Ex-Banker WARNS of Global Elite Plot & War Profiteers | Simon Dixon
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The transcript presents a critical analysis of modern global power structures, emphasizing the rise of a technocratic surveillance state and financial industrial complex. The speaker argues that today’s world operates under a hidden system of financial control, where central banks, private banks, and global institutions manipulate economies through debt-based currency creation and currency wars. This system, rooted in historical patterns like colonialism and the opium wars, now replicates itself through digital algorithms and ideological filtering, leading to societal polarization. Individuals are increasingly trapped in algorithmic echo chambers, where their beliefs are amplified, fueling extremism and eroding trust. The financial model—where the government bears losses and private institutions profit—creates a perpetual cycle of debt, with rising interest rates indicating systemic strain. Historical figures such as the Warburg family illustrate long-standing connections between finance and political power. The speaker points to China as a rising counterforce, especially through its accumulation of gold and independent economic policies. Ultimately, the world is transitioning from a state of hidden manipulation to one of open, algorithmic control, where financial and political power are increasingly centralized and opaque, threatening democratic values and shared humanity.
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The surveillance state, which you were just talking about as we were rolling here on air.
Epstein, obviously, that's like mass rape.
And then you look at genocide, things that are happening in the Middle East.
And on top of that, you know, you got more endless wars that we've already seen the repercussions over the last 25 years and seem to not learn lessons.
So it's like a strange time where bad happening, but maybe we can finally coalesce like as as as a shared humanity in a way we haven't in the last 10 years.
I'm not really sure what you think, Simon, but that's where my head's at.
Yeah, I think it's I think there's the convergence of lots of different things that we're experiencing right now.
I think if I could really put it down to one thing is we're definitely having that mask off moment where mask off moment.
Yeah.
Where things that.
Were previously meant to be hidden and in the shadow, there seems to be a switch.
I say even just looking at it on the technical side, like previously there was like, you know, whoever controls the narrative, whoever can rewrite history can hide the things that we're experiencing today.
And then we all get propagandized into some version of history at school, you know, and it is definitely rewritten from the perspective of whoever won the war.
And then we move to like this ultra internet, social media world where we're all able to talk.
And I think that moved at one stage into a bit of a cancel culture.
So if you didn't say the right thing, you the algorithm didn't support you or you just literally got taken out.
That's right.
So, you know, we became the media.
But I think round about COVID, there was a very decisive switch in strategy and there were a series of things that happened.
We.
Had everybody, you know, spending all that time online and just switching human behavior and everything we all experienced through that, whatever it was for you.
And then we had that really like, you know, like the final stages of if you talked about the wrong subjects, if you said the wrong thing, you weren't with the agenda and you had to be taken out and canceled.
That's right.
But there was at some point this AI became something that we were all a part of.
And we had the releases of all the chat.
We had the releases of all the chat.
But leading up to that, there was, you know, kind of the acquisition of Twitter became X,
Elon Musk. There was that switch from, I think the phrase that sums it up is freedom of speech,
but not freedom of reach oh i remember that yeah it's been a while since someone brought that up
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reflective of the model we're in today that's where they said right we're no longer going to
cancel you you say whatever you want and you're going to algorithmically be put in a box and that
box is you know you're pro-palestinian you're anti-zionist you're pro-israel you're uh whatever
the box is you know um you think the whole problem is you blame all the jews or you think it's all
about the Muslims and you know so people are being put in their boxes and they want you to speak
that's right and the more you speak the more you're building your what will eventually be a
social credit score but you're building the more you speak they wanted you to speak so that then
they could algorithmically radicalize you into the most extreme version of your ideology
um and i think it was a very deliberate switch from cancel culture to talk but you either go
with the acceptable narrative and if you do then you get reach but if you don't get the acceptable
narrative you don't get reach but at the same time we keep you talking with little reach and
then we're feeding you more and more videos that kind of back up your belief around how you think
world works or what you think the problem is um and we're getting it more and more extreme so
you're getting more and more angry you're getting more and more pissed off you're getting you're
blaming more and more people and you can see like this starting to really have an effect on
the way we communicate with each other we seem to have hit a place where like relationships are
impossible women hate men men hate women we're getting all of this like you know you're just
becoming this, you can see the algorithm is driving you into this and you've got to really
work hard to get around it. But when you're in the content industry, you can see. So even if
you're posting something on X and sometimes what you say is popular, not popular, but if you're
focused on say it in the right way, you get boosted. And this is training you to be rewarded
for saying what they want you to say. And if you're in for the monetization, then you have
to say the right thing and you have to keep saying the right thing. And then eventually you become an
asset, but it's very covert. It's not like, you know, you may not even know who you're working
for, what agenda you're serving here, but they want you to talk. And so now we can talk about
the Epstein files. We can talk about a genocide in Gaza. We can talk about all these things because
it has a purpose under this new, under this new model. And as we move closer and closer to this
technocratic surveillance state you know the more data you provide them the better and we're all
kind of being mixed up in this this craziness oh yeah that's well said man when did you start
thinking about these things oh man so uh i'll tell you where it all started for me um so i
my father lost all his money in the dot-com boom and bust and um i was 19 years old at the time
and uh my father went from like you know he was the seventh son of seventh son
um and uh he lived through the great depression and world war ii um went from uh he went down a
pretty dark path in life and uh he was in complete poverty left to go to london uh ended up a flat
mate with jimmy hendrix uh driving for the craze twins uh and made it in the casino world whoa yeah
and so my father was doing that and like in the city of london um and uh when when i was born he
kind of uh gave up on all that um and started trying to legitimize his money um wow so he
viewed because it sounds like obviously he was doing things that were illegal but they're like
know darker businesses if you will so he viewed something switched when he had you to where he's
like i actually care about how i'm making money now yeah so he went through a moment where um
yeah when i was born and my siblings were born like uh you know that he wanted to go legit um
and he did it through real estate and like he became you know a self-made millionaire um
but then he went through a series of i don't know personal tragic events uh my mother left him you
know he got the divorce uh then he had someone like talk about all his undeclared money um and
he had to pay a massive tax bill that wiped him out and then the gambler in him kind of came back
and he put it all in the stock market and so he took what he had left and then he lost it all in
the dot-com boom and bust so he went through that whole cycle and got straight back to where he
started with nothing um and uh how old was he when that happened uh he was deep in so i think he's
about 67 like deep into retirement lost everything like just went through one thing after the other
you know up down um and uh yeah he asked me you know he didn't know he couldn't quite understand
what happened to his money and this is 2000 26 years ago damn things go wild uh and so i that
kind of shaped who i became and i spent all my time focusing on uh trying to answer my father's
question what happened to his money what did happen to his money what happened to his money is
um he was i i like to say he was playing a game where he didn't know the rules and i think most
people are playing the game and money um took me 25 years to figure that out by the way
what the rules are um but uh yeah that kind of took me to um it was it's quite funny actually
my first job was the same firm that he lost all his money in the stock broker he was he lost his
money in what company is a company called td waterhouse i think you got i saw td bank yeah
Yeah. I know TD Waterhouse.
Yeah. So it's a Canadian broker and where I was in Manchester. So it's like I went to
Union and I went to Manchester and I knocked on the door and got a job as a T-boy in TD
Waterhouse.
As a T-boy?
Yeah. A T-boy.
Is that like a coffee boy here?
Yeah. Okay. Coffee boy.
Not like an Afghanistan T-boy.
What's an Afghanistan T-boy?
You don't want to know.
Okay.
Okay. Nothing bad. You were just in there basically paying your dues.
- Yeah, you start at the bottom.
My job was to make the coffee and the tea for the brokers
and managed to get myself a job as a stockbroker eventually,
worked my way up.
Then got a job in the city of London
in like the market making desk
And we had all the releases of all the chat.
started working in investment banking and learned all these different things and helps you
understand how the world works. How does the world work? Well, I always talk about, so this thing
called a financial industrial complex. And so we're all familiar with the military industrial
complex. I think that there are three complexes and these complexes, the players that are the
most influential in them change over time. But the complexes always remain and it's gone through
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newsletter via the link in the description below. Basically, a financial industrial complex is a
series of institutions. Today, if you look at the most influential players, you've got the asset
managers, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard. They're managing most of the world's money,
trillions of dollars.
You've got private banks that create money every time. So whenever you go and take out a loan,
they don't have that money. They create money. Money is debt. Money is credit. And so the closer
you are to that money printer, the more you have an advantage in the game. And so the banks,
ultimately, they create money. Then you have the investment banks. They take all these businesses.
So I was working in investment banking. My job was to take companies public,
turn them into tradable shares.
Wow. You went from the stockbroking side to that. I mean, those are two very different things.
Yeah. So the stockbroking side, and I learned a bit about money in each of them.
So when I was in stockbroking, I realized my job was just to sell shares.
It's a glorified name. But it wasn't until I worked as a market maker, which is on the trade
trading desk. They're the people that set the prices of shares. And what you do is you. So I was on a small. It's all illiquid stocks, smaller stocks. And you have a massive influence
over the share price. This is kind of when I learned how the market works. So my father,
the average person that has a TD Waterhouse account, they're on one side of the trade.
On the other side of the trade, you've got the Goldman Sachs, the institutions, the people on the
know. They're always on the other side of the trade. And so you always use media and narrative
in order to push shares from one side to the other. And they're always on the opposite side.
So market makers, they had. My job was to manipulate the price of shares. And it wasn't
until I worked in the corporate finance side, the investment banking side, where we're taking
companies public, you realize that. Yeah.
It's an information game. It's being on the right side of information. So the banking game is how
close you are to the money printer. The investment banking game is really interesting. This is when I
first became aware of how the world actually works in terms of military wars and stuff like that.
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Um, I saw a, an investment deck that like crossed my pocket.
Connected to some of the oil and gas companies that we were making public at the time. Um, and the deck was making the case for effectively how peace might be a hundred times more profitable than war. And there was a model that was put together. And so you could really see the, you know, if you've read books like Confessions of an Economic Hitman, like I really saw the other side of that model. You have these consulting firms that are kind of
connected to these higher levels of intelligence and military networks. You know, you have resources, you have oil and gas companies, um, and you have wars that are effectively working for that interest. Um, and in order to like end a forever war model or to, you have to have a certain level of subordination of the companies and the certain amount of shares that we've acquired, a certain number of companies that we take in public.
Um, and then once you get to a certain point, you can make the case that if peace is 100 times more profitable than war, then you can end the war. Um, but if the forever war is more profitable than peace, then you continue the forever war. Um, and so you can see these models like down on the micro level and you kind of realize that war is a racket, you know, to, to get.
Um, but, but I saw it, I saw it firsthand. So I saw like, you know, the manipulation of share.
saw like you know the manipulation of share price um i saw the way these consulting firms and models
Um, and then once you get to a certain point, you can make the case that if peace is 100 times more profitable than war, then you can end the war. are put together and you kind of try to unpack all of that but when you're on the inside when
you're in the bank um it's very hard to unpack it because you're just a cog in a wheel you know
working a hundred hours a week playing a game in an office under fluorescent lights you go home you
go to your apartment you don't see these places where the reports are emanating from either
there's something about that you know yeah there's all covert levels of you know it looks very normal
and you're just doing what you need to do and then you realize that there's a whole
another layer of the compromise game of the compromise the compromise game yeah um okay
so you you know i remember when i was first as a market maker you initially you know your jobs to
build relationships with all the key brokers and all the key traders and all the key people
and uh if you fit in with the culture uh then you know things things happen you progress right
if you don't fit in with the culture you know this is where i i really understood
that there's a bit of um rather than a full-blown conspiracy there's a level of
people that comply with how power works they're selected and you don't progress unless you
comply further and so you're kind of tested you know suddenly you go to a party and then you go
to a party and you're presented with prostitutes and you either take the bite or you don't take
the bite did you take the bite i don't take the bite i would say that but i don't take that you
You can tell me off camera if you did.
But you're presented with these gradual ladder of things that they can have on you.
And you can see the progression on how this works.
And I imagine, because I never got to the highest levels of power, I left in about 2006.
What made you leave that stuff?
So firstly, I was trying to get the answer to what happened to my father's money.
And I could see that what happened to my father's money, I was going more and more into this corporate world.
This corporate world wasn't for me.
My dad brought me up as a businessman.
He made his money.
He was into these different things.
And suddenly you find yourself in this corporate world trying to climb a corporate ladder.
But for me, I read a book.
It was called Michael Raubalfen wrote it.
It was called The Grip of Death.
The grip of death grip of death when it explains how the IMF works and how banks
work and it kind of put together where for the first time I was able to connect
what I was doing as my job versus the big picture of how this thing works.
Um, and, uh, yeah, and in decided to leave in 2006, um, so that book is
like a tinderbox for you like that was the moment where you're like oh wait a minute yeah
interestingly after the book was um published the author just disappeared and no one's ever
heard of him ever since what was the author's name again michael raubaufen michael raubaufen
yeah and it was called the grip of death the grip of death yeah deep's gonna be back in here in a
minute yeah but michael raubaufen disappeared yeah no one's seen him like he's been very quiet
now he wrote about the imf and i i actually if you don't mind like that's a pretty important
little tangent right there that is like the organization that gets ignored at least in my
opinion all the time when people are having these conversations righteously so we talk about things
like the fed we talk about central bank digital currencies and stuff like that but the international
monetary founded what is it the international monetary international monetary funds
world war ii yeah so can you explain
the history of this yeah yeah and i've got a deep history with the imf as well oh personally
personally yeah okay a couple of occasions so uh we'll get into that but the international
monetary fund was effectively the cornerstone of the u.s empire um so if you think about it
you had the federal reserve that was set up in 1913 um you had uh world you had the
introduction of income tax in 1913 um and then they set up
the federal reserve system the bank of england model of how to create money how to create the
dollar um we enter into world war one we have a great depression we enter into world war ii
and the american military base dominates the world europe's destroying each other the russian
czar is overthrown communism is installed with the the soviet union um germany becomes east and west
germany and has fallen and then we have the international monetary fund which is the
international monetary fund and we have the creation of israel you know all of that all
happened during that world war one great depression world war ii all gold is confiscated from the
americans in 1933 you have to reprice it in yeah so all of that happens and then at the end of it
um you kind of just have the soviet union um you have europe that's just an absolute
mess you have china that's trying to recover from opium wars and all sorts of um
but you have america that didn't get bombed and the entire manufacturing base of the military
industrial complex and so what comes from that is um john maynard keynes um who was representing
british banking interest and hoover that was representing american interest john maynard
keynes wanted a global currency um called the bank or the bank or yeah and this is 1944 bretton
woods meeting so john maynard keynes was an economist from uh england was trying to push
for a global currency at that stage you goddamn brits man exactly what are you doing every problem
and i'd argue i'd argue that the american banking system is still a remnants of the bank of england
we can get to that you got a good argument there yeah yeah but keynes is arguing at bretton woods
for a global currency yep and um america has all the power and all the leverage at this stage and so
they get it where they say to the world right we're going to create this new organization called
the world bank in europe if you want some loans from the world bank um then uh you need to make
your currency convertible into dollars and remove its convertibility into gold now why did they say
that uh well firstly they wanted america to be the only currency convertible into gold and then
they wanted every other currency convertible into dollars right so they become the middleman so
a chunk of the german gold ended up in you know in fort knox all the chunk of the russian gold
ended up in fort knox many of the remember the as as the european empires were falling
at this time um everyone could convert their pounds into gold and so as the value of the
currency was falling everyone's converting the currency into gold um and so you end up storing
that gold either at the bank of england or the fed or or the fed or in switzerland with a
like the main institutions um we had the bank for international settlements that was set up for
um when uh reparations german reparations when they needed the economy was screwed we had the
walmart republic all around then and germany needed to repay all of its debt oh from world
war one from world war one um and then until so it was set up in about the 30s and then you had
world war ii oh it didn't get set up till the 30s yeah it was set up just before the great depression
after world war one um and then it was managing the reparations and it was agreed or it was
enforced that all the debt had to be repaid in gold and so then you had the destruction of the
currency and by the way this is a british this is what the city of london does it it rages financial
wars for before every military war so you destroy a currency that's been 500 years of the playbook
we could go through many case case after case what they're doing in iran leading up to this
but currency war it
always precedes a military war so it's always about destroying the value of the currency so
that all the individuals in that country lose their savings so then they have some kind of
dissatisfaction and uprising so then you can use propaganda in order to demonize whoever you need
to demonize do a color revolution overthrow the leader install your dictator and if that doesn't
work blow the country up they didn't even hide that this time either i mean scott percent was
talking about what he was going to do to iran's currency and then he did it yeah yeah crazy so
this is what i really love about this trump administration it's kind of in line with where
we started right um you know freedom of reach not freedom of speech you guys do what you need to do
but we don't need to hide it anymore and that is how it is with trump right trump's doing what
every other president has kind of done but now we now you can see it you get to see it and no one
cares and it's like it doesn't make a difference that's fucking insane
so yeah the yeah so the imf effectively was managing if every anyone that wanted a loan
from the world bank you had to come off make your currency no longer convertible into gold
and then use the imf to have a a network of currencies that can convert into dollars
that's right and then the dollars were convertible into gold so that became the world order um and
that was set um now the bank for international
settlements was a very important institution city of london was where all these currency wars were
were being fought which is different to london which is different to the uk these are different
things so the city of london is its own jurisdiction that's governed by all the banks and
financial institutions the bank for international settlement has its own army its own police its
own country is separate to switzerland uh there is a has its own army its own police and it's a
building just like a building you know no bigger than where we are on right now you've pulled the
soft bank for international settlements personal i don't know army i'm just guessing what a google
that's insane it's his own jurisdiction um and it's independent of the you know switzerland that
seems to be a little common thread with some of these places that control money somehow they can
exist around or in the whereabouts of what are supposed to be some of the most powerful
governments in the world literally in their jurisdiction sometimes but they have their
own jurisdiction exactly if you if you look at them you've got these little like side
silos you've got vatican very small money it's like the vatican bank was where all you got all
the cia money laundering and drug trafficking and all that type of stuff city of london mainly did
currency wars and covert wars um bank for international settlements um is the central
bank of central banks so if you become a member of the bank for international settlements you
have to adopt the central banking model of banks create money for international settlements
you have to adopt the central banking model of banks create money for international settlements
there's no money to pay the interest on the loan so it's like a ponzi scheme
okay so let me see if i'm tracking this in real time i've never heard that before
yeah on the one hand on the one hand you got the money laundering area you called that the vatican
right that's a good example yeah on the second hand you have the currency wars area so they
decide which currencies get to win and what language we're going to speak in money wise
now city of london and on the third and the city of london right on the third hand you got the central
bank of london and on the third hand you got the central bank of london and on the third hand you got
the central bank of london and on the third hand you got the central bank of central banks that then
take whatever currencies are being allowed to be in circulation and control what its supply is to
create the cycle again of who's going to launder money what currency is going to be killed and then
what currencies are going to mean you need to be put back into the cycle yeah so the bank for
international settlements is a central bank of central banks and a lot of these roles cross over
and change over time but sure for a conversation we'll simplify um the fed is the most important
central bank right now but is privately owned by the banks its members so it consists of
12 member banks and those banks its shareholders are city you know the chase um the clearing banks
so the fed is owned by the banks the federal reserve um is a member of the bank for international
settlements the bank for international settlements is its own jurisdiction and anybody that wants to
adopt the model of the center of the bank for international settlements um you know
can become a member of BIS.
So it consists of about 61 central banks.
banks. That's how these different institutions, now the IMF, their role changed over time.
Initially, because we went from the British Empire, the European Empire, to the American
Empire, with World War II being the changing point, the IMF took the role of the Bank for
International Settlements, and there was a bit of competition there between the Bank
for International Settlements and the IMF. IMF started by just doing currency conversion
and managing convertibility of dollars into gold. But then over time, it started issuing
its own currency, like special drawing rights and various other currencies over time. And
it started issuing its own loans and becoming a lender to countries that had been destroyed
by wars. The whole goal here is you try and vassalize a country. You install your dictator,
you do covert operations in order to destroy the country. You want the resources, you take
the resources, and you use currency wars and financial weapons and mass destruction in
order to end up where you're issuing a World Bank loan, making them a member of the Bank
for International Settlements, and then getting an IMF special drawing right currency in the
end.
Who's in charge here?
This is the interesting thing. I've always looked for the IMF. I've always looked for
a room of people that are controlling this. You had the very influential family dynasties,
whether it's your Warburgs, your Rothschilds, your Morgans, your Rockefellers, all these
different things. But I've noticed over time, and we'll probably get there, but it's probably
worth finishing the IMF first, but they took all these companies public. So the investment
bank structured them into a new vehicle. If you look at the previous empires, so the most
important one.
Well, it was always invented in Amsterdam. It was the Dutch model that created this.
The Dutch model had three components. You had a central bank, and then they're basically. How do I simplify? The central bank is, as a lender of last resort, what do you get to
do? Banks create the currency every time they issue a loan. So let me simplify this right
down because I think when you can grasp this, you'll get the whole nature of where we are
today.
So imagine there's one bank and they want to create a thousand dollars. Someone needs
to agree to borrow it.
That's right.
Okay. So then you've created it. They say, all right, boom, we'll create it. There's
a thousand dollars. They just create it in their ledger. You log into your online banking,
there's a thousand dollars.
When you say they created it, it didn't come from anywhere.
It wasn't grandma's money in her saving. It was no one's money. It was just literally,
okay, there is one thousand dollars on your online banking when you log in, go spend it.
Okay.
So they didn't even take it out of the vault. So to speak, they just, they just invented
it out.
They have the legal ability. The money supply is created by the banks. The central
banks guarantee it, right? So they can create some form of money, but what their job is
to do is what I call, well, firstly, when that $1,000 is created, it then says, but
you've got to pay it back with 10%. Okay. All right. So where's the hundred dollars
come from? So you now got $1,000 plus $100.
Okay. So now you've got to do some economic activity and somebody else has to borrow the
money into existence and you create a game of musical chairs.
That's a Ponzi scheme.
That's how currency works. That's the bank of England system.
That's the federal reserve system. And it is by design that there's not enough currency
unless you can get more people to take on debt. So therein is the function. The economy
is debt.
The economy is credit. The more credit you can do, but what do they do? Effectively what
they do is they socialize losses and privatize gains, as we saw in global financial crisis.
So they say, well, we'll create some money if your loans go bad. Okay. And then suddenly
that bank now has a bank account with the central bank and the money can just appear
there. And so they can create that money.
But mom and dad over here got fucked.
Yes.
But where did the banks get to create the money and who ended up borrowing it? Who guaranteed
the system? The government guaranteed it. So the government borrows it. The bank creates
the money to buy it. They issue risky loans. The money doesn't exist. And the only way
to guarantee the system is to just say, well, here's another institution that will guarantee
it. And they're all networked via the bank for international settlements as the central
bank of central banks. So it all comes back.
Yeah.
And so if you can, your ability, so what did the Dutch have? They had a government. What's
the government's job? The government's job is to take on the debt. They're the piggybank.
Okay. Their job is to borrow the money. What else do you have? You have a private corporate
interest where you socialize all the, you privatize all the gains. What was that? It
was called the Dutch East India Company. What would it do? The Dutch East India Company was
where you could invest in a company that would go and engage in colonialism around the world,
steal countries' resources, create currency wars, and they would privatize all the profits
into the Dutch East India Company. But then you'd have a bank and their job was to destroy
the currency in these covert wars. And the central bank would, would, would guarantee
it. And so what did, what did the Dutch do? They invented capitalism as we know it today.
As we know it today.
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Which is not the. And this is when I was studying academically in economics. We're taught
Keynesian economics, classical economics, Austrian economics. Those are the three acceptable schools
of thought. Keynesian said the government needs to borrow in order to keep rolling over the debt.
The government can stimulate
it to roll over the debt. Classical economics says leave it to the free market. But the free
market doesn't tell you that there's actually a debt-based Ponzi scheme, which is the backbone
of the monetary system. And so whoever gets to create the money wins the game in a free market.
What does that mean? The central bank socializes the losses,
the Dutch East India Company privatize the gains, and the whole system is guaranteed.
And then you have the central bank, you have the private interest. Those are the three components.
But what is the government's job? It's to take on the debt. That's to socialize the losses.
And so the US debt is at 40 trillion today. We'll get more current. But what does that mean? It means
look at the Dutch Empire. All of the gains went into the Dutch East India Company,
and the debt remained with the government. Then when the Dutch Empire falls,
the model gets recreated through the Bank of England. And then you have the British East India
Company. They just did it again. The Bank of England, the British East India Company,
and then they bankrupted the British government. They go create the wars. The individuals end up
with the debt. The British government is bankrupted. People can't see through the
difference in these things. All of the gains end up in the British East India Company,
which now makes up the crown, essentially. When the British East India Company fell,
it was dissolved because of all of its illegal. I'll just give you one model. I know we're
darting around. Hopefully this is coming together. That's okay. I'm going to bring you back.
Yeah. But people think of the British East India Company as its tea exports.
Tea exports? It's tea exports. So it would go into
India, and it would take its tea, and then it tried to steal all of China's gold. So it would
take, basically, tea that it was going to sell, and then it would take all of China's gold. But underneath those shipments of the British Navy was a bunch of tea and underneath it,
a bunch of opium. And then the opium was then sent into China to get China addicted to just
destroy their population to make them unproductive and then you would negotiate and we would invade
via hong kong i lived in hong kong for about three years that's where the opium war started
hong kong was created as a settlement with the british empire after you know because a bank
called hsbc was managing all the money laundering for the drug trades um and then you get the
population addicted to opium um and then china then ended up nationalizing all its banks and
you got another central bank called pboc but anyway um they that was a resistance against
this british uh colonial stuff so you still what are you trying to do here you're printing in its
simplicity you're printing money that has no value you're dumping the debt on the government
you're guaranteeing the system to socialize the losses but what you actually want
you want the real money you want the gold you want the silver you want the oil you want the
resources you want the real thing and so all you're doing is you're inflicting upon everyone
else a currency that has no value that goes down in over time while you're taking the real resources
and then the game of central banking is to end up with all the gold and that's the game they
want to use their fiat currency to give that to to indebt and the government uh to guarantee the
system so that they end up with all the gold who's winning the game right now hey guys if
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china's winning the game in a by a long shot with the gold yes what makes you say that okay well
the largest amount of gold that exists today is allegedly at fort knox but it
hasn't been audited it had one audit in the 50s um but it sits on two balance sheets
on the federal reserve balance sheet and the treasury's balance sheet how does that even work
exactly um so both of them claim the gold and both of them use it as collateral but
the federal reserve is owned by the banks and the treasury is the government and so
they both use it as collateral so you can see it as um so in in essence whether it exists
whether it's there or not it's been double bookie you know it's been used twice if you or i had
private companies and did that we'd go to jail right absolutely well no there's one type of
institution that can do double bookkeeping which is a bank and so your deposit is both an asset and
a liability to a bank on their balance sheet so they're able to use it as an asset because
you know they created it um it's their asset but it's also a liability because if you want
to withdraw it they have to give it to you hence why you can have a bank run because
there is no gold there there is no money there and if everyone wants
their money then the bank goes bus and then the central bank comes in socializes the system so
it was done with the the dutch empire it was done with the british empire and then we exported it
in 1913. we tried to put it in america three times uh there were three central banks throughout
america's history you had your um what were they uh the first central bank the second central bank
and the federal reserve uh andrew jackson abraham lincoln were the two presidents around
like the debates um and if you look at the formation of america you have like boston tea
party and yes where we were trying to introduce tax um that that all happened i mean let's tell
the real history right the real history the europeans came to america and did what israel
did to the to the natives in america that's what really happened we use ethnic cleansing and
genocide the population of america prior to the europeans turning up was about 100 million people
and then i think by the end of it there was like a million or something over over a few you know over
a period of time what israel is doing to palestine today is what the europeans did in america that
then led to the creation you know the constitution the independence then you threw the brits out but
the central bank remained and so if you look at the founding fathers they were arguing over
the central bank because half of them liked the bank of england model and the other half said no
and that became the battle um and uh yeah there was three attempts and then in 1913 the federal
reserve happened and to manage a transition you needed a war of depression and another war so we
had world war one depression world war two wait hold on back up for one second this is just really
fascinating history so you said andrew jackson and lincoln were the two presidents at the
middle of major arguments over the central banks yeah post-revolution yeah before 1913. andrew
jackson very complicated legacy there for sure but he was known as a fiery you know man of the
farmers type populist so was he arguing against yeah he was against the central bank yeah he
actually paid off the american debt um and created uh you know a new form of debt-free currency in
order to that that's what abraham lincoln did as well you know you're familiar with the greenback
you heard the greenback of course the greenback was abraham lincoln decided that the treasury
would print his own currency in order to um you know well fund wars let's face it but but the
treasury pay for it rather than the central bank pay for it and his logic there was at least the
buck would stop with the government instead of something outside of its control well prior to
1913 there was very much and you know there was mistrust of the banking model like banks were very
mistrusted um and so you know the they weren't so the central banks weren't seen as one institution
with the government or anything like that you know these were foreign forces foreign forces yeah
yeah that's how they looked at it i mean absolutely i mean if you look at um i'll give you
like some crazy examples um the the rice bank which was the the german bank uh during between
1901 world war ii um every time hitler would invade a country czechoslovakia
um it was uh he would basically go to the rice bank and the rice bank would then go to the bank
for international settlements and say hey you know that gold that used to be czechoslovakia
that's now germans and the bank for international settlements would
say all right we've changed ownership that gold is now owned by germany and so every time it would
raid a country um now what's really interesting where was the gold stored the rice bank wasn't
storing the gold it was actually stored at the bank of england and the fed and so the bank of
england transfer said wait wait the germans were storing their gold in london and the us
yes yes and so remember one world war one bank for international settlements 1930s
great depression world war ii yeah of course they were storing it at the bank of england and the fed
uh in fort knox and so you would go to switzerland and say whose gold is this switzerland would be an
independent arbitrator and say well the gold at the bank of england that belongs to you so this
became like a ledger that literally the bank for international settlements would be adjudicating
who owns it during a war and say and decide when to change it so even during world war ii
the bank of england changed the ownership of germany's gold while fighting allegedly a war with
germany this is such a strange dynamic dude like like it do you ever just like sit back and look at
this and go wait a minute they're all in business together while a bunch of their people are on
battlefield scattered all over the place blowing each other's brains out yes yes even this the
governor of the federal reserve warburg his brother was also the governor of the german rice bank
come on the two brothers
were uh fed you know the governor of the rice bank and the federal reserve while allegedly fighting a
war this is when you realize that's nuts warburg was his name yeah the warbucks so the can we look
that up he's already got it so the warburg brothers are in charge of the u.s's central bank
and germany's central bank at the same time the warburg brothers were a prominent german jewish
banking family from hamburg specifically the four banking grandsons of moses marcus warburg who found
it m.m warburg in germany marcus warburg the warburg brothers were a prominent german jewish banking family from hamburg specifically the four banking grandsons of moses marcus warburg who founded mm warburg
in 1798 max and warburg ran the family bank in hamburg and served as financial advisor
german government before emigrating to the u.s in 1939 do we have this specific all right yeah
deep scott right here so paul warburg the fed moved to the u.s became a prominent wall street banker
at coon lobenco and served as key architect and first vice chairman of the federal reserve board
max warburg reich ran the family's historic bank and warburgan company in hamburg and served as
financial delegate at the versailles peace oh so this is before though this is during world war one
yeah okay i i misunderstood i thought you were saying during world war one ended in the the
treaty of versailles and then you had a big conference in paris in 19. um by the way you
know that ties to epstein uh yeah i'm sure we'll go on time oh yeah it's a wild we i
won't take you down that right now but that's actually insane like how much that could be
that gets up to him but keep going yeah um where i've got lost where were we we were talking about
treaty of versailles after the warburg brothers were in charge at the same time during world war
one and so you
you have the fed in charge with one brother and the right bank in charge at the other
while they're all fighting wars and killing each other by the tens of millions across europe
it ends the treaty of versailles struck the treaty of versailles which was also struck by the dullest
brothers they were a part of that which is part of what ty stepstein correct and they strike that
deal which really does totally handcuff germany and opens up the door for them having been so
poor to eventually like turn to something like hitler yeah yeah so this is what i call the
financial industrial complex and it's changing face over time um and uh yeah we we're we're
still you can look at it like we can look at this today and you can see how the structure works
it's changed form slightly the current version so firstly i would i would categorize america
in the same place that the british empire was pre-world war one
you
3.3 percent on average but rates are going through the roof and trump's trying to get
the bank to go through the roof so that's the key thing to look for um in terms of the debt level
now there's a rule if you want to get into macro this game works these are the key things to look
into macro this game works these are the key things to look at
uh the fed to put rates down but the bond market
uh the fed to put rates down but the bond market
uh the fed to put rates down but the bond market 10-year yields 30-year yields they're going up
10-year yields 30-year yields they're going up
10-year yields 30-year yields they're going up so that means the cost of borrowing is
so that means the cost of borrowing is
so that means the cost of borrowing is increasing what that effectively means is
increasing what that effectively means is
increasing what that effectively means is that people are selling american treasuries
that people are selling american treasuries
that people are selling american treasuries because that's right when you sell them
because that's right when you sell them
because that's right when you sell them um the price goes down
um the price goes down but the the yield the the the amount you
but the the yield the the amount you
but the the yield the the amount you have to pay goes up there's an inverse
have to pay goes up there's an inverse
have to pay goes up there's an inverse relationship there
relationship there
relationship there so right now the 10-year yield is a
so right now the 10-year yield is a
so right now the 10-year yield is a historical highs
historical highs
historical highs um round about where it was in 20 2007
um round about where it was in 20 2007
um round about where it was in 20 2007 just before the global financial crisis
just before the global financial crisis
just before the global financial crisis um
um
um but it's 125 debt to gdp it wasn't in
but it's 125 debt to gdp it wasn't in
but it's 125 debt to gdp it wasn't in that situation but can you explain that
that situation but can you explain that
that situation but can you explain that in english yeah that means that the
in english yeah that means that the
in english yeah that means that the economy is producing you know um so
economy is producing you know um so
economy is producing you know um so you've got like a 37 trillion dollar
you've got like a 37 trillion dollar
you've got like a 37 trillion dollar economy on 40 40 trillion dollars of debt
economy on 40 40 trillion dollars of debt
economy on 40 40 trillion dollars of debt so your debt is larger than the
so your debt is larger than the
so your debt is larger than the economic output
economic output
economic output now this game works you keep going the
now this game works you keep going the
now this game works you keep going the game of monopoly works
game of monopoly works
game of monopoly works as long as the the economy grows at a
as long as the the economy grows at a
as long as the the economy grows at a faster rate than the average cost on the
faster rate than the average cost on the
faster rate than the average cost on the debt
debt
debt so right now if you can grow at five
so right now if you can grow at five
so right now if you can grow at five percent
percent
percent and the average cost on the debt is 3.3
and the average cost on the debt is 3.3
and the average cost on the debt is 3.3 percent which is going up
percent which is going up
percent which is going up the the game continues but it has a side
the the game continues but it has a side
the the game continues but it has a side effect
effect
effect the side effect is the closer you are to
the side effect is the closer you are to the money printer the more you get
the money printer the more you get
the money printer the more you get access to the assets right
access to the assets right
access to the assets right so what's what's currently happening
so what's what's currently happening
so what's what's currently happening right now
right now
right now you know how the government takes on the
you know how the government takes on the
you know how the government takes on the debt they issue bonds the banks buys
debt they issue bonds the banks buys
debt they issue bonds the banks buys them the banks get to create the money
them the banks get to create the money
them the banks get to create the money they don't have the money they just
they don't have the money they just
they don't have the money they just create the money to buy the debt
create the money to buy the debt
create the money they just create the money they just create the money and they get the yield on
create the money they just create the money and they get the yield on the debt and now they're demanding
the debt and now they're demanding
the debt and now they're demanding higher yields and they're demanding
higher yields and they're demanding
higher yields and they're demanding higher and higher rates
higher and higher rates
higher and higher rates that's normally when the financial
that's normally when the financial
that's normally when the financial industrial complex is deciding to manage
industrial complex is deciding to manage
industrial complex is deciding to manage a shift manage a transfer
a shift manage a transfer
a shift manage a transfer and that's where i think we are right
and that's where i think we are right
and that's where i think we are right now in terms of
now in terms of um a switching a switching world order
um a switching a switching world order
um a switching a switching world order as it were do you think that transfer is
as it were do you think that transfer is
as it were do you think that transfer is being managed to china
being managed to china
being managed to china no um china
no um china
no um china spent
spent
spent we talked about opium wars and japan
we talked about opium wars and japan
we talked about opium wars and japan and all that stuff a hundred years a
and all that stuff a hundred years a
and all that stuff a hundred years a century of humiliation
century of humiliation
century of humiliation they spent a hundred years building
they spent a hundred years building
they spent a hundred years building everything they needed to keep
everything they needed to keep
everything they needed to keep you know the the great wall of china
you know the the great wall of china
you know the the great wall of china was created to keep the barbarians out
was created to keep the barbarians out
was created to keep the barbarians out they they managed to kept the barbarians
they they managed to kept the barbarians
they they managed to kept the barbarians out after world war ii they chucked out
out after world war ii they chucked out
out after world war ii they chucked out all the banksters
all the banksters
all the banksters um they created their own central bank
um they created their own central bank
um they created their own central bank called pboc
called pboc
called pboc um they created in fact what america had
um they created in fact what america had
um they created in fact what america had prior to the
prior to the
prior to the prior to the
prior to the federal reserve you had a state banking
federal reserve you had a state banking
federal reserve you had a state banking system where
system where
system where the banks created their own currency and
the banks created their own currency and
the banks created their own currency and it was all done state without the
it was all done state without the
it was all done state without the central bank you had about 70 to 80 years
central bank you had about 70 to 80 years
central bank you had about 70 to 80 years of that prior to jp morgan coming along
of that prior to jp morgan coming along
of that prior to jp morgan coming along and creating like the panic that led to
and creating like the panic that led to
and creating like the panic that led to the creation of the fed and all that
the creation of the fed and all that
the creation of the fed and all that stuff but pboc they have a you know a
stuff but pboc they have a you know a
stuff but pboc they have a you know a public banking network
public banking network
public banking network capital controls everything you could
capital controls everything you could
capital controls everything you could possibly imagine
possibly imagine
possibly imagine um to build you know the next 100 years
um to build you know the next 100 years
um to build you know the next 100 years um now
um now
um now the financial industrial complex they
the financial industrial complex they
the financial industrial complex they don't they don't want to hand over
don't they don't want to hand over
don't they don't want to hand over anything to china
anything to china
anything to china you know because china they have to
you know because china they have to
you know because china they have to negotiate with
it's protected and they've set up all the controls. What's happened in the West? I like to say,
when I look at power in the world in simple forms, I talk about those three complexes,
financial industrial complex, they're in charge. That's the top of the rung.
Military industrial complex, they enforce the rules. They create the wars to get the resources
that the banks need. And we have a new complex, which I call the technical industrial complex.
That's the data, the police state, the surveillance state, all that technology
control grids that were coming. If you look at America in the West, just like the British East
Indian Company and the Dutch East India Company, the government is subordinate to private corporate
power. That's capitalism by definition, but people don't really think about it. Capital rules and
it's capitalism. But you've got a Ponzi scheme, so it's not a fair game. It's not capitalism as
we were taught in the economics textbooks. It's rigged.
Because you have, look at 2008, socialism for the banks, i.e. you get bailed out
and capitalism for everybody else. And we get to create the money. So you guys all defend
capitalism thinking that it's the American dream, the American way. But meanwhile, what's actually
happening? Well, those that get to create the money, they're benefiting from the debt and
you're getting your share of debt. What was the phrase you used earlier,
the four word phrase?
Privatized.
Yeah, socialize the losses, privatize the gains.
So the reason I love that so much is because effectively what you are describing is
corporate socialism, which has basically been the wolf behind the sheep's mask of capitalism.
That was the British East India Company. That was the Dutch East India Company. And now you could
say the CEO of that new structure is BlackRock, if you want to put a face to it. So the American
model. Kind of created a more decentralized version of that model. Right now, you could say the asset
manager BlackRock that is controlling or has access to about $12 trillion of everyone's pension,
everyone's endowment funds, everyone's thing. They have technology that dictates the flow of
capital called Aladdin in a significant way, used by treasury departments, pensions, etc., etc. And
they're all using the same technology. They're all using the same technology. And that's why they're
all using the same technology. And that's why they're
pension funds sovereign wealth funds everything you could imagine um and it's a more decentralized
version of the the british east india company dutch east india company and it relies upon
everyone underneath it being a public company so um i was we're going way back when i was talking
about the game of compromise uh one of the the easiest ways of compromising someone is making
them a debt slave right so we replace slavery with debt slavery and if you play the game of
debt in the right way you know the whole my whole job as an investment banker was to turn companies
into securities make them tradable and then they get to use those as collateral in order to borrow
against them so if you look at someone like elon musk he bought x not with his own money he bought
x by getting a loan against his tesla stock once you get a loan against
a tesla stock the banks control your share price and once they got your share price they could you
are subordinate to them and then they decide who you're co-investing with so a lot of the social
media is owned by a lot of the sovereign wealth funds the gold funds the q80 funds abu dhabi funds
um and those are the co-investors and what i would like to say is that this is this is kind
of the game right now you have private financial industrial complex that
controls the entire west the brits the europeans the americans our governments are subordinate to
them i would in china it's the opposite way around the government is on top of the mcfic and tix so
they have their own military industrial complex financial industrial complex and technical
industrial complex but you get bigger than the government you find out what happens you know
you know um it seems like both systems are bad both systems
one makes a country sovereign so china china i would say is the most sovereign country in the
world but living in a sovereign country means that you're subordinated to that authoritarian
structure right whereas in this in this in this system we have individual ability um but you know
nothing is quite what it what it seems right so you you could be sovereign at the individual level
but as i described if you
want to climb in investment banking you have to play the compromise game if you want to have a
public company you need to play the investment banks game if you as an individual want to
succeed you have to borrow borrow borrow credit card debt student debt mortgage debt then the
house gets bigger and it goes and even at the top of the game like an elon musk is still the
dependent upon his share price and the leverage that he has against his share price and so this
whole game this whole illusion um is you know in in capitalism capital was in charge um in
you couldn't call china communism um but the government is a sovereign government and so the
government's in charge um and that's kind of the the different contract you have between these
negotiations so does the financial industrial complex want the chinese government to be in
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The world is experiencing a shift from cancel culture to algorithmic control, where individuals are categorized and radicalized into ideological boxes, leading to increased polarization and anger.
Social media and AI platforms now manipulate user behavior by feeding content that reinforces existing beliefs, creating echo chambers and deepening societal divisions.
The financial industrial complex—comprising central banks, private banks, and investment firms—exerts hidden control over global economies through debt-based systems that socialize losses and privatize gains.
Historical patterns of currency wars, colonialism, and financial manipulation (e.g., opium wars, British East India Company) mirror current global power dynamics, showing a recurring cycle of financial exploitation.
Institutions like the IMF, BIS, and central banks operate as interconnected networks that control money creation, currency value, and resource access, often without public transparency.
The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 125%, signaling a systemic vulnerability as rising interest rates increase the cost of borrowing and threaten economic stability.
Key figures like the Warburg family have historically influenced both U.S. and German financial systems, revealing deep interconnections between global finance and political power.
A shift in global power is underway, with China emerging as a major challenger to the U.S.-dominated financial order, particularly through gold reserves and alternative economic models.
Summary:
The transcript presents a critical analysis of modern global power structures, emphasizing the rise of a technocratic surveillance state and financial industrial complex. The speaker argues that today’s world operates under a hidden system of financial control, where central banks, private banks, and global institutions manipulate economies through debt-based currency creation and currency wars. This system, rooted in historical patterns like colonialism and the opium wars, now replicates itself through digital algorithms and ideological filtering, leading to societal polarization.
Individuals are increasingly trapped in algorithmic echo chambers, where their beliefs are amplified, fueling extremism and eroding trust. The financial model—where the government bears losses and private institutions profit—creates a perpetual cycle of debt, with rising interest rates indicating systemic strain. Historical figures such as the Warburg family illustrate long-standing connections between finance and political power.
The speaker points to China as a rising counterforce, especially through its accumulation of gold and independent economic policies. Ultimately, the world is transitioning from a state of hidden manipulation to one of open, algorithmic control, where financial and political power are increasingly centralized and opaque, threatening democratic values and shared humanity.
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The financial industrial complex consists of institutions like banks, asset managers, and investment firms that control money creation and influence global events. It operates through debt-based systems where banks create money to finance loans, and governments absorb the resulting debt. This structure allows financial elites to maintain power by shaping economic policies and wars.
Central banks create money electronically when loans are issued, without withdrawing from existing reserves. This money is used to buy bonds and loans, and the banks that create it benefit through interest and yields. The government bears the cost of debt, effectively socializing losses while private institutions privatize gains.
The IMF historically managed currency convertibility and later issued its own loans to countries, often after military or economic intervention. It helps vassalize nations by installing regimes, controlling currency supply, and ensuring countries remain dependent on financial aid systems.
Empires like the Dutch and British used financial instruments—such as colonial companies and central banks—to steal resources, destroy local currencies, and privatize profits. The Dutch East India Company and British East India Company operated as profit-driven entities that exploited colonies while the government bore the debt.
Currency wars precede military conflicts. By devaluing a nation’s currency, financial actors destroy savings, create economic instability, and fuel public unrest, which can then be exploited through propaganda or covert operations to justify military intervention.
Since WWII, financial institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and central banks have taken on greater control over global economies. The U.S. became the financial hub, with institutions like the Federal Reserve and BIS (Bank for International Settlements) acting as central banks of central banks, managing global monetary policy.
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