four, we got the government to topple in a not by getting the people to vote for a NATO puppet"},{"time":"49:18","seconds":2958,"text":"government, but literally in a orastic supernova of violence where our US"},{"time":"49:24","seconds":2964,"text":"afunded riers surrounded the parliament and set it on [ \\_\\_ ] fire. They find"},{"time":"49:31","seconds":2971,"text":"thousands of presidential ballots pre-marked for Melo."},{"time":"49:43","seconds":2983,"text":"Well, this is January 6. US aid orchestrated January 6th in Yugoslavia in Serbia. They broke the windows sur"},{"time":"49:52","seconds":2992,"text":"after surrounding with a US A funded mob. They broke the windows. They say they found all these ballots for Melvich. You don't think some US AI"},{"time":"50:02","seconds":3002,"text":"guy didn't come in there with a box just to get that visual? Yeah, they were just chilling right there in the parliament building."},{"time":"50:08","seconds":3008,"text":"Breaking the few windows and and uh and uh Yeah, we just broke a few windows and set it on [ \\_\\_ ] fire. Something no one"},{"time":"50:18","seconds":3018,"text":"in January 6 did. The smoke that you saw for like 20 minutes on January 6 were police smoke bombs. No one said, \"Hey,"},{"time":"50:25","seconds":3025,"text":"[ \\_\\_ ] on fire.\" Everyone stayed in the velvet ropes, but we successfully used terroristic violence to oust the"},{"time":"50:32","seconds":3032,"text":"democratically elected government to then make it investable for a bunch of Wall Street and London bankers and"},{"time":"50:40","seconds":3040,"text":"corporate interests by putting the newly installed puppet government through democratic reforms. So, I am just going"},{"time":"50:49","seconds":3049,"text":"to take a shot in the dark without having run this exercise before. I'm going to run a control F because this document is about what now? Okay, we"},{"time":"50:57","seconds":3057,"text":"have successfully OTI US A has successfully overthrown the government."},{"time":"51:02","seconds":3062,"text":"We have completed the first five phases of operation. We have astroturfed an opposition movement to the government."},{"time":"51:09","seconds":3069,"text":"We've built it up. We have now toppled the government and installed the opposition. Okay, this ruins the punchline because I was going to without"},{"time":"51:17","seconds":3077,"text":"even reading this just control F for the word reform. What is the final phase now that we have a newly installed puppet?"},{"time":"51:24","seconds":3084,"text":"How can we increase the pace of them completing the reforms? What do you think US A says we funded you for,"},{"time":"51:32","seconds":3092,"text":"Oatpour? What do you think we funded you for, Doss? You think this is a [ \\_\\_ ] charity? Why do you think we installed you as the president? Cuz you've got a"},{"time":"51:40","seconds":3100,"text":"winning smile. No, we chose you 5 years ago and we funded you to overthrow the government so that when you became the"},{"time":"51:48","seconds":3108,"text":"new government, you would put through these reforms that pay off my donor drafter dealer class. I was just going to run this is a 51page document. I'm"},{"time":"51:57","seconds":3117,"text":"just going to run shot in the dark. In fact, let me put on some music. I want your guesses in chat. I have no idea, but I'm going to run a control F and for"},{"time":"52:04","seconds":3124,"text":"the word reform while I put on some more Credence Clearwater. Just look alive in the chat and let me know how. Take a guess how many times you think the word"},{"time":"52:12","seconds":3132,"text":"reform is going to be used in a 51page US a document about how they overthrew the government and what to do next."},{"time":"52:20","seconds":3140,"text":"Actually, we're not going to do credence. We're going to do cover of Johnny Cash. This is Johnny Cash."},{"time":"52:26","seconds":3146,"text":"When I was a baby, my mama told me son."},{"time":"52:36","seconds":3156,"text":"Heyo. I'm actually going to run a quick research note while I play a couple more covers of this."},{"time":"52:43","seconds":3163,"text":"And I let alone some whistle. Blow my blues away."},{"time":"52:58","seconds":3178,"text":"So, I'm running a research note right now because just off the top of my head, I remember a bunch of World Bank alums"},{"time":"53:05","seconds":3185,"text":"being chosen as the finance minister of a bunch of post US aid coup operations, but like they've literally put in"},{"time":"53:13","seconds":3193,"text":"someone from the World Bank in the new government to implement the reforms to profit the donor drafter dealer class who bankrolled the revolution. And you"},{"time":"53:22","seconds":3202,"text":"see this in the donor coordination emails at USAD in their rental riot programs. USAD had a large number of"},{"time":"53:30","seconds":3210,"text":"programs that were literally just straight rental riot programs. funding street protests, boycotss, sitins, protest marches, storming of federal"},{"time":"53:38","seconds":3218,"text":"buildings funded both by USA directly and by a web of about 15 to 20 corporate"},{"time":"53:45","seconds":3225,"text":"philanthropies and large foundations whose board and officers were hedge fund private equity big business people. And"},{"time":"53:54","seconds":3234,"text":"there are just so many of these emails and documents and files where they the donors, they get the activists and the"},{"time":"54:02","seconds":3242,"text":"street protest organizers to basically implement what the corporate donors of the US aid program want into their"},{"time":"54:12","seconds":3252,"text":"policy planks that they're demanding in these street protests. It's like, \"Hey, grassroots revolution organizer in"},{"time":"54:21","seconds":3261,"text":"Chile, you want $45 million in US aid money? Well, you got to do what the corporate philanthropy of the George"},{"time":"54:27","seconds":3267,"text":"Soros hedge fund says to do.\" And it's it's so explicit. And again, that's only"},{"time":"54:33","seconds":3273,"text":"possible to get payoff for those that financial investment of the Soros family hedge fund. It's 501c3 influence arm."},{"time":"54:43","seconds":3283,"text":"There's only a payoff for the hedge fund if they implement the reforms. The whole reason we back the coup in the first place. So here was my question. How many"},{"time":"54:52","seconds":3292,"text":"times is the word reform used in the CIA wing of US aids? What now that we've overthrown the government? And what is"},{"time":"55:00","seconds":3300,"text":"the role for OTI now that OTI has accomplished its objective of overthrowing the government? So let's"},{"time":"55:06","seconds":3306,"text":"just say reform 56 56 times in a 51page document that isn't even nominally about"},{"time":"55:14","seconds":3314,"text":"reforms. The first five phases of the operation were to overthrow the government. Now we're in phase six."},{"time":"55:20","seconds":3320,"text":"Should we still have this covert CIA apparatus inside the country now that the CIA has achieved its job? And their"},{"time":"55:28","seconds":3328,"text":"answer is a resounding yes. Actually, we should keep the cloak and dagger political manipulation apparatus in order to use those same tactics to"},{"time":"55:36","seconds":3336,"text":"pressure the politicians to implement the reforms. The same apparatus we used to pressure the previous politicians to step down. We are now going to sick on"},{"time":"55:44","seconds":3344,"text":"the very puppets we just installed in order to get them to step up the pace of opening the country's butthole to make"},{"time":"55:51","seconds":3351,"text":"more money for the donor drafter dealer class that financed the coup in the first place. 56 times in a 51page"},{"time":"55:59","seconds":3359,"text":"document. The whole purpose of the coup was not because we gave a flying [ \\_\\_ ] about human rights abuses or Melovich oppressing his own people. I don't know."},{"time":"56:11","seconds":3371,"text":"It's hard for me to pierce through the propaganda of whether that's true or false. It very well may be true. It may be only partially true. It may be only microscopically true or not not at all."},{"time":"56:21","seconds":3381,"text":"I it's hard for me to pierce through the propaganda without becoming a PhD in the true history of Yugoslavia. I don't know"},{"time":"56:29","seconds":3389,"text":"the answer to that. But what I do know is the reason we orchestrated the coup there was not because we gave a flying [ \\_\\_ ] about any of that [ \\_\\_ ] It was not"},{"time":"56:38","seconds":3398,"text":"the retail reason sold in newspapers. It was because of this so that we could have a more pliable partner in the"},{"time":"56:46","seconds":3406,"text":"government, one of our own, a puppet that we installed who would go through this and implement this. You don't see us doing this in Saudi Arabia. Actually,"},{"time":"56:54","seconds":3414,"text":"you did see the Biden administration flirt with doing it, but then they killed Jamal Kosigible, who was their, at least according to Snowden, the uh"},{"time":"57:02","seconds":3422,"text":"sort of Biden admin emissary of a of that. Um, maybe story for another time, but that's also because Saudi Arabia had become an enemy of the Biden"},{"time":"57:10","seconds":3430,"text":"administration for a number of reasons, but leave that aside. What I'm saying is this is the whole purpose of the CIA US a coocraft is to get to this end state"},{"time":"57:19","seconds":3439,"text":"over the reforms that would hand over the country to these people. And this is why on that famous Victoria Nuland [ \\_\\_ ] the EU phone call where they picked"},{"time":"57:28","seconds":3448,"text":"Yatsenuk over Klitschko is they said if we put in Klitschko yes he will be loved by the people. So the government and the"},{"time":"57:36","seconds":3456,"text":"people will be in unison but Klitschko is a nationalist. He was very useful for us to exploit Klitschko to overthrow the"},{"time":"57:45","seconds":3465,"text":"previous government under the idea of Ukrainian sovereignty against Russian influence. But the problem with Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko, is he's a"},{"time":"57:53","seconds":3473,"text":"little too pro- Ukraine. He's loved by the people and he's going to respond to what the people want. But we didn't organize this coup because we gave a"},{"time":"58:01","seconds":3481,"text":"flying in 2014 Ukraine because we gave a flying [ \\_\\_ ] what the people and the voters of Ukraine wanted. We did it because there's 14 trillion dollars"},{"time":"58:09","seconds":3489,"text":"worth of minerals to be exploited and a trillion dollars worth of gas and hundreds of billions more in terms of"},{"time":"58:16","seconds":3496,"text":"transit fees and geostrategic and wheat and agriculture and arable land and shale black sea access and military"},{"time":"58:24","seconds":3504,"text":"contracts. We did it for this. So even though a nationalist was useful to orchestrate the coup and we flirted, we"},{"time":"58:32","seconds":3512,"text":"sort of led him on in our talks that we would back him to become the newly installed head of state. At the end of the day, backstab we put in Yatsenuk"},{"time":"58:41","seconds":3521,"text":"because we knew Yatsenuk was a Herman van Rumpo style technocrat who was not bound to the people. He would do what the donor drafted dealer class wanted."},{"time":"58:50","seconds":3530,"text":"So we used a nationalist rah rah Ukraine. [ \\_\\_ ] Russia. Yanukovic was working with the Russians even though he"},{"time":"58:59","seconds":3539,"text":"signed two10 billion dollar deals with American oil companies. Not enough. He was useful for the coup, but we thought ah he might not deal with the World Bank"},{"time":"59:07","seconds":3547,"text":"and Black Rockck and Apollo and a Paul Singer fund and a George Soros fund or whatever. He might not turn over. He"},{"time":"59:14","seconds":3554,"text":"might respond to the hearts and minds and behaviors of the people. So he might not implement the reforms that give us"},{"time":"59:21","seconds":3561,"text":"the return on investment for investing in the coup that got them into the government. So they say, \"Thank you for your service, Fatal Klitschko. How about"},{"time":"59:29","seconds":3569,"text":"mayor of Kiev? Don't you love Kiev? It's the capital city. It's where all the action is.\" Hey, prime minister. No, but how about Zoran Mandani's job? The Zoron"},{"time":"59:38","seconds":3578,"text":"Mandani of Ukraine. How about that? It's not quite pus, but look, you'll be more with the people every day. And you see this everywhere. Like this is how you got this Herman Van Rumpo EU thing."},{"time":"59:47","seconds":3587,"text":"Remember the Nigel Farage speech? You have the charisma of a damp rag."},{"time":"59:53","seconds":3593,"text":"These are the people, the Herman van Rumpo are who these people install in these positions. These people install"},{"time":"1:00:00","seconds":3600,"text":"Herman van Rumpo rather than nationalist or pop. They love using nationalist and populist energy to orchestrate a coup, a"},{"time":"1:00:08","seconds":3608,"text":"democratic transition of government, a turnover of government to create a power vacuum to install a whole new set of people at the other side of the"},{"time":"1:00:15","seconds":3615,"text":"negotiating table with the donor draft dealer class on what state policy and government reforms should be implemented. But a nationalist is going"},{"time":"1:00:22","seconds":3622,"text":"to side with this over this. Can't have that. What they want is a Herman van Rumpo type who doesn't give a [ \\_\\_ ] what these people say because their own"},{"time":"1:00:31","seconds":3631,"text":"financial and political futures are tied to this and therefore these people don't even really know who their own head of state is. Guy emerged out of nowhere and"},{"time":"1:00:39","seconds":3639,"text":"suddenly he's running everything. Never goes on TV. Can't remember his last name but he's our president I guess. And that's what Nigel Farage confronted"},{"time":"1:00:46","seconds":3646,"text":"throughout the whole Brexit fight of 2016. Then this was 6 years before the Brexit vote. This is how long what it took to get that populist referendum to"},{"time":"1:00:54","seconds":3654,"text":"actually generate the momentum. Six years it took."},{"time":"1:00:56","seconds":3656,"text":"We were told that when we had a president, we'd see a giant global political figure. The man that would be the political leader for 500 million"},{"time":"1:01:06","seconds":3666,"text":"people. The man that would represent all of us on the world stage. the man who because there's 500 million people in the EU saying okay we were told as soon"},{"time":"1:01:13","seconds":3673,"text":"as we get our new president of the EU he would be this towering figure of history to be a kind of head of state of the"},{"time":"1:01:20","seconds":3680,"text":"entire EU 27 country 500 million people common body but instead we got you who are you none of the people none of the"},{"time":"1:01:27","seconds":3687,"text":"voters know who you are you were selected in the shadows by a bunch of hedge funds and private equity funds and banks and you are coercing"},{"time":"1:01:36","seconds":3696,"text":"implementation of reforms by all the EU members states that none of the people in these EU countries want. But the EU"},{"time":"1:01:43","seconds":3703,"text":"president is forcing them to implement at the behest of the financial interests of the donor drafted dealer class whose job was so important that of"},{"time":"1:01:51","seconds":3711,"text":"course you're paid more than President Obama. Well, I'm afraid what we got was you."},{"time":"1:01:57","seconds":3717,"text":"And I'm sorry, but after that performance earlier that you gave and I don't want to be rude, but but you know"},{"time":"1:02:05","seconds":3725,"text":"really you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank cler. And the question that I want"},{"time":"1:02:12","seconds":3732,"text":"to ask, the question that I want to ask that we're all going to ask is who are you? I'd never heard of you."},{"time":"1:02:20","seconds":3740,"text":"Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you."},{"time":"1:02:24","seconds":3744,"text":"I would like to ask you president who voted for you and what mechanism oh I know democracy"},{"time":"1:02:32","seconds":3752,"text":"is not popular with you lot and what mechanism do the peoples of Europe have to remove you is this European democracy"},{"time":"1:02:41","seconds":3761,"text":"well I I sense I sense though that you're competent and capable and dangerous and I have no doubt that it's"},{"time":"1:02:48","seconds":3768,"text":"your intention to be the quiet assassin of European democracy and of the European nation states. You appear to"},{"time":"1:02:55","seconds":3775,"text":"have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation states. Perhaps that's because you come from Belgian,"},{"time":"1:03:02","seconds":3782,"text":"which of course is pretty much a non- country."},{"time":"1:03:07","seconds":3787,"text":"But since you took over, we've seen Greece reduced to nothing more than a protectorate."},{"time":"1:03:14","seconds":3794,"text":"And again, Greece was put through economic reforms. Remember this was the whole pigs economic collapse. The whole"},{"time":"1:03:22","seconds":3802,"text":"uh Greece was basically you know they had what Mario Drago and this is what precipitated the migrant crisis of 2013 and all this."},{"time":"1:03:31","seconds":3811,"text":"Sir, you have no legitimacy in this job at all. And I can say with confidence that I can speak on behalf of the majority of the British people in saying we don't know you. We don't want you."},{"time":"1:03:43","seconds":3823,"text":"And the sooner you're put out to grass the better."},{"time":"1:03:46","seconds":3826,"text":"Okay. Okay. What you just saw here in this speech is exactly what the World Bank intervention handbook to change"},{"time":"1:03:55","seconds":3835,"text":"mind society and behavior to get citizen buyin for World Bank pushed reforms to"},{"time":"1:04:02","seconds":3842,"text":"profit donor drafter dealer class financial insiders is all about it's all about stopping this. We have this"},{"time":"1:04:10","seconds":3850,"text":"intervention handbook in 2015 to stop this kind of populist flare up that we saw in 2010 through that whole period"},{"time":"1:04:19","seconds":3859,"text":"and continuing to this day. This is what it looks like when there's bottom-up pressure. Now look, Nigel's got his own flaws and the implementation of Brexit"},{"time":"1:04:28","seconds":3868,"text":"was sacked very badly, but that was the thing this handbook is designed to stop."},{"time":"1:04:35","seconds":3875,"text":"And that is the political faction that OTI at the behest of the donor drafter dealer class stays on post coup to"},{"time":"1:04:43","seconds":3883,"text":"neutralize this faction. First OTI works with them to get them against the bad government. But then once they install"},{"time":"1:04:51","seconds":3891,"text":"the good government, OTI US A will turn against these people and back this newly installed government and protect them against the people through various"},{"time":"1:04:59","seconds":3899,"text":"political and ministry of justice type mechanisms. secret police, cancelling elections, surveillance state, mass"},{"time":"1:05:08","seconds":3908,"text":"prosecutions to protect the government and government insiders against the very people that backed those people into"},{"time":"1:05:15","seconds":3915,"text":"office. Basically, this exists to help these people betray these people. OTI Bosnia award winner confessional. One"},{"time":"1:05:23","seconds":3923,"text":"minute. Okay. And you put the time stamp in here. Okay. So, this is the OTI, the US A office of toppling governments. How"},{"time":"1:05:30","seconds":3930,"text":"did a peacenick from California end up planning a war in Iraq? No, Rob Jenkins."},{"time":"1:05:34","seconds":3934,"text":"Bro, I know you, Rob Jenkins. I've never seen his face, but I know his files quite intimately. So, how did a piece"},{"time":"1:05:43","seconds":3943,"text":"Nick from California end up planning a war in Iraq? Well, 26 years, that is a lot to unpack."},{"time":"1:05:48","seconds":3948,"text":"Um, so for today, maybe let's focus a bit on I know you spent some time working on projects in the Balkans. So, 78 views, center for peace and conflict"},{"time":"1:05:56","seconds":3956,"text":"studies. Yeah. Center. Remember what centers are and studies. You know what studies mean from the description? Rob Jenkins served as US A's assistant to"},{"time":"1:06:04","seconds":3964,"text":"the administrator for Bureau of Conflict and Prevention Stabilization, CPS. CPS is who houses OTI. So, US A has the"},{"time":"1:06:13","seconds":3973,"text":"Bureau for Global Health, GH, for all of our medical industry, gay ops. We have DRG, Democracy Rights, and Governance,"},{"time":"1:06:21","seconds":3981,"text":"which is the big uh like color revolution, but it's but it's a standard. It's a big big bureau. We've got management, LPA, got all the"},{"time":"1:06:30","seconds":3990,"text":"regional ones, ENE for Europe and Eurasia, LAC for Latin American and Caribbean. We've got SEC for security."},{"time":"1:06:38","seconds":3998,"text":"OTI exists within conflict and stabilization. And conflict stabilization is one of those things that puts you to sleep as an ordinary"},{"time":"1:06:45","seconds":4005,"text":"civilian with like a white collar job or a bluecollar job. You're like, conflict and stabilization, I don't know, sounds legit. Conflict is when we induce a"},{"time":"1:06:54","seconds":4014,"text":"conflict. We induce a civil war and we're backing one side of it."},{"time":"1:06:57","seconds":4017,"text":"Stabilization is when we have won that civil war that we induced and we are now trying to stabilize the government"},{"time":"1:07:04","seconds":4024,"text":"against the backlash of the people. This is a very nasty thing. And OTI is housed under there. And because it's its own special department, it's got its own"},{"time":"1:07:13","seconds":4033,"text":"special rules. He was the director of OTI under the Biden admin after being at US A for like 25 years. worked his way"},{"time":"1:07:21","seconds":4041,"text":"up to be the head of OTI. They call OTI in the description the United States government's foremost political transition instrument. Isn't that an"},{"time":"1:07:30","seconds":4050,"text":"incredible description? By the way, carried out operations in over 50 countries. There's only like 189 countries. So, we have done this coup in"},{"time":"1:07:38","seconds":4058,"text":"over 25% of the countries in the world just through US AIDS OTI. They say the Office of Transition Initiatives, US AI,"},{"time":"1:07:45","seconds":4065,"text":"is the US government's foremost political transition instrument. Notice how they don't describe it as US Aid's"},{"time":"1:07:53","seconds":4073,"text":"foremost political transition instrument. And again, transition means toppling, removing one government and putting another government in. So, it's"},{"time":"1:08:00","seconds":4080,"text":"not just US AIDS foremost. It's the entire US government's most foremost political transition instrument. Damn."},{"time":"1:08:07","seconds":4087,"text":"Political instrument. Political. All right, let's see what he says here."},{"time":"1:08:10","seconds":4090,"text":"Maybe we can start with Kosovo. some of the work that you so Kosovo I created Kosovo was very active"},{"time":"1:08:17","seconds":4097,"text":"in the Balkans starting in 1994 Bosnia Croatia some work in Kosovo before the war here I was busy doing"},{"time":"1:08:25","seconds":4105,"text":"Dual Lipa Kosovo things working on Africa but in 1999"},{"time":"1:08:33","seconds":4113,"text":"I I'm terrible with my years so it might be 2000 uh I was moved off by my bosses to help and then become the team leader for the Balkans."},{"time":"1:08:43","seconds":4123,"text":"Now, going back to our timeline here, 1999 would put us at phase one as we're"},{"time":"1:08:50","seconds":4130,"text":"ramping up phase one, initiate support to the political opposition. So, he's in on the ground as soon as we start"},{"time":"1:08:56","seconds":4136,"text":"ramping up this CIA US operation. Okay, go on. At that point, OTI was doing a lot of work in Serbia with trying to"},{"time":"1:09:05","seconds":4145,"text":"oust Mallosvich. Kosovo had been going on, but I was not part of it. I actually got my first big award at USAD, a group"},{"time":"1:09:13","seconds":4153,"text":"award for helping oust Mallosvich. He was ousted eight days after I started my job, but I got the award. I took it anyway."},{"time":"1:09:24","seconds":4164,"text":"What?"},{"time":"1:09:27","seconds":4167,"text":"My first big break was a government contract to overthrow another country's elected government. The purpose of the contract to overthrow the government was achieved 8 days after I got the money."},{"time":"1:09:38","seconds":4178,"text":"But I kept the money anyway. Why?"},{"time":"1:09:40","seconds":4180,"text":"Because of of a couple things. This is why we love using OTI. This is why OTI just grew and grew like a mushroom cloud. Let me tell you a funny thing, a"},{"time":"1:09:48","seconds":4188,"text":"hypothetical. Hypothetically, if US A had a program to overthrow the Victor Orban government in Hungary in 2023 and"},{"time":"1:09:55","seconds":4195,"text":"had a program to oust the Trumpaligned PIS party, the right-wing conservative party in Poland in 2023 and because it"},{"time":"1:10:03","seconds":4203,"text":"looks really bad to have an office of transition initiatives in country because it's kind of a tell that we're trying to overthrow your government. We"},{"time":"1:10:11","seconds":4211,"text":"don't formally say we have an OTI branch there. Would you be surprised to learn if hypothetically there were troves of"},{"time":"1:10:18","seconds":4218,"text":"USA ID documents proposing changes to the program cycle for that program so that it could operate like OTI outside"},{"time":"1:10:27","seconds":4227,"text":"of the normal program cycle because OTI is very special within US A. See to get a dollar from US A lot of things need to"},{"time":"1:10:35","seconds":4235,"text":"happen. I know it gives out a lot of money because so many organizations get grants. It looks like you want it lickety split, but there's a lot of"},{"time":"1:10:42","seconds":4242,"text":"paperwork and a lot of committees and a lot of formal things that need to be done. You need to have the mission"},{"time":"1:10:50","seconds":4250,"text":"director and you need to have the appropriate office head in Washington."},{"time":"1:10:54","seconds":4254,"text":"Have a country strategy. The grant has to be proposed in conformity with the program development officer. Each grant"},{"time":"1:11:01","seconds":4261,"text":"has to have a theory of change. It has to provide bullet points of all of the expected deliverables and outcomes"},{"time":"1:11:10","seconds":4270,"text":"associated with a successful change. And these are five-year grants or whatnot."},{"time":"1:11:16","seconds":4276,"text":"What happens if we just want to overthrow a country's government, but we"},{"time":"1:11:23","seconds":4283,"text":"can't put that in writing? And so what we think is best to overthrow that"},{"time":"1:11:30","seconds":4290,"text":"government changes on a momentto- moment basis on a day-to-day basis. Today helping to overthrow the democratically"},{"time":"1:11:37","seconds":4297,"text":"elected government, it would be useful to create a big media campaign. But now the media campaign is going and actually we want to capitalize on this media"},{"time":"1:11:46","seconds":4306,"text":"campaign by paying a bunch of judges and paying a bunch of prosecutors and paying a bunch of constitutional lawyers. the"},{"time":"1:11:55","seconds":4315,"text":"professional association of the lawyers guild to put this person in prison who's attacking this media campaign or we want"},{"time":"1:12:02","seconds":4322,"text":"to host a music festival to popularize the messaging as part of our campaign."},{"time":"1:12:07","seconds":4327,"text":"Well, if the grant was just a we want to promote independent media in Poland."},{"time":"1:12:12","seconds":4332,"text":"Well, now it's outside the scope of the grant. If you want to speedily just pay off the judges this week, pay off the prosecutors, pay off the labor leaders,"},{"time":"1:12:21","seconds":4341,"text":"organize a music concert. OTI operates outside of the program cycle. It does"},{"time":"1:12:27","seconds":4347,"text":"not have to have one thing that the grant is designed to do. It is a flexible rapid response mechanism. It"},{"time":"1:12:34","seconds":4354,"text":"operates the way the CIA does because grants can be subpoenenaed, grants can be foyered. They can't put in the grant"},{"time":"1:12:42","seconds":4362,"text":"that our job is to overthrow the government. They have to dress it up in lie language to disguise the real goal."},{"time":"1:12:49","seconds":4369,"text":"So what OTI can do is it can just issue fastm moving new grants in one or two"},{"time":"1:12:56","seconds":4376,"text":"days every step of the way so that every step of the way of the color revolution they can say we were just supporting the"},{"time":"1:13:05","seconds":4385,"text":"ministry of justice's implementation of people centered justice reforms. We weren't paying the judges and"},{"time":"1:13:13","seconds":4393,"text":"prosecutors and staffers to lock up our political opponents. We were doing it to ensure best practices for the Ministry"},{"time":"1:13:22","seconds":4402,"text":"of Justice in accordance with our definition of people center justice. Oh, we weren't funding the labor movements organizing the street protest because we"},{"time":"1:13:30","seconds":4410,"text":"wanted to ou the democratically elected government. No, no, no. This was just a grant we decided to give to support workers rights in the country. Oh, this"},{"time":"1:13:39","seconds":4419,"text":"grant that we issued the day before that to support the media was not to create a propaganda surround sound in the country to get the people to turn against their"},{"time":"1:13:48","seconds":4428,"text":"government. No, that was just that day we decided we just felt like funding the media. And it doesn't go through these layers of review like other US aid"},{"time":"1:13:56","seconds":4436,"text":"grants. It doesn't have a firm purpose or deliverable. It is not accountable in the same way that a long-term grant is."},{"time":"1:14:06","seconds":4446,"text":"It doesn't have to articulate a theory of change for OTI. It is presupposed."},{"time":"1:14:11","seconds":4451,"text":"The theory of change is that by giving this grant, it will effectuate a transition of government to a new government. Do you understand? And so"},{"time":"1:14:19","seconds":4459,"text":"there is this envy in traditional programs to be able to have the authority to set its own rules and do"},{"time":"1:14:27","seconds":4467,"text":"whatever it it wants like OTI can do whatever it wants, just like the CIA can do whatever it wants. And what happens is OTI then works with all the other"},{"time":"1:14:36","seconds":4476,"text":"branches of US8 and embeds itself into the other teams the same way the CIA embeds itself into the state department."},{"time":"1:14:42","seconds":4482,"text":"OTI was all over the censorship industrial complex. All over it."},{"time":"1:14:47","seconds":4487,"text":"Internet censorship. Okay. Here's an article by then head of US aid in 1997."},{"time":"1:14:53","seconds":4493,"text":"The same year that OTI started the revolution in Yugoslavia. Without OTI, we would we could not have overthrown."},{"time":"1:15:01","seconds":4501,"text":"That very year, the head of US aid was John Atwood. Here is a quote from John Atwood explaining OTI. The Bill Clinton"},{"time":"1:15:09","seconds":4509,"text":"administration created OTI in early 1994 as a mechanism for delivering fast, direct, and overt assistance in"},{"time":"1:15:17","seconds":4517,"text":"politically unstable countries. Of course, we were destabilizing them, but they kind of leave that out. Now, they say fast, direct, and overt, but my friends, this is more covert than the CIA. There's nothing overt about OTI."},{"time":"1:15:29","seconds":4529,"text":"But you have to understand, I mean, it's in the [ \\_\\_ ] name, transition of government. But you have to understand, they can't say they're CIA. So they have"},{"time":"1:15:38","seconds":4538,"text":"to say the difference is when the CIA does it, it's covert. When we do it, it's overt. But this is why I'm explaining why they structure its own"},{"time":"1:15:47","seconds":4547,"text":"rulebook for the program cycle. It's because every OTI grant, the grant will not say oust Yanukovic. It will not say"},{"time":"1:15:55","seconds":4555,"text":"oust Mallosvich. It will not say oust Bashar al-Assad. It will not say oust Shik Hassina in Bangladesh. It will not"},{"time":"1:16:02","seconds":4562,"text":"say oust Victor Orban in Hungary. It will not say oust the PIS party in Poland. It will not say oust Bolsinaro in Brazil. They'll say it in their"},{"time":"1:16:11","seconds":4571,"text":"emails. They'll say it in their group chats. They'll say it in their sensitive but unclassified strategy action memos."},{"time":"1:16:16","seconds":4576,"text":"But it won't say it in the grants. It won't say it in the stuff that you can foil. What it will say overtly is OTI is"},{"time":"1:16:23","seconds":4583,"text":"funding the media today and tomorrow OTI is funding the labor groups and the day after that they're funding musicians and"},{"time":"1:16:30","seconds":4590,"text":"influencers and the day after that they're just funding LGBT groups and the day after that they're funding racial"},{"time":"1:16:38","seconds":4598,"text":"minorities and the day after that they're funding human rights and the day after that they're funding legal and"},{"time":"1:16:44","seconds":4604,"text":"policy and regulatory reform. But every one of those has a covert purpose. Not covert within US A. They all know what"},{"time":"1:16:52","seconds":4612,"text":"the purpose is at US A but covert to you the public and anyone in the international community. So that if they get through FOYA a copy of what the"},{"time":"1:17:01","seconds":4621,"text":"grants are for, well, it's just for every element of our society, not to turn every the grant will not say"},{"time":"1:17:08","seconds":4628,"text":"overtly the purpose of this grant is to turn your society against you. The grant will just say we're capacity building"},{"time":"1:17:15","seconds":4635,"text":"this element to support its financial independence. It's going to be independent media, independent judiciary, independent trade and labor"},{"time":"1:17:24","seconds":4644,"text":"workforce. No, to make it independent of its own people so that it is dependent and controlled by the donor drafter class selecting the personnel at the US"},{"time":"1:17:33","seconds":4653,"text":"government agency authorizing the grant to topple the government and then implement state reforms that profit the very donor drafter dealer class who"},{"time":"1:17:40","seconds":4660,"text":"financed the coup. And here's what John Atwood, the US Aministrator in 1997, shortly after OTI's creation, said. Tell"},{"time":"1:17:47","seconds":4667,"text":"me if this sounds familiar. 20 years earlier, the government might have directed the CIA to undertake covert action in such situations. In the 1990s,"},{"time":"1:17:57","seconds":4677,"text":"it should instead use overt mechanisms such as OTI."},{"time":"1:18:04","seconds":4684,"text":"This is a direct quote from both founders of NED, remember? But Ned, they at least had the decency to structure it"},{"time":"1:18:14","seconds":4694,"text":"as a CIA cutout 501c3 non-governmental organization. OTI is a straightup government agency saying, \"We do CIA"},{"time":"1:18:21","seconds":4701,"text":"things, but we do it out in the open, but they don't do it out in the open, just like NED doesn't do it out in the open.\" NED in 2021 literally stopped"},{"time":"1:18:28","seconds":4708,"text":"reporting all grants, even though it's in their charter that they're forced to legally because the State Department granted them a waiver from the [ \\_\\_ ] law so that they could do it all"},{"time":"1:18:37","seconds":4717,"text":"covertly. OTI is all covert. Would you be surprised to learn one day in the notsodistant future that OTI would"},{"time":"1:18:45","seconds":4725,"text":"literally tell Facebook to ban accounts that doxed people working for OTI and"},{"time":"1:18:53","seconds":4733,"text":"OTI would pressure Facebook to take down allegations that the OTI is adjacent to the CIA. You're not allowed to know who"},{"time":"1:19:01","seconds":4741,"text":"OTI people are. If you, a civilian, say they work for OTI, what OTI would do is they would back channel with their"},{"time":"1:19:09","seconds":4749,"text":"contacts at YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and Tik Tok and say, \"Take down this post. You're not allowed to know I"},{"time":"1:19:17","seconds":4757,"text":"covertly work for US Aid.\" As if it's unmasking a [ \\_\\_ ] CIA person."},{"time":"1:19:28","seconds":4768,"text":"So, what you have are two organizations that the general American public thinks of as a 501c3"},{"time":"1:19:37","seconds":4777,"text":"charity, weirdly created by Congress and funded by the US government and also funded by US A. And you have US Aid with"},{"time":"1:19:44","seconds":4784,"text":"$45 billion. None. Neither of these institutions really until I started banging the drum on this a couple years ago are publicly associated or"},{"time":"1:19:53","seconds":4793,"text":"acknowledged to have anything [ \\_\\_ ] all to do with the Central Intelligence Agency. Here's Ned founder and head of NED for like almost 40 years, Carl Gershman to the New York Times in 1991."},{"time":"1:20:04","seconds":4804,"text":"It would be terrible for Democrat groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. That's why the"},{"time":"1:20:13","seconds":4813,"text":"endowment was created, to be able to fund groups that the CIA wants funded without the stigma of the money looking"},{"time":"1:20:22","seconds":4822,"text":"like it came from the CIA because it's an overt grant just to support the media in the country, just to support the"},{"time":"1:20:31","seconds":4831,"text":"music and entertainment in the country, just to support the labor and the law and justice and the workers rights and environmental reform. It's just a GR."},{"time":"1:20:41","seconds":4841,"text":"It's an overt grant. If that's all it was, why the [ \\_\\_ ] would the CIA fund it anyway? Really that Riddler? Why would"},{"time":"1:20:48","seconds":4848,"text":"the CIA covertly fund rainforest preservation? Last I checked, they're not the Environmental Protection Agency."},{"time":"1:20:56","seconds":4856,"text":"Why would the CIA fund a workers union, a labor group in a country? Last I checked, they're not the Department of"},{"time":"1:21:04","seconds":4864,"text":"Labor. Why would the CIA fund the media in a foreign country? Last I checked, they're not the US Agency for Global"},{"time":"1:21:10","seconds":4870,"text":"Media. The CIA funds them covertly because their grants are not public like"},{"time":"1:21:18","seconds":4878,"text":"US AIDS or like NEDS is required to by charter until 2021 when that requirement was waved by the State Department. The"},{"time":"1:21:24","seconds":4884,"text":"CIA runs money to all those groups as a front for the true purpose of what those groups are being paid to do, which is to"},{"time":"1:21:33","seconds":4893,"text":"topple a government or to block the passage of a law or to convince a particular industrial set to give a contract to an American company versus a"},{"time":"1:21:42","seconds":4902,"text":"Russian or Chinese one. the environmental groups may be in the streets rioting with a environmental grant or the CIA funding an"},{"time":"1:21:49","seconds":4909,"text":"environmental group not because the CIA cares about the environment or has in its charter or legal remmit any concern for the environment but because they're"},{"time":"1:21:58","seconds":4918,"text":"trying to block the the Chinese from getting a metals and mining deal and they're using the cover of an"},{"time":"1:22:06","seconds":4926,"text":"environmental protest to artificially create a bottomup blockage of the government doing what they don't want"},{"time":"1:22:14","seconds":4934,"text":"done. And NED is funded by the State Department, US Aid. Now, so that's NED, but NED's a non-governmental"},{"time":"1:22:21","seconds":4941,"text":"organization, a 501c3. One of the reasons that we couldn't do what we did with the US Institute of Peace and regime changed their board of directors"},{"time":"1:22:29","seconds":4949,"text":"and and president. It's the reason they still have the same president that they did Damon Wilson under the Biden admin."},{"time":"1:22:34","seconds":4954,"text":"Damon Wilson replaced Carl Gershman, the guy who made this quote in 2022, 2023."},{"time":"1:22:39","seconds":4959,"text":"So, take that quote from Ned founder Carl Gershman. It would be terrible for Democrat groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. That's"},{"time":"1:22:46","seconds":4966,"text":"why the endowment was created. The CIA used to run all these funds covertly in the 1960s and it's been discontinued"},{"time":"1:22:54","seconds":4974,"text":"because it was terrible for those groups to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. Not that it's terrible for the CIA to do it."},{"time":"1:23:01","seconds":4981,"text":"It's terrible for people to know they're doing it. The problem is when people followed the money, there was no cover"},{"time":"1:23:08","seconds":4988,"text":"story that it was and it came from the US government. When they followed the money, it would trace back to Langley, Virginia. It wouldn't trace back to uh"},{"time":"1:23:17","seconds":4997,"text":"Foggy Bottom. It wouldn't trace back to 12th and F Street. Wouldn't trace back to the Ronald Reagan building of USAD"},{"time":"1:23:24","seconds":5004,"text":"or to a nonprofit to Ned, which is on the same [ \\_\\_ ] block. And by the way, OTI is housed in the same building Ned is. They live together. Now, here's the head of US Aid. Tell me the difference."},{"time":"1:23:34","seconds":5014,"text":"Okay, again, it would be terrible for Democrat groups to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. It was terrible in the 1960s when the CIA got caught subsidizing"},{"time":"1:23:43","seconds":5023,"text":"them. That's why the National Down for Democracy was created, so that it wouldn't be seen as the CIA subsidizing them. It would be seen as a 51c3"},{"time":"1:23:51","seconds":5031,"text":"nonprofit, independent nonprofit. Now, here is the head of US aid. 20 years earlier, the government might have directed the CIA to undertake covert"},{"time":"1:24:00","seconds":5040,"text":"action in such situations. In the 1990s, he said this in ' 97, Carl Gershman said this in '91. So about 20 years earlier be the '60s. About 20 years earlier be"},{"time":"1:24:09","seconds":5049,"text":"the '60s. 20 years earlier, the government might have directed the CIA to undertake covert action in such situations. In the 1990s, it should instead use overt mechanisms such as"},{"time":"1:24:17","seconds":5057,"text":"OTI. It's the same picture. Corporate needs you to find the difference."},{"time":"1:24:23","seconds":5063,"text":"There's no difference. US A which funds NED. It's a clean line. US A says typically we'd use the CIA for this sort"},{"time":"1:24:31","seconds":5071,"text":"of covert influence work. But now we're going to use a what looks like an overt grant to do it. And who do they give the money to? One of the Council of Eight"},{"time":"1:24:39","seconds":5079,"text":"elder umbrella groups. So the distributor of the money says this is a CIA function, but we want to cloak it by"},{"time":"1:24:47","seconds":5087,"text":"fooling both the foreign countries we're operating in and the American taxpayers whose money we're using for this"},{"time":"1:24:54","seconds":5094,"text":"program. Because this is important. It's not just lying to foreign countries so they don't discover our covert operations. It's lying to the American"},{"time":"1:25:03","seconds":5103,"text":"taxpayers and telling them, \"Oh no, we're not doing covert political influence. We're doing overt philanthropy. We are lying to our own"},{"time":"1:25:11","seconds":5111,"text":"people because if we told our own people, everyone in the foreign country would know. Then the gig is up. The whole artificial construct of running"},{"time":"1:25:19","seconds":5119,"text":"layers and layers of government agencies and bureaucracies funneling money to hundreds of NOS's. Ned funds thousands"},{"time":"1:25:26","seconds":5126,"text":"of NOS's. And this Congress gave him the same level of funding as they had under Biden. US A says we're CIA. US A"},{"time":"1:25:33","seconds":5133,"text":"grantees say we're CIA, but we can't say it out loud. And this is how you have this intelligence state that encompasses every element of institutional society."},{"time":"1:25:45","seconds":5145,"text":"Ned works with the universities. NED works with Fizer. Fizer provided the seed funding for NED's in-house think"},{"time":"1:25:52","seconds":5152,"text":"tank journal, Journal Democracy. So now you got Fizer being backed by the CIA by way of US a global health programs by way of NED doing these public health."},{"time":"1:26:03","seconds":5163,"text":"That's what the grant says. What does the grant manager say? And that's kind of where where I come in. And that's where all this trauma dumping I did in"},{"time":"1:26:10","seconds":5170,"text":"the first 30 minutes of this now 4-hour stream is is what I need to show people because if this was truly a covert"},{"time":"1:26:18","seconds":5178,"text":"action, then explain that to the American people. We have a black budget."},{"time":"1:26:22","seconds":5182,"text":"We have a classification system. It's covert. You're not allowed to know what groups we're funding in Iran. That's classified and being carried out by the"},{"time":"1:26:29","seconds":5189,"text":"Central Intelligence Agency. And you're not allowed to know because if we tell you, the Iranians will listen and they will go after those groups. And"},{"time":"1:26:37","seconds":5197,"text":"regardless of how you feel about the Iran war, I think everyone gets that at least. Okay. Might disagree with the Iran war, but I get why you can't tell"},{"time":"1:26:45","seconds":5205,"text":"us which groups the CIA is secretly backing there. Yeah. To Trump's credit, what was it? 3 months October. So yeah,"},{"time":"1:26:53","seconds":5213,"text":"3 months before we black Maduro, Trump just came out and said, \"Yeah, we've authorized covert action in Venezuela.\" Three months before we blacked Maduro,"},{"time":"1:27:01","seconds":5221,"text":"we said, \"Listen, yeah, we've authorized CIA covert action in Venezuela. We can't tell you.\" And I'm sure that that was all work back channeling with Deli"},{"time":"1:27:08","seconds":5228,"text":"Rodriguez and propping up institutional and political support for Deli Rodriguez so that once we black Maduro, we would"},{"time":"1:27:15","seconds":5235,"text":"have a politically safe and institutionally supported vassel in the form of Deli Rodriguez. But when this"},{"time":"1:27:23","seconds":5243,"text":"headline came out in October, there was no public pressure on the Trump administration to overtly disclose what"},{"time":"1:27:31","seconds":5251,"text":"exactly the CIA was doing there because everyone got it. Oh yeah, we kind of got the hint with us blowing up Venezuelan"},{"time":"1:27:40","seconds":5260,"text":"fishing boats and blockading the country effectively, you know, sanction seizing their oil companies like we we kind of knew we were going after Venezuela and"},{"time":"1:27:49","seconds":5269,"text":"we made no bones about it. Is it dirty work? Yeah, but it's at least to its credit honest about the dirt, like a a"},{"time":"1:27:57","seconds":5277,"text":"little bit more honest about the dirty work. What you did not see was what the blob traditionally does, which was get"},{"time":"1:28:04","seconds":5284,"text":"on TV and lie to you about these beautiful humanitarian grants to support environmental activists and to support"},{"time":"1:28:12","seconds":5292,"text":"gay rights groups and to support independent media in Venezuela just because we love independent media. We're supporting like labor groups and uh"},{"time":"1:28:20","seconds":5300,"text":"street activists just because we we just love we just love grassroots political protest organizers who just love to have their voices heard. Oh, you love that."},{"time":"1:28:30","seconds":5310,"text":"So why is why why were a thousand why were,200 American citizens arrested over January 6th? Huh? You just love organically organized political"},{"time":"1:28:39","seconds":5319,"text":"protests? No. But this honesty about the dirty work and again you guys know where I fall on this. I am not comfortable"},{"time":"1:28:46","seconds":5326,"text":"defending the legal predicate generated around Maduro. I don't like Maduro. I don't like communism. I also don't like"},{"time":"1:28:54","seconds":5334,"text":"weaponizing the Justice Department to create a fake legal predicate. We went over this over over three streams."},{"time":"1:28:59","seconds":5339,"text":"Cartel of the Suns was a creation of the Central Intelligence Agency. I liked having the moral high ground that Trump was the victim of a weaponized justice"},{"time":"1:29:08","seconds":5348,"text":"department. I don't like the idea of jinning up fake charges against a foreign leader just to get rid of him by effectively blaming him for some six"},{"time":"1:29:17","seconds":5357,"text":"degrees of Kevin Bacon around cocaine where the cocaine network in Venezuela was set up by the CI. It was something that Maduro inherited and that's not the"},{"time":"1:29:24","seconds":5364,"text":"main. The cocaine comes from Colombia and Peru and it's not even cocaine that's killing Americans. It's like a drug of the past at this point. It's"},{"time":"1:29:33","seconds":5373,"text":"it's fentanyl and meth. And they had to they had to create a superseding indictment and remove all references to cartel of the suns because the original indictment they wrote had 37 references"},{"time":"1:29:41","seconds":5381,"text":"to the cartel of the sons. And then it came out cartel of sons was created by two CIA people in the preaduro days when Venezuela was a good guy. And we were"},{"time":"1:29:49","seconds":5389,"text":"using that during Iran Contra to back all the right-wing paramilitaries. We're using the drug money to back the right-wing paramilitaries against the Marxist. Oh that the Marxist. Oh that's"},{"time":"1:29:57","seconds":5397,"text":"a that's not shoot. Let's rewrite the indictment to keep the charges and then stick it with them. I think it's a different thing than the Iran situation"},{"time":"1:30:04","seconds":5404,"text":"in the sense that you can at least articulate it in American interests, even though I think it's against American ethics to do it in quite the way that it was done. But this is the world we've inherited. But I'm saying"},{"time":"1:30:13","seconds":5413,"text":"Trump owned it. And in the midterms and in the next presidential election, the successor to the Magabaton will have to justify to the American people why they"},{"time":"1:30:22","seconds":5422,"text":"did what they did. And the American people will at least be armed with the knowledge that what happened happened."},{"time":"1:30:28","seconds":5428,"text":"Unlike with US aid where the American people were never notified and were actively lied to and in cover it was covered up at every conceivable"},{"time":"1:30:38","seconds":5438,"text":"opportunity from launch of an operation to conclusion of it to lie to the American people about what actually happened and what they were actually"},{"time":"1:30:46","seconds":5446,"text":"doing to the internal politics of foreign countries and boomeranging back on our own internal politics. Come the midterms, come come the election, the"},{"time":"1:30:54","seconds":5454,"text":"the American people will know. And if people think what was done to Maduro was too dirty or shouldn't have been done, they can vote on that because they know"},{"time":"1:31:02","seconds":5462,"text":"what the admin actually did. With us a unless you are deep in the weeds on this and can speak fluently the language of"},{"time":"1:31:11","seconds":5471,"text":"blobocracy, you don't know what the hell you're voting on. You think, okay, well, like Richard Gear, you think, well, listen, this was the one pure thing"},{"time":"1:31:19","seconds":5479,"text":"America did. The one pure thing he said was US aid. We were just giving money away. No, you [ \\_\\_ ] idiot buffoon. You"},{"time":"1:31:28","seconds":5488,"text":"bought the press release. You bought you bought the brochure. You did not read the quotes of the founders. You did not read any of the emails, chat logs,"},{"time":"1:31:37","seconds":5497,"text":"program documents, public documents on usa.gov. Tens of thousands of scandals."},{"time":"1:31:43","seconds":5503,"text":"They say it outright. There ain't no goddamn giveaway program. It's just the CIA with a [ \\_\\_ ] alibi. It's just the"},{"time":"1:31:52","seconds":5512,"text":"CIA covert political influence with a presscripted alibi that it's philanthropy. And the reason both the"},{"time":"1:32:01","seconds":5521,"text":"head of US aid and the head of the US a funded mega NGO Ned said that they're"},{"time":"1:32:08","seconds":5528,"text":"not having this done all through the CIA is because it was worse when the CIA didn't have an alibi. They did not have"},{"time":"1:32:16","seconds":5536,"text":"a public grant to explain where the money came from. They did not have a lie in hand so that when they got caught, if"},{"time":"1:32:25","seconds":5545,"text":"they got caught at that moment, they could hold it up and say it's philanthropy. It's not a CIA destabilization campaign to overthrow"},{"time":"1:32:33","seconds":5553,"text":"our democ democratically elected government using funds with outside interference. No, it's a philanthropy"},{"time":"1:32:41","seconds":5561,"text":"from a 501c3 that just happens to like us. But that philanthropy got its funds from the US government who says they"},{"time":"1:32:49","seconds":5569,"text":"used this structure because the when the CIA didn't have an alibi of a philanthropy grant, there was no way to explain why the [ \\_\\_ ] they got the money."},{"time":"1:32:57","seconds":5577,"text":"And you know where I am on this right now? We did a a very long stream on this topic pretty recently, which is I don't"},{"time":"1:33:04","seconds":5584,"text":"want to get rid of soft power. I don't want to get rid of the ability to influence the course of political events in foreign countries. That's how you get"},{"time":"1:33:11","seconds":5591,"text":"boxed out. That's how bad situations can arise. But there is such a thing as going too far with it. You don't do it in allied countries in your friends. You"},{"time":"1:33:21","seconds":5601,"text":"definitely don't use it as a way to boomerang back on your domestic political opponents. You have to represent the all of the American people. You can't do things that are too"},{"time":"1:33:29","seconds":5609,"text":"obscenely dirty. You can be dirty up to a point and then you have to let the chips fall where they may unless you've been militarily attacked or something."},{"time":"1:33:37","seconds":5617,"text":"But I don't like the idea of replacing soft power with hard power where now instead of US A funding gay rights"},{"time":"1:33:45","seconds":5625,"text":"groups with a public-f facing grant about being gay in Haiti just because you're trying to go against a heteronormative gay skeptical president"},{"time":"1:33:54","seconds":5634,"text":"and you know that the gay groups are going to rally against that president that you want ousted. So you don't care who whether you're funding Nazis in"},{"time":"1:34:01","seconds":5641,"text":"Ukraine or you're funding communists in Brazil. They don't care if it's a left or right flank. Whoever gets the job done, gets the president they want out"},{"time":"1:34:09","seconds":5649,"text":"and hands over the country's treasur to a World Bank Minister of Finance who will implement the state reforms, the"},{"time":"1:34:17","seconds":5657,"text":"Democrat reforms for the donor drafter dealer class. But this this is where my work is moving in the year ahead is"},{"time":"1:34:24","seconds":5664,"text":"peeling back once I'm out peeling back this this layer and and I hope that also informs policymakers around ways to do"},{"time":"1:34:33","seconds":5673,"text":"this without it being quite so dirty and without having to use military hard power to just you know assassinate every president we don't like which I'm not"},{"time":"1:34:42","seconds":5682,"text":"comfortable with either. Jal Tori $25 Godell that in looking at the constitution he had found some inner contradictions a perfectly legal manner"},{"time":"1:34:50","seconds":5690,"text":"it would be possible for somebody to become a dictator and set up a fascist regime. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, look, that's the that then again, that's"},{"time":"1:34:58","seconds":5698,"text":"the logic that they used for like Arctic Frost and Round River and Crossfire Hurricane, right? They were like, well,"},{"time":"1:35:06","seconds":5706,"text":"Trump got elected, but Hitler got elected and legally it became fascist, so we need to shoot baby Hitler Trump as"},{"time":"1:35:14","seconds":5714,"text":"a baby now because look at what happened in Germany in 1933."},{"time":"1:35:19","seconds":5719,"text":"He was democratically elected. Like, so I don't know. I'm not a big fan of that logic. like the idea that if that's the case then you need to stop the public"},{"time":"1:35:27","seconds":5727,"text":"fellatio of democracy just say that you don't like democracy get up as the state department spokesperson or as the white house press secretary and say we are"},{"time":"1:35:36","seconds":5736,"text":"doing this we know that it is against every fundamental precept underpinning the idea of democracy because in this"},{"time":"1:35:44","seconds":5744,"text":"case we don't like democracy if you're going to do that tell the voters you're doing that instead of lying and having Schrodener's democracy where democracy"},{"time":"1:35:52","seconds":5752,"text":"exists in this kind of weird superp position where when you need democracy to mean the will of the people as representative vote then it exists. But"},{"time":"1:36:01","seconds":5761,"text":"when you need a government intervention to stop the people from being able to put the leader they want in then it doesn't exist. And so you have a kind of"},{"time":"1:36:09","seconds":5769,"text":"quantum democracy depends on whether you're looking at it whether it's being observed in one scenario or another whether it actually exists at all. Let's"},{"time":"1:36:17","seconds":5777,"text":"do another music thing. There's a gray stone chapel here at Bolam inside the"},{"time":"1:36:24","seconds":5784,"text":"walls of prison. My body may be but my lord has set my soul free."},{"time":"1:36:33","seconds":5793,"text":"Thank you guys. Your knowledge should be essential courses and education. Go Max."},{"time":"1:36:38","seconds":5798,"text":"Well, appreciate that. I think uh what was it? Chungster was working on blob files type stuff and I think I've mentioned I've I' I've been approached"},{"time":"1:36:46","seconds":5806,"text":"for professorship positions at two universities now on uh on this and I have to say I've I found it an"},{"time":"1:36:54","seconds":5814,"text":"attractive proposition for a later period of my life but not right now if that makes sense. I enjoy it. It's one"},{"time":"1:37:02","seconds":5822,"text":"of the reasons this is like my the favorite part of my week. I also find that the process of teaching is one of the best ways to learn. When you're"},{"time":"1:37:10","seconds":5830,"text":"forced to give a public presentation to people about what something is, you're forced to crystallize the data points"},{"time":"1:37:18","seconds":5838,"text":"that you think you know into a coherent framework and the process of creating that framework allows you to test whether that framework is actually true"},{"time":"1:37:27","seconds":5847,"text":"before you present it. And then you kind of have iterations of frameworks that your mind only begins to contemplate"},{"time":"1:37:34","seconds":5854,"text":"because you are accountable publicly to teaching others about how this whole thing works. And so I actually think"},{"time":"1:37:40","seconds":5860,"text":"that teaching is the best way to learn if that makes sense. But if I if I were like the superintendent of a school district or something and I had say over"},{"time":"1:37:49","seconds":5869,"text":"the way things are learning like I would make first graders, third graders, fifth graders do group activities where every"},{"time":"1:37:55","seconds":5875,"text":"kid has to learn to lead and teach something that that they were doing in a group that the others weren't. Then the"},{"time":"1:38:02","seconds":5882,"text":"others teach so that it's not just the teachers teaching the students all day."},{"time":"1:38:07","seconds":5887,"text":"there's some portion every week where the students become the teachers and the teacher becomes an observer and helps"},{"time":"1:38:15","seconds":5895,"text":"students teach and in the process of that I think that's just a a much at this point I've now trained a couple of apprentices if you will people who've"},{"time":"1:38:23","seconds":5903,"text":"worked for me through my foundation or people within the government who've worked on me on various projects and I always try to take a step back and ask"},{"time":"1:38:31","seconds":5911,"text":"hey teach me what you learned on this thing you were supposed to research this for our project teach me about And that process I think helps actually create a"},{"time":"1:38:40","seconds":5920,"text":"kind of cognitive buy into the project itself because it converts passive listening into active responsibility in"},{"time":"1:38:47","seconds":5927,"text":"the act of having some responsibility for conveying it actually creates I think a sense of buyin to your investment to the topic or project itself. Does that make sense? Getting"},{"time":"1:38:56","seconds":5936,"text":"rid of fellatio of democracy and the class of parasites that feeds off its illusions is essentially the technocrat argument in a nutshell. Yeah, look it"},{"time":"1:39:03","seconds":5943,"text":"is. And again, it's one of these things, dirty work, but honest about the dirty work. I think like Peter Teal and some other types have kind of articulated"},{"time":"1:39:12","seconds":5952,"text":"who's probably the best example of this mold bug. Probably Menchious Mold Bug."},{"time":"1:39:16","seconds":5956,"text":"He's sort of famous, infamous for sort of being anti-democracy. But but you you had that. In fact, there are all sorts"},{"time":"1:39:23","seconds":5963,"text":"of US documents about this phenomenon when democracy is the greatest threat to democracy. But look, I mean, you had that in response to the rise of Trump"},{"time":"1:39:32","seconds":5972,"text":"for a second there for for a hot second in early 2017. You had this uh you was it Washington Post elites should have"},{"time":"1:39:40","seconds":5980,"text":"more say in elections. You had the Burguin Institute Reed Hoffman thing."},{"time":"1:39:45","seconds":5985,"text":"So, the original title, I guess they changed the title after the backlash, but the title of this, they switched it to it's time to switch preference primaries because the original title of"},{"time":"1:39:53","seconds":5993,"text":"this Washington Post piece was not it's time to switch party preferences and give elites more say in primaries. What it what it said, Come on. Wait, where's"},{"time":"1:40:02","seconds":6002,"text":"the Yeah. Yeah. This is how they changed it. Yeah, they changed the headline calling for elites to choose, right? But this was literally like what the headline was until the backlash and they"},{"time":"1:40:10","seconds":6010,"text":"changed the headline. It's time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president. Right now, of course, that was because Trump won and they were"},{"time":"1:40:18","seconds":6018,"text":"like, listen, if Nikki Haley and the ghost of John McCain and Mitt Romney could have used some superdelegate trick"},{"time":"1:40:25","seconds":6025,"text":"like Hillary did to Bernie, they could have blocked Trump from ever running in the primary so that the people could not have even had the choice to vote for"},{"time":"1:40:33","seconds":6033,"text":"Trump. And then they wouldn't be angry about not having the leader they want because they would have never known they had an option because it's actually some"},{"time":"1:40:41","seconds":6041,"text":"shady backroom council of elder elites who get to pick whether or not you're even eligible to run for president. And"},{"time":"1:40:49","seconds":6049,"text":"this is this is like one of the things when Trump won in 2016 and early 2017, they were floating the idea of like a"},{"time":"1:40:55","seconds":6055,"text":"military council as part of this so that anyone can run for president as long as they're cleared by a council of two"},{"time":"1:41:02","seconds":6062,"text":"people who are economic specialists and two people who are military specialists and two people who are human rights specialists and like a Noah's Arc Island"},{"time":"1:41:11","seconds":6071,"text":"of misfit elite toys where all of the institutions get to vote together about whether or not you can run for president"},{"time":"1:41:19","seconds":6079,"text":"or whether you're a national security threat where you'd be elected. And so you can only choose from among the various candidates that make it through"},{"time":"1:41:28","seconds":6088,"text":"the process of elite filtration. Of course, if another country did that and we wanted to regime change its leaders, you better believe the first people on"},{"time":"1:41:37","seconds":6097,"text":"the ground would be US AI and the National Down for Democracy funding a media surround sound about what an attack on democracy is. That the"},{"time":"1:41:45","seconds":6105,"text":"opposition candidate of their choosing was removed from the ballot. We should take to the streets and storming the parliament building and blockade the railroads and do dead sitins at every"},{"time":"1:41:54","seconds":6114,"text":"major city center intersection because they're attacking democracy by blocking our political US aid funded political puppet. But the moment the wrong person"},{"time":"1:42:02","seconds":6122,"text":"wins here, these people the first in line to create the autocracy they said other countries had in blocking out their own puppets. pick a lane or get"},{"time":"1:42:09","seconds":6129,"text":"mired down in schizophrenic talking points, which is what US A ended up with at the end, which is why it was really hard for them in the first 2 3 months of"},{"time":"1:42:19","seconds":6139,"text":"US A's closure to know what to say. They were really stunlocked until they glombmed onto this AIDS thing. 14 million billion people are dying of"},{"time":"1:42:26","seconds":6146,"text":"AIDS. Until they kind of came up with that and they cooked up some crooked Boston University story that quadruple counted syphilis and diarrhea deaths."},{"time":"1:42:35","seconds":6155,"text":"until they came up with that Boston University study, they were stunlocked in terms of a PR response to the US aid closure. None of them thought it was"},{"time":"1:42:42","seconds":6162,"text":"remotely possible and I can tell you like literally even in the files I've got these US A people during the transition, the careers who thought they"},{"time":"1:42:50","seconds":6170,"text":"would be able to stay in and subvert the admin from the inside. They're like, uh, actually I read the Heritage Project"},{"time":"1:42:57","seconds":6177,"text":"2025 on US A and uh, it doesn't sound like it touches us. Yeah, it's [ \\_\\_ ] up Nazi [ \\_\\_ ] It's pro Trump and his"},{"time":"1:43:05","seconds":6185,"text":"heritage, but I think we're going to be able to keep getting away with it. Very high level US aid people were saying that in December and January of 2024,"},{"time":"1:43:14","seconds":6194,"text":"2025 during the transition. They thought they were completely safe even though Trump won because they were completely safe during the first Trump administration because they got to run"},{"time":"1:43:22","seconds":6202,"text":"their own parallel hostile foreign policy with no oversight from the White House. They thought it would be the same thing. And then when it happened, they were torn. If you remember February,"},{"time":"1:43:30","seconds":6210,"text":"March last year, they were stun locked when the shutdown was announced because they didn't know what messaging to go with. They were like, \"Oh, but we fund"},{"time":"1:43:39","seconds":6219,"text":"all these philanthropic projects.\" And then Doge was hosting just the USAaspending.gov. Okay, here's $3 million for being gay in Haiti."},{"time":"1:43:49","seconds":6229,"text":"Explain yourself. They're like, \"Here's $10 million for transgender dance festivals in Bangladesh.\" Meanwhile, the DNC, it was just going through its internal audit with like, maybe we"},{"time":"1:43:57","seconds":6237,"text":"should back off the trans stuff. Maybe that cost us a bunch of voters. So, they're like, uh, do we want to defend that? And then they were like the the"},{"time":"1:44:05","seconds":6245,"text":"Trump administration is trying to seize sensitive classified files from US aid vaults and the hasty shutdown of US aid"},{"time":"1:44:14","seconds":6254,"text":"has meant that troves of sensitive nobody knows now where troves of sensitive classified US aid documents stored in secret government vaults are."},{"time":"1:44:24","seconds":6264,"text":"They've had to be shipped out in a panic and you're like wait what what is US ID doing with skips? You just you told us it's like a philanthropy. Why does it have CIA? Why is it working with CIA?"},{"time":"1:44:35","seconds":6275,"text":"What what what do you So we talk about how it's all philanthropy. They just get hit with a billion grants that even on their face without any internal"},{"time":"1:44:43","seconds":6283,"text":"documents whatsoever just on uspending.gov show this is exactly the opposite of the so-called philanthropy that the American people voted for. It"},{"time":"1:44:51","seconds":6291,"text":"was like all activism for stuff that the American people had just rejected in the vote. So then they tried switching to national security, but that just made it look like a giant CIA front. So they"},{"time":"1:44:59","seconds":6299,"text":"kind of had to shut up and take it until they cooked up this Boston University AIDS study that 14 million people are dying of AIDS. That's now what they're"},{"time":"1:45:07","seconds":6307,"text":"stuck with until I'm unshackled. So a little bit more on the World Bank."},{"time":"1:45:11","seconds":6311,"text":"Turning back to that, I asked for some examples of like the World Bank exerting soft power influence. Imagine a developing country is suffering from a fiscal crisis. Its government approaches"},{"time":"1:45:20","seconds":6320,"text":"the World Bank because international private investors won't lend to it cheaply enough. The bank offers a billion dollars. The World Bank. But the interaction may look something like"},{"time":"1:45:27","seconds":6327,"text":"this. World Bank diagnosis. Your state-owned electricity company is losing money. Energy subsidies are unsustainable. Customs procedures"},{"time":"1:45:35","seconds":6335,"text":"inhibit trade. State-owned banks have too many bad loans. Tax collection is weak. World bank policy recommendations if you want to get the money. Change"},{"time":"1:45:43","seconds":6343,"text":"electricity tariffs. Restructure your public utility. Privatize it. Give it to George Soros or his quantum fund or"},{"time":"1:45:50","seconds":6350,"text":"source management fund. Reform customs so that our investors can do trade more cheaply. Strengthen bank supervision."},{"time":"1:45:56","seconds":6356,"text":"It's probably going to mean partner with a blobaligned bank, change procurement rules so that we get more of your government contracts and broaden the tax"},{"time":"1:46:05","seconds":6365,"text":"base. Tax your own people harder so that you have more funds to pay us back. Are you already seeing just in this hypothetical example alone how they are"},{"time":"1:46:13","seconds":6373,"text":"spelling out exactly what this relationship looks like? World Bank president comes in to our smoky backroom, our Washington DC,"},{"time":"1:46:21","seconds":6381,"text":"Pennsylvania Avenue private Ned Club, our executive branch, upscale lounge for for millionaires. Hey, meeting at 6:00"},{"time":"1:46:29","seconds":6389,"text":"after work. Hey, World Bank president says to Black Rockck, Apollo, Castle Management, you've got, hey, Ghana just"},{"time":"1:46:36","seconds":6396,"text":"approached us. They want a billion dollars. And they go, hey, we've got some energy investments actually in Africa that we're trying to 10x the"},{"time":"1:46:44","seconds":6404,"text":"returns. We're trying to clear the 8% return on investment so that we can get the carry off of it. It looks like we're not going to be able to hit that unless"},{"time":"1:46:53","seconds":6413,"text":"we get some jolt in our Africa portfolio, our impact investment vehicle there. Tell them if they want the"},{"time":"1:47:00","seconds":6420,"text":"billion dollars, they need to privatize their public utility so that we can buy up on the cheap their electrical grid"},{"time":"1:47:08","seconds":6428,"text":"and then just get private profits from every heated home in the country. Okay."},{"time":"1:47:14","seconds":6434,"text":"All right. How about you? Well, this country has port access. My hedge fund has a long position on a bunch of"},{"time":"1:47:23","seconds":6443,"text":"companies that export to Africa. Tell them to reduce the customs as part of the loan precondition so that my"},{"time":"1:47:30","seconds":6450,"text":"portfolio companies make a [ \\_\\_ ] ton more money because of the lower customs and tariffs in the country. Okay. All right."},{"time":"1:47:37","seconds":6457,"text":"How about you, donor drafter deal class person number three. My portfolio companies specialize in government contracts in agriculture. So tell them"},{"time":"1:47:45","seconds":6465,"text":"to loosen the procurement roles for foreign direct investors so that my portfolio companies that operate in Africa get all those gobble all those"},{"time":"1:47:53","seconds":6473,"text":"government contracts. In fact, I got a consultant I can hook them up with to make sure that that consultant serves as"},{"time":"1:47:59","seconds":6479,"text":"a special envoy on trade or economic adviser to the finance minister to make sure that the that those contracts for"},{"time":"1:48:07","seconds":6487,"text":"good governance purposes go to my portfolio companies. Okay. World Bank president walks out 7 p.m. meeting is with the finance minister of that"},{"time":"1:48:15","seconds":6495,"text":"country and says, \"You want the billion dollars? Here are the reforms you need to implement. You need to privatize your state-owned public grid, public"},{"time":"1:48:23","seconds":6503,"text":"electrical company. You need to lower customs and tariffs. You need to loosen your procurement roles for qualified"},{"time":"1:48:30","seconds":6510,"text":"foreign direct investors. Then you'll get the billion dollar loan. And what's required are two things. the commitment"},{"time":"1:48:37","seconds":6517,"text":"from the Minister of Finance and and the Prime Minister to do it and then the actual implementation and maintenance of"},{"time":"1:48:45","seconds":6525,"text":"that policy against the backlash from the people who are saying, \"Wait, you've just jacked up our taxes. Wait, uh, our"},{"time":"1:48:53","seconds":6533,"text":"electrical grid is owned by a portfolio company of a Wall Street hedge fund instead of by the people of my African country. Wait, we're getting less"},{"time":"1:49:02","seconds":6542,"text":"national income because we've reduced our customs and tariffs and instead you're taxing us, the people, instead of"},{"time":"1:49:10","seconds":6550,"text":"charging customs and tariffs on foreign corporations. We're going to vote for somebody else who won't do that or you shouldn't do that. And that's where the"},{"time":"1:49:18","seconds":6558,"text":"social cohesion and anti-disinformation and hearts and minds work comes in. And that's where NID will come and pacify,"},{"time":"1:49:26","seconds":6566,"text":"stabilize the government against the people's backlash of their elected government answering these people instead of these people. Does that make"},{"time":"1:49:35","seconds":6575,"text":"sense? But that's how the World Bank will do that. And by the way, these government insiders are not going to make some impassion speech to the people"},{"time":"1:49:44","seconds":6584,"text":"about how they're being strongarmed by the World Bank if they still want that billion dollar loan because the World Bank is going to say, \"Now we're not giving you the loan. You've just blamed"},{"time":"1:49:52","seconds":6592,"text":"us for the deal's off.\" So if you want that money, you really, really do. This just becomes a government secret. And you might not find out until 20 years"},{"time":"1:50:00","seconds":6600,"text":"later that this is what motivated these people to do this thing that these people who voted for these people hated but never understood the reasons why it"},{"time":"1:50:08","seconds":6608,"text":"was being done. They were just told it was democratic reforms. We just love combating climate change. We just love free trade. We just love broadening our tax base. We just love uh privatizing."},{"time":"1:50:20","seconds":6620,"text":"And you saw this, by the way, in Russia."},{"time":"1:50:22","seconds":6622,"text":"This is exactly what happened post 2014 Ukraine coup. Putin Soros tugofwar NAFTA"},{"time":"1:50:28","seconds":6628,"text":"gas. Putin and Soros locked in fight for control of gas transit company. This was NAFTA gas the the state-owned gas giant"},{"time":"1:50:37","seconds":6637,"text":"in Ukraine. For more than 10 years, both Vladimir Putin and George Soros have sought to acquire Ukraine's state-owned gas transit company Naftagas. at the"},{"time":"1:50:45","seconds":6645,"text":"heart of the Giuliani stuff and all that, at the heart of the Barisma thing because Barisma was the private company feeder, one of four of them I think to"},{"time":"1:50:52","seconds":6652,"text":"NAFTA gas, there was this tugof war and I believe the World Bank and IMF were trying as part of the state reforms that"},{"time":"1:51:01","seconds":6661,"text":"Ukraine was forced to go through after we funded the revolution against Yanukovich in 2014. Did the World Bank"},{"time":"1:51:07","seconds":6667,"text":"or IMF pressure or condition loans on the privatization"},{"time":"1:51:14","seconds":6674,"text":"of NAFTA gas in Ukraine, Western Financial State? I mean, this is just a very clean example because George Soros"},{"time":"1:51:21","seconds":6681,"text":"was the largest single donor. As the largest donor, you get to pick the personnel at the State Department, at in"},{"time":"1:51:29","seconds":6689,"text":"the intelligence community, in DoD, at US A. US A was a revolving door with the Open Society Foundation. You will learn all about that when I am back in Miami."},{"time":"1:51:39","seconds":6699,"text":"But so Soros funded the DNC to overthrow the government of Ukraine in 2014. And what were the reforms? Just like in that"},{"time":"1:51:48","seconds":6708,"text":"hypothetical, you get to privatize your state-owned energy company. Well, this was the big one, the big mama. Ukraine is a gas economy. They exerted very"},{"time":"1:51:57","seconds":6717,"text":"strong conditional leverage over opening Ukraine's gas market to private competition. The IMF really did put NAFTA gas reform inside its loan"},{"time":"1:52:04","seconds":6724,"text":"conditionality. What was number one on the list? Privatization. So that all of the gas that transits through Ukraine is"},{"time":"1:52:12","seconds":6732,"text":"not profiting the Ukrainian people even though they sit on the gas and they are the transit point and get should get all the transit revenue. They would think"},{"time":"1:52:19","seconds":6739,"text":"it's going to George Soros portfolio companies as a condition to getting the bailout money for its broke government."},{"time":"1:52:26","seconds":6746,"text":"And this is how you have me the media contextualizing this as a tugof-war between Putin and Soros. The idea was because this was transiting gas from"},{"time":"1:52:35","seconds":6755,"text":"Russia and before we blew up the the I guess the Nordstream pipeline was to Germany. But one of the reasons we blew up the Nordstream pipeline was because"},{"time":"1:52:42","seconds":6762,"text":"it routed gas it bypassed Ukraine and now Ukraine was a good guy and we wanted to you as we were privatizing NAFTA gas we wanted them to be the source point."},{"time":"1:52:52","seconds":6772,"text":"This is why we pumped up arisma to have more indogenous gas in Ukraine that NAFTA gas gone private could then profit from selling to the European market. The"},{"time":"1:53:01","seconds":6781,"text":"IMF put NAFTA gas reform inside its loan conditionality. Had all these benchmarks for following through with it. And again, Ukraine is the what the largest"},{"time":"1:53:09","seconds":6789,"text":"second largest I guess after Argentina debtor. They owe owe all that money to the IMF because at the time all the gas transit was starting in Russia. Putin"},{"time":"1:53:18","seconds":6798,"text":"had a lot of people on the board. hit a lot of NAFTA gas. Ukrainian oligarchs who are getting rich because of their"},{"time":"1:53:25","seconds":6805,"text":"financial relationship with Russia. So our State Department and intelligence community assessed that faction of NAFTA"},{"time":"1:53:32","seconds":6812,"text":"gas's board and directors as being agents of Putin. Meanwhile, Ukraine was still doing business with the West and so we were making a lot of Ukrainian"},{"time":"1:53:40","seconds":6820,"text":"oligarchs rich with the American side of that. So we had basically agents of Soros versus agents of Putin playing out"},{"time":"1:53:48","seconds":6828,"text":"in a corporate civil war on the board and director set of NAFTA gas and what was at stake was basically a trillion"},{"time":"1:53:56","seconds":6836,"text":"dollar gas transit market. This is pre pre-war when the Russia relationship was severed. Unbundling was literally a loan"},{"time":"1:54:04","seconds":6844,"text":"prior action June 2020. So this is post coup but pre2022 war. complete unbundling of the state-owned gas"},{"time":"1:54:12","seconds":6852,"text":"transport system, privatizing it. And who like led that US Ukraine Chamber of Commerce? It was all these Soros portfolio companies. So, it was a"},{"time":"1:54:19","seconds":6859,"text":"literal donor drafter dealer. Soros was the main donor to the Obama administration. He was the single largest donor. his hedge fund drafted"},{"time":"1:54:28","seconds":6868,"text":"off of the policies being imposed by the government that he donated to so that he could profit from deals in Ukraine that"},{"time":"1:54:37","seconds":6877,"text":"were forced as a loan condition by the US government effectively running the World Bank. Yanukovic wasn't down for"},{"time":"1:54:43","seconds":6883,"text":"that. So these people funded a bottom-up peoplepowered revolution against the former government government insiders to"},{"time":"1:54:51","seconds":6891,"text":"get them to flee to install a puppet class Yatsenyuk then Porhankko then Zilinski and now the donor drafter"},{"time":"1:54:58","seconds":6898,"text":"dealer class had been through us a you know 70 NGO red lines memo type thing that I mentioned it's basically running"},{"time":"1:55:05","seconds":6905,"text":"a program to literally we have blocked the people from voting on these people okay we have cancelled elections in Ukraine there's not been an election"},{"time":"1:55:13","seconds":6913,"text":"ction Ukraine in six I'm sorry 7 years 7 years since there's been an election in Ukraine because we know that the people"},{"time":"1:55:22","seconds":6922,"text":"would not vote for this government because this government is doing everything the donor drafter dealer class wants. So what's the solution to"},{"time":"1:55:29","seconds":6929,"text":"stop this bottomup pressure which exerts itself every day politically but manifests as an its ultimate instrument"},{"time":"1:55:36","seconds":6936,"text":"as an election to replace them if they're not happy with a different government. The donor drafter class says, \"Hey, the people are not down with"},{"time":"1:55:45","seconds":6945,"text":"these democratic reforms that all profit black rockck and the soros management fund and our counter intelligent our"},{"time":"1:55:53","seconds":6953,"text":"counter intelligence surveillance state can't contain all this dissatisfaction sufficiently. So, how about we just"},{"time":"1:56:00","seconds":6960,"text":"cancel elections so there's no way for this to actually do anything?\" Cut that out. Now it's just the government taking orders from the donor drafter dealer"},{"time":"1:56:09","seconds":6969,"text":"class because these people literally don't have a vote. And if they complain, we'll just use the Ministry of Justice funded by US Aid with all these justice"},{"time":"1:56:18","seconds":6978,"text":"grants to just mass arrest everybody. So they'll just they'll just they'll just take it. You better believe we do the same thing in Iran post coup. If if we"},{"time":"1:56:25","seconds":6985,"text":"successfully do get regime change in Iran, this is what we talked about last time. First thing they're going to do is cancel elections. You think they think they're going to let an Iranian people"},{"time":"1:56:32","seconds":6992,"text":"who voted n 98% in uh the referendum to turn it into an Islamic state? You think they're going to accept the son of the"},{"time":"1:56:40","seconds":7000,"text":"sha? No, we'll say it's stabilization, cancel the election. And we orchestrated the deacto regime change in Venezuela"},{"time":"1:56:47","seconds":7007,"text":"right after the last election. The last election was in 2025. They're not going to be able to vote for 5 years. So if they don't like Deli Rodriguez, they have no legal redress. They got to do"},{"time":"1:56:54","seconds":7014,"text":"what Marco Rubio says for the next 5 years. Do you understand this mechanism a little bit more clearly? And this is part of how the World Bank and IMF work"},{"time":"1:57:02","seconds":7022,"text":"so closely with USAD because when USAD wants to run an operation, we go to information soft power. We go to all"},{"time":"1:57:09","seconds":7029,"text":"sorts of political soft power. We go to all sorts of sector, but we go to financial soft power. And that's where the US A economic affairs folks will go"},{"time":"1:57:18","seconds":7038,"text":"to the World Bank and IMF and have them add these loan conditions to assist with an ongoing operation funding the street"},{"time":"1:57:26","seconds":7046,"text":"activists, the musicians, the entertainment industry, the media, the judicial class, the private sector, the"},{"time":"1:57:35","seconds":7055,"text":"NOS's. A couple more points on this. One sec here. Okay. So I asked if there is a recurring pattern of World Bank veterans"},{"time":"1:57:44","seconds":7064,"text":"moving into senior economic posts in governments emerging from basically US aidbacked civil wars. When we win when"},{"time":"1:57:50","seconds":7070,"text":"our side wins a CI a US aid funded civil war, one of the first things we always do is like we install a former World Bank guy to be the finance minister."},{"time":"1:57:59","seconds":7079,"text":"That way when this conversation takes place, they're like, \"Yeah, Larry from BlackRock wants our country to uh reform"},{"time":"1:58:08","seconds":7088,"text":"uh to loosen procurement rules.\" Yeah, I know, Larry. In fact, uh I have a consulting firm that uh earns $10"},{"time":"1:58:15","seconds":7095,"text":"million a year consulting for him. Yeah, whatever Larry wants. It's like, but wait, aren't you supposed to be representing Bangladesh's interest?"},{"time":"1:58:21","seconds":7101,"text":"Bangladeshi finance minister. And they go, no, I just parachuted in here 5 minutes ago. I was living in London last summer. I've spent some time in Pakistan"},{"time":"1:58:29","seconds":7109,"text":"and I've got a great grand uncle who lived in Bangladesh and so yeah, I I'll I'll just take up this post in Bangladesh. But that way, we've got a"},{"time":"1:58:37","seconds":7117,"text":"friendly on the other side of the negotiating table who's not going to go all nationalist and say, \"Wait, you're pillaging our country.\" They're going to say, \"Well, it's not Listen, I have some"},{"time":"1:58:44","seconds":7124,"text":"like ancient relationship to it, but it's not really my country.\" Yeah, I'll give away their [ \\_\\_ ] And it would be one thing if this was genuinely helping the American people, but what you see is"},{"time":"1:58:52","seconds":7132,"text":"when Trump won, we completely, this is why I call it Cold War 2.0, No, we defined populism as a threat to democracy. There there was no like"},{"time":"1:59:01","seconds":7141,"text":"authoritarian communist threat in these countries. There there was no creeping communism across the world. There there"},{"time":"1:59:09","seconds":7149,"text":"were not genuine attacks on American interests from economic zones emanating from these populist countries. It's just"},{"time":"1:59:16","seconds":7156,"text":"a particular set of DNC and neocon interests were being economically impacted. And that was enough to reorient the entire national security"},{"time":"1:59:24","seconds":7164,"text":"state to crack open the Cold War toolkit to say, \"Well, now the scourge is not com communism. It's democratic backsliding in general.\" Well, by the"},{"time":"1:59:33","seconds":7173,"text":"way, we're not going to tell you that we're doing this. We're just going to say this is general philanthropy. You know, people knew they were in a cold war when it happened. This was something"},{"time":"1:59:41","seconds":7181,"text":"like we had to discover and popularize and they tried to deny it for as long as they could. To this day, a lot of them still try to say, \"Oh, no, it was overt."},{"time":"1:59:49","seconds":7189,"text":"It was philanthropy.\" Richard Gears it was a one pure thing we were giving away money Bangladesh who we've covered many times Bangladesh if you remember is"},{"time":"1:59:58","seconds":7198,"text":"where we were funding oh so yeah first example actually let's see the first example it gives is Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani spent a decade at the World Bank"},{"time":"2:00:07","seconds":7207,"text":"when the Taliban collapsed in 2001 he returned to Afghanistan to become the World Bank development specialist special adviser to the installed head of"},{"time":"2:00:16","seconds":7216,"text":"state Hamid Carzai and he was literally the finance minister after we invad invaded Afghanistan in 2003 and got rid"},{"time":"2:00:23","seconds":7223,"text":"of the Taliban. The first thing we did, I guess in 2001, I guess I guess 2003 was Iraq, right? 2001, literally right"},{"time":"2:00:32","seconds":7232,"text":"after 9/11, we invade Afghanistan. 2002, we install a literal we install someone"},{"time":"2:00:40","seconds":7240,"text":"in this room to be our negotiating counterpart for the for the interest of a foreign representing the foreign country. On this, we put our own"},{"time":"2:00:48","seconds":7248,"text":"stoogge. We we forced because we overthrew the government by force and had our pick. There was no election in Afghanistan in 2001 after the Taliban"},{"time":"2:00:56","seconds":7256,"text":"collapsed. We installed Hameid Carzi said, \"Well, listen, we get to pick the the people in the new government. The Afghan people have no vote in this. We"},{"time":"2:01:04","seconds":7264,"text":"just took it over by military force. So, uh, how do we make sure this person does all the reforms, all the trillions of"},{"time":"2:01:12","seconds":7272,"text":"dollars and rare earth minerals and you remember what was like the $3 trillion that China got on the all of the metals"},{"time":"2:01:18","seconds":7278,"text":"and mining and riches in under the ground in Afghanistan, all the transit revenue as a as a through point in this"},{"time":"2:01:27","seconds":7287,"text":"huge country. Well, now how do you make sure that these people do what these people want instead of what these people want? How do we make sure that this"},{"time":"2:01:35","seconds":7295,"text":"government insider is good to us instead of them? Well, how about we just take one of our own people from the our room?"},{"time":"2:01:43","seconds":7303,"text":"Literally, we It's not even, you know, the World Bank president walks into this room, gets the marching orders from his buddies and financial co-conspirators"},{"time":"2:01:51","seconds":7311,"text":"and then walks back into this room and makes the demands. Literally, this person was in this room and they just walk into this room together. And when"},{"time":"2:02:00","seconds":7320,"text":"this person says, \"Hey, if you want this uh $10 billion IMF emergency loan for Afghanistan, you need to uh loosen the"},{"time":"2:02:09","seconds":7329,"text":"procurement rules around all rare earth minerals so that uh the Soros management"},{"time":"2:02:16","seconds":7336,"text":"fund or the at that point like Carile, the like right-wing hedge fund Carlile group class gets to uh rake in all of"},{"time":"2:02:25","seconds":7345,"text":"the, you know, trillions in rare earth sitting under the ground.\" The finance minister goes, \"Yeah, I heard you loud and clear five minutes ago when we were"},{"time":"2:02:33","seconds":7353,"text":"in the room. I know you don't. I I know.\" They go, \"Here's the problem."},{"time":"2:02:38","seconds":7358,"text":"These people, the same people who supported the Taliban, they're really not going to like this. They're not going to like this. These are the"},{"time":"2:02:44","seconds":7364,"text":"farmers who till the arable land. If you give away that land to Wall Street in London, uh, they're really not going to"},{"time":"2:02:52","seconds":7372,"text":"like me. if you take all of our metals and mining industry and you give it away to George HW Bush's hedge fund, they're"},{"time":"2:03:01","seconds":7381,"text":"really not going to like me. And we go, \"Oh, don't worry about these people."},{"time":"2:03:04","seconds":7384,"text":"We're going to install a 25-year military dictatorship, and if any of them try to stop the pace of reforms,"},{"time":"2:03:12","seconds":7392,"text":"we're just going to call them terrorists and kill them.\" Okay, great. The people of Afghanistan were a nonfactor in this policy formulation and implementation."},{"time":"2:03:20","seconds":7400,"text":"So, what ended up happening? The people got really [ \\_\\_ ] pissed. Really, really [ \\_\\_ ] pissed. And after 20"},{"time":"2:03:28","seconds":7408,"text":"years, they went, \"You know what? Things are better under the [ \\_\\_ ] Taliban.\" And so they organized an insurgency"},{"time":"2:03:35","seconds":7415,"text":"exploiting our own expensive viceroy maintenance of it. They organized a 20-year insurgency and won a greater and"},{"time":"2:03:44","seconds":7424,"text":"greater public support of the people of Afghanistan because of how corrupt the government class was. And these people"},{"time":"2:03:52","seconds":7432,"text":"all overthrew this government. And that's how you end up with these scenes."},{"time":"2:04:11","seconds":7451,"text":"stop."},{"time":"2:04:13","seconds":7453,"text":"But this was the question 23 years after the invasion and regime change of the Taliban in the first place. The American"},{"time":"2:04:22","seconds":7462,"text":"people were asking why the hell are we still in Afghanistan? There's no terrorism threat there to the US homeland. Osama bin Laden has been dead"},{"time":"2:04:30","seconds":7470,"text":"or whatnot for depending on how you interpret the story somewhere between 15 and 20 years. Uh we're not there on a"},{"time":"2:04:39","seconds":7479,"text":"nation building thing, right? We're we said we were kind of done with that and this is expensive as hell. So can't we just leave Afghanistan? This is really"},{"time":"2:04:47","seconds":7487,"text":"[ \\_\\_ ] expensive. We have a lot of other priorities. And so the Biden admin makes plans to kind of like phase it out. But why were we there? Why were we"},{"time":"2:04:56","seconds":7496,"text":"paying for such an expensive military dictatorship there? Because we feared that the moment we did not have a military dictatorship to contain these"},{"time":"2:05:04","seconds":7504,"text":"people who are outraged at these people for answering all the demands of these people instead of these people. We had a"},{"time":"2:05:12","seconds":7512,"text":"concern that these people would bumrush the government and take it over. That's why these people paid our elected"},{"time":"2:05:19","seconds":7519,"text":"officials to maintain a 20-year dictatorship imposing the terms on these people and a counterinsurgency to stop these people from challenging these"},{"time":"2:05:28","seconds":7528,"text":"people. And that's exactly what happened. The moment we started packing our [ \\_\\_ ] before we had even left, before we even boarded the planes to leave, the"},{"time":"2:05:36","seconds":7536,"text":"people who were already in the midst of a kind of insurgent militant blitzkrieg of various districts in Afghanistan took it all."},{"time":"2:05:54","seconds":7554,"text":"So when this class pushes this class too hard, demands too much, ignores these"},{"time":"2:06:01","seconds":7561,"text":"people too much, it's not even good for these people. And this is why you have these citizen buyin SCOP programs"},{"time":"2:06:09","seconds":7569,"text":"because the worst scenar if if these people push too many reforms too fast, these people might have an insurgent"},{"time":"2:06:17","seconds":7577,"text":"organic revolution of their own and now we need a very expensive predicate for a war to neutralize all these people and everything that goes with it. Now, on"},{"time":"2:06:26","seconds":7586,"text":"the music side, I'm going to pull up something funny. But look, this was the same structure that made these people vote in Trump in 2016 and vote in Trump"},{"time":"2:06:35","seconds":7595,"text":"in 2024. And the MAGA civil war right now is a product of the perception that these people are answering these people"},{"time":"2:06:43","seconds":7603,"text":"instead of these people. Maybe I'll just I'll just get through this one point since I floated it earlier. I asked name super popular rapper hip hop stars who have participated in government or quasi"},{"time":"2:06:52","seconds":7612,"text":"government affiliated aid events such as World Citizen which is a production of the World Bank. They don't want to call"},{"time":"2:06:59","seconds":7619,"text":"these giant mega concerts World Bank Music Festival. So they call it World Citizen. I asked has Drake has Kendrick"},{"time":"2:07:06","seconds":7626,"text":"Lamar as Pitbull. I'm trying to get a sense of how massive rap and hiphop artists may have been used as instruments of statecraftraft. Yes, Kendrick Lamar. Yes, he headlined Global"},{"time":"2:07:15","seconds":7635,"text":"Citizen Festival, the World Bank sponsored music event. Pitbull. Yes. Jay-Z. Yes. UN and Global Citizen."},{"time":"2:07:24","seconds":7644,"text":"Lauren Hill. Yes. World Bank sponsored Global Citizen. Megan the Stallion. Yes. World Bank sponsored Global Citizen."},{"time":"2:07:31","seconds":7651,"text":"Stormy, the Roots, Common, Forel, Cardi B. All these headlining World Bank sponsored music concerts. Meek Mill."},{"time":"2:07:40","seconds":7660,"text":"Global citizen events explicitly synchronize with major diplomatic moments and regularly puts heads of state UN leaders and IMF World Bank"},{"time":"2:07:48","seconds":7668,"text":"executives on stage or backstage with A-list performers. That is a major mass"},{"time":"2:07:56","seconds":7676,"text":"audience to promote the initiatives of the World Bank plus a poly policy agenda in one rapper combined with back"},{"time":"2:08:03","seconds":7683,"text":"channeling on stage and backstage. So there's everyone from like the main like you know you would sort of expect for"},{"time":"2:08:10","seconds":7690,"text":"example I don't know a Pitbull is like a big you know Cuban exile anti-communist rapper type guy so no surprise that we"},{"time":"2:08:18","seconds":7698,"text":"would fold Pitbull into like a anti-Castro anti- Maduro op right but Drake yeah well Drake is commercial so you know he's not like a political"},{"time":"2:08:26","seconds":7706,"text":"activist but Kendrick Lamar is a big bad black nationalist activist type you're promoting the World Bank but I"},{"time":"2:08:35","seconds":7715,"text":"bet the money was real good. Kendrick Jay-Z, well, you know, modern Jay-Z is very brand safe. 1990s Jay-Z was a, oh,"},{"time":"2:08:42","seconds":7722,"text":"[ \\_\\_ ] the system. Lauren Hill, another kind of like, and again, I like a couple of her tracks, but again, a very black nationalist type, pan-Africanist movement type, just common especially."},{"time":"2:08:52","seconds":7732,"text":"You're back in the World Bank as the World Bank is putting all of these loan conditions to take the resources of those countries for your own private"},{"time":"2:09:01","seconds":7741,"text":"profit. you, I'm sure, have got millions of dollars for performing. And I'm sure that you won a huge promotion tour from"},{"time":"2:09:09","seconds":7749,"text":"the labels and the various radio stations and like for putting a favor in the favor bank of the blob for performing headlining at Global Citizen."},{"time":"2:09:18","seconds":7758,"text":"So like while you're railing against how you know the US government ex is keeping the African man down and exploiting poor"},{"time":"2:09:27","seconds":7767,"text":"majority black countries in Africa and who's doing it? Oh, it's all these wealthy white bankers in Wall Street"},{"time":"2:09:35","seconds":7775,"text":"just trying to make money off of the back of poor African workers and we got to stand together. And they're like, \"Hey, proposition.\" Proposition Joe from"},{"time":"2:09:42","seconds":7782,"text":"The Wire. Hey, proposition. Angry rap hip hop artist common Kendrick Lamar. I offer a deal. How about you promote"},{"time":"2:09:52","seconds":7792,"text":"everything we're doing in Africa that you just railed about in your last EP?"},{"time":"2:09:56","seconds":7796,"text":"Oh, no. [ \\_\\_ ] the man. Okay. Uh, how about you headline at a mass audience which will result in tens of millions of"},{"time":"2:10:03","seconds":7803,"text":"dollars in record sales and we also pay you millions of dollars to do it. Okay, well then [ \\_\\_ ] everything I just said on my last album. Give me the money."},{"time":"2:10:10","seconds":7810,"text":"Everyone's got a price. So, Global Citizen 60,000 live attendees in New York Central Park TV streaming worldwide"},{"time":"2:10:18","seconds":7818,"text":"24-hour global citizen live spans six continents. I asked to create like a CSV file, Excel spreadsheet with all this"},{"time":"2:10:26","seconds":7826,"text":"stuff. We're going to go over this more next time because we're going to we're going to go deep into like the actual economics and and how the blob and the intelligent state actually inlects like"},{"time":"2:10:34","seconds":7834,"text":"the core economics of the music industry that sort of induces this to happen and whatnot. W Clef Jean Global Citizen Will"},{"time":"2:10:41","seconds":7841,"text":"I Am Black Eyed Peas Global Citizen, but that's like 20 of like the biggest stars like all there rapping for the World Bank. But we're going to get into that"},{"time":"2:10:49","seconds":7849,"text":"in and a lot a lot more cuz the whole like backstory for example, the soft power around Global Citizen is just"},{"time":"2:10:56","seconds":7856,"text":"hysterical. It's a fascinating story that we'll we'll deep dive on the music industry, but you can bet every industry. I'm sure the copper industry"},{"time":"2:11:03","seconds":7863,"text":"works the same way. I'm sure that the natural gas market has these these same dynamics. But uh we'll we'll get we'll get into all of that uh to kick off the"},{"time":"2:11:12","seconds":7872,"text":"uh the next the next stream which we will do Sunday. So 4 days from nowish and uh okay let's let's rock back to a"},{"time":"2:11:21","seconds":7881,"text":"little bit of outro music. Fiona says Mike please tell me who is good. I'm crying. No that's not the lesson here"},{"time":"2:11:28","seconds":7888,"text":"because candidly between us you see the same dynamics going on right now. We talked about this. What I'm trying to"},{"time":"2:11:35","seconds":7895,"text":"portray are the dynamics and pressures around power between and in the mortar between government and the private"},{"time":"2:11:44","seconds":7904,"text":"sector, corporate and finance world and the amount of pressure that is put on a government official to betray their"},{"time":"2:11:51","seconds":7911,"text":"voters on every issue all the time. and the trade-off that a politician has to make or a political employee who's just"},{"time":"2:11:59","seconds":7919,"text":"working for the administration. Anyone in a policy setting role has on every issue where from the outside looking in,"},{"time":"2:12:08","seconds":7928,"text":"you would think, \"Hey, you told us you would do this and you're doing something completely different. We voted for you because we wanted this revolution.\" Do"},{"time":"2:12:15","seconds":7935,"text":"you think when USAD was funding all these riots to overthrow Mallich, what these people were in the streets"},{"time":"2:12:23","seconds":7943,"text":"about was they just really wanted George Soros to own their energy industry? The thing they rallied around was government"},{"time":"2:12:31","seconds":7951,"text":"insider corruption and paying off to, you know, Mallosvich's oligarch buddies."},{"time":"2:12:37","seconds":7957,"text":"And what they got was the same corruption just to a different set of oligarch buddies plus the plunder of"},{"time":"2:12:44","seconds":7964,"text":"their own public and private wealth. And this is also I'm trying to paint the picture of what you are up against when you are genuinely trying to do something"},{"time":"2:12:53","seconds":7973,"text":"for these people instead of these people in the context of the Iran war. Think about how much money there's to be made"},{"time":"2:13:00","seconds":7980,"text":"by these people if we can regime change the government of Iran. Now, obviously the kind of Israel lobby side of it is a huge factor and maybe the impetus for"},{"time":"2:13:10","seconds":7990,"text":"the action that we did back in February, but it's got the full throttled support of our oil companies, our military"},{"time":"2:13:18","seconds":7998,"text":"contractors, infrastructure, trade. I mean, Iran is the world's what, third largest supply of oil and fourth"},{"time":"2:13:26","seconds":8006,"text":"largest supply of gas. And it's just a it's a giant multi-trillion dollar pot of gold just there for the taking. if we"},{"time":"2:13:33","seconds":8013,"text":"can just have somebody, some finance minister on the other side of the table who will do what these folks want. So"},{"time":"2:13:40","seconds":8020,"text":"you may campaign saying no more Middle East wars, but these people only get a vote every four years. And every vote is a package deal. They may say, well,"},{"time":"2:13:48","seconds":8028,"text":"listen, we hate wokeness more than we hate the Iran war. So even though we don't like the Iran war, still going to vote you back or your successor back in."},{"time":"2:13:55","seconds":8035,"text":"And that's a calculation that's made."},{"time":"2:13:57","seconds":8037,"text":"And even within the government insiders, this is shaping up in the Vance versus Rubio kind of shadow rumblings, you know, where you've got the Mark Levin"},{"time":"2:14:05","seconds":8045,"text":"types now saying suggesting it seems out in the open that if Vance opposes this set of of collective interests and wants"},{"time":"2:14:15","seconds":8055,"text":"to have the MAGA rank and file and wants to go with them on Iran, well then these people are going to back a different set of government insight. And understanding"},{"time":"2:14:23","seconds":8063,"text":"that system and the pressures that are put on politicians will not only allow you to predict in the future how certain"},{"time":"2:14:31","seconds":8071,"text":"things will play out or how politically feasible they are, but will also help you sort of understand what these people are going through emotionally,"},{"time":"2:14:39","seconds":8079,"text":"psychologically, what feeds into their rhetoric. When you hear them explain something publicly, you'll be able to"},{"time":"2:14:47","seconds":8087,"text":"read through the lines and see what's actually going on. Because if they phrase it one way, they're concerned about this. If they phrase it another"},{"time":"2:14:54","seconds":8094,"text":"way, the exact same fact pattern, they may be more concerned that week with this. If you see factional splits within various camps of government insiders,"},{"time":"2:15:03","seconds":8103,"text":"understanding the dynamics and stakeholders here versus understanding what's playing out on social media and what's playing out in the press and what's playing out in the polling"},{"time":"2:15:10","seconds":8110,"text":"numbers here will will help that. It's a mistake to only see this, which is as a civilian is most of what's visible. And"},{"time":"2:15:18","seconds":8118,"text":"it's a mistake to only see this which leaves you feeling powerless unnecessarily. It's it's a it's a very"},{"time":"2:15:25","seconds":8125,"text":"real thing and it's extremely powerful but it's not all powerful and it can be pressured in various ways. So you need to see the whole system and understand"},{"time":"2:15:34","seconds":8134,"text":"the strengths and weaknesses, the assets and liabilities that all these different power sectors have and also how different changes to the coalition the"},{"time":"2:15:43","seconds":8143,"text":"coalitions that voters take. Like this was my big concern. If you remember, I tried to kind of stay in the middle of these things. Not just because of my SGE"},{"time":"2:15:51","seconds":8151,"text":"role, but I but also I tried to say, listen, uh this coalition has to find a way to stay together because without the"},{"time":"2:15:59","seconds":8159,"text":"institutional money, rank and file MAGA domestic policy focused people are going to lose to the Democrats if they don't have the money of an institutional"},{"time":"2:16:09","seconds":8169,"text":"support of the facts of the people backing the Iran war. And if these people backing the Iran war don't have"},{"time":"2:16:16","seconds":8176,"text":"the votes of the domestic policy focused magazide, they will also lose to Democrats. And so this thing has got to"},{"time":"2:16:23","seconds":8183,"text":"be worked out or else you will simply lose power and end up as lost and confused as the Democrats were in the"},{"time":"2:16:31","seconds":8191,"text":"aftermath of the 2024 election. And a whole new coalition is going to have to scramble together. a whole new MAGA will dissolve and that will leave us"},{"time":"2:16:40","seconds":8200,"text":"potentially back in a Coke and Pepsi type thing where choices between Nikki Haley and Gavin Newsome forever again for another century starting in 2032."},{"time":"2:16:51","seconds":8211,"text":"And and that that is also a caution for both sides of this and this to recognize not just how they are opposed because"},{"time":"2:16:59","seconds":8219,"text":"these people want these people to do what these people want. These people want these people to do what these people want, but these people and these"},{"time":"2:17:07","seconds":8227,"text":"people actually need each other each election season, each midterm season to have their government insiders in power instead of the opposing coalitions one."},{"time":"2:17:18","seconds":8238,"text":"So these people and these people are not always in conflict. In fact, there's these people cannot win without the votes of these people. These people cannot win without the money of these"},{"time":"2:17:26","seconds":8246,"text":"people. And when the fight for the spoils of an election victory, when one side of this dynamic exerts too much of"},{"time":"2:17:35","seconds":8255,"text":"a senior position and relegates the other to junior a position, this is what leads the coalitions to break apart. and then a stronger coalition comprised of"},{"time":"2:17:44","seconds":8264,"text":"its own voters and its own donor drafter dealer class will win the election. And this is part of how the Democrats fell apart in 2024. There was a different"},{"time":"2:17:52","seconds":8272,"text":"donor drafter dealer class backing Kla Harris who became insurgent and took over and stripped the power from those backing the donor drafter dealer class"},{"time":"2:18:01","seconds":8281,"text":"backing Joe Biden. And the Democrats themselves were in a whiplash over oh my god wait what just happened? Uh okay we have a new president. I guess our"},{"time":"2:18:09","seconds":8289,"text":"candidate is someone who is not the current president but also not someone that I ever voted for. In fact, when Kla Harris ran for president in the"},{"time":"2:18:17","seconds":8297,"text":"primaries, she came in last place and she has just been forced on our ticket."},{"time":"2:18:23","seconds":8303,"text":"And you had like this insurgent DSA class, the Bernie Sanders and the like the the DSA, the Zora Mandani types sat"},{"time":"2:18:30","seconds":8310,"text":"out the election because of Kamla's view on Israel and Gaza. So you had so their coalition came apart. The pact between"},{"time":"2:18:38","seconds":8318,"text":"the donor drafted dealster class and the people vote aart fell apart as there was a unified donor drafted dealer class and"},{"time":"2:18:45","seconds":8325,"text":"voter alliance around both wanting Trump in and so naturally they won. I am trying to articulate the need for a"},{"time":"2:18:53","seconds":8333,"text":"synthesis a peaceful synthesis where the various sides can work out something in the middle so that support is maintained and MAGA has a life beyond Trump. Okay."},{"time":"2:19:04","seconds":8344,"text":"All right. But that's it. Let's let's just end with this one last cover of the song of the week. Foulome prison blues as I spend the next four weeks like the"},{"time":"2:19:13","seconds":8353,"text":"past three weeks in an academic prison of government files. Kind of how I always thought prison would be lonely"},{"time":"2:19:20","seconds":8360,"text":"but kind of fun. Want some whistle? I hang my head and cry."},{"time":"2:19:32","seconds":8372,"text":"That lonesome whistle. Blow my blues away. Blow my blues away."},{"time":"2:19:40","seconds":8380,"text":"Addendum. Not only did we install a World Bank alumni, someone who had worked for 10 years for the World Bank"},{"time":"2:19:48","seconds":8388,"text":"as the finance minister in Afghanistan in 2001 after we toppled the Afghan government. So that our counterpart we"},{"time":"2:19:57","seconds":8397,"text":"were negotiating with was literally our own guy. We did the exact same thing in Iraq in 2003 after he toppled Saddam"},{"time":"2:20:04","seconds":8404,"text":"Hussein. The the we installed a finance minister, the same thing. the finance minister in Afghanistan, the finance"},{"time":"2:20:11","seconds":8411,"text":"minister in Bangladesh, the finance minister every time we toppled the government. So that's Afghanistan, Iraq,"},{"time":"2:20:17","seconds":8417,"text":"Bangladesh, and Kosovo, which we created out of Yugoslavia when we overthrew Mallovich. All four of those countries,"},{"time":"2:20:26","seconds":8426,"text":"the finance minister after US aid in the case of Iraq in Afghanistan, it was both US aid for the soft power and hearts and"},{"time":"2:20:34","seconds":8434,"text":"minds and then the the US military obviously. But with US aid funding the revolution and the insurgent forces, the"},{"time":"2:20:42","seconds":8442,"text":"newly installed government, none of which were subjected to a vote in Bangladesh, I guess it was, but all four of those were US aid funded revolutions"},{"time":"2:20:51","seconds":8451,"text":"and some of them also had uh military overthrow. And in all four of those cases, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan,"},{"time":"2:20:58","seconds":8458,"text":"Bangladesh, we installed literally one of the people in this very room to represent the interests of the foreign"},{"time":"2:21:07","seconds":8467,"text":"government in the negotiations in in the room they walk into right after. So again, the World Bank president is not conferring with the financial"},{"time":"2:21:15","seconds":8475,"text":"stakeholders and then making the demands. They're literally in the room."},{"time":"2:21:19","seconds":8479,"text":"Yeah, you want me to privatize this and give all the government contracts to these people? I heard Larry say it."},{"time":"2:21:24","seconds":8484,"text":"Okay, you don't need to. We're not negotiating here. All right, we both we we're both in the stakeholder meeting. Okay. Yeah. So, there's your revolution."},{"time":"2:21:33","seconds":8493,"text":"You say you want a revolution? Well, we all want to change the world. All right."},{"time":"2:21:36","seconds":8496,"text":"Thank you all for joining me. We will be back on Sunday. In the meantime, I will probably continue to be quiet on X over"},{"time":"2:21:43","seconds":8503,"text":"the next month until I am driving one hand out the window. Fake cigarette."},{"time":"2:21:50","seconds":8510,"text":"Miami skyline. I'm home. Four more weeks of that, then we're gonna really have some fun. All right, so in the meantime, good night. Godspeed."}]}