#443 - Ex-Banker Exposes Who Trump, Elon & Netanyahu Actually Work For | Simon Dixon

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I've done a lot of nothing, but for the last 26 years, follow monetary flows. You know, I used to work in banking. I understand how these wars of finance, what they mean for the whole flow. And so the, I have a very simple methodology. It's not perfect, but it helps me try and see through the noise. And that is, I ignore everything that a politician says in terms of analyzing whether it's real or not. I look at who they're funded by and what their interests are and what financially they benefit from. I also, in terms of media, look at who's the, what's the primary business model behind that outlet and who's sponsoring them and financially, how is their capital structured in order to determine whether they're, whose propaganda they're pushing. So by default, I say all media is pushing somebody's agenda. And so I always look at, in order to try and objectively analyze something, I look at the business model, the sponsorship, the funding flows, the capital structure. And then I kind of put that media outlet into a box that will kind of help me analyze. So I don't look at it from, is the media telling me the truth? I'm saying, why do they want me to believe that? Now, how do I determine whether it's true or not? It's when you get an alignment between the financial structures, capital structures, and what they're saying in the media. Then I'll say that's true. Or if a politician is funded by the same sources, is the media is, you know, alignment with what's actually happening with the largest flows of capital in the world. And so that's kind of my framework of applying somewhat of a forensic financial approach, which is, you know, how most of the Feds and most of the crimes are actually resolved is by looking at the monetary flow. So right now, you know, a lot of people are talking about Epstein. Until we get the bank records, everything is not going to tell us the full truth. And those bank records are protected. And all of the banks that want to protect those records have settled with the Epstein network already, and he's gone. So why are those bank records protected? Because they'll tell you the truth. You know, they'll tell you the financial flows, they'll tell you the financial flows, they'll tell you the financial flows. And so- We did get an account name of one of his accounts, and it was called Ball. Yeah, yeah. And so, you know, JP Morgan settled and Deutsche Bank settled. I didn't know this, no. Oh, yeah. Way before Epstein was like on the mainstream, like kind of narrative. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So before he went to prison? When was the settlement? I probably need to check the time flows. But, you know, before any of this, you know, recent kind of- Before Trump's- Right, right. You know, the settlements were there. So, you know, that's kind of my method. And then what I do is I try and break down a country into how is it actually governed? Because most people think of countries as countries. I look at them as where do their financial flows come from? And so therefore, who is the government subordinate to? And so when you say to me, the United States, I don't think- of the United States as a country. I think of the United States as a capital structure. And I think of who the politicians and who the government is funded by, and who is on top of that capital structure. And often, you know, I talk about this concept of, if you look at like the last few politicians, so most people, when I look at Biden, people would put him in the neocon type of category. And a neocon means that predominantly they're funded by the military industrial complex and the financial interests that profits from war and rebuild. Now, when I look at Trump, I see him as much more of a transactional guy. So I could look through and he's more aligned with what I call the financial industrial complex. And also the third major force that I look at, the technical industrial complex. So most people have heard of this military industrial complex, you know, that's the Lockheed Martin, General Dynamic, Raytheon. Underneath it, you have the deep state intelligence networks. And so you can look at like many of these wars and look at like the different funding flows. The financial industrial complex is a network of financial institutions that significantly are able to subordinate governments. They're able to dictate flows through lobby power. They're able to set up you know, NGO government, non-governmental organizations, think tanks and policies in order to, you know, sponsor politicians to implement their policies. They get to create money, the banks, they get to allocate all of our pension money, the asset managers. They get to turn every single business into a financial product by making it public through securitization at the investment bank. They have all of the governments, dependent upon their bonds and their debt structures, which is the bondholders that are currently playing havoc with bonds and interest rates right now. And then you have the guarantor of the whole system, which is the central bank, the Federal Reserve. Put that all together and you get this financial industrial complex. Today, data, artificial intelligence, algorithms, where those data are hosted, you know, technology that is able to manipulate human behavior and social networks. That's the technical industrial complex. So going back to what you were saying earlier about the media, you look at the media and seeing if it's aligned with the politicians, with the financial instruments or the financial institutions. How do you define the media? And how do you separate social media from like Fox and CNN, those types of media? Yeah. Because you see there's two different things happening. There's Fox and CNN, which seem to be in lockstep for the most part when it comes to the war stuff. And then you have social media, which is just like, you know, the wild, wild west. It seems like free speech is more open than ever, especially on platforms like X. And you seem to see more of an agreement among mostly younger people that Israel is behind most of this stuff. Yeah. When it comes to like the lobbying in the United States and the corruption and all these wars, that these are mainly, or Israel's the primary driver behind all of this stuff. Yeah. So where I think, firstly, I don't want to excuse Israel for their crimes. Like, you know, they're committing crimes against humanity, but they're what I call, I need to separate two things and this is where people get confused. Forget, so most people pick a team and they advocate for what they want in the world, but they don't want to be a part of it. They're going to be a part of it. The world. I too am a human and I have what, you know, my humanitarian beliefs, what I advocate for, but I have to drop all of that when I'm analyzing. And so my analytical hat is not what I want to happen. That's what I think is happening and vote almost all the time. What I want to happen is not what is happening. Okay. So when I talk about Israel, you have to separate like the crimes against humanity. Um, you know, what, what, what is actually happening here, uh, from the practical, business model of what is Israel. And so when, when I analyze Israel, I look at, okay, what, what is Israel? So it was created. at a time when the British Empire was transitioning over to the American Empire. The key institutions are like the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve around about that time. You had World War I, you had the Great Depression, you had World War II. And then after World War II, the current monetary order was set up at Bretton Woods. So that's like the historical. And then in 1948, you had Israel. Then you had several wars, 1967, which led to setting some borders. And you had the slow ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from their land. You had media trickery to radicalize both Christians, Muslims, and Jews into a narrative that's very useful for war and military power. And so if you look at that era, we've come out of the Industrial Revolution. We had a World War. We had a Depression. We had World War II. Europe had blown each other up. Europe were bankrupt in debt. The UK government was in debt. The British East India Company was dissolved. That's the era. Gold was the most important commodity. The British pound was backed by gold. And all of that gold after the war ended up essentially through financial contracts in Fort Knox and in America. If you look at that time, 1917, World War I, you had the World War I, '14 to '18. And in 1917, you had some of the most important events that kind of shaped the order. One of those was the Bolshevik Revolution, which was the overthrow of the Russian Tsar and the installation of the Soviet Union and the Communism. That was a Western ideology. People think of Communism as like Eastern Czechoslovakia. But it was a Western ideology. People think of the Chinese, Russian, or something like that. You know, Marx was trained in British universities. Communism is a Western ideology. And it was installed into Russia. At the same time, you had fascism that was implemented into Germany. You had a massive war across Europe. You had the French, the Brits, the Germans, the Eastern and Western Europe that were just destroying each other. And they were indebting themselves. Same types of financiers that are funding the Bolshevik Revolution, both sides of European wars, and also installed the Federal Reserve in America, which was the third attempt at a central bank. You put all of that together. And in 1917, you had a bankrupt British government led by, you know, in this case, Lord Balfour that declared Palestine to Russia, France, and the Zionists. And so, you know, that all happened in 1917, the Balfour Declaration, and that was declared to Walt Rothschild, who was representing, you know, Zionist interest at that time. Now, the Rothschild family are infamous for, you know, their wartime financing. Many people think they own the central banks. A little bit of truth to that. They owned a shareholding in the Banque de France from the Napoleon of France to the Bank de France to the Bank de France to the Napoleonic Wars. They owned significant government debt to the British government, but they didn't own the Bank of England. And the Federal Reserve is owned by a bunch of private banks all at that time. So this whole concept of like the Rothschilds owning the central bank, it was more that they were merchant banking interest, investment banking interest, and they funded many of the governments and they would often fund both sides of wars in those capital structures. Because when you can subordinate governments and you can pit them against each other, then you can fund the war, you can fund the rebuild, and you can vassalize a government to your capital structure, to your debt structure. And those that issue the loan are the ones that end up controlling, you know, subordinating the government. The other thing that happened in 1917 is you had the Balfour Declaration, which was the creation of Israel. Then you had the Bolshevik Revolution, which was the Marxist communist ideology. And in 1913, you had the formation of the Federal Reserve, which immediately followed by World War I. Now, if you look across those structures, the governor of the Federal Reserve, one of the Wahlberg brothers, was also, his brother was also one of the main governors of the Reichsbank, which is the German central bank. David: And so you had two brothers across the Federal Reserve and the German central bank. Now, this is when America was really building its industrial revolution, its military base. And the concept of building these weapons and selling these weapons, but not being caught up in the war, became the baseline of transfer of wealth from the British Empire to the American Empire around that time. And so when you had the overthrow of the Russian Tsar, David: you ended up with a bunch of Russia's gold in America, a bunch of German's gold in America, a bunch of the colonial gold from bankrupt in the British government over into Fort Knox under the Federal Reserve System. And if you remember as well, there was a Great Depression between World War I and World War II. And FDR, his policy was to make gold ownership illegal for Americans. So he confiscated all the gold where everyone had to hand their gold into the government, you know, the Federal Reserve, and received $20, a Federal Reserve note. So you gave them a $20 Federal Reserve note, they handed in the gold. And America effectively ended up with about 8,000 tons of gold, which represented approximately 75% of, you know, the world's gold supply outside of the private interest of those merchant banks and financiers. David: Oh, wow. David: Yeah. And this is, so this is like everything that happened from that World War I, Great Depression, World War II. David: Yeah. David: Have you ever opened up your refrigerator, stared aimlessly into it for five minutes, and suddenly convinced yourself there's nothing to eat? That hasn't happened to me since I started using ButcherBox. 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So I had this guy on the podcast a couple months ago who was a former Mossad assassin, and he was one of the guys that was a part of the operation Wrath of God, the retaliation operation against the Black September terrorists that killed the people at the Munich Olympics. And he was telling me a story about Robert Maxwell, how he was tasked to, or not tasked, he basically helped a bunch of the Russians or a bunch of the people, like the leaders of the Soviet Union, transfer a bunch of the gold out of the Soviet Union before it collapsed. And they needed a safe place to keep it. And what Robert Maxwell did is he brokered this deal where he could, they could all keep it all inside of Israel. Mm-hmm. And their guarantee to be able to get that gold back was that Russia had a lot of the Israeli diaspora inside their country. So they had some sort of like a leverage, like if they wanted to get it back or whatever, they knew that they had those Jewish people there inside of Russia. And allegedly this took like months and they were bringing it over in ships, like through the port of Crimea and all that stuff. And this was allegedly, according to this guy, how Robert Maxwell died. He was at some birthday party for one of the founders of Forbes magazine. And he was bragging to somebody about how he made Israel the richest country on earth. And he told the story about how he enabled this transaction or this transfer of all this gold from Russia to Israel. And Israel caught wind of it, or the Mossad caught wind of it or whatever, and got rid of him. That's fascinating. But I was wondering if you knew anything about that transfer of gold? No, that's a new rabbit hole for me. But what's fascinating- See if you can find out anything about it. See if there's any corroboration of that story online. I'd be curious to find out. Yeah. Now, what I think is really interesting for the purpose of understanding general power dynamics is you have a state and then you have what the state owns, which makes it sovereign. And then you have a state, which is subordinate to financial interest or lobby interest. And so when I think about- of america um america europe uk the collective west australia canada you know they're subordinate to this financial industrial complex in general so like let's just bring it exactly where we are now trump okay if you look at trump's financing yeah let's let's let's let's first define the power structure of the united states okay like if we wanted to structure as a pyramid yeah okay so um everything every company in america that's meaningful is a public company and so those public companies means you can buy and sell their shares those shares are predominantly owned by the same asset managers where everyone is contributing their pension to and everybody is so for example if you want to buy you can either pick 500 stocks and say i want to pick this stock or you can buy an index of 500 stocks right those indexes called exchange traded funds are managed by asset managers and they kind of make sure that when you're buying some of those you know you can buy a little piece of 500 stocks but they hold all those stocks who are these asset managers the largest one is black rock the second largest is state street vanguard fidelity um and these are on the capital structure of pretty much every single company across the united states blackrock in itself has 20 000 board seats and so when you think of a company most people think of the ceo so when i see a company like tesla i see a team of executives led by elon musk and those executives in a in a company in a public company work for the board so they answer to the board the board the executives the ceo the chief you know all the the coo uh they answer to the board the board answer to shareholders uh the shareholders are those that control the capital and are pulling together all this money blackrock state street vanguard in general um if you want to get you know if you want to raise more money or you blackrock owns the most of the shares uh blackrock controls most of the shares so it will own it so when you when you go along and you say i'd like to buy some s p 500 i'll buy some stocks right they end up the actual material owner of those stocks so they put their name is owned in blackrock's name uh but you actually have a right to the economic interest of those so if if the shares go up they look like your shares you log into your fidelity account it looks like you own them but your name's not on those shares uh fidelity's name is on those shares so fidelity owns them and then gives you the right to the you know if they go up or down the economic interest okay and so there's a few brokers that own that now what comes with those shares you know a share by definition is a share in the profit paid through dividends any price that that share goes up or down plus voting rights so remember i said you got executives which is the the people that do all the work you've got management underneath them then you've got the board the board is installed by the shareholders and the shareholders the largest shareholder in every single public company in the united states is blackrock state street and vanguard and so they actually have 15 point so blackrock in itself has 15.3 trillion dollars of stock market and economic value and assets 53 15.3 15.3 15.3 yeah um and so you know at the top of the capital structure is these asset managers okay then you asset managers blackrock state street and vanguard they choose the the board uh so they can the more economic the more shares you have the more right you have to install your board member so it's a pay-to-play system got it the more capital the more capital you put up um the more uh influence you have over board seats got it so right in the beginning you were talking about the gulf countries china and stuff like that so remember what the gulf countries are what what is the country so a sovereign country is one that is not controlled by this financial industrial complex by blackrock state street and vanguard yeah by blackrock state street and vanguard as the main asset managers and simplifying in the world or in the just u.s um well these are global by nature by definition okay so you could look at all the previous empires and they've consolidated you know really this model was invented in the you know in the uh you know about 1600 by the dutch uh with the creation of the dutch central bank the dutch east india company um and the bond market where you take those three structures this is important if you can get your head around this then you can understand britain then you can understand america so there's um there's three structures that the dutch invented here they invented the stock market now the stock market is where you pull all this value okay so if you want to share in the economic interest in the value that's created by these companies then you want to share in the economic interest in their stocks on the other side you have the bond market the bond market is where you can load up these companies with debt and so by the more debt they have the more leverage you have over that company what do you what do you mean when you say load them up with debt are you saying basically lo you're it's the same thing as buying a stock it's similar to buying a stock but instead you're loaning them money and you're getting like an iou to get interest in return yeah so you have debt which is effectively somebody lends you money yeah um and they they agree to repay you on set terms you agree to pay a set interest and then eventually you pay down that debt the bond market is that but they turn these loans into tradable products that you can buy and sell on a market and so if you for example okay so god why do they make this so complicated all right so imagine you've got you've got you you understand a bank loan you got you get a mortgage yes um you go to the bank again let's let's get into a little bit of this because okay once we can understand these concepts we can build up um i went to public school yeah no no look look um these are the it is complex by design yeah um because you know once you once you can understand the hidden nature you can really get these things and so the the answer to that question so when you take your when you borrow money from a bank let's start there where does that money come from you got any idea well i mean it's really only a bunch of digital ones and zeros transferred from one bank account to another so there's not like like it first of all they're not relying on actual cash right there's no need for the actual cash i'm assuming that i don't know i don't know where the bank where the money comes from okay so you kind of go through three i'd say a three-step journey and trying to understand how money's actually created okay so your first like understanding that everyone that's never looked into it just thinks okay grandma put some money because she's got loads of savings and then the bank holds that money for grandma and then someone comes along that's younger and wants to borrow to buy a house because they haven't got enough money yet okay i know where the money comes from all the people that had their bank their savings accounts you're taking it from them yes that's like the level one understanding of where the money comes from okay okay so people think you pull together everyone's money and then you exactly okay level two is you come across this concept of fractional reserve banking which is not real but more real okay so have you heard of fractional reserve banking and it's not real but more real yeah okay so fractional reserve banking is the concept of and it kind of came from the goldsmith era when a bunch of people they considered gold their money and so they would go to a goldsmith and they would say can you store this gold for me like can you look after it i think someone's gonna steal my gold i don't feel safe about it uh can you just store it for me and they would give them a receipt for that gold so right you take your gold they give you a receipt that receipt started trading as money so you said because it's way easier than just going getting your you know truck full of gold and driving it all around just use the piece of paper exactly so then people said well i'll accept that paper as long as i can exchange that paper for gold and people said okay i'll i'll take that paper and i'll go to the goldsmith and see if they give me my gold and so that was like the formation of banking as we you know kind of understand it now what happened as more and more people grew trust for that paper they said you know do i really need to test whether i can convert it into gold it's almost as good as gold now like everyone's accepting it and so the goldsmith started to realize well i'm just sat on all this gold and no one wants it and every time someone's give like putting some gold here we're ending up with more and more gold and uh we're issuing more and more receipts and everyone's using those receipts why don't we do something with that gold and so they just took client gold that they were men of safe guard and they issued additional paper against it so they issued more paper than the gold exists so how can they do that they just issued they just said right we've got this gold no one knows how much gold we got so they're committing fraud they're committing fraud okay so they took people's gold and just said right i'll give two pieces of paper against the same gold bar okay um and so they would start issuing these loans and so someone would come to them and say hey can i borrow some money And they say, yeah, let's create some brand new. Let's print a bunch of fake receipts. Yeah. And here's your loan and you owe me 6%. Yeah. You owe me 6%. And as long as both of you don't come and try and ask for your gold, we're fine. Yeah. So that was the invention of what's called fractional reserve banking. Football season is already heating up and prize picks is my favorite way to stay locked on the players I'm already watching. It's daily fantasy and the app makes it really simple. You build your lineup around the players you like, choose more or less on their player projection, and then follow everything right inside the app. Right now, I'm locking in Jaden Daniels for more than 38 and a half rushing yards on the main leg of my entry, which is way under his average. I'm picking more before they bump it up. Prize picks also invented the injury reboot. So if a player in your lineup gets injured in the first half and doesn't return, your lineup can still cash. This has helped users win over $31 million in the 2025 season alone. 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So they'd all come and there'd be a run on the bank and it would go bankrupt and you'd realize this piece of paper ain't worth shit. You know, I can't get my gold anymore. And then they would close down and whoever got the gold first would get the gold. And at a certain point, you close the bank. And then what happens to all those receipts? They'd be worthless. They're worthless. They're worthless because they can no longer be. Converted into gold, which is what everyone wanted in the first place. So at that point, what happens to an economy at that point? Well, uh, yeah, effectively, uh, you know, the money supply, if this is the money, everyone says, screw that paper. Um, anyone that's got gold, you can trade. If you don't have gold, no one can trade. And so everyone, there's a race for the gold, you know? Um, and, uh, and you know, that was, that was the model. Now, the problem was, is that because you can never. Audit the gold, um, this just happened time and time again, and it just kept happening. Now, as you gain more access to gold and the ability to print these receipts for gold, you recognize that you could just buy politicians. And so politicians needed, you know, money and politicians had power. And so money and power have all been always been symbiotic. You know, if you have money, then you can buy power. If you have power, then you rent, you use your power to sell it to someone that's got money and you've got to try and enrich yourself. You know, that's the simple relationship. Right. Um, so they buy the politicians and the politicians would then be able to set the policy. And when these banks, when everyone wanted their gold, they basically just said, well, why didn't we guarantee the system? Uh, why don't we just say you can create more receipts than you have gold, uh, but we'll guarantee the system and governments, you know, would make it legalize this, this practice. What do you mean? What does that mean? And we'll guarantee the system? Well, the government would say, we've got a bunch of gold. We can tax you. And, uh, if you pay your taxes and we hold it in gold, um, we have a system of, you know, collecting, issuing these fiat currencies and making it convertible into gold. And if the, if the, if the financial system breaks, um, then we've got a bunch of the gold and rather than go into the bank to get your gold, just come to us and we'll give you the gold. And so they guarantee it and say, you can convert those. Those notes into gold, either with the bank or with us, um, and they would guarantee the system and with government fiat, which is just legal protection. People got more faith in, in those notes. Uh, and that really is the story of paper money. And what they did is they legalized the practice, but they said, you know, how much money can you actually create? Um, maybe you should keep 10% of the money you create. That's gold reserves. And you can create 90% of all this money out of thin air, but keep about 10%. And if we guarantee the system, then there's a bit of a moral hazard there. We call it economics, which means you could get riskier and riskier with your loans, because now that's exchangeable with the government, not just you. And so the government's on the line. So you're like, why don't I just issue more and more of these notes? Why don't I just take more and more risk, um, and more and more money would circulate. And. That is the money of the economy. When you look at the economy today, there's approximately 97% of every dollar in existence is somebody else's debt. There's only 3% of what you would call, you know, cash money that's issued by a government. The rest of it is issued by a bank. And so now we fast forward to where we are today. Um, if you want to, if you, how is money accreted? Where does it come from? Well. They, they said fractional reserve. And what that means is you have to keep some of it on reserve and then you can create many, many times fractions, 10 times over that money. And over time, lots of banks went bust and then they would legalize the system. Um, and, uh, you know, it would, it would go through this, these different legislative changes, um, as it, as it passed by now, there's one interesting concept, which is what do they do? They do. They don't just give you a loan and say, you know, pay me back a hundred dollars. They say, here's a receipt for a hundred dollars worth of gold. Uh, you've got to give me back a hundred dollars, but you've also got to pay interest on that if they start issuing loans. So now they say, you know, this hundred dollar note that I give you, it's worth $110 to me. You've got to pay 10% interest on whatever the terms of the loan is. Where's the money to pay the interest. So it was originally backed by gold. Then they started reserve. Yeah. You know, creating more and more, uh, paper notes against that goal. And then they say, but you've also got to pay us the interest on the fake stuff, on the fake stuff, on the fake paper, on all the fake paper, but that doesn't exist because no one's issuing that loan. And so then you're like, well, how does this work? It doesn't exist because no one's issuing that loan. Yep. The, so you've, you've, you've put this piece of paper is the a hundred dollars in the economy, but you've got to give me back $110. You know, who, who creates that $10. you have to go out and you have to earn economic activity you have to earn it right but how did they get the money to pay you well they had to borrow it in the first place and so money became debt. All money is debt where there's not enough interest to pay down the debt. So if you look at the economy today, the government has $40 trillion of debt, and it has to pay a trillion dollars of interest, or the US government, sorry. The US government has $40 trillion of debt, and it has to pay approximately 1.2 trillion by the end of this year, a year in interest. 1.2 trillion. Yeah, that yield doesn't exist. A year. Yes. That money does not exist. So it has to be borrowed by either an individual that takes out a mortgage, a business that maybe takes out some bonds or borrows against their stock and their company, or the government takes it on. But someone has to borrow because it is, by definition, a Ponzi scheme. So the government has to borrow the trillion dollars that they owe in interest. They have to roll over the debt. They're not collecting that through taxes. taxes is just a mechanism for trying to control prices. The government is not funded by taxes. The government is funded by debt. And so the government then has to repay more and more. Now you understand the history of empires. Remember we talked about this three-tiered structure. You have a central bank that guarantees the system. You have a stock market that effectively privatizes all gains from these economic activities. You know, when they go out and they create activities, they create new value and it comes to the stock market. But who borrows the money? Well, initially people. So in order to create money, you need to take on a mortgage, student loan, credit card, debt. So you max out individuals as far as you can with debt. Then you start to look at businesses. So, businesses can take their stock and they can borrow against it. They can have these corporate bonds. They can have large, massive loans. But if the whole thing collapses, you have to dump the debt on the government. And so, what the central bank does, its mechanism is to be the guarantor of all of these banks. And what does a guarantor of all of these banks mean? means that you socialize the losses. Any losses are socialized across the population through government debt. You, every American has your share of the national debt. So we all have, all the people have to pay it back. They all have to pay it. And because what are you doing every time these loans happen? It creates new money. When it creates new money, it means the price of everything goes up, which is commonly So everybody pays it through higher prices. MARK BLYTH: So we are providing the social well-being So we are providing the social For the government. Yes. And now, when you ask, is America a capitalist country? The answer is, if it had a hard monetary system, and by a hard monetary system, there is, you know, it's hard money, it's all gold, or whatever it may be as it was historically. But if it's a debt-based Ponzi scheme, where there's not enough money to pay the interest, and you have to roll over the debt to continue, then what happens is you have a central bank, and what does that central bank do? It socializes losses, burdens the government with all the debt, rolls it over for as long as the government can do it, and it privatizes all the gains into the stock market. And that is a system of central banking. The banks create the money, the central banks guarantee the system, they rinse as much debt on the government as they can, and then that money is spent into stocks, and it goes, the stock market goes up and up and up. And so does inflation, and so do interest rates. And the more or more money you pump, and what is money? Money is debt. The more or more money you pump into the economy, and the only way to pump money into the economy is for you to take on more credit cards, more mortgages, more student loans, more debt, businesses to take on more, or governments to take on more. The more they take on, the higher prices get. And so the prices of things go up, and the prices of assets go up. And your job in running an empire. Your job in running an empire is to play that merry-go-round for as long as you can. Oh my God. And so what did the Bank of England do? The Bank of England created, well we had the Dutch, but the Brits copied it from the Dutch. The Dutch were the inventors. The Dutch said, "Let's create a stock called the Dutch East India Company." The Dutch East India Company was the way of privatizing all the profits from colonialism and more. For the Dutch. They invented the largest naval fleet in the world. They were able to go and invade other countries. They had superior ship technology. And they were able to just go steal people's gold and resources. A private company. A private company. And they were able to just steal everyone's gold, all their resources, engage in the transatlantic slave trade, whatever they needed to do under this structure. And then, but where do you get the money from? Obviously, the banks get to create it. But once the banks, once those loans, once everyone wants their money, you just dump it on the government. Wow. And so the government debt goes up and up and up. And so the Dutch government's debt went up and up and up. The stock market goes up and up and up. Those that can print the money, the banks, they're able to get these assets with money they create out of thin air. Everybody else- And then inflation and interest rates also rise with it. Yeah. Now look at this wealth transfer. This really helps us hopefully understand today. What's a wealth transfer? If you own the assets, what historically happens is the value of your assets go up faster than the price of goods. So everyone else is paying higher, higher, higher, higher prices, but these people are protected because let's say prices of just general goods are going up 4% and prices of stocks are going up 8%. They're getting 4% wealthier every year. These people don't own any assets, but they're paying 4% more. And so slowly they're getting, the prices is going up. They're supplementing more and more of it with debt. They don't own any assets to- And we also get taxed on that little margin as well, right? Oh, and then you need to pay the tax. And let's not also forget that we'll get into again, Larry Fink created a product, which is very, very interesting, which is basically. Yeah. The banks were creating all these mortgages and then the bank said, "But we don't want to take the risk on. What are we going to do? We're going to package all those mortgages up and then we're going to sell them to your pension." So BlackRock, Larry Fink, created what's called a mortgage-backed security that says, "You go create as many mortgages as you can and then give them over to me and then I'll take pensioner's money and we'll buy them." And so the pensioner was on the hook for all the mortgages. Right. And so not only are you paying the tax to cover some of the interest, you're also taking on the debt. So you are the product and you're contributing every month to your pension, which gives BlackRock more power. And then they're dumping all the risk on you. And if you play that game well, then hopefully your assets go up more than the general prices of goods. And so that right now there's a lot of controversy around boomers. Yeah. Boomers versus the younger generation. Right, right. Boomers were in that time when they could kind of work. Their wages were going up. They bought their house for $30,000. Yeah. They refused to sell it for a penny less than a million. Yeah. Because they were around at the post-World War II era. So what happened? Well, the Dutch bankrupted the Dutch government, socialized all the money into the Dutch stock market, received all the yield on the debt, so the government has to keep paying to the bondholders. And then the central bank would guarantee the system. Now eventually what happens here is the wealthy and the average person just go further and further apart. So those that own the assets go further up the ladder. Those that own the debt or the product, and they go further down the ladder. And they just get worse and worse and worse. That's called the K-shaped economy. That's where we are today. The K-shaped economy. Yeah. So think of like just a K, and you've got the asset owner going up and up and up with their wealth. The average person that doesn't own the assets going down and down with their real wealth. Everything's getting more expensive. They're taking on more debt. Their wages aren't going up at the same rate as the assets. And so if you can print the money, if you're the bank, you get all the assets. Think of, imagine, yeah. So people who earn money from manual labor, people who do blue collar jobs, people who have to work with their hands to earn income, they're the ones that are going down and the people who use money to make more money are the ones that are going up. You got it. Yeah. And that is the process of the stock market, the bond market, and the central banking system. It's not capitalism. Capitalism requires a monetary system that works. That's not a Ponzi scheme. So then you asked me, what is America today? And what is Britain? What is that? Well, that same thing that happened to the Dutch happened to the Brits, and in order to transfer from. From one empire to another, you normally need wars and you need to manufacture crisis. Because what happens with every crisis? With every crisis, you price people out of all of their assets. These people that can access the money end up buying those assets on the cheap. Think COVID, think global financial crisis, think all of these different disasters we've seen over time. You end up. Why? Because the central bank guarantees the system. The government's on the hook for the debt. The banks receive all of the interest on the debt, the financial industrial complex, and the value is all pushed into the stock market. So you subordinate a government the further this goes. And the government works for you at that stage. Whoever is. And at the moment, the bond holders are the ones that control the US government, the financial industrial complex. You're talking about BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard. Yes, but they also have a bit of a keep-ourself-in-check. We all have different superpowers in this financial industrial complex. The commercial bank, their superpower is the ability to create money every time they issue a loan. An asset manager can't do that. An asset manager's superpower is to take all the voting rights and board seats and allocate all the capital for everybody that's contributing all their money. An investment bank's superpower is to take a company, turn it into a product, and subordinate it to their own interest. Again, let's go through Elon Musk. Elon Musk, most people think, "Okay, richest man in the world, trillionaire." But who does he answer to? Well, he answers to his shareholders. And most of his net worth is based upon the share price of Tesla stock. So Elon Musk has a special trick. He's not like a worker, a blue-collar worker that's contributing to his pension every month, and once he retires, he gets the stock market value. He's got money outside the pension system. He's got his stock. His stock is Tesla. So a bank will go, when I worked in investment banking, you'd try and find these people that have significant liquid stocks, stocks that are easy to buy and sell. And then you'd say to them, "Hey, do you know what? Rather than sell your stocks and paying any tax, I'll issue a loan against your stock. Give me your stock and use that as collateral, i.e. you give me your stock, then I'll give you a loan." So the banks get to create more money. They get to issue these big loans and it's guaranteed by their stock. And if for any reason they stop repaying that loan, then you can just sell the stock. And just like if anyone stops paying their mortgage, you can just take their house. And so this mechanism is how you subordinate all the world's entrepreneurs. And then as you create crashes, their wealth is dependent upon stock options, which means that shares have to go to a certain price. How did Elon pay for assets? How did he pay for X? He borrowed against his stock. Borrowed against his Tesla stock? Yes. Tesla stock. Okay. And then the bank then said, and you have to co, and you have to co, you know, when you purchase it, you have to do it with these guys. And these guys were the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. And so these are the big pools of capital that own most of the stocks. The Tesla stocks. Well, they, they invested in Tesla, but most of the AI, if you look at who are the largest holders is BlackRock, it's State Street, it's Vanguard. Then you go further down the line and you've got the Gulf sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund, the Chinese sovereign wealth fund, the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund. Now, are these all, are these wealth funds, are these equivalent to Vanguard, State Street and BlackRock and other countries? No, they're a slightly different player. Okay. Okay. So what do they got? And then, and then also don't the, a lot of the Gulf States, don't they do something with the oil? They, they, they, they sell the oil in exchange for the US dollar and then they take the US dollars and invest it. Is that right? In the US economy? Yeah. So that's the Petro dollar. We can get into that. Okay. Okay. So what are the Gulf, what are the sovereign wealth funds do? Well, they are the countries that managed to keep their resources. And so, if you look at America, America doesn't own any oil. Okay. So when Trump saying, you know, we don't own any oil, you own some oil just to be accurate. It's called a strategic petroleum reserve. Okay. And so you buy your oil, you don't own the oil. You have to buy it from a company that's extracting oil. So America owns whatever it buys. And that's called a strategic petroleum reserve. And whenever you want to kind of, you know, you want to, you know, you want to, you know, influence the price of oil, America can say, we'll release a bunch of oil on the market from our reserves. Okay. And that will kind of push the price down a bit. That's what America has been doing throughout the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The two countries that have released the most of their reserves were Japan and America to try and get the price down. Okay. So a sovereign wealth fund says, well, we own our oil. So Saudi Arabia owns its oil. It's owned by the nation state. Okay. So when you, we were, we were originally talking about Israel. Israel doesn't own hardly anything. Israel owns its defense companies, its military companies. It's got a tiny sovereign wealth fund, about $2 billion, like insignificant, but it's got a bunch of wealthy billionaires all around it that own all the value. And so you can use Israel to extract a shitload of value for yourself. But the actual country doesn't own its resources or its assets because it's structured very similar to America, to UK, to Europe. The value is concentrated in private ownership, you know, in stocks. And so the Israeli stock market can do very well while the economy gets absolutely crucified. Okay. And those are two different things. So the average person in America could be doing really, really badly, but stocks can be at new all-time highs. Example, the British right now. I couldn't think of a worse economy that's being asset stripped more than the United Kingdom right now in terms of the stock market. So the average person in America could be doing really, really badly in terms of, you know, what it is, but stocks are still at all-time highs. So throughout the whole fall of the British empire, stocks just kept going up, but the burden on the government debt just kept going up. And the average person was their standard of living was getting worse and worse, unless they own their property and they own the stocks. And so, you know, what the difference with the Gulf countries, with Singapore, with Norway, with China, China's their own one. We'll see. And once we put all this together, it kind of helps us answer your original question. Okay. Long way around. But I hope this is like- Yeah, no, this makes, this is very, very good. Saudi owns its oil. So Saudi as an entity, a government, a nation state is able to negotiate with this financial industrial complex because it's got its own money. It's not a fully, you know, it's not all private interest. It's actually a nation state. Okay. Okay. Mm-hmm. So Saudi extracts oil. There's a company called Saudi Aramco and Saudi Aramco is fully owned by the government. And the country, the government owns it. And the government gets the money. Okay. What does it do with that money? Well, it invests that money and that's called a sovereign wealth fund. Got it. Yeah. I understand. Yeah. Makes sense. Yeah. We don't have any of those in the US. No. You don't have any, because you privatized it all. You gave it away. Right. Okay. So when, when America, you know, when America effectively, sorry to say this, look, this is the British Empire. I'm the British model, so I can say this. Right. You're not going to hurt my feelings. But when you genocided the natives. Right. And you, you expanded through settler colonialism. Right. Which was Europeans and Brits and Italians and various other people. Right. You privatized all the oil and handed over, you know, as, as this later became important in the industrial revolution. Mm-hmm. You know, so the way Israel expanded is exactly the model of how America was created. You know, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing of the locals, control of media, then propagate a story, you know, weaponized religious narratives in order to make people want to join an army, think what Israel is. Israel is make people think that the Jews, they're not safe anywhere in the world. Create false flag terrorist attacks all around the world to make Jews feel like they should come to Israel. Mm-hmm. When they come to Israel, you grow the population. So you get a population of Jews. And then you radicalize them into thinking that they're saving the Jews by engaging in ethnic cleansing and genocide and all the things you did. And then the Messiah returns. You, you have a story, the Messiah, you know, whatever, whatever your end of time philosophy is, if they're religious. Mm-hmm. But population growth is the model. You're trying to get a population. And then when they become a member, they have to join the IDF for three years. And so once you're in the IDF, you've built an army, then you can use that army to destabilize the region. And when you destabilize the region, you're able to negotiate with countries that actually have oil. Saudi, Iran, Lebanon, you know. When you destabilize the region, that enables you to negotiate? Yeah, that allows you to follow a few models. And that's kind of the British model, the British East India Company. We'd go to countries, we'd destroy their currencies. Mm-hmm. We'd steal their actual resources that we wanted. Steal their oil, steal their poppy. Yeah. We'd install, we'd try and destabilize the country by doing color revolutions. And we put dictators in that would have massive financial incentives to serve themselves, but serve us. You know, that's the color revolution. Right. The quote unquote dictator. They're all installed. They work for us, you know. And so your, their job is to make sure their people don't get the resources and we get the resources. Right. And that's, that's the, the British model. You know, that was the, the British East India Company. We can go into extreme examples. Very interesting. As I get older, I keep finding myself feeling more and more exhausted. My motivation drops and my workouts take longer for me to recover from. I was drinking way too much coffee and I just didn't feel like me anymore. 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That reminds me, it was probably a year, I don't know how many, it was maybe a year ago, maybe a year and a half ago when Lindsey Graham, God rest his soul, said something about Ukraine. And he made a comment publicly about like, we can't let China get their hands on Ukraine. There's trillions of dollars in natural resources and minerals. Yeah. In Ukraine. Yeah. So Lindsey Graham is a politician. Was. That serves, was a politician, correct? That served the interest of the military industrial complex. He was fully sponsored by military companies, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamic, Raytheon, Boeing, Palantir. Now, what there is, is there's a very elaborate money laundering scheme between America and Israel and this different type of thing. Yeah. So remember what the job is? Bankrupt the government, socialize the losses, privatize the gains into the stock market. Right. So what do you do? You get the government to using religious narratives. We have to protect the Jews. We are defending democracy. It's the only democracy, this, whatever narrative you need to be acceptable to the people. You send billions of dollars over to Israel. And then Israel has a tide contract with that aid where it has to be spent back on. Yeah. So, so, so this just came in, this was a big thing that came out recently. I saw a Tucker, did this huge post about this where uh we did this new thing where we were giving israel like thousands of dollars or thousands of these missiles or something or these bombs these two ton two million dollar bombs or something like this it was basically like billions of dollars worth of bombs that we're giving them but or but the real the real way it worked is we gave them like billions of dollars in cash and then they used that cash to buy the bombs from us you got it okay think about it right so you have to roll over the ponzi can you find the actual the actual tweet that he did so it explains what it was yeah so you have to roll over the ponzi that means government needs to keep going um sorry debt needs to keep going right by hook or by crook create war do whatever you need to do create more debt okay that money then goes as aid over to israel and then israel gets to spend some of it on israeli military companies um in the case of israel those companies used to be they they're currently owned by the state of israel so it is actually a state asset sovereign the the main the main um the main but uh they're currently being privatized so they're about to do their public offering okay so the investment banks has got to the military companies there's a bit of a dispute there because there's you know confidentiality of information that's being negotiated that's delaying those public offerings but the investment bank says i want those state assets i want you to be public because then they get to own those shares through this mechanism of creating money and so their job is to subordinate governments as much as they can okay so when people think about israel they they get the whole aipac funding um they get this whole mechanism from the american side but they never ask the question of who lobbies israel you know exactly yahoo the boss exactly of course he's not the boss right yeah trump's not the boss how is netanyahu the boss like who is pulling netanyahu strings yeah exactly and he works for the main the military companies and technical companies the technical industrial complex and the military industrial complex his job is to manufacture what technical what what company specifically um so in the israeli side you've got albert systems you've got uh iai i think that's the right one um you've got different companies on the israeli stock market which are controlled by in general who are those shareholders um the israeli pension fund managed by western finance um the israeli etf managed by blackrock and so at the top of here you've got a whole similar structure above israel you know now they're trying to keep some of their state assets which is military and they've managed to keep some of those and they're trying to take over lebanon get some of the natural gas see if they can get some of that energy um and just you know that their job is to make sure that there's always war because the more war there is the more they can funnel the money back to the military stock market stocks palantir you know all those different companies and their billionaire class are also massive shareholders in all those companies so then you have this confusing things a lot of them are american they're american jews you know but they've got an allegiance to israel and yet when you look behind them have they got an allegiance to israel or do they make a ton of money because they're invested in settlements in the west bank a bunch of palantir stock right a bunch of that so they're extracting value using their magic power of you know being connected and affiliated to israel um but they're just extracting all of it because it's convenient for them it's convenient it's financially all they care about is their own profits and their own finances and and publicly they're using israel because it's convenient for the narrative in general but there is also an element of radicalization like you know like do these people really believe the messiah is coming and like the this whole pax judaica thing that do i believe that peter thinks that no i don't i don't think he believes it but what like like to do does netanyahu believe it absolutely ben gevier and netanyahu all these people that that they i probably think do you believe it um now they can either be so you can you know politicians are useful if they're radicalized in this way because then you can use them as tools and weapons like real power the they don't believe half this shit right but if they can find those radicalized ones then they're useful to save certain interests they're useful tools what'd you find steve i think i found the post that you were talking about 40 000 tons of bombs uh that we are selling to israel mark 84 and blue here here's what's the price what's the what's the ticket on this congress appropriates money to the executive branch which transfers the cash to israel to buy american-made weapons and um it's three billion three billion the bill in this case is three billion and that add that to the 352 billion that the u.s treasury has transferred to israel since 1951 okay it's a stock market stimulus right all of that money goes right back into our stock market on the government everyone pays through inflation and those that own the assets they do well it's a magic trick it's a magic trick and so the fall of the british empire was once all the value had been extracted you know you asset strip as much as you can from the dutch you then asset strip as much as you can from the brits and then you just create the same structure in america which was the formation of the federal reserve and then all the value of the military-industrial complex from world war one great depression world war ii concentrates wealth upwards and then you're just left in post-world war ii this very elaborate structure um three more institutions which i think are worth understanding and you can put the whole picture together and we can try and make it more current how are we doing are you okay we're great yeah i'm tracking i'm tracking i'm not in outer space yet all right cool so after world war one um the germans had to take on all the debt from the entire world of world war one okay um in order to manage that debt no one wanted their currency uh because if you want to if you say you've got to pay me you know a trillion dollars uh for all of this debt from the war then they're going to say well i can pay you in my own currency because we can print it and then they're going to say but if you print it it's going to be worth nothing right okay so they said we don't want your currency we want your gold okay so the bank for international settlements was set up in order to at the treaty of versailles which is an agreement in france um to dump all of the war debt from world war one on the german nation-state and the german nation-state had no when it had a big economic you know it had a big um base in terms of manufacturing um you know companies like volkswagen were created like during world war ii and the hitler regime and all of that fascism and all that stuff um but the problem was is that we had this great depression between the world wars and germany and germany ended up with all the debt and they had to pay in gold um so the bank for international settlements was set up to manage those reparation payments and those repayments and the bank for international settlements didn't actually store any of the gold it had an agreement with three central banks the bank of england the federal reserve and the swiss central bank they had the actual gold so the bank of england would store the gold now what's interesting if you look during world war ii uh when hitler would go and invade a new country like he invaded czechoslovakia um then uh the rice bank which is the central bank do you remember we talked about the german central bank that also had this brother on the federal reserve as governor right they would contact the bank for international settlements and say hey you know that gold that used to belong to czechoslovakia how much is it and they'd be like well there's uh you know x amount of tons they'd be like right can you make that germany's now and so every time hitler invaded a country um the bank for international settlements would transfer the gold over to germany but it wasn't a transfer it was just literally called the bank of england called the federal reserve called the swiss central bank and changed the label on those gold bars that's now germany's it's no longer czechoslovakia's okay so while allegedly america and britain as nation states were fighting against the nazi regime the bank for international settlements every time hitler invaded a new country was making gold to back the currency theirs and so what did hitler do between that you know that what was the rise of hitler effectively after the treaty of versailles after the bank for international settlements was created after managing bankrupting the government with all this gold debt um they started printing their currency their currency became worthless there was the walmart republic we had massive degeneracy we had the worst economic circumstances any german that had savings lost all their savings you know um we were at that rampant wealth extraction currency destruction which means that you get to buy all their assets on the cheap right and so hitler came along with a nationalist uprising to all the germans and said hey we're gonna we're gonna print our own currency and we're not gonna do it as debt we're just gonna print currency and invest in building in germany and that's exactly what he did he just printed currency, and then employ people. And so they got rid of their inflation. They ended up in full employment. Everyone was put to productive use. And they built factory after factory to build a nationalist vision in Germany. Now, printing all of that money, eventually, you have to, you know, eventually, that's where we enter into World War Two, he needed to back it by gold. So he started invading countries in order to try and back it by gold. And then he took that productive building that was building Germany, and turned it into military companies. And so then they started, rather than manufacturing cars, they started manufacturing bonds. And what happens is when you manufacture for war, you just get wealth extraction to the elite class, and the debt is left on the people. And so that's what happened throughout World War Two. And then you had the whole, you know, reforming of banking, arresting of Rothschilds, and then you had the Holocaust. And the rest is history. Oh, wow. Now, at the end of World War Two, Germany is destroyed. You split it up into East and West Germany. The Soviet Union is, you know, pushing forward with communism. The government's getting more and more powerful, getting more and more resources, because that leads into the third type of country. So we had sovereign wealth funds, the Gulf countries, and then you have America fully subordinate to Fick, Mick, and Tick, subordinate to capital. Then you have the final type of country, which I'd classify as China today. So China has the most sovereign government in the world. What that means is that the government's- Similar to the Soviet Union. Similar to Soviet Union, but it's not communism. It's radical capitalism at the bottom. Okay. Like literally no intellectual property. Anyone can create business. Anyone can copy each other. Okay. You know, no protections. Cutthroat capitalism. All that stuff. Cutthroat capitalism for everybody. But if you become bigger than the government, so if you create the next Google, if you create Alibaba, if you create Huawei, then align with the government or you'll be taken out. No company is allowed to become more important than the government. So you can't have a Mick, Fick, and Tick in China that's above the government. So in America, you have the government, then you have Mick, Tick, and then you have Fick at the top because they got all the capital. They get to create all the money. They earned the bonds. They pulled all the pension. They can access the capital. They got all the board seats. They can subordinate all the entrepreneurs. They got Silicon Valley. They can put people through the sausage factory of becoming a public company and put them through the structure. Right. And then you can pay lobbies. You can do all that to capture a government. You can groom politicians. They're in charge. They're in charge. Yeah. But in China, that's not how it works. The government stays in charge. Yeah. Off with your head if you're not going to agree. Exactly. Yeah. So you do what you need to do, but we're in charge. The reason for that is because China was the victim of the British empire, the century of humiliation, opium wars. We would go through the world. We would go through history. It looked like we were in India to facilitate tea trades, but under all the tea was all the opium. And then the opium needed a bank, HSBC, and then it would try and get. It wanted India's gold and China's silver. And so we created this trade where we would facilitate opium trade from India, get the Chinese addicted to opium, and then we would use our military might in order to try and subordinate the country, take it over. And then that led to Hong Kong and the settlement with Hong Kong. Now, in reaction to that, and the Japan, the Korean side, all the different atrocities that happened, they said, "Never again. We're going to build a 100-year plan." They said, "We're going to have a century of building." Talking about China? Yeah, China. So China said, "After a century of humiliation, we're going to do a century of building." And so they expelled all the bankers. They implemented their own nationalized central bank called the PBOC, the People's Bank of China. They implemented- And they don't allow Chinese people to invest in the U.S. Yeah. More than $50,000 a year. Yeah. They had capital controls so that the country doesn't become foreign-owned. So if you look at America, $70 trillion of value is foreign-owned. So America is not sovereign as a country because the FIC owns it, the Foreign Sovereign Wealth Fund, and even China, the largest sovereign wealth fund, they own a massive chunk of the value. So $70 trillion of U.S. assets, real estate stock market- What percent of our assets is that again? About 20, 30% is foreign-owned. 30% of American assets is owned by foreign people or companies or- So about, yeah, foreign institutions- Institutions, right. And people and various other things. Then you have about- What about the Cayman Islands Bank? Cayman Island is the remnants of the British Empire. Oh, okay. So I live on one of those islands, but when- You live in the Caymans? I don't live in the Cayman. Our company's there, but I live in one of the Channel Islands. Right. Okay. But when the British Empire started to really fall, so post-World War II, we're talking about these institutions, the final moment of the British Empire was when they could no longer colonize and we had this decolonization movement and a lot of the African leaders would take back control of their country. The Asian countries would rebel and the system got so complicated that the British Empire could just no longer manage it. The debt was exploding for the government. The British East India Company- Mm-hmm. Company had dissolved. We transferred all the value over to the American system. We installed the Federal Reserve. We had World War I, Great Depression, World War II. But the remnants of it, the final nail in the coffin was 1954 when Egypt was a nationalist uprising to take control of their oil and take control of the Suez Canal. Sound like Iran today? So the British Empire said, "No, no, no, no. The Suez Canal is ours. We want to control those, that strategic choke point." Can you pull up the Suez Canal? My geography is about as good as Trump's. Yeah. Okay. So you got Egypt in Africa, you got the Mediterranean Sea, and then you got the Suez Canal- Can you zoom out a little bit? Okay. A little more. Okay. So is the Suez Canal just that top area or is it the whole strait? It's the whole strait that Egypt controls there. Okay. Got it. And Britain wanted to control this. Britain controlled it. They did control it. And Egypt said, "We want it back." And they took it back? And so there was a nationalist uprising led by Nasser, who's like an Egypt nationalist. Right. And he said, "That canal, that's ours." And he said that any energy, any oil, that's ours. Rightfully so. I mean, it's in their country. Yes. And the Brits came along and said, "Hell no. You ain't having it." And the naval fleet came over and there was exactly what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. Wow. They tried to import a blockade. They tried to choke the energy markets. And in the end, the Egyptians, the British just had to retreat. This was in '54? 1954. Yeah. Wow. Why did they claim ownership? Did they help build it? Well, it was part of our colonial. The colonial expeditions was to control Africa, like the French. The French and the Brits, we needed all of the resources. Now, the thing that the British Empire wanted to. And that was. You were saying that was the straw that broke the camel's back? That was the final moment where the world started to realize those British naval fleets, they ain't so powerful. And the world was empowered. And they said, "Let's work with the Americans." Yeah. And so, the American was a net beneficiary of that. Okay. This is when America was going through its real growth phase on the military-industrial complex. It was producing all the weapons around the world. This was the Cold War, right? Yeah. Then you only had one force left. Europe was gone. Europe was destroyed. And in post-World War II, you said there was a meeting called Bretton Woods in 1944. This was just around the end of the war. And this is when the Brits and the Americans met up. They met up in order to say, "What's the new world order? What does the world look like now, today?" So, you had Treaty of Versailles, was the bank for international settlements. And there were two forces. One was a gentleman called John Maynard Keynes, who's like the cornerstone of economics. If you study economics, you learn about Keynesian economics. It justifies socialism and the government taking on debt, funded by the financial-industrial complex, of course, as all colleges and universities are. So, you had a global currency that was like the last thing you could do, and it was called Bancor. And the Americans, led by Hoover, said, "No, we're not having a Bancor. We're not having a Bancor. We're not having a Bancor." So, it was a global currency. in it. What we're going to do is we're going to create two organizations. One's called the World Bank and the other is called the International Monetary Fund, the IMF. The IMF was an organization that was set up to take the role from the Bank for International Settlements because what they said is, look, everyone's on gold. Everyone can convert their currency into gold, but all of this gold is being drained and we got all the gold. Why don't you come off the gold standard, stop allowing people to convert their currencies into gold, and instead trade your currency against our currency, the dollar. And they said, look, we promise you do that. You come off the gold standard. You trade your currency for our currency. The pound is fully convertible into dollars. And then when you've got your dollars, you can convert it into gold. And that was the International Monetary Fund system. So America said, we will allow dollars to always be convertible into gold, and you come off the gold standard and you trade your currencies against ours. If you do that, you can firstly, you need to install a central bank that creates a debt-based Ponzi scheme, as we described in the beginning of this podcast, which is a wealth extracting mechanism, socialized losses, privatized gains. So any country that comes into this system, they need a central bank that's a member of the Bank for International Settlements. They need a currency that's not convertible to gold. And they need to make their currency convertible into dollars. That was the agreement. If you do that, then we'll issue you a dollar loan. What year was this again? 44. Oh, so it was before the Suez Canal thing. Before the Suez Canal. Yeah, that was like the last now, as it were. So you take away the gold standard. You asset strip the entire British government. You privatize all the gains. You socialize all the losses. Right. And then you hand over power to the new empire, which was the American empire, effectively. And that was represented by the same interest, which is the Fed. Got it. Yeah. So now. So now you're saying that you see the same pattern happening with the United States and the Iran war. Absolutely. No doubt about it. And how do you see. The World Bank was set up to get everyone into debt. And that was like the final. Now you have World Bank, IMF, Bank for International Settlements. Right. These are the cornerstone of the. Of the financial industrial complex. And all of the companies that represent the financial industrial complex, whether it be JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, they're all public companies. And they all own each other. And they all have the board seats. And so there's this one structure, a bit more decentralized than the British East India Company. Right. But similar. Okay. And they have. They're kissing cousins. Yeah. They're all co-owned. It's all value in the same stock market, the same board seats. It's a way more decentralized version of that one company model. But it's more covert, just like the Federal Reserve. They made it look a bit more decentralized than a central bank. So like the Fed is owned by 12 state central banks. And then they're owned by whoever has a bank account with the Fed, which is the banks. Got it. So the Fed is owned by the banks. And so you have this structure. Okay. But what is this structure? It's global. It's not nationalistic. It doesn't say we want to make America. There's no allegiances to any country. There's no allegiances in any country. Wherever the profit is to be made, and this is when we entered into this era of globalization. So if China has the cheaper factories, if China has the rare earth minerals, if we can make more money by China doing all that, then fine. If we have all the capital, we can securitize, financialize. So, you know, we'll just, we'll do that. And if the Gulf money has all the sovereign wealth and Singapore does, and Norway does, then we'll partner with them and they get to negotiate in this structure. Now, China is the most sovereign country. It has the most negotiation power against the financial industrial complex in the world. That's why you have capital controls because it is a fully sovereign government. Now, let me try and make a correction because you might think I'm like a Chinese propagandist in this system's great America. There is a, there is a bit of a, a strange tension here. A sovereign country tends to subordinate its people, right? So if the government has full control, it has full control over its people, its businesses. And so they tend to be more authoritarian, you know, by nature. Now, a non-sovereign, a subordinate country to McFick and Tick has a very covert, shallow leadership structure. That people can't understand. They think the government's in charge. I'm sorry, you're throwing me off. What is the McFick and Tick? So the, the Mc is the military industrial complex. Okay, gotcha. Financial and technological. The Fick is financial industrial complex. Tick is technical industrial complex. I'm glad you just asked these questions because, you know, I've lost the ability to distinguish between normal language and jargon. Yeah, yeah. You're in your own universe. Yeah, yeah. So it really helps. And so, yeah, Mc, you know. So Fick, McTick, US government, China, Chinese government, McFick, Tick. Okay. State controlled. These are, you know, authoritarian, don't really engage in politics. You're not going to see people in China talking about left and right politics. They know who's in charge. You know, you live in Saudi Arabia, you know who's in charge. You know, you live in America, you think the government's in charge. You think you're voting left and right, but they're owned by the same Fick, McTick structure on both sides. And so their job is to make people always think that something else is happening, that it's a democracy, that your vote matters. And what the, what McFick and Tick do is that they, they groom politicians where they work for lobbies, and if they want to become more and more power, they've got an also, the last kind of thing, which I think you would discuss a lot, is we always talk about this concept of the deep state. You know, MI6, Mossad, CNN. Yeah. The CIA Five Eyes. In general, where do they sit in the structure? Well, they have a complete hidden covert structure. In general, they came from being contractors to the military industrial complex. They have a narrative called we work for national security. They don't have to disclose any of their finances other than directly to the president. Well, it's interesting. Because the way you've laid this out. If the president works for the financial and the military and the technological, well, the CIA works for the president. So. Yeah. But let's look a little bit deeper into that. Where does the budget to pay the CIA come from? It comes from military budgets. Right. So, what's the, what's the four largest line items on the national debt? It's where does all this come from? Wait, the CIA budget comes from military contractors? So, you got. No, the military, the federal military budget. Yeah. Yeah. So, you got. Yes. You got the Pentagon. Right. Exactly. And then you're able to fund the CIA. Right. That's kind of like, but who, who, where does the government get that money from? Bondholders. Bondholders. They're the FIC. And then people leave the CIA and get giant government contracts to work for private, private military industrial complex, private companies. You got it. So, I couldn't prove this. I don't know the, but in my mind, I'm thinking probably 5% of what the CIA does is national security. does is national security government. I think the vast majority of it is two other activities. One is private contracting. So when they do private contracting to Lockheed Martin, General Dynamic, Raytheon, if you need to order a genocide, you need to order a war, then you have the ability to do that as some of these privileged military companies. But who controls the military companies? Capital. So if you're, you know, J.P. Morgan in this structure and you're BlackRock, then you're like, I can give capital to these military companies. I can put board seats, I can subordinate the executives. Their wealth and their incentives are all aligned around get their share price up. What's profitable? The optimum amount of forever wars. Some defence contract. That's less profitable. And then wars that go on for as long as possible. And then some really aggressive action. So they always need that. Always need that. Because military companies don't give up on revenue. They need constant revenue. So if they're ever negotiating peace in one region, let's say the Middle East is about to move to peace, they need another war. They need to make up for their revenue somewhere else. So they need to escalate through the CIA, Putin invading Ukraine, covert operations, there's another trillion dollars to be made in my estimates from escalating the Russia-European war. America's making all the money. Russia's going to end up with all the land. You get to use all the Ukrainians as your radicalised fighting force. And until there's no Ukrainians, eventually BlackRock will own the assets. The CIA can stop and then they enter into a negotiation. And there's a very convenient thing that comes from the Russian war. The full subordination and destruction. The whole subordination and destruction of the Russian war. The whole subordination and destruction of Europe. That means they get to rebuild shit, right? They get to rebuild all that shit again, which they did after World War II, when they did the rebuild contract, the Marshall Plan, get the World Bank loan. So Europe gets fully- And didn't BlackRock already get contracts to rebuild Ukraine? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, in its portfolio. Remember, BlackRock owns everything. It owns everything. So it's fully diversified. And remember- So one of the companies in its portfolio got the contract to do it. Yeah. So, I mean, if you want to make money through renewable energy, you've got all the renewable energy companies, you've got big oil, you've got big pharma, you've got the banks, you've got everything. You've got complete diversification. You've got Google, you've got Facebook, you've got everything. You've got Meta, you've got Palantir, whatever happens. And what does the financial industrial complex do? They also have derivatives, right? So you could- Derivatives means that you can, this whole debt mechanism, there's trillions, hundreds of trillions in the derivatives market, which means that effectively you issue these debt contracts against assets. How Elon effectively gets to borrow and uses collateral, right? So the derivatives means that you have this network of hedge funds and these hedge funds are the ones that are able to make money when markets go down. So you can, imagine you're managing your spreadsheet, you're like, right, we've got war here. We try and push this covert operation through there. If it doesn't work, we go short the markets. We've got all the assets and resources. If it works, then we get this and you can just model the whole thing out. You've got these consulting companies that will provide all the research for you. They'll tell you, peace is a hundred times more profitable than war. You can manage this whole portfolio of world order. Russia and Ukraine. So when I look at Europe right now, I know that I'm, my analysis says that while it looks like chaos and World War III, this is actually the Middle East. It's the Middle East becoming West Asia again. So they're all aligned with China. Iran's aligned with China. The Gulf countries are aligned with China. You know, you've got, and you need a theatrical, I don't want to use the word theater because then people think fake. This is all real. Like the deaths are real. The killing's real, but capital doesn't care about that. You know, if you think, if you think Gaza's bad, Gaza's a reflection of how our system's always worked. We just get to see it on camera. You know, this is how the system's always worked. It's just, you just didn't know it. You didn't get to see it. You didn't get to see it on camera. And the GCC, the Gulf countries and Europe, you're saying the Gulf countries and Europe are being more aligned with China. Well, let's look at, let's look at this. So you talked about the petrodollar, let's go to petrodollar and today, those are the two last components. Okay. So we set up the World Bank. We set up the IMF. We set up the Bank for International Settlements. We set up the FICMIC. Okay. When you were trying to make profits from war, what did the military industrial complex do? Well, it used the strategic tension between communism and capitalism, which is a fake narrative. Yes. Because they profit from both. You know. NATO. Yeah. Yep. Absolutely. So then you have like Operation Gladio, Operation Mockingbird, if you're familiar with all these things. Yeah. Control media narrative through Mockingbird, Gladio is where the terrorism industry came from, which the first terrorists were really the Israelis after that 1917 Balfour Declaration, you know, when you had like Likud and Haganah, which later became the IDF, you know, those were the ones where you would do false flag operations, you would blame it on someone else. Northwoods. Operation Northwoods, where they had a plan to fly the jetliner over Cuba and shoot it down. Yeah. So, you know, this is really MI6, CIA, Mossad, Five Eyes, like classic. So whenever you see terrorists, you're like, "Oh, we're going to have a war with them. We're going to have a war with them. We're going to have a war with them." Like, here's how it really works. Think of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, even in the Department of Government Efficiency, one of the AI actually released that there was $695 million of funding via USAID to ISIS and Al-Qaeda training camps. So these people, their job is to create a radicalized group, an army, a militia group, and at the higher levels, they're paid by intelligence assets, and they auction themselves off. That's their business. Their business is if the French are willing to pay, if the Gulf are willing to pay, if the Turks are willing to pay, if the Americans are willing to pay. These militant groups in the Middle East. Yes. Now, what their job is to do is make it look like it's religion, and also recruit people through radicalizing and all that type of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So that they can start destabilizing countries so that you can access their resources, and then you can enter into a FIC negotiation around their resources. So the terrorism industry is a factory. Wow. It's a factory of negotiation with FIC. That's fucking wild. Yeah. I've never heard it explained this way before. And so if FIC controls the US military, think of the US military as a full-ramp militia group like ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Right. When FIC wants Venezuelan oil, go get it. Trump, you get to make a shit ton of money out of it, do some insider trading. Now what is your view on the reason that we did that Venezuelan operation right before Iran? So what I think FIC is doing is using energy crisis and manufactured crisis in order to split the world into regions, because the era of US hegemonic power is being hedged against. It's not we're ending it, because the British Empire to the American Empire, it was like a 10, 20-year transition to go from the Bank of England being important to the Federal Reserve being the most important. So I think they're splitting the world up into regions right now. The Dutch was a natural handover to the British, the British was a natural handover to the Americans. It's all the same kind of structure, but now we've got China, China defended, you know? And so you've got to deal with China. You can't co-op China. You know, they expelled all the banksters, they created their own central bank, they have their own nationalized banking system, they have capital controls, you can't launch currency wars, they've got a manufacturing base, they've got a currency that they want to keep cheap, you know, so that their exports, the whole world needs their product. The MIC, FIC and TIC cannot function without China. That's the important part. There's not an American weapon that can be produced without China. And why is that? Because they built an infrastructure, and it comes down to this petrodollar, globalization, and then today. Let's go through those three parts. The petrodollar was the thing that was meant to bankrupt the American government after the Korean War was the Vietnamese War. So that did bankrupt the American government. And at that stage, this is when France. France tested whether they could get their gold. And so France showed up with a big naval ship and said, "Hey, I want my gold. Give me my gold. I don't want these Federal Reserve notes anymore. I don't want any money in the dollar system." And America said, "Okay." And other countries were all trying to get their gold. And the gold supply was about to be drained. Now there's a problem. If you look at America's gold, remember they had 8,000 tons from all these different wars, the British colonial, the Germans, the Russians, all that stuff. That gold sits on two companies' balance sheets, the US government, treasury, and the Federal Reserve. That gold is double book-kept. It is booked twice. It's owned by the Fed, and it's owned by the government. That's the collateral. Now, since the '50s, I think we've had like one audit or something. And Trump said, "Well, we'll audit Fort Knox." But that hasn't happened yet. But basically that's the collateral that if everyone wanted their gold, it doesn't exist. Because it's levered up through these derivatives markets, these paper contracts against gold. All right? Okay. China has all its gold. It doesn't have paper contracts. China has all its silver. It doesn't have this hyper-financialized market. So the petrodollar, so France tried to get its gold. And then we had regime change with JFK. I'd summarize- Yeah, didn't he? I've heard a theory that he wanted to do something with the Federal Reserve. There's a theory that why he dies, because he wanted to do something to the Federal Reserve. Yeah. I mean, my personal theory is that you can look at the Mossad connection. You can look at the Mossad connections and the AIPAC stuff, and I think that's the most likely. But who were they connected to? Military-industrial complex. So JFK did three things which were unforgivable. One of them is he wanted to classify AIPAC foreign financing and take the ability to close that loophole between this money laundering- He wanted them to maybe be a foreign agent. Yeah. And so they'd have to. You couldn't lobby as a foreign agent. The second thing he did is he introduced a silver-backed dollar issued by the government. Not the Fed, but the government. government. Okay. Which is what Abraham Lincoln did. Abraham Lincoln, if you've seen the civil war was funded because Abraham Lincoln was against the banks as Andrew Jackson was. Andrew Jackson, if you look at those three, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, Andrew Jackson wanted to pay down the debt and not have the central bank. And he closed the central bank and paid down the debt. Then he had to be eliminated. How did he die? I don't know. I mean, there's stories around there that poison and all sorts. I don't know. I can speculate, but. What's the official narrative? Can you find out? Ask Google how Andrew Jackson died. We know how JFK and Lincoln died. Then yeah, Lincoln issued his own currency, the green back, and it was issued by treasury rather. Rather than created as debt. Heart failure, severe fluid retention, allegedly heart failure. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, you know, those were the big, you remember, again, I don't want to go too deep. We'll carry on. But there was three parts of American history, three central banks, and the last one was the Fed. There were battles between those central banks and the government and who issues currency is basically the battle. And Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and then JFK did actually implement law that allowed the treasury to issue currencies fully convertible into silver. That's the same thing that effectively Hitler did. Really? Yes. So Hitler printed his own currency by the treasury, not backed by debt with no Ponzi scheme. And that was called national socialism. And then, you know, you call it Nazism or whatever. That's that. That part of history. And then he had to invade the countries to get the gold. Now, JFK, he issued a currency. I think it's fully settled. I can't remember exactly what happened there. And he's got his infamous speeches where he was talking about the military industrial complex and the shadow government. He wanted to pull everyone out of Vietnam within a couple months. Correct. He wanted to, he stopped the, there was a big nuclear war plan. With the Joint Chiefs of Staff where they wanted to nuke Russia and China. And he said no to that. Yeah. So he was regime changed and replaced with a pro-Israeli, pro-MIC, neocon, LBJ, you know, went back to business as usual. Then we had Nixon. And Nixon, after the, you know, the Vietnamese war effectively fully bankrupted the US government. At that stage, Nixon came off. And then he went back to gold standard and reset rules. So this is 1971. Nixon woke up one day and said, Hey, you know that Bretton Woods agreement? You know, we said, if you want to have gold, like hand in your dollars and we'll give you some gold. Yeah, you can't do that anymore. And so now the dollar was backed by nothing. And it was a full fiat currency, debt-based Ponzi scheme that was simply a function of how much debt the banks could get the world into. And this was the first time in history we had that, 1971. So then what followed? Israel started doing more and more military action across the Middle East. There was a resistance against it, which was Saudi Arabia and various other countries did an oil embargo. They spiked the price of oil. But this was unacceptable. Yeah. This was unacceptable for America because America at that time was completely dependent upon the Middle East for its oil. It obviously had its own supplies, but it still needed to supplement it through Middle Eastern partnerships. Right. Saudi who had a partnership with US because it didn't want to work with the Brits. Iran worked with the Brits to build its oil. Saudi worked with the Americans to build its oil, its oil extraction and various other things. Saudi slowly started removing itself from its partnership to build its sovereign wealth fund and tried to maintain its own resources. Iran was only able to keep about 5, 10% of the revenue from its oil. The rest went to British petroleum from the colonial days. And so we regime changed, both the CIA and MI6 regime changed the democracy in Iran because they wanted to nationalize their oil in 1950, 53, just before the Egypt side. So British petroleum is losing its oil now. It had to go and how did it persuade Carter at the time? Well, it said Iran's a communist, it's working with the Russians, of course. And so then the CIA and MI6 regime changed the democracy, replaced it with the Shah, the dictator effectively, and managed to keep as much of its oil. And it wasn't until, you know, 79 with the Iranian revolution that it wanted to nationalize its oil and keep its own oil. Hence why Iran is enemy number one to big oil. Now Saudi complied. Saudi said, we'll share 50/50. And then over time, it set up a relationship and it negotiated with the FIC. Wait, wait, wait. Saudi went 50/50 with who? Well, American properties. American private big oil, the big seven oil companies, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, British Petroleum, you know, the big Western. Again, yeah, none of that's owned by the country. It's not British, it's not American. It's just companies that are hosted in Britain and America. Got it. You know, they don't have the oil. Saudi was receiving 50% of its revenue building up wealth, but able to negotiate with FIC. And when Israel, you know, did this invasion, they did an oil embargo. And this sent the inflation like crazy, exactly what's happening now. Oil prices went up like nuts. But there's a major difference today. America has its own energy. You know, that's a very important thing. But at that time, it was fully dependent upon this. But does big oil care? Big oil doesn't care. Because disasters, manufacturing disasters is just concentration of power upwards. Yeah. So, privatizing gains and losses. Around about this time, there was a covert network of the intelligence network that was set up by the Bush family who were Middle Eastern oil tycoons. And George Bush Senior set up a covert network called Safari Club. Right. Safari Club was an intelligence sharing network between Saudis, the Bush families, various others. One of the first people they groomed, in terms of a CIA asset in this network, in Safari Club, was Osama bin Laden. They groomed him as a CIA asset? Yes. And what do you mean when you say groomed him? Osama bin Laden was a Safari Club member. We talked about these militias. He had an ideology that allowed him to recruit an army. And that ideology could be weaponized in order to destabilize, destabilize countries and get leverage against the Saudi government as well. So, when you think of these, when you think of like the Middle East, in case of Saudi, you have like, kind of like what you would call the Islamists. Then you have the Saudi, like royal monarchy. And these two forces are kind of competing forces within the country's power structure. But they've partnered over time and they figured out ways. But, you know, there was, a whole friction, you know, like the whole divide and conquer operation is always, if you could fund the quote unquote Islamists, then the fit can get leverage in negotiating with the royal monarchs. And so, what happened with the oil embargo, is- You fund the Islamists to create chaos. To create chaos against the nationalist government, the nationalist elements, the ones that control their oil. You get them to create chaos. So, that if you can pit them against each other, destroy the country, then you might be able to regime change, put in your own dictator. And extract all the wealth. Right. Which is what they did in Lebanon, in Syria, in, you know, and in all the way down to Gaza, you know, as a, as a laboratory for testing military and technical genocide technology. Right. But yeah, and the resistance was done by the leader at the time, was King Faisal. King Faisal was assassinated in '74. And this was around the time of the creation of the petrodollar. And so, the new set of family, there was a negotiation around that time, like '71, '72, '73, '74, '75, around about that time. This was the oil embargo. This was the massive inflation price increase, energy prices through the roof. It was a disaster that led to a really bad, like, decade ahead. And leading through the '80s and everything that we saw from that. But the petrodollar was a negotiation that said, right, we're going to form all of the countries that kept its oil, we're going to form OPEC and we're going to negotiate against Western oil interests. And we're going to say, we're going to unify rather than me just being Saudi and me just being Iran and me just being Venezuela, me just being Argentina. We're going to get together and we're going to pull all of our vast oil resources together and we're going to negotiate with FIC. And we're going to try and persuade them to stop sending our, you know, destroying our country so that they can do the forever war and rebuild and all of that stuff. So OPEC was formed as a resistance. And who was all involved in OPEC? All of the big like Gulf countries today, like the Kuwaitis, the Saudis, Emiratis. Today, you've got Iran, Venezuela, they're all in OPEC. Oh, okay. And what they do is they're a cartel of oil producing countries that kept their oil and they all agree how much oil to put out in the market. So they have quotas. So they say, Iraq, you can produce this much. Oil, UAE, you produce this much oil. Venezuela, you produce that much oil. And if we act together in unison, then we can negotiate against the private Exxons and Chevrons and Shells and BPs. Wow. Now what? Okay. So, so they're new. When you say that OPEC, these countries getting together, extracting their quota of oil every year to negotiate. What do you mean when you say negotiate against Shell and BP and Chevron? What do you mean when you say negotiate against them? Well, McFick tick. Fick can create a war. It can create a forever war. It can destroy your country. It can rent the US. Steal the resources. Steal your resources. And if you, and then once you're optimally destroyed and weak, then Fick comes in and says, let's do some rebuild contracts. And they negotiate all the different contracts. So after a war, which is in the case of Iran right now is the memorandum of understanding. It said we need, they use different language to make you think something else is happening. So they said 300 billion reparations. So Iran can give a narrative, we're going to get 300 billion, which you've got to make up for. But who's going to pay that 300 billion? Well, is it going to be the Gulf countries? Is it going to be the FIC? Where's the capital going to come from? That determines what the negotiation was. And they're using the US nation state to say, remove sanctions and we'll get 300 billion rebuild. You price some of your oil in yen and some of it in dollars, and then you're going to release this amount. And that's what they're negotiating. That's what the Iranian government will be negotiating. And right now, when I was in New York, they were at the United Nations meeting and, you know, Abbas Arachi and Procheskian that represent kind of, the reformist elements of the Iranian government. And then you have the IRGC, which is the militarized part of the country. They own the banking system, they own the oil, they own. So when, when you imagine Iran split in two, so this is where you have to have a bit of nuance, right? You've got the reformist government, then you've got the banking, the military, the IRGC, which is the Iranian god, you know, that wanted to nationalize its oil, and dead. To try and keep his oil and give it and use it, you know, for his own country's interest. Those two different factions make up Iran. One goes militarily, and the other goes down diplomacy. And now we're just getting all these different negotiations that are happening. Trump represents the FIC. You know, you can see, if you want to understand what Trump is, look at the recent meeting in Beijing. So you had Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping just came to New York. Right. Prior to that, Trump went to Beijing. Right. But Trump didn't come, you know, like Xi Jinping came, representing the country. He came with the McFick and Tick. He brought everybody. Yeah. So he brought Tim Cook. And Tim Cook from Apple said, "Hey, China, Xi Jinping, you know, CCP, you know, those factories that we kind of depend upon, because otherwise our iPhones would be like $10,000? Are we going to, you know, you know, we're going to have, you know, we're going to have a lot of factories that we kind of depend upon, because otherwise our iPhones would be like $10,000? Are we going to, you know, we're going to have a lot of factories that we kind of depend upon, because otherwise our iPhones would be like $10,000? Are we going to be able to continue producing them in China? And Xi Jinping maybe would have said yes. And Elon would have said, "Hey, you know, those components I need for those batteries and those electric vehicles, you're going to still give them to us?" And Xi Jinping might have said, "Yeah, yeah, don't worry, we'll give you some of those." And Goldman Sachs and Visa and MasterCard would have said, "Look, we can't control your SIP system. We can't control that you provide the financial rails to UAE, Saudi and Iran. We have no control over that. But can we in a multipolar world, like, get some cut between getting access to your financial system?" And so Deutsche Bank announced integration into the SIP's Chinese payment network through the Dollar Swift system. UAE and the Bank for International Settlements set up a network of central bank digital currencies that clear outside the SWIFT, dollar system. And so, you know, Trump is there to enrich himself while he provides the leverage for McFick and Tick. And McFick and Tick will negotiate with CCP via the government. And what is his leverage? Well, with China, China, the leverage of China is that China wants to export more goods. Okay. I see what you're saying. China wants to sell to America. So, Trump is making concessions on what China can export to United States in exchange for China doing more business with our big corporations like Apple and Tesla and all that. Yeah. So, there's this big deal. So, he represents McFick and Tick. Right. I got you. And Trump owns the stocks in McFick and Tick. And he has the information to insider trade it as well. Right. And so, and throughout this whole negotiation- He's selling private access to his Truth Social. So, people can get inside- So, if you're like on the left, you're like, you know, Trump's the most corrupt person ever. If you're on the right, you're like, MAGA, he's taking on China. But neither of those are true. You know, some people would say like on the left, they'll start thinking Trump's like the dumbest and he's being absolutely, you know, crucified by Iran. No, he's doing a fantastic job for Fick. He's doing an amazing job for Tick. He's just being a middleman. Yeah. He's a middleman. And he gets to get rich from the process. Right. And as long, when you get to be, when you get to sit on that throne, you have to be compromised. You know, you're not going to be president without being compromised. That doesn't happen. You know, if you want to climb those ladders, like the way this works is you groom politicians, you say, I'll give you $10,000 and this is the policy I want to happen. You know, oh, it's not our policy. It's a think tank. So, they're telling Trump, like- You're going to build, you're going to make billions of dollars. Yeah. So, if you look at Trump, then you go down his table. So, who was his primary funder? Elon Musk, this time around. He's a tick node. Right. Then you go down and you got the Bank of New York, a Mellon dynasty banking family. That's a Fick node. He was the second largest funder. The third largest funder was Mario Maddleston. That's a Mick node. That's a military industrial complex. What was the second one? The second one was the Mellon banking family. The Mellon banking family. Yeah. So, like they're like the- A hugely important custodian of the Fick, holding, you know, trillions of dollars of assets and Bank of New York Mellon is like huge in terms of part of that plumbing. And so, you can see, right, tick. Let's look through his policies. What's the first thing he did? Department of government efficiency. Let's pretend we're going to pay off the national debt. It was like, yes, we're going to pay down the national debt. We're going to make the government more efficient. We're going to stamp corruption. What did he do? Well, you can't pay down the debt. The dollar is debt. There's no paying down the debt. The debt is there forever. Look at the British debt. Has that gone down? It can't go down. It is the pound, you know? So, the dollar is debt. So, you can't pay down the debt. You can only roll over the debt. So, what were they really doing? Well, they were pulling all the data into Palantir and Nexon and they were also releasing- Yeah. He was doing an audit of the HHS, the IOM, and so on and so forth. And they were also releasing- Yeah. He was doing an audit of the HHS, the IRS, Social Security, right? They were taking all that stuff and integrating it all with the AI into one database. Catherine Otherston-Fitz talks about this. So, immediately, that was the first thing he did, right? Collect all the data. Then he said, "Operation Stargate," was it? I can't remember what it's called. I think it was Stargate. "Here's half a trillion dollars to build out data centers, and we're going to lead AI." Okay, thank you very much. So, that provides the foundation for the AI bubble. Anthropic's about to IPO for $2 trillion. SpaceX did $1.75 trillion. Immediately gets loaded up. The reason that the government's paying so high interest rate right now is because they're competing with the AI companies, because the banks are issuing debt like crazy. They're issuing $800 billion of debt. For these AI companies, the US government needs to roll over $10 trillion of debt in the next year or so. And the price, the interest that it's paying is blowing out, as it is all around the Western world at the moment. Catherine Otherston-Fitz: as it is in France, as it is in UK, as it is in America. So the FIC owns all those bonds, you know, and they're allocating capital globally into multipolarity. So what was the next thing Trump did? He raged a tariff war. It was so predictable what the tariff war would do when you follow the money. Firstly, it would be small businesses that pay the tariffs because America runs a deficit, which means that it imports more than it exports. It's the importer that pays the tariff. So that was a tax on American small business. The large multinational that works with China, they just get to offset this and negotiate a deal for themselves. So Apple and the Magnificent Seven and Elon and everyone, they don't pay it. And with that, you drive the entire world through these tariffs. Over to China, over to BRICS, over to multipolarity. That is what I believe the FIC wants right now. The FIC is hedging into a multipolar world. Yeah. What else do you do? You take all the export-dependent countries and they bankrupt their small businesses and the big companies get to buy them all up. Mergers and acquisitions activity went through the roof. The financial industrial complex did so many deals, scooped up so many businesses, a bit like they did in COVID. A bit like they did in the pandemic. A bit like they did in the Russia-Ukraine situation. A bit like they did in the 2008 global financial crisis. A bit like they did in the dot-com boom and bust. Long-term capital management, whatever you want to do. Every crisis concentrates wealth upwards. And everything comes into the stock market. What do you do? There was a conspiracy theory that people around here believed when we got smashed with those hurricanes a couple years ago that flooded pretty much every coastal house in Florida, that it was BlackRock engineered the hurricane so they could buy up all the houses after people moved out. Yeah. Once you figure out how the world actually works, you know, you can go down these conspiracies. And I think there's, you know, like, they have the abilities to do these things. Can we prove it? Well, I don't know. Maybe you don't need to necessarily prove it. We know that they can weaponize it anyway, whether it's real or not. They know how to weaponize it. And it always leads to the same result. So he did tariff. That reset the world order into multi-polarity. I mean, that was the most radical shift in the world since COVID. Because that helped other countries and it really hurt the United States. Yes, every country. Well, it didn't. It hurt the United States as a nation state. Small businesses. Small business. It hurt, yeah. It helped McFick and Tick. The middle class. They crushed it. McFick and Tick did incredibly well out of it. Just like they did out of COVID. Yeah. But all the countries then started to lean into different negotiations with China. And so the whole world renegotiated with China while it was being completely stung, its relationship with America. Now, some of the countries were subordinate to McFick and Tick, but McFick and Tick can use that to get as much as they can. Even the export-dependent countries like Indonesia or various other countries, they had the same effect. The small exporters got concentrated up. They got concentrated upwards. And then that puts more concentration of power up to McFick. The next thing he did is he kind of. You know, we had a little taste of it during Department of Government Efficiency where people were like revealing, "Wow, there's some covert operations that happened in this country." Remember, the covert operations prop up this system. So I was talking about IMF, covert warfare, all that stuff, USAID funding. I forgot to say one thing. The third element of how the intelligence networks are funded, and I don't know, you probably know this, but we said Pentagon budgets, which is the actual thing that people think they do. Then we said private contracting with the companies, and that crosses over. But the third way is through off-balance-y activity. Black budgets. Black budgets, black ops. Missing trillions of dollars from the Pentagon. Missing trillions, but mainly human trafficking, weapons trafficking, sex trafficking, drugs trafficking, partnership with the cartels and criminal networks. Right. Yeah. So if you need money outside the system, remember, the Pentagon has to be disclosed. That's US public disclosure. The private contractors, they're all public companies. They have to disclose that. But the black ops is money outside the system. You can't FOIA the private contractors, though. Yeah. And this is where you understand things like we just talked about the petrodollar. So anyway, I wanted to get back to that. Now, the petrodollar, the way that worked is when OPEC got leverage and they were negotiating against big oil, and Israel catalyzed it to get to the negotiation point, the end negotiation was that they said, "All right, Saudi, you price your oil in dollars. But remember, you can't hold a trillion dollars at a bank." When you say that, you're saying you can only exchange your oil for US dollars. Yeah. You can only exchange your oil for US dollars, and you have to price everything in US dollars. So everyone thinks in terms of one barrel equals this amount of dollars. Okay. Then you have to settle in US dollars. Now, once you settle in US dollars, that means that you have to hold those funds with the Fed, the Federal Reserve System. And you don't just hold money in a bank. Okay. company only like you know half a half a five hundred thousand dollars is guaranteed remember it's a ponzi scheme so rich people don't store their money in the bank wait what did you say about $500,000 is guaranteed? You know, like FDIC, if you have a bank account, $250,000 of it is guaranteed by deposit insurance. The rest of it is subject to bail-ins that happened in Cyprus. So if you have more than $250,000 at a bank and the bank goes bust, you lose that money. Is this for individuals or corporations? That's for individuals and corporations. I think it's about $500,000. They can fact check me in the comments, but there's a number around that. Dude, look this up. I had no idea about this. That's another Ponzi scheme, by the way. FDIC, the insurance that insures all the banks and says, in case the bank goes bust, we'll pay out your insurance for that deposit. It's only got 1% of the value it's insuring. 99% is uninsured. Jesus. So this is an incentive for people to invest. Well, this is why rich people don't leave money at a bank, because the bank, you can have your money taken. It's not yours. When you deposit your money at the bank, the bank is the legal owner of your money. Safeguards up to $250,000 per depositor, per bank. Okay. Yeah. So if you're rich, don't keep more than $250,000 in your bank account. Absolutely not. So what do you do? Well, you got your dollars. Well, you lend it to the government. You buy bonds. So they came off the gold standard. The government was bankrupt. And they said, price it, your oil in dollars. And then you have to take those dollars and buy bonds and lend it back to me, roll over the Ponzi. Now, when you own bonds, it would clear through the Federal Reserve System and you receive the interest off the debt. So you're lending to the government. Hold on, hold on, hold on. All right. So you're selling your oil. I'm selling my oil in exchange for US dollars and I can only keep $250,000 to make account. So I'm taking all this U.S. dollars and I'm investing them, I'm buying U.S. bonds? Correct. And do we have to buy U.S. bonds if we're Saudi Arabia? Yeah. In the petrodollar agreement, you have to buy bonds. We have to buy bonds. So we're buying U.S. debt. Yes. So effectively you're lending your dollars back to the U.S. government and the U.S. government is funding a military that is raging war against your country to negotiate for the fit. Yeah. It gets worse. It gets worse. What do you get when you have a bond? You receive interest, right? On the debt. There's a trillion dollars of interest. What is the interest? What's the rate? I mean, you know, it's variable. So it's in the market. So at the moment, yields are blowing out at 5.3%. And that's very expensive. That means mortgages are going to be about 8%, which means that the companies that need to refinance their debt can't afford to refinance at 8%. So, you know, it impacts the mortgage market, it impacts the credit card market, it impacts the auto loan market, it impacts the market for debt based upon these rates. And so then they say, right, we'll pay you yield, we'll pay you the interest. But think about how it was done with Israel. You've got to buy it back from our military companies. So you've got to lend it to us, we'll pay you the interest, but you've got to spend the interest on our military equipment and then we're going to build a base a u.s base in your country oh my god yeah and then we're going to use that for the cia to do intelligence operations in order to manufacture wars around the middle east and so we've got israel as our node and we gradually find as many bases across the region as we can and you're paying for it and the petrodollar agreement was If you do that, you can also have agreements with US contractors and it's a protection racket. We won't bomb you, we won't kill you, we won't destroy your country, and you can maintain your leadership and we won't regime change you. Guess what? We don't care about democracy when it comes to you, we don't care about women's rights when it comes to you, because we've got the deal. So all the narrative on the front is all BS. All BS. Complete BS. Okay. And what have you got to do? You've got to manufacture the terrorists. You've got to create ISIS and Al-Qaeda. And when we need them, we use them. And if we want to destroy Nigeria, we send in Boko Haram. Do people like the leaders of Iran, the GCC states, and Trump, do they all understand this to the level that you do? Well, absolutely. I'm not in their rooms. They know this. I'm an outside spectator trying to figure out how this all works. They've got intelligence assets. They know how the system works. Iran's kind of sharing how the system works. Do you think Trump understood this before he became president? I think Trump only cares about one thing, making money. Do you think he understood, though, the complexity of the system and how it worked with international capital and the financial industrial complex and how there's this just layer above governments? I think Trump was groomed for the role because if you look back at his history, you know, so he made money with real estate in New York. What's the power structure in New York? Well, you've got the real estate tycoons. You've got the Jewish mafia. You've got the legacy Italian mob. If you get. If you get to build Trump Tower in New York, these are protected circles. You know, you have to hang around with some pretty serious people. Doesn't he have one in Russia, too? I know that the bank he borrows from most is ICBC, which is the largest bank in China. Okay. I know that most of his wealth, a massive chunk of his wealth, he really made money through the crypto markets, doing crypto scams in this side. And that laundered a bunch of golf money through UAE. And there was a lot of corrupt structures that happened via the stable coins and industry, like the different crypto scams that his family created. That was a lot of. There was a lot of laundering there. But his big. One of his biggest assets is. Oh, there's a crazy video I got to send you, Steve. Go ahead, continue. Now, this is where it becomes interesting. You've got the lobby money of Elon. You've got the FIC money, you know, the TIC money. The FIC money and the MIC money with Mary Madelson and Israel. But the big chunk of money is actually Affinity Partners, which is his fund, managed that he married into, managed by Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner is the fund manager. The capital comes from the Gulf Sovereign Wealth Funds. And that's about $5 billion. It makes money from. This is where I think a lot of his covert influence comes from. It's invested in the Israeli pension fund, which owns a bit of all the military companies in Israel. It's also got some exposure to West Bank settlements. It's also got a bunch of. So that's kind of, you know, it will be. A lot of the deals, I guess, in the rebuild of everything that's being destroyed right now, will likely have some investment agreement. So he's going to profit significantly from the rebuild at the other side of this war. And that's where I think Gulf countries have significant influence. There's something very interesting that happened as well. Saudi Aramco, you know, the oil that I said was the nation state. It took about 1% of the company and went public. And as a result of that, the CEO of Saudi Aramco joined the board of BlackRock. So now Saudi, Gulf. Money is on the board, which, you know, the executives subordinate to board. And so this is kind of influence. You can see that FIC and sovereign wealth funds are working together in transnational capital. Now, where does the Gulf get its money from? This is where we get round to where we are today. What happened in Trump won? Trump won, released big oil, released fracking. And so America became. China became an energy exporter. Big oil became not America. Big companies hosted in America became energy exporters. So now you're the Saudis and you're thinking, so I'm pricing my oil in dollars. I'm buying your debt. You're not buying any of our oil anymore. And now you're competing with us. Now you want to start exporting your energy. Where's all my money coming from? It's coming from China. China's buying all the energy. In U.S. dollars. So China has a. No, so the petrodollar, roundabout this time, became 70% petrodollar, 70% petroyuan. Oh. Sorry, 30% petroyuan. So still majority dollars. But they allowed countries to settle in their own currencies. And they stopped buying bonds. And what did they do? Rather than lending to the U.S. government, they started buying equities. Equities. So they started owing the largest tech companies in the world, the McFick & Tick. So they became the most significant investor in McFick & Tick with Chinese money. China was buying the oil. The oil was being sold in local currency. It was fueling their sovereign wealth funds. And those sovereign wealth funds were then buying. Chinese yuan buys the energy from the Gulf countries. And the Gulf countries now have the Chinese money. They have the Chinese money, but also China trades in dollars. Okay. You know, they have that dollar. I mean, as I said, McFick & Tick are dependent upon China. So that whole dollar corridor is very important to China. They're not trying to kill the dollar. Right. They want the dollar to be as strong as possible. And they want their currency to be as weak as possible. Because that privatizes all the power upwards the stronger the dollar gets. And the weaker the yen gets, the more they can export. And so their economy grows the weaker the yen gets. The stronger the dollar gets. You're talking about the Saudi economy. I'm talking about the Chinese economy. Sorry. The Chinese economy. Now, China is then. So who is Saudi selling its oil to? Because America doesn't need it anymore. China. They're selling it to China. Right. So China now fuels the sovereign wealth fund of all the Gulf countries. The Gulf are then taking that money and buying US equities. And why? Why? They're not forced to do that, though. They're choosing to do that. They're choosing to do it because they're making a shit ton of money out of the US stock market. Because they partnered with FIC. So they're becoming the financial industrial complex. Exactly. So now the sovereign wealth funds are partners with the FIC. Right. Funded by China. And all of the McFIC and TIC need China for their global empires. Because China is funding it. Yes. That's the power structure of the world. And America. The nation state, UK, the nation state, Europe, the nation state is subordinate to that power structure. And. Wow. That's so crazy. So what does that look like from our perspective in the next 15 to 20 years? Okay. In your view? Well, I, again, I could be wrong about this. This is my speculation as an outsider. I don't want to follow in the money that seems to be obsessed with that. What do I think McFIC and TIC want? Right. And what do I think they're going to get? So do you think China wants Israel to continue to be a US asset that destabilizes access to all the oil? They definitely don't. So if they know that American hegemonic dominance comes from destabilizing the region. Because what's the thing that the Dutch, the British. And the Americans knew could never happen. You can't allow African resources, Middle East and energy to be unified with Russian and Chinese power. Okay. That can't happen because. Because the balance is too offset. There's too much, there's too much power. Well, that's what they need to prevent. That's why they created McFIC and TIC. That's why they destabilize the countries. That's why they regime change. Because they said, we want the resources. We want the money. Um. And you can't have China, Russia, the African country and the Middle Eastern countries that have 40% of all the world's resources that we need unifying in building China and Russian power. Which could theoretically, if that happened, that could destroy the McFIC and TIC? No, the McFIC and TIC don't have leverage over China. So they'd have to negotiate into that power dynamic. Got it. They own the US government. Got it. They own Europe. It's all about leverage. And Africa just has never been able to use their resources because they've always been regime changed and the dictators are personally enriched. And any time they try and do something different, you just assassinate them. Right. So when Gaddafi wanted to price oil and, you know, and create a trans-African gold-backed currency, you assassinate him. When Iran, you know, wants to, is fully dependent upon China for this trade and this corridor, you know, and China wants to. wants to nationalise it, sorry, and Iran wants to nationalise its own oil, you create a narrative. They're head of the snake. They're the world exporters of terrorism. And who created the terrorism? They're building a nuke. They're building a nuke, you know? And think about that. So ever since 1979 with the Iranian revolution, you've had Iran and you've had Israel that allegedly, you know, the Muslims want to kill the Jews. And, you know, Iran's trying to expand around it and, you know, all this stuff. And they confuse the narrative. So someone like in the West would not understand the nuance between the difference between ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, you know, but they're starting to understand it now, which is interesting. Yeah, it is very interesting. But Iran has always been the biggest enemies of ISIS and Al-Qaeda because they were manufactured via Saudi money. Western intelligence. You know, these were the destabilizing forces. So these are the assets. So, but in the West, you get to say, guess what? We're taking on terrorism and defending democracy. So then you get to go bomb those countries and say, you're taking on ISIS. Right. People don't understand the difference. No, people don't understand the difference. Muslims, bad. Yeah. And so, of course, Osama bin Laden, Safari Club, 9-11, you know, do the mass. You know, dancing Israelis, CIA. What do you think 9-11 was? I think it was a partnership between, it's way too overstated to say it was the CIA, it was Mossad, it was Israel. I think there were factions of Mossad that were involved in ops. There were factions of the CIA related to the Bush Safari Club networks. And the money was all laundered via Saudi and UAE banking. And so, if you look at just what we know, you've got the declassified documents. Later, we saw all the Saudi banking system, money laundering networks that connected to there. Saudi intelligence was also involved. Saudi intelligence, definitely. Documented. Right. We could prove that through documents. CIA, you know, there was this whole rigmarole around, what does the FBI know? What does the CIA know? You know, it's, it's on a need-to-know basis. So, there were factions that were involved in that op, I believe. They were connected to war profiteering. You know, it led to $10 trillion of profits that were extracted from, you know, the American people through increasing the national debt over to the stock market. And, you know, we've got what we know about dancing Israelis and the decla, the, the, the names that were covered up and the different types of things. What about the airline stocks that were, that were sold right before? Yeah. So, we still haven't had the declassification of which the broker was that was, you know, issuing all the options that profited from, some speculate that it was Cantor Fitzgerald, others, Jane Street. But we still don't have the full confirmation. Now, the SEC requested that, but that just disappeared. Hmm. So, higher levels of power in these games. You know, definitely knew about that. But if you think that at this stage, you still believe that that was like, you know, Al Qaeda acting on their own in order to take away American freedom. But do you think it was possibly a plot by Osama bin Laden that, that they just saw happening and they let it happen because they thought it would be to their advantage? Potentially. But I think, I think there were higher levels of intelligence networks, across Saudi across US and across Israel, that were involved in parts of that. The extent to which the whole story is, we went, we haven't got, you know, but there's no way that was organic. And let's say it was, it was very convenient, because the Patriot Act was already written. Right. The surveillance state was already written. The ability to carve out the Constitution, through terrorist laws, was already written. The Bank Secrecy Act was already written. And the clean break memo of which countries to target and invade was already written. And there were fake anthrax operations in order to connect Osama bin Laden to Iraq, which had zero to do with each other, so that you could lead to the invasion of Iraq. Like, who were the two countries that were resisting? Mostly you had Gaddafi, you had Iraq, and you had Iran. These were the countries, Iraq was going to price its oil in euros. They needed to use Iraq. Iraq, Saddam Hussein, you know, was cooperating with the CIA for a significant period of time. You know, he was considered an asset when they wanted to use Iraq in order to destroy Iran. And so at the same time, the CIA and the military-industrial complex were providing chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein in Iraq. To fight Iran, right? Yes. While invading Iran with ISIS and al-Qaeda and these different groups on the militia side. And if you look back, and some people believe that when the Ayatollah came from exile in France, think of the British techniques of Operation Gladio, which is, you create strategic tension to divide and conquer. So now you're talking about a nuclear war. You're talking about a nuclear war, so now you've got a perfect enemy for Israel, between Israel and Iran. And they all say, suddenly, they're always going to blow each other up. There's nukes around the corner for about 40 years. But it wasn't until two years ago, that for the first time, Iran and Israel actually traded blows. So for 40 years, apparently, they're the biggest enemy. But how much money did the military-industrial complex make out of that? You know, so this is, you know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Massive deception, massive deceit. But to believe that there is a fight for democracy, and women's rights, and the expulsion of terrorism, and there's a war on drugs, is the PSYOP. America, the dollar is propped up by drug trafficking, human trafficking, weapons trafficking, sex trafficking, terrorism. And if for some reason, those are being exposed, which comes back to Trump. If they're being exposed, they're not draining the swamp, they're draining the backing of the dollar. So the release of the Epstein files massively destabilized the thought of what Israel is, of what America is, of- Yes. It took out all of the pretense in the American dream. Right. It was like a peek behind the veil- Yes. -of what's really happening. And- Mm-hmm. -especially when you can read emails with Epstein talking to Ahud Barak about how they can profit off providing arms and surveillance to countries fighting civil wars in Africa, Sierra Leone, or whatever it was. Yeah. And Trump has this perfect role, right? He works for FIC, he's enriching himself, and he's got a cult following. And so what happens in this "democracy"? Every two years, you need to get back to getting your lobby financing. Trump ain't going to pay for his campaign. He's going to go back to the lobbies, and they're going to say, "Well, did you perform your role every two years, midterm elections?" Now, you're still useful to us because you still got your cult following, but you've kind of taken a lot of your following away, a lot of your hardcore followers. Right. So you're not really a very useful asset. You're diminishing your utility to power. Extract as much as you can, enrich yourself personally, and if you perform this, then we'll give you some more financing. And Trump's job is to say, "I'm working to make America great again," while FIC is extracting an asset strip in the country. One of the biggest moments for me when I started to notice something was going haywire was with this whole Israel stuff and the Epstein stuff and all of that stuff. Because he was campaigning on all this to release the files and to end all the wars and all this. And then he suddenly does the opposite. And he's historically one of the most poll-aware presidents in the history. There's no one who's ever talked about polls as much as that guy. And then suddenly, you see losing all the support for the Israeli lobby, AIPAC, and all this stuff, and all this warmongering and starting all these wars. And he seems to be oblivious to it and going in the opposite direction of what the polls are telling him. So there. And all of a sudden, it's like, oh, well, you know what? You know what? I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. And all of a sudden, all of that seemed to happen between the time around when he was campaigning to get the second presidency and right when he took office. And right around then was when that Butler assassination attempt happened. This is the video I wanted to show you earlier. I think this happened just like two days ago where it was Marco Rubio being questioned about. Throw those headphones on real quick so you can hear it. Marco Rubio: Yeah. Anthony Comegna: I thought this was a crazy clip that really like sums it up pretty well for all the money that Trump's making. Marco Rubio: Is it fair to say that you agree that it's wrong for elected officials and their families to profit from positions of power? Anthony Comegna: To use government service to make money, yeah, of course. Great. I appreciate that, and I share that sentiment with you, sir. I want to revisit some of the details that were brought up earlier and put into the record about the president's own stock transactions, a form which he filed that shows he completed more than 3,700 stock transactions in just the first three months of this year alone. The president bought hundreds of thousands of dollars in Palantir stock shortly before he publicly praised the company on his social media site. As if the name drop itself wasn't enough, he included the company's ticker symbol for good measure. Hardly subtle to me. On March 23rd, after nearly a month of war with Iran, the president said talks were, quote, very good and productive and extended his deadline for a deal by five days. Oil prices dropped and energy stocks fell while Trump bought shares in companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron and other firms positioned to benefit if the war continued, which it did at the president's direction. He bought a dip that he created. Then there's NVIDIA. The president bought as much as a million dollars in stock just one week before the Commerce Department formally approved the sale of NVIDIA chips to China. One week. He bought up to five million dollars more NVIDIA stock in February, right before the company announced a major chip deal with Meta. It's pretty good luck if you ask me. If that's not bad enough, the president's son struck a multi-billion dollar crypto deal with a UAE state-backed firm. After the deal, the administration reversed AI chip restrictions, approving transfers of sensitive technology to another UAE-related entity chaired by the very same royal family figure involved with the deal with his son. That seems like hardly a coincidence to me. Indeed, it is self-enrichment tied directly to the president's foreign policy agenda, and it's how the president's net worth has grown by over $4 billion since he started this term. As the president gets rich, his wars and tariffs are crushing. Hardworking American families. And I think the American people see through the BS. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. I'll tell you where I disagree slightly. I think Trump's one of the most transparent in history, and they've all been doing this. Trump's just shown what everyone has always been doing. So, you know, people think I've got Trump derangement syndrome. I'm just talking about Trump because Trump's, you know, the guy in the seat at the moment. If it was Biden, we could go through all the Biden shit. If we want to go through Obama, if we want to go through Clinton, like, this is how the system works. Interestingly, they were talking about the UAE side. The way that that transaction happened is the largest crypto exchange in the world is a company called Binance. And they came off to Binance because they were providing rails. To Iran and various other countries. And the U.S., under the Biden administration, the SEC and the DOJ basically came off to Binance and said, you've got to install the U.S. government into your compliance team. And CZ, the founder of Binance, got four months in prison when the others that were involved in similar networks like SBF, got like 20 years, I think it was. And Mishinsky got 12 years or something. But he got four months. Now, Binance didn't have to shut down. And he had to, he was launching a digital dollar. It's called a stable coin. It's like a privatized central bank digital currency. He had to take that one out. And instead, he integrated with a stable coin that the Trump family created. And it was called the Trump family. The Trump family created a coin called, you know, a company called World Liberty Financial. And the shareholders were Steve Witkoff, who was the envoy to the Middle East, and his family, and the Trump family. And Binance integrated the stable coin. Now, the way that a stable coin works is it's a programmable blockchain dollar issued by a company. And it has to buy U.S. trade. And it has to buy treasuries. It has to be backed by bonds. So, if I give you a digital dollar on a blockchain, it has to be backed one by one by government debt. And so, this is a new mechanism for profiting from the U.S. debt. And so, what he did is he got the UAE Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund and said, why don't you invest $2 billion in Binance and give it a license? And so, Binance. Binance then reincorporated in UAE. And the UAE Sovereign Wealth Fund became one of the investors in Binance and the shareholder in World Liberty Financial. And then Trump took the $2 billion, issued his own stable coin, and then it buys government debt. So, the higher the interest on the debt, the more money the Trump family makes of their stable coins. Wow. So, if you can get interest rates. If you can get interest rates up, then you're making more and more and more in this network. The Abu Dhabi guys issued a license to Binance to operate the exchange. CZ was pardoned by the Trump administration, and he received a presidential pardon. And then he talked about the approval to receive, build out the data center in UAE and receive the NVIDIA chips. And so, remember. Whoever receives the chips, whoever builds the data centers, is an important node in this technocratic control grid that's being built. Right. Yeah. And programmable money is an essential part of that, which is why. What was the other thing that Trump did? He did Genius Act. Right. Yeah. Genius Act was the regulations that helped both the FIC and TIC build programmable money. It did a few things. Firstly, it said. Any company that wants to issue these stablecoins needs to become a bank, needs to apply to be a bank, so they join FIC. And then all the money that's held at the back of the Federal Reserve can be used as collateral to issue these stablecoins. So you become a bank, the programmable money has to be held at the Federal Reserve, and it has to buy government debt. And so the FIC are able to. As interest rates go up, just receive all this free money by creating digital dollars. And Scott Besant, when he was announcing. Who used to work for the Rothschilds, right? Yeah, Scott Besant was a Soros guy, so he was. Soros, that's what I meant. Yeah, he was involved in the infamous Bank of England euro trade. So when the European Central Bank and the single currency was coming along, the Great British Pound and the Bank of England, George Washington. George Soros made a trade, which infamously made $3 billion, which seems like a small number now, in terms of numbers. But it was Scott Besant who was the chief investment officer and the trader. Now, he made his career in the City of London. And the City of London still to this day is a separate jurisdiction. It's not London. It's a separate jurisdiction that consists of the 700 banks and other financial institutions in the square mile. And all of the currency wars and covert wars, they're done via the City of London. And Scott Besant came from the City of London currency war. And so when he was basically brought in to destroy the Iranian currency through Operation Economic Fury, he's very experienced at being able to do that. And interestingly, they confiscated some of the stablecoins. This is the important part to understand. So if you look at Iran, you've got the IRGC, we said, and then you've got the government. Two different entities, different power structure, and you have the Ayatollah on top that provides the religious theocracy part of it. Now, when you destroy a currency, it is a civilian target. Just think what it means to destroy a currency. You're an ordinary person. You've got your money in a bank. You log into your online. And your savings are worth nothing overnight. I think it went from now it's like 2.5 million Iranian currency for a dollar at the moment. I have $100 trillion Zimbabwe bill. But currency wars are civilian targets by definition. The IRGC is fine. The IRGC is integrated into the Chinese banking system, SIPs. It's got that. We'll trade the second largest trading partner is UAE. It's got its networks via Egypt, Hong Kong, and Turkey. So the IRGC is going to be fine. And what is the IRGC? What is the role that they're performing right now? Well, if you look at 2023, there was a really important agreement that was signed that people forget about. China normalized between Iran and Saudi Arabia in 2023, about six months prior. to October the 7th. And they normalised. And what is Iran doing today? It's taking out the US bases that the Gulf countries no longer want in their country. While simultaneously partnering with FIC to buy all of the American assets, the most important assets, which is the AI companies, the most important investor in all of those companies, and it's no longer purchasing US bonds. Now, one of the things, this gets a bit geeky, but let's see if we can get through it. Why don't the UAE countries want the US bases there anymore? They no longer need the pet, what are the two components of the petrodollar? It's OPEC. So what did UAE did? Left OPEC. Okay. And the other part of it is the purchase of US treasuries. That's the petrodollar. Got it. So what is happening really, let's take a massive zoom out right now. Iran is destroying the petrodollar and the US bases are no longer going to be in America, while America simultaneously leaving Iraq and Syria. The Middle East is becoming West Asia again. America's leaving. America's leaving. Forever war, I believe, is coming to an end. But it needs a very symbolic big moment like the British Empire and the Suez Canal in order to manage that transition. But if you're renting the US military to get as much leverage as you can into a multipolar world order that I think we're moving into, which in fact we are because America used to have 60% of global GDP, it's now got 25%. Then you want, you need the US bases out. And China wants the US bases out. And what do you do with Israel? You privatize it. And so more and more of Netanyahu is making more and more of Israeli companies public. The defense companies are going public. And the war burdened the Israeli people with significant debt. While they're being radicalized into thinking. That something else is happening here. So Israel is being privatized. The US bases are being destroyed. And Netanyahu is obviously just protecting his own ass because he's about to go to prison if he can't create more war. So we're in this very interesting situation where the Gulf countries are dependent upon China. Iran is dependent upon China. Israel is trying to create war to be more useful. Iran is trying to create war to be more useful to the military. And the financial industrial complex has partnered with the Gulf countries and wants to invest in rebuilding Iran. And so how do you set the order? Well, whatever happens in the Strait of Hormuz sets the new order. And so if Iran is able to charge a toll and they got a partnership with Amman. And Amman is a covert mechanism. Partnership with who? Partnership with the Gulf countries. Amman. Amman is a very, very interesting country that no one really talks about. It's allied with all sides and it's done an incredible job in terms of its diplomatic relations with both Western interests, Chinese interests, Gulf interests, Iran. So it's a very important neutral ground in terms of its role. And so what I believe is happening right now is the US military. It's trying to get as much leverage for FIC so that it can get a piece of the tolls in these strategic choke points. And whatever happens in the Strait of Hormuz will happen in all of the strategic choke points. And if the US military is no longer needed to protect the free passage of trade, then the world order has completely changed. And so we're living through, I believe, what does MiC want right now? It wants to leverage as much as it can because it knows it's got to end the forever war in the Middle East, which was its most profitable trade. And instead, it needs to be compensated through war in Europe and war in Central and South America. So the new stomping grounds for military are Central South America, Europe, and the TIC wants a surveillance state. It wants a global surveillance state with Chinese components and American subscription models. And an indebted nation. So what does it want to do? It wants to manufacture civil unrest so that it can have the force flag that it needs. So it can have more surveillance. Yes. It beta tested in UK. And what is the main benefit that the technological industrial complex gets from having full blown surveillance on everybody? Well, I mean, you get to. Is it just money? There's a couple of things there. Firstly, it could be the new blackmail operation. So if we're all giving all of our data to AI and we all have to. Right. That's the new blackmail. You don't need Jeffrey Epstein anymore. Right. You know, you've got that side. American AI companies are severely overvalued right now because China's going open source. And China's doing the whole model open source and free because it's using AI to build its manufacturing base and automate all parts of that structure. It's displaced the IMF in terms of its significance in this Belt and Road Initiative, investing across Africa, across Asia, across the Middle East. And McFick and Tick are dependent upon it. So they get to do their subscription model. The government. What is the government doing in this final stage of what I believe the US empire is doing? It's called fiscal dominance. What that means is that when you're at the end of empire, you get the government to spend as much as possible. And all of that money needs to go back into the stock market. You accelerate the debt as much as possible. That then creates inflation in terms of asset prices. And then obviously everyone on the right side that owns the assets benefits from that. That concentrates wealth upwards. But it also devalues the dollar. Right. And so once you devalue the dollar, the world reserve currency slowly loses its status. And BlackRock say. And the petrodollar says, "Hold on, our currency is pegged to the dollar." What that means is that Saudi had to back their currency with dollars, right? Now as the dollar weakens, you have to sell assets in order to try and strengthen it and keep protecting it. And keep protecting the peg. So they have to sell gold in order to protect this. Eventually they'll say, "I'm not selling gold in order to protect this." So you break the petrodollar. You break two really important relationships. One is Japan. There's something called the Japan carry trade. Yeah, Jang was explaining this to me. Okay. A little bit. I still don't fully get it. Okay. So Japan, after World War II, you had Germany. The German central bank regime changed. And you had Japan and you had Italy. Okay. So those were the losing forces. The Bank of Japan just essentially became a piggyback for the Federal Reserve System. And so they pumped a massive stock market bubble to build technology and stuff in Japan. And then the Bank of Japan just basically pushed its interest rates to zero, even negative. They were paying people to borrow money. Wow. So if you're a central bank and you have access to the Bank of Japan, or you're a hedge fund manager, or you're on the right side of the money printer, then you can borrow for free from Japan. They print the currency. The Japanese end up with the debt. They get massive inflation. And then you get to buy U.S. assets. So they were basically just borrowing money for free from Japan, taking out the currency risk, and then using that money to get more and more stocks. And even right now, if you look at the U.S. government debt, if you look at the largest foreign holders of U.S. government debt right now, number one is Cayman Island. And that's not Cayman Island, the nation state. That's Black Rock, State Street, Vanguard. Just in banks in the Cayman Island. Yeah. That's all that money. They get to borrow from the Bank of Japan. They get to use those bonds as collateral. They get to lever it up 100 to 1. They get to lend it back to the U.S. government. And they just are scraping all of the money out of the interest on the national debt over to the financial industrial complex. The next in line is Japan. Japan's providing all the free money. Next in line is U.K., U.K. city of London. There's a construct. Don't want to get too complicated, but it's called Euro dollars. There's dollars. When the city of London fell and the FIC wanted to remain in charge, they created the Federal Reserve System and they created the Euro dollar market. It meant the banks could create dollars. And there's 15 trillion dollars of Euro dollars. It's got nothing to do with Europe. It's just a bank that can create dollars every time they issue a loan outside of the Fed system. So there is more than double the money supply out there in Euro dollars. There's like 15 trillion of these things. So the number one country holding U.S. debt is Japan. Yeah, it's changed. No, it's Cayman Highlands ahead of that. What have you got there in the chart? Well, Cayman Islands is down low. As of 2025, this is the. Cayman Islands is $418 billion and Japan's $1.2 trillion, it says. Yeah, I think there's a better. The Fed recently did a study that said how it was understated because it was doing it through the nation state rather than the actual financial industrial complex. Right. But, yeah, so you've got Japan. Now, what's Japan doing now? Amidst all of this chaos, for the first time in decades, they're saying the Bank of Japan says, let's put our interest rates up. So the free money is being faded out. So the financial industrial complex that has significant influence over the Bank of Japan, and owns the Fed, is saying, put your interest rates up. They're breaking the Japan carry trade, which is the backbone of all of this liquidity into the market slowly. So the Iran war is breaking the petrodollar. The Japan carry trade is breaking. And the euro dollars is. We're having more and more. Again, so you notice UAE becomes a very important node in this structure. When UAE. We said we're going to sell our bonds or sell our equities because they were having, you know. Scott Besant came along and said, no, don't do that. Give us some of your currency and we'll give you a loan. Because now that was painted as UAE's going bankrupt. UAE's has got billions of dollars, you know, significant assets, trade surplus. Of course, they're impacted by this. But they use this opportunity to have their own dollar printing press. So anyone that gets an FX swap line is basically. They're going to have a lot of money. The FIC is handing over power to these different countries to create their own dollars. That's how you create multipolarity. So what does it look like when the US dollar collapses? When do you think that happens? And what does that look like? I don't think it will collapse. It will be a slow weakening. Collapse is really bad in terms of like the actual dollar because the dollar is a source of all this power. Right. So the banks, as long as they want. They still want to use US treasury, as their collateral for extracting. Okay. So they want to continue to weaken the dollar. They want to basically accelerate the K-shaped economy for as long as they can. Which means interest rates will continue to rise. Interest rates continue to rise. They can crept back down if the Fed wants to. The Fed can just take, you know, they can decide when they want to do that. The bond vigilantes are saying we want more money to lend to the US government. They're saying the same to the British. The British government, the French government, and everywhere. But fiscal dominance just means the government, you spend as much as you can. I'll give you the key matrix that helps you understand how long this can go on for. If you just want in simple terms, take the growth rate of the US GDP. Remember the US GDP is, it can be come from government spending into the stock market, which is fiscal dominance. They keep just spending it in stocks, roll over, roll over, you know, take on the debt, spend it into stocks. If the government, if the GDP grows at a faster rate than the average cost on the US debt, I'll repeat that. The average cost on the US debt is currently 3.3%. If you want to lend to the, if you want to lend to the US government right now, then you can get 5.3% for 30 years today. So that interest is only going up. But the Ponzi continues as long as the economy grows at a faster rate than the average cost on the debt. So if the economy can grow greater than 3.3%, the K-shaped economy continues. Wow. Yeah. Now, if suddenly that debt goes up and up and up. Every year, 3.3, every year? Yeah, at the moment, but that's going up because the interest rates are going up. Right. You know, and so while that, as long as they can grow, the economy, which extracts more wealth from the average person over to the stockholder, then you just keep the K-shaped economy and eventually you end up with where we are now. 10%, 90, sorry, 90% of the US stock market is owned by 10% of US households. You know, at the household level, 50% of Americans don't have any and the rest have got it in a 401k, so they'll work their whole life until they can access it. Wow. Yeah, so this is the wealth extraction. You just keep going. You don't, you don't need anything dramatic. And then if you get it wrong, you get the Fed to bail out. So those are the closest to the money printer. They write the rules. It's like, imagine a game of Monopoly where you're the bank and the bank gets to create money and buy real estate. That's the game. Now, is there any point where the whole system breaks and you have to throw the Monopoly board away and restart? That can happen if you get things wrong. Right. You can, there's several rug pulls that I think are kind of built into the system. I talked about the commodity market. China's got the gold and the silver. America and London have the derivative contracts. They don't have the gold and silver. So whenever there's weakness there, a central bank has to lend the gold and silver because it doesn't exist. And that kind of is transferring lots and lots of commodities over to Shanghai and Singapore and various other things. The stock market is all the growth in the US economy today is because of AI data centers. The entire economy is AI data centers now. So the AI trade and all the energy behind it and these higher energy prices is the entire stock market. 40% of the entire S&P is the seven largest tech companies. And now you've got Anthropic to add there and SpaceX and then you have OpenAI. And then you've got Microsoft and Apple and various things. So the end game of this I think is that you accelerate wealth inequality for as long as you can, you concentrate wealth upwards, you accelerate the police and surveillance state because you know that eventually, probably the only way to control this is a universal basic income. And so you implement stablecoins. You enter central bank digital currencies and you end up with a more socialistic way of allocating wealth. Universal basic income that is handed out to everybody by the government. And if you misbehave, we can turn your money off. Yes, and it will be programmable money. It will be. And this is where you notice we went from during COVID. You probably notice this. You're a content creator. We went from you say the wrong thing about COVID. Yes. To Elon buys X. And it's wide open free speech. Yeah. Now it's freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach. So he says to you, say whatever you want. Right. Let it rip. You know, if you want to say anything about hating Muslims, hating Jews. I talk about, I've been talking about this a lot lately. Yeah. How it's, it just seems like all that, like, it seems like they've taken off all of the clamps on free speech across all of social media, where you can get away with anything now. Yes. When two years ago you would get demonetized, deplatformed for silly things. Yeah. Yeah. Now what are they doing? They're basically saying, well, but if you want reach, you got to be within the acceptable narrative. You know, if you want reach. So here's an interesting thing. Five years ago, if I would put Epstein in a YouTube title, that video would get, you know, throttled significantly, likely demonetized. Now YouTube content around Epstein just goes nuclear 24/7. Yeah. Yeah. What I think is happening, and I don't know what your feed looks like, is I think they're manufacturing the most extreme version of yourself. So they're feeding you content based upon your ideology. So they're boxing you. You know, they're saying you think all the problems in the world are because of the Jews. You think all the problems in the world are because of the Muslims. You think it's the radical left. You think it's the right. You think it's feminism, whatever it may be. So they're building our, you say whatever you want, and then we'll keep feeding you content that makes you more and more angry, more and more radicalized, more and more into your ideology. And that's creating an environment where people can't speak to each other. People are getting more aggressive with each other. People are just getting, you know, more and more radicalized into their ideology and, you know, it's just getting crazy. You know, women hate men. Men hate women. Birth rates are down. Like, you know, like people can't have children anymore. They don't know what gender they are. So why are they doing this? Well, I think they, I think firstly they need the most radicalized version of you. Okay. Then they're building your social credit score. Then they're feeding you more and more content. And then they're trying to engineer, I'll give you more reach if you're more radical. If you speak like this, I'll give you more reach. - Right. - So now you'll be in more and more sensationalized more and more clickbait trying to get the thumbnail that's more and more crazy you know and they're engineering you into an acceptable form of narrative for your box until eventually this artificial intelligence all this data you're giving is basically going to be the surveillance state it's going to be when you get your universal basic income we've got all the information on you we can control your interest rate we can control your expenditure and once we manufacture that civil unrest if we get enough data centers built if we get enough of the data and they can put the clamps back on down the road is what you're saying there's a there's a theoretical situation where the tick could become more important than the figure like the tick whoever controls the data runs the game the previous game the game we're in right now is whoever prints the money controls the game right but if you control the data can you imagine the tick blackmailing the fic can you imagine a shift in power as a result of it right and what's happening now the tick companies are issuing their own dollars stable coins the central banks are fighting back with central bank digital currencies now they're releasing agents agents are becoming the program become the fic yeah so i think that there's a global centralized control grid that the tick one the mick want to split their forever war into regional acceptable and the t and the fic uh they want a multi-polar world uh because they can make more money through transaction fees in multiple financial centers i sent you a clip with uh beck lover yeah earlier where he's laying out this project meridian thing and he's been saying this forever he's been he's had this take that he's about to say right here for years and i think he's a dead on with this listen to this this is beck lover well they announced their next move project meridian at my direction i'm announcing project meridian study what that word means they are uh building skynet at light speed all these same people who censored us and this and that and now you guys say like you know they're they've loosened up on free speech do you know why they've loosened up on free speech it's because the ai needs to understand the human mind the threats of the human mind the way we speak the way we think to try to forecast our next moves and how to control populations that's the only reason why you have free speech temporarily on platforms like x and even here i promise you an effort led by america i think that makes a lot of sense yeah absolutely so let it rip you can also muddy the water confuse people overwhelm them with information like i think nobody knows what's up and down nobody knows what's left and right anymore it's just there's an overwhelming amount of slop flooding the zone and what what is a a weak controllable person now right now somebody that lost all their sense of values they don't know what the truth is they're mentally like really psychologically destroyed by all of this information uh they're weak you know they're not healthy um you know and and i can see that all around me right now i can see the yeah me too the impact like of people and so yeah that's what a controllable person looks like and also i think a really important part of this so i don't know how long we've been talking yeah we're three hours in three hours in um we can wrap it up yeah you know this whole doomerism i want to end on something positive yeah because we've just spent three hours talking about some crazy ass right um i think one of the things they're trying to do is make you believe that there's no future there's no sense of a bright future in the world like the youth are being driven into short-term behavior gambling women are choosing only fans as a career like you know they've got no future bonnie blue yeah yeah she's your lady she's your country right is she i think so is she british all right doesn't she have a british accent i don't even know who that is i don't even know who that is you don't know who bonnie blue is who's bonnie blue she's the lady who uh had the she slept with like a hundred dudes one thousand people yeah and now she's pregnant is that bonnie blue that's bonnie blue yeah wasn't there someone that did a thousand like no that was her i think she holds the world record okay okay look at right there uh in june announcing her after her cancellation of an event uh that she would be tied up naked inside of a glass box and the goal was to have sex with a thousand two thousand men um yeah right and now she's pregnant yeah yeah she's from the uk you know this is how you get freedom of reach now right this is how you go viral right um but look um to me it's the it's it's the mental game like i we are in psychological warfare like i i believe that there's an optimum business model of how subordinate you can make someone now um i think the the mental game is really important i think to me when i when i look at my device and i look at the content that i'm being fed um the world looks really really scary and like really messed up um but then i go outside and i go and meet people and i travel around and it just doesn't look that bad it really doesn't look that bad right you go out in the garden and you try you touch grass um and actually the world's not as bad as we are being portrayed it to be we we are but a spec in the i i just we just talked about what three four hundred years of history i mean in the grand civilization of the world that is but a speck in history um you have to see how to function in the world as it is today rather than the world that you think you're missing out on so i talked about this boomer thing you know they got a job their their income was enough to save they got their 401k they got real estate at a price where they were able to live off their real estate they're now just desperately trying to retire and make sure that their house doesn't go down in value and their stocks don't go down in value and people are saying well i want to crash this whole system down man i just want real estate to crash i want my you know i want my opportunity or if we can't have it you can't have it you know that that type of thing that type of destructive behavior is look here's how the world works today um we are in this technocratic control grid uh there is digital resistance you know like i was part of bitcoin early we um tried to create a system outside the banks where you can own your own money you know self-custody your own money spend without a government um a fixed supply that allows you to outperform um this impact that exists with you so you can't run your own lm environments protecting your own data so here's the real battle it's not left and right it's not labor conservatives it's not republican democrats it's not muslim jew christian whatever it may be it's not black white asian whatever it may be it is centralization versus decentralization the technology is centralizing the finance and central banking is centralizing and military is centralizing into technology through companies like palantir you know your job is to digitally resist and understand that owning your own data owning your own llms owning your own ai creating your own environment is actually the skill that people need into the future and so your job is not to get real estate get a job you're gonna lose the only way you can win in this game today is you need to own more assets every month which means you need to spend less than you earn and invest the difference most people say no chance it doesn't work right my numbers just don't work well i was that person i was um at one stage in the most like severe debt um and all of my money was going on um servicing debt and servicing interest and one day i had to face it head-on realize how bad my situation was um and realize that actually there's no substitute for this i've got to stop paying some of my debt and i've got to pay myself and invest in some assets and i need to own more assets every single month that happened in 2011 the asset that i chose was bitcoin when it was about three dollars i'm not here to pitch bitcoin i'm just saying you have to own some gold some assets whatever it is for you if you don't you're going to be on the wrong side of this control grid even if it's owned some of the ai infrastructure whatever it may be you have to generate more income than you spend you have to invest the difference in assets if you do that every month for the rest of your life you'll be fine you'll be completely fine but they don't want you to know that they want you thinking you've got to get a 1000x on a crypto scam tomorrow because the world's over you know everything's about short-termism so what you the way you defeat this system is by actually believing that there is a bright future for yourself have confidence in yourself to get through this recognize that the rules are actually quite simple spend less than you earn invest the difference in assets own more assets every single month and then how are you going to earn your income well earn your income with the gift that you've got today the gift that the boomers had was buy property get a job get you know all that stuff that doesn't that doesn't exist anymore the world today is that you were born with a phone in your hand if you're young um and there are a bunch of boomers that do not understand the world that we're entering into next in fact they're severely unprotected from how hacking, everything that's going to happen next. So you need to see the world as it is today and your opportunity as somebody that was born with a phone in your hand, that phone was both a weapon that did some severe psychological operations to you, but it also gave you now the opportunity. I've got the best assistant with AI that I've ever had. I'm able to do things in my business that was never possible before. And this is both the worst and best time for people that are harnessing it. You're not going to defeat this by blowing up data centers. You're going to defeat this by leaning into the productivity, building something using the tools that are available to you today, digitally resisting, investing in decentralized stuff, building your own stuff and helping other people do that because the world is going to be split up into those people that know how to own their own data centers, and those people that know how to own their own data centers and their data and those that just give all their data to the control grid. And your job is to lean into that, recognize that there is a bright future. And if you do that, if you do that well, you'll probably end up buying your house. I ended up just buying my house outright after doing that, you know. That's amazing. And that's what, that's the world as it is today. And there ain't shit that's going to, you're not going to change any of it. You vote with your money. I personally believe reject the left and right bollocks. Like in terms of geopolitics and macro, I want to understand how they work, but I'm not going to change them. I'm not going to influence any. I'm not going to stop the control grid. I'm not going to stop the FIC from building multipolarity. I'm not going to stop them from changing them. And the longer you realize that actually in the end, what do you control? You control yourself. You control your mind, what you consume. You control your spiritual connection, your soul. You control your health. You control your relationships with your family. You control your home. You control your community. And the further out you get into your city or country, whatever, it gets harder and harder to control. So just become geopolitics and macro to me is about understanding the world as it is. And then on the micro level, you need to become, you know, if that's how, don't see the world better than it is or worse than it is. Just see it as it is to the best of your ability. Try and deprogram yourself, do the opposite of what they want you to do, whatever they're trying to algorithmically get you to do is probably the opposite. You know, right now there was a terrorist attack with an airplane. We know whatever we're seeing, whatever we're seeing is what isn't happening. So you can know whatever they're telling you is, is exactly what's not happening. So start with that. You can get the truth by just knowing whatever they're trying to tell you is not the truth. Right. You know, and then work your way backwards, you know, consume content, understand the world as it is today, um, become radically optimistic about what you as an individual can achieve, become realistic about the world as it is, accept the world as it is and lean into it and own more assets every single month and believe intergenerational that you're building something. And there is a bright future because we're moving into so much uncertainty, but it's kind of exciting at the same time as petrifying. Very well said, man. That was a fucking incredible podcast, dude. Thank you. Thank you again. I learned a lot. Uh, tell people where they can find you online. Uh, social media, anything else? Yeah. So I, I give real time updates on X at Simon Dixon, twit, um, every week I can talk as you can tell for a long time, every week for myself, I follow the money and everything that happens every week. And I publish it on Fridays on my YouTube channel, Simon Dixon. Um, and I mainly do that for myself. So if you want to listen to all that, we are following money every week. I do that as a, as a discipline. Um, and in case I get canceled, I've got simondixon.com. Um, where I back up everything in a more decentralized environment. Awesome. So it can continue even if I get canceled. Awesome, man. Well, thank you again, man. That was super, super educational and informative. And, uh, I'm sure a lot of people are going to feel the same way and we'll link all of your stuff below so they can find it. And that's it. Thanks for having me. Good night, folks. Black Friday is coming last year. Businesses on Shopify made billions in sales this holiday season. You could be one of them if you start now. Shopify helps you launch fast so you can design your site and start selling before the biggest shopping days of the year. What are you waiting for? Tis the season to start selling. Start for free at Shopify.com.